skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I no longer get panicked phone calls from my wife where she's lost and needs me to get her going in the right direction, even though she doesn't know where she is. I'm OK with this new reality.
The reason for this is to prevent downgrade attacks where an attacker can perform a man-in-the-middle by forcing your client to use an insecure protocol version. It makes sense, even if it occasionally breaks websites.
I like all of it except Diet Pepsi for some reason (Pepsi Max is maybe my favorite), and even then sometimes I like Diet Pepsi. Occasionally I'll get one that tastes quite bitter, yet another time it will taste like a Pepsi.

This doesn't happen to me with any other diet drinks, not sure why this one isn't "consistent"- I guess maybe because Diet Pepsi I have more often from fountains instead of containers, since it's usually a backup when a restaurant has no other diet options
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In a similar vein,

As a teen at my first job, we would prime our tip-jar with a dollar bill from the register in order to jump start tips.

You'd be amazed at how well that worked.
Simple, but slow.
This is a very big deal.

As best I can tell, it's widely believed by those on the right that Sessions is the reason cannabis has not been rescheduled during Trump's term so far. With him gone, it seems very likely to happen. If it does, I expect that he will easily be reelected.

Also, combined with Trump's recent tweets re: investigations, I expect we're about to see all sorts of fireworks by both sides.
In the UK many "full time politicians" have 2 or 3 other jobs (that would be full-time for other people). Things like working on the board of large companies, being a columnist.

I guess if you're being told by lobbyists what to vote you don't need to take time ...
I don’t like the idea of installing client-side software in order to preserve my server-side privacy. Seems like leaping from the frying pan into the fire.
Huh? That's only feasible for intersections of large roads, but American four-way stops are usually on small(ish) residential roads, where single-lane roundabouts work just fine.
1) Nothing is changing unless federal law changes. So basically, nothing is changing

2) For those who have calls with people in Europe this would be a big plus since the EU looks likely to go to DST year round. If this happens and California keeps switching then UK/ROI/Portugal will be 9 hours off from CA half the year, and western Europe 10 hours off. It's hard enough to schedule calls with an 8 hour difference.
Surely gait analysis is part of the US arsenal as well. It's unique like a fingerprint and is used extensively by equestrian teams, etc., to detect shoe and health issues early to protect the investment in the horse. Many relevant health problems are visible early on as a change in the horse's gait.

It can be done with an accelerometer or a camera, and probably other kinds of sensors.

It could also be used for early diagnosis in humans, but is cost prohibitive for human preventative care use.
...and then lower your costs by building a real AGI to pretend to be humans pretending to be AI.

(Has anyone done this particular sci-fi plot?)
Or, a better question: how may different ways one can subvert the vote done via app or a web site?

A good engineer spends most of his/her time thinking not about happy paths but how the thing might fail (and the ways to guard against the failure).
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Ask HN: Have you noticed that Google search links are less clickable lately?
Recently, in Chrome on macOS (Sierra and High Sierra), I find that clicking (wireless mouse and wired mouse tested) on Google search result links does not open the link. I find I'm often clicking on the blue underline of the link and it's not opening. I'll even move the mouse up a few pixels and it still does not open. Why is this happening?
Conversely, if someone mugs you in the cul-de-sac and no one is there to hear you scream, are you really safe? How can you get help? There may be people driving by, but they probably only hear whatever's going on for a split second as they drive past you in a sealed car.

There are crowds everywhere there is economic activity. No one thinks the shopping mall or the beach or the park is the next coming of the Bolsheviks or the next Ferguson; that's all purely suburban American hysteria.
Oldest animal painting' discovered in Borneo
Show HN: Mimicking Scheme in Ruby by Implementing the Yin Yang Puzzle
The whole point of doing things that don't scale includes..... doing things that don't scale.

That includes things that can't scale.

That's the whole point.

Why discriminate against prototypes when we're doing things that don't scale and they're... well... things that don't scale? Making prototypes and testing assumptions with them is 100% in the spirit of the methodology.
The guy supposedly buys blood from healthy 20-somethings and injects it in an attempt to steal some of their youth. Where do you go from there? He clearly doesn't give a shit about anything except me, me, me and me.
Well, it’s not fewer components regardless how you package it.
Running docker compose wasn’t enough to get into a fully configured system to be able to evaluate it even.
How well does gait analysis work against gait-disguise techniques like putting a pebble in your show as described in this video?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JASUsVY5YJ8
Blink Shell and VPS is the only real way to do any programming on iPad.

However, I love the form factor of 10.5" so much that this has become my preferred of way of doing any "fun" programming. For work and serious projects, I still fire up MBP.
You're cornered into a kickstarter-esque model of selling one big expensive copy to "everyone" -- and maybe cathedral style development where you do the same thing over and over again on some release cycle.
Several of the New England states are contemplating a move to year-round Atlantic Time, which would keep them synced 3 hours ahead of California.

I’d love that. There’s no reason why a city at the latitude of Boston should have to endure 4:30 sunsets.
Even if it is correct to say that, "You are a state machine." and "prior state" is an input to the state generation function of the machine, this is _not_ incompatible with free will, and does _not_ require a pre-determined universe.

Simply put, current state as an input does not necessitate pre-determination.

I think the point user all2 was making is that if we remove the prior state modifier from the generate state function then the core piece that is left over is "your basest existence".
That's a good name. It contrasts pretty well with the 1970s' paradigm of "expert systems"—where you were encoding the opinions of one human, or the consensus opinion of a conference room full of humans.
During the eighties, when I was young, the river Rhine in the Netherlands was a very polluted river where fish had all but disappeared. Trees in forests were dying because of acid rain. The ozone layer was shrinking and exposing people to lethal levels of UV. Those were scary problems. Now the Rhine has salmon swimming in it. Trees seem to have mostly recovered and the ozone layer is also recovering.

People argued that these problems couldn't be fixed, that they would be too expensive to fix, etc. But now there is good progress. That gives me hope about other problems on this planet.

My view of addressing climate change because of global warming is that it is going to require a bit more effort but that it is fundamentally just as doable. Better still, we are actually doing it. The question is are we doing it fast enough and are going about it as efficient as we could. People sure seem to waste a lot of time defending the status quo, arguing for inaction, or questioning whether there even is a problem to solve.

The core problem as I see it is addressing our energy needs and kicking off a second industrial revolution in the process. That's exactly what is happening right now. For me that prospect is the main goal. Saving our planet is a nice side effect though.

If we solve the technical problem of producing as much clean energy as we could possibly need, we could all have air-conditioning in our houses, terrace heaters in our gardens in the winter, irrigate our deserts with desalinated water from the sea, supply our industries with clean carbo hydrates produced straight from the air, etc. These things are all very energy intensive.

Demand for energy is outstripping our ability to conserve it. Therefore solving clean plentiful energy is key. It's the only thing that will get us results.
Gimmick.

That is until Apple does something similar for the iPhone, at which point we will be officially permitted to call it innovation.
Judging from the zulip.org server it looks like there is a need for a chronological topic decay feature.
That's not the point. You really shouldn't have to do this in the first place.
Ask HN: How much time does it take you to get enough traffic to your website?
enough: when you start having paying customers.
How much time does it take from zero to good enough traffic? how much effort do you put into it (building blogs etc how much time).
We built invoicing into our product!

One of our technical needs was auto-charging clients for overdue invoices that were neither approved nor disputed. That's application logic, not something we can use an external system for.
These are beautiful. Will be using it for my next launch
> One thing I'm not clear about is how the state legislature didn't already have this authority. Prop 7 doesn't change the state constitution, just the state Government Code.

The relevant Government Code provision establishing DST was adopted by the voters (not the Legislature on its own) and, therefore, the legislature can't change it unilaterally, only by sending an amending statute to the voters.
When the price of getting caught spray painting cameras is you and your family getting executed, or being sent to a 're-education camp', would you still do it? No matter how 'incredibly fragile' you perceive the system to be?

This is already a daily reality for certain minorities in some countries already.

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ne94dg/jingwang-a...
https://cstack.github.io/db_tutorial/ I found this blog to be quite interesting because it deals with something I don't really spend time thinking about: the internals of a database engine. It's fascinating to see how the sausage is made.

https://lwn.net/Articles/250967/ - 'What every programmer should know about memory' is a very in-depth series of articles mostly about RAM, but also CPU Cache and general performance. While it is 10 years old, memory technology hasn't kept up with CPU speeds, and it is often a bottleneck - perhaps making the articles even more relevant today.

http://paulgraham.com/articles.html - I feel like every reader of Hacker News must have come across this at some point, but it's still worth bringing up. Paul Graham writes about start-ups, LISP, about technology in general, and sometimes about society.
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A cubic kilometer of ice is 9.167e11 kg.

Also, just keep the orbit above 800km, and the light sail will still be able to counteract its own drag.

If the orbit gets too low, turn the ice into rocket fuel and use it to refuel ships boosting into higher orbits.
That requires a good support team that follows process.

It falls apart when support doesn't train newcomers in what engineering needs, or when support just "throws things over the wall" to engineering.

I once worked with a very bad "director" of support who couldn't figure out that a customer was sharing something to the wrong email address. She did absolutely no diagnostics. When I called her on it, and explained that she couldn't throw everything over the wall to me, she quit the next day. Her replacement was much, much better.
UK: Investigation into Use of Data Analytics in Political Campaigns [pdf]
Email - searchable, taggable, no app needed per se, cross-device.

Agree with read now or never, but sometimes I still want to save it for weekend read.

To actually read something I found printing it out very helpful - you won't forget and can highlight stuff.
Please define "urban".

Cul-de-sac layouts are usually in suburban regions. Is that included in 'urban'? Or are you comparing urban cores to exurbs or rural regions?

I've walked outside at 1am in a city with no one else on the streets. I've walked at 1am in another city with a lot of people on the streets. I can tell you that I felt safer when there were more people on the street than just me. Which would make you feel safer?

FWIW, "high foot traffic" does not only mean "crowds". Neighbors walking by every few minutes would count as high traffic.

To give more concrete numbers, https://spacesyntax.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Hillier-S... concerns this exact topic. The author writes "Mean pedestrian movement [for road] segments without retail the rate is 158.476 [per hour] for 317 segments", where a 'segment' is the section of street between intersections, in this case, in London.

That's roughly 2-4 people on the street at any one time - hardly a crowd that would lead to a riot!

On streets with retail, it's 640, or about 10-20 people at any one time.
> TFL says daily ridership is 5MM people, and based on your figures, daily advertising revenue is 390k GBP. That means that for every 1000 users, they're earning 78 GBP in ads revenue.

I suspect that's 5 million journeys, not people, and it's tube only, not all TFL as a whole.

£390k a day of advertising income, and £13m a day of farebox revenue, means that every £2.60 ticket would be £2.68 without the barrage of adverts.
Study didn't "find" anything. An "I want to believe" scientist wrote a speculative paper arguing that it's not provably totally impossible that the object is a space ship. Most of the rest of astronomy disagrees.
Falcon 9 second stage will be upgraded to be like a mini-BFR Ship
I think fighting this will be much more like trying to stop Facebook shadow profiling you. You won't know where the surveillance devices will be, or rather, everything will be one.
Is this a common workflow? Googling suggests almost religious feelings about this.
> Disclaimer: I am active on the political side, and will be running for office in the next election cycle.

You should make an announcement or something for us in HN (when the time comes)! I'm sure there would be quite a lot of people here to support your candidature.
> I think anyone with even a basic understanding of crypto would do things the other way around.

Can you explain your reasoning? PGP lacks forward secrecy, a key feature that you'd want and which OTR provides.
A human baby can't learn to walk by having it demonstrated to them; they actually have to try walking themselves. (Though maybe this would be different if adults were shaped exactly like babies, and babies could understand speech well enough to parse a description of the process of walking.)

Heck, even after we learn to talk and read, we still don't learn to write by having it explained, and only vaguely learn by demonstration. We mostly just learn by generating outputs and having them evaluated by the other NI (sort of like how AlphaGo Zero works.)
I graduated from a public high school in CA in 2000, and we had no geography class required, or even offered (I think). But we didn't have CS either, and if I'd been given the choice I would have chosen the latter I'm sure.
I have one of their 4k oled tvs, but I don't see which ads you are talking about ?

To be fair my tv is mostly used to read my hard drive, youtube, netflix and games and not even connected to regular channels, so maybe I am missing something to get them.
That’s not at all why this is a big deal. Sessions recused himself from overseeing the special counsel. Rod Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, has been conducting honest and principled oversight to the dismay of republicans. Now that Sessions is gone, Trump can appoint a sycophant to undermine the investigation. This is terrible news for our democracy and the rule of law.
Joel Embiid puts in the work, trust me.
If the goal is to police and/or suppress, using this system means that your targets don't have to carry a phone (and that you don't need to have access to the phone's data).
Human beings, at least some of them, crave power. How would one such human behave in a system such as this? How would a group? Could a system be designed to be relient against this threat, at scale?

While it's nice to think of a FLOSS utopia, unfortunately human behaviour will never allow it to happen.
Yeah this is a very idiosyncratic pet peeve of mine. Wikipedia's pepsi taste test article also cites Blink with the same sense of authority.
If that's a deal breaker you probably have few options when buying your next tv, sad as it is.

I just don't use any of the "smart" crap. It's an input output device, don't need/want it to be more.
Yeah exactly, what does quantum mechanics even have to do with it?

This is just scientism if you ask me.
Classic case of confusing correlation and causation. Large teams work on large projects. Large projects have large audiences which attract large numbers of requests. The smallest change in the world is going to get lost in all that noise.
Zulip founder here; I'm curious why you think that?

Here's our thinking. Topics within a stream are ordered by the time of the most recent message. We keep the complete history, both of messages and topics, because it's useful for search and following up on things. Personally, I regularly reply to a conversation whose last message was a month or more ago to follow up with new information (often after getting there from one of the permanent links in our issue tracker). Because the context is all there and available with just a single click on the topic, I find it to be a really nice workflow.
> Autonomy is not a problem of medical treatment,

Talking about it outside of the specific conflict, is disingenuous. Everyone understands how important Autonomy is. That's part of the issue, not a supporting argument to value it over the health of a patient. If there's no patient, there's no Autonomy either.
Hacker News for Google Chrome Options
Not a success by any means yet but I got my first 10 customers for Trunk (https://www.trunkinventory.com) by cold-messaging users on e-commerce forums and focusing only on features that would help solve their problem. I still don't have any account management features (forgot password, change password, etc) or even obvious features that would make their lives easier (filtering, proper search, etc). Instead, I dedicated all my energy to making sure inventory syncing covered all edge cases and worked reliably.

Furthermore, my current sales process is having people enter their email address on my outdated landing page and then reaching out to them personally to see if they are a good fit. This worked great early on since too many users signing up at the same time can take a massive toll on my servers due to the initial import load (some users have TONS of listings in their stores).

I'm now working on a proper marketing page and introducing a scalable way to have users sign up themselves.
IIRC, it was more or less the idea developed by Dylan Evans in "Placebo: Mind over Matter in Modern Medicine".
How a Deal to Bring Autonomous Vehicles to Walt Disney World Blew Up
Preventing downgrade attacks could be done by blacklisting known-bad versions, no?

Assuming all future versions are bad leads to situations like this, where TLS 1.3 (and presumably all future versions) have to tunnel through a pseudo-TLS 1.2 connection.
The Segway will finally be vindicated.
You Already Email Like a Robot – Why Not Automate It?
Walk without rhythm, and you will attract the autocrats?
> then ask them to make a decision

You don't see the irony in that, when talking about the Placebo effect? This discussion is about an implicit assumption.
The parent article starts with "China is home to the world’s largest network of CCTV cameras — more than 170 million...", so apparently they really are conducting surveillance on the largest scale.
Looking at the permissions that app requires, I would recommend not installing it at any cost.
If you break the law in my restaurant I can ask you to leave.
I’m proposing eating that which your allergies are attacking. Your skin.

I guess you’d need to design some kind of exfoliator to get enough skin. I told you it sounds ridiculous.
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> The Japanese don't have DST

They are in the wrong timezone, in my opinion. The sun sets super early in the day. If I was the dictator of the planet, I'd set japan's clocks forward by two hours year round. Then the sun would set at 18:40 instead of 16:40 today.

Getting off work and having some daylight is pretty important, IMHO. It is quite hard to do in Japan.
Most people miss the point when they discuss free will because they focus on the idea of whether we are free to make decisions in real time.

Free will is something that happens OVER TIME.

In other words you have free will to the extent that your previous decisions allowed you to survive which was again based on other previous decisions and so you are constantly accumulating and changing "code to your program" so to speak because you can reflect on the results of your pre-defined behavior.
Under this system, either some minutes will be longer than others, or we'll have leap minutes every night. This sounds more complicated, not less.

It might achieve the goal of having a sunrise at the same wall clock time every day, but I don't really see a purpose for that. Sunsets will still vary.
You can down vote me, but I just see a proof of concept, nowhere near a final market-ready product.

Just look at how they present it. Semidark scene, no details whatsoever.
I wonder why they would make public this information. Wouldn't it be advantageous for them to have those with criminal intent continue to utilize the platform and the police to have an established surveillance method? Or would it be unavoidable and become public information in criminal complaint filings and such?
Why do you need the downloader's email address?

Perhaps I don't understand your goal: are you trying to collect email addresses to build a marketing list, or are you trying to give stuff away for free?

Sorry if these are dumb questions: the website doesn't really explain the business model (if there is one), or if this done out of the goodness of one's heart.

I imagine you want people to try a free template and then ask for your services to customize it? Is that how it works?
Look harmless. From the description you'd have thought this was the Magic Roundabout in Swindon!

It just reinforces the prejudice that Americans can't drive.
Then we start running into issues with the secondary/tertiary purpose of schools, daycare, which lets parents work normal 9-5 jobs more easily while having kids. If schools didn't start to 8:30-9 it'd be harder for parents to get to work.
My favorite course from college was called "Reason, Language, and Argumentation". The teacher was amazing, and the content & class discussions were vibrant. The central theme was learning about various logical fallacies and then watching the news, reading articles, etc, spotting the fallacies, discussing it together as a class, and so on. I could see this general structure working at the elementary school level.
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