skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This pisses me off more than it should. I used to be interested in Superhuman, but after they backed down I no longer care about getting an invite.

It’s nobody’s business what email client I use. I would like to see a bold email client that offers all these extensive tracking features and makes no apologies. Call it Supervillain for all I care, there is a market for it. If you don’t want to be tracked, don’t accept images from me or anyone else. Simple as that.
Yes, the power ratings of modern car engines are achieved mainly through turbocharging and higher RPMs --- both of which negatively impact longevity. The margin is much smaller, because of computer design that lets parts be run at closer to their maximum stresses, and the designers do not plan for a car engine running at maximum power for much of its life.

You can see a similar when comparing automotive and aviation engines --- the latter are effectively designed for 100% power 100% of the time, and as a result the power density is much lower, because of the need to maintain reliability. For example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UL260i is around 40hp/L at most, even less than the 70s V8.

At the other end, here's a 434 that's been pushed to almost 1700HP(!) with turbocharging, or over 240hp/L:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xS_DDtXaEdY

A naturally aspirated one can do over 800HP with the right tuning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYpPMcIYx2s

But for the usual passenger car applications of the time, the designers wanted longevity and didn't have the advanced technologies we do now, so they just overbuilt by a very large margin instead.
Hopefully our regulators can regulate rationally, even if our click-bait-emotionally driven general public cannot. If they can manage it, thousands of lives will be saved.
> There's also the fact that the content--very anti-slavery, and very anti-monarchy--doesn't much resemble Thomas Jeferson's contemporary philosophy either.

Jefferson was one of the most outspoken voices in the US in favor of France during the French Revolution, even when it slipped into the extreme Reign of Terror phase, and Jefferson was also the spearhead of the movement to abolish the international slave trade.
And school-like nonprofits. Harvard can have them. Phoenix can’t.
I agree with you but IMO, this could be a good thing sometimes. Avoiding statistics to some extent requires more deterministic experiments, where statistics are limited to quantum uncertainty or gaussian distribution. Otherwise there is probably some unknown mechanism to be revealed, and that’s exactly what the community expects physicists to do.
On Route 66, maybe, but IMO it's coming to the interstate much sooner.
3D Model of Shibuya City (Japan) and Underground
It's available online https://www.robotodyssey.online/
If you connect to a website behind a CDN hosting many websites, a passive observer can tell that you connected to the CDN, but has no idea which website you requested (let's pretend that they can't use a length fingerprinting attack). However, unless the CDN supports domain fronting, which most don't, you have to use SNI to tell the CDN which website you want so you can get the right cert. As SNI is unencrypted, a passive observer now knows what website you are talking to. Privacy defeated.

If you connect to a website not behind a CDN, you probably don't have to use SNI, but, the website is revealed by doing a simple reverse DNS query. Privacy defeated.

Unencrypted SNI doesn't hurt privacy when compared to the status quo. Encrypted SNI will boost privacy. But until then, TLS is basically the best you can do for privacy, outside of using some more exotic service.
The Tobin Q measurement mentioned in the article is also suspect:

> But in most industries, economists Germán Gutiérrez and Thomas Philippon believe, this process has broken down. In a new paper, they attempted to measure how much new business entry responded to the market opportunity available in an industry. Gutiérrez and Philippon used a measure called Tobin’s Q, which represents the ratio of a company’s market value to the book value of the company's assets. When Q is high, it should mean that new competitors have an opportunity to come in and take some of the profits in that industry, thus reducing existing companies’ price premium and bringing Q down. Indeed, the authors found that this was common up until the late 1990s. But after 2000 -- right around the same time that profits started to rise to unprecedented levels -- the relationship broke down. High Q levels no longer seem to attract new market entrants.

It's the ratio of market value to book value. Hasn't book value become less reliable in the age of software? They mention 2000 as the somewhat mysterious starting point of unprecedented profit levels. Doesn't seem so mysterious if 2000 was when companies starting adopting technology more intensively.
Ask HN: Books that blend math and fiction
Just finished 'The Housekeeper and the Professor'by Yoko Ogawa. A really nice blend of fiction and mathematics, especially Number Theory. Loved it for it's ease of read, sensitive writing and the math. My favorite line in the book, a thought stream on whether to have a formula explained or discovered by oneself '... but I felt that I would have a much deeper understanding if I struggled it alone for a while'. I am looking to read more books like this one. Any recommendations?
> But I certainly don't think anyone should be forced or required to give him a platform

This is where I think most people on both sides of the debate miss the point. Section 203 of the communications decency act provides protection from liability for platforms that host content provided by others. This is a very important law that I think most people see the value in. However it has a Good Samaritan clause which allows them to arbitrarily moderate content without losing that protection. Should these large platforms be able to exert absolute editorial control over the content they host? I think yes, they most certainly should be allowed to. But they should not be entitled to the liability protections afforded to common carriers if they choose to do so.
> They are biological wastelands.

That's the point. The whole idiotic point of grassy yards was that only rich people in feudal Europe could afford them historically because they were such an utter waste. The planners of these great nations thought what a great idea, what if everyone could be rich like that... yes we'll make everyone waste land so they can pretend that they are rich... while the banks own most of it.

For anyone who thinks that this is a conspiracy theory: https://www.planetnatural.com/organic-lawn-care-101/history/
The amount of hype for self-driving cars, even if they come several decades from now, is not 'bullshit.' Just because things don't happen immediately doesn't make them 'bullshit hype.'
The company implementing the autonomous vehicles still need to be held accountable no matter what... otherwise you could pay them to kill anyone...
Zachtronics is a beautiful developer. Such a niche genre, so perfectly executed. I'm a bit behind but just started Shenzen I/O. It's a programming puzzle game done right. This is perfect for schools, it's genuine programming-thinking packed into a game-like challenge.

It's interesting that SpaceChem apparently isn't included? Maybe because the kinda fake chemistry would drive science teachers mad?
How hard is can it be for an email client, e.g. Gmail, to specifically detect tracking images (literally 1x1 pixels or other similarly small/inconspicuous images) and to block them by default? Sounds pretty trivial to me...
I took out my lawn and planted a ton of perennials and ornamental grasses. It’s way less work than a lawn (I weed it twice a year, in the spring and in the late fall). It’s full of hummingbirds all the time. And it’s pretty.
This comment thread says a lot about hacker news.

a) the flagged videos have already been unbanned, with YT saying it was a mistake and b) YT's policy exempts educational videos, which is why it was a mistake, and why e.g LiveOverflow et al should be fine.
You came very close to my understanding - herbicides that left clover and desirable grass alone were not developed - the best performing weed killers also killed clover, so clover was defined by marketing as a weed to fix that particular bug of the herbicides.
I feel the same way about Opus Mangum: I have all the achievements for Sigmar’s Garden, and am a third of the way through the “real” game.

Also, these games work great with Steam Link from elsewhere in the house—no beefy GPU required.
Reminds me of trying to figure out how to make the power seats go down in a rental car at 3am. Seat was up so far my head was pressed against the headliner. To control the seat there were three switches under the seat on the left. That was easy enough to find though not obvious. But flipping each switch up and down and the seat would move some direction. Except up and down.

Found one page in the back of the owners manual that showed 'one' of the switches in addition to up and down moved right and left.
Well, this is dumb as hell. Basically, YouTube (i.e. Google) is unwilling to close the holes in their security systems, so they hope to keep everyone in the dark about them??? Any sane person would want people to find and report these vulnerabilities so they could be repaired...
This doesn't work too well if someone adds Nine Inch Nails' Ghosts I-IV or Kendrick Lamar's untitled unmastered to their playlist.
There will be crop failures in some places and increases in others.
But given the amount of steps I do think repeatedly stating how simple and easy things were makes me think your bar is quite low. Compare installation to macOS, it’s a million time so more complicated. If you need a FAQ to configure your system and get wifi working, you’re doing it wrong.

(I also have installed OpenBSD before and found the whole process actually quite complicated and documentation insufficient. YMMV)
Could Lab-Grown Brains Develop Consciousness?
If I were to buy a house, I would make sure that it has no HOA bullshit. I am willing to drive farther into the outskirts of the city but there is no way in hell I would ever want any HOA police my own property. It just feels wrong. Just thinking about this sort of thing makes me angry.
Shasta daisy is competing with the pineapple mint in my front yard. It’s a riot. And they will never leave!
Twenty years ago the idea seemed several centuries away.
There are other cities which you can move to.

The problem is, Emperor G sells the only map to the Internet, and they're not shown on it.
React doesn't make your site slow.
Yeah, but the hype is that they are right around the corner.
This is true, but it's not teachers who made the decision to spend resources on classroom surveillance. That's a call made at the administrative level, be it in the school or the district as a whole--and that's ultimately where the decision of how to approach problematic classroom behavior is being made.
YouTube Advertiser-friendly content guidelines – June 2019
I just hate that I have to make all my plans around the fact that The economy will be scrambled in as little as a couple decades. I wish I was born in a time when things were stable and you could count on certain basic things like the value of human labor.
‘The Cold Blue’ Restores Vivid WWII Footage of 8th Air Force Missions
Not sure what the "Show HN" part of this is, but here's a link to the original announcement post for Python-on-WASM by Mike Droettboom and the team at mozilla: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/04/pyodide-bringing-the-scien.... This seems to just be repackaging that.
> Like with Tesla, every accident and injury caused by a Waymo vehicle is going recieve disproportionate media coverage and subsequent public backlash.

Explain the universe where humans are rational enough to give "proportionate" attention to tech as novel as self-driving cars, yet irrational enough to have preferred private car ownership over mass transit in the first place.
Articles like this will be followed by "This time, it's different" articles. Here's one.

https://www.ocregister.com/2019/07/03/inverted-yield-curve-a...
Wow - the amount of material that YouTube will demonetize has expanded massively.
I think everyone understands that regulations are written by the highest bidder. If not at first, then over time.

Some people think that can be fixed, get money out of politics and then good regulation can exist in the long run. Others do not think that's possible, so it's better to remove the power from government altogether, because over time it will always be bought.
Ah, good point. If you believe a particular regulation is useful and necessary now, why wouldn't you also believe it would be so in the future? You may not be in power to conditionally renew it. And from a pragmatic political perspective, sunsetting smells like compromise; the political base and interest groups generally frown on compromise. All of which may explain why sunsetting isn't as common as one would think, even if most legislators share the sentiments expressed in this thread (and I would presume that they do).
Previous discussion of Pyodide:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19677721

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19684321
I don't think it's okay to test big powerful robots on public roads.

Just because a robot looks like a car and has people sitting inside it doesn't make it okay to ignore common sense. These things have already killed at least one person.

I've said it before: we could build self-driving light-weight "nerf" golf carts that would be useful without being deadly. Trying to jump immediately to self-driving cars is a techno-fetish.

- - - -

Edit to add: "People kill people so robots should be allowed to kill people too." is a rotten argument, eh?
I can think of many reasons. One simple one is that semantic's first commit was 2015 while https://langserver.org/ wasn't created until 2016.
IIRC, even Cody's steak knife NG video had pretty serious "don't do this" disclaimers. And, I genuinely think it had educational value as an example of a project gone wrong.

The biggest problem for me in this train of thought is whether the danger lies in the danger (if emulated), the attractiveness, or the availability.

At what point do you start banning extreme sports videos from the platform? There are some activities which simply aren't safe, and are clear outliers. (Say, free soloing vs typical rock climbing.)
Part C plans offer Part A and B through private insurers.
Water availability and weather events damaging crops I think are the big dangers.

Greater variation in weather events isn't good for agriculture in either direction. Flooding at one end (like the midwest US got hit with badly this year), or drought at the other. In between there's the increased occurrence of sudden events like hailstorms, wildfires.

Areas with good aquifers presently find themselves with a decent buffer against drought, but there's a worldwide phenomenon of aquifer consumers overdrawing and proving unable to properly regulate sustainable access to those, let alone factoring in the changing supply rate to said aquifers. E.g, if your aquifers are snow-fed, but the winter snowfall is gradually waning up in the mountains, then what used to be sustainable could "suddenly" run dry. The Yemen water crisis is a good example of this (aided by overconsumption for growing khat), but we've seen the same coordinated action problems even in wealthy democracies like California.

There's also other risks from heat stress (some crops affected by this more than others), and also secondary risks, e.g a lot of these same stresses (plus all the other stresses of modernity) on pollinators like bees.
Paradoxically, it's more likely you'll find a HOA-free house in an older more central part of town. The 'burbs are the prime breeding ground for those kind of organizations.
> "I am so very sorry for this. When we built Superhuman, we focused only on the needs of our customers. We did not consider potential bad actors. I wholeheartedly apologize for not thinking through this more fully."

> Rare to hear such honesty from a CEO. I don't think I've ever seen a corporate leader admit they didn't consider product security. Concerning? Maybe - but I think it's miles better than the usual "we value your privacy and use industry standard blah blah blah.." canned spiel everyone gets in their inbox after a breach goes public.

A company that has access to your email did not consider bad actors, and that is a "maybe" of a concern for you?
Cannot believe that you have described exactly the position that gives me pain for the last 2 months. Both shoulders. Never had a shoulder problem before and I am playing tennis every week for 15 years.
And it used to be VERY easy to make them public. Amazon has recently been showing a lot more warnings if you try it now.
syrusakbary is the CEO of Wasmer.
You’re pretty angry for someone who has limited knowledge on this topic!

It’s highly subsidized by the gov’t so the fee is trivial compared to the benefit. 2019 budget is $99B. Monthly cost is a little over $200 if you pay full freight.

Unless you’ve got other insurance, you’d be stupid not to go with Part D. You’d pay more with a private plan.

Medicare Part D plans (private insurers) compete for customers and get money from CMS for offering coverage that confirms to CMS standards.

It’s far more than “negotiating block and cost averaging”.
Private schools can use the games, they just have to be not-for-profit (as opposed to a for-profit school, like DeVry). The vast majority of private schools are not-for-profit.
20 years ago was 1999. I think that it was very easy to imagine self-driving cars being within a few decades' reach back then. Not much harder than to imagine it today.
The discover card (As in discover credit cards) had a limitation of 15 characters for the password back when I first signed up for one out of college. Even back then I was using long complicated passwords. The "clever" thing is that they never told you about this. They just truncated it at 15 characters on both the sign up page and the login page. I didn't realize this for several years because their password entry field was so small.
Actually, free speech is an ethical concept, not a legal concept. The first amendment is a legal concept. Free speech means means enabling the free exchange of ideas. Free speeches as a concept applies to private platforms and organizations too, it just isn't mandated by law.
Better give up eating vegetables, too: people die working on farms.
FreeNAS is linux distro with a friendly NAS UI: https://freenas.org/ - but still linux, so you get all the usual linux stuff - docker, full VMs, etc...
Thanks! Sounds like I did a miss a lot.
Is it responsible for Upguard to have waited two days to try and contact Attunity?

*edit - I'm not trying to be smarmy - its a genuine question
We should just up and have an "OS" on WebAssembly. It could be based on packages from something like NixOS. There could even be a local server with cached packages
Some people just enjoy telling other people what to do.
> A somewhat similar effect is alive and well on Android: background processes run measurably faster while user holds/moves their finger across the screen

Only if they do not have enough load, that is. If you have an actually loaded background process on Android it by itself will keep the clocks high. If you have a process that has short bursts of work, though, then the duration of that burst will definitely vary in response to touch boost. This is all the same as "regular" linux as it's just an aspect of most governors (ondemand, interactive, etc...)

As in, touching the display will never make this loop go faster:

void busyLoop() {
Random rand = new Random();
int data[] = new int[1000];
for (int i = 0; i < data.length; i++) {
data[i] = rand.nextInt();
}
while (true) {
measure(() -> {
for (int i = 0; i < data.length; i++) {
data[i] = (data[i] * 4) % 1000;
}
});
}
}

The hypothetical measure will observe duration to normalize to a number and then it'll stay roughly there until thermal throttling kicks in.

If, however, the loop was to look more like this:

void busyLoop() {
Random rand = new Random();
int data[] = new int[1000];
for (int i = 0; i < data.length; i++) {
data[i] = rand.nextInt();
}
while (true) {
measure(() -> {
for (int i = 0; i < data.length; i++) {
data[i] = (data[i] * 4) % 1000;
}
});
try {
Thread.sleep(5);
} catch (InterruptedException ex) {}
}
}

Then you would see the measured duration decrease when your finger was on the screen vs. not, because the kernel will consistently see that the task is not keeping the CPU it's scheduled on loaded above a threshold, so the clocks will go down all the way to idle.
Border agency knew about secret Facebook group for years
The complete list of alternatives to all Google products
Many of my neighbors have front yard gardens, often because depending on the orientation of the house (it's a dense area) the front yard might have the best light.

Nobody complains, and if anything, such gardens are often complimented (often enviously by those of us on the shady side of the street). People here like the look a well tended space.

I'm sure there's some ordinance on the books disallowing it - like most US cities - but nobody would report it anyway, and the city (Oakland CA) has bigger problems to worry about.
isn't this comment non-sarcastically why all servers run on linux and not windows?
I work at twitch. Let me put it this way. My team that I am on (VOD) has ~8 backend engineers and we are in charge of something like ~2 dozen services.

We literally have services that are run entirely using AWS Lambda functions only.

This is a pretty big difference from teams I've worked on in the past, that have 8 engineers all working on a singular service.

"Microservices" is more of a philosophy than anything.
I think you're likely completely misinformed on the state and progress rate of the solutions to this particular problem. I would be shocked if it were legal to drive as a human being on public roads in "several decades"
> Read receipts do work in Gmail, and Google should be shamed for that.

Work how? There's a responsible way to handle read receipts (where the client notifies you the remote side would like a read receipt, and offers the choice to send it), and if it's done in that manner, I'm not sure why they should need to be shamed.

I'm not sure what Gmail does, but I see stuff when searching about how to configure it for G Suite accounts to always/never/selectively respond, and about how to disable Gmail's nagging about it, so I'm not sure the current status.
> It's remarkable that he was able to quantify the demand for his feature: "at the time of writing only 32 out of 26,000+ requests [was for turning off Read Receipts]".

A company managing customer feature requests is suddenly remarkable? For a tool aimed at professionals? I would take that as par for the course.
What's next, cracking and reverse-engineering? Debugging? (Anti-authoritarian) programming?

As usual, Stallman tends to be quite prescient:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html (perhaps more like "right to watch" in this context.)
Flippant comments like these are not only frustrating, they are misleading. I know you realize now that you were wrong, but your short, dismissive comment following a substantive paragraph makes it seem much less substantive without having read it. Which would be great, if you weren't wrong.
I share my feelings all the time on HN. And I get a roller coaster of up and down votes... Never stop sharing your feelings, otherwise what's the point of a community.

I think you should always be encouraged to share your point of view, whether I agree or not (in this case I do), and only get downvoted if you're just flat out spreading misinformation. I often upvote opinions I don't agree to on the basis that they make their case in a valid way.