skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a writer, this is a fascinating topic. I admire the gall it takes to make this leap, especially as a UX lead working at a company whose business model is addiction.

If I write a book, and I don't hook you, nobody wins. You wasted some twenty-odd quid for a stack of paper worth nothing to you. The entire task of a novel is to suck you into its narrative, so that you want to be apart of that world - just as children and teenagers, say, want to be in the Harry Potter universe.

It would be working against my own interests to - in public - attack the very position that puts food on my table.
Isaac Asimov's "The Gods Themselves" has a similar plot point, except one universe is dumping its excess entropy into another.
Yep, we have battery-backed generators for UPS and a transfer switch at the 480-V feed that comes into the room but it is not enough to power the compute nodes. The UPS allows cluster management nodes and the parallel filesystem (which is a small cluster by itself) to ride through full outages and other PQE.
vis a vis global warning, would it be better to just let that energy go out into the universe without harvesting it?
The idea that Lyft will not close the gap of its administrative expenses is unlikely. Especially if Uber is operating at a lower administrative cost.
Totally agree with that sentiment. It's all the other stuff too.

What I'm saying is that a syntax compatible Mathematica clone, with all the other stuff too, ever took off, then Wolfram Research's playbook would be:

1. try and hire the lead developers.

2. if that failed, call in their lawyers and assert their IP rights over the syntax.
Too bad they haven't gone back to the size of the Nexus 4/5 though :/
Sell ads!
The irony is, the same people complaining about 500kb are probably the same people using a 100MB+ terminal emulator built using a web browser (i.e. hyper).
I don't recommend putting google ads/automated ads in there. They normally pay poorly and lower user experience.

Instead get a custom advertising deal. Tech companies often have a large advertising budget and they can't spend it on billboards. You can try to contact companies like Twilio, who want to target developers. Give them a rate card (like $1000 for a top banner of a certain size for 1 month, $300 for a bottom banner, etc). In the rate card also include how many unique visitors you're getting and how active they are.

You can also put up some affiliate links. Like Triplebyte occasionally gives out $5000 if you refer someone who gets a job through them.

A friend of mine had a blog with less unique visitors, but using these techniques, he went on to build a million dollar company. You've got the asset, now you just have to monetize it.
Do you mostly consume text, or images/rich media? Something about Reader just worked for me. It was partly some blogs I followed and wanted to keep up with reading, but the meat of it for me was just scrolling endless pictures from various design blogs, that i'd sometimes star or label. Or some webcomic that I'd share with my handful of friends that were on there. Or I'd catch up whatever BMX or ski edits that came out. The interface was just clean for seamless and endless scrolling of all that media, (without titles and sources and headings taking up too much space), and the organization was clutch. Nothing else has caught my eye since. I've tried Feedly, old reader, and a few others, but none of them have me coming back for more, I just never got in the habit with them like i did for Reader.

Looking back, I guess it served as a kind of instagram/facebook feed, but for the internet that I wanted to see (which would differ from time to time, sometimes i want webcomics, sometimes I want ffffound <- this is largly something social media has yet to pick up on, the ebb and flow of what our attention wants). But no social media has captured my attention like Reader did...
Also we could defer taxes for elderly and charge the deferred taxes when they pass away. That way they don't lose their home.
Perhaps that's why it is expanding.
Easy to say when you are healthy. Some folks have more to worry about than others.
That, and they purposely match people who buy lootboxes, etc to people who don't so that those people, being at a disadvantage, loose and are then pressurised to buy them.
NatGeo's writers don't understand what it is they are writing about.

The significant fact here isn't that "the ocean will shrink," but that this discovery is potentially useful for understanding how subduction zones form.
It's not very practical but Spotify does allow you to upload your own music:

- on the desktop app, create a new Playlist

- add local files to that Playlist

- while the desktop is online, open Spotify on the mobile device you plan on using, find that Playlist on the playlists section and press download

Now that playlist is available offline in your mobile device too.
As a young girl, I was absolutely addicted to playing games. My drug of choice was Final Fantasy, because it allowed me an entirely new world to explore. I could escape the bullies; I could escape my father.

Yet, at some point in the past decade an insatiable greed appears to have taken over the industry. Take for example the microtransactions that so many gamers lament. What of a beautiful narrative, empathetic characters, and engaging gameplay (since they are games after all)? I'm not entirely certain of the correct path to take, but I know that appealing to the lowest common denominator will not allow gaming to become the grand artistic medium for the masses that so many hoped it could be.
> If you build on someone else's platform,

But isn't that the height of specialization? What does a platform mean anyways if its only used for one thing and not by others?

It it somewhat unfortunate that things like this make it abundantly clear that such a reality is not possible.
re: xkcd, sometimes, it's not just about the time in minutes you save in aggregate. I often find routines especially helpful during flow states -- maximizing time for more creative work.

There's also just something satisfying about using something like Alfred to launch a complex sequence of things that would have taken many mouse clicks and hand movement. Or using keyboard shortcuts to resize and move multiple windows around monitors. It feels almost... powerful? Not sure why.
Basic Income as Common Dividends: Piloting a Transformative Policy
The more important thing than hack-ability is that the product is rock solid.

That implies stuff like "there is one way to do it", "95+% branch coverage in unit tests", and "100,000-1M hours of automated stress testing of real hardware before shipping a new board rev."
Hackers steal $40.5m from Binance in ‘large scale’ breach
Why not require all their profit for the next 10 years be put into an escrow account, such that any violations in those 10 years would result in a forfeiture of those funds? Seems to be a reasonable deterrent and it drives the action in the public’s best interest.
The call for proposals for INCITE (one of the programs we provide cycles for) is open for 2020 but this would be for Summit not Frontier this time around :)

http://www.doeleadershipcomputing.org/proposal/call-for-prop...
Sounds awesome, I am happy to help. Email me - me@seenontheinter.net
What? How? Explain please. I've been interested in this for a while, and I know how cheap the ATTINY85 is but I just started experimenting with the Arduino, and just got a relay to switch on/off. Still learning how to get the ArduoCAM to work, and how I can transmit images over WiFi.

My point is, can you link to a tutorial? I'm a newb, but I'm a fairly competent full-stack developer.
Thanks, yeah already doing that a ton!
How about a dodecahedron made of honey badgers?
The 'DevKit-C' breakout boards are $10 each from authorized distributors; they're a little large and you could probably find variations for closer to $6-7 if you went looking, but they're good for general-purpose stuff.

It seems like small power-efficient microcontrollers have made enormous progress over the past decade, and we have an opportunity for the PC revolution all over again. The ESP32 is a little bit power-hungry, but it's also a proper CPU; it has two 240MHz cores, a few hundred kilobytes of RAM, an extra low-power core that can wake the main system up from sleep, and an MPU that can keep track of 8 process IDs per core including 2 privileged ones. People used to make do with less. It also has WiFi and Bluetooth and these days you can even write programs for it in Python.

I'd love to see more people thinking about the problems in their lives with relation to a $20 bin of modern parts. Sensors, displays, and actuators have made similar progress, and the possibilities are endless. But the pool of people trying to realize them is finite and way too small.
Does GM's Cruise use GCP? They might just be using the GPUs/CPUs parts though.
> I don't get it. Of all the tech products I've had over the years, the Google ones have been the best, the most secure, the most useful. They collect more data, but as far as I've seen, they also protect it the most.

They're way less sketchy than Facebook and data brokers, and better at not letting people's data leak out ("sorry"), but the sheer volume they collect is frightening. For the average Android user, they collect every search query, complete browsing history, complete location history, and more, all "anonymized" but easily correlated to a real person, and store it more or less forever.

They've avoided Yahoo- or Equifax-scale breaches, as far as we know, but it's just a matter of time until someone hacks the world's biggest store of personal data. Even if that happens years from now, I wonder how they will monetize all of that data when merely slinging ads no longer satisfies investors.
You just described product managers.

They solicit needs from customers, support conversations, etc. and translate those into future development. They combine those needs into major product directions and balance them with an internal compass for where the companyw wants the product to be (i.e., what jobs they want to solve for which users.)

They are technical people with an eye for how something should be built, working closely with designers (visual, UX, etc.)

Excellent companies figure out how to deploy these types of thinkers -- with appropriate mandate -- throughout the organization.
A Social Media State of Minds
Yep, actually all of our user projects are unclassified at the OLCF.
I don't think anyone has a definite answer, not even Google itself. Google placed several bets on different technologies and community will ultimately decide which of them is the winning one. Personally I think native Android (Kotlin) and iOS (Swift) development is here to stay. I have tried many cross-platform frameworks and on any non-trivial mobile app, all of them cause more problem than they solve.
I don't believe Epic or Blizzard have any games with non cosmetic items in loot boxes. Perhaps they "purposely match players with cool skins with those who don't" to make them want to buy them though.
Exploiting Logic Bugs in JavaScript JIT Engine
My Compaq XT didn’t have the button, but there was a magic key combination that would change the colour of an LED on the front panel. AN LED THAT CHANGED COLOUR!!!
That's not what the article is about. The article is about how the California government should handle the large amount of tax revenue it is already receiving, under current tax law, from the IPOs that are happening this year.
Internet Archive has been recording TV news since 2001:

https://archive.org/details/tvnews
i wasn’t able to locate your email.

why did you need three surgeries? i had double jaw surgery done and while it improved my jaw, the unresolved issue is my poor TMJ, which the surgeon pointed out. when i sleep on my back, my jaw still falls open and my tongue slides back into my airway.

i am hesitant to use the mouth guard because i don’t want my upper jaw sliding backward. my solution now is to side sleep. help!
Citi Double Cash extends warranty by 2 years. Plus 2% cash back on everything. I haven't used it yet so I'm not sure how good service is.

Amex does 2 years too. Their customer service is unmatched when it comes to warranty claims. I've had them credit my account same day.

https://www.comparecards.com/blog/extended-warranty-credit-c...
You could play Counterstrike AND burn a CD at the same time! I too look back with fondness at my BP6.
Would they be profitable if they fired all of their engineers and just let the already working product keep working? I mean...it works. It already works. It does everything that it's supposed to do. Millions of people use it happily. Could they just ride it into money?
I have heard good things about the book Bowling Alone, which apparently explores some of this territory: http://bowlingalone.com/

(I have not read it personally.)
GE Aviation ramps up engine production for Boeing 737 Max, but warns of headwind
edit : I am not a Googler, but that's what I gathered from talking with them

Here is what is happening :

A couple of years ago, when the dart team failed at getting their runtime embedded into the browsers, they started searching for a problem to solve. They thought they had hit jackpot with multiplatform development. So they started working on Flutter. This is all entirely independent from the Android team at Google.

The Android Team at Google continuously improves their own framework, hence the jetpack set of libraries. One of the new libraries they have been working on and that is now public in pre-alpha stage is JetPack Compose. They have hired one of the engineers behind React and had them work inside of the Android Team on a "React like UI framework for Android".

The official direction of the platform is what the Android Team is doing.

Flutter is interesting, with all the advantages and caveats shared with other multiplatform tools like ReactNative.
Just wanted to point out that the choice municipalities have made for street lighting is not really an LED technology limitation as much as different evaluation criteria.

For example, while sure, OSRAM advertises/sells street lighting LEDs that are broad spectrum (131 lm/W) [1] they also sell single-color LEDs like these amber ones that are actually even more efficient (141 lm/W) with an emission range almost entirely within 600-640nm [2].

This is almost as tight a range as LPS (which looks like about 580-610nm) [3], and it beats out HPS considerably [4].

[1] https://www.mouser.com/new/osram/osram-street-lighting-solut...

[2] https://www.osram.com/os/ecat/OSLON%C2%AE%20SSL%20150%20GA%2...

[3] http://www.flagstaffdarkskies.org/low-pressure-sodium-lighti...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium-vapor_lamp#/media/File:...
The TL (he is on HN) said Code Push won't come anytime soon: https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/14330#issuecomment...
Lawmakers should resist treating this unusual surge of IPO tax revenue as an ongoing thing. It is an unusual occurrence that is unlikely to be repeated every year, or even every decade.
Ask HN: If you were building a HFT system today, what language would you use?
Back in 2003 I wrote my first high frequency trading system -- we used a mix of C and C#. Java was also a popular choice at that time.

Much has changed since then!

If you were building an order book or trading system today, what would be your goto language and why?
When Lowes shut down their IRIS system, they actually sent out checks refunding every cent all of their customers had paid out into their hardware.

I was completely shocked

I haven't found a replacement for them yet, but I'm incredibly wary of investing into any ecosystem these days.
Don't forget 400 USD won't include tax. So 570AUD + GST is $627.
I consulted once for a hospital that was experience seemingly random network outages. After a few questions with the staff there it seemed to happen whenever a person stepped away from their windows (Lenovo) workstations for too long. Say, after lunch or breaks. After a wireshark of the network I determined it was a network card driver that was causing a broadcast flood on the network from multiple points for stations with the same driver version. While not the fault of Windows (I dont think anyways, as an update of the driver fixed the issue) your comment did remind me of this experience.
"Learning a problem is harder"

We're talking about the holy grail of AI in the automotive industry, not a SaaS side project.

This isn't assigning the Summer Vision Project in 1966.

Everyone knew that this was going to be a monumental problem, and the only person in the room who was claiming they already had all the tools to solve the problem (a problem that no one else is even willing to say they fully understood how to approach yet) is also the guy with a record for lying through his teeth so much there's a term for it.

I'm excited to see real attempts at FSD. Not from the company that gets most of it's hype from AP1, which used the same sensor suit GM was putting in cars years ago for off-label applications so they could go around waving "autopilot", which resulted in easily preventable deaths.
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Also recently seen on HN: This gentleman recorded 55,000 boxing matches over 40 years:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19471312
I believe mailchimp has something that automatically unsubscribes users if they haven't opened your emails for x time, but the amount of publishers that use this is probably pretty low.
For mac there is also talonvoice.com which allows a lot of similar functionality along with methods for connecting to keyboard shortcuts, voice/dictation control and noise control.
If you're dumping 2-3 hundred dollars on a thermostat, and suddenly it starts losing functionality, not buying another one makes a bit of sense.

Or, relatedly, do you think all those labs that bought PS3's for their ability to act as Linux clusters were wrong to sue the hell out of Sony?
Moving [Airbnb] Lottie Swiftly into the Future
Uber doesn't count their R&D costs in their (dodgy and unquantified) claims to be profitable in this or that market.
I don't expect it would, generally heat reduces LED lifespan, but not cold. If it's really cold, LEDs will struggle to turn on, but AFAIK it doesn't cause any long-term damage. (You can get consumer LEDs designed to operate in very cold conditions, e.g. from FEIT.)
What Screens Want
Flutter is a reasonable choice if you are developing a "simple" app that won't grow in scope.

By simple I mean that you don't need anything special from the device, no access to the sensors, no deep integration with the OS.

I think that enterprise apps would be an obvious target (because otherwise, for most of these small apps, the first question to answer is why not just have a website?)

For everything else, go native.
Correct, scheme is like a minimal flavor lisp.
I like my ecobee. The middle priced one seems best. The cheap one doesn't support per room sensors, and the expensive one adds a mic for alexa.
> Not your primary residence? Assessed value rises with CPI. Renting it out? Assessed value increases capped to e.g. 5% per year. Businesses with more than X in revenues or Y in employees? No price protection. Home value more than Z? No price protection. Et cetera.

You'd need a CPA to figure out your annual property tax, and the exemptions would make tax evasion much easier.
The easiest way to improve cookie privacy is to block 3rd party cookies by default. Adding new polices is not the right solution. 3rd party cookies are completely unnecessary.
I think you’re moving the goalpost here. Initially you said the problem was one person owning everything. Now you say people owning too much is the end of the world.

We don’t have and will not have benevolent dictators, so we have to make do with the real world. Given that, our best bet seems to be the system which has brought us to the unmatched current levels of prosperity.
I am pretty sure these web apps can't be indexed by google at the moment and am not sure how they are going to solve that.
It's been a long time and I worry that looking back, the material might not hold up. Here is a short interview I found about some of the machinations behind the series (although it doesn't seem very subtle): https://kotaku.com/the-story-behind-ultima-s-morality-182729...
In my opinion based on limited experience, this is happening because of unrealistic expectations set oy weak CIOs who doesn't have a spine to stand tall. Most CIOs usually leave in less than 3 years so promising moon and delivering Mariana trench is not a problem.

IT is just glorified technicians who should live in basement. Business is not willing to share power with IT. This is unwritten class system.
I put a variety of LED bulbs (Ikea dumb + smart, Philips Hue, some no-name brand of T8 drop in replacements) about four years ago and only one (an early Philips Hue) has failed — even that's a soft failure. Meanwhile I've lost one T12 and one T8 in that period (despite only having four FL bulbs in service). Plenty of the LED traffic signals around here have dead LEDs though. Those lasted a surprisingly short amount of time.

The thing is, as bad as the waste is — I'd much rather chuck out LED bulbs than CFL/FL.
Most of the value that is being lost is for Google, at least if they have any expectation of dependence on developer trust in the future.
Lisp seems great for describing certain classes of trading algorithm, but what about the underlying platform?
I’ve seen both.

My theory is that they test them in lamps upright. I’ve noticed much higher failure rates with fixture based and inverted bulbs.
China hasn't stopped buying US bonds, or have I missed something?
I really recommend checking out Inoreader. It's a nearly perfect Google Reader clone, but with more powerful features like multiple filters per feed and subscribing to Twitter feeds.
Show HN: Website for daily reading practice for GRE test takers
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help with reading comprehension and vocabulary.
I had prepared for GRE and felt that this kind of a
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improving the site.
“Passive income” on here usually refers to overlooked opportunities to do low risk, low reward web apps. Since you want to do something in the blockchain space, and the only proven market for blockchain technologies at the moment is blockchain developers and speculators, you might want to do something for those demographics.
Use a VPN in a private VM so you can use Google and get decent search results?

Is your response satire?

I want to believe it is.
Golang. For performance with support for coroutines and garbage collection. The other choice would be C++ since tooling has improved greatly since 2003.
It is almost like their products are just PR puff pieces.
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After hours investors don't seem particularly spooked, they're down about 3% as of this writing.
You might be interested to see a graph of Android, Flutter and React Native questions on Stack Overflow over time:
http://sotagtrends.com/?tags=[ionic-framework,react-native,f...

Short version: Flutter is growing nicely
From the articles I've read, the glass is less impact resistant.
Perhaps Common Lisp? But why and how?
A city for the rich, built poorly – the construction of Hudson Yards