skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This doesn't look like the road to the airport.

https://www.google.com/maps/@39.8127579,-104.7167676,3a,75y,...

Google Maps shows that the road ends there. There's a parallel paved road a mile south, which even has signs for the airport. Both routes are about the same length.

Edit: Hang on, Google Maps is using some (at least) five year old imagery in their satellite view, and possibly for their routing. The roads in that area were a bit different then compared to later images from Google Earth, so the dirt road would have been about 0.8 miles shorter. I wonder if this sort of thing accounts for many GPS glitches?
What would be really nice to invent is some superior alternative to existing photosynthesis that can better convert sunlight, water, and CO2 into organic matter than existing plants can. Once you've got that it might not matter whether they plants are trees or algae, so long as the organic matter can be buried.
The Million Dollar Homepage
I think there's a bigger point you're missing.

> almost universally, the web version is safer to use. Nobody should be installing Facebook, Twitter, or Reddit on their phone.

Not only is this true, this would be even more true without JavaScript—if those sites were still usable, which they definitely could be, they just choose not to be. (Well, maybe except Facebook Live, but that could be an optional standalone app.)

> you can already do that on the web today. You can already turn off Javascript.

Of course, this isn't really true, precisely because so many websites that could function fine without JS (including things like news sites that should just be static content!) instead choose not to.

Which of course is the real problem with yellowapple's idea. Lots of services cripple their mobile website and push you to install their app instead; if we removed JS from the Web, everyone who could would just start doing the same on desktop too, right? Upstarts trying to maximize growth probably will work great on the Web, but as they get more established they'll start pushing people more and more towards their native apps, and existing established players will do that from Day 1 (of the new, JS-less world), including everyone mentioned so far—Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, GitHub, major news sites, because people will deal with the one-time friction of installing the app in order to access the network or content.
They are thinking like letterhead.
how arrogant do you have to be to attribute Han's success to Chinese hackers?
Could you please stop posting ideological flamebait to HN? It leads to ideological flamewar, which is just what we're trying to avoid, and you've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> sour grapes

seriously?
I'm interested to hear the answer to this, as an American living in Europe who has deleted his Facebook account while living here.
And then shareholders sue their own company, and for every dollar of the settlement that they take out of their own pockets to give to themselves, they give 20 cents to a lawyer.
Is solving this "basic problem" ethical?

The implied assumption here is that it's a "basic problem" that most sites do not have a readily-discoverable public commentary board.

Sites such as Reddit, HN, and Facebook are popular, readily-discoverable public commentary boards about other sites. This much is true. However, it is incorrect to say that the absence of this is a "basic problem" as stated above. Given the past few years* of events and discoveries about the human impacts of these public comment boards, it may be that we incorrectly solved a "problem" that turned out to be a feature keeping humanity from harming itself with its own speech.

* three examples, cited by paraphrase: "speech encouraging harm to others"; "coordinated worldwide attacks upon individuals"; "like counts may do psychological harm"
There's an issue for this at https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/2286
I still have Fennec (Firefox from F-Droid) installed, I didn't notice any major changes since I stopped using it. I use it when there is some web application that expects a modern browser and the webview can't handle it.

But then, I also didn't think 57 for desktop was a big update. For me, it made zero speed difference (Firefox has always been fast on my laptop), on Linux with vertical tabs there is almost zero UI difference, and the only new thing was having to throw out all add-ons with the bathwater. Somehow, it seems I always experience things differently from other people.
Except maybe not these hypersonic missiles, which were discussed here just the other day?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20227021
For those that do not want to visit Facebook, but still see the unedited version of the changes that Facebook has made, in their words:

> Here’s a summary of the information we’ve added to our terms:

> How we make money: We include more details on how we make money, including a new introduction explaining that we don’t charge you money to use our products because businesses and organizations pay us to show you ads.

> Content removals: We provide more information about what happens when we remove content that violates our terms or policies.

> Your intellectual property rights: We clarify that when you share your own content — like photos and videos — you continue to own the intellectual property rights in that content. You grant us permission to do things like display that content, and that permission ends when the content is deleted from Facebook. This is how many online services work and has always been the case on Facebook.

> What happens when you delete: We’re providing more detail about what happens when you delete content you’ve shared. For example, when you delete something you’ve posted, it’s no longer visible but it can take up to 90 days to be removed from our systems.
The air infront of the projectile.

When you compress a gas it creates heat. The projectile is moving so fast it super heats the air infront of it as it compresses it.

Also normally things that go the speed of this projectile (mach 6 I believe) are way up in the sky where the air is less dense. So theres a whole lot of air down here for it to shove out of its way.

The explosion is from the rapid expansion of the superheated gas after leaving the barrel.
Railguns are not coilguns. Railguns maintain physical contact between the projectile and the rails for the entire length of the barrel. That's a lot of friction. Friction leads to heat, light, and a puff of smoke from material that has been ablated during the launch, if I were to guess.

This leads to one of the big problems with railguns, which is that you have to replace the rails frequently due to wear and tear.
Your "article" reads like four or five separate blog or facebook posts scrunched together with no rhyme or reason. And it has the setup of a clickbait article, luring you in with a question, going on about a bunch of stuff not related to it at all, and then finally approaching the question at the very end but never _really_explaining it. Complete with a link to an unrelated software project and a separate link to donate to you (and we're donating for ... what? A VR input method you didn't really explain and has nothing to do with the headline?)

As a blog post for a random tech friend people follow, sure, that's fine. But I don't understand why this was posted to hacker news, and I don't understand why people voted it up.
And for rare, out of print books, you can put them on libgen if you want to save someone else the time
It's a wrapper (sabot, carrier, etc.) that ignites due to the speed.
> ...and then slapping Google tracking into everything they do...

Huh, I must have missed that - if true, this is a huge breach of trust for me. Do you have a link?
Or grows 100x as fast.
Yea I was confused about that too. I expected it to just be a piece of Lead or Tungsten that launched out at high velocity. I don't understand the smoke/explosion either.
It's typical of politicians not to run their own organizations in the same way as they say the world should be run; campaign organizations are a bit fly-by-night, and political platforms are more or less flexible by necessity.

I think it comes from the sad fact that, generally, ambitious politicians create organizations to get themselves elected, rather than previously-existing and purposeful organizations presenting candidates that represent that organization's values to a larger audience.
We do that here!

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
How Remote Work Impacts Employees with Disabilities
I have been, though it is very difficult.
Have you seen this site: http://todomvc.com/ Pick your JS framework and it's done.
Sadly, news these days involves a lot of "we've invented <X>, to kill people that disagree with us". Often the word "disagree" is replaced with "undermine" or "threaten". It's all the same human-life-ending bullshit. I don't feel at home in this world any more. When I was 18, I enlisted in the armed services and "did my part" as people often say. What a fucking mistake, I'm humiliated and embarrassed every single day to have played "my part" in any of this. The modern-day me wishes I could go back to the 18-year-old me and turn my weapon on my masters when they were all gathered to cheer us on. Unfortunately, I'm sure dozens would have stepped in to take their place as quickly as I ended them.
although there is no gunpowder, the acceleration in a railgun is quite violent and the projectile needs to contact both rails while it is being accelerated. the smoke is probably just from the friction of the projectile against internal components. the flash could be from the same or an electrical arc (railguns use very high voltages).

another possibility for the "smoke": powerful railguns often use a pressurized gas to start the process of firing. if the projectile were stationary at the time that current was applied, it might be spot welded in place.
I've found this developer to be trustworthy, has a good track record with his git app. I'd be surprised if he would make this claim if it were untrue... it could easily be proven wrong by anyone using Charles proxy.
we've seen people asking them to integrate us on social media. you should see my comment about epidemic analysis above.
Well even ignoring all that, flat tax rates are regressive. This sounds counterintuitive, but 5% of someones income is a very different thing for someone who makes 30k and someone who makes 300k. Everyone has some amount of fixed costs in common.
Bookmarks have become even more first-class now - just swipe up from your address bar anytime. Try it now ( in the Firefox preview).

Also, I feel the opposite regarding the address bar position - give it a few days, you'll absolutely love it. Edge on Windows Mobile had the same position, and it was a very nifty and time-saving UX. You can now use the phone one-handed more easily, even for small-handed people.
Could the same technology be used to help the lift off of Falcon9-sized space rockets from a deep vertical tunnel ?
It's mostly about the introduction of diseases like Smallpox and Malaria that did almost all of the killing. Lots of places like the American South and the Amazon basin lost huge populations without any European having to show up in person.
A VPN will not help you against advanced behavioral browser fingerprinting like in this new Captcha. Not only do they have lists of VPN servers anyway, if you inadvertently log into your Google account once from the VPN (e.g. by launching your browser from your normal account), then the VPN IP(s) will be forever associated with your account and normal IPs, and they already know from the Captcha data that you're one and the same person. All the VPN does is adding the information that you sometimes use VPN servers of company such-and-such.
No offence, but your posts in this thread appear to be projections, and they derail the conversation.

The main topic we discuss is corporate surveillance. We are concerned about all the personal data that leaves our control. We are worried that evading this type of surveillance becomes increasingly difficult.

Some HN users may know how to mitigate these risks, but most people may not know how to defend themselves against corporate surveillance.

This is why me must speak up now, and not just for ourselves.
So if a truck hits you at eighty miles per hour, what will kill you: the force of the truck, or the grille guard?

Also, as a fellow Texan, you're dead wrong. The majority of the people who have those have them because they have ranches and do need them.
Except you are assuming you can reliably make decisions about how a person's name should be used based on your classification scheme for names. First, your classification scheme will not cover all users (see the famous https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...). Second, your use cases will not match all users. You may consider "Hello Firstname" to be an appropriate informal greeting and "Hello Mr. Lastname" to be an appropriate formal greeting, but even for people having a first name and a last name, this is not universally true.

The only person qualified to say how a name can appropriately be used is the owner of that name. If you need a greeting, ask the user how they would prefer to be addressed. If you need to show their name to others, ask how they would prefer their name to be displayed. If you need their name as understood by some government agency, ask for their name according to that government agency (note: this is not necessarily the same for all agencies; people do not necessarily have one single legal name).

If you don't want to overwhelm the user, you can have a "Display name" or "Legal name" field depending on what is relevant to your application and use that as the default. But you should provide overrides for every case where you are using their name in a different context.

If this sounds complicated, it is because names are complicated. I have seen too many people with names that don't fit the typical pattern of Firstname Lastname (composed solely of ASCII letters) get frustrated with systems that do not support them. I will not ever assume I can know how to manipulate or use someone's name without them needing to tell me. Nor will I assume their name must fit within some predefined character set or length.
dnf is a generational improvement over yum. It still uses RPMs behind the scenes.
That sounds like the configuration-spaces in barbour's timeless physics
Why don't they just support the growth of their own homegrown "WhatsApp"?

With government support and financial support, india could easily have an indian "whatsapp". WhatsApp isn't technological sophisticated. It's simply a large network. With government/business "tweaking", india could help their own "whatsapp" company take over much of that market from facebook.

Why hand the entire indian market over to facebook and zuckerburg?

There is no reason why large and significant markets shouldn't be dominated by local businesses. Not to say whatsapp should be banned from india, but it's only the incompetence of government/business that cedes their market to foreign companies. This also applies to the EU. It's insane to me that the EU doesn't have their own google, facebook, etc.
That's understandable though I imagine it's unlikely we'll see something like that ever again, right? To me it seems kinda like how race car engineers used to be able to discover some major advancement in their engines that would give them wins for a few years but nowadays it's much more homogenous and worked upon for much less significant gain. I don't know much about the deeper webdev stuff though so who knows, but it seems like that could only ever really possible with a shift in a browser trying some novel shift in architecture.
People care about others, not just themselves.
> The latter, not surprisingly, turned programming from an intuitive activity into a formal one in which the program is derived by symbolic manipulation from its functional specification and the chosen form of correctness proof.

> The idea of a formal design discipline is often rejected on account of vague cultural/philosophical condemnations such as ”stifling creativity”; this is more pronounced in the Anglo-Saxon world where a romantic vision of ”the humanities” in fact idealizes technical incompetence. Another aspect of that same trait is the cult of iterative design.

> Industry suffers from the managerial dogma that for the sake of stability and continuity, the company should be independent of the competence of individual employees. Hence industry rejects any methodological proposal that can be viewed as making intellectual demands on its work force. Since in the US the influence of industry is more pervasive than elsewhere, the above dogma hurts American computing science most. The moral of this sad part of the story is that as long as computing science is not allowed to save the computer industry, we had better see to it that the computer industry does not kill computing science.

Typical Dijkstra. You do it his way or you're not only wrong, but also stupid. But "his way" is to have a correct formal specification that you can operate on using mathematical logic. We have learned, from bitter experience, that that's asking quite a lot, and even when you can get it, it's a recipe for building systems that are obsolete on the day they are completed. But Dijkstra is content to pronounce the system produced to be "correct". That approach may cut it in academia, but in the real world it has been tried and found to be sorely wanting.

Then you get to aspects that really are a combination of art and science. Would Dijkstra's approach have produced, say, the iPhone user interface? I strongly doubt it.
> Try blocking Google Analytics, Tag Manager

Blocking those two doesn't seem to break much, does it? I have uBlock Origin and/or Privacy Badger block them everywhere.

ReCaptcha on the other hand…

Just this week I needed it to complete the booking of an airline ticket and just now buying a high chair for my son. And today I've completed the blasted thing ten times in a row because of a game installer that was failing at a certain point (GTA V's Social Club thing); each attempt to figure out what was wrong meant completing the ReCaptcha again.

Fire hydrants, parking metres, pedestrian crossings, road signs, hills, chimneys, steps, cyclists, buses — that's what the internet looks like in 2019.
Even UBO doesn't block ReCaptcha by default, so I don't see Rv3 being added to easylist anytime soon.
This requires your heart to actually beat so the pros and cons on both sides are different:

A thief can't steal your heart.

A thief could still threaten your life.

You can't repudiate your heart.

If you get a heart transplant, at first the 'system' might not have a workflow for changing your expected heart signature.
Raymond outlines his reasons for refusing donations on the ublock wiki, if anyone is curious:
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Why-don't-you-accept-...

One thing he (rightfully) points out is that the real power of ad-blocking solutions comes from the community-maintained blocking lists. In theory one could manually block every url they run across, but in practice we can use these tools (or a tool like pi-hole) almost effortlessly.
Partisan Gerrymandering Isn’t the Supreme Court’s Problem Anymore
I live in a walkable neighborhood but there are a lot of people that commute through my neighborhood to downtown DC. There are crosswalks where cars are supposed to stop for pedestrians, but many don't. I feel like the rise of these laws that require cars to stop at these crosswalks has to be part of the problem. Cars are supposed to stop but they are either driving too fast or they just don't stop. Or if you have a few lanes to cross the first car stops and the next car doesn't see you. I feel like these crosswalks give people a false sense of security that they can cross without vigilance at any time. Without these laws you simply need to wait until the coast is clear. That seems much safer to me. Is there a study to support my instincts on this?
Sure. I'd also be interested in any kind of incentives for poor people to get in fuel efficient small newer cars. A carrot rather than a stick, if you will.
Google notes works for me as a simple checklist
AIUI most countries, but not USA, award costs as the default position?

If that's true then in such countries you may only win an award of a few Euros but the cost to the losing party could be millions (your and their legal fees). If the company cave and accept liability, or whatever, then they're probably going to have to pay out to all shareholders (or customers); which might be even more cost.

So, even a small ownership can be leveraged.

If my understanding is correct then the unique USA system flips things putting the corporations in the power seat as legal costs for a case are usually much less of a proportion of their cash reserves/profits/available credit. Not awarding costs removes the multiplier making litigation too costly for all but the very richest in society.
> the dream of digital cash

I'm not sure there is just one dream, though.

Some are dreaming of assets that are stable in the way that (they think) fiat currencies aren't. Some are dreaming of making a lot of money buying low and selling high. Some are dreaming of being off the grid (yet it seems to be really hard to get that right). The list goes on and on.
A streamlined pathway to drug approval
Thanks. I thought HN has having an antibody response to the Facebook URL. It seems more likely that indenting caused it to render as code.
If you just put up the wires for part of the route, can't the bus charge up while it is under the wires for the rest of the route?
No. that idea is as obsolete as diesel is.

buses have fixed routes, known depots, and in many cases, share larger stations as destinations for transit to other buses or other forms of transpiration. all are suitable for charging buses.
Neither does my workplace filtering; it's saying it's malware.
> I think you're severely underestimating not only the effort

Not at all. I'm simply pointing out that there is also a cost to outsourcing, in the form of risk. This is especially relevant in an industry like ad-tech, where a bad actor can taint a brand.
In the West most "ranchers" are just running herds on BLM leases. It is not "their property" by any definition. By contrast virtually all ranches in Texas are on private holdings.
Yes, the rule of thumb for low frequency square wave clocks (a few GHz or less) is that your trace, routing, and connectors should all support up to the 5th harmonic, or 5 times the clock frequency. At higher frequencies the 5th harmonic is to high to realistically achieve, and you start to see reliance on sine wave clocks or heavy use of equalization to remove clock distortion from the trace. This applies for digital buses as well. If anyone is curious about how traces impact data throughput, I highly recommend they look up eye diagrams.
> The indigenous peoples were not burning fossil fuels either.

They were changing the use of the land, though. The hypothesis appears to be that the land that had been cultivated reverted back to forest, which meant more trees and hence more CO2 uptake. (Though even that could be questioned, since crops also take up CO2, and growing new crops every year might well take up more CO2 than a forest of trees that just grow once and then stay there.)
My bad, I misread it as a bit of a counterpoint.
We’re on a site premised on entrepreneurship, and you’re pointing out what sounds like a big market gap. I angel invest now and then, if you have a plausible way to make two billion people care about something that we agree could be better my email is in my profile.

Even from the inside I didn’t see a way, but I’ve been wrong before.