skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Same can be said about other platforms like YouTube etc.

One big difference with Youtube is you don't create your work on their platform directly. You would record a video offline and then upload it to Youtube so you have a copy of your work by default.

With Medium, chances are you wrote the article directly on their platform so now if it gets removed from their site you probably don't have a local copy of it so it's gone forever unless it got scraped somewhere.

In either case I think Medium is really bad and I wouldn't use it.
> Try some jazz like Coltrane or Miles Davis. It seems they never stoped issuing albums - remastered

This is only done to prevent copyright expiration and having the album become public domain.

You’ll see they only do it for “oldish” albums. It’s quite a scam.
I'm curious why a CD would not work anymore after listening to it a lot? Is the laser powerful enough to damage it or is it the heat from the device itself which is degrading the material in the long term?
Bandcamp is truely the best music platform and one of the best websites there is today. It's fair to artists and its UX is in the rarest of states: done. I hope to god they never change a thing.
Show HN: Charlie, a FOSS Chrome extension that upgrades blockchain explorers
What exactly does this figure mean? I see in Wikipedia this interesting line: "Ireland's instantaneous wind power generation fluctuates between near zero and 3,071 MW[1] due to weather,[6] with an average capacity factor of 32.3% in 2015."

Can someone unpack that? What precisely is an average capacity factor?
Hey HN,

I worked at a top 20 cryptocurrency exchange for a year. One of the major timesucks at my old job was navigating clunky block explorers.

This Chrome extension is designed to make block explorers easier for enterprise use - specifically, by customer support agents at cryptocurrency exchanges answering deposit/withdrawal tickets.

It is very loosely based off https://github.com/Posnet/xkcd-substitutions.

If you have any suggestions please let me know via the comments or Keybase.io/JamesScaur, critiques as well, I'd love to hear them!

Cheers,
James
Quote: Amount of wind energy dispatched down in Q1 2019: 207,839 MWh

Dispatched down means that potential generation is turned off. Amazing that so much energy was 'wasted' - I look forward to seeing the storage/use solutions that come about to take advantage or this 'free' energy and turn it into something useful.

To put this into context this is about €13.4 million worth of electricity - if it were able to be sold at a standard Eire market rate.

But while the standard wholesale MWh rate in the Eire is about €67, the instant dispatch rate in Ireland can reach €4000 - so if all that energy could be made available for instant dispatch it could be worth €800000000 - if my sums are correct. Obviously this is ignoring losses. But even with 50% loss this is a significant opportunity. Who is in?

https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/price-spikes-ir...
There have been plenty of documented cases of crypto-related software having bugs which allowed for full decryption (including many examples of it happening in the land of ransomware which doesn't need strong encryption to extort money out of technically-illiterate people).

If you are being sold a product which is based on a lie (let alone a lie that you won't pay criminals and skim money off the proceeds of the crime), then it is always the fault of the seller. Blaming the people who were lied to as being ignorant is a bit rich.

(Also, RSA is not really efficient for encrypting large amounts of data. I'm willing to bet that most ransomware uses secret-key crypto like AES or ChaCha20 for the actual encryption and then transmits the secret key back to the C&C server or does some form of key-exchange to generate a secret key. Which means that the attacked machine had a copy of the secret key at some point.)
That's a useful guide. A description of how sets of three letters translate to amino acids or stop commands would be handy, because that bit is quite mind-blowing and also quite reminiscent of machine code. And from there you can explain different sorts of mutation, like truncation, substitution and phase shift.

Also a guide to how to usr all that to interpret medical nonclemature of mutations, like c.345G>E would be handy
Well, theoretically, "an Audio CD that exploits a buffer overflow of your music player on your computer and installs malware" is always a possibility, and a good intellectual challenge.

But doing it at an industrial scale and including an 0day exploit in all albums is a separate thing, I don't believe it would ever happen. On the other hand, creating an extension of the standard to "make a better CD" is a real threat, for example, a plausible example would be:

"a CD-based service that connects to a server to obtain metadata and lyrics of your music, like a proprietary version of MusicBrainz, but with ads and tracking added."
Yes? Why the hell not, it's pretty obvious that such paperwork has life and death consequences (it's only a matter of time before a customer is shot during his arrest, because the cop "feared for his life").

We put people in jail for drinking too much when that leads to bad consequences, why not for sloppy paperwork that get someone falsely imprisoned or killed?
Part of the problem with the free college issue is that the extra time spent in full-time education is not free. It's another 3 or more years of not earning a proper full time wage. It's also (in my country) a time when you are explicitly not eligible for those benefits available to the unemployed.

When you reach school leaving age, you have a choice, start full time paid work now (with the social safety net if you can't find work), or spend at least 3 more years of full time education without that safety net, doing part time work when you can, possibly taking loans, all in the hope that you'll get a much better paid job at the end of it (which, nowadays, is not a given).

It also isn't just a case of poor kids with good potential not having the money to pay for higher education, but also of poor kids with good potential not having the grades to get into higher education.

Home factors (sleep, nutrition, reading at home, stress, extracurricular activities, peer pressure from the wrong crowd) make a significant difference to education outcomes in children.

Universal healthcare, on the other hand, is truly about equal opportunity for all. Illness is neither an indulgence for which people have to pay, nor an offence for which they should be penalised, but a misfortune, the cost of which should be shared by the community. No society can legitimately call itself civilized if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means.
They only pick up FOSS tasks for which they can find multiple customers.
The Risk of Authenticated Vulnerability Scans
Fonts for Apple Platforms
Yea, they should give you the Valve Index controllers instead of the wheel to be absolutely sure.
My approach is different, two houses (assemblies) one elected and one via sortition.

Elected can propose and pass but sortition house can block.

Basically the commons/lords setup but with the lord's replaced with random people.

That way the politicians answer directly to the people (or a random sample) of them.
The music industry considered them, then
Streaming based DRM doesn't need cloud rendering to be effective. The client can download 3D models and use prediction and local collision detection while the server is still responsible for the secret sauce like combat rolls, item drops, missions. Reverse engineering is still possible but even the private MMORPG server scene is actually pretty "dead" compared to the actual games they are cloning. Adding content is expensive and replicating content is sometimes impossible so the developers basically end up building what amounts to a custom game which uses the same rendering engine as an existing game. Becoming an indie dev and working for free on your own game ideas is a far better strategy although the chances of success are low.
New Horizons Team Publishes First Kuiper Belt Flyby Science Results
Yet another reason to disable Javascript - no awful login popups.
How to create your own deep learning rig: A complete hardware guide
Lisp family of languages have macros which can provide zero cost abstractions for you. For example, the loop facility is really just a macro, and so are the racket for loops.

Not only that: in scheme there is usually a source->source optimisation phase which means you can easily inspect what that abstraction does. That way it is pretty simple to know that an optimisation really is zero cost.

My favourite examples are, as already mentioned, racket's for loops and the various scheme pattern matches out there. The difference between lisp and rust is that these can be added to your language without having to change the compiler and they can be built as a library by anyone.
Does anyone know of any air filter methods that also demand very little resources?

I've been looking air purifiers in the shops, but when I see how many Watts most of them use on an hourly basis, and imagine running them 24 hours a day, it makes me wonder if there are any alternatives.

Would growing a lot of plants help perhaps?
Quote: The net capacity factor is the unitless ratio of an actual electrical energy output over a given period of time to the maximum possible electrical energy output over that period.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacity_factor
Or just go under the radar and disable all notifications for all apps and also disable vibration or any other notification signal.
"Why play music from your hard drive? No Ads, No Privacy Terrors, No Algorithms"
He actually answers this very point:[1]

So, I say, don't talk to the cops. Ask to speak with an attorney, and get competent advice before you answer the cops' questions. Are there mundane situations in which you might rationally decide to talk to the cops — say, if a neighbor's house is burglarized, and they come to ask if you saw anything? Sure. But you should view each interaction with the cops with an extreme caution bordering on paranoia, as you would handle a dangerous wild animal. When you talk to a cop, you are talking to someone who is often privileged to kill you with complete impunity, someone whose claims about what you said during your interaction — however fantastical — will likely be accepted uncritically by the system even if the particular cop is a proven serial liar. Even the most mundane interaction carries the potential for life-altering disaster.

[1] https://www.popehat.com/2014/01/15/the-privilege-to-shut-up/
No, shift would disable autoplay. The question is whether this could defeat the malware ... I seem to remember that it did but few were wise to this.
Where the obvious solution is to build less obscenely oversized firefighting vehicles.
I moved to BitWarden too, but mainly because the browser extension for KeePass (Kee) didn't work well. BitWarden is good, but the Android app is nowhere near KeePass2Android, which I sorely miss.
> I used to write on medium. The editor is the best. Nothing I've used is as good.

What about a local code editor with live reloading on a local copy of your site running in a browser?

This is what I do in Jekyll. I write everything in the same code editor I wrote code in, and on save, I see a 100% replicated live view of my site in about 1 second (even with 200+ posts). Both windows sit side by side. To me this beats any alternative set up.
How AI Can Help Protect Children
> anyone who texts me will get an automatic reply saying that I’m off my phone and I’ll get back to them when I’ve reconnected

If people messaging you can't wait 1h for the answer I don't see the problem being with phones, it's with people

I'll get to messages when I'm ready to answer them, which might be in 1 min but it also might be 1h or more
On-device AI/ML was big at Google I/O 19. There were at least 4 sessions about inferencing on mobile (TFLite), IoT (Coral) and in browsers.

If on-device ML is real, then Apple and Google have a moral obligation to make harmful content (e.g. porn) detection part of their parental controls as soon as possible.
> even if you listen to CDs on your computer the media player is still collecting your data and behaviour

I'm not sure what OS or media player you use(d), but implying that it's somehow inherent to playing music on your computer in general is an overstatement, to put it mildly.

As a counterpoint to your argument: I tried Spotify and went back to offline music. I don't use CDs of course, it's all ripped to MP3 and sitting there on my hard drives, with some of it copied over to my phone.

The internet is always there except when it isn't – cross the border to a non-EU country with crazy roaming charges and suddenly you'd wish that you had stuff offline with you. On the other hand with online services the music collection you have “with you” is effectively infinite, as long as the data connection is up. There's ups and downs to everything.

The thing that ultimately turns me off from Spotify is the client: I've come to expect the ability to add a few albums to a makeshift playlist, shuffle the tracks, remove some of them because I don't like them, reorder a few songs whenever I feel like it etc. Whenever I try out Spotify it seems like my options are either to listen to whatever The Algorithm[tm] serves me or painstakingly create a custom playlist every time I want to listen to something non-standard. The “Play Queue” management in Spotify is next to nonexistent (or hidden so well in the UI that I couldn't find it), and compared to regular desktop players like Cantata it's just annoying to use.
This is the correct answer.

Distributions don't apply patches just for the sake of it or because we enjoy it -- it makes packaging more annoying for us when we have to rebase patches each version bump. But sometimes it's necessary and it would be a silly limitation to not allow yourself to patch software which is under a license that explicitly gives you permission to modify it.

I would argue any rolling-release or bleeding-edge distribution is pretty much the closest you'll get to "pure upstream". Stable distributions have more patches by necessity, and enterprise distributions even more so.
I think I get the opposite reaction from receiving an email. It's definitely more on the "Oh hell, what now?" end of the spectrum most of the time.
From, Ireland that is great

BUT

we have one of the highest electricity prices in Europe (and i regularly change providers every 1-2 years and have night saver)

My last bill (37 day period) was for EUR128.40 for 716 kWh
The future of WPF for developers who need to support Windows 7
yea, wonder if using something like Tesla's battery thing that they deployed in Australia and the like would work here...
Oh interesting, using Brave I get the following warning message opening that link, similar to a invalid ssl certificate warning with an option to proceed:

"Did you mean ikea.com? The link that you originally opened is unusual"

(the domain is iwea.com)

Totally off topic but an interesting and probably quite good feature. Doesn't happen in Chrome for me so must be something Brave specifically implemented.
Am I reading this correctly, that there's no explicit semantic representation going on at any stage, it's purely audio input frequencies -> ML -> audio output frequencies? If so, that's ... so much for Jerry Fodor and his Language of Thought Hypothesis, eh? (Yeah, mostly joking but still..)
Well, she already tryied
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelsea_Manning#U.S._Senate_ca...
I've told this story here before, but I've had an oncoming Tesla change lanes onto my side of the road and drive right at me. Fortunately there was time and space for me to stop and the Tesla driver to take control again. It could have been very different.

Why should I "roll the dice" with me and my family?

And no, they weren't overtaking, etc - if you need more details I can provide them.
The owners say the name is “Tardar Sauce” but is this backsplaining why they called her Tard? I remember the early meme as only Tard, but can’t find references to any other reason for calling Grumpy Cat Tard. Is Tardar Sauce a non-offensive explanation for why the car was called Tard?
> The people who say this tend to be people who use terrible browsers (i.e., all browsers on iOS) where the instant loading comes at the expense of triggering browser bugs that the user can't avoid by switching to a better browser. For people with non-buggy browsers, the experience is fantastic.

Yes there are browser issues, but the issue is also the pages themselves. AMP pages are horrible, crippled crap. Take a look at this AMP page on a desktop browser. How is this not a step backwards? http://amp.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/may/16/doug-jones-a...
I think you're over-estimating how many users are willing to change their workflow or scripts to accommodate things like this. They will switch away from your distribution to one which patches the actual package.

I also don't agree this would result in fewer upstream bug reports -- "suse-foobar" will still result in bug reports for "foobar" (I've seen some cases of this happening). You'd need to rename the project entirely so that users don't know what the upstream GitHub repo is, and that's even more anti-community than any other suggestion.
How I wish iOS would allow you to mark text messages as “unread” or “flagged”. Messages come in, I read them to see if they’re urgent, most often they are not, however, I usually do want to reply later. But, I feel an obligation to reply right away, otherwise the message will get lost in the mix of other read messages and forgotten.
Learning Rust while solving Advent of Code puzzles (a post mortem)
A nice project, there are more homebrew CPUs - physical or FPGA cores. But they are often complex. I was finally able to understand the basics of CPU workings from an awesome book http://www.buthowdoitknow.com/ and related video https://youtu.be/cNN_tTXABUA
No one is suggesting to just reach for your phone.
I don't get this. If I don't want to be disturbed I just turn the phone to silent, although more often than not I don't need to because the phone will generally be in a different room than I am. If someone wants a reply from me they'll call me and hope the phone is with me, which doesn't happen for several hours a day.

Articles like this one make me feel old for not being with my phone 24/7 because they imply that that's what the norm is.
Yet everywhere humans gather, for the entirety of our existence, there is litter. A good chunk of archaeology is sifting through ancient litter - as it is so consistently prevalent.

We will continue to have litter no matter how much teaching, fining or visible policing there is. See Singapore - highly developed laws on littering, fines, and very visible policing. Yet they still employ a more than average amount of people to keep the place looking spick and span. That should simply not be necessary if it's down to attitude or teaching alone. It would all be in the bin back at home or hotel.

Seems like that statement is still very true globally, and will remain so - despite best efforts of teaching, legislature and culture.

What has changed, and changed markedly, is single use packaging on the back of industry pressure and lobbying. No longer do business seem to feel part of the problem or the solution, or even of society and the problems they create within it. Just call it an externality and be done. Hence the rise of lobbying pushing it away and onto the customer, as it's cheaper and easier - for them alone. You end up with armfuls more waste just from a single takeaway, including the always useless plastic or wood coffee stirrer.

To solve the problem that part of responsibility has to be pushed back to source, where it was created. Whilst society again employ enough people to keep cities and tourist spots looking attractive - as well as expecting individuals to act well. Placing it entirely on recipient alone is indeed bollocks, as is giving industry an ever bigger free-pass to produce more and more regardless.
So that is why so many OSS projects are full of bugs and horrible usability. In the past, I have tried to help with clear, reproducible bug reports. Quite often I spent an hour tracking down a bug, writing up why it matters, and then got ignored or dismissed.

Those OSS projects that deliver a quality product, also took my bug reports seriously (and sometimes disagreed).
Yes, I think it's also worth noting that the way it is currently set up, the Irish grid can't take more than 50% of its electricity from renewables. So storage should really help here, in terms of matching supply to demand and smoothing things out.
What is the scope of egg donation?
> Reductio ad absurdum is useful.

Maybe, but in this case I don't think that it was for the reasons that I've previously stated.

> Sounds like you agree.

What makes it sound like I agree? The only opinions I've divulged are on the quality of the post as an entry to the debate.

> Idk why label it a slippery slope, it's pretty cut and dry.

Please offer an opinion on whether its use was legitimate and based on a reasonably likely chain of events, but don't tell me that this wasn't using a slippery slope as a rhetorical device. It's not cut and dry, it's hyperbolic and vague, as bitter sarcasm tends to be.

> SAT scores def do determine who gets to work on your heart.

... and if that argument had been voiced I might have agreed or disagreed, but it wasn't.
Weeeell, it's in the planssss :D :D :D Happy to let you know, when it will happen in the future!
Is it? iwea.com is perfectly legitimate albeit niche with a valid https cert.

Doesn't this feature just push brave further down a route of acting as curators of a private version of the web, favouring larger (or partnered) websites?
Flexport.org is hiring engineers to work on humanity’s biggest problems
I immediately thought of Bitcoin when reading the OP. It can, and has been "hard" forked via miner consensus. That is, of course, one level removed from git, but I guess git"hub" could be more like gittorrent or something where instead of hosting a repo on one central server, the repo is hosted by a swarm and the version with the most seeds is the winner.
There's an interesting phenomenon connected to this:

http://dinaburg.org/bitsquatting.html
Git was designed to decentralise work, not power - they’re very different.

Think about the author of Git himself - Linus. He didn’t write Git because he decided one day that he was tired of being the final decision maker for the Linux kernel, and that he now wanted a thousand decentralized kernels to bloom, each with their own management and maintainers and trust levels.

It was designed to give everyone a way to work with full featured version control on their own machines, and set up adhoc networks of version control between any consenting parties. But that did not imply that the power structures that make up an organization would automatically be demolished.

Github is the extension of Git as it was designed. Maintainers on Github follow similar organzational policies as the Linux kernel and some are even codified into Github itself. But none of this is counter to the purpose of Git or even its ethos.
But then you'll die of hunger or thrust, which isn't a good situation to be in but, it happens now as well. People get trapped in remote, abandoned places only to die of circumstances other than natural causes.

I suppose that the biological immortality that author has talked about, the kind that our future generations will see, will still require all the necessary resources like we do. They'll still get sick and will need medical care sometimes, environment will still affect them, the only thing that will change is the deterioration that our body goes through as we age. I don't know much about the concept but I think it is pretty easy to picture it.