skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see, yes that makes sense. There's nothing that detracts from the reading experience more than an advertisement placed between two adjacent paragraph in s story. Even the moribund print news media doesn't do this.
You can absolutely work to redefine what “progress” means, who technology will serve, and how it’s bounty and harms are distributed.

If you live in a Western democracy, you’re reaping the benefit of a series of such struggles from the 17th century forward. The Enlightenment, various democratic revolutions, labor organization, etc. The fatalism, the “unchallengeable trajectory” solipsism that categorizes so much of the thinking around tech is the thing that’s new.
This is just off the top of my head, but to move an item from position P to Q, you would do something like this:

update items
set pos = case
when pos = P then Q
when P < Q and pos between P and Q then pos - 1
when Q < P and pos between Q and P then pos + 1
else pos
end

Plus a where clause to limit the shuffling to the actual list being reordered, since you would keep all users' lists in the same table.
I've heard that before and it still sounds puzzling... Elon Musk has an ego the size of Mars, right? So he wants to sell autopilot-equipped cars to everyone, and his basis for comparison is everyone.

(Last posting from me today.)
TensorFlow Dev Summit 2018 – Just the mobile bits
The Comprehensive Guide to JavaScript Design Patterns
Once when I was camping I decided to try to use a plastic bottle as a pillow. I put my head on it sideways and the plastic made a really loud pop and my ear instantly started ringing really loudly like nothing I've experienced before. I was deaf in that ear for about a minute while it rang and it terrified me. Luckily it went away.

More recently something happened to that ear. It started to get water in it every day then stopped getting water in it but now I have tinnitus in that ear.

Ears are extremely sensitive and it doesn't take much to damage them.
There are so many security holes in the latest MacOS release, I’m wondering if it’s currently the least secure desktop OS.

Vulnerabilities are one thing but these issues are simple enough for non-technical end users to exploit on anyone’s computers.
I agree. This looks to me like a commented out source line, not a comment that describes what comes next using a similar code expression.

It makes sense to drop the space before the start of the commented code because that way you can just delete the // and obtain the original source line.
When I come home from a day of working at a computer, I like the opportunity to use my hands. Fixing or building stuff is fun.
According to the IIHS, which is sponsored by insurance companies and rates cars for safety, for models years 2009-2012, the following cars have had zero fatalities:

* Kia Sorento

* Lexus RX 350

* Subaru Legacy

* Mercedes Benz GL

* Audi A4 4WD

* Honda Odyssey

* Toyota Highlander

* Toyota Sequoia
If the user is being shown an advertisement when opening a local software program then that means a request is being made automatically to some remote server. That is data collection. If the user clicks it, thats more data collection. And so on.

For the user, there is simply no need for a local program, e.g. a "word processor", to be connecting to the internet at startup. That connection attempt is for the needs of Microsoft, not the user. It sacrafices user privacy for the benefit of Microsoft.

IMO, they would not have made these sort of changes were it not for the success of Google and similar ad-supported web businesses.

As another commenter points out, Windows 10 is apparently full of this type of behavior. Telemetry is data collection.

Lets not forget about Bing. More Google mimicry.

LinkedIn, like Facebook a seemingly benign and useful "service", is one of most egregious data collectors, and is a major threat to user privacy. They are part of Microsoft. Microsoft wants user data and has paid billions to get it.
My question was what makes the UI better. I guess I'll just have to try it and see.
There's a lot of banking regulations but Amazon has enough money to either buy an existing online solution or develop their own
It's sad that no one has mentioned Pushbullet. Is a small app that notifies you when things happen, and you can set it to notify RSS news, it also integrates with IFTTT and has a bunch of other features. You should check it out.
Edit: It also has top HN, and it notifies when a story reaches 100 points IIRC.
Jesus, this entire post is terrifying.
I agree, more screenshots would be great to get an understanding of the product before trying it. Though I really like the design of the website (and the current screenshot), it gives me a good feeling about the software.
Oh yeah, the support was lol. And I have seen a fair share of terrible customer support.
> inconvenience and embarrassment

And cost, now that insurance is playing the "we only cover ER visits that were necessary in hindsight" game.

For those of us at the top of the pleb pyramid it's not so bad, but for the average person, a single mistake can be ruinous.
Link for those interested: https://www.mercedes-benz.com/en/mercedes-benz/next/connecti...

> If an impending collision is detected, the vehicle’s sound system plays a short interference signal, which can trigger a reflex, whereby the stapedius muscle in the ears contracts, which alters the link between the eardrum and the inner ear for a split second and better protects the inner ear against high acoustic pressures, which can result from a loud crash.
It’s an outrage that people keep dying and Tesla is allowed to keep using its customers as guinea pigs calling their experimental set of driver assist features “Autopilot”. It doesn’t matter how many disclaimers you provide, an example should be made out of this and all the bro companies (yes looking at you Uber) with complete disregard for proper testing and safety. Testing such early technology on public roads using regular people tricked into thinking they are using mature technology should really be illegal and I hope they get punished harshly.
Specializing into liftoff and cruise is interesting, since requirements are so different.
Perhaps one could even lift 5-10 gliders in one go. These can then go off to potentially different destinations.
Pretty sure it's the tank lid.
I thought the sentence would be "we'll never charge for bandwidth" which is equally important.

*charge until a point. I don't expect them to go cloudflare.
I just ping my functions every 4 minutes to keep them warm. I am still in the free quota doing that
It also makes you wonder how much crap like this is hiding in the complexity of accessing things in iOS.

Security is usually more process than anything else. It seems weird that two OS divisions would really be that different.
Sure I'm not saying Amazon lacks the capacity, but rather that the CFR might actually prohibit a company owning both a bank and a massive commercial retail structure, etc etc.
Podcasts are audio files syndicated over RSS
You can't Rust that
Netflix used other things for CDN($$$), and is doing shows themself($$$). Never really used fancy aws expect for pay vps-per-second and out-bandwidth-per-byte.
> We can thank Moore's law for that.

Except that Moore's law has tapered off substantially. The latest 10nm process node is 3 years late[0], and the next one will probably be substantially more difficult than that.

[0] https://www.anandtech.com/show/12436/intel-10nm-dualcore-can...
>"Let's ignore the interaction term for the sake of simplicity. It doesn't change anything in what follows."

It changes the estimates if you don't assume the interaction coefficient = 0, how can you just ignore it? Actually, not assuming zero interaction changes everything: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_marginality
SUSE Bakes a Raspberry Pi-Powered GNU/Linux Enterprise Server
Great and to-the-point analysis.
Tank lid:

> "I was fixing the mechanism inside the tank of the toilet. The only thing left to do was to put the ceramic lid back on the tank. Unfortunately it slipped out of my hands and banged on the ceramic of the toilet rim."

I'm guessing every other occurrence of "toilet bowl lid" is a typo due to the medium being Twitter.
A feed reader allows you to catch up on your feeds at a time that's convenient to you (much like old-fashioned magazines), rather than pestering you every time an article is published.
I find it terrifying how auto pilot cars give the driver a false sense of security. When a car has statistically proven claim that it is safe, drivers are more likely to have less focus on the car. It’s like comparing reaction times of a manually driving individual to that of a passenger. What seems to be 6 seconds may in reality feel like a split second due to the lack of context. I want to say that there are overhead costs to getting back into driving mode when you haven’t been fully aware of your surroundings. This happens with a much lesser degree when I’m using cruise control, but I still avoid it when there is a fair number of cars on the road.

If I have to be well aware of the warnings that the system puts out, I might as well stick to no auto pilot. The chances are low, but any chance is enough to keep me from using it. the roads are designed for humans after all.
This and they are basically maintenance-free. I think most people don't know that these things are serviceable at all. They also often have two buttons that release a different amount of water. Good for the environment and saves you money.
What is the best RSS reader that has a customizable tiled layout, like http://www.protopage.com/? By this I mean, I have (nearly) the whole screen at my disposal, can choose the number of columns and rows, and the height (number of article titles) for each tile/feed. For my money, no other layout comes close in terms of information ingestion efficiency.
This is just embarrassing. It's not like Apple is spread so thin because of poor sales or a corporate shake up. There's really no excuse for all of these core bugs.
Again, it depends on the company's size and hiring stage, but I've never been at a company where we've wanted to hire exactly one applicant from a pool. Whenever I've done interviews, we've been perfectly willing to hire zero (if none meet our standards), or 3 (if we find that many who are great).

So I've never cared about how one candidate compares to another. It's not a zero-sum game. If you're going to have a positive impact on the company (and its bottom line), then I want 3 of you. If you're going to have a negative impact, then I want 0 of you.

Obviously, there are also many situation where the opposite is true, e.g., if you're building a baseball team you want the best roster even if some of the positions aren't ideal.
Any such (low cost) provider offers a great hosted kubernetes experience?
A Practitioners Perspective on Applying AI to Anti-Money Laundering
> Almost every driver thinks they’re significantly better than average. Few are.

Actually, about half of drivers are better than average.
OVH is also notorious for being very slow to respond to abuse reports. They've been one of the favorite VPS providers for botnets, exploit kits, and other cybercrime activities as of a few years ago, and may still be.
They do show resource usage (GPU utilization/memory) - but only for TPUs (i.e., only if you use managed tensorboard on GCE).

This library is about bringing Apache Beam into play. Tensorflow is not really distributed (distributed tensorflow requires you to start all the servers and manage all the endpoints yourself).
Right now, we use Spark for pre-processing pipelines and for launching both parallel experiments in TensorFlow and distributed training. Spark is a key part of TensorFlow for us (www.hops.io). Google want an open-source alternative (not just managed TF, which is distributed) that enables ML pipelines. This is it.
Spark is fighting back, with Image pre-processing now part of Spark 2.3. We recommend Spark for pre-processing, spitting out .tfrecords, which then are used as training/test data.
Not sure about least secure, but clearly least production ready: High Sierra is like a public beta of the version to come.
I run https://wtfismyip.com on OVH. Egress bandwidth exceeds 8TB a month, which on AWS could cost ~$1000/month, not including the cost of the beefy EC2 instance I would need.

For some bandwidth heavy use cases, OVH makes a lot more sense than AWS. In my case it was $150/month versus $2000/month (bandwidth + EC2).
The indicators I mentioned are associated with a nation state actor because the attacks in which they were identified were attributed to a nation state. In other words,the selective targeting and sophistication match the interests of a nation state.

Geo-political intelligence analysts and sometimes field officers (aka spies) also play a role. For example,if a specific journalist was attacked while working on an article critical of a specific country and at least one indicator was traced to an a real human associated with that country's spy agency the a confident attribution can be made.

The term "nation state" does sound a bit fancy but it is different from "country" in that many nation states do not act on behalf of their people or to protect the interests of their conuntry. If you use "country" that would include the people of the country while "nation state" simply means the organization running the country. Plus you have situations like taiwan,hong kong and chechnya where those nations are effectively their own nation state but they are under the control of a different country.

Here is a good reference attribution of APT3 (Chinese Ministry of State Security (MSS)): https://threatpost.com/apt3-linked-to-chinese-ministry-of-st...
Probably should also note, that the average Tesla driver is likely male, has money (i.e. more risk taking), etc. Essentially, compare to sports cars as opposed to high end vehicles.

They we're originally advertised as sports cars really. 0 to 60 faster than any other car, etc.
Indeed. Atomic weights are: carbon 12; oxygen 16. So the oxygen in CO2 is 32/12 = 8/3 as heavy as the carbon inside it.

So, if 100% of diesel were carbon that gets burned, you would get 3.67 tons of CO2. That leaves room for incomplete combustion and for other things than carbon (hydrogen, nitrogen, sulphur, etc).
Wonder if that applies to kitchens too.. Last time a thick mug bounced off a casserole dish and was left holding my ears wondering how the F it could be so loud
Started using Colemak few months ago.

It was a very slow and frustrating start, but I gave myself one week to do deliberate practice every day for at least 15 minutes and then to see if I'll go back to qwerty.

I forced myself to use Colemak even when replying to instant messages, which raised couple of reactions when there was "X is typing..." for several minutes just to see a short reply :)

I also found a Colemak keyboard for my phone, so I had Colemak on all my devices. I found this to be really helpful.

----

That one week has passed, my speed and accuracy got better. I started to appreciate the layout more and more.

Now I have the same speed I had with qwerty, and I like typing with less movement of my hands. Many typical shortcuts stayed in the same place (not Vim's HJKL, unfortunately), which is a plus.

Cons of using Colemak? Now I can't type on other people's qwertys ;)
IMHO the aesthetic cons will seem petty when you're waiting an hour for an ambulance because the EMTs are late to work because of their four hour commute.

We have no housing oversite on these councils and even in Sunnyvale where we're talking about voluntarily adding 7k housing units on El Camino, the council's primary concern is the impact on home owners' views. I sat in the council planning meeting and it was all about how to make the buildings tolerable to the council - who are home owners.
To my knowledge I was the only renter there. They want to add 400 units along a mostly empty 1 mile stretch (mostly car dealerships), to keep the appearance minimal. But, that means that mile can't support walkable restaurants and those 400 people will be getting in their car on crowded El Camino to do anything.

If they would just build dense enough to support walkability and to have enough riders for transit efficiency to improve! Their compromises pick the worst of both worlds.

And then in Cupertino, the mayor points at Palo Alto and says "why should we build if they aren't?" Darcy Paul literally said this to me at a vallco meeting.

From what I see, I think the city councils say one thing about sb 827 but really they'd love to have the responsibility be taken out of their hands. They just aren't capable of solving their prisoners dilemma.

Edit: paragraph break
> People work almost for free as long as they can tag themselves as startup people.

I guess for most people, startup equates with potential.

My personal gripe with startups is that most think of themselves as "high-tech" startups, when all they have is some CRUD website, or some stylized game, or even a deep learning classifier, which just uses a standard library under the hood.
I’ve been a customer of theirs for years. Till now I still have to manually key in my credit card details to renew my servers every few months. So yeh, their CEO’s probably right.
To me inoreader.com is the perfect Google reader like feed reader. I don't get all the fuzz about feedly, there are better alternatives. just my $0.02
You wouldn't store the CO2 gaseous at atmospheric pressure, you'd use the energy to compress it, presumably liquefying it. Liquid CO2 has a density of around 1100kg/m3, according to a quick Google search, so your example power plant would need only about 200m^3 to store the CO2 produced in one hour, or a cube of about 6m wide. Or 120m wide per year. Still seems like a lot, and I don't know how much energy is needed to compress and cool all that CO2 but it's dubious the surplus renewable energy would suffice to compress all the CO2 produced by fossile-burning power plants.
> At least newer initiatives like JSON Feed have maintainers who respond to requests for improvements.

Uhm. To my knowledge none of the issues in the JSONFeed Github repository ever caused a change in the JSONFeed spec. It's like talking into a black hole. A nice and friendly black hole, granted, but still a black hole.

(Completely agree on the HTTPS issue.)
I work a lot in a wood shop/metal shop. I’ve always been a big proponent of ear protection. Recently, I’ve been using shure in ear monitors for blocking small sounds and supplementing with ear muffs when real tools are on. However, I’ve started to just wear those in ear monitors around even without listening to anything. The ear plug feature is actually really great. I can get on muni or bart in the Bay Area with them and listen to a book at 3-4 clicks of iPhone volume. It’s pretty great to get used to things being quiet.
> This predicts 138 dB of sound.

I doubt that one can calculate the sound amplitude accurately without doing experiments or complex simulations here. It's possible that the toilet bowl or lid focused the sound like a satellite dish, and the protagonist's ear was in the exact wrong place at the wrong time.

Visual aid: https://blueandgreentomorrow.com/energy/in-pictures-new-wave...
As I understand it, nterest rates determine purchase prices in a way that’s mostly irrelevant to you unless you’re a cash buyer. Lower housing prices combined with proportionally higher interest rates will not make housing more affordable. You’ll just pay more interest and less principal.

You don’t borrow to pay rent. Low interest rates and high asset prices could increase the rate of condo conversion, diminishing the supply of rental housing, but doesn’t in general explain exploding rents.
Actually, I don't think so. These have been tested by one Google engineer, and he lives in the US.
Wait some time and you'll get a duck's answer by voice + explanation in pop up's content.
Ask HN: What are the best open source solution for self hosted email?
I would like to host an email service for around 150+ people. It's not possible for us to offroad Protonmail which focuses on security. What are the some best open source email solution available?
So, is the iPhone full of these as well?

Has anyone did a public audit of the leaked secure enclave firmware? I know there's that company who sells the black haxx0r boxes for $15k or $30k.

Long question short: do we have a secure cell we can buy/make?
Could have made fusion
Well, that's a garbage response.

It's a useless and snarky dismissal if I had been saying their interpretation was wrong...

But my entire point has been that we haven't observed their interpretation of the law as applied to the extreme circumstance you described.

At this point, I'm sufficiently skeptical that you're engaging in good faith that I probably won't be responding further.
OVH has auto-renew though?
+1 to their support being useless

Bought a block of extra IP's. IP's assigned would not route to anything

OVH gave me a barrage of tests and kept insisting I'd fucked up

Eventually they asked if they could directly connect to my server (with my consent)

Immediately declared the issue "Closed" because I wasn't using VMware ESXi!
God forbid we fund services out of general property taxes rather than specifically taxing new buildings.
In Solidarity with Library Genesis and Sci-Hub (2015)
> This is a nice PR bit, but I wonder if it really matters?

Over the last year I've seen a huge push to move away from AWS from retail clients. Azure is a lot more appealing because Microsoft doesn't compete with them.
The Cartesian metaphysical tradition has had an enormous impact on our thinking to this today, often without us realizing it. Materialism itself, which opposes the dualism of Descartes, only makes sense within the Cartesian paradigm. Far from wholly rejecting his metaphysics, it merely rejects the immateriality of the mind, preserving the impoverished view of matter that Descartes held to be true. Indeed, Cartersianism frames much of the discussion in contemporary philosophy of mind, determining what the problems are and what the solutions might be, if there are any. Philosophers committed to that metaphysics are inevitably forced into dualism, panpsychism or eliminativism. All three suffer from serious issues, the worst of which is eliminativism, the most Procrustean and incoherent of the bunch.

Ultimately, Descartes did not disprove the Aristotelian and Scholastic metaphysics[0]. He merely dismissed it.

[0] Moliere's famous bit in "The Imaginary Invalid" fails because, while the appeal to dormitive powers is minimally informative, it is not tautological.
I think thats good advice for anything, I would however put the caveat on things that use open protocols. I have no issue using AWS SES (Simple Email Service) because thats just SMTP, I would however never use something like Firebase. Just measure the time it would take you to get rid of it in a project.

I would also never use the sentiment shared on HN much for anything, half of the people here have a stake in their own little proprietary technology they want you to sell :P