skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see this as a bad thing, but I've still been able to place sports bets in the US online for years, and I logged into ACR today and played an hour of NL holdem, and my computer wasn't seized by the FBI.

No one has yet described the actual consequences of this, and as far as I can tell, there haven't been any.
I have a feeling that people who perform individual actions are more likely to vote for collective ones. And the campaigns to promote individual actions can be a much easier sell.

I once read that the way to get people to donate to the red cross is first ask them if they would like to wear a free red cross ribbon. Then a week later ask them if they would like to donate. I suspect environmentalism could work the same way.
It's been almost 100 years, can we bring back the big zeppelins yet?
No, but there are four left, so we're tracking just above the 5th percentile line.
I haven't heard of a single use case that makes me think "diesel engines" are better than manual labor. Think about it, what can an "engine" really do - that a bunch of people couldn't also do? Also take into account the externalities of diesel pollution and the cancer people will get by using diesel. So no, I don't see the value of diesel.
Barclays Energy and Climate Change Statement
Games are a place this comes of frequently. In poker you will often make the "right" (highest EV) play and still lose a given hand.

Making the highest odds plays (and being able to figure out what they are) over and over again regardless of how the individual hands turn out is how you win.

Obviously, you can also win while making the wrong plays by getting lucky (right for the wrong reasons). Evaluating your play based on the outcome of the hands (did you win or lose) rather than the plays you made with the information you had at the time is called Results Oriented Thinking: https://www.pokerdictionary.net/glossary/results-oriented-th... ... and it is a pernicious mistake (with wider applications than just poker :).
If you contact your congresscritter over their official congressional channels - email, phone, Twitter, plain ol' letter - and tell them you plan to vote for/against them because of $X, a very polite intern will tell you that they will record your support/opposition to $X but that they cannot pass along your comment on voting to your congresscritter.

Be sure to share that with their campaign: that's how you get that message through.
Usually it's now better in the Bay Area.
I think C# is a good language, but I also am not sure that it's a poster child for this particular language feature. (I mean this literally; I don’t have enough experience to really know how it compares to the usual suspects in this area.)
I'm assuming this is Atlanta? Got a source?
Wiliot nabs $30M for a chip that runs on power from ambient radio frequencies
Identifying cancer associated immune receptors computationally
Wait, really? I thought DuckDuckGo merely implemented APIs ("bangs") to fallback search engine providers in case a user preferred it.

Surely DuckDuckGo has implemented their own search engine, crawler and indexer apart from other providers?
It's a good op-ed and I largely agree with Brooks but I find this point interesting:

> I’d say civilization moves forward when we embrace rule of law, not when we abandon it.

What Emily did that got called out (cyber-bullying) isn't against the law, nor do I think we want it to be (for freedom-of-speech reasons). Shaming Emily for her prior abuse isn't necessarily a problem but social media knows no bounds and takes it way too far. Destroying Emily's life is probably not justice.
It would stand to reason. China has the largest number of endpoints, and thus is most likely to have the largest number of compromised hosts. I take it you've ruled out the possibility this is a geographically diverse spread of actors taking advantage of poor security practices on the large swaths of Chinese infrastructure in your logs?
One of the hot new links I just saw on reddit calls out anyone displaying the Aussie flag as a "fascist." We need to stop this nonsensical acrimonious name-calling. It seems simply designed to increase outrage, click-bait, and kill discourse.
I was really hoping DIB stood for Department In Bullshit.
> I know David Brooks is a genteel Never Trumper. It doesn't matter.

Yeah it does matter. Are you calling out Brooks and just dismissing anything else about him ... as a person so you can call him out?

Are you trying to illustrate the point of the article in a weird way?
This is precisely why when dealing with bugs I advise juniors to avoid asking the question, "what changed?" Gettier cases are just one problem that you can face when asking that question.

Instead I usually tell them to do it the proper way: start from the bug, and work backwards to understand why that bug is happening. At that point the change that caused the bug becomes obvious, and most of the time we realize that we probably wouldn't have come to that conclusion by looking just at what changed.
Why hasn't Apple bought DuckDuckGo?

I also think the name DuckDuckGo is too long and too cumbersome, they should consider rebranding to something simpler. Branding matters.
Sure, if you are American. If you're not, then you will be simply denied entry if you refuse to answer.
Ways Elon Musk's Bad Writing Habits Hurt Tesla's Performance
CO2 emissions are not just rising but rising faster. We haven't even gotten the second derivative pointed in the necessary direction.
No. Almost everyone is living "really well" compared to 100 years back. The lowest low is higher than it was before.
Yeah, it is crazy to me how blatant Adelson is allowed to be and still be effective, operate legally.

I don't care what side of the aisle you're on, if you don't see this as textbook corruption, you're on the take, period.

This isn't even a conspiracy theory, this is just obvious fact. Adelson paid for this with his billions, in an effort to stamp out a business concern.
It's because C++ is coming up with more complex ways to solve emergent problems from C++'s own complexity. So to appreciate why a proposal exists in the first place, first you have to catch up on the context that current C++ practitioners already have.
Sure react-native-navigation can be a pain but saying that the only reason to choose it is toy-project articles is a bit harsh. It's really the only choice available if you want to create a react native app with first class accessibility / native interaction.

Arguably you should pick native over RN if you care that the VoiceOver back gesture works and Picture in Picture views on iPad are positioned correctly below the navigation bar but react-native-navigation is doing a valuable and difficult thing that no one else is attempting.
You can use duck.com and it'll redirect :)
If anyone wants this for Google Maps, try the Dark Reader extension for Chrome.

Here is how it looks on my machine: https://i.imgur.com/rpCiJSA.jpg
Why does the glass always have to be half empty? Maybe Apple simply was the better choice?
They own duck.com now, figure it won't be long until they're rebranded as "Duck"
I have an alias "x" setup to run:

atool --extract $*

That will unpack "anything", into a sub-directory if necessary. Something I use more than any other alias.
It's quite easy. There are multiple tutorials on it. When you load up a key into putty the plain old key you're used to is sitting right there in a box in the app. Just copy.
lol sure. Supporting local news with Russian propaganda
TED Talk about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAIP6fI0NAI
More like...

Old thing does W imperfectly.

New thing does X. Proponents claim that X solves W's imperfections.

Turns out that it doesn't. Opponents claim that X hasn't much value then, so it's doomed.
"And if we are missing it, let's add it".
What would your analytics stack store if you plan to keep no logs other than those that are necessary for debugging?
When was convenience not mainstream, except in the earlier days of the Internet before centralized logins (e.g. Google, Facebook), which are associated with a tradeoff in privacy?
> So a TAM of money launderers and people without money. Do you see why these "use cases" are laughable?

There are still many unbanked people in the world. I don’t think it’s a laughable use case to want to bring those that are too poor to participate in the banking system into the modern era. See Humaniq for an example of this.
Compared to snapchat, they have a much more compelling value proposition, and a much more robust monetisation strategy. I don't know what their valuation should be, but I can't see any comparison with snap.
"big companies" and big hardware producers in general would bake crypto in their stuff anyway.
In NorCal, Apple is better in many regards than Google Maps. Better time estimates, better forestry and building designation.
In the US its way more fuzzy and generally in a way that's not usually covered in a contracting agreement.
But in principle what's your objection? Do you wake up and criticize Western Union because you don't use it? I just don't understand why people who don't want to use ETH are so emotionally invested in being mad. Y u mad tho.
The butterflies told a reporter that the "rent is too high in California".
Non-Web Embeddings for Rust Wasm 2019
People care more about conservation as their wealth rises, so yes, in some senses advancing the economic wellbeing of the world could be a strong lever for the future. But we do need to avoid making the place a wasteland in the meantime, or there will be nothing left to save.
At some point, hedging becomes gambling but of course, it's a grey line.
In December they acquired the name duck.com, maybe they'll do something with that. Right now it just redirects to duckduckgo.com
I will sell you the puts myself. You're ignoring a massive market for vacation rentals outside of major metropolitan areas that AirBnB has conquered from craigslist.

The risk for regulation has passed as citizens see AirBnB as an accepted reality. Hotels aren't happy, but rightfully see AirBnB as a competitor.
A significant portion of those "refugees" are seeking safety from problems that can be solved at home, not famine.
They were using an open source map company, not google maps. By that standard, I feel this is probably a privacy regression.

I'm looking forward to the day when people know what they are talking about.
One thing is apple maps hasn't added bike maps for some reason. This is a seriously hindrance in Europe I expect. I'm in Montreal and this keeps me from using apple maps, as I like to assess walking/biking/transit/uber to decide how to get somewhere
Even Developers Can Design
Regulatory capture at its best. Gambling is allowed only for the government and their favorite casinos.

> A coalition backed by billionaire casino executive Sheldon Adelson lobbied the Justice Department in 2017 to reconsider its 2011 decision that cleared the way for states to allow online gambling.

California made $7 billion from their lottery last year alone. But you can't run one!
Not bad, not bad. The colored areas, especially that green would annoy me, though.
People aren't dumb. They know this. They're still fat. You can beat people over the head with it all you want, but we've been doing that forever and if it were a solution to anything it would have worked by now.
It is a bit of a double edge sword, but overall I think crypto is better.

The best solution to the privacy problem is to do research and exercise consumer choice about what sorts of devices you purchase.
NN = Neural Network

SOA = State of the Art

The rest should be clear: it's a new method that shrinks the size of neural nets by 90% while only dropping the accuracy <1%. The previous state of the art for doing the same task of shrinking neural nets dropped the accuracy by 3.5%.

Compressing/shrinking neural nets is an important task because most edge devices (i.e. smart devices like thermostats, security cams, etc.) don't have the compute power to run large neural networks and need more compact ways to do the same tasks. Currently the solution is to use internet connectivity to query an API but that's not ideal for a variety of reasons.
I think they did it because existing alternatives were terrible
That didn't really matter. The statements are considered false even if you didn't know them to be false.
1. It's not 'this story' - it's a stream of new stories about collapses of insect populations in different ecosystems (a part of the wider stream of stories about ecosystem breakdown)
2. As for motivations for submitting the stories, I can only speak for myself: ecosystem collapse is more important and interesting to me than tech. I live in ecosystems (indeed I have nowhere else to go), whereas I merely make a living from tech.
The benefit, transparent provably fair open source code that can automate financial transactions outweighs these issues. I don't think smart contracts on Ethereum not being fully autonomous and fully decentralized is a huge issue to normal consumers that might interact with them.
Probably not, but they just aren't good at services, so I'm sure they would botch it in short order.
Destroying Emily's life is probably not justice.

People who destroy lives for political gain are not the people I think of as heroes in history. We need more discourse and more open discourse. We need less hysteria, shaming, and fear.
Of course it is, everyone wants to blame something and find some excuse that does not involve their own behavior and decision making.

Weight gain and loss is a matter of simple physics. Denying this simple fact is in the same realm of science denial of flat earth and creationism.
I think what he is saying there is that the consequences of these call outs can be very severe, things we often associate with the consequences you get from the law. Accordingly with those kind of consequences possible we should be cautious about what steps we take and maybe take a legalistic-ish approach to these things and not just make assumptions and auto denounce when we really don't know what happened.

Granted that's not to say you have to form up a judge and jury at home every time you tweet, but perhaps think twice about what we really know before we act.
Not true since g1gc
Curtis talks about this in his farewell letter

https://urbit.org/posts/essays/a-founders-farewell/#urbit--a...

>Urbit's distribution and sponsorship hierarchy of galaxies, stars and planets is not designed as a political structure, or even a social structure.

>Socially and politically, Urbit is a flat network of planets.

>The sponsorship hierarchy and the senate of galaxies ... are technical governance mechanisms. ... Because sponsorship has an escape mechanism, it is not a feudal bond

AFAICT the hierarchical part (with Azimuth) is essentially just for routing packets while the application layer stuff like chat is effectively peer-to-peer.
if you have enough networking skills and a more-than-decent switch, you might let your smart-tv live in a different, dedicated vlan where it can't see any other systems within your network.

What's more important, is the possibility of having a camera-less and microphone-less smart-tv. Or to have the possibility of practicing a microphonectomy and a camerectomyon your smart-tv.
It's just a question of where you draw the line. Google made a lot of contributions after it went open source, particularly with the canary analysis.

But I mean, I evaluated the initial design docs, so did I build it too? :)
Such languages won't make it far because the software they produce isn't really useful in industry or business. Whether or not there may be some future application for "dApps", currently none exist so there isn't much incentive for learning a dApp language (except pure curiosity about the platform) when you could learn a language that can produce useful software (e.g. Kotlin, Rust, Golang, C# etc)
My HSBC UK Visa debit card has had contactless support for at least five years. Perhaps just report it lost to get a new one issued. Even my US debit and credit cards have it now (with the exception of a metallic Amazon Prime card.)
Wildflowers and perennials and so forth are by far the best- but my small lawn, ringed by native xeriscape, is significantly more "alive" with grasshoppers, insects, and spiders when it's long than when I mow it. Sample size of one.
The Da Vinci Code is a fictional novel. Levine's book is well researched and he cites his sources. Is he despised on HN because he's Russian? That would be xenophobic. Is there something else about him that I'm missing?
They can't "pass along your message" specifically but when they get several hundred people saying they didn't vote for $boss because of their stance on $issue they will find a way to let $boss know about the pattern.
Yes, we'll die, but only 99.99% dead. The remaining surviving will have learned the most costly lesson yet of humanity, and will continue on and rebuild. It sucks, but so did the millions of years of animals murdering each other just so that I could type this and you could read it.
Theresa May's Brexit deal rejected by 202 to 432
> Contrast this with an employee who refused to make a sales call to someone who is gay, because that client is gay. Would you say that that employee should receive the same amount of tolerance and sensitivity as the one who was afraid of flying?

To make it even more complex, what about the employee who refuses to make a solo sales call to someone who is the opposite gender, for religious reasons? At a dinner meeting for example.

What level of accommodation, if any, should society demand for this salesperson?

What if the salesperson is LGBT and refused to make a sales call to an anti-LGBT organization?

Should society demand both these salespeople to be given the same level of accommodation?
Are you trying to illustrate the point of the article in a weird way?

We should be thankful that the people who use these smearing tactics are so lacking in self-awareness. This makes them easier to call out to people of good sense who can still recognize real intellectual discourse.
Elias M. Stein, Mathematician of Fluctuations, Is Dead at 87
Hope to one day buy a bunch of land in the middle of nowhere Texas and blanket it in milkweed and other supporting plants.
The only TRUELY passive income I have is a YouTube video, unedited, published in 2012 that generates me $500-$1,500 a year. I do absolutely nothing to the video to promote it. YouTube seems to recommend it every fall and it has been a nice little Christmas bonus each year.

Other than that, a few games I've published generate ~$100 a year without input from me. Everything else requires at least a little bit of my time on a regular basis and I wouldn't count it as passive.
Those offshore sites are scams. The scam is they take your money but if you ever win big you will never see it payed out (deposited in a real bank account belonging to you). You will then become one that post on forums on how you can't get your money out, until they finally close shop and run once enough people have been scammed.
Interesting. Before you said that, I was thinking about it from the US government's perspective.

And I think that it is basically the flip side of your description. I think with such procedures the US is trying to reduce the number of people who are "trapped in the US without a visa" simply because the US government, by law, becomes responsible for managing, tracking, processing, administering, and, yes, potentially initiating removal proceedings for, such persons.
A better formatted way to read it for better readability:

https://gist.github.com/jeremyaboyd/6012e7c0d80138f366064d69...
Looking Back at Google’s Research Efforts in 2018
PR-MOD: An advanced tool to review docker based deployment software much easily
There is nothing as "a proper macro". There is proper meta-programming support or a badly design language.
Neat paper but as soon as this becomes more widespread malware authors are going to adapt to hide as regular traffic so the analysis is going to get more & more complex until it's not useful as malware traffic will look indistinguishable from real traffic.

This is a fundamental evolutionary cat & mouse game that's impossible to win; antibiotics & bacteria, toxins in prey & toxicity resistance in predators, etc.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18913726.
Heh, I have one share of TSLA, and that's just a symbolic statement of my desire to see them succeed in their mission. Guess that makes me a shill. I'll enjoy my 4.3 seconds of retirement on the proceeds. Is this the part where I accuse you of being one of those eeeeevil shorts in response?

The US (well, North American) market comparison is apt because that's the only market that Tesla is manufacturing and selling in in any appreciable quantity right now. It's somewhat difficult to quantify demand response in markets where supply isn't available.

Toyota may well come from behind and eclipse Tesla. I'm not particularly concerned if they do or not, but I do think it's ignorant to look at the EV landscape and not conclude that Tesla has created demand and interest in a market previously marked by tepid apathy. You're arguing global auto markets, I'm talking about impact on consumer sentiment towards EVs. Two totally different discussions (and frankly, a rather clumsy strawman on your part).
Exactly. It's not a matter of simple physics because it requires action by humans, actions almost everyone is bad at like willpower, delayed gratification, and discipline. I like the way an episode of Freakonomics explained these issues: "People aren't dumb, the world is hard."
> People that are my age or younger though? They'll click anything on Facebook and share their information everywhere, will download anything and install it without second thoughts

I gotta say, though, this was excellent experiential learning for me as a kid. Having to fix my parents' computer because I downloaded and ran tons of viruses called "myfavoritesong.mp3.exe" or "theSimsPiratedEdition.exe". Tugging out the internals of Windows XP and learning that I could fix my mistakes with enough patience was an enormously useful lesson. Giving away my real identity online was basically unthinkable, though. Not sure how that would play out today.
Witch hunts by another name.
You're right! It's by no means some run-of-the-mill legal process without significant political implications.

It's a run-of-the-mill legal process that the Chinese government has decided should have significant political implications for Canada and Canadian citizens. It's important to bear in mind that this was a set of decisions deliberately chosen by the government of China in response to Canada obeying its obligations clearly laid out in a readily available treaty.

As you so wisely and correctly note, no legal process is automatic. Yet routine extraditions, even of politically sensitive people, come quite close.
I live in Australia, which has very relaxed gambling laws. I can walk into most pubs/bars in my city and find poker machines for example, as well as a sports/horse betting facility.

There are huge social consequences to gambling. If you look at an entire society you have some people that will have problems with it and some people that won't. You may fall into the "won't" pile but surely society benefits if we prevent a large number of our members from falling prey to addiction.
> Mark classes as sealed by default

Please, no! This shouldn't be the default - it's a constant bugbear of mine where I want to extend a class from a library, and I can't because it's been sealed for no good reason.
Will China’s Economy Hit a Great Wall?
I don't have my TV connected to the internet. But I do stream, so I have to have something connected to the internet. And I prefer a box that is likely to be updated.
yes, but not connected for the most part.
What I meant by dark side is "The hidden side" since that side is always hidden from Earth (similar when I say your dark side i do not mean you have a side that is not in the light), I am aware some people may misunderstand this expresion, but "far side" is not as expressive since it is missing the part of "always hidden"