skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To avoid the paywall: https://outline.com/tRbqhU
I completely agree. There's something wrong with that port. With a machine that can run The Witcher 3 on high settings (on Windows), Witcher 2's port for Linux barely gets to 30fps on medium-low settings.
I recently began using WikiData for a large project and have to say that it's surprisingly great.
Humanity is important but humanity is not currently being threatened. If humanity were actually being threatened I would support the eradication of any species threatening it.
I'd expect Chrome to provide some settings at least to not mark local IPs as not secure
The trouble with pumped storage is that it's usually only economical to do where you have suitable geography which can be economically connected to the grid. It's by no means useless, but other storage mechanisms are needed.
The technology that's being deployed right now for this is high-voltage DC:

https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2018/07/09/eia-examines-hvdc-for...

It's an infrastructure investment that would pay dividends, but requires getting through a quagmire of politics.
In a lot of airports he police are at a podium right behind security watching anyways.
All is not lost, the story of Gravity Payments is an unfolding example and experiment of a company owner, Dan Price, taking positive actions for employees including large wage increases. https://gravitypayments.com/thegravityof70k/

Dan took a thought and turned it into a real experiment. I believe the results are very positive in terms of profits, much higher wages for workers, higher customer retention, and deservedly good PR. https://www.forbes.com/sites/petergeorgescu/2018/01/24/what-...
This is nothing to do with the packaging system or the ecosystem, the author decided to dive into the file format specifically. They even posted comments from the rpm source that echo the confusion and disbelief reflected in the article. Is the tone the author took the problem you have with it? Otherwise I don’t get why you are so against someone trying to learn how a file format works and documenting the experience.
> "he advocates mass extinction of human beings"

Far from it, this is not even remotely a possibility. Mosquitoes are not threatening humanity with extinction in any conceivable way. As I stated elsewhere in this thread yesterday, if humanity were actually threatened by mosquitoes, I would support their eradication.
Diplomacy gets you promoted. Discipline and focus make you better at interviewing when you shop around. Aggression rarely interacts with earning potential in a positive way.
Interesting. It's similar to how Stack Overflow's reputation system incentivizes quality questions and answers, except that in DIRT you use tokens, and tokens cost money (correct me if I'm wrong).

Unsolicited startup idea: build a more accurate Stack Overflow with DIRT.
Knowing my life, that could well happen.
I think you're right, see [0].

Furthermore E9 is not "JP (HL)" but rather "JP HL". If I remember correctly a few timings or instruction sizes are off as well.

[0]: http://www.devrs.com/gb/files/opcodes.html
The last game before Artifact other than some F2P stuff that they farmed out to places like Nexon (and The Lab, which was a pack-in tech demo) was Dota 2, which hit beta in 2011. Seven years is a large gap for a game company.
I feel you. I had been a Mac evangelist for almost two decades. That stopped a couple years ago. They don’t make a computer I want to buy/would recommend.
> which increases the costs of their pollution and incentivizes them to reduce it

Or, they pass the cost to the very consumers that sold them the credits.
Maybe we'll just take the gigabytes per day bit out of the title so it doesn't trigger people.
At 3% loss per 1000 km (625 miles) HVDC is already good enough I'd say.
> If you live in Ohio heating in winter is a problem, solar isn't going to keep you warm on a cold night.

(a) In any realistic scenarios where a grid goes mostly-solar, you'd expect that it would have adequate storage.

(b) Storage heaters are a thing (and far more economical than batteries).

(c) Modern "passive houses" and similar standards require surprisingly small energy input to heat, even when it's very cold outside. For whatever reason these mostly haven't been adopted in the US, but are becoming common in parts of Europe.
I've only visited a couple times but I thought if it wasn't for the brutal winters, it might be the best city in the US for me.
>Hawaiian is primarily used as an ethnonym, so saying the Aloha shirt is a 'Hawaiian Shirt' is implying the shirt as part of native Hawaiian culture.

I'm not sure people outside of Hawaii mistakenly link the "Hawaiian shirt" to _native_ Hawaiian culture. (The "native" modifier is key here for clear discussion.)

Instead, "Hawaiian shirt" is more innocently used as "a shirt common in the geographical place of Hawaii". If you really tried to get outsiders to picture a _native_ Hawaiian culture, they might imagine shirtless Polynesian people like these images.[1] Those people are not wearing the touristy floral printed shirts that are sold as "Hawaiian shirts".

>The Hawaiian culture has had its fair share of erasure and suppression. To make the distinction is an attempt to honor and remember the unique identity of native Hawaiians.

I'm still confused why the label "Hawaiian shirt" is erasing _native_ Hawaiian culture.

If Europeans choose to label what USA citizens call "football" as "American football", they do not imply that everybody links these images[2] to _native_ American culture. No matter how many times Europeans repeat the phrase "American football", these images of native Americans[3] will always be a separate and preserved concept in their minds.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=polynesian+people&source=lnm...

[2] https://www.google.com/search?q=nfl+football&source=lnms&tbm...

[3] https://www.google.com/search?q=native+americans&source=lnms...
It's easy to ignore the destruction of the environment if all you care about is optimizing for the human race at the expense of all other species.
Introducing Perceptive Automata: Human Intuition for Self-Driving Cars
Show HN: Solving Rush Hour, the 6x6 Sliding Block Puzzle
>Neither of them are much of a hassle to sign up for.

When I signed up for the IRS's website I had to verify my mailing address by receiving a letter in the mail. It's not a huge hassle but it delayed my account creation by about a week, and someone could argue (fairly, imo) that this would create a large enough barrier-to-entry to dissuade people from leaving their opinions.
As someone who has done a lot of data processing in journalism, I've found the engineering issues aren't usually about scale, but involve the harder problems around data cleaning/wrangling/updating. Particularly interoperability with opaque government systems, and transformation/delivery to a variety of users, including ones with a high variation in technical skill (i.e. journalists), and an extremely picky tolerance for public-facing errors in the finished product.

I started ProPublica's Dollars for Docs [0], and the initial project involved <1M rows. Gathering the data involved writing scrapers for more than a dozen independent sources (i.e. drug companies) using whatever format they felt like publishing (HTML, PDF, Flash applet). This data had to be extracted and collated without error for the public-facing website, as mistakenly listing a doctor had a very high chance of legal action. Hardest part by far was distributing the data and coordinating the research among reporters and interns internally, and also with about 10 different newsrooms. I had to work with outside investigative journalists who, when emailed a CSV text file, thought I had attached a broken Excel file.

Today, the D4D has millions of records, and the government now its own website [1] for the official dissemination of the standardized data. I have a few shell scripts that can download the official raw data -- about ~30GB of text when unzipped -- and import it into a SQLite DB in about 20 minutes. The data for the first D4D investigation probably could've fit in a single Google Sheet, but it still took months to properly wrangle. But the computational bottleneck wasn't the size of data.

One of other tricky issues is that data management isn't easy in a newsroom. Devops is not only not a traditional priority, but anyone working with data has to do it fairly fast, and they have to move on almost immediately to another project/domain when done. There's not a lot of incentive or resources to get past a collection of hacky scripts, so it's really cool (to several-years-ago me) to see a guide about how to get things started in a more proper, maintainable way.

[0] https://projects.propublica.org/docdollars/

[1] https://www.cms.gov/openpayments/

edit: for a more technical detailed example of newsroom data issues, check out Adrian Holovaty's (creator of Django) 3-part essay, "Sane Data Updates Are Harder than You Think", which details the ETL process for Chicago crime data:

https://source.opennews.org/articles/sane-data-updates-are-h...

Here's a great write-up by Jeremy Merrill, who helped overhaul the D4D project after I left. Unlike me, Jeremy was a proper engineer:

https://www.propublica.org/nerds/heart-of-nerd-darkness-why-...
> A debugger is still unnecessary for daily debugging.

I think this serves nice as a historical record of how the state of the art was 40 years ago.

Today, we have IDEs with integrated debuggers (not to mention Emacs and other editors usually integrate decently with gdb, lldb, pdb, etc.

Using a debugger doesn't have to mean leaving your code and starting a different tool and different flow.

If you'd ask any of my colleagues what they'd do if there was a new policy saying use of debuggers were no longer permitted on a daily basis, the answer would more likely than not include the word "riot".

In a huge, complex code-base created by a diverse team of varied skill and competences, you can't assume all code is good or self-explanatory.

When you get confused about what happens where and why, the debugger is probably going to be your best friend.
Kylie Jenner is set to become the youngest self-made billionaire ever
We try to never make funding decisions based on what's currently hot. We invest in founders who we think are excellent and who are building for long term outcomes.

In this case, we've known Saurabh for years (this is the second time we funded him) and I've been talking to him about Synthetic Minds for close to a year. If you believe, as he and I do, that the story on crytpo has barely started, then what he is building will have a huge impact on the future state of the world.

That's a bet we'll take whenever we can.
Recently, the federal government has been internally promoting https://login.gov as an single sign-on system for all government services to the public.

I don't know how good it is at preventing fake accounts, but in my experience, it does get the basics right, with no max password length or character restrictions, and 2-factor authentication through phone calls or texts.
It's been used this way in the English language since the mid 17th century.
Most people outside of Australia recognize that the Australian shark culls are dumb emotional reactions to a non-problem. Shark culls are an international embarrassment for Australia.
A competent programmer wouldn’t need a third party library to pad a string even in ASM, let alone an Internet connection. And everyone knows it. So enlighten us all, rockstar, why do you?
“Women only workshop”  Google, despite anti-discrimination policy
If you continue to use HN for ideological and national battle, we are going to have to ban you.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I think this is an interesting problem to solve.

The FCC, and other government agencies that require input from Citizens, need to know the comments they are getting are from actual citizens aka taxpayer id, aka social security #.

As a Citizen I'd want to submit comments with some superficial guarantee of anonymity. EG the bureaucrats can't attach my comments to my name, only my comments to a valid US Citizen. (1)

As a mechanism for verification there should be a preliminary "two-factor" registration system via postal mail to verified citizen addresses. And a secondary "two-factor" to execute comments.

Will this cut down on the discourse? Dramatically.

Will it improve the integrity of the comments? Absolutely.

Will the politicians still ignore the desires of its constituents vs special interests? No question.

This has been a paid ad by the People For Campaign Finance Reform.

(1) Of course the NSA is watching everything anyways, and probably reading our minds with lazer brain topography rays, but we'll leave that concern out for now.
I have only two problems with Chicago:

1. Winter

2. It's in Illinois. Which will take a century to dig itself out of a century of being the most corrupt state government in the US.
Solar is fusion, right?
In general having a good national ID or at least national single-sign on solution might be the answer. Edit: It could take advantage of the IRS and social security verification paths (I believe they require a SSN and verification of a previous year’s tax return values).

There would still be some fraud, just as social security and the IRS both suffer from identity theft and fraud today, but the barrier to entry might be higher and in theory having a unified system would allow citizens to manage their identity and safety more easily.

Considering the FCC is having to ask for permission just to add a captcha I doubt our government is capable of anything like this right now though.
>Journals and conferences simply cannot serve as more than the weakest of filters.

I can't help but think: if they aren't going to filter for rigor and quality, at least they can filter for style, clarity and communication ability. If we're going to basically start treating Real Journals as one tier above Arxiv, then I want those review processes to help make sure that papers are actually readable.
I think they are A/Bing different headlines.
Not just "open source technology", battle-tested tried-and-true technologies. Articles like these should remind us that we don't need to keep rebuilding tools to solve the same set of problems -- sometimes, all it takes is some familiarity with what exists
There's also the book "Why, A Guide to Finding and Using Causes" by Samantha Kleinberg
http://www.skleinberg.org/why/
Hear hear! It's a good solution for this domain using reliable, free tools. And other folks without a lot of compute resources or experience setting up Spark clusters or whatever can easily adapt their approach. Hats off.
The only genocide being proposed in this thread is the mass extermination of mosquitoes.
Seems a bit unfair to single out land owners. One would think even non-landowers should have claim to the air.
That's reverse osmosis. In a scenario where energy is very cheap (even if only for part of the day) there are other processes which require less maintenance, but more energy.
I work in a big office (no windows) on the opposite side our site and it's glorious.

Co-workers think it's weird but they are office workers and sales so talking all day is 80% of their job.
If you continue to post uncivil comments to HN, we're going to have to ban you. Would you please re-read the rules and use this site as intended?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
“Women only workshop” @ Google, despite anti-discrimination policy [flagged?]
Please don't do this kind of flamewar on HN. They're all the same and all off topic here. Ditto for https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17502054.

You lowered the discussion significantly by taking it in an inflammatory direction, yielding flamey responses, which you then fed. I don't think you were trolling on purpose, but it has much the same effect. We're trying to avoid that, please don't post that way here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Very little, generally. The pumps on a water-based radiator system are typically tiny.
From Google's anti-discrimination policy [0]:

>All participants of Google events must abide by the following policy:

>1. Be excellent to each other. We want the event to be an excellent experience for everyone regardless of gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disabilities, neurodiversity, physical appearance, body size, ethnicity, nationality, race, age, religion, or other protected category. Treat everyone with respect. Participate while acknowledging that everyone deserves to be here -- and each of us has the right to enjoy our experience without fear of harassment, discrimination, or condescension, whether blatant or via micro-aggressions. Jokes shouldn’t demean others. Consider what you are saying and how it would feel if it were said to or about you.

>2. Speak up if you see or hear something. Harassment is not tolerated, and you are empowered to politely engage when you or others are disrespected. The person making you feel uncomfortable may not be aware of what they are doing, and politely bringing their behavior to their attention is encouraged. If a participant engages in harassing or uncomfortable behavior, the event organizers may take any action they deem appropriate, including warning or expelling the offender from the event with no refund. If you are being harassed or feel uncomfortable, notice that someone else is being harassed, or have any other concerns, please contact a member of the event staff immediately.

[0] https://www.google.com/events/policy/anti-harassmentpolicy.h...
Crazy that Twitter still sells ads and soooooo many of the accounts are bots. They have an obvious interest in inflating the total numbers.

It's a super, super simple problem. If they really cared, they'd eliminate bots entirely. Not that hard.
High voltage direct current lines can already cover vast distances. Siemens has started supplying equipment for a Chinese HVDC project that will transmit 12 gigawatts over 3300 kilometers:

https://www.siemens.com/press/pool/de/pressemitteilungen/201...

That's a long enough line to stretch between California and East Coast states.

Getting rights-of-way for big interstate transmission projects is harder than actually building the projects after those rights are secured. Superconducting cables can carry more power per cross section than HVDC lines, but they're a lot more expensive and immature. Nobody has yet found a project that would justify full-scale superconducting lines over more conventional high voltage lines built with ordinary resistive conductors.
Chinese Exclusion Act
I tried it out now, there is a csv import/export function.
ASN.1 and XML are easy to work with using the right existing tools, but that doesn't mean someone can't post their thoughts about them being frustrating formats.

OP made it clear what they were focusing on. If a passerby mistakes it for a complaint about using RPM as a sysadmin, it's their own problem.
The histogram for Charlotte is asymmetrical... what's up with that? One-way streets? (The same is true for some other cities in the follow-up also.) The article doesn't say.
should have used fuboTV
> Diplomacy gets you promoted

That's an interesting viewpoint, usually coming from people who believe that their world is governed by fairness. I'm not sure that's reflected in reality.
My prediction: the mac mini will be smaller.
Gruber has been preparing the fanboys for that ( https://daringfireball.net/linked/2018/06/14/snellintosh )
Philly would actually be #8 on that list if all non-US cities were removed. But still.
If only we could do long transmission from one half of the earth and vice versa...
This is also amplified by tech companies in "non-tech" areas. I know I make less than I should, but my options are very limited unless I want to add a long (and extremely dangerous) commute. Moving is more expensive than I can afford right now.

And when I say extremely dangerous, I mean the highway I'd have to take to the larger cities with more jobs is consistently in the top five most dangerous roads in the US, and has been #1 a few times. I can really only hope wouldn't end up in the hospital (with a massive bill) or dead before I earn enough to move. I just kinda have to stick it out unless someone wants to hand me a fairly sizeable signing bonus. I can always negotiate, but it seems like it would foolish to rely on that perk being there.

Your job listing example describes me pretty well, that's what I found striking. At least I do enjoy my job for the most part.
The cold keeps bug size small, we don't have snakes or deadly spiders, and the change of seasons invigorates the mind.
Exactly.

instead they should use the money/time/effort to do some accountability!

start by warning everyone that was incompetent enough to use blatantly false data at face value.

then, use the fact it was trivial to abuse the system and hope the malicious actores were not sofisticated, use that to try to trace back bad intentions and try to mount a case with a prosecutor.

those two things might not be the most efficient, but it will be required with the new system too, so better start with it.
You'd be completely wrong. They have access to a lot of wood up there, the space to store that wood, and the time to dry it completely. The actual woodworking itself takes a small fraction of the time, and the overall cost of a wood ladder built this way is under $1000.

In contrast, a high-heat-tolerant resin is expensive. The amount of such resin needed for a table-sized ladder would cost in the hundreds; for a 50 foot ladder, the resin alone would cost in the thousands--and that does not include the cost of other materials, or the cost of actually making, test, or shipping the ladder.
One weird thought I had the other day: high voltage DC transmission lines are getting more popular. I wonder if it would be economical for a high voltage DC line to form a loop around the entire planet, so that the load can follow the sun through a complete cycle.
Hate to say it, but that's exactly what Trump wants (you to not come to the States) :/
False equivalence. A similar argument could be made of nuclear power (which needs to run at/near 100% output), or supercritical coal (similar operating constraint to nuclear). Do we need to add batteries to those as well to make an apples-apples comparison? (Incidentally, much of the pumped hydro in the US was built to integrate nuclear power).

Unless you're trying to power the grid with a single power plant (like on a small island), argument made above doesn't hold. The grid is a network of generators (and loads) with different operating characteristics.
Also, I believe they have to be pre-heated in the morning with natural gas diminishing the carbon advantage. Too bad, they really do look impressive.
Yes, I am aware. But, again, the money is lacking in part because there is no will to raise taxes.
Internal combustion engines are generally not used in power plants. Modern thermal plants use either gas or steam turbines. The best thermal plants currently have efficiencies approaching 65%, and there are theoretical limits; there's not too much more blood to be squeezed from that stone.
All great points. And I agree with you on most everything.

I care about the major complicated projects succeeding, e.g., 0x, Golem, Augur, Aragon, to name a few. They can go the DAO route, or I can do my part in helping. Help me get in touch with more projects if you're connected.

Open sourcing right off the bat will have the opposite effect. If it works at scale, we will be pitting the attackers against the developers. I would rather get this tool in the hands of developers first. I welcome other people developing the same :) - better yet: I've already developed a version, come help me make it useful for the community.
What systems are in place to prevent a malicious actor who is well funded from spreading disinformation and/or discrediting factual data?
I honestly didn't know Make did all that. I thought it was just a build script thing for complex software. This was enlightening.
Can somehow help me understand the advantages of Make over a bash script? Isn’t bash superior in almost every way?