skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In fairness, while the Big Dig was a total crapfest while in progress, the end result made a tremendous positive difference to the walk- and bike-ability of that area. It's still not perfect (four+ lanes of angry commuters), but it's not like they could just get rid of I-93.

Totally agreed on the dollars for transit part, though. Still way too much emphasis on making cars' lives easier in Boston at the expense of everyone else.
I read an article a few months back (no reference handy, unfortunately) that was talking about attitudes towards energy utilization in Quebec, Canada, where the vast majority of the electricity is generated from hydro. The basic conclusion was that when everyone knows that the energy they're using is "clean", they don't actually worry too much about it.

That idea really excites me! If our energy sources are both clean and abundant, that opens up a lot of doors to technology that previously had uncomfortable tradeoffs. For example, high-energy-consumption recycling instead of mining new raw materials; right now it can be a bit of a wash (sure, we're mining less, but we're burning coal to power the process), but post-scarce-clean-energy it becomes way less of concern. Likewise with a lot of automation tasks. Very exciting!
Exactly, that's what I meant but I should have emphasised it more.

Everyone overpays, but they overpay in proportion to how sticky their business is to a specific property. It would take someone who knows more about commercial property to dissect what businesses would get destroyed by that.
I suggest you look into TPM and the full signed-code architectures it enables.
Use yarn
The unit tests worry me:

assert len(WORDS) == 32192
assert sum(WORDS.values()) == 1115504
assert WORDS.most_common(10) == [
('the', 79808),
('of', 40024),
('and', 38311),
('to', 28765),
('in', 22020),
('a', 21124),
('that', 12512),
('he', 12401),
('was', 11410),
('it', 10681)]
assert WORDS['the'] == 79808

Those aren't testing the file open, or Counter, or read, but instead are tightly-coupling the tests to the exact corpus. The code really should have not hard-coded the corpus, and the tests should have supplied a smaller corpus of known length where each word's frequency+probability was obvious from inspection.

There's another overfitted test just before this:

assert Counter(words('This is a test. 123; A TEST this is.')) == (
Counter({'123': 1, 'a': 2, 'is': 2, 'test': 2, 'this': 2}))

What is this verifying? We know how a Counter works, we don't need to test it; and the previous test already established the correctness of words().

I see a lot of junior engineers following this style of tightly-coupled, overfitted tests, and seen how a few years of growth can lead to tens of thousands of tests whose primary value is to provide Amazon with a predictable stream of AWS revenue (as we run all th tests) & make the engineer feel better for writing tests.
While I think everyone would agree that as an engineer you may look at things in a different light this does not explain it.

Let’s not make this about engineering. This is a psycho that deserves to be isolated from society for what he did.
How would he be optimizing by slitting a woman's throat and dismembering her body? She seems.... less optimized.
Absolutely, I agree 100%

One year I made a mistake on my taxes and my refund was $1000 more than it should have been. Six months later not only was I fined for the mistake and forced to pay back the $1000, I had to pay interest on that $1000. (Canada)

This year when the government owed me $6000 in overpaid taxes, why didn't they pay me interest on my money they were holding...?
Ireland's economy is highly linked to how well the broader global economy is doing. When major US corporations look to expand during good times, Ireland often directly benefits. Ireland's domestic economy is comparatively tiny, but plenty of large industries like tech, pharma and some random ones like global aircraft leasing[1] have a large base in Ireland to support their European and sometimes global operations.

[1] https://www.irishtimes.com/business/transport-and-tourism/ai...
Twitter Stays on an Upswing, with Second Straight Quarter of Profit
The 'second book effect' is an interesting point, but that phenomenon, by itself, would suggest that there are improvements to be made in how we teach things from the beginning.
Yes, I was more curious if a malicious actor (the hard drive) with access to the nvme bus could manage to exfiltrate data directly via the network interfaces without involving the OS.
Yes. We have a custom build application that requires newer libs that CentOS 7 naively provides as well as some kernel hooks not found in the 3.x kernel.

I've not encountered any problems so far, but we do fairly aggressive full stack testing before we deploy OS updates. Linux has gotten a lot more stable across the board, with Fedora being no exception. I wouldn't recommend running it in production it in a way where you couldn't just destroy the VM and rebuild (like a database server).
i generally dont like this mentality personally. use whatever youre comfortable with! i personally use arch linux on my servers
Not yet proven at commercial scale, and likely to be expensive:

"Although the processes involved in CCS have been demonstrated in other industrial applications, no commercial scale projects which integrate these processes exist; the costs therefore are somewhat uncertain. Some recent credible estimates indicate that the cost of capturing and storing carbon dioxide is US$60 per ton,[173] corresponding to an increase in electricity prices of about US 6c per kWh (based on typical coal-fired power plant emissions of 0.97 kg (2.13 lb) CO2 per kWh). This would double the typical US industrial electricity price (now at around 6c per kWh) and increase the typical retail residential electricity price by about 50% (assuming 100% of power is from coal, which may not necessarily be the case, as this varies from state to state)."
Some would say that for a certain definition of hacking this was a super-hack /s
Is this the new shit from western media? What the heck is "Anit-Women Ideology"? Apparently they have moved away from mental instability to anti-women ideology...

The fucking dude is a TERRORIST, Period.
Five industries that blockchains could–maybe–revolutionize
How to make $930.21 in 30 minutes trading Forex?
Try look for local FabLab or Maker/Hacker Space. People in there are usually willing to share their knowledge or they are even organizing some courses on that topic.

Either way, it's mandatory to understand electronics essentials (Ohm's law, Kirhoff's laws etc.) Try to find some electronics schoolbooks (I can provide something in czech only). After understanding basics, you can start with buses and digital communications (because digital is actually two level analog, right?)

Anyway, good luck.
Many years ago (starting 2010 or so) Google "simplified" their privacy policies, meaning they threw them out of the window and have a central profile about you and your behavior. Some of Google's tactics are creepy, like Microsoft late 90s creepy. They should be called out more often.

Reference to some of the things that happened back then:
https://www.pcworld.com/article/248715/googles_tracking_plan...
>Now back to my Javascript callback bugs

Check to make sure you are running the right files... Spelling/Capital letter errors... Returning after selecting a case...

Just some horror stories that cost me 8 days...
You're gonna get flagged but I will say that it's much easier to paint groups you're not a part of with a broad brush.
There were third phone OSes (and fourth, fifth...).
Nobody wanted them.
Combating Change Vertigo
It would be fine if all energy used everywhere on the planet was green. Until then, wasting clean energy still creates more demand for that clean energy, which affects its price and thus its competitiveness vs other energy sources.
Even in Quebec, for example, energy not used is sold outside the province.
There is two Jeovah's witness section. Shouldn't they be merged?
Ok, then we need to stop using DNS. Your record server being compromised shouldn't be able to imply ownership.
The Key to Bitcoin Adoption in Third World Countries
If they just graduated high school they’d remember their science classes. The coal burns, it generates steam which rotates some magnets and produces a current. If they’re fresh high school grads they might even have the textbook at home still.
Interestingly, email breaks this type of content for me.

Whenever I subscribe to any "digest" in email form it piles up and sits unread in my inbox (well, in a subfolder, but still clearly visible until I "mark as read" without reading it). Maybe sometimes it's because it's just too long and hardly anyone manages to post enough interesting links (for me, on a regular basis) that I find the time to click through them. I also don't really follow blogs that primarily post links anymore. TLDR: Complaining because I'm a weird person, I guess.

Quite the hypocrite, been doing this myself for years, with a readership that borders on a dozen :P ( http://f5n.org/stack/ ) but I've never sent out emails and don't plan to.
You certainly can get away from Google on Android. Install a version without Google Play Services. There's lots of software available on F-Droid or the Amazon appstore.

WhatsApp provides an APK download so you don't need the play store to get it: https://www.whatsapp.com/android/
Magna charta universitatum: the Bologna declaration
The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli Review – A Worthy Heir to Stephen Hawking
Depends on the use-case. For fixed-line buses in urban areas, their range requirements could be quite low, especially if high-speed charging is available at the terminal.
> Well, to start, the rest of the world outside the Silicon Valley bubble (including other "startup" hubs) call new companies "small businesses".

I haven't found that to be true in NYC, Boston, Atlanta or Kansas City, where startups are called startups. That being said, with the exception of maybe Kansas City, I consider all of these places east coast tech centers heavily influenced by the largest American tech center, Silicon Valley.
Europol Shuts Down World's Largest DDoS-For-Hire Service
The Australian Bureau of Statistics Tracked People by Their Mobile Device Data
There is no "insurance company" in Britain or Denmark, the two countries I've been/am eligible for state healthcare as a resident.

I've never seen any paperwork in either country regarding billing or other costs, and that's as an adult.
This whole discussion has been around the use of pumped hydro plants to store the output of other sources during times of low demand.
> America's respect for individual liberty and the rule of law has eroded over the years, but it is still considerably stronger than what's found in China.

individual liberty such as those mass shootings protected by the constitution?

if you do believe there is real democracy in your country, maybe you can talk to your democratically elected local representatives and make some _real changes_ in that aspect first? talk is cheap, show me your democracy.
I think you should generally start by putting everything into Component state, and only move stuff to the store if you find yourself needing to do a lot of prop-drilling.

Time travel is nice, but it is not worth putting everything into your Redux store.
Thank you for calling the CCS crowd out on their magical thinking.

The amount of CO2 we can pump underground to form carbonates with basalt rock is a drop in the bucket. Unless we find a catalyst that allows us to economically turn tons of CO2 into an inert (and maybe useful) solid or liquid, this is all going nowhere.

No reason to despair, or to stop working on solutions. But today's CCS tech, and the many variations on it, will not solve our problems.

At the moment, our best bet is improved natural sequestration. There is massive potential in better agricultural methods (cf. silvopasture, perennial crops, Upland rice, microbial farming), better land management, re-establishing grasslands in Siberia (cf. Pleistocene Park), farming in the ocean (cf. marine permaculture, upwelling restoration), etc.
I don't agree with GP that fiat currencies are part of the waste - but I think it is obvious that an enormous amount of economic activity goes into asset bubbles, even open and generally acknowledged ones, like the housing market - or, in the most extreme case, bitcoin. I wouldn't be surprised if asset bubbles accounted for the majority of investment, even.

This ultimately causes a massive waste of time and resources - in the case of the housing market, it's resulted in young people paying far more of their income in rent - and consequently not spending it on more interesting things, like starting families or businesses.
The Related Articles carousel at the bottom is responsible for a lot of that. In at least one of the tiles, it's backing an 82x45 thumbnail with a 2800x1556 PNG. The PNG is 6 MB, which works out to over 1.5 KB per pixel. Annotated screenshot at https://twitter.com/callahad/status/989119555711782917

What's worse, it's clear the CMS knows that the image is going to be displayed as a small thumbnail: the markup uses the picture tag and srcset attribute to provide alternative images, indicating that they'll be around 120 or 240 pixels wide, depending on device DPI.

...and yet, the actual file it serves is the same, full-resolution PNG in all cases.

This is a problem that the CMS should be solving.
Implementing Elm Toasts
Not dub, more rhythmic ambient. You can watch them as they twist the knobs too...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FMYxmKmwWE&list=PLRIqx9nMN9...
To me, it violates the principle of email. It's a static thing that cannot be edited, excepted deleted by the recipient.

This new "remotely deletable" thing must be essentially a link to a Google controlled page in the form of an email.
Are you saying that Fedora gets no security updates for a year after release? That seems not true, as far as some googling will show. The fixes may be unsupported by a company, but they're still fixes.
I don't get why you ask this question (also no offense intended). Either some random person posts interesting content on the web and I'm happy to enjoy it.. or not. I don't see them selling this really hard or trying to persuade anyone that this is the definitive list to read. I kind of get the angle of "why would I give you my email address?" - but even then it's up to you to trade it for a perceived benefit of useful content.
>In this hypothetical decentralized future internet, discoverability would be the responsibility of individual readers,

Older readers may remember this as 'surfing the web' and it works just fine. I often click through to load up the page of an interesting RSS post (usually even). And it's there on the blogroll (read: webring) or the like that I find new sites.

>Publishers have complete control over what goes in their RSS feed,

And they don't over their web pages? At least on RSS I'm not getting embedded JS ads with tracking and analytics.
NoSQL Database Company ScyllaDB Raises $10M Series C Round
Fair point.

I should have been more clear, woops. I was referring to the "Try the beta" feature showing up in the gear/cog menu.
The situation is already problematic for agriculture. Further decreasing population density in rural settings just makes that worse (e.g. instead of going to the grocery store 10 miles away that happily supports a population of 5,000 people, you instead get to drive 2 hours to Costco in the nearest city to get enough groceries to make the trip worthwhile)
Traditionally, Oracle make their software available to anyone with a development license, meaning you are not allowed to use it in production for commercial use. This isn't so unusual, Red Hat's JBoss can be freely downloaded, but you need to click accept on a license agreement.

What this means is that there is nothing to stop you from using the software for commercial purposes, but you need to be prepared for a visit from Oracle's lawyers.
Signed hashes with blockchain time stamping could be a solution to that. A standard format for content and publishing content (whether a blogpost or a tweet), then based on that block of text you provide a digital signature linked to your identity. The signature is published on the blockchain, though, this is optional.

The author will then be unable to refute (or able to) the authorship of the relevant text.
I know a spelling corrector is not the same thing as a spelling checker, but this is too good an opportunity to pass to promote Martha Snow's hilarious poem 'Spell Chequer':

Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.

Eye strike a quay and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.

As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
It's rare lea ever wrong.

Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
It's letter perfect awl the weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.
http://merproject.org/ https://sailfishos.org/
I just looked at the famous left-pad for the fastest way o implementing a pad function in JS.

I asked a friend that does web dev and it is apparently pretty idiomatic JS. Pretty appalling. I finally understood why people claimed it was "hard to get right".
DeepMimic: Example-Guided Deep Learning of Physics-Based Character Skills
ML Yearning. Book draft. 19 chapters. Andrew Ng [pdf]
I’m a big fan of native UI, but I doubt this particular claim. The web stack is almost certainly more performance than GTK, for example.
Book draft by Andrew Ng. First 19 chapters.

Like much of Ng's work, this is focused on getting practical results (rather than bleeding edge latest research).
That seems like a non-problem. You can easily prevent it by having only one Gmail tab open at a time.
really they should replace the OP link with this.
You may want to put some of that stuff on IPFS, it's a good medium for snapshots. Just a thought.
I like the animation, who made it?
The two-pizza rule and the secret of Amazon's success
WhatsApp raises minimum age in Europe to 16 ahead of data law change
Depends for what. Transportation is more efficient.
Foursquare lib migration to Scala 2.12, open since one year, we can't upgrade to 2.12 because of that dependency,

https://github.com/foursquare/fsqio/issues/37

They don't upgrade the open source version because their internal version depends on that open source version and they don't can't upgrade internally to 2.12.

They can't upgrade because of several dependencies of their own, the last one Finagle.

All of those although "cross compiles are no problem" as the default answer from the Scala development team on these issues.
It is easier than ever to brute force generate a readable Tor address. Even with my 2010 graphics card I generated superkuhbitj6tul.onion (for my superkuh.com and superkuh.bit (namecoin) domains) in about 30 minutes. With todays graphics cards you can go much further than that number of characters.

But yeah, there's still the trailing sequence and companies that don't understand how simple that is.
Ask HN: What to do if someone posts something illegal to a SaaS you run?
There is all this talk about starting a Facebook competitor by a particular high profile angel investor and others. But what about content moderation on these sites?

What do you do if someone posts something illegal (say abuse images) to your site?

What about if someone threatens violence?

My instinct would be to hide (but keep) the content, immediately preserve any logs, then call the FBI.

But what if someone makes a threat or posts something illegal and you don't catch it because your content filters are not as advanced as Facebook and YouTube? Heck, Facebook and Youtube miss things all the time.

Fake news?

What are your liabilities as a site operator?

It seems to me that aside from the obvious problems of needing critical mass to take advantage of the network effect and the privacy and security requirements there are a lot of hidden liabilities for running such a site.
Yeah, although a life long vegetarian I've done a small amount of work with systems for butchers. Personally, I agree with others in this thread that eating pig is really no different than dog, cat etc. looking at things objectively. Being a soppy old Buddhist I try hard not to hurt any living creature.
I see where you are coming from, but what is the point of creating Fedora Server releases and non-LTS Ubuntu Server releases? A minority use them sure but still..
I prefer the Android experience, but switched back to iOS / iPhone a couple years back precisely because I did ask myself how much Apple’s better-but-not-robustly-verifiable privacy posture was. I decided that, over the life of a phone, that was worth at least $500 and the associated lesser UX.

I don’t know that a smartphone has to cost $650, but I don’t think most US corporations will sign up to deliver a $150 smartphone that doesn’t mine your privacy.
It is unavoidable, you must learn some basic theory. A gentle introduction is found in this book: "Make: Electronics: Learning Through Discovery, 2nd Edition" by Charles Platt
Get rid of your unused medications
Ongoing discussion - posted 19 hours ago and still high up on the front page:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16914698
He messed that up to, she was far more mobile when being able to walk herself somewhere.
Instagram Data Policy
Nice features.

That being said the “do more without leaving the inbox” seems like workarounds to the fact that Gmail lacks a 3 pane interface.

A 3 pane interface makes much of the deeper features Gmail is adding on message hover redundant. One could argue that in a 3 pane interface you need to click the message you are interested in to get access to advanced actions but in Gmail you don’t. And while this is true, I’d say the need to hover over the message actually makes it harder. The hover needs to be maintained while in the 3 pane interface once you click you don’t need to maintain your mouse position. And you have far more context, since the entire email is displayed while still showing you all your other messages and not yanking you out of the inbox.
Forgive my shallow understanding of block chain, but wouldn't that make the archive immutable? Surely there are times where the Wayback Machine needs to delete snapshots, in cases where there's copyright infringement or other illegal activity.
Union membership rates are highest among workers aged 45-64. It may be a self-fulfilling prophecy to say that unions are for the older generation, but I think there would be either non-participation or real resistance from the younger generations of programmers, if only for the perception people have about them.
How a study of genetics may transform education
There was quite a good thread about self learning electronics recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16775744
Jugnoo adopts a unique take on ride-hailing to help fill Singapore’s Uber void
Here is the link to the SymSpell Github repository: https://github.com/wolfgarbe/SymSpell

An here a benchmark between Norvig's spelling corrector, BK-tree and SymSpell: https://towardsdatascience.com/symspell-vs-bk-tree-100x-fast...
In the U.S, there are people who serve decades for much less crimes than murder :(
You now have to be at least 16 to use WhatsApp in Europe
The Chinese example you mention is more akin to Chelsea Manning and we all know how that worked out.