skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm an advocate that places like YCombinator should be pushing the places they invest in to take this seriously.

Every company should have to present an environmental action plan and plan to become Carbon Neutral as part of its investment strategy. Right now, because it's the right thing to do, in future, because environmental exposure is a huge risk for companies

YC has led the world in tech investments and growth/value creation by typical measures. It should lead the world by environmental measures also.
I think it's helpful for SIMD operations, in some way that I can't quite remember.
On Myra Breckinridge and the Life of Gore Vidal
> How does Soulver get the data for the USD conversion?

My LittleSnitch rules would suggest it uses https://www.mycurrency.net/
I think the real challenge will be training the humans to repel the Rise Of The Machines(TM)[0] because they're not going to play fair when they come to destroy us.

[0]Thank you, The Register
What's the cost of not taking preventative steps now and having to take reactive steps though?
These businesses pay expensive rent to be in a downtown vs. the boonies who gladly would let them build a sprawling corporate campus and pay no taxes. There are actual business decisions for burning that rent money downtown.

- Close to colleagues/network of other businesses in your industry downtown. Meetings can happen over lunch, or drinks after work. This is pretty advantageous for the employee; your next job could be just a block away and offered to you by the guy you see in the elevator every day.

- Close to transportation. Chances are, all the rail lines, bus lines, roads and highways all lead to downtown. A business located downtown can have workers from all over the metropolitan area. A location in the suburbs just gets workers who are able to drive to that suburbs, the infrastructure isn't there to move large amounts of people from around town to the suburbs. Moving businesses to suburbs introduces sprawl, which is bad for the environment, and also slowly bled every great American city after WWII as downtown became vacant (see Detroit).
And break seatposts when they are angry they couldn’t steal anything.

I had a not too fancy bike that uses Pinhead locks to secure every removable component. And a sturdy U lock. There were multiple attempts to steal various components including an angry thief breaking the seat post for no good reason - the saddle is worthless. Only finally to be stolen from a secure parking garage using an electric saw in full view of the CCTV camera. Police did nothing - not that I expected them to - enough other crimes for them to deal with.
Insurance paid for it. I used it to buy a nicer bike that I only ride on weekends. I’m back to taking public transit and supplanting that with bike share and walking.

One of the attempts included a bike next to me that was stolen from a really popular tourist area with a cafe seating opposite the rack.

When I see the way bikes are parked in Amsterdam it makes me jealous. I want to move there just for that freedom. I enjoy biking.

I have heard London is worse. Solutions are emerging. There’s a crowdfunded tracker that claims to solve the radio communication problem from inside a metal body. If true, it can track the bike with a tracker located inside the frame.
It’s mostly “traits are how interop is done, if there’s an ecosystem of multiple competing things, try to pull out common traits for folks.”
What about a pickup truck though (admittedly, harder to lower to the ground...)
> Very much not true.

> was a core tenet of the Obama administration’s response

Quantitative easing is a monetary policy, not fiscal policy. A central bank dictates monetary policy. An administration dictates fiscal policy.

Would recommend you read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_easing
Variant of #1 that I've seen not infrequently:

They set it to check a regex for `bank.com` to also allow `subdomain.bank.com`, but inadvertently also allow `bank.com.evil.com`, `evilbank.com`, or similar.
I've had the same experience. Stories seem to have overtaken the normal posts as the more common content.

I think it's because users regard stories as acceptable for mundane, kind of boring, every day life content. Whereas singular posts come with greater expectations of quality or exceptionalism.
FCC blocks SF law pushing for broadband competition in apartment buildings
I’m always very uncomfortable with people drinking out of bottles or using straws or other utensils in a car while it’s in motion. If the driver needs to brake urgently bad things can happen.

Bottles will take out your teeth. Straws and other utensils will damage your palette and throat or an eye.
MacBooks are fairly limited in external sizes. Other laptops probably vary by tiny dimensions. OTOH, a 2013 MBP lid is slightly different from a 2015.
Love this. My old MacBook was covered in stickers but I grew out of most of them and removing them was a giant pain. Plus, like you mentioned, resale value took a hit. On my new MacBook, I've kept it sticker-free due to my past experience. This would give me the freedom to slap some new stickers on there knowing they're easily removable down the line.
Here are 10 logs. Let me know if you need help starting the chainsaw.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/stemming-the-plas...

When 93% of the ocean's plastic waste is coming from 10 riviers, those need to be the focus. That doesn't mean ignore the ~7% coming from elsewhere, because this truly is a problem we all need to solve together.
It seems you can make a POST request from javascript, as long as it doesn't have non-standard headers or content-type.

Try it yourself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20406633
This deserves to be its own hackernews post/writeup, and would easily make the front page!
I currently have the Hex skin. They have a pretty big selection.

https://dbrand.com/shop/apple-macbook-pro-13-skins-touch-bar
If you did it that way I bet you aren't getting good benefits, if any.
I guess the issue is that to make such an app work you need to have a large network effect. If there aren't enough coffee shops on it I will never think about opening the app.
QE controlled inflation by reducing the fractional reserve rate, thereby counteracting the minting of money with the reduction of credit-money.
I had one of these on a 2008 MacBook, and it started yellowing and flaking around 2–3 years later, most noticeably on parts that had considerable heat (like the bottom case and removable battery).

If it was just used for the top case, I think it should be fine. Mine has yellowed, but was autographed by my favourite author. :)
Any intuition that justifies the diamond shape? In sharks each diamond is a scale, but maybe a regular rectangular pattern works just as well.
Interesting. I wasn't aware of that, but maybe it slipped into my consciousness from somewhere.
This is very much a regional thing, in my experience. E.g. in parts of the Southeastern US, I found that plastic+styrofoam overpackaging was ubiquitous as far back as the 1980s. In markets I've been to in parts of the Northeast and Northwest in decades since, it's been virtually nonexistent to entomb produce in plastic – bulk produce has been the norm.
I'm in this semi-special place in web dev where almost everything I make is for a captive audience on local networks. So it feels like there's entire segments of web dev that I've only learned to subvert. CORS is one of them.

All I really learned is that you can't make calls to services on another domain unless that service allows it via CORS.

Eg. Every robot I want to websocket to has to be cool that the web application originally loaded off of (and in a way is owned by) the central server.
Oh yeah I think there is usually one out in front of Mighty Good too?
Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act Passes US House (365-65)
What exactly makes this limit?
The primary issue is that distribution has shifted, i.e. the quality of the viewing experience at home (w/ high bandwidth great displays), makes for a great experience, competitive with the theatres.

'Netflix' is the big winner in this, but their story is secondary to the channel disruption.

But - consumers will have more than $12 to spend on content and the 'fight' will be between HBO, Disney and other package providers, and AT&T/Comcast etc. who'll fight for those dollars by pushing up bandwidth prices.

The other, major issue unmentioned in the article is that Hollywood is now playing to a truly global audience, not just 'America + Europe + Anglosphere'.

This means the stories are ever dumber, playing to the lowest common denominator, relying more on action than even dialogue let alone acting or plot.

Most importantly 'context' disappears as the nuance of, for example, the English class system, barely relevant in America to begin with is way beyond the average Brazilian viewers knowledge base, and so stories relying on such familiarity are 'out' along with everything else requiring remotely any regional knowledge.

And of course, every big Hollywood film now has to have the approval of the Chinese government, if that's not the most dystopian thing that nobody ever thought could happen.

'The Fast and the Furious', 'Transformers' and Superhero movies are now effectively what Hollywood is.

The cinema as we once knew it will be relegated to TV for the time being.

That said, there will be some good content.

The Oscars will have to update how they do awards in order to handle this new issue, because they want to remain 'prestigious' but also relevant at the same time, which will be hard.
I am interested in this phenomenon of hating influencers. Do you feel the same way about this same phenomenon with athletes / other celebrities? Wheaties has been doing influencer marketing since 1934 [1]. Does the fact that pretty much every successful athlete makes most of their money from influencer marketing illicit a negative reaction from you as well? If so, then you can stop reading.

If not, do you mind explaining why it's different? Also, what do you mean by "their ideology"?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_athletes_on_Wheaties_b...
Their marketing on this is brilliant. They're capitalizing on the growing adblock/jsblock trend to point out that server side analytics are more accurate.

To be fair, back in the day when you had a single web server, analytics was easy. I to miss the days of being able to do a 'tail -f web.log' and watch as your page hit Slashdot...
German policies don't advantage private car use over public transit use to anywhere near the degree US policies do. To give some examples, a few of which the article mentions or alludes to:

* In many US cities, businesses are required by law to have certain amounts of parking for employees and customers. This makes car use more convenient and takes up space, making walking less viable.

* German taxes on gasoline and diesel are over 100%.

* Most areas of larger German cities are zoned for high-density housing; it's typical for street-level businesses to have several floors of apartments above them.
I am sure they will find a way to dampen its strength while improving it at the same time. Some ideas: reducing number of neurons, reducing neural network running frequency.
While I haven't looked hard into it, I hope they didn't throw in assumptions that affect context switch speed, particularly on pure microkernel multiserver systems that depend on it and are used in critical applications that require high assurance and low, bounded IPC and interrupt response times.
The server responsibility of CORS is also about making sure the browser accepts the cross origin request (in case it's a valid origin). If it won't send the correct headers back, the browser will drop the request

Yes, the server can drop the request or return an error, but that's just half of it. If it wants the browser to accept the request, it has to explicitly say it by using the CORS headers.
Wow, Stripe is having a really shitty day.
Website won't load for me. Sorry if it's already explained.

Does this implicitly mean it's okay if I make bots and let them play on battle net?
You are skipping over the fact that the chart is highly misleading.
So this is just a list publishing peoples' email address?
I have flown them many times and I'll fly them again as soon as authorities consider them safe to fly. I'm not going to be happy about the flight being operated with a MAX (as I was the last time) - but I also would never start trying to avoid MAX flights by buying more expensive tickets or flying more miles to reach my destination while avoiding a certain aircraft.

If anything, what I'll try to avoid is dodgy airlines, not dodgy planes (at least not ones from Boeing and Airbus). Most of the airlines I'll keep avoiding operate in places I likely won't fly anyway - such as some domestic russian flights.
I agree. Discounting the "men are better fighters but that doesn't make them leaders" is pretty silly. To me this is such an obvious driver for patriarchal society it's amazing anyone would argue with it.

I've spent some time in areas immediately after a natural disaster, when looting is a possibility and governments and law enforcement is no longer effective. Even those times are relatively safe, but strong people with guns immediately become very appealing people to have on your side in situations like that.

Thinking about tribal societies and evolution, those societies that are best able to protect their reproductive capacity (women and children) from the elements and other humans are obviously going to survive in much greater numbers over those that are not. This has to have an effect on gender roles. You can lose half the men and reproduce at the same rate. You can't lose the women.
It's disputable whether any such limitations currently applied to AlphaStar are really working as intended. There has been some controversy over it. I saw the matches and it did seem that some of the actions taken by AlphaStar would not be possible to do by a human. Human APM is limited not just by the mechanical speed of one's hands, but also by the mental models that exist in one's brain. Muscle memory can't do everything for you. But in AlphaStar's case, it can perform every type of action as if it were done with the speed of muscle memory.

The original commenter's remarks about TTFA seems to be equivalent to what I'm referring to.

Relevant reading: https://www.alexirpan.com/2019/02/22/alphastar.html
The taxi industry ruined itself long before anyone conceived of Uber or Lyft. There was nothing stopping the taxi industry from creating Uber. They had the regulatory capture to make it happen much easier than how Uber and Lyft built themselves. Even without Uber or Lyft the taxi industry was busy pushing their customers into purchasing private automobiles because taxi service was so awful.
From talking to a few ex-googlers, a lot of issues come from heavy incentives (and upwards momentum in employment level/compensation) tied to shipping a product/tool, while very little is tied to the maintenance/improvement of something existing.

When combined with the ease of lateral movement (jumping from one team to another) means that a product gets shipped, then a lot of the team members jump onto the next shiny thing while that product now gets stagnant/buggy since it now has a vastly reduced team.
> Yes, but I think it's safe to say that there were a lot more original movies a few decades ago than there are now. Hollywood used to take more risks.

It's harder to get people to go to the theater due to a bunch of factors like improved TV tech and increased competition for time, but "hollywood" is also capitalizing on those things. Look at how many original series are on Amazon, Hulu, Netflix, etc, and compare that to what we had 30 years ago between theaters and TV.
Yeah, it is very low, which is why I bring it up. It was a controller bug, where the FTL completely lost track of some sectors. Write amplification has nothing to do with it.
Congressional Budget Office releases study on minimum wage increase to $15 [pdf]
Was hoping for free, but honestly? If I’m serious about having good data, I’ll pay the $9/month to not be dependent on Google.
>A good teacher is able to [...] Why not just let the teacher teach [...]?

By adding a qualifier such as "good" as in "good teacher", you've (inadvertently?) made your argument look more reasonable and correct. Some teachers are good, most are average, and many are bad.

The gp you responded to is talking about superior teaching recordings to help the teachers at bad schools. (But it can also help the good teachers by letting them put more energy into the 1-on-1 phase of instruction.)
First I read all the documentation.

Then I read the source code.

Then I check some tutorials.

Then I try it out with simple examples, nothing fancy.
What I learned creating 2 FitbitOS watchfaces
It's certainly up to them if they want to rewrite everything in Rust. I'm just saying the net benefit just does not exist for stable software like librsvg or bzip2.

> Is there something intrinsic to Rust that would lead them to this error? (no, I think not).

There is nothing intrinsic to Rust that creates this kind of problem, besides it being a different language than the project was originally written in. I'm sure Go, Swift, Haskell, Java, or any other language (with the possible exception of C++) would have similar issues. No other language community is quite as arrogant as the Rust community though.
AI landlord speculating in American housing market
What happens when the networks all have their own streaming service? I mean inevitably some of them die, right?
> * Resale - By putting stickers on my laptop, I am either going to have to try to remove them again once I come to selling it, lowering my resale price because the laptop isn’t in near pristine condition.

> * Damage - There is a worry that some stickers may leave a horrible hard-to-remove residue, or maybe leave a discolouration to the aluminium.

To which may be added a third - your Mac gets sent off for repair, but repair nowadays means "we take the hard drive out and put it in another Mac because even we can't fix them"
'A shit show': uBiome (YC S14) just cut half its staff
I am not sure this question is really interesting because the aim of solving Starcraft is to improve planning and strategies, not computer vision. I suppose there are much more interesting tasks train on in order to solve computer vision.
I'd love to read the piece but the cookie pop covers 70% of the window on mobile and I can't close it

https://postimg.cc/yJCgdWbr
From Linear to Nonlinear Optimization with Business Applications
If you consider “write code that doesn’t timeout or OOM on pathological inputs” to be writing performant code, sure.

But as it is normally understood, writing performant code is more about writing for fast performance with low time constant on everyday small inputs - something which algorithms and data structures interviews never touch on. Big O complexity is not directly related to performance, except for pathological inputs.
You can mark a cookie as samesite:

https://github.com/OWASP/CheatSheetSeries/blob/master/cheats...

(as you mentioned, backwards compatibility requires that this is opt-in when the cookie is set, not opt-out)
looks like it's out there - https://www.irbsearch.com/vehicle-sightings.html
It's only a problem to be cracked if the number of people cancelling once in a while is significant. Anecdotes aren't statistics.
Confirmed issue - https://status.stripe.com. Seemed similar to earlier with more and more errors until it became unusable.
Temporarily repurposing street parking is a great tactic to get people to realize how much public space is given to 1 person which could serve many

I think all it would do is enrage drivers that their parking space is being taken up by cyclists. To think that they'd finally recognize how much space is taken up by cars assumes that drivers are looking at this rationally.

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20130212-why-you-really-hate...
Maybe they're using a different definition of "social."
There is a concrete advantage to using a scheme where 0 is true and all other values are false: error codes. True means the operation succeeded correctly, or false because of insufficient permissions, false because there file doesn't exist, false because of io error, false because of timeout etc. bash uses this scheme.

However, this ship has sailed for general purpose programming languages. 0 is false, all other values are interpreted as true, operations that create a bool create 1. As you say, that's just how the world works.

False = ~0 is just zany though.
Spot on - adding new shops is our primary focus right now, if you have a shop you go to a lot, telling them about Cloosiv would help a ton.
This is especially frustrating as the whole concept of moved values in C++ was introduced fairly recently in C++11. They did such a poor job of it that they introduced this whole new class of use-after-move bugs that should never have existed in the first place. Now we need annotations to make sure the new feature they half-assed a few years ago works the way it was supposed to? It appears the C++ working group is firing out new bugs faster than third-party teams can patch them.

IMO it's time to accept C++ is a failed state, and move on. Luckily there are compatibility options to help you use C/C++ libraries in Rust.
The blog post author doesn't understand CORS either! Their advice on how to fix the problem is wrong:

> So what would a secure implementation of this feature look like? The webserver listening in on "localhost:19421" should implement a REST API and set a "Access-Control-Allow-Origin" header with the value "https://zoom.us". This will ensure that only Javascript running on the zoom.us domain can talk to the localhost webserver.

"Access-Control-Allow-Origin" doesn't block the request from going through, it just prevents wrong-origin Javascript from accessing the response.

The original vulnerability actually just a slight variant of cross-site request forgery (CSRF) -- "wrong site request forgery" :-)

For the localhost server to detect wrong-site requests, there are two simple options:

1. Use a CSRF token. This requires a shared secret between the localhost server and the Zoom website.

2. Check the "Origin" header. This requires that the request be an HTTP POST, which is what they should be.

(Note: If you're determined to use some CORS machinery, you could build something more complicated based on pre-flight requests, but there's no point.)
We tested this on Fifefox on April 2019.

It is still blocked.
No nothing about this is intentional. Designers are constrained by ability - nobody is fielding intentionally stupid AIs. Intentionally easy maybe - very different concept.

For a FPS like doom its trivial to make a "perfect" AI that never misses.

Much of the focus is on RTS though. (Real time strategy - like starcraft)

It's a little difficult to describe but practically the "quality" of a AI is very obvious to seasoned players. i.e. You feel this & there is no masking the truth easily.

e.g. AI opponent nukes my bases where maximum damage is inflicted. Meanwhile I know the AIs scouts didn't have visibility of that area. There is no way the AI could have legitimate know that's where to place the nuke for max effect.

The AI won. It didn't outsmart me. It cheated via being omniscient and having full sight of map while I'm constrained by "fog of war".

Excellent AI - killed me. Yay.

Bad game. Bad experience. Unhappy user.

Shoutout to the Queller AI mod on planetary annihilation with titans.
According to the whitepaper at libra.org, they won't hold stocks. The reserve is a "basket of bank deposits and short-term government securities".