skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article asserts the fourth amendment applies to hotels. The ruling the article cites is about police entering a hotel room, not about private security hired by the hotel entering the room. I'm not a lawyer, but I wouldn't recommend relying on 4th amendment protections in a hotel. Pretty much have to treat a hotel room as compromised space, especially if you're not in the room.
Hmm, any technical reason for providing only PDF and no epub format?
The team from India's first RISC-V based Chip has done an AMA
Tim Hwang’s FiscalNote is revolutionizing Washington lobbying with big data
Actually, we do. It's not a cure-all. You shouldn't suddenly become a rabid "big psychiatry and big pharama are frauds, just exercise, eat right, and get 8 hours of sleep" zealot.

But modest improvements in symptoms have been shown time and time again. More modest than many claim, but non-zero.

The link you posted says so:

> Exercise is moderately more effective than a control intervention for
> reducing symptoms of depression, but analysis of methodologically robust
> trials only shows a smaller effect in favour of exercise.

And it also recommends further research to discover what kinds of exercise are most effective:

> The reviewers recommend that future research should look in more detail
> at what types of exercise could most benefit people with depression, and
> the number and duration of sessions which are of most benefit.

https://www.cochrane.org/CD004366/DEPRESSN_exercise-for-depr...
Google records your movements even when you explicitly tell it not to
Nice CSS clock code collection
Well I never learned it until the pain and waste of unfinished projects pushed me. This talk by John Carmack was encouraging too. He talks about the importance of finishing projects: https://youtu.be/vlYL16-NaOw
Compound this and the likelihood that many line counts are counting method artefacts, and the end ratio is probably more around 3:1.

For anyone writing non-fiction, I would highly recommend the book "on writing well" by William Zinsser, who also stresses the importance of editing relentlessly your draft.
Your blog post was about creating a self-signed TLS cert. mkcert is more than that, it creates the root CA first before creating self-signed certs and trusting them.
I had an issue with AWS. First, I went to our contracted AWS support company.

<rant>
They are completely clueless, you can tell that they a bunch of on prem net ops people who took a class in AWS and just translated our AWS architecture to exactly what they would have done on prem. This was before either my AWS savvy manager or I were hired. You ask them about anything that involves anything about AWS besides EC2 instances, security groups and subnets they just shrug. I’ve spent the last few months cleaning up things to try to save the company money.
</rant>

Then I went to AWS directly. Thier online chat might as well been a chatbot. They just regurgitated the FAQ.
I think 10:1 is a good rule of thumb, but it does feel like time is a function that needs to be accounted for, too.

It would also be interesting to think through how many changes there are _between releases_ of a project. MySQL is 23 years old [1], but what's the effort/change between major releases at this point? That's where the rule sort of falls down for me: a book has a few editions (if it's lucky); software, on the other hand, has lots of releases if it's successful.

[1] Crap, now I just feel old, too...
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https://skelia.com/articles/your-guide-to-salesforce-commerce-cloud/
Exactly; you can only provide a more accurate estimation if you know all the details and the exact implementation and how fast you can type, and even there you have to take at least a 30% margin either way.

You can only be 100% accurate when it's done. Here's a chart: https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1600/1*hS2GObQarMYhamPeV.... Basically, the closer you are to done, the more accurate your estimation will be.
"mises.org", huh
I wish they had an alternate business model where you could pay to opt out of data collection on all their services, but until then I just don’t use them anytime I don’t need to.
I think a comment like this should be made with a reference to a source as it defies belief.
Since 1910, 95% of fires are caused by man:
http://www.marinij.com/article/NO/20180812/NEWS/180819940

More unnatural issues:
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2017/10/12/164582...
I bet you're a blast to be around.
Not even to those who can't engineer spacetime yet?
South Park's “Imaginationland” and the Forgotten Value of Religion
Sadly, our nuclear program is neither modern nor well run. Our nuclear power plants are old and some are at the limit of their expiration date. Bad management and lobbying has made a huge gap in the knowledge of power plant building and management and now the price of new construction skyrockets.

Just look at the years in which the reactors were constructed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_reactors#Franc...
Yep, this. The term "social democratic" hardly seems to have a definition. Sweden, Norway, Denmark etc are all capitalist democracies with relatively higher levels of welfare spending than the USA, but that's the main difference. They are certainly not socialist or even close to it.

I think this confusion may arise so frequently because socially speaking the current governments are very liberal-leaning (super pro immigration, super pro diversity/gender quotas etc). However that's causing kickback. Sweden's next election is predicted to be dominated by the Sweden Democrats who don't approve of such things.
Here's a super super hacky script that I wrote to calculate the ratio described in the article. I'll make it a lot better tonight and clean it up. Here's the bash script:

TOTAL_CHANGES="$(git log --all --numstat --pretty="%H" | awk 'NF==3 {plus+=$1; minus+=$2} NF==1 {total++} END {printf("%d\n", plus+minus)}')"

TOTAL_LINES="$(cloc . | tail -n 2 | head -n 1 | awk '{print $NF}')"

echo "scale=2 ; $TOTAL_CHANGES / $TOTAL_LINES" | bc

echo -n ":1"

pwd

One snippet from https://gist.github.com/sephiroth74/d3ce654dcaefe1d2c4cd (modified)

How to run:

1. Clone a Git repo

2. cd into it

3. run bash ../script.sh

Output something like this:

polygot@server:~/tinkerpop$ bash ../script.sh

14.17:1/home/polygot/tinkerpop
Loading web-first ESM modules in Node.js
Podcast: Why Technology Is Not a Bubble
Yeah your assertion is correct, even when it's just a single character changed, it's marked as a whole line has changed.

Git doesn't really have good statistics (I think) for e.g. token changes (it would need a tokenizer for that). There is however --word-diff for showing a diff in words instead of whole lines; it's probably possible to count those as well, the output syntax looks parseable enough.
100% agree. Cyber true-crime, maybe? The toxicity of that place, of her, of Sunny! That guy seems like a real piece of work. I was struck by how amazingly well connected she was, collecting former and current high ranking government officials and industry titans. For me the highlight was the surreal depiction of that birthday party with Kissinger.
The Big Eye: The tech is all ready for mass surveillance in India
This title seems a bit confusing, since PCA is a form of unsupervised feature selection (or rather, feature weighting).

The title seems like it has the form "<Specific method> vs <Broader category method fits in>".
I know git has a way to show diffs based on words instead of lines. Is there a way to use words instead of lines for these stats? When I'm writing markdown I usually turn on word wrap in my editor, which means there are entire paragraphs on one line.

On the other hand, editing takes a lot of time per word changed, because you have to consider the whole sentence or even paragraph to make sure the grammar is still right, you're not repeating things, and you haven't removed any necessary context. So maybe a bit of overestimation is good.
So does Texas.
there's a big caveat: the pacific ocean
"this review shows that the 16-core 2950X compiles Chromium faster than the 32-core 2990WX, presumably this means something other than the thread count becomes a bottleneck after 16 threads"

The article mentions that, due to the die packaging, only 16 of the cores have direct access to RAM. So for the 32-core version, half the cores are memory-starved and have to go through the 'connected' cores (also impacting these), while the 16-core version doesn't have that problem and can be at 100% for all process loads.
Electric heat pumps are quite efficient, AFAIK.
I was going to say GM's Bolt/Volt since it was one of those 'best cars of the year'. If that fails + is electric, thats a bad indicator for the future.

Tesla gets a pat on the back for trying to be new/different. The quality of Tesla is nothing like established companies. You cant even blame Tesla, they dont have data like a company thats been around for decades.
In thinking about this there is some interesting irony in that the people that would pay to opt out are probably the last people Google would ever want to do this, as those are extremely high value accounts willing to pay for even relatively trivial digital services or 'features' as we might call this.
Possibly. If you have 99% free users and you want to get to 98% free users by convincing free users to stop using your platform, then you need to lose half of your users.

It will come up anytime you have a secondary metric which is a percentage that you want to decrease but the total is the primary metric that people focus on.
Yeah, the downside to getting used to the trackpoint is that I don't know if I can ever switch to a laptop without one. Trackpads feel so clunky now.
I will definitely be using this in the future to buy crypto. Keep it up guys
It's not very complicated at all, the issue is more a lack of education. Online personal finance resources and communities help a lot, but people still have to know to seek out that information.
We have a couple of founders here in the UK who got caught out by the same misunderstanding. I’m emailing the guys at YC to see if there’s anything that can be done. Late submissions are possible for the core YC program, so fingers crossed!

If you email me at startupschool.review@gmail.com I can keep you updated on the situation.
Turning 35; life as a 34-year-old
Is it possible to make floating Solar panels?
It likely won't come to GOG until it comes out of early access on Steam.
General Magic–how tech superfriends assembled, dreamt up smartphones, and failed
Having copy/paste be out-of-band means that ctrl-c is not overloaded between "copy" and "terminate process".
Counterfeit Cosmetics in E-commerce: The Importance of Brand Protection
One energy storage method that's relatively cheap, efficient, and scalable is pumped-storage hydroelectricity. There's a 3 GW plant in Virginia that's been in operation since the 80s[1]! There is ultimately minimal need for FF peakers, or large rare-earth batteries, if governments can execute projects like this.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_County_Pumped_Storage_Sta...
Agree, it's a photoshopped stock photo: https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/confident-serious-a...
Alien life may have lived on moon in TWO separate periods
Show HN: Facelist – list with photos of everyone in your company's Slack
Circumference of the earth 40,000km
Power loss .5-1.1% for 160km

If we assume 200km has 1% power loss then 20,000km is around 63% power loss.
First: http://fortune.com/2008/01/29/how-to-grow-the-ipod-as-the-mp...

Second: Good argument! :)

My line of reasoning was: iPod+iTunes -> lots of people with big music collections tied into iTunes -> release of iPhone, which requires iTunes to sync with desktop -> iPhone becoming a major player in phone world.
Good article summarizing some of the pitfalls of General Magic that goes along with that HN thread from a couple weeks ago from the insider perspective.
This is very, very interesting but I think it would be even better if it was somehow normalized; in the first N years (1, 2, 5, 10), what is the lines-written to lines-in-production ratio? Older, still active projects will almost for sure have a higher ratio just as a matter of fixing bugs.

So if it was normalized, we could see whether newer projects are rushed to production faster or it's just a matter of time passing.
Please see my other replies, we’re seeing if something can be done!
Leaving out Hemlock?
I'm surprised that I haven't run into someone using Git for EDL's.
Right! And if each line of code is (re)written 16 times, imagine how many times it's read. (several times each rewrite, and PR review)

In other words, your work isn't done when the program works and makes the customer happy. It's done when other developers can read it. Otherwise you can't continue making the program work and make the customer happy.
The big piece you have to add to that is that MGM is being sued for billions of dollars when you put together the 1,000+ lawsuits against them for "failing to keep guests safe".

It's not just the memory, but a direct consquence of our insurance and civil litigation norms.
I second On Writing Well. Great book, and fun to read.

It's funny, editing has always been my favorite part of writing. It's when all of my favorite bits typically get written.
Interesting science, but I still say it should all stop. This long-running experiment uses foxes raised for their fur. I have read many articles over the years and I am unclear whether the study populations are still harvested for fur. If they are, the study needs to stop. Anything involving fur farms needs to stop asap.
I'm an artist, and its become my preferred social media platform for sharing my work. It's got a wide audience and is slicker to use than Tumblr. Lately I've started using the stories thing to documentary my creation process, it's actually been pretty fun.
I put some exaggerated examples in there to show situations where changed line counts are absurd (when whitespace is counted).

Such numbers of whitespace changes do not happen often, but have a big impact on LOC when measuring a long period of time. I realized that when counting my changed LOC for a past internship.
Many things in a home produce 'waste' heat (TV, people, pets, etc) which needs to be cooled in the summer but it is useful in the winter. Further, AC's end up condensing moisture from the air which takes crazy amounts of energy.

So, heat pump efficiency vs temperature only tells part of the story. With good insulation you will almost always need more cooling in the summer than heating in the winter outside of the arctic circle.
I wonder what will happen to the price of oil as we switch to electric vehicles. Could we end up increasing demand elsewhere in the energy economy as the price falls?
Me too! In fact, when I think about it, bookmarks are such a nebulous thing. It's like I want them to do two diametrically opposed jobs.

On the one hand, when I have a bookmark for a site like HN, I want it to give me a quick way to get to the front page and see the latest posts so I can read and discuss them. In this case, the bookmark is serving like a pointer to an address whose contents are subject to change.

On the other hand, I bookmark pages with specific information I want to keep so I can refer back to it later. This is where bookmarks often fail me. Websites are transient by nature and bookmarks are extremely vulnerable to link rot. What I think I'd really want is a bookmark that saves an archive of the page so that I'll always have access to the information in its original form, even if the page changes or the site goes down. In this case, the bookmark is functioning more like a constant than a variable.

I'm aware that browsers such as Safari have the ability to save a page as a web archive file which includes all the data needed to render the page in its original form. The problem is that this feature completely punts on the issue of managing a set of these web archives, delegating that task to the Finder. I want a UI that is more integrated into the browser. If I bookmark a site it should save and manage the archive automatically. Full text search on all my bookmark archived pages should be built into the address bar. Perhaps in order to avoid the conflict between the two uses of bookmarks described above there could be a difference between favourites and bookmarks.

I don't know, does anyone else have any thoughts about this stuff?
Inequality in the Middle East
So I think we are back to where we started. Sometimes Google is a publisher and sometimes Google is a platform.
If by "we" you mean you and your sources, ok. I do have evidence that exercise is better than doing nothing FOR ME.
Quixote: ...que estos pobres no han cometido nada contra vosotros. Allá se lo haya cada uno con su pecado… y no es bien que los hombres honrados sean verdugos de los otros hombres, no yéndoles nada en ello.
Thank you very much! Much obliged!
I'm thinking of buying one to run multiple instances of Selenium with headless Firefox for crawling reasons. Pair it with 128GB RAM and I could easily run 40-50 instances simultaneously.
Well, Captain Obvious moment here. I personally am balls deep into Google's ecosystem (for obvious reasons) just like the next guy, but I never doubted they track everything, in fact I always assumed that. I don't disable location tracking, it's too convenient.

I do have a pretty good idea what I would do to disappear from Google's radar if/when I needed - a "clean" phone that connects to internet via VPN, I would check my gmail in browser. Third party maps/navigation app and few other essential apps, none affiliated with Google. Not as convenient, but functional enough.
My experience was that for good graphics support you wanted to go for integrated Intel (currently using a T430s). Does the Ubuntu support imply that the graphics card swapping and drivers for the discrete graphics are now actually good?
Any wins they make in interconnect efficiency could either be used to boost the power budget of existing cores or add even more cores.
Tattooing in the Civil War Was a Hedge Against Anonymous Death
https://www.the-parallax.com/2018/08/12/vegas-hotel-room-sec...

"In a statement released to reporters, Caesars says DefCon organizers were informed before the conference of the new policy ... .. Marc Rogers, DefCon’s head of SecOps and vice president of cybersecurity strategy for identity management company Okta, said the conference is aware of the room problems and is working with Caesars on reducing conflicts for next year. “These changes represent the new reality that all hotels have to face in their work to keep guests safe,” he said at the conference’s closing ceremony Sunday. Caesars is “working closely with DefCon management to figure out the best way forward for next year.”

Some DefCon attendees are claiming on Twitter that they will refuse to attend the conference next year, if it returns to Las Vegas. Of the more than 1,650 votes in response to an informal poll started by Twitter user @notdan, a security researcher at a tech company in the San Francisco Bay Area who requested anonymity, 35 percent said they would not return to DefCon over room privacy concerns ... Moussouris emphasized a similar concern: that hotel room privacy is of paramount importance, especially for female travelers. “No matter whether DefCon moves or stays put, all hotels should have basic protocols for allowing any guest to easily authenticate a supposed hotel employee,” she wrote."
They do a compilation of Chrome in the "Office Tests" section. The 32Core takes about an hour per compile, but the 16Core is actually a bit faster (my guess would be that linking takes longer on the 32 core machine as it's very memory intensive).
Shouldn't they not publish until the review is done? This is really unprofessional - even bloggers have the concept of "only publish finished drafts" or use the scheduled publishing feature that all blogging platforms have nowadays.
Also does this article expose the stats of Maria's game? Itm, roi, bi? To me this article seems to be just a hype around upswing that Maria experiences. Downswing is just around the corner though.
Are they building stored energy reserves as well?

Yes, they are.

https://www.edie.net/news/6/Green-light-for-first-UK-hydro-s...

or

https://www.fastcompany.com/40580693/exclusive-tesla-has-ins...
Also true in Vietnam that a “Hotel” can mean a bar/restaurant. Not so strange really, in the US many bar/restaurants go by “Inn”, which of course even today can refer to a hotel (and historically even more so).
Not a novel, but super interesting story about how the Feds caught Russian Mega-Carder Roman Seleznev: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Chp12sEnWk
There are Chromium compile tests. https://www.anandtech.com/show/13124/the-amd-threadripper-29...
Why? It's not illegal or even against policy in many parts of the US to bring in all sorts of dangerous things.

For instance - while moving from Arkansas to Virginia in 2013, I had a rifle with me in the U-Haul, and didn't want to leave it in the vehicle for it to be stolen. I just slung it barrel-down over my shoulder and carried it with all of my family's bags to the room, right past the front desk. It was a folding AK variant, which I chose for the trip because it was easy to keep accessible behind the seats' headrests, so if they were going to have an issue with a rifle that would probably be the one.

Not only is this sort of thing fairly typical in many places, in some (most?) states a hotel room is considered a domicile, and it's illegal to ban firearms as a condition of renting the room.
Wikipedia has a list of paradoxes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_paradoxes
Blün?
I wonder, "Even solar panels require fossil fuels" what parts in solar panels are from fossil fuels?
This is why I'm pretty gloomy on climate change, I can't see politicians or even the general public accepting lower consumption even though that is what we need to fix the problem.
Digital Fortress by Dan Brown. I read it 5 years ago. Recommend it
> Yeah, someone told me the secret to good photography is just taking a lot of pictures.

I've gone down this road and I don't think that it's good advice any more. The secret to good photography is having a good editor, someone who can tell you which photos you have are good and bad, and why. Someone you can have a discussion with over a dozen 11x14" prints. Continuous improvement. Develop your eye and shoot neither too many nor too few photos. Every time you go through the review process you get a better sense of what you should be looking for in your photos.

It's so easy to fill up an SD card with nothing but garbage. I've done that. I've gone through bulk rolls (100' of 35mm film) and filled them with garbage I just don't want to see any more. By shooting more than you need, you can easily fall into the trap that because the photo will probably get cut during editing, there's no point to putting any special amount of effort into it. So there's no point in shooting more pictures if you're not putting enough effort into each one that it could be good. When I was at college I remember having discussions where we thought that there was not really any point to going through more than a single bulk roll per academic quarter (18 rolls in 10 weeks, or ~65 exposures per week). People who shot less than that much weren't showing as much improvement, and people who shot more than that were just ending up going through the process a bit too mechanically. That was just a rule of thumb for the classes at that particular place and time.

There are good, great, and amazing photographers who shoot such a small number of photos it would probably shock you, and others who shoot so much it makes you wonder how quickly they must go through equipment.
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