skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article wasn't really worth the time. It tried to make a mountain out of a molehill: Netflix gave badges for watching children's programs as a test of a feature to make Netflix more appealing to watch. The author of the article Yohana Desta just loosely connected it to some narrative where "Netflix is evil and out to zombify your children" for the purpose of, ironically, getting people to read the article because that narrative is more appealing. Just another piece of trash online article designed to catch your eye. No substance, no value. Just throw it in the trash bin and move on.
It can be use for form validation. If user doesn't enter an input, we can "wiggle" it for 2 seconds (together with a red error message). Recently I did just that :)
Ah no you are taking physics principle of energy can not be gained only transformed but discounting sun energy in your calculations which is another input. Solar panels were a waste in energy terms 10 years ago. Today that is no longer the case.
https://phys.org/news/2016-12-solar-panels-repay-energy-debt...
Google Is Tracking Your Personal Information
To be fair, that's what it is like to go anywhere in a small town you've lived in for a long time. :D

That's true, but it's also true that in the next town over, you can be anonymous again. The difference with social media is the profile follows you everywhere.
Solar panels repay their energy 'debt': study
> That doesn't mean "there are truths that humans can never prove"

Well, if there’s an analogue of a Gödel sentence for humans...
Paywall no tldr
sure but it’s unlikely his site is going to be the target of anyone willing to spend the time to even tell the bot where the text to recognise is. it stops bulk; not target... but he’s unlikely to be a target so it serves its purpose
Indeed. I used to clean up data in UltraEdit. With the option for direct disk read/write set, there was virtually no file-size limit.
Trying hard to emulate PayPal behaviour :/
The scariest thing about Texas growth to me is the insane sprawl that seems to go unchecked in the state. Massive roads lined with gas stations, chain restaurants and big box stores, surrounded by cheaply built homes with four cars in the driveway/garage, just everywhere. It makes me want to leave the country.
Yeah, I have always felt this is a great idea for almost anything that is not really so small and simple that plain text would make more sense. BLOB-by-nature data like multimedia, pictures etc come as the only reasonable exception.
1) For practical purposes the vast majority of platforms that are inappropriate for SQLite are not appropriate for CSV.

2) SQLite has no standard. The same is true for CSV in practice. At least SQLite has a high quality reference implementation.

3) It’s a shame that SQLite doesn’t have a standard of some sort.
are blind people the vegans of accessibility?
Highly entertaining for my cat. Works just as well as in the videos, even on my deep carpets.

https://petronics.io

Available on Amazon as well.
Ask HN: What was your greatest accomplishment in 2018?
...and what did you learn in the process?
Safari can easily display a YouTube video picture in picture like that natively
I can feel your frustration with the service but I'm unconvinced that "download the next ep" is a dark pattern and more that you're a niche that their UX currently isn't catering towards.

I do a lot of cellular/tethering and know some of the pain points but can recognize that the needs are quite different to the regular user who may consume stuff at home then want to take stuff with them on the go.

Normally I see that UX often caters to the lowest common denominator which leaves power users and niche users sidelined.

My personal bug bear on this subject is that YouTube no longer buffers entire videos and holds them there - presumably this saves them lots in traffic costs and additionally allows them to up sell YouTube premium
Why Peoples are crying and What is the benifits of crying animation video
This would have been absolutely huge on MySpace.
Why don't we replace entire filesystems with SQLite then?
The middleman just becomes the exchanges (who also have to deal with payment processors).
The canary in the coal mine here is that you have to keep practicing language or you lose it.

All of that effort is admirable and intellectually interesting but if you have no one to regularly speak with when you leave China, it's not a good use of time and effort. Unless one never wants to return to their home country, or marries a native.

He's right about French. It's probably my favorite language, I lived and worked in France for some time. You will generally not be encouraged and will definitely not be welcomed as one of them, ever. It's a very pervasive attitude. I vowed to learn no more of their language. Which is not a problem, I'd have to really go out of my way to find someone I wanted to speak with anyway.

Outside of special cases, the only language that I've identified as a no brainer for an American or Brit is Spanish. Both of us have very good reasons, and plenty of people to regularly speak with. They're also very open and welcoming people, at least Latin Americans. Over the next 30 years there will be a rising power from Latin America as well, most likely Mexico. A nation that will soon overtake its mother country's GDP, and is predicted by some, including George Friedman, to be challenging the US for North American leadership by the year 2100. Mexico in particular is China's anti-matter. If anything happens to detail their progress, Mexico benefits tremendously. They've always competed to supply the US market.

Ultimately none of that matters, you still need daily interaction with a language to maintain it. It's key and for many of us, that would be difficult with Mandarin. I'm with him though on the value and interest otherwise, but long-term, thinking decades or even just years out, an inpractical choice for most native English speakers.
I’m not actually saying anything about him. I’m just astounded by the ridiculous contradictions in the parent comment.
For some reason I thought roomba was playing doomba at real time.

Coming to think of it, it might be a good idea
Have you read the novel Snow Crash? You should if you haven't.
I think I understand what you’re saying.

I’m a big trackpad guy. The only one in my office. I love my gestures on macOS, and use all kinds of them to do my work.

Recently yet another computer was added to my desk by IT for a new project. This one is an HP laptop with Ubuntu.

I’m sure Ubuntu is a great thing and I’ll love it when I get used to it. But the HP’s keyboard and trackpad are terrible, and using the machine completely disrupts my usual workflow. I miss my gestures. I miss being able to define actions way out to F19. I miss knowing that a swipe will always be a swipe, and not a scroll.

We get set in our ways, especially when those ways are very productive and make sense to us. Having to switch to a different set of muscle memories is problematic.
Counterpoint: tiled maps, which are basically loads and loads of images, can be stored on disk as

- Direcory structure

- Zip file

- Tar file

- Sqlite db

Out of these, sqlite is the most compact, by far (also the fastest)
Banks don't necessarily trust each other and "I thought the other guy did KYC/AML" isn't a defense when the Feds show up.
Sounds like these aren't quite atomic clock level accurate so maybe a switch over is feasible. Other commenter said he can receive two stations so maybe not continuous in same freq?
Aaaww, yeah. I like that idea a lot. I might just use that in a project I'm working on. Thanks for mentioning that!
It would require more than just upzoning to increase the population of a city to 25m. NYC's subway, for example, would need significant improvements to support that kind of population.
> oh god, absolutely! It's baffling to me how they did stick to a default like this for so long.

Because they wanted to develop Blender for Blender users.
He does mention it an awful lot. Then again if he's right about what he's saying that the ways of thinking that produced those kinds of outcomes are alive and well and trying to advance their agenda either consciously or unconsciously, then that seems significant to me.

I guess to that end it's one data point among many.

As I've grown ever more curious about history and have started to dive into more and more parts of it I find that really reading through things deeply yourself is a much richer experience than a crude surface level analysis or taking someone's word for it. I had never heard of it prior to him bringing it up and it's like holy moly here looks like the exact kind of thing I find quite engrossing to read.

I think HN book recommendation thread from recently mentioned An Era of Darkness which I haven't bought yet because I implement a moratorium on buying books until I get through another 50, but I did add it to my list. That one is an account of British Rule in India.

Id rather do my best to learn the lessons of history. I think it's a lost art these days.
And this is the confusion most people have!

NAT isn't doing that filtering, the stateful firewall is.. Every NAT device sold in a very long time has both features..

Some early DSL modems for example had only NAT, and they were horribly insecure.

NAT is not a firewall, and provides near zero security. And, in combination with a stateful firewall, it provides exactly zero additional security.
How expensive could it possibly be to keep this running?

US gov isn't exactly poornad debating this probably cost more than just continuing
"It's not nil, but how you use it."

Can you elaborate on how multi-dispatch reduces the issue of nil/null?

I also use static type (typescript) to prevent issues with nil and would like to know how I can achieve the same in a dynamic language.
It has been used for game saves before. Not sure how commonly, but we (sqlitebrowser.org) do have links to our website from various places giving tips on how to change things (in the saves). ;)
I have found I like a desk about 24-26" off the ground so I can sit with my feet flat on the floor and hands in my lap at the keyboard without shoulders hunched

My company has an ergonomics consultant who comes to each desk once a year and observes posture, foot position, etc... then recommends changes in desks and seating for each person. It’s the first place I’ve worked that does this. Someone said it was somehow tied in with our health insurance company.
Well, 2018 isn't over yet, so I'm still holding out hope that my big accomplishment for this year will be launching our Fogcutter SaaS offering. It's very close to ready to launch, at least in the "soft launch" sense. That is, the site will be live and ready to accept customers. I don't know that we'll do much promotion initially, as there are still a lot of rough edges I want to polish.

OTOH, the old saying stands "if you aren't embarrassed to show your product to your mother, you waited too late to launch". And I would probably be embarrassed to show this stuff to my mom right now. I'd be embarrassed to do a Show HN for sure.

Anyway, if we sneak that in before midnight on 12/31/2018, I'll call that my accomplishment. If not, I'll fall back to saying my biggest accomplishment of 2018 was going through the Startup School program.

What did I learn? Wow.. so much. I'd probably have to write a book. Or at least a few blog posts. Offhand though, I'd say two of the biggest things I learned were just reaffirmations of things I'd at least heard - if not internalized - before:

1. The toughest part of being a founder is managing your own internal mental/emotional state. I forget who originally said that, maybe pg, or pmarca or somebody of that ilk. But it's very true. My morale has sunk pretty low a few times over the last 12 months and I've spent moments here and there in a real funk. But I've managed to keep reminding myself to shut down the negative self-chatter, keep working, and push through the tough times. It's important to remember that things usually get better, and that being negative and depressed doesn't help. So when I start questioning myself, I try to redirect my thoughts to "how does all this negativity help? What if I just STFU and keep working and see what tomorrow brings?" And as it happens, usually by the next day the moment has passed and I'm back in the saddle.

2. Startup School really reminded me of the importance of focusing on the problem you're solving, and the idea of doing the smallest subset of what you're trying to build, and then putting that "out there". In a talk, pg (or one of the speakers, but I think it was pg) referred to finding the "minimum quantum of utility" of your idea.

So having that thinking beat into my head repeatedly throughout SS was valuable. As pg said (paraphrased) "As a developer you can sit in a coffee shop or cafe and write code and work on your 'vision' forever. You need to actually get your thing out in front of the people you want to sell it to, preferably sooner than later".
You can see only about half the sky that way, which means usually getting almost as good a fix as with a roof mount antenna. For best results, you want the satellites to be as far apart as possible in the sky (measured by angle from your position, not miles between them). See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilution_of_precision_(navigat... .

If you mainly care about time and can tolerate a few microseconds of error, usually being able to see 4 satellites might well be enough.

I remember seeing a gps receiver designed just for time that could maintain sync using only one satellite (it assumed that it was bolted to an immovable object, and it might have needed to see 4 satellites at once at some point).
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It's arguable to say one thing is encountered in nature unlike something else. Everything from my perception is the product of nature. Example: People tend to view technological advances by humans as different than "plants or animals evolving over time" but I would argue it's no different fundamentally. Objects are functioning with properties they inherently have and from the outside world for seeking an advantage.

The role of consciousness is debatable. People who died by suicide have some significance against the theory of consciousness keeping the body alive. My observation of consciousness makes me consider it an abstract layer of observation & emotions and nothing more. I don't even think emotions have to be there. It's hard to describe and I understand why some people don't even think consciousness is a real thing.
I've commissioned hydro electric turbines and generators manufactured in China. If it was a Chinese brand the big bits were useable but a lot of detailed components, systems, and instrumentation was assembled and tested once and then put in the garbage.

European brands also get some of their big bits manufactured in China but engineering is performed in Europe and the auxiliary systems and instrumentation are also European brands and not counterfeit fakes. Also the European brands will do quality control and offer a performance guarantee and generally will send competent engineers to make sure their equipment is assembled and installed and commissioned properly.

a case of you get what you pay for.
Related: https://pyvideo.org/pycon-us-2017/modern-python-dictionaries...
Or the problem could be that if it's really not physical, then the current physical methods of testing can never be close to precisely defining it. Sometimes, we need an out-of-box thinking, non-linear jump in our methodology to solve a nagging problem.
Ask HN: How are the graphics on this page created?
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Giày da là một trong những item cơ bản nhất của phái mạnh. Với những mẫu giày từ cơ bản cho tới hiện đại sau đây, Tâm Anh sẽ giúp cho tủ giày của các quý ông thêm phần phong phú.
Wasn’t Jordan Peterson gonna launch one before Christmas?

https://amp.businessinsider.com/jordan-peterson-says-hell-la...
Buildings are designed to move, because that's the way they absorbe energy without suddenly breaking. The deformation up to breakage is deemed to be in plastic mode, so the building "advises" when something is wrong by exerting plastic deformation and cracking. The modern building code of australia is aimed at plastic deformation, and the formation of fissures, that's considered a fair balance between safety and cost.
The deformations seen in this building are in the millimetres, but if doors and windows are jammed, then there is a more serious problem, it could be a foundations' problem, it could be the precast system problem, it could be the main frame, or anything in between.
I am an unemployed civil engineer because companies fill their vacancies with adventurers from overseas, pakistan or Filippines for example. I have been forced to work as a draftsman while these people, often on working visas take all the jobs, because they are cheap professionals and workers. this is how low the professions are falling in Australia. I don't see the moment to finish my masters and run from Sydney. I am sick of the things I am seeing here.
The specific tool to make images such as those in the link would be great, they seem to look like vector graphics based on the actual images but also the simple fact that they are served as .svg, but I was just wondering if anyone had any further information that might be useful!
This isn't meant as an ad-hominem, but it still staggers me when I see comments like this. There seems to be a class of people who are unable to see the gaping chasm left by science in its inability to describe the reasons for our ability to experience subjective consciousness. We would need a scientific revolution to understand it. Neuroscience has nothing to say; physics has little to say.

The OP article makes the point that we haven't got near to cracking the problem.

Personally, I think we have a category issue. We simply don't know what category to put consciousness in, and all attempts to solve it thus far have been category mistakes.
The Chinese dam building around the world is a tragedy in my opinion (this isn't limited to just Chinese dams, though). Remote places in undeveloped or poorly developed parts of the world are utterly destroyed by these dams. Road building, deforestation, displacement of native species and native people.

I witnessed this first hand while hiking the Annapurna Circuit in Nepal a few years back. A road is being built deep into the valley and not only is it disrupting the peacefulness and the attraction that is/was a hike through ancient cultures and landscapes with no roads, but it's also putting people out of business. Various tea houses (that provide accommodation and meals) lie now next to a dirt road where trucks race up and down instead of hikers. Many hikers now take a 4x4 up to high altitudes, skipping the lower parts.

In comparison, a power plant can be controlled with very little staff once the building is complete.

See also https://www.balkanrivers.net for a not-so-remote proposed dams.
I did it back in the olden days, on everything from Wyse and Wang terminals to a Commodore 64 and an IBM XT with MDA display.

I haven’t done it that way in years, but this article makes me want to try it again. I wonder if all that highlighting is actually making me less focused. I guess I’ll find out later this week.
Lies, damned lies, statistics.

One flight serves 100-400 people for a few hours. One nuclear reactor serves N million people for N decades.

Everyone in a plane crash dies. What percentage of electricity users die in a typical nuclear disaster? 0.001%?
First few days were great! Fortan was interesting (...) and wow that C++ was not the same beast I used in college. Then uh... kind of got sidetracked.
4K 55 inch curved TV for a monitor on my desk at work, super clear display but only 30Hz due to Hdmi, $500 plus delivery from Kogan (Australia).

Initially I was mocked, then they started quietly coming up to me and asking for the link to buy one.
The Hurstville shopping centre is right above a train station; Australia is largely earthquake free.
"IE11 is not supported.".. why? it's something technical...

IT might be lowest in the foodchain, but they always have the last word when it comes to something.. technical.
Yes that is correct, at Dannea we use sqlite compiled to JS. We can even load the data from the same Html page so it allows us to have sqlite powered web apps which can be emailed to others and is true server less
In that scenario I’d be more worried about the earthquake. Orders of magnitude more deadly.
This is true, and it's the very minor security benefit of NAT. However, without the stateful firewall in addition, you're wide open to attack.

Have a windows PC? Did you try access a network share that exists outside your network? Well, now the SMB port is open. Anyone on the internet can reach it. Hopefully your desktop has a stateful firewall to mitigate the hole in your router....

There's going to be hundreds of other examples.
Artificial selection.
Thanks! That's really helpful!
I didn't get a computer until university. My handwriting was terrible, remained terrible, and my ability to write essays increased dramatically when I was able to do so with a computer.
I was there from 2008 to 2013. This gives a fairly good break down: https://www.mtu.edu/alumni/favorites/snowfall/ I saw a lot of snow storms there over the years.
Neat fact: The houses in the UP actually have doors that lead nowhere on higher floors in case your first floor is buried :).
Is it a good time to learn Ruby? I mostly do React and Node + Java work professionally

It can be fun and it's as close as Smalltalk will probably get to mainstream acceptance, but if you are hoping for a lucrative commercial skill then probably you have missed the boat. Ruby is mainly used for two what most would now consider legacy things, Rails based websites and Chef based infrastructure. There is still some money to be made in maintenance of course and will be for a few years but the sun is definitely setting on Ruby. But 10 years ago it was super-hot.
It's a horrible system, and market economics would state that credit card interchange is simply a hidden tax on goods sold. But, it's the system we've got and if you choose to opt-out of credit cards in favor of debit/bank cards, you pay the same price for stuff but don't get anything back for it. Moreover, credit cards offer stronger consumer protections than debit/bank cards in cases of fraud.

One correction--the credit card issuer actually gives a 30-60 day loan of the entire purchase amount to the customer. If you pay off the complete balance by the due date (you can easily set this up via bank autopay), you're charged 0% interest, plus you earn any credit card "rewards" on top of that.

It's all really a rigged game by financial institutions to get people to go into high-interest credit card debt (where they make all their money), but if you pay your balances off each month, it's the most efficient option.

Hopefully we'll see its eventual demise.
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It was loads of fun. Decided to try out go, so the first couple of days were a bit slow but from then on it was pure fun. Even though the elves VS goblin game was a bit too much to handle in one single day...
I don't see how 'trying too hard to shoehorn their “two-tone” design into a place it isn’t necessary and doesn’t belong' represents an application of the principle "form follows function".

Form follows function is a principle associated with
20th-century modernist architecture and industrial
design which says that the shape of a building or
object should primarily relate to its intended
function or purpose.
This reminds me of a video I saw of an opera singer performing whilst being operated on (brain surgery).

Right at the 2:45 mark his singing becomes garbled because (I presume) the surgeon 'touches' a part of the brain involved in singing. His singing recovers later on in the video.

Have a look for yourselves: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j70on4v3M4E&feature=youtu.be...