skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know why this is still a problem these days, let's just use lava lamps for entropy: https://blog.cloudflare.com/lavarand-in-production-the-nitty...
Can't see any evidence with "n=50"...
You're right of course, but I wonder how much it matters that only 45% of the voting population would have voted leave without interference as opposed to 52% (numbers pulled out of thin air). For interference (or a freak event, or weather, or anything really) to be able to push the results over the edge, the society as a whole has to be fairly close anyway.

This is also what I say to the Americans who insist Trump doesn't represent America because Clinton won the popular vote. Yeah, technically correct, but it doesn't really change how I view the American people.
I lived in a hotel for a month. It was hell. That was before the AirBnB era and at a time when VRBO wasn't really an option and was inconvenient.

I agree that for simple stays - check in, do stuff, stay a day or two, leave - hotels are great. But for long periods, AirBnb can be much, much better.

For me the line is: are you staying long enough to need to do laundry or where you will get to the point don't want to eat out most/every meal? Then AirBnB is a better choice.
Ok. So, you're using the technical definition of open source from that organization instead of the popular one I was using. That's fine. The goal of copyleft is supposed to get modifications shared. Parity does it better than any popular license. They all screwed up allowing people to dodge their goal. So, I'd say Parity is better at making open and free software than all of those. They need to update their requirements to match reality or just get results they say they're after.

That's less important than another realization I've had since we last talked about licenses. I've determined that most OSS/FOSS licenses actually oppose freedom in practice. You get less software freedom and high-quality software with source over time following those models due to their built-in weaknesses. I wrote specifics in one comment and a follow-up replying to Cantrill's recent analysis:

https://lobste.rs/s/0h98nl/it_s_not_okay_pretend_your_softwa...

https://lobste.rs/s/kbcjnx/open_source_confronts_its_midlife...
I'm going to assume that the article doesn't mention a Bonferroni correction and ignore it all.
I think it's important to remind people of this, but to add more examples and to mention the alternatives as well.

I agree that something being free does not always equal "its exploiting you" - however that does not discount the importance of remembering that a free service likely has ulterior motives compared to a premium service - but not always of course.

I remind myself and others about how free services are likely to change eventually so don't end up 'all in' on a free service as things can change when the company changes or gets sold or goes premium or whatever.

eg - people that built a business using an fbook page that saw the friend feeds change got screwed. News businesses that added fbook share this stuff to their pages to later find fbook putting more pressure on them than google..

When a video converting / hosting plugin was released for wordpress I had to pipe up and ask what the monetization plan was for this new thing - as it would not be tenable to have unlimited video hosting without ads or data sharing and other limits in the future..

When people do not think about these things, it's easy to take advantage of a free service and depend on it, sometimes at the expense of otherwise good competition - only to find later that vendor lockin is evil and can turn exploitative - even at times when the original creators intent was not to do that.

Even in those cases where you are not currently being exploited, you can still indeed be the product, if nothing else other than "our app has 100,000 users so we can have a value of..."

If people thought about this more, they would ask about exporting their data before signing up for a service, for continuation of service for example.

This kind of selling of users is more often with free services, but can also occur with paid services (many banks sell your info by default and only limit it when you opt out, and they still charge you fees for accounts for example)

However a service you pay a fee to like spotify perhaps? needs to be more careful about taking care of their primary customers (subscribers) so long as there is competition and all.

Sorry the rhetoric is annoying to you, it would be nice if people really understood this and thought it through.
My take on it is that he really speaks out of both sides of his mouth. He's all about a person's right to choose the direction of their own life, but he's also for completely disrespecting human life if it increases shareholder value.

He spoke in generalities, and for anything he said, if he was ever confronted about the negative consequences, he'd quickly blast out some contradicting generalities.

The only consistent thing was what we've come to call the Chicago School of economics, which is basically responsible for the present style of capitalism we all enjoy.
What did you expect them to do? The UK wants to leave, so lets give them some concessions to soften their stupidity?

From the start the only one with any kind of power in the negotiations was the EU.
Yes, Aurora has connection pooling that allows it to scale to thousands of concurrent connections:

> Amazon Aurora for MySQL comes with internal server connection pooling and thread multiplexing, which helps reduce contention and improve scalability when dealing with thousands of concurrent connections. You can configure each Aurora DB instance to allow up to 16,000 concurrent connections.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/planning-and-optimizin...
For example (e.g.) or that is (i.e.)
key take away that isn't mentioned in the article:

- Put resource limits on your pods.
I have this at the bottom of my card templates. Works on desktop and Android: https://pastebin.com/uqUrJBdZ
Yes, I do agree that the shift will happen soon. Radical? Maybe, depends on the technology and progress made towards it.

But you can never discount as well that vehicle manufacturers are also researching / innovating on ways to make their ICE's more efficient. Again, you cannot simply throw away the investments that car manufacturers have thrown into making their gas (or diesel) dependent vehicles.
It'll be 'war' within individual nations, leading to increased chaos within the entire EU system. Which is what is taking place in France right now in limited form. Take a look at GDP per capita growth since 2007:

https://i.imgur.com/PwGHIWH.png

Countries with negative or near-negative per capita growth since 2007 (as of the end of 2018) in nominal terms:

Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands, France, UK, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Austria, Finland, Belgium, Greece

The sole positive result? Germany, a mere 6-7% GDP per capita growth over a decade. In non-inflation adjusted terms, since 2007. Inflation adjusted those other nations have seen that much larger of a contraction.

That's a recipe for disaster in Europe.

How long can most of Western Europe continue to contract economically while social demands increase with aging demographics? It's fundamentally why France is rioting for these past two months, they're being smashed between high taxes, negative growth, and negative quality of life progress.

The UK's GDP per capita has contracted by 20% since 2007 just in nominal terms. Throw a tiny bit of inflation onto that, and you're looking at the UK losing 1/3 of its economy in dollar terms over ~11 years or so. Continue that process for another decade and the result is predictable: people will freak out in increasingly dramatic ways.
>>The case for crisis seems compelling – but I said that in 2011, too.

Just a matter of time son, you will be proven right one day. Just keep repeating it.
I agree there are some important differences but for my own privacy I’m much less concerned about being targeted by ads then I am about some future administration deciding I’m a person of interest for some reason and subpoenaing my entire online life. In that respect there doesn’t seem to be a huge difference between the two.

I deleted my Facebook account because Facebook actually has sold user data to third parties.
What's bad for cities is not building enough housing for people who want to be there. That includes people who want to be there for a short time. Airbnb is bad for some city stakeholders, but good for other ones (e.g. people who want to rent out their apartment while they're away on vacation).
> I need my car to get to work.

For the past 7 years, I've been able to walk/bike/take the bus to work instead of the car. And this isn't even in a walkable urbanist utopia.

You chose to live and work in places that require a car to get to work. You probably eliminated all the options that would have enabled you to not use a car, and society does not make it easy to make that choice. But that choice still does exist.

This is the problem with the rhetoric that seeks to place the entire blame for our fossil-fuel dependence on Big Oil: it ignores the fact that most of those lifestyle decisions were made without the influence of the oil industry, and often in pursuit of other goals. It wasn't Standard Oil who said "gee, let's decamp people from the inner cities into these large sprawls of white-picket-fence housing tracts"--that was real estate developers who pushed for that. Nor did Standard Oil cause the decline of streetcars, commuter rail, and interurban rail service: that was a vicious ridership/profit death spiral, somewhat helped by GM specifically but more heavily caused by an overregulated rail industry in comparison to the underregulated private automotive transit.

There's a lot of blame to go around. Don't pretend that we, as a general society, deserve none of it.
It's a bit of a JIT party trick by emitting the target address directly rather than going through the PLT.
I would imagine that there are more medical details than this to the story.
The idea is that it isn't less vulnerable to tampering, but you pay a privacy and public image cost.
I don’t think it’s sensible to simultaneously argue that renewables are cheaper and create a lot of jobs. Jobs are the main expense, so it’s one or the other.
"won't be long before AI will decide if you can even take a picture of something." - Haven't some drone makers already started adding gps coordinates of places you can not fly / take picture at?

So it appears this has already begun, and the database of off-limits places / things of the machines you think you direct has already begun, and will certainly grow larger.
It's viable in the long term. It cannot be set up inside a week.
Grid edges
The argument about lack of control is not true: Uk has had very significant influence over a lot of the decision process in the EU. They have democratically elected representatives and career civil servants, like for local and national institutions in the UK. A British voter doesn’t control EU any less than they control the UK.
Could you regain this info by adding a static prefix to the rolled id? So you know it was rolled, but not from which previous id. Where as new id's would have no prefix, so you can count new users as new.
He came up with a great title and then he thought the article should happen. Also he's paid to write.
Netflix announces Its Price Increase
> a massively complex agreement is implied as part of Leave, but at the time of the vote nobody knew just what it would say!

From being an outsider (I have never even visited UK yet), it seems to me from talking to people and reading the news it was more a vote about "do you like how the things are now and where they are headed, or would you like ... something else"? Something else could have been not necessarily Brexit, as long as it was drastic enough change from the status quo.

And I think a good number of people are just dissatisfied and thought this gamble for a drastic change would perhaps improve things.
Monopolized news distribution? How so? Aren't there many sites which provide news such as reddit, Twitter, Hacker News ;) etc?
As bad as advertising has got, in its essence it is to inform you of things that you didn't seek out. This can be a good thing like public service annoucements or products/services that you may not have known about and very related to the article you're reading at the moment.

Unless we have a way of running an economy without marketing/advertising, we should try to make advertising better by whatever means we can imagine until it is.
If I was severely brain damaged to the point where I had tiger-like intelligence and self-awareness, I'd be happy to spend the rest of my life in a well managed but limited environment. A well managed zoo is not a horrible place. The animals have a reliable food supply, and nothing tries to kill them. They have a large enclosure, and cover to hide from humans if they want to. They have medical care if they get sick. There are no tiger philosophers, so none of them care about freedom in the abstract. The romantic idea of "the wild" being intrinsically good is a human idea. Nature is a horrible place for most animals.

Certainly there are bad zoos, and I support legislation to enforce high standards of animal welfare, but the only animal I am aware of that is absolutely unsuited to captivity is the killer whale (which IMO might be smart enough to have some philosophical understanding of abstract freedom).
If you can point to any facet of Soviet, Pol Pot or Maoist economic history that makes them look efficient please do so. The best one can say about any of them as far as I can see is that they were far superior to war and reasonable at heavy industry.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10514729
Because once you're close the sense of urgency wears off, people get comfortable and corruption sets in.
Real value of Facebook
Reminds me of the Onion article:

https://www.theonion.com/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-na...
Seymour Cray, father of the supercomputer
Why did they shut off the API? Any reason given?
Because it's Facebook. I know they are heavily spamming that feature but I have literally never seen anything on there of any value. It's a crappy feature that should go away.
I’m cautiously optimistic. Brexit is about national sovereignty. You need look no further than the US to see that mega-states don’t work. The EU was supposed to be a trade confederacy, but is beginning to co-opt the sovereignty of the constituent states. That, as the US experience has shown, may lead to economic success, but also leads to people who feel disenfranchised and dissatisfied with a distant, ever-expanding government.
Counterpoint: Michael O'Church
Patent extension generics through the years:

with a computer

with the internet

with a mobile app

(drugs) with optimized release

and, predicted:

with an AI decision.
I know it's an empirical result, but it would be interesting if it was truly logarithmic. Classic statistics gives various asymptotic results based on variations of the central limit theorem, which generally imply sqrt(n) scaling, but these assume various regularity conditions (typically smoothness and fixed dimensionality).

It would be interesting if there was some corresponding law for more flexible models which did indeed give you logarithmic scaling.
Yes, certainly. DDG very often have quite okay results while Google has almost always outstanding results. I have to use !g quite often when searching for a programming or architecture solutions that are just slightly more complex than mainstream. I am using DDG mostly because I trust in the cause. OK, I admit that bangs are nice. That being said, both our comments are just an opinions. I'd gladly see a research about their accuracy.
Because their goal should be what is best for Europe, not what is best for the EU.
My prediction: To reinvigorate the economy, China will invest even more heavily in technological R&D as a form of economic stimulus since the last round of 2008 stimulus already resulted in some superfluous infrastructure.

Its R&D spending as a percentage of GDP is already head & shoulders above most other developing economies and in fact above several Western European economies (it is close to the level of France) but still below Japan and South Korea, for example.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_researc...
This article seems to be just a marketing push before the IPO. As an investor it doesn't tell me anything. Profit can mean many things, especially when the non-GAAP measure is used. Tech IPOs tend to have lot of stock options cost associated and non-GAAP measures tend to hide them.
Thank you for putting my thoughts into words. Couldn’t agree more. Think of the comfort CL users have after 10-15 years of the same workflows, the same UI, the same expectations. The skill of vetting scammers shouldn’t be understated and transcends CL.

When I log into a “modern” app today there’s almost always a new feature in my face or an old feature moved to a new location (or simply deprecated)
If it is the currency, why would it need to be convertible to another currency?
What does he have to do with unsupervised intelligence services?
I grew skeptical the moment I read "single-blind" test. So, the researchers know which group is what and that could involuntarily lead them to pick for what they are leaning to find (given it is funded by a coffee company)
Ask HN: How do you maintain reliable cognition?
Over the last year I've delved into the world of chess. While the game is fascinating, I'm more fascinated by my changing cognitive abilities.

Many days I'm simply unable to play a good game, as if my "cognitive" drive is completely drained. The will to think deeply (or, honestly, even shallowly) is missing. Other days I'm extremely confident in my moves and I perform well in tactics and games.

The difference is quite jarring and I'm curious about it. With these observations, I'm also seeing this same concept applying across my entire life -- My ability to hold a great conversation, make great code at work, write out thoughtful directions.

I don't feel alone, there are plenty of people who experience this "brain fog" on a daily basis, but I'm having difficulty finding resources to overcome it. A full night's rest and an improved diet works wonders for me, but it only seems to be going so far.

Do you relate, HN? What have you tried? What works for you?
Post-Bootcamp Software Engineering Job Types and How to Hopefully Get One
Introduction to web APIs
In 2016, a Pew poll showed that more French had a negative impression of the EU (61%) than British (48%). A large fraction of French polled (33%) want to leave.
Hostile takeover effort by Valor of XRP
This is not an insane puzzle, it's very, very simple.

"Brexit" is possible, but it would be in all cases disastrous for Britain. This is obvious. But Brexiters don't want a real-world Brexit they want a fantasy land Brexit where they have every single benefit of being part of Europe and the EU but they want to be able to ignore any obligations "imposed" upon them by that very advantageous relationship. This is, of course, a childish and unreasonable position, nevertheless a great many people were convinced that it was really quite reasonable or that at least that voting for Brexit was a show of solidarity representing British Independence and Strength and yadda yadda yadda, etc. Unfortunately for them, a majority of voters were fooled into voting for Brexit, causing it to pass out of the fantasy realm where it was a meaningless signal of political beliefs into the realm of reality where it will be an unmitigated clusterfuck of epic proportions if it is carried off. Indeed, I suspect if a second referendum were held the following week after the Brexit vote, with the restriction that only those who voted in the first could vote in the second, it would have gone down in flames.

The complication here is that the current party in power, Theresa May's coalition, has a very tenuous hold on that power. They know that if there are new elections they are out. And May knows that if she doesn't kowtow to the Brexiter minority in parliament then her coalition will crash and burn. So she's trying to hold onto power (until 2022) by going through the motions and doing the best she can without any possible clue how to actually get through this mess.

Which comes back to the core problem again. The majority (now) do not want a Brexit. While the Brexiters want "Brexit, but good for Britain" which is an impossibility.
Interior, infotainment and powertrain all look very BMW. Reliability will be interesting to see in a few years.
To troll originally meant to "carefully and systematically search an area for something." Perhaps a bit of an archaic definition nowadays, but older or more literary people would probably understand it's intent in this context.
Not really.

AirBnB has renters and listings. Uber has riders and drivers.

As long as you have enough of the two sides, you can have a rival.
One thing to point out is China still has around 600 million citizens that live in poverty.

Just getting them up to current Chinese standards will ensure China’s economy for awhile.
Check out "Darker Reader" extension... now you'll get that everywhere, automatically, with good looking dark colors.

I think it achieves that by leveraging color theory and CSS filters.

Once you try it you cannot go back :)

I am not involved in development nor devs are friends of mine, I just think it didn't get all the exposure it deserves.

PS if you're on chrome, after installing Darker Reader the infamous chrome white flash problem will mess with your eyes... Following thread has a partial solution to that:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18714902
> I am not being snarky or condescending - I am just frustrated that voters don't spend a bit of effort to educate themselves before voting.

Maybe many do and you're just wrong about whether they educated themselves? Maybe many of them are more educated about the issue than you are yet don't feel as required to shout how dumb the other side is from the rooftops. That you assume ignorance of those you don't understand and then say they should educate themselves as though there is an objective right answer is both snarky and condescending.
Going Serverless with AWS Lambda Functions – 2
One other thing I would add to this is don't treat remote employees as "set and forget". The tendency is to sry someone up remotely and assume they will be happy with that arrangement indefinitely. But many people will experience changes over time in their enjoyment of remote work and productivity. Not always work related and not always positive.
E.g.we had someone who injured themself and started to struggle being at home all the time. Another person who loved being remote until their relationship ended and then got lonely at home by themselves day and night.
There is a simple fix : every quarter check in with your remote workers to make sure it's still working for them.
So what were you doing?
Recharged seems like the very opposite of passive work to me, I can't imagine writing every single day like that.
>1. Can you explain the "attitude of the EU" part?

They want to centralise power more and more, and seem completely oblivious to their own mistakes.

Just an odd example - make fuel from a food crop grown in tropical jungle areas, to save CO2? No surprises how that turned out...
beautiful car.
So far I've got:

Download a movie --> Magic Happens --> Powershell --> Firefox compromised! --> We infected your torrents! --> Ah, found your crypto. --> Your address is now replaced with my wallet!! Ha ha!
I think "Darker Reader" extension got it right finally...

You'll get dark mode everywhere, automatically, with good looking dark colors.

I think it does that by leveraging color theory and CSS filters.
I say eee gee and eye eee for e.g. and i.e. when reading those out loud. Doesn't everyone?