skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In general in the USA, if you're white (or Asian in some communities) and middle class or above, you generally have nothing to fear in a traffic stop -- and you're more likely to vote... so the candidates you elect aren't worried so much about what happens to those other people.
I use shortcuts to do time tracking at work, which works great.

I do hope though that they bring back Shortcuts for the Apple Watch - with the old Workflow app I could do everything on the watch, now I have to grab my phone every time.
Plain-Old-Bash-Scripts 2018 ~
Ask HN: How to decide between 2 startup ideas?
Let's say you are interested in 2 startup ideas, both roughly equivalent in opportunity size and personal fit, but in different markets. There isn't a factor that that makes either stand out. How would you decide which to pursue and break analysis paralysis?
I would be concerned about the privacy implication of it. Imagine if the browser sent the origin to widely used CDNs, or to Google Fonts, and that people didn't actually block Google domains on their browsers.

Also, this would not be secure by default, because you would have to change the default behavior of the server to block cross origin requests.
adplexity.com - 5 million USD revenue.

Better launch a new product first, make revenue like the product i posted and use that money to fund your big business.
Develop as a hobby on a project you can get passionate about and continuously learn the stuff you don't know and look ahead to the future to get ahead of the curve
Razor templates are quite good as far as server side templating goes imo
It saddens me to see how the pine beetles are killing off the pines, but won't they ultimately improve the pine populations by thinning out the weakest trees? And over the course of the next hundred years, give some more climate-resilient strains room to spread, or migrate?
Ask HN: Is it possible to beat Google?
I’m working on efficient neural architecture search, and I think I can provide an offering that’s more effective than Cloud automl. I want to open source the code tech for the community and allow you to host models on your own infrastructure if you want. Do you think it would be possible to beat Google or Amazon?
> About 90% of my experience with police has been profesional and unremarkable.

I chuckled when I realized how big your sample size must have been for you to come up with that number. I'm not one to talk, I think the number for me is 80% ;)
really fine, fine writing. Eg:

>I’m not from the South and don’t talk as if I were. Most telling, and the other guys can sense this somehow, I do not for a moment think I’m a symbol of some bygone ideal of Wild West American freedom or any other half-mythic, half-menacing nugget of folk nonsense.
What you are describing is a “series hybrid”. The Chevy Volt is not a pure series hybrid, it has an elaborate mechanism to connect the gas engine to the wheels when it is efficient to do so. For example highway cruise where the gas engine can run near its optimal rpm.
That theory would assume the men from Adam to Noah are actually historical persons with recorded timespans, and there was just some mistake in interpreting the numbers. But consider that Noah is similar to a character known from much older Sumerian flood myths - except in the Sumerian version he is immortal. It is common to ascribe impossibly long lifespans to legendary figures from past ages - the Sumerian list of kings lists their early kings as having reign of tens of thousands of years.

I think it is a fools errand to try to find rational explanations for implausibilities in mythology. After all, the length of lifespan is kind of the least problematic thing about the account of Adam, if you want to understand it as historical.
I'd go hiking a lot. I would also teach what I know.
A couple of years back I made the same comment about the European car industry. I got wiser since then. The main lesson I drew from Tesla's struggles with manufacturing was 1) efficient mass manufacturing is making the difference between life and death for EVs too and 2) an EV is easier to build than an ICE powered car.

I don't see the early mover advantage, just a realistic risk for really late companies. And rigjt now it is not too late for anyone at a long stretch. It is important to remember thst the EV game now moved to car makers core competencies in mass production. There a stll a ton of challenges for them but none as existential as it seemed a couple of years back.
Sans Forgetica: a font designed help you to better remember your study notes
The paper does say this: "While I closely and respectfully examined the genitals of slightly fewer than ten thousand dogs, being careful not to cause alarm and moving away if any dog appeared uncomfortable...". The term "I" implies it was a single person doing all that. Elsewhere, it specifies that the total time spent observing dogs was 1000 hours.

Elsewhere: "From 10 June 2016, to 10 June 2017, I stationed myself on benches that were in central observational locations at three dog parks in Southeast Portland, Oregon. Observation sessions varied widely according to the day of the week and time of day. These, however, lasted a minimum of two and no more than 7 h and concluded by 7:30 pm (due to visibility)." It'd be an average of nearly 3 hours per day, every day.
But why not just completely separate origins with regards to sessions, or at least let the user give permission to use that Facebook session here? That way, many use cases would already be covered without any danger. If a travel website is CORS-reading weather data from another origin, pre-existing sessions probably don't matter at all.
A kind of a problem with "LSD-like" psychedelics (seemingly doesn't apply to "meth-like" MDMA) as well as with the weed is the experience with them depends hugely on your pre-existing vision, what do you actually want and where do you drive yourself during the trip. If you are a kind and loving person by nature (even if depressed and confused at the moment) sensations of beauty, joy and love will probably overwhelm you and you'll end up happy and kind but if you're a psycho like Manson you end up even more psycho. If you consciously stick to the positive emotions and vision during the trip the trip is going to be amazing and may have a profound positive therapeutic effect, but if you stumble upon fear or sorrow inside you and don't know you can and should consciously choose positive emotions it can be nightmarish. I only know of one tryptamine (5-MeO-DMT) and one rare Hungarian mushroom (can't even remember the species name now, perhaps I'll add it later) that seem to always yield positive experience, with all the others one should never forget to "use the steering wheel" during their trip. One can rely on the setting and the sitter instead but I believe this is less reliable and people should really learn basic compassion meditation and being mindful about their feelings before trying psychedelics).
This provides Snort rules, file hashes and other indicators to help detect compromises - how many folks feel they have the framework existing to just "update" and go and how many just would need to start from the beginning on this?

just trying to get a feel for state of play
Because Finland is sparsely populated (and long) for an EU country, road trips are a thing here, especially for a winter holiday to Lapland. We even have a company advertise car ferries to Germany, so some must fantasize about a road trip!

Even then, there are no American size cars. Most sold cars are European or Japanese station wagons.
Node.js is better at web apps, and for us it’s been much faster to get stuff out too. The ability to quickly prototype is instrumental when you’re doing service design, and node excels at that.

SSIS is better at moving data.

Powershell has come really far, it’s certainly not C#, but where it really excels is when it’s integrated into our Azure orchestra giving us faster error reporting and making us capable of addressing those errors quicker. It’s also a language that’s shared between developing and operations. So while C# is better technically, powershell is better organizational and that means it’s better.

Simply put C# has become an unnecessary burden, in our setup. I’m not sure I’d use node for huge projects, but our backends are mostly simple frameworks for manipulating relatively small amounts of data.

We’re not leaving .Net or Microsoft, our node server runs behind an IIS with IIS node. SSIS, powershell and Azure are obviously Microsoft. Our entire security model is based around AD and ADFS.
I've got so many :(

I haven't seen this one so far (but haven't yet read all comments):

Whenever possible, try to avoid bugs. But, even more importantly: When given a bug report, FIX the damn bug. Don't:

- Shrug, mutter incomprehensible things and wish the person with the bug report goes away (yes, I've seen that. It infuriates me.)

- Say "that's not possible" (cf [1]). It is. It happened, no user makes this stuff up for fun.

- Say "that doesn't happen on my machine." Well done! Now make sure it doesn't on all the other ones, too!

- Say, "well, if you had configured it right,...". That's also a bug: Your documentation sucks. Fix it. Also make sure impossible/nonsensical configurations are visible (best done during startup, for example).

- Avoid commenting on the report/contacting the author because there's not enough information. Tell them you need more, what they must gather and how. If you tell everyone the same things, write a HOWTO and link there.

- Ignore bug reports. Valid reasons you're not fixing a bug are 1) you're currently busy fixing another, more important one or 2) you already understand the bug completely and have discussed the tradeoffs involved with others (write a WONTFIX with sound reasoning, please).

To sum it up: Be helpful to your users/admins/etc. Don't be a "Code Monkey".

[1]: http://plasmasturm.org/log/6debug/

Edit: Formatting, reference to 6debug :)
Hey ... Thanks for clarifying. Yes I guess without the mind, cloning wouldn't really be what I supposed it to be.

I am still curious whether some rogue scientist has tried to clone humans.
This doesn't take into account that the stock didn't begin to vest until a worker was at Amazon for one year, and with such high employee turnover few made it to that mark.
That would be an awesome feature, but would mean sticking your hand into the whole data-collection/user privacy/GDPR rats nest. Not a ship I'm too keen to captain.
Feature request for email: Click "maybe send" to queue the email and send it to yourself in 3 hours, where you might be in the right headspace to rethink anything before hitting "send" to the original recipient.
It was stupid and dangerous to do that. I think a fine and slap on the wrist was okay. I wish the time out of cob was shorter. The secdies a terrible job of finding leaders of companies, this was just more egregious than usual. Look at all those banks that went under on wall street, no fines or prison terms after saying they were fine.
> and the "grievance scholars" are slowly convincing the rest of academia that real scholarship consists not of neutral methods and honest argument, but agreeing with the grievance scholars in all things, and finding ways to inject it whether it's relevant or not.

What degrees or disciplines would you characterise as "grievance scholars", and what evidence do you have that suggests the influence those disciplines have over scholarship is increasing?

The amount of degrees awarded in women's studies over the last 10 years has significantly dropped.
I heard in previous podcasts that they surveyed large clients and that the response was enthusiastic to this technology. My guess is that they are serious about it.

Now we must distinguish blazor and mono on wasm. Mono on wasm allows the .net runtime to run in webassembly. Blazor uses the mono runtime and creates a UI framework. I think the game changer is the .net runtime in wasm. Once it is production ready, I am sure we will see competing UI frameworks, some possibly even based on xaml.
Actually the centrifugal compressor is pretty common in many applications, so more typical than funny looking.
Case by case basis, but it's not uncommon to have clients hit a single domain and route the traffic based on the url. Exposing a microservice architecture to clients has pros and cons, of which this is a con.
You convince an investor to fund you with research (aka expertise)
you can rent a licence, there are many banks doing that in EU. I think you need to do a better research..
Summing up the discussions, it seems to me that US is the capital lending source for the world. Every country loans, saves and invests in US dollars to improve their economy. Previously this role was played by Gold but gold source is limited while US can ensure(theoretically) unlimited supply of dollars. So, in effect, all the growth that we saw from 1971 was due to this switch from Gold.
This arrangement works well for everyone. The other issue about US sanctions will push the rest of the world towards searching for an alternative, is not true.The reality is, the rest of the world adapts and tries to compromise with US. May be it is first mover or luck or strength of US economy, but this role played by US is not likely to be replicated or substituted.
But, interestingly, this role of US dollar is very beneficial for capital or investments in US. And by the same corollary, is very bad for US labor, since they are competing not just against the other countries, but against US dollar. May be this is also the reason for the unrest and social protests?
Remember or know MS-DOS? The Windows predecessor is now open source on GitHub
Theee is a reason why TPS is the current gold standard in production, regardlesz of industry. Automation is fine in theory, but no silber bullet solution. Large hardware manufacturing is something different than small electronics.
What about making production branch which goes live and is tested before and let them push into master if they like it so much? Practically, it does not matter which branch and how it is called. Important is that you don't push untested changes to live.

Also, writing large document is not how you convince people. If they dont think your ideas are good, they perceive it just as an attempt to force them to do something that does not make sense to them.

> since the founder has pushed breaking changes directly to master and then I got flack since I am now the "systems" guy and am responsible for the health of the app. I'm trying to think of the best way to approach this diplomatically. Do any HNers have some pointers or advice to give?

This is large red flag. Toxic politics warning. Document what you do, document discussions decisions etc. Diplomatic is partly way to go, especially since it is founder, but if situation call for it be ready to defend yourself.

Also, if that sort of founder behavior becomes usual, run away. No matter what your tech skills are, this will only get worst as other employees will naturally take clues from founder and imitate behavior.

This is where production branch I suggested up there can really help.

> He also keeps harping that I need to "earn his trust."

Another red flag warning. Sometimes it is not about who you are and what you do, sometimes it is about who they are. And who they are suggests they will not build productive effective workplace. It will generate ugly office politics.

If that happens, leave before you are so frustrated that you lost confidence or burned out.
I have looked into this area. The best way to do it is to partner with an existing bank. You wouldn't need payment processor license which would likely be very costly.
Can you buy an existing bank that is already licensed?
It's better for you to reply to the parent, rather than me. I was simply discussing the absurdity of being depressed at missing out on the future, not the validity, ethics, or consequences of modifying intelligence.
I didn't know there is a rule against posting something factual that happens to be pro-tesla. If there is anything inaccurate about my post let me know.
Must say its a difficult task to convince banks to partner with you.
> It's going to be depressing if we get to a point where the next generation is vastly superior both in intelligence and physical fitness

"intelligence and physical fitness" are overrated. Think of a generation without mental illnesses. People that is balanced and happy. People that has no malignant fobias and does not get fat just because does not know when to stop eating.

You are still right, that they should also be smarter and healthier and better looking that us if they can. But I see a bigger change if we adress our mental problems first.
5G Streaming Is Going to Be Beautiful When It Gets Here But…
That's an interesting assumption.

It might be true to a degree, yet I reckon the problem lies in CS teaching. A vast majority of programmers seem to start with imperative languages, hence they are more familiar with the procedural paradigm, and when they encounter functional code it seems alien and difficult to work with.

That's why I wrote people “just have to properly learn” functional languages. But your hypothesis is probably true as well.
>>> Looks like a profitable business.

But is it a business worth purusing for humanity. Have you ever tasted hydroponics lettuce ? It's so inferior in taste and the sensations it gives in your mouth. It may have all nutrients, but if nutrients is the point, then let's eat soylent green.
First this is not just websites. It is also webapps (think universal, cross platform client apps).

Then the assemblies will be cached and I understand they are working on getting them small. Silverlight wasn't that bad in term of load time.

If the website really deserves a SPA (creating a blog in a SPA is ridiculous), people expects the website to take a little time to load even with javascript, and it does. My online broker trading platform does, webmails do, etc.

For reactivity, I am not sure I get your point. With async/await it is going to be trivial, and .net on wasm will likely be faster than javascript.
The replication crisis is an entirely different thing. I'm not sure what point you're trying to make.
C# is still very much a decent language, but it's not as shiny as it used to be.
I have worked professionally with .NET and C# since the 1.0beta and I have to agree: it's not that good any more. Not because it's gained so much bloat or because it has gotten worse, but because its ecosystem has been fractured so many times I stopped counting. The core ordeal is just the last in a series of disruptions and the previous one was Roslyn. These aren't bad initiatives, it's just that they aren't ready. Roslyn is barely working in VS together with the project system (which is odd given it was shipped first in VS2015)! I applaud ms for developing more in the open, but the constant renaming and churn of everything is tiring.

But all that aside, C# is still decent, the only thing making it less shiny now is that we realized that OO is a promise that didn't deliver. I don't want to program another line without proper algebraic types for example - yet here we are.
I agree. In fact it seems almost certain some traits will be sacrificed in search of others.

Who is going to build more fit Thomas Paines or Edward Snowdens, and under which powrer structures would they be allowed to?
It pays to be pessimistic, shows new research into entrepreneurs
I live in a pretty gentrified and wealthy area and when police show up it looks likes when a shark is moving near fish. The place usually heavily depopulates just by seeing them. I don't mean when they show up to an event either. I've seen them casually walking down the street and there's just a wave of everyone coincidentally realizing they have other places to be.

The only regular exception I see to this is when there are large crowds like concerts or public events where the cops are standing guard. Even then there's a relatively large space between the cops and the crowd.

I guess the answer is that you live comfortably until you see cops
Test Cafe
Test Cafe is an online test platform providing practice tests for various government exams like SBI, IBPS, SSC, Railway, LIC, Police etc.
I immediately thought about something like a jailbreak for the device where an attacker could attach a computer, run an exploit, and upload whatever data he predetermined. After the code was run it would leave no trace behind and hard to prove otherwise for the owner.
Exactly. Tesla has close to 1 million cars on the road. Waymo has power point presentations.
> A full experience of The Lightning Field does not depend upon the occurrence of lightning, and visitors are encouraged to spend as much time as possible in the field, especially during sunset and sunrise.

So it has nothing to do with lightnings, or does it? And if it's independent of lightning activity, what else is it about?

A bit more explanation would be helpful.
But we should consider the worst case scenario, not an average one. Thus 230 mph is conservative. They didn't even consider fast gliders, which alone can reach 460 mph.
An addendum to that: Design your error messages. When dealing with exceptions, catch/wrap the exception (e.g. using InnerException in .NET) and add important information if necessary.

You'll be glad you did six months down the line, when the exception actually pops up and you instantly know how to reproduce the bug (perhaps because you know the id of the business object involved).

Edit: Also, use understandable text for error messages. Don't go around talking about threads/sockets etc. unless they happen on that abstraction level. The user should see business-level errors, so they know what happened in the business domain and why ("we don't know why, this shouldn't have happened" is a reasonable answer there, too).

Edit 2: I just thought of Git's "plumbing vs porcelain" metaphor. Abusing it slightly: It's much more pleasant to be notified of an error by a red light instead of standing ankle-deep in sewage. I guess that metaphor breaks down a bit, since toilets more often have the latter than the first :)
The USA has not murdered tens of millions of foreigners.
cue cops busting down the door while you're having sex or working out