skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Plastic breaks down in oxygen and UV light. The problem is people keep burying them.
I also really annoy my friends. Essentially Facebook has redefined a friend as someone that will still bother to contact you and invite you to things even though you aren't on Facebook.

Banner adds since I switched to Android this year were interesting as I used to use my gmail account for FB. First, a week of banner ads saying "come back to Facebook"; Very Uber-creepy. Then a week of sign up for Instagram! Followed by a week of "Facebook messenger doesn't require a facebook account!" which I don't understand.

At that point, I created a new Google account and deleted my old one. Now I see ads for foot fungus!
Don’t worry, it’s just a theory...
One question that's not answered: what do green usernames represent? Would honestly love to know!
Have you ever stood in line for passport/ID control at an airport or anywhere else any time in the past decade? If yes, that government's security and intelligence services (and anyone they share data with) have enough video frames of your your face to build a high fidelity facial recognition model. And it's linked to your name, nationality and passport number.
> It had the traits Snips needed

Well done.
chez scheme, choose one.
Smartphones and removable batteries
New account
Drinks taste better without straws anyway, and you can be satisfied with a lot less by sipping directly. I was amazed how easily I could gulp down some 32 oz. drink with a straw but when opening the lid and sipping I could be perfectly happy with a tiny coffee-cup size.
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Uhh. Does semver actually say anything about bugs?! o_0
As a third point of reference, the Strawberry Lemonade 32oz Powerade I have here next to my keyboard (now filled with water) contains 56g sugar, 400 mg sodium, 93 mg potassium.

Note that the label says it contains 21g sugar, 150mg sodium, 35 mg potassium - per 12 fluid ounces. Multiply by 2.66 if you drink the whole bottle.

In table format:

DIY Oral Gatorade Gatorade Powerade Pedialyte
Solution G2
Sugar (g) 25 19 56 56 24
Sodium (mg) 1000 435 400 400 986
Potassium (mg) 0 120 100 93 780

(per 32 Oz)

It's striking how similar the regular Gatorade and Powerade are. Also, the powerade.com nutritional info site is "down for maintenance", had to search elsewhere: http://archive.is/2018.02.22-160258/https://www.powerade.com.... They have the Coca-Cola logo.gif on the site, but unfortunately no animated orange construction barrels.

Edit: Added Pedialyte
I think the position error will still be unbounded over time with this approach. What it does give you is sharply bounded velocity error, which in turn makes position error grow much more slowly.

It’s basically dead reckoning as you’d see in a car (where you always know your speed pretty accurately) versus in a plane (where speed is an output of the dead reckoning process as well as an input).
* github profiles are rarely deleted and content put up once will stay there for many years

Seriously, dead links to github.{com, io} are super-rare IME.
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As far as I know, new users are green for a certain time period.

edit: under 2 weeks old
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Thanks!
I don't think this was whataboutism... The previous comment made a claim and he showed concrete evidence going against that claim.
Google calls out Microsoft for failing to fix reported flaw
You probably meant rpm and dpkg... Or you'd have to compare yum, zypper, apt, pacman and whatever else is out there.

But, I'm certain the parent didn't mean that. Dpkg and rpm both allow packages to overwrite files from each other and, more dangerously, allow fully authorized post-install scripts.
And they're often necessary for sane package management (create user, initiate database), but could be exploited to wreck havoc on the system.
Because sometimes you are writing software that interacts with hardware at a root level. This is really annoying advice you're giving since its absolute and without context. No, not everything is "super dangerous" with sudo. Get that FUD outta here!
There is perhaps a bit more to cryptocurrencies that Singer gives them credit for. I've recently been reading some of the original stuff from Szabo / Satoshi eg http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2005/12/bit-gold.html and https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf that partly explain why they have worked and not collapsed 9 years later. A lot of it is much clearer than the hype which has followed.
HN has shadow-banning based on an unknown set of criteria.
To be clear, are you saying if you're on VPN you're shadow-banned, effectively, but the same account works fine when not on VPN?
Correct me if I am wrong, but I believe that interpreted vs compiled has far more to do with python's speed then abstraction in this case. Also the post you linked literally states that abstraction doesn't necessarily mean slow.
Where is the part where he admitted it was bullshit?
This could be my inner grumpy old man speaking, but as a general rule of thumb, I look very poorly on editorializing in code comments. Originally because I didn't want my junior devs embarrassing the company when our clients received control of the code we wrote, but that also transferred into my perception of open source.

That comment should not have survived 4 years. Again, inner grumpy old man showing through.

Edit: to be clear, such comments are treated as reflective of the people and organization behind them.
I think it is: your code ends up taking different paths based on the result of a comparison, which is ill-conditioned. The underlying system might be well-conditioned, but the question you are asking about it is not.
All that the Hotmail story really highlighted was the reliance on inductive reasoning by actuaries. It also didn't make clear whether they had identified drivers who caused accidents or had been the victims of accidents. Insurers will penalise people who make claims regardless of fault.

It's not a particularly useful comparison for this situation.

Also when 'people who watch broadcast TV' represent an overwhelming majority, the suggestion that they're essentially a bit stupid is well... rather arrogant, no?
Yup. It’s a totally reasonable thing to do here. It’s why it exists!
They do. I also have the impression that the number of childs influences sort order.
I am the one who reported this ;) In fact that was a single production server that I tried to reinstall 3 times before catching it was not really one of the commits that was doing this. No data was lost or connectivity (as long as you do not reboot it), you just lose any ssh connection/login.

Should I have done this on a staging server? Sure, but that does not change the fact that I would have had to rebuild the whole server there too. It is not expected that updating npm will kill the complete system it is on... It would be expected to have some deploy failure of some sort.

As previously noted, `npm update -g npm` pulls in version 5.7.0. Version 5.6 is still the latest but for some obscure reason if you have thisupdate anywhere in your deploy script you are screwed.
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I just love L&L :-)
Plastics are polluting and poisoning the oceans:

https://www.ft.com/content/30b30b1e-004a-11e8-9650-9c0ad2d7c...
"> modeling a particular market force that has been difficult to capture in previous models. Empirical evidence shows that, when a stock return is fluctuating in the short term, there exists a market force that draws the fluctuating stock return back to its long-run equilibrium. This force is related to the concept of mean reversion, which is the tendency of a stock to return to its average price."

Talk of "market forces" and the like fall into the quantum voodoo school of economics, IMHO.
I just bought the new Kindle Oasis. It's by far the best e-reader I've owned, and I've owned quite a few including the original Sony readers. After decades of staring at computer screens my eyes are very sensitive to harsh lighting, and so I can't read for long on an LCD/LED/AMOLED screen. Up until the Kindle Oasis my complaint was that e-readers were too hard to hold for very long. The offset balanced design solves that problem, finally.
I was hoping to find all the unlisted URLs some of which I can never remember, like /leaders etc.

Interesting nonetheless.

There does seem to be some attempts to game HN lately that I don't remember in the past - like a recent tendency of some new accounts to ask dozens upon dozens of questions. I can only assume there's some karma gaming behind that.
Looking at the info for pedialyte, 12 oz contains 370mg of sodium, and 9g of sugar.

So for 32oz, that 986mg sodium, and 24g sugar, which seems spot on to the articles recommended ratios.

https://pedialyte.com/products/classic/mixed-fruit
The cumulative errors that this device reduces are inherent to the measurement, drift in dead reckoning is just the sum of the errors in measurement and the assumptions thereof. This device simply provides a more accurate dead reckoning with cheap IMU sensors.
As mentioned above, in some uC's the output register defines the pull direction when the pin is an input.

In other cases, you want to avoid glitching when the pin switches to an output on startup.
I've noticed that sometimes [dead] comments don't seem to be revived by - presumably - just me clicking vouch. Perhaps vouches and flags and other criteria are balanced against each other or something like that.
Have you tried out lobsters?

https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters
The title sounds misleading. It has to be judged on case to case basis. I do not understand why this well known thing is posted here. ORS is commonly used and prescribed.
I guess now that I think of it, all the solutions I've seen break down into two techniques.

First, loading different versions of the library under the same name to provide to different parts of your code. This has different risks depending on how and when symbols are looked up or linked. In some languages you can end up with the two versions accidentally calling into each other or using each other's symbols. In other languages you run into the "expected Foo but got Foo" type errors mentioned by munificent. That's what happens when you use classloader tricks as a half-assed way of isolating "components" in Java.

Second, loading different versions of the library under different names. This requires hacking the compiled code or the source code; convenience and reliability will depend on the quality of the tools you're working with. Sophistication ranges from using sed to munge source code to using tools like objcopy that can read and rewrite compiled artifacts. Java "shading" (not "shadowing" as I said earlier) relies on rewriting class files.
re: time travel. Check out their website and specifically the team page.
> I was hoping to find all the unlisted URLs some of which I can never remember, like /leaders etc.

https://news.ycombinator.com/lists
I’ve been concerned about that scenario for about two years now. Didn’t say anything because I didn’t want to give anyone ideas, but oh well.
I wonder how this affects textbooks that require codes to access online content required for the course.
More like a list of every proxy providers proxies
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Oh it will change. It will change when regulations are shortly imposed and an anti-trust suit is filed.
About 1-2 kWh and 4-6 gallons of water per use.
A (very old) version of this software's code is available.
Don't you think IOTA is trying to do too much at the same time? Maybe I'm underestimating the risk but it seems like practical quantum computer attacks are still a few decades away, maybe it would make more sense to focus on getting the rest of IOTA to work and plan to switch to different cryptographic algorithms later once things have settled a bit.

If I get this right IOTA is trying to:

* Move away from PoW

* Have a cryptocurrency that scales well to a very high transaction frequency

* Implement quantum-resistant cryptography

* Use ternary logic to theoretically minimize power consumption

That's a lot for a single project I think.
Or just access to toilets. It's not like they want to poop in bags.
Ask them why they won't listen. In my personal experience as a junior dev I was working under idiots because everytime I asked certain questions, they never gave me a plausible answer.
It's not "content" it's "documentation". Github is good for keeping it up to date, checking out to older versions, accepting PRs etc.
I think you must have misread what I wrote because I specifically mentioned incentive.

> There is such a mining incentive in proof-of-stake, block signers get rewarded.

Not in all PoS coins, actually. And arguably you don't need it. Your stake's value is contingent on fulfilling the implicit promise of the network: honest, accurate, fast transactions.
That is done already.
I'm sure that helped, especially in the beginning, but at this point I think the number of people that value it for the community and discussion far exceeds those that use it to keep abridged of YC developments.
That's "course-grained reconfigurable architecture", for anyone else who didn't know.
This approach is used in California and other states and it generally works. The deposit is 5 cents and certain "healthy" drinks (juices, milk) are not charged. [If you live in CA, know all this, and are just arguing for a much higher fee - my apologies.]

Most middle-class people don't take household bottles in for the 5c back -- they recycle them in bulk for free -- but bottles in public areas are scooped up by poorer people.

Also, some people game the system in various ways, like importing out-of-state cans for the return value, or other types of fraud, which can be abetted by shady recycling firms.

So basically, a micro-economy was created with all its attendant functional and not-so-functional aspects. But the basic problem of roadside litter was largely solved.
I am here providing an anecdotal story.

Zurich Switzerland -> Austrian Alps

Heavy traffic, incidents along the road, gridlock ...> Waze got us there FASTEST.

"ATTENTION" "WAZE HAS JUST FOUND A FASTER ROUTE".

Competed against iPhone & Google Maps.

Same way return drive. ... So two data points I guess.

Austrian Alps -> Zurich

Plus ... I use it daily... So three data points then.
Nothing is Cheaper than Proof of Work (2015)
http://www.truthcoin.info/blog/pow-cheapest/
I'm not convinced any of the replies to your question really answered it, so I'll add my own:

Redbox rents out DVDs/Blurays from physical kiosks. Normally they buy the discs straight from the studios (or whoever the studios go through). As a fallback, they'll literally buy them from Walmart or whoever, which I'm pretty sure is how they originally started before they were big enough to get the deals going. They still don't have a deal with Disney, so they buy them at retail from some unnamed vendor.

Disney retail movies come with a download code for digital copies, which Redbox has no use for, so they sell that code for cheap and everyone wins (besides Disney). They could literally throw the code away and still profit.

Does that help? You were basically on target.
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HN was already pretty popular while YC was only distributing $1M/year, back in 2010. But posting was encouraged to YC participants (IIRC), which probably did help it quite a bit.
Up until recently, I was totally off the grid with e-readers, meaning my purchases were never known. I bought 10-year-old e-readers for like $10 at my local used electronics store. I still bought physical books, but I'd download the epub as well and drop it on my reader over USB. To me, they were disposable devices with a utility I feel like I can't live without.

There wasn't an incentive to buy a new one up until the waterproof Kindle Oasis came out. I'd ruined my old e-readers in the bath, and this seemed like a worthy purchase.

I don't think e-readers are dead at all. They just tend to last a long time, and there hasn't been a lot of innovation to make people want to upgrade. I think once waterproofing hits the cheaper lines of e-readers, they'll see an uptick in sales, but that may just be me projecting my own use case.
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I hate the desaturation, I should add a user.css entry for it or something. Effectively silencing non-mainstream views seems so contrary to hacker culture to me.
It seems you have a financial interest in this. When you say you have £20 worth of bags, is this at the 5p per bag rate, or at your proposed £1 per bag?
Well, other developed countries don't have so many homeless people, so that should be less of a problem there.
> That's not an answer to the question

I submitted in the wrong thread
The city I live in is not flat, nor rectilinear, nor logically arranged. Therefore, algorithmic traffic modelling is hard, statistical models from previous data aren't reliable, and shift happens. I can visualize the way, or the map, but I only have a very general idea which route is least congested now; enter traffic crowdsourcing, and voila...oh wait, it's all congested anyway, as the other Waze users get rerouted to alternates.
Dead reckoning is actually fairly accurate if done right.

I'd be surprised if the lidar units aren't being used for a similar algorithm.
With many of the lower-end laptops, price-wise, having ~128GB of SSD space, yes, it's a concern.
Dead reckoning is like pure IMU integration. In this work they detect the instant of zero velocity and do something like a Kalman update with a velocity measurement
Ah, yeah, you're right. I was looking at it in diff[0] and hadn't noticed it lost context.

With the full comment, it seems they're instead bemoaning having to adhere to a user's config. Not sure which is worse...

[0] https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/94227e15eeced836b3d7b3d2b5...
Their concept of productive labor vs. unproductive labor was ultimately not that useful, but I really think it's interesting how critiques of classical political economy revisited the idea. Regardless of all economic activity being "necessary" in a sense, there is clearly a difference in producing new things and maintaining the system in which people function. For example (not to pick on anything, because there are a lot of fields like this), finance is clearly qualitatively different from manufacturing. That's not to say that it's wholly unnecessary, but its fundamentally unproductive nature should probably be spoken of more than it is.
This is true, it's very unsanitary if you put unpackaged goods in there or get leaks.

Lots of stores also don't ask and give you a bag at whatever the locale's imposed fee is which they keep it, so there is an incentive to do this.

At the end of the day, the externality should not be captured by the store, but should be refunded back to the user with even distribution.
Yeah it was on his domain at http://come-from-beyond.com, unfortunately since last month he's not renewed it and wayback just loads a blank page.

Shame, I'm going to see if it's available anywhere as it was a riot. Technology NASA is making him keep secret until this countdown he had going.
The charges are inflated because of insurance. The actual paid amount is less.
They have that.

They choose the plastic bags because the toilets are in disarray.
Double-edged sword there - fiction, by definition, doesn't care about the truth and lends itself even better to well-crafted lies than the messy truth: VR is going to be amazingly fantastic for propaganda.
> Signal is indeed an open protocol.

The Signal protocol is public, but not open. It is a proprietary protocol which is controlled entirely by the company behind Signal.
I don't find it easy personally, my most upvoted comment has 14 points, most are under 4 points.

But then, I don't comment often and I don't care about being able to downvote, so I think I'll survive.
just start... it doesnt matter with what you start...

(please be sure to learn Programming and not a framework (like jquery, angular etc) most people learned a framework and are really bad programmers)
I can't read that article (says a subscription is required). Plastics may be polluting and poisoning the oceans, but

- what exactly is the source of those plastics? I saw someone else in this thread claim that it was from countries with poor waste management. So is banning use of those plastics in certain countries actually going to help? Is better waste management a better solution?

- evaluating any proposal means doing a cost/benefit analysis of it and the alternatives. So some plastics from some sources contribute to that pollution and poisoning. But how much better or worse are the alternatives to banning them?

See what I mean about shallow vs deep arguments for proposed solutions?
This is a separate problem caused by not providing homeless people access to toilets. Seems obvious that the solution is more public restrooms not more plastic bags.
I thought earning enough karma would adjust the color to default, I guesd I am wrong.
> "Facebook messenger doesn't require a facebook account!" which I don't understand.

You can actually sign up for a Messenger account independently of a Facebook account. However, this doesn't seem to be well supported. There is no way that I can tell to delete a Messenger-only account, or to remove contacts that were automatically uploaded from your phone.
What is novel about that? Phones have had them for years
Thanks! That's one I hadn't encountered! :)
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How about putting the tax up front while the customer is on the register? It reduces the burden of documentation for both the customer and government while also ensuring near 100% compliance. Might be a good idea to look into.
Their website (iota.org) does not appear to have any team page. Do you mind posting a specific link?
Not if you eat popsicles the way I do! Lick, lick, crunch, more please.
Patients insist on IV despite doctors not agreeing. Even injectables!
It's the other way around: Inertial navigation is just a very accurate implementation of dead reckoning.
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Cost-effectiveness of pharmacogenetic-guided treatment: are we there yet?
Because the author starts a list and then hopes that other people will contribute to it.

I currently have 2 repos with ~1k+ stars, and both of them are not code-related. The rest of the repos (most of which have code) receive <50 stars, so it's a good way to receive cool reputation within GitHub.

And finally, managing these ain't an easy task as well. The level of knowledge necessary to contribute to them is "knows a tiny bit of Git and the topic involved". Want to contribute to a popular repo? Contribute to a non-code repo just to see the process.
Yeah that definitely seems to be the play. I didn't realize how much these were, I just looked at google attribution 360 that seems fantastic to use. I viewed the Nest video of how they are using it. I don't know if I could ever get any of these lawyers to that point though. I work with newer and smaller firms. I really enjoy the aspect of helping people grow from very little - I just have a lot less money to play with but I can dictate where it goes, pick any technology stack, etc.