skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even so:

1. I can expect that there's a chance that my laptop will be taken from me (and perhaps returned modified or perhaps taken permanently) while still not being okay with that. It's one thing to expect a right to be violated; it's another thing to give up.

2. It's not unreasonable to travel with a laptop while expecting a small chance that it's taken, in which case you'll buy a new one and restore from backup, instead of buying a burner every time.
I think it’s pretty more revolutional than the 2013->2015 bump. The updates greatly improved productivity, speed and usability.
See Faster-RCNN, R-FCN, SSD, etc

I've ignored mask RCNN becuase it's significantly more time consuming to label your data.

The main candidates are all found in Facebook’s Detectron package, but they didn't feel it necessary to document anything in any significant level of detail: https://github.com/facebookresearch/Detectron

You can see also: https://paperswithcode.com/sota/object-detection-coco
> Your attitude disgusts me.

How is this helping to move the conversation forward?

> Wake up and see what damage you and your employers are thrusting upon humanity!

Privacy is important to me too; extremely important. Going further, I have deep concerns about the way modern social media manipulates billions of people.

At the same time, technology in general and social media in particular has brought tremendous value to the same billions of people's lives.

It's natural for us, by default, to most clearly remember the bad and reflect deeply on it. That has been a spectacularly successful survival characteristic through almost all of our history.

As to the good: I'm not going to spend time citing any number of positive things that would have only been possible with social media. Anybody who cares to have a balanced view of things can easily find such a list.

I will say simply this: what little valuable social contact my autistic son has been able to partake in has only been possible because of social media.

Does that single fact balance out all of the bad that's come from social media? All of the dangers and challenges? Certainly not.

But it's one good thing, among uncounted others.

tl;dr: Only a Sith deals in absolutes. Don't be a Sith!
Is it odd that I'm drawn to the architecture of the dilapidated wooden homes? I've never seen it before - particularly the ornate pieces above the windows. Is there a name to the style?
> > Structures composed of wood do not remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Why not?

> Why not?

On average, does wood in structures release carbon through decay, fire, etc., faster or slower than if the wood was left in a living tree? Intuitively, I don't see any reason to expect effective sequestration.

Your analysis seems to suppose that if wood was not used to make a structure, the trees would instantly release their carbon and not be replaced, rather than continuing to grow.
It's mostly composed of PDFs actually. Judging from my own library the average publication is about 2 MB, and I believe about 1e8 publications are currently indexed, so it's on the order of hundreds of TB.
does the 0.1% really make that much of a difference in the environment? even if they were driving a 12mpg aventador all over the place, that's still only 5 times more pollution than a prius. and most likely they'll be driving less than a working person anyways.
> maybe the stress of commuting is a net negative

Commuting is considered one of the _most_ negative parts of a person's day, such that common advice is to seriously consider living closer to work at the expense of other amenities.
Buses don't stop at unoccupied bus-stops, unless someone dings the bell.

The faster bus skipping stops where people are waiting, so they can be picked up by the next bus does work; I've seen it in action.
This comment is more in line with what I'd expect, and in response I would imagine that well-managed battery systems probably are pretty low in carbon and other pollution outputs as long as they can be recycled, or based on the amount of life that they can have in them.

Regardless, I can't imagine that a renewable energy + battery system is capable of doing anywhere near the environmental damage of most carbon-based systems.
Western Europe is very different from Eastern Europe in this case.

In Western Europe, low-cost flights and buses essentially won the market.

But there are not as many direct flights between Central and Eastern European cities, and the roads are often not that good, either.

Therefore, in any direction from Budapest overnight trains are still very popular, and in countries like Ukraine it's probably the single most important way to travel long distances.

The overnight trains in Central and Eastern Europe are much cheaper, too. For instance, a seat in Budapest - Belgrad costs 15€, and a bed in Kiev - Lviv starts at around 8€.
Well, for one, ArchiveTeam is unaffiliated with Internet Archive. Judging by the website, it's more closely associated with 4chan or Encyclopedia Dramatica or something.

For two, being public and publicly accessible doesn't mean it isn't gauche to scrape it. It's kind of like how nobody sticks a sign that says "take one only" over the bowl of mints at a restaurant; it's assumed you just know that it's not cool to stick a whole handful of them into your pocket.
Thanks. I was going to say—I expect (as a citizen) that within 100 miles of the border I can be searched without a warrant by CBP and be detained if I refuse, but I don't expect that I can be compelled to unlock my devices and be detained if I refuse.
You don't have to get out of the car. CBP only have power to stop you to ascertain the citizenship of the passengers. They need reasonable suspicion to further detain you, or probable cause to search you or your car.

You can consent to the search, but you don't need to. If you refuse consent and they lack probable cause, the evidence would be suppressed.

For more details: https://www.aclu.org/blog/immigrants-rights/immigrants-right...
Very nice visualization. Minor suggestion... I would put a [Delay] button on each bus - to avoid the explanation.
What about moles? Could the CIA hire someone, or many people, to attempt to get hired by Apple and spend years working their way into the higher echelons of the company?
Don't give up on the dream. Toaster Struberlder could be the next big thing!
Bahn.de is remarkable. You can search for Paris->Beijing if you want(202h with one change or 173h with three changes). Or you can look up the train schedule of a remote Scotish villages.
> The moral issue is whether it is ok to take skilled people that have been trained using the limited resources of poorer areas of the world without supplying an equally skilled person in return.

The skilled people that have been trained using the limited resources of poorer areas have literally funded those limited resources through their taxes or by directly paying for their education (private schools are a thing everywhere, even in poor countries -- 1st-hand experience here).

Nobody has a moral obligation to stay in their home country when a much better quality of life is achievable elsewhere. The origin nation does not need to be to "satisfied". Humans should be free agents to defend their best interests and seek a better outcome for themselves and their families, wherever that may be (as long as the destination accepts them!).
‘They Thought It Was Black Magic’: An Oral History of TiVo
> HN is just a news aggregator with social-media like comments section. Its not social media.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/social%20media
You've got many, many possibilities to go with [1]. But I agree, nothing beats Wordpress in terms of simplicity. BTW, Commento can be self-hosted.

[1] https://darekkay.com/blog/static-site-comments/
"Sci-Hub started by accident, there was no Big Plan behind it. After a couple of months, users asked to add some option to donate and help the project."
These are the signs of a really great project. Much needed.
Yup, I did this for a month back in my student days - the ticket is called Inter-Rail if you buy it within Europe. I was incentivised to basically visit a different country every day because every night spent on a train was one you didn't have to pay for a hostel! Also, some places like Florence had a free campsite with wooden shelters, you just had to bring a sleeping bag, and the month's rail ticket included an overnight ferry from Italy to Greece. Happy days!
Private-equity tricks mask mounting debt
For the history, here is photo of initial EverNote team:

https://notes.sciter.com/2017/09/11/motivation-and-a-bit-of-...

Yet, I think the article is incorrect about the role of Phil Libin.

First production ready version of EverNote contained all basic components and ideas. Phil was far from EN at that time.

Role of Phil and then CTO Dmitrii Stavisky was to transform initial startup alike environment to formal "enterprise" thing. And the result we see.
But wait. If you plan to travel a LOT with a train within Europe, and you are a European resident, check out the Interrail passes.

For non-residents, check out Eurail instead.

I've no experience with Eurail but Interrail worked fine back in the days and saved a lot of money, too. As horribly cliché as it may sound, it truly was a great eye-opening experience which made me appreciate Europe (culture, people, cuisine, geography, history, and so on) more than I did before.
> There a people though, who create mirrors of Sci-Hub articles database. I run a few mirrors and other mirrors are run independently, and Sci-Hub also uses accounts to access library resources provided by others.

I haven't found anything about setting up a mirror. Is there a link somewhere explaining how?
The ferry isn't too bad, I've taken it between Stockholm, Tallinn, Helsinki, and St. Petersburg. It's not like an all inclusive, nice experience like American cruises, but more minimalist (taking people, cars, and trucks). It's extremely cheap in the baltic sea and way cheaper than flight + hotel. It's a good experience all in all. Prices on board for food and shopping weren't bad at all.

The ferries are also known as booze cruises since Scandanavia has such high alcohol tax/gov. monopoly on alcohol, people buy a ton of it from the duty free store on board.
To be fair, this is just what the SEC can do. DOJ can still file charges that lead to jail but they take longer.
According to the language spec, it seems to be non-compliant to handle stack overflow that way (even if it's obviously a good feature):

> In all integer arithmetic operations, both overflow and underflow shall be ignored. The value returned when either overflow or underflow occurs is implementation defined.

http://www.forth.org/svfig/Win32Forth/DPANS94.txt
Either press the word combinations, ctrl+b etc, or select the text you want bold and there will be a popup.

You`re limited on the selection though, thats kinda a bummer. In my opinion making a selection and allowing a few operations, like bold, delete, is worth it.
It would've been different had MoviePass been under a large chain --yet able to draw the mass appeal, unlike, say, AMC Stubs-- to wrestle pricing control back from the entertainment industry. Profit margins are quite thin on tickets these days.
I used overnight trains many times in my life. They are great, but if the revival is to succeed, we need better solutions for security. Theft was always a problem in sleeper trains. There needs to be a way to lock yourself in and have an alarm sound whenever someone opens the door with an override.
I'm a happy Org Mode user, but it lacks a complete, reliable and easy to use mobile interface. It is and probably will always be a desktop-centric application.
The problem there isn't temporal consistency (although I agree that often sucks), it is over-reliance on context. The invisible sheep problem: http://aiweirdness.com/post/171451900302/do-neural-nets-drea...
The OneNote canvas based model doesn't really work for note taking for me.

Switching between mobile and desktop devices means the content doesn't fit on either because it the form factors are so different.

I think they special case the mobile product to act like a traditional text editor when there is a single text field. But it is a kludge on top of a broken model.
Highly recommend Prosemirror. At least in my limited testing, it's much faster than Slate but you need a React wrapper for it
> I expect (as a citizen) that within 100 miles of the border I can be searched without a warrant by CBP and be detained if I refuse

Expect more! Your possessions can't be searched without probable cause / consent / warrant unless you're passing through the border
"One of saints of computational complexity?" see https://lucatrevisan.wordpress.com/2016/10/07/avi60-zero-kno...
AFAIK, the Copenhagen->Hamburg night train is seating only, it's not a sleeper train any more.
If you're at a bad rail stop (like the first one outside of the central part of a city going outbound at rush hour) it's not uncommon to have to wait two or three trains just to be able to board. In a city like Singapore or London it might not be too long since many of their trains are automated (in Singapore they're all automated/driverless) and the busy lines are allocated enough cars to arrive 1 minute apart or less apart.

Even in cities like Chicago where they arrive 3~5 minutes apart at rush hour, you might still be waiting 30 minutes .. like I was yesterday. ... I really prefer finding crap to do in the city or people to hang out with so I can wait out the rush.
Maybe we should just recognize that Facebook / software business models don’t work for operating, boots on the ground services. Network effects don’t work with negative unit economics.
They do have an "easy button": two highly visible switches right underneath the throttle. Bottom right here where it says "stab trim": http://www.sjap.nl/wp-content/uploads/IMG_0825-e146460235774...

Activating those switches cuts off electric trim and would completely deactivate MCAS. It can be done in seconds.
> No one expects an instant success. But even if this week’s launch evokes snark or yawns, Google will keep at it. Google+ is not a product like Buzz or Wave where the company’s leaders can chalk off a failure to laudable ambition and then move on. “We’re in this for the long run,” says Ben-Yair. “This isn’t like an experiment. We’re betting on this, so if obstacles arise, we’ll adapt.”

> “I don’t really see what Google’s alternative is,” says Smarr. “People are going to be a fundamental layer of the internet. There’s no going back.”

From Inside Google+, published in Wired Magazine in 2011. As the article mentions, Google started dismantling Google+ in 2014. Three years appears to be the upper limit of their patience for "the long run".
https://www.wired.com/2011/06/inside-google-plus-social/
https://www.useloom.com/share/41391b00def0408cada2056877cf36...
Probably contrarian, but I refuse to sign up for Prime out of principle. The quicker and easier I make it to buy things, the more money I'm going to spend, which is orthogonal to my savings/investment goals. I'm not going to pay extra to have the privilege of making spending my money any easier.
I am yet to see a project that failed due to "code quality" - almost 20 years greenfield/support in corp/startup world. There are multiple ways for stakeholders on too many levels to not let it happen.
> Does your math include the carbon necessary to harvest, transport, cut the lumber? And to haul away the existing structure?

True. I don't know how many lbs of carbon it takes to cut down, transport, and harvest a tree. But I would hope less than 15,000 kg.

If the trade off isn't worth it, use electric machinery and transportation powered by nuclear plants.
Depends on how you define "comparable". I don't think any can match it on precision and sensitivity, but the spectrum is very broad. Thinkpad X1 has a good one - still not as good as MBP, but way better than average.

I would also add that, at least with the most recent MBP model, there's one significant downside with its touchpad, and that's its size. On a work laptop that's used for coding, I'd much rather that space go towards full-sized arrow keys, or having dedicated Home/End/PgUp/PgDown keys that don't need Fn. Thinkpads give you that.
There are some cost savings if you're traveling via rail regularly, though, via stuff like Eurail passes.
Oracle and Google Can't Compete with Amazon
Pretty much all Europeans I know working in Latin America that travel home 1-2 a year, avoid flights that go trough US airports even tough it would often be the cheapest options by quite some margin. For me not having to deal with US borders is worth the up to 300 USD difference in flight price.

I did it once back in 2008 for a flight from Costa Rica to Switzerland via Miami and was caught completely by surprise that, unlike every other airport in the world I have been prior, Miami (US in general?) did not have a separate transit area, and that I had to go trough the whole customs and migration circus for a 3 hour layover.
1. Indeed, I'm only talking about is, not ought. Please do complain. Leave Trump out, though. Nothing he can do about it, and if he seriously tried, he'd wake up with a horse's head in his bed.

2. If you truly believe your laptop is clean and encryption sufficiently uncrackable, go ahead. I don't think I'm that smart, myself.
> “This is a prime example for why free as in beer is not enough. Small share browsers are at the mercy of Google, and Google is stalling us for no communicated-to-us reason.” - Brian Bondy, Co-founder & CTO of Brave

Stallman strikes again
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One benefit of sleeper trains is you can take into the account the price of a night stay at a hotel as well as the time saved (in the sense that you do your travel while you're sleeping, so you have more net waking hours available). I rode the Caledonian Sleeper from London to Edinburgh last Christmas and yes, the price was about the same as a flight but considering it saved me from paying for a night in a hotel it was actually a better deal.
Not to nitpick but this is from 2015, which was right around the time when journalists were able to dig into how companies like microsoft and apple worked with the CIA/NSA to violate privacy, happily or otherwise.
The main reason to worry about a foreign government knowing too much about you is if they might use it against you. When they're far away, that's extremely unlikely, however if you travel there, it suddenly becomes a real possibility. Bad things have happened to Americans who visited Iran and North Korea, for instance.

However, if you don't plan to visit countries like this, this isn't something you should probably worry about. I have no plans to visit either of those countries until they have completely different governments, so I really don't care if they don't like me.
It's not that simple.

A secure erase should wipe all blocks (and since it is done by the firmware, physical blocks, not logical ones), but there have been instances of buggy drives that don't actually do it properly.

Some SSDs also transparently encrypt all data written, and the key is replaced on a wipe command. Even if they don't wipe the data fully, it's now unusable, if the encryption works correctly.

Quite old SSDs might not support any of this.
> AMP serves a critical strategic purpose: it severely disincentivizes crappy, JS-heavy websites on search results and as a result makes people less likely to install adblockers.

The slowest, most resource-intensive web sites I visit are, in order: Slack, GMail, and Google Play Music. If Google wants others to take web performance seriously, they should start with their own internal stuff.
I was proud of that one so you’re very welcome.
Second big train thread in two days:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19548272
The NYT also did a good visualizition about subway delays
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/05/09/nyregion/subw...
They're free to do business with whomever they wish to, of course, but this seems an odd choice.
I would love to read an article like that! I'm very curious how the architecture of the new CKEditor 5 compares to younger alternatives like ProseMirror and Draft.js.
If you're in Cambridge, there's an exhibition of alternative periodic tables on until Friday at St Catherine's:
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/exhibition-marks-the-150th-annive...
Planning support for KDE instead of installing the gnome keyring for secret management?
You're right, their documentation is great and the API is nice to work with, but you are forced to do things their way. I was recently working with Billing and ran into a pretty big issue: A customer on a recurring plan upgrades to a more expensive plan. As long as the customer has a valid source on file, the upgrade is processed. Stripe's default is to adjust the payment to be collected and charge it on the next invoice, which comes at the end of the billing period. If you want to charge the difference immediately, you can by manually forcing an invoice. The problem is that the invoice doesn't close for 24 hours and you can't force it to close any faster. If the customer's payment source is declined when the invoice closes, you just gave them 24 hours access to your premium upgrade which you now have to detect and rescind after being alerted via a webhook. There's nothing in the documentation that warns about this or offers a solution, and worse yet, rolling the user back to their previous plan is not an option. For some use cases, it might not be a big deal, but for most businesses that is a nightmare. The easy stuff is indeed easy, but once you start to wander off of The Path, things can get very difficult.
How Banksy authenticates his work through certificates
I suspect that power management refers to low battery life. Even on laptops with fully supported hardware, you usually see noticeably lower figures compared to Windows, or to a roughly equivalent Mac.
I would love to see more use cases from Golem rather than update about new docs. On their website there is information about graphic rendering and ML (which is under investigation, so no use case now).
Docker containers aren't running a kernel. They're using cgroups/namespaces to isolate themselves from other programs running on the host kernel.

If you run five containers on a host, you're not running five kernels. You're running five instances of a Linux userspace/application, sharing the same kernel, but isolated from each other.
Like I said in the first response, if you're willing to throw a huge excess of energy at the problem, sure. Calculate out the energy expenditure on any of those reactions. You're talking about burning thousands of times more hydrocarbons than are being recovered. It's a bit like saying you don't need to worry about algorithmic efficiency with a big enough computer.
Their hunger for data is also damaging their brand.

It's disappointing to see that there seems to be no force whatsoever from the inside of Google to change from ad-based monetization (disrespecting a user's privacy) to a paid-for product.

But I get it, having real customers is a pain, and most Google employees are happy without them.
Ask HN: What company tech blogs do you follow?
For example: https://medium.com/netflix-techblog
Softbank-Backed Brain Corp Expands Its Robot “Brain” to Autonomous Delivery
Don’t Use ISO/IEC 14977 Extended Backus-Naur Form
Unfortunately this hyper-individualist notion breaks down in our modern era because many of our big problems (access to healthcare, climate change, etc.) only have collective solutions. This argument was central to the obamacare fight and I think any reasonable person will realize after enough thinking that someones decisions have an implicit effect on the rest of society if we want to live in a place where hospitals don't turn away people in an emergency.

EDIT: To specifically answer your question, which i think is a good one:

> When you give power to the state, are you going to ensure that no one you don't like will ever come into power?

Yes! As they say, democracy is a 365 day-per-year job, and it's not a spectator sport. The only way to have a moral society is to participate.