skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Baobab ships with gnome (in the menus as "disk usage analyzer")
18MB is the range for React Native apps. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that this is one of those.
I always find it interesting that Chrome is charging ahead full steam on experimental API's like this while most other browsers have given no intent to implement them yet.

Did Chrome come up with Houdini? Are they being brave or pushy here?
Yes it is. Allow be to boast, but over the last 4 years I have implemented automated credit decision systems replacing human credit analysts and event recommendation systems categorizing 3,000,000 events only on the description. The power these new technologies have is on the same scale as fire and electricity.
If you use a phone without a super hi-res screen it will be much smaller.
A dataset of crimes committed in Buenos Aires
Show me this universe where programmers don’t have to eat after their 1.0!
Solutions for MEMS sensor fusion
I don't expect a team that is fearful of code reviews to be the best work they can do. IMO this isn't about offense, it's about removing barriers and wariness around code reviews.

(But as you side, that goes both ways, to both the reviewers and reviewed)
Dark Caracal: Good News and Bad News
A recent EconTalk podcast covered a related topic: food waste. It turns out that getting it just right is near impossibly hard. You can choose between famine or waste (hopefully the least of either) but aren’t going to get it just right.

http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2017/12/rachel_laudan_o_1.h...
Hilarious. You could even chat for as long as you wanted by plugging in a charger at 2% and taking it out at 4%.
"Machine kills human because human violated traffic law" will never fly.
What's your educational background? I have been following the field closely for the past five years, and I am starting to feel like staying in application development is a dead end unless I start learning AI and Machine Learning concepts at a deeper level.
Why don't you just issue a chargeback through your credit card that the services were not rendered?
I’m not sure. Reading the JEP, I inferred the separate clauses were the ORs and each clause’s compound expression could have ANDs. But what you say is likely right.
https://youtu.be/LDF8bOEqXt4?t=4722

The bottleneck is propagation time. Also "The propogation time did not depend strongly on the network bandwidth for the given nodes"

Keep in mind that it is not sufficient for each node to have the bare minimum amount of bandwidth to download 1 block every ten minutes. When a node mines a block, we need that block to propagate across the entire network (~11,000 nodes [0]). Further, we want this propagation time to be relatively trivial; otherwise the number of orphan blocks would increase giving an advantage to large mining clusters and reducing the overall security of the network.

[0] https://bitnodes.earn.com/dashboard/
There's a few reasons why rectangular shapes are superior... They fill the available space better than circles, and you can generally compare areas in rectangular shapes better than areas with curves. But, generally you're using these tools to spot outliers, in which case either approach works just fine.
Google admits it tracked user location even with Location turned off (Nov 2017)
It's cute—what's the goal in creating it?
Yes, I've been on the fence about this one as well. What I generally do is only add such fix-it comments if I identify other issues in my review that WERE caused by the current PR and need to be addressed anyway. So I would not hold up a PR for such matters, but if it is otherwise incomplete, I feel it's OK to ask for a modest amount of extra work.
As much as distributing apps outside of centralized apps stores helps to promote decentralization, I have admit the Moxie Marlinspike refused to do so for reasons just like this.
I recall that last time I went looking I took imbd, located movies with large difference in approval rating of one gender compared to the other, and then looked at the cast. Its not perfect proxy for identifying what the targeted/intended audience is, and there is also top lists of so called "chick flicks" if one permits those.

Every study however that I have seen has only looked at the highest gross films, be that the top 5 or top 100. Of those only a few will specifically target a female audience like the 2008 Sex and the City that only had women in star roles.

Here is the IMBD ratings: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1000774/ratings

It should not be hard to find a matching movie with the genders reversed where all the star roles are men, the target audience are male, and the ratings flipped.
EC2 Launch Templates and Spread Placement Groups
10k users, each saving 17MB = 170GB total savings.

A 64GB iPhone 8 costs £699, and a 256GB iPhone 8 costs £849. That puts the cost of phone storage very roughly at £0.78/GB, so the 170GB space reduction saves the users £132 collectively. I pulled these numbers out of thin air for the most part, but you get the point.

It also improves user retention. Many people are running out of storage space, and routinely have to delete apps to free up space. An 18MB app will surely be deleted before a 1MB app.
Right, this is what I'm talking about. I've mentioned this in another thread, too.

If an employer chooses to require it's employees be members of a union, I think that's their right. But, I dislike (and think should not be legal) a group voting to unionize and then forcing their agreement onto other employees that don't want to be represented.

To my current understanding, there are 2 stumbling blocks to that way of doing things. 1) Employees can force an employer to deal with a union and 2) the union must cover everyone in the bargaining unit.

In my opinion, ideally both of those things would stop. A union can operate and negotiate on behalf of it's members. The union contract wouldn't cover non-members. And an employer can choose not to hire union workers.
Funny, I thought the whale just tasted like citrus-y beef. Maybe there's a huge variation in how its prepared (and maybe which whale species). I had whale as sashimi, roasted, and steak and they all tasted very similar to the cow equivalent. The Australian in the group said it tasted similar to kangaroo.

Hákarl smells much worse than it tastes. I thought it tasted similar to a strange fishy tofu with the texture similar to cheese plus eraser. Definitely took a while to get the taste out of the mouth, but it wasn't immediately gag inducing.

Definitely echo the sentiment of the lamb being delicious. Every time I had lamb it slid off the bone and had a nice balanced gamey-brine. Winter veggies seemed to be limited to tomatoes, cucumbers, bell peppers, potatoes, carrots, and arugula. The restaurants all said they get fresh shipments every morning from the greenhouses.
I agree with refactoring along the way, but I think it's important to clearly state the _purpose_ of a branch or pull request, and to make sure that refacors don't wildly blow out the scope of the PR. I've been on the receiving end of too many PRs that refactor a bunch of things all at once because "well I was in there" to feel good about unchecked scope creep in PRs.
Study: Reconstructing an African haploid genome from the 18th century

Citation: Jagadeesan, Anuradha. Gunnarsdóttir, Ellen D.. Ebenesersdóttir, S. Sunna. Guðmundsdóttir, Valdis B.. Thordardottir, Elisabet Linda. Einarsdóttir, Margrét S.. Jónsson, Hákon. Dugoujon, Jean-Michel. Fortes-Lima, Cesar. Migot-Nabias, Florence. Massougbodji, Achille. Bellis, Gil. Pereira, Luisa. Másson, Gísli. Kong, Augustine. Stefánsson, Kári. Helgason, Agnar. Nature Genetics 1,7 1061-4036 2018.

Link: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-017-0031-6

DOI: 10.1038/s41588-017-0031-6

Abstract: A genome is a mosaic of chromosome fragments from ancestors who existed some arbitrary number of generations earlier. Here, we reconstruct the genome of Hans Jonatan (HJ), born in the Caribbean in 1784 to an enslaved African mother and European father. HJ migrated to Iceland in 1802, married and had two children. We genotyped 182 of his 788 descendants using single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) chips and whole-genome sequenced (WGS) 20 of them. Using these data, we reconstructed 38% of HJ’s maternal genome and inferred that his mother was from the region spanned by Benin, Nigeria and Cameroon.
What Happens When an Image Request Is Made
It's a joint W3C Technical Architecture Group and CSS Working Group initiative, you can find a lot of details in this post from the Opera developer blog [1].

[1] https://dev.opera.com/articles/houdini/
If you want to easily block outbound connections to several countries for your entire home network read on..

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48100009/how-to-enable-e...

My wife has an old fitbit like app that tries to connect to China every 2 seconds. Papertrail is really useful to see patterns. I blocked outbound to every single country except for the country I live in (the embattled country of Binomo). Once I allowed the US and EU, it has been interesting to learn if a site is not US or EU.

These are the domains this week that were blocked leading me to allow a few more countries.

fromdual.com - Switzerland

mysqltuner.pl/scaleway.com - France

canary.tools - Ireland

rsyslog.com - Germany
As a student (around 1990) at DTU (Denmark) a friend and I did a project on trying different methods of mapping backpropagation neural network algorithms/architectures to a computer with 16 T-800's using the Occam language with its (in)famous folding editor. Those were the days :-)
Why would they do this?
IMHO getting vaccinated is more about herd immunity. Everyone I've ever heard who proclaimed heartily that they don't get vax either said it makes them sick or they never get sick.

The first is unlikely, but some people do have reactions. It's more likely they had a coincidental cold or a psychosomatic reaction.

The second is irrelevant. Getting a vaccination isn't about YOU, it's about the vulnerable people around you and the vulnerable that will interact with the people around you. Also you could be infected and have no symptoms, so pass it around without knowing.

But I'm sure you already know that. I'm only mentioning it for fuel against the antivaxers you engage with, because they're endangering us all and need to be stopped.
"That's a bit of a bait and switch, to say, why not try this simple thing just for fun, and then say all it takes is a lot of practice and hard work."

These aren't mutually exclusive. You could have fun doing something and yet still take a lot of time and effort to master it.

It's like playing the violin -- something that most people understand takes years and years of effort to master. Most people wouldn't expect to pick up a violin and instantly be able to come out with a virtuoso performance. But for other arts it seems that that's exactly the expectation that they have. If their objection to a suggestion to try drawing is to say, "Oh, no, I'm no good at drawing" my reply would be: "Well, yeah, that's because you haven't practiced drawing. Why would you even expect to be good at drawing when you just start?"

On the other hand, just because you can't yet get the ultimate results you're after when you start doesn't mean you can't have fun trying. There's some visceral enjoyment that can come from handling art materials like charcoal, paints, or clay and using them to create and express yourself -- an enjoyment that non-artists rarely have any idea is there, and will continue to be oblivious to as long as they refuse to try.

The same goes for musical instruments. You can have fun just playing around with them, even if you don't know what you're doing and have no training whatsoever.

When I encourage non-artists and non-musicians to give making art or music a try, I'm not trying to get them to immediately invest 10,000 hours of grueling practice nor to paint the Mona Lisa for me. I'm encouraging them to just try for five minutes, ten minutes, half an hour... just to maybe experience some of the joy that could be there for them.
Something that's been on my mind is the value of code reviews as a line-by-line exercise, vs the value of a code review as a round table.

I find line by line reviews useful for small PRs of limited scope (bug fixes, etc), but find it a difficult space to talk about things like approach, architecture, etc.

For the latter, I've found round tables where the dev in question have the time and space to explain their reasoning in a synchronous real-time manner to be valuable.
The risk of speculative updates to branch predictor and page tables was known to the research community for a while. Even if it was initially an unintentional bug, they had plenty of time to take precautions against it by prohibiting speculative updates.
Because “transformation” like this only meets its ROI nut if you adopt the religion in full.

This is all about eliminating a few hundred man-hours a week. Instead of having 2-3 guys unloading trucks and staging inventory, the whole staff is engaged, and is wasting a lot of time unless the trucks are loaded perfectly.

It’s insane. Instead of the fish or cheese guy selling me high margin product, he’s hunting for cartons. When I worked at a computer store in college, they did something similar, and same store weekday sales of premium products (which drove profitabilty) dropped 25%. But they saved 160 man hours of labor, or about $1,600, which was much less than the lost sales.
I love the "Hooli" network operator name in the screenshot, a nice touch.
https://www.doclab.org/2018/die-with-me-by-dries-depoorter-d...

It’s interactive art!
Absolutely. And an employer can choose to only hire union workers, too. I've seen a couple digital agencies that enthusiastically support unionization of their employees. They market to clients that they are a "union shop" and get business from people who support unionization. That's cool! People get to stand up for what they believe in and support businesses that operate according to their beliefs.
"Congestion pricing is one of the most economically literate ways to improve traffic"

It depends how it's implemented. In London, it is a flat fee for the entire day, rather than based on time spent driving within the charging zone, or on distance.

More importantly, taxis, which drive around _all_ _day_ _long_ and thereby cause more congestion than private cars (which might be on the road for 1-2 hours) are exempt from the charge.

Rich people benefit from London taxis, but neither the taxi drivers nor the passengers pay the congestion fee.
The application logic is currently smart enough. So long as the vision of AI remain around single, closed, data-oriented, monolithic applications AI will continue to be as impressive as it is now. It will get faster as the hardware gets faster, but it won't be what tech evangelists are hyping it up to be.

If the giant tech companies really want AI to be something more they need to reevaluate what AI is from a very foundational and simplistic approach. Right now, the current approach, AI is just a big smart application, but it can never be smarter than a big single software application.
Slack has been hacked before. Previous discussion on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9277370 (March 2015)
I'd prefer more cache.
Flu vaccination cuts rate of infection by 2/3. You can't draw any conclusions from a single incident.

> or learn where I went wrong

Statistics and probability.
This title is referring to insider trading and since snap is a publicly traded company inside the United States, those laws apply to them and are enforced for SEC.

The statement was simply trying to inform that their are consequences for their actions.

If you want to see something interesting how about how they crack down, check out how the SEC investigated/cracked down Seeking Alpha.
(https://www.barrons.com/articles/touts-used-seekingalpha-oth...)

This is what snap said to employees.

>If you leak Snap Inc. information, you will lose your job and we will pursue any and all legal remedies against you. And that’s just the start. You can face personal financial liability even if you yourself did not benefit from the leaked information. The government, our investors, and other third parties can also seek their own remedies against you for what you disclosed. The government can even put you in jail.
The manufacturer website is where you usually want to go to find the documentation. The product datasheet will specify the peripherals and register set for the chip you're looking at, including a description of each register and the fields within them. Some companies have a different name for this document. E.g. ST usually define their registers in a Reference Manual.

Here's the datasheet for the ATMega328: http://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/DeviceDoc/Atmel-42735-...
I find that focusing on negative behaviors and "what not to do" can have some undesired side effects. Namely, discouraging people from communicating because they don't want to hurt someone's feelings or undervalue their own ideas. If you want to leave a comment, there's probably a great reason! Shutting yourself down does nobody any favors. I liked that there were a few ideas about helpful behaviors at the bottom, but they were less detailed and didn't include examples in the same way.

Over-communicate, notice positives, and build a culture of trust, where feedback is seen as the gift that it is. Those are the secrets to great code reviews... IMO
Apple has hired tech team from data science startup SVDS
An Adaptive Packed-Memory Array (2007) [pdf]
This has given me a lot to think about, because I have felt like I've been on both sides of the line, but, I have of course because it's suited me when I need it.

I feel like government is still not the right institution to make purchasing decisions, but until we make one, it's unbeatable.

But, this might also be cultural. People who come to the US are usually willing to take high risks and carry with that a certain sense of irritation with those who don't, and I feel like that might be where a lot of our national culture carries with it this sort of perspective.

I could of course be super wrong, but I think if we could erase the concept of "fairness" in this area, we might make more progress in actually helping real people with real problems
It came up recently that that second site, and other similar ones, scrape only books in links to Amazon, sometimes other sellers. And the sites showing these lists are usually affiliated with Amazon, e.g. hackernewsbooks says:

"The website is sustained via referrals from Amazon book links. ... All links to Amazon, Safaribooks and O'Reilly get extracted once a week from Hacker News posts, make sure they are indeed books and then rank them based on how often they are mentioned and the karma of the user"
The flu vaccine is made by educated guess for which strains will be prevalent for the following season. It is not always correct. It is important, especially for certain groups of people, but not as essential as some other vaccines. We are not going to cure or eradicate influenza with vaccines like we have/can/are with many other diseases.
> though I honestly doubt its more or less common in working class unions vs white collars. Sexual harassment doesn't seem to be something that respects class lines as much as people would like it to.

Oh, I never said that it did. I'm referring to blue-collar jobs like Rust Belt manufacturing specifically because that's a historically heavily unionized industry where the workforce is disproportionately male and white.
> Why do we need a union in a seller's market? If I'm unhappy with my job I can quit and get a new one in a week.

Because you will one day be 45 years old ...
Apparently, not as many locals eat the shark anymore, now that they have more options. Maybe it has improved since, but when I tried it there, the produce was very bland. We even drove to Hveragerdi to check out the greenhouses. I'll vouch for lamb and skyr, the local yogurt.
Is the primary advantage of these systems over human deciders that they make better decisions or that they can be sold as being free of bias in ending?
I took a course in Occam at university, though we weren't allowed to program the Transputers themselves. Occam had the nice property of being able to produce code that could be proven mathematically correct. We were allowed to see the output from a Meiko Computing Surface (with something like 64 Transputers) generating fractal zooms in real time (circa 1990).

Several years later I discovered a Transputer (in its storage case) abandoned in the drawer of the desk I was assigned in my first "real" job, so I kept it as a souvenir.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam_(programming_language)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meiko_Scientific
With global instant communication we could now can quarantine ourselves in our homes universally and on very short notice.
The new major version offers a lot more functionality. I looked into it and decided I wanted it, so I upgraded. I assume that I could have stayed with the old major version but I'm not sure.
Another day, another wart on the modern web stack.
That isn't a union issue. That is an EEOC / State labor law issue.
Adding more capacity does not cause more congestion. That is not what the studies around induced demand state. Building more capacity allows more trips (obvious right) because, since there is less congestion or it is quicker to get somewhere, people will travel more. If you believe that people making trips by car is intrinsically immoral, then building more capacity for car trips is a bad idea. I rather think that traveling around in a car costs money and time, even if the roads are not jammed, so people won't generally just drive around for now reason. Being restricted on where and when to travel due to clogged travel paths is not a public good to strive for. People calling out "induced demand" anytime someone proposes building more capacity for on-demand point-to-point travel is just blinded by an ideology they probably don't even know they follow.

Would you be against instant teleportation at low dollar, environmental and energy cost from point-to-point? I might be if used between cities or countries. The world is already pretty homogenized. But for within cities it would be great. The main benefit of cites is to have a huge number of possible people to interact with and the projects (companies, museums, clubs, etc) those groups of people create. Supporting policies of making people waste time waiting, doing nothing useful, to control where and when they move around seems like a very misanthropic and authoritarian view of how the world should work.
no, but most of twitter isn't using knowledge of katy perry's whereabouts either.

Storing garbage info like katy perry kim kardashian etc. in your brain, in my humble opinion, is a tax on your cognition - one pays that tax by being ignorant of elementary methods like fourier transform or multivariable calculus or eigenvalues or trig integrals or T distribution or you get the idea...
Exactly, we have knowledge now and this knowledge will help us - everyone has heard of the swine flu for instance
Do you dispute that a coffee shop providing WiFi with a captive portal only intends to provide web access through that portal? Just as they only intend customers to take sugar packets for use in their coffee, etc..

If the shop don't intend the use its not authorised. Your ethical framework may not put any value on that lack of authorisation, but you see the action is unauthorised, surely?
We are much better equipped to deal with it. They didn't even know what caused it. We know what genes make the virus more lethal, have a good idea how it spreads, have a somewhat effective vaccine and have better supportive care.
I agree it's more equilant to the astroturfing done by the Chinese net hoards than censorship. They are changing the message if the it was real censorship this article itself would not be readable