skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A Pit Bull and her newborn pups get rescued, will amaze you
and even less are going to describe Amazon.
I don't know from where exactly you get this impression but last time I checked they only had a 1% difference (28% versus 27% and Nokia 23% with 2017 figures [0]). I can tell you that Ericsson is in a much better position than Huawei. And although I would also like an Ericsson Nokia merger, I don't see it happening soon ;-)

[0] https://technology.ihs.com/600864/global-mobile-infrastructu...
> capacity “2-3X higher” than conventional lithium-ion

Is this per unit weight? per unit space? per dollar?
Nitpick: the map he shows was drawn by Christopher Tolkien, not Pauline Baynes.
My understanding is gin/gist indexes do not store enough information to use better scoring and RUM indexes could change that:

https://github.com/postgrespro/rum
Remembering September 11, 2001: Philip M. Rosenzweig Obituary
Also my first thought. Please somebody do this...
> "a few Go lines"

That makes it sound like it is simple, but without looking at the dependencies code it might just be a simple interface to a implementation of a complex protocol.
The majority of new restaurants go out of business, is that an oven problem?

There's some kind of expectations that you can do anything on a website and there will never be reprucussions. Then the blame is so distributed and faultily attributed such that short term results keep the vast number of bad web advisors helping to mishandle more sites. Eventually, a relaunch is done to try to clean out the aggregate of mistakes without getting to the embarrassing root cause analysis.

Not all that different than the restaurant scene in some embarrassing part of the country.
fantastic. great writing style on this page also, not at all like too few bits spread over too much whitespace
The World's Fifth Largest Economy – Carbon Neutral by 2045
In case you didn't know, you managed to get shadowbanned... HN is very opposed to getting outside the Overton window and most attempts to do so will be swiftly punished.
What sort of meaningful work sample test can you do in 3 hours?
> Limit the federal education loan guarantee to 15k per year.

> Presto. Watch education prices drop like a rock

Why would raising the limit have that effect?

The limit for federally guaranteed loans (which are also, for nearly a decade, exclusively federal direct loans) is already $57,500 total for undergraduate education, and the maximim per year limit (it is lower for dependent students) is $9,500 for first-year students, $10,500 for second-year students, and $12,500 per year thereafter.

https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/types/loans/subsidized-unsubsid...
Food-grade additives are about avoiding adulterants, etc. I can't imagine people are going to that kind of effort for cheap hygroscopics.

Also, and here's what I suspect the real reason is; silica gel sold as a dessicant is hard (not quite as hard as silica glass, but hard), in relatively large particles, and indigestible. That's mechanically bad news for your intestines.
No idea. I'm a doctor of mineralogy, not a doctor of medicine :-)
The patent was on file. It wasn’t like it was “lost.” The patenting is orthogonal to being “lost.” Someone could easily go prowl through old patents hunting for “new” discoveries if they were so inclined.
here's a link to some background and resource files: https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/arcgis-pro/mapping...
AIG stock declined something like 98%, which isn't great either.
I wonder if it would make a good fire retardant. The water would heat up and make steam and burst out along with some CO2 trapped in it.
The biggest practical advantages are hard to say because it is a chicken before the egg issue. Having a dedicated IP address for each device is very nice. Especially if you like hosting your own services or have a home lab.
'Looking back on this experience, I think some people are incredibly ego-driven, so the prospect of doing something off-the-shelf or for free doesn't enter their conscience.'

I agree completely and have experienced the same very often.
Why would you think that? I see no reason for thinking that beyond blind optimism and wishful thinking.

It's not as if climate change is a surprise. E.g. there's this prediction from 1912:

https://www.livescience.com/63334-coal-affecting-climate-cen...

Vested-interest attempts at FUD aside, contemporary evidence for change should be well known now, and history has a lot to say about the destructive effects of natural climate change on previous civilisations.
"Oh shoot, it was a bunch of random words. I'm so sorry, I had it written down but I can't find the paper..."

Remember, an attacker can call support hundreds of times, getting a different rep every time. There's a good chance it'll work eventually.
For "discovered" vs "invented" I think you have to posit your definition of "exist". This puzzled Russell, Whitehead, Wittgenstein, etc.

The Peano axioms describe constraints for instances within a set. Is something already "there" just because we can test the constraints after it appears, or use them to make it?

The foundations of OMeta go way way back (starting with Meta II by Val Schorre ca 1964 -- and in the context of the many different approaches to parsing in the 60s). The modern addition to help make OMeta was the packrat parsing idea. It wouldn't be surprising if some Prolog lore wafted its way in, but I don't recall that any of the many parsing schemes that Prolog has been used for were in the conversations. One of the Ur-centers that most parsing theory has to contend with is "Earley Parsing". However, the idea that a dynamic proof can be used to parse goes very far back.
Somewhat related, there's a chrome extension called honey that will compare the final price (incl. tax) of all sellers for a product listing and add the best one to your cart. I've saved tons of money in some situations where an alternate seller had no taxes, was cheaper but longer shipping, etc...

It's still frustrating the lengths I have to go to to get a fair deal on Amazon. there's so much anticompetitive behavior (showing their own products first on searches, defaulting to products sold by amazon, hiding competitor listings [search for chromecast]) and they show little interest at changing behavior to make the customer experience better (even on glaring issues like fake reviews / counterfeit products) because there is no competition. I have contributed, been suckered in to the 'Prime' bandwagon, rarely shopping around on price, and often buying 'Amazon's Choice' products, which are almost certainly a sham.

Refreshing to see people on here bucking that trend. I'm trying to commit to the same, hopefully Amazon one day feels pressure to change.
You are saying that it is special because of the clustering, so I am wondering what indicates that? If you look at Sweden or Israel it is fairly obvious that they are successful in at least half a dozen areas. You can trace the path from one area or company to the next.

In Sweden Markus Persson who made Minecraft used to work at King. Jacob de Geer of iZettle was the first employee at TradeDoubler, which was founded by Martin Lorentzon who would later be a founder of Spotify. Daniel Ek of Spotify used to work at another gaming company and of course the music industry is large in general. Zennström who started Skype used to work at Tele2, a telecom operator. Klarna was started with help from people from Bluetail, which used Erlang in turn made by Ericsson. Etc. Etc. (This is just off the top of my head and all these companies had large exits or were already established).

That is what a successful cluster is and what makes them hard to replicate. Without this dynamic it is just a bunch of companies next to each other. So why doesn't Switzerland seem to have that?
Mirai, Gafgyt Botnets Resurface with New Tricks
It looks like (reading through the release notes and some not very recent mailing list threads) that CTE optimization fences will not be removed in PostgreSQL 11.

This makes me very sad.
Ask HN: How can I get better at networking as an introvert technical founder?
Any tip would be greatly appreciated.
Their patent didn’t last 50 years; shortening the patent period would have had little effect in this case.
Banks Repossessed Cars Even If Delinquent Buyers Made Payments to Catch Up: Feds
Not really. It is as full as possible. :)
Don't forget letting the female half of the population drive in the US is a relatively new development as well...

Do you mean to say "new" as in "before this old man who is bordering on retirement was born"? Maybe you city folk kept the ladies in the passenger seat, but out on the farm and you don't drive stick, you're not much use. My long-dead grandmother drove everything from the farm truck full of livestock for the sale barn, to driving us kids to church on Sunday when we stayed with her. Were I to guess, if there were a time women didn't generally drive, it was maybe the '50s and before. Sure wasn't the 60s.

Besides, as I was discussing with my wife (who shifts more smoothly than you do) this weekend: manuals aren't what kept women from driving, it was lack of power steering. You can teach a seven-year-old to drive stick.
In JavaScript it's an array (which has limitations), and in Lua it's a table.
Also living in Sweden here - article misses two huge points.

Same day delivery? Not a big deal. The fact that PostNord won’t deliver packages to my doorstep is though. Having to go to ICA to pick stuff up is a complete pain in the ass sometimes, especially if the package is bigger and I can’t carry it with me on my bike.

Article doesn’t really mention the new tax on stuff imported from China either - that basically killed the crap Chinese knockoff market for things like 10kr cords and the like. If Amazon didn’t find Sweden appealing before they find it even less appealing now.
exactly this. I wish they would update the relevance algorithms to use TFIDF and BM25. We've been praying for this for a long time.. and not really sure why they havent been implemented.
Computing power doesn't unconditionally increase. As our computers get better, we produce ever-smaller computers, trading away some computing power for a more compact form-factor.
Not sure what "audi" (a German company) has to do with America but what ever.

For my own tastes, once my 2000 Ford mustang's automatic tranny started acting funny sometimes (after 15 years and 200k miles), I bought a used manual tranny, flywheel, and clutch pedal set from a wrecked mustang of the same year and did a swap. Much happier now. I also feel more "invincible". If my starter goes out, I won't be stranded, I can just do a push start! Heck even if your battery is dead you can normally still push start. Nothing can stop me! Heck it even has a spare tire unlike all these "modern" cars. Truly nothing can stop me!
Typically it seems to come from the encouragement to offload more of the website logic to the client side. A WordPress install takes usually 15MB of disk space. a lot of that is PHP code that runs on your server. That will never be seen by browsers as it's sharing the work between server and client.

The onset of SPA's what contributes to this. It's making server-side content generation leaner, although sometimes at the expense of the user experience with worse page responsiveness during downloads. What's debatable is if the user benefits are worth the increase of upfront UX cost.
A slave process or drive is not a clone of the master though. They might be entirely different code.
The argument of "JavaScript is bad" or even "JavaScript is necessary but only in small amounts" is getting pretty tired. I don't think anybody could possibly hope to argue that all client-side code is bad, but that's all web+JavaScript is: an easy deployment platform, for both content creator and consumer, for client-side code. Where else could you deploy and within seconds your customers have your new code?

If you're worried about how easy it's becoming to track people in the browser, or to track people in the Internet ecosystem in general, that's an entirely different conversation. JavaScript has absolutely nothing to do with the security and privacy status of the web aside from what it is allowed to do per web standards.

Stop blaming a language or the ability to write anything Turing complete when, clearly, it's just a tool and the same problems exist in every single code distribution arena.
Very much so. In a Dan Brown novel, the plot is the point. For Tolstoy, the plot is a useful device on which to hang what he's actually writing about.
Making MongoDB publicly accessible

The game's already over, you just don't know it yet
For me, Amazon is basically the same gamble as ebay. There is a high chance I will get the wrong product, opened boxes, no box (shipping label stuck on vendor package), opened packages, swapped products, used products sold as new.

I would suggest Amazon can't ever be the cheapest, when I factor in the risk factor that I may or may not get what I paid for. The convenience factor goes out the window if I have to return my package.

Just today I received an opened package. I am curious what surprises await me.
1 connection, 7 balloons, 1,000 kilometers
clearly, you run the blender in reverse
I disagree, I do not feel it is disrespectful considering the heroic story of the passengers Todd Beamer, Mark Bingham, and others on United Flight 93 who were able to successfully take steps to actively resist the hijacking. They were fully aware that those steps may lead to their death, but regardless it is likely they would have died anyway -- there were no survivors of any of the other hijacked planes that day.

A reminder of the story of United Flight 93 on that day:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/dec/02/september11.te...
JS bloat and abuse is very, very real - but the issue isn't JS itself but that the ASKS are bloat and abuse. In contrast with your example, the tool (C) is a bad choice for the job (secure systems). For Web, change the ask and the tool selection may very well change.

I'm a web dev since the 90s, and a JS dev for the last several years. I didn't start in JS, and when I'm asked to do different things I will move away from JS without a major fuss. I use it not because JS is my religious zealotry (though I'm not part of the "cool kids hate JS" club by any measure) but because JS is the least painful way to do what I'm being asked to do. Change what you ask, and I'll change my tool selection.

From this perspective, I don't find your example paralleling the situations to be highly applicable.
It was cars with a foot operated emergency brake that locked into place with a separate lever to release it. Not useful in these situations. Even on cars with a hand brake, it was still a bit dicey, because they only operated the rear brakes, and could be mis-adjusted/weak/etc.

Pretty common on late 60's, 70's, and some 80's cars.
I suspect that would at least partly depend on how hazardous it is to humans, especially under high temperature/pressure or as an inhalation hazard. Is there an MSDS for dry water?
Exactly. As an individual one should strive to do that right thing. As a member of society one should support systems that are resilient in the face of people that do not strive to do the right thing.
> By default they take your photo and fingerprint, even if you're a US citizen

Photo, yes; fingerprint, no. Every customs station I've been through when re-entering the US has taken photos but not fingerprints. (They do require fingerprints from non-US-citizens.)
I've been in your shoes (still am). I've found it to be much easier to start with people that are similar in personality and interests. With people similar to yourself, you'd have more topics to talk about and eventually you can expand into people with different personalities and interests.
As is demonstrated time and time again, the weakest point in any security system is usually a human being.
I always find it cool to see the beginning of projects, but particularly lisp projects where the boostrap language is replaced with the new one: https://github.com/sctb/lumen/commits/master?before=aedf2fd2...
Yes, and apply the same philosophy to your product manager, etc. as a developer. Developers tend to assume that the manager has carefully considered the cost of what they ask for, and is certain that the result is worth it. But this usually isn't true. Managers tend to ask for more than the developers can deliver. They do not always remember to make clear to employees which requests are essential vs. "nice to have". I think this is often an honest mistake - the manager does not realize they are failing to communicate their priorities.

If the cost/benefit seems fishy, the developer should ask the manager for more justification. A lot of developers don't realize they can push back.
Gemini can make GUSD non-transferrable at any moment (code review)
> I hate to play the devil's advocate here,
> but why would Apple make an upgradeable machine?

Because a customer sends Steve an email explaining how many headaches it's causing her. And he says "yeah, this is stupid" and tells someone to fix it.

Oh right, I forgot. It's 2018.
My understanding is that to produce dry water all you need is a fine enough super-hydrophobic substance. It doesn't have to be silica but we know how to produce hydrophobic silica nano-particles.

The main property it has over traditional water is an increased water-gas interface which means it can absorb more gases and absorb them at a faster rate.
"A decent hedge-fund strategy would be to run a private WPT instance and track JS bloat and TTI for commercial-intent sites — and then short firms that regress because they just spend 3-8 quarters rewriting everything in The One True Framework."

For a post that weighs so heavily on the need for evidence, this claim doesn't have any. There have to be cases where bloat has a material impact on a company's finances, but how frequent are they?
That's the good thing with almost all telecom equipment by Ericsson and their big advantage. Remote software update/upgrade while in operation with almost zero down time and also the ability to live/actively patch the running code.
There are some really cool things the web has gained

I'd like to here about these things, if any. I'll generously assume you aren't seriously referring to "web previews" or animations.

I'm also glad Flash has finally been killed off

No, that's an absolute tragedy. Some of the youngsters here might not be aware, but there was a time when 99 percent of the garbage in a website could be turned off with a single blocker, all without impacting anything necessary.
This looks pretty darn nice. I’d be interested in hearing from anyone who’s used it for anything. How was it?
Top Books on Causality Inference
As an American who has come here, I gained an all new appreciation for USPS after dealing with PostNord. They really are infuriatingly bad sometimes.
Of course all companies use ads, including unscrupulous ones. But ads work better for companies with a real product, and therefore you expect the % of good products among advertised products to be higher than among non-advertised ones.
A huge majority of the JavaScript for the project I work on is tracking scripts explicitly requested by marketing people. They all disagree on where analytic data should be sent to, so it ends up in Google Analytics, and LinkedIn, and FB, and and and...

The developers on my team try to use just enough JS to accomplish what we need, and almost all of the rendering happens server-side.

I think what I'm describing is an under-appreciated piece of the puzzle. How many developers have you met who just loooove Google Tag Manager?
How do you know they use TeamSite? A similar hack occurred against TicketMaster. I wonder if they use TeamSite as well. Maybe a 0day?
Their app in on the appstore but has no reviews. I guess they didn't get much traction?
Cheaper than decrypting and mitm-ing all this traffic. Scare ordinary people away, more likely it is to random pick a valid target
Re: The Fed

The Fed is a privately owned bank that is given the monopoly to issue debt backed by the taxation of the State.

The U.S. could simply issue debt itself. Even though the President appoints the Fed Chairman and it has the word "Federal" in its name it is not a Government organization. If you don't believe me, try getting ownership information from the Fed via the Freedom of Information Act.

For further information see what happened when President Andrew Jackson abolished the precursor to the current Fed. America didn't implode it actually thrived.
Also worth looking into is how the current Fed came about. President Woodrow Wilson lived long enough to regret bringing the Fed back.

Fun fact, the Bank of England started off as a private bank before it became nationalized. Nothing is stopping the U.S. from doing the same.

Re: Economics is modelling

If that were the case what is Communism? Is that a model or a political system? What is Capitalism? Is that a model too? No... they are 'societal beliefs in action' which is what politics is.

As for your assertions on philosophy... I would say philosophy is more than finding inconsistencies, it's a framework for thought itself that allows for reasoning.

What is a model anyway? At its essence it's an idea (or set of ideas) that may or may not be true. I think a big part of the problem with Economics today is the hubris modelling can confer by giving the illusion of accuracy.

It's worth looking into the works of Nobel Prize winner in Economics and the Turing Award winner Herbert A. Simon or more recently Nassim Nicholas Taleb.

Simon's Nobel acceptance speech suns things up better than I can.
Or pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. Been waiting for 25 years to use that word seriously. :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilico...
Can anyone clear Google cookies from Chrome?
I notice today it's impossible to clear google cookies. I had several tabs open, including one to gmail and one to calendar, and I have "Do Not Track" set to "yes".

Then, I clear cookies and close my browser.

Then, I open my browser (it re-loads all my tabs automatically).

As soon as possible, I again clear my cookies.

Finally, when I load the google home page, it still has my account showing in the top corner (my logo, my name, and my email).

My guess is google have some JS which detects cookie loss, and immediately reconstitutes the lost cookies - so all my "clear" requests are being surreptitiously violated...

Does anyone know how to tell chrome to actually get rid of google cookies? Even the "new tab" window contacts google and sets more cookies every time!
It would be cool if someone will create Maperitive rules file (.mrules) for render OSM.[0,1]

There are some examples of .mrules and other useful things for Maperitive.[2,3]

Also, on OSM wiki there are few pages useful for design rules for Maperitive.[4,5,6]

[0] http://maperitive.net

[1] http://maperitive.net/docs/FAQ.html

[2] https://github.com/search?o=desc&q=maperitive&s=updated&type...

[3] https://github.com/search?o=desc&q=mrules&s=updated&type=Rep...

[4] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Maperitive

[5] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Maperitive/HowTo

[6] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Maperitive/SampleRenderi...
The problem is that in practice things that implement RFC3986 do random things with stuff that is invalid instead of rejecting it, in an attempt to comply with Postel's law.

So, again in practice, the security consequence of implementing RFC3986 is typically much worse than that of implementing the WHATWG URL spec. At least the latter actually defines handling for all inputs, instead of leaving implementations to make things up as they go.
Apple takes down Trend Micro Mac apps that collected, stored user data