skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wanted to hate this, because it seems like it's trying really hard to be nerd-hip. But dammit this is cool, and there is going to be some really cool executable ASCII art made with it.

I swear, though, if I see one single talk by someone wearing a logo-shirt and slacks at some street-level corporate HQ in SoMa posted on Youtube...
>People that hit a pedestrian in a crosswalk are going to be cited and if there are injuries, potentially charged with a serious crime

Nope, you're wrong, this is largely untrue unless the driver fled the scene or the driver was drunk. "Whoops I didn't see them" is usually a completely valid defense and everyone shrugs and says "Oh well, accidents happen" rather than "slow down, pay attention, and learn to control your car."

http://www.startribune.com/in-crashes-that-kill-pedestrians-...

>The majority of drivers who killed pedestrians between 2010 and 2014 were not charged, according to Star Tribune analysis of metro area crash data. Those who were charged often faced misdemeanors — from speeding to careless driving — with minimal penalties, unless the driver knowingly fled or was intoxicated at the time of the crash.

https://usa.streetsblog.org/2013/11/06/no-charges-for-driver...

>Lenient laws and a culture of tolerance for traffic violence means that unless you were intoxicated when the crash occurred, the official word is most likely “accidents happen.” Even an investigation into a collision that caused life-threatening injuries might be too much to ask in a lot of jurisdictions. Streetsblog recently found that fewer than 1 percent of drivers who kill or injure pedestrians and cyclists in New York City are ticketed for careless driving, much less charged with a crime.

https://www.revealnews.org/article/bay-area-drivers-who-kill...

>Sixty percent of the 238 motorists found to be at fault or suspected of a crime faced no criminal charges during the five-year period, CIR found in its analysis of thousands of pages of police and court records from Alameda, Contra Costa, Santa Clara, San Mateo and San Francisco counties.
Sadly, I am Android-only. Is there any difference in functionality, or it a pure clone (edit: or, is Numi the clone? Sound like Soulver has been around a while)?
Yes. Phospholipids are not viable outside of water; they would not be strong enough to perform well in liquid methane.
Yeah, I was just pointing out that to most people, ["google" == "web search"]
> Train the software with previously human transcribed audio (like TV/audiobooks/etc)

They've very likely already done this.
Mine olivine rock, spread it on a small percentage of tropical marine beaches with high levels of tide energy, remove CO2 from the atmosphere.

What could possibly go wrong?

Edit: not sure why the downvotes. Perhaps I should have explained my skepticism more clearly? Any geo-engineering initiative almost always fails to predict the unintended consequences for the environment - e.g. perhaps one day we'll discover that too much olivine rock on beaches destroys ecosystems, or something else.
Why don't you address the second half of the text you quoted?

Do you think they are wrong about the institutions they are talking about?
Me too, but don't you find the way Soulver 3 manages documents a bit weird? I much preferred the old way where you could save document wherever you wanted, whereas version 3 seems to want to control all of that for you. Unlike the previous version I couldn't wrap my head around how it was supposed to work quickly, and went back to version 2. I was happy to pay for a new version just to make sure Soulver isn't abandoned because my working life would be noticeably more difficult without it.
I really hope the Pi 4 Compute Module breaks out the PCIe on the edge connector.
A hospital introduced a robot to help nurses. They didn’t expect its popularity
I have similar concerns as you, but my current approach of copy/pasting from notepad (so I can label things) to a calculator is very prone to error or being outdated. I think the tight feedback loop in an app like this makes things discoverable and builds confidence in the output.

edit: when I'm "deep in it" this is similar to what I use Excel/GDocs for, but they're heavier than I'd like for more casual use. I spend half the time I'm using a spreadsheet in Google looking at documentation for Excel functions.
It's a matter of principle, AMP is a terrible thing for the web in general.
Yeah, highly marginalized people have historicaly been well accepted in excisting support groups, particularly religious and local political ones.
I don’t use Soulver that much anymore other than while travelling, but it’s great for tracking my travel budget on my phone: able to clearly list what I’ve bought, for how much, what the grand total is in my home currency and leave comments on things.
Tensor cores seem like a fit...
Google must offer an option to opt out from those kind of products and at the same time, offer the search result. I am interested in this, I don't want them to replace me for their own UIs.
The most efficient way of executing a non-I/O function is to just use the thread stack to store its data and optimize it for speed rather than for using little stack space.

However, for functions that can block indefinitely on I/O, then such an approach would mean keeping an inefficiently-large stack around indefinitely.

Hence, the better solution is to put the data on the heap, ideally in a manually engineered structure (i.e. "manual implementation of futures"), or for more ergonomics in one efficiently designed by the compiler (i.e. async/await).
Exactly! I am so confused as well. It's like this person doesn't understand that AMP is optional. And even then there's ways to instruct Google NOT to point to your AMP page. (And no, you don't need AMP for SEO -- it's only a slight boost)
The wording is misleading. You need to compute the angle of incidence of the incoming wavefront to a high accuracy in order to localize the source.

The key quantity is not the absolute delay introduced by the absolute distance from antenna to antenna (which is tens of meters, http://www.atnf.csiro.au/projects/askap/ska.html). It's the differential delay as a function of incidence angle.
Yes, unfortunately that's exactly what I'm saying. In a perfect world, every app would be fully accessible, colorblind-friendly, work offline, etc etc. But in reality, all of those things cost money, and sometimes the cost outweighs the benefits. To give an extreme example, if my app has 1 million users, but only one is blind, do you expect me to spend (potentially significant) development resources on that single user?

You have to do that cost-benefit analysis based on how important those things are to your business—for instance, screen reader support is an absolute necessity for the public sector and certain information-heavy apps, but probably not as important for visual tools.
Well you don't need to do it all at once, and you don't really need to bulldoze every building and road. It would be more realistic to just "upzone" as the other commenter said, and stop accommodating car transport so much and start aggressively redeveloping after adding public transit infrastructure (which would be a lot cheaper and easier if you bulldoze along the routes so you can do cut-and-cover instead of digging tunnels).
This is painful. I get a text notification every time a transaction fails... they're really flying in right now. Losing a ton of revenue and it is completely out of my hands.
Add to that that their "upgrade" of their adwords/adsense interface is an unmitigated failure of constantly spinning progress bars and cards cards cards everywhere making it really infuriating to use.

And charges and payments have become suspiciously opaque. Things like CPM swings (for adsense) in the exact same audiences. As for adwords, luckily i can afford to forgo all mobile traffic.

I don't know what shit google is going through, but it seems to be pretty bad.

> Only thing I don't tried yet is more traditional ads, but I don't have money for that (for example TV ads)

I think we should try a webring-like structure , there is a lot of inventory that can be shared between small publishers (and they are underserved/plain ignored by google)
The standard says you must leave the object in a valid state for the destructor to be called, but many STL objects provide stronger guarantees for the state of objects after a move operation. For example, std::vector<>'s move constructor guarantees that the moved-from vector will be `empty()`[1]

[1]: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/container/vector/vector
Indeed, me too. It seems a little bit untoward to me to post vast swathes of someone else's words literatim publicly, even if edited down, even with credit. If you want to make such notes for your own private use, then I see no objection to it.
I'd like to hear about the distinction between promises/futures and async/await. The former is absolutely a useful abstraction, requires no special features to implement, and thus is already widespread. The latter adds syntax support for one particular monad, and in the process adds magic that obscures the fundamental operation.

My experience with JS async/await code in the wild is that developers promptly forget (or never learn) that it desugars to a promise, forget all the tools that can be used for managing complex asynchronous code with explicit promises, and then fail to properly account for the asynchronicity of their code.

I would hope that Rust, with a type system and a community focused on engineering skills, would be able to avoid some of these pitfalls, but I'm not so sure about that.
Between Cloudflare, Google, and now Stripe, I feel like there's been a huge cluster of services that never go down, going down. Curious to see Stripe's post-mortem here
Google employees are eavesdropping, even in living rooms
Have you tried FB ads?
From ISPA's website, one of the reasons to oppose DoH:

> User choice: An application switching to DoH should ensure that this switch does not undermine choices that have been previously made by the user. For example, if parents have decided to filter an internet connection in their home via network or local level DNS controls, these choices should not simply be ignored by the application.

If a parent is capable of filtering out internet traffic at DNS level, then they should be capable of doing the same on top of DoH.

Then, after some more vague concerns and handwaving, at the very end we have:

> User and access-network-operator support: If DoH doesn’t work or is slow, a customer’s internet access will be affected. The customer will contact their ISP, not the DoH provider, but the ISP won’t be able to fix things for them. As a minimum, any application switching to DoH should ensure that the selected resolver should provide a 24/7 user call centre reachable via low-cost/local rate telephony and an online support capability. Support for fault-diagnosis and resolution between ISP, resolver and users should also be provided.

I mean, I get that if a person is unaware of a custom DNS that some application is using they might fault ISPs for network failures due to DNS trouble, but this would happen with any DNS irrespective of DoH.
Out of curiosity (and I really do mean, out of pure curiosity), why do you care about fraudulent clicks? Unless the fraudulent click volume is "lumpy" or unpredictable, the only thing that matters is cost per lead/cost per purchase.

Fraudulent clicks make clicks worth less, so presumably the price already takes this into consideration?
References mean the optimizer cannot rule out aliasing, which is kind of a big deal.
Waari, the Egalitarian Pilgrimage
Sounds right "citizen politician", "citizen journalist", "citizen dishwasher" or "citizen greengrocer"?. The opposite term to citizen is foreigner/immigrant. Should we start describing scientist in terms of foreigner and non-foreigner scientists? Related to where? The city that holds the headquarters of the scientific journal?

Lets call things by their name. Citizen scientists is just another euphemism for precariat.
You raise safety concerns. What risks do you have in mind?
I'm sceptical. Are there calculations on shipping for the olivine? If it's primarily mined in certain parts of the world it's going to have a big cost in shipping - there's a reason why regular sand is sourced as locally as possible. It weighs a lot, which means that it's expensive for both the wallet and the environment to ship.
Already a great help, and looking forward to the future support of the Alert object
Virgin just dropped a 70-foot rocket from a jumbo jet over the Mojave desert
Brave New World by far is the most accurate book to date of what the modern world looks like. That's my strongest recommendation.

Fahrenheit 451 is also a solid read.
I guess you mean:

> A one-size-fits-all internet was supposed to liberate the world. We underestimated the demand for information about how white nationalism is good and vaccines are bad.

What about it lost you?
You can structure your code so that you don't need it - sure. But that doesn't mean that there aren't use cases where this makes managing lifetimes much clearer.

RVO can often sort out your object return problem just fine. But lifetimes are more subtle. Sometime move semantics can significantly clean up your overall design.
I mean, I use PCalc[1] all the time too, but I love Soulver b/c unlike Excel —- which is great but can be a lot —- it’s super easy to just jot stuff down and have it calculated, just like a spreadsheet.

You’re not wrong on the syntax stuff, but as long as the math operations are there, it’ll do what you want. The special stuff for currency or other conversions isn’t very hard to get the hang of once you start using an app.

Really, the frustrating thing is when I’m on a machine that’s not mine and I hit my Soulver system-wide shortcut and can’t open up my scratchpad. But that’s my problem.

[1]: https://www.pcalc.com/
That makes sense. It does look like you're very close to that first objective though. Congrats! Your blog post very clearly describes what Dark actually is (which was still unclear before I read it).
Ah yes. The difference in arrival time was many nanoseconds but it needed to be measured to within a fraction of a nanosecond to accurately localize the source.
Good move, kudos to Bradley
Show HN: An iOS style stack-navigation interface built for the web
As a side note, the author of the blog post clearly states this at the beginning:

> You can get the book here 1

And the "1" footnote says it's an affiliate link. I exactly hoped and expected that to be the case, and I plaud him for being so explicit about it. He has gained my trust immediately.

I wish more people were this gentle and transparent about things on the Internet.
> Do you accept britain actually tried to do what you say it didn't?

I tend to believe whatever a serious official document says. But notice there was serious corruption in the government of Hong Kong before 1970s and pressure also comes from British officials and businessmen. It’s hard for me to imagine Britain would just abandon democracy mainly because of Beijing’s pressure while at the same time be an anti-communism fortress for western bloc and proactively impose sanctions against mainland. On the other hand, it’s well known there are some controversies between London and Beijing in 1980s after the handover was determined. I think this sentence mixes these two periods together and is misleading if no further new evidence is provided.

> This is very hard for me to understand as a westerner.

It’s just an analogy. Is order a bad thing for you? Of course not. But I think most westerners wouldn’t regard “order only” in political background as just respecting rules and keeping tidy. Many words are sometimes overused with political agenda behind. Stressing ONLY something means extremism and no compromise at all for other good. I can’t follow your logic from this analogy to these weird conclusions. Chinese like freedom as much as you.
Texas fight could ripple across U.S. grid
Nice! Is it open-source?

This is the kind of web-app that has a legitimate use for off-line first service workers and localStorage to save the previous session
I'm a programmer, at least occasionally, and Soulver is a pleasant, user-friendly tool to me. When I open Soulver, it's because I want to do some unstructured multistep math work and it's faster and easier to do it in Soulver than a spreadsheet program. Jupyter Notebook could undoubtedly do similar work, but it doesn't read to me like it would be the best tool for the job.
No wonder my bugfix wasn't working
https://github.com/parnold-x/nasc for GTK
> What could possibly go wrong?

Nothing. It already happens in nature, but at a far smaller scale. It is not a self-renewing or runaway process. The point is to distribute the correct amount of olivine to stabilize CO2 at ~200 PPM which is close to its pre-industrial level.
All that AMP does for speed is impose limits on CSS and JS size (plus givs access to Google CDNs). You can simply write small assets without the need for Google to specify this.
Yes, a lot of people agree on that. But you don't need to block Google from your site to stop AMP.The way this article is written it makes it seem like the only way to have AMP not affect your site is by blocking Google entirely, and that's simply not the case. I think that's why those of us who understand how AMP is used are commenting here -- and you can see that people are confused because other people are posting questions about blocking amp, when you don't have to block amp, you don't use it in the first place.

The author should clarify that they're taking extreme measures, but that this isn't required to not use AMP.
> I honestly don't know why so many governments with strong antimonopoly laws tolerate Google shenanigans.

It doesn't take much imagination to see how governments and what is arguably the most effective spying apparatus on the planet have developed mutually beneficial relationships.

https://googletransparencyproject.org/articles/googles-white...

https://theintercept.com/2016/04/22/googles-remarkably-close...
This is the exact scenario that motivated the name of the Prisoner's Dilemma, for what it's worth.
This seems like it would fail energetically; the amount of energy required to mine and transport a bunch of rock to a beach would surely exceed the amount of CO2 sequestered.
So start living virtuously now, or else the bad brown people will invade?
Man, I was talking about this a couple of years ago and got called a conspiracy nut. I was like, "crack a history book." Now I can just point to this video. Cheers!

(FWIW, Robert Anton Wilson once pointed out that, of regime changes in the 20th century, over half of them were the result of some sort of coup. In other words, conspiracy is normal. Make of that what you will.)
Multi-column layouts for static sites using macros
one of the worst inventions in the 21st century, erlang.
This was first proposed at the MIT Media Lab in partnership with GM about 10 years ago: https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/citycar/overview/
That's pretty impressive. Is it open source? I'd love to see something like this as a plugin for something like https://turtlapp.com/

(edit: and apparently I'm not the only person with this thought! Good work :D)
“Google’s Policy Google’s policy on our”

Was that typo in Google’s original 1999 privacy policy or is that just the New York Times sucking at copying and pasting?
Yeah it took me a bit of time and I admit I still use 2 a lot but I’m trying to force myself to use 3. I think part of it is the 9 years or whatever that I used 2.
It only works right on chrome, and you have to sometimes pay attention to memory leaks on all their sites.

I built myself a workstation with 32GB of overclocked ram...

A few times I left it on overnight with a google site open (adwords or gmail), the machine became unresponsive, using all 32GB of RAM and then freezing after running out of swap... I only found out what was happening on a day I was particularly patient and let windows trash for 20 minutes to open the task manager and let me see the ridiculous ram usage coming from browsers (I use both chrome and firefox on that machine... I wanted to use only firefox but as I said earlier chrome is needed to avoid the "infinite spinning bars" bug on adswords, also some types of ad editors straight up shows blank on firefox).
The prisoner’s dilemma works for getting convictions at all, not necessarily fair and balanced ones. The state often needs defectors to prove their cases beyond reasonable doubt, and I would take this over the alternatives of a stronger surveillance state or a relaxed “beyond reasonable doubt” standard.
Yeah no.

Representative sampling is how we formerly did this kind of work. It wasn't particularly good or effective, but we didn't have the methods or compute to go beyond that. No longer.
There is also http://mathnotepad.com/ which is based on https://mathjs.org/
Only thing I don't tried yet is more traditional ads, but I don't have money for that (for example TV ads)

When people think "advertising" they often think TV first. But you might be surprised how reasonable some advertising rates can be for radio (especially classical radio sponsorships and news radio), regional and local newspapers, and certain magazines.

A web site I used to own advertised with AdSense for a year. The second year I put the money into local public radio sponsorships and a single magazine ad, and the quality of the responses was much better.
> Does even anybody remember the good old HTTP basic acess authentification?

old, yes. good, no.

* Browsers never implemented a way to "log out", so creds end up cached in memory until the browser is restarted.

* There is no concept of a session so the credentials need to be included in each request and verified every time. If you use something like bcrypt or pbkdf2 on the backend that means every request will take hundreds of milliseconds.

* Since every request needs to be verified you can't easily use 2FA, without ugly hacks that 'remember' that the earlier creds were valid.

Hopefully things like WebAuthn will result in a resurgence of browser native autentication.
Yes, people have used Google Cloud's own public APIs to bypass reCAPTCHA v2.
AMP is optional. You don't have to implement it. Even if you do there's ways to instruct Google when to use it/when not to.
Or, you know, we can all collectively start to move off DNS, the way we did with IPv4
true, i was picking my words somewhat carefully, because while OLPC did expect that outcome, they didn't actually get it in many cases, because it turns out that it takes a bit more than just dumping laptops in every classroom
I fall into (3) but not for the reason you mentioned. "Privacy" is largely an industrial age phenomenon and practically speaking we can never go back. I think we need new constructs to talk productively about issues like this and the research in this area hasn't even really started to take shape yet. We are only beginning to understand the implications of social graphs, information security, data as a product - let alone critically analyzing their intersection and having informed discussions thereabout.
i agree and is a very neutral term for a wide range of disabilities. now cripple would have some negative connotations to it.

though i suppose context and use of any term could be used to degrade especially something like this which does point to capabilities but because of a condition and specific to the disability.
Well, this is not really true. Animal agriculture is more or less the same total GHG emissions as the whole transportation sector, and it's technically way easier to switch to a vegetarian diet than stopping people from moving or finding new technological avances. So why not start with the low hanging fruits?