skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
try transporting kids or groceries using the subway.

When I lived in an area where I could commute by subway, I had a full service grocery store and several smaller specialty markets (a produce market, a butcher and a bakery) on my way home (well I had to get out one stop early to pass the butcher). I see plenty of parents with kids on the subway -- though none of them have the full-size strollers you see coming out of the backs of SUVs.

So instead of making one large shopping trip every week or two, I'd stop several times a week on my way home.

Though now I just buy groceries online and have them delivered, in the rare cases where I do want to go to the supermarket, I take my bike.
Well, that sounded suspicious, so I looked it up.

Apparently, 80-90% of the content on the Cebuano and Waray Wikipedias is generated by Lsjbot[1].

I’m thinking of using a similar approach to bump up the number of Arabic Wikipedia articles, but it seems like cheating to me...

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lsjbot
You're right, but it's not about throttling, it's about subsidies. Regardless, data is about a dollar a gig, which is among the cheapest in the world. The fact is, folks don't want to or more likely, can't afford it, so the subsidized plans are more popular.
Corporate security theater in general is starting to get out of hand. I just had to take a yearly sec training, and the videos are absurdly over-the-top. I can imagine them being quite alarming for people who don't have the technical background to know what is actually important. Just a series of videos trying to conjure up this strange sense of paranoia -- telling us that "HACKERS" are CONSTANTLY trying to 'break in,' and will try to SOCIAL ENGINEER us by reading everything they can find on our facebooks! Advice such as, "If a friend posts a picture of you without your permission, consider asking them to remove it." How does that relate to corporate security in the slightest?

The kicker was when they told us that, if our mobile devices become more than a few years old, we just had to buy new ones in order to stay secure. I was flabbergasted. This is speaking about our own personal devices, not company-issued ones. Seriously, the gall to make people think the only way to be safe is to spend hundreds of dollars on new phones every 2 years.

It's just bizarre, and it's never been applicable in any of my workplaces. And I have worked for large, global law firms on quite famous litigation with huge international conglomerates as clients -- as a poorly paid grunt, not an associate, but that just meant I had more direct access to sensitive documents. I've probably received ~100 "phishy" emails over the years, and zero of them have been actual phishing attempts. Just more of that "the molesters are waiting around every corner and hiding behind every tree" nonsense, now migrated into the workplace.
>Even transformers use RNN structures right.

Nope.

>How do you handle variable length input without something like an RNN?

Any form of pooling, really. Max, Avg, Sum. The tricky part is how to do the pooling while still taking advantage of the sequential structure of the input information. The Transformer -based models have shown that you can get away with providing very little order information and still go very far.
> While fundamentalist faiths cast science as a misguided or even malicious source of information

I wonder which faiths they are talking about here.

When it comes to Christianity, well, we love science. We look at it like this - science answers "what and how" while religion answers "who and why". So there's no competition between the two.

For more on the topic: https://soundcloud.com/bulldogcatholic/122518-but-why (around 4:00 mark)
Would be nice to see more info about the game before providing name and email.
now you tell me
Straya at its finest
Kids (and adults to a lesser extent) always have an always will do stupid stunts to try and standout or increase their dignitas. The social circle this happened in used to be a lot smaller though, just friends, family or maybe the school. Now they're trying to do this in the world stage where standing out is a lot harder.
What we do (and a lot of companies do) is append [EXT] to the subject line of any incoming message from outside the org. Blocking external email by default will drive people to use their personal gmail for work.
Heroku, Firebase and Netlify usually. I'm using Firebase and Netlify for https://www.checkbot.io/ at the moment (it's a Chrome extension that tells you how to improve your website). Minimal hosting costs and I don't have to worry about what happens when traffic picks up.
> However, I don't think religion, per se, is the problem.

That I would disagree with. The defining characteristic of religion is faith, or the acceptance of unsubstantiated claims as factual truth. Faith is the most dishonest and irresponsible epistemology there is and has an obvious potential to be used for justifying unlimited badness, as has been demonstrated over and over. Ideas that have such massive risks I would say are pretty obviously a problem.

> Like I said, people need to believe something and religions offer that service.

That sounds very much like an unsubstantiated claim. The mere fact that it is common does not imply an innate need, but would be explained just as well by indoctrination--and the fact that lots of people who once felt just that need do overcome it using rational thought also suggests that it's at least not as inherent to humans as you make it out to be.

> Even when countries have made religion illegal, they simply insert the state as the object of belief.

I don't think that's a contradiction. Countries that aren't autoritarian just don't care about (lack of) religiosity of their citizens, but authoritarian states always demand submission to their doctrine and thus ban all other belief systems--in the case of theocratic states, they ban all other religions and sects, in the case of non-theocratic states, they ban all "traditional religions". None of that is about religion vs. lack of religion, it is only about banning competition.

> This is because (IMHO) belief is necessary to the normal operation of human communities (and sometimes also because they want to abuse their populations ;-) ).

I don't see why that should be.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8244920
Oh yeah, I used to have a used BMW with an N54 engine with the same issue. I ended up buying a media blaster, crushed walnut shells and cleaned up the ports preemptively.
The hard part is that after the convolutions you want a fully connected layer or two, and to get those dimensions right you need to know the input dimensions. But, pytorch is building the graph at runtime, so maybe you could do this...
I have noticed the same thing just in general society unrelated to Americans. When you propose an alternative that works 95% of the time people will find that edge case where it doesn't work and refuse to acknowledge the solution.

A similar related event was when stop lights got converted to LEDs. In some areas in some times of the year there would be snow that covers up the light which now no longer runs hot enough to melt it. News at the time sensationalized this issue making it seem like the LED stop lights were bad despite the obvious solution being to just put a heater on the light to run in those areas on those few days where it is needed.

When people suggest getting to work by bike they don't expect you to only ever use a bike for the rest of your life but to cut out the needless car trips that could be done by bike and leave the car until it is needed. The money you save on not using a car multiple times a day would easily pay for a taxi in the rare case you need it.
> Well isn't it condescending to assume that Angola can't have reasonable safety laws while Germany can?

No. Germany is rich and has a high HDI, both of which correlate with safety laws that would be too expensive in poor countries.
Your Neutrino May Oscillate — physics humour
Anecdotally, but I'm already seeing it in high school age kids. These kids haven't really grown up without access to a smartphone, and you can tell the difference in how they interact with each other. There's a lot less social talking, and they don't understand emotions or empathy very well at all. And heaven forbid you try to get them to put down the damn phone and take notes or do something.

"Why do I need to learn this when photomath does it for me?" was often heard, or they'd just Google the answers because they're there. They work a lot less hard to try to get stuff, and it hurts their discipline and focus, for sure. And I'm going to stop my rant there, because I could continue on with it forever.
The Growing Threat of Tech Censorship – Stefan Molyneux to EU Parliament
As many have noted, you can't tell from this site whether apple decided to remove an app from the China app store or the developer decided never offer it in that coutnry. Because of that, it's not useful for calling out censorship.

We do know, however, that Apple does certain certain apps and functionality on device for China. Censorship of the News app is one such example: https://www.larrysalibra.com/how-apple-censors-news-in-china
I remember reading about a blog that used this method something like 10 years ago, and wondered why I don't hear about it more often. Glad to know it still works just as well as back then.
This website is beautiful.
Is anyone else getting sick of these privacy violation / data collecting posts? Corporations have access to my phone information, I get it. This has been in the news since at least 2012. It's not healthy to be constantly in fear, for your worth of individual currency.
You conveniently ignore things like yoga and meditation. (Your comment is, unintentionally, a prime example of the kind of attitude mentioned in the article.) Many forms of meditation are nothing but sustained observation and investigation of internal states of mind from a first-person perspective.
If you're a couple heading home, you may need to travel three times to be with two sets of family.

You might also need to travel multiple times to have a traditional meal at the family home, and then go somewhere else for an actual vacation getaway.

Enough edge cases and the numbers could work out. Also the metric is trips, not people; if you live in some provincial village out in the country you may need to take multiple modes of transportation.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41082938/event-sourcing-...
State of app development 2018
> When it comes to Christianity, well, we love science. We look at it like this - science answers "what and how" while religion answers "who and why". So there's no competition between the two.

"Why" questions are either nonsense (like, questions about some made-up "ultimate purpose") or "how" questions in disguise, "who" questions are presupposing an answer to what are actually "how" questions, in order to pretend that it's not a scientific question.
The metric is journeys, not people. There are lots of small villages not directly connected to the rail network or an airport.
Right, so a Prius plug-in hybrid gets a $2500 tax credit, whereas a Tesla gets $7500. If the idea is to build an economy of scale for electrification of vehicles, I don't believe this makes sense. Pushing hard to make everything hybrid would do a lot more good.
Honestly just one:

> By sending an email that repels all but the most gullible the scammer gets the most promising marks to self-select, and tilts the true to false positive ratio in his favor.
Uh, by records do you mean terra cotta soldiers?
> Anybody who've gone down the same road that I'm about to take? Stuff that I should watch out for?

The major trap is to make sure people are willing to pay for what you're building. Don't spend ages building it in secret attempting to make it perfect and then find out nobody is willing to part with cash for it.

I'm making income from https://www.checkbot.io/, a Chrome extension that crawls your website looking for SEO, speed and security issues you should fix. I started building it to help automate what I was doing for clients so I knew the results were valuable and web developers I showed it to said they'd be willing to pay for it as well.
A low tech SMS gateway for fun and no profit – commandline
Very true. And to be clear, I much prefer the advent of solid-state based storage; I will be truly happy to never again have a HDD show up DOA. Or to hear an ominous crunch while working on something, and then realize the drive's just decided now is a good time to go bye-bye. I completely welcome the loss of moving parts.

But like I said, there was just something to the experience of working with diskettes. It felt more analog somehow.

I wonder if there was any such nostalgia for the days of tape/cassette storage.
Right, except iguy didn't say "South Africa is 100% black" or "every subsaharan country is 100% black".

He said "almost every subsaharan country is 100% black".
As in changing the actual price? Sure, but that seems different from add more info to the label.
My experience is primarily in manufacturing. I work with the people who make the decisions to purchase the robot arms you mentioned at a large number of companies as an outside vendor. As the article specifically mentioned the US being hit by manufacturing automation, that's what I'm weighing in on. The US was already hit by manufacturing automation. Additional automation won't hit US manufacturing nearly as hard as the first wave (until AGI, if we get there).

There are a large number of decisions to weigh when automating. Wages are only a piece of this, and 24/7 operation isn't useful in all scenarios. Again, it depends on what you're making and how much of it.

Each facility is limited by its own constraints on production. Lately, at most companies I work with this has been a shortage of skilled labor. They want more smart humans right now, not more robot arms. You need even more skilled and expensive employees to set up a robotics cell than to run a typical automated facility. When your robot guy leaves and you lose all ability to adjust how the cell works, you end up in trouble. I've seen this happen, and it's an example of over-automating.

My knowledge of India is basically non-existent, but I've heard (on HN) that companies will make up for a lack of skilled labor by hiring a large number of unskilled workers. I don't know if this is actually true. As per capita income appears to be rising there, my theory was that this is an environment ready to be hit by the same wave of automation the US has already seen. While my guess on India and similar countries may be way off base, my opinions on the US come from direct experience and I would stand by those.
Well there's my answer! Thanks for figuring that out. I was kind of blown away by the stat.
I just finished the last 2.5 years replacing a somewhat complex legacy system. It's a lot of Spring Integration, JMS Queues in between (so technically, 'events') and a traditional relational DB. The system was deployed 6 months after conception and piece meal migration and feature addition to support a full decommission of the legacy system.

It runs very well and the business is happy. However, I feel I need to convert it to Event Sourcing/CQRS not because for any technology constraint, or business requirement...but I feel if I don't have buzz words on my resume, I won't be marketable.

Ideally, systems are created to meet current and future business needs within time and budget constraint. In reality, I need to also maintain marketability. JMS queues and 2 phase commits....old school!
Will it finally? A try-catch quiz
I didn't realize zombies were intently interested in social life.
You Flushed the Toilet, They Made Some Bricks
I agree with so much of this. I think the only real thing holding back a limited javascript world is javascript becoming a limited/disabled majority. I don't think it will happen because so many businesses rely on the interactivity and tracking that javascript gives. Try explaining to the lady down the street what disabling javascript does for her but the one website that needs to be visited requires JS can't be used and see the outcome of that. If turning off JS does not impact a user's most visited sites then it is easy to do but if not then it is a lost cause. I guess browsers enforcing limits is the next best option but it'll see push back no matter what.
Crucially, books are non-interactive, they don't give you feedback.

Books are in the same class as movies and TV. Games are a different class.
> Where are you seeing these corporations ripping off FreeBSD?

It's not like FreeBSD has a shiny DE courtesy of Apple...
Stupid non-web guy here. I don't understand why you can't just start publishing events, and if you need to change the event contents just create a new version of the event and support the legacy clients until you can get around to rewriting them. If you can't control the clients and need to support the legacy events indefinitely... well, you probably would have had that same problem no matter what you did, right?

This article seems like another instance of criticizing an oversimplified example of something.
I agree with you, but would add one caveat. You may have built something valuable, but have yet to find the proper distribution channel. In which case, you experiment selling through different channels until you either grow, die, or pivot.
I'm curious as to who funded the research in the first place.
No, GM did $10 billion of buybacks this year and now needs to "save" $6billion by firing workers.

The cost of firing those workers? They've permanently lost those workers, their families, and their friends as customers. Forever. So that some fat #$@#$ shareholders can have a few more bucks in their bank accounts.

The unions are the only thing protecting those workers and the thousands of jobs in the American supply chain that the executives are doing their best to destroy.
>"Why" questions are either nonsense (like, questions about some made-up "ultimate purpose")

In addition to religion, you're outright dismissing entire fields of study, philosophy, ethics, law etc... that are extremely relevant to all of our lives. Whether you believe the "why" questions can every be answered is one thing, but dismissing them as nonsense without even trying to support your argument is extremely arrogant.
Using Apt Commands in Linux [Complete Guide] – It's FOSS
Looks good but I was initially confused by the title “java-workshop”.
Ask HN: What is your experience with System76 computers?
I bought two notebooks both had issues - keyboard on both
You can say the same about kids who end up as “bad examples” of media/tv influence
In other news, protests in Hong Kong over Chinese tourists.

"We don’t want your money: Chinese shoppers told to spend cash elsewhere by frustrated Hongkongers who just want some peace and quiet" https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/articl...

Also, Bloomberg is really the worst with clickbait titles.
> lack of hardware encryption support

I don't think that the Archer C7 hardware (or most consumer router hardware) supports any kind of encryption acceleration aside from what's built in to the WiFi radios. If you want a hardware accelerated VPN, you need to either get one of the Cavium-based Ubiquiti routers or something with a relatively high-end processor implementing AES instructions.

The lower routing performance has largely been solved in 18.06 with software flow offloading.
I know but that's how risk averse people at large companies behave. They are a) they lack understand and b) risk averse because risk reward ratio is high.

First group is rare.
That's very condescending towards Filipinos.
I'm going by studies such as these: https://www.computer.org/cms/Computer.org/ComputingNow/pdfs/...

I suppose it depends on how we measure effectiveness. What was the false positive rate you observed in addition to the marked increase in reports of real phishing attempts? It would be interesting to see what impact the "blame and train" internal phishing has on overall company productivity compared to just not doing it.
Reddit memes are defeating anti-vaxxers
I agree with the author completely. I worked on a fairly large system using event sourcing, it was a never-ending nightmare. Maybe with better tooling someday it will be usable, but not now.

Events are pretty much a database commit log. This is extremely space innefficient to keep around. And not nearly use useful as you might think.

Re-runs need to happen pretty often as you change how events are handled. Even in our local CI environment, it eventually took DAYS to re-run the events. It was clear that the system would never survive production use for this reason alone.

De-centralizing your data storage is a bad idea. We ended up not only with a stupidly huge event log, but multiple copies of data floating around at each service. Not fun to deal with changes to common objects like User. Sometimes you would have to update the "projection" in 5-10 different projects.

In practice ES amounted to building our own (terrible) database on top of a commit log that's actually a message queue. Worst technology I've worked with in years, eventually the whole project collapsed under it's own weight.

Some of these problems are fixable in theory. Perhaps a framework to manage projection updates, something to prune old events by taking snapshots, a DB migration style tool to "fixup" mistakes that are otherwise immortalized in the event stream. But right now, seriously stay away :)
Then why is the article even allowed?
That formula is for old British Pounds which are not even decimal. If go back earlier than that, there's records of whole villages being bought for a pound or two.
What about when event structures change? Now you’re having to push versions into your events and keeping every version of your serialisation format.

Redux often does not have to keep track of versions, because the event stream is consistent for that session.
Think a browser in the spatial interface
I imagine that, in the spatial interface, the tabs on the browser will be unfolded and displayed at the same time.

In the spatial interface, we still need an execution platform to inherit the “Sandbox to download and execute arbitrary remote program” to create new spatial applications. Because there are many applications in the spatial interface and we can't install such all in the our wearable device.

I believe that it is the most connected way to the future by the browser that is unleashed in the spatial interface.

I wrote the details in this article:
https://medium.com/@studioteatwo/think-a-browser-in-the-spatial-interface-f4eec6afef3d
Do you have an example of a "why" question that is not a "how" question in disguise and that you think is not a nonsense question?
Is ZFS that interesting for their use case?
I’m in Denver. I’ve seen no change. Plus we have numerous different companies operating now. I regularly see them blocking the sidewalk entirely or all of them have been toppled over.
not to mention that somewhere in the back of your head there is a calculation going as a user that this is an expensive website to you, in terms of effort.
Yeah it's Daedalus. I Googled it and I'm factually correct but I must have the conversations mixed up in my head... It might be one of the human characters who tells the player about it.

Definitely time to give it another play through.
FWIW, Openload is a great service. I've only used it a couple times, but it works really well.
And Libreboot doesn't support the X230. Also, coreboot has an option to neuter the ME.
Most of the XDG environment variables aren't set to anything.
DDD in this context = Domain Driven Design?
My eyes glazed over at this. I can follow the first code example with the explicit mount and unmount, but really not any of the others. I will pray I don't have to debug any website using these hooks features any time soon. This "declarative hook" ivory tower is for people with far much more time on their hands than I, I feel.