skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For example, Google takes your very privacy sensitive location data but also returns you amazing mapping capabilities (google maps), transit information, nearby points of interests etc.

I think it's more that it returns you what will keep you using the product, so they can sell more ads. Every time I open Google maps on mobile (to see how busy the traffic is, for example), I get a big useless "Explore nearby" window taking up 40% of the screen, which I have to close to be able to actually use the map. I will never want to explore ads for businesses near my house or workplace, and the fact that the app doesn't remember that suggests the true intention.
> Yes, because then I could apply my own ranking. More realistically, it would be useful as various web services could select from among various forms of ranking as desired by their users. Right now, the internet as a collective is at the whim of the particular ranking Google elects to use. If they don't like you, too bad, you lose.

Not without more compute than you could afford.
Perhaps...

But if you do that, it would also be interesting to trace free software back to the point where the GPL became popular. (GPL was published in 1983, but in my recollection it wasn't until the early/mid-90s that it surged into general usage.) Before that, 'free' software generally meant public domain: no licenses, no limitation on use -- at all. We had two or three decades of free software of that type, mostly distributed over Usenet, BBSes, FTP/Gopher, etc.

I'm probably being too oblique, but I believe it's short-sighted to believe free software must only be ideologically free. There was, in fact, an earlier period, where developers release software for free because, well, why not?

Okay, time for this retired grumpy programmer to retreat back to his hut in the forest now...
Not a cut? Based on what data? Or is this a bait-and-switch where anything less than $2k is peanuts (so it's not really a cut)? I understand that people who own homes in high-tax states are missing out because of the SALT reform, but that's a far cry from 'most' people.

I'm glad that taxes went down for most people, but the cut made the tax code far more progressive than it already was, which I don't think is fair. But it's better than nothing.
It does not matter how easy it is, what is the security threat you are mitigating with E2E encryption? In a large scale system it is often not trivial to build a proper E2E, far from being impossible though.
My concern with this is that small reactors have been tried in the past, and were too expensive to operate. The staff needed to run a reactor does not scale linearly with power output. This is why utility reactors got large. Even so, when natural gas is cheap and renewables are available those large reactors are having some trouble competing just on operating cost. Working reactors in the US are being shut down because of this.
Every outlet, from the New York Times to Fox News to Slate selectively front-pages certain leaks and stories while de-emphasizing and outright ignoring others. Does that make them not-journalists too?
Case in point, it's surprisingly frustrating to get your photos off of Instagram on mobile.
I think folks miss this point all too often. Docker is like an engine. Every vehicle needs an engine but there are a shit ton of engine options.

Ultimately the valuable bit is the vehicle or what you do with it, not the engine.

Folks get too focused on the deeply primitive tools and miss the larger picture.
The limiting factor is they cost a lot more than most people can afford.
I had never even heard of this show until today, and it sounds like something I would really enjoy.

On the flip side I do not want to give CBS any money as a result of this censorship
What made Linux and FOSS possible is a specific time and context and that is not happening again. There is no job security, everything is about building a resume, getting a job and hanging on or a startup, everything is related to money or status.

There is also an ahistorical perspective of tech, as if things just are or happen with no deliberate effort and its an open question whether there is any real commitment or concern for the principles which drove the open source movement.

In many ways Slashdot defined the original generation and Hackernews defines this one. And even paying lip service to principles would be quaint here. Defending building surveillance systems and stalking people 24/7 while referring to general users as idiots are often the top voted comments. This is a huge shift.
Cheap solar did not cause the south Australian power outages.

A poorly maintained grid and a storm bringing down some infrastructure, and then the government steadfastly refusing to bring a power station online in peak demand were the causes of the power outages; renewables had nothing to do with it.
It's not the real thing, it's a Javascript remake of Minecraft Classic. You'll notice the blocks aren't correctly ordered, some blocks are missing and Minecraft Classic never had the 'breathing' block placement effect.
An announcement of an announcement is off topic on HN. There is no harm in waiting for the actual thing.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22announcement%20of%20an%20an...
The end of Works With Nest could be trouble for smart homes
和平精英 shouldn't be translated into Game for Peace, more like Peace-Keeping Elites (connoting an elite military force that will fight to achieve peace). Doublethink accusations in this thread are interesting - when I read the title I immediately knew it was a shooting / battle game. Maybe this is doublethink... maybe this is how Chinese words work, especially in a language where a character can mean 2 or more things.

Peacekeeping means they will fight right? Is it a doublethink to call the UN Peacekeeping force a peacekeeping force if they have guns and stuff?

I don't see any other links with the Chinese Airforce, aside from the Weibo shoutout to 空军招飞局 (Airforce recruiting) on the Weibo post.
No, the biggest hurdle is that it's grossly uneconomic.
Honestly, HN is nothing but bike shedding by now. There's near zero hacker subculture to it anymore. Don't show HN anything. The ranking seems to be near arbitrary at this point, with nothing but media outlet vote brigades forcing their spyware.js ad-tech bloat trash megaphones to the front page.

Fuck it, dude.

Fuck this aggregator.
Recent Trends in Wealth-Holding by Race and Ethnicity
Welcome to Brazil: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Abdelmassih
from the host system, containers don't exist in a vacuum
Which you probably shouldn't be doing for most of your services anyway.
Both are written in C++, have had tons of memory safety issue. You don't really have a choice yet
You can still play the real Minecraft Classic via OpenClassic
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Years ago I worked my way through some of the electrical schematics in the book “Code: the hidden language of computers” using a modded version of redbrick that added some basic support for cable bundles, junctions, a timing crystal, etc. started with basic logic gates and then eventually I was able to get as far as building an 8 bit ALU and 1kb of memory in game. I don’t think I’d understand even close to as well how these things work if not for this amazing creation!
To whomever downvote my comment: never heard of sarcasm?
I think that if you configure the rest of the colors, then the commands will use those. I’ve set my urxvt term to use the solarized theme and I don’t have any problems with viewing colorized output. I’d have to test it, but I’m reasonably sure of this.
Sounds to me it’s working as intended.
My point about autonomous driving software increasing highway capacity granting us "free" infrastructure is not to say the underlying infrastructure is free (hence the quotes). But when existing infrastructure becomes 3x more efficient due to private market software development, you have effectively tripled the value of your infrastructure for free.

An inner-city bus ride costs $2.00 and doesn't get me door to door. The cost of getting to the bus and getting from the bus stop to my actual destination pushes that, even at minimum wage, probably closer to $5+. That's 30 miles (at cost) door to door in a hypothetical Tesla RoboTaxi! How can a bus compete with that?

Yes, a bus is a much more efficient use of space on the road, but it is not more efficient to the individual riders. Hence the negative externality. But in reality, the real-world usage (market-share) of buses and light rail is so negligible as to be almost entirely irrelevant.

"US Passenger Miles" according to the Bureau of Transportation in 2017 for Highway travel is 5,502,417. That number is in Millions. Whoa... That does include 365,220 labeled "Bus" which appears to be private charter, not public transit.

In the "Transit" section "Bus" is 19,343 and "Light rail" is 2,795, "Commuter Rail" is 12,321 million passenger miles.

That means Bus, Light, and Commuter Rail total 34,459 million passenger miles, which is ~0.6% the number of Passenger-Miles traveled by private vehicles on the highway.

By the way, for longer rail trips, Amtrak is 6,527 million passenger miles in 2017 (declining year over year) and air travel is 693,818 million passenger miles and growing year over year. Heck, lets get electrified air travel and ditch trains for passenger travel as well.

Heavy freight via train will still possibly make sense, although autonomous trucking will probably steal a lot of market share. For hazardous materials and national security purposes you probably still need the heavy freight network to be operational. It would be cooler if the really big stuff all went via dirigible though.

[1] - https://www.bts.gov/content/us-passenger-miles
Flight reminders and package delivery notifications... seriously?

This is what we let Google ruin the internet for?

For all the things people have mentioned here: maps, e-mail, search, docs, etc. there are alternatives. Sure, they're not (yet) as good or convenient but put some effort into this guys.
How a carding kingpin got caught
Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar. It's what we're trying to not do here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

p.s. Could you please not routinely create accounts? That's not allowed here, except for occasionally when posting sensitive information. For more information on this, I've posted a bunch about it: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
> Tyres are meant for the low end/cheap scooters

Or anyone who has to ride over seamed concrete (sidewalks) and wants their knees to still work.

Scooters don't have great shock absorption, so all that energy is going in to your joints. Over time you'll develop issues.
Since that loads for me but http://nrm.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2:104713... doesn't, we've updated the link. Thanks!
You can be a shit journalist and still be a journalist. If I push a csv to a GitHub repo does that make me a journalists? I think this is the semantics posters are trying to highlight.

A publisher, maybe. But I'm squarely in the 'not a journalist' camp.
If the segment was about Chinese censorship, surely the best way for Americans to learn about Chinese censorship would be to air it?
Plaintext is also an internal model. The bare fact that they have your emails means they already have an “internal model” of your financial statements before any parsing is done.
And the file browser app lets me get just about everything I need to in and out of music production apps. E.g samples and rendered songs.
Debugging is about when the difference between theory and practice breaks down.
Something I've been really surprised and disappointed by is the lack of 2d vector graphics support in modern gaming engines.

I'm an amateur enthusiast but I spent hours and hours unsuccessfully trying to find any decent engine where I could make games using svg or other vector formats.
The article linked to a 34 minute YouTube video which demonstrated one unlock method: they replaced a locked iPhone's CPU, baseband CPU, baseband EPROM, NAND Flash (reprogrammed), and touch ID sensor with ones from a donor iPhone and were able to restore iOS.
Wouldn't that reason cover basically every infrastructure, economic and legal improvement you could possibly think of in all areas, as long as they are reasonably hard to do for a troubled country?

Even a basic thing like a Rule of Law that we take for granted hugely increases inequality between countries that have it and those that don't.

Solution to that does not involve encouraging warlords to move into Manhattan.

If a country can't afford / can't be trusted with energy generation technology, and you care, help fix the underlaying reasons.
I wonder why Google doesn’t follow the redirect, and ensure the followed link matches the displayed link?

I get that there’s workarounds like changing the redirect after Google checks it, but there’s solutions to this too (like running checks every so often to ensure the link redirects to the same domain).
Well said. This is also why diverse thinking is a thing, e.g. 'inexperienced' folk who're aren't scarred yet will see things with fresh eyes.
Nuclear is slow to operate, so it needs batteries to handle peaks during day. Nuclear can provide baseline power only.

Solar panel can be installed at roofs, so it can double as shelter, and power loss due to transmission can be lowered. Backup gravitational battery can provide backup power on site for short (hours) periods of time, to cheaply offset energy from peak of production at noun to peak of consuming at evening. Efficiency of solar panels can be improved up to 80%, so they can reduce need for air cooling.
That part makes me less scared of dementia. The fact that I'll not even realize I have it, and will just feel confused about who people are and where I am... Kind of like when I was a little child.
> And probably deny your claim and coverage (and probably cancel your policy).

Can you point me to an instance of this actually happening? I see this warning given all the time but have to date never found an instance where someone's claim was denied for these sorts of reasons.
>Otherwise, for instance, nobody would be debugging with gdb, rather than Visual Studio or what have you.

If you're working with embedded Linux, Visual Studio isn't going to be much help for debugging on a target.

>Nobody would be LaTeXing instead of using MS Word or Adobe Illustrator.

LaTeX does some things much better than Word, and Illustrator is very expensive.

>GIMP isn't as good as Photoshop (if I believe what people say), yet people still use it.

GIMP is free. Photoshop is not.

You seem to be assuming the people have unlimited money to purchase software licenses. Many free software programs are used not because they're better, but just because they're free and good enough. If I just want to crop and rescale some photos or something, why on earth would I buy a Photoshop license when I can just download and use GIMP for free?
Is this any different from branch prediction?
I believe you are conflating Assanges lack of publication of Russian material with Navoya Gazeta.
Early efforts to build a thermometer
Pushing the board accounts for a lot of the opportunities to lose balance. I don't have much experience with a powered board but I think it would be easier for me to keep balance on it.

A scooter's handlebars help but not as much as a bicycle, and I think it lulls you into a false sense of security.
In the US I would wonder about the difference between urban, suburban, exurban and rural areas.

In some urban areas there is less obesity because people walk around a lot. For instance, New York City or LA, where there is also a lot of health consciousness and even conspicuous fitness. (I think of a gym that overlooks Union Square where I see somebody jumping from side to side and it makes me feel tired.)

Many people in the U.S. however live in places where they do essentially "urban" work (e.g. office work) and then commute by car to a suburban home. If I live that kind of life (say on the road) and don't make an effort to do something active I can put 2500 or fewer steps on my pedometer.)

Then you have real rural situations where people work on a farm or they used to work in a mine, and that is something different from the above two.
> now I'm doing similar development at a competitor.

this means your boss wasn't doing their job.
Uniform Random Floats
Note that the article refers to both carbon and carbon dioxide fixation. CO2 weighs more than the carbon it contains, by a lot. Carbon has an atomic weight of 12, CO2 a molecular weight of 44 (12 + 216), or just shy 4x the mass of the carbon* component of CO2.

The 4.4 kg I gave was carbon, the 16.3 kg CO2. Your 9.16 kg refers to CO2, fixed per square meter per year, which is less than the CO2 fixation value I'd used. That is, http://carbon.ycombinator.com are making a more conservative estimate of about 56% the maximum observed rate. That increases rather than decreases the required area.

At 9.63 kg/(m^2yr) you'd need 39.8 m^2, or 429 ft^2, of algae to offset one person's CO2 exhalation.

Using GNU units:

You have: (1kg/day)/(9.16 kg/(m^2*yr))
You want: m^2
* 39.873602
/ 0.025079249
You have: (1kg/day)/(9.16 kg/(m^2*yr))
You want: ft^2
* 429.19589
/ 0.0023299385
You have: 9.16/16.3
You want: %
* 56.196319
/ 0.01779476

Apologies for typos in GP post. Android soft-keyboard stinks.
"... our customers are materially reducing the costs of building, sharing and running their applications and they are increasing their innovation cycles by a factor of more than 10X."

I can't stand this kind of marketing dribble, phrases like "increasing their innovation cycles by a factor of more than 10X" are not in themselves quantifiable and without that or context can be misleading.

I don't (at all) disagree that the more wide-spread adoption of containerised application deployment and related work-flows has sped up the release and application life-cycle, but I think people should not aspire to talk about such benefits with such 'greasy' wording (especially when it comes to the word 'innovation').
> First off, car ownership is typically expensive in dense areas, and those with enough income to own vehicles are likely paying more in taxes toward these subsidies.

I'll grant there is likely a correlation between the amount of taxes paid and car ownership. However, isolating segments based on income means that within each segment, the car owners are being subsidized by the non-car owners.

> Further, many, if not most subsidies for roads come from costs directly associated with ownership, like registration taxes, gas taxes, and toll fees.

I don't think the numbers support you here, it varies significantly by state (from 5% to 80% with a mean around 50%) [2]

2. https://taxfoundation.org/road-spending-state-funded-user-ta...

> In any case according to [1] the overall tax burden, not considering offsets by general benefits of roads for non users, is only $597 per household.

That is just the construction and maintenance cost, that same document gives the following number: "Aside from gas taxes and individuals’ expenditures for their own driving, U.S. households bear on average an additional burden of more than $1,100 per year in taxes and other costs imposed by driving."

If you look at my source's prior article (which didn't include federal gas taxes) the average amount paid is closer to 30%.

So taken together (which may mix incompatible data), a rough estimate of the subsidy is an average of ~7-800 per household which I would not call "quite small". I suspect this estimate is somewhat low based on my understanding of how those two sources calculate costs.
Compare and contrast the use of roads today with another famous public works project: The Roman grain dole. The grain dole in Rome was MANY things at MANY times. But one aspect of it's effects on the Roman economy was the increase in luxury good purchasing in certain times and places. Much like today, basic food requirements took up a lot of the income for poorer citizens. By giving out food for free, these plebians were able to spend that money on more goods and services, thereby increasing trade in the ancient world. (NOTE: this incredibly simplifies a lot of things and is very debatable).

That said, roads act in a similar way. If you have to pay a toll for every road, then poor people will use the roads less. If the roads are free, then poor people will use that toll money on other things.

Per the article and the issue of traffic, I guess this means that poor people have more of their time taken away from them whilst sitting in traffic as they drive further and are not being driven around by chauffers. If we got rid of this 'time tax' that is traffic congestion, it would be better for poor people. They would use their time on other things that are good for the economy or their lives.

I'm also skeptical that this 'time tax' is all that high. Emotionally, traffic is a nightmare, and well extends past my time actually spent in it. But that's a seperate issue.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cura_Annonae
Impressive work, Raph! As I'm sure everyone knows by now, the PostScript imaging model is hard to make work on the GPU, and its traditional geometry pipeline isn't suited well for curves or analytic coverage-based AA.

Since I come from the games space, a lot of my thoughts have been about baking as much data as possible: if we had infinite build time, or artist tooling akin to Maya, how would that help us develop better UIs? If we leave PostScript behind and think about new graphics models, what can we do? So a lot of my own research has been studying really old graphics history, since there's always fun ways of looking at the problem before we settled on one solution. I'll have to collect some of my research and demos and publish it sometime soon.

Although, one thing I've noticed during my time in games is that frame time is the standard. If we speed up our rasterizer, we'll just add more junk to the scene until it hits our 60fps frame target. More blurs! More effects! :)
It's impregnating a woman without her consent. It's a sex crime and should be 10+ years in jail.
I'm going to call BS on CBS' excuse that the Chinese government would actually harm CBS employees in China over the companies production of content that isn't available in China.
Did 'whataboutism' key your car or something?[1] It's a reasonably well-defined term but it is seeing a bit of popularity and mildly tedious abuse. At the same time, we've lived with the tedium of much more common forum verbal tics - 'straw man', 'ad hominem', 'argument from authority' and this hasn't (I think quite sensibly) merited multiple lengthy moderator encyclicals.

[1] Obviously, if that's what happened, I'm with you completely. Whataboutism should be fucking killed. No trial, no jury, straight to execution.
Very well. "Add empty book", enter the ISBN (or scan the book's barcode) and it will pull all data, including cover image and even ratings from Amazon automatically.

https://dearauthor.com/ebooks/dear-jane-ebooks/dear-jane-can...
And i don't believe for a second the data they're allowing you to "autodelete" genuinely gets deleted. It just gets removed from your view.

This came many times before and it is incorrect. If you delete your data from google, it is deleted permanently. Deletion of multiple backups takes longer, but eventually it is gone, forever.

Disclaimer: Googler.