skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven’t tested accessibility.

Battery and memory: no big difference. And JS doesn’t run in the background.

Download size: 5MB

Upgrades: I had a native iOS app back in 2011 and this app required quite a few UI adjustments over the years to work properly on the latest iOS version and hardware.

Can’t tell yet for the Cordova app, but it works out of the box for all iPhones and many Android phones without writing a single line of additional CSS.

For sure, there are downsides to Ionic, but I’d strongly consider it. The single code base has so many advantages and cuts development costs with almost no downside for the customers.
Distributed systems is a service. Isn’t it.
> That said, the whole comparison that makes it as coal factories produce "more radioactive" waste

The important thing to look at isn't what power source produces the "most radioactive" waste, it's the actual death tolls per KWh of different power sources. And coal is about 1000 times worse, both worldwide and in the US, _counting_ Chernobyl and Fukushima.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2012/06/10/energys-d...
Basically the article confirms what I wrote back when the shooting occurred (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16754438): Youtube (and the other social networks!) desperately need a customer support that actually deserves to be called a support.

When you have a service where people's livings depend on, and you take away their income source (in corp doublespeak: demonetize them) AND at the same time offer them only canned responses or, worse, no contact at all, some of them WILL be driven to desperation. Hell, the inhumanity actually IS the word "demonetization": it sounds harmless but it is everything else than that.

And even worse: Youtube has recognized that there is a problem with the consequences their non-existence of a support has, but, typical for US culture, they head for fighting the symptoms (increasing "security") instead of fixing the problem (hire support staff with a decent bit of leeway).
Good news then, because CS:GO runs beautifully on linux and OSX (not that I'd recommend the latter).
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Just curious about Earn and the use of Bitcoin (questions are not related to Coinbase nor the announcement):

What's the downside of just using fiat money? Why need to use Bitcoin (or any crypto)?
For some less realistic pharmacology in science fiction:

http://sailsofoblivion.blogspot.co.uk/2008/02/pharmacopeia-o...

http://sailsofoblivion.blogspot.co.uk/2008/02/pharmacopoeia-...

I remember there were lots of drugs in Bruce Sterling's 'Schismatrix'. I think the cyberpunks were deliberately trying to imitate the Beats in their attempt to create a new kind of writing.
In my understanding, MCUs are more like ARM M, with 40MHz and 128KB RAM. But this thing is closer to rpi, with 500MHz, so I wonder what is the power consumption.
Teenager facing prison for looking at poster the government (mistakenly) put up...

Mandatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/932/
this is totally unsurprising.
Such a rudimentary take on distributed systems. Why not just create stateless rest services and horizontally scale to a million virtual machines. After all, Uber is a heavily funded company.
Keeping them unfashionable
Yes, I have, in Shenzhen, as recently as last month. Not the crazy mountains that have made the news, but certainly dozens of them at every corner of the central business district. Fortunately, Shenzhen is a new city, more like San Jose than SF, with extremely wide sidewalks, so there’s enough room. That same density of parked bikes in SF would make the sidewalks unpassable for pedestrians, much less people in wheelchairs.
I've never been involved in a big acquisition like that, I'm curious what kind of pentesting gets done before that type of deal.
Nothing new under the sun https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenix
> Where the intent is not made express, we try to figure out what a reasonable person would infer about the property owner's intent.

We do. But if we fail to do so correctly, as people occasionally will, have we committed a serious crime for which we should be facing prison? Particularly in a case where societal custom is not well formed, and analogies to more familiar situations are all strained?

This young man, by his account, likes to archive stuff he finds on the Web. From the sound of it, he's done URL incrementation many times, and this is the first time he's gotten in trouble for it. Let's suppose for the sake of argument that that's true, and also that there really were no indications on this site that the information was unintentionally left accessible. Do you really want to send him to prison for that?

You might reply that as cruel as that seems, its deterrent value would make it worth doing. But I don't even want to live in a world where people without criminal intent are so succesfully deterred from experimenting with the Internet. In such a world, site owners would take even less responsibility than they do now for securing their information, and therefore actual criminals would have even more unfettered access to it.
Toggling the capslock LED by using capslock as esc would annoy the heck out of me.
> Have you used Windows 10 Server Core, or Windows 10 Enterprise LTSB? There's no data collection in either of those, because they're for serious people.

How does one, as a non-enterprise, even get W10 Enterprise LTSB? I would, in a heartbeat, but MS wants to shove crapvertising down peoples' throats no matter the cost. And it's logical, given that when the users with money to spend and technical expertise fall out of the advertising eyeball pool, the eyeball pool loses its worth as it will be filled with poor noobs to whom all you can sell is the latest iteration of Candy Crush and snake-oil "antivirus".
Progressive Web Apps, but I honestly can't explain exactly what they are.
ATE0!

Once upon a time I worked for what was (once) the world's largest BBS. Remember the US Robotics Courier HST? 16.8kbps! Now imagine a room filled with shelf after shelf of Couriers, several hundred individual lines, at least a few hundred amps worth - all negotiating vigorously, clicking on-hook and off, all the time. Fun times.

Pretty sure I could still tell the difference between a 14.4k and 16.8k negotiation by ear.
Danger that has existed for a long time and is familiar. It’s much harder to take away a dangerous freedom than introduce a new one.
Because when your task is embarrassingly parallelizable, as payments are, you owe it to yourself to go ahead and take advantage of that to endure your part of the system isn't the bottleneck.
IIRC Braintree, which routes some transactions to Adyen (yes, it’s possible)
Since the treatment was performed on site at the National Institutes of Health using Federal research dollars, this wouldn't have been an option. So, I have no idea.
Not OP, but:

>Firstly, there should be no real reason for the tunnels to be deeper than about 30-50 feet because sewers and utilities are all concentrated at backhoe depth, which is shallower even than that and building foundations are pretty easy to avoid.

Well, this assumes a flat geography. At highway speeds, nobody likes steep grades in either direction, so at the top of a hill, you'd need a deeper elevator to get to the tunnel network. Today's metro systems also prefer to move people down to the trains with escalators or elevators at hilly areas.

>Combined, those factors imply your numbers are close to an order of magnitude off, and imply a reasonable number of elevators in the 30ish range. There are real challenges they need to solve, but I don't think elevator times or count are one of them.

Even if the elevators teleported you to the tunnel, there is still a loading and unloading time involved. This is true of human transporting elevators as well.

It takes 9.5 seconds for an average car, say a Toyota Corolla, (https://www.caranddriver.com/toyota/corolla) to accelerate onto the highway today. The elevator needs to beat that time (loading, accelerating to move down, decelerating, unloading, and accelerating into the tunnel network itself) or throughput is no better than on a standard highway. And on an on-ramp today, cars don't have to wait for the other car to fully enter the freeway.
Off-topic, but "creators"?

It's funny to think that some people think they can be called "creator" just because they're making and uploading video to the Internet.

Yes, some of those videos are fun to watch, maybe informative, but to be honest, I don't think they "created" anything more than other media did, so why give them that title?

"Producers" maybe better?
A science-fiction novel in which food is central to the plot is "Alastor: Wyst" by Jack Vance. The characters are bored by the tasteless food they usually have to eat ("Some gruff and deedle, with some wobbly to fill the cracks!") and go on expeditions ("bonterfests") in search for tasty, natural morsels.
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"Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine biased models, will unbiased answers come out?"
No. 21.co was a company that built custom chips for bitcoin mining. The founders and A16Z have been pretty transparent about that throughout, as well as in the blog post.
True, but that's not the marketing they want. And the market segment that buys these things are very sensitive to this mythical image. "True" trucks is a selling point, not a liability for that crowd.

When they sell a pickup to someone who doesn't need one (>85% of the sales), they sell the myth and the social status. So, as my last paragraph pointed out, they will but "not self driving" as a "status symbol" and they will sell like hotcakes.

Plus, the advantages of self driving for cars you own, considering the current price premium, wont be worth it for many, many years. For cars you /rent/ fine, they will "work" 24/7, but spending 15k-25k on LiDAR and sensors and data and engineers and (carmaker) insurances isn't worth it yet for a car that spends 98% of it's useful life parked.
Plenty of people outside of HN use Slack, Discord, Atom, VS Code, Skype and Twitch.
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Exactly. I think these end up as good PoCs - and it would be amazing to think of a future where we can run one of the Linux derivatives on a something that was designed with FreeRTOS or equivalent in mind - but it's just not going to happen on a commercial scale in my opinion.
The only thing web apps undermine is user experience.
And if it is PWA, why would you want app store anyway?
Since these old recipes are showing up every now and then here, I feel like I should plug www.archiefkok.nl for those of us who speak Dutch. It's like the blog linked above except she also writes an essay around the historical source the recipe is from or the historical context of the recipe. Do not open this site on a morning where you can't afford to lose most of the day browsing the archives.
What evidence do you have that people tend to treat them as trash? While I'm not sure how often Jump services/replaces their fleet, the few I've used and the many I've seen around SF have all worked great/looked to be in good condition over the past few months. Also, I've definitely seen vans redistributing Jump bikes around town. I fully expect Bird/Spin/Lime does/will do the same with the scooters.
How are you finding the Espressif stack?
> the UX friction involved with downloading and installing native mobile apps is abysmal

Wouldn't PWA be the same too? In fact, I think having to figure out the web address and type it in, and then add it to the home screen is much more tedious.
It doesn't actually have to be the CO2 per see. It can be used to measure overall air and ventilation. Or how many humans there are in a house/room, and if they are asleep or awake. The drowsiness is probably due to both low oxygen levels and high CO2 levels, and more.
> and a person not overly taken with his “charisma” wonders if his interest in mass transit is in scuttling it.

No, you’re just a run-of-the-mill conspiracist, and cynic.

To note, he actually hasn’t thrown in with hyperloop, he open sourced he idea for people to iterate. He literally just thinks he can build a cheaper tunnel, and I haven’t seen any serious proposals to run hyperloops through them.
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In my opinion, it's fine to just include your monetizing code in your repo. You can use config files or environment variables or something to hide private details. As long as the ads you publish are fairly standard, I don't think anyone would mind - and it also leaves people who really don't like the ads the option to compile an ad-free version. If you really wanted to curry favor, you could even post a separate ad-free .apk release on your repo and just push a version with ads to official app stores.
Strollers don’t typically move 15mph and have 100+ lb people riding in them.
If the biased models replace human decision making, then it just has to be shown that the models are less biased than humans which may not be that high of a bar to pass.
Engaging all five senses is fine until it becomes the goal itself. Does it add to the story? No? Delete it.
This, this, this. Nobody, and I mean nobody, wears a helmet when cycling in the Netherlands - not five-year-olds and certainly not adults, and absolutely everyone cycles everywhere. Yes, people do die of bike injuries, but the number is surprisingly small, something like 160 people per year out of a country of 16 million.
I definitely support the need to regulate these services. On the one hand, I have often wanted such a service in SF. That I should not have to worry about parking or racking is a key requirement. At the same time, it doesn't seem fair to allow private companies to litter the streets with junk. Partnership with government is crucial. I am quite happy with the way things are turning out - they launch first, government reacts quickly to regulate them, and now they work with the government to figure out solutions. The other alternative - them getting permits first - would never work fast enough in practice.
No you can turn it down from 11 to 5 basically.
I wouldn't even just say 'value', but 'strategy' is becoming the major differentiator.
I was just telling someone today that there is a difference between someone who gives advice and someone who gives actual strategy. The latter is a blueprint, while the former is 'rah-rah' imho.
According to blog posts and articles on tech sites there still is no way to disable all telemetry on windows 10. I don’t use windows for a long time now so I cannot tell myself.

Anyhow, it is /not/ ok for an OS to spy on their users by default - even if you can disable it manually.
The caps lock LED stops toggling after remapping it to escape on a mac.
Seems like using poppy seed instead of actual poppies is a big deviation from the original? (Or is that what the original recipe meant?) ...As well as omitting the licorice root. Then again, I love licorice but I understand not everyone does.
Prius proves my point. It ain’t electric (and therefore it’s only a marginal improvement, not one with the potential for utter decarbonization...), but it has everything needed. It proves that traditional automakers could be making EVs left and right, but they aren’t. Oh, and Toyota isn’t US.

Seriously, put a bigger battery in an old Prius, add a charger, and hack the firmware to keep the engine off (and enable higher speed electric), and you have a full EV at even highway speeds. So why didn’t they do it but Tesla has? It’s amazing how much crap Tesla gets even though they’re the only ones with the guts to go full electric (and thus potentially zero emissions... already better than Priuses without being, you know, Priuses).
I think its a marketing thing. Engineers wouldn't have let this one slide.

My professors at college taught a simple rule of thumb - if it can't run regular Linux it's probably a MCU. Finer print talked about the presence of a MMU being the key differentiator.

I've stuck to that definition so far. Might have to rewire if this gimmick catches on
Dockless cars take much more space and even hit people every day. https://slate.com/business/2018/04/astounding-photos-capture...
"When you load up your site with a host of sharing buttons you're – unwittingly perhaps – enabling those companies to track your visitors, whether they use the buttons and their accompanying social networks or not" [1]."

This can be prevented and in fact, may have to be prevented with the new EU privacy law.

Here is a wordpress plug-in that helps to protect the privacy of your users and helps comply with the new law:

https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/shariff-sharing/

It basically requires you to activate the social buttons first with a click.
I think it's only fair to compare dockless scooters/bikes with dockless cars. https://slate.com/business/2018/04/astounding-photos-capture...
If they bought from a poison vendor and then sold it to me as food, then definitely they are to blame and "safety standards" have nothing to do with it - they knew what they are buying and selling, it's not some kind of mistake or accident. Facebook buttons and tracking scripts didn't just seep into sites by accident because of poorly maintained seals or rusty firewalls and weren't fraudulently sneaked in by spies sent by Facebook - they were deliberately installed by site admins, because they wanted to install this precise code, with full knowledge of what it is for. Site admins bear responsibility for them.
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It's not just that, it's an entire stack of unaccountable entrenched interests from top to bottom. Unions, contractors, MTA management, all the way up to the squabbling governor and mayor.
If it helps, the Oxford English dictionary has updated the definition of “literally” to literally include “used for emphasis while not being literally true.”

Whether we like it or not, language evolves. If “literally” can, then literally any other word can too.
2. Bollocks. A few if-else statements to flag the ads, then have humans approve/reject them. This could, and in fact is, done today (but not by facebook obviously).
> To win a nice guys award? To get a warm, squishy feeling inside?
Why not? There are plenty of well-natured, kind people in the world. The price of being not nice is quite high.
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Interesting, can I ask what kind of work you do? I'm assuming programming, what kind of programming do you primarily do?
He doesn't want app store. The whole article is about how the author is forced to submit an app to the store just to allow playing audio in the background.

The author would prefer to just have a web app / website that plays audio, but it is not possible. On iOS, apparently you need to use Cordova and submit an app to the store if you want to play the next song while the app is in the background. And it is not possible to use lock screen controls to control playback (apart from stopping it).
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I am french and two days ago there was a judgment to solve a conflict between the wife of Johnny Hallidays and his first children. The predictions of the journalists (who were very confident of themselves) have been totally contradicted by the judge. All the elements of the file and the personality of people were public knowledge. My point is that even when no element is hidden, the result of a trial is fear, uncertainty and doubt. It is slightly different in America because paying a lot of money to lawyers is a very effective way to change the result. IMHO, the aim of the justice in democraty is to be fair and independant of wealth. Random is not fair.
It differentiates them from "consumers" who watch the videos. When you have two different groups of users you need two words.

Also, I think you underestimate how much work goes in to some popular channels. People with millions of subscribers often have production teams that would rival a well funded TV show. It's something I find a little saddening when kids say they want to be a YouTuber as a career choice; they think it's a guy in his bedroom with a camera and a laptop. It really isn't.
Last time we received an email on April 18 3-4am CEST, which is April 17 6-7pm PST. Still quite some time left ;-)
Btw, the Metachat community covering chat on this subject is back, just like last W18 batch. You can find it here: https://communities.metachat.com/communities/ycombinator
What helps protect you from this?

Ghostery?
uBlock?
a decent hosts file?
This is an important point and I wonder about it often. Especially the last one about countries that are lax on individual privacy. Imagine what China or Chinese companies could do with the genetic information they collect from their population. The lack of regulation is scary, but at the same time, they will be at the forefront of genetic engineering and designer humans. Can't think of any solution other than a World government. EU and AU has shown it is possible.
...If you have more than one car running on the road, it's just a cacophony isn't it
Off the top of head, one reason is that there is no need to support multiple currencies for international users, or to worry about currency conversion.

Secondly it cuts out the need for middlemen (banks/payment processors).
Actually I'm waiting for Red Mars trilogy. Yes, it has that teen fiction vibe, yet CGI should be spectacular.
Maybe he doesn't want all the pull requests, supporting other programmers has a cost.
Of course someone that makes something can be called a creator.. that's the definition of the word

I think you may be underestimating the content on YouTube, some of these channels bring in more views and cash than the smaller legacy TV companies do
Nice example. I have personally seen Hadoop jobs which would only scale by using larger VM instance types.
You are not providing any argument against why he should not do that.
25k worth of lidar makes it worthless for most market segments I think. Lacking self driving features will ensure that the insurance costs 3 times as much ultimately. It will eventually be cheaper to have self driving capability than pay premiums.
"Things that Turbo Pascal is smaller than" - http://prog21.dadgum.com/116.html
I mostly use floydhub for its ease of use.

Colab from google lets you train over GPUs for upto 12 hours for free, However it takes a while to setting things up esp pytorch and I'm not a fan of the UI.
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Mostly because there are way more programmers working on weaponry of every possible kind than oppressing minorities, and you could say it causes way more harm and suffering.

Also, unlike doctors, who are explicitly trusted with human health, programmers are not in any way different from anybody else and it's silly to try to impose a special moral code on them.
Regarding your example, you're asking the wrong question. That's not a Ponzi scheme because it makes it clear what kind of returns to expect and that the returns simply come from other investors. A Ponzi scheme involves persuading investors to invest (and reinvest the returns) on a fraudulent basis.

What Charles Ponzi did, and what has come to characterize Ponzi schemes today, is fraud. He made investors think that they were investing in something tradable (stamp coupons) when he actually only ever paid the returns using other investors' money, and it was able to go on for so long because most people simply reinvested their returns on the basis that they thought it was a sustainable investment.

This dynamic doesn't exist without fraud. No one is going to invest in ponzischeme.io on any other basis than exactly what it is, betting to get in early and to cash in their returns before everyone else does.

That said, if I was the world dictator, the ponzischeme.io guys would be in a labor camp, where they would be forced to do meaningful work.