skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can a user meaningfully determine the correct answer to that question?

The experience is “I clicked no and nothing worked” vs “I clicked yes and the site worked”.

I get that you don’t like it, but the reality is that the web is a platform that includes JS as a core technology. The reason for limiting java and activex was because they had catastrophically terrible security properties more or less by design.

Even flash had problems, but was sensible enough to correct many deficiencies and defer to the browser for interaction with anything outside of its view. Which is why you weren't asked about running flash on every website you went to. JS and the various web/html/dom APIs all have much much stricter constraints than anything flash had - they are designed to be safe in spite of all content being untrusted.

More over dialogs like that are largely recognized among browser developers as being a form of blame shifting - a regular user has no reasonable way to determine whether or not saying “yes” is safe. The purpose of asking them, is so that if something does go wrong you can say “they shouldn’t have clicked yes”.
The post is about the API, not the rough demo implementation of it...
the problem is also people expecting company to "self-regulate" instead of going directly to the legislative branch and pushing the issue there.
But you cannot observe it. You see that someone with a hash X has voted. How do you know whether it was a real person, a real person voting under boss supervision, a real person who actually didn't take part in elections, or just sysadmin inserting records into the database?
I am pretty sure that my Product Manager has no technical experience at all. And I assume that it's not mandatory for them.

If they are supposed to be technical, then we hired wrongly.
It is important to note that this engineer is from India and has been legally in the US for 17 years and still on a temporary H1B visa (conveniently not mentioned in NYT)

If this person was from any other country, he would have a green card by now. But now, he has to leave everything behind and go back. This is all too familiar for Indian nationals working in the US. It has become way more precarious for Indian families now due to the current administration arbitrarily denying visa extensions for people in tech.

Hopefully he finds a good job in India, Canada or Europe.
Also prevent uninterested, lazy, people from voting out of spite.

I know it's unpopular to say, but I don't think it's a bad thing that voting requires personal (strictly personal; no corporation should get in your way) effort.
Engauge Analytics: Web, SEO, and Content Analysis
Or HugSQL, which is similar, but actively maintained. Coupled with Clojure's data-centric focus, there's no need for a traditional ORM and you get to work directly in SQL. Yesql and Hugsql made me enjoy using databases for the first time ever.
I've been using Org Mode ever since I saw that Literate DevOps presentation... and I'm not even in DevOps at all. It's just that using emacs and Org Mode creates the most usable documentation for recording what I've figured out and done that I've ever seen.

I'm sort of surprised it's not more popular because the productivity gains are pretty damn amazing.
I think those translated articles and satellite photos were just used as cover for western spook agencies' real agenda, which was constant budget increases to fund their pet programs and line the pockets of cronies (just like the war against terrorism later).
Pychat
Transporting energy from a star is simple: concentrating the light. The most basic incremental design for a Dyson sphere would be a swarm of mirror satellites.

How do we see energy transport problem with electric cars? That's only a matter of the right sockets not being available. The power grid is there.
I want to chime in - thanks for sharing & good work!
You will typically get voter registration ID, just like in paper votes so you should be able to trace. The only thing different in electronic voting is that you sign vote with your private key which becomes your signature. So in theory, whatever can you do by receiving signed paper from someone, you can also do by encrypted content from someone.
I only watch TV through downloads (get_iplayer & youtube-dl), and I have kept it all [edit: only things I downloaded intending to watch, not all TV]. This is since about 2008:

fs:/volume1/media 14T 8.0T 5.6T 59% /mnt/media

The reason? Why not - disks are cheap. The hard thing is deleting something since I don't know if I might want to watch it again. And at almost no real cost I don't have to make that decision.

Edit: Some stats: 20,269 TV programmes; 11,830 radio programmes; 925 movies
That doesn't work, because next time instead of the watch it will be some other "smart" device (maybe a heating system that measures your body temperature), and you won't have read the article describing the problem.
If you want to protect elections, USE PEN AND PAPER:

https://www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de/SharedDocs/Pressemit...
If you are using TF, you can look in Tensorboard at your model graph and it will show you any incompatible operations.

These days it's pretty good. Not perfect, but you can do RNNs on it now. The FAQ has decent docs: https://cloud.google.com/tpu/docs/faq
As far as I can tell, Oracle vs Google was due to Google not using OpenJDK, but their own implementation.
> Diesel particulates are very bad for the lungs, and he helped put a stop to so much of it.

Dieselgate wasn't about particulates, and unlike petrol cars every diesel car of the last 10-15 years has a particulate filter...

Now petrol cars are getting particulate filters too, because new emission standards (e.g. Euro 6c) include particulate restrictions for petrol engines, which they didn't previously have, and direct injection engines utterly exceed those restrictions.
The languages are quite different though and there are good reasons for using different ones in different places:

1. Kotlin is basically modern Java, and is therefore an obvious choice for Android which still runs everything in a JVM.

2. Go was basically designed to run network services and it is very good at it. The standard library is excellent (probably the best of any language) and concurrency is pretty easy too.

3. The Flutter team have published their reasoning for using Dart. Can't say I fully agree with all of them but it is a reasonably nice language (way better than Javascript anyway - although I know that doesn't take much) and developing with it is really pleasant.

I don't know why TF chose Swift though. It looks like a nice enough language though.

There are definitely significant differences between all of those languages. It's not like they're using a mixture of Javascript, Typescript, Flow and Dart. That would be silly.
Ask HN: Tools for non-developers to create tools
Over the last year or so I've heard a number of tools mentioned that enable non-developers, or nearly-non-developers to create custom tools/workflows/processes. I'm interested in introducing one of these at my company to replace some spreadsheets, CMSs, etc, and was wondering if anyone had recommendations?

I'm keen to hear about all sorts of options: products, services, hosted, self-hosted, VC-backed, open-source... anything. I don't really have an opinion on what's good here, so would be keen to hear from your experiences.
It's worse than Twitter. Twitter made a strategic decision (correct or not) that applied across their entire business. Google are making this decision and calculating or hoping that it's in isolation from the rest of their business. That really doesn't seem to be the case.

For the rest of their business' life, Google APIs will be met with skepticism about their long-term prospects. That sucks, because it doesn't seem good for anyone. Not good for Google. Not good for their customers. Not good for 3rd party developers.
Surf / Suckless: https://surf.suckless.org
Mapping U.S. weather disasters since 2008
Well you'll be glad to know that PyTorch is available (in development form) on the TPU: https://github.com/pytorch/xla
The problem is you’ve voted with your dollar already. You’ve looked at the market and selected the one that meets your needs. Then the maker changes what you’ve purchased.
Both ways at very different amount of benefit and loss.
> Motorola continues to carry this torch with it's G-series, near-stock, sub-$300 phones.

Except that they seem to have wholeheartedly jumped on the "I need a phone so big it won't fit in my hand" bandwagon. As far as I could tell last I checked, they don't sell anything in this size range.
PyTorch for TPUs
Visual Identity Tips (That Work) for Brands
Timescale engineer here. Just want to point out that you can also attach additional disks using tablespaces, which are fully supported on hypertables. With a few simple commands, this allows you to add new disks and move old disks out of rotation while still being able to query the old data on them.
For the curious, here is the about page for encrpted.google.com from 2010:

https://web.archive.org/web/20100524223335/http://www.google...

> Note that SSL search does not reduce the data that Google receives and logs when you search, or change the listing of these terms in your Web History
Breaking things is (sometimes) the only way to progress.
It probably also depends on where you discuss it. My understanding is that it would replace pretty much everything else (programs for rent, food, clothes etc are gone). Where a public health system (as in the UK) exists, it might continue unchanged, where it's privately organized (Germany) but premiums for the poor are paid by the state, the state would pay out the money instead.
Not really, it's possible that there is always a strategy that can be proven to be better than entering the computation (because it wins the game deterministically, for instance).
I don't think that is ok. But it is very difficult to stop.
Why Clojure(Script)? (David Nolen)
We see that there is a clear aspiration for publishers to make development of games more predictable and reliable. That is why we see more subscription models that aren't tied to any specific games (PS Plus, Origin, etc.).

While I can understand the motivation, I do think it does indeed have a strong negative effect on games. Best games come from creative people that are willing to take a risk. Others games will end up like you said, on the lowest common denominator, mass appeal being the primary goal.

I can also understand game developers wanting to have at least some form of job security. Although certainly interesting, I really don't envy developers of large game publishers from what we heard in some reports.

Cinemas are more successful than theatres... Maybe games that we remember fondly and think are representative for games will be pushed into a market for connoisseurs.
Even Samsung... in the UK you can buy a S10e for cheaper than the 3A XL.
ART?
It's hard for me to buy into the idea that allowing a company to launch a product with a given feature hampers technological development. Requiring that a company runs an API forever if a product depends on it (and commit to refunds if that doesn't work out) seems like it would raise the barrier of entry to release such products, thus resulting in fewer products in this space (especially from smaller companies). That sounds like it would hamper technological development to me.
5 logical buttons with 3 physical buttons was something of a standard since time immemorial - the volume+/- buttons doubled up as next/previous when you held them.
Seeking Job Advice
I have been looking for work for the past few months and have received two offers: one in the US and one in Japan. The job in the US doubles the salary being offered in Japan and would allow me to work remotely in the States. I enjoy Japan and have lived here for several years, but am frustrated by the salaries available.

I am struggling to decide what to do. Any suggestions?
Not to sound too cynical, but I am wondering how over-pricing can be a problem when the price for a piece of art is however much someone is willing to pay for it?
They still do if you ask me. They seem to be good at simple and durable designs.
Could you share how you use it exactly?
Did you really mean 'literally decimated'? See the Roman history that led to this word. I share the disambiguation to show other uses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimation
Android Runtime

https://source.android.com/devices/tech/dalvik
What tweet are you referring to?
A Small-Molecule Crispr Inhibitor
So a fungus in uk and the emerald ash borer in North America.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/home/ct-sun-0215-g...

Here’s a quote that stuck with me :
"Some kinds of trees can stand for many years after they die, but the ash tree is not one of them," Corrigan says.

Don't delay, she says, because the more the tree dries out the more risky — and expensive — the job will become.

What’s important here is if you have an ash tree on your property you need to take it down ASAP
Would only make sense as an art project, imo.
If you want to run neural networks on micro-controllers, one ARM Cortex M4F (or M7/H7) will get you pretty far. Audio Classification with tens of classes, as well as low-resolution image classification.
China Is Wasting Less Solar and Wind Power
Epson Moverio BT-30C smart glasses plug into Android phones
How well does it work with physical books and magazines, rather than digital goods? Note the OP's wording:

> I would like to take photos of the covers of these, keep track of what box/shelf they're stored in
56.0
Stephen Wolfram (the man behind Mathematica) had this odd but fascinating blog entry:

https://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2012/03/the-personal-analyti...

He captured every keystroke (over 100 million) on his computer.
Haha, yup, that's one of the tests I did as well.
Most sites score terribly. Honestly, I was just experimenting (and for my static sites this doesn't really matter so much), yet it feels like there are a lot of issues with CSP that really don't need to be there. Until then, adoption will probably be slow / non-existent.
This just allows corporations to compartmentalize their risks. They can put all their illegal activities in a side division, and if they don't pan out no worries since we only get fined on the revenue of the failed project.
That's because the high school kid's expenses are heavily subsidized by VC fund of mom & dad. At some point, they'll likely get sick of footing that bill. The same goes for Uber and friends.
Just use the following rules:

- turns go clockwise

- play one card per turn

- if someone breaks a rule, they take back their card and draw one extra

- first to shed all their cards, followed by saying "Mao!" wins

- saying "Mao" any other times means drawing three cards (so if someone broke a rule playing their last card and had to take back their card, they end up drawing three cards

- Similar to the previous rule: not saying "Mao" upon successfully playing the last card also means drawing three cards. And it is breaking the rules, so the player has to take back the card and draw a card.

- asking any question means drawing a card (be brutal:
"WHAT?!" counts as a question)

- one player starts with making up two extra rules

- the winner of a round makes up a new rule, the old rules stay

... then grab a bunch of friends, say "you'll figure it out", come up with two rules of your own and start playing. You'll likely win the round (because they will all ask questions in confusion), and be allowed to add another rule.

Restart after a couple of rounds. Troll until they threaten to quit (at which point you explain the rules) or until they actually figure it out. Watch their expressions go from frustration to gleefully anticipation, and go look for a fresh victim together.
that's what I meant with simple to change, basically.
Good god I need to buy you a beer, those were incredible. Let me know if you ever get to Toronto!
I tried a mouth-guard but found it quite uncomfortable. Had one very vivid dream of coughing up a slurry of screws and other fasteners.

CPAP works well for me (when I use it). ADHD -> low conscientiousness -> not always using the CPAP if there's a minor obstacle. E.g. unfolded laundry on the bed can derail me to the couch since I'm usually very tired / low willpower by the time I go to bed.

I've been thinking of a machine vision project: the system yells at me to get up and go to bed if I fall asleep on the couch. Externalize your rationality through cybernetics.
These are mostly solved problems in all western nations (except for the US). E.g. I am Austrian living in Germany and I vote by mail since a decade.

Mail voting has the downside that it invites the kind of problems where some guy tricks elderly people into giving them their vote etc. But all in all it works quite well.
I wonder how big the "Works-with-Nest" ecosystem actually is. With that I don't mean the _potential_ size, but the actual size in terms of usage.

Does anyone have a bit of insight in that? Maybe that could give more insight in the reasoning of Google to shut it down.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
-- Arthur Clarke

An advanced civilization (Type II on Kardashev scale, i.e, able to harvest their sun's energy output), having built a Dyson sphere[1] or similar, would appear to outsiders to be a red dwarf or a brown dwarf: a mildly hot star or sub-stellar object. It would be a sphere that emits more-or-less typical black-body radiation of a slightly warm (in stellar sense) object, with some spectral lines related to the surface material.

Granted, the apparent "red/brown dwarf" of a Dyson sphere would have much larger size than usual, but on cosmic distances, individual object sizes aren't measured directly - instead we infer them from indirect measures such as light emission and gravitational effects, & comparing to known references & theoretical models.

We can assume some advanced civilizations would want to keep private for safety reasons - as to not invite hostile attention - and thus would do their best to closely approximate spectrum of actual red or brown dwarf through engineering. Meaning we couldn't tell them apart from actual red or brown dwarf without getting close enough to observe the size directly, or somehow recognizing minute deviation from expected spectra.

Right now we may be looking at several advanced (Type II) civilizations, mistakenly dismissing them as mere red dwarfs.

dexen's dictum #2: presume all apparently planet-less cold stars to be potential Dyson spheres until positively proven otherwise.

[1] I've just realized a full Dyson sphere would be a good Faraday cage, preventing radio emissions leaking outside.
I don't know about the US version, it probably depends on the insurance company. My point is just that there's no guarantee of success, only of trying.

If we need 4 million apartments, but only 3.5m physically exist, we can't decree the remaining 500k into existance, they still need to be built. They are currently not built for unrelated reasons (city planning, permits, speculation etc), not because "we" (as a society) don't want them to be built. I don't see that changing anytime soon in the large cities, because the population is generally against higher population density, construction projects and longer commutes. Policies will not change that, unless massive changes in laws take away citizen's ability to protest and stop new development projects.
The biggest advantage of React Native is that it makes use of native UI. You won’t be able to embed a browser, or a performant video player into a Flutter app (on iOS, at least).
So, Earth algorithm is already compensating for rising ocean levels? Nice
How can a feed be submitted to the index?
Java pub house discussion on Lombok
My terminal isn't configured to use any colors. It's just xterm. The only colors configured are background and foreground, and those colors various tools insist on as default are always clashing with them (and with my vision too). There are no color environment variables enabled, or anything else indicating that colors should be used, but even so colors are coming out of various command line tools lately.
And yet, where I'm from(Poland) it's extremely common to have the DPF removed from a new diesel car, pretty much any workshop will do it and fit a DPF emulator instead so the computer doesn't complain. All of that to avoid a potential cost few years down the line to have the filter cleaned/replaced. I'm utterly disgusted by how common this behaviour is.
So true! When I got my Pixel 2 XL I wanted to bite my a for not having checked for a jack upfront. It kind of works with an adapter, I still prefer jacks so.
There is no point in that Porsche engine off the race track. Either the driver is fast, or the car is, and never both except for well trained drivers on the track.
Deepdotweb: Darknet directory down, arrested operators
Avast Premier Antivirus 19.5.2376 Crack and License Key Full Version (2019)
React-Native has two significant pros that Flutter doesn't have.

Native UI. I heard multiple times now that Flutter drains the battery rather quickly because it doesn't use the highly optimized native UI elements.

JavaScript. There are more JavaScript developers out there than .NET ones. Also, the JS devs are much cheaper.

Another interesting pro is, you can use RN to develop basically everywhere. Expo (a RN framework) announced Web support, so you get Android, iOS, and Web out of the box. Microsoft announced UWP support and rewrote react-native-windows.
> You will typically get voter registration ID, just like in paper votes so you should be able to trace. The only thing different in electronic voting is that you sign vote with your private key which becomes your signature. So in theory, whatever can you do by receiving signed paper from someone, you can also do by encrypted content from someone.

Either you're responding to the wrong comment or I'm failing to see how this is at all relevant to what I asked. How does tracing your own vote tell you if John Doe was fake?
Just go watch a video about pre-salt oil in Brazil and how hard it is to extract it, almost an engineering miracle... and people still do it, as a good field might take some initial investment, but in the end might cost like $15 a barrel to extract with current technology, making it economically/environmentally viable. Even better than fracking. But as with any extracting work, there are downsides. People having been mining/drilling etc for centuries, I doubt people in hacker news can discuss all there is into those topics and the environmental impact.

I think now we should look for better alternatives to the current way wreck with the environment, eletric cars are better than the ones moved by oil -- by a wide margin, even taking in account that you need to mine lithium. Just check the environmental implications of fracking, yet -- people still do it.

There is always a way. What governments and police makers should care is to understand the environment implications and create a good legal framework and there is law enforcement, so companies do it correctly.

We can either let this fear aside and believe humanity will need this step to perhaps takes other and find more efficient ways of creating energy. Or we can die in fear by keeping this dependency in oil, which btw, we will run out soon.

Earth itself is a timebomb with 7bi people, with the current way we do things. We should be definitely pushing for changes and figure out what we could do in order to get rid of this problem. Also invest more into fusion energy. Develop new shit, basically. We have had much progress in history because people were bold and tried new things. If nowadays humanity is ruined by fear of doing things and press, earth is going to become nothing and humanity will collapse. Don't get triggered by this fear.
The Pixel camera is the one feature that's not available in other mid-range devices.
What's the point of using scp/sftp over rsync?