skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is interesting is the Touhoku earthquake and tsunami and the resulting Fukushima nuclear disaster.

Which one is the best known? In the west, I'd say Fukushima. And yet, the nuclear disaster caused zero direct fatalities. The consequences, the evacuation in particular, killed maybe a few hundreds. That's definitely not insignificant, but to think that it overshadowed an earthquake and tsunami that killed more than 15000...
well, i mean, my opinion is that FanDuel is in fact a gambling company, but unalligned businesses do acquisitions all the time

I mean an e-commerce site literally bought a brick and mortar grocery store because it had the money
"Adding the hour" doesn't make it have "two time components" -- it makes it have no time component.

The joule is a unit of ENERGY.

The watt is a unit of {WORK,POWER}. Confusingly, the germanic languages use "Work" for the concept ("Arbeit" in DE or "Arbeid" in NL), but in English it is "Power". Power means transfer of ENERGY over TIME. Specifically, the Watt it is defined as one Joule per second.

So Watts are a unit of POWER. And POWER=ENERGY/TIME. Note that this is a divison, not a multiplication!

So what do you get by multiplying a Watt by a unit of time (in this case hours)?

> We're multiplying: WORK * TIME [Watt * Hour]
> Which is: (ENERGY/TIME) * TIME [(Joule/Second) * Hour]
> And the result is.....: just ENERGY

As you can see, the Watt-Hour is a unit of energy, just like the Joule. There is nothing weird about it.

Hope that could clear things up -- best greetings from the Netherlands!
The Boss Who Banned Phones, and What Came Next
So what? I pay my own power bill.

I am using the old design, because the new is crap.
This is a security move to prevent more documents getting leaked. They're under fire for the ageism layoffs, which were partially verified by leaked docs, and so they probably got paranoid.

Not that they shouldn't take this measure regardless. But there's a very specific reason it's happening now.
The only difference between the two in my mind is that the output from a transpiler is likely going to have a ton of bloat, require additional transforming, and be a much larger amount of code than the sum of the inputs. Whereas something like the Closure Compiler actually optimizes and eliminates dead code. They are the same thing though from an ideological standpoint though.
Good one. Hyphenated.
The Problem Isn’t Media Coverage of Semi-Autonomous Car Crashes
Why? It’s a clever hack.

They did it because they can.
Why Are the NBA’s Best Players Getting Better Younger? YouTube
Javascript runs everywhere where there is a browser.

Rust runs everywhere where there is a c compiler, which is funnily enough the sample places that C/C++ run.
Keep us posted.
But this looks good. I think it is important for tech people to know what is the level out there.
Correct. And you can use different languages not just JS.
I advise you check out the Discord for Godot before you decide for your next game. Great community full of all types of rich (in creativity) game developers.
Surest Way to Face Marijuana Charges in New York: Be Black or Hispanic
Thanks for the input. Reminds me a little of Xamarin. Sounds really appealing but in the end you are often better off going native.
Reddit's Digg moment!
I was for me too but when I found a link in duckduckgo it was fine let me in first click.
I am not a core committer for twofactorauth.org (yet! I hope to become one!), so I cannot say whether they will accept a PR like that. However, there is an open issue discussing this topic that is worth reading over [1].

2FA Notifier has a bit of an easier job since we don't have to render anything or make it searchable (as of today). I would happily review any PRs along these lines! The data is currently hard coded in a Typescript file, which makes it really easy to update [2].

I plan to document criteria for contributing data to 2FA Notifier like this, but just haven't had the time. One entry per PR would be ideal if you are motivated to contribute!

[1] https://github.com/2factorauth/twofactorauth/issues/1025

[2] https://github.com/conorgil/2fa-notifier/blob/master/src/typ...
Dude I hate to break it to you, but if Apple has a copy the data aren’t yours.
I don't think Amazon is cooking the books, investors think that Amazon has a better more sustainable business and that Apple is just one misfire away on the next iPhone from imploding. Most of Apples money either comes from the iPhone or services based on iPhone sells.

I'm not saying I necessarily agree with this assessment.
I’d like to hear an argument for why #1 might be dishonest. There is no definition of “registered Democrat” except for “someone who is registered as a Democrat.” I’m pretty sure you don’t have to sign anything claiming to believe in certain principles. I’m struggling to think of any way this could be considered dishonest.
Building more mass transit takes time. I can't tell you when automated vehicles will actually work. I think many people are overly optimistic about AVs. And naive about the risks they pose.

But I do think they will eventually work and will profoundly change everything.

What we should do is implement demand-based tolls for highway use and allow the marketplace to fill in the gap. We can get an efficient road system NOW. We don't need to invest more in command and control. We need a functioning marketplace. And that means dynamic pricing.

Seriously, such a system is in use in Singapore right now. And they have far less gridlock and more vehicle sharing. And they are switching to demand pricing for taxis too.

https://www.todayonline.com/singapore/authorities-approve-su...

With the rise of electric vehicles, we are going to have to change how pay for roads. We should implement a system that also helps us manage demand and that keeps everybody moving.

The existing way of doing things is so bad, it's shocking that people continue to put up with it. It literally stops working twice a day in many places. That's completely unnecessary.
Traista app co-founder interview with ABC
There is almost no solution to regulatory capture - more gov to solve it does not work in practice, particularly because after these commissions are founded are idealistic principles, the public stops paying attention and often doesn't have the breadth of knowledge to understand how regulations could be used to prevent healthy competition. The way it unfolds, turns out, is very predictable. It limits the tools/services that could otherwise be offered and often keeps progress in that industry frozen in time almost, the existing companies frozen in place too.
They got lucky and secured a line of credit right before the bust.
You just blew my mind with this comment. I'm a statistics undergrad student and I really need to up my math knowledge. Where is this fact from? Functional analysis?
In Soviet Russia, "Once people not in you anymore, danger love you."
>Here is a good biography if you are interested: https://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Knew-Infinity-Ramanujan/dp/14....

Thanks, will check it.
Wait, but if those hypothetically competitive startups can only compete because they can trample my privacy, why the heck do I want them?

GDPR compliance and "trampling your privacy" are not remotely related. GDPR is massive overkill and unnecessarily burdensome.

I’d gladly see dozens of startups burn if it meant broad privacy protection were enacted.

EU startups will burn - not dozens though, hundreds or thousands of them - and even more will never get the funding to start because no one wants to invest in a business that can be killed instantly by massive fines at the whim of the government. US startups will thrive because they are not subject to GDPR if they don't target EU customers, even if there is some incidental EU traffic to their sites. I don't have to protect your information GDPR style on my US site, even if you are from Germany, as long as I'm not actively trying to get people from the EU to my site. But most sites outside the EU will just block EU traffic anyway (which is what we decided to do). So enjoy your new, smaller Internet with companies that will "trample your privacy" anyway because you have no competitors to go to for their services. Yes, you will be informed about what they're doing in vague terms, and yes you will have given them "informed consent"....but is it really consent if you have to give it because there are no alternatives?
Or

"Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a God" -Jean Rostand (and Megadeth :))
Apple invented and brought to market a revolutionary new product at the right time (3G mobile internet), and their products are obviously high quality that can't be matched by others due to extremely high barriers of entry.

It's completely different to retail, which historically has low margins and has to compete with Walmart.
EDIT: Doh! It appears I missed what blutfink was trying to say and that their changing of quantities from energy to power was intentional. Sorry for the confusion.
Thanks for the positive feedback! There are 2 main articles in the 2FA series left to write (Push 2FA and U2F/WebAuthN), but there are a ton of other posts I have bouncing around in my head. Join the email list if you're interested in getting updates!

I'll definitely give your post a read too!

Have you found it effective publishing on Medium vs your own blog? I've been considering cross posting my articles for additional exposure. Curious to hear your thoughts.
Well I could have told you reddit was a waste of energy.
It doesn’t make sense for everyone to focus primarily on the political issue they deem to be the most important, for the same reason that it doesn’t make sense for everyone to choose the career they deem to be the most important. Competitive advantage applies to both of these arenas, and it is perfectly rational and prudent to focus on political issues that you do not believe to be the most important issues facing society, if you have reason to believe that your efforts can make more of a difference in some other political issue.
Dropbox is for whatever I want to put in it. Including code! Just because I keep my project folders inside of Dropbox doesn't mean i'm not using git.
OSX/macOS has already been doing this for me for quite some time. I always try to frame my screenshots to look fairly "presentable." E.g.: https://i.imgur.com/rozu1Do.png

Edit: I figure my comment probably comes off a bit negative. I think this is a cool service and I would likely use it if there were an API available. Props to coming up with a neat little app to develop and bring to the public...simple ideas like this are hard to come by and stick to.
> net neutrality... [is] a largely invented issue between those groups of corporations

We've been discussing the concept of Net Neutrality for more than a decade; the 2006 Title I reclassification was the trigger that threw the concept into question. I remember debates on long-since-defunct websites (remember Digg?) about the importance of educating friends, family, and elected officials about the importance of protecting the concept in some way. (This I would later learn is called political organizing.)

There is legitimate debate to be had about how to best preserve NN, but framing it as a made up issue that corporations are inventing for political expediency is a serious mischaracterization.

This is HN after all, I'm sure many others can back me up here.
Is it horribly irrational to simply assume that the philanthropic gestures of the very wealthy are just targeted to achieve their own personal utility maximization? I think that it is normal to just assume self interest even in the case of philanthropy and this of course limits the type of philanthropy to that which has over-unity personal cost benefit ratio.
I suppose you're right at that: by trying to dig deeper to understand it, I confused myself and stopped using what is the generally accepted standard... I guess I should indeed have used kWh.
Or Banqiao dam, with a death toll of 171,000.
Wells Fargo took a mediocre but functional site and made a slow and useless site
Group funded by Koch and telecoms geo-targets adds to representatives
I think they are trying to discourage accidental use of/the urge to use the USB ports.
Between...

* feeling completely overrun with sensationalized politics;

* the new design feeling sluggish and painful even on my maxed out late-2016 MBP;

* the general community feeling more hostile and downvote-heavy than ever before;

* and the content being increasingly image-, video-, and meme-focused...

reddit has really lost a lot of its magic and appeal to me. I do still use it, but I find it almost intolerable if I'm not logged in with my very carefully curated set of subreddit subscriptions.

I don't really know what the solution is. I don't think reddit is dying, but I do think it's becoming something different, and there increasingly feels like there's space for something more like the old reddit to coexist. HN is a considerably higher quality site IMHO, but also considerably more focused and with much stronger moderation.
Worked at a financial institution ~10yrs ago, they pushed out a group policy change to not allow USB ports for storage for security reasons while I was there.
Then they should not carry guns where they do not have a valid permit.
> Not a shill - just sharing what I know from companies where I've worked that used salesforce in one way or another.

Right, and as I've told others, you either don't know what Salesforce DMP is or you don't know what a DMP is. To say Salesforce's only offering is the CRM aspect of their product is just wrong.
I suspect very few people are truly single issue voters. There’s a difference between saying “you should only care about issue X” and saying “I will never vote for someone who doesn’t share my position on issue X.” For example, I doubt many people would vote for someone who supports net neutrality but also includes universal forced child labor in their platform.
"they argued about whether it’s a big enough site to include"

Wow. That sounds ridiculous. But if you try and track that site ...

From https://twofactorauth.org/
"Made with tea by Josh Davis..."
Then you follow this "Josh Davis" link to https://joshldavis.com/

... and you find this:

"
Splootysplotty: Open Source Alternative to Lewis Carroll’s Jabberwocky"

"
'Twas haplex and kuffle problem.
Projects Dalo and Jotts voluck.
It's not folazy as Lablem,
But merely fosts toontruck.
"

...interesting.
This is awesome. I've had a todo list item to make SSL work on my site for a while. Today I find out that it magically does work...
Actually, as a sysadmin, I sympathize with you, since I consider that kind of situation to be a sign of, essentially, bad system administration. It also sounds like it might be at a larger company.

Personally, I've always considered it a significant part of my job to make developers' jobs easier, especially with something like deployments and dependencies.

As such, I disagree that we've brought our own "obsolesence" on ourselves, but I do agree that those of use who have perhaps forgotten that ours is a service profession have hastened its demise.
What probably gathered the most attention was that the woman by the window was being sucked out but other passengers helped her by pulling her. I don't know if it was she who died. It wasn't mentioned in the article.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16860902

EDIT: This makes me think that part of what makes news newsworthy is describing something in a way that provokes the readers to put themselves in the story. In this case it's terrifying to consider being in the shoes of that woman. Also, per GuB-42's comment, I think on average people fear nuclear fallout more than an earthquake or a tsunami, considering that most of us have experience with none of those scenarios.
The trick to getting on the front page of Hacker News is to submit an article about Hacker News, isn't it?
Canada sued over years of alleged experimentation on indigenous people
I deleted my Reddit account which kept the old design on it. Now when I occasionally browse Reddit as a non-user, it looks like an awful implementation of material design with tons of wasted space. For example, I see about 1.5 cards per page on my 13" laptop. Who designed this? It is horrid and nearly unusable. Not that I'll be using Reddit that much anymore, but it's like they deprecated the desktop version for mobile-everywhere. There's a reason the form factors are different!
I met a high-level executive at Ericsson who told me that he had met with Tim Armstrong (CEO of AOL) could make $5 billion more a year if he had access to location data with <50m accuracy.
For just a brief moment in time, recently, I thought Twitter had figured things out. They were at least making (roughly) the right noises about being developer friendly and acknowledging the importance of their developer ecosystem. Now, I see that they are just as fucking clueless as ever.

If there was ever a company that needed a manic Steve Ballmer jumping around on stage while screaming "Developers, developers, developers!!!!", then Twitter is that company.
Are Amazon's prices really that much lower than Walmart's? I shop at Amazon for the convenience and selection, I rarely do a price comparison. In other words is price really thier competitive advantage?

On the other hand, I don't think AWS is the low cost leader for equivalent services. I use AWS because of the breadth of services.
Like not screwing its users over?
Some more suspicious elliptic curves no doubt.
No, mining gold is not cheap. And if by "traditional money system" you mean fiat then I must argue that it is not comparable. Comparing bitcoin to fiat is like comparing gold to paper.
Really excellent video on how headline statistics, such as "median household income" are often misleading and hide the real story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXI_ADnp22c

Edit: these stats are often used to push a political agenda, citing "lack of growth for the middle class," but when you dig into the stats, the story is often the opposite of that claimed by the politician, etc.
Yes, unless you did a journal flush. Default journal flush interval is 1 second because of hard drives, but on a good SSD it can be turned up to around 10 ms and still maintain those numbers.
That's funny, because the people who clamor on and on, whinging about the people who want to carry guns are even more inclined to keep them from the ex-convicts.
I'm not so sure. Reading John Carmack's story (and others) it seems that Steve Jobs was able to convince people to enjoy the abuse and remember it with revery. That is a special kind of talent, but as others have mentioned it seems to attract and inspire the worst kind of corporate scum.

The places where it doesn't seem like an abusive relationship it most certainly seems like the way a feudal tyrant would be behave.
If you're interested in more examples of worldly clergymen check out Thomas Wolsey in the novel "Wolf Hall", Thomas a Becket in the movie "Becket" (1964), and of course Cardinal Richelieu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinal_Richelieu
Agreed. More energy from less labor is desirable, all else being equal. This Bloomberg article, like most articles about solar/coal jobs, neglects to note that American coal generation is declining and solar is rapidly growing. In the solar numbers you are seeing huge numbers of temporary construction jobs. For coal all the temporary construction jobs are in the past.

Considering jobs per megawatt hour over the full life cycle of generating systems, utility scale solar PV generation is more efficient (produces fewer jobs) than legacy coal generation. Residential rooftop solar is less efficient (produces more jobs) than coal generation, per MWh. That also goes unmentioned in most reporting on "solar jobs."
Bitbashers all.
Too late for us but hopefully it will make obtaining a home easier for our children!
You seem determined to read way more into my comments than I actually wrote, so I’ll leave you to it.
Japan's most valuable startup aims to teach factory robots to think
Internet is a utility now though and only the FCC can make network / internet a utility / common carrier.

ISPs want it at the FTC for that reason, so it isn't seen as a utility, it is.

Internet is as required as radio, phone, tv, water, electricity etc, it makes more sense under Title II and 80%+ of people support that. [1]

> Americans embrace a Title II vision of internet service. A strong majority (88 percent, 48 percent strongly) agree that “when I buy internet service, I am paying to transmit information between my computer and the websites I visit, free from interference.” This finding demonstrates that the public views internet access as a Title II telecommunications service, similar to phone service. Americans recognize the vital role the internet plays, with 83 percent agreeing that the “internet is essential infrastructure, like roads and bridges.”

[1] https://www.scribd.com/document/353285485/Freedman-Consultin...
Designing in Ethics
Real Money and Real Opportunity: The Impact of the Cryptocurrency Gender Gap
The key is subscribing to subreddits that match your interests. /r/all is like the sun: it can brighten your day, but if you stare at it you might just go blind.

Also, if you find The Next Reddit, let me know so I can build a new AskOuija there. :P
I mean, early PCC didn't have data flow analysis, or eliminate dead code, and was known for head scratching levels of stuff like spilling registers on the stack that didn't need to be spilled. Was the c compiler of the 1980s a transpiler?
For some reason they're treating them like competition.

Hopefully they'll actually become competition and push users (the engaged ones who fed twitter to its current state and are dissatisfied now) to use Mastodon.
Everyone's dodging the point of the post (versus the exact numbers and terminology). As I said on reddit as well:

> The issue is that the redesign uses more power across millions of devices, and that has an impact.

> I might have gotten the exact number wrong, but the exact number doesn't matter that much. It's about it being a significant difference.
How do you define that in a way that isn't a tautology?
The more titillating version would be to crawl Backpage or similar successor service for phone numbers of escorts and correlate that with known phone numbers of public figures such as politicians to determine when both were in the same place at the same time. Then publish client lists, with links back to original escort ads for extra sensarionalism.
Side-question: what guarantees do I have that the data I get from these companies are complete? What recourse do I have if the data turn out to be incomplete?
Most of your criticisms are solved by unsubscribing from those bad subreddits like politics, funny, and all the picture/meme ones.
Don't make pages like this.

Just go after existing ICOs. Arrest people, prosecute people, go after people.

If it's China or whatever, collaborate with China. Chinese citizens are scammed as much as US ones.

Just arrest all the ICO scammers. Arrest the ERC token pumpers, arrest the exchanges.
Can you point to an example of a Pascal that did that? That sounds really cool. And do you think that an assembler is a compiler?
While I don't know of any that have done this, an ICO could register their offering with the SEC, i.e. go public with all that entails, or operate within the exemptions from registration. I think their whole goal includes circumventing that stuff so as to lie better, which speaks to the attitudes and shadiness involved. The rules are indeed too onerous, but not only is the historical reason they came into existence still applicable, it's applicable to exactly this kind of scam.
OpenAI are nobody? Square are nobody? Apple are nobody? Interesting...

https://ghost.org/customers/
Do you happen to know if Apple phones are any better with regards to privacy?
Licensing (for very good reason) plus extreme decentralization.
Do you REALLY think they engineered it intentionally slow?
‘Elastic compute’ (i.e. EC2) goes back to 2006.