skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It also reminds me of stories I had heard from inside Microsoft in the pre-Nadella era. Tales of power brokers and entrenched lifers who could make things easy or impossible on a whim. What is the nature of the organisations that allow people like these to take root?

At some point when a company gets large enough the actual product it produces stops being something sold outside the company and instead the product becomes one’s increased status within the organization and that of their immediate manager. Status seekers who contribute less technically but spend all their time producing “good optics” for the people above and selling/exaggerating their achievements get promoted a lot more, even if the good optics were achieved by doing something that makes the product less sellable. Eventually status seekers get promoted into management and then promote upward like people who are also status seekers.

The people who spend all their time doing the heaviest engineering aren’t often spending much time selling their achievements to busy executives who don’t have time to look at their accomplishments at let their work speak for itself. Which is why they tend to stay in the lower levels of the company.
> we see that a majority of people who install an ad blocker don't actually do it to block ads (that's just an added bonus). They are actually doing it to block tracking.

This line severely damages the credibility of the article. I found the article interesting up until I read it. I stopped reading once I read it because I couldn't trust anything else the author says.

I highly doubt this statement is true. It may be true in very privacy-focused circles and amongst some circles of IT professionals, but I highly doubt it is true for the population.

If you make a statement this left-field, you've got to back that up with credible research and I highly doubt that statement was based on any credible research.
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Software can't be patented in New Zealand: http://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/2013/0068/latest/D...

So far the sky has not fallen down and the software industry is healthy.
Any picture of mentioned dog wagging tail signature?
According to the linked article, social credit can be moved up or down for many reasons: "examples infractions include bad driving, smoking in non-smoking zones, buying too many video games and posting fake news online."

That means that if your social credit goes down for any of these reasons, which are not all financial, then you can be barred from the best schools.

I think it's far more likely to be used to keep top schools (which feed into top gov't/industrial positions) clean of any rabble-rousers.
In some ancient and mean bureaucratic twist of history, Amtrak owns and operates all that track (at least on the Northeast Corridor) and NJT trains have to slow down and move their butts out of the way for any Amtrak trains needing to pass.
> The cancer death rate for men and women combined fell 25% from its peak in 1991 to 2014

Attributed mainly to reduction in smoking.

Also, the biparty system is peculiar to the US. Other countries have more fine-grained political platforms, and mostly end up with similar policies. Public health is, well, a public matter.
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I want to get rid of GA on my personal site (hosted on Github Pages).

I want something really simple (much simpler than GA) that is ideally free for small traffic sites (less than 1000 visitors per month).

Any recommendations?
It's true. Take a 787 Dreamliner as an example. The maximum take-off weight is over 100,000 pounds more than the maximum landing weight.
Whichever live species you're obtaining the DNA sample from, you can also acquire the microbiome sample, which you can sequence to bank as well. Or the seed-with porpoise microbiome idea. Also for this idea to work, you need more than one, ideally all 12, in order capture some of the genetic diversity of the species.
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Now if we could only eliminate them for everything else.

Buying and selling houses is excruciating thanks to the number of signatures required.

I went to a closing on behalf of my then-wife who didn’t want to deal with it; because it was her house we were selling, I had to sign all the paperwork on her behalf, which involved a signature plus some additional verbiage. My hand was in pain by the time we were finished.
Any particular naturopathic medicine in common?
For many ISPs, I think we have sufficient grounds for trusting the ISP less than a decent VPN provider.
They tried that in the prohibition with alcohol, and again with the war on drugs.

The problem is that you just end up killing or making sick the end of the supply chain, the end user. Disregarding the moral issues of poisoning people, it costs a lot of money, because then you have to treat these sick people. Secondly, the worst criminals (assuming that using drugs or alcohol is a crime), the suppliers and dealers, don't actually get affected by this.

People will try and get their fix regardless. People are buying fentanyl and killing themselves wholesale, and the people dealing it out don't give a fuck that they're killing their customers.
When I lived in Germany so many people asked me what the secret was to English pronunciation. How could you tell from the spelling how a word is pronounced? I told them to do what I was taught to do when I come across an unfamiliar word - check a dictionary. They were hoping for a different answer.

(It's also the answer to "yes/no" questions. Answer in a sentence, don't just say "yes" or "no". There's rules about how English speakers use them "yes" and "no" and when we use full sentences, but if you're asking me, the answer is just "always say 'i do' or 'she won't' or whatever", because it's 100% guaranteed to be clear and unambiguous. It's also easier to remember in the heat of the moment despite the complexity. If you want to be really good, you can practise "no, I don't", but leave "yes, I do".)
This is a cool tool...but, as a musician of more than three decades, I would discourage new players from spending too much time on tablature.

I'd recommend you jump to traditional music notation for your learning process, ASAP. You're learning new things, anyway, you might as well learn a tool that is generally much more useful. There's a wealth of music and exercises in standard notation available to practice with.

I'm not saying this to be preachy or holier-than-though, or to suggest you can't be a good musician without knowing how to read music. But, standard notation is technically superior to tabs, on nearly every dimension. It provides more information in a smaller space, it is transferable to other instruments and other musicians, it is much faster/easier to read once you are proficient with it, and it provides visual cues about the things that you're currently trying to learn that tablature does not (e.g. you can usually readily discern keys and chords from traditional notation, while it is not at all obvious from tabs until you've read quite a bit of it and mentally or physically applied it to the guitar).

I wish I'd learned traditional notation sooner and with more gusto. I would have been a better musician more quickly if I had.
It would be nice if they would start requiring a PIN.
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Spouse visa? ;)
This is fantastic - the examples are really good too.

Actually, playing with the examples has completely changed my perception on quality for images.
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I like that it is open source, but the question is how well is it being maintained? Having said that one can self-maintain as I think it is NodeJS. That's what you'd have to do if you write your own Backend - so the only problem is how spaghetti like the code is.
Coconut oil has a much lower smoke point (177C) than most oils, even olive oil (212C). It also has a very detectable flavour, sunflower or canola are much more neutral.

I would expect a taste test to involve commonly smoked items like salmon, meat, chicken, ribs, cheese or vegetables.
I majored in electrical engineering at a good school, and had to take ~8 humanities and social science credits, so that is surprising to me.
As someone with Canon, Nikon, Panasonic and Pentax cameras I'd say Panasonic have the best menus out there. Their app for remotely controlling cameras is also excellent. Panasonic really seems to understand software and interface design.

Their Depth from Defocus and subject tracking technology is also pretty astounding (certainly for stills, though GH users might grumble about focus 'wobble') and shows that they're a technology company in the camera space and can leverage that to make their cameras do things that classical camera companies have difficulty grasping or rely on costly hardware solutions to overcome.
I didn't downvote you, nor do I have any issue with you being a vegan, but will just point out that I personally don't care for liquid smoke - mostly because I find it boring compared to the woods I would normally use to smoke food with.
> “What normal person cares whether the square root of two is a rational number?”

egh, is it?
https://github.com/koekeishiya/chunkwm has a slight learning curve but its a great tiling window manager.
In my brother's case the AP English teacher was horrible. So he dropped the class and paid out of pocket to take the exam. The AP teacher happened to be the proctor and she was pissed the day he showed up. Having activist parents makes a world of difference. shrug
Interestingly, I see a parallel with the "vertical stripe" nature of "stories" in XP. A lot of teams will spend considerable amount of effort making an MVP (Minimum Viable Product), but when you look at it nothing works properly. It can be used, but you would never want to use it if you had any other choice. As the product grows, those pain points never quite disappear and they complicate the design forever. Even if you are successful, your competitors can learn from your mistakes and build something coherent that takes considerably less time -- second to market can have a big advantage.

In contrast, with a vertical stripe, you are encouraged to build something that is not just done, it is done done. With the information you have now, you would not change it (NB: this is considerably different than perfect). Each stripe should be as good as you can make it allowing for imperfect knowledge.

So in the same way you are limiting scope, but trying to make the result "final quality". From there it is a lot easier to iterate your design. I'm not sure I think it is necessary to nail down all your decisions quite in the way the article suggests -- good ideas are good ideas even if you have them later on in the process. Building on a solid foundation is just dramatically easier than trying to reinforce a Jenga tower.
The stations shared by NJ Transit and Amtrak are both coming in on the tunnel under the Hudson, which has limited capacity and delays both trains, though I understand that usually Amtrak gets priority. Just another headache of the Port Authority of NJ, NY, the MTA, Amtrak and whoever else fighting to get in to Penn Station.

I commute now from Albany where there's no tunnel, we are east of the Hudson the whole time and nobody to fight with to get in to Penn (except when, due to every other train having delays getting OUT of Penn there are sometimes no free tracks to come in on, but this is rare).
I don't think he's introduced a new topic - clearly relevant. And I'm on the other side, mind. I'm not from the U.S., I don't agree with Jefferson that guns are necessary for liberty, don't own a gun and likely never will... but I understand that Jefferson would and did point to the ease of armed revolution as being necessary to avoid such oppressive govt behavior. It's not off-topic, and it was a new thought to me: I hadn't made the connection, perhaps only because I'm not an American.
Bring back Maemo/Meego/Tizen/Mer/Sailfish!

I wish I had more time and patience for smart phone development and that the heroic efforts of those unlocking these devices, writing OS drivers for proprietary (and adversarial) hardware and making alternative operating systems possible were more widely acknowledged. It just feels hopeless out of the box.
Yes still trying to figure that one out. It’s pretty complex. I’m thinking browning/burning the edges and an extra Smokey sauce.
Your parents had youtube? The internet?

Have you seen what kind of bait and switch content is on youtube? It can look like a children's show, but turn out to be something really creepy.

If you think it's the job of parents to curate content, that's also fine, but youtube should allow for a feature that lets you whitelist content.

It sounds like you had lovely parents, though. Congratulations.
Yes, and they made a mistake in it. Z and Y don't come from the Latin forms. The letters entirely died off and they reborrowed them from the contemporary Greek forms.
From experience, a signature in the checkout line usually takes about 5-10 seconds. Removing it may seem like a small negligible change for users, but for retailers, it most likely adds up.

Imagine being able to pick up your receipt and leave. What I see being the stalwart of signatures are probably restaurants. They require that extra step with the tip.
That’s in the works: https://github.com/datrs
I like google domains. I think that I get the fastest DNS service through them. The administration interface also feels very fast. They cost a little bit more than most, but the faster DNS is very nice.
Oh yes anki is fantastic! I'm still relatively new to the habit but I don't know how I used to manage without it (spoiler: I didn't)

I actually find I am reading and learning more because I no longer worry about trying to remember things. I think of it as anki's job to remember, and my job to understand, so now I have more mental resources to spend on understanding material.

I'm rambling, and I apologize, but I HIGHLY recommend anki.
"The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: The Amazing Story of How America Lost Its Mind Over a Plush Toy--and the Eccentric Genius Behind It". It's a good book: https://www.amazon.com/Great-Beanie-Baby-Bubble-Toy/dp/15918...
only unrefined coconut oil, refined is 450ºF (232ºC) - they don't state which they used in the tests, though.
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Most of the time a signature isn’t for verification but rather for acknowledgment.

I don’t give two shits what you put down as a signature, I just want a record that you consciously were present and signed something, so I don’t get accused of trying to pass off something quietly that you never agreed to.

If I have some scribble you made at a time and place, the onus is on you to prove it wasn’t you who did that.
Washington seems to have pretty good community colleges, but the best part is that Washington has a program called Running Start where your last two years of high school can be fulfilled by taking classes at a community college. This makes it possible (albeit difficult) to graduate from "high school" with two years of college credits and transfer to a university. Not doing this ranks pretty high on my list of life regrets.
Ask HN: How is Hong Kong compared to SF or Tokyo in terms of innovation?
Lawrence of Arabia showed in its original CinemaScope format is a totally different movie. I was mesmerized.
Just this morning, my 5yr old daughter asked me "Daddy, why did you do just a scribble!?" in a scandalized tone of voice
You know what I want;

A hybrid laptop+cloud machine. I.E. I want to buy a machine that includes a certain amount of cloud compute with it. and storage.

Imagine having a machine that comes with X# of cores and Y RAM and Z storage included in the price of the machine.

Every time you turn that machine on, it "mounts" that VPC that is included with it and you can dev local, and push to your VPC at will.

I want my machine to be virtual, even though I am physically in possession of it.
If by the hashing operation you mean application of the OWP, keep in mind that inverting the OWP is supposed to be hard, and furthermore, since it's a OWP, if Alice and Bob start with different secret keys, they won't hit the same "hash" as the output of the OWP.

For this to work, they'd have to start off with the same secret key already, which makes the key exchange pointless.

You mention using this approach to slowly grow a secret key, by performing many iterations of this protocol, but if you do it bit-by-bit, the adversary can easily brute force invert the OWP over {0, 1}, and thereby learn the secret key
... and do most of those upgrades take place when the Tokyo subway shuts down each night between 1am and 5am? It's hard to replace signal systems on tracks with a train passing every few minutes.
Don't waste your time. It's fear mongering. This would be fine if it had any suggestions at all about how to avoid the horrors it imagines, but its argument boils down to completely unspecified 'regulation.'
This might be a little off topic, but refined coconut oil is the gold standard oil for popping corn. Buy a tub of it and some Flavacol seasoning and you can make cinema popcorn that’s fresh and delicious. The very high smoke point makes coconut oil ideal for frying chips as well, although moderation is important. It’s also the best for frying shrimp!
It is a static site, fronted by CloudFlare CDN, so it should be pretty peppy. There are a lot of images in the list, but they are pretty small.

Display-wise, the site is mobile-friendly, but probably not bandwidth-wise.
Signatures haven't been required for credit cards in many other countries for quite some time now.

I have often wondered why the US has historically lagged behind for everyday banking. (e.g. email money transfers, chip enabled cards, pin number verification, tap to pay)
Estonia E-Residency?

https://e-resident.gov.ee/become-an-e-resident/
The kind of fraud prevented by a PIN enabled chip card is supposedly pretty rare. What would be more useful is a standard for browser attached chip card readers to bring the anti-fraud protections of a chip card to everyday Internet transactions.
In this case the story was printed in a booklet accompanying a recording of the score, though I'm fairly certain it had been reported on before that too:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001:_A_Space_Odyssey_(score)
Western cultures do a variant of the same thing. Your prospective employer will not only look stuff up about you online (over much of which you have no control), they will also run a pretty deep background check, and if that doesn’t work out in your favor your offer can be withdrawn. God forbid if you had any run-ins with the law, you’re screwed for the rest of your life. Bad credit rating could disqualify you from a lot of jobs as well.

The major difference is that this is merely enabled by the government, not run by it.
Worth having a look into the Holochain framework:

https://holochain.org/

Depending on the application(s) you have in mind.
Crack hashes using rainbow table attack services, right from your terminal
What would happen to your personal data if you got burgled?
GoDaddy is a bad company. They upsell, and they're expensive. There's way too many horror stories to list to deal with this.
The foundation of the American economy is the fact that the financial industry, and not you, owns the records about your credit history. Disempowering data subjects is essential to making credit history a useful signal about risk. Without that signal, lending would disappear overnight. This would crash home prices and wipe out almost all middle-class wealth. It would also probably eliminate the auto industry and severely curtail retail as consumer credit disappears. A less indebted society might be good in the long term, but that’s one hell of a shock you’re proposing.
Provide an index sheet attached to a stack of papers acknowledging documents included (title, version, date on document, page count). Check by each line, one signature overall.
What does N stand for? Netflix?
it's frustrating to read this thread and watch people make excuses for NYC . NYC is not special. Tokyo has old subways 3-4x the stations and 10x the riders. They manage to rebuild , change tracks, build new ones and generally do the maintainence and upkeep required to keep it running well and on time.

NYC's issues are entirely about politics and leadership and nothing to do with anything unique to NYC

que more excuses
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That's a cool idea, given the circumstances. It just blows my mind that it's required in a first-world country though...

In my city in Australia, the council just fixes potholes, generally within a week or two... A while back my mother made a complaint about a keep-left sign that blocked visibility on a corner, and they had it changed to lower it out of the way that week...
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No idea where 2) comes from. He's just saying that the Chinese government is intent on making it's own job easier and certainly it is. If anything he's implying this is an instance of a "principle-agent problem". Managers very often do what's best for them, regardless of general consequences, 'cause they can.
> once caught would be banned from the App Store

But the issue is that it's impossible to detect. An app could've added the extra number months ago, and you've deleted the app since then. There is no way to find out which app did it.
Also please make handing me a receipt extinct too or only if requested. Especially at drive thru(s) where the receipts become trash I later have to do work .. aka clean up this annoying trash in my car.
The way tipping works in Canada: you get handed the card-reader, and it tells you the subtotal and asks what tip you would like to add. Then, the card-reader asks you to either tap or insert your card.
This is frustratingly accurate. When I was learning I wanted to tell people that I didn't speak English, only... halting Dutch with an American accent.
If you'll recall, Boeing used pretty modern LiIon batteries in the B787 and it caused a few fires. That appears to have been a design mistake that no car manufacturer has made, but it still sets a standard for what aviation needs to do if they want to be closer to the bleeding edge.
I believe they specifically mentioned wind because that was the specific form of renewable energy the grandparent was talking about.

As for why a country with vast access to hydro would prefer wind energy, Hydro requires large investments, is excruciatingly difficult to upgrade, interferes with local water flow and ecosystems, and in the case that either it is improperly maintained or a major accident occurs, can be very dangerous and deadly.
This would be even more useful if it labeled the neighborhood nicknames (Dogpatch, Cow Hollow, etc) and gave some history of where the names came from.
E-residency gives you no rights to enter or live in Estonia.
"We don't monitor or log your internet traffic, except when we do", how can they say that with a straight face?
Just to add another point I don't see mentioned. For sites hosted on godaddy like shared hosting plans it makes it a lot harder because a single IP frequently resolves to a dozen or so actual sites.

How many sites being visited fit this model? Fewer everyday, but it seems a lot of non-mainstream content is still hosted on smaller shared hosting plans.
sure, they're not going to MITM your http connection, but they will be able to MITM your certificate connection, which allows them to discover what site you visited, which is the same problem that SNI has.