skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live in Northern Ireland, which is part of the UK but not on the island of Great Britain. The company I work for is based in Belfast (capital of NI), and we bid for government contracts. For example, the government client that I'm currently working with is the DVSA (responsible for driving tests and roadworthiness tests), and the DVSA office I'm working out of is in Nottingham, which is a city on Great Britain, meaning I have the Irish Sea between me and the office I work in.

I fly out from Belfast to Nottingham at around 07:00 on Tuesday morning, and I fly home to Belfast around 20:00 on Thursday evening. Tuesday and Wednesday nights are spent in hotels in Nottingham.

From locking my front door behind me in Belfast to sitting down at my desk in Nottingham it takes around 3h30m. Thursdays are killers though, I don't get in my front door until at least 21:30. So depending on meetings, on Thursdays I frequently end up being on the go from 08:00 to 21:30, which isn't too much fun.

I ended up working this way basically because the company I work for bids for almost exclusively central government projects, and I can't think of any central government agencies that aren't based in England and therefore a flight away.

I first started doing this when I was at university and doing a year-long placement, at the same company I'm currently full-time for.

I was asked if I fancied flying back and forth, and as a 20-year-old, the prospect of getting flown around; staying in nice hotels; getting £5/£10/£30 for breakfast/lunch/dinner every day; and extra pay due to having to fly every week was quite attractive.

Currently 22-years-old and the constant flying got old pretty quickly, but I like where work and I like working on government projects that affect millions of UK citizens' lives.
I bought my foam mattress from Dixie [1]. It's the Dream Bed Deluxe model, which was about $550, which seems right for a foam mattress (it's still probably 2x markup, but less than what Casper etc. are charging), with free delivery in NYC. Unlike most brands, Dixie makes their own mattresses, and they're made in the US. I love the mattress.

[1] https://dixiefoam.com/collections
> The same way it reliable detects the content of the site and everything else. Take a snapshot and keep the latest history.

Wouldn't benchmarking page speed accurately for all pages on a website for a variety of screen sizes on a regular basis cost significant resources? If it's so easy, why are they not doing this already?

What I meant about AMP is that when a page validates as an AMP page you know there's certain things it can and can't do. This makes the task of identifying performant pages significantly easier.
> My response was just to counter the common misapprehension that macOS itself is built on a FreeBSD userland.

I don't think most people say that macOS is built on top of a FreeBSD userland. Most people rightly point out that there is a lot of FreeBSD code inside the macOS code base specifically the XNU kernel[1].

> But the "Darwin" part is still essentially NetBSD, not FreeBSD.

That's incorrect while there is NetBSD code in MacOS. Dismissing the FreeBSD code, the Mach code, the code Apple wrote and saying that Darwin is essentially NetBSD is extremely disingenuous[2].

[1]: https://github.com/apple/darwin-xnu/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=...

[2]: https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Da...
As a complete layperson, h2 push might be interesting because a DNS resolver could learn to detect patterns in DNS queries (e.g. someone who requests twitter.com usually requests pbs.twimg.com and abs.twimg.com right after) and start to push those automatically when they get the query for twitter.com.
These kinds of things have existed for a while now https://newatlas.com/volvo-s60-pedestrian-safety-system/1358...
> obscene monetization strategy they employ

Asking money for cosmetic-only things is obscene?
Ah, tt-rss... After Google announced that Google Reader was going the way of the dodo, I spun up my own instance of tt-rss, and used their (paid) Android app too... until I decided to file some bugs on their Redmine bug tracker.

There were a few bugs I had encountered (can't recall if it was on the mobile app, or on the browser UI), and decided to report to them. I opened a few reports (maybe 2 or 3?), and continued on my merry way. Checked in a not long after, and discovered that the developer didn't bother to really read my bug reports, and instead, berated me (if my fuzzy recollection is to be believed, something to the effect of "I don't know what you're talking about" and "you're stupid go away"), followed by closing the bug reports. No effort on his side to try to understand, no further digging for more information if something was unclear.

Being a software developer myself, I'd like to think I'm generally familiar with reporting reasonably useful bugs (repro steps, observed behavior, expected behavior, etc.), and even if I didn't include all information, I'm more than happy to provide more as requested/directed. But being effectively ignored and then berated for trying to help? Ridiculous.

tt-rss worked okay for my needs (lacked polish), but still, no software is perfect, so if I were to continue using tt-rss, I'd undoubtedly run into other bugs. Going by my experience with abrasive/abusive behavior of the developer (I saw similar examples in other bugs in the tracker at the time), I decided to jump ship on the first sign of a reasonable alternative. Thankfully, Feedly came along, and I hopped on for the ride.
You should be measuring DNS time, not ping time. There's more to how fast a DNS resolver responds than the time it takes to send the packet over the wire.

As a Comcast@Home subscriber in SF, 1.1.1.1 is approximately 3x as fast as Comcast's own DNS (testing using dig).
*Git already did it. GitHub is just a site running a Git server for people to use.
* wherever possible

Which means sure, if it works out, but mostly these are probably still going into the trash.
And yet, for living species, it looks a lot more like the K-T boundary extinction event. At least we created a lot of shareholder value.
This is effectively your research team's rent and taxes -- it goes to pay for things like the accountants, the heating bills, building repairs, instructional support, upgrading the building's electrical grid to support your new equipment, all of the library (books, journals, computers, librarians), campus security, student health, interest on debt taken out to build the building research takes place in, deprication of buildings and equipment etc. 50 percent is maybe on the high end, but the low end would be maybe 30 percent.

Many grants come with a stipulation that no more than X percent be allocated to administrative fee rate. Which basically means the non-stipulated grants have to pay an even higher rate. I believe I've seen some people argue that the ivy league's rather high indirect cost rate with the NSF, which was negotiated / grandfathered in, is an unfair advantage.
I have uBlock.

Chrome is faster than FF with real world applications.
Saks, Lord and Taylor breach: Data stolen on 5M cards
A reason to like it is that in a system with DI and IoC you spend less time trying to build up objects and pass them to where they need to go, since it's simple to just inject them into the class you want using an annotation. Spring takes care of the object creation under the hood for you. A reason not to like IoC is that since it's so easy to use it can lead to sloppiness since you're not thinking about the overall structure of the application as much.
You also need to compare Tesla aluminum-bodied cars with aluminum-bodied cars. Which are more expensive to repair. The IIHS article doesn't say what cars they compared Model S to, and aluminum-bodied cars are rare enough that it's likely not very comparable.

Mind you, that doesn't affect the claims-per-mile statistic.
On iPhone you can use a safari content blocker like purify or 1blocker. On Android you can use Firefox and ublock.
Which is made clear in the AMP documentation itself.

The AMP project isn't pretending they're bringing something unprecedented to the web... they're very open about the fact that most of the things you need to do to make your site "AMP compatible" are just speed-conscious best-practices (like only using CSS transitions that have hardware acceleration, or async loading of assets).
Ask HN: How would you build a “Hacker News” as a daily newspaper for everybody?
The Transistor, Endless Reinvention
Personally, when I build something, I prefer to know exactly what will happen prior to compile/build, not hope some configuration will handle things.

I can deal with both, but just a preference.

In general, dynamic integrations like IoC, etc make things harder to troubleshoot/debug as well.
COBRA is time-limited, and expensive. You're now paying for both the employer and the employee parts of the insurance cost.

Been there, done that.
This isn't great news for Tesla. This 30 second video also recently surfaced where someone reproduced the fatal accident involving autopilot from this week:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QCF8tVqM3I

This could also be bad for Tesla if this is what occurred. Interestingly in this video the chevron lines exist, something people have been claiming would have averted the accident, also interesting that no warning alarm sounded at any stage.
>They want to build up the language compiler itself to better support machine learning. That requires a language with enough type information to support sophisticated analysis. It should be built on LLVM. It needs an existing ecosystem of tools and libraries. And having a better performing language than Python is likely a win.

You literally just described Julia. The Julia core developers are all part of Julia Computing (which contracts for ML work) or are somehow associated with data science and machine learning. For this reason there's a lot of on tooling for building computational graphs / performing AD, compiling for TPUs, etc. It's built on LLVM. It has loads of packages for optimization, machine learning (like 4 NN libraries, a few different ways to work with GPUs), data science, etc. And type-stable Julia code is as fast as C. So it's interesting that this gets some kind of noteworthy announcement when it's already been done and already been done well.
I think we just need a good CRUD app building tool. They are in the right direction but it is only for web app. There is a huge need for creating CRUD mobile native apps quickly with drag & drop and some coding. React Native is good enough but I feel there could be a better tool on top to make building CRUD apps really fast.
Supply chain provenance
Agreed.

Personally, I feel like Inktank was pretty close and when they were acquired by Red Hat, progress seemed to slow to a crawl.

I haven't run the last couple of versions. It could be much improved. Certainly bluestore is promising for performance.
A list of best Text-to-Speech apps in 2018
Why is democracy one step before tyranny?
Fast page loads means a better UX on the web.

Better UX on the wide web means people enjoy using Google more. If I'm using Google, it means I want to find something. If Google has encouraged the entire web to be faster, I will find what I'm looking for faster.

People using Google and enjoying it is good for Google.
Surprising that an article about mattress in a box companies can be written without mentioning T&N.

Tuft & Needle probably was the first one to come out with this concept, and probably is still the best priced one. I have two T&N queen mattresses for more than 4 yrs. Been very happy with these in terms of comfort and durability. Never going back to any of the 4S mattresses.

No reason for me to try other mattress in a box brands, because they are way more expensive and dont seem to be any more comfortable than T&N.

Best thing about mattress in a box, is that if I have to move to an another place, I sell my current mattress and get a new one where I move. One less thing to carry while moving!
200k/year tech workers can’t achieve home ownership and are therefore working class.
See http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/ for the reasoning behind this trend. Line width, namely the number of characters shown in one, is regarded as a prime factor in readability, which I personally agree with.
Tesla compares their crash rate to, and I quote, "all vehicles from all manufacturers" [1], rather than to comparable vehicles, or even just western vehicles. The IIHS statistics say they're more accident-prone than other luxury cars and other electric cars. It would be interesting to compare Autopilot's crash statistics to other driver assist / AEB systems, rather than to all the 10-year-old base-model cars on the road.

1: https://www.tesla.com/blog/update-last-week%E2%80%99s-accide...
Second that. I will pay for the tool but not renting for serious work.
I was thinking about this problem while writing a SMTP server in C this weekend and came to pretty much the same conclusion. Protocols are implemented by FSMs that can be initialized and composed in various ways, but none of the protocols owns the socket. Socket is owned by the application, and it is the application that polls it and passes the events to the protocol FSMs. This way it's easy to switch to TLS on STARTTLS without any hacks, because application can decide to reconfigure the protocols stack at any time. Managing lifetime for the socket is also simpler, because app does it, and ownership is not passed to the protocol implementation.

It's work in progress, but should be easy to reason about and work with even without using coroutines.
It's hardly surprising that the dominant search engine in the US and Japan uses AMP, since that search engine and AMP are products of the same company.
I’ve had two Leesas. One with my ex and now at my new place (a year old). Both were extremely comfortable and fit my sleep needs. The first was a risk, the second was an obvious choice.
I smell a hype cycle revving up.

There are no actual images of the device, nor any videos of it being used. Just a bunch of supposed in use stills and descriptions of how it works.
It does seem that there is a problem with the vehicle's lidar or the associated software, so does it not strike you as strange that the story being pushed claimed that the victim "came out of the shadows", which is a misleading irrelevance if lidar is the primary sensing technology? Especially as the unrealistically dark video does not even seem to fit that story.
Equifax Argentina (or was it all south America?) was compromised from the admin password "password".

People are incredibly oblivious to how easy they are to break and how tempting a target they are.
The journalist spoke to all these founders and to marketing people, but didn't ask a fairly obvious question: What makes the mattress market so much weirder than for other products? Let's compare mattresses to big-screen TVs, which are also $1000+, infrequently purchased, bulky items:

- The article says, "If consumers recognize a brand, it creates a situation where mattress stores are slashing prices to compete with each other." But how is that different for Samsung or LG TVs?

- "The number of mattress manufacturers is close to 500," meaning in the US I presume. Why are there only 19 TV manufacturers that market in the U.S., and probably not many more in the whole world?

- Why do mattress manufacturers obfuscate the model numbers so that "every one of the stores gets a slightly different mattress" making it impossible for consumers to compare? TVs aren't like that. LG's current lineup seems to be 11 different models for 65-inch TVs and 3 models for 60-inch TVs. It's perfectly easy to compare LG's prices online vs Best Buy vs other stores.

So why are the mattress and TV markets so different? To take a stab at answering my own question, I think it's because mattresses are still mostly made locally in the US since they can't be shipped great distances (like from China), so they don't benefit from huge economies of scale and cheap labor. And many of those 500 manufacturers probably serve a niche geographical area, so they actually have less competition than TVs manufacturers. Hence they can get away with 300% markup whereas TVs manufacturers operate on tiny margins. Therefore TVs need to compete on features and price, but mattress manufacturers have traditionally used high-pressure tactics and obfuscation to make sales. Anyone have a better explanation?
Tesla refuses to allow third party repair or parts and has difficulty making things. So costs are crazy.

A colleague had to have his towed 300 miles and wait forever, for a rear end fender bender which necessitates a claim as the cost was a few thousand bucks. With a normal car, he’d probably just lay out of pocket to avoid the insurance bullshittery.
Comparing GEDCOM Files
Tiangong-1 crash: China says space station came down in Pacific Ocean
April Fools?

Very cute cat photos, however. ;)
Holy shit, not sure I would have been so interested in proving the problem that I would have taken my hands off the wheel like that.

I can really see why Tesla would try to deny this so hard, seeing it happen yourself is frightening.
The 5% are interesting in the same way that Communism and hardcore Libertarianism are interesting. "Would be very cool if it could work (there's no way in hell it would work)"
That's just false. Graphics drivers on Linux are easy to update and offer nearly identical performance in many games.
Spring as a framework has come a long way since the year 2006 when it required multiple XML files for configuration to the now Spring Boot which requires virtually zero configuration. Now it is easier to develop MVP web app using Spring Boot than Rails. With the framework such as Angular 2, people withe server side programming experience are finding it easier to develop client side app with much ease. I have found Angular 2 and Spring Boot a great combination for client server app development.
It looks like it’s following the strong lane marker that ends up being the left-hand part of the marked out space in front of the barrier. I wonder if having a good line on the right-hand side of that space would help.

That said, someone purposefully doing this and stopping in the middle of the highway stupidly dangerous.
This is greatly overrated.

The design of the ARC reactor in the 2014 arxiv paper produced 500 MW(th) fusion power. The FLiBe bath contained some 90 tons of beryllium. The annual world production of Be is just 220 tons. If the world's entire estimate resource of mineable Be (100,000 tonnes, according to USGS) were used to make ARC reactors, they might supply 1% of the world's primary energy demand.

The FLiBe also contains about 1/4 the 6Li produced by the entire US hydrogen bomb program. The facility that enriched that lithium used 10,000 tons of mercury and is an environmental problem even to this day because of leaks. That process is also now illegal in the US due to this pollution, and there is no facility in the world that could make that much 6Li.

Perhaps those problems could be worked around, but there's a deeper issue. The power density of the ARC reactor is around 0.5 MW/m^3. This is an order of magnitude, or more, lower than the power density of a PWR fission reactor core. The ARC reactor is also much more complex, and will require very expensive maintenance operations every couple of years (manufacturing a new pressure vessel and remotely installing it, as the innards of the reactor will be too hot for hands-on access.)

So, how could this possibly be cost competitive with fission reactors, never mind the energy sources that are currently beating fission?

It's ironic that the ARC reactor is just demonstrating the fatal flaws with DT fusion reactors, flaws that were also pointed out at MIT by Lawrence Lidsky some 35 years ago. ARC is better than ITER, but that's damning with faint praise.
You are seriously underestimating what it would take to verify the platform. We are not talking about just a few hundreds of lines of code here.
I wonder how many trading bots scanning twitter missed the joke
Real money for cosmetic items that give no advantage in-game is the only IAP/freemium model that I will support.
I’ve bought Fortnite skins, and likewise on Starcraft II.

Other than being a little pricey, I don’t see any problem with Epic’s monetization strategy with Fortnite.
Interesting what would happen if Google were to bring back reader? (given that google+ has flopped completely, they might want to get some following back)
Cafe in Chiang Rai, Thailand:

$ ping -n 1.1.1.1
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 16.696/18.643/22.571/2.056 ms

$ ping -n 8.8.8.8
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 38.410/45.663/57.684/8.075 ms
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> A driver cheat which would auto-inject code on insertion would as far as I know require a 0-day exploit on Windows, and I have a hard time believing one of the cheat devs was sitting on one of those.

Nowadays there's definitely a market for it. eSports is turning in to a multi-billion dollar industry.

0day's can be cheap enough for the type of people willing to risk five figures on CSGO betting, etc.
Yes, it looks like it completely ignored the right lane marker and just focused on the left one, something a human would be unlikely to do.

That said, someone purposefully doing this and stopping in the middle of the highway stupidly dangerous.

As the saying goes, "it had to be done" --- to show the defect, before someone else gets killed, and the driver was clearly paying attention here. It stopped pointed right at the divider, a position no car would normally be in anyway, and there weren't many other cars around.
Ditto. My tempurpedic cost a fairly ridiculous amount. I would pay it again in a heartbeat if my mattress caught on fire. The best mattress I’ve ever slept on by a very large margin.
Looks that way. 1.0.0.1 works fine though.
Indeed. I bought a T&N cal king back in 2015 as my first brand new mattress and it’s been great. The firmness took a night or two to get used to but no complaints at all since.
The financial side is weird, but there are some clever implementations of cryptographic protocols in the crypto currency space that could be used for the design of semi-decentralized services that could make the internet better.

This stuff could be the makings of /etc/passwd for the internet.
I for one, welcome our Erisian overlords
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2018)
Please state the job location and include the keywords REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, include ONSITE.
Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards. Only one post per month, please. If it isn't a household name, explain what your company does.

Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about something. It's off topic here.

Readers: please only email submitters if you personally are interested in the job—no recruiters or sales calls.

You can also use kristopolous' console script to search the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519.
> he couldn’t see how it would achieve its goal of putting energy on the grid within 15 years.”

but in 16 years tho... maybe
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