skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Legacy systems for one. The Cooperative Patent Classification group releases their classifications en masse as HTML (single zip download, which is great). I built a parser for a PHP project that could parse all several hundred thousand records from the HTML in a few minutes. In 2017, they switched to a system that loads in the data from JSON stored in Javascript in the HTML (it is every bit as terrible as you imagine). Obviously loading in the HTML and trying to use regex to match the JSON was a terrible idea (especially since it was encoded to boot...), so I instead used Phantom to load each file, render it, and save it to a temporary file which I then parse using the original pre-2017 parser. Like 10 lines of code in Phantom to do it.

Obviously with my situation, this is not the end of the world. I use the parser twice a year and Phantom will continue to handle that task just fine. But I also know that the switch to using headless Chrome would be an expensive one if necessary; we have to research it, we have to update local dev environments, we have to implement it, we have to write new tests for it, we have to test it, we have to updating our deployment strategy, update our server deployment configuration, and, worst of all, get all of these changes and new software installations approved by the USPTO which is a nightmare. My situation is simple, but would take several weeks to several months to actually deploy to production. As it stands, I will likely have to explain why we have a now-unmaintained piece of software on the server and may be forced to switch regardless.

I can easily imagine how this project sunsetting, even though there is a clear alternative and successor, could be a nightmare to a lot of people. It's not the end of the world, but it's definitely unfortunate
The World Is Embracing S.U.V.s. That’s Bad News for the Climate
I realize this is somewhat ridiculous, but I actually found their FAQ [0] and the product very interesting.

The term "AI" has become somewhat meaningless, but in this case they appear to be adjusting cooking time based on previous results. I'd guess they are probably adjusting a couple of parameters.

My basic understanding of how rice cookers work, is that they essentially apply full heating power until all the water has boiled away/been absorbed. They know when this happens by monitoring the temperature, the temperature wont rise above 100 degrees until all the water has boiled away. At this point they shut off.

I guess more "intelligent" rice cookers can do a little more than this, maybe if they see that it's consistently taking less time than expected to cook the rice they can heat to a lower temperature at the start to aid water absorption or something? Would be interested in knowing more.

[0] https://www.zojirushi.com/app/faq/rice-cookers
Use homomorphic encryption to ensure attackers can't tell when they get the same thing twice.

IPs are not so cheap, anyway. If you have enough legitimate traffic it would be tough to spoof enough.
The block is indeed in place, but trivially circumvented using a VPN.

Please e careful with your mirror. You are now susceptible to the same lawsuit as the original Project Gutenberg. I am not sure where you are in the world, but Germany has legal assistance treaties with the US/UK/Scandanavia, all EEC and Schengen countries.

https://www.congress.gov/treaty-document/108th-congress/27/d...
https://www.mlat.info/mlat-index
Not to mention that conservation doesn’t use a ton of energy, most of which will be from burning fossile fuels. It’s a bit counterproductive if your plan to save the world burns a ton of coal, oil, etc to build and maintain.
No, but you cited a book whose title suggests a premise I have issues with.
There's still the issue that self-driving cars are too courteous compared to normal drivers. I wonder how/if they'll fix that. Imagine sitting in a self-driving car that can't "push" itself through traffic; or imagine sitting in a car behind that car ...
They can go for the ISPs, or push for some German law to restrict local access. Doesn't mean they should, though.
For Mac and Linux:

pip install ray

For windows:

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I'm someone who clear cookies on exit to the sole purpose of having to login again every time. And I don't even use a password manager.

It does get annoying because I have to type my credentials all the time, but it just takes a few seconds so it's not a big deal. I'm sure this is not preventing me from doing anything better with my time.
If your family ate foie gras from golden plates, people would hate you, too. Success and approval are two different things. Someone may think that you are successful, but using that success in an irresponsible manner.
As has been said, this point was somewhat inevitable with the advent of Chrome and Firefox's headless modes. However, as the project slips into the mists of history, let's not forget the vital stepping stone it provided in having access to a real headless browser environment vs a simulated one. I for one will remain grateful to Ariya, Vitallium and all the team for their efforts.
HN has everyone's email.

With modern language usage analysis it would probably not be too difficult to work out who everyone is on HN who posts regularly. This is one of the reasons I post under my real name.
> try to block

Excellent phrasing. They can try. And they'll fail. Blocking is trivially easy to avoid and circumvent. As long as there's no jurisdiction, a country can't take any action against a criminal site, it can only take steps to protect its population from harmful outside influence, which is by blocking. The offenders remain free and often unidentified.

But when there is jurisdiction, a country can take offensive action. It gives legal ground to investigate the involved persons, it gives permission to hack the website, it gives permission to hijack it and replace it by honeypots. It gives the weapons to not just temporarily silence criminals, but to destroy their enterprise and bring them to justice.

Remote jurisdiction is the base of modern countermeasures against websites and servers involved in drugs, child pornography, terrorism, and human trafficking. Without it, the only logical way to protect your population is to erect deep-scanning firewalls and abolishing free traffic across national networks, much like China and Iran are doing.
Mario Vargas Llosa: “Political correctness is the enemy of freedom”
I am in Germany, and I just opened Moby Dick on Project Gutenberg. I do have native IPv6, though, someone already pointed out that the block only affects IPv4.
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Hey OP, thanks for asking this question. I read Ask HN regularly and I thought reading some of these responses was beneficial. Now I just need to figure out how to internalize the behaviors. :-)
>But by actively preventing third-parties from porting their services to WP

[citation needed]

The only history i'm aware of with google blocking app development on windows phone is when they sent C&Ds to people developing apps that stripped all the ads off youtube and played background audio. They also consistently take down and block android apps that violate the TOS in this way, and i don't see anybody saying that google is trying to kill android.
HN only has email addresses for members who provide it. It's not a requirement for account creation.
Yeah, because a child is much more likely to get molested than murdered. And that’s before taking into account that most child murders are probably committed by the child’s parents, not by teachers.
> Pakistani rat children

That seems rather harsh. Or is that a real term? Either way it seems like a rather harsh term to call a child.
Tying is codified in both the Sherman Antitrust Act and the Clayton Act.
Better title: Tickling the brain with low-intensity electrical stimulation in a specific area can improve verbal short-term memory.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/01/180129134354.h...
I’m also thinking of how human drivers will quickly learn to exploit this and get a feel of how to push the algorithm to get a slighgood advantage. Like, advancing a bit and stopping or getting a bit closer in order to merge in front of a self driving car.
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This is probably more true than many realize. There’s a great history re-enactment series on BBC called Victorian Farm, Edwardian Farm, etc (I believe they’ve done more) and before technological innovations laundry was the largest time-sink in a woman’s life. Watching the labor involved was a horrible revelation for me.
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How does this comment relate to any issue raised in the article?
You still don't get that if that electricity had a better/profitable use it would be used for such a purpose rather than Bitcoin mining.
that was the other way around.

and amazon's rationale for not selling chromecasts was because the chromecast didn't support amazon prime video. which was, of course, a decision that amazon had made.
People already do this with real drivers.
I’ll go a step further and say that I am strongly in favor of erring way on the side of less legal immunity for undercover agents. I don’t think a world with no undercover agents (especially domestic agents; foreign operatives is a bit of a different ballgame) sounds particularly horrible, but a world with domestic agents with significant immunity is pretty much the definition of dystopia.
It's a common thing now for a comment on some text to identify done objectionable line and say "stopped reading after you said react was a framework not a library" or whatever. It's a really condescending way to indicate disagreement with a part of an article, and dismiss the author.
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I started dating my now wife when I was 37 and she was 35. She had two kids who were 8 and 14. That was 7 years ago.

One of the first discussions we had was did I desire to have children "of my own". I said I didn't and she didn't want to "start over".

I love my step children and became very close almost immediately. I don't feel like I'm missing anything by not having my own biological kids.

But, at 37 - we married less than 8 months after we started dating - I knew I was selfish. Not financially, but I knew I wanted to have plenty of time to enjoy life with just my wife.

With kids that age, we've always been able to balance alone time and family time. We could leave our kids at home when we went out and even left them home alone over the weekend when my older child turned 16.

I'll be 46 when my younger child graduates. My wife and I have our whole life ahead of us.

I've never like babies. I wouldn't deal with babies in my own family until they were potty trained and talking. To me babies just limit what I can do in life and the freedom I enjoy.
If you're logged into your Google account when you watch a Youtube video, I'm guessing they don't have that much uncertainty in their assumption of your gender.
On the other hand, the self-driving car has a lot of cameras, good for collecting evidence, which may scare human drivers.
Generally speaking, no, you only have to follow the laws of the county where you are resident. I don't know why Project Gutenberg is taking any notice of the court case at all, although it probably should warn its contributors not to work on projects that aren't yet public domain in their own countries, to avoid any risk of legal action.

In this case the legal situation seems clear. The case is about several books written by Heinrich Mann, Thomas Mann and Alfred Döblin, who died less than 70 years ago, and all their works are still in copyright in Germany. However, copyright law in the US is more complex, and their works published before 1923 are public domain there.

Project Gutenberg has every right to publish these works from a web server located in the United States. If Germany doesn't like it, it can order that Gutenberg's website be blocked, like is already done with sites like The Pirate Bay in many countries, and with many other sites in restrictive countries like China.
This freaking game was in my top 3 gamecube games for sure. Memories...
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Dr Gregor references genuine studies and provides some good nutritional advice but he is fundamentally opposed to foods derived from farming animals as are many Internet commentators who come out of the woodwork when there is any controversy around meat and health.

I don't doubt his good intentions and I think he attempts to be balanced and use science to back his arguments. But he clearly starts from the position that meat is bad as I think perhaps you do. And perhaps it is. But I would prefer to see that established without prejudice.

If you have an ethical problem with eating meat then don't eat it. But I get a little tired of people proselytising as a result of becoming born again vegans.

As for curing meat. As you say meat can be dangerous to consumer due to contamination. I would rather a slightly elevated risk of cancer from moderate use of nitrate cured meats than near certain death from botulism or some other nasty. I really would like to see a safer alternative become commercially available but I don't want to be second guessing the microbial safety of my cold cuts. I rarely eat bacon but cold cured meats with salad are a relatively important part of my diet as cooking in our kitchen heats the house too much during the warmer months.

I think the big problem with meat, as with the sugar epidemic, is overconsumption. If every meat eater ate meat in moderation as part of a balanced diet there would be far less environmental impact and animal cruelty than creating a small number of vegan converts. Red meat consumption has certainly dropped in Australia though chicken has offset some of that.
You realize that Bayer data counts every column and row whether R G or B, right? Half the pixels (21Mpix) are green and the other 2 quarters are R and G.

So if you're going down to FHD (2kx1k) from 42Mpix (8kx5k) you have already lost massive ammounts of resolution (and noise). Bayer FHD would be SPR (sup-pixel rendered) and even lower resolution (1/3 RGB e.g. 1080 lines of 1920 RG/BG alternating columns) than most JPEG FHD (natural scene) not suitable for video compression much less Raw. That would be silly.

If you don't down-sample the data somehow you can't even get it off the CIS which are limited to ~2-5Gb/sec. Since most reasonable image sizes are large enough you can see color at full resolution we typically use RGB at FHD, compressed or not. Alternately, you can go to 4:4:4 to 4:2:2 or even 4:1:1 in Yuv (YCbCr), but that's not Raw or anything like it.
Sorry, I was sloppy in saying that the judgment itself would be quashed. What I meant is that any attempt to enforce the judgment would be quashed. Since (by assumption) the defendant doesn't any assets in Europe to pay the fine, enforcing the judgment would require going after the defendant's assets located in the US. American courts will typically enforce foreign judgments from 'friendly' jurisdictions, but if the judgment is incompatible with American law, American courts will quash any attempt to enforce the judgment in the US.

Of course, Facebook and other large American corporations can be expected to comply with GDPR, since the cost of compliance is much less than the opportunity cost of being excluded from the EU market.
These guys don't need computers, what the hell is anyone going to do with Microsoft Word experience in a place with no electricity or computers, besides LEAVE? They would be just as well off using typewriters.

They need an entire economy.
The definition of "production ready" for machine learning is when it's at an accuracy level that is high enough that it becomes "useful" for some sense of the word. Machine learning models will almost never achieve 100% accuracy, so it comes down to what a "useful accuracy" level is to you.
Where is the water going, though? Isn't water a zero-sum game in the sense that Earth is a closed system?
For example, imagine you only collect an email at sign up (no name, no country) and you state in your EULA that you might use the email to send onboarding information or commercial communications (promotions, newsletter) that can be opted out.

If you do not have any means to know the country where the owner of the email is located, how do you ensure the right of non-EU citizens to receive the commercial communications they have agreed to receive in your EULA unless they opt out later?

If you do not collect your user country for privacy reasons (I would be wary to sign up for a trial of a service who wants to know my citizenship), how can you prevent EU citizens from using your product?
But how much of life expectancy can be attributed to the healthcare system? Maybe Brits spend more time outside, and are less stressed, etc etc. how have the rankings changed over time and what changes in the healthcare systems correlate to those trends?
I think you're misinterpreting it. The courts mean that this is an implicit acknowledgement that the contents featured on the Gutenberg website isn't necessarily legal everywhere in the world, and that local laws may apply. If this website was aimed solely at Americans, this notice would be moot.

It's like a Russian child pornography site warning that American members might be investigated by the FBI. If it didn't care about American members, it wouldn't put out such notice.
How much of the missing water is actually due to higher temperatures, and how much is due to people siphoning water from the aquifers that feed the lake? This article mostly focuses on "climate change" hysterics, but also acknowledges the siphoning problem.

A HN comment [0] linked to a TucsonWeekly [1] piece about how Tucson used to be an oasis. Similarly, the Salt River used to run year-round through Phoenix. Las Vegas was an oasis too. Cattle and wells turned Tucson's river dry. The Salt River is blocked by dams, where most the water is used for plants and allowed to evaporate. Las Vegas' population vastly exceeds its natural water supply. I don't think the disappearance of these cities' oases can be blamed on "climate change".

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16118109

[1] https://www.tucsonweekly.com/tucson/a-river-ran-through-it/C...

The Israelis are experts in hydroponics, which uses a fraction of the water used for irrigation. This is a more responsible way to use water in an arid country.

If the problem causing these lakes to dry up is mostly "climate change", these people's predicaments are hopeless. But if the problem is mostly irresponsible use of the aquifers upstream from the lake, the problem is solvable.
> This is distinct from, say, a company explicitly providing a service to customers in a particular country (cf GDPR).

In what ways do you think the GDPR is distinct from the laws in the present case? Let's say, for argument's sake, that gutenberg.org starts capturing PII about visitors and storing it without conforming to the GDPR. Do you think it would be fair for the EU to sue them and (attempt to) enforce their law? If so, why?
FAA regulations make the sky inaccessible to the general citizenry. The safety claim is analogous to a world in which the roads were restricted to commercial vehicles and sports car owners. Safety is primarily achieved by limiting access and hence use.
Ask HN: How can a person be less theoretical and more practical?
I'm a 28 year old college dropout and recovering burnout with a passion for design, development, solving problems. I got some good feedback from a friend/mentor today who has been trying to help me grow.

I've come a long way in the last year with some big changes like not drinking alcohol or smoking weed for 10 months, quitting meat, getting out of debt, starting a consultancy. I know I still have a ways to go though and am trying to take his advice to heart. I know it's a broad question but I don't think I know a place better than HN for the balance of theory and practice.

Thanks for helping me out.
Weird things happen because the the number of surviving children isn't uniform. Where that hit home for me was during the great depression the median family was small. Most families were using various types of birth control and illicit abortions were rampant. However most children came from larger families... because large families were really large.

And poor.

Hint my dad had two brothers. One of my dad's brothers fathered six kids. My dad three and his other brother one.

So families sizes of 6:3:1

The majority of my grandmothers grandchildren came from a family with 6 children. Those six have 14 children. My dad and other uncle have two grandchildren total, one each.
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If it ceased to be free it would possibly maintain its utility and gain some civility b/c most of the people that constitute the political echo chamber would balk at paying.
youtube-dl will do fine. It is updated once in several days, and with that activity count, I think they will transition to headless chrome in no time.
Your argument is "there are other assholes". While true, that still doesn't make them likeable. ["Likable"? Never saw that spelling before.]
Aliens are sucking the water up... caught in rare footage: https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/581619/UFO-foota...
Well, in general, the rest of the answer to your question is that newer games tend to have better pathfinding, but adding better pathfinding to older games will make them essentially different games. Casual players might like it; serious players would throw a shit-fit. It's one of those "we can, but should we?" questions; everyone's going to have a different opinion.

Now...I don't see why they couldn't have included it as a toggle-able option. I know that I've considered trying to build updated versions of old games, and when thinking about how to do it, that seemed like the best choice.
The game was delibratlly designed to divide the players into "smart" and "dumb" groups.

Most lotto games are (though not normally to this extreme where large groups can guarantee a profit).
It's a good way of attracting players. As the jackpot gets larger, more and more 'smarter' players play the game. This video gives a good overview of why: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVKTiXdCDyQ
DNA nanobot 'starves' tumors
I wonder whether Amazon accounts for this properly. If someone asked them to remove a competitors products, how much money would they demand? They'd have to calculate the damage this does their brand. Do they calculate in this case?
Similarly, a PBS episode comparing different healthcare systems:

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/sickaroundtheworld/
I'm am idiot and misread the comment.
Mexican American friend said in his culture marrying your cousin, you might as well sleep with your sister.
One thing that makes this hard is Unicode & OpenType. Decent line breaking requires hyphenation which with complex shaping requires entire words to be re-shaped for each combination of possible hyphenation points if we want optimal breaks.
PG decided they don't have time to deal with Germany's BS, so they implemented the simplest solution guaranteed to work.
House of pane: Apple was warned of glass danger
He doesn't have a 'toxic' personality, and let's not over use the word 'toxic'. It seems to me that you're basing this opinion on A) a few mailing list entries you've read (specifically _because_ there was some drama) and B) the fact that any comment which is even mildly rude is now considered 'toxic' by some.
Why would you need PhantomJS for that? Can't you just parse the HTML files with Nokogiri and be done with it? That would be orders of magnitude faster anyway
Reminds me of something I read about that in the 1970's.

Mostly people married someone born 10 miles from them. Suddenly steam ships and railroads came.
Some of them that kinda fits in your category are Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Vitalik Buterin, Satoshi Nakamoto, Larry Page & Sergey Brin, Ma Huateng, Jack Ma, Robin Li, Andreessen Horowitz, Marc Andreessen, Peter Thiel.