skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another example is Groningen in The Netherlands where roughly 60% of the journeys within the city are by bike [1] and cars are banned from the city center.

> In 1977, the traffic circulation plan was implemented over a single night. Hundreds of new signs were put up to create one-way streets or change their direction. Overnight, the centre of Groningen became impenetrable for cars. The next morning, hostesses greeted confused motorists with flowers and leaflets that explained the new situation.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/jul/29/how-groningen...
And much more polluting. Emissions standards have tightened at least an order of magnitude every decade or so.
For anyone wanting to read more, this article about IQ is very good: http://whiteboard.ping.se/SDR/IQ
I disagree. Text analysis only really works when someone attempting to publish anonymously is unaware that someone will do that analysis.

At the point where there are simple tools, you can use them to put together a report on what is most identifying, and then fix it, before publication.

Or one can even publish false flags. If anyone remembers the "lodestar" speculation from earlier this year, that's a single word that someone could have put in to get the writing completely misattributed in the public sphere.
It is better to call vacuum "the perfect semiconductor," then - it only conducts when free charges are injected into it.
Thanks, will do while I still have time :).
Might be why: http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2018/10/11/gra...
I stumbled about that on YouTube, searched around and than accepted that it is probably something like Bitcoin.

Super risky and not worth it.

I keep working normally in my normal job.

Ah yeah BTW. This topic feels like a 'everyone is doing it because a few people use this topic to upsell there videos and referrals etc.'
Sixten: Functional programming with fewer indirections
Correct. It's more valuable, especially when trying to exfiltrate data or when trying to inject XSS opportunities.

Plus, realistically, SLEEP allows you to scan for thousands of different test cases in a quick period and measure the hang time to figure out which vector worked.
You’re confusing the knights of Malta with the knights templer.
Well, the way you test are usually: 1) you know the ranges your params belong to and 2) you avoid situations where you might overflow. Usually if you catch the overflow you already lost.

I'm surprised to see that for unsigned ints modular semantics are guaranteed by the spec

"Please tell me again how unsigned ints are broken" It seems this meme seems to be the C version of anti-vaxxers.
Alert on Voicemails via Transcribe
Yeah, because any free speech issue can be summed up in a caricature of racism and wanting to say the n-word, and "conservative views" (where "conservative" = bad, because of course all over the world should share mainstream USA's issues and ethical considerations).

And that in a place when just a few decades ago people were losing their jobs and badmouthed because of being gay, or using marijuana, or before that because they were communist sympathizers and so on...

It seems whoever is in the mainstream in the US feels like they sniffle any other voice because theirs is the voice of history, whether they are right or left.
I built upon Angela Wang's transcribe pipeline to alert on keywords and send an email.
This is a valuable point: you can absolutely exfiltrate data this way based on timing, and it's fairly automated with tools at this point.
Vacuum dielectric strength is 20 megavolts per metre.

Diamond is almost perfect though, at 20 gigavolts per metre, and that only given if the diamond has at least some microscopic imperfections.
Show HN: A tool to load test HTTP endpoints from globally distributed locations
Flying high: Computer graphics researchers make drone navigation easier
I think the simulation is running in 3D space. You can modify the position and velocity of each body in the "Modify Masses" panel and there are three components to adjust.
Don’t Just Ask “What’s the Matter?” Ask “What Matters to You?”
Tesla Solar Roof long-term review: Insights from a homeowner’s journey
You expect the reporters, who are likely continuing to pursue the project and related stories, to operate as a data warehouse for legal and other requests? Nevermind the work it takes to build such a service, journalists are usually extremely reticent to be an active participant for either side for a lawsuit. We usually hear about it in the case of the government demanding a reporter reveal their anonymous sources and unpublished notes. But it goes the other way too. https://www.rcfp.org/browse-media-law-resources/news/judge-r...
Chrome Extension: See Gmails as Word Clouds
Heh, one of the most common things I see when reviewing code is PDO users realizing they can't "bindValue" or "bindParam" an array of values coming into an IN() clause.

Here's a decent example of doing it right:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14767530/php-using-pdo-w...

Here's one showing noobs how to do it wrong:

http://pdo.w3clan.com/tutorial/176/like-clause-in-clause-and...

Look at that blind implode function. Argh. It's the danger of copy/paste echo-chambers.
As you might expect, this is more of an engineering press release and not a balanced technical discussion. Two things jump out at me:

> The nanoscale air gap is less than the mean-free path of electrons in air, hence electrons can travel through air under room temperature without scattering.

Electron transport without scattering is usually termed "ballistic transport", and as gate sizes shrink in traditional MOS devices, a larger fraction of channel electrons make it across the channel before scattering. So maybe air gaps might speed up the arrival of mass-production ballistic transistors.

However, there is a new problem: To get an electron out of the metal, you need to kick it up to the vacuum level (the electron work function of the material). Giving energy to the electron to get it out of the metal was the reason that tubes had heating elements back in the day. In more modern research, it's the reason why people have been exploring diamond thin-film emitters: It turns out that diamond has the interesting property that the conduction band is above the vacuum level (!), which means that a conduction-band electron will fall out of the material given the chance. (Surface physics gets in the way, which is why diamond engagement rings aren't positively charged rocks, but very cool nevertheless.)

Alternatively, you need to apply an electric field to have electrons tunnel out, but usually that corresponds to a very large field where other bad things start to happen (breakdown, electromigration, etc)

> Because the electrons flow between the electrodes just as well in a vacuum (think vacuum tube) as in air, radiation will not modulate channel properties, making ACT devices suitable for use in extreme radiation environments and space.

When radiation from space goes through an MOS-type device, there are two big problems:

1. Ionizing radiation in the channel creates electron-hole pairs, which creates excess current between source and drain temporarily,

2. Ionizing radiation in the dielectric creates electron-hole pairs in the gate, and often the hole gets trapped in the gate leading to a permanent threshold shift. This eventually causes failure, and is usually the bigger problem when designing a space-qualified process.

So while "radiation will not modulate channel properties" is maybe technically right, the press release is ignoring that the radiation will still modulate gate properties, which will in turn modulate channel properties.
> I am surprised that ... are able to command as high a margin as they do for sales commission.

Yep. Me too. I’ve long thought that Steam charges way too much considering the platform. There would seem to be tons of room for a competitor to undercut Steam. I’m excited about Discord’s new store.

Revenue share is a killer for a business, especially as one as volatile as computer games. Any game needs to be 25% better than it otherwise would have been because of Steam’s revenue share. Does it really bring that much to the table? In 2018? Enough to justify their absolutely enormous cost?
> In France, for instance, 41 percent of those surveyed said vaccines are not safe — more than three times the global average of 12 percent.

That’s a pretty astonishing statistic
This is why app stores are fundamentally a horrible idea for the web and I'm surprised we aren't more enraged by them.

They put ALL the control of which apps can be used in the hands of 3-4 companies.

Sure, you can go out and write your own app and side load it but you're only going to have 1-3k users.

Additionally, what if you live in a country that doesn't have these "laws" ? why can't people run my app if they want?
> It seems to me that all of these problems -- the insect apocalypse, general biodiversity loss, climate change, all the way to the depression and anxiety epidemics, economic inequity, etc., stem from the same general principle:

I thought you were going to say capitalism.
“We have incoming... Sound general quarters... Dive, dive, dive!!!”

“Sorry, Cap’n, it’s doing updates.”

“Can’t you hold down the power button?”

“Uhhh... it says not to do that.”

“Well do it anyway sailor. Our lives depend on it!”

...

“What’s it doing now?”

“I don’t know... it looks like it isn’t booting.”

“Try Safe Mode, sailor.”

“OK, uhh... hold down... I want to say Windows-7 or F7 or...”

...

“I don’t understand why these Americans are just giving up. Not one of them has fought back since the start of this war.”
Nice, I talk about the general case, and you list capitals and people living on the city center.

A 30km trip is relevant, because there is a large set of population that works on the city center, yet it can only afford to buy a house 30-100km away from it, and commutes every day.

I lived in middle size cities where after 8pm there are no more buses, only taxis.
“The only thing graphene can’t do is make it out of the lab.”
I guess there sureley will be employees who want to continue traveling to Europe at some point in their lives.
Any car rental place will offer you a monthly rate. Long term rental not really a new thing. Possibly they can be price competitive with that, though. You’d have to comparison shop.
These are valid points, but don't necessarily reflect the reality of a production web environment whose user ONLY has SELECT access to read caches and view data from the database.

Being able to enumerate vulnerable spots or exfiltrate data can arguably be more devastating than performing a DROP that's noticed immediately and the LKG table from backup is imported to fix it.
This is basically a regressive tax as it will affect more the poorer segment of the population, meaning those that don’t have money to purchase newer cars (let alone EVs). The same applies to Paris and Northern Italy, where similar measures are in place.

What this will also “accomplish” is that it will make these poorer people tourists in their own city/region, as the downtown areas will be more easily accessible by the “richer” people. As such, I expect revolt movements like the “gillets jaunes” protest now happening in France to become more widespread and more frequent.
Not if they want to target Europeans.
How long before Google switches to digitally signed crawling requests?
I feel like I’ve forgotten most of the events in my life. I can’t remember was being a child or a teenager was like. I think my personality has changed, but I’m not sure because I can’t remember it.

I’ve also forgotten most of how to speak Spanish, which I learned as a child. It does come back quicker than the first time with a lot of practice, but I can’t speak it on demand without a lot of re-learning.

I also ride mountain bikes and find that if I take extended breaks of months or longer, I forget how to do the more difficult riding, and I have to re-learn/practice until I’m comfortable again.
I am the author of that add-on ... what would you do in my shoes ?

- provide an XPI (that will only benefit the few since the side-loading process is made awkwarder at every point release) ?
- fight it ? If so, on what grounds and how ?
- something else ?
q2dm6 anyone?
I surely remeber quite a few on the enterprise space and plenty of XUL based installers.
How chess became a pawn in Russia's political war games
FWIW you may also be interested in selling directly from your site[0] since you can give away as low as 5%.

[0] https://www.positech.co.uk/cliffsblog/2018/11/23/selling-gam...
This looks very fluid in the video.
I assume it will also make drones safer.
I find heuristics like this to be anti-intellectual. In news orgs the person who picks the headline often isn't even the person who wrote the article.
>the emissions bands are based on, well, emissions. (I used years, but it's not model year, it's Euro emissions standards, which happen to track model year fairly closely (hence the ~))

Ah, gotcha. I didn't realise that, thanks.
Can you please share details about your HTPC build? What case will you be using? Did you choose Raptor's 2U heatsink assembly, their 3U HSF assembly, or something else?
Web Applications on Azure: Developing for Global Scale
I'm going to go with 3. He only has a $7 margin not including ads/promos and his pricing is already on the higher end of FBA bags on Amazon. Like he's going to need to get early reviews and that is not free.
Could you please re-share the link? I have seen the original text of your post, thought that this is an interesting topic and I'd like to find time to watch them.
You won't be able to enter the EU.
think you misunderstand what the extension does - it hid paywalls, not ads
Right. For the same reason, submissions on HN or elsewhere with a title that starts with a "Why ..." carry some sort of red flag telling me that I probably don't care to know.
(I took the Stanford nanoscale materials science class this summer, and we all had a good laugh. Graphene is very interesting, but it’s subject to the hype cycle.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV2ViNJFZC8
For the iPhone monopoly, I think you should keep an eye on Apple Inc. v. Pepper.
Maybe not need them, but want them. EA and Ubisoft both launched their own competing platforms, so they have a lot of leverage to negotiate with.
No, I'm saying they are equally equipped to make decisions in a democracy.
My sense is that capitalism is also a symptom of the same principle (which compels us to view nature as merely a "means of production").
Not 9 people; he realizes he removed 9 years from someone else's career.
You can open a new box each day. Or you can open them all at once. Just like you can with a real advent calendar.
>>The case revolves around suspicions that confidants of Netanyahu promoted regulations worth hundreds of millions of dollars to the Bezeq telecom company in exchange for positive coverage of the prime minister on Bezeq's subsidiary news website, Walla.

If true, lifetime ban from politics and 20 years in jail. This is messing with the core of democracy--and by using state /people's money. Those hundreds of millions in "gifts" are a cost to Israeli people.
It only takes one PHP developer using PDO to read an article like this one to open up SQL injection holes. http://pdo.w3clan.com/tutorial/176/like-clause-in-clause-and...
I'm sure you could do a lot with satellite imagery and simulation. It could suggest spots to place preemptive fire breaks or have controlled fires.
That's exactly what I thought too, not even " sort-of " it seems "without a doubt" against that policy. It seems really tricky for Google to enforce though. Wouldn't they need to send out bots crawling without the GoogleBot agent? That also seems wrong, somehow.
Street-fighting maths:the art of educated guessing&opportunistic problem solving
Do you know of a good resource with which to explain the high school physics of radiative forcing?

I have some smart friends on the fence about the predicted effects of climate change. I don't have the science background to walk through radiative forcing, but could learn it if pointed in the right direction. I've already checked wikipedia, but finding something on this specific point hasn't been fruitful.

This bugs me, as I think it is:

1. The decisive point

2. Poorly understood by the public

3. Could be easily explained
USRP radio was 2000$ plus daughter board cost for specific bands. The price of this is so cheap; you can pop garages, car tire sensors, key fobs, cell phone signals, all in one.
Has this actually been tested for a large number of years? I learnt to drive a manual car and then proceeded to not drive for ten years. When I tried to drive again I essentially had to learn again from scratch (quite dangerous actually as I was still fully licensed and everything). Would it actually be the same for a bike? Ten years is quite a long time.
Maybe the app thing and less hassle? Presumably these new companies are well funded and can offer better deals initially and may be willing not to nickle and dime customers. Grow at all costs first...
Intel’s New Patent Could Make Bitcoin Mining More Energy Efficient
Not them but since it's offtopic anyway, here's what I used: https://www.rtl-sdr.com/ bought the kit off Amazon and was able to set it up on Windows and Linux after following a few instructions.

There's tons of software and projects out there to expand it, and that website has links to a lot of them.
This would never happen in America, but I wonder if deaths would go down if dealers were offered free measurement equipment, like how we offer needle exchanges and supervised injection sites.
Yes, thank you - since the most "secure" method of generating UI/UX while still depending on a database at least requires SELECT permission, even if INSERT/DROP/DELETE are enabled, having SLEEP() not require special permissions makes it trivial to use in vulnerability enumeration.
From the article, it is unclear whether the average montly loan cost is up because of price increases or a different mix of cars (more suvs less compact) in a good economy.
The French protests are about people outside of metro areas who don't have access to the same quality of transportation infrastructure. London has world-class infrastructure and many options for entering the city center without a car.
The project was released by the original author here. https://github.com/google/codesearch

There is no information on the subject besides the 3 blog posts and the proof of concept.
I would surely hope that salaries are their greatest cost by a large margin, but not sure how it's relevant to my point of it being difficult to emphatize with these publishers who engage in evil practices. Heck, they could just build a static site and host it for free on GitLab.

So we have publishers whose articles can be hosted for free, said articles are likely seen by thousands, sometimes millions, of people, most of which are articles that are mostly copied from other publishers/blogs with little to no research put into it. And we are to believe that this cannot be profitable without pulling this kind of bullshit?
Yes it's physical. The max exposure time is inversely correlated with the framerate. If you shoot at 100fps for example you cannot keep the shutter open (and capture photons) for longer than 10ms, as you need to close and start the next frame, and it will look dark. And the standard for movies is to use 180° exposure meaning half the inverse of the framerate.
What an utterly stupid trick.
So, I didn't even know those extensions existed. Such arrogant behavior made me search and install one of these.
Serves them right.
Plane – minimal visual improvements for Linux
Well, banning everything except Lamborghinis would be very much more effective than, say, the <5yo cars, since there are a few dozen Lamborghinis in the city where I live, compared to a six-digit number of newish cars.

If you want to compare like with like, the fair basis of comparison would be the Lamborghinis against the few dozen newest cars, or the few dozen least-polluting cars.
I wasn't talking about myself, but some colleagues I have elsewhere. I pretty much come and go as I please, define the technical direction of the product and get paid handsomely for it.

Devs are still treated like children in many companies.
> multifractal analyses

Seems legit.
Steven M. Johnson's “Patent Depending” series of inventions
The point I am making is that someone in a rich / sheltered / high lifespan country is calling an idea stupid because it affects a one out of many species of mosquito in a specific area, that is non-native to the area. They seem to totally ignore the benefit in terms of lives saved, both old and young - perhaps because they will not experience the benefit themselves.

Ironically, what I've noticed. Those same folks go totally ape and over-react to even relatively modest threats to their OWN lifespan.

Your point is not wrong - the dying kids argument is often used in high lifespan countries to overreact to things. In this case I think it's not an unreasonable point however.
Millennials kill industries because they're poor: Fed report
You are correct. Except, this quality of the vacuum is very fragile. "What's perfect is imperfect, it is the imperfect that is perfect." (Example: a perfectly rigid system will collapse under stress while an imperfect one might withstand it.)
I would rather have a browser plugin that just removed pay walled content from search results anyway. Or one that redirected me to something I would use like Blendle.
Consul is the most widely deployed service discovery solution in AWS
> it will be pretty easy to automate attribution.

Yours is a valid concern, but people can also fool attribution software easily. You could even write software that alters your paper into a few different people's writing style. That will render any attribution process useless. Just like you can disassemble code, you can obfuscate it.
Weedmaps at level 10000
I always appreciate a good example of the Streisand effect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
Just build the cheapest ghetto antenna you can (e.g. some coat hangers twisted in the qfh position sans PVC or the dipole option listed in one of the replies). You'll get something over the air, and it will either ignite an ember in your or it won't. If it does, the rest is just nature taking its course.

I lost myself in this stuff for years and had to just stop. It's a lot of fun.
That’s the idea. In practice does it actually work out like that?
> They’ve burned so many bridges with existing sellers

Details for people not familiar with the Amz horror stories, please?
Yes, if you want to reduce the incidence of something by increasing its' cost, poor people will probably stop doing it first, because they have less money.

Making polluting cost more is a very explicit goal of the policy.

The 2021 changes may bring protests because they hit wide swathes of the city - existing homes with drives etc.

The 2019 ones I very much doubt - driving in Central London is more of a leisure activity than anything remotely practical.

It's fun to drive down Whitehall. Barely anyone parks outside the National Gallery for a visit.
Citing the inevitable tech-press coverage now that the blog-post has hit HN's front page should get around that nicely.
Even if the downloads where encrypted, an all seeing observer could probably still detect what you download. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14070130 as an example. I'm not sure how easy it would be to fingerprint the entire iTunes database and how unique download sizes would be. Might be an interesting research topic.
I’m not clear where the transistor action is coming from? If it is indeed a transistor then leakage and gain numbers would be good to see