skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It always feels a little grating when I hear someone say some number of "thousand kilometers".
Oops my mistake for looking there, noped out after viewing the train wreck for myself.
Deep Dive into APL (2016)
It would be absolutely nuts if anyone wanted to use non-standard bottles or specific glass colorings. A standardized bottle that everyone used (only label as differentiation) would be cool.
You might be interest in Redis Streams[1], it's basically Kafka in Redis.

[1] https://redis.io/topics/streams-intro
Professional negotiator is a well respected role and they're used all the time by police etc. This seems like a fairly direct analogue, so...?

(Full disclosure since someone else was asking for it: I have nothing to do with any of this stuff.)
There already exists ransom insurance (the real-life kind of ransom), and private ransom negotiators, so TNaaS isn't such a stretch at this point.
That's what archive.is is for(as a reader). if i share an article i usually back it up on archive.is first just in case. your hosted website can go down at any time as well sadly(i see this a lot for ms hosted content)
Gigajoules in Europe.
you mean video? "pathways than audio"
>> Today, Chelsea was not only put back in jail, but Judge Anthony Trenga ordered her to be fined $500 every day she is in custody after 30 days and $1,000 every day she is in custody after 60 days. This is unprecedented.

https://twitter.com/xychelsea/status/1129158920499605504

Wtf....
Let's let facebook die peacefully.

Talents have many more options to work for.

Be that for money (in finance), or passion (in other fields where their consciousness will be cleaner).
i use an alias on stackoverflow, and i use an alias here on HN!

My google profile is also an alias. My facebook profile is also an alias. My twitter, same. And if i had a linked-in profile, it would be an alias too. Some of those alias may be the same, but some i deliberately make different, so that i can choose whether others can associate different aliases together as the same person.

Why anyone puts their real name online is beyond me. When i tell my real life friends, they are shocked, and also ask whether it's inconvenient. Yes, i would answer - it is inconvenient, but it is more control. It gives you the option to prevent others from being able to track all my activities online across different services (at least, not easily).
Reaver: Mapping Connections Between Disparate Chinese Apt Groups
Bit of a mix, seems possible to make justification for an entire city. [1]

[1] - https://twitter.com/brumpolice/status/1100765101156634624
It's actually fairly common when being held in contempt.

Judges in America have an egregious amount of power.
You'll soon get an option to reclaim those 2000. Or the option to join a class-action suit seeking the same.
Wow. Apparently "Objectivity" is white supremacy, along with "Individualism". This honestly surprised me.
> With the right setting, it would not be more than 1 bcrypt per century

You can't really call that a "right" setting when it takes at least as long to log in...
Wordpress has an app store for plugins. I installed a popular statistics plugin and it seems to be doing well. I think it is pretty amazing, actually (the app store). https://wordpress.org/plugins/

Hosting my blog costs me 5€/month, though. Not sure if I have the cheapest option. On the upside, it also supports multiple email accounts, so I am in the process of moving all emails (also family) over there, saving on extra costs for email.

I think attracting viewers is the only real issue. That's why social media, Tumblr and Medium took over from blogs. Because they have the recommendation and sharing features that bring viewers to people's postings.
When will safari provide a VM image so developers can actually test things on it?
Or perhaps we should just even out the funding. Crudely redistributing wealth is a historically very poor way to solve inequality (assuming it is a problem), since it doesn't address the root cause. Investing in education, in particular trades, is an arguably better way. They are practical, have the most bang-for-buck value, and are not time-consuming or demanding.
It's not too bad if you compare it with the meaning of the original word as used in aviation context: a relatively primitive device that automatically keeps the trajectory of the aircraft (regardless of what is ahead by that trajectory). But it does sound misleading when presented to the general public (as opposed to highly trained professionals, which is the case in aviation context).
There is a HUGE difference between doing analytics/business intelligence (albeit a bit of a sketchy app, though users consented) and directly hacking into competitors with the express intent on stealing IP, which is more of the issue at hand.
They list the well-known machine learning trends of the past decades, then say they don't know what's next. "Maybe it'll be something other than deep learning in the next decade."

The title should be appended with ", and failing".
This Hertz to read.
Just came here to say I hate Medium. I frequently get a strobing green bar at the top of the page that is permanently there and as far as I can tell doing nothing. WTF?
I think MIT designed a bacteria that eats plastic, wonder what's taking them so long from deploying it.
Are there any distros with a strict upstream-only policy?
if your mum actually wants to own/monetise her knitting blog SOMEONE will have to do this anyways. Stop putting effort into things that only benefit someone else(Medium). I'm not advocating monetising your hobby but instead that no one else should own content you create and do awkward things with it that you don't sanction or condone
Isn't there a "clap" plugin for Wordpress?
thank you ill be pointing a few people i know in the direction of this article
Show HN: A URL shortening service intended to be simple and user-friendly
I know some people got really good and interesting reviews here.

It's really hard to get meaningful feedback and that's whyI need your help.

URL : lessn.io

Github : https://github.com/MaxandreOgeret/lessn

Good feedback is of course welcome but ideas to improve are even more important !

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With Telegram this is pretty simple:
"https://api.telegram.org/bot#{token}/sendMessage?chat_id=#{c...

All you'd need to do to set it up is create a bot (from within Telegram via the BotFather account), and then either start a conversation with it or add it to a group chat or channel.

I've been using this approach to send me notifications whenever someone logs in to one of my servers for a bit of extra security.
Building better software with better tools: sanitizers vs. Valgrind
Since this is just a web app, how about a mobile version?

> Offline; there is no back-end service saving your data anywhere.

Can I set this up for myself?
So, Nuclear, which is already arguably more expensive than renewables, to become even remotely "clean", would cost even more...

Sure sounds like a great plan.
Sheryl Sandberg and Zuck are a team. They are aligned in some bizarre goal that seems to function as a juggernaut that I got into tech specifically to avoid.
To be fair, this looks like a firefox bug rather than google inventing their own 'standards'.

It's a bog-standard HTML5 audio tag with a WAV file. One file is 8khz and the other 24khz, both standard frequencies. One is Microsoft PCM format, while the other is IEEE float. I suspect the latter is the issue - even though it's been around for decades, I bet it isn't a well tested codepath in firefox.

It makes sense they use floats for machine learning outputs. Unless someone specifically thought to quantize the data to a specific bit depth, whatever wav file writing library google used probably thought it was being helpful by using the 'right' encoding.
This is cool, but I can do all things this service can do + more features (such as picture, music and Instant
Link sending) with Telegram and it’s API. I think you’d need some more features.
All these links are year or two old.

A big push towards openness and privacy has happened over the last year.

On an individual level, I don't think it's hard to opt out of Google's tracking.

I won't argue with Maciej's quote, though, because, just like with automobiles, people will still opt into the surveillance society willingly: because the utility it brings them outweighs other considerations.

Ask people if they want to be tracked at all times, and they'll say "no".

Ask people if they want to be able to locate their phone when they lose it, and their answer might be different.

Ask them if they'd want be able to cal 911 and ask to come and help them even if they aren't sure where they are, and you'll get a different distribution of answers again.

In the latter case, lack of "surveillance" is seen as a "tragic shortfall" [0], and adding it is a "feature"[1].

So see, it's not the surveillance per se that people object to. It's implementation details. Welcome to Ceglowski's world.

[0]https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/02/22/cellphone-911...

[1]https://money.cnn.com/2018/06/18/technology/apple-911-locati...
Except it is. Education in the US is relatively cheap and easy to get if you don't aim for private or top schools.
a usecase where blockchain makes sense? what? <surprised pikachu face>
> Is it fair that a child from a better-off family is more likely to enter better academic institutions regardless of their merit?

At the point of admission, the merits of our two imaginary college kids are not same, even if they started out "the same". The current system, that only looks at objective test scores, is actually blind to anything but merit.
You seem to be making the same strawman mistake you described: No one claims that rich kids can buy their way into elite schools, but rather that they can buy better education along the way.
If there is a ruling that actually exonerated a driver from their duty to be familiar with functions of their car based on prior knowledge of (misleading?) advertisements, then I'd really like to see it. It would be surprising at least.
Personal data can be used to identify you. Email, Full Name, Address, Nationality, Spoken Languages etc.

Some of these are very direct like your name and address. But since other personal data can be combined to create an identifying fingerprint of you it may or may not be covered.

There's a gray area in between of course were you really need to check the legal situation, but public content on a public forum is definitely not covered.
With a number like this the typical outcome is that it becomes a factor in a school's US News ranking (average adversity score of incoming class for example). At that point a cottage industry is formed around this metric.
location.href='https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/'+location.hostname+'?ver=classic'
Saying something is "morally bad" doesn't really make sense unless you also define the moral framework that it is bad in. As you did not do so, it reads as if you expect the reader to understand what morality it is bad in (maybe even that it is obvious).
The original (source) is a PCM S16 LE mono file, 8kHz/16 bit.
The translations are 32 bits float LE mono file, 24kHz/32 bit.

Firefox supports 8-bit and 16-bit PCM only ( https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/html5-audio-and-video-f... ). I don't know why, exactly.
> Lots of [...] desirable universities

You are aware that it is their small number that makes them desirable right? If you make them all the same level, they will be equally undesirable.
I wrote this bookmarklet yesterday and I find it pretty useful. When you click it, you see the Alexa rank for the website your are currently on.

Since it is short enough to fit in the HN title, I did not put it on GitHub or something.

If you are not familiar with bookmarklets, here is how you use them:

1: Bookmark any page
2: Right click the bookmark and chose "edit"
3: Give it a nice name (Like "Alexa")
4: Paste the code into the url field
5: Prefix it with "javascript:"

So the url looks like this:

javascript:location.href='https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/'+location.hostname+'?ver=classic'
This is a direct feature of PowerShell's object based nature. Pretty cool. I wish it was actually useful on Linux.
What is the sidewalk called in British English when the sidewalk is not paved?
The problem is that they only tested it on Chrome.
The "don't talk to police" mantra is for when you know that you've done something wrong. So the main thing is that you don't want to lie about it, because they're trained to detect lies, and to manipulate you into contradicting yourself.

Otherwise, being polite and not escalating is the safest approach. Because another aspect of traditional police training in the US is always out-escalating suspects.

Edit: What can I say? It clearly worked for this guy. Perhaps because he looks pretty harmless. But it's also worked for me. Because I also look pretty harmless, I guess.
Can you tell us what country in Western Europe? Depending on the country, you should worry less or more.

Some cultures are more into this and they value straightforwardness above all else, even if that means a heated yelling match. The expectation is that you yell back (if needed). This would be expected and not considered weird or unacceptable
I would love to read more about these solutions and their benefits over Docker!
We rented a Hertz car in Las Vegas for a road trip for 3 weeks. Afterwards they charged our credit card multiple hundred dollars for a navigation system, which we didn't order and didn't have in our car. We complained and they promised to refund it, but didn't do it for over a month. Finally we asked the ADAC (German Car club) to resolve this for us.
Grand juries are secret and procedurally unnecessary. They are trying to drum up enough evidence to go to real trial. The fact that their grand jury exploration rests entirely on her testimony means the prosecution’s case is fairly weak as it stands.

she’s being jailed on an option.
Does hiting F2 in Firefox freeze the browser side of things (mouse position, mouse click state, css animations state, select dropdown openness state), basically everything? Or are there other tools for that? I have more problems with "debugging" CSS than javascript
No it didn't, that's historical revisionism. Go read any historical text or even Chinese censorship propaganda today and you'll discover the authorities were/are obsessed with "rumours". Attempts to control what people can say are a historical constant, the only difference between then and now is the lingo has changed.

There's no need to change anything, people or companies. Left to their own devices people figure out propaganda eventually. It may not be in the direction to your liking, but then, as a supposedly rational person, you must accept that maybe it's you who is victim of propaganda and the other people who are not.

The best example of this in recent times is the large number of supposedly smart people who fell in love with "The US President is a Russian spy" as an idea, which was based on nothing - it was rumours, it was fake news, it was propaganda distributed by the press, and now 50% or more of the US population agree with their president that it was also a witchhunt. Seems like people were drowned in fake news and still, a large chunk of them understood it was fake. Of those who still believe it, it might be more accurate to say they wish it was true - but that's a common theme in all rumours and propaganda throughout history.
Game state prediction doesn't cut it, or rather there's no point to it. The rendering is done server-side - remember they're streaming HD AAA games to televisions and tablets. There's always going to be a round trip between pushing a button and something happening onscreen. Google did say something about device inputs being sent straight from the controller to the server. Maybe this means they will cut down on latency between the input and the server, but it's still a trip back down from the server to the display on top of that.
Are those metric tons or imperial tons? If metric, why aren't they gigakilograms (teragrams?) of TNT?
The novelty in the research is estimating the speed in which deep sea life absorbs organic matter from the surface. Bomb carbon, C14, is used as a proxy measure.
Well, as said, if the content itself can be considered personal data then sure.
My experience with machine learning and vision systems amounts to one lab assignment a few years back, so forgive me if this is a stupid question - but why is there not a 'complementary' hard coded system built in that can override cases like this? I can think of no reason as to why stopping a car driving full speed into an inanimate object would be a thing that a human can't code. Surely there must be something in place - an "if(hurtlingTowardsWall){ignoreAI; stopCarQuick;}".
Pushover works exactly like this, except they have a one-time fee and a daily quota, which I am fine with.
This sounds very interesting. Did anyone get from the homepage what kinds of guarantees this offers? What if the HTTP endpoint where Hermes should push the data to is down? Does it retry? If yes, for how long?
It's pretty simple. "we should work on solving the actual problems causing them to perform more poorly on the SAT" doesn't even resemble "guaranteed opportunity throughout life"
Not to be terse, but the first sentence of the article is: “Surgeons at King's College Hospital say the procedure is not a cure, but could be the difference between some children learning to walk or not...”
> one of the things candidates respond to most is the story we tell about our company's past, present, and future

I hear this storyline fairly often (though exclusively from corporate recruiters) and I have a super hard time understanding why this would matter. Can someone who actually listens to this kind of (IMO) propaganda weigh in and help me understand why it matters to them?
> where littering is not socially acceptable and happens less than other places.

It's great that there are places where littering is much less due to social norms. But it's not zero. People litter. Period.

To a first approximation, humans can be modeled as points wandering around on a map, and at each timestep there is some nonzero probability they will just drop garbage on the ground. This is true the world over, in every single country I've been, on essentially every hiking trail, no matter how remote or inaccessible. If you were to have a heatmap of litter the world over, it would very closely approximate the simple heatmap of where people have been. Just look at any stretch of highway. Unless it has just been cleaned up by a very thorough cleanup crew, you will find trash. And this is where people are riding around in vehicles that could as well just keep their trash in the backseat. People go out of their way to throw that shit out the window. People can't even get trash into a fricking trash can. It will literally be sitting on the ground next to a trash can.

People are trash monkeys. You can knock one or two orders of magnitude off the litter problem with education, societal norms, fines, etc. But people are trash monkeys, and whereever they go, they fucking litter. It's as inescapable as nuclear decay. It's just a function of probability.
Why play a music CD? No ads, no privacy terrors, no algorithms
Avalara Ropes in Manjula Muthukrishnan as MD, India
Done that too :)

But then, when you need templates, and send payloads from webhooks, there it gets messy..

I made Notify17 exactly to avoid that mess :D
A few years ago, while working at an agency, I was using the Firefox Developer Edition to build the front-end for a website. I was presented with a very weird UI bug from the client that I could not reproduce whatsoever. It was driving me mad.

After an hour or so of frustration I realised that the bug did not occur on Chrome or Firefox "Standard" Editions and was only occuring on Firefox Developer Edition.

Now I know its not fair to make a judgement based on a single bug, too many variables at play etc but the lesson I learnt as a stressed out, time-pressured developer is not to ever ever ever use a browser that wasn't the standard version of a browser for development, the one most likely to be used by the client or end-user.

I can't recall exactly but I'm pretty sure I had a similar experience with Chrome Canary vs regular Chrome too. Although I think Canary is presented as a somewhat unreliable beta-ish version of Chrome whereas I had believed that FF Dev edition would have the same rendering engine as the equivalent FF standard, so long as they where the same version number.

In any case If I had some feedback for the team working on FF dev tools it would be to implement expand to unminifed line number on minified css and js. When I inspect an element and want to jump to a particular rule in the CSS it always expands to the first line of the file only and not whatever line that rule would be on in the uminified version of the file. Chrome does this and I find it so useful it prevents me from using FF.
The article does not make it clear how this is a fiat currency, or how this is more properly called a currency rather than just property.
Anyone know more and would like to clarify?

Shameles Plug: My sister is a great artist, I'm sure she'd like her work to become someone's fiat currency. http://www.briannaleefineart.com
> Day-to-day self asessment of cognitive performance is probably the best proxy.

How do you do that?
This title is misleading. Big retailers including Whole Foods and Caribou Coffee now accept Flexa payments, which uses Flexacoin. Flexa itself accepts Bitcoin, Ether, Bitcoin Cash, and Gemini(?).

I was confused as to how retailers would be supporting Bitcoin with it's very slow confirmation times.

As far as I know, I thought the bitcoin price rise was due to Tether initially, and now more hype from itself rising.

[0]: https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/13/18617554/flexa-cryptocurr...

[1]: https://medium.com/flexa/introducing-flexacoin-b4c8099e3a91
Thats silly... 16 bit audio really doesn't have enough dynamic range for many uses now. Listen to a bit of classical music with very loud and very quiet bits and you'll hear quantization hiss in the quiet bits.

16 bits allows a dynamic range of 96dB while sounds you might come across in everyday life can peak over 130dB briefly.
> I've never upped my game enough to contribute to a project, much less put something on github.

Well, if you want to, just find a project you like and search their bug tracker. Usually there's a lot of shit that's trivial which no one could find time for.

You know, the stuff that people will be like "OpenOffice's About Page hasn't been disableable for over fifteen years. This bug report is untouched!" Or whatever. You can fix it in five and be happy.
Since the game was out [1] I was hooked into the game for a solid month. It's the kind of essential and basic puzzle with a fresh and new mechanics that can pass the test of time. There should be tons of clones in mobile app stores already.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19075490
None of those things have happened though, have they? Which democracies has Facebook toppled? Which genocides did they "enable"? And as for "elections were manipulated", I'll give you that one, but the only actual evidence I've seen of Facebook manipulating elections is shutting down the pages and followers of actual conservative political parties. The whole Russia story turned out to be smoke and mirrors, and based on rather huge assumptions about the efficiency of political advertising to begin with.

Apple use privacy as an attempt to differentiate themselves from Google despite in the phone market having very little actual differences between them. It doesn't seem to have helped: Android is globally dominant.
Mega-, giga- and terawatts are well used and relatively common. More specialised but still common enough are megaohms and mega/giga/terahertz.
Talking Testnets with Ethereum's Danny Ryan
Same! Js-xlsx is lovely, thanks for your efforts.
Alpha Series – The World's Highest Power 60-Cell Solar Panel
For anyone interested in this period, there's a book on the stored-program ENIAC: http://eniacinaction.com/