skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't offer any direct comparison with Iceland, but the software scene in Australia has been improving rapidly the last couple of years - particularly with US visa laws making it worse for immigrants wanting to move there.

To offer some data for Sydney, Google has of course been around a while, Google Maps is based out of Australia. Atlassian is hiring as much as ever. Amazon has been growing at a rapid clip here in Sydney (I wish I could disclose numbers publicly!) and we have offices in Melbourne and Brisbane, and Microsoft is in the process of opening a dev centre in Sydney right now as well. Still a long ways to go but it's much better than even a few years ago.
64-bit ARM doesn't have PC mapped to register file anymore.

Interesting. Does this have any effect on debugging?
Yeah, ditto.

"Oooooh, some sort of media centre software based on samba? Count me in. Oh, wait ... :("
The problem is, moderation is actually a poor solution to the real problem - equal visibility of ignorant/vile and insightful comments.

https://pol.is/home presents a more viable option. But people self-grouping (eg. vile people only seeing other vile people) could also create echo-chambers.

For example, as a libertarian I’d love to see comments by anyone with “skin in the game” - regardless of political bent. How could we achieve that?
The required nexus between the blockchain and the tangible and legal worlds means every limitation that exists today will exist for a "smart contract". It's the same plumbing with a paint job.

It's that plus a whole new crop of perverse incentives which arise with any "smart contract". Especially, no smart control can reach out to the "real world" and get data, more less facts. A smart control would essentially be limited to some data-stream in on Internet. And anything like that can be subverted seven ways from Sunday. Do you really want billions riding on THAT?

(and, yes, give us some Rube Goldberg scheme of averaging six different weather stations for your result. I'm sure nothing can go wrong with any of those ideas. Yeah, World finance then gets to be hoisted on the lpad petard).
Yes, you could take your Node app and fracture it to the quantum winds, ensuring Amazon a tidy profit off of you in perpetuity...

BUT WHY WOULD YOU BE THAT STUPID?
https://botanicamathematica.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/fibo...
Lol.

All ip4 packets should be redirected to /dev/easterbunny
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Check out what the hype is about
They apparently do, and indeed it would be far more interesting than the rest of the firehose! Especially for politicians and the like, it would label tweets with examining. Most would be typos, the rest could be gold.
It's as fast as vendor lock in!
One of the coolest things about cryptocurrency right now is the insane amount of money being invested in decentralization. With all of the Facebook privacy issues in the news right now, decentralization offers an interesting alternative where users control their data.
Just yesterday, I was having a similar thought.
as a buddhist student, I realised I missed the Buddha(2500yrs ago) by around 50 generations, assuming life expectancy of 50.
IIHS: Model S has higher collision claim frequencies than comparable luxury cars
When you live in a culture that deeply believes in the idea of progress* it's blasphemous to give time to ignorance. If you believe in progress you can be humbled by ignorance but not awed by it. In the west we know of other cultures (past and present) that chose to be complacent and live in ignorant comfort but we know that they chose that path at the expense of truth. We know that our striving for truth is the reason we destroyed and dominated those who chose complacency.

There is a lot of cultural superiority wrapped up in why we can't admit ignorance. In the west we believe in cavemen. We think people with spears and grass skirts are "lesser" civilizations. Even if you are the least bigoted person in the west you still feel a sense of cultural pride that you live in a world ruled by the scientific method and not by gods. You pity the natives because they lived and died and created no objective truth, they left no enduring mark on humanity. In terms of human progress they are the before and we are the after. "Cultural relativism" is a phrase many people have no time for in the west. We shouldn't long to live like the "noble savage" but I think we have serious problem in the west appreciating our cultural reality isn't the one true cultural reality.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idea_of_progress
they're useful in gauging public responses to events or products, and old ones can be particularly useful to see how something was viewed in its time.

you can get pretty fancy with date range searches at https://twitter.com/search-advanced

I use it to read the pulse on all sorts of things all the time. I even have 't' set as an address bar hotkey trigger for https://twitter.com/search?q=%s on every browser that supports the functionality.
Gas is a good backup due to it’s response rate yes but regarding renewable power generation, they are all about weather.

http://www.hellogrid.com.au/energy-exchange/1117/

As solar utility scale sites become more common (and they are), a cloud growth can wipe 100s of MW off the grid very quickly and the problem is it is very hard to tell how much will get wiped off and when (measured in minutes).

Gas will be in the mix for longer than other fossil fuels due to its reaction time but as storage becomes cheaper and gas more expensive, it will be used less and less IMO.
Most autonomous vehicle companies are approaching the problem backwards. They're trying to build a vehicle where the computer is driving until it gets confused, and then asks a human (either in the vehicle or remote operator) to take over with little notice in an emergency. But we could get greater safety benefits sooner by having the human driver always drive with the computer overriding control inputs when it detects an unsafe situation. The basic concept is already proven with stability control systems and, more recently, front collision avoidance (automatic braking) systems. We should focus on expanding and extending those systems to cover more situations and the full range of vehicle control axes.
Now they should be surely aware of that.

FYI, here was one of Chinese translation of the article, but the contents was just deleted 10 minutes ago:

https://www.oschina.net/news/94805/deprecating-pointers
In Japanese rail, conductors and drivers periodically point with their hand [1][2] to indicate awareness of the task. Reading the article, perhaps these distracted test drivers could use a similar approach.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointing_and_calling

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LmdUz3rOQU
Disclaimer: The following suggestion only works if you only READ from their DB. Can you roll your own DB that matches theirs schema-wise for the tables you need, but doesn’t suck in terms of availability? If you can get that set up, then in places where there are writes to their DB that you care about, also write to yours. Do a one-shot migration to copy data you care about after you land your change to double write. Then, modify your app to read from your DB and ignore theirs. Finally, once everything has been running smoothly for a while, collect data showing your system is better than theirs, get them fired, and become the new DBA for your company :)
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Thanks, that’s an interesting and relatable analogy.
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Worth noting that it would be insane to preload content that didn't pass a strict filter akin to that of AMP.

Each Google search would download dozens of MBs and produce a significant CPU workload, both resources being precious on mobile.

Perhaps it was a communication issue: AMP should have been named/marketed "preloadable pages" rather than "fast pages".
> And I'm still pretty confident that I (with Anvil) would deploy a simple application faster than you (with Rails).

Did you build the anvil.works site using your tool?
for some people thats "even better" not worse.
So whats the best one? Or are they all the same? Whenever I see high margins I immediately start looking for how to buy directly from the source
Traditional finance isn't any easier to unwind than bitcoin. If I give you $5 I can't magically "erase" that transaction. The $5 bill doesn't materialise back in my pocket. Instead, I get the police to force you to give the money back. As an accountant, if you erase a transaction (even if it was a mistake), you can go to jail. What you do it make a balancing transaction to correct the mistake. Nothing is stopping you from doing the same thing with bitcoin. Making it so you can't erase or hide the previous transaction just enforces rules that already exist -- and it a great feature.

The main difference is that it is infeasible to hold large amounts of cash, and so we usually allow a third party to hold on to our money. That third party will usually hand over your money if requested by the government (some overseas banks are notable exceptions!!). With bitcoin I can hold on to it myself and not have to worry about the actions of a third party. Secondly, even if you horde cash, it's hard to secure it. It's basically impossible to make it so that only you can access it. With Bitcoin, it is easy to secure a large amount of value and ensure that only you can access it. Bizarrely, a large number of people totally ignore this advantage...

This is the entire point of bitcoin. With the hype, fraud and what not, people often assume that bitcoin must have been developed as a scam. But I really do believe that the purpose was to allow people to have access to money and not have to rely on a third party who probably doesn't have your best interests at heart. It's not really surprising that criminals will be interested in this kind of system. They are the ones with the highest need. The government can't freeze your account.

The interesting question is: do we need that kind of security? Do we trust the banks and government to act appropriately with our money?
> Then there is the question of whether the Uber-supplied video accurately represents the lighting conditions at the time...

Why would that matter? The issue here is that the LIDAR system failed to detect the pedestrian.
Coming from the small business/startup world, to a giant enterprise, this is what I struggle with the most. I'm used to digging in the dirt to figure out an issue, and get it done as quickly as possible.

Having zero control over the infrastructure and having to work with various teams can be a pain whenever you want to make a change, but they have a silver lining in that production issues are usually not your responsibility.

But with their response times, you would think it's not their responsibility either...
I bought a Tuft and Needle after this post in 2013:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6900625

I’m pretty sure that at the time, Tuft and Needle was the main name in the game, and I definitely hadn’t heard of Casper at that point, so there seems to be a bit of revisionist history attributing the rise of these mattresses to Casper? I don’t know.

I’m still happy with my T&N.
The power density for hydrocarbons is far better than for batteries, and actually using the power is at worst comparably tricky.
And if you never connect you're device the message they get is "the consumer wanted our TV, but not our software." What's hard to understand about that?
You're referring to Neighborhood Electric Vehicles. Those operate under special rules in many areas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neighborhood_Electric_Vehicle
We are probably not far from needing a new mattress ourselves and I’ve been looking at all these companies. Minus Purple, most of them seem fairly similar within a degrees of each other.

Has anyone who wasn’t a fan of memory foam mattresses been swayed by any of these companies? We live in the south and haven’t liked the few we’ve tried for them sleeping hot and general feel. Kind of wish I could try before I buy.
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Thank you for this perspective. This hit me in a really unique way and is an amazingly useful frame when focusing on dissecting a large, seemingly insurmountable problem.
Not today, but don't worry after these robot cars kill 1000s to more innocent people they will be safer. All those killed will just help us learn to improve and make progress.
Can someone explain to me what exactly this is? I thought DNS was something to match URLs with IP addresses? How exactly is it private and fast?
The world's most advanced BCI - the hand!

But seriously, I don't understand the problem they're trying to solve here. Nobody is going to learn to stimulate their muscles in new ways for an interface - an interface is supposed to make things easier. And if they're not using new stimulation patterns, or firing individual motor units, they're just moving their (arms|eyes|faces|...), which can be detected easily enough with a camera.

Not to say that the technology isn't interesting, but I think until we understand the brain much better than we do currently, the only use for BCIs is precisely the market they dismiss in the introduction - the severely disabled.
How GDC Exploits Industry Veteran and Novices Alike
When I mentioned your comment to my wife, she suggested that Reddit has some subreddits a bit like that. A starting point: http://www.refinethemind.com/reddit-mind-44-smart-subreddits...

That said, you have a great insight here with the idea that some places on the web could replace (or at least supplement) the traditional advisor/advisee relationship with a more peer-to-peer approach -- especially for independent researchers.

That issue of how to follow up over months or years seems key as a difference from more casual one-off interactions. Well-run mailing lists or forums may provide some of that continuity -- but maybe there is a social or technical way to go further in that direction?

I'm not sure if there ever would be just one place to discuss ideas, but you might want to bring up this general idea of some new platform with Michel Bauwens of the P2P Foundation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Bauwens
Opentimestamps
Passenger vehicles (ICE or electric) cause negligible wear on roads. The vast majority of road wear is caused by heavy trucks and other large vehicles like buses. There's a non-linear relationship between vehicle weight and road damage.
Optimum points are really nice for stuff like this. Just hold onto them until something nice shows up.
It would be very interesting if some details of the FW came out. Not going to reverse engineer my new TV but the service menu gives me the feels of something that is very customizable.
Just imagine the increase in human lifespan that can occur in the next 100 years, given how much it has changed in just 50 ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy#/media/File:Li...
I disagree. Modern zoning is mostly unsupportable from an economic point of view. YIMBY types get that implicitly. NIMBIYs seem to lack any education in or understanding of economics. It’s all emotion and hand waving.
mid missouri US sample size;

gregs-Air:~ greg$ ping 1.1.1.1
PING 1.1.1.1 (1.1.1.1): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=55 time=51.035 ms
64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=55 time=52.024 ms
64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=55 time=52.945 ms
64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=55 time=77.263 ms
64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=55 time=53.427 ms
64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=5 ttl=55 time=57.311 ms
64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=6 ttl=55 time=192.017 ms
64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=7 ttl=55 time=174.206 ms
64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=8 ttl=55 time=142.224 ms
64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=9 ttl=55 time=288.815 ms
^C
--- 1.1.1.1 ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 51.035/114.127/288.815/77.996 ms
gregs-Air:~ greg$ curl ifconfig.co
174.125.4.196
gregs-Air:~ greg$
There are stroke victims who are trapped inside a body that is no longer operational. Sometimes, all they can manage to do is move one or two appendages. If this computer can free these kinds of shut-ins, it will be life changing.
OK, I can see that by the numbers it is possible, if you have planned everything so well that you don't waste any time getting stuck or rewriting. While I do this for much smaller amounts of coder, 10k LOC is so much that I don't think I could possibly plan it out that well, and also keep it in my head. Personally I find that my plans fall apart once I actually start to write out the code and notice many things I forgot, and usually I find the code is much uglier than expected and I try to find better ways.
There are two critical differences.

1: The handover latency (time from AP requesting handover to time pilot takes over) is measured in seconds to tens of seconds. AP is designed to give up a long time before any possible issues occur. Contrast this with cars on roads where the reaction times need to be in the sub-second range to avert crashes. If AP took a plane into terrain during poor visibility conditions and the pilots only got a second or two of terrain warning prior to a crash, such a crash would never be classified as pilot error on those grounds. Contrast this with self-driving cars where the autonomy frequently doesn't give up at all and the driver's awareness of the situation is the only thing to save them.

2: There are two operators on controls at all times. Recognising the limitations of human attention spans is one of but not the only reason for this being a requirement in civilian airlines.

Boeing has a whole design philosophy about making the operations of AP completely transparent to the pilots and failsafe. That means that all key controls (thrust, trim, stick, etc.) in the cockpit are physically manipulated by the AP so the pilots can see exactly what's going on. and more importantly that the controls represent the exact state of AP when the pilot takes over, so there are no unexpected sudden changes in input. The current generation of self-driving cars is a joke compared to the safety engineering that goes into AP systems.
What's wrong with off-chain scaling?
"relativity easily" is my favorite typo of the week.
“The street finds its own uses for things” (2012)
Rick and Morty Screaming Sun Alarm Clock https://www.thinkgeek.com/product/krvn/

(I would legit buy this)
Revisionist is putting it lightly. Casper sued the largest online mattress review site after it refused to favor its brands, and forced it to sell itself. The entire saga has more twists than a G.R.R. Martin novel. https://www.fastcompany.com/3065928/sleepopolis-casper-blogg...
That's what the article mentions as well
Ehhh... We've made very little progress increasing the length of our later lives. Almost all the average life span increase has come from fixing infant mortality and things which kill us in our 20s and 30s.

We have not succeeded in slowing aging.
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One of the great things about online mattresses is having reviews. The traditional store all had unique names/codes for their mattresses so you can't compare price or get any reasonable volume of reviews for a mattress. I love how the internet levels the playing field on things like this.
Sure. And I'm skeptical that's really enough to keep most humans alert enough to actually be effective at taking over at any time.

Most users will say it's fine, of course. And, as here, Tesla will certainly use it to quickly blame the driver in an accident. But I'd like to see objective measures of attention compared over the long term.
As an easier problem, what I’d find useful is a way to keep a pirated audiobook and pirated e-book in sync, the way that Amazon does with WhisperSync. A single app where I upload the .epub and the mp3s and it keeps me in sync when I read in either format.
I like programming but I probably wouldn't spend 40 hours per week on it every week, if I could do whatever. And even then I probably would choose different things to work on and wouldn't sit through stuff like Scrum ceremonies.
What browser are you using? Almost looks like it doesn't support SANs. Either that or the debug is only printing DNS.1.

$ openssl s_client -connect 1.1.1.1:443 </dev/null 2>&1 | openssl x509 -noout -text | grep "CN=\|DNS"
Issuer: C=US, O=DigiCert Inc, CN=DigiCert ECC Secure Server CA
Subject: C=US, ST=CA, L=San Francisco, O=Cloudflare, Inc., CN=*.cloudflare-dns.com
DNS:*.cloudflare-dns.com, IP Address:1.1.1.1, IP Address:1.0.0.1, DNS:cloudflare-dns.com, IP Address:2606:4700:4700:0:0:0:0:1111, IP Address:2606:4700:4700:0:0:0:0:1001
> Until they have a working prototype, this is the equivalent of vaporware.

Even better, it's plasmaware.
That was something that was pretty neat about bubble.is. Even though their offering is very very low code (plugins).
If only. You're lucky if something you worked on lasts more than a decade.
So stupid question. Are mattresses in a box actually viable? What changed in recent years that make it work? I assumed you'd just end up with a mattress with messed up springs.
Not at all. All my reasons were technical in that events are part of a stream, and delete is just one more event. When you reconstruct the stream, the end product is the item is deleted. But you could recreate the item from the stream so technically not deleted.

Companies that take daily backups. Say a user asked to delete something, do they now go through and comb through their backups (which might even be offsite or in cold storage) and delete it? It's essentially the same thing.
And why are there so many mattress commercials on radio?
As far as I'm concerned, that whole market still needs some newcomers (also called "disruption").

this whole mattress in a box segment is essentially 70% marketing and 30% RD//Production//Shipping. Those companies price around 1000$ for a mattress, but I highly doubt the production (and shipping) is anything more than 150$.

I'm happy there is an alternative to the older shaddy company that cornered that market (sleeptrain and all of those), but it's still too much marketing, too little value for a fairly simple product!

(I have a Leesa and it's a mattress... It's ok).
I was in the market for a mattress, went to a big store which exclusively sells mattress, tried a 4000 AUD mattress and 1000 AUD mattress, they felt the same.

Finally went to Ikea and tried a 200 AUD mattress, that felt good too so got that.

All the mattress were medium firm and I could not figure out any difference with all three of them with the 20 second demo.
Likely that IP address is being used (inadvisably) by something on your network.
Ask HN: Where are you?
It would be interesting to see where the good people of HN are geographically. You can be as general or specific as you'd like.

I'll go first: Atlanta, GA
If you have soft-deleted user data, then you have user data, so you had better include it.
The most advanced society in the world still needs grave diggers and morticians. You can change the structure of jobs and compensation but you probably can't have a system where people only do work they love.
Five of the seven largest economies - including the three largest - use the decimal separator. Those countries have three billion people in them.

So which international customers are you talking about?