skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems like a less descriptive privacytools.io. The focus is on the comments I take it? I guess my concern is whether the commenters will write insightful, useful things or whether it will be all speculation.

I'll bookmark it for later anyway
We Are NASA [video]
Has anybody noticed the new Gmail feels way less responsive as well? Composing a new email is affected (just hold down a key with a fast repeat speed and it will not update for long periods), but also the prelight when hovering the mouse over messages an an index is way more chunky than it used to be. "perf top" shows some Chrome functions responsible -- probably something resulting in too much recalculation?

Amusingly, it is way smoother in Firefox. Related, can paste large amounts of data in sheets with Firefox, but Chrome grinds and hits some O(n^2) type of issue after so many rows.
Venice is an extreme case, I agree. That's one of the places that we visited that had the small kind of bed tax I'm thinking of; unfortunately that probably isn't fixing their problems. Many of their tourists stay in cruise ships (which have to have the lagoon dredged to support them; sinking Venice itself...); a bed tax doesn't target them, and they're completely and utterly overwhelmed regardless. It was a fascinating and deeply depressing place to visit.

A bed tax in general, applicable to both hotels and AirBNB, I suspect probably deals better with the other end of the spectrum. At the end of the spectrum I'm thinking about (and probably my co-poster), extra funding is necessary for the municipalities that can sustain further growth of their tourism industry, but are struggling to keep up with demand. New Zealand falls somewhere in here; we have significant problems with tourists literally shitting on walking trails because the previous Government dropped all its tourist budget on global advertising, and didn't anticipate the sheer success they'd have; we therefore lack basic amenities like toilets in many popular tourist spots (or -- if there are toilets -- they're long drops maintained by the Department of Conservation, which most tourists won't use). We can do better with a little extra cash; I believe the new Government is currently investigating a border tax, but a bed tax would help the regions too. Other major metropolises popular with tourists like Paris, Rome, Barcelona etc. could use the extra cash in broadly similar ways; supporting the growth of transit systems and developing infrastructure that supports and promotes distributing the tourist load to other attractions.

I suspect that if you were to put in a large bed tax with the explicit goal of discouraging visitors in places like Venice... it might not work? The rich would put up with it and go anyway. You'd probably cut out many of the poorer visitors, but I doubt you'd see a big net drop unless the tax approached a point that it killed the tourism industry altogether, and sunk the local economy. I suspect that for somewhere like Venice, there needs to be stronger intervention; the category of idea I'm thinking of is a lottery system like the US parks or something.
Plotnine is the good implementation of ggplot in python.
Dark Souls Creator Hidetaka Miyazaki Wins Lifetime Achievement Award
Plotnine is the good port of ggplot.
If it works but it's not economically-viable: the moral and ethical choice is to open-source it or give it to a non-profit medical foundation. It sucks to have a rare disease because there isn't enough profit to recoup r&d; this is where non-profits, NGOs and GSEs should advance medicine where big pharma trades lives for profits.
> And it’s huge. The INCITS 226–1994 standard consists of 1153 pages. This was only beaten by C++ ISO/IEC 14882:2011 standard with 1338 pages some 17 years after. C++ has to drag a bag of heritage though, it was not always that big. Common Lisp was created huge from the scratch.

Common Lisp the Language was published in 1984 and it had 460+ pages. Heritage? The language itself was mostly based on a larger earlier language: Lisp Machine Lisp. That one had a language documentation, but not a standard. The standard for Common Lisp was published in 1994, after eight years of work from 1986 on. It was based on the 1984 Common Lisp, which was based on NIL, S-1 Lisp, Lisp Machine Lisp and Spice Lisp - all projects which developed a successor of Maclisp.

> A programming language should not be that huge. Not at all. It’s just that it should have a decent standard library filled with all the goodies so people wouldn't have to reinvent them.

Common Lisp in part is a larger Lisp dialect (but with a relatively small number of built-in constructs: http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/03_aba... ) and the standard includes a standard library - without actually dividing the language into a core and a library.
Overreaction to word fragments has become epidemic in closed captioning of American TV shows.

I've seen this on more than a dozen networks: captions will be masked with Xs if any substring matches any possibly offensive word or phrase, e.g.

XXXXtails for cocktails

XXXume for assume

XXXXX for spade (in the unmistakable context of a shovel, e.g. in "The African Queen")

XXXX for coon (in the unmistakable context of a raccoon, e.g. in "True Grit")

Doo-XXX for Doo-Wop (music)

gimXXXX for gimmick

sXXXpets for snippets

Those are all actual examples from MeTV, H&I, Movies!, GetTV, etc.
Usual 4chan (and maybe ulterior actors) action, throw manure around, see what sticks.
Having to keep a 4.7 out of 5 stars is next to impossible.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMMS2 ?
I think SQL can be used, so I just use SQLite for the data visualization. I wrote a extension to do so, but many thing it does not yet include. I think SQLite extensions for doing graphics will be good idea.
I am sorry you feel that way =/; I understand it was a picky comment, but quibbling over it is far from the gross overstatement you mentioned.
Ask HN: How do you cope up with mental harassment at work?
Workplaces, be it big firms or startups, have become toxic environments where many are mentally harassed by a few. How do you cope up with mental harassment at work? Quitting? Complaint to HR? Legal help?
The hell with bioethics hand-wringers... we should be mending and improving people's genes whenever and wherever we can add net good.
It hasn't stopped terrorism in the UK now, has it? The terrorists have just adapted. They use cars and knives instead of bombs.
Isn't it more useful if such marks like showing something in bold or a different color are automatically applied to classes of marks like identifiers or strings?
Every time I hear about Googles cloud offering it is always followed by complains about their support and a discussion about if they even have something called support. As long as that stays none of the cooperation's I have worked for the last 25+ years will even look at what Google has to offer in this space.
It was the third semester of grad complex analysis. I dread analysis to this day... but it was worse then. I didn't know my stuff. I hadn't done well the previous semesters; my homework scores were continuing to droop... no way that I could pass this final. I didn't have a clear idea of what I wanted out of my next action: to cry in my professor's office. He had some questions for me. Asked me how I'd gotten into grad school. Not in a mean way, just, we all have our own things that work. He gave some nice words of encouragement, and a kleenex, but he was right to send me back to my own toolshed.

My first real math class was undergraduate differential equations. The teacher was legendary; gave a speech on the first day saying it's normal to repeat the class and you can drop without penalty, even after the final. I bricked his first exam; didn't even smudge the back page with a sweaty fingerprint -- he tells me with a tsk, my handwriting is too sloppy: I should be deliberate in my thoughts, not rushed. So I did speed drills before subsequent exams. Later in life, I'd write sloppier answer keys for my own students.

But you can't speed drill for a graduate course in complex analysis -- proving an unfamiliar theorem is quite a bit different than applying a standard method for a familiar diff.eq problem with carefully-chosen coefficients.

The problem wasn't just believing in myself -- my prof boosted me over that fence. It was believing in abstractions hidden even from mathematical lore. Back to undergrad: I wrote a note sheet that night. I summarized every important theorem from the class into the most compact statement possible, along with a cliffnote about the proof. And then came the drills, copying the notesheet again and again, with as few peeks as possible.

The actual hard problem that I grappled with on the exam is memorable only for its beauty. The 24h transition from paralyzed fear, to justified confidence, was where the real work happened.
Somewhat related:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversies_about_the_word_"...
>I've never heard someone long for a more "business oriented" programming language.
I don't think that was a genuine opinion of the author, more just a cheeky hint at the reveal that they were describing COBOL (COmmon Business Oriented Language) the whole time.
How Plato foresaw Facebook’s folly
Convincing a department to graduate me with an ABET accredited degree without finishing all coursework. It was significantly easier than deriving the time-dependent wave equation for hydrogen, writing a Java-to-MIPS compiler with two implementations, one in C++ and one in Java, and making an UNIX FORTRAN reactor simulator compile on Windows 95 (lol!)... all with crushingly, untreated depression. Also, survived the Loma Prieta earthquake and Paradise Camp Fire... nothing special there though.

My friends: getting an ASW account while being neither rich nor famous; another, coming into possession of a MiG-21. /unhumble-brag
Working on anything with 10s of seconds or even forbid minutes of delay is infuriating, yet unfortunately sometimes unavoidable.
Yes.

But when I had the choice I still went for another service because I don't like being forced into using a specific app just so I can read emails(yes, I know about their bridging app, but that's only available for PCs, no smartphones, and their Linux version isn't out yet even though it's still "scheduled for early 2018").
The "linked variables" concept is often called ["reactive programming"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactive_programming) or ["data binding"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_binding).

And you're right that it's very helpful with GUI specification.
It means that it supports characters outside the basic 127 ASCII or 256 ISO-8859-1 characters, like the Box Drawing[1] and Block Elements[2] characters defined in Unicode.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box_Drawing
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box_Drawing
Amazing Experiment Actually Makes Black Fire the Shadow Fire Experiment
I feel you. A bug in our recovery software would result in the live CD being unable to open the Windows kernel file after having located it on disk. No amount of logging we added to the code made sense. In the end, after more than a year, there was a customer in the UK that could reproduce the problem each time on a clean Windows 10 install (so no private info). I mailed him a new SSD to replace his old HDD and paid for him to overnight me his hard disk. Problem solved the very next day.
I was always tempted to modify a calculator to add Bluetooth, then I could stream over whatever data I wanted from a phone somewhere without any suspicion. Graphic calculators make this trivial as they often have a serial port, I just never got around to building it. I guess I didn't want to cheat that badly
We've Reimagined Comparison Shopping
You’re getting downvoted because of being flippant but you are right, by definition there exists a trade off between cost and any feature. It’s the least interesting trade off: if want more X it will cost more. There also is a trade off between any two features mediated by cost, if I spend more on X, then I can’t spend as much on Y. What are more interesting are inherent trade offs. Like the famous trade off between security and liberty seems to not just be mediated by cost.
Amazon begins hiring for top secret new device
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>Can someone explain the fakes problem? I think J have literally never run into this on Amazon despite actively buying thousands of dollars of various items for years.

There are several things that could be described by the 'amazon fakes' problem.

First, i want to say that when I do "shipped and sold by amazon" I almost never have problems sometimes they pack inadequately. But usually not, and more than once, they've sent me a case/box of something when I bought a single something, so I'm going to say the "shipped and sold by amazon" products are usually pretty good, if often more expensive than usual.

The problems usually start with the "shipped by X, fulfilled by amazon" though they can be reliably returned. The problems get worse when it's "shipped and sold by X" - often it is a pain to return those, too.

1. it is often that the reviews for several "similar" items will be consolidated somehow, so you'll get these really great reviews for... a thing that this is not. (this was intended, I think, for different sizes of the same item, for example, but it is sometimes abused)

This, in my experience, is pretty common. It's less common that it's flagrantly abused; usually it's just three related things where all the reviews are crunched up. But sometimes, there's a real stinker in there. Again, I think that the 'fulfilled by amazon' makes the cost of fraud higher, just 'cause it's so returnable. (on the other hand, I'm lazy and I'm paying for convenience. returning garbage is a pain in the butt)

When it is done, it's like, you get your new digital camera or whatever, it's generic as advertised, but it got a bunch of credible, good reviews, and the unit you got is essentially garbage.

This might be the most common scam I've seen?

2. there are a lot of shady sellers that claim to sell you brand X thing and then you get it and it's a "brand X" thing.

This doesn't happen as often, and it happens more when it's shipped direct than when it's fulfilled by amazon, but it happens, and has happened to me. Someone was selling pretty okay "Apple" chargers... I mean, they worked mostly okay? but they certainly weren't genuine as they were advertised and priced.
You drag blocks, snap them together and you are ready to build your first firmware
He's hired as a pen tester and gains access to companies, their secrets, etc. I have a sysadmin friend whose company hired him to pentest, and they kept in contact.
I'll continue to shill for the company's services unless anything becomes evident. Nobody has offered anything that ProtonMail / ProtonVPN wasn't able to explain adequately.

Nobody else I'm aware of offers their own data center infrastructure, which is extremely important as it's a key single point of failure in all other VPNs and email service. There is no better option for most people.

Obviously if you're going to use ProtonMail, it's always technically better to encrypt your emails with PGP or the like on top of it, but I still stand by my firm recommendation of their services.

I'd like to imagine ProtonMail is in the same set as Lavabit. I think many services portray themselves as if they're in said set, but I think its cardinality is very, very small.
I am not using Node.js to run any websites, although I do sometimes use it to write some scripts. Some programs, JavaScript can be good program language to use to write this program, so I use Node.js. Other times, I might instead write a program in C, or in other programming languages.
The previous link ended in ‘en’ not ‘es’.

Edit: sorry for not checking the site. I now see the site links to the es ending url and that times out for me as well.
From the basic, read from a sensor and display into an online view. https://ibb.co/hC0kKf
To the somewhat complex, https://ibb.co/h9mmQL
I'm currently at step 2, and was deciding between getting an aeropress or a v60. What do you prefer about the pourover setup?
Gmail has smart reminders, or maybe I dont understand. I rely on gmail important filter. If I sent an email but there isn't a response back after like 4/5 days gmail puts a reminder into my important section. It's super helpful because I have a hard time remembering the smaller things.
We support just the ESP8266 chipset meaning all development boards based around the ESP8266 chipset can be programmed, controlled and monitored using inventone.ng/#/workspace
Yes, the AI is stupid, but a computer machine is much faster than figuring it out manually, and sometimes that is what is help.
Nice to see another implementation, but I still hope the original one will be always kept alive
Agreed on the technical problems- the "hard" problems in my career have been massive degradations/failures with no error messages, which are typically solved with liberal application of strace, gdb/pdb, iproute2/ss and Wireshark. Once you find the smoking gun in the kernel or on the wire then it becomes simple again.

I guess the hardest problems I've ever "solved" (mitigated) were mental (depression/anxiety/impostor syndrome). But those aren't one and done happy endings- they're a bundle of general anxieties that are never fully resolved. You just learn how to manage.
I'm not sure about the 95% statistic in Europe but it certainly won't last much longer now that over a third of cars sold in the UK are automatic and this number is only increasing. There's no practical benefit of a manual transmission anymore besides a small cost difference (and possibly slightly more reliability), and electrification will only hasten this change.
The espro is still a French press and the coffee or produces still comes out more bitter than what is produced in an aeropress. I'll be damned if I know why. I switched from an espro to an aeropress a few years ago because even though I tell myself that an aeropress should produce about the same flavor as a French press with the same grind (the espro has a very fine filter, similar to some of the reusable screens for an aeropress) and water temp, it seems different.
https://www.lawfareblog.com/what-ben-franklin-really-said
Whose fault? Chrome?
I'm also facing the same problem.
Same version of Chrome, but on Windows, it loads properly, but not on Mac.
Privacy First Products
so this is like an online hackathon live streamed? Definitely cool concept, but calling it start up and them founders is a stretch isn't it?
Amazon as a retailer doesn't make much money. Margins are thin, and even thinner with their free shipping. Creating their own private brands of consumer products are not going to make them much money, but it'd make sure they control not just the sale but the production of the item itself.
Why do so many modern projects feel the need to include the language and/or the tech stack used as part of the project name? Is it a type of virtue signaling? Does “Go” or “JS” or “Swift” or “Node” make these project more attractive somehow to an end-user (even if the end-user is a programmer)?
Ask HN: What are some good board games for the office?
I'm looking for some holiday gift ideas for my colleagues. Here are the specs I had in mind but I'm not dogmatic:

- Less than $30

- 3-6 players

- Playing time: 30 minutes or less

- Mildly strategic or cognitively stimulating. Nothing too intense or competitive (or offensive)

Only idea I've been able to come up with so far is Love Letter. Thanks!
Here's an idea:

If you run across something that intrigues you, wade into it ASAP to see if it could be 'big enough' to keep you engaged. Could be an idea, a place, a thing, an event or era, a technique ... that branches out ... or in, towards a trunk or 'stronger current'.

Each of those branches can be surveyed briefly. If the sum of your intrigues (and your notes) keeps growing as you explore, it will eventually be a stronger pull than the 'quick fixes' of modern life that aren't truly meaningful -to you-. I'm always happy to find such a thing, not worrying whether something concrete will follow or not. Exploring can be its own reward.
You can tell the difference GoAWK from the other AWK, I suppose.
I upgraded Firefox on a Pine64 laptop that brought in all the schmancy concurrent CSS handling that I'm assuming Rust made possible.

It was like upgrading the computer from a barely workable state to a pleasant browsing experience for $0.

Could COBOL have been used instead to provide that same "set of rails" atop which Mozilla drove that concurrency development?

To be clear-- I'm not asking if COBOL is turing complete. Mozilla could have coded all that in C++ if they wanted to. I'm asking if COBOL would have so clearly helped the devs reason about concurrency that it would have been worth the effort of adding a new language instead of writing it in C++.
Recognizing face expressions of babies born before the expected date and put in incubators with oxygen masks.
The problem is really hard and the collection of video material available prevents the usage of machine learning techniques, so old school algorithms perform much much better.
The meaning of words has always been a negotiation.
Someone only speaking JS or Python will have a significantly easier time with a C++ codebase than a huge Haskell codebase.

You can have someone totally new to the project fixing bugs in a few days.
I think the trouble comes from the fact that most drivers want to place the Club before exiting the vehicle. Installing the Club correctly means that it then blocks your ability to get out of the car.

That's the whole point of why it should be placed that way, but if it inconveniences the user then it will be installed wrong and be less effective.
Well, I'm ecstatic. What a beautiful font.

After seeing this, I was finally inspired to find out why BitchX wouldn't display ANSI art correctly.

Turns out I needed a code 437 emulator! [1]

I can now use it the way it was meant to. Here it is paired with unscii-16-full 12pt [2]

This isn't nostalgia, this is just _better_.

[1] https://github.com/keaston/cp437

[2] https://i.imgur.com/3Oj9Vsy.png
It's like a suicide note from Nicholson Baker.
Sure, but how many?
I'd bet that that C, C++, Java or even Python has a numbers advantage by one or two orders of magnitude.

Also, how many of these codebases attract new contributors regularly? That's a pretty direct metric for readability of a codebase.
That's what led to bad design of the Chernobyl RBMK reactors and ultimately the fall of the USSR. Yes, the US also helped them go bankrupt by making them think it has more nukes. When you've got politics in the scientific process, the science becomes politics.
That horrible yak shaving is why I use NixOS.
As the article points out, Costco just sells their own stuff under the Kirkland brand. Much Kirkland stuff is made by major US brands, and is often identical to the branded product, but cheaper. They don't bother hiding that it's their own brand.[1]

Amusingly, Costco sells their Kirkland items on Amazon. Or, rather, somebody called "ShippedFast" does. Now who's ShippedFast? They seem to be in Florida and the phone number maps to a residence. But Amazon doesn't disclose the identity of the seller.

[1] https://hip2save.com/2018/09/11/brands-costco-kirkland-items...
PowerShell DSC with AWS Systems Manager Update
Rockets get exponentially larger as delta-v requirements increase.

As payload increases or decreases, rockets merely need to scale linearly. Conceptually, this is quite simple to understand: simply launching two identical rockets will result in double the payload.

The mass part of Tsiolkovsky's equation is simply mass-initial / mass-final. Halve both the numerator and denominator, and you have the same fraction.
This is a good read about recurring events: https://martinfowler.com/apsupp/recurring.pdf
The 8 Chatbots that actually solves a problem
It was by their own and their ancestor's choice. Taiwan chose differently.