skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really don't understand tagging friends in a comment on FB and IG. This is precisely what the share feature is for!
As a twenty year old, the problem is not that people aren’t chatty; it’s that the people you interact with aren’t chatty. For any niche topic you can find a Discord server or a Telegram channel or a Signal group chat or a Slack server or a whatever, where people are chatting about it 24/7. It’s the same model as IRC, although it is unfortunately now siloed.
Musk references OP's attitude in the interview. Tesla gets about 100x attention on it is other car companies. How many people gave died in a Lexus in the past 5 years? And how many of those deaths could have been been prevented by Lexus making safety a higher priority?

A better question though is what is the regulator's responsibility to approve a new technology like auto pilot when we know the general public will ignore the statistics and focus on the tangible deaths?
That's true, but we aren't usually burning things that humans would not normally eat. There's a lot of variations on measuring calories (not nutritional value, two different things), but the method of the Calorimeter is pretty standard and in line with the parent's comment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calorimeter
Robots don't pay taxes, and, therefore, don't help to support the elderly safety net (which is one the biggest problems with a declining population, supporting this system).

One way around this is to increase taxes (either directly or indirectly somehow) on companies that successfully implement automation, but that opens up a whole other can of worms.
Is this really true or is this a case of "get off my lawn" that seems to naturally come with getting older? People have always behaved that way as far as I know, just by different mediums. Going to the symphony is one of my favorite things and people throw me dirty looks because I don't wear a suit and gaudy jewelry/accessories there; I doubt that's new or a result of social media.
I'm stoked to see that others are interested in the article!

The important bit for me is Richard D. James's interest in promoting microtonal music, and that Tatsuya and Korg were cool enough to implement it in a relatively cheap synth.

Microtonal music is a vast landscape that I feel has so much left to uncover. I hope that tools like Korg's *logue line of synths will get new folks interested in breaking out of the limits of 12 tone equal temperament.
In my opinion that's an unfortunate turn - automation doesn't liberate us, we just become more and more extensions of automated processes. Why were classical economists such as Marx and Kenyes so wrong on this point? I think they underestimated the power of capital's ideology.
Fridman has posted images of himself wielding a Boring Company flamethrower, and blocked an AI expert who asked him to submit his recent Autopilot study for peer review. If he's not actually being paid under the table by Musk/Tesla, it's clear he's at the very least a fanboy who hopes to burnish his image by association with Musk.
Nice alternatives for (3) are 9gag and imgur. They got the 'typical':

connect.facebook.net, google-analytics.com, googletagservices.com, gstatic.com, imasdk.googleapis.com, scorecardresearch.com, platform.twitter.com, amplitude.com, amazon-adsystem.com, googletagmanager.com

but once you block them with Privacy Badger and/or NoScript (or add them to your hosts file), they are an endless source of memes and other funnies.
Front-line programmers default to insecure methods
Millions of developers use XML all the time, it's called HTML.

People can easily read and edit it with deeply nested structures, attributes, and even malformed data. Frontend frameworks using components and variations like JSX also maintain the same style because it's very natural to use.

Now try taking a typical HTML document and expressing it in JSON. Even an empty page would be completely unmanageable without tooling. People have a strange reaction when they hear "XML" but it's much more structured, usable, and widespread than you think.
Stratolaunch Completes Historic First Flight of Aircraft
This is pure gatekeeping.
hi, thanks for the job posting. I tried to go to your profile and locate the email as you said, but ended up no luck. Would you mind pointing me a direction? Thanks!
Probabilistic lingustics makes (make?) a sort of intuitive sense to this layperson. In some contexts a word conveys a lot of information, but in others, it conveys less.
The trouble with old model steam engines
All true. Life is so simple all of a sudden. Thanks!
Would you mind telling me the gist of his comment? Was there a good reason for flagging it?

I could have sworn that you used to be able to still read [flagged] comments here. When did that change, or am I misremembering?
"Eye in the Sky" (2015) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_in_the_Sky_(2015_film) explores this theme as well. A very good film starring Helen Mirren that seems to have slipped under the radar.
It is burned to measure total energy and then a model is applied to approximate the calories available to the body.
Yes, intent matters, and there's a reasonable case that what he did was illegal.

But because intent matters, if Assange's intent was to reveal information that the public should know, then what he did shouldn't be illegal.
My solution was to create a fake account with a fake name on FB, never download the app to my phone, never share my phone number, never upload any contacts, never use a real picture, and only add close friends who know who the fake profile is.

Makes me pretty much impossible to look up on the system, I value my privacy and not being listed is important to me. This gives me the best of both worlds. I can join all the interest groups I want, follow all the events, without having to share my identity.
Comfort and “being alive” are different.
How to get a 45' TV sized picture frames for $50
Have you never piped a config file through grep to exclude comments to get a streamlined view? It's pretty easy, and quickly gives you the best of both worlds. Configure your editor of choice to collapse comments and that's an even more convenient interface.

For stock configs that ship with a lot of comments, I would sometimes replace the file with one where I've stripped the comments. Since I always save the stock config as $FILE.dist, I get maximum usability. Never would I want the configs to no support comments though. Even after I've stripped configs, I might add my own comment to each change from the stock config, or for some test change I'm trying out. Not having comments means any documentation would need to be at least one degree removed from the item it's documenting. Sometimes that's acceptable, sometimes it's not.
Let's agree to disagree. I think that detaining an innocent person against their will is bad policing.
How the Navy’s Top Commander Botched the Highest-Profile Investigation in Years
It should be mentionned that the jobs these low skilled immigrants are called for are extremely shitty (sometimes litteraly, as for elderly people personal care for instance) and desperatly low pay. It’s become a running joke to call it legal slavery.

If I remember well, the visa they get is bound to a specific activity, so for most the only legal way out of that situation will to give up on Japan altogether.
Simply put: UX is bad and most people figured out this was an easier way to do it. (Also something that comes to a shock to people working in the Bay: Most people are really not that good with computers).

Also, basic behavior mimicry. You see other people do it so you also do it.
Pigs eat everything, including humans.
It took me a long time when I first started living alone and taking care of all my meals to figure out how to not waste my food, mostly through trial, error, and taking note of every single useful bit of advice I came across online or in meatspace.

I still don’t think I’m particularly efficient, just that I waste a lot less than I used to, and if I could fit a freezer chest in my apartment, I know a few ways that I could waste even less. Mainly what I do now is to shop at a local grocery just about every day, I’m blessed with an abundance of those and good options, and try not to buy more than I will cook in a day or two. This has become easier since switching to an almost entirely meat, egg and vegetable diet so I don’t have dairy products, soy products, bread, pasta, cereals, noodles, beans, or anything besides my spices, dried herbs, salts, oils and vinegars sitting around. Despite that, I still end up throwing away more than I would like every few weeks, but probably not 2kg a week.

Had I grown up in a household with people that knew how to manage a household, it would have been a lot less trial and error, but with our over reliance on packaged foods instead of just what you can find in the produce section and at the butcher, probably a lot of people like me are growing up not learning how to manage their pantries and fridges.

That’s without even factoring in restaurants. It isn’t uncommon for people to not finish their food and leave it rather than taking the rest with them, and more so the more people eat out. Rather than finishing their leftovers at home, if they even took it home, people will often just go out to eat again the next day.
Informing the public of situations where the government is killing innoscent people is illegal, no big suprice. But that doesn’t mean we have to support extradition to North Korea of every journalist who publishes the truth about that horrible regime. And by the same merit you don’t have to support the American regime going after Assange for exposing their murders of innoscent.
Sonmi-451: "They feed us to ourselves."
This is not an apples to apples comparison. Tesla autopilot only drives the easiest subset of what a human driver can do and has a human supervising it while it does it to catch mistakes. This paints a picture that is disingenuous.

It's like having a doctor that only accepts completely healthy 20 year old patients quoting their stats compared to the general population.

These cars are no where near being fully autonomous and the story that Elon is paining about this happening in a few years with the sensors in a Tesla and the current state of research is a fantasy. End of the day he's a car salesman so take it with a pinch of salt.
Seems everything I want to say here is likely to end up as [flagged].

If only I wanted to cast vague and unsubstantiated aspersions; then I'd be fine.
In Canada, people wait much longer than Americans do for ordinary diagnostic tests.

https://www.fraserinstitute.org/studies/waiting-your-turn-wa...

Rationing access to healthcare is not the answer.
I think it's everyone around who complains when the new skyscraper blocks their ocean view they paid $200k for in extra home equity.
This is great but I think there is another GitHub search issue that needs to be addressed, perhaps by a third party because GitHub doesn't seem to perceive it as a priority.

And that is deduplication of identical assets matching with my search terms. I should be able to at the very least check a box and have files with the same checksum be deduped from results.
Just read that 5G is going to be exponentially more precise at location tracking than 4G because there will be many, many more base stations with comparatively short range.
Pigs eat anything. Well, maybe not rocks. I'm not sure about that though, they might still try.
Ask HN: Does anyone use vCard formats for contacts?
I have been toying with starting a small SAAS company involving vCard (.vcf) files. Does anyone here use them on a regular basis, or have any issues/problems with them?
How does json prevent you from using comments? It does what you tell it to do. It is an object representation. So make your objects have comments...magic.
no, foods are analyzed for their digestible contents (fats, fiber, carbs, various kinds of alcohos etc.) and their energy content is then looked up in reference tables. The reference tables are in turn populated with more careful experiments that take digestion, waste products and metabolic efficiency into account.

Directly measuring the physiological energy content for millions of food products would be impractical.
Maybe they should move?
This is the kind of content that can be done really well on YouTube. Someone who knows a lot about what they're doing, and who's just taking something apart and putting it back together again and talking all the time about what they're doing.
It’s not the case necessarily. Evolution happened over millions of years and invasive species happen over tens of years or less.
If you are reading this and find yourself in the same situation... consider decreasing your withholding and have the money deducted into a HSA or FSA instead. You can still use the money for health expenses, and you will also get a 20-30% tax discount.
New Zealand Took Immediate Action After Christchurch Shootings: Why Can’t We?
The big difference is that mapping that XML into native data structures in your language is a mess in the general case because XML has so damn many ways of structuring the data. JSON maps more or less directly into JavaScript/Python/Perl or really any untyped language with arrays, hashes, and scalars.
Create objects in code and serialize. Boy that was hard. I feel like everyone on this thread is going mental.
If anything, Americans should be throwing out even more food. With the astronomical obesity rates, I don't think we should be encouraging people to finish what's on their plate.

If that seems wasteful to you, then I assert you're not looking at the big picture. Habitual overeating causes even worse portion control in the future, which causes even more food waste in the long run.
I recently made a couple of microtonal pieces on the monologue. It was a really novel experience and led me in directions I wouldn't naturally have gone.
My hope is that some enterprising developer will write an implementation of vscode's extensions API in Rust without the Chromium dependency and that that will lead to something with most of the functionality of vscode, but much less bloat.
Are you just musing to yourself? That is, is your question "Why do old houses look better [to me] than new ones?" or are you polling the public?

If you're polling the public, taste is a real thing too, modern architects have a different aesthetic. Same shows up in clothing: a simple waterproof polyester jacket from uniqlo vs a hand-sewn trench coat with a million features like epaulets, grenade rings, gunflaps, etc.
looks quite ugly. repeating keys...
yaml looks better (while it has other problems)
Autoplaying videos is the new: 'midi-music blarring at you' from the 90s.

Everytime this happens to me on mobile i can't decide to chuckle or cry.

Without proper adjusted settings and addons no one can surf the web unharmed anymore.

The web has become a hostile place.

I mean silently playing videos in the background to gain profits from advertisers while costing you your data plan is burning real money. A kind of money transfer, but: unpretty.
You're moving goalposts a bit here, I think. Or maybe it's my fault, I should have defined 'in-depth' more precisely.

Anyway, I specifically mentioned knowing "some facts about the implementation" instead of "knowing the implementation inside-out". The same is true for tools, libraries, and frameworks - there is no need to remember every function/method signature and every class name in a library - as long as you know the most important parts and can quickly and accurately find the relevant documentation for the rest.

To me, 'knowing in depth' (as a language user) means that no matter the question, you know where to search for the answers. There's no need to remember the answers themselves, although it kind of happens naturally with repetition anyway.

On the other hand, it's also important to know which questions are not worth answering. It's exactly as you say:

> Really learning what you can safely ignore in whatever context is the most important part

So, to sum it up: if you can do both these things, then, to me, you have in-depth knowledge about the language (or actually any other field). The next step - ie. actually knowing all the answers by heart - is mostly useless for language users and only matters for (and is best left to) language implementers/advocates/nerds.

> A language like Java has a giant and evolving standard library plus multiple compilers etc. And that’s ignoring any simply popular libraries etc.

Java stdlib is only "huge" in comparison with C, where stdlib is non-existent. The popular libraries may be ported from other languages or even directly called via FFI. And if the library is really good, it will be ported to other languages, too, which means you'll have an easier time using these languages in the future.

Even without all that, though, if you know more-or-less what's where and can quickly search for the details - you're good. It's not that easy to learn this - you need to remember the structure of the docs at least - but it's much easier than actually learning and remembering all of the stdlib, etc.
Someone who has full time job should have some semblance of independence.

I'm dreading the day that homes are just owned by your employer so you can keep the slaves working for you forever.
SpaceIL to create and launch second Beresheet spacecraft
Is it no longer waste if it sits on your gut?
> The researchers hired 43 freelance Java programmers through Freelancer.com and asked them to develop a registration system for an imaginary social network the researchers claimed to be starting. Half the devs were paid €100 and half were paid €200 for the job; half of each of the two pay-groups were given explicit instructions to use secure password storage and half were left to their own devices.

That sounds like an hourly rate. What did they expect?
Next level analysis could take into account which/whose phones are (untypically) switched off when the bombs went off. Next next level would take into account phones that are "left at home" - where the phone is not in use and not moving around according to usual movement patterns.

I would guess that there is already substantial research done on exactly this, and that it is possible to detect many deviations of normal behaviour.
Here's a good resource:

https://digitalcontentnext.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/DC...

If you read through here, you'll get a sense for the various different IDs and tracking methods that Google is using. It's more than just the Advertising ID.

You'll also get a sense for the collection Google does about your environment. (nearby wifi, GPS position, etc.) And more troublingly, the fact that these services still collect data even when the user sets them to "off." A couple excerpts:

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"It’s hard for an Android mobile user to “opt out” of location tracking. For example, on an Android device, even if a user turns off the Wi-Fi, the device’s location is still tracked via its Wi-Fi signal. To prevent such tracking,Wi-Fi scanning must be explicitly disabled in a separate user action, as shown in Figure 4."

"Google can ascertain with a high degree of confidence whether a user is still, walking, running, bicycling, or riding on a train or a car. It achieves this by tracking an Android mobile user’s location coordinates at frequent time intervals in combination with the data from onboard sensors (such as an accelerometer)on mobile phones.Figure 5 shows an example of such data communicated with the Google servers while the user was walking."

"Google records the time and GPS coordinates for every photo taken."

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Anyhow, the fact is that much of this data is collected whether the user is accessing the phone, or not.

It's a bit complicated, and disabling the Advertising ID may limit some tracking in a few cases, but despite this extraordinarily prolific tracking is still occurring. There's a lot more detail in the document and frankly, it feels a lot like Facebook's privacy invasion in that:

- It's possible to mitigate some of the tracking, although this is intentionally made unintuitive the user.

- Conversely, the user will never be able to prevent a large portion of the tracking, and will have no intuitive sense of what is being collected by google at any different time, and;

- The default values and the data tracked will change over time, and the user will have to try to stay educated with every update about what has changed.

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Another decent resource:

https://www.apnews.com/828aefab64d4411bac257a07c1af0ecb

"An AP investigation found that Google saves your location history even if you’ve paused “Location History” on mobile devices. This map shows where Princeton privacy researcher Gunes Acar travelled over several days, from data saved to his Google account despite “Location History” being off."
There is an old diplomatic saying, "Russia is never as strong as it looks and Russia is never as weak as it looks". China is the same.

China is a large, poor country with an aging population. It is a badly run dictatorship that is more likely to return to warlordism than become a world power.

Australia and Canada are the primary targets for Chinese interference. Both are used for money laundering. Uncle Xi is destroying the little political legitimacy from growing the economy. The social credit system will further undermine the ability of China to move from a source of cheap labour to a more advanced economy.

China 2020 = Japan 1985.
I first used Emacs on a Prime minicomputer in the late 70's. It was ported to Prime by Dan Bricklan's Software Arts, Inc, of Visicalc fame. Still using it 41 years later.

For anyone curious, the Prime version of Emacs is running on a Prime emulator I set up. Telnet to em.prirun.org port 8002
I know Algo vpn[1] can be configured to block ads with a DNS resolver, but does anyone know it also block trackers?

On desktop I use extensions to limit tracking, but it's harder on iOS.

[1] https://github.com/trailofbits/algo
Don’t forget that to experience all this wonderful stuff you have to contend with one of the worlds worst traffic problems.

I called LA home for two decades and the transportation hell largely kept me in my general community. Going to Pasadena from the Westside is a full day commitment, unless you leave at sunrise on a Sunday.
It got some HN discussion too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18912628
Why schools should not have kangaroo courts. Why should someone get less justice if they happen to be a student?
I use Sublime or VS Code but for no purpose that I could not put Vim to if I wanted. Most of my coding work is reading and thinking. When navigating, I mostly use regexes (relying heavily on standard code format). After using VS for twenty years, I decided to try this more textual approach two years ago, and I believe I have become a better developer for it. An IDE makes it so easy to drop into the debugger. I try to gain understanding of the code and drop into the debugger only if necessary. With this barebones approach, I more deeply understand the system and more often fix bugs at the root rather than the symptom.
Now please explain, in terms of how GPS receivers operate, how that information helps you defeat spoofing.
To all replies of this comment - it came off wrong. I didn't mean to "sling shit".

I was referring to the 'event-stream' incident in which the package maintainer unknowingly passed it off to a new malicious maintainer (he has 100s modules). The farcry between the two was that the original maintainer basically wiped his hands clean from incident, whereas in this _specific_ scenario the maintainers of 'bootstrap-sass' offered suggestions on how to improve the security and prevent similar events in the future. I was impressed by the prompt and professional response by the maintainers, that's all.

That being said - I generalized my comment too much, and I agree with zer01 that npm and bundler communities are very comparable and both do a great job.