skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We managed to solve the issue of "everyone needs water & electricity" by making them government services (or in some locales, private services required to service everyone).

Private services are still not public services, and paying private companies to follkw public service contracts has nothing in common in providing a publix service through a public institution.
it's hard to tell from the abstract, but it seems to imply that it's the dwindling of new stimuli over time that we perceive as shorter days (which matches my intuition on this).

as in, more and more of our days succumb to routines that are entirely forgettable. these largely automated ruts require little conscious input, so we lose more of the day to nighttime cleansing. the interesting stuff occupy smaller and smaller slices, which feel like shorter days when recalled.
Minority investors have zero control over you. People think they have to play the VC's game and they simply do not.
This sounds like a really cool project. Do you have any more information somewhere by chance?
How does the function map to sound? I didn't see any discussion of that on the site.
This should be a game changer. I had tried Julia before and was disappointed by the interactivity of the REPL because redefinition of code at runtime was anything but easy to achieve. If it works as stated Julia REPL now should be on par with CL's one. I'll give Julia another try!
This piece positions Apple as a nefarious actor with exploitative intent. I'd imagine that if Apple built products without holding aesthetics in the highest esteem (like many Android or non-Apple manufacturers do), their audience wouldn't be willing to buy. The market has clearly voted with its dollars - think of how bulky ultra-low-profile earbuds would become if their batteries were replaceable, or how much more susceptible to water damage & general abuse.

And Apple already runs a fairly generous program for old iPhones, which btw, last far longer than their Android counter-parts.

Anyway, not to say that Apple can't improve its recycling process (or incentive systems for consumers to recycle) but to my knowledge, it's far ahead of the competition.
Facebook passwords are case sensitive. The only case swapping that happens is to correct leaving your caplocks key on, or if your keyboard auto-capitalizes the first letter (like some mobile keyboards). This reduces the search space by a factor of 3 (aka nothing), not by all permutations of capitalization.
Duplicate seen! Looks old.
Don't know much about Julia, but it seems like this debugger works by running the code in an interpreter? Is there tooling around debugging compiled Julia code as well, or is this the only way to feasibly debug Julia? It any of this tooling standardized so it could work in say GDB or LLDB (taking advantage of their command syntax, Python API, etc.)?
We may have the renewables, but sadly we don’t have the investment in the network to support the transmission of these renewables.
Continental, the big European auto parts company, has a practical solid state LIDAR.[1] It's the Advanced Scientific Concepts flash LIDAR technology, which works well but cost too much when ASC was making it by hand in Santa Barbara, CA. What they don't have is a car company ready to buy enough units to make volume production worthwhile. In the meantime, they're selling a few units to commercial drone operators.[2]

[1] https://www.continental-automotive.com/en-gl/Passenger-Cars/...
[2] https://brashtech.com/data-capture-and-fusion
Why is the story that Boeing sold them as extras instead of the airlines not buying the option?
> Disney does not expect someone to see an ad for Disney World and immediately win a click-through conversion for a $2k vacation

Having run CPC campaigns many times, companies do care about conversion rates. However, you are tracked across multiple sites and days. But companies do want to know who converted after seeing the ad and who converted after clicking the ad.

So, you're right they might not care that you convert immediately. But they do care that people convert over time or they'll pull the ad.
If you look at the companies it funds that is obviously not even remotely the case. You don't have to lie. And even the most lifestyle business still wants to increase sales. I'm not sure the OP would even agree with the label lifestyle business.
If I cross my eyes I see it the way you describe. If I relax my eyes it goes the other way I see it correctly. It took me a while to figure out how to do this as a kid. Almost like putting my eyes into a far off daydream state.
Quasi-public to be accurate.

That said, Amtrak came into existence because most of the private rail companies had failed or were failing. Had the federal government not stepped in, we'd arguably have no long distance passenger rail service outside the Northeast Corridor (where Amtrak basically makes the money that it then loses on pretty much every other route in the country).
So if it's not by mistake, do you think they're intentionally trying to reduce security? Are you saying that every website that hashes on the server (almost 100% of the internet) isn't just negligent, but consciously sabotaging user security?
Once you factor in ISPs blocking port 80, the need to configure port forwarding, and server maintenance, it's a hard sell for the average Joe. I think we need something like sandstorm.io if we're ever going to take self-hosted to the masses.
Maybe you just don't write bugs ;)

But really, what do you use in their place? Do you work in an environment that is "debugger by default" (as opposed to a separate step where you need to "debug" instead of "run")?
Thanks! Their numbers seem to be far off from the FDIC studies, despite them claiming they corroborate national averages.

Looking at the FDIC study from 2009, ~20% of Black/Hispanic households in California were unbanked, and when looking at citizens the number is ~7%.
'Do as I say, not as I do'?

Aren't those companies tryig to get all the information they can about us?

Perhaps they don't want to be "secured" because it costs money to do so.
The author is out of touch.

Plenty of people are making a good living making music. They just aren't making their money selling CDs and MP3s.

I wish the author would read up on self-made artists like Post Malone and Logic. They have made tons of money ... starting small, selling merch, and then finally filling stadiums at $50-$100 a ticket.
Makes a lot of sense, you have to accept cash unless you want to give out for free.
Have you not talked to your co-founder yet? That seems like an important thing to do before you make your decision. I understand that you may think he is so invested in the company that he will see you considering the offer as a betrayal, but tough decisions like this are exactly the kind of thing you should talk over with your co-founder and best friend. If you accept the offer without talking it over with him, he will very likely see it as a betrayal. Perhaps he will see an upside to having a best friend who is a VC? Give him a chance to make his own reactions. No matter what road you choose to take, you will be happier in the end if you keep your best friend.
> that method of attacking the assets under protection almost certainly exceeds their value

This was most likely the reasoning Sony had used (prior to 2012) when deciding how to safeguard the account info of users who had registered for marketing promotions.

It turned out that user credentials are unlike, say, office furniture, in that the cost of a data breach can vastly exceed the "value" of the protected "asset".
To be fair what you're describing is a PAKE, which is substantially different from "merely" moving the key-derivation functionality of password hashing from the server to the client. They're categorically different things. But you're right - if you're going down the rabbit hole of client-side hashing, you might as well implement a PAKE instead.

This kind of gets to the heart of what I was referring to when I said client-side hashes are like faster horses rather than cars. If you're spending this much effort, a superior protocol is better than an unorthodox, modified one. SRP is a PAKE which basically takes your proposal and moves it into a different layer of abstraction (TLS), and OPAQUE makes improvements upon it which allow you to use elliptic curves[1]. There are other reasons not to use PAKEs, but they're a much more coherent and defensible suggestion than just bolting the key derivation system onto the client rather than the server.

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1. https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2018/10/19/lets-tal...
I've done DC<->ATL on both coach and sleeper. Sleeper's nicer, obv, but coach is really fine. It's not super crowded, and the amount of legroom is ridiculous compared to an airplane. Even though it takes 4X as long as a plane, it's overnight, so it doesn't really seem too long at all.
You know, I have a suspicion that the reason the US has poor government services compared to other countries is in large part because too manypeople in the US believe government services are poor.

If the wrong people get in charge (and very likely if the ideology is widespread) they make little effort to improve things other than to cut costs.

Competition usually improves things, it's true, but natural monopolies are still problematic.
And I wonder how much the Lon search results are inflated by this same phenomenon? It may be a lot worse than 20-30 times.
I like google
Is there a historical chart anywhere that shows earnings for low/mid/top popularity tier performers over time?

I believe the general consensus that they make less on average, but no idea how much less, if the hit was even across tiers, what the timeframe was, etc.
Don't bring cost into it, because letting them die after making awful decisions is super cheap...
This law literally helps out rich people and hurts low income people.

Low income people can't buy a house. They can only afford to rent. This law would criminalize the ability of poor people to live in the city, and it would do so to help the wealthy home owners.
Why the Epic games store is a Botnet
It doesn't mention it anywhere on the website, but this is using Google's Text to Speech (https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/). I recognize the voice.

I've used Google's TTS to convert books into audiobooks. Surprisingly listenable.
> JuliaInterpreter received numerous performance enhancements, and now can run step-wise through code at roughly 50× its original speed. These optimizations reduce—but come nowhere close to eliminating—the most serious disadvantage of running all code in the interpreter: slow performance. It is hoped that the performance gap between compiled and interpreted code, which can be many orders of magnitude, will narrow in the coming months. However, the interpreter will always be slower than compiled code.

> It’s also worth noting that there are cases where the interpreter feels faster, at least on initial execution. Julia’s JIT compiler produces excellent results, but all that code-analysis takes time; there is interest in exploring whether running more code in the interpreter could reduce latency, a.k.a. the “time to first plot” problem. JuliaInterpreter is a potential tool for exploring that trade off, and it appears that not much additional work would be needed.

Oh wow, this is great. I've really enjoyed what little toying around with Julia I've done, but it seemed just shy of feeling truly interactive to me. But I really do love the featureset of the language, so if this gets integrated into the language and it helps in time to interactivity, I'll absolutely be moving some parts of my work to Julia.
What do you mean people hate using apps? And everything else is taken care of by the app/intermediaries/possibly smart contracts.
Log everything: you don't care about privacy.

Treat logs as liabilities: why can't you solve the issue I experienced yesterday?

You can't win. Either you log more than you think you need right now or you can't do engineering investigations on past data. You're going to end up somewhere in the middle realistically.
> During this time gold has also been upheld as the only safe investment

This isn't true, or at least there isn't consensus around that idea all of the time

> doom is always around the corner

That's just the boom and bust nature of the economic cycles. It's true of any other natural cycle, from the fall from paradise to the fall of Rome. I recommend Georges Canguilhem "The Normal and the Pathological", though I must admit I didn't even fully understood that book when I read it as a teenager.
I feel like 99% of YAML's problems (this being the case in point) would be solved by just treating everything as a string and letting the application interpret it whichever way it sees fit.
The Blu-Ray sales can’t be the real story. Surely they expected the long term value to come from the significantly added appeal of HD content for streaming services.

IAE, I can understand the reasons something upscaled is all we’re ever likely to see of DS9 or Voyager. Primarily that as soon as CGI became the dominant effects technology, the frequency of use went way up, and all those scenes would require non-trivial reconstruction.
A bigger part of the issue with these remasters tends to be the conversion to 16x9 which most people expect with HD. Even if you have the 'missing' out of shot data on the origin film there are often problems where set equipment, cameramen, etc are just out of the shot so it requires manual digital touch up to fix. It also can require re-rendering any CGI.

When I saw the submission title I was actually hoping re-creating the out of shot image data is what the ML was being used to do.
This is borderline illegal, if not simply illegal. What if he entered into Paypal accounts or bank accounts? I don't want a world where if I enter the wrong password, I have companies pouring over my other accounts trying to breach them. Let alone if I reuse a password by accident.
Non-toxic salt water battery prototype can charge in seconds
Interesting product. I have tried http://voicepods.com previously and its a neat experience.

Well done!
This looks awesome! Congrats on launching it.

First: Don't get bogged down by random HN commenters' feature requests. Second: I have a feature request. I'd love a native version for Mac OS with a magnifying glass thing that allows me to select a color somewhere else on my screen, and then suggest complimentary colors. I'd gladly pay for that!
Nice work! This is an impressive product - the voice sounds human and it’s easy to understand. Allow me to make a few suggestions:

A low effort improvement to the landing page would be to move link to a sample from the bottom to the top. Make it the first thing a visitor sees. Let the product speak for itself.

You shoukd charge more too. $.50 on a for-life value add feels like you’re only capturing a teensy tiny fraction of the value you provide. You’ll probably have to deal with way fewer support requests too if you charged ~$5/article.

Think about it - someone could record the audio themselves which might take ~1 hour all-in? If their hourly rate is $60, your service is still providing ~$45 of value per use if you increase the price to $5. The customers you want won’t care about the increased price and it makes it more likely you can continue to support your users and grow the company far into the future.

Finally, a natural product expansion would be automated distribution to podcast platforms. IMO you should invest in building this out instead of supporting the audio embed. A new distribution channel is a lot more valuable for a blogger than a new feature on their existing channel (think about it: if you were a blogger would you rather embed a video to go along with each post or post an accompanying video to your YouTube channel and link to it/link back to the article from the video?).

Product braindump done. Again, awesome work on the product and good luck growing the business!
I have had facebook for about 1 month 10yrs ago. I dont think I missed anything and catchup on family gossip during family functions.
Multi megawatt wind turbines take up about around 1/4 of an acre. The rest of the land around them can be used for agriculture. https://www.awea.org/wind-101/benefits-of-wind/wind-in-my-co.... That’s several times more space efficient than nuclear as long as you also need farms which most countries do.

As to solar, clearly you have seen them on roofs which have no other real use.
As well, it’s more correct to say “reported crimes have decreased”, not “crimes have decreased”.

I know in SF a lot of people have stopped reporting petty crimes since the cops don’t care or do anything about it.
This story was written with a much more positive tone than I believe the facts warranted. Such sleeping and toilet arrangements are closer to prison arrangements than anything a reasonable person would expect, and the delays were lesser than what I've experienced.

I thought I was the type of person who would ride a train. I wanted to get from Denton, Texas to Temple, Texas. This was simple. The booking website is exactly as bad as mentioned. I finally got one that promised me a four hour trip with a short bus ride on each end. Alright, cool, that's fine. So I schedule to arrive about thirty minutes prior, except the train is delayed two hours. That's half the ride again, on a delay! This causes me to miss my connection, and the next train wasn't scheduled until tomorrow. I cannot imagine anyone trying to use Amtrak for actual travel, when reliability and timeliness matters.
Those are household names and it also requires that the artist wants to tour.
There is still way too much crime in California and in the Bay Area in particular. Perhaps violent crime from juveniles is down; but my observation as a decade-long SF resident is that crime overall is certainly not getting better, and it certainly seems to be getting worse. Muggings, break-ins, theft, etc. are absolutely rampant. The authorities couldn't give two shits about preventing, investigating, or prosecuting it.

Some anecdotes:

I've personally been mugged at gunpoint in Oakland. I luckily managed to hold on to my cellphone and called 911 right away. The police showed up right away, but only cared to take a statement and left without going after the perpetrators, or even giving us a ride to somewhere safe.

The only other time I called 911 because a woman collapsed on the street in front of me. She was bleeding from the head and making a scary-looking pool of blood. It took 45min for an ambulance to show up, in downtown San Francisco, around noon on a weekend day (no traffic).

The authorities are entirely useless and unreliable.

It's almost as if the article is equating less crime being prosecuted as less crime existing. There's a big issue with that.

I feel like we need much tougher police that actually prevents and prosecutes all types of crime, including rampant petty theft, car break-ins, muggings, shootings (which are common), harassment by deranged drug-addicts all over the streets, etc. etc.
It’s true that the second major dropoff (especially in the SF numbers) appears around the time smartphones came along. But the real peak and initial descent started in the 1990s, which is long before smartphones, and even very early for dumbphones (which don’t seem like they’d prevent gang violence, in any obvious way anyway.) There’s a similar peak and plunge in the 90s for virtually every type of violent crime, nationwide.
Nothing. It’s already been done. Sweden and the ECB used them for a few years.
They were all found on their parties website.
UK network is run by https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Rail and the train operators are on government franchise. More importantly though it's pretty much universally recognised in London that TfL (the tube and overground) is much better and more reliable than the rail companies, and TfL is a government body directly.
Again assuming 1 year of capacity is optimal is stupid, as renuables are really cheap.

Aim to have a surplus on the lowest output day of the year and you never need more than a few hours.
Same with electrical, chemical, mechanical, and civil engineers since almost none of them are PEs?

Seems a bit silly.
> "obsessive compulsive focus on the customer."

Internally at Amazon, the definition of customer depends on the team. For 3rd party seller team seller is a customer. And so for the advertisement team, advertisers are customer. When they say customer obsession this is what is meant.

In times of conflict though (e.g., marketplace team and Single Detail Page team when it comes to amount of data to be loaded Vs page latency) the decision is usually made in favour of Customer, i.e., buyer.
1) Agreed. None of this increases the total housing stock, perhaps even lowers it. Limiting renting may reduce demand from investors, reduce prices below the rate you'd find in a market without rent-restrictions, and thereby reduce the incentive for new construction. That's mostly why I'm not a fan, particularly because there are already many subsidies and distortions in the Dutch housing market.

2) On paper not a problem. There's a law against vacancy in Amsterdam, you can and should get fined. But I have my doubts about enforcements, although they have a monitoring system in place.

3) Not sure how I feel about this one, there's another argument to be made as well that rent-restrictions have a price-dampening effect and may make purchasing possible for a group who'd otherwise be forced to rent in perpetuity. Plus very low-incomes do have substantial opportunities, more than half the housing stock is social housing in Amsterdam. But agreed, this policy can be unfavourable as well, it's just not necessarily always the case.

Housing stock has to increase, rent-restrictions don't help with that. And secondly Amsterdam has to cooperate more with neighbouring municipalities and regional transport infrastructure to spread the demand around. This latter part is really difficult, but if you don't solve this problem and create ever-centralising appeal in concentrating everything in Amsterdam, you can never outbuild the demand. At some point, people must be enticed to not live in Amsterdam. That requires investments into jobs, schooling, amenities etc outside of Amsterdam, as well as good infrastructure to connect it all.
You'd have to match the framing and position, and clean up the frame.

Then try to color balance (when the original information isn't there),

If you get ML to do that, congratulations, you'll make a fortune in the production industry.
I mean, yeah it is easy to make but it is also easy to fix. How long did this occur prior to correction? 1000's of searches for said data in the logs. I suspect we are only hearing about it because Facebook, all of a sudden, has been publicly humiliated multiple times for poor engineering/business practices and has decided that it is time to grow up and take privacy seriously. Otherwise, they risk their existence.
Very nice work!

[whispers] colorsupplyyy.app and colorsupply.app is available for purchase :)
Train service in the US Northeast is pretty good at least for the cities it services. It's not price-competitive with Megabus but is train anywhere competitive pricewise with discount buses?
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/planet:

”1.2 Astrology historical

A celestial body distinguished from the fixed stars by having an apparent motion of its own (including the moon and sun), especially with reference to its supposed influence on people and events.

‘the planets are presently influencing you in a positive way’”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_planet:

”In classical antiquity, the seven classical planets are the seven non-fixed astronomical objects in the sky visible to the naked eye: Mars, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn, Mercury, the Sun, and the Moon. The word planet comes from two related Greek words, πλάνης planēs (whence πλάνητες ἀστέρες planētes asteres "wandering stars, planets") and πλανήτης planētēs, both with the original meaning of "wanderer", expressing the fact that these objects move across the celestial sphere relative to the fixed stars.”