skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually this is the result of a two party system, not some nefarious political conspiracy.

The electoral college is the way we elect presidents for a reason. If we went by population, a huge chunk of the country's vote wouldn't matter and the Democrats would win every election. I'm pretty sure that's exactly the opposite of what the founders of the country envisioned.

If you're not happy about what's going on, get your act together and take back the house and then proceed to do what the Republicans did to Obama after they took back the senate and effectively blocked everything he wanted to do, including a SCOTUS nomination.

You want REAL change? Allow more political parties so that the pendulum doesn't just swing back and forth. There was a time when any president would work with a divided congress and compromise to get stuff done. It would seem those days are long gone and the only way to truly fix the system is to get more than two parties just handing off power back and forth.
I had to search around for the flag button as I so rarely use it. I don’t think these kinds of comments are welcome on HN. Save it for reddit.
I printed a cheat sheet. The first 1-2 weeks are less productive. After that, it’s «life before and after». Would recommend learning plain vim, just to keep yourself from getting confused from what’s vim and what’s intellij.
> Cloudflare is going to have a huge list of internal stuff used by Firefox Nightly users

By Firefox Nightly users who agree to be in the study, yes?
Incorrect. Making weapons widely available is indeed compatible with respect for human life. A human life is worth being defended. One may disagree, but the right to self-defense is a natural, inalienable right.
This is my experience as well. I very rarely find sites that don't work because of pi-hole, other than their advertising links.

I can't actually think of a case where I've had to disable pi-hole because a site seemed to have broken functionality. I book flights on Expedia et al all the time.

Every once in a while I want to do competitive shopping, and disable pi-hole for an hour. It's a revelation now much crud shows up (and pops up) when I do.
"all levels of asbestos exposure studied to date have demonstrated asbestos-related disease ... there is no level of [asbestos] exposure below which clinical effects do not occur"

https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/81-103/pdfs/81-103.pdf
First you yourself start talking about "the last decade", and now one or two centuries isn't long enough.

You also say you think the last decade seemed colder, the reply you got was that 16 of the 17 hottest years since recording began were after 2000. But you ignore that part of the reply.

You are working for the forces that want to stop our mitigation of the problem, you are the enemy.
AP isn't relevant because of W3C, AP is relevant because Mastodon is relatively popular.
Hence the term 'normalization of deviance' [0] (where small problems occur repeatedly and people become habituated to them because nothing really bad ever happens). When the really bad thing happens, then you get the gruesome headlines. Examples the are O-ring burn-through events that preceded the Challenger disaster [1] (7 astronauts, dead), and the 'smoulders' that preceded the Kings Cross underground railway fire [2] (31 people. Dead.)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Vaughan

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Challenger_disas...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%27s_Cross_fire
I will need to check that out, thanks for the tip. But honestly who even thought that was a good idea in the design?
Back in the 70s there was indeed a concern (no stronger than that) that we might have been heading for a new ice age over the next few centuries. That concern was based on the fact that we are in an interglacial period and ought to start thinking about how and when it might end, and what we might do about it. Ice ages and interglacials are caused by variations in the Earth's orbit and tilt, and calculations suggested that the current interglacial is coming to an end.

However it then turned out that global warming due to CO2 was happing way faster and way more than any potential cooling. The scientists weren't wrong: the cooling effect is still there. Its just completely swamped by all the things we are doing to the atmosphere.
There is. http://www.speedbass.net/
Math is a very small part in what is so good about the blockchain. people don't understand the significance of decentralization.
I'm using OVH and scaleway which both are cloud pure-players and offer much better pricing than the companies you mentioned.

OVH is the 1st European cloud provider (300k servers, 3.8M domain names registered ...) and are providing cloud services to major organisations, with a wealth of products and soon a managed Kubernetes service.

Scaleway is a much newer cloud provider backed by Online.net, a fairly big hosting company, which is itself part of Iliad (a major ISP in France and expanding to the rest of the world). Their managed K8S service is going to be released this year too. Their specificity is to offer ARM architectures at a very low price tag.

I'd check these 2 out as they offer different levels of services which should make you happy whether you want to create a small cluster for development or to a large scale-production grade one.
Yes and no. If you have the most complete and accurate data about something people need, then this is typically a very good situation and can be productized in different ways (via APIs or not). But there are so many other types of things that can be exposed via APIs that do not fall into the data category:

- Language translation, detection
- Emulating real-world - like the Stripe Card API
- Converting unstructured to structured data - e.g. free-form text dates to structured formats
- Any kind of computation actually

There are even examples in the thread that speak against this argument - the data for project Gutenberg is clearly there and good but people do want to have a better way to access it.

As to my intentions, I am not looking to build a product, at least not now, but I've profited from both APIs in the wild and from good discussions on HN so I am happy to start a meaningful thread.
Very cool!

If you’re into this stuff -this one does cities (make your own Skara Brae):
http://fantasycities.watabou.ru

This is one of the Big Dogs:
http://donjon.bin.sh/

It does worlds, dungeons, monsters (for different editions of the game), quests, and a ton of other stuff.
I'm not sure that's true? I can see the bots being utterly terrifying with meepo in a teamfight - but would need supports stacking, proper farm prioritisation (much more use of jungling and ancients), etc etc.

I genuinely believe the bot would win a game of turbo against any team in the world. But remove _all_ of the restrictions and it's not clear that it doesn't just lose at the moment
Level 0: GDP is a flow, market value is a stock. Market value is a distance reached, GDP is a velocity.

Level 1: GDP is gross domestic product. It's not adjusted down for depreciation in order to be the Net domestic product. The proverbial Chaplinian window-breaker who sells windows adds to GDP, but not to NDP.

Integrating the net domestic product over time would get you something like the accumulated wealth of a country.

Level 2: There's a differentiation between the gross domestic product and the gross national product. GDP means within-borders; this includes for example the income of migrant workers who remit cash to their families abroad. GNP means by-national-citizens (and companies); many American companies have operations abroad, for example.

Level 3: Integrating a company's (discounted expected) net revenue will give you its market value, roughishly. But what constitutes a country's net revenue is murkier. It would seem that countries who are net importers are in the red, but imported goods generates consumer welfare that's not easily accounted for. To the extend a national economy can even have goals (it cannot), it isn't to maximize net exports.

It goes on.
A 1-click option (or maybe 2) is a much better solution for tech-averse users :). And extensions already exist to enable/disable Pi-Hole, the functionality could be expanded to include quick whitelisting.
Yeah let's take fuel efficiency. If Americans all still drove cars with 60s fuel economy, but only drove as much per year as Germans do, they'd still (give or take) be emitting the same amount as they are now[2][3].

Now, why do they drive so much and drive such inefficient cars? It's largely because fuel is so much cheaper in the US than in the EU.

What I was trying to get at in my original comment is not that we should all solve climate change by personal action, and that public policy shouldn't be involved. I wish I could pay more taxes so the country I'm living in would migrate to renewables faster.

Rather, it's that if you look at how concerned people are politically about climate change, and then look at their revealed preferences, both when it comes to what they do personally and what they'd really stand for politically, it turns out that in the aggregate they don't take the problem seriously.

How many people who say "we must do something" in the US would say put up with a 100% increase in fuel taxes (bringing it in more in line with the EU)? I bet you'd go from 50% approval to 5% approval pretty fast.

1. http://internationalcomparisons.org/environment/transportati...

2. http://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/fact-sheet...
There are more than 2. Chrysotile is the form most common in building material. Crocidolite is the form found in brake pads.

Crocidolite is much more carcinogenic than chrysotile.
I always heard it was the rectal temperature of a cow, but that's not what wikipedia tells me, so someone probably made that up. One advantage of the Fahrenheit scale is that the range from 0 to 100 roughly corresponds to temperatures people normally deal with.
Darwin as an early algorithmic biologist
Pymk-inspector – See the people Facebook thinks you know
This is how it already works and America is one of the biggest offenders when it comes to pushing policies globally.

In the past few months therr have been endless complaints on this forum about China pushing their policies on foreign companies, or Russia pushing their policies, or the EU pushing their policies. This is exactly what the US has been doing this whole time, but now that we've lost our absolute dominance we are going to have to start dealing with other countries as peers again rather than semi vassals who will change their laws and policies as we demand
Bike Share Graveyards
I wish I could add something substantial here, but I just want to say, thank you! I will probably be using this as early as Friday!
Lmafao
There is a gigantic mountain of evidence in favor of climate change, and you're listening to industry propaganda produced by the very people who have a clear monetary interest in doing nothing!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_cooling#/media/File:Pee...

https://www.skepticalscience.com/ice-age-predictions-in-1970...
Ask the people who've been involved with the 2nd Avenue Subway about that...
Anybody using only dart for their mobile apps, how has been your experience with it? Where does it triumph & fail over RN??
Another problem is energy density as I said. How much solar energy can you harvest from one square kilometer? I am so surprised that people just handwave this basic fundamental limits away and don't realize that we would have to build solar panels on an enormous percentage of planet for it to be able to replace fossil fuels.

Also managing the lifecycle and production of these panels is another issue. And don't forget that you still need to grow crops somewhere.

Currently only less than 2 % of the energy we use comes from solar energy and 87 % comes from fossil fuels. The cost of replacing the infrastructure is enormous and there is not much incentive to do it as long as we have plenty of cheap oil (which is going to stay with us for at least another century according to estimates).

Why is it so unimaginable that we will still be using oil in 100 years? It might not be 87 % as it is today, it might be 30 % but I am very sceptical that we will be able to completely replace the infrastructure we have build in the last 200 years.
> Dumping all shares on the market would swamp demand with excess supply.

Yep, it's hard to see with the big numbers involved, but if you reduce it to smaller numbers it's easier to see (though less accurate).

We have 10 shares of stock at $50, and we have 10 people in a population. 5 people own 2 shares each, 5 people own no shares. To see the entire value of the stock realized, the 5 people that have it would have to sell all their shares to the 5 that don't. Of course, in reality the 5 people that have it are generally a self selecting group, they tend to have the wealth and the stock, so in general there does not exist a market that can absorb the sale of all the stocks to new people, since people that have the stock are the ones that are most likely to buy more.
Lyft beefs up car rental program for drivers
While not as suitable for actually playing tile based RPGs, I am partial to http://orteil.dashnet.org/experiments/dungeongenerator/ for the nice visual design of the generated dungeons.
The thing is, 99% of readers here think bitcoin is shit, because of the go to arfuments, that bitcoin is too slow and only used by criminal and by extension, they don't like the blockchain either even though the weaknesses of Bitcoin have already been solved by many blockchains.

But they don't know that, so they keep bashing the blockchain without having any knowledge of other good platforms.
A huge chunk of the population's vote already doesn't matter. Any state with a wide margin of victory for either party effectively neutralizes the power of an individuals' vote. For presidential elections specifically, I live in a very blue state. No matter what my vote, it will not change the outcome even if we ground-hog-day repeated the election 1 million times. Whereas, in a state like Ohio or Pennsylvania or Michigan, where thousands of votes separate the winner, each individual's vote is much much more important, as well as the network effects of their political activism/thought patterns onto those around them.

It's disingenuous to say that the two party system is the only problem here. Votes already don't matter for many people, except as a symbolic gesture of rights/freedom.
> are the same people

Which people, specifically?
Interesting how the more sensational title has garnered more attention
I wanted to say something positive too, after seeing how the thread went here. No issues from the non-technical users in the household, at all, really. The domains I've whitelisted are mainly one-offs - I haven't whitelisted GA as above and nothing has broken here.

I've ended up using uMatrix and uBlock together on my personal machine as they don't interfere with each other and uBlock has an extra list or two that blocks even more tracking and ads - including all youtube ads. Which is just so satisfying. But other devices (of all kinds) run ad and tracker free, with a faster browsing experience to boot.

So that's no ads on any devices on the network, all running on a pi that is also a media centre, NAS and IRC client. Takes minutes to set up and is regularly updated. I don't get what's not to like.
Steve Jobs famously told Obama that "those jobs aren’t coming back" when he was asked about moving US manufacturing back to the US. Maybe Jobs was wrong. Apple's concentrated bet on Chinese manufacturing has opened it up to a lot of geopolitical risk, which can't be good for it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/business/apple-america-an...
Telling people "you are the enemy" certainly isn't going to win them over to your side.
With a "think piece", one would hope for serious thought as opposed to pure id.
Ancient Greeks were not Europeans. Ancient Greeks were a combination of Levantine and Anatolian peoples. Modern Turks and Lebanese have more in common genetically to ancient Greeks than today's Europeans. The romanticizing of Greeks as European is plain Eurocentric revisionism.
Meet the street artist transforming London's railway bridges into works of art
Doing what? :)
I thought the cook was supposed to make sure to serve gravy, or mashed potatoes, or something like that to help.

(In case you circle back to this vital topic!)
Algorithms Help Power Grids Survive GPS Spoofs
Wealth Per Capita * Population? Given a country is just a bunch of people the total amount of wealth of that subset of people would be it.
Battery Historian isn't really helping pin this down. CPU is running the whole time over night, ~5%/hr drain doing nothing. Kernel only uptime has hundreds of events per minute with reason "unknown". Userspace wakelocks total less than 16s every 20 minutes with no app I recognize named (Babel_ConcService is the top offender). Top app is blank as is Long waklocks and Screen. Doze is "light" all night.

Kernel Wakesources:
Ranking | Name | Duration / Hr | Count / Hr | Total Duration | Total Count
0 | event1 | 17m59s340ms | 23457.57 | 3h2m57.557s | 238578
1 | event5 | 17m32s350ms | 23463.47 | 2h58m23.053s | 238638
2 | alarmtimer | 1m47s350ms | 53.59 | 18m11.818s | 545
3 | wlan | 45s341ms | 58.99 | 7m41.149s | 600
4 | bluetooth_timer | 23s642ms | 194.68 | 4m0.462s | 1980

No idea what event1 and event5 are, but that seems excessive.

Kernel Wakeup Reasons:
Ranking | Name | Duration / Hr | Count / Hr | Total Duration | Total Count | Show Count vs Time
0 | unknown | 57m26s285ms | 11789.25 | 9h44m10.852s | 119904 |

App Wakeup Alarms:
Ranking | Name | Uid | Frequency (count/hr) | Count
0 | GOOGLE_SERVICES | 10033 | 60.66 | 617
1 | com.android.providers.calendar | 10004 | 0.20 | 2

60 wakeup alarms per hour? Excessive anytime but absurd for night time.

Time Spent In Each App State:
Name | Uid | Top / Hr | Foreground Service / Hr | Top Sleeping / Hr | Foreground / Hr | Background / Hr | Cached / Hr
GOOGLE_SERVICES | 10033 | 7s202ms | 59m52s311ms | 0ms | 486ms | 0ms | 0ms
bbc.mobile.news.ww | 10109 | 5s312ms | 0ms | 0ms | 0ms | 762ms | 16m48s169ms
net.sourceforge.opencamera | 10097 | 5s71ms | 0ms | 0ms | 0ms | 0ms | 59m54s209ms
com.google.android.tts | 10072 | 4s910ms | 88ms | 0ms | 0ms | 0ms | 59m54s200ms
com.cyanogenmod.trebuchet | 10026 | 3s247ms | 0ms | 59m44s851ms | 0ms | 0ms | 11s900ms

Foreground service per hour?

Anyway, battery life goes to about 4 days standby if I put the phone in airplane mode. Or if I reset the phone and then on next boot I don't enter my Google account info. I have one bugreport where the discharge rate varied between 15% and 40% per hour, but there's no battery data due to overflow (?) looks like I'm only getting 3-4 hours of detailed data after a reboot.
Also Lisp sucks in large groups. The simplicity is both its biggest strength and weakness. There are fewer smart people by definition, and the smartest people tend to want to make money. The net result is that you end up with blub powering the world.

Luckily, there’s a way out: have your lisp machine transpile to blub.
The Great Trigonmetrical Survey of India
Server-side Dart is still there, but not getting a lot of support from Google, as it's not their primary focus. The renewed effort going into Dart because of flutter has also allowed AngularDart[0] to gain some of the benefits (better tooling and IDE integration). AngularDart 5 will actually be a huge quality-of-life improvement as they are killing the Dartium browser fork, and instead doing incremental-compiling to javascript with dartdevc.

[0] https://webdev.dartlang.org/angular
WPA2's day is past imho. It's a shame that WPA3 looks like it might have its own problems thanks to closet development.
Securing Web Sites Made Them Less Accessible
the issue is more that the country is self-gerrymandered such that despite the majority of total votes going to democrats, the distribution of house and senate seats across the states heavily favors rural areas that tend to vote overwhelmingly republican.
I believe I've found the SNUR in question [0] and it seems to state that the EPA will consider uses of asbestos in construction:

> Any Other Building Materials (other than cement): Examples include insulation, plasters, mastics, textured paints (e.g., simulates stucco), and block filler paints (e.g., for coating masonry).

It looks like they're wanting to open a pathway of discussion between potential manufacturers/importers of asbestos and the EPA for new business opportunities which apparently include new construction, the brake pads that go onto your vehicles, and the floor tiles in your home.

This sounds insane to me. I don't want to live in a world where policymakers with no scientific background get to decide how they personally feel about proven carcinogens in my children's lives. They seem to literally be saying that they want to consider asbestos in construction projects as a significant new use despite the fact that using it in construction was previously proven to be unsafe.

The comment date is quickly closing, please let your voice be heard.

[0] https://www.regulations.gov/document?D=EPA-HQ-OPPT-2018-0159...

EDIT: If I'm confused and have linked something irrelevant, please let me know and I will redact.
Most of retail has little productivity growth. But what about Amazon(without shipping, an extra service)?

Same goes for most industries - there's a small group of companies who show good productivity growth, while the rest stay in place.

So it's just a matter of time.
Ummm, is that not what another large powerful country does? Or going back to the Romans, did? Isn't that the whole point of being large and powerful?
I think this is actually something that can be experimentally examined.

Take a sampling of a large number of papers, give them some sort of rating based on whether they provide enough information to reproduce, how clear their experimental and analytical methodology was, whether their primary data and scripts are available, etc, and then look at that rating versus their citations.

Hopefully, better papers get more attention and more citations.

(And yeah, "peer review" as it is done before a paper is published is not supposed to establish a paper as correct, it is supposed to validate it as interesting. Poor peer review ultimately makes a journal uninteresting, which means it might as well not exist.)
If we take everything you've said here as fact you have only explained why right wing white conservatives are not conducting assassinations against the Democrats.

Mexican undocumented migrant laborers have none of those excuses yet they are not waging a campaign of terror against the GOP.
Yeah. Right now I think people rely on WhatsApp groups for things like these.
The Institute of Public Affairs is funded by:

ExxonMobil,[34] Telstra, WMC Resources, BHP Billiton, Philip Morris,[35] Murray Irrigation Limited,[36] Visy Industries, Clough Engineering, Caltex, Shell, Esso[3] and British American Tobacco (BAT)

give me some other example of anti-climate change propaganda and I will again show you the money trail.
We checked OVH already and of course their pricing is great, but the managing software felt a bit dusty (was it OpenStack?). What is your experience here and in terms of stability? The support in our case was always fast though.

Thanks for mentioning scaleway! It would be nice if they could offer some bigger servers than 'just' 128GB RAM for my use case. But will definitely explore them.