skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where in DC? I've never seen it.
wow this blog post is amazing b/c oftentimes I want to refer to a specific part of the book and since I don't have an ebook version, I don't have it readily available! Thank you so much for putting this together!
I second this, it's a great cross-platform scratchpad.
That'd only work if the client/web page is doing the API calls, not if the backend was doing them, right?
Rationalized APL (Kenneth E. Iverson, 1983)
It would be useful for cities with colder and snowy seasons like Toronto, where between summer and winter bicycle traffic varies greatly.
Docker for Mac still uses an intermediate VM, it's just mostly transparent to the user and doesn't require you to manually muck around with docker-machine.

You can even connect to the console of the VM if you run into issues.
I've recently built an AMP version of a marketing website (since AdWords supports AMP cache, thought it would be useful for speed). The truth is, while AMP as a library does provide solid speed improvements on its own by implementing all the best practices, the real speed improvements is the cache with preloading - as well as the other stuff it does like image optimisation.
Soulver is great, but there's one feature that seriously makes me hate using it.

I often open up "scratchpad" text documents. I Paste some text, edit it, Select All, then Cut. I press CMD-W to close the window. Because the document is blank, I'm not prompted to save the unsaved File.

If I try to do the same thing with Soulver, when I close the (blank) window the app pops up a modal dialog asking me where I want to save the (blank, never-saved, scratchpad-only) File. So annoying.

It seriously prevents me from quickly opening up or using Soulver just because I don't want to deal with clicking through that modal once I'm done. I'll just use a Text document instead or put the math equation into the Chrome omnibox.
That's a fair point. I do think it is possible to be educated on the societal implications of these technologies and still not be concerned. I would disagree with that opinion, but it is certainly valid.

Maybe these philosophical debates are going on behind closed doors. If so, this should be communicated to the public/end consumers. Much like in legal proceedings, the process itself is just as important, if not more so, than the outcome.

That being said, based on conversations that I've had with people working on these very products, the interest level and incentive structure for engaging with the tech side of things far exceeds that of engaging with the broader societal implications. Creating the tech earns your salary, questioning its morality may get you fired. So many choose simply to not engage in the philosophical discussion, which to me is a big problem in the industry.
[-5, 256]: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/Objects/longob...
Most services are going down from time to time, it's just that the big one are widely used and so people notice quickly.
I'm using a thing called microMath+ on Android (available on F-Droid) but it's kind of clumsy. I haven't tried hacking on it yet to improve the UI, but I'm wondering if there might be something else out there that's already better. (Not proprietary software, obviously.)
The UX for basic auth is terrible on most browsers. In Firefox, the dialog box refuses to give up focus, preventing me from copying the password from my password manager (which, while integrated into the browser, doesn't support filling basic auth dialogs).
> why are we even having this conversation about insecticides?

It might be the same as when people insist on treating a (viral) cold with antibiotics. Not only are they the wrong kind of treatment, they are also a massive overreaction.

Perhaps boric acid is not the kind of thing you can make massive profits from.
The old (pre-OS X) Macintosh app Graphing Calculator did this. I really miss it.
I don't work on AMP (I've never even written an AMP page); this is purely my personal perspective:

The difference is trust:

These AMP rants invariably look to the use of Google's CDN, or to the "google.com" domain in the address bar, and infer malintent. I presume the team had good intentions, particularly for end users.

The AMP team saw a problem (websites take a stupid amount of time to load on mobile, even on nice phones/networks) and devised a solution: "Google has one of the best network infrastructures on the planet. It serves things quickly. Let's cache pages that don't do slow things on that network, so they're fast for users." They devised some criteria for what they mean by "don't do slow things," and wrote tooling to assert it.

I don't believe the intent of the AMP team is to strongarm developers into using their framework, or to funnel all traffic through Google. I trust that they are well-intentioned people who are trying to do the right thing. They're not proud of the limitations of their original solution, and are making progress on fixing them: for instance, they pushed forward a new web standard (packaging) to fix the address bar problem:

https://blog.amp.dev/2018/05/08/a-first-look-at-using-web-pa...

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Many words have been written about the ramifications of echo chambers on our political discourse. Those same ideas apply here on HN too.

The more I see hyperbolic comments presuming everyone/thing is evil/bad/stupid, the less interesting this place becomes for me -- the less likely I am to come here. As that culture drives people like me away, the ratio of conspiratorial-armchair-quarterbacking:reasonable-discourse tilts further towards the negative. It drives even more people away, leaving a concentration of negativity. "Don't read the comments" starts to apply here too.

That's not a reaction to your comment, in particular: it's how I've started to feel about a lot of Hacker News, especially when my employer is the topic. When people presume the absolute worst -- in spite of more reasonable (and more likely) alternatives -- there's nothing fun to read or interesting to learn. I lose reasons to keep coming back.
It astonishes me that you refer to Negative Interest Rates as "sensible monetary policy."
I don't see the distinction between "if we wish to do a thing, we must do it ethically when doing so" (4) and "we must act ethically if we do a thing" (5).

If training data can't be collected ethically, do you think group 4 still would, or something? That just seems like trying to out yourself on an ethical high horse without a real distinction in action.
The meta-issue in the United States is that once your data is accessible to a third party, you have no sovereignty over it, and abuse by private actors is "agreed to" by click-wrap and access by government actors is a simple subpoena.

The law needs to catch up. Sharing should require specific informed consent and legislation needs to establish a scope where data stored as a "tenant" on a third party server is given 4th amendment protection.
Why is that definite?
Not always necessary. I do a lot of ETL type work in python, and generally, the idea is to never pull everything into memory at once if you don't need to. This means leveraging generators quite a bit. Read a row, process a row, generate a row, pass it along the pipeline. I've written scripts that can process a 1k line csv file with the same memory footprint as a 10M line csv.

If you have to read everything into memory, because you're doing some sort of transforms like a list to a dict or such, explicitly deleting variables can help, as well, rather than waiting for them to go out of scope, but this should be pretty rare.
And makes a lot of sense when demand is seasonal (e.g.: summer surges of bicyclists)
> Low-voltage, high-current electricity is indirectly dangerous, whereas any high voltage electricity is inherently directly dangerous.

Very high voltage with very low current is not inherently dangerous. Static electricity is this case. The total energy (voltage x current x time) passing through the body is the critical determinant of harm.
Pretty much identical to the desktop apps, all docs sync nicely.
Seeding your own torrents doesn't nullify your copyright on the content. Absent a license, nobody else can legally redistribute them.
I usually forget my shortcuts and rely heavily in tools like alfred (or the Jetbrains find action shortcut). It reduces the amount of shortcuts I need to remember. It also reduces the likelihood of shortcuts conflicting if I only need a couple of them :)
AMP only puts you in the top stories carousel.

Speed is measured neutrally for organic search results.
It's doable, but filling out forms with no immediate feedback about whether you entered your data correctly doesn't seem great from a UI perspective. Consider how useful a calendar picker is for travel.

Also, no JavaScript means no Google Maps.
> After all, the voice recognition in my Prius doesn't send recordings of my "call mom and dad mobile" back to Toyota and it certainly doesn't send random snippets of conversations my wife and I have to low paid contractors around the world.

How do you know? Is it not internet-connected?
No. But those institutions don't care about -anyone-. Prefacing it with <insert identity of the day here> only weakens their case in my eyes. If you want my support for a cause, don't exclude me specifically.
Thanks for letting us know - should be up again!
We have ways of measuring CO2 in the atmosphere in ppm. It's recorded daily.

30 billion tons of rock is needed per year. That's non trivial in logistics and cost. You think if it turns out to work too well they'll just keep going year on year until no CO2 is left, and not maybe slow down or stop instead?
> It already happens in nature

4000 ppm CO2 was found in nature far before pre-industry came along. Does the fact that anything "happened in nature" make it "ideal?" What is the globally "ideal" level of CO2 anyway? Certainly 200ppm is an order of magnitude low when considering the ideal for plants.
Every book should come with a free ebook, especially the non-fiction ones. This is something the publishers should get in on.
This has been happening since 1999 by the NAAPO (the same group who ran the "Big Ear"). They had a cluster of helix antennas being fed into a VA Linux Systems Hardware Cluster doing analysis on radio astronomy events:

http://www.naapo.org/Argus/docs/docsmenu.htm

I volunteered there from 2004-2008. I believe that the cluster is still active today.
Of course! Ancient Romans had a concept called "Otium" [0], which somewhat coincides or at least mostly overlaps with the "being bored" the article refers to.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otium
"...Netflix’s strategy is straightforward market power exploitation. The company is cancelling shows that subscribers like, so it won’t have to pay creators the amount they would otherwise be able to get for making good commercially successful art. In other words, Netflix is subtly raising prices on subscribers and paying creators less for their work."

I wonder if this means in the future, the price for a first and second season labor will be higher, thereby locking out new competition to new original series.
I would rather we strengthen our forests than add more pollution. I guess if forestry is considered geo-engineering then I support it. But I don't think "we're already adding pollution, so we might as well add more pollution to try to net out carbon" is a sound argument.
what's to exploit? If they're logging in, they have the credentials already.

I get that someone could maybe somehow avoid updating the stripe info, but that will fail the next time a charge goes through, so it's not as if there's a lot of fallout from it. Without even questioning why someone would go through the trouble in the first place.
Don't confuse the delicate dynamic and charismatic oxygen breathing multi-cellular life on land, sea, and air, for life its self at all. Consider extremeophiles, namely endoliths that live two miles below the earth's crust. They're not going to be bothered by most the universe has to throw their way. And once things like mushroom spores hit intersystem space it's all over.

Also, don't fall for innumeracy. Considering the amount of material on Earth, let alone the universe, the spontaneous ease of amino acids, the inherent self construction of simple RNA strands. We only need Generation III stars for Sulfur which is the heaviest atom in Animo acids. So, chances are there was the potential for life 400 million years after the big bang, 13.4 billion years ago.
The first is a real vulnerability on systems with hyperthreading (https://github.com/bbbrumley/portsmash)

On the other hand, as far as I know, looking at register content requires debugging rights, or would have to depend on a defect in the CPU.
Ask HN: What are you using to host your website?
What's everyone here on HN using to host their website? I'm preparing to move my site (Ghost powered blog), want somewhere reliable. Right now I'm using a VPS I've had for a long time.

I've considered AWS Lightsail as it seems relatively affordable, or OVH VPS/Cloud lineup. What's everyone's thoughts?
Good article, interesting topic. I think this clock represents the layers of abstractions an application or piece of code goes through during its lifetime. At first, no abstraction, just literal values. As you abstract the code you use the language as a tool to hide anything that repeats and expose only the essentials (a.k.a. abstracting). After DSL's at 9am in order to avoid getting back to hard coded values at 12pm, you HAVE to start abstracting at the conceptual/"business" level of the application. This would be the domain, however if the domain, when implemented, is causing a trip around the clock, this means the initial concepts are breaking the abstraction.
To be fair the system already has something like that. If you complain to the Home it'll ask if you want to provide feedback and give you a few seconds to verbally explain what went wrong.

I'm not sure if humans will then review that feedback of if it goes through a speech to text algorithm first but the mechanism for feedback is there.
They publish a lot of articles. I thought they were pretty hard on Hillary during the election too.
Shading 1% of the area of Earth would mean an 'umbrella' of the size of roughly 1.5 million square kilometers.
A mylar foil at 10g/m² would weigh 12 million metric tons. With SpaceX' Starship's proposed >100t to low earth orbit, that would mean over 100,000 launches. That's difficult.
Then you can open about:config, find there network.security.esni.enabled and enable it. This will make your ISP even more unhappy.
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Yes — "VBIOS", and these days mostly "UEFI GOP driver", is code that runs on the CPU and allows the system firmware to initialize the card and preset video output before any operating system is booted. Without it, you cannot enter the setup screen graphically, only over a serial port :D
Read a paper: Unikernels – the next stage of Linux's dominance
Fed Chair Jerome Powell Has ‘Serious Concerns’ with Facebook Libra Proposal
Partially explains why porn videos are so ridiculous and hilarious now, when they aren't just being demeaning.

I recently found this musician who just posts youtube videos of his music, but also films himself in threesomes on pornhub. The watermarked url in the video to what one might think is a paysite just redirects to his latest youtube music video.

Its fascinating how this is monetizable now, because in the past these seemed to be all separate trades that were incompatible with broader society.

Makes me kind of jealous, since the point for me was to watch someone else marginalize themselves doing what I wish I could do without marginalizing myself or having any consequence really. Now it might be the move!
I find it fascinating how people's abstract (in their mind) philosophical opinions can change as you move a topic through different dimensions.

Widespread realization of this phenomenon would make political change possible imho.
This looks great! I'm going to try this out over the weekend.
> if Google for whatever reason wanted to secretly unmute it remotely, I have no doubt they could.

Many things can happen in a hypothetical future, what does that have to do with today's reality?
> I tend to believe whatever a serious official document says. [...] and is misleading if no further new evidence is provided.

OK, so you accept it but reject it. OK. In case you're interested, if you'd followed the link you'd have seen this

"In it, Zhou says Beijing would regard allowing Hong Kong’s people to govern themselves as a “very unfriendly act,” says Cantlie. Not long thereafter, in 1960, Liao Chengzhi, China’s director of “overseas Chinese affairs,” told Hong Kong union representatives that China’s leaders would “not hesitate to take positive action to have Hong Kong, Kowloon and the New Territories liberated” if the Brits allowed self-governance:"

and also the original typewritten docs https://qz.com/279013/the-secret-history-of-hong-kongs-still... faded but readable.

> I can’t follow your logic from this analogy to these weird conclusions

It wasn't a conclusion, only questions. I just didn't understand what you're saying. I still don't. I was just asking for clarification.

> and proactively impose sanctions against mainland

As someone aware of british abuses of power (opium war etc) and like to know more, would you be kind enough to link to something showing that china had sanctions imposed on it by the UK at the time. I did some googling but found nothing (probably looking in the wrong place).
The big issue with Prisoner's Dilemma is that people lie.

Just as a for instance, consider:

https://www.oxygen.com/martinis-murder/link-between-debra-ca...

So all across the US, in a very real way, there are times that the state puts innocent people in prison in exchange for lies told by guilty people. Worse, the state then allows those guilty people back out onto the streets to commit more crimes. This causes no end of problems in society. From crime, to the complete and total nonexistence of trust between certain communities and law enforcement. (Think about it, they know who are the good guys and who are the bad guys. So if you are letting a guilty bad guy send an innocent good guy to prison, they understandably intuit that there's likely an unflattering reason that you are doing that.)

For all these reasons, and more actually, the practice should be stopped.

Your post sets up a false dichotomy. You have essentially said, "We can't have a non-corrupt system. So we should have a system where the guilty are encouraged to lie and go free rather than a system where we have surveillance everywhere catching everyone all the time."

Here's the thing though, we can have a less corrupt system. A system free of both of those practices. That's a perfectly reasonable alternative. We can have prosecutors either prove their cases with actual data based evidence rather than tainted anecdotes, or not. That's what the adversarial system intended.
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None of that is true. It has never been considered outlandish except by oil company PR teams. Simple math from the very beginning of the fossil fuel era made it obvious we would eventually run into problems. It has been extremely obvious for decades that the predicted problems were here, now.

There's no social or economic cost to the world for acting to prevent climate change. The costs are all negative - we save vast amounts of money and societal damage by acting.

There hasn't been any serious scientific dispute over whether climate change was occurring for at least 50 years.

And of course it's completely accurate to note that the oil companies knew about the problem and have not only refused to act, but have spent massive amounts to prevent action. Many of their own documents are available on the internet for your inspection.
Jerome Powell: Facebook's Libra poses potential risk to financial system
I agree with you. In re: Fermi's paradox, I have a speculation:

All exponential growth curves in the real world are S-shaped, they always level-off. An intelligent species can choose when and how this leveling-off occurs for themselves, but not whether. I think that since we have not yet made this choice, we are not yet considered intelligent by the citizens of the galaxy, and so the Fermi Paradox: we are in quarantine.

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Unrelated, there is a school of applied ecology called Permaculture. Toby Hemenway (RIP) has a talk he gave about how we might transition to a steady-state civilization. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6b7zJ-hx_c I haven't watched this one yet, but it's 'the sequel to Toby's popular talk, "How Permaculture Can Save Humanity and The Planet, but not Civilization."', which I have watched and found very inspiring.
Watch out:

> $22 for lunch + 10% sales tax

Displays $32.00 instead of $24.20 or something.
Other issues: it does not support units on the right nor euros (€).

Nice anyway :-)
There are alternative services. Some offering better conditions.
The mechanism really doesn't matter as long as they are secured.
That sounds like the tired phrase from nationalists, "If you don't LOVE our country, you can LEAVE it!".

People can both be in an organization and criticize its behavior.
I didn't find his reply non-polite, just personal.

Why do we expect people to be impersonal all the time?
Good point! Updated the page. Its monthly.
The shareholder value theory is rubbish, because it has no predictive or descriptive powers for why one decision was made over another.

I can just as easily say that the best way to maximize shareholder value is to minimize public scandal, scrutiny, and potential for legislature.

Nearly every single decision, including contradictory ones, made by every single company, everywhere, can be retroactively justified to have been done in the name of shareholder value.
Can you prove that the client wasn't a leech? I mean, yeah, it is possible to do that, but I bet that this law firm specifically, using the tech of ten years ago, could not.
Technically you cannot use weather modification as a weapon but when has the rule of law stopped crazy people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_Modification_Con...

To restate I am all for being able to help the planet, mitigate our impact using new greener technologies and changing our habits, however this needed to be done a long time ago and trying to fix our current problems with the band-aide of Geo-engineering I personally believe is a futile effort.
The judge's order makes the sequence of the case
and the methods of the defendants much clearer:

https://www.scribd.com/document/139843902/Prenda-Sanctions-O...

edit: and has numerous easter eggs for Star Trek fans.
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I would argue that the city should solve for this, because bikes and other small personal transport devices SHOULD have more designated secure parking. One person could park their car, or 15 people could park their scooters and bikes. In cities with good public transit, we shouldn't be allocating so much public space to people parking private vehicles.
Yup.

These are basically reusable PoCs.

You move it somewhere. See if there is demand. And if there is, you look at more permanent solutions.
We don't require the same of cars. Why should we burden other modes of transportation?

It's worth noting that overnight street parking was illegal in New York until 1950: https://www.nytimes.com/1996/03/17/realestate/streetscapes-c...
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Anyone have a sense of the cost comparison to carbon sequestration via https://carbonengineering.com/