skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any MySQL Wizards Here?
Ok, so I've been bambozeld with this issue. I have a comlun on my db where users have entered free form data. The initial design was half assed to begin with and it worked at the time being. Anyway, so I am trying to standardize these entries.
Example: One user has entered 1234 Main St. The other user has entered 1234 main st. Other user has entered 1234 mAin st. One has entered 1234 min st. And so on.
Is there a query to parse and group similar records? Including spelling errors based on the character similarity.
Not sure if it makes sense, but I can elaborate should one need me to.

Thank you.
FTC hits predatory scientific publisher with a $50M fine
The title is totally and completely inaccurate. Google is NOT blocking the author from creating a web browser. Google is apparently unable to license the DRM code/binary to the author.

Just to set the record straight, the author's browser is based off Chromium, funded largely by Google. However, for whatever reasons (and I can see many legal ones for the inability to license a DRM module), Google cannot license the DRM module. The author is free to implement it himself, Google is not "blocking" him.

Another point of note - the author is NOT entitled to widevine, so this pitchforking of Google is simply uncalled for. If the author finds Google to be "blocking" him, maybe asking Apple or Mozilla for WideVine support in a browser that competes with their own offerings is a way to go, and to validate which company is actually willing to work with competing open source offerings
Drivers are customers of lead generation software licensed by Uber and Lyft. When you think that way, you’ll realize why it doesn’t make sense to think that Uber or Lyft would have any reason or incentive to “fire” drivers during a recession.

You wouldn’t “dispose” of your customers in a recession.
> 15 USD/hour SHOULD be a livable wage

Says who? These numbers are arbitrary if we're slaves to inflation. $15 now seems like a goal, but the same amount a century ago was unthinkable. How long will it be before $15/hr isn't enough for even the most basic needs?
What a nonsense blanket statement.
> Can my torrenting app stream my video

Yes, and this functionality has been built into many of the largest torrenting programs out-of-the-box for quite some time now. In the case of µTorrent, it was added in version 3.0 all the way back in 2010.

Obviously, how quickly the stream will buffer depends entirely on the state of the swarm. Popular items will work almost immediately, while particularly unpopular items won't be streamable at all.

Anecdotally, I have personally witnessed my (very nontechnical) friends streaming 4+ GB 1080p ...popular cat videos... that weren't available from Netflix. They did not struggle with the process in the slightest.
> Yet if all goes to plan, Deepspot will not hang on to the accolade for long as an even deeper pool is expected to open in Britain in 2020. Currently being built in Colchester, the Blue Abyss will be 50 meters deep.

Smart cost-saving move - Colchester is already a massive hole.
Actually, if the trees are burned or otherwise re-release their carbon, the subsequent re-planting will take care of re-re-capturing that carbon. If any of the trees die or are cut down, a new one can be planted in its place. If it still living and thriving, it should be naturally left alone.

Also, for ten years, 327 million Americans each planting 1.5k trees comes out to half a trillion trees. The link in my blog says there is room for 1.2 trillion trees to be planted, so the math works out.
I know it's token stuff but if they keep giving them what they want they'll just keep demanding more, and it's not the ideal way to run a company I don't think.

Also companies shouldn't be on the hook to provide employees with healthcare, this silliness should stop, if you want to be an activist maybe take that up as your cause.
Agreed. It's not like Ferarri is going to lose a (potential) customer because their site loads a bit slow.
How much direct revenue does WSL generate? Or VSCode?
Hasn't been since 2014 or so. But taking the night train from Stockholm to Malmö, then a local train to Copenhagen and the intercity to Hamburg works great.
Man, you people out in your weird little bubbles are... weird.

I own a Patagonia jacket, one of their Nano Puff line. I do not own it because of some weird status symbol masturbation schtick, but because I live in Maine, Maine winters can be brutal at times (especially if you love the outdoors), and I picked it up for $150 on sale.

Its the lightest and also warmest winter jacket I've ever owned, and the quality is immensely higher than the garbage North Face and Columbia import from China.

It isn't, however, a status symbol. I see lots of people with Patagonia jackets around here, and this isn't some hyper-rich super-exclusive area, just a lot of just plain normal people that work plain normal jobs live around here.

The only competition to Patagonia for a winter jacket is Arc’teryx and REI... and all you're doing is paying more for a similar quality jacket. Arc'teryx is a much bigger status symbol than Patagonia is, at least around here.

So yeah, if some asshat on Wall Street thinks Patagonia is somehow a status symbol, they're also the same type of asshat that thinks Apple is an acceptable phone/laptop brand (it ain't), and the same type of asshat that thinks Starbucks doesn't taste like burnt gasoline.

They don't live in the real world, their "impressive" paychecks are just being wasted by trying to keep up with the Jonses, and they're arguably not even actual real authentic people, just some 24/7 kayfabe-esque act, because of this.

Dear HN, please don't keep up with the Jonses. You need to own things because of how the world works, so just own a few nice quality objects that last awhile. Patagonia will never be a status symbol because it lasts forever if well loved.
Here's a paper saying there is room for 1.2 trillion more trees to be planted: https://eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-02/ez-pcc021119.php

Perhaps you could track down the discrepancy in the statements?
Evernote is very frustrating and yet I can't fully move over to something else. It feels like they are swinging between being indifferent to paying customers and outright hostile. I particularly dislike that they display ads in the product when I am paying for it.
I have been a paying user since 2010 and I have got 3901 notes in Evernote.
Last year I started using Zoho Notebook and I have been quite happy with it for note taking, but I am still stuck with Evernote for the webclip function.
GA Tech Cybersecurity Incident
The proposed state table is hardly more scalable. It's obviously not infinitely scalable but In my proposed way, you only have to specify the cases where a state transition actually occurs.
I felt a major point of his talk was you should also look at your max latency.
Or curtains?
They are making it harder and harder to find their support page though, and as stellar as customer support is once I get hold of them... everything else about Amazon is going customer-hostile.
They have phone operators. Each of which has to sit somewhere. And have some kind of manager.

Uber coordinates 15 million rides per day [1], which assuming a phone operator coordinates 20 rides an hour (unrealistically efficient-- in reality, I'm sure plenty are playing candy crush waiting for a call), that 160 a day, or an army of 100,000 phone operators to coordinate those rides. This is ususally done using local office space.

Just to pay them a salary of $40,000/yr is $4B/yr. That's ignoring the army of people needed to logistically support a 100,000 ground troops, the office space and the expenses required to so.

Uber currently has an army of 16,000 people total performing this coordination [2]. That's 1000 rides coordinated per day, per employee at current efficiency. And it's not difficult to imagine them pushing this efficiency 10x or even 100x. That's a fundamental value proposition that stands the scrutiny of even a hard-nosed conservative investor.

[1] http://www.businessofapps.com/data/uber-statistics/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uber
I wonder what the peak energy usage was in WW2, say in 1941, when both the European and Pacific fronts were still ongoing.
No(t yet): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Holmes#Criminal_char...
These tongue-lashings of big tech are getting a tad ridiculous. Yes, how could we possibly have known that they were doing the things they said they were doing? How shocking, this surveillance regime, that took all the data we gave them, and then blatantly invaded our privacy, by reading it!

This is like an oil company spilling billions of barrels of oil into a sensitive habitat, and then the predictably excoriating hyperbolic complaints and disclaims of surprise. Oh, how could they extract that oil from the ocean floor, from the thousands of oil platforms that we've known have existed for decades! But in fact, we know they're there, and we know what the consequences are. So we go on social media and read these posts about how terrible the spill is, and cry-emoji over the birds covered in oil. And then we go fill up with 87 octane.
Complete outsider to that, but it's easy enough to figure - you would have to be promoted like 3-7 times under the current system before anyone would start to care about your opinion on things like that. Good luck ever finding someone who can be enough of a creature of the current system to be promoted that many times within it, yet still maintain the firm idea that it needs to be changed.
there are four repos (3 for microservices, 1 for data ingestion library):
https://github.com/lyft/amundsenfrontendlibrary
https://github.com/lyft/amundsensearchlibrary
https://github.com/lyft/amundsenmetadatalibrary
https://github.com/lyft/amundsendatabuilder
I'll be honest, the products listed that they think is "damaging" the Google brand is a mix between "I've literally never heard of that" and "I literally don't care about that". Of course, with Fiber being the "I've both heard, and care, but we all knew it was inevitable years ago".
In copyright law, nobody owns the text. What you own is the right to make a copy. If you have a copyright, it is an exclusive right to make a copy. You can sell a license for someone else to make a copy.

If the text is in the public domain, you also have the right to make a copy. You do not have an exclusive right. You can sell the right to make a copy, just like you can sell the right to jump up and down. Nobody needs that right because they already have it, but nothing is stopping you from selling it.

Remember that in all "intellectual property", the "property" is a right, not the thing itself.
Like executives that shun computers as a symbol of their power and status... having a resume that emphasizes my-little-pony suggests his dance card is full (i.e. he has his pick of top job opportunities).
I’m going to repeat a previous argument in a way that hopefully doesn’t get my hand slapped and my comment flagged:

There is an easy answer to that: a pro immigration policy for both high skilled labor that creates a jobs by starting businesses and low skilled labor that can do the work that our native born society is too old to do.
Windows with Ansible[Tutorial]
The Beginning of Our Tech Inclusion Journey
> You'd have to install a plugin or a separate special app to watch video

How is that different from the current state of EME plugins? Other than that proprietary browsers ship with the most popular plugins installed.
An Easy Mode Has Never Ruined a Game
UK ISPs now automatically refund customers £8 a day for Internet outages
Except for all those poor people that are still in the bus when it teleports :P
May be off topic, but is this the reason why BoFA does not need us to issue a travel advisory? Because they are getting our location data and can flag fraud?
I would argue it is more recent, the French really helped to free the US from British control, gave away Lousiana and gifted the Statue of Liberty.
The dangers of engaging with satire are very real. However the costs paid are generally short-lived and to the open-minded and those able to find humor in themselves, repaid in full if not in excess.
Show HN: Decoder Ring – Instant Error Code Lookup
I just checked again. After 4 hours of sitting idle in the background with its window minimized, Evernote is now using 901MB of memory, up almost 200MB. And it's not really "idle": it was using 34.1% CPU when I just checked. For what???

I do have a lot of notes, like 20,000, and many of them are HTML pages, but I don't have any huge graphics or videos or anything. Even if I did, I can't imagine why it would need so much RAM to just display a list of note titles, or why it would constantly be using between 5 and 40% of a CPU, or why the RAM usage would constantly creep up. It's just really terrible software. It galls me that I'm paying $7.99/month for this crap, and I would instantly pay that much or more for an alternative that worked properly.
It does have a relationship to wealth inequality. On the one hand you have money seeking returns and getting caught up in zero and negative sum games while doing so. On the other you have a lack of small investors with lower risk tolerance. Both of these are results of wealth inequality.
I thought all SSDs support ATA password.
I actually applaud the company for staying true to their organization's moral values. And I'm grateful for the freedom they have to choose to do so, so I'm actually a liberal.

That said, only certain companies are able to take advantage of virtue signaling in branding. In retail, it will typically be the brands like in this case. They are the endpoint of a very long supply chain. And perhaps that's good enough for a customer – to only need to navigate the values the various brands advertise. Going deeper will be way beyond any consumer, the number of organizations and their moral values to navigate becomes overwhelming.

Take something as simple as a pencil, try to navigate the values of the multitude of organizations involved in producing a single pencil.
She did freelance work while getting her degree (mostly friends/family small business promos, article, press-releases) and received a ton of positive feedback that she was able to use.
That part of the comment was about the second sentence, that if we just assume everything is fine there's no point in the discussion. F-117 instability would be a ridiculous level though. That we can safely assume. My conjecture from what I've read so far:

- Boeing did a good enough job with the airframe that the plane flies mostly fine but there are no miracles and some specific angle-of-attack and airspeed situations make it fall outside the rules.

- To bring the plane back into compliance they implemented a fairly simplistic solution in MCAS. Because the situation that is being fixed was fairly benign they didn't engineer it with triple redundancies.

- The lack of redundancy was understood to not be a big issue because the worst possible outcome is runaway trim and that's something pilots already train for anyway.

- The MCAS runaway trim presents itself in such a unique way that even experience pilots that are already warned about issues with the plane fail to diagnose it.

It's in this context that I would then like to know how unusual this situation is. If modern airliners all have these kinds of issues solved by control software then this is just another failure mode that needs to be fixed. If instead it was indeed unusual to fix the aerodynamic issue with control systems then the discussion about Boeing forcing through with the 737 instead of redesigning becomes more important.
Honestly if the unfair competition from budget airlines doesn't stop I don't see overnight trains coming back in any significant way any time soon.

Edit: If you're wondering what I find unfair about it, I'm mainly concerned about the lack of taxes on kerosine.
> Take a mature tree, turn it in to a building. Grow another mature tree in its spot and you've now sequestered effectively twice as much as having never turned the tree into a building.

It takes several (in many cases 5+) decades for a tree to mature (in the sense of growth levelling off.) The average proportion of original wood building remaining after 50 years is, well, less than 100%.

Probably significantly, more than if the old tree died and fell, so you could have some net gain, but it's not going to be 100%. (And its going to be even less if you are clearing land for the building.)
Why can't you just charge the card directly?
I don't think they lose any money at all. They pass the entirety of those costs onto customers.

If that’s the case, that’s a business model I’m all for. Charge people enough money to make your product sustainable instead of just trying to gain a lot of users and hope you will figure it out later. Of course even then you have to have enough scale to cover the fix costs and offer it a price to make it affordable, but don’t start off thinking the answer to everything is advertising.
The Corporations Devouring American Colleges
Woman from China Carrying Malware Arrested After Entering Mar-a-Lago
https://twitter.com/binnaskim/status/1112800424543780864
I assume that policing of torrent networks by the authorities will continue to increase. As a result, I'm hopeful that darknet (ie social connection based) solutions might emerge at some point. Why use a VPN and a tracker (private or otherwise) if I could request things via (anonymized) friend-of-friend-of-friend in a straightforward manner? That way you only trust your immediate network.
Corporate interests have driven us to this broken, unworkable model. I think it may end up costing a lot to get things fixed, monetarily, time, and resource-wise.
I would rather live in a country where fifty people are shot by a madman every year than one in which 3,395 people are arrested every year for "offensive" online comments, which was the UK in 2018. If these restrictions were being imposed by an outside power we would gladly spend fifty lives a day in a war to prevent it. Principles are more important than comfort. Praise Talos.
It is not the ads I/we dislike. It is the tracking. If we go to <insert name of IT news website> and we would see a laptop as on a laptop related article, that would be ok. But if we then to to Winter-ski.xyz and still see the same laptop as, then we no like!
Peltier Application Note – Thermoelectric Cooling [pdf]
This should be a government's job to decide. Google isn't the authority that should decide on that.
So many examples of this. This highly charming piece by a former IAS director goes into this so well: https://library.ias.edu/files/UsefulnessHarpers.pdf
It makes me kinda sad how the article talks about a five second loading time as something that's "relatively good". I guess between cheaply made, slow sites and huge sites like reddit not giving two fucks about performance the goalposts have shifted dramatically toward the bad.

Personally for simple content-based sites I find anything above ~half a second is already quite bad, assuming a reasonable underlying connection to the server (ping < 30 ms).
This is an issue that is dear to my heart. I think it is possible to almost always avoid killing a product. When a company doesn't want to invest further they can do combinations of the following:

* Just open source it.

* If code has external IP, isolate them behind interfaces.

* If product is service and uses internal infrastructure, you can still isolate those interfaces (assume someone else would build necessary infrastructure)

* If core devs have left or aren't interested, hire offshore or freelancers to do this work

* Call for maintainers/fans who are invested in the product to participate

* Instill culture in the company so every new project is architected with eventual open sourcing in future due to reasons such as shutdown

* Put product up for sell to potential companies who are in same space and ask them to take on work for making sure IP and dependencies are abstracted
Yeah they didn't make Chrome in order to "build a better world" or whatever. They saw what Microsoft did with IE, and how it enabled the pushing of products, data collection, platform tie-in, etc. And Google thought they could do even better and make people feel good during the process, unlike how they felt using IE.
2019 Hugo Award Nominees
Nothing quite highlights the fragmentation of Python more than 3 different Python versions being called out across 4 repos.
Well, mostly. But it completely fails when there is any social element to the software (even exchanging save-files).
It's already the minimum in NYC starting this year.
Oh man Astrid on Android used to do that and it was THE BEST. I lost that when I shifted to iOS years ago and I still miss it now and then.
What makes it unfair? Just curious. Is it subsidized in some fashion that trains are not?
> Only in the case of Firefox is it really third-party code; both Chrome, Edge, and Safari ship with the EME modules developed by the respective companies, but they still sandbox it.

They still sandbox it because from the user's perspective it's still an unauditable black box, so at least the user can verify the sandbox. But that doesn't actually solve the problem, because the black box code is interacting with black box hardware. If there is a bug, you've done the opposite of sandboxing it -- you've prevented it from being traced and given it direct access to hardware.

> and dropping Flash without providing a replacement for encumbered video isn't an option: breaking websites like Netflix will cause users to use other/older browsers that do support Flash

The solution to Flash should have been to have someone reverse engineer it and publish a 100% open source implementation, including the DRM. Then let them keep publishing using Flash format as long as they like, but no more black box.
Why not use Full Disk Encryption straight away?
Yeah, I don't remember where I read it but it took them a couple weeks to train the model from scratch. I tried training my own weights by scratch it was practically impossible using a Tesla K80. But it's pleasantly surprising how good the transfer learning results are on a custom data set. You can get some "state of the art" results when you train for a couple hours. It's really impressive how he came up with YOLO and wrote his own deep learning library from scratch.

Thank you for the links! I'm going to check both out. I want to see if the PyTorch port works with the new deployment feature from 1.0.
Patagonia, more so than most brands, is the wrong target for a "virtue signaling" label. They've made many bets[0] and decisions[1] over the years that directly increased costs or decreased revenue to stay true to their mission. It's baked into their history.

[0]https://www.core77.com/posts/73853/Patagonias-Materials-Choi...

[1]https://www.patagonia.com/corporate-responsibility.html
Hi Daniel,

Are there any new grad/junior developer positions?
> Furthermore, it makes zero sense to compare "3000kw x 4 hours" since diesel electric locomotives can run for N>>>4 hours.

This is simply you reframing the conversation from using batteries to allow hybrid electric trains to use short sections of non-electrified tracks to hybrid electric trains won't work because they don't have the range of a diesel locomotive.

I'm going to put this down as you're unwilling to argue fairly and thus lost this argument.
They would have a remote disable ability because the advanced nation making them is hesitant to fully trust the less-advanced nation buying them.

You should assume that every weapons system that is on the international market has such codes. The F-22 wasn't sold on the international market, so it wouldn't have them, but the F-35 is being sold internationally. Every weapons supplier will do this. Buying surface-to-air missiles from Russia means that the buyer can shoot down all non-Russian planes.
I don’t see vests that much but see black Patagonia puff jackets everywhere, both branded and unbranded.