skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seeing that there was a vulnerability in python just a couple days ago, I'd consider getting security updates a benefit.

Most people will stop running python 2 when malware targeting it becomes rampant. So people being able to run your code is another benefit.

:o)
Nice idea, but it seems like some of the translations are directly from google translate, and thus in parts very bad and misleading.
Ask HN: Do you like to see “Back to top” buttons on websites?
I'm talking about the ones that are pinned to the bottom right and scroll along with you.

I use a low mouse sensitivity so they're useful for getting back to the top.

Do you find them annoying, useful, don't care? What about on mobile - I find that they just get in the way there.
You are correct that slavery was the "trigger", but just as it shouldn't be purely about states' rights it also shouldn't be purely about slavery. It's more complex than that and including the discussion on states' rights sets the groundwork to understand a lot of the attitudes still present in the South about limited power and government (not just Federal) overreach in general.
Naturally I wanted to know if anyone had tried cooking with or eating this super spicy compound. I found this [0]:

> “With a friend, we put one drop of a very dilute solution”—he pointed to the tip of his tongue—“and then immediately rinsed it off. At the point where we put it, I couldn’t feel anything for a week.”

To anyone with the same bad idea as me, the answer is no, we don't want to eat these.

[0] https://www.cooksillustrated.com/science/783-articles/featur...
Not sure this one came from Gutenberg; at least, I can't seem to find a Swedish version of it there. But anyhow, either the source is worthless, or some conversion process somewhere was bad. A vs Å is not a minor or optional issue in Swedish; å, ä and ö are separate letters of the alphabet in their own right, and "omitting accents" isn't a thing. It's just wrong.

(E.g. see the Swedish alphabet at http://omniglot.com/writing/swedish.htm)

> I threw in the towel and just used BeautifulSoup's UnicodeDammit to brute-force a working encoding.

For a limited definition of "working", at times! "A working encoding" that shows the wrong letters isn't "working" in a very useful sense.
Sweden, France and Germany aren't valid comparisons because they weren't affected by the financial crisis like we were. In fact you could argue Germany has benefited from the problems of the problem economies because they have kept the Euro weak.
Can anyone detail what technology breakthroughs got these mileages so high?
http://jamesknelson.com/learn-raw-react-no-jsx-flux-es6-webp...
I had the same thought. Some text is hard to read as well. For example:

-- Harris sade, att han drabbades av sa utomordentligt starka yrselanfall emellanat, att han knappt visste vad han gjorde; och da sade George att han led av starka yrselanfall, och knappt visste vad han gjorde.

This made very little sense to me, until I googled it and found another source where the second sentence italicized some words in the second half, making it at least make some sense. (https://sv.wikisource.org/wiki/Tre_m%C3%A4n_i_en_b%C3%A5t._K...)
And very complex things would have ranges of truth depending on your perspective. All our sensory input and even memory effectively goes through lossy compression algorithms with modifiers for immediate focus. I would like to think getting wiser is those algorithms converging to more optimal performance.

I also think working with real logic in science, math, etc, any engineering, is incredibly healthy for the brain and makes it much easier to converge on truth. The only way to be good with logic is to absorb new data into the picture as it becomes available. I've noticed the less people are exposed to real logic the more resistant they are to simple facts that conflict with their assumptions.
This conversation is going nowhere.

You clearly believe that it follows from the fact of being wealthy that you have a greater claim on collective resources, either because you manifest greater virtue than the poor, or because you have simply done more good.

I don't believe that people with wealth deserve that wealth in any deep sense - because people are who they are due to external forces, genetic and social.

I also don't believe that greed, acquistiveness, etc., are social virtues.

Most importantly, I don't think society should be founded upon productivism (accumulating as much wealth as possible) and hierarchy (the wealthy are better and have more claims on social goods than the poor).

Capitalism is based on demeaning and toxic hierarchies and inequalities, where everyone works nearly all of the time (except for those who don't work at all) in order to create masses of unnecessary commodities, that are slowly destroying the planet.

I cannot credit the view that wealth per se is good, or that we should bow before those who are lucky and oblivious enough to stand at the top of this scheme of things.
I don't think it'll be used for ligament injuries like MCL/ACL issues where a brace helps, but for chronic issues like osteoarthritis where the cartilage is low or gone. The bone on bone pain is constant and the only long term solution is knee replacement.
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That's another false dichotomy. Also, yes, they are fundamentally different.
There's value in your comment, but please try to tone it down and not take it too far.
Zuckerberg isn't accountable to anyone so it's time Congress to take his power
I can honestly say out of around 60 job submittals (I’m very focused) over 20 years and 7 companies, going through recruiters, I’ve never been ghosted, I always knew where I stood in the process and have only had maybe 4 rejections. The rest I took myself out of the running for when I got the offer I wanted. Even out of the four rejections, I at least went through the whole process of phone screen and in person.

I’m no special snowflake I’m just your bog standard enterprise developer/architect and honestly I just started taking my career seriously in the last ten years. Five of the mentioned 7 jobs were in the last 10 years.
What is the difference between distilled water and deionized water?
What makes you so sure the perspective in the article is the more scientifically accurate one? It was written without almost ANY opposing research being quoted. I found it very hard to come away from this article wholly convinced it had found the best perspective on the issue.

It’s also the case that the article focused mostly on preventing home fires caused by forest fires but then the article itself shows this is a very rare phenomenon. Not exactly something that should be a core focus in the first place.
speaking as an automotive mechanic by trade, other HN posters are right to point out this is largely due to advances in fuel economy. Id argue it wasnt hard for this reduction to occur, as the super-large SUV fetish from the 90s has long died out. most of the new rolling stock of large vehicles are crossovers, or hybrid.

another key point is oil recycling. most of the new oil put into engines is recycled with 15-20% new stock at best. the really old stuff that can no longer be refined after use is either blended for use in asphalt or recycled plastics.
I'm talking about different lanes
Annoying, yes. If I'm on desktop and I want to get back to the top, I'll flick my scroll wheel or hit the Home button. On mobile I'll just flick the screen.
The Confederate Constitution also explicitly preserved slavery:

> Article I Section 9(4)

> No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law denying or impairing the right of property in negro slaves shall be passed.

And, unsurprisingly, the politicians of the time were much less saccharine about states' rights and other garbage, like the guy who said:

"We have dissolved the late Union chiefly because of the negro quarrel."

This is all from this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_States_Constitutio...
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Hint: Scandinavia is not a country. Cars are cheap in Sweden compared with Denmark, for instance.
Offline Biases in Online Platforms: A Study of Diversity and Homophily in Airbnb
They were defending themselves from protectionism. The states had every right to secede. Lincoln ushered in the era of crony capitalism. All wars are a racket, every single one.
Dependency graphs can also be annotated with the resources required for each node or edge. Resources are estimated by summation, time is estimated by finding the critical path.

Gantt charts are a partial linearization of a dependency graph. People tend to fixate over the dates shown, allow schedule pressure to "correct" previous estimates, etc.

According to some early users of Gantt charts, they are a great tool for summarizing a plan, a terrible tool for developing and maintaining one.
The benefit is that you won't be stunting adoption of Python 3, which will help get us back to a homogeneous Python landscape more quickly.
I'm an old timer. I remember when Microsoft would expire your license - for any of their applications - essentially at random. And they disabled reloads of the software and disabled reinstalls of the entire OS. Even after you paid them again, it was a major hassle - but Mocrosoft didn't care about customer complaints as long as the money was rolling in (Bill Gates at the time said that "I am a businessman" when he dismissed customer concerns.)It was the Federal Government which forced them to stop breaking systems, threatening to pass laws against their practices. That's also about the time that Microsoft hired ALL the major PR firms to change their image (and Bill suddenly appeared everywhere with his charity - which was only giving away a small portion of his wealth, since he hides most of it offshore and away from any accounting.)
I think the media and social justice movement also played a role. I distinctly remember people with very relevant credentials stating that it was impossible to obtain accurate clinical result from such tiny amounts of blood.

The mainstream media and social media mobs (even here to some degree), immediately chided them as sexist basement-dwelling neckbeards, envious that this young female Steve Jobs of science was showing that the evil patriarchy no longer had power to keep women out of STEM. Of course, not a single apology or retraction was ever issued.
The problem is it is massively divided, a house that costs £100,000 in Wales might cost £500,000 in Oxford or £750,000 in London.

Politicians on both sides keep banging on about mobility but the real problem is inequality.
It's depend on scale: if prisoners are few there is no need to make anything fun; if prisoners are an enormous amount of people and guards are a little group keep prisoners calm it's needed to avoid revolts.

Panem et circense always pay, at least as long as people can survive or have a bit of something to loose.
> Slave owners in the south were a very small percentage of the population. The south did not rise up to defend slave owners. They rose up to defend themselves.

This is a really important point and you have been severely misinformed. The states that succeeded were not shy about why. My own home state, South Carolina, after an extensive legal argument that they're allowed to succeed, revealed the great violation of their rights was the refusal to return fugitive slaves.

http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/csa_scarsec.asp

Someone else already linked to Mississippi.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18474740

Slavery, to slave holders, was a state's right. That's the right they fought for.
The states' rights narrative has as much historical basis as the stab-in-the-back myth.
Increases in car efficiency don't necessarily result in less use of gasoline, often it results in more, due to Jevon's Paradox.

Perhaps EU countries raised gasoline taxes in that period, or people got poorer.
Which software program did you need to install?
If you wanted to apply an interpretation that was extremely generous to the confederate states (for the sake of understanding people who say such things) you could make a comparison to the EU.

The EU has 'union' right there in its name, but it isn't a single country and there are a bunch of things it doesn't try to homogenise. Every time the EU broadens its control over member countries, there are mutterings about sovereignty until one day, something like Brexit happens.

No brit says "Britain should leave the EU because they want to ban our high power kettles" they say "Britain should leave the EU because of its ever-expanding infringement on our sovereignty; an illustrative example of this is the proposed ban on high power kettles"

The "states' rights" claim is the same: that it was about the ever-expanding powers of the federal government, and slavery was just an illustrative example of such an expansion.

Of course, as albntomat0 points out the Mississippi declaration of secession supports slavery in the second sentence, so what I just said has a big dose of historical revisionism.
> The net effect of this language system was not to keep these people ignorant of what they were doing, but to prevent them from equating it with their old, "normal" knowledge of murder and lies. Eichmann's great susceptibility to catch words and stock phrases, combined with his incapacity for ordinary speech, made him, of course, an ideal subject for "language rules."

-- Hannah Arendt, "Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil"

> When daily life requires turning a blind eye to the falsity of countless things we’re told, it weakens the power of language to sort truth from fiction.

-- Oliver Burkeman

> The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.

-- Philip K. Dick

> The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.

-- George Orwell

> All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and schizophrenia. When the general atmosphere is bad, language must suffer. [..] But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

-- George Orwell
They already learned that slavery played a central role. They new changes are going to have it listed as the only cause, rather than one of three causes.
Personally I'd like to see corporation tax go, it gives an unfair advantage to large companies who can shift their profits to low tax economies.

We would be better off moving that tax back to dividends, capital gains and property which are much harder to avoid.
I watched the program with Eric Weinstein and Joe Rogan and I have a superbasic understanding of quantum mechanics. I will try to understand and explain this by using phrases and words that I don’t understand. It is extremely complicated.

The image you see here is created using Hopf algebra. Hopf algebra seems to be the visualization of differential equations at a moment when local symmetry is created. The moment of creation is called bifurcation?... Hopf math is required to explain symmetry in gauge theory.

“Gauge theories are important as the successful field theories explaining the dynamics of elementary particles.” —Wikipedia

Just assume everything I said here is wrong...

Hopf bifurcation
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopf_bifurcation#/media/File...

Gauge theory
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauge_theory

Hopf symmetry breaking and confinement in (2+1) dimensional Gauge Theory
http://cds.cern.ch/record/551093/files/0205114.pdf
Oh, forgive me, no offense taken. I should have put a smiley. I read your post with interest and shall check out the book.

(As you no doubt know, different books have different audiences. Before I wrote my Linear book, when I looked at the available textbooks I thought that there were low-level computational books that suited people with weak backgrounds, and high-level beautiful books that show the power of big, exciting, ideas. I had a room with students who were not ready for high. I wrote the book hoping that it could form part of an undergraduate program that deliberately worked at bringing students along to where they would be ready for such things. Naturally, with that mindset I read your post as meaning that the audience for the book you described is just different. Anyway, thanks again for the pointer.)
You probably meant cubic metre?
IANAL but my understanding is that the FCC cannot arbitrarily change policy; there is a specific process and they have to do certain things (or more precisely, they have to be able to argue in court that they followed the process). The relevant law is the Administrative Procedures Act, which among other things requires a public comment period for changes in policies and rules (and requires that public comments be considered before the final rules are established). The purpose is to avoid the situation we are in now, where regulations change whenever political parties change, which, ironically, is one of the reasons some ISPs opposed this latest change (ISPs need to make long-term plans, which is hard if the rules might change every 4 years).

So my understanding is that the law was broken because the FCC's rules change was arbitrary, rather than motivated by facts, and because they ignored expert commentary (including from the people who created the technologies discussed in the FCC's analysis). The final rules did cite various comments, from both ISPs and independent experts (myself included), but the pattern was pretty obvious: anything that does not support the FCC's case is dismissed as "not persuasive" while supportive comments from ISPs are cited as proof that the change is necessary.

It was all for show; from the beginning the FCC basically said that they were not at all interested in comments about technical facts, only about their legal authority based on the technical analysis they presented in their proposed rule change (i.e. they can make any claims about facts to justify a change in the regulations). The commissioners already made up their minds before opening the comment period and never intended to have comments affect their decisions. Whether or not that is allowed by the law is now a matter for the courts to decide.
Yeah...binding double-click to select the word only would be a good improvement.
Several reviewers at Amazon said that General Chemistry is unsuitable for beginners or self-learners. Is that true?
Because it's not just about whether data is collected, or what is collected; it's about why it's collected. There are a lot of services for which I'd be willing to give every kind of tracking access short of a remote desktop connection, if and only if I was 100% sure it'll be used only for debugging and usability testing. But I don't want a single bit of my data to reach the marketing team, the third-party advertisers, or the sales people. Since I can't be sure, I'm not giving away my data.

Also, yes, you could argue that analytics for e.g. A/B tests are actually "improving the website/service". Yet I'd still prefer to opt out of them, because those A/B tests usually encourage making the software more addictive (erm, "engaging") and less useful ("only single-digit-% of users use this feature, so let's drop it"). I don't trust the motivations of those companies, so I don't believe they'll use A/B tests for my benefit as a user/customer.
IE11 is holding out. Mobile Safari is hit & miss
What's the difference between being bought out and selling the data? Why would a company like that be bought out if not for their data?

Who gets to use the data.

For example, a retail place that tracks your data and uses it to improve its selection and/or offer helpful things to you doesn't necessarily sell to the bidder that wants to use it to manipulate you into buying financial products. Plus 37 other companies that want the data.

If someone buys the retail company, however, they get the data. They may or may not have been bought for the data. I should mention that the data is a package deal. You aren't getting the fruity pie filling without taking the crust and packaging as well.
Over the past 10 years or so there are two main things:

1. various technologies to vary cam timing and lift, which allows you to keep the engine efficient over a wider range of rpms. Forms of this have been around a long time but they are become more widespread and more capable.

2. direct injection - where some or all of the fuel injectors inject directly into the cyclinder, rather than into the intake manifold just before the cylinder. Because the fuel can be added just when you want it to ignite, you can leverage higher compression ratios and/or turbo chargers without pre-ignition

on top of this there have been some small improvements in tire CRR, aerodynamics, materials. But a lot of the use of lightweight materials seems to coincide with also making the cars bigger. They certainly haven't gotten lighter overall!

If cars had stayed the same dimensions since the 1980s, the fuel economy savings would seen WAY more amazing.
The source article mentions that for dogs the average was an effective range of 5 months, with one dog making it 18 months before needing reapplication.
All of your regular coffee cups are exactly 250ml.

Regular people use them for basic baking all the time, like making pancakes.

'Cups' are still better measures than ml because even you, in your self-acclaimed ignorance have a sense of how much a cup is whereas people do not have any idea how much '300ml' is.

Canadians have no clue what 10ml of anything is.

Canadians will continue to use feet and pounds for personal measure, despite being surrounded by total metric system - that should tell you something.

Do you order beer in ml? Or pints?

Seriously, do you know anyone that orders a 473ml of beer?

So why pints? And not ml? Because it makes sense.

Everything should be in metric, but many things should also be Imperial because metric is not useful for many common measurements.

The entire construction industry in Canada still uses Imperial, and it also weirdly makes sense. Inches and feet are slightly more approachable at smaller scale.
Can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not, but I very much doubt AI will prevent this problem from happening again in the future.
The US.

https://www.jacksonville.com/news/national/2017-08-22/how-ci...
Probably not, but I’ve seen two companies that were in AWS.

The first company where I was the Dev lead and at the time didn’t know the first thing about AWS and neither did the infrastructure guys and we brought in consultants. Yes it was much more expensive. We didn’t reduce the number of people, didn’t increase automation from the netops side and we developed just like we did on prem. So yeah they should have stuck with the colo and from what I’ve heard, they kept my system on AWS but stopped there.

On the other hand, I’ve worked for a company that started off on AWS from day one. They outsourced most of the netops to a Managed Service Provider, they have one person in house that manages some of the EC2 instances and does some other projects, and they used as many of the managed service offerings on AWS as they could. They were more concerned about focusing on their core business than worrying about the “undifferentiated heavy lifting”.
Sign up bonuses and benefits can net you a few thousand dollars. With a password manager and push alerts and autopay, it’s very little work to manage, plus you’re not liable anyway if you dispute in a timely manner.