skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not without changing the rules they set for themselves: https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/supct/rule_10

I'm not sure how the rules are established, but I assume it's something along the lines of the Senate rules (ie the filabuster) -- changes are subject to majority consent by vote.
Boston Dynamics Spot Mini
Zotero fills this need for me very well. A two-stage reading cycle of harvesting/tagging/saving followed by a later slow reading. https://www.zotero.org/
True but drift is inherent in dead reckoning due to cumulative errors and evidently the trick this guy used eliminates the drifting or limits it (the prototype was accurate to 5 meters).
Good lord, when I try to follow the link I get the Unicorn error page with the message 'This page is taking way too long to load. Sorry about that. Please try refreshing and contact us if the problem persists.'

Has this issue provoked so much outrage that GitHub can't handle the constant stream of angry emojis on the issue comment thread?
Gitlab 10.5 released
I always thought that a user's votes should be normalised by something sensible, like total number of votes or time spent online (with sensible scaling). That way opinionated clickers don't have outsize influence.
SpaceX Launches First Test Satellites for Starlink Internet Constellation
Why use a straw at all instead of just drinking directly from a drinking glass, thus avoiding the need to wash and manage the straws?

Also, glass is a better material than steel for food applications, and glass straws exist, so they are probably a better choice (unless there's a significant chance of breakage like giving them to small children).
I agree that webassembly could make the situation much better.

Some of the appeal of electron is code-reuse and being able to use something other than javascript will make it easier to share code with native software rather than web pages. That would be a huge benefit in my eyes.
And another +1 for transparency. This is a product I can get behind.
You are right on. To confine this worry to 'authoritarian states' is beyond naive.

Could an A.I. program like you are discussing have prevented the school shooting in Florida by alerting the police of the shooter's state of mind and intentions?

If an A.I. could save kids, is there any way we would not be demanding the A.I. protector be installed on every computer and mobile device today? It would be so easy to see how we would voluntarily give up power to this A.I. protector.
As of 2018, Greece charges €0.04 / bag.

Albeit very effective, I don't know how to feel about the actual contents of my new multi-use bag.

Almost every food item is packed in a single-use plastic package. It certainly seems that those are a greater concern than the plastic bags.
New App Lets You Stream Any Audio Source to HomePod (or Bluetooth Speakers)
What do smart people think about NANO (Formerly Raiblocks)? It also uses a DAG scheme and has fast transactions with no fees, and it's already decentralized.
I think the best place that this is illustrated is in the UFC. When they banned rehydrating through IV's (I read they test for it by checking for by products of rubber in the blood, which presumably would have come from running liquid through rubber tubes into the arm) we expected to see the entirety of the sport move up in weight classes. It was not a big secret that everyone was cutting large amounts of weight to gain an advantage on naturally smaller opponents. There wasn't a large scale shift in the fighter's weight classes though. They just swapped to oral rehydration.

One of the big concerns from this change though is that some doctors are claiming you don't rehydrate fully in a short period of time this way. Fighters weigh in the day before a fight, so they're peak dehydrated roughly 24 hours before they fight. There are claims that it takes the brain many days to fully rehydrate after a weight cut if you're not using IV's, so people paying attention in the sport are really worried that brain injuries are going to start going up.
That's not an answer to the question. The answer to the question is "yes". DPoS coins: Nano, Lisk, Ark, etc.

I think it's a good article but "equitable distribution" is a big function of PoW that I thought was a critical ingredient but now I'm not so sure.
Show HN: Cloud Backend on NPM
Why do you need anything with more precision that current-day Google maps for that?
FWIW the comment you're calling out here is four years old: https://github.com/npm/npm/blame/d3095ff20b8ea01e7fbf93a4a69..., before npm inc was formed.

The correctMkdir change seems more recent, but not really related to that specific comment.
It actually brings them back, they do not lie to you about them not being [dead] anymore. I've vouched for a number of shadowbanned users when they have a comment that ought to be visible and then other people reply to it. You can verify (should you run across this again) by logging out or using incognito mode to view the page after you vouch.
Part of me wants to try to market some strong reducing agents as "high in antioxidants". Like carbon monoxide air fresheners, cyanide candy, hydrazine sport drinks, etc.
University Pulls Back on Pollution Study That Supported Its Benefactor
The main thing here is that IOTA is not a _decentralized_ cryptocurrency.

Given that there are centralized cryptocurrencies in circulation, it makes more sense to compare IOTA to something like Ripple or Stellar than to compare it to Bitcoin. In that light, most of the other objections go away -- censorship resistance is not an advertised feature; double-spends are only detectable when the coordinator milestone; fungibility is only effective after a milestone, etc.

The "post-quantum" cryptography is interesting to me personally not because of the quantum aspect, but because the tractability of discrete-log based cryptography is up in the air, and a vulnerability found in a year, or ten years, could have profound impact reaching back into the past. Hash-based one-time signature schemes seem to be a much more robust approach that will not fall to the discovery of better algorithms (even non-quantum) for approaching the discrete log problem.

The notion of using a DAG is also very interesting, and one of the nice things about IOTA is that it does not try to be anything other than a currency. Alternatives such as Byteball are, in my opinion, overreaching by attempting to be some sort of global computer that has the net effect of making clients much more complex and thus vulnerable to strange forking effects if client implementations diverge too much.
What's novel here is that it is a compact, pretty accurate solid-state inertial navigation unit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertial_navigation_system

[edit] Here's a paper from 2017 to give some context to the problem of inertial navigation using the solid-state gyros and accelerometers you find in smartphones:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1703.00154.pdf

> Abstract— Building a complete inertial navigation system
using the limited quality data provided by current smartphones
has been regarded challenging, if not impossible. We present
a probabilistic approach for orientation and use-case free
inertial odometry, which is based on double-integrating rotated
accelerations. Our approach uses a probabilistic approach in
fusing the noisy sensor data and learning the model parameters
online. It is able to track the phone position, velocity, and
pose in real-time and in a computationally lightweight fashion.
The information fusion is completed with altitude correction
from barometric pressure readings (if available), zero-velocity
updates (if the phone remains stationary), and pseudo-updates
limiting the momentary speed. We demonstrate our approach
using a standard iPad and iPhone in several indoor deadreckoning
applications and in a measurement tool setup.

Also: Apple is reportedly working on a full inertial navigation solution, probably for indoor use.
I was in Taiwan a couple years ago doing a beach cleanup, plastics (bags, etc) most definitely make it into the water there.
It's worth nothing there was a full-on Political Detox experiment awhile back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13108404

It did not go well.
Nobody wants to let Google win again.

I do. Google greatly enhanced my life, esp. Driving and directions.

I was an adult BI and speak from experience
In 20 million years it's going to be hard to get something dated to within 100,000 years. So, the fact the die-offs started slightly before this layer of radioactive elements is probably not going to be noticeable.

Similarly the dinosaurs did not die of exactly 65,000,000 years ago it was 65,170,000 plus or minus ~640,000 years.

On top of that humans have probably killed of more species after 1965 than before 1965.
Never underestimate your first idea
Probably the same reason people post long-ish blog entries on twitter.
Yup, but HN didn’t freak out over that. So most people probably won’t have heard about it.
'We can't just stop breathing': A global scandal, made in Germany
This is it, in a nutshell. I wish I had a dollar for everyone I've heard or read about, complaining about Facebook, yet they continue to use it. People treat it like it's mandatory, or something. Just dump it, already.
I've noticed when using a VPN, my posts would be shown in my own account but not anyone else's. Thought this was a strange behavior.

Wasn't certain whether this is a consistency issue or whether posting through a VPN isn't possible.

Anyone know why? May be good to add it to the document.
University of Central Florida to Manage Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico
There's also page.authenticate, which has worked well for me.
https://github.com/GoogleChrome/puppeteer/blob/master/docs/a...
The default styling results in it having too narrow a view so it requires a lot of side scrolling on mobile devices. It gets really annoying for block quoted text past 80-90 characters.
The example they gave about inside building navigation does kinda make sense. Imagine firefighters with this device in their boots. They all get to the fire and press a snyc button (or click their heels three times) and their device gets the current position from the GPS in their fire truck.

Now they can be accurately (well sort of) tracked inside the building without requiring sky access for GPS.
You can also use page.authenticate() for that - see a note at the bottom of the article. Also see https://github.com/GoogleChrome/puppeteer/pull/1732
What Are Non-Bitcoin Applications of Blockchain Technology?
Essentially, the author conflates changes in the homepage of (one version of) TPB with a broader migration of "former libertarians" to "national populists".

I'm not sure what method he's using to confirm their past character, nor how wide spread this actually might be, nor what his warrant from the evidence to the conclusion is.

If you or anyone is interested in making stronger arguments (than this example), I can recommend this course very highly:
https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/the-art-of-debate.ht...
Apart from being a horrific bug, why are people running npm as root? Why don't they install it somewhere below $HOME and modify $PATH? npm is working fine without root permissions.

Everything is super dangerous as root, one should avoid using root at all costs until there is no other way.
Learn Elixir
>For whatever reason, the closed and opinionated Hacker News reached the popularity that it did. I don't mind it.

It being owned by a multimillion dollar VC company might have something to do with it.
See the problem with a severe calorie deficiency isn't the calories themselves... it's the fact that it's very easy to hit malnourishment via micronutrient deficiency. Eating a handful of multivitamins will help, but it won't solve the problem in the long run -- there are a lot of micros! (I use Cronometer for diet tracking, highly recommended, they track around a hundred nutrients)

The hunger goes away once your body realizes your feeding schedule, I've found. For instance, I skipped breakfast (no food till noon) for a few months. For the first week, there was hunger in the morning, but afterwards by body just stopped requesting food before noon. This is probably similar to how keeping a consistent sleep schedule helps you not feel like garbage when you get up in the morning.

Regarding exercise, I completely agree, but I start my feeding cycle early -- I do my cardio (running/swimming) first thing in the morning, fasted, then eat my first meal immediately after. The routine works great and has a major impact on my energy levels for the rest of the day.
People like discussing things on hn because the quality of discourse tends to be (relatively) very high. Naturally people would especially want to discuss politics or anything else that's almost universally a shitshow in a place where they thing commenters are thoughtful and fair and level-headed. Of course it could well be the case that we have such an environment here _because_ debating politics is discouraged.
Perhaps it is hard to calculate exactly, but it is fairly obvious that a reusable steel straw is going to have an environmental impact over one's lifetime that is orders of magnitude worse than using disposable plastic straws.
I find it hilarious that California is attempting to pass similar legislation with about a ~$2 billion price tag yet there’s people living in tent cities from Oakland to San Francisco down to LA with San Diego actually building a tent housing complex in a a parking lot.
Probably because you can accept changes into your content more easily.
The rental market has crazy prices. You would be a lot better off to get a loan and buy an apartment in the outskirts of Stockholm. You need 15% cash to get a loan for an apartment, so if you buy a small one for 2 million Swedish SEK, you need to have 300 000 Swedish SEK to get the loan. That's about 30 000 dollars. But I'm not sure if foreign people can get loans from Swedish banks, need to check that out.
Requirements Checklist for OTA Updates for connected devices [pdf]
I see plenty of disagreement in the threads I visit. The things I tend to see downvoted are things that contain blatant falsities and bigoted comments. I'm OK with people self-censoring those.

I'm willing to grant that I might be missing things I would otherwise agree with.
Very informative piece. Key excerpts:

"Homeless people learned long ago that pooping in plastic-bag-lined containers meant you could wrap the session up and dispose of all the stuff without touching it, he said in a long email. So when it got harder to get the bags after the ban went into effect late last year, it became harder to find the bags and people who were able to keep things clean had to work a lot harder."

"Hepatitis A is spread by contact with feces or blood of an infected person. It can be trace amounts and it can be months old"
Sorry, but that sounds like bullshit from the IOTA team to me. "We're totally gonna be decentralized in the future, honest!"
The data that is used to compose a map is not the same data you need for navigation. Generic map data is freely available for pretty much everywhere.
Is storage space really that big of a concern, with many multiple terabyte drives being commonplace? Out of all of the issues with electron, I don't think wasting 150MB is one of them.
Political discussion is supposed to be banned because it's mainstream, like celebrity gossip, and mainstream discussion dilutes the intellectual quality and purpose of the community and only hastens the Eternal September effect.

If anything, the moderators have probably been too lenient about letting political content through. It's starting to become the HN equivalent of a junk buffet. Far too little of it passes the bar of "satisfying intellectual curiosity," and far too much appeals only to tribalism and emotion.
You understood OP wrong. He is not saying that PoW is the only viable method of securing the chain, but rather, that you need a mining incentive.

There is such a mining incentive in proof-of-stake, block signers get rewarded.
There is also a somewhat amusing IOTA write up on shitcoin.com "IOTA: Cannot be used for IoT. Loss of funds may occur." https://shitcoin.com/iota-cannot-be-used-for-iot-loss-of-fun...
Great article, I learned a lot. I've wondered for a while why some usernames appear green, it would be nice to include that too.
They don't necessarily need GPS at all if they just want to be able to get back to a starting point.
The prediction, made 2 years ago, that Hadoop is dying
I just can't feel sorry for folks when I see comments like this one:

> This destroyed 3 production server after a single deploy!

I do think that the developers have a duty to do some testing of their software before putting out releases/updates. However, users also have a duty to perform sufficient testing before they push new versions to their production environments.

In my opinion, it's kinda like losing data because you didn't make and/or test your backups. It's a really crappy way to have to learn a lesson but at least they've finally learned it -- and if they haven't, well, then maybe they will the next time it happens.
> divide the local registers in half for boxed and unboxed values

Fondly remembers the separate address and data registers on 68000. Why didn't they go back to this approach for x86_64 (16 registers), now that no one really cares about 32 bit x86?
Downvotes could remove from users karma. It acts as a constraint. Basically, the more popular your posts the more moderation you can do, but you still lose moderation capabilities over time if you use it excessively.

No need to make it visible why a user's karma is dropping, it just is. Could be they're getting downvoted, or they're using their voting action and reducing it themselves.

The only other option that works well is a meta-moderation feature like /. has, but that's impractical for this site, the way it does things.
Does the Mac make you stupid? (MacWorld, 1990)
JS Operator precedence
An Overview of Major Advancements in Cyber Security and Encryption Technology
I call BS. The romans (and earlier peoples) were just as cunning and you and me in those matters -- such beliefs didn't play a role in playing other games, and shouldn't play a role in dice.

Those artifacts could be sacrificial or similar special use dice, not something people would use on a game or bet on thinking that some god will even their odds.
I'd like to see the second chance pool made public, if only as another entry under /lists.
It's not hard to get to 500 thru purely technical commentary.

If you're here for politicizing or snide remarks, then yes I hope it's hard to to get to 500.
he is a libturd - they aren't that bright!
What would be a plausible mechanism for a faster brain rehydration using an IV? To me it seems that once the fluid is in the blood stream, it doesn't matter anymore which way it entered. It certainly doesn't take days for ingested fluids to reach the blood.
And this is why front end/electron devs should do at least half of their work on low spec/5+ yo machines. If your product is aimed at the average end consumer, you’re locking out or making life hard for quite a number of users if you approach resource consumption in such a nonchalant manner. Not everybody has 8GB+ quad core machines! There are lots of dual core machines with RAM somewhere south of 4GB still in active use every day.
I'm on android Firefox at the moment and I can confirm that it becomes problematic after about thirty characters. That's what I meant by my previous post.
That rule seems to be basically non-binding commentary.

"The following, although neither controlling nor fully measuring the Court's discretion, indicate the character of the reasons the Court considers".

And, in any case, the last possible reason reads:

"(c) a state court or a United States court of appeals has decided an important question of federal law that has not been, but should be, settled by this Court [...]"
That's actually a point the author makes - he sees AIs as a tool for the author, not as a author itself.
I found it highly interesting to read about a writer's perspective on text producing AIs. Especially the part where its output suddenly was "I don't know what you want me to do".
Part 2 - where he presents a sci-fi short film with a plot written by AI - is also a interesting read.
At least Google and FB are big-enough targets that operate out in the open that they can be crushed by governments if they throw their weight around too much.

The things that scare me are actors that don't have flashy names. The invisible marketing companies funded by lobbyists. Astroturfers. Russian propagandists.
I was worried as to the source of this study and the people who are claiming this "puts to rest the controversy of antidepressant drugs".

It's all psychologists who naturally benefit greatly from a public perception that medication is effective. If I had seen quotes from psychologists saying "This is better than therapy - I'm stopping therapy and giving them drugs" then I would be on the bandwagon with the rest.
The argument seems to be that plastic bags are bad for generating litter. Also there will be a general feel-good argument that plastic is bad so banning bags is good. It's good to feel good as the planet fails to deal with serious environmental issues like global warming. Stuff like this lets politicians court the green vote with measures that are relatively deliverable, and they probably sincerely feel it is making a difference.
> The only downside is how they display PDFs.

Sadly this is not just a "downside". PDF is so endemic that e-readers would flourish if they supported it better.
Kind of a long time frame for this change. I could get 2020, but why 2030?!

I see, they will stop giving them for free and 2030 is total ban.
Ok, thanks. I do trust Lustig.
Interesting then that the Europeans do have the opposite opinion. They are not influenced by the sugar lobby.
What about NANO then if they share the same kind of tech as IOTA? Any thoughts on that?
I can't be the only one who thought this was about the band Tool.
Am I the only one who slightly squeeze my straws with my teeth and mouth? A vegan restaurant I know has metal straws and it's so incredibly uncomfortable that I'm avoiding buying drinks with straws there.
The Economic Impact of Artificial Intelligence
Sometimes, but often the only proprietary part of these things is the app they want you to use.

Most of them will output standard formats and streams that you can hook into in my experience (but i might be inadvertently selecting for those)
There's nothing preventing someone to play dice and have fun with a "completely rational mind".

Don't confuse accepting small odds and the spending money with being "irrational".
It's also a good idea to review the guidelines every once in a while:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
AftaRobot app announced to help South African minibus taxis operate efficiently
Suddenly this 7 cents are the biggest expense and everyone remembers to bring their bag, which is awesome because effects are great.
Hard to say what roadblocks will be there, 3 steps ahead. I suspect that if the US' easy cities become self-drivable, all cities will. But, maybe not.

In any case, I don't think we should be assuming infrastructure will remain the same. If self driving does replace driving, the infrastructure will change. Point problems (eg, computer can't handle these 43 tricky roads or intersections, those problems will be solvable be changing the road. It might just be adjusting so gns or minor parking rule changes.

There's a chicken-egg problem, which is why getting some of the way on existing infrastructure is smart. It also avoids scaring finance ministers, but ultimately infrastructure will meet driverless cars part way.
Do you hava something visible on GitHub?
I am curious :)
Something I frequently use is search HN on algolia.
Physiocracy
Does this really work? I'd freak out if my phone would ring and some random person is asking me questions about my job and the company I work for.
What kind of companies are transforming in Blockchain?