skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don’t get it - asking ‘can you reduce line item n by x’ is exactly the same thing as ‘can you reduce the bottom line by x’

"Can you reduce bottom line by x" is like saying, "the documentation is a bit vague, can you improve it please?"

"Can you reduce line item n by x" is like saying, "there's no way the user could possibly intuit that the sampling period may be truncated to precisely hit the target value after the specified duration. Given that the programming language itself has no specification, this longstanding behavior must be explained clearly in the user docs."

Which response do you suppose will be more likely to lead to an improvement in the docs? It's probably the one that shows evidence you know your domain and how to assess quality there.

Of course, that analogy is the dream. In reality the car salesperson will come back with the reduced line item but with adjustments somewhere else. And it's hard to keep track of because, for example, how would an increase in the down payment affect your idea of the "total bottom line?"

This would be like a developer countering by saying, "Ok, but to clarify that section of the docs I added threading to the event loop." And then every single developer suddenly becomes some kind of darkworld saboteur, and you finally give in by saying, "I guess this is just how software gets made..."
It is good for an electric car though. Do people really buy based on summary description, or do they use that to pick a starting place to learn more? It is a big purchase.
Instant stone (just add water) (2018)
OneWeb about to launch its first internet satellites to connect the unconnected
What did it for me was the time they successfully blocked the hospital helipad, literally killing people.

http://sfcitizen.com/blog/2008/10/15/a-san-francisco-general...
> it disappoints some people who want to change the indentation amount to fit their personal preferences

That's one issue I have with spaces, along with the fact that they are more annoying to delete. And I've seen people indent by 4n+1 spaces by accident at times (usually when there are no surrounding lines to provide context), so I wouldn't be so sure about it being the end-all, be-all for fixing indentation mistakes.
Slight tangent, but may be interesting.

I do a decent amount of CSS / HTML editing live in the chrome dev tools. I even sometimes move elements around by dragging them in the DOM tree UI. It can be a nice way of experimenting with UI design, as the feedback loop has less friction and can be much quicker, in some cases.

One workflow is to write out an initial sketch of the HTML structure, with little to no CSS. The first round of the styling is then done in the dev tools, tweaking until it seems ok, then copying those styles from the inspector stylesheet into my code and saving, and then iterating further as necessary.
Those investments are not zero risk though. I don’t disagree with the general point but suggesting you should take a loan if the rate is less than the S&P return for the past year is questionable.
To me this sounds like a prime opportunity to have two repo pages: one for contributors/owners, one for everyone else, and the option to toggle the view for each account per repo.

The danger would be overcomplexity/confusion, but if designed to match eachother well with different priorities, it could work. Still, the singular view no matter who you are is certainly a nice feature that may not be worth getting rid of given how universal the repo page design is.
I mentioned it in a different thread, but the RedMi Note 5 lost support after about a year. Do you think the Note 7 will be any different?
Just curious, what language(s) do you use now?
This isn't quite true if e.g. there are degenerate cases.
Today’s launch, scheduled for 4:37 p.m. US Eastern time

There's a link to watch the launch live in the article.
The argument misses a major factor: the opportunity cost of spending a chunk of your life dating someone who isn't right for you.

Given that the article is written from the perspective of the asker and seems not to notice the potential downside of dating the wrong person, I wonder if the writer is male.
I could be wrong, but I suspect it is the more likely possibility.
For a true decentralized forum, I would probably prefer https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/ .. the protocol seems nice and understandable, doesn't use block-chain, just distributed append-log, based on user white-lists, user/machine is identified by their pub-key and it works even on local network without access to the internet.

I played around with the git-ssb project that allows you to even host and collaborate on git repositories stored in the distributed log.

Only thing I don't really like is the reliance on the npm ecosystem, so I am waiting if they manage to finish a reimplementation of client and server in rust.
The desert isn't a blank sandscape. There's a whole ecosystem of desert plants and creatures, not to mention the solar panels killing migratory birds.
There is so much comments about whether the proposal is good or bad. But for me, without making usability tests, there is just no way to know if it's better.

For me proposal for redesign without any experimental data presented is just an invitation to endless speculation.
I'd personally love to see a ROM that focuses less on customizations and adding their own "flavor" to Android, and just attempts to track AOSP as closely as possible while supporting as many devices as possible, so users whose devices are no longer supported by their manufactures (or who just don't like the customizations the manufacturers have made to the UX) can continue enjoying the latest Android improvements in UX & security.

LineageOS is great, and already supports a wide range of devices, but all the features/changes it has accumulated over bare Android means it necessarily has a much harder time porting to the latest versions of Android, and supporting new devices compared a ROM without those customizations.

If a ROM like that already exists, I'd love to hear about it.
Absolutely, IEEE is also on the same boat, charging 20-40USD for a PDF to general public. Insane.

It was great to access journals while at university, but there is so much knowledge out there behind paywalls that is literally holding humanity back!
This is true, as it doesn't need to be a matter regarding only the creeps. I was thinking sociopolitically, where adults related or not make the decision to use minors as props, whether for a thing as big as ad campaigns or as small as for social brownie points. As a grownup, if someone were to post my image without my express permission I could pull some legality in my favor. Children generally don't have the same resources, lacking their own guardianship. I'm just saying that until they can legally make such decisions for themselves, privacy should be the standard, to save them from embarrassment or abuse. We must all decide for ourselves what to share of ourselves. http://www.samadhantutors.com/
AFAIK GNU Emacs is written using a completely 100% FOSS GPLed stack, preferring GNU components over others when alternatives exist.

So how does Rust play into this? Is the Rust-stack “compatible”?

For this to succeed long term they will have to get their changes mainlined, and it would be a shame if anything as petty as licensing or political over GNU/non-GNU should stop it.
> big overreaction

What other kind of reaction is possible when people scream "pedophile"?
Given they don't allow test drives, they should try to come up with a smart solution - perhaps partnering with a financial institution?
People said the asme thing with Nuclear.

Just because they say they are doesn't mean they actually are.
I'm a fan of the "Reddit on Youtube" browser addon (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/reddit-on-you...). Once in a while, it actually has something I want to read or click through.
Hy is beautifully imperative. For people put off by functional programming Hy is absolutely awesome.

The return/if/while/break/continue actually work without making you jump through hoops.
But why only in US? Will there be price drop in rest of the world?
Hi! I’m excited to understand how it compares to Eve.

While waiting for the whole blog post, do you have any elements to share?
That book is no Introduction. Trust me.
I was aware of that distinction while writing my comment. Even if only $30B of Harvard's assets are financial investments, and even if they earn just 5% annually from that, then that's $1.5 billion per year, so $3.5 million is just 0.23% of their income. I'm not saying $3.5 million isn't absurdly high. I'm just objecting to the statement "Harvard University [itself] ... can't afford ...", which is journalistic hyperbole.
I went through some stack overflow again and a lot of people are suggesting it could be linum-mode? I have it on everywhere cause I like being able to jump to a line number. But I have emacs 26 which is supposed to have fast, C written linum mode.
The decision-makers in this play are all Chinese communist party cadres, and were likely already heavily politically involved at the time of the Tienanmen uprising. Don't forget that many of the party leaders responsible for what's going on in Xinjiang were sent there as a "duty-posting" so they could then move on to higher-level positions back home on the east coast. That's where many of them would have been in 1989. While younger generation raised from 1989 onwards don't know about the events, their parents are certainly aware. Especially, as mentioned, if they were politically active at the time.
Am I still limited to 10 steps per pipeline? Because that's always been an issue for me
People are pressuring YouTube to hire and train moderators to competently and soberly evaluate context and take intelligent action.

Nobody is pressuring YouTube to blow channels away because one of their ML algorithms hit a probability threshold.
Alphabet spinoff, looks like: https://dandelionenergy.com/about/
I don't have an opinion on the way it does that, but the fact that it does think/work it's a text program is actually a feature, not a bug. Something like 99% of built-in features and 95% of features added by plugins work identically in terminal frames over SSH.

I fear if Emacs was remade with graphics at the forefront and text as a secondary concern, we'd lose a lot of interoperability this "text program" thinking brings to the table. Being able to work with an UI in a way you would with text files - jumping, copy-pasting, editing the UI itself, all with the exact same shortcuts and conveniences you use for programming - is incredibly powerful and something not really replicated elsewhere. I mean, number one complaint against TUIs and GUIs is that the data is locked inside, and you can't easily take it out and send elsewhere. With Emacs UIs, it's not true - if need be, you can select, copy and paste the whole thing, UI included, and it looks good in a text file and can be operated on programmatically.

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Further improving performance of elisp and enabling true multithreading/async: that would be a huge breath of fresh air in Emacs.
Can't focus on your goal? I am building an app to help you focus on the goal
I’m developing an app to help me focus on my goals.

Last year, I read a book called Deep Work and it introduced me the 4 Disciplines of Execution (4DX). The key elements of 4DX are a wildly important goal, lead measure, and scoreboard.

I practise Pomodoro technique every day. Therefore, I build an MVP that combined the Pomodoro technique and 4DX.

Deep Work Hours (https://pomodoro-80211.firebaseapp.com) - A Pomodoro timer app to help you focus on the wildly important goal

Features:

Pomodoro timer - A timer that starts with 25 minutes focus intervals with 5 or 15 minutes breaks.

Goal setting - Add your wildly important goals. Select a goal to focus before starting the timer.

Scoreboard - Each focus intervals will be saved and show on the tracker.

Really appreciate if you could try it out and give me your feedback.
So you turn comments off and tell them if they do turn it on, they have to moderate the comments.
I've watched numerous videos on YouTube, complaining about how YouTube treats its creators.

How long is it going to be before we get comments turned off on videos (channels?) for no identifiable reason?
For those questioning the objections and criticizing the reporting for not vetting them, a simple search found some interesting relevant info:

https://phys.org/news/2009-03-dark-side-solar-power.html

FWIW I own property in the Mojave near Joshua Tree National Park. I am fairly pro-solar, but can at least appreciate the need for a more thorough evaluation of how these large-scale installations will affect the environment. It seems prudent to me that the county put on the brakes for now until we have better answers.

It may turn out that these solar installations can actually have more positive effects than negative, though it might only be possible with additional steps like covering the ground throughout the area with something like a perforated tarp. I wouldn't be surprised if such a tarp could be used to trap moisture in the ground and grow strawberries or something between the panels through the perforations where water and crops may pass.

Right now my property is covered with millions of wild desert flowers. Many people think all deserts are just some barren sandy landscape devoid of life. I know I did before owning a piece of it. It's not the case, there's a lot of life and it's a fragile ecosystem. Today I was photographing dozens of honey bees and a few butterflies feasting on acres of flowers in the Mojave.

Edit:
I uploaded some of today's photos to imgur for the HN crowd if interested https://imgur.com/a/blZbs5e
Evidence abounds that Russia has funded disinformation efforts, and several indictments have been served to Russian agents and spies that have been working in the US on disinformation campaigns and spying. There's also ample evidence they funded and affected the Leave campaign.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/09/20/us/politics/r...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-the-bad-boys-of-...

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-41182519

https://www.axios.com/senate-reports-russian-interference-20...

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/2/20/17031772/m...
When I was a kid, my family moved to Phoenix. On the drive there, I thought the desert was an awful, brown, blasted wasteland. Later on, I went hiking and camping in the desert, and learned a lot about the desert flora and fauna. Gradually my viewpoint changed and I thought the desert was most beautiful.
Thanks! This is a good idea.
I tried this with OpenVPN a while back and it was a spectacular failure because keeping the tunnel open also kept the cellular connection active and that sent battery consumption through the roof. I'm talking about 8-10 hours "standby" time on a modern iPhone.
Is that not a problem with your setup?

I looked into on-demand but is required a mdm profile and that seemed more trouble than it's worth.
If you want to test drive a Tesla, I recommend going to a supercharger, finding someone with a car configured like what you're interested in, and talking to that person.

Even after hundreds of thousands of Model 3s have been sold, I still get nods from other Tesla drivers and chat with people at superchargers.
Ask HN: Can anyone recommend a website security audit service?
I was wondering if there are any website or server vulnerability scanning services that are worth using for WordPress/ other small websites. I found detectify.com & sucuri.net but not a lot of feedback about them.
They already carry guns, or at least some form of weapon. No one mugs someone without knowing they have overwhelming force. Knowing that the person you're about to rob is likely to have a gun, and is likely to use it against you, makes you consider safer forms of employment. It's not like they only have to steal one car... It has to be regular or it's unsustainable, and if you are regularly getting shot at while trying to carjack... You won't be carjacking for long!
You're right, they've said as much:

> Hi there--this was a temporary action to protect the safety of minors while we work to improve our tools that detect & remove predatory comments.

https://twitter.com/TeamYouTube/status/1100488813854351360

I'm sure they're just as aware as we are that disabling comments kills the community and engagement around many channels; they just needed a way to stave off the controversy for a little while. It's a blunt solution but as a temporary solution it seems fine as long as they can roll out a better solution before content creators are irrevocably hurt.
I wonder if UC gives any money to the Scihub admins. I found their current donation link: https://sci-hub.tw/donate
decentralized is an empty term today. it can mean so many things we should just drop it.
Sure, let's have more coal from Nevada instead.

There are no coal mines in Nevada. You might be thinking of Arizona or Wyoming.
The glowing tower contains molten salt, used to store the focused solar energy. [1] I never knew that was a thing until I too drove past it. It was one of the more memorable sights on a 3000 mile road trip.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_thermal_energy#Molten_...
I just downloaded and built that. I was presently surprised to find that it "just worked." It picked up my .emacs, my color theme, my extensions and all the associated data. The only observable difference between it and real emacs was that it ran significantly slower. Presumably that will go away with time.

Great work!
When you buy a laptop from HP, do you negotiate with the web form? If you went into an HP store (assuming there was one), would you negotiate with them there?

This doesn't make sense to me.
Yes it does, at least on HN.
I'm curious about your reasoning for going with the Jag. Never had an issue with bluetooth on our Model S/X. The X with the tow package made it very utilitarian and practical. Not to mention the ease and convenience when it comes to child/baby seats.

Moreover, the I-PACE however is an engineering disaster. They did not develop the motor/inverter/aero enough and wastes power. They ended up needing a bigger battery to make the thing work, costing more yet giving horrible range... Even a Model X from 2016 is much more efficient.

Model X vs I-PACE vs Audi e-tron

Model X wins by far. @120km/h Tesla is 23% more efficient than the e-tron.

Model X - 24.8 kWh/100 km (39.9 kWh/100mi)

E-Tron - 30.5 kWh/100 km (49.1 kWh/100mi)

I-Pace - 31.3 kWh/100 km (50,37 kWh/100mi)

Source: https://nextmove.de/autobahn-test-tesla-model-x-beats-audi-e...

It's interesting to also note that the Tesla Model X is the largest of the 3, and still is more efficient.
Fun fact, that's how you unite people :)

For more details see RCT, which specifies that ingroup bonding accompanies outgroup hostility. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realistic_conflict_theory
What they are talking about is what is used to condense the steam exiting the main turbine which is the thing that spins the generator. DC uses seawater to run through the condenser and then back out to the sea, warming the water about 20 degrees if I remember correctly. This is why you see most nuclear plants along the coast or lining the Great Lakes.

The only other methods I am aware of are the giant cooling towers people associate with nuclear plants or ponds (more like canals which snake back and forth, see Turkey Point in Florida) which allow the water to cool before reuse.
Making Meatless Burgers a Little Less Impossible
Let's say they are able to make an IA that detect toxic comments.

They can even make it relatively accurate with 1 error out of 1000 detections.

Sooner or later they will have a false positive that gets a lot of bad publicity as censorship or a false negative on somebody truly horrible.

Just cutting all comments on kid seem like the only option that will allow them to give the impression that they are taking the problem seriously.

Just like they could not afford to have google photo call dark skinned people gorilla 1 time out of 100000 photos. Better to just remove that label entirely.
Handling below average on a Model 3? Really?
The problem with gun control in a country that already has a high number of weapons per capita, as well as a constitutional right to carry them, is that people will refuse. No one likes to be helpless, and the manufacturing technology is pervasive. But what if we made all guns illegal, and the US citizens actually complied? End result: only criminals will have guns. That is a problem the police cannot possibly cope with. As a carjacker, I would feel way more comfortable in this situation.
So much PR of this book is everywhere, as if Brendan Eich himself wrote it!
> $36 vs $33

Maybe it's only me but both those prices are extremely steep. $1 would be more viable, IMO.
That is illegal.

https://www.dmv.org/vehicle-history/odometer-fraud.php
The README in general is inspired. It explains perfectly what it does and the issues it has while making it very clear that it was just a fun side project and does so with quite a bit of humour.

It’s a fresh break from those dry READMEs that talk as if their side project will revolutionise they way you use x.
Really excited to see this!

My Google-free Android Setup with LineageOS and a Nexus 5X (includes all the apps/Google-alternatives I use):

https://niftylettuce.com/posts/google-free-android-setup/
There are no haggle dealers and have been no haggle brands from time to time. One problem is that the people who like and think of themselves as driving a hard bargain don’t like the inability to do so
I agree with the luxury statement.

I tell people that the parts of the car that make it a car are excellent, and the parts of the car that make it luxury need some help. That being said, I've bought two Teslas so far with absolutely no regrets.
And that's the issue. Where do you draw the line of having people take your stuff? At what point is it going to completely ruin your life to have something stolen? I draw the line at having anything stolen, because to some degree I rely on all of my property, and anyone who tries to illegally acquire it will not likely try the same again.
The modern, Emacs 26+ mode is: display-line-numbers-mode. This (put in config) will enable it for you globally:

(global-display-line-numbers-mode 1)

linum mode (and the faster contrib, nlinum mode) were used prior to Emacs 26, and sometimes had some performance issues in large files.

Also, all of those are for displaying line numbers on the left margin. Jumping to a particular line in code works always.

(And if you want to go totally oldschool, use column-number-mode and line-number-mode to see the column and line numbers of your current position displayed in the modeline. Or (shameless plug) install nyan-mode ;).)
An Introduction to Go (CERN)
F(x) Tec Pro 1: Android phone with a slide-out physical keyboard
I have the same feeling. He proposed a very good changes and then started to mess up Code…
I've tried arguing with people about it and you get the usual from Tesla fanboys from it's way better to theres no way they could put carplay/android auto on the interface. It's nonsense, really. I want to use my phone with its interface. Rest of the car I'm sold on but that's a real pain point for me they need to work out.
Simple is better than complex explains a lot of Django stuff even for beginners https://simpleisbetterthancomplex.com/