skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Washington state lawmakers should get their heads out of their behinds and do something about the ballooning homeless population. Buy them bus tickets back to Portland, for example.

https://mynorthwest.com/297793/portland-begins-sending-homel...
Hydraulic hybrid is much better for this application. Cheaper, and captures much more of the braking energy.

https://www.hydraulicspneumatics.com/waste-management/ohio-t...
SerenityOS – a graphical Unix-like OS for x86, with 90s aesthetics
The editing, pacing, and style were better.

Educational videos today tend to go to one of two extremes. Either they're a talking head with PowerPoint, like most of the "massively online" courses. Or they have way too many jump cuts, like theatrical movies which want your attention, not your understanding.

There's also an annoying tendency to have distracting music and irrelevant graphics during narration.

Here's an old Jam Handy film, "Spinning Levers", on how a transmission works.[1] There's a whole series of these Chevrolet films on the Internet Archive, covering major vehicle systems. Things to note:

- There's a narrator and a demonstrator. We never see the narrator, and the demonstrator never talks. So the viewer can focus.

- The demo models of parts are really good. They start with a simple version and add features until a full transmission has been built up.

- There's some simple animation. Animation is used to point out how power flows through the gears. This is much clearer than someone using a pointer.

- The editing and narration are very well synchronized.

- There's an entertaining part at the beginning and end, so you don't feel like they're beating you over the head with the boring stuff.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOLtS4VUcvQ
I believe a bug would still cause them to be in violation, but it likely means there would not be any punishment for being in violation. GDPR has a lot of leeway for companies that are making an effort to be in compliance, but have failed for one reason or another. In this case, I would assume the punishment for the bug would just be "fix the bug".
'Remove ambiguity' means 'choose a meaning', which of course means non-zero% chance you're wrong.

Alternatively, as you said, use a non-ambiguous subset. But then it's no longer a natural language, I wouldn't mind betting they're all ambiguous.
Depends on battery tech. Metal-air batteries, in which atmospheric oxygen (on Earth) is the cathode, weigh more when discharged.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal–air_electrochemical_cell
Shouldn't this technology be outlawed outside law enforcement?

It sounds like it can be used like a powerful tool.
> "ancient" is too strong a word for a text from 1871

> use "old", or "antique"

Yes, thanks! I knew the precise meaning of "ancient" (it is like in "Ancient Greece" or "Ancient Egypt", it is about times that were really different), it seems as an exaggeration, but thought that "old" is not specific enough and "antique" didn't came into my mind. At the same exaggeration is a valid literacy device.

Thank you, for pointing at that. I really appreciate that, because I feel that my English is not perfect, and the lack of feedback in internet conversations doesn't allow me to improve it.
Agree completely. Prussian-style education is good at promoting fascism and perhaps at preparing people to fit into a poorly-designed workforce, but not much else. Some combination of homeschooling, tutors, and (around age 12-16) apprenticeship programs would probably be better for the sorts of goals I have regarding society. The nuclear family is useful but insufficient given our biology; atoms alone are less useful than the higher-order molecules that supervene them.
Chaz Bono was on The Bold and the Beautiful, but as a guest character.

Sadly trans inclusion in casting has been pretty damn abysmal across the board. My impression is that most audiences are actually willing to watch something different, but the people making casting choices chose often not to cast them.
I just wish for:

1. a desktop-grade web browser, e.g. chrome (actual chrome not an iOS chrome)

2. better file system management

3. better multitasking (e.g. multiple windows even from a single app)

4. some way to actually code natively on the ipad, e.g. write and run python code, C code, etc., I guess have a *nix shell. I don't need to "take over the whole device" but I would like to be able to run code even if it's in a sort of sandboxed environment
Why Is AMD the Budget Option for Gamers?
Relevant discussion 4 days ago, "Python's batteries are leaking": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19948642
So am I...
The problem is there is so much inertia to overcome with "free" email and photo hosting that I could talk 'til I'm blue in the face to family and friends and they just ignore it.
Metamorphosis by Kafka
Methane generator, for in situ fuel production. "Sabatier reaction".
Love that the article says people can use the AWS support system to report issues with the technology. That's a black hole of no return if you are a paying customer much less someone random off the internet.
Do you think that fascism was created by the Nazis? Just because the manifesto was not written, does not mean that there were people without fascist beliefs, even if they couldn't call themselves fascists yet.
TL;DR: Writer likes rigid writing tool
The “Fossies” Software Archive
C.r.e.a.m. – Crypto Rules Everything Around Me
This is due to https://youtu.be/s86-Z-CbaHA
Two are physically present but MCAS only takes input from one of them.

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/inves...
It is striking for me to see that alphabet might be changed without intervention of a state.
I would buy one if it had Bluetooth mouse support I think.
This season makes all these decisions look better in hindsight; but as mentioned in the article it didn't work at first. Liverpool tried to Moneyball their way into Top 4 and failed often. Classic examples being when they needed strength in positions like DM, CB or FB. They ended up going for players which made sense stat/pound. It led to LFC signing up players like Sakho or Moreno who had good stats for their value at that time but never worked out. Like in case of Sakho, he doesn't have the presence and leadership needed in the back and LFC needed it badly at that time.
It makes perfect sense but the generations that have to make that choice today (because they don't care about those dead people anymore) don't want to think tha they too will one day not matter anymore. It's a hard sell unless there are stronger reasons (e.g. housing is really really terrible that people will want to "disturb the dead"). Yeah, humans... :-)
Normal lists have a backing array. In theory, every time you resize it, it needs to allocate new memory and copy everything over, which is very slow. Obviously python does a lot of optimization behind the scene by over-allocating memory, which gives it better amortized speed.

Linked lists are slow at accessing data in the middle, but you can very quickly add and remove stuff from the ends, hence double-ended queue. A stack is basically a deque where you only use the tip, so deque is very versatile like that.
Since the drop that they are talking about began in 1975, that would not seem like a good fit as an explanation.
How about a different scenario?

Eve is not the threat. Eve is going along serving email for Alice and Bob just fine for quite a while.

Then one day Fred compromises Eve. Fred can dump data directly out of Eve's database. Depending on how Fred gains access, full disk encryption, database encryption, row-level encryption, etc. might or might not present themselves as layers of security that he must bypass. If Fred has compromised the running service, he will likely have access to the data and any keys, source material needed to derive the keys, or external decryption mechanisms (HSMs, database-side services) from within the service itself.

If the messages inside of the database have been encrypted on the clients with keys not held in the server (E2E), Fred now has another layer of defense in front of him, only this one requires Fred to inject script into the clients to scrape the necessary keys. When the client is running Javascript in the browser, this is obviously easier than on clients deployed through some other mechanism, but still more difficult than being able to get everything Fred needs in memory in the server.

Mainly, it's another layer of defense, and if the service is using it for other clients, a browser-based client would need to have it to function anyway (even if that weakens the security of the users choosing to use it).

An alternate scenario is that Eve is also not a threat, but is instead a business that doesn't want the liability of having certain material in the plain inside of its premises ever.
How to Have Your Own Website for $2 a Year
https://docs.python.org/3/library/fileinput.html

I've never had a strong opinion about "batteries included", but boy there are some weird ones in there...
By "desktop grade" do you mean you prefer the Blink renderer to Webkit, or that you prefer a desktop browser UX (extensions, full JS execution in background tabs, etc) to the mobile UX?
Panic Reveals Plans to Sell a Handheld Gaming System Called the Playdate in 2020
Not in this case. It's mostly just a marketing term. If I wanted to be pedantic, Intel's first gen 10nm has a tip fin width of 7nm. 14nm had a tip fin width of 8nm.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/13405/intel-10nm-cannon-lake-...
For a *nix shell you can checkout this: https://github.com/tbodt/ish
I'd be interested in that, too. I was under the impression that even the central government can't get reliable economic data on its provinces, because the numbers are fudged at every level, so they have to estimate them indirectly e.g. using electricity consumption. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Keqiang_index
steve jobs was soo off with the stylus being out of fashion. totally wrong... the apple pencil is probably THE only strong differentiators for the ipad.
Drive and motivation is a choice, not luck.
Pentagon Contractor's 9,400% Profit on Half-Inch Pin Challenged
must accumulate capital
I think the general attitude of being willfully blind to fundamental distinctions between things that are only superficially similar and shoehorning issue debates in where they don't belong is ultimately unhelpful for the debate over what is, elsewhere, an important issue.
Yeah! That's a really good idea! Why not set an upper limit? Why not set it at say... 5 million dollars? Once you have 5 million in total assets, that's it. You can't keep any income beyond that point. Your income in excess of that is subject to redistribution to the poorest people. Would there even be a tangible decrease in lifestyle for the wealthiest folks?
I honestly didn't realize there was so much random stuff in stdlib.
Or my favorite example: that at one point, the Rails inflector would singularize "police" as "polouse."
I'm surprised at the removal of aifc. AIFF is still used somewhat in macOS.
This seems like a good idea to me, but what are the chances that something like this actually lands? I know Guido did not seem to like this approach (to put it mildly), although I'm not sure he still has veto power having stepped down as BDFL.

Also, the changes sound like a major version bump to me, but I doubt people want that to happen after Python 2 to 3...
Where this is a legitimate complaint, it would be better served to look at it as ablism, in that the show is absolutely screwing with people who are autistic through Sheldon.

Generally speaking, though, nerds who can fit in socially with other people are not losing jobs for being nerdy. They're not being killed for being nerdy. They're not even being beaten up for being nerdy on any kind of major scale, and certainly not as adults.

There's simply no comparison to be had here. We, as nerds, are not oppressed for being nerdy. Our feelings being hurt is not comparable to slavery or jim crow.
Why should private analysis of photos legally acquired be illegal?

If computers are legal and software is legal and photography is legal, it seems to me that running your own software on your own computers over your own photos should be legal.

I don’t like the implication either, but I think perhaps the thing we should be looking at is why it is legal for companies to take photos of us for commercial purposes without our explicit consent. I also feel it would be much more practical to regulate and enforce than regulating what algorithms they get to use on already-captured imagery.
Instawork raises $18M Series B for hospitality gigs
Who says breitbart is not allowed here?

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=www.breitbart&sort=byDate&pref...
That cuts both ways. Eastern Germany was also the best capitalism can buy.
I'm not sure that images should be your largest concern.

Messaging apps and the sites you visit online are much richer sources of data for adtech and ML.
This seems like a vast swath of things to deprecate with one PEP, but it looks like the author of the PEP talked with a large number of core developers about issues that they had with the stdlib and decided deprecated packages that way, which I think should be good for approval of the PEP.

I have a couple of questions:

- I realize there may not be a fork with this PEP implemented, but how might this impact Python's local relative build time, and how might that convert over to the build pipelines? Drastically faster build times would be really nice.

- Are Python 2 -> 3 migrations for stdlib packages mostly rewrites or mostly tacking on compatibility layers like `from __future__ import unicode_literals`? If stdlib packages were updated with Python 3 syntax, it might indicate sustained demand for said package going forward. I'm not sure.
The parent is possibly commenting on how nutrition standards in western countries have (arguably) declined recently.
If you are a manager and "afraid of what it would look like" to have a 1:1 meeting with any of your employees, then you are a terrible manager. It is not a universal constant that all conversations gravitate towards sex. Just discuss what is relevant to the meeting, address the employee's concerns, rinse, repeat. Treat all employees as individuals and assets to your team, not as potential romantic interests. It's really not that hard to keep a professional demeanor in a 1:1 setting.
Java's implemented largely in C++. Does that make Java just a C++ framework?
Ask HN: Do social media apps need to have 1M users to fundraise?
An investor said that social media apps need to have 1 to 2 million users to fundraise.
I am sorry that you went through this. I was worried about something like this happening too, and wasn't sure how I would handle it. It sounds like you're handling it the best you can.

If you'd like to talk more privately, please reach out (my email is in profile).
They have more voting power/representation per capita. Which is ridiculous, and blatantly unfair. People vote, not land.
Modern smart contract systems should learn a lesson or five from it, most importantly, (object) capability security.

Why? Because it lets programs handle permissions like other objects, keeping them apart and thus reducing the attack surface and preventing Confused Deputy [0] attacks.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confused_deputy_problem
Writing a Compiler in Rust
Regulating this technology seems like regulating encryption. Futile. You can never put the tech genie back in the bottle. Especially since presumably many of the foundation layers of this technology are open source with wide scale applications. Will they outlaw machine learning? TensorFlow?

Obviously whatever Amazon is doing is more complicated than throwing a ton of face images at TensorFlow but as technology progresses, the advances will bubble up to the application layer.

The thought that you could even regulate facial recognition just shows how out to lunch lawmakers and the media are when it comes to technology, how it's developed and how it's deployed.
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Let me just make a distinction that if you are a support paying customer, you get very fast and somewhat (depends who you get) helpful support, including real time webchat or through the phone.

It's arguable this should be included at all levels but I guess AWS wants to keep their support top notch for the larger pocket users.
I encourage you to watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofRxxrdQE0c

Lighthearted, but surprisingly insightful. Especially the part about treachery!
Go Time 86: Go Modules and the Athens Project
It's not just for home use. China is also exporting their surveillance and social credit technology to Venezuela, Cuba, NK, and even Australia.

On the home front, we have AI recognizers and pattern matching being applied to YouTube videos and comments to prohibit certain words or certain messages because they're "wrongthink." We also let political opponents/activists report on certain words, certain messages, and the use of certain kinds of language. How is that any different from what China is doing, in principle? It's not. It just covers a smaller fraction of the population and culture, for now.

Granted, some of the people targeted by these activities are unpleasant and bad people. Not all of them are, however. The organizations and people who do this targeting (through AI recognizers and pattern matching and through taking reports from social media) are problematic for the US in that, 1) no one elected them to do this, 2) the people who control the mechanisms and rules overwhelmingly belong to one political party, and 3) for all that there is little concern demonstrated by those who have the power, over how such power can be abused. Yet, it's already openly acknowledged that the use of and control over such media does have significant political ramifications.

Many in China recognize that the power over social media is one-sided, but they don't mind because they consider Uyghur terrorist organizations and people like Falun Gong to be shady troublemakers at best or evil at worst. We in the US and the rest of the west recognize that such unchecked power results in abuses. It's easier to criticize the flaws and quirks of another society, but much harder to recognize when the same exists in our own.
I do nodejs work on iPad with digitalocean + tmux. I don't know if on-device setup will ever match a true nix environment.
Dont buy from Amazon.

How hard can it be
Not to mention coding bootcamps. For those with short memories, Java didn't achieve its dominance based on Sun's marketing alone. Sure, that played a role, but Java was also convenient for universities to roll out as a language for instruction, usually displacing the likes of C++ and Pascal. It became the first language for millions of developers, many of whom wouldn't have much exposure to anything else.

For a while, it looked like Python had a shot at becoming the next dominant teaching language. Then the coding bootcamps realized they could save money and retain more students if they pitched JavaScript as the language for client and server. And so millions more developers are emerging with little exposure to anything outside JavaScript.
When I saw the "first killer app" headline I immediately thought "VisiCalc". I used it ad-nauseum on a TRS-80 III as a neuroscience lab assistant in the early '80s. Before I got that software I used actual paper spreadsheets, either big 17"x11" sheets, or painfully self ruled paper. After enough hours of that I carried my TRS-80 into the lab and introduced my professor to it and VisiCalc, who fell in love and bought one for the lab.

If you've never spreadsheeted on paper you may not realize the glory of even the most primitive spreadsheet app. I used to use erasers until my fingers went numb or white-out by the quart.

Up hill both ways. You young whippersnappers have no idea how good you have it.

I sat with the prof to show him my first attempt, with a half dozen formulas in it. He looked over my shoulder and showed me that every. fucking. formula. was wrong. I felt humiliated. But we fixed them as we went, and watching the changes flow into the cells was magic. My force had been multiplied.

The skills from VisiCalc have transferred to other spreadsheets over the years very well. It's amazing how much Mr. Bricklin got right. I wonder how much was his brilliance and how much was the inevitability of the design.
I guess this thread is one more proof of why there's less and less funny shows coming from the U.S.

Nerds, scientists, engineers or developers can be make fun of like everybody else.

Sure BBT is not really a good show, especially after the first few seasons, sure it jokes about adults reading comics, but they also got hot wifes, go to the ISS and get Nobel prize.

The most damning thing is that people in this very thread praise Silicon Valley. You do realize that, besides being more realistic and better written, the people on this show are also way more ridiculous and despicable than in BBT? But somehow you're less offended, interesting.

I wonder if support people are offended by IT Crowd ahah.
Is the sole argument that you're presenting in favour of outlawing really that 'it can be used like a powerful tool'?
Daimler names new CEO, plans to focus on electric vehicles and cost cutting
Ah, the public corporation! Fictive structures created so that profit-making shall never be interfered with by moral or ethical concerns!

Just creating shareholder value, what else can you expect us to do!
Those are not reputable.
What was the point of taking this to shareholders? On what planet would anyone expect them to vote any other way?
Mind elaborating a bit on what you mean? Like mark as read on posts/stories? I could add it in.
Playdate: Panic's handheld game player
I didn't stop at that sentence, but I can understand the latter sentiment. Zork was a revolutionary game, Fortnite is a cartoon shooter. Other than both games being popular there is simply no comparison between the two in my mind.
Especially when you start looking at the code for some of these

https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/Lib/imghdr.py
I'm actually rather the /most/ concerned about law enforcement having access to it.
But did the king have data showing that IQ's are dropping alongside the adoption of reading and writing?

Being able to scribble memos to yourself probably does bring neglect to memorization; if you do nothing else with your literacy than replace your short and long term memory with writing, it's possible that your memory will stagnate.

When we introduce literacy, people read a lot more than they write, and they remember a lot of what they read. That boosts their memory and learning, even if writing down notes is otherwise detrimental.

In the modern age, you don't have to remember what you read, just the search engine keyword or piece of URL to find it again (and for the latter, there are bookmarks). Basically it's down to just remembering that you read something.
The TTY Demystified
ever smelled a compositing body? its pretty nasty
Happy if it will be of use!

There are two things at play with being too fast:

first, you know what you are talking about (thus are giving a talk) - and tend to want to give as much info as possible.

the second, and more important one, is the adrenaline rush that every performance gives.

It probably is this:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachypsychia

Consequently rehearsals help (they remove the worry about what to say)

Also one thing that helped me a lot is taking “dominant” poses five minutes before getting on stage. I can’t find the study that claimed it to work - but it did.

Later I have read the research that had claimed it didn’t work - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/28946020/ is one of the studies I could find quickly, but for me this technique still works, so maybe it’s the power of the placebo :)
Most of the world cremates the dead.