skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It varies. Some paper downloads are watermarked with individual IP addresses and the connecting institution. It's not solely IP based because services like Shibboleth or OpenAthens let you log in to your institutional account and download from wherever.

In that latter case, you're exposing your personal IP to the publisher and your university who validate your login, which is probably logged.

For example, you can also connect to sites via eduroam globally, but your access (I think) depends on the specific location that you're piggybacking. Sometimes you can download stuff, other times you still need to login to your home institution.
The electric bikes are great but having a small number of relatively far apart docking stations is a big inconvenience compared to dockless with scooters. Particularly so when you find a station empty of bikes when you need one or completely full when you need to drop one off. I use scooters way more than bikes personally even though the bike program has been in my city years longer. Convenience is everything for a 5-15 minute trip.
Thank you so much for your reply! I really appreciate it.
Woah this is great! Spent about 3 minutes with it, but already like it a lot.
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Why do we need yet another language instead of improving the existing ones?
Not sure why this is downvoted but it all really looks like non-tested deployments to production servers.
This sounds fixable with some technology.
So, I'm dreaming here, but a scooter with 2-3 times the battery life, able to self balance and limp (1-2mph, with flashing lights) on the edge of the road (or sidewalk if allowed) back to a charging station (or to a high traffic area based on some predictive algo) would fix almost every problem in their current business plan.

I know that the self driving bit is far from trivial (understatement of the decade) but at very low speed you can stop, get out of the way, phone home for some help.

Simplified scenario, and likely full of holes, but you get my idea.
Mitchell Feigenbaum, an architect of chaos theory, dies at 74
What's ironic in this whole situation is that Strava themselves are extremely dependent on a 3rd party API: workouts from Garmin. I don't think there are public numbers on the percentage of total workout data comes from Garmin, but looking at their own status page gives an idea: https://status.strava.com/

The graphs for "Uploads" and "Uploads from Garmin Connect" are virtually identical. Seeing that, I'd be surprised if Garmin was contributing less than 75% of total uploads.

If I was invested in Strava, I'd be somewhat concerned right now that Garmin could pull a Relive on Strava...
Kids will move out, wife will get old and both of you will need help.

We become people who need help once again later in life.
Python and Rust go the “documentation test” route as well.

Go goes the opposite direction with “testable examples” that are written alongside test code and added to generated documentation.

https://docs.python.org/2/library/doctest.html

https://doc.rust-lang.org/rustdoc/documentation-tests.html

https://golang.org/pkg/testing/#hdr-Examples
> Somehow I doubt Android is what Linux Desktop evangelists imagined.

You must be confusing Android with a desktop OS. It's mobile so they don't fall into the desktop category at all. Which was exactly my point: they simply don't need a desktop OS anymore.

> Apparently that doesn't include Linux

That reads like you're looking at some statistics that show that 0% of desktop users run Linux. Care pointing to it?

> And yet Steam is a ridiculously huge money maker and people are buying more PC games than ever.

So? It's completely overshadowed by the console market, not even including mobile games here.

> Then why hasn't it happened? You think companies like paying licensing fees to Microsoft?

You're asking why it hasn't happened yet in reply to me using future tense.

But let's put aside that pretty much everything you said was deliberately besides the point. Why it hasn't happened yet is pretty simple. Companies weigh the cost of switching vs. The cost of just keep paying for Windows (so no changes, no initial setup cost, no training, ...). That's gonna be cheaper for quite some time but eventually everything will be in the cloud so there is less and less reason to keep up a huge and complicated windows domain network with software rollout and other brain damage. You might keep a basic AD in place for user management that the web services talk to but that's it. Funnily enough my current and previous employer is still on win 7 because of the frequent messups you read about regarding 10, and how even in a corporate environment it's near impossible to disable all telemetry. I'm curious what they'll do at 7's EOL.

As for the average home desktop user, you're not seriously expecting your mom to go ahead and download and install Ubuntu are you? As long as most OEMs still exclusively sell machines with Windows preinstalled, there really shouldn't be anything surprising about the fact that most people use Windows. We already see some of the larger ones offering machines with Linux though, and with the desktop keeping to lose relevance and everything moving to the web I wouldn't be surprised to see this getting more prevalent over the next decade if Microsoft doesn't get their act together regarding Windows. It currently looks like they're cutting costs in that department, normal users seem to get the beta versions now so they could cut down their QA.
Impossible Foods Joins Slew of Companies Developing Alternative Fish
"That's fine."

idk the suits have a very different viewpoint; 30 minutes of downtime for a large financial system isn't fine. it can be very costly.
For the record, a response here: https://www.blog.google/products/assistant/more-information-...
Imagine if a programming union formed with salary caps, max contracts, programmer-demanded trades, and franchise tags.
Right. The emergency path is either something you end up using always, or something you use so rarely that it gets eaten by bit-rot before it gets ever used[0]. So I think we're in full agreement on your original point. This was just an attempt to parse a working policy out of that bullet point.

[0] My favorite example of this had somebody accidentally trigger an ancient emergency config push procedure. It worked, made a (pre-canned) global configuration change that broke everything. Since the change was made via this non-standard and obsolete method, rolling it back took ages. Now, in theory it should have been trivial. But in practice, in the years since the functionality had been written (and never used), somehow all humans had lost the rights to override the emergency system.
I think there's a third dimension: how much you've given up.

So my thoughts are like #4, but with the undertone of "who am I kidding, of course they don't care, what can I do?".

This is perhaps the most dangerous response.
Open Source Mobile OS Alternatives to Android
'Book ripper' on vandalism spree in seaside town
> Julia has static typing.

Julia has its own type system, which doesn't conform to the traditional static/dynamic divide. But AFAIK it doesn't have a compile-time type checker like mypy to help me catch type errors early.
Stella Emulator 12-Hour Fundrasing Marathon – Live [video]
And surprisingly, there is a constant "let's end nuclear!" campaign going on in France. A lot of people complain about the risks of accident and the nuclear waste.
I am for the "housing first" approach, but there is a clear moral hazard when you provide free housing to the lowest rung, and then say that the minimum cost of housing for the next group is like 1.5k/bedroom/month.
Previously, 34 comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20357057
Hi manicdee. Ben from 1Password here. I'm sorry for any confusion we've caused, but this is not correct. It is quite the opposite. The WLAN Server in 1Password for Mac can _only_ sync _standalone_ vaults (not membership vaults). It is available with a 1Password 7 for Mac license.
In my mind, a "degradation" would be if some fraction of requests were randomly failing, but they would be likely to eventually succeed if retried. Or if the service itself was essentially accessible, but some non-essential functionality was not working correctly.

On the other hand, if for a significant number of users the site was completely unusable for some period of time, then I think it's fair to use the word "outage". (Even if it's not a complete outage affecting all users.)

I don't know whether other people would interpret these terms the same way I do, nor do I think there's enough information in this blog post to determine for sure which label is more accurate for this particular incident. So personally, I'm not going to be too picky about the wording.
When I read this, my first thought was "wow, this must have been really hard to anonymize, if he wasn't careful to remove/change enough details people could figure out who the garbage man is".

Well, not so much...

> So of course Sayyid was aware that I was researching and writing about him. At the same time, he is not literate, so there are serious limitations on his understanding of something like a New Yorker story.

> I also considered whether to change his name or not use a photograph. But I don’t like to do that unless there are serious political risks. Inevitably, changing a name reduces the reality of the subject, and there’s more of a risk that the person comes across as a symbol or something half-real.

(From https://www.facebook.com/41268348994/posts/pete-asked-me-to-... , which is a response to http://edgeeffects.net/tales-of-the-trash-response/ .)

I feel the ethics here are really dubious.
The classic example is getting the last element of an array. With 1-based indexing the length of the array is the index of the last element. It has a nice symmetry to it.

Also I find it elegant that for 1-indexing that the start and end value for slices are both inclusive, instead of the first one being inclusive and the last being exclusive.

Also, isn’t it just weird that the index of an element is one less than it’s “standard” index? Like if I take the first nth elements of a list, it would stand to reason that the nth element should be the last element, right?

The reason for zero indexing is historical, related to pointer offsets. I don’t think anyone chose them to be easier for people. They just made them that way because it maps closer to how contiguous values in arrays are accessed.

Also, with 1-indexing I can multiply numbers by arrays and get reasonable offsets. 3 x 1 is three, so I would get the third element of the list. But with 0-indexing, I have 0 x 3 which gives me the same element, clearly inconsistent.

There are some good reasons for 0-indexing and I have been using it in every language for my entire career. The amount of code I’ve written in Julia is marginal compared to my 0-indexing experience, so I might be missing something.

One nice this about 0-indexing is that I can slice a list in half with the same midpoint. For example a Python array with 10 elements:

fst, snd = arr[0:5], arr[5:10]

A little nicer than:

fst, snd = arr[1:5], arr[6:10]

Though you could have inclusive slices with 0-indexing, but it would be inconvenient and suffer from the same problem as 1-indexing.
I always wonder if it is legal for doktors to use microsoft software: In my country, the medical secret is absolute, which means giving or taking medical data to anybody not strictly needing it is a crime.

So if a medical program crashes and telemetry picks up medical data in a dump, the doktor commits a crime, as does any microsoft employee reading that dump.

I guess the only reason the court doesn't do anything, is thete is no smoking gun. So one day, someone will notice and then it all comes crashing down.
Yeah but PDF itself isn’t really the problem. Bookdown is nice, but if you’re using Bookdown then you’re using RMarkdown, so you can easily output the same .Rmd file as HTML/PDF/Reveal.js/EPub/etc. I’m trying to find well-executed examples or templates for what I have in mind (two column layout of code/text, maybe in landscape orientation for better spacing), but I’m drawing up blanks so far. Specifically I’m looking for either LaTeX or Reveal.js packages/templates for this.
Indeed. The October 2018 update erased my archive of digitized home videos. Thankfully I had backups because it took me a while to notice and some of the reallocated disk space had probably been overwritten by then. Microsoft's stunning lack of respect for its users is the reason I almost never got to see my grandfather smile again.
This is a very cynical perspective. The public markets are generally very unforgiving. This is why so many tech companies are choosing to stay private longer. If it was all about duping the public, they would IPO asap before the ship sinks.

Sure, there are examples like Blue Apron that seem to fit your narrative, but they are the exception.

If your narrative was correct, hedge funds or other intelligent investors would quickly catch on and short funds that purely track tech IPO's and make a killing. Obviously playing the markets is not this easy.
Wait, so in a thread about a company raising more money for the VC blitzscaling playbook, you're complaining that popular demand for this service appears to be outstripping supply?

Lyft and Uber have shown that you can improve matching logistics by bolting on games like demand charges and utilizing various supply-side nudges to direct assets to where you need them to be. These are solvable problems. It seems like you're saying you would happily use the service if there was more of it available.
Will this experiment change any minds about taxation? I still see "Laffer Curve" type arguments to justify always cutting taxes. I suspect not: that sort of thing has become almost a religious doctrine, one that is evidence-resistant.
I was interested by the title, but it really needs a quick-start + examples in the readme.
The nuance is that for someone who mainly just calls functions from packages, they probably won’t notice any real speed difference since performance sensitive packages in python and R are typically written in C or C++. Additionally, there are various tools like Numba for accelerating Python code that will make certain restricted subsets of Python just as fast (or sometimes faster) than Julia.

However, as soon as you try to do something a bit more complicated then you’ll notice the speed and flexibility differences.
For the curious, search is now mapped to f3.
Ben from 1Password here. We much prefer customers stick with us because they're happy with what we're offering rather than because they feel locked in. As such we offer some of the most robust export options available. I would caution that by their nature exports have to be stored unencrypted, so please use extreme caution with any such files and delete them from your disks (and backups!) as soon as you've done what you need to do with them.
They could but its simply too expensive to add something like a secure enclave to a device this cheap. Maybe on your high-end 10-100 GBe adapters that sell for 100s of dollars, it makes sense. I just don't think they are aware of the problem to the degree that they would make such big changes.
> R is too quirky to fulfill this niche

I'd like to offer a counter point or add on to this.

It's quirky enough to have many packages backed by some expert statistician.

I hope Julia get to be successful in this regard too.
Actually. Taxes aren't even close to being the highest bit.
The parts that are taxes are:

APHIS User Fee USD 3.96
Immigration User Fee USD 7.00
Customs User Fee USD 5.77
United States International Departure Tax USD 18.60
United States International Arrival Tax USD 18.60
Passenger Civil Aviation Security Service Fee USD 5.60
Air Transport Tax USD 46.58
German Aviation Security Charge 19.15

The majority of the charges are airport services. But they typically just put everything with Taxes, so you think it's taxes.
Oh my god. Please, investors, do not put more money in. It's enough already. Anyone who studied economics and looked at this from the beginning knew it was a poor idea not likely to succeed. The experiment is over!
TrickBot malware learns how to spam, ensnares 250M email addresses
I found some more information in posts on the patreon page, but not a good intro.
GCP Functions Framework: FaaS framework for Writing Portable Node.js Functions
I’ve personally suffered the same fate as Relive with Strava cutting off access to their API for a side project of mine [1]. They gave me twenty minutes notice via email before disabling access and effectively killing my app.

Ostensibly the reason was due to competing with a feature that Strava intend to build themselves (“thanks for proving the demand”). This was back in March, I’ve since been informed that access won’t ever be reinstated so have open sourced the code [2].

Lesson learnt, don’t depend entirely on third party APIs.

[1] https://segmentchallenge.com/

[2] https://github.com/slashdotdash/segment-challenge
There is no salary cap in MLB. At the time even the "luxury" tax on particularly high payrolls had just been eliminated.
Yes I see how I worded that wrong. I get how counter strike etc. Won't move to the console for serious e-sports any time soon. :-)
Oh wow, cool. Have been hoping for another concaternative functional language. It really feels like one of those underrepresented language types. Always hoped to create something in Kitten but never got around to it and the development was mostly dead last time I looked at it. The way these languages both keeps all the simplicity of a lisp and the strong abstractions of modern functional languages, while still feeling and being close to the metal in a way most func langs never can is something I feel should be better explored.
Though I don't see any example code on the README... Seems quite early so it's understandable, but would love to see more about it.
Thank you! Always trying to do an organic placement when there is a relevant opportunity.

INAL. Regarding ToS. In the US, scraping public data is a fair use exemption under the first.
It looks like the UI is coming together nicely. My only question is what battery life will look like on these phones. I'm guessing terrible for the first gen.
It would be just as accurate to say "a mostly semi-conductor manufacturing based economy", given that both are around 5% of GDP.
Also interested in this protection. How does it detect this situation and what does it do when something is detected? Did you notice when it was accidentally removed that your monitoring of this condition went to zeros (or was it never happening during normal operations)?
The support is great, as I understand it anyway, unless you are addicted to drugs.
The places for the homeless to go to do not accept people with drugs, which seems reasonable but then you create this situation with lots of addicts on the streets not getting the help they really need.
Amazing work, congratulations! I'm gonna give it a try, we have been using Phplist so far (we send like 500k daily emails).

Are you guys using returnpath' senderscore or a similar certification to send that amount of emails ?
I'd love to find videos of lectures done for SICM (Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics). I've been wanting to go through the book (possibly attempting to do the work in Clojure?) for some time.
Text to Speech from voices with ~15 minutes of Audio from YouTube videos
...and that right there is Huawei, Boeing, Exxon, BP, and a thousand other big corporate dumpster fires in a nutshell.
>If I was invested in Strava, I'd be somewhat concerned right now that Garmin could pull a Relive on Strava...

you mean pull a Strava on Strava?
Thank you.

I installed Windows as early as last month (in a VM) and still got Candy Crush. This is probably because my ISO image was not fully up to date.

I was not aware of this change but it is greatly appreciated. I can no longer modify the parent comment but if dang or anyone else with permission wants to please feel free.

No need for a new litmus test, though solving the problem of Edge opening MSN ads after updating would probably buy some goodwill.
Not making any claims about Julia, but “gets compiled native via LLVM” doesn’t imply ”is about as fast as other natively compiled languages”

For example, a straightforward Python-to-LLVM compiler would generate code with every variable being a PyObject (https://docs.python.org/3/c-api/structures.html) instance, and “switch(obj.ob_type)” equivalents that would require a “sufficiently advanced compiler” to get to equivalent speed as, say, C.
Using transfer learning on top of a DCTTS model (deep convolutional text to speech), I wanted to see how quickly one could recreate voices remotely convincingly.

TLDR/W, using ~15 minutes of audio and about 1.5 hours of training, I was able to create what I think are pretty good examples of voices of myself, Donald Trump, Obama, Musk, and Joe Rogan.

None are perfect, and very much still a work in progress, but maybe something you might want to note that exists now (and has for years).

Even if you don't post videos of yourself on YouTube, your audio is almost certainly stored, tagged by your name, by Google (Assistant), Apple (Siri), Amazon (Alexa), and probably many other providers.
All that those graphs being the same tells you is that the percentage of uploads that come from Garmin Connect is fairly stable. That could be true regardless of if it's 10% or 90%.

The incident history lists a garmin connect outage on June 30. The GC uploads graph shows a corresponding dip and surge then, while the total uploads graph looks normal for the day. That suggests that a temporary GC outage didn't significantly change things.
The only thing special about Bird is the quality VCs that got into it at seed and series a. Investors will be taking a second look at these funds. If second and third tier VCs had been Bird's primary backers, we would all care a lot less about this failed company.
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I was going to ask is there any Kindle version of this, then I skimmed over the book, and I don't think it will be readable on a Kindle. And even if it does, the reading experience will definitely be inferior.
Artificial intelligence is finally getting smart (2013)
Yes, this is always one of our primary questions we ask when deciding when and how we should dogfood our own services; will we create a circular dependency where our ability to fix an issue on one service is hindered by any chain of dependencies between the service with the issue and the service used to fix it. We always avoid those, or at least have easy alternatives.
You're not looking at the big picture. Microsoft already has - and has had for 30 years! - the most valuable data in the world flowing through Excel and Word.

Code is cool, but they could already know everything every company in the world is doing.

I don't think they're abusing the trust put into them, we'd know by now.

They'd also probably be blown to smithereens by governments and other corporations, through lawsuits.
> No, it's naturally cheap, even when advertising is taken into account.

You haven't supported your argument all that well. First of all, ads have a significantly longer shelf-life than news stories and can often be re-used. Even short-term ads have value for weeks.

Second, creating a single, non-"investigative" (this is a nebulous term in this context) story takes, typically, 20-40 man hours to create and has value for typically 24 hours. 40 hours is in itself relative as a measure of cost, but against the term for recouping costs, it's very expensive. Without ads, this wouldn't be a viable business.
I’d like to imagine that as long as we live, poorly written regular expressions will continue to be the cause of breaking issues.
It's a low bar, but apparently they managed to not clear it.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=hanford+leaking+into+columbia
Incorrect. In London they replace people getting trains for the most part. They also make flagrant use of pavements.