skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a response I find odd. Do you think that apple are completely incapable of selling the data they have collected on you literally tomorrow if they choose to today? It's hardly turning on a dime to provide someone with database access for a fee. Or they could start a secret project to do it themselves next year. It's a crapload easier than building a new phone. Relying on your trust of apple for things you don't want to happen being prevented is just a mistake.

You don't actually think they haven't collected the data and stored it, do you? I mean you really can't be thinking that, right?
I was researching weather prediction not long ago. From my nieve perspective it seems that dispute all the increased gpu computational power and advances in machine learning, there have not been any great advances in weather prediction. Is this true?

Edit: Downvotes for simply asking a question. sigh.
Many editors have projects where you open a group of documents with associated settings. Browsers have almost everything they need to do this too.
Just a misunderstanding, I suppose, of the meaning of "Google and Facebook take 76% of all advertising revenue."
Hyperparameter Tuning in Neural Networks
Wouldn't you class withdrawal of affection as punishment?

In psych terms it's a negative punishment (something was removed to seeks to reduce a behaviour). Your motivation might be different but the felt action is identical.
So does this mean that Texas schools, prisons, universities, hospitals etc can freely copy and use commercial software, films, books and other similar works?

It seems like under this precedent the University of Houston could just create their own copies of whatever textbooks they want for their students, potentially even selling those copies.
Please don't use HN for regional battle.
IIRC basic thermodynamics shows that ordinary steam engines can't be very efficient. So, don't get good MPG or miles per bucket of coal, or whatever fuel.

IIRC the main reason for diesel-electric locomotives for trains and large ships was that it was significantly more efficient than just steam, at least steam with just a boiler and pistons.

Of course, really large ships generate steam and then run it through a steam turbine -- no Diesel around.
If you publish something that isn't sharing it privately. If you provide your resume to a prospective employer or their agent (recruiters do NOT work for you) that is sharing it privately. If it becomes public as a result of you sharing it privately someone has been a jerk. IMHO beyond being a jerk their should be serious repercussions for publishing something without consent, inadvertently or deliberately. Something more than a minor business expense. Something like criminal charges against a person.
Was #LaCroix the literal bubble of Silicon Valley?

Trading appropriately under the name $FIZZ, it's a simple beverage company that relies heavily on marketing to position it's brand for active and health conscious consumers (natural fit for SF). Worth about $6bn at the highs.

https://twitter.com/jamesviggy/status/1139338102764273664?s=...
Ask HN: More tech-oriented HN alternative?
Sometimes I think the amount of political/social/sales submissions is just to great and I would like something more technical to read.

What are your suggestions?
If they do so without your consent they are breaking the law, I believe.
OSI itself hosts the best evidence that its Open Source Definition isn't clear: its license-review mailing list archives. Have a look sometime!

As for FSF, their process for considering licenses is a black box. We have "What is Free Software?", published largely in response to the creation of the Open Source Initiative. But it's no more a technical specification than OSD is.

I never claimed that restrictions on commercial use are "open" or "free", or that any particular license that does so is "open" or "free". I have and do claim that neither OSI nor FSF provides any clear, complete guidance on what "open" or "free" copyleft can and cannot do. Consensus within the relatively small groups of folks actively engaged with those institutions is founded in good-sounding generalities, not any rigorous definition.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20119023
So you believe military won’t come for you the moment you start transmitting?

For all it is, wi-fi meshes seem to be more plausible as at least you’ve got a plausible deniability of why you kept the AP running.
> OSS is usually like charity, you do it because you can afford to and want to and don't expect anything back from it.

There are reputational rewards associated with open source[1]. However, if you're solely contributing to open source for those rewards, you're going to have a bad time. I would agree that there needs to be a high degree of intrinsic motivation.

[1]http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/homesteading/homesteading
When people stop saying X minutes to fully charge?

This is not how it works in reality. Last 5-10% is essentially trickle charge so it is better to skip it and charge more often but faster.

Just compare average charging power between 20-80% part of the curve and 80%-100%. It is ~4-6x difference depending on supercharger type:

https://cleantechnica.com/2019/03/08/supercharger-v3-shockin...
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14988362
It’s not like they make 100% of their money because they violate the law, so they aren’t fined to the point of bankruptcy.
No, Chrome isn’t killing ad blockers – we’re making them safer
“The study used an older version of the Apple Watch, not the latest one launched in September, which had added a built-in electrocardiogram to its pulse sensor.”

Presumably the new version is more accurate
How to Win Any Argument About the Stock Market
I took a language class in Mexico, and the textbooks were photocopies, which I was told could legally be used.
Reading the article solves one mystery, but brings up another.

The photographer for some reason did not pursue this as a copyright infringement claim. Instead he argued that it was an eminent domain case where the state had seized his private property and was, according to Texas state law, required to compensate him for the seized property.

It would be sufficient at this point for the state to rule that copyright infringement is not the same as eminent domain seizures, rule against him, and order him to pay the defendant's costs for filing a frivolous case.

Instead they oddly ruled instead that the school has sovereign immunity from lawsuits, and ordered him to pay their costs.

It is strange if the state can not be held accountable in court for eminent domain seizures despite the state law to the contrary.

It is strange that they ruled that way rather than ruling that copyright infringement is not a domain seizure.

It is strange that the plaintiff filed this case this way.
Lots of truth here. Change the timing just a bit, you can look like either a fool or a genius.

Of course, it's a lot harder to pick dates when you don't have benefit of hindsight.
What do you mean by “emissions”? GHG emissions? Pollution emissions?
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Because parent referred to using almost the entire range (350 mi out of 370 is 95% assuming no margin for error).
So funny that you could get a Raspberry Pi for like $5 that is orders of magnitude more powerful, and could even emulate a complete C64.

Everyone loved the C64 though, so fond memories are worth something.
We didn't have "good" machine tooling for mass production of metal parts until the 1880/1890s. The technology existed but it was all exotic and high priced because we just weren't good at making metal stuff.
I’ve looked forward to Google going the way of Yahoo for a long time. It’s finally happening :)
Psychologist explains why people confess to crimes they didn’t commit
I used to use an extension called Tab Wrangler [1], which would close tabs after being inactive for a period of time. I felt this dealt with the problem of too many tabs surprisingly well—Tabs would quietly disappear as I forgot about them. If I needed a tab back (which was more rare than I would think), Tab Wrangler could show me a list of tabs it had recently closed.

I've switched to Firefox a while back and unfortunately cannot find an equivalent, so I'm back to manually wrangling.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tab-wrangler/egnjh...
I switched to MEGA. The desktop client MEGAsync is actually quite decent. Very similar to classic dropbox
For trains diesel electric lets you really simplify the power-train. Imagine powering all those wheels mechanically, yeah, not happening.
Honestly I've thought about going to use the beach there once, but I really just didn't want to deal with the hassle of people not knowing that I was allowed. It probably would have been nothing, but just having that in the back of my mind kept me from going. And I actually have the Ritz Carlton credit card and stay in their hotels with some frequency!

It's dumb, but the thought is probably there in a lot of people's minds.
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Connecting a Texas patent case and a Korean professor’s abortive politics career
Or dies during the procedure
What about all the people that have kids who want to watch a disney movie? You don't think that is a big enough market?
I have heard the opposite - predictions have been significantly increasing in accuracy over time.

On the other hand, I suspect it might not be noticeable if the forecast you always read just says "40% chance rain, high 80, low 50". It might be more noticable if you look at the hour-by-hour forecast for a specific location and see when the rain is predicted to start and end.
And how would they provide proof they showed it to you?
Sorry, a little off topic, but I wonder how partnered publishers are doing financially with Apple’s new News+ service. I am somewhat surprised to find myself cheerfully paying $10/month for spending perhaps 90 minutes a month reading material there. I assume that Apple is giving about 70% of the prorated proceeds to publishers and keeping about 30% for themself.

I sometimes contribute to The Guardian but the. Aridity in News+ is fun.
Also: 1984, Stand on Zanzibar, A Clockwork Orange, On the Beach, Earth Abides, Brave New World, The Time Machine, Frankenstein's Monster....

David Brin keeps trying to claim dystopia is some new trend. It absolutely is not.
He mentioned all his favorite spots had superchargers, not that those only spots with superchargers along his way.
MEGAsync
I happen to love the C language, and my brain is very much tuned to how it works and the world view that it embodies. Go feels to me like veteran C language experts made a thoughtful evolutionary step forward. It's certainly not on the cutting edge of programming language theory, but it has solidly moved the baseline ahead. It's a highly opinionated language, but if you approach those opinions with an open mind, you'll find it has a sense of internal coherence that is both tasteful and pragmatic.

Fast compilation speed, easy integration with C, and the "one large static binary" are probably my favourite features, although I do wish those binary sizes weren't quite so large...
The Shameful History Behind Women’s Football Must Not Be Forgotten
I just want to point out that there is a very active subreddit called Trump criticizes Trump[0] where people take historical tweets from Trump and show them as hypocritical compared to a more current tweet/events. The top post, for example, shows a tweet of Trump criticizing Obama for "attacking the internet" and saying that net neutrality is "the fairness doctrine" on the day that net neutrality was repealed, or another where he said he'd stand by LGBTQ+ and then ban trans folk from serving in the military. There's hundreds of posts and (other than people getting frustrated over the internet) nothing seems to be done about it.

[0]: https://old.reddit.com/r/TrumpCriticizesTrump/
This doesn't surprise me. When I have insomnia, it is invariably caused by being aware of and worrying about the process of sleeping.
This is probably in response to the Euro weather model, which has been producing better forecasts. Especially for named storms.
I would be interested to see a company like Google evolve into one that is a fiduciary to the people of the world.
Curious why they would be operating at that level?
The "not all" is referring to the (executions of the algorithm under) potential inputs.
> Also, everyone in China still accepts cash but you generally need correct change.

There's a growing minority of vendors that no longer accept cash (they have signs up saying so), but from what I've seen it's only in areas with youthful populations.
Ask HN: Code of Conducts for Workplace Repos?
I work at a place that has a toxic code review process and I’m wondering what some workplace code of conducts might look like on internal repos. Much obliged if anyone is willing to share - I’m trying to propose one across all of our repos because we have a good work environment, but it gets hijacked by couple of people who troll everyone’s code. Several people have left because of one or two people alone, and before I do too I want to suggest a change.
Seems like it's been ported to firefox already: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tabwrangler/
Everything is "carbon neutral" on a long enough time period. You can make ethanol carbon neutral on a one year time period if you want.
really cool stuff, looks a bit unwieldy to drive though.
robocalls can't be pinpointed by any radio hobby group.
Somewhat related, what are some good weather sites for storm monitoring? I've been using ventusky[0] for rain forecasts and mrms[1] for storm and hail conditions. Is there anything better?

[0]https://www.ventusky.com/

[1]https://mrms.nssl.noaa.gov/qvs/product_viewer/
Exactly. If people actually read the initial and subsequent indictments against Assange they'd realise he was actively encouraging and assisting Chelsea Manning to attempt to further compromise DoD databases beyond Chelsea's level of access. This included Assange providing instructions to Chelsea on how to obtain an administrator password hash from said DoD DB server which Chelsea then provided to Assange who attempted to brute force the hash. I don't really consider that journalism; at best Assange is a co-conspirator.
Sorry, I thought it was obvious I meant GHG emissions.
Inside the Windows Messaging System (1993)
Stock markets demand growth, which drive executive compensation.
How much does it cost?

Unsurprisingly the price doesn't seem to be listed on their site.
I would guess it was an encrypted Linux filesystem. We went through that. It was a pain to get it switched.
i don't understand what kind of curiosity an article like this could inspire at all. if you allow these kind of controversial articles you might as well allow the ensuing partisan debate.
Well, on youtube, Holocaust jokes were done by Larry David, Norm McDonald, Sarah Silverman...
This seems like a good place to ask. There was a Firefox extension called (edit: not sure if it was Tab Mix Plus or something else) that was discontinued after Firefox 57. It was super productive and still haven't haven't found anything like it to replace it.

To be clear, I'm talking about grouping tabs but I'm not talking about the current Firefox feature called "Tab Groups". You had a row of tabs that showed the web pages open in the current group. And you had a second row of tabs that allowed you to switch between tab groups. You could close a tab group and close all the tabs within the group.

Has anybody found an alternative even if it's in a different browser? I dislike having multiple browser windows open.
Shoe dog is a great book. It was really interesting to read him talk about his issues with liquidity and him lamenting the lack of VC funding at the time. Of course he doesn't really address the downsides of VC funding but the local bank he works with is a quaint reminder of how far things have come. A good story and a great reminder that choice of founder partner is crucial to your success.

It contributes to my belief that there are way too many technical founders working on absolutely horrible ideas that would be able to the foundation for a great company but don't have the skill set to determine what that is. I think after the impending recession when VC money dries up this skill will be in high demand.
Credit Scores Could Soon Get Even Creepier and More Biased
Ads have started showing up on Huawei phone lock screens and people are furious
You can’t make the sun shine or wind blow but you can generate below capacity to have reserve available on demand, or you can add storage to provide smoothing and contingency.

1GW of battery is only a dozen projects smaller than the Hornsdale Power Reserve. It’s been done, now it is a case of replicating a successful project.
No, it follows the normative description of HTML as specified in chapter 4 of the HTML spec. The redundant procedural spec for parsing HTML is strictly aimed at browser implementers, and in particular to reach same behaviour accross browsers in the presence of errors. Note that the covered fragment still contains the rich tag omission/inference rules for HTML and other minute details, based on formal SGML techniques, though.
Do you disagree that adding two numbers is a constant time operation?

I do. A general algorithm for adding two numbers, at least one represented in the conventional way as a series of digits in some base, has a lower bound of O(log n).
Looks like you live in Portugal. Do you feel like no one is forcing you to use the euro?

> Who's even talking about replacing their national currency?

I’ve heard from people close to the project that this is Facebook’s explicit long term strategy. What else would their end game be here?
Not exactly what you asked for, but have you seen BMW's turbosteamer concept? https://newatlas.com/go/4936/
Agreeing with you by example: In computational complexity the size of the input varies. In cryptography it typically doesn't: time is identical for all inputs of the same size.

Imagine a magic sorting algorithm that always takes 1 second to check if an input is sorted, and 9 seconds to sort the input if wasn't sorted. It then returns the sorted value as output.

EG sorting "abcdefg" would check (taking 1 second) and then return (taking 0 seconds since it's sorted). Sorting "gfedcba" would check (taking 1 second) and then sort (taking 9 seconds) and return. Taking in the complete works of Shakespeare it would check (taking 1 second) and then sort (taking 9 seconds) and return.

It's O(1), yet the time varies based on the input. From a computational complexity terminology standpoint it's constant time, from a cryptographic terminology (and common intuition) standpoint it's clearly not, since it doesn't always take the same time to run.
This is huge. Good work to the folks at NOAA and the American taxpayer for footing the bill.
The problem here is, nothing you can possibly do is worth more than money to a dedicated capitalist who already has tons of money.

You can do stuff they exploit, or not. Doesn't change the relative size of the pool of money from your true userbase (likely much smaller), and nothing you do can force the capitalist to buy into your code at a less-exploitative license.

They can and will just pass. And you can pressure your users in a wide number of ways: they are the same dark patterns used by proprietary, totally-closed software. You can become that to get paid… or, more accurately, you can become that, try to squeeze blood from a stone, and find out whether you can torture your users into providing you with the level of luxury you see fit.

This is not the motivation of Free Software, and is barely the motivation of Open Source. Might as well just be proprietary and be done with it. All this works on many levels and money/compensation is only one of the levels.
Let's not forget that Manning's sentence was commuted by Obama (which technically isn't a pardon) in part because Assange stated on twitter that if Obama granted Chelsea clemency then he'd submit himself to US extradition. Obama called his bluff and Assange reneged on his offer.
I think I've made some points not often made here on HN, as I find most thread on many similar threads since years ago rather superficial. I was hoping they will be educational.
I think eye tracking Swype sounds horrific.

I think I'd feel sick if I had to type anything of any length, and I don't even get motion sickness usually.
NSA Director Keynoting Dahua and Hikvision Sponsored Cybersecurity Conference
Again, different cultures. In the US, this kind of satire is legal. Despicable, but legal.

If Facebook leaked a private message of this nature to the police in the US, Facebook (or whomever contacted the police) would be criticized as well. Banned from the platform? Go right ahead. Involve law enforcement? There would be a lot of criticism for that.

Regardless, it still seems to me that the reporting in this article seems accurate:

> People are regularly arrested for messages they send in supposedly “private” group chats. In 2017, two people were arrested in Nanjing for separate instances of making satirical comments referring the massacre in the city by the Japanese in 1937.5

I'm seeing arguments that this is reasonable, I'm not seeing arguments that this didn't happen. The conflict seems to be that different cultures have different attitudes towards inflicting legal repercussions on private hate speech.
VB6 was my first programming language and it was indeed awesome to open my eyes.
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Australia didn't receive the extradition request; the UK did. Whilst Assange is an Australian citizen the extradition request from the US to the UK doesn't involve Australia directly.
He is actually not a captain.
Normal people already can't have a family or pay for medical care. I can't fault anyone for wanting to code open source in order to barely survive, versus working several precariat jobs to survive and having no time to think.

My biggest luxury isn't money, but time and freedom from commercial pressures on my work. That's a quality-of-life issue making my subsistence WAY better than I'd experience working other subsistence jobs.
They were exposed on social media by an unauthorized 3rd party after they were uttered in private, right? That certainly sounds like someone was arrested for something they said in private.

Maybe there's additional context I'm not understanding?
Some of our repos use one adapted from this:

https://www.contributor-covenant.org/version/1/4/code-of-con...

I will note that a code of conduct, while possibly part of the solution, will not be the whole solution. The work of changing culture is work, and hard work at that, and while having values to strive for in writing is helpful, all the work around getting buy-in, resetting expectations, having difficult conversations, etc will still need to happen.
The thing that's nice about the Journal's bias though is that it's clear. That's why I like financial journalism (e.g. Bloomberg). Their bias is apparent: Make more money for corporations. It's easy to correct for, and once you understand that, it's easy to parse the signal. Reading other publications it's more difficult to understand what their perspective is, and therefore more difficult to correct for it.
And isn't that because Swedish law doesn't allow charges to be laid until after an interview occurs?
I recently found in surprisingly difficult to explain the concept of browser tabs to my relatively computer unsavvy 72 year old mother. She can do web searches, read online news articles, and watches Youtubes, but browser tabs were a struggle for some reason.