skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Practice is required of course. Oswald was a military sharp shooter, the shot was at close range, and he had a scope. Oswald would have had no problem making it (he had 3 shots)

I probably couldn't make the shot today, I'm out of practice.
Yeah I wouldn't trust Linksys to do even what their core competency is ... securely. Let alone any NAS.

Sadly the only good home NAS solutions are build it your own (time, hassle) or pay for something more expensive from Synology.
Annoying that that should be necessary, but good to know! Out of curiosity, what does that particular inefficiency look like in the execution plan? Does it do a full table scan when @buttonCount is passed in null, or was it inefficient for any value?
If you ask many Iraqis they will say that lady used him and his graphic suffering for propaganda purposes, he was left in the street to steal and get food while she took millions of donations using him. The timing of this article in many media outlets today helps to see the media role in the current false flag stuff happenings.
That's nowhere near a worst case for oil&gas. It's the most visible spectacular case. The worst case is mass extinction events due to climate change. The worst case that's actually happened is a million deaths/yr due to air pollution. Accidents are barely a blip in the calculus, the bulk of the damage happens even when everything is working as intended.
AirPods Are a Social and Environmental Disaster
Unfortunately disk space is still expensive and rather limited, its unfeasible to really preserve YouTube in any meaningful sense. Maybe someday, like Google Video, YouTube videos will disappear forever.
You are probably on a list now:

https://www.consumeraffairs.com/news/retailers-are-tracking-...
Data Synchronization on Rewrite Projects – No Integration
Huawei willing to sign 'no-spy' agreements with governments: chairman
Ask HN: How do you decouple production code from Machine Learning Model?
How do you make your code resilient to features in Machine learning model?

Current Model: Model A
New Model: Model B

Example 1:
If Model A has 10 feature inputs. However, Model B has only 6 feature inputs. No new features added. You have to make production code change remove using other 4 features in Production which requires a code change. How to make system intelligent to take only 6 inputs.

Example 2:
If Model B doesnt workout well, you rollback to Model A. How do you ensure that all features are used again in Model A without any code changes and re-adding features.

How do you ensure that code is always compatible no matter what model you use in production.
"including Facebook’s sharing of data with the dark arts firm Cambridge Analytica—and ever-growing worries about the tech giants’ monopoly powers."

We only care about this because it helped Trump win the election. Ask yourself this: If this helped Hillary win, would you care? I'm guessing we wouldn't even be hearing about it now and anyone that mentioned it would be laughed at/silenced.

Our privacy always matters, regardless of the politics of the day. When a Democrat becomes president, these discussions will most likely go away.

Zuckerberg certainly doesn't care about your privacy. He only wants to please the masses so he can go back to ruling the world.

"There is also a third option, which would be just as momentous: workplace democracy. By which I mean, we should ensure that tech workplaces are governed in accord with basic democratic norms and ideals"

Why do tech workers need to have a union? They are paid more than most jobs in the world and can pick/choose where they work.

Unions will only limit the good employee's pay and allow the lazy/mediocre to take over. Not to mention making it impossible for a small company to survive, because of the regulations that are involved with unionization.

It's great for changing the landscape to mostly large companies and the government..which is what happens in Countries like Sweden and Norway...but terrible for people that want to start their own company.
A ticket is not punishment for a crime. A ticket is a summons charging you of commiting a crime. When you pay a ticket you are pleading guilty to the offense and paying the predetermined fine which is the punishment for commiting the crime. You can also appeal the ticket which then allows you to argue your innocence in a court. If the court finds you guilty they will then issue you a fine which is your punishment.
Honestly, well above 12 hours a day between office, home and phone. 14? And that's not counting Kindle as a screen.
Is Android.net.rtp available on every support Android and Google Library version combination that WhatsApp natively supports?
> I'm not saying that memes have no impact, I'm saying that Memetics have no impact. As in, the scholarly academic study of memes.

Ah ok, I'm glad I was misunderstanding rather than disagreeing.

> As for Memetics having an impact, well, that would be like a professor of theoretical musicology releasing a #1 charting pop album.

Here I'm quite certain we actually do disagree.

If we take the definition as: "Memetics is the study of information and culture based on an analogy with Darwinian evolution. Proponents describe memetics as an approach to evolutionary models of cultural information transfer. Memetics describes how an idea can propagate successfully, but doesn't necessarily imply a concept is factual."

Would it be fair to say this is consistent with the notion that people don't think in facts, they think in ideas (aka memes), which aren't necessarily true? Do you significantly disagree with this notion?
They promote their book after the video. Any opinions?

“Alice and Bob Meet the Wall of Fire: The Biggest Ideas in Science from Quanta ”

https://www.amazon.com/Alice-Bob-Meet-Wall-Fire/dp/026253634...
Exercise and rehabilitation, turns out it's something dog owners in the area had been missing.
And the least feminist nation in the world is Denmark?
They're temp contract jobs. They "lose" themselves once the time is over.
Nope. Many are not. Getting a speeding ticket is not a criminal offense. Same with most "did a thing without a permit" violations.
Though initially I was inclined to treat this as a troll, this is actually a good point. Major power consumers can acquire solar and wind energy without causing widespread destruction to other countries. Not so for oil, and to a much lesser extent that I think has not been realized since the 1940's, uranium.
If iPhone prices went up by $9, I don't think it'd make the HN homepage. Tesla's just in super-interesting mode.
Two things... one personal and one technical. I was in that war. I was a silent conscientious objector (I thought the war was about oil and money.) I went because I had an obligation to go. I have many stories but the best one is this. When the war ended, we sold our portable hospital to the Kuwaitis. We went to Kuwait City to deliver it and saw the destruction; the six miles of death. When I jumped off the truck and the people, families rushed up to me(us) and kissed my cheek, bowed and kissed my feet—I could not make them stop. They would raise up and say in cryptic English "We thank The United States, President Bush and you." I was touched and changed—it changed my opinion of the cause. What if I was sent back home directly after the war? To this day I would have said what I thought before.

Technically, this website is well done. Just scroll down and down. It's a little long but I like some of it.
About 50% of my Amazon packages are delivered by Amazon at this point (Boise, ID area).
The best bugs are short-lived bugs.
Yeah; I learned early on to always change the delivery from "1 day" to standard 2 day prime shipping. 1 day delivery always ends up with some joker trying to deliver a package at 9PM and marking it as "attempted delivery" without knocking or calling the number in my delivery notes. I've never had a problem with 2 day shipping, but 1 day always ends up being a nightmare.
Qt on CMake Workshop Summary
Yeah they bought Jet for about three billion dollars cash in 2016, for their delivery network. See point two on https://blog.walmart.com/business/20160919/five-big-reasons-...
Hey, yes, it requires a lot of mathematics. But the results are really exciting and encouraging. We took a lot of pleasure in creating it. Glad you like it!
I actually ordered a CPU from Walmart.com a few days ago. It'll take a week to get to me, but it's still amazing to me that the order happened at all.
The uranium cycle requires heavy equipment (dozers, loaders, trains, trucks, etc), all of which run on fossil fuels, so it's not "carbon free."
What a great website.
Would you like to reduce? Do you feel it's too much?
It is a good question. You would normally think a corporation would go with MIT or BSD instead.
It would be nice if there was a home commercial product that cut out all the remote access or even local access, reduced feature set (I don't need NAS on my router), allowed admin access via a physical port only and thus cut out a lot of the attack surface area....

It shouldn't even be hard for Linksys (granted with their history I wouldn't trust them) or someone to provide that option. With a reduced feature set and etc maybe updates would be easier too.

Granted when it comes to home commercial routing products it looks like it is all about a bazillion new features (at least the way they look on the box / shopping sites) ... not less.
I'd like someone to do the math on that 200MiB estimate. YouTube stores every video at multiple resolutions, and has replicas in data centers all around the world.
Owning the supply chain end to end and paying employees enough to maintain a quality of life which supports good customer service
> The commands are more uniform and predictable.

Git won because it was a) unopinionated and b) powerful enough to support arbitrary workflows for any enterprise.

For the enterprise, being 'uniform and predictable' is way, way, way down lower on the list of important criteria in version control. (And in fact may even be a negative, due to the weird legacy workflows many enterprises have.)
Nobody can say if Uber is a bankruptcy risk at this time, because they went public just a couple of days ago, and are still swimming in VC cash that the public markets are paying back. Tesla on the other hand is years past its IPO, and can only raise money now via junk bond issues, which costs them much more in interest payments than their competition.

Their 2025 unsecured note had a coupon rate of 5.3%, and the cost to insure against default was 22 cents on the dollar. At worst, VCs only seek to be repaid in shares.

Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/tesla-bonds/update-1-teslas-...
A month and 3 days, but yeah.
The vast majority of people will never encounter any radiation caused by a radioactive plant in their life, so this line of thought doesn't even make sense.

> 91% of the world population live in area where air quality exceeds WHO guideline [0]

If I had the choice I'd go for a < 0.01% chance of dying of radiation related death over a 100% chance of slowly but surely destroying my respiratory system.

And let's be real, accident related deaths are a drop in the bucket.

[0] https://www.who.int/airpollution/en/
>> "Sure, but that's DSP not music."

That's why I said "It's more important if you plan to involve computers in your workflow." I didn't make a general statement about all music.

The more electronic your music, the blurrier the line between making music and audio engineering. Most famous electronic musicians, especially EDM artists, are known as much for their audio engineering as for their music.
Erentz's link to Wikipedia has the same table, but here's one from Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2012/06/10/energys-d...

Wind and solar are slightly more dangerous than nuclear, as of this data.
Reproducible and reusable machine learning pipeline
By now, we should be able to transition between ORM and raw SQL code without anyone batting an eye. It's not hard at all. You can't convince me people are actually worried about an extra ORM dependency these days when we have node_modules.

I would much, much rather junior devs use an ORM to start simply to prevent SQL injection while they skill up on SQL itself. But there's not many companies who will hire you and give you a month to learn SQL from the ground-up and do nothing else (learning SQL is NOT like learning another compiled/interpreted language -- there's new concepts plus the DBMS's own language idiosyncrasies which you're definitely using in prod).
A new place to shop for your doggy
Amazon doesn't need to own the last mile. They just need to ensure whoever does meets their standards. USPS has rules for what size packages they will deliver. Amazon either needs to get USPS to follow their rules and deliver that package, or they need to read the rules and ship via someone who can deliver. (I don't know the rules or package in question so I cannot say who is at fault). Of course Amazon might be too small a player in the eyes of USPS, but there are other choices for delivery if USPS doesn't meet their needs.
Inertial Navigation in Marine Robotics
How to Get Others to Adopt Your Recommendation
After a few decades of exported plastic trash ending up in the oceans being common knowledge it doesn't matter whether the handling was initially misrepresented. At best it's willful ignorance, but let's not pretend people have been sending plastic trash to China under the assumption that it would be dealt with responsibly.
In this case I think it's a short-lived feature.
I work with automotive data and I assure you there are many manufacturers that raise msrp prices throughout the year, sometimes multiple times on the same model.
Too little too late!
With hypervolumes you mean all the (n-1)-dimensional 'faces' (n > 1) formed by a vertex and its neighbours in an n-dimensional simplex or a mesh of those? To assign unique weights to all interactions between a vertex and up to n-1 of its neighbours, I assume.
They own it in a handful of cities: https://www.amazon.com/AmazonFresh
Really interesting. I wonder how this agreement is implemented and what it contains. Also, do any of the US companies provide similar agreement?
It's almost as if Dallas wants to lose these cases. I mean, how hard would it be to look up the code before you write the ticket, knowing he's going to challenge it?? Or, maybe they just want to harass him, but at this point they are looking pretty bad. Makes no sense.
Well it did take Oswald 2-3 tries.
> So in summary a feature that was stable for 3 days is taken back for further bugfixing.

It seems like such a terribly subtle bug. I wonder, how was it discovered (so quickly)?
Look at how retail has changed in the past 30 years. I usually point out video rental stores as an example of technological disruption. Rental stores and stores that offered rentals as part of their mix made up something like 45,000 locations, and maybe about 125k jobs. They were replaced by maybe 20k jobs or less, with redbox and netflix combined only accounting for 8kish jobs.

Retail changed from a career that offered full time jobs to one making use of a just in time workforce, and has suffered tremendous consolidation over that period.Like entre chains and concept stores have declined; something like Media Play is dead and no longer able to be revived. Even Gamestop suffers, as the amount of physical releases declines.

I think retail shows it can be pretty dire indeed.
I agree. Lush 2 was very promising. On the bright side, now Lisp is back in what seems a good fit of research and practicality.
No one has confirmed whether they were able to install anything beyond the confines of the app on iOS. The press are not particularly qualified to evaluate that consideration and have been doing a poor job of blurring what’s unlikely/impossible on iOS with what’s likely/possible on Android.
This kind of chart should have its workings and data readily available. It appears the only deaths included for nuclear are from some cancer estimate which is not readily accessible. It is not clear what the others death count includes.

Here is the entire data download that is actually included for this chart:

Entity,Code,Year, (deaths per TWh)
Biomass,,2014,4.63
Brown coal,,2014,32.72
Coal,,2014,24.62
Gas,,2014,2.821
Nuclear,,2014,0.074
Oil,,2014,18.43

With it lacking any discussion of what these quite mysterious counts mean - this is often taken as proof of safety. Yet Nuclears exceptional score could be transformed by the kind of catastrophic accident which nuclear is capable of and which by great expense and some luck has avoided to date.

For example if weather during Fukushimas accident had blown fallout over Tokyo, or if a reactor anywhere releases similar or greater amounts of fallout anywhere in the world where a large population center is downwind, many thousands of cancers are possible, with children disproportionately affected by radiation exposure. Large areas of land can be made uninhabitable to civilization for decades or more, and depending on future civilizations standards.
most of my phone time is spent listening to audiodrama and books. on average i spend more time on that than watching tv.
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Just a few days ago there was a discussion about how Google is now indexing less contented from a years ago[1].

If Google can't keep indexes which are relatively inexpensive why should they keep videos that are more expensive and possibly no one will watch? Especially as the length and number of videos is increasing faster than ever?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19762907
Maybe I'm mistaken, but my understanding is that YouTube has been operating at a loss for its entire existence.
It is not fully carbon free, yes; but compared to fossil fuels, it practically is.
Maybe, but only being able to focus on things that happen to grab your attention/interest is one of the major pain points of having ADHD.

It's not a matter of preferring to work on more interesting things. It's more along the lines of not realizing uninteresting things need to be dealt with (or even exist at all, sometimes) until they bite you in the ass.

Keeping up the theme of starting a blog... you'll have a rational understanding that a blog needs content. But you'll get wrapped up in solving the more interesting design/engineering problems. Once those parts of the project have been sorted out well enough that you are no longer actively solving a problem (note, I didn't say they were completed), something unrelated, but more interesting, will cross your mind and steal your attention away.
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Absolutely loved the interactive part of the article as a none science / math person. food for thought and deeper research....
Isn’t every article about this saying it persists, without saying how or whether it’s a sandbox escape? If it just spins up bad code in WhatsApp space, that’s sufficient to spy on you.
Securing Web Apps with Modern Platform Features (Google I/O)
Probably should have included railroads as well.
I'd expect deaths from big solar farms to be quite a bit lower than that, possibly lower than nuclear even.
The reason "the commands are so [messed]-up, inconsistent and counter-intuitive" is most likely that you expect the commands to represent your mental model of the system when in fact they represent the mental model of the system designers.

I once felt it was weird till I dove in and looked at the underlying data model. Then It struck me and all the awkwardness evaporated and the commands actually make sense to me now.
Agreed. "Basic web presence" is important, but there are a ton of businesses that could benefit from and desire small, custom, web-features. I spent some freelance time in this space, making about $75-100 per hour of pure profit, purely developing against existing web infrastructure to add small, but meaningful, features for various business sites (often hosted on GoDaddy or similar). These varied from custom client communication forms, payment integration, simple admin tools, etc. Ultimately I stopped because I didn't care about the extra cash more than my free time (competing with grad school), but could have easily filled 40 hours per week with the requests I got.

I think it heavily depends on your network and the market in your location. Sure, if you're in the Bay Area, freelance might not make sense; but find a city with 100-200k population and start building a network among small-business owners/operators and you can do just fine.
Well I was thinking specifically about iOS :)

There's no possible way to read SMS messages programatically in iOS for example, the closest you get is reading one time passwords sent, and you can only do that when the user has the keyboard open when the SMS is received.

I know Android is slightly more lax in this (and some other) regards. I wonder if Android whatsapp users targeted by this exploit have had more data exposed than iOS users targeted by the same exploit?
And what's their resulting failure rate compared to what it would have been if they'd used existing auto-rated parts?

I see a lot of "they should have done X and they didn't so they're wrong" but not a lot of "they should have done X but they did Y and Y worked worse than X by these measures".
It's all related to where the merch is sitting when you order. There is an online auto parts store called RockAuto that will let you know across the site which items are sitting in the same warehouse as other items in your cart. A lot of the stuff is standard auto parts so there will be like eight identical gas caps made by different vendors that are all priced within a few cents of each other. They all are located in different warehouses so I'll usually pick the parts I don't have as much choice over and then go back and pick the jellybean parts that happen to be in the same warehouse. They don't do free shipping so it really helps reduce shipping costs when you only have one box coming. It's also nice just getting all of your parts at once instead of having to wait for different ones to come in and not being able to work on anything until you get them all anyway. I'll play around with which identical parts I choose just to make sure I'm picking all the parts I need from the same, closest warehouse.
Sure. A Maximum Credible Accident (the industry term) at Turkey Point (near Miami) or Indian Point (near NYC).
There is currently an anti-kickback statute in place that protects rebates. Big news is that this might change this year or next year, rebates are paid at point of sale to consumers. Insurance premiums would rise, so non-utilizers see an increase in cost, and very high utilizers see a reduction (rebates primarily on high cost brand drugs).
Actually talking about the Amazon as a great feat of human stewardship is perfect. Humans are capable of making nature better, but I sense one major caveat: when you name the Amazon as a human endeavor you forget that all the species that make the Amazon such a biodiverse place were already there. Humans might have made the Amazon a better place, but alle the ingrediënts were already there. The timescale of humans transforming earth is mindbogglingly short in terms of the timescale of "nature". Nowadays we are destroying species by the millions (not millions of individuals of a species, but millions of species!) This destroys the possibility to create a better system because the capital for creating one is destroyed.
Useful JavaScript Tricks
Some things you can do in bulk (economies of scale), outsource, schedule, or otherwise automate.

You can create pipelines that save labor - like clients for platforms that make answering common questions / interacting with users way more comfortable and suited to your targeted workflow than the default clients.

On the creativity front, you can also generate random, semi-plausible stuff to inspire you when you're in a rut.

It's not quite about making everything automated, but about leveraging code, systems thinking, and collaborators in such a way that your performance is incredible. It's really feasible.