skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel there are good mitigating options here:

- they could use vehicle-mounted transceivers with much better antennas

- they could use redundant transceivers on different networks

- they could map out routes with best signal. Remember this is last mile only, so it's not a huge area. Instead of going the shortest way a la Waze, optimize the route for best signal.
Seven Key Dimensions to Help You Understand Artificial Intelligence Environments
The trouble with tribbles is that they're born pregnant, and can't stop reproducing.

Kind of like tabs and bookmarks.
Lithium-ion batteries can be fully charged safely in about an hour, give or take, regardless of their capacity. 80% charge is about half that, IIRC.

The reason it takes a while to recharge EVs is because of the enormous size of their batteries. Tesla Superchargers inject more power into the car than what comes into a regular home.

Quick math: A 100KWh is going to take a bit more than 100KW of power to charge in an hour. For comparison, an oven uses about 3KW...
Some European country tax 90% of income...
> Like many things I’m sure there’s a significant difference depending on your biochemistry.

...and placebo effect.
For anyone here that takes magnesium for sleep, why do you think it works for you?

It works wonders for my sleep but I’ve never met anyone that shares that view.
A proposal for controlling the behavior of JavaScript imports
Run Applitools visual tests on Genymotion Cloud virtual devices
A bunch work, you have to rotate thru them and have some self-hosted too I hear from friends. DWeb can't come quickly enough.
If this were a commercial product, he owned the company and wasn’t an employee, and he could still get the widespread adoption that open source can bring.

I might suggest for a company to use VueJS since it is open source and donate but I’m never going to suggest that a company bases its product on Telerik components.
Which other graphing tools are you comparing it to?

I think ggplot2 is a decent library, but in my opinion it gets more praise than it deserves.
Python vs. R – Choosing the Best Programming Language for Data Science
I had the same experience the other way. I halved the runtime of an ETL program by writing a custom float to string function.
Are they going to give you advanced notice of these bank box inspections? There's no way anyone would remove property to avoid a tax of course.
Swedish startup Northvolt raised $1bn to rival Tesla’s “gigafactory”
Some limitations in terms of the vms and providers:

* If the size of the initrd is too large, it cannot properly unpack into vm's RAM --- size of RAM must be increased accordingly. We could also change [boot params](https://www.lightofdawn.org/blog/?viewDetailed=00128), or use shared disks, etc.

* For hyperkit, apple's vmnet requires sudo to create a bridge interface on host. We've played with a version that use's vpnkit and port forwarding (like linuxkit/Docker for Mac), but this adds lots of complexity in image, and opted for the simpler approach.

* We would like a better template mechanism for reusing base images and extending. Right now, we support using base image reuse, with extensions through docker buildargs---ideally, we would want something like %include support in Dockerfiles.

* Finally, we're investigating how to make images work well on multiple providers. For example, ubuntu does not play nice with hyperkit out-of-the-box, but works fine for vbox and kvm.
Plenty of research gets done by corporations, private universities, and research institutes with needing immunity from copyright and patent claims. If public universities want immunity from copyright and patent claims then the resulting research should not be able to be copyrighted or patented.
Some meteorologists are not in love with the new model. My local forecaster/weather blogger suggests that the v3 model tends to overestimate cold snaps and move storms too fast in the mid-latitudes:
https://blogs.mprnews.org/updraft/2019/06/milder-with-spotty...
Go forth and get that reversed.
If govts actually introduced crypto, it would be completely isolated from existing ecosystems. Unlike other players, govts. (western specifically) have a mandate to protect user privacy on their systems.
So the main difference in 2019 is HK Octopus doesn’t require ID, while UK Contactless does?

But is that a big issue given all these people are actively avoiding using the Octopus to avoid being tracked? I guess Octopus doesn’t have age limits, I think you need to be 11 or higher to get a UK contactless card for yourself these days. Don’t know if that’s a legal minimum or just a banking decision.

Edit: You can get prepaid cards too: https://www.mastercard.co.uk/en-gb/frequently-asked-question...
Then you should hate integer too.
Didn't Facebook try something like this years and years ago in the form of Facebook credits, going so far as to even disallowing apps from having their own currency?

I wonder how this is different, besides the whole "blockchain" bit, because otherwise it's just a rehashed idea with makeup on it.
> I do not know of a single use case for consumer facing crypto currencies that is compelling to me.

Try buying something you are not allowed to buy. Personally I use it a lot while traveling abroad.
I'm looking for excuses to visit beautiful Italy -- and Rome! -- once again, so I'll make a note of this. I also find the history of Rome (and of Italy too, actually) fascinating. Thanks!
In Germany, police officers are public officials (Beamte), and public officials are generally not allowed to make any political statements in office or in the name of their office, because they are by law required to serve "the people" as a whole, and not, for example, a political party or some political agenda [0].

They are allowed to do that privately, of course. However, the general influence of police forces on politics is low to zero here. A local police officer (for example, in a small town / village) doing local politics would seem quite strange.

There is of course some influence of police unions on the departments of interior of the states (Länder) and the federal government (Bund), but this is more like an employee complaining to their superior about low-level problems that could be fixed by legislative changes. It is almost never done publicly.

> Some of the unions have been known to openly attack with billboards, having squad cars follow, and more, candidates who seek to reform policing and pension benefits; benefits which are excessive on any level of sane measurement.

If something like that (police cars enforcing a political agenda) would happen here it would almost certainly be national news instantly, and the officers would most certainly (and rightfully so) loose their jobs. We had some bad experience with stuff like that not too long ago :)

[0] https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/bbg_2009/__60.html
It'd probably be passed on to the consumer as a cost of doing business.
Yes, Italy really has some weird political problems.

Alto Adige is extremly wealthy, so is the North of Italy, like north of Milano, I think. Down south it all gets worse, I've heard. I wonder why wealth and industrial power is so concentrated in the North.

For Germany this can be explained with bombings during WW2, which flattened parts of Western Germany nearly completely while sparing the South, and with the structural problems after splitting Germany.

But I think Italy wasn't bombed that heavily nor was it split at some time like Germany.

Why can't they manage to distribute this wealth better and get their problems in control?
Magnesium supplementation changed my life. Better sleep, faster recovery from work outs, better more stable moods
I read the same article and felt the same way. But, like you, I couldn't get past the "why should I bother doing this when what I do works pretty well and I can autobackup a paranoid extra backup to usb?
You end up going faster than the cars trapped in the gridlock because you can filter to the front of the intersection easily on a bike.
It's very annoying. Especially since the reason I use gnome-characters is because I'm in the middle of typing something and I need a character that's not easy to type on my keyboard, so it's already a distraction from what I'm trying to do.

As an aside, I've been trying out Ubuntu for the last 6 months, and this is one example of the lack of polish I'm seeing. I don't remember installing gnome-characters explicitly (it's possible I just forgot doing so), but there are two versions on my machine, one of which happens to have this crazy startup lag. Another annoyance is that firefox came installed as a snap, which meant that all of my downloads went to something like ~/snap/firefox/Downloads instead of the expected ~/Downloads. I don't remember these kind of things happening when I ran Fedora...
Finally! A cryptocurrency with the ethics of Uber, the censorship resistance of Paypal, and the centralization of Visa, all tied together under the proven privacy of Facebook. Just what I’ve been waiting for.
Same thing here. last year I had an almost constant spasm in my right eyelid, after a cure of magnesium it disappeared. I did not find that it altered my mood, I just happy to be relieved from the spasm.
DIV game studio was really cool. Especially the online community forum where you could share your creations. I still remember that clay animation game. It looked so impressive
> Some European country tax 90% of income...

This is untrue.
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Hi -- ad industry member here -- am not evil, I am trying to do my job as ethically as I can. I understand you don't want to see ads. I don’t care for them myself at times, but when we do show them, we make sure they are as relevant, appropriate, and most importantly valuable. I understand that the HN crowd is more sensitive to being enraged by ads, but we actually get quite a bit of user feedback saying they are appreciative of the money we were able to save them by using our service. So, like anything in life, it isn’t black or white, there is a whole lot of gray.
what kind of hardware is the GFS model run on?
This is about enticing tax evaders to come clean. The 15% rate supposedly includes back taxes on some forms of undeclared income.

Knowing the official Italian tax rates, that would make it a very compelling deal. Many tax evaders would basicly be taxed at a much lower rate than had they paid their taxes correctly in the first place.
What you describe is normal. Assignments usually go from easy to hard because usually it is faster to solve the easy problems and usually these questions can be also asked by less technical people. Several companies I have interviewed with had the first programming questions asked by recruiters (who clearly had CS background, but most probably just shifted careers)
Same way "What's your favourite beer?" can have an answer of "I don't drink beer."
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There's no reason why there couldn't be multiple views of your history, if it's recorded with fidelity. The list of page views by time is often too noisy depending on what you are looking for, and the compacted view might be more useful. As you rightly point out, sometimes that page view log is what you want.

Really, the biggest use-case for browser history in its current form, seems to be to get people in trouble when nosy family members go peeking at it.
This is a knee-jerk reaction so take it for what you will, but I thought I had landed on the iTunes podcast page. And while I know it wasn't actually that page, it was hard for me to "trust" these recommendations as being any different than what I see when I load iTunes.
Source? European, never heard of this. Though a 15% rate is pretty normal around here.
Eh... it's a lot more than that. It's the specific packages themselves, and how those packages are built, and how the OS is structured, which versions of libraries are used, how certain common tools are named (think python vs python3). The philosophy of different distros can be radically different. Startup environments can be completely different. Defaults and config in different places. Packages are patched differently. Libraries named differently (think dynamic linking to specific library versions). Init vs. systemd. Wayland vs. XWindows. Some distros even eliminate the distinction between /bin and /sbin. If RHEL, for example, adopted apt, a RHEL pkg likely won't work on Debian. That's why Snap, Flatpak and AppImage are what they are: completely self-contained or statically linked with no dependence on system libraries or image trees.
you know what i can't understand as sorely lacking - an inbox/replies view on hn. i was hoping this extension had it.
Command-Line Games for Sysadmins
Doesn’t sound like that’s what happened. Seems like they have standard questions and phone in the interview process by trying to apply it to every “tech” position they hire for.
Why do old photographs appear to be of such high resolution? (2017)
I concur with GABA, and for me also sauna works. Mg only together with Ca/D.
I guess if you don't like the company's interviewing process you don't have to work there. Unemployment rate for software engineers is pretty low these days so just go with somewhere else. I'll keep working at places that ask programming questions because basically all the highest-paying places do that these days. And as snobby as it sounds, I want to keep working with other people who can pass algorithms teasers

Also, yeah probably no dev-ops position really requires knowledge of DP. But they generally do require programming knowledge and probably an algorithm here and there so it's not entirely inappropriate
By looking at their map of mobile data cost [0] across the world I understood something that I find annoying in many apps.

Whenever there's a big file to download/upload the app will not download it unless I'm connected to a WiFi network. There's often a hidden settings that can disable this but I never understood why WiFi was considered a better choice for big file downloads.

Very often my 4G network is faster than the WiFi I have access to and with 100Go of data (for 20€) each month it's basically unlimited.

But from the map 100Go would be $1237 in the US ?

[0]: https://www.economist.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/640...
> You can't have a statement in classic logic which is not an axiom and couldn't be proved true or false.

Hm? What of Gödel sentences though? Or, like, the continuum hypothesis?

I think I might be misunderstanding you.
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Keras for Beginners: Building Your First Neural Network
The methodology is highly flawed - with the amount of "educated guesses" the author takes, anything that comes out of that exercise is highly questionable.
That's the way I've always overcome the problem of getting to bookmarks also. You give up a little real estate to keep the bookmarks bar visible, but it is a good way to organize things by subject matter, project, urgency, etc.

That being said, I'd love a configurable cache that would allow me to open a group of bookmarks to exactly where I left off on each page (or where I had frozen the data to keep a static record.)
Tires are the largest maintenance cost for cars, so that's absolutely a valid consideration. The rest of the argument is junk though.
The phrase "the west" gets used to mean a lot of different things. You really should clarify what you mean, and maybe avoid "the west" as a catchall - you're going to confuse some people, and make yet another population suspicious of your reasoning.
If you're configuring something like a router then it's a router. It may be a crap router but if it routes it's still a router.

> It would be nice if this could be negotiated away to get a pure IP6 link.

Then you'd need WiredIPv6, WirelessIPv6, 4GIPv6, 5GIPv6... layer 2 provides the ability for an abstracted physical layer to transport an abstracted network layer. Remove it and any time the physical layer changes the network layer needs to as well as each of these have unique headers, formats, and data-link capabilities (not all support broadcast for example!).

Every abstraction layer is actively used today, remove it and there is a cost.
There has been some minor discussion, but as of right now the group I was talking about doesn't have significant enough political power. The most one sees right now at a national or state level is bathroom bill discussion. At smaller government levels there are places that are much worse, but the limits on what laws they have control over keep them from passing worse laws.

>I think you're making a strawman

I think you don't have a good understanding of the sentiment large groups of the population have for trans people.

>and I still don't see what any of this has to do with not allowing public drug consumption.

You might want to go reread the entire thread. One use posted about a potential foundational reasoning that could be used to outlaw drug use in public and the rest of the conversation has been about how that one foundation is inadequate because of the unintended consequences of applying it elsewhere. Specifically, it was concerning one individual who reacted to it on a personal level, and trying to explain why the second individuals interpretation was not incorrect even if unintended.

A person can use entirely different foundations to reason that public drug use as bad and this wouldn't apply at all to them.

Put simply, this is not about not allowing public drug consumption, this is about one potential reason for not allowing public drug consumption.
I don't care about ads, I care about how much you track users to show them.

You say that they are relevant as if that was something to be proud of. You've had to track users across all the internet to be able to show relevant ads, so relevant ads disgust me.
I don't think that logic holds.

It may be that most open source maintainers are severely underfunded, but your numbers alone don't show that, because they don't account for how much support there is from on-payroll work.

See the current top comment from Electron maintainers for instance.

"supporting open source with significant funding" (in the specific sense of transfering funds to an outside entity responsible for development) is not the only way of "supporting open source" financially. Paying your employees to develop, maintain, and contribute to it is another. I suspect it is the primary way historically for historically succesful open source (although research in this area would be helpful). It might (or might not) be the primary way even now; we don't know from these figures alone.

Employees paid to do on-the-clock work might (or might not) be sufficient to sustainably provide resources/"funding" to open source. Or there might be reasons it's unlikely to work, or unlikely to work as well going forward as it is historically.

I'm not sure straight-out donations to entities developing open source have ever historically been responsible for successful open source resourcing -- and yet we've built software empires on open source. There may be reasons this is not (or no longer) sustainable, but that doesn't necessarily mean this kind of fundraising will ever be more successful than it has been historically (not very, I think). Understanding what has worked in the past and making a case for why it no longer will would be one way to make the case. Just talking about current levels of direct donation without talking about how open source has actually been resourced/funded historically, to me is not a very persuasive case. (Then there's talking about the idea of monetizing open source with 'open core' or 'PaaS' or some combination, which I think some people think is what will save open source, rather than direct contribution. I have my doubts, but it's another possibility).

I think these are all important questions.
I started reading with that article but it doesn't really seem to answer the questions it's claiming to answer. It's talking about how Bitcoin et al. have a shared consensus that's updated once every 10 minutes, and how everyone needs to validate everything which is inefficient (I agree). But while trying to explain how holochain does it different I don't read how except for insect analogies, for example:

> ## Order of Operation Matters

> It turns out when you focus on distributing process first you end up with even more greatly distributed data. This is because each participant holds only their own data. In contrast, blockchains store everybody’s transactions in a single database that every node verifies and copies. The underlying foundation of distributed process enables deeper distribution of data and parallel architectures. Ethereum and smart contracts, are doing this the other way around — layering processes on top of a global ledger.

> By distributing process at the foundation, and leveraging Intrinsic Data Integrity, our approach results in massive improvements in throughput (from parallel simultaneous independent processing), speed, latency, efficiency, and cost of hardware. There is no need to wait 10 minutes to see if your transaction gets committed. This architecture can facilitate huge volumes of even extremely “low value” transactions permitting creative uses for coordinating shared activities that wouldn’t merit the cost or energy of implementing on a blockchain. You also don’t need to incent people to hold their own record — they already want it.

This is all true but the section heading "order of operation matters" - and how holochain deals with this - is simply not addressed. Given HN is a technical community feel free to link to actual research papers or more technical content that actually explains how Holochain solves the problems. This piece looks like a PR piece to me, one that doesn't really have any answers.
I guess OP implies more like a structural evil, as a whole, and the broader effects on society.

I have some experience with adtech, and I know a significant part of it is exploiting low-education low-income people to spend money with manipulative ads.

The people who actively exploit are the advertisers, and they use technology provided by ad-tech who make sure that the amount of money being extracted out of people is as large as possible.

The way to achieve this is to get as close as possible to users, which means breaking boundaries of what is basically a human right to privacy.

There's no one to blame, but the overall effect of the technology has some significant side-effects, which need to be curtailed, as those low-educated people don't know how they are being played.
Has to be 15 % of the normal tax or something like that. Wealth tax in Italy is rather low, so 15 % of that would probably be more like 0.1 %.
Administration Official Goes Rogue, Says Climate Change May Cause Next Financia
The free market is responsible for the biggest large-scale change in sustainable farming and organic produce, meats, and dairy we have seen so far, why not double down on that and accelerate the progress made?

If you would have told me 10 years ago that organic produce, meats, and dairy would be commonplace in a Walmart grocery store, I would have laughed, but here we are.

Conversely it is only through large government subsidies of corn and soy that we have all these cheap, non-nutritious soy and corn byproduct snacks that fill 80-90% of grocery store isles, of which the free market, driven by consumer demand for something different, has now started to penetrate even the snack isles. For example, pea snacks are all the rage now, and I see way more pea snacks, pea crisps, etc than ever before at my local chain store.
Thanks for making the world a better place.