skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ohhh myyyy goddddd!!!!

What a FANTASTIC site you are building. Beautiful design and usefulness.

Have you posted to r/investing? Quite an active community.

Congratulations.
It would be extremely ironic if this would be use by an oil tanker. Jokes aside, this is great, but it will never be the primary mode of propulsion since those tankers are on a timeline and you can't predict wind as much as a combustion engine.
Pay is a rough proxy for how much your employer values your product. Presumably your employer makes a profit out of your work, or they would fire you. This is the efficient market hypothesis applied to the labor market.
Slack is trash - for this and many other reasons. Social media and engineered engagement has no reason to be in the workplace. They're profiting from dark patterns.
money quote

"just ask all those American cities that are paying out to ransomware creeps who got hold of a defect that the NSA kept secret so they could use it against "bad guys."
I find doing things like having types that flow through different stages -> UnvalidatedEmail, ValidatedEmail, VerifiedEmail is a lot better in f#.

In c# you need to create a lot of value object classes for that. Or have some kind of property inside the value object which indicates current state of the email.

Even then you won't be able to exhaustive pattern matching on it to guarantee each situation is handled.
Escalators changed our sense of the built environment
1. API to extract and store metadata about an uploaded PDF (images, relevant field locations, signature boxes, etc.)

2. Tool that shows an image of each field to the user and allows them to enter human readable prompts (title, description, input style).

3. A PWA that uses the prompts to help an end user complete the form, collects signatures, etc.

4. Add the ability to link/upload some tabular data and tie fields from the data source to fields on a PDF.

5. Communications—email a unique short link to somebody to request they complete a form, pre-filled with data.

6. Build an example web site that consumes 1-4 and shows off e.g. completing a legal contract. Notifications when a form is completed.

7. Multi-party forms

8. Start figuring out how to charge people and who to sell to, build more niche wrappers around the product, stand up an auth/billing service, etc.
I'm working on a way to re-use your Selenium page objects for load testing.

Thesis: The reason, instead of automating browsers, that we collectively started making HTTP-level load scripts and investing expensive labor hours in "correlation" was because hardware was really expensive.

Around Y2K, A single server might cost 500 a month in hardware and rack costs. Now a 72 core machine can be rented for an hour for under a dollar.

So I'm making a real-browser load testing service that lets you use the same integration test code you already maintain. Fewer tools, fewer specialties, CI/CD ready.

https://browserup.com
So are tenements ok? Multiple people in a room so long as it’s affordable?
How much bigger did the request bodies become?
What will ultimately determine if Youtube is a monopoly or not is if there are credible contenders of similar size that aren't just reselling Youtube with a branded player.

The public demand itself is enough. Search for Google is already subject to regulation in the EU.
One further thing, not sure how easy it would be to do, but it would be very interesting to see (graph and/or table) a history of different financial ratios - e.g. what is the historical P/E of the business etc...
If the author is here, the pages load and everything works, but this error shows on every page:

Warning: Use of undefined constant browse_vid - assumed 'browse_vid' (this will throw an Error in a future version of PHP) in /homepages/5/d229943463/htdocs/publicdomainflix/mobile/category.php on line 32

Using S7 galaxy, stock android, chrome
I could almost see this being an attempt to try to back people off from encouraging them to moderate. Pick something that they can make a very plausible claim to be doing for "public safety" but that they know will cause an uproar from respected voices in tech for being counter productive. Then they can faux throw their hands up in the future and say, "it's in everyone's best interest for us not to moderate".

I'm not really saying strongly this is the case, it's a bit tin foil hat, but I wouldn't be shocked if it was true either.
Ask HN: Is Home Assistant home automation project run by Google?
I'm choosing HA for my home. Cannot find any information about subj. First blog entry shows already developed product.

[0] https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/posts/23
See what I wrote below about pay as a proxy, I won't copy and paste because it's against the rules. I think your objection is you are defining value as something other than economic value. I think from the context it should be obvious that's what I'm talking about, but I've got a whole thread of comments showing people didn't get it.
Which is good because this isn't a zero-sum game and I lose nothing by companies getting value out of me this way.
Are reads on a rope core memory destructive like on regular core memory? If so why not just tie each ROM bit high or low as needed? Is it because there was no better way to address that many bits?

If you lost power after a read and before the rewrite would your ROM get corrupted?

It seems like the actual information should be in the weave pattern. Or, was there a reset line that reset all the cores at once?
i ve been seeing this startup doing the rounds in media. But what is it?
My “view from 10,000 feet” (admittedly hot) take is that anything that creates more interdependency between potentially-hostile nuclear powers is a very good thing.
Weighing the Sun with Five Photographs
> years, and provoke some drastic changes to the way we do open-source software.

I object to this phrasing because it makes it sounds like the FOSS software is at fault. The problem is that companies are pulling random code off the internet and sticking it in products without auditing or understanding it, so the only solution needed is for companies to actually pay attention to what they're using/shipping (possibly by holding them liable when people are paying for their products, but that could have side effects). In particular, pretty much every FOSS license I've ever seen explicitly says that the software is offered without any claim that it's good/usable/safe, and you can't limit that limitation of liability without seriously screwing up the whole FOSS ecosystem.
The devices would be more expensive otherwise. I don't really mind, especially in a case like this where you can just turn it off.
> The city here is allowed to, and does, exercise a lot of control over what can be built, to serve the common good

This is, unfortunately, naive.

The city will use its power to serve the interests of those who hold power in the city, while of course saying it's for the common good.

Typically, those in power do want higher housing prices, and thus promote a housing shortage.

The only solution is to not give the city that power.
Your hand tuned client cache won’t have active invalidation like this new proposal does, so you are stuck waiting for ttl to expire and ttl windows where data is inconsistent between nodes.
Abstract your code, and other bad advice (2018)
> Only (small) gripe is that Elixir is not a fast language.

Which is interesting because Elixir isn't well known for being super fast when it comes to CPU bound tasks, but for a lot of semi-CPU intensive things you'd end up doing in a web app, it's still very very efficient.

For example I wanted to generate 5,000x 19 random character discount codes and my first attempt took 730ms to generate the codes while being a complete newbie to the language and cobbling together Enum.reduce / Enum.random while concatenating strings. Within an hour of asking if someone had a better way of doing it, I got multiple solutions from community members that were able to produce the same results in 25ms while still having very readable code (arguably more readable than my original implementation), and even one person came up with a solution to do it in 3ms.

It's almost hard to imagine being in a position in a web app where 3ms would be considered too slow to generate 5,000 unique discount codes with a custom character set.
nope, it's meant for micro-service architecture where you have a lot of different api end-points spread across different servers, databases, technologies, shards, etc. So you need to get user profile from one side, and a list of news from the other, and then cross-reference that with a list of friends from the 3rd source, and then you need to combine all that together into something usable in the client. GraphQL is a way to define how to merge those datasets, without manually coding each step of taking field X from feed A and list Y from feed B and indexing them by Z. Beside obviously solving problems for huge players like FB, it also helps with common situations when UI design is being constantly changed along the way and all of the sudden front-end team needs APIs to return shitload of new relations that were not in initial specs. In most startups that I've worked on APIs 99% of my time was reworking queries to include more data because designers and UX people had changed their mind. GraphQL makes this fairly painless as long as you have a well defined set of basic APIs. Then later when the design gets more stable you can locate the bottlenecks and rework them into more complex, but faster API calls.
Algorithmic Governance and Political Legitimacy
How does one go about finding movies that are public domain?

Would also be nice if the was a form for others to add new additions and a citation link. Not sure if this is available once you register and login, if it is then it'd be nice to not need to login for it.
A monopoly is only illegal if YouTube is using anti-competitive practices to stifle competition. It's not illegal if people just prefer YouTube's product.
>Perhaps, disintegration of middle-class is a root cause for people considering such living standards as 'convenient'. Effectively,you live in a tight dorm.

so, uh, I didn't go to school, so maybe I'm missing something, but I thought that dorms were usually shared bedrooms or something; personally, I think there's a huge difference between having a small private space and having no private space, and most of the problem with living in a dorm is having no private space.

That's where this sort of thing comes in. A lot of the single people I know in silicon valley, even a lot of the high earners, rent rooms in houses; houses that are designed for families. The thing is, if you are an introvert, you'd be better off with something built in a more hotel-like way, with more private area per common area, and with more bathrooms. (oh my, with more bathrooms.)
The Many Lives of Lafcadio Hearn
> Moreover it has (safe) imports which make defining constants quite easy.

I read about dhall’s imports, and I don’t think I like it. If I add a text configuration mechanism to software, I do not want it accessing the network by default, full stop. To me, a “safe” configuration language means that parsing terminates, does not have side effects, does not touch the network, and that parsing the same file twice gives the same output unless I explicitly change an input. Pulling a prelude off of github does misses several of these requirements.

(Having your config file fail to parse if your network is down is bad, bad news if that config is needed to bring your network up. It’s also bad news if a parsing failure due to a transient network issue leaves your system in a state where it won’t quickly recover if the network comes back.)
Affordable, healthy and safe. Barracks and dorms are generally both. Tenement carries a connotation of just being the first so certainly ban unhealthy and unsafe housing but if people choose to live like college students or soldiers why stop them? Better to have a room with a bed, a closet and a door with shared bathroom but there’s nothing morally wrong with sharing a room.

I’ve lived six to a room for months in Dublin City centre and I’ve had my own spacious room an hour’s travel from it. As a single man I preferred the first which is why I moved from the suburbs. Living far from where your life is a pain.
That's a feel good cop out. Value produced follows a pareto distribution. A small number of people produce disproportionately more of the value. This is proportional to the amount of leverage a person utilizes.
> A monopoly is only illegal if YouTube is using anti-competitive practices to stifle competition. It's not illegal if people just prefer YouTube's product.

This isn't strictly true even in America, and it's worth noting that every sanctioned monopoly in American history has tried to use this line of reasoning.
It's a mistake to take Internet culture and compare it literally to real-world happenings because the two don't mean the same things. Here's a simple example of what I mean. In real life: if someone makes a racial slur they know that its offensive and if they continue to act this way we can say with confidence they're a racist. But the same actions on an image board can be done by anyone with little consequences.

If there's no consequences, then that means the words context on an image board is significantly different to the real world. As such, you end up getting kids and other people casually using racial slurs to seem 'edgy' or rebellious. The question I ask is are any of these people actually racist in real life? If they're not knowingly thwarting social norms, and there's no harsh consequences for doing so, then I argue the words don't have the same meaning as they do in real life. Since that's the case-- we cannot say 8chan is a "hate speech" website.

Most of the comparisons from mainstream media miss this point, and it only highlights how terribly out of touch these old-timers are with how the youth of today express themselves. To really bring this point home, one of the main benefits of using image boards like 8chan is they provide a safe place where you can freely express your ideas without the fear you've somehow upset some crazy person. Such discussions could never take place on a site like Facebook where behavior has to be hyper-mediated with respect to everyone else.

Now to directly address the point of the shooting: recall what happened with Columbine. Shortly after the shooting, these so-called experts started examining the interests of the shooters and they noticed one alarming peculiarity! Both shooters were fond of the video game series 'Doom.' How many of you have played Doom before? Killed anyone lately? These reductionist arguments always seem to have an agenda to express. In my opinion, the agenda is all about dismissing uncomfortable aspects of how people think and feel about the world, and how they've been treated.

I don't know why the Christ Church shooter did what they did. But I can tell you with absolute certainty no amount of examining how many times the N* word appears on /pol/ is going to give you any profound insights here. Most of what the shooter put out are actually red herrings designed to make politically correct people go around in circles exactly like we're seeing now, and the references to memes made throughout the shooters writings were made in the same way. So if you want to understand why the shooter did what they did, you're going to have to dig a lot deeper than blaming it all on a website.

>From the link: There’s no room for argument about whether hate-filled internet message boards encourage real-world violence: they do, and none more so than 8chan.

Yeah, good reasoning. There's no room for arguing about whether this article is wrong: it is, and no more so than in this quote.
Is 130k realistic for someone with less than 2 years of not just experience but total exposure? I'm not aware of any market supporting that sort of value proposition; that's one hell of a book...
Which is a longish way of giving the answer no one wants to hear: Experience is everything.
Nice nice! Would love to test out, my brother-in-law is starting to learn js now, he could use your material as well. He has zero background in coding and just reached out to me to teach something.
I think they hold the current record for the largest tonnage under sail. If they want to survive they should probably diversify into making some systems for yachts and promote them with a racing class. Kiteboats can shift and don't heel much, so is nice for pleasure craft if you can sort out the control, the current downside being that you can't just set them and sail to the wind.
A short history of Bigfoot sightings and lore
An Android client to control mpv (media player) remotely. It is actually both the server (written in python) and client.

I started it because I didn't want to get up to control the movie playing on my laptop, and it has turned into a fun experiment in UX and network security.

https://github.com/mcastorina/mpv-remote-app
With a common area, they aren't unlike many dorms in college.
Btw, have you ever seen freecodecamp and OSS (on Github)? They have really good content for reference.

edit: OSS link - https://github.com/ossu/computer-science
I can't reply to my children, so I'm replying to myself instead.

Uponcoffee suggests inspecting the SNI header to drop the TLS handshake. So the DNS resolves fine, but when they try to connect to https://fancy.ads, that request is tampered with and fails. As far as I know, that depends on a bug in TLS which will be fixed in some future version, so that inspecting such a request becomes impossible.

NegativeLatency suggests installing an alternative certificate. This would presumably work if I have root access to my smart device. Maybe I can get access to root on my smart tv, I'm not sure, I don't use smart tvs.

But random people can't get access to root on their phone. It will break their banking apps. I can install an adblocker on my phone and accept the consequences of my actions. I'm not sure what the tradeoff between adblocking and banking apps is, even for me. I would probably want to write my own browser based app to let me log into my bank from an separated web browser - if I'm trying to log into my bank when I'm standing in the queue I don't want to piss fart around with stupid browser tabs.

I certainly can't tell my coworker "yeah I'll just install this ad blocker on your phone, it'll block some analytics too so your privacy will be a little more respected" if the only way to do it is to break their banking apps.

I mean, okay, the ads aren't unblockable. But we are at the point where I have to make a trade off between letting you run whatever code you want on my phone, and letting you not run any code at all on my phone. Capitalism depends on negotiation to work. If it's just "I'm a big company, use my service or don't", capitalism stops working.
It is strictly true as far as the law is concerned.

> every sanctioned monopoly in American history has tried to use this line of reasoning.

So what? That's like saying "every criminal has claimed they were innocent". It doesn't mean that innocent people don't exist.
This is really interesting.

A bunch of people I know are involved in the Australian space industry and a separate bunch are involved in machine learning research.

Here in Adelaide we have the new Space Agency and the SmartSat CRC and the Australian Institute for Machine Learning and the new Australian MIT Lab and the new startup hub in the same compound (a former hospital) so I'm really hoping we see similar programs.
Unicorn AI – Computerphile [video]
Yeah, would be nice additional info to search/filter with such as year, language, color or black/white, lead actors, etc. Since this is all a free effort, it could be group sourced via github.
Epsilon Theory: Things Fall Apart
Why? Because we're not here to be selfless vassals. We have an innate biological drive to reproduce and a core part of the human/animal experience. Its like asking people not to breathe or not to eat.
I know about the current sad state of the length of copyright, but seeing it on display really drives it home. So few films after 1960. Same issue with books on Gutenberg.
“Turn”, the Netflix series is actually pretty good and covers the spy rings of the Revolution.
I've been spending time working on my board game accessories business https://burgertokens.com/

It's been an awesome experience so far. I have enough customers now that I can go to pretty much any board game event and find people who are fans of my business.

I'm working on editing a video for an upcoming kickstarter that we're about to run. Super excited :)
Monte Carlo methods – Why it's a bad idea to go to the casino
I don't think it's directly a consequence of the local economies, moreso a consequence of bad town planning. Heritage town planning use to allow 3m * 15m houses with no setback. Many better-planned towns eventually introduced more complex legislation to stop this. In lots of parts of Latin America they haven't. Today, in many parts of Colombia, you can take a 150m2 block and build six (!) floors on it provided you have just 10m frontage.

So instead of expanding outwards, the cities just became a lot denser, and economics forced up the price up of the land because the land potential is so high.

What it takes is a gutsy mayor to implement policies such as requiring at least 1m side setback on houses and 3m for apartments, having caps on the floor-space ratio to 50% instead of 98%, not allowing subdivisions on lands that have less than 15m frontage or 600m2 total area etc. This would basically see the housing market crash - lots of people will lose lots of money. But its a necessary evil.

The other angle to this is welfare being given based on the area you live in. Instead of housing support (in the form of tax and utility cost concessions) being distributed based on someone's personal financial situation, the means-test is based on the land classification that the property is built on. The land classification doesn't change whether the house is old or new, or if you build an apartment block on it. Which basically forces higher density in areas with better tax and utility cost concessions - aka poorer areas. In Colombia, this means that buying land in the highest-class areas costs as much - or in many cases less - than middle-class areas. This also introduced an almost caste-like system where people would only hang out from people from their own classification and would look down on people in lower classifications.

I appreciate shared-housing is a thing in Dublin (it is in Sydney too, and I have similar feelings to you about it) but the situation in many parts of Latin America exists for somewhat different reasons.
Do your child, since I cannot reply to them:

You have no evidence that the devices would be more expensive. Your only evidence is that the companies would receive less income all else being equal. But what is the evidence that the trade off is your eyeballs instead of your dollars? And if the tv is perfect except for the ads, where do you get the more expensive, ad free version?
This has become something of a hobby horse of mine over the last few years. I was raised as a fundamentalist, so I had a lot of anti-science indoctrination to get over, both explicit and implicit.

The main problem with this sort of thing, including the methods outlined in the article, is getting past the backfire effect. The best way around that seems to be challenging the methods used to come to a belief, rather than challenging the belief directly.

There's a technique called "street epistemology", loosely based on the Socratic method, that's specifically designed to avoid the backfire effect. See https://streetepistemology.com for more details, or https://youtu.be/v9utXKpFxCo for a great example of it in action.
If such conditions change the price of labour, for example, they are by definition an interference with price mechanisms. The magnitude of the interference will depend on the magnitude of this change. For example, setting a price floor for labour at $0.03/hr will have a smaller effect than setting that price floor at $30/hr.