skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Involving the police is an issue, but that's really not the first thing that comes to my mind.

The first thing that comes to my mind is that people who use these systems would be causing innocent others to be included in Big Data databases without their knowledge or consent. I think that it's not only immoral to do so, it is straight-up antisocial and harmful to community and society.

We have more than enough of that sort of thing already.
Instant Evaluation in Chrome's DevTools
Thanks!

It actually does 3 different comparisons... namely, we do a pixel-by-pixel comparison, a DOM comparison, and a "content" comparison (i.e., the words that the end-user sees).

We only trigger a new version that we alert the customer about, however, when actual content changes. We provide the pixel-by-pixel screenshot, too (but it's often not very useful unless the changes are very small and image based). (We also don't currently show the DOM comparison as we assume it won't be valuable for most of our target customers.)
next up: crashing speed cameras
Well that's true sometimes but it depends on the store. Instacart actually matches in-store prices in certain stores. In the app these stores are noted as having "everyday store prices." If there's a markup it will say "view pricing policy" instead.

Their Whole Foods deal delivered everyday store prices so that's why I didn't list this as a difference. In SF Costco and Safeway have markups but for example Bi-Rite, Rainbow, Smart & Final and Mollie Stone's do not.

I know Instacart used to mark up everything and people hated it. So they've taken to hiding the cost somehow.. Maybe they're asking the smaller stores to take it out of their margins, and they just can't get Safeway & Costco to do it. Maybe they're tricking customers into paying a 10% markup with their "service fee". That fee reportedly does not get passed on to the workers and is optional but most customers probably don't realize this.

Amazon doesn't have as much of a cost problem here because they have the Prime membership fee, plus economies of scale.
Ohio Congressman: We can fund border wall with "WallCoin"
That's a good point. A friend of mine in medical school told me that banks are itching to give loans to broke med school students because they know building the relationship now is going to pay dividends when the now-broke student becomes a doctor looking to buy a new car or new house.
Wow, it's crazy how sometimes search queries have a "magic" quality to them. I spent a good 1-2 hours trying to find the place with the best rate when I discovered Dollar Savings Direct, but never came across a list like the one you find when searching for "high yield savings".
Thanks! I try and be responsive as possible -- I know how painful it is to sit and wait for a response. Appreciate your comment!
try VSCodium.. its vscode without all of the MS telemetry stuff in it. I use it on fedora 29 and it runs great. Im not a django developer though but the community is great and there is a ton of extensions for pretty much everything.

https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium
I am, I tried to make that clear with the "I'll bet..".. we don't have anywhere near enough insight to know for sure!
> I think if those wealthy people and organizations who are matching donations want to donate, they can just go ahead and donate

Seems like trying to encourage other people to donate to a cause they find worthy is a thing worth doing. It's one thing if they're making the same donation anyway - as the article points out, that's dishonest. But if they do tie the donation to the received donations, how is it a bad thing?

> also want to donate to the cause that I feel is most important for me to support, not to who has the best deal

Of course - that's up to the donator in all cases. You donate to what's important to you. But things like this can move someone from "I keep meaning to donate to them" to "Now's a good time to donate to them".
Yeah but at least it's the police who control the data. Who knows what Amazon can do with that info. We're handing over the keys of the power to a private company.

Nevertheless, is as scary as you think...
> Huh? All I'm saying is FCC comments don't matter. And therefore neither do fake ones. Not sure what you're referring to...

Two negatives doesn't make a positive sadly.

- FCC comments has to matters

- Fake FCC comments shouldn't be accepted

Theses are 2 problems currently, both have to be fixed, having them both doesn't make them alright.
> I love Schwab's checking account product because it's highly functional. But, I don't think that it has mass-market appeal. It appeals to a rational buyer, not an emotional one.

Isn't that the wrong perspective on a financial product? I agree that good design is important, to a degree. Once a certain level is hit, you're not going to gain/lose very many customers based upon the UI.

I don't think anyone should favor one bank over another for emotional reasons Also, I'm not sure design differences qualifies as "emotional"; I think a better word would be "design" or "aesthetic".

If Bank A offers you a 4% interest rate on a loan and Bank B offers you a 4.1% interest rate on a loan, I think most people would pick Bank A over Bank B (assuming fee structures and customer service is more or less equal). Even if Bank B has a beautiful UI as opposed to Bank A's equally functional but okay looking UI.
Either I'm not reading what you wrote correctly, or you're misunderstanding what I'm saying.

I'm saying put it out. Less CO2 released.
This is an anecdotal story, but has made me feel weird about this test in general.

I have a cat (who do not pass the mirror test) who loves mirrors. She just likes looking at herself in them. It is weird. She also frequently walks in on me in the bathroom and frequently looks at me through the mirror. And I know she looks at that one because it is the one I look at her with. So it always has made me feel like this test may be doing something else, because she clearly recognizes that I'm not in the mirror, but that she can see me with it. So it seems like she understands what a reflection is, but not her self in the reflection.

So it seems that animals can understand reflections, but does that really mean they recognize a self if they recognize themselves in it? IDK, I'm not a biologist and may be missing a lot from this test.
> This reads like Google is now attempting to dictate the direction Javascript goes in, by implementing proposals before they've become standards, and shipping them in their browser.

You seem to be proposing a Catch-22 that would freeze JavaScript forever: no one should implement a feature before it is a standard, but completing the process to become a standard requires implementations to exist. Therefore, no new feature can ever be implemented or become part of the standard.
A Conversation with Aza Raskin on the History of Archy, Enso, and Ubiquity
We had a Social email loop when I worked for a company with 33k employees. Someone sent out a newsletter to the company ALL mailbox, which had some tips for winterizing, and asked mostly rhetorically "What are your tips for preparing for winter?"

A handful people replied to the entire company w/o realizing it - stuff like "Well I'm in California, I don't have to worry about it. Ha!".

I think it would have ended there. But some grumpy programmer in NYC of course decided to reply "People. Stop replying-all!" One would think being a programmer he'd be smart enough to reply to just the people who had unintentionally spammed the whole company. But no. He spammed the whole company.

And after that it was on. Dozens of emails a minute. Tons of replies like "Please take me off this list." Tons more grumpy people complaining. Big bosses pulling rank "Ok I am Vice President of muckety muck and we need to stop this replying all right now!" And the best: "Stop replying all to everyone to tell them to stop replying all!" - replied to all of course. O_o

It didn't help that a lot of people worked in labs and shared computers. So they'd log on and see a ton of emails w/o knowing what happened. By the end of the week it finally died down. Then the next Monday people came back from vacation, saw 500+ emails, and of course asked to be taken off the list. This went on for weeks before it finally trickled to a halt.

Why anyone was allowed to spam the entire company, or the address couldn't be blocked, I have no idea. I was tempted to use it to fish for a tennis partner. And then apologize and claim ignorance of course.
The L train has been fully automated for many years.

The reason that only the L was improved was that it is largely separate from the rest of the system. There are extremely few rail connections and none that are regularly used.
> Going vegan isn't easy at all, I even doubt it's possible if you care about your protein intake

Virtually nobody who eats enough calories per day is protein deficient. Even eating just one relatively low-protein source of food, like brown rice, for all your daily calories will get you over a sedentary protein requirement.

> Plant sources are very carb rich and more and more evidence suggests high carb, low fat diets aren't good for humans

This is also just not true. [1]

> There is simply no way to get enough protein from plant sources unless you wanna eat highly processed tofu every day. A full vegan, high protein diet would require eating low carb tofu at least 2 meals a day.

Addressed above. False. Beans, peanuts, peas, hemp, spinach, soy (of all kinds: tempeh, edamame, and tofu) are all packed with protein

> Seeing that how popular weightlifting in young Americans (especially males) today, suggesting "vegan diet is easy" is intellectual dishonesty.

Veganism in the general population is pretty uncommon. So it's not surprising that it's also uncommon in the world of weightlifting. But just to provide a counter-example: Patrik Baboumian. Patrik, a vegan, holds several heavyweight lifting records [2].

> There is simply no evidence suggesting full vegan diet is healthy

False [3][4]

> The most alarming thing about vegan diet is that you'll have absolutely no source of Omega 3 except expensive açai berry and walnut (all other plant sources have trace amount of Omega 3) So in a vegan diet you get excess amount of carbs (especially sugars) and Omega 6 which causes inflammatory diseases.

Flax, which is extremely cheap, is an excellent source of Omega 3s.

[1] https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/nih-study-find...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrik_Baboumian

[3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3662288/

[4] https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/89/5/1627S/4596952
copyq is very good as well.
Meat is even more expensive...
>The Clean Air Act requires the EPA to regulate air pollutants when the agency’s administrator finds that they “cause, or contribute to, air pollution which may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health or welfare.”

The question is not whether it is a good idea for greenhouse gases to be regulated. The question is if the Clean Air Act mandates it. IANAL, but from what is quoted, I would have a hard time classifying CO2 (which already makes up 0.04% of air) which you exhale every time you breath as an air pollutant. There is no evidence that breathing air with CO2 (at the levels that current industrialization produces) produces harmful effects directly. In fact, if you hold your breath and exhale, the air you exhale likely has a higher local CO2 percentage than the increased levels caused by industrialization. The effects are mediated by its greenhouse effect and global warming. This is analogous to the CFC and the ozone depletion. The CFC's were pretty innocuous at ground level, but their release cause ozone depletion. This was regulated not through the Clean Air Act, but by the Senate ratified Montreal Treaty (https://www.nytimes.com/1988/03/15/science/treaty-on-ozone-i...).

The issue right now is that there is not the political will in the United States to address greenhouse gases, therefore people are trying to accomplish this through a very broad reading of the Clean Air Act. This will not be helpful in the long term as it just further associates fighting climate change with government overreach, and further politicizes what should not be a partisan issue.
K-nearest neighbor clusters based upon the k most similar objects.

K-means, clusters on centroids that are means. After every interation new means are calculated and then reclustering occurs.
i just wrote it related to the post by blhack. otherwise your statement would be correct
Fraud, waste, and the worlds worst purchasing work.

NYCT workers are well paid, but that is only an explanation for high operating expense, not obscene capital expenses.

Operating expense is really fairly well managed, albeit with unusually high wages. It is a small, small part of the subway’s problems.
I've been fascinated recently with out-of-line documentation, I was inspired by this project: https://github.com/adobe/hyde

A more robust implementation would parse the code to object-code, then emit a document(s) for the developer to fill in.

The killer feature of such a system is that non-code changes (whitespace, etc.) would not trigger a need to re-document, but seemingly benign changes that affect distant parts of code (or a -O4 being added to the Makefile) would trigger a round of documentation
This is my most common feedback when I review docs that people have written.

The other is when someone write “if you need to do X” with no information about how you’d know if you need to do X
Funding for Bootstrappers 2: What we learned
How Vivid Imagination Can Help Unlearn Fear
China's arresting Canadians in revenge for the Huawei executive's arrest. Are those Canadians going to be murdered for their organs if the Huawei executive is extradited?
You have to give it to Trump for really sticking it to China in trade.
It was already just as "real" as any license, and I'm disappointed that they caved to the ridiculous people, but it just validates my point that they were in fact giving permission to use it. The new license is more restrictive about sales.
Inorganic is not at all the same as invalid.

And none of those submissions were "initiated by real people" as you claim - they were initiated by the organization, with the support of people some of whom were real (if you think out of millions of people every single one gave their real name, you're naive).
> There is no evidence that breathing air with CO2 (at the levels that current industrialization produces) produces harmful effects directly.

“directly” is not in the cited requirement, so indirect causation is not excluded from the requirement.
> Sure, but you can buy US treasury bills, and then your risk is "lose some money if the US government defaults", which is very low.

There are all kinds of other risks associated with buying US treasury bills besides the US government defaulting, which is why you get paid - but you're right, the risk is low so you get paid a low amount. You have opportunity costs during the time that your money is locked up in treasuries. You also incur some inflation risk. If we are specifically talking about T-bills then we're talking about treasuries with maturities of less than one year, meaning that particular risk is low. There is interest rate risk. If you have an emergency and need to convert back into cash before the maturity date hits, you have to sell them on the market, where you may lose money if interest rates have increased. If you're investing in the treasuries via an ETF or via a broker, you are incurring additional counterparty risk.

> If you look at the current treasury yields, they are very close to 3%.

The 10-year bond is 2.91%, the 20-year bond is 3.05%. Investing in a 10 or 20 year bond is obviously different than having a checking account which can be emptied at any time without penalty and without having to go to the market to find a buyer, so there's a large maturity mismatch that's being incurred by your counterparty, RobinHood (assuming they are in fact investing in long-dated treasuries).

> If they go bankrupt because of an unlikely combination of events - lots of deposits coupled with a very sharp and unexpected decline in treasury yields - SIPC will pick up the pieces and make sure you get your cash and securities up to $500k.

The part where they pick up the pieces could take weeks or months; if you need the cash before then, you're in trouble. If you can afford to wait, you're right, no big deal. I don't expect RobinHood to go bankrupt tomorrow, but if they were wiped out as part of a wider financial crisis, it's possible that under those conditions you'll need access to your cash quicker than you think.
The problem is that it's the norm in the US. If you have a service job (waiting tables, delivering pizza, etc) that's just how it works. You'd have to change the type of work you do because it doesn't differ much between employers.
Iranian phishers bypass 2fa protections offered by Yahoo Mail and Gmail
> and net neutrality would still be alive.

Yes, I'm sure the Clinton administration would be completely free of any influence from corporate lobbyists.
BEAST and the GPU Cluster – Computerphile
I figure you wanted to defend your take regardless, but the quotes indicated to me that the parent was posing as the company that wanted to reject the candidate no matter what the answer was. :)
> Long-lasting wood sash cord windows would not be expensive to build in this day and age

They'd be relatively expensive because they require more labor to install, and these days labor is the biggest cost. Older homes had better craftsmanship because labor was much cheaper back then, even highly skilled labor.

Engineered, cookie-cutter building materials are a substitute for labor. They're also a substitute for the fact that high-quality, old-growth lumber is gone, so if you want dimensional stability and moisture resistance you have to rely on engineered solutions.

I have 90-year-old sash windows in my house. I think they're great aesthetically and mechanically but previous owners didn't properly maintain them (because labor is expensive!) so they're nearing their useful life. Equivalent replacements will be quiet expensive, not to mention the labor to make sure they're installed properly, modern or not.
In my country it's considered rude to interrupt people while they're talking or eating. We wouldn't want someone to come to the table without being asked. Unless you're at a dinner service often water isn't served, you're expected to get it yourself from the counter. In the major cities US-style service is more common and most locals find it annoying and just wave the server away.

The worst service I've ever had was in Canada where they do tip, and I was rating that by the North American standards rather than my home country's. I still tipped the standard amount because I disagree with tipping, but he didn't seem incentivised.

It's important to rate experiences by what the region is expecting, not by what you expect at home.
In defence of the author, they have used a standard ESRI webapp/story map template.

What blows my mind is that I knew it was going to be this before clicking through entirely based on your comment.

The service provided by ESRI is handy for those with minimal knowledge to make something decent, but it's also easy for people to get carried away and use all the features. This is like the modern equivalent to marching ants, I guess.
Social Media Is Terrible for Mental Health. But It Could Also Help
Is the example image (https://github.com/worldveil/photomosaic/blob/master/media/r...) with or without opacity cheat?
After spending two days to setup my Win10 Procame some glorious update and MS decided to reset settings on their own. That was the first and last time. Next day I downgraded to Win 8.1 Pro. Win 7 Pro memory and disk usage can't be compared to Win8 or Win10, but I'm happy.
In the world of banking, thats "started" to me.
"Even Boston Dynamics’ own Atlas uses this crouching sort of squat-walk to get around, because those perpetually bent legs are how it keeps from falling over."

If I ever lock my joints I feel like I'm going to fall over too. I wonder if a more human walk might just be less efficient for bipedal movement and balance.

Also, I'm betting that by March we will see Atlas do a Fortnite dance.
> The edge of space: Revisiting the Karman Line

> Jonathan C. McDowell

> In this paper I revisit proposed definitions of the boundary between the Earth's atmosphere and outer space, considering orbital and suborbital trajectories used by space vehicles. In particular, I investigate the inner edge of outer space from historical, physical and technological viewpoints and propose 80 kilometers as a more appropriate boundary than the currently popular 100 km Von Kármán line.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.07894
I’m going to hang up this phone, and then show these people what you don’t want them to see. I’m going to show them a world without you. A world without rules or controls, borders or boundaries. A world where anything is possible.

This is still what we should be aspiring to. Sad how little progress we've made over the last 20 years. Hell, we've probably regressed. :-(
> Libertarian ideals are considered acceptable, even attractive, by many Republicans

They're attractive as stump speeches platitudes about limited government and lower taxation. The second they're in office, there's suddenly lots of cash available for increased defense spending, agricultural subsidies and funding prosecutions for non-violent drug crimes.
"[...] But in the current, digitized world, trivial information is accumulated every second, preserved in all its triteness. Never fading, always accessible. Rumors about petty issues, misinterpretations, slander... All of this junk data preserved in an unfiltered state, growing at an alarming rate. It will only slow down social progress, reduce the rate of evolution. You seem to think that our plan is one of censorship. What we propose to do is not to control content, but to create context. The digital society furthers human flaws and selectively rewards development of convenient half-truths. [...] You exercise your right to 'freedom' and this is the result. All rhetoric to avoid conflict and protect each other from hurt. The untested truths spun by different interests to churn and accumulate in the sandbox of political correctness and value systems. Everyone withdraws into their own small gated community, afraid of a larger forum. They stay inside their little ponds leaking whatever 'truth' suits them into the growing cesspool of society at large. The different cardinal truths neither clash nor mesh. No one is invalidated, but nobody is right. Not even natural selection can take place here. The world is being engulfed in 'truth.' We're trying to stop that from happening. It's our responsibility as rulers. Just as in genetics, unnecessary information and memory must be filtered out to stimulate the evolution of the species. Who else could wade through the sea of garbage you people produce, retrieve valuable truths and even interpret their meaning for later generations? That's what it means to create context."

–"Colonel" AI, Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (2001)
See my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18676680

Not breaking an API is one of the few cases where they make sense, but it's sort of a hack that you have to settle for because of back-compatibility. But even then, you've already broken the API in a lot of cases. In your example, 'area' was a field you could read and potentially set. But by changing it to a derived value, code that sets it no longer makes any sense - what do you do with width and height if somebody sets the area? The underlying model changed in a way that broke the old API either way. So yeah, just change 'area' to 'getArea()'.