skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In America we have freedom of movement. So I think a city banning certain types of cars is wrong if it's legal on the federal level, so I do very much care about this sort of topic.

Electric you have to plan where to charge instead of just fueling up anywhere. Plus liquid pours faster than electric, and fast charging isn't healthy for batteries according to some articles I read. Suppose to be more for emergencies. Not every hotel or camping spot has EV chargers. Same for restaurants, tourist attractions, and other places you'd naturally stop.

Orlando to Los Angeles is over 2,500 miles.

Then RV people can go off the grid for weeks at a time, just visiting town to dump tanks, fill up water and fuel. Quartzite is a popular destination for snowbirds.

Sure a lot of people who go off the grid has solar for like powering their lights and electronics, but not sure if the storage and solar is there yet to also worry about the engine itself and not just the house batteries. Especially since you still need to run the generator for AC.

I think electric still needs more development. I feel like mandating it is limiting people's freedom of movement... Maybe the government of California would rather keep it's residents from moving to Texas and Florida which is happening according to statistics. People want to be able to afford housing and cheaper goods.

I guess if it does become a mandate, you could just tote around a bunch of fuel containers and a standalone generator to charge your electric engine up if it ever did come to that... I think solar is cool but even then you don't get enough sun everyday or something acts up, so fuel for backup is always good to have too.

Then Lithium ion batteries are more efficient than other batteries, but fire is a concern. Especially how cars can heat up like a oven.

Personally I'm more open to a hybrid than 100% electric. I know they are coming out with a Jeep Wrangler hybrid, along with a diesel model too which sounds interesting. Electric for city driving or fuel for highway and off road driving sounds awesome. Best of both worlds. Clean for city driving or when wanting to go on a long distance trip no need to worry about range.
Kurzgesagt goes through bacterophages in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI3tsmFsrOg

I think this is the case mentioned by Kurzgesagt in the video, although he doesn't use names, so I can't be sure. Super cool, anyways!
For how long? My conjecture is that they will re-start "easing" as soon as some index drops by 10%. And this new easing will exceed in scale all prior "easings" combined. Just a pure speculation :).
is this a sarcastic post or not

they link to the investor's advisory...
This is great! I've wasted so much time in the past doing this manually in Sketch.

We're planning to release some major features for EnvKey[1] over the next few weeks, and so we'll be putting a lot of new screenshots up on the marketing site. I look forward to giving it a run through at that point and hopefully saving lots of time. I'm happy to give feedback on the process. Congrats on making something useful!

1 - https://www.envkey.com
Holy shit Safari is a smooth 60fps with around 5% cpu load. The differences are really shocking.
That assumes use by a malicious government, but what was described above was illegal use by private entities.

I'm pretty sure that in Germany, some of the described activities could be punished with prison time (and they certainly should).
This is the bookmarklet I've been using for the same purpose:

javascript:window.location=window.location.href.replace(/\?([^#]*)/,function(_,s){s=s.split('&').filter(function(v){return(!/^utm_/.test(v))}).join('&');return(s?'?'+s:'')});
I am on the one hand happy to hear about this, but I couldn't help but laugh at the way it was reported on NPR. They said Democrats see this as an issue that can bring voters to the polls. I immediately thought of how few people even know what the heck net neutrality is (about 1 in 4 [0]). Either NPR is making stuff up or the Democrats are seriously in need of some new advice.

[0]:https://americanactionnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02...
Exactly, "years without turning a profit" is very different than "years burning through rounds of investor cash without hope of ever turning a profit".
Eventually it might come down to entropy
Mostly because every single transaction would be annoying and I would end up ignoring the notifications. I have >$100 notifications on some cards, but forgot to add them to others. And honestly it happens so rarely, I review my statements often, and the bank reimburses me without issue when it does. So I don't really worry about it.
This treatment has always been popular / common in the (former) Soviet Union. Here is an article from 2014 on it: https://gizmodo.com/soviet-doctors-cured-infections-with-vir...

Also interesting is that medicine was never a particularly well paying job in the Soviet Union. At best it would be comparable to a civil engineer today; very much respected, but certainly not earning what a software engineer (or US doctor) would.
What makes you think they aren't trying to alleviate the problem AND doing what they can to avoid public overreaction? The two aren't mutually exclusive.
Tesla and Uber aren't going anywhere. There's way too much invested for them not to secure another tiny drop in the bucket to keep going. That doesn't necessarily mean it's a good idea ("throwing good money after bad"), but that's the reality of what will happen, especially since it will probably be someone else's money as they dilute.
After 18 months of creating, refining, testing, and integrating, we flipped the switch and released Airbnb Cereal across our brand and product.
Oh I see. Thank you for clarifying.
Musk, Zuckerberg, Bezos, and Ethically Iffy ‘Philanthropy'
> "Monitoring of yore might have been the preserve of operations engineers, but
observability isn’t purely an operational concern"

Yore ?

Observability is much more than logs, traces and metrics. Yet we consider the 3 pillars of observability to be logs, traces and metrics only.
No wonder why the concept of observability tends to be equated with monitoring alone
Interesting plot twist regarding the former Soviet Union:

"D’Herelle was a restless researcher who seems to have felt undervalued despite being awarded jobs in Paris and Vietnam and at Yale. That insecurity made him vulnerable to an offer he received in 1933 to relocate to Tbilisi in Georgia, home territory of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin. With a protégé, Georgi Eliava, d’Herelle co-founded the Eliava Institute of Bacteriophages, Microbiology and Virology. Stalin showered the institute with attention and money because it offered something he badly wanted: a scientific achievement that he could portray as a pure product of communism. Antibiotics became the basis of infectious-disease medicine in the West, but behind the Iron Curtain, phages took their place."

"Eliava was murdered in a political purge in 1937, and d’Herelle died in 1949. Their institute dwindled, but it survived the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the Georgian civil war the following year. When the former USSR opened up to the West, physicians in the United States and Europe learned the Eliava Institute was one of the few places in the world where researchers were still studying and administering phages. That was fortunate timing, because antibiotics in the West were losing their power under the onslaught of antibiotic resistance."

It's interesting to consider how ideology (capitalist vs communist) contributes to different approaches to problem solving. Is there anything about bacteriophages--including their manufacture and use--that actually makes them more "communist"?
I'm starting a chemical manufacturing business, but regulations are putting an undue burden on me by not letting me just dump waste product into the nearest river. Dow Chemical Company didn't have to abide by all these regulations when they were founded in 1897, it's not fair!

Edit: To be clear, I'm not saying anything about the necessity of any regulations. I'm just saying that when evaluating possible future regulations, viewing just in the light of incumbent/newcomer dynamics alone will give you absurd results.
Mysterious rise in banned ozone-destroying chemical alarms scientists
I got an even better deal: I cook my own meals, or eat at even cheaper restaurants. I'm also looking in to joining a community garden and growing some of my own food.

Amazon restaurant deals are not worth it for me, even with their discounts. But I understand that a certain segment of the population doesn't think much of such an expense, and that's who Amazon is targeting.
The parent comment specifically mentioned import tariffs, which are the only type allowed in the US Constitution, and would not be applicable to this case, which is about exports.
That probably won't do much for you in many urban areas in many countries. Municipalities are routinely maintaining data captured from license-plate scanners and some cities now have CCTV networks with facial recognition software. So unless you don't drive and walk around with a new rubber mask on every day you are still subject to the panopticon.

Most businesses these days have some kind of camera system for security, it won't be too long now before someone starts buying these video feeds from say Starbucks, etc. running recognition AI on them, tagging individuals, and selling this aggregated location data, maybe even realtime. At the moment, I don't think this would even violate any privacy laws.
(Edit: diluted the headline slightly, to make it less of a "shocker")
Huh. The reply link appeared.

Anyway, yeah, there's a commented line mentioning that:

/* Note true(1) will return EXIT_FAILURE in the
edge case where writes fail with GNU specific options. */
atexit (close_stdout);

Makes sense. If you:

$ /bin/true --version >& -

it fails because it was not able to write what you asked it to stdout.
A bunch of us eventually got tired of EFNet politics and started a tiny server network of our own that's run for almost .. 16 years now? Running /lusers shows 22 users on the network across 3 servers, with 5 total channels. Overkill, but it's "home" to us.
Protonmail is great.
I think he got the idea from bernie madoff. Probably not going to end well. But, maybe you'll break even with the proceeds from the TV movie and mini-series. Try to get that money first though.
Google/Facebook Workers Are Finding Housing Relief in Seattle (for Now)
Can we not frontpage things that suggest happenings that aren't? As noted in the article itself, the House is not going to vote this way, and this is a largely pointless political drama thing. The headline is technically true, but has no meaningful effect whatsoever.
First, I suppose I'm obligated to say that I'm a huge fan of Wasm (and was a huge fan of pnacl for years before that).

Wasm (like asm.js before it) is target at unmanaged languages. A C++ codebase likely does very well with good performance. That was not what I was talking about. Convincing a game company to write their games in C++ is trivial. Convincing that same game company to write their normal CRUD website in C++ would be incredibly difficult.

Looking at apps, there's still issues. Consider Qt. While it's very possible to write everything in C++, loads of companies jumped straight onto the QML/JS bandwagon because its (generally speaking) much faster to write safe code in JS (also, running the v8 version that Qt requires would be terribly slow compared to the native engine). UI development is hard no matter what and C++ doesn't do it any favors. JS features like closures and dynamic objects make many things easier than static classes functions.

This means we need to look away from C++ to something that is managed and has faster code turnaround times. The best possible languages for this are (IMO) Scheme (or maybe Common Lisp) and SML (or maybe Ocaml or F#). You could also make arguments for something in the vein of Dart or Kotlin.

How do you bring these languages to wasm? If you use a JIT, you run into a rather large payload (4-10mb of code is going to have obvious impacts). In some cases like Ocaml where a native compiler to wasm is in the works, you still have a GC issue (basically, you can make an advanced GC that is slow or a basic GC that is "fast", but with other issues).

The addition of DOM API will solve the GUI issues (and maybe they'll rework them to be more like dart's API). Adding hooks into the builtin GC would reduce payload size down to something closer to unmanaged languages. 10 years after those are added (when outdated browsers can finally be ignored), wasm will finally be ready to replace JS.

Adding those features doesn't seem to be highest priority. Unfortunately, you and I will probably be nearing retirement age before they are generally usable.

As a point of interest, JS code could be getting much smaller and much faster to parse (plus becoming a better compilation target) with the JS binary AST proposal.

https://github.com/binast/ecmascript-binary-ast
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Well, the locationsmart fails completely on my Google fi phone.
Use a drone to fly your primary phone to the location and relay the call to your secondary phone on your person.
Bolder has a great hardware scene with a heap of hardware companies founded in the area. If I were you I'd reach out to SparkFun.com (I sold my company to them) and ask them about the local hardware groups. Most of the Hardware groups are based around the local university.
This is a very hard question actually. Interviews are pretty subjective process. It will be very hard to summarize what are the possible reasons to hire/reject candidates.

Aside from answering the author's question, I would propose the onsite in-person interview should be video recorded, conducted by one interviewer. Then later replaying in the hiring committee or what so ever, and vote for hire/no hire. That could eliminate any discrimination/bias/subjective/personal feedback from interviewer and stop interviewee from being accusing any accidents during the process.
If mouse is epoxied - cut the cable, cut and splice in a male->female cable, connect your device.
Well roads are not built privately. And we're starting to see what happened with the earlier streetcar model, where the one-off revenue from property development is not enough to pay for the infrastructure in perpetuity.

The eminent domain thing is a power of the state, but it's also true that even if you were to privatize railroads today, they could not afford to purchase all the required property for new lines at fair market value. Hence the dependence on the government to front that cost instead.
Days like today? As someone who is often working on machines with no network access, I vastly prefer build and deployment processes that don't need to go download crap.
Analyzing Quantum Programs
I'm more than willing to give up tyrants like Facebook and Equifax for the right to control my own private data.

You’re missing the point. These “tyrants” can fully afford to comply (while paying scores of legal staff to scour the law to find and exploit every possible loophole), but startups can’t. That means no competitors will be able to emerge and challenge them. These companies will still be able to do much of whatever they want simply because consumers won’t have a choice. GDRP consolidates market power in the hands of entrenched competitors that can afford to comply.

Privacy is good, long live disruption!

Privacy is good. Killing the ability for startups to compete is bad.
And a related mnemonic: The number of seconds per day, in modern programming language notation, is 864e2 (That's 8-6-4-2 with an 'e' inserted before the last digit).

I generally prefer to have a SECS_PER_DAY constant, or write (24 * 60 * 60) to make the value clear, but when code golfing, and as a mnemonic, I remember that SECS_PER_DAY=86400=864e2
>have no reason to be concerned about governments ...

Many aren't, but everyone has reason to.

Governments change. Telling your government your religion in 1920s Germany was harmless, in 1940 many would have preferred if the government didn't have their religion on file.

Circumstances change to. In 1920 being a Japanese in the US wasn't special. After Perl Harbor came the internment camps.

And then there's the mundane stuff. You protest a government policy, someone in the government takes issue and tries to put some of these annoying people in jail.

Given that you don't know when you might become an enemy of the state it's always a good idea to keep the power of the state over its citizens in check.
I’ll just have you drop a suitcase of cash in a high foot traffic area with no camera. Much smoother than it sounds, nobody pays attention. You’ll still have to do a few other illegal things in any case though.
Google: https://ai.google/research/pubs/pub43231
QEs been tapering off for a long time (US QE ended in 2014); there's very little reason to believe that it's global final (for now) end will do much to capital markets.
If this is about security of leaking things out, is IBM also ending their open web policy?

Otherwise I fail to see the point, anyone could easily just send anything to anywhere over the net. Don't need a USB.

Therefore, It seems to me this is about unintentional leaks of information, not intentional.
Tu quoque.

See also: "Ayn Rand collected Social Security benefits." (And I abhor her oeuvre and "movement".)
Most people in the crypto community know that the majority of ICOs are illegal securities offerings. And by ‘in the community’ I mean people who run funds and regularly go to industry events with other fund managers, not people subscribed to random crypto subreddits.

People in the industry generally know who is dirty and likely to get indicted.
agree. US defense contractors limited moving electronic media in/out of their facilities back in the 90s, i think.
http://www.weingut-klostermuehle.de/weingut/
From Typology: Type Design from the Victorian Era to the Digital Age by Steven Heller and Louise Fili, page 185:

> They have also developed new faces based on these classical materials, but added those nuances and attributes that they lacked when current. Many of these faces are created for publishing, advertising, and computer clients who desire exclusive, proprietary alphabets. Like the king of France in the seventeenth century, these companies are patrons of an iconoclastic breed of type designer. The New Classicism is about both revival and invention, because there is no sense in remaking type that has existed before without improving upon it.
Raising prices would solve lots of problems for Amazon. They’d lose some market share, reducing the monopoly accusations. Most likely companies are going to face increasing pressure to do something about inequality levels, so maybe a $5 / hour (hopefully more) pay raise for their 28k a year warehouse workers could also be in the store.
If i was still living in the City, i know I would want this.
> Is there anything about bacteriophages--including their manufacture and use--that actually makes them more "communist"?

I guess the bacteriophage RNA "seizes" the host cell's means of production (ribosomes). ;)
They might have completely shut you out with the silent treatment because they think you might sue. So maybe you should.
Speaking of factorials, this post I had written a few years ago may be of interest:

Permutation facts:

https://jugad2.blogspot.in/2016/10/by-vasudev-ram-nicomachus...

It mentions many kinds of factorials and other interesting types of numbers too.
That's like putting up a flyer about the danger of knives in a juvenile detention center, paid for with tax money, under the hopelessly naive banner of "re-educating problem youth".
> IZat location technologies use a network of cloud-based assistance servers that provide industry-leading location performance for any mobile device, on any network, in any environment.

https://www.qualcomm.com/products/izat
>These anti-prime numbers were studied first by Ramanujan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan
Announcing TypeScript 2.9 RC
I've always believed that "genius" is simply mental illness with an audience.

People such as Mozart were known for feeling nervous anxious etc, until they wrote music which was cathartic, which nowadays I'm sure would be diagnosed as some sort of mental illness.
Banquets and Barbecues: Splitting Up the Fractal Matrix Client for Gnome
Since you're in the spotlight now, I want to bring back the discussion on image optimization [1]. Looking at your Features page [2], there are 953KB of images that can be compressed down to 453KB (-47.3%). I genuinely wonder what you can save with better image optimization.

[1] https://twitter.com/JohnONolan/status/941572225890533376
[2] https://ghost.org/features/
[3] https://i.imgur.com/b5OO3Q6.png
I get ~4 calls/day from realtors wanting to list my house. It was so bad last summer that my wife changed her voice mail to start with "If you are Realtor, never call me again...".

At this point I would be suspicious of even a personal letter like you mention above. I really hope technology continues to squeeze realtors out of business. At one point I was indifferent to them, but they have turned my opinion negative.
My first own-content post on HN. Would love some feedback.
> Are cases locked / glued shut? It seems like it would be easy enough to connect a new usb header...

Well sure. I think the idea is to prevent mistakes and people just randomly plugging usb sticks they get from conferences as gifts or when they work from home. People will forget and do that anyway even if it is the rule.

When someone start disassembling the laptop or runs around with a screw driver trying to get the epoxy out of the ports, it would a bit hard to claim it was an accidental mistake. In that case, those people can probably find a way to exfiltrate data or to infect the system without the aid of USB keys.
Time to call your Congressmen. I live in a purple district, and I'm going to make it clear to my Republican representative that:

1) I'm going to vote in November,

2) I will vote for him if he votes to keep the pre-existing title II net neutrality regulations, and against them if he does not, and

3) Net neutrality is even supported by a majority of Republican voters [1], so if he votes against it's clear he's voting against his constituents.

[1] http://www.publicconsultation.org/united-states/overwhelming...
Dawnbench [1] is such an effort (you will need to work out the petaflops yourself from time x performance, but it lists cloud computing cost which probably is more relevant), and MLPerf is an upcoming one [2].

[1] https://dawn.cs.stanford.edu/benchmark/
[2] https://mlperf.org/
In Soviet Russia Netflix Watches You
The Elements of AI – a free online course
Ultimately it’s all pointless political drama. If it does get overturned, then “killing” net neutrality was just pointless political drama. It doesn’t mean it’s not worth paying attention to.
Did people compile the OS from scratch?

...yes. https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/makeworld.html

P.S., make sure you have a spare couple days before running make buildworld on a 150 MHz Pentium.