skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would argue that all of your examples have failed to be anything even remotely resembling AI, just data crunching to fit most use cases. I don't use GMail but I do regularly use Google image search, Translate, YouTube, Netflix and predictive typing via SwitfKey. And IMHO they all suck horribly (SwiftKey still sucks pretty bad after 8 years of learning from me). Google Translate is getting better and I have recently started using first-pass Google Translate before correcting the mistakes... instead of everything by hand. YT/Netflix Recommendations are always bullshit. I wish there was a way to say "never show me anything like this ever again" because I often feel like 90% of the recommendations make absolutely no sense. Sometimes I think that someone else must be logged into my account clicking on things just to mess with my recommendations. I usually spend a minimum of 30 minutes searching, often giving up out of frustration (and I always have an IMDB tab open to check details because all of the IMDB rating plugins for Firefox stop/ped working). Maybe I'm an edge case living outside the U.S.? Are their algorithms only tuned for English-speaking countries?

The most creative, intelligent and least frustrating "AI" I've ever encountered was in some games, such as Dota2 or many years ago F.E.A.R. They were frustrating but only due to unpredictability, even after hundreds of hours of playtime. YouTube and NetFlix AI after hundreds/thousands of hours invested are also very unpredictable and frustrating, but that's the opposite experience I am looking for in those situations.
>Water in particular will be a problem for foreigners

Water is an immense problem for Indians. Diarrhoea is a major cause of childhood malnutrition, stunting and death. India still desperately needs clean water and adequate sanitation. The most important pledge in Narendra Modi's election campaign was more toilets.

https://www.prb.org/india-sanitation-malnutrition/
What’s safer about it? Doesn’t `strlen' just scan until the null character, then go

nullCharPtr - str

? Is there something unsafe with that?
Keep in mind BASIC was the most accessible language in the 80's. Almost all computers shipped with basic...
It was like today's Javascript.
A Grammar Extension for VS Code
Not enough data to make this conclusion in any actionable way.
I see people here complaining about the author asking for email addresses, and I can't help but think: what a coup GDPR has been for large tech companies.

The author has spent hours creating a useful guide that he is giving away for free in exchange for an email address. He likely hopes to tap into this audience later for a paid product.

Reaching this audience via email is cheap and easy. He can email them as many times as he wants, even if he doesn't want to sell them anything.

But because of GDPR, he can't depend on email so much. He has to rely on other tactics to reach his audience again.

And what are those tactics?

Paid advertising, of course.

No one stands to benefit more from GDPR than Google and Facebook. Everyone here cheering for GDPR needs to think how it placed all the advertising power away from mediums you can control (email) and over to ad companies.

As a consumer, you can unsubscribe and block emails easily. As a creator, you can set up a mail server easily.

You can't do that with ads, at least without relying on outside tech
You can also use the consul k-v store as your source of traefik config and then update the config in consul and it updates in traefik instantly without any restart.
Most interesting part of the article for me:

> and being of considerable utility, they are remarkably undamaged. It seems that sticking chewing gum in things only applies when the vandal feels they wont personally lose out

(assuming this is actually true, and not another in a long local tradition of overly rose-tinted journalistic views of our grim North Sea shithole)
CO2 is only one environmental impact factor. Plastic waste is devastating for our oceans. Reducing plastic usage and CO2 should be twin goals.
Personally, I would worry more about a meteor wiping out humanity than climate change.

There isn't political or social will because those on the extreme ends of both sides are controlling it making it impossible to meet somewhere in the middle. Which is what politics have to do to move anywhere.

Many of us understand very well that the climate is changing and that humans might have something to do with it, we just don't know to what extent.

But even posing such an idea will get you put into the "climate denier" category in a heartbeat and stop all rational discussion.

There are other ways to think about this. Here is one.

Humans have historically been living at the mercy of nature, nature is rather unforgiving and quite harsh.

Over the time we have adjusted to climate change and we always will have to as the climate will always be changing.

I would personally rather be in our current situation and have a fighting chance to improve than being left with the chances I had as a person 200 years ago for even basic natural causes.

The wicked problem isn't that there isn't political will but that we can't both secure the continued prosperity of humanity and at the same time not have an impact on the environment we live.

The way out of our problems is not to stop up but to continue improving technology and energy utilization. A great start would be to get back to nuclear but I am under no illusion that there are many rationally minded people left in the environmental organizations anymore.
Pixel density on the SE is 326 ppi. Better than most photo prints and the same as the iPhone 7 and 8. You need a magnifying glass to see them.
Bioplastic (PLA) is biodegradable in a commercial facility, unlike petroleum-based bottle plastic (PET)
> nobody's found anything really interesting.

You're kidding, right?

This is biased in selection, but I would call Wikileaks releases anything other than uninteresting. http://www.mostdamagingwikileaks.com
Recently bought this puzzle game for my kids. Naturally, I had to write my own solver. My son loves that I wrote a program that can generate new puzzles. I even 3D printed some "traffic cones" that can be placed on the board as immovable obstacles.

This was a fun little side project - hope you like it!
Show HN: arrayOfConfs – Developer conferences in a searchable, sortable list
Awful usability. I expect that when hovering over a section and moving my cursor to the right I would stay within that section, but it always just reverts to home or whatever other section I've clicked.

If hovering over a section doesn't enable access to that section, then don't show the expanded version. Wait for a click event to show it at all.
Why would you assume the book author (if he indeed used Keil C51) would be aware of more dialects and their intricacies? Do you really think that in the early 90s there was a wide-spread rigor in software books? There was no Internet, whatever software one could get was the one that was their "standard", there was very limited knowledge exchange between academia and practitioners etc.
I tried iphone, ipad, android, and windows mobile user agents in my desktop browser. ublock blocked all of the ads.

So I opened it on my actual iphone. adguard blocked all of the ads.
I'd thought that on this day and age we had all learned to use ProxyCommand instead of agent forwarding, precisely because of the security issues brilliantly illustrated at the end of the article.
There's another aspect I'd consider. The internet has allowed us to target who we connect with. Maybe randomness doesn't yield enough interesting connections and people got used to have exchanges online instead of random people.
Have you considered the amount of PII the dating site is likely to have on their average customer? Access to a dating profile is almost as good as Facebook access to perpetrate identity theft.
Waiters Georg is an outlier and should not have been counted.
Someone should read up on Long Term Capital Management.
left brain VS right brain, maybe ? different ways to approach problems, or even regard this or that "problem" interesting ?... it's more or less acknowledged that mastery on any subject comes after 10.000 hours of practice ( or so ) and most people won't dedicate themselves to 20.000 hours to master two completely diverse subjects.
What makes this issue worse is the existence of bullshit impractical laws, such as this.
Freeman Dyson's views classes him as what, then, in your eyes?
I followed the linked article sited in this post - "Face Off: Confronting Bias in Face Recognition AI" which states:

"Fortunately, the matter of algorithmic ethnic bias, or “the coded gaze” as Buolamwini calls it, can be corrected with a lot of cooperative effort and patience while the AI learns. If you think of machine learning in terms of teaching a child, then consider that you cannot reasonably expect a child to recognize something or someone it has never or seldom seen. Similarly, in the case of algorithmic ethnic bias, the system can only be as diverse in its recognition of ethnicities as the catalogue of photos on which it has been trained."

As this is extremely concerning. I had some questions:

Are the training sets for company's selling facial recognition technology considered proprietary and therefore not verifiable as free from bias?

Is it not possible to develop a standard or criteria that a company's training set has sufficient distribution to be free of racial bias? Is this just not possible for some technical reason?
Recent spam campaigns powered by #Necurs uses Internet Query File attachments
Dear colleagues!

It's now possible to filter videos by date.

Enjoy!

– @eduardsi
Because that way people "stamp" their work. There's no excuse, you can't lie to yourself about half done tasks. You made a PR and even approved it.
True, but the underlying question is still interesting: why isn't there a similar TLS-only port for MTA-MTA and we all agree to try to connect there first
There's a good article about Amazon implementing this feature for their mega menu. Blew me away when I first read it, it's very obvious and simple in hindsight.

http://bjk5.com/post/44698559168/breaking-down-amazons-mega-...
Apparently yes, they are. That was the reason I raised the question. Anybody with access to a phone or computer is a potential customer, and we've had IE11s and Safari 10s walk past. If you'd like another example, look at native date pickers. Safari 11 still doesn't have one.
Wireframe, Mockup, Prototype: What Is What?
Indeed!: http://blog.danielwellman.com/2008/10/real-life-tron-on-an-a...
That's all true, couple of years ago it made more sense to actually burn plastic waste, e.g. to use it to make steel than to recycle it. But the problem in India and China is that the plastic is dumped in the rivers and ends up in the food chain where we are all eating it later on. Steaks and glass bottles do no harm to the environment when just thrown away
The ultimate guide to the ggplot histogram
this instruqt thingy is pretty cool, it's actually addictive. I started with the Connect course and I'm not going for Istio:

> Please wait while we setup a Kubernetes cluster with Istio preinstalled. In the meantime, browse through these notes to learn more about the sample application.

damn
I went to one of the Wyndham presentations a couple years back, partially for the free (albeit shitty) breakfast, free tickets to a local attraction (actually somewhat valuable) and to observe the sales pitch. I came away similarly impressed.

They used a lot of tactics like personal vacation stories, highly suspect financial calculations and so forth. But the one I was most impressed by was getting people in the habit of saying "yes!" a lot. They'd ask a bunch of really dumb stuff like "Do you like to go on vacation?!", "Do you like to have FUN?!", "Do you like to SAVE MONEY?!" etc to get people all hyped up. Then they'd ask them if they want a timeshare, and people are primed to say yes. There's some actual psychological studies on that effect. It worked really well.

They also had our credit card info already because we were staying in another Wyndham property, and kept saying that we'd have to sign some form or else they'd charge our card for the tickets. Of course they made it difficult to get that form. You can get it after we tour one of the model units. You can get it after we look at another one. You can have it after we watch this video. Sure, you can have it now, but first let's look at this financial worksheet. Always being super nice to make it hard to be assertive with them. I finally had to basically curse at the sweet young lady to get the form out of them, but they managed to tack on 45 minutes of high pressure sales time over and above the minimum we had to spend.

It's all quite impressive in a "dark patterns" sort of way.
With nginx, you can do dynamic binding in the free version in at least two ways:

1. If you "just" want to map a hostname, to a private IP, you can assign the hostname to a variable, and use the variable in your backend config. This works because Nginx resolves static addresses at start, but resolves names pulled from variables at runtime.

2. If you need to map ports as well, you can use a Lua or Mruby script. E.g. I have a blog post on doing it with mruby here [1], and it's run production sites for a couple of years. This options lets you integrate against pretty much whatever you want.

It's extra hassle, though, of course.

[1] http://hokstadconsulting.com/nginx/mruby-virtualhosts
The environment is more than a single dimension. I'm not going to dispute your stats on individual items here--as far as CO2 goes, maybe you're right. But the oceans and landfills are filling up with non-biodegradable plastic garbage that is weakening ecosystems all over the planet. We need to get our waste pipeline under control at all stages, and plastic packaging is garbage for a long term plan. As evidence I cite every beach in the world. I'll take the spoiled cucumbers and milk; it's wasted energy, it contributes to ecological impact, but ultimately biodegradable.
Firefox 61 – Quantum of Solstice
If you want to attempt building nginx with brotli support, let me save you 15 minutes: Google's original module is more or less abandoned. Look here instead: https://github.com/eustas/ngx_brotli

Another alternative is exploring h2o/caddy as a web server replacement.
We also do the same thing at https://theothermail.com
except you have 100 emails for free
Apparently 465 is only for mail submission, not MTA-MTA -- but of course that still leaves the obvious questions of a) why? b) if it must be a different port, why not make that TLS-only?
You are entering in a relationship with the service or provider. If the email is used for the enumerated purposes only and you agree to it I can't see the problem.
Google Pixelbook Review: The Little Laptop That Could
Disrupting
I do think you are the voice of reason here. In the sense that they had the best intention but maybe not the best execution.
Mountain View head tax on Google, other firms goes to final vote
I'm waiting for NVidia to do away with the MB, CPU and memory.
It's okay for our use case. Honestly, we were just wanting to get a load balancer up and working with consul, and we had grpc services and internal http apps to balance.

I'm not going to lie; it works and does failover correctly, quickly, and plays nice with consul. Not to mention, the name brings back memories...

If I had my way though, we would use HAProxy, but that's just because there is more options, ways to properly route, and more battle-tested.
Quite a long time ago, I went to a big ski show and being younger and more foolish than I am today I filled out a bunch of contest entries. I was positively bombarded with "you've won a free vacation" sorts of calls and mails for the next year or two. All I had to do was listen to some timeshare pitch.

I never actually did but I'm sure it would have been similar. I've met a few people who at least convinced themselves they liked their timeshares but the idea never appealed to me.
Discussed at the location in time of publishing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10323222.
EPIC Seeks Records about White House AI Committee and Transparency
The real reason to ban plastic so strictly in Mumbai is because plastic garbage chokes Mumbai's drainage systems and storm water system. And given the city's population and usage of plastic, the chokes are quite severe during the monsoon (rainy season) when it rains heavily. It is so severe that chokes can lead to extreme flooding and loss of life when it rains heavily and there is an onset of high-tide. The water sometimes has a few hours to leave the land and hence it is critical for the stormwater lines to work efficiently.

Come September this ban will be forgotten again as the monsoon season recedes. While the ban has environment benefits, "they" care little about the "environment"
Pot companies and startups are the next big thing in the market
Ask HN: Recommended Open Source Projects for a CS Junior?
I'm looking to start contributing to some Open Source projects but there are so many that it's daunting to choose one. My interests are compilers and HPC and my preferred languages are C/C++, OCaml, and Fortran. But I'm open to hearing about any projects. Thanks, guys!
Why the gig economy was doomed from the start
UPS drivers are all about timing. They know precisely what they can carry, and what amount of time it will take them to manage the packages, with or without the awesome heavy-duty UPS convertible hand truck.

Partly because they are trained and know their craft - but mostly because they are correctly paid, and so they are almost always long-term workers with learned expertise at driving and delivering.

(As opposed to the Atlantic writer, who did the job for a day, didn't know how to do it correctly, found it difficult, and whined about it. That's not actually telling us much of anything, when you think about it.)
A bit more than $10, but: https://www.shoeboxed.com/
- grim North Sea shithole

Spend some time in other coutries and you'll yearn to return. Trust me.
Announcing MapD 4.0
I feel like this could be an interesting device for a novel. It could tell the stories of all the people involved along the journey from its home to the palace of Frederick II.
I don't think most people enjoy random visitation in North American and Northern Europe. In Holland, they promote neighbor encounters which are scheduled well in advance. Despite them not happening very often, they do seem to work in creating some cohesion.
I remember that in Germany you can buy bags made from corn starch, but they're very thin and very fragile. You need to be really lucky to bring home your shopping bags safely and you definitely cannot reuse them. But you can put them on the compost, which is really cool! If they work on making it a little more robust, bags like that would be my first choice
> A lot of people bemoan the plastic wrapping on cucumbers, but that wrapping doubles the shelf life of the product. It's a net win, because the environmental impact of wasted cucumbers is far greater than the environmental impact of a gram or two of polyethylene wrapping.

But that is endemic to our insane food system. I think plastic wrapped cucumbers aren’t worth having. If you can’t survive without literally destroying the environment, at least let other animals enjoy Earth.
Interesting about getting sufficient power supplies in. 2.5MW is a lot.
I'm a ham and I'm slowly churning through designing my own SDR HF radio. I think this might be the end-all be-all guide for my pursuit!
Slice – Python's negative indexing and extended slice syntax for JavaScript
The question is what you do with the e-mail address. e.g., if the page would say:

1. "we provide this book for free, but collect your e-mail to follow up once in about 1 month time with a relevant offer." ==> this might even work from a "legitimate interest" view, but thats currently not well defined

OR

2. "click here to provide consent for us collecting your email and using it for ..., ..., ..."
I'd recommend giving Firefox another shot. It's leaps and bounds ahead of where it was on mobile more than a year ago.
I'm surprised there is no way to report one of those on the site.
I'm pretty sure that if every bag would cost 10 bucks situation would be quite different.
My friend won a "dive trip" after entering a contest at a dive show.

just sit through a timeshare pitch.

I went with him, because my dad spent some times in car sales and I'm good at not buying things. Plus as his dive certified friend I could go too.

We went to a rented conference room in a hotel for the pitch. It was agony.. High pressure sales (If they have to pressure you to buy, you probably don't want it)

He got the trip voucher, but it ended up being worthless. It was cheaper to book another trip normally because of added fees and such on the free trip. He never took his "free" trip.
You can use the disposable clay chai cups. But I still think that made me sick.
Thing is, you would then get legal wrangling over the category that each specific application should go in. The applicant would obviously want it to go into a category that has a longer validity, and some creative rewording may occur.
Yes, there are some great tips. I still think this style menu is just bad, though. Although certain tweaks can improve the UX, it's still an frustratingly unusable interface for people with certain motor disabilities and even just older users whose mouse/trackpad skills are not great.
Episode 51: A Conversation with Tim O’Reilly
That's not the actual Bloomberg[0] menu. This copy does not seem to implement that feature, which is one of the most important features to have I think.

[0] http://www.bloomberg.com/
Too bad if they got wind of the practice, The Tetris Company LLC would sue any company that did it into a smoldering crater.
The bias will also have biased consequences, like for 1 dark skin criminal you search for you will find more suspects with a much higher probability or score then a light skin person, this would mean more arrests/interrogations.

I would also not blame the math but the implementation aka the coding/modeling of the problem.
It's hardly demonizing without a reason. Sounds almost like a "it's not the guns, it's the bad people" argument, but here plastics will continue to create problems most importantly in the form of microplastics, no matter how you regulate. We continue polluting our waters and the food we eat, and the longer we continue, the more difficult it will be to restore the situation, so we need drastic actions. On top of the obvious (see the related pictures), we have phtalates for example, that we don't know much about.
A couple of years ago my wife and I rented a condo in Hawaii, and ended up going to one of those one morning. Coincidentally, it turned out to be at the same complex we were renting from and the example unit we toured was identical to our own. We walked out when I did the math and found that the time share would have actually cost more than just renting the place.
I don't think CO2 is a wicked problem. The science and the prognosis has been more or less the same for decades.

IPCC:s first assessment report was completed 1990 and the Kyoto agreement is from 1992.
WTF is this "for (x=y; ...)" part?
Untethered Tether: New Developments
I had this same problem with the X-Com series where it's too lucrative to save-scum.

Thankfully it has a hardcore mode you can toggle on where the game autosaves to a single file so you can't save-scum. Which turns out to be the best way to play X-Com and games like it because you can't just rewind time.
Exceptional speakers have 7 behaviours in common
> You're almost by definition not "pwned" if your traffic is seen by someone who is supposed to see it,

Well ... Noone, repeat, Noone is supposed to see my traffic except the site owner. I just don't buy the 'trusted' CDN provider idea. 'treat it appropriately' - I'm past that.
Creating Web Components with Stencil
You don't need an Apple Mac laptop–everything you need is in a Google Chromebook
Ask HN: Is learning data structures and algorithms less important now than ever?