skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When we lived in an apartment, we were required to pay $99 for an Internet + cable bundle with Comcast. It sucked so badly that one of the deciding factors when we bought a house was that AT&T Fiber was available. We also had every bedroom, the office, and the living room wired for gigabit Ethernet with the expectation that we would be using only internet based video services.

Now, we have three Roku TVs and two 4K AppleTV boxes (thanks to DirecTVNow). We subscribe to Netflix (free with T-mobile), DirecTVNow, and Hulu.

My dad came up and he loved our RokuTV so I bought him one. He likes it, but he would never go cable free.

With cable, you just turn it on and start watching. With the Roku TV, you have to sign up for an account, add channels, login to all of your subscriptions. If you have cable, you have to login to all of the different channels with your cable subscription. WiFi is also more flakey then cable. Then on top of that, they have to worry about going over thier 400Gb cap.

Can you imagine most 70+ year olds having to go through all of the hassle with five TVs? Heck, except for the RokuTV, all of thier TVs are CRTs, including one that I bought for myself when I moved out in the mid 90s.
The best description I've read of the iterative process of chemistry development is good old "Ignition!" by John D Clark, on the subject of rocket fuels.

Generally what happens is a simple theoretical model predicts what the most efficient compounds to try are - but not all their properties can be predicted theoretically. So somebody has to try them and find out what all the handling and fabrication difficulties are, then develop solutions for the sub-problems.

(Does anyone have the scihub link to the actual study referenced in the article?)
In cities, I don't see how light reflection off solar would be worse than the reflection of conventional glass surfaces, which are ubiquitous already and which sometimes cause problems (google "London death ray"). Photovoltaic installations tend to be uniformly oriented, so that concave mirror problems cannot occur.

In the countryside, things are different: you have massive installations close to ground level, often at hillside slopes, and if you happen to drive on a road towards one of those at that special time of day/year when the reflection goes straight into oncoming traffic you are left with staying calm and hoping for the best. Happened to me on an unrestricted stretch of Autobahn, slowing down where everybody else is also blinded would be a very, very bad idea. As I said, stay calm and hope for the best. I could really see a case for building codes to get updated to prevent such things (the position of the sun over the course of the year is perfectly predictable) and maybe even a revival of heliostat installations for sites where this can be an issue.
The author also mentions that these cars have radar and air pressure sensors - I don't know how accurate these are, but forcing something through the gasketing could cause a change in air pressure enough for it to trigger.
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It's likely the car has it's own always-on cellular connection.
Not sure how it is now, but when visiting Germany a few years ago it was also weird to see tobacco normally advertised on billboards, while it is illegal in most EU countries.
I quit smoking 25 years ago and still miss it. But no regrets, with the horrible smell from breath, clothes and hair, ruined furniture, not to mention adverse health effects, I would still rather go without it.
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This is super cool. Retool has come a long way in the short span of time. I would love to connect it with my db and build more integrations/alerts/notifications on top of it.
Chrome, Service Workers and HTTP/2: Let's Get Our Priorities Straight
I'd argue they would have to act quickly though - there was an alarm going on the dashboard when the car was started.
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> There must be some alternative way I can regularly show him interesting stuff in math.

Of course there is, but you need to get creative. Math textbooks are notoriously bad at this, although there are some exception. My tip: use play and riddles. Use characters he could identify with. Like "Han Solo received secret transmission about two magic numbers. If you add them, you get 11. When you subtract one from another, you get 3." Sounds like a very easy riddle, doesn't it? Whereas in fact you can use it as a gentle introduction to systems of equations with two variables which becomes clear as you increase the numbers so the kid can't solve them by trial and error easily. "And now I can show you the secret way of solving it!"

The key is that you (1) always need do present a concept with a concrete application, (2) the application has to be relevant and interesting to the kid, (3) just like with all games, it must not be too easy nor too difficult.
> But is one’s life diminished by hearing bad
> ideas? I don’t think so

You may think that it's harmless to thousands of racist theories floating around the internet. I don't. I think it plants seeds of doubt. "Group X must have done something to make so many people hate them" etc.

Let's say I publish an article alleging you murdered your previous girlfriend/boyfriend. It goes viral. A month later, the truth airs! Someone publishes a follow-up explaining that you are innocent. Do you think your life will just go back to normal?
Yeah but would you drive around in your brand new car for weeks with a big SOS error light in the dashboard? Knowing it's covered by insurance and/or warranty, too.
> Prekeys are to start a session with someone, it's basically a public key. You generate a new public private keypair, do a DHE to establish the session secrets, send your new public key along with the encrypted message.

At which point you have essentially decayed to conventional PKI and don't get any the security properties that you were supposed to get from the fancy Signal protocol (i.e. PFS).
"In a nutshell, that’s why this story matters: because the hate preached on anti-cycling Facebook pages isn’t confined to the digital realm. It’s a poison that bleeds from the screen into the real world, where aggression towards cyclists is very real, and very deadly"

Goes for a lot of other things too.

Cycling seems to be a really inflammatory subject for online discussion, and I've never really been sure why; it seems like a kind of identity politics.
There are some risks in terms of your mouth/lips. Cigars are a lot less harmful because it's customary not to inhale them, you can obviously but the vast majority of cigar smokers don't. They also appear to be far less addictive than cigarettes, personally I would say they aren't addictive at all, during the winter in the UK I don't smoke any for 3-4 months, during the summer I only smoke a couple a week.
Salt not as damaging to health as previously thought, says study
Two things shook me while watching TV on my USA trip.

One is the sheer number of ad breaks in programming. Here in Sweden there's only a few with a good chunk in between.

The second is ads during programs. I mean not even having the courtesy to pause but instead overimpose.

I sort of get it now why USA import shows have the weird breaks though.

Given, I seldom watch TV here anymore, so I might be mistaken.
C can also benefit from inline caching - function pointers!
Agreed, although my time here in Europe has been much more brief (moved to Berlin in 2017 then Estonia 2018) I've never seen anyone smoking in a supermarket or nearly anywhere else inside in Europe with the exception of Berlin bars which are egregious offenders but I would consider an anomaly in W. EU at least
Compelling reading.

There should be a name for the phenomenon of a satirical, ironic or trolling community turning into the real deal, by aggregating people taking the issue seriously.

This seems to be a repeating pattern.

In this case, it seems to be slightly more complex but still it begs the question if by keeping posting fake news or stories, you start believing them, consciously or unconsciously.
This is so sad for Greece and for us who doesn't smoke
Exactly this, not sure what sort of speed of impact you'd have to be in with an F30 3 Series to bend the window frame significantly enough to break that wire, but you'd have to imagine very high.
Download 1000 NSFW images, 1000 racy images and 100 completely SFW images. Train a model and publish it on GitHub?
My only issue with sshuttle is that getting IPv6 to work with it is a real pain.
Because they don't know they're giving out their data voluntarily, or don't understand the repercussions.

In some idealized notion or legal fiction everyone might at all times be perfectly aware what they're signing up to, the reality is much messier.

Virtually no one reads the fine print, because it's obfuscated. If you have bad eyesight and are not computer literate (a good portion of the population) you will most likely not even be able to read the TOS on the average webpage. Most people have no idea what "cookies" are, or what "GDPR" means. Even if they did, there's a huge opportunity cost to doing so. [1]

Then there's network effects.

When enough people do something, it becomes a norm. I have been required by many state institutions to go through private networks whenever I need to administer something online. Yes, ones that use tracking, because they have some private/public agreement. Likewise, if everyone around a person uses Facebook, and they use it to organize their social life, then they will expect that person to do the same -- it's collectively cheaper for them than it's expensive for the individual.

I've been surprised by the amount of times I've gotten texts "oh you aren't coming"? To some event I never even heard about, because apparently everything goes through Facebook nowadays. "My cell? Just search me on Facebook."

[1] http://techland.time.com/2012/03/06/youd-need-76-work-days-t...
Consulting is all about having difficult conversations. Good consultants should be interviewing the client as much as the client is interviewing them. The OJ test sounds like a pretty good test conversation to have.

As a consultant, you're entering a world where really smart people have already taken a run at the problem and failed. They probably know all the angles. Too much optimism or too much negativity is not going to help -- in fact, it can lead to a lot of wasted money. I usually say something like "That's looks impossible. Let's figure it out." Some phrase that both acknowledges the difficulty and offers some optimism.

As trite as it sounds, what they say is true: It's a journey. The really wild thing is that even when the client describes something that's dead easy? It's still a journey. That's because it's not easy to them. It's just easy to you. Most times the conversations around problems that are easily solved are the most difficult to have. The client has already thrown away the answer (mostly in my experience because they didn't understand the answer in the first place even though they thought they did) and your job is to get them to reconsider it.

Also, hand out oranges at the door at put juicers on each table. Then each person can have as much OJ as they want as recently-squeezed as they'd like. (Solving the problem, of course, is not the point of the essay)
Watching US programming in a nation that hasn't embraced product placement quite so enthusiastically can be highly distracting. We have some, but it's relatively recent and comparatively subtle.

The scenes showing "natural" placement are often comically poor or heavy handed, with the logo always turned to camera.
It sounds like you'd also be against requiring phone numbers if they didn't have a desktop app...
Hashicorp perhaps? I was thinking it was named after one of the founders, Hashimoto.
Can I recommend https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/amp2html/ - which will redirect you automatically.
Tracking client JavaScript bundle size during development
This is for Germany. I assumed that it was EU-wide, but it may be like that in Germany only.
I've been using this for the last 3 months and it's a pretty amazing tool.
We need to spin up tools quickly for our operation teams and this has been a godsend.

The support has been amazing as well. Very quick response times and fixes when we report any bugs.
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As I understood it, the "trust" comes down to: "it has some limits, but it's strictly better than nothing". I wouldn't call that damning.
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I suppose that cross-checking hundreds of possible prints against those of the owner and legitimate passengers would be quite a lot of effort for the slim chance of the burglar not having used gloves...
Let me kickstart this discussion. I recognise some use cases:

- cross cluster metrics.
- quick switching between clusters.
- visual, form based one-off deploys. Handy when debugging or doing ad hoc work
- visual exploration of a cluster
- visual helm integration, aking to DC/OS Universe or "app store"
- Guided wizards for common admin tasks
You’d think the United States could break into the top 20 high-speed rail.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_high-speed_railway_l...

China is up to almost 16,000 miles of track.

The fact that we’re incapable of building projects like this more affordably must be hurting our economy.
Eh, I'd say 40/60 in favor of Discord. When network goes bad on my cellphone, Discord tends to fall flat on it's nose (and I end up posting the same message 8 times because Discord engineers haven't discovered TCP yet and the app doesn't show any feedback on whether or not the message got through). Or just convinces itself than 64kbps = no connection.

Steam on the other hand regularly tries to convince me that I am in fact not logged into the store despite being logged into the app (how do you even do that?).

Discord consumes a lot of memory. Steam makes my computer lag while not using as much memory.

Overall, I'd say Discord is a tiny bit better in the department of "not sucking" than Steam.
performance: something that takes seconds now takes hours.

ah, here it is - branchless doom (in the validation/doom directory - https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/movfuscator/tree/master/vali... ):

> The mov-only DOOM renders approximately one frame every 7 hours, so playing this version requires somewhat increased patience.
Comedy Central is doing a similar but different thing. They're adding more commercials to a commercial break, so now a 30 minute block is like 34 minutes, creating a weird stagger in the schedule. MTV does this too, but they play catch up on the occasional episode by cutting out the intro completely, and their schedule stays on the half hour. Both are Viacom networks.
More likely, the guy just gets an orange squeezing machine. Every supermarket has one, he can just have 3000 oranges delivered the day before, load them in the machine at 6 and have his staff pour them out at 7. I don't see the logistical problem here.

Edit: a quick google shows that renting such a machine costs ~ USD 100.
> they can perform pervasive monitoring on layer 1

Indeed (particularly as telecoms are often state-owned in those regimes), which is what makes phone-number-as-ID such a bad idea.

> use dodgy certificates to undermine TLS

Difficult in these days of certificate transparency and HPKP.

> bribe or coerce corporate actors

If that's your worry surely you want to rely on a big corporation rather than Signal. Look at e.g. Brazil having to block WhatsApp entirely because Facebook wouldn't play ball with them. Facebook has deep pockets that mean they can afford to do that kind of thing.

> Signal is a vast improvement over SMS, plaintext email

Agreed

> or any commercial messaging application,

Not convinced that there's a significant improvement here. Plenty of commercial messaging applications have encryption. If the server is under an attacker's control then you're vulnerable, but I'm not convinced that isn't the case with Signal too.
It seems like a regional thing though. In many European and Asian countries there may be animosity between some cyclists and some drivers of cars, but not the extreme polarisation seen in American (perhaps Australian and a few other countries too?) communities.
I only think people that want ride bicycle for sport shouldn't run in public road. I want to go to work and not waste time because you have time to do your sport.

It's not like there's plenty of other road for doing it.
I think if you use a broad enough definition of socialist, you'd have most of Europe. In France the socialist party was in power until last year, for example.
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The word "capitalism" is totally redundant and rather shows the authors bias.

> ‘Surveillance capitalism’ was the term coined in 2015 by Harvard academic Shoshanna Zuboff to describe this large-scale surveillance and modification of human behaviour for profit.

‘Advertising capitalism’ was the term coined in 2018 by dandare to describe this large-scale advertising and modification of human behaviour for profit.

‘Fashion capitalism’ was the term coined in 2018 by dandare to describe this large-scale fashion industry and modification of human behaviour for profit.

‘Tourism capitalism’ was the term coined in 2018 by dandare to describe this large-scale tourism industry and modification of human behaviour for profit.

...
I'm looking into buying an Alfa Romeo Giulia, and engine-wise the difference between the 200bhp and 280bhp version is 100% software.

There are some other differences, the 280bhp is AWS vs RWD for the 200bhp version, and you can get the 200 with smaller wheels. However when going for larger wheels on the 200bhp, you also get the exact same larger brakes...

It's a cool €6000 difference, for a similarly equipped car. I actually don't want AWD and the chassis can clearly handle this much power on the rear-wheels alone, the top-of-the-line 510bhp version is also RWD - so going for the 200bhp version and giving a reputable tuner €700 is a tempting proposition...
If you are confused about ve in the table:

+ve = positive

-ve = negative
Isn’t the prop to have this train passed by people? Why are you bringing politicians into it?
Wars are always fought to advance political goals. I agree that in that case, the goals are shitty.
I think the hypocrisy and self righteousness of some movements like fanatical cycling particularly gets people worked up online.

(Complaining about car drivers being unsafe but then constantly running red lights themselves.)
It is probably an issue with in-depth set culture, there is definitely less stigma here than in the US, although not for the goverments not trying.

In most EU countries, anti-smoking campaigns are frequent, packs must show huge labels with death warnings, advertising is illegal, as well as smoking in public enclosed spaces.

Still, the trend is downward in all countries.
The solution is not to create more laws which will give the real danger (governments) more power to use their violence.

The solution is to simply have everyone host themselves. Even a moderate home broadband connection is more than enough to serve up your personal website.

Once you start relying on third parties you've lost. That's their property, not yours. When you claim it is yours and use government violence to enforce your wishes you are doing more damage to society than what you're trying to stop.
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I think you are taking the article a touch too literally. It's not telling you to give consultants made up tasks to find out how they reply, it's telling your to listen to consultants responses when you give them difficult but not impossible tasks. The story about orange juice is just a nice example to make it easy to understand.
It's always the government and them dang corporate subsidies. Everything would work out fine if every aspect of our lives are dominated by fiefdoms of companies battling out against each other.

On a less sarcastic note, companies/corporations failing to the point where government has to bail them out at all is sign that this system is not working.
This article and the other one quoted from the Guardian are cherrypicking quotes to make it sound far more dramatic than it really is.

Total crime numbers in Amsterdam are down substantially on prior years (https://www.ois.amsterdam.nl/popup/1663). The number of Dutch prisoners have halved over the last 10 years. Dutch prisons are now so empty the space is being rented out to other countries (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-37904263).

At the same time, the number of tourists to Amsterdam has increased 60% over the last 10 years. It is not surprising the numbers are sometimes difficult to manage.

But, speaking as someone who since 2000 has lived in Amsterdam or visited at least monthly, I have never felt safer in the city.
Cyclists usually have a strong pride in commuting with bike and has a style (looking fast) that separates them from the rest of the population.

Combine that with the number of conflict surfaces such as pedestrians walking in biking lanes, car drivers failing to properly look for incoming cyclists, cyclists speeding and more frequently breaking traffic law and order than others (my anecdata).

I understand the frustration that exists in all groups.
I don't think blanket statements like this are helpful, and I think this should be prefaced with 'For some people'.

Opioids do not cause drug seeking behaviour in all people.
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Would be really interested to see the results of this.

Also, consider using Dataturks to create and host the dataset.
It seems that it's impossible for people to show charts without making mistakes in data presentation. This website is literally for showing data, and I'm not an expert and I still see errors all over.

For instance: Secondhand smoke deaths by age [0]

They show absolute numbers. You can see that for 70+ year olds, the quantity is increasing at 2016 compared to 2010 and 2005. But, how do we know that it is because the rate is increasing, or just because there are more 70+ year olds? If they had shown each age range divided by the total amount of people in the age range, it would have prevented this.

Every time I see absolute numbers in any kind of data visualization, immediately an alarm goes off I start to analyze whether that makes sense or they needed percentages, and many many times they messed up.

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/smoking#secondhand-smoke-deaths-b...
Too long a story for too weak a farfetched made up challenge... if a client ever asked me to have 700 tall glasses of fresh OJ, it would be a 2 second answer “Yes, I’ll order from the local organic market, each gallon of fresh OJ costs X, and you’d need x gallons”, not some big imaginary struggle...

a more effective or gripping version should be like... “The Apollo 13 Test”...
Crashed vehicles will need replacement dashboards and airbags, probably stealing them to do dodgy repairs on cars that have been in big accidents.
I think you're right, and it's frustrating.

I'm pretty much neutral: I'm a licensed driver, and I've cycled to work in the past, but right now I don't have a bike or a car.

I saw a discussion on a local forum recently where cyclists and motorists just refused to accept that both camps use their vehicles as transportation. Drivers acted like cyclists were just silly kids, despite some being eligible for Social Security, and cyclists acted like drivers were robber barons having their chauffeurs mow down poor people.
A user on hacker news years ago put it well like this:

"Any community that gets its laughs by pretending to be idiots will eventually be flooded by actual idiots who mistakenly believe that they're in good company"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1011498