skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like testing things by replacing pieces of a prototype would be fairly fragile anyways. Is there a reason you couldn't use some form of composition to mock / abstract your dependencies instead?
Until 1940 or so, the United States was relatively friendly to non-car transport--just look at the older sections of most towns and cities.
The issue isn't what google allows/prohibits, its that any new autonomous vehicle company could quickly amass a similar data set to street view and nullify googles 10 plus year investment driving non autonomous cars around to capture street view images.
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I am missing something here. Emacs is a text/programmer's editor (I know you browse the web, read email, talk to eliza, etc...), but where is TLS being used exactly? (BTW, I have been using emacs since at least the early 90's, but never did anything requiring TLS).
LGBTQ game history is fleeting – that’s why curation is necessary
Exactly. That's part of why I don't buy the argument that we have no choice.
Please contact the US Department of Justice and let them know about how the price increase is affecting you in regards to Street View. They seemed to buy into my reasoning that Google has effectively made sure that they won't have any Street View competition by artificially keeping prices low for years. The more people that complain, the sooner the DOJ will probably take action. For European users I recommend complaining to your regulators as well, especially using Street View as your main complaint since there's no real alternatives.
Right now, people are commenting this will enable 3D-printed plastics, but there are mildly expensive (about $1000-$3000) 3D metal printers, and with a bit of metal-working and gun-smithing skill it should be possible to mass manufacture good-enough, metal guns from those files.

So, this lowers a bit the money and skill needed for it, but it's not braindead easy or dirt cheap yet. A decently organized gang will print its own guns in the near future, or paramilitary groups, or insurrectionaries.
Another basic ES6 trick that beginners usually don't know:

handleChange = event => {
this.setState({ [event.currentTarget.name]: event.currentTarget.value })
}

So you can handle 10 inputs with the same handler.
Those who are able to afford to live in affluent areas have high income jobs and can purchase the land surrounding their workplace, enabling non motorized conveyance or transit. The low and middle class, are forced out of the area, however these middle to low income jobs still exist and they need to be accomplished; think how far out a janitor is pushed away from a high income residence area before they can afford a place.
An example of this is San Francisco's suburb expansion with the streetcar's development. As the streetcar line expanded, the lower income folks could afford better residences as opposed to having to live in a walking distance to their job, which drove up costs as individuals competed for residences.

The automobile enabled individuals to find affordable residences and provided middle income and lower income individuals the power to find jobs not within walkable distance of a residence or rail line. The automobile has been a net good for society, especially the low income or middle class.
Havent RTFA but I heard an interview with the CEO where he said he read that the average employee is only productive for 2-3 hours per day. Thats why he decided to give this a try.
How to talk to Facebooks of this world when you are still in the garage?
> I am very wary of telling a depressed person that it's probably just a matter of making the right lifestyle tweaks.

I don't see rednerrus advocating that. But if what they say is true, then psychotherapists need to know that, and plan their therapies accordingly.
In the first place they'd rather you used something other than RSS so they can inject promoted content into it.
Double check me on this, but I'm pretty sure your definition of strong types is wrong; that's static typing.

Python is strongly typed but not staticly. Weak typing is more like 1 == "1" is true. Aka implicit parsing or casting.
My Experience with Nix on OS X (2016)
> in the style of the "lol meme"

This is not reddit.
Scientists Discover How to Stabilize Plasma in Fusion Reactors
SQL is immensely successful.
This makes sense to me. I wonder how much the secret sauce comes into play. For example blowing a good/great engineer is one thing. But worse if they can apply some of the seemingly unique techniques google used to do engineering.

I’m thinking of things like the build system, mono repo & the borg etc
> Print a gun, use it, drop it, GOTO 10

I thought the same thing but you have to get up close for it to be of any use so I don't see it being a popular option as it offers less chance of escape. Though, for the average criminal, they are better suited for stick ups.
The CEO of this company also said that he wished we could move to productivity based pay and that he thought this would be better for women because when they come back to work from having children they work less hours but in his opinion often still contributed the same as someone working full time.
That's why more and more talks are simply bullshit.
My observation is that most upvotes are because of the title, and then a minority of people will read and critique the article in the top-voted comments.

Doesn't sound like a perfect system, but actually does a wonderful job at debunking very appealing-sounding articles.
Oh come on, please don't fall for this. The employer doesn't care who gets the money. He pays a fixed amount, and gets a fixed amount of work from you. Whether part of it goes straight to the insurance or to you first doesn't matter.
The employer or employee part of the fee could be 100% instead. All parties will end up with the same amount of money.
In https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17571572 they reference their "shrink" as a source, which according to my dictionary is a colloquial term for a psychotherapist.
Ask HN: Best organizations to network
I'm looking at changing careers (and possibly countries) from a mathematics teacher (physics undergraduate degree from 2014) to (almost) anything else.

I'm in a small town, however, without much in the way of connections outside that town. What are some of the best possible organizations to join in a bigger city that would allow me to network more? I know of general fraternities, such as the Freemasons, as well as volunteer groups such as Rotary Club and the Lion's Club, etc., but would those actually be effective to join for networking? Especially if I wanted to move and find a job outside of the United States? Any suggestions, basically, on the best ways to find people to network with, for someone who isn't in a big city and can't go to a lot of meetup-like things?
So, so, so many things went completely sideways to erode and disolve MySpace.

There were reasons to hate MySpace, as a lower quality, superficial version of Friendster. With Friendster, there were no style hacks, but you actually could browse a graph of your friends, which no other network has exposed in the UI, before or since. With MySpace's short-lived domination, Friendster was edged out and disappeared.

MySpace, though, once the style hacks appeared became way more fun. Tom was clearly a photo of some model or actor, and a manufactured pseudo-celebrity and not even a real person. But so many completely awesome nobodies were scattered throughout the rest of the site that it quickly didn't matter.

But then came the Iraq invasion and Rupert Murdoch, and you knew it was over.

How that took shape, though, was another matter. With Windows XP and Internet Explorer 6, injection attacks made MySpace's security profile swiss cheese. How appropriate that MySpace was written in Cold Fusion, possibly the only server technology worse than PHP.

2004 began an era of cross site scripting and remote exploitation, before people really knew what that was. MySpace locked down the <script/> tag, but HTML injection meant phishing was rampant. People were getting hack left and right, simply for clicking links, to external sites, or via tracking pixels, and on and on. At some point though, as the pitch of Fox News became unbearable, people abandoned MySpace, with the clear understanding that truly evil people were vacuuming up every click, hover and scroll on that site for subsequent analysis.

Cross Site Request Forgery was rampant and they allowed Flash Object injection, which opened up the entire client side to malicious Flash-based action scripts. This effectively bypassed the <script/> tag restriction via action script, and by embedding a flash object people code decloak lurkers and stalkers, and that was the real nail in the coffin. Obsessing over crushes sometimes exploded into public view, or emerged as insidious rumor and gossip.

We should be happy about the Flash embeds though. MySpace was most people's first exposure to YouTube.

Anyway, looking at the old MySpace page layout, I see something so much more inviting in that basic, spacious box model than any other site. Maybe it's just nostalgia, but it feels right, just by the way it looks.

Why aren't mastodon layouts more like that?
We don't have to build either a car-centric America or a non-car-centric America. We can, if we choose, build an America that has places for people who want cars, and places for people who don't. That was supposed to be a key idea of America--that not everybody has to live the same way.
Many places. Emacs has a built-in web browser, IMAP client, etc. It also has a package manager that can download packages over https.
That's a great idea -- I've submitted it to Overleaf.
I'd second this. To use a fairly bad baseball analogy, PG hits triples most of the time, Aaron has a number of home runs and the rest are doubles.
A Blockchain Analysis of the July 13th Mueller Indictment
Go one step further and add these to you vimrc:

command Tab1 set ts=1 sts=1 sw=1
command Tab2 set ts=2 sts=2 sw=2
command Tab4 set ts=4 sts=4 sw=4
command Tab8 set ts=8 sts=8 sw=8
Guess what, if you go in your garage and make a can with even one baffle inside and a hole in each end big enough for a bullet you’ve built a silencer (however shitty). If you don’t have a class III license you just broke the law. Furthermore, I’m pretty sure 3D printing an impractical but illegal silencer is within the reach of most makers.

Technology is going to continue to make breaking all manner of laws easier for stupid people. I’m not sure what, if anything should be done about this (generally speaking).
Given this super contrived example: https://gist.github.com/sorahn/2b287c2a97a12e318585e84d9a9e8...

If 'baz' was a fat arrow function, you would never be able to test bar in isolation.

for example: Jest is set up so it's super easy to say `jest.spy(Foo.prototype, 'baz').mockReturnValue('whatever')`and test that bar is doing the right thing.
Major props to Mustafa Al-Bassam for his letter to BA. It hits all the points of a classic complaint letter including overall polite tone, citations of applicable law, and asking for a written response within a specific timeframe. IANAL but this looks like a 10 for 10 effort.

Definitely worth favoriting this in case you need to write your own complaint letters in future.
That's actually a fair point, I hadn't considered this angle. Although I suppose it's not a new danger per se, I'm sure people have robbed convenience stores using Airsoft guns and similar.
> This lifestyle can't work for people outside of cities, though.

Exactly. Which means that, if cities are designed sanely, they will be more attractive to people who don't want cars (when I lived in a city during college, I never had a car and never missed having one), and suburbs and rural areas will be more attractive to people who do (as I do now since I like having a detached house and an actual yard).
How Can Blockchain Improve the Food Industry?
Optic and the (much simpler) thing I'm working on have some similarities but I think they're mostly orthogonal.

To directly answer your question, I don't think developers would benefit from it. If it works as intended, normal non-developers will be able to use it to build simple programs themselves. I could see this putting a lot of mid-level developers out of work.

The "ouroboros of compilers" is a side-effect. The simpler programming interface came first. I realized that other languages could be translated into the Joy language. Higher level abstractions are captured in Joy by defining new combinators. Ideally, the system would form a global Gödel machine with an "oracle" consisting of the world's best and brightest mathematician/programmers.
That's a really interesting link; thanks.
The author did a great job of arguing the case that transportation preferences map semi-neatly to red tribe / blue tribe distinctions, but it doesn't convince me that cars cause Americans to be apart.

I'm sure Americans would be closer together if more things were walkable for more people and I don't oppose investments in walkability. However, some people don't want that, some people are thrilled to drive a big vehicle and burn a gallon or three of gas to pick up a case of beer and log of chewing tobacco.

What virtue do we need to inoculate into Joe Sixpack to get him to participate in a the vegetarian version of personal transportation?
In the US it’s so ridiculously easy to obtain a firearm I don’t know why anyone would bother. A home made (3D printed) firearm is just as likely to kill its operator as anyone else.
What happens if/when you have kids. I’ve seen many people biking around Amsterdam with their kids in protective bike high seats. But this is unheard of in many US cities. Minivans are the usual solution. Would you teach them to take public transport or try to live within walking distance of everything?

Obvs doesn’t apply if u don’t plan on it, but curious if anyone has found a solution in US cities.
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> buying stuff for the sake of happiness and joy doesn't bring happiness and joy

FTFY

When I buy stuff because I feel empty inside, sure. When I buy tools to pursue a certain goal, things look a bit different.
There's also Turo, which seems similar to Getaround by your description, as well as hourly rentals through Zipcar. And the established rental players like Hertz and Enterprise have started trying to emulate the smaller startups with flexible locations and hourly billing. And there's always Uber.

My lease is up next year and I can't wait to get rid of my car. I won't be replacing it. My car payment is rather high, but even with just the insurance, city parking/tickets, gas, tolls, and maintenance costs, I'm pretty sure I can Uber/Lyft everywhere I need to go for less money and rent a car on the occasion I really need one.
The growing global threat of radioactive scrap metal (2012)
Ouch. Mac for Qt is definitely the weakest point. Theres some experimental work being done to allow developers to wrap native Mac controls. http://blog.qt.io/blog/2017/02/06/native-look-feel/
You can even legally buy copies of the U.S. Army Improvised Munitions Handbook [1], which includes instructions on creating improvised firearms and other weaponry.

The moral panic about 3d printed weapons is complete nonsense. It's been trivial to make firearms out of hardware store and few practical skills. Back in high school we even made little black powder cannons in the metal shop, raiding fireworks for their powder and fuse and using ball bearings as the shot.

You don't even need steel pipe to make a shotgun, they're low enough pressure that for some types of shot you can even use copper pipe.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Field-Manual-Survival-Evasion-Recover...
To be fair, beginners should stay far away from most of the tooling around React. In-fact a lot of veterans should too. Most people only use stuff like Redux or Immutable out of habit rather than necessity, or as a crutch to constrain themselves away from bad habits that they shouldn't have picked up in the first place.
They kill people with failed ignition switch, tried to cover up, lobby EPA to eliminate fuel economy standards, get a huge bailout from tax payers because insiders stole all the money.

I won't want to work for such a company either.
You are assuming it was by choice (and that the dates on his LinkedIn profile are accurate). I cannot say anything more concrete.
It's on the Internet, so this goes beyond the US. I'm thinking gun-controlled areas or conflict areas.

I'm also thinking how this potentially shuts down for the FBI entrapping wannabe-insurrectionaries by posing as weapons dealers.

Or how non-American gangs will have vast quantities of guns at their disposal, and how that will necessarily change police policy.

And how determined and savvy, but dangerous, individuals will more easily (this is the key thing here: more easily, lower barrier of acquisition) get their hands on guns in gun-controlled areas and go on rampages.

This will make gun control much more difficult.
Probably the same way they get guns.
Am network game developer for over a decade. Stuck in desync. Send packets.
For young children: https://www.khanacademy.org/kids For older children and adults: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/khan-academy/id469863705?mt=...
Very interesting. Used to do something similar for a project I work on. Used geohash based sharding, instead of complex curves like that. Worked great, but with recent advances in ES its no longer needed. They don't seem to mention which version of ES they are on, and would be curious how it has changed over time in their experience.
My only real complaint about the letter is that he assumes the use of the data is under consent lawful basis. While, I can't imagine any other lawful basis that would work, I think he should have explicitly asked, "Under what lawful basis are you sending this data to these parties". Similarly he should have said, "I don't remember being informed that you were using these data processors. Can you send me the statement that I agreed to". Even under contract lawful bases you still have to inform the customer when you send data to a third party, so this is really important.
Linus uses hedging language quite a bit actually, eg. http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1807.0/01744.html
This is something which has always irked me about the "black box" arguments regarding artificial neural nets. Sure, it's hard to interpret exactly "why" an ANN gives the result it gives (other than "it did the maths and that was the result") but people always gloss over the fact that we really don't know much at all about how the human brain generates its results. We just accept individual introspection as ground truth when, as any psychologist will tell you, it's anything but reliable.
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Reading further, this link is a fucking ad for cover.
"a bit"
The Laffer curve is actually based on sound economics though. A reduced tax rate keeps money invested in the market, as well as increasing investment incentives. I don't see the similar underlying logic here. The employee has less resources (hours in the week), and their incentives remain mostly unchanged.

Based on the reported outcomes it seems like it may have tapped into some discretionary effort, but doing that over a short period isn't especially remarkable, and I'd say there are easier and more sustainable ways to achieve that.
In conflict areas, of which I’m familiar, AK47’s are often easier to obtain than fresh produce.
I don't doubt they are ahead, but on the other hand it appears there are about 1.25 fatalities per 100 million miles from human drivers. If you equate a "disengagement" to a human releasing all the controls of a vehicle and covering their eyes in panic, then I think it's reasonable to extrapolate the Waymo figure to about 3300 fatalities per 100 million miles. Which is about 2600 times worse than the human average.

This seems a bit odd, considering the people in other threads about self-driving cars vehemently arguing that we must switch to self-driving cars immediately to save lives.

On the bright side, once Waymo works out the bugs, we should have enough data to say their self-driving cars are probably comparable to humans in about...270 years of no failures (100M/30K/12).
I can’t really help much, but would be interested in such a map.
Americans want to be "apart"! Most people in America see high-density living as a negative. Most want a yard and a garage. The country is huge - you can fit three UKs into the state of Texas alone. We have the space, we have the roads, we like our yards.

I have moved our family into progressively rural environments and will continue to do so until the distance to basic necessities is intolerable. In most rural environments there is no meaningful traffic so people aren't that down on being in their vehicles.
Ask HN: How to remove background noise from a video on MacOS?
I used Quicktime to record a webinar and a few minutes into the webinar there seems to be a weird background noise. Any ideas on how to remove it?

Thanks in advance!
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There's an entire industry in the Khyber Pass region in Afghanistan and Pakistan dedicated to making firearms with nothing more than simple hand tools and scrap steel [1]. Firearms are trivial to produce. It's producing ammunition that's the hard part. Specifically, producing propellant for your bullets.

The panic about 3d printed guns is baseless. Any panic about terrorists being able to use something to commit heinous acts is generally baseless panic. As we've seen, all they need is a car or a knife and they can go on a rampage. The only reason we don't have more terrorist attacks isn't because of increased gun control or aviation security or restricted access to fertiliser. The only reason we don't have more terrorist attacks is because there simply aren't many people in the western world who hate it enough to commit terrorist attacks.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khyber_Pass_copy
I told this story before, but I got a charger with a fake Intertek (an UL competitor) mark. Intertek had an alert on their site that this company just put their mark on a product. I told amazon cs and they refunded my money... but continued to sell the fraudulent product.

This was 2+ years ago and the last thing I will ever buy on amazon that uses electricity.
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Be sure to checkout the cute message in your browser's console :)
I think you’ve been able to do this with toy guns for a while now..
In a city, how do you handle buying a socket wrench to fix something in your house? (It sounds like a MAJOR hassle.)
Observations I've made from training new technical hires
:help 'sts

Number of spaces that a <Tab> counts for while performing editing
operations, like inserting a <Tab> or using <BS>. It "feels" like
<Tab>s are being inserted, while in fact a mix of spaces and <Tab>s is
used. This is useful to keep the 'ts' setting at its standard value
of 8, while being able to edit like it is set to 'sts'. However,
commands like "x" still work on the actual characters.

When 'sts' is zero, this feature is off.

You can also abbreviate expandtab to et.
As others have commented (adding a couple of notes): HTTP and HTTP/2 use TLS for security which is over TCP (reliable transfer requirement). Nothing more, nothing less. Sure layer 3 and below have different considerations (reliability). Layer 4 (say TCP) covers the end to end security. It would be nice if HTTP/2 added something security wise, as was discussed, but the committee was conservative. Thus I am not sold to this argument. The rich functionality of HTTP and multiplexing of HTTP/2 sound appealing (sections 3.1-3.4), if you are building an API. If not I would not rush to that conclusion. Why would I want to add the necessity for streaming if I am doing a over the network video compression and do not care about reliability or want to skip frames for instance?

I guess it is IETFs job to standardize stuff so that is what they do -- for a hammer everything is a nail, right?

P.S. I skimmed it, so perhaps it is worth a read, but nothing caught my eye really.