skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lightbeam let's you make plans together (No more sending links/screenshots)
Actually, it's pretty much both. And I absolutely agree that any attempt to blame individuals for their plight is absolutely misguided. Not least because it's rather misleading to even talk about people "choosing not to obey" the norms of civil society as a relevant issue - the fact that this is even a plausible choice simply shows that the self-sustaining aggregate of norms, solid institutions, real opportunity to be economically productive and even to excel (and not just pointless make-work) and the like were never properly established in the first place - that these people, in a way, are indeed being excluded and subjugated, if perhaps only via inaction.

It's nonetheless a mistake to presume that such subjugation "preserves" wealth. It actively destroys wealth, whether or not it functionally preserves an existing social hierarchy.
I routinely run my "home" Linux desktop on a macOS host.

Pretty nice for me: I got a full-res retina screen (needs a command from host on a VM restart), changed the dpi to taste, and now have compact and crisp UI under Xfce.

I use the open-source guest additions installed by my distro's package manager (void linux), and not the Oracle-provided extensions. They work fine for time sync, clipboard sharing, file sharing, and for hi-res screen (I run 1:1 pixels, no scaling, obviously).

Saving machine state and then restoring it in 10-15 seconds is pretty nice, comparable to normal laptop hibernation mode.

What does not work well is OpenGL acceleration. That is, it sort of works, but sometimes produces visual problems that only a reboot of the VM can fix. So I run with GL acceleration disabled, and thus many nice compositor effects turned off for performance.
Maybe cryptocurrencies will have some real-world value after all!
Show HN: Git checkout command line interface
I found this out when I switched from Pocket to Instapaper. Instapaper has a curated list of articles updated about once a month, and I don't read half of them. Pocket recommends articles based on what you read, and it's not just more of the same. I'm probably going to switch back.
But the boring machine used was just an off-the shelf machine, same as every other tunnel boring company uses.
I'm also receiving a locahost redirect over Verizon Wireless in the US when using Chrome for iOS.

DNS resolves to 80.82.77.83 and .84. When I surf directly to that IP I am redirected to https://sci-hub.se which seems to load correctly. That implies this is the correct server and not a MITM.

When using CloudFlare's DNS VPN I get the same IPs, so this is not a VZW injected IP.

It seems the Sci Hub site itself is doing the local host redirect...?
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I can't tell if this is a joke comment or not. What "indented button"? My alarm clock has 2 buttons (hour and minute), and 2 switches (alarm on/off, and set time / set alarm / run). Not at all unusual: it's basically just a clock-on-a-chip that was used by lots of brands.

If you can figure out the C=64 reset system call, you can figure out an alarm clock.
Windows 10 will make it easier to ¯‍∖‍_‍(‍ツ‍)‍_‍/‍¯ and ‍(‍╯‍°‍□‍°‍)‍╯‍︵‍ ‍┻‍━‍┻
Both are also not easy like the dynamic NPCs. I think Carla [3] supports both raytraced lidar and segmented rendering now so this is another minus “-“ point.
> Despite what Tim Berners-Lee claims, the Web wasn't a single invention 1. Yes, we know that one man says that he invented it (grudging thanks to Tim), but he did so on the back of a thousand other technologies

He got that right.. Wish the media would do the same
When I deleted my unused Facebook account a while back I found that there were a dozen apps linked to my account (incl. Netflix and Spotify), even though I had never giving permission for a single one.

FB is sneaky and does not have the culture of valuing users' privacy. It is going to catch up with them eventually.
Oh cool, this is from Allen Hatcher. I've worked through some of his algebraic topology and it was very well written. I'm excited to look through this
Pseudo-LiDAR from Visual Depth Estimation
What you're suggesting is not standard medical practice, to be clear. Treatment for heroin addiction is to get that person off of heroin, not let them die.

And no, we don't have to prioritize maintaining a healthy population, not to the degree that treating the ill is excluded. That implies a limitation of resources that simply does not exist. We can and do both.
It’s fantastic and even mildly hilarious that this is a real effect at such a massive scale.
Brad Fitzpatrick Is Rethinking Go's HTTP Client
Yes, I do that for my own websites. If it has hurt the popularity of the sites, it hasn't been so severe that I've noticed.
Mapping All of the Trees with Machine Learning
There is "Oregon" on the map (with 54 jobs) but even if it was referring to Oregon City that's way off the actual location.
The Fire Trucks Are Too Damn Big
>Wait, what? I can't find anything about door levers having this kind of security risk.

I specifically remember this talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnmcRTnTNC8

at around 18 minutes in he shows one of his employees(?) use a long bit of wire to pull the lever and open the door in a matter of seconds.
Turning off alarms and checking time is a norm.
If it's sitting on top, wouldn't it push down? Or do you mean upper as in north?
WHO is the best source I know of for most things like this. I was unable to find the exact stat I was looking for, but here is e.g. data on all-cause mortality rate between ages 18 and 60:

http://apps.who.int/gho/data/view.main.1360?lang=en

It probably still supports the point you are trying to make, I just get grumpy about statistic selection.
Any other open Indoor Navigation Services I should be looking at for inventory tracking?
They built a 1.2 mile tunnel in LA and revealed it the other day: https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/boring-company-tunne...
Building a startup/product without a developer team
> It is super weird for me that Demis Hassabis says AGI is nowhere close. Is he lying? Or does he mean 10 years is not close?

Maybe he just doesn’t believe the same thing some of his coworkers do? Seems pretty drastic to jump to the conclusion he’s lying if he implies it’s more than 10 years away.
> They are e-mailing employees directly and asking them to contact Oracle

That would certainly look a lot like phishing
So OpenShift (or OKD) is just Redhat's Kubernetes platform. If your dev team isn't already in a docker-like workflow, it's going to be a hard sell. I've found many devops-y people love to be able to SSH into the environment to change code as it runs, and that's not possible with an environment like this.

You can spin up KVMs in OpenShift, but I have the feeling it's not going to be quite what you're looking for. I suppose it's all going to be a matter of what workflow is most comfortable for your devops people. If you have an OpenStack install, Vagrant can control those AND they can login and poke around.

Also FYI virt-manager is deprecated in RHEL 8, and is superceded by Cockpit.
> Now, how do I do it in a non-evil way? I am presuming here that everyone agrees that should be possible to make that work [...] Apparently Facebook did it the wrong way. Why?

I really like Steve Jobs' comments on how to operate, with regards to questions of user privacy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39iKLwlUqBo (3 minutes)

While I'm not convinced about the need for devices to be locked down, the rest of his response should be the gold standard in my opinion.
That would be correct. I got confused.
Here is some more data: http://highscalability.com/blog/2018/4/2/how-ipdata-serves-2...

I don't understand what's cubejs doing in this app?

Once data is inside athena, it's matter of querying it right.
Show HN: Albatross – manage a devserver from Slack to support iPad development
If you were doing an iterative design, you would probably start with the tunnel.
Northeast corridor is not perfect, but very usable. Much preferred to flying between most of Boston, NY, Philly, DC, etc.
Yeah - I got confused on VBA / VBS....
Working link: http://sci-hub.se/downloads/17ae/10.1145@3292035.pdf
Ah, that’s interesting and believable. Do you know where you heard that?

I found this article, which talks about a slightly different effect: If Antarctic ice melts more quickly than arctic ice, then the Antarctic land rebound will shove southern-hemisphere water north, raising sea levels in the northern hemisphere. The opposite effect happens if arctic ice melts before Antarctic ice.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/01/cities...
...completely not an answer I was expecting. It makes as much as sense as my complaint of the opposite though. (well, maybe 80% as much sense, but I'm also biased.) .

Thanks for the answer!
Thanks, I have applied for an internship role too.
The thing that Elon and his "chief engineer" did not bother to learn before making that video is that boring machines are already electric. They are merely suggesting replacing the electrical wires with batteries. The consequences of this is that the drill still only drills half the time, because you have to stop to swap out batteries. And unless Elon has access to superbatteries that he hasn't revealed yet, they'll be swapping batteries once or twice an hour for any boring machine large enough to construct subway-sized tunnels.

Also, the reason the drill stops to put in walls sections every X feet is because in soft-soil like LA, the tunnel will collapse without walls. Unlike the Elontunnel, the walls built by the machine during this stage are the final walls, which is why they take so long--they're subject to the full construction process (measuring, building, remeasuring, inspections, sign-offs, etc.) before the tunnel digs a new section.

When you're digging under other people's property, it's better to go slowly and do things right the first time. It's more expensive to fix something like a tunnel after the fact, and that's something BoringCo is about to learn.

As for number 3: different materials require different drill heads and speeds. For example--with soft soil drilling to fast can "liquefy" the soil. Material science won't change that--it's physics that the boring industry has decades of research in.
> Nearly half of the respondents feel “unsafe” if they’re in an area without any service.

So it's the other half that have applied to go to Mars right?
Working link http://sci-hub.se/downloads/17ae/10.1145@3292035.pdf
"Facebook is built on the belief that people don't need privacy"

That is wrong, Facebook's leadership doesn't act that way. Facebook is built on "fuck them, we'll take away their privacy and make money".
I agree, I can't stop scratching my head. Maybe "Geometry of Numbers" is a better name.
yes. "If you were a computer you could see that this is a boot stamping on a human face forever..."
I don't get Musk's math on this one.

Even if the tunnels were significantly cheaper than building new freeway lanes, a tunnel is a single lane, with single entry and exits. Ingress and egress overwhelm any gains from potential speed improvements in the tunnel.

Besides this, it doesn't matter how much improvement in traffic capacity is gained from tunnels, or lanes. Induced demand always renders improvements in capacity moot over the longer term.
One Foot (and Paw) in Front of the Other: How Far Would You Go for Your Dog?
How important human psychology is in product design
Do they? I know several developers that love crafting incredibly intricate and clever solutions that show off how good they are at functional programming/algorithm design etc.

One place I worked at had an API with an "unfixable" 120ms delay on every request that persisted until someone ripped out the beautiful ORM system and replaced it with 3 SQL queries.
You're correct, this is about a freedom of information lawsuit about the program. They now seem to be finding potential victims so they can challenge the actual program.
Bigquery takes minimum 2-3 seconds for every query.

Google Analytics is much faster, responds in a few hundreads milliseconds.

What did you use dataflow for?
How did you get data from end points and insert them into bigquery? Using streaming inserts?
I'm not expert on the Boring company, and I don't put in any effort to staying up-to-date beyond the occasional article that lands on HN, so if I'm wrong on anything, please let me know.

But from what I can tell, the tunnels being proposed aren't primarily for commuter's cars. From the FAQ[0] on the Boring Company's site:

> Is this public or private transportation?
> Both. Within Loop, there will be a large quantity of autonomous electric vehicles dedicated solely to public transportation. In addition, privately owned compatible vehicles can access Loop. Accommodating pedestrians and cyclists will be prioritized over accommodating private vehicles.

So even if people can enter with their own vehicles, it seems the plan is to prioritize "pedestrians and cyclists"--like a subway system would.

It also begs the question of what counts as a "compatible vehicle". I don't know if they released any info on that, and I don't want to theorize. But it's clear it won't be as simple as an "underground highway" meant to compete with freeways, and is intended to function primarily in ways similar to subway systems.

[0]https://www.boringcompany.com/faq/
> Furthermore when the alternative is death or debilitation, the price a "consumer" is willing to pay is effectively everything they possess and can borrow

Someone is morbidly obese. They will die and are already debilitated. The cost of having their life back is eating less. Many are not willing to pay that price.
I can understand they're wary of flying any manned aircraft near them to take them out, but I can't understand why they haven't yet deployed a fleet of suicide drones to knock them out of the sky? Is there something we're all missing here?
I don't think that's new either, I remember doing that in 2015, to demonstrate an issue.
the battery swapping/zev credit scam they pulled is what soured me with elon. his intentions are somewhat admirable but comes off as an egomaniac with the hype/cult like following. everyone esp on hn can appreciate someone taking a different approach to problems and he/tesla undoubtedly sped up the ev shift but there's so many shady practices (accounting and management the most severe) surrounding the work
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Is fastly free? Why would they use fastly and not s3?
Nobody does anything out of pure altruism. But then again, there's also plenty of selfish reasons to retire to Tahiti once you've had a $1 billion exit.
I know it's not too bad to write callback based async... been doing it for a couple decades (first java, then flash adapters or hidden frames, then xhr). I just find if looks/feels much cleaner with async functions and promises.

I have to admit, I didn't like promises and preferred node style callbacks until async/await and have been using it with babel since before the name change.
"serverless" is really the misnomer of the year.
I've only used it on the west coast, but it seems like the service, cleanliness, etc. are comparable to European and Asian trains, but because the Amtrak trains are super slow and the distances here are so much greater, riding anywhere on it is a terrible experience. Not to mention the fact that it's almost as expensive as flying. (Just checked and it would cost me $79 to fly to Portland from Seattle and $53 to take the train. Kind of a no-brainer.)
It's not weird to me that it exists. I like Musk, I like that he has created some amazing things, but he can also be very flaky and a bit of an asshole, and I don't think many people who aren't white have serious hopes of him not being, by instinct if not intent, basically yet another internet tech guy / entitled libertarian / white supremacist.

He's created a lot of noise and dissent on Twitter, most seriously with his error-riddled disparagement of journalists who have investigated labour conditions at Tesla. On that platform, his de facto fan club of Musk bros have made great strides in alienating people who wouldn't even otherwise have an opinion.

The criticisms in this article are painful for those of us who wish him to succeed, but they aren't really that unfair. The big unveiling WAS a public relations flop. They HAVEN'T yet succeeded in reducing the price of tunnelling. If the tunnel is only usable by automated electric cars, then it IS essentially a private highway for the wealthy. If the tunnels are used to capacity, then entrance/exit congestion IS a real problem that needs to be dealt with.

I think the article takes a few truisms to heart (more roads means more congestion) that might not be as applicable to an underground network as to a surface network, and the author clearly has an agenda with regards to social utility. However, it's not an unreasonable reaction from someone who hasn't already bought into the hope that Musk will be successful in his various endeavours.
Says the links above? I didn't make it up, if that's what you're asking...
What to expect in 2019 from EdTech sector in India?
This is really concerning. Slack is starting to worry us like FB has continued to do. The good news is there are alternative services that I see that can do most, if not all of what Slack does with better security, privacy, and performance.

I’m getting fed up with paying for a bloated Electron app with nice colors and now improved with tracking of it’s users.
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That's exactly what the father of my fiancee told me in Poland in 1986.
>does anyone feel comfortable arguing that the reader will understand what is apparently the issue - the permission dialog was not clear enough?

There were leaked emails in which FB was discussing how to ACTIVELY ensure the updates for their app specifically obfuscated the fact that they were preventing the users from understanding what they were agreeing to, as it was bad PR, and Zuck authorizing with "yup do it"
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SoftBank leads $385M investment in Fair
What no Clojure? I find that hard to believe.
Missing a final could easily be a life-altering event, so I don't think it really makes sense in this case.

As long as it's a rare occurrence, I don't really see the problem here.
I already did. I post to my own site and use rss/Microformats reader to consume content.

Funny thing is I love it but everyone who uses Facebook (especially geeks) likes to tell me this is all wrong because 2 billion people aren’t using my website and I’m not a publicly traded company.

I think Facebook has messed with their heads. They just keep prattling about “network effect” and “owning the market”.
Saying you use a 6S as if you’re using old slow technology is a bit of a stretch. The 6S from 2015 is actually faster than most modern Android phones in single core performance - including the Samsung Galaxy s9
Most of those cameras have a fisheye like lens and then use a lot of post-processing to make a rectilinear image.
Amazon Sends 1,700 Alexa Voice Recordings to a Random Person
Surprising python snippets
hacker news is always more of the same? let's not pretend like they are any better.
You don't need to store the whole 1 cubic kilometer to make a big impact.

You could get that 1 cubic km of space by damming up the area where the Los Angeles River drains out out to where the depth of the ocean really drops off.

Practically it can be done on a small scale. Some communities are starting to realize that they can either spend $1M on upgrading their sewer line or spend $3M and get a really nice and verdant park.
Yeah I just want to see everyone's photos.. that's kinda it.
I'm confused... Wasn't all that published in 2015 already?

Edit: ah it says it right there on this article: The full version of this paper was published in Proceedings
of the 22nd Conference on Computer and Communications
Security (CCS), October 2015, ACM

Mods, maybe add a "2015" to the title?
Justice Department accuses Chinese spies of hacking dozens of US tech giants
Military and police snipers still looking for rogue drone pilot
This sort of thing works until you have one person run a security scan on your site, corrupting your user agents and event types.
Your point is well-taken. I think it depends on who you count as a "developer". In my view, while too many actual developers (as in those who write code) are very keen on using tools and techniques in an inappropriate way that results in a worse user experience, they aren't the biggest offenders. I think the UX and marketing people tend to be the biggest offenders.

People outside the industry don't know or care what the division of work actually is, though. To them, the group of people who collectively create the sites are "the developers". That isn't wrong, it's just not precise.
You are describing Xanadu
That's a really inefficient way to train good behavior.
"Similarly with chess - eventually we have good mnemonics for what make good plays, and can play blitz reasonably well."

"let's be real - a lot of human symbolic reasoning actually happens outside of the brain"

I was a chess master at age 10. Let's be real - when I play blitz and bullet chess, I am performing multi-level symbolic reasoning at multiple frames per second. In my brain.

I am not an alien. I can do these kinds of symbolic calculations faster than 99.6% of the population mainly because I learned chess as a kid, making it a "native language", and I got good at it early so I spent much of my youth training my neurons with this perceptual task.

My point is not to claim I'm a genius. There are dozens of players who can school me in bullet the way I can school most people.

My point is that human beings DO symbolic reasoning, it is the core of our intelligence. Being able to take in different kinds of input, organize some of them into relevant higher level clusters, sort the clusters by priority, make a plan to deal with the highest prio clusters, act, rinse and repeat.

Humans simply do not have the computational ability to make decisions based on raw perceptual data in real time. Our brains are designed to act on higher levels of symbolic meaning, and we have perceptual layers to help us turn reality into manageable chunks.

In cognitive psychology this is referred to, not surprisingly, as "chunking": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chunking_(psychology)

Until DeepMind starts working on anything resembling chunking, I believe they are wasting their time and money.
However, given that judges and a large share of the political pool is drawn from lawyers, I feel that a bit of restraint, understanding and leaning towards impartiality at least from the point of considering all sides is incredibly important.

At the point one becomes a social advocate, they probably shouldn't be running for judicial office at the very least, and maybe reconsider any ambitions of public office at all.