skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i agree. it is likely this change to use air freight instead of some plausible alternative form of freight is more profitable and more polluting, so i agree it is likely a change in the wrong direction.

i suspect air freight has a relatively minor impact compared to other sources of emissions. e.g. for energy estimates (not emission estimates), the without hot air book estimates that passenger plane flights burn far more energy per capita per year than the energy used to transport "stuff": https://www.withouthotair.com/c18/page_103.shtml

it'd be helpful if there was a global (or pseudo-global) tax on carbon so that climate impact could be priced in and could have greater influence in commercial / economic / government decisions, but alas.
Amazing post! Will add to the article.
They are referring to the zap collar being used on the dogs.
Uber misses no opportunity not to like them.
> You can't lose money on every transaction and make it up in volume, as the old joke says.

You actually can. It's the oldest trick of the industrial age, mass production and economies of scale. A good rule of thumb is that increasing production of a physical good by a factor of 10 will drop the unit cost by half. For non-tangible goods the effect is even more pronounced. The fist copy of Microsoft Windows might cost 1 billion dollars to produce, while every next copy is essentially free.

What this new breed of money loosing company signifies is a shift of business models to the software-eat-world paradigm: high upfront capital investment, zero marginal cost, exceptionally strong consumer lock-in (thus profits) once you break through and dominate the market. There is nothing fundamentally different between Amazon Prime and MoviePass, they are both loss leaders designed to increase foothold in the market, with a view to later use that dominance to dictate the rules. One was built on good economics and well executed, the other is not and will fail, but it's essentially the same business move.
Did you set this up manually? I'm not using Spotify but this sounds rather confusing. Is it at least smart enough to recognize when there's something else playing on your computer and send the skip command to that app instead of your phone if you hit the skip key?
During the years since I use Linux I experienced some of those issues too. But many times when I came in contact with mainstream operating systems like Windows and MacOS I saw similar problems and thought many times: "Good to know that it isn't any better outside of the Linux world"

Two extreme examples:

- A Windows which takes 4 hours to upgrade itself, after it did a forced reboot on the day the bachelor thesis had to be submitted

- A MacOS which brought itself to an unbootable state during a major upgrade

At least with Linux I have complete control over when updates happen (unlike on Windows). That way I can test the functionality of my system before it will be required.
One reasonable practice can be to use multi factor authentication when gaining access to services that you use, MFA will allow you to take advantage of one time passwords coupled with unique passwords managed by a password manager.
Someone linked this elsewhere: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/neat-url/
Your entire program should be wrapped by unsafe{}.
They keep trying to make it more like TV. Seemingly oblivious to the generation using it exclusively because it's not TV.
Then use a dual boot with Windows. It's quite simple to set up.

Linux is the best os for programming imo (especially if you develop software for Linux servers), so why not keep both?
The author appears to be serious.
His desire of being a 'True Kernel Developer' probably led him to google something like "best distribution for Linux Hacker", perhaps the first result was Arch. At some point our "Linux Hacker" probably started to feel confortable running pacman -Syu twice a day to be on the cutting edge.
Thanks for your clarification. MacOS might solve your need for making screenshots look presentable but there are still many situations where it doesn't solve the problem (e.g. only showing a small section of a page instead of the full window, people using Windows/Ubuntu or mobile devices). That's what I am aiming to solve with Screely.

I also want to add many more features to Screely that MacOS can't do such as gradient backgrounds, custom image backgrounds with company logo, tweet this image and much more.
At least the people active in the crypto subreddits know it as well. Caring about it is another thing though.
No, there is one mount just on one side and the engine also has to be prepared for ferrying. There are quite a few planes which can do this, sometimes the engines have a pod put around them, in this case I think the fans are removed to reduce drag.

In all cases, the engine isn't working. Think of it more like putting an engine on your car roof rack.
I'll do you own better: https://crapcoin.solutions/

Found it on here a couple days, maybe weeks back.
OP here. Where I live, it’s legal to broker one transaction per year without any special license. Not sure about the legal situation in New York, though.
If both rotors spin the same direction, what keeps the aircraft body from rotating the other direction? Is there a tail rotor?
Completely OT but I always find it fascinating how liberal differs so much between languages. In my country liberals are the ones actively working against unions and who embrace capitalism.
I saw a programme about this a little while ago. That's why the cockpit and crew area is high, it allows a larger flat load area.
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it seems like people in countries like mine (rich, western) find it very easy to blame the supply side of the equation rather than the demand side of the equation -- e.g. companies are to blame for wrecking the environment because they ship stuff in planes to save money / save time. but the general public are also to blame as the source of demand.

what might make a huge positive difference for the environment would be rolling out policies to help reduce population growth (or the absolute population count) of people such as myself with relatively affluent polluting lifestyles, but we might have to wait until there is mass suffering right here right now due to environment reasons across many countries with political power before there is substantial change.
When i worked with physical machines, they had embedded management systems, which were on a physically separate network to the machines' main interfaces, ran a little embedded SSH server, and would (amongst other things) give you a console on the machine.

Simpler machines should still have serial consoles, and you can get those on the network via a terminal concentrator or a serial-to-ethernet adaptor.

I would love it if Ansible could control machines over an interface like that, rather than via SSH. Then you wouldn't even need to run SSH on machines which don't need it, which is most of them.
So what are they actually doing with all this ML, or is it just an effort to keep people with those skills from working for competition?
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I'm not sure on the last point, a lot of architectures, especially niche ones, aren't supported by Rust at all while there are plenty of C compilers for them going around.

(have fun trying to get Rust working on 8bit controllers or Itanium/ia64)
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So the contract is written in plain text an not even mentions who gets paid what and when.

Is this system a joke? Not a single judge could decide based on this.
If you ever read "Le Têtard", a biography of the French best seller author Jacque Lanzmann, you'll learn some very funny things about the 1930 French country side.

One of the details that sticked with me was that, in his village, there was a lady whose job was to pee on cheeses. She'll go from cheese maker to cheese maker, and do her thing on each piece.

Also a windmill gore accident, bestiality with a cow, rape by a grandma and mugging by the police.

But the cheese pee is still my favorite.
AGI is the hypothesis that someday the number viable human cons with well-defined metrics will dwarf the ones without.
Talking with a friend recently about how "wild" our pet dogs are. In the local area, dogs get out at night and form packs that hunt calves and lambs and simply kill them and leave the bodies.

There is a good business in hunting feral cats and dogs that were pets and have been left to fend for themselves in the wild because they were no longer wanted.
Euler is the famous example: one of the greatest mathematicians of all time, who by accounts had an otherwise ordinary life and was a respectable family man.
I'm working on tools which enable people to make video games.
I wouldn't call an IMAX setup a 'subpar experience'
Twitter delays shutdown of legacy APIs as it launches a replacement
>eliding

Incidentally, I learned this word from Rust docs (lifetime elision). I'd never seen it in any other context.
You tell others to make a list.

Enough people make such a list, change happens.
How's that related to HN?
Don't forget to price in, account for, factor in, and otherwise adjust the numbers to match externalities, other market irrationalities, sesonalities, etc.

For example, if SF wants to solve housing (providing shelter) by municipally mandated equality between purchasing power of people, this has a certain cost, and this has a certain appeal for some residents. Would they pay more taxes to get council erected units for the less fortunate? Maybe. So these preferences have to be calculated and priced.

Sure, the market would get the most new units online in a given time, which would result in prices falling. But it seems like SF wants an apmost centrally planned solution.
To limit combinatoric explosion. Without combining codepoints, you need a version of each base symbol for each combination of modifier. And while latin scripts usually limit themselves to one diacritic per base[0], other scripts (hebrew or arabic come to mind) can pile up multiple diacritics.

[0] not that that's always the case, the navajo alphabet can have both ogonek and acute on the same latin base character
> Republicans are reprehensible?

Strawman.
Show HN: Lazysodium – Cryptography made effortless
Another interesting paper is "Build Systems à la Carte" https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2018/0... which explains characteristics of some build systems "static vs dynamic dependencies; local vs cloud; deterministic vs non-deterministic build rules; support for early cutoff; self-tracking build systems; and the type of persistent build information. ... We show that we can instantiate our abstractions to describe the essence of a variety of
different real-life build systems, including Make, Shake, Bazel, and Excel, each in a dozen lines of code or so"
Do they even capture things like the C++ headers that your compiler uses? I think that's what he meant. When you compile a C++ file the compiler goes off and reads all kinds of files that are totally unknown to your build system.

Simpler languages like Go don't really have this problem, but they also have sane build systems so I don't know why you'd need CMake or whatever.
Very few cases can't be covered by either WSL or a VM, and having dual-booted for years I can tell you that after a few days you get into the habit of only booting the more convenient OS most of the time. It's twice the maintenance and 5-15 minutes of context switching every time you need to do something else.
Lazysodium is a new Java and android library based on Libsodium that aims to make cryptography more accessible to more developers.

We've made it easier to use modern and secure crypto so now there's no excuse NOT to have some security in your Java and Android apps.

Hope you enjoy! Happy to answer any questions you may have.

PS: The Android version is available here: https://github.com/terl/lazysodium-android
GA is not benign at all, since it allows Google to track you across websites. It is an abomination that needs to be stamped out radically. You can use piwik or something else that you can run from your own domain.
> So, back to the 75 Cent Dollar Store. Are you in?

Yes, of course. (And thinking: «only as a customer»).
With cloud-based Software, it´s easier to work with a remote team or share things with your customers. I know that in the future everything in business is moving into online storage with a backup somewhere. If your PC is damaged, the data and files are mostly gone forever but with a cloud-based memory, it´s not a problem anymore.
in a community of technologists, you've never heard of 'sudo privileges'? :-)
cool comment, totally worth reading
One would think Uber has enough problems recruiting and retaining talented people, what with "go fast and break things (people)".

Now it's not just casual misogyny and user surveillance. Your work may actually kill people when used as intended.
There are many military versions of the 747. Check out the wiki page.

> 747 CMCA – This "Cruise Missile Carrier Aircraft" variant was considered by the U.S. Air Force during the development of the B-1 Lancer strategic bomber. It would have been equipped with 50 to 100 AGM-86 ALCM cruise missiles on rotary launchers. This plan was abandoned in favor of more conventional strategic bombers.
They're just trying to catch up with Chat... err, [ha, I was going to mention, but I can't even remember the name of the most recent revision of Google IM-thingee]

P.S. Sometimes, people break out the humor for good reason. I mean, really?
That's not the point here. It's an adversary getting two CDNs to loop eachother and launching an attack that way.

If CDN A proxies requests to CDN B and CDN B proxies requests to CDN A then those two will DoS eachother fairly quickly.

There is no attacker inbetween to strip the Via, that would be counterproductive to the attack.

Email has this too; the Received: header. If you manage to get a loop between two MTAs going they will detect it by seeing themselves in the Received: header list.
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I'll second this. Switching from browsing news sites daily to just reading The Economist (in print, not online) has made me feel no less well-informed, if sometimes a few days out of date, but much less stressed about "keeping on top of the news", which is a losing game.
the youtube red announcement also said it was coming to canada "soon". given that they rebranded the whole service quicker than they could manage to expand to Canada, i don't have too much hope for youtube's definition of soon.
It knows which device is currently playing. Anything you do sends it to the currently playing device. You can pull up a list of all connected devices and select which one you want to be playing. It then starts on the new device from where the old one left off.

It works really well. I have my raspberry pi plugged into my amplifier, and play through that. I control it with my phone or laptop, whichever is nearer.
In addition to this, Andy is performing wonders for Guile Scheme.

It is rare to see such lucid communication and such a clean commit history for hard technical development.

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guile.git/log/

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2018-05/msg00...

In a few years, all the cool kids will switch from Graal to Guile for language development.
Even Bill Hicks relied on marketing to advertise his shows.
Edit:

I'll be copy pasta'ing this comment to every top level comment about animal abuse here. Shock collars can be used for abuse. But fuck, they can do so much good.

= = = = =

I'm happy to see you down voted here.

I have had to employ shock collars for foster dogs who were capable of jumping 10 feet fences in the past and these things work a damn charm.

They were the last option available to me after trying every other option. But damn do they work. After a day or two the 'beep' of the shock collar is enough negative reinforcement to stop the dog(s) from retrying the ol' 10 foot pole vault.

And before I let my dog(s) use it I tried it on myself.

The shock it's self was pretty harmless, certainly not comfortable, but the longer I stayed near the perimeter the more often the shocks were deployed. I learnt my lesson quick enough.

Except for one of my foster dogs anyway, he was a 60kg athletic failed pig hunting hybrid mongrol named Loki, looked like a Bull Arab crossed with a Great Dane. I named him Loki because of his tenacity and ingenuity for getting in trouble.

He learnt if he ran up the adjacent wall (attached to the house, that didn't have an invisible fence line) quick enough, he could be mid-flight before the shocks were administered and when momentum is carrying you through the air at 12 feet, over the shock line, the shocks don't do shit. You're already flying. And the shocks stop well before you hit the ground on the other side so you can gracefully land and wonder a few streets to go meet Nani at the local Cafe for free biscuits and pats for an hour. While I rode my bicycle home to 'rescue' him from getting fat.

Alas. Similar to the Cayote. His abuse from prior owners saw him lose the meta-game in the long run. The abuse saw massive changes in behavior between loveable giant to dangerous beast from the smallest changes in environment. Even after 12 months of behavioural monitoring and professional dog therapy from I and his rescue organisation, he was not for long for this world. The level of risk from his occasional aggressive outbursts at times were just too high.

Still one of my favourite dogs. Miss the guy every day.

Anyway. Thanks for reading. And PS, as a last option. Shock collars are great. They save lives.
Saw your comment after my post. Exactly.

And I guess, given the context, two similar comments can be tolerated. ;-)
I also realized this which made me game the whole schooling system. I didn't study and had a poor attendance but still got an award for the being the school's best student. Pretty crazy when I think about it. Suffice to say, my strategy didn't work very well in university.
https error ;(
insecure connection
As mentioned "Also plenty of developers on the Java platform are polyglot.".

I never worked in a company of "Language X developer", rather developers that would use whatever language suited the project. Including mixing multiple languages on the same project if that would be the best approach.

In those 19 years, JavaScript was mostly used to make graphics jump all around the page and form validation, hardly something worthy of high order functions and currying.

Javascript, the language that was largely tolerated until a book called "JavaScript: The Good Parts" came out, in 2008.
They say nothing is sent to the server, and why lie when it's so easy to check if they do or not.
Did not think of that, sounds like a great idea.
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PayPal was one of the few financial innovators to dodge animal control. They were first and they were fast.
Selective quoting, you missed out the part where he said:

"are having a tough time in the wild and they are smart enough to see how we treat dogs".

Its a hypothesis and it doesn't seem unreasonable.
Hold <option> while clickling the window to remove the shadow.

Hold <control> while clicking to skip the desktop and copy it to the clipboard directly.
Alt+PrintScrn on Windows, takes the focused window and no extra shadows.
Two guesses:

- Uber has ambitions to build a Volocopter [1] alternative

- Uber wants to become an US Army contractor (probably to utilize their AI technology for drones or self driving supply trucks/tanks)

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tODIvUmH6cs
What’s important with news headlines is if it makes it feel like it could have been you.
Or NAND flash memory/drives, they chop it up!
Portugal, definitely not part of the list.
Why is this submission worthy?
Apart from the cringey Engrish, that post is basically this:

"How to fix your computor:
1. Click dis
2. CLick dat.
3. Congratz your computor performs $100% better now
4. Click advanced error detail, click OK
5. ???
6. Prfot!1!!
Google operates under the assumption that they're making a "free market": they have a ton of services, some competing directly, and in the end a winner emerges and snuffs everyone else out.

I guess someone should tell them about the paradox of choice, branch dilution and the fact that despite Google being big, they're not an entire market unto themselves.

Google: make 1 big, single, integrated service and when a startup supplants you in your selected market, just buy them for $15 billion.
It's unusual to find someone so far ahead of the pack that somebody who gains an edge by acting unethically can't use it to overtake that person. I think it occasionally happens, but people in the top tiny percentage just aren't that far apart.

If you have an obsession to be number 1, then probably you need that extra edge (no matter how slim). But I think the deeper question is why does anyone need to be number 1? I think the reality is that most "nice guys" just don't care. You can be "successful enough" and ethics don't even enter into it.

<insert big jerk who is massively successful here> will never enjoy the simple pleasures I do -- because they are driven to be a big jerk who is massively successful. (Not necessarily implying that I'm not a big jerk anyway ;-) )
How exactly do they "see how we treat dogs"? I must admit I don't see a "reasonable" hypothesis at all.

> Selective quoting,

Yes - because that statement does not make sense regardless of context, so I didn't quote the rest. It also saves space. I always only quote the part that I respond to, the rest of the context always still is right there in an Internet forum, unless OP deletes the post. If I quoted in a different place, for example I quote someone in my own blog post, copying from another website, then I would have to provide the context.
Lots of things can potentially destroy healthy minds (relationships for example).

According to David Nutts study psylocibin is regarded as one of the least harmful drugs. I have also seen a study showing that use of psychedelics was associated with lower rates of mental health issues later in life.

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....

Sounds to me like it put a crack in your ego rather than a crack in your sanity.
You can only listen on one device at a time so this never hapoens. All devices states are synced and one of them is playing
No, what is expect is stop being dealt as 2nd level country, if we ever get to it.

I never bought the XBox 360, because the store wasn't open for indie developers in Portugal.

But yeah, at least we were on the "we are considering it" list.
P.S. I actually do, very occasionally, write my Congresscritters. I'm pretty careful doing so -- doing so well, I hope -- and I have some evidence of some of my correspondence having been read and paid attention to.

So when I say they will hear about this, I mean, they actually will. Though I'll write it in a fashion that is more appealing/compelling to them.

And regarding some of the history that may not seem to pertain directly to net neutrality? Look, these companies are saying a lot of things as part of their campaign to kill it. And the historical record demonstrates that, with respect to such statements, they are consistently full of shit -- in a self-serving way.

They are not to be believed. Neither the people shilling the talking points they've been handed by the companies and their lobbyists.