skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's say you are reading a free manual online and every page is stored as a different webpage with a common URL and only the last number changing (E.G. page 1 is book/1 page 2 is book/2 and so on).
The only way to go to a certain page is with a "next page" link from the previous one. You read the index at page 1 and see that you cant find the information you need but page 500 is missing, a printing error in the index perhaps.
Instead of clicking 499 times on the page links to see if the information you need is on page 500 you simply change book/1 to book/500.
OH NO, the link on page 499 brings you to page 501 and it's not in the index because page 500 contains the truth about aliens so now you read it and are going to prison.

That's in a nutshell what happened
Some in-game music will be removed by a forthcoming update.I believe it's on the disk if you bought a physical copy, if so this seems ridiculous.

Further reading: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2018/04/12/grand-theft-auto...
I actually went and tried it out on an iPad too. I admit it's not as nice an experience - in fact it almost seems buggy, scrolling up past the top of the viewport before the JS notices and suddenly pushes it back down. They could improve that. At least make it less jarring.
The Hippocratic oath is not based on religion how would you discriminate against "religion"
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This was confusing for me because my grandma used to make pepper water for me when I was a child, and it was nothing like this. It's a kind of spicy soup. Recipe here: http://anglo-indianfood.blogspot.com/2013/06/anglo-indian-pe...
Ah yes tab, the only ascii character where the rendering is user configurable.
No doubt. I still would consider the implementors of said contrived-example-website to be far more liable than our hypothetical confused batch downloading Norwegian friend. Just like I don't yell at my toddler when she knocks over the glass of water I left on the floor.
Well, some people believe being curious and trying things out is not what "normal people" do so it's "antisocial" and you shouldn't do it.

I remember a teacher yelling at me for trying some slightly advanced features in a hardware design language. I was really proud I could implement something I didn't thought possible, but her reaction was along the lines "Do you want attention? Why can't you just stay quiet and do what the rest of the class does without showing off?".

Stifling creativity and curiosity, especially in children, encouraging them to be mediocre "like ordinary people" is disgusting and counter productive.
Yeah, if the limit were 500 feet you wouldn't have builders constantly complaining about it.
> means requiring a compiler toolchain

If your compiler toolchain both runs on and generates WASM then you’ve removed about 90% of the pain of compiler toolchains. The experience should be on par with something like typescript or one of the ecma compatibility compilers. There’s still potential for classes of issues that would not exist in straight Javascript, but I’d rather debug most of those with browser tooling than gdb.
Are you saying GDPR was ready then? How come if today it is not clear and has ambiguous interpretations or lack of?
I don't doubt you but could you elaborate? Thanks.
Thats an odd way of looking at SD. There is a clear macroeconomic consensus that immigration is good for the economy as a whole, the GDP growth Sweden has enjoyed strongly support this. An SD government would be a threat to the Swedish welfare society.

This is a party started not by right leaning nationalists but by actual nazis. Gustav Ekström, one of the founders of the party was a volunteer in the Waffen-SS in 1941. Yes the party has changed but these are the kinds of people running the party when the current leadership joined.

Its overwhelmingly clear the main reason for the party is to turn Sweden into some sort of white nationalist fantasy where anyone with a brown face is not welcome.
From what I've seen, the last Final Fantasy game had a lot of food close-up.
>> anyone who thinks the building code is "too loose" has never successfully engineered something which complied with it.

Perhaps, but have you compared it to the building code in Japan? I personally have qualifications in this area so I'm just asking.
Whataboutism...
Goodhart’s law, as phrased by Marilyn Strathern: “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.”
> I don't know, but tying the expansion of the email system to the reach of the US financial system seems quite limiting and archaic, and totally contrary to the international and open nature of the internet.

Email is already open and international and doesn't need bank accounts. This is paid for email solicitation, and nobody needs to do that without access to payment networks, unless perhaps they wish to conceal their true identity because they're spear-phishing.
Sorry, the groupthink here is palpable.
How many inches of lean can a building support before it just falls over WTC style?
The conditions under which wood rots: untreated + outdoors.
Well, ideally you do actually want to spread writes across all the nodes evenly, but in practice this rarely works as expected, and you do get uneven loading across the cluster. Only one of many reasons why sharding is crap.

Re: scaling Cassandra, I haven't experienced it personally, but I've heard horror stories regarding replication and load balancing when nodes start to go down. With other systems, you see things like uneven loading, running out of storage or compute, limits on iops or network bandwidth, and literally the probability of overall failures increasing because math. It's also just harder in general to manage 250 nodes rather than 50. Running commands takes longer, you need bigger infrastructure, you start running into weird limits like what your original subnet sizes were set to, etc. There are a myriad number of variables that just become more difficult the bigger things get.

Now, compare this to three giant-ass nodes. You start getting close to capacity, and maybe you add a fourth, and that lasts you another year. So. Much. Freaking. Easier. AND more reliable. There's no contest - if you can scale mostly-vertically, do it. (Unless you're Google or Facebook and have a few billion dollars to spend on engineering, in which case this actually _is_ scaling mostly-vertically, it's just datacenters instead of nodes)
i have followed Elon almost since the zip days and this is the first time i've seen someone put it together like this. Makes Total Sense.

Add to the list the StarLink project. Allows them to have worldwide communication on mars.

This is certainly connecting the dots.
The Case for Succinct Build Logs
What I have yet to understand is what happens in a few hundred years when all this sequestered CO2 becomes not sequestered, and how this is not more "kick the can".
These Ex-Spies Are Harvesting Facebook Photos for a Massive Face Recognition DB
But does it need to be personal information?
New York Times and New Yorker Share Pulitzer for Public Service
If the environmental damage is simply stipulated to occur, then why would humans have to change their behavior? If it's either bacteria or us putting the carbon into the atmosphere, it might as well be us.

I think you're losing sight of the forest for the cynical trees here. At least nominally, "changing human behavior" is not the end goal in and of itself; it is supposed to be serving a purpose. If simply changing human behavior is your goal because you find it personally distasteful that people are living their lives a certain way, and that's it, you have no other environmental reason (because you stipulated it away), it's merely your opinion now, and a rather anti-social or misanthropic one not particularly deserving of praise or recognition as being especially moral or anything like that.
Yikes, GDPR is a well-intentioned shitshow. It's trying to graft new requirements onto something that was never designed to support them. And it looks like it is going about as well as trying to slap multiplayer on top of a hoary old single-player game engine.
Letter to Apple
My concern with using a package like this is that it's built on top of so much other stuff. You'll still be able to read the text forever, which is a big plus, but Pandoc, at least a couple of years ago, was tweaking its template formats so frequently that my attemts to extend them for my own purposes were continually breaking. Maybe things have stabilized now? I'd be worried that a project started using this package would need continual maintenance to keep it in a state where it could actually build PDFs.
Doesn't sound very permanent.
Yeah, I expect they know what they're talking about, and have an opinion which they'll make obvious - which I may not necessarily agree with.

Sysadmin folks would know the term 'BofH' which got popularised by The Register.
It's funny how I'm learning things about my government first on NH and not on national news.

Edit: and I've learned a few other things (SAIP, Quaero)
> Tesla doesn't even make battery cells, they buy them from panasonic

What is the Gigafactory doing then? I thought it was all about batteries.
Signal handlers don't have to be process-wide. See my detailed proposal for fixing the situation here: https://www.facebook.com/notes/daniel-colascione/toward-shar...

The trouble is that nobody is actually interested in fixing the core API. When I've raised the issue (and my proposal) with libc maintainers, the response has been a bizarre insistence that signals are somehow illegitimate, that the things people do with signals are wrong, and that everyone should just stop with signals despite there being no viable replacement mechanism.

As a result of this head-in-the-sand attitude, we're left with an awful decades old signals API and an absolute mess of ad-hoc libraries (which conflict with each other) to work around the worst of the problems.

This is how good systems ossify and eventually die.
Interesting indeed.

The arcade game of semantris was really annoying because as soon as you got a word wrong the new words started to pile up making finding the original keywords difficult.

The tetris game was more pleasing and a funny thing happened to me as I tried to destroy the block "internet" with a word "google" and the second last block eliminated was "monopoly", hah. Mildly amusing.

But I'm curious to see what kind of applications can/will be made out of this.
Some people may say that the first person on Mars should be the most qualified. But we need to recognise that for some years NASA actively discriminated against women just because they were women, and testing showed these women were superior.

https://history.nasa.gov/printFriendly/flats.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_13
Training ImageNet on a TPU in 12.5 Hours with GKE and RiseML
Ask HN: Any good books,videos or other resources on da Vinci's work,routine&life
Looking for resources that gives some in-depth knowledge on Leonardo da vinci's work style, routine he might have followed and about important aspects of his life. Thank You!
I think it depends on TLD. My country TLD whois just lists registrant info as 'data restricted' unless it is explicitly requested to be public.
What's off is a persistent lack of shared humanity.

It seems like the corporate tech space is full of people trying to be Stakhanovite Heroes of Accumulative Capitalism, where all interactions are valued according to their contribution to the company bottom line, closely shadowed by the company brand.

That doesn't leave much room for the things that make being human fun.
Thats what I thought at first, but the message says that it was because it was in the "Shareware/Freeware" Category. Which is blocked unless specifically allowed.
I'm curious as to why the motivation now? The West has been placing sanction on North Korea for years with seemingly no effect.

I wonder what role, if any China played in brokering this deal? This is only a report of what is expected to happen at the summit, so we will see if Kim Jong Un will follow through, since his military presence and proximity to South Korea and Seoul has been his best bartering chip.
This is true in a practical sense for most laypeople, but it's not literally true and doesn't have to be.

(1) Don't buy "smart" devices that collect data. You don't need them.

(2) Don't visit facebook.

(3) Don't allow your browser to run javascript from facebook or anyone you don't trust.

It's that easy, and there are tools to help you do (3) such as adblockers and other browser plugins. For (2), even if you occasionally visit facebook, you can minimize information collected by controlling the environment you visit from (e.g. tor browser, VPN, virtual machine, etc).

The more challenging problem is data that your friends give Facebook about you, such as your contact info and tagging your face in photos. I wonder how long under GDPR till someone sues their facebook friends for providing information without permission?
I think based on the conversation you can view, this entire thread has been derailed. whataboutism confirmed, no one is discussing the article and now this thread that _should_ be discussed here will get erased from the front page.

>“Once you own the router, you own all the traffic, to include the chance to harvest credentials and passwords,” said Howard Marshall, deputy assistant director of the cyber division at the Federal Bureau of Investigation. “It is a tremendous weapon in the hands of an adversary.”

if this were true, more effort needs to be done to encrypt traffic fully, not enabling it to be broken with trusted certificates but disabling the ability in the first place (application) from being decrypted.
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> But structurally that's about the only thing they have in common.

Sure, but it’s — at least in principle — enough: the whole point of my answer was to highlight that the same fundamental catalytic reaction can attack the bonds of the backbone without caring too much about the identity of the side chains/unit monomers. The main constraints then are sterical: the monomers of the polymer have to fit into the active site of the enzyme. This is by no means a given, but it’s not an insurmountable problem either.

My point is, unlike the hypothetical, universal acid that dissolves everything from biopolymers over monoatomic crystal lattices to amorphous silicates, a plastic-eating enzyme doesn’t have to be universal. It can in fact be very specific.

In fact, the cell has tons of such machinery. A good example is the ribosome, which manages to construct a peptide biopolymer by catalysing peptide bond formation regardless of amino acid side chain. And there’s a class of enzymes that do the inverse: proteases hydrolyse peptide bonds. This comes conceptually close to a universal plastic-eating enzyme.
I'm not sure there's really a contradiction there: "the hobbyist crowd" is, and has always been, much smaller than the general population, so even with commodity hardware and easy app creation leading to widespread adoption within that subgroup, you can still have more people overall wanting, buying, and using something more like an iPad.
> 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?

Because fanboys don't buy vehicles if somebody else sells it, just look at Chevy bolt. They need the futuristic hype of full self driving and the patented saving the planet. And also, Tesla can afford selling at a loss, nobody else can.
Why transport them? Build them there.
On the downside abusive apps can do much much more damage than a website, see the Facebook fiasco
Because of soil issues, the Transbay Terminal (Salesforce) builders had to anchor the foundations in the bedrock, which is unfortunately deep under layers of landfill and soft sand. But this fill and sand is exactly what will get liquified during a big one, so they didn't have much choice.

But what's weird, IMO, is that some of the shorter highrises like the Millennium Tower were approved to be built not anchored, but on pylons floating in the soil layer:

https://sf.curbed.com/2016/9/16/12945600/why-millennium-towe...

https://sf.curbed.com/2016/9/15/12930402/millennium-towner-s...

I mean, sure, as long as things are stable, the weight of the building will keep it in place. But I don't think anyone knows how the soft layer underneath most of SOMA will behave, when a big earthquake comes. People know it will undergo liquification, but by how much, and what will it do to buildings on "floating" foundations, that's not certain...
This is what I currently do with my app. The code is open source, it's free for anybody to build and install, the build steps are simply clone and build with Android Studio. I upload the debug .apk as a GitHub release with no valid keys (so no ads), but there are ads at the bottom of the screen on the play store version.

It makes a little change every month and I've not had any complaints about the ads, except to offer a pay-to-remove option, which I mostly just haven't gotten around to yet.
I've worked for an agency in the past which is not much more than two guys with a very deep Rolodex (both clients and potential workers) and a hired office.

No permanent employees, only self-employed contractors. They only pay the employees once they get paid by the end client (normally after 30 days) and all the work is based on Statements of Work with large corporates so no real chance of non-payment.

This is in the financial sector in the UK. Obviously they have feast and famine as well, but they have had 20-30 consultants all working at once. I think the main issue with replicating what they have done is a) getting the necessary client contacts, and b) the fact that banks are moving to preferred supplier lists with major consultancies rather than smaller niche suppliers.
That's about one every 84 miles if they're evenly distributed.
It seems like it's going to be a long time before there is enough population on Mars that they need a mass transit system.
Your comment would have more gravity if you pointed to specifics instead of touting some vague credentials and telling other people they're wrong.
> But lots of things are legal or not based on what typical people would do or think.

Good thing computers use unambiguous protocols to communicate explicit intent.

> If you asked your mom, [...] That's what defines what is legal or not in this context.

I'm really terrified of a world where the law is made by asking laypeople what they think. Just like we don't define borders by asking random strangers on the street where countries are, I don't see how it's a good idea to define laws for technical services and protocols by asking people who barely understand computers what they think.
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Whoa, so it's going to take ten whole years to own a house? ...and that's considered bad?
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So, Telegram is blocked. But Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp are still online. Hence, this is pushing users of a (relatively) country-neutral service, towards more American services.

Seems like a weird move for Russia.
Very upstate NY
These aren't new requirements. They've been part of EU law since 1995.
Ask HN: What was/is your daily routine to learn a language?
I trying to make a routine for learn python and django, take some courses online and want to know how you guys dedicate time for this things. Maybe 2hrs for personas projects and coding and 2hrs for courses, video tutorials.

You watch tv shows on your weeks or another hobby like reading books, fresh air, etc.

Thanks for the help
HSR in high density areas sound like a good idea.

Metros, suburban light rails, BRT sound good in Urban areas.

Better than building thousands of underground tunnels.
GM's mediocre EV1 electric car was not going to turn the car industry inside out. The battery technology wasn't even remotely close to ready to enable EVs to replace fossil-fuel vehicles. That includes both production scale capabilities, and the 60-100 mile range of the EV1. It was the Li-ion electronics industry that made today's EV industry possible.

Telsa is what changed the industry. It wasn't subtle, it rattled every car maker into action. They demonstrated the technology was ready, such that you could build a full, proper replacement EV vehicle. A car people actually wanted to buy and drive. Further, the Model S being reviewed as one of the greatest cars ever made, made it clear that you could actually build an extraordinary EV vehicle. Not a hybrid, not a 30 or 60 mile battery joke, a full replacement. GM restarted their EV program entirely because of Tesla.
The "animal spirits" associated with a functional democratic process foster a culture where diversity of thought is at least possible.

I live in city recovering from an extreme -- a long era of domination by an all-powerful, mafia-like political machine. 40 years ago, even uttering an idea not in line with the machine would result in retaliation. Talk to someone identified as an enemy, and your street doesn't get plowed. Do anything more, and your relatives will be blackballed from employment.
Question:

What do tests and CI have to do with the usability and usefulness of a program? I agree that the other issues could be worrying, but those first two throw me for a loop.
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I this "lean" is measured at the top, and the buildings weight is equally distributed from top to bottom (i.e. its centre of gravity is right in the middle) it can lean half its radius until the CoG is no longer above its support and it should topple.

That's very rough of course. Many bad things could happen much earlier, such as unexpected forces causing structural damage.

Note also that the WTC didn't exactly "fall over". It collapsed on itself.
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Shallow dismissals make you look like you have nothing to say. The article posits one thing, then the OP gave a concrete example clarifying why one region is having problems the other doesn't. You then come in and just claim that the building codes aren't actually that loose while jerking yourself off about your experience in the matter, despite the article's position on unsafe buildings and the OP correctly pointing out that a region with similar problems doesn't have an issue with its high rise buildings that they allowed to be built.

Do you have anything else to say besides vague claims on your credentials and experience?
"Whataboutism" is just a buzzword for people who want to avoid looking at issues holistically. "Evil Actor A says look out for Evil Actor B" warrants the response "well, they're both evil actors".
Oh come on. The videos generate ad revenue and youtube takes a great deal of that. It’s a revenue sharing “agreement” (read:monopoly takes its cut).
This sums up this stance accurately:

https://i.imgur.com/Rgvqkln.jpg
The RG are dead, but now it's the DGSI (Direction générale de la Sécurité intérieure aka General Directorate for Internal Security)
Back to BASIC: Assembling the RC2014
> tying the expansion of the email system to the reach of the US financial system seems quite limiting and archaic

The important word here being "seems". Seeming is a thing that happens in someone's head. So the fuller version is "seems to an anonymous person who has tied their identity to a particular technology and a specific political vision".

It does not seem like that to me. Or to 99.9% of companies, who start out tying their companies to the reach of a specific national or regional financial system and then move happily beyond it.

In practice, starting with the use of the US financial system provides much more reach than Bitcoin, which has a much smaller user-base, something more like Bolivia or Switzerland, and whose "residents" do much less of their economic activity through that financial system than those in developed nations do.
How about the vertical landings that happened in the early '90s?