skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Transit systems/trains/etc. in general have no idea (or don't care) how horrible many of their systems are to the occasional user and even more so to the visitor. And it's gotten worse as regular users have been switched to refillable contactless payment cards that are usually specific to a particular city or even specific set of transit modes.

Go to just about any airport with a train into the city and see all the sleep-deprived people trying to navigate the fare with credit cards that may not work, no cash, etc.
I just tried, it didn't really change it.

How to reproduce the problem:

* Create a bookmark for "Hacker News" as news.ycombinator.com.

* In the omnibar type "Hacker New" and see that "Search with Google" is selected and that second suggestion is the bookmark.

I would like these to be reversed and the top bookmark/history/whatever item is selected over search.
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Yes, it's an additional feedback loop - more warming melts more permafrost, releasing more methane that causes more warming. Due to this stopping/slowing climate change is going to be more difficult.
I submitted your paper but not many people were interested in upvoting it! :( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18779010
My favorite part of this is that there's a clear reason for the Satoshi coins to have never been spent. Like the article says, the only other theories that allow for that are Satoshi being something like a nation-state.
It's a fun example, imagine how garbage search in languages that have more than one case is is. :/
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EsvR6cPVno
That's impressive, a support process that is responsive, don't mess about and fair. Companies around the World could learn something from this. They probably won't, but they certainly all could.
If the statement above is correct then they can substitute any newer version of the software with the one that was installed when you bought it.

One could argue whatever that because Tesla advertises heavily with OTA upgrades that they are included in the purchase price and therefore should not be able to be unilaterally pulled.
> The truth is, many conspiracy theories have turned out true (people do, after all, conspire in secret to do evil).

How frequently do theories that are widely labeled as "conspiracy theories" turn out to be true?
This project sounds like it is just code. There isn’t any UI components or themes or anything. It’s just a library for writing web components but with Go instead of Javascript:

https://play.vugu.org

A wider breadth of examples, with links to the demos or even hosting one on the homepage should definitely be considered.
I have no idea why her reporting or not reporting these incidents is relevant. Also not sure why this the protest was 'generic'. Your comment comes off as dismissive without any substance. Please feel free to elaborate.
I would agree with you on this as well. It may appear that this is a more popular way to think and it very well could be increasing more than it had in the past, in western first world technology bubbles.

However I feel for every person coming to this conclusion there are 100 more people on this planet who are ignorant to this trend and will continue to keep having babies, whether intentional or just by the circumstance of where they live.

Opinion/Personally I was on board with the whole, "I'll just adopt" rather than bring an additional carbon creature into this planet. However I went from being idealistic and 20, to rational and 30 and during this time met the love of my life whom if I had not met her I would never consider having a child of my own. I think that is a big factor, finding someone who you truly want to grow old with and start a family.

The idea of a creature made up with some of her genes and mine is amazing. Also call me selfish but why should I deny myself the experience of having a child because of some unforeseen doomsday future event that even with me denying myself the experience will happen anyway. Sure I may slow it down by not having a child, but the chances of 1 less human on this planet impacting the future of the world is about as probable as me creating a child who will solve the worlds climate issues, again just my opinion on the matter.
They released the 4 without netboot and USB boot. The rough timeline that I read regarding firmware updates indicates that network boot will be done in a couple of weeks and USB boot will be done in about six weeks.
I have a separate search and address box! It doesn't change the behavior.

If you have a bookmark "Hello World!" pointing to "example.com" and type "Hello" the selected option will be "Search with Google" and not the top bookmark entry.
"coffee shop" on the other hand yields 20 results. I agree that some support for fuzzy search is needed, but there is a reasonable amount of data there.
As much as I like PostgreSQL's features, MySQL does have advantages in some situations.

The copy on write/mvcc type stuff in particular has bit me hard in the past. It's great in most cases but can cause some serious issues with huge tables where every row is updated many times. Even with frequent table cleanup/analyze/etc, the tables bloat up and can become completely unworkable whereas in MySQL there are no problems at all. Symptoms are things like the table sizes growing hundreds of GB larger than the data, queries which should use indexes becoming table scans, etc. The existence of multiple versions of a row seems to really upset the query planner in some cases. I have a table which takes several hours to do a basic conditional count in PostgreSQL, which will finish in milliseconds on MySQL.
Wow, "wild speculation" is right.

A commercial ship travelling across the ocean was compromised by malware and you somehow think that is connected to an outage of a global navigation system?

I'm not clear whether you think this incident is a cause or an effect of the Galileo outage but, either way, that's a helluva jump!
Options->Search->untick "Show search suggestions ahead of browsing history in address bar results"
Well, I didn't expect to find something like this today! Pretty damn cool.
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what technology is that, exactly? genuinely curious as the way you've framed the issue is that the only thing holding us back is unleash the war machine type setup where we have tons of e.g. solar panels and batteries at the ready, just waiting to be deployed.

assuming it's not ready in the necessary quantities, the amount of carbon needed to produce and deploy it means that there's /necessarily/ an increase in carbon output required to produce and deploy said tech, not to mention environmental ruin e.g. mass cobalt/lithium/etc. production.

the only real alternative that i see is decimating current consumption levels. there doesn't seem to be any real willingness to talk about the necessary uncomfortableness people will have to go through in order to do that yet, though - people's mindsets seem to be stuck on growing or teching our way out.
FWIW, Medium launched their subscriber program two years ago and hasn't changed course since.

I think Medium's move is a winner and as a result, I started three profitable publications there. But... I'm worried about getting squeezed down the road. Right now Medium passes all their subscriber revenue on to the authors & publishers. But eventually they'll have to take a cut and the size of that cut will be balanced out by what other opportunities authors and publishers have.

So I think it's great that the ecosystem for paid writing is growing (Substack & Patreon). And I think paid is a great model now that we've seen what the mature version of free looks like (IMO, very bad). As an occasional writer, it's refreshing to just write the best piece I know how without trying to hack in virality and upsells.
This reeks of conspiracy theory, however if one were to weaponize an insect, ticks would make sense. They're small and undetectable, evasive, bite you without you knowing it, and tough as nails.
> The reality is that a hypoallergenic-pet-only policy isn't all that useful.

Why wouldn't it be useful? Pet allergies can trigger anaphylaxis which can result in death.

Allergies to dogs and cats affect 10%–20% of the population[1]. That's a big chunk of the workforce you are cutting away from your company.

Purchasing a hypoallergenic animal for the office's pet is simply being responsible.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5809771/
Zen 3 seems like the clear choice, especially for computational tasks rather than gaming, which is still largely single-core performance reliant. This generation Intel just isn't competitive.
Ask HN: Have you been on a meditation retreat? How has it changed your life?
Hey all - I went on a meditation retreat for the first time in 2016 and have been to several since.

Since then, I've met a lot of friends through the process, but was curious what the overlap between the general tech community and the meditation community was.

Have you been on a retreat? If so how was it and would you go again. If not and you are interested in one - what has prevented you thus far?
Serious question: does the Pentagon actually have to comply? What authority does Congress have to compel the Pentagon to do such?
The trend of storing auth tokens in localStorage rather than httpOnly cookies is a problematic trend due to vulnerabilities like this. If you can exfiltrate an authtoken then one gets long lived access to the system.
Tens of thousands out of 142M total ridership annually is pretty low. That's .07% of ridership.

At some point it costs more to nail down the remaining fare evasion than to just let it happen.
I wonder why they limited the inquiry to that date range.
or do it cross-towns. you only get to tag things from random towns that are >= 50 mi from you. and they might do yours
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> puts paid

I think you're being downvoted because of a typo.
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Then what name would you suggest?
> Ultimately, each company has to make its own decision about whether to prioritize those who are allergic to pets or those who wish to bring pets in the office. There are costs and benefits to each.

Ultimately, it's a question of whether they want to comply with the ADA or not when considering which to prioritize.
hey! This is andrew from a16z -- substack is still relatively new (~2 years) and the product is solving a real problem for writers. The numbers are already strong, but think about where it might be over the next 5-10 years. I think your calculation focuses too much on where it is now versus where it might go in the future
Thanks a lot for posting this. I think it’s the most profound thing I’ve come across today!
i personally dont like them very much as they tend to force the pace and you might miss quite a bit. im a slow reader who tends to process everything. unless its boring then i just skim. you can't really do that with audiobooks. plus they are quite expensive.
That's probably more related the fact that going into greener spaces helps our moods.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/mind-and-mood/sour-mood-getti...
There's a not-insignificant capital cost (faregates need electric and networking), and some users cannot be accommodated with faregates at all, necessitating station agents to let them in through an emergency exit or some other means of ingress.
I think the post's confusion comes from trying to focus on where the shadow falls, while the concept of eclipse really is focused on what is obscured from view. I.e. calling them lunar and solar is consistent in the later sense.

In case of lunar eclipse, the view of the Moon is obscured by the shadow of Earth. I.e. Sun's light is blocked by Earth, so it doesn't reflect back to Earth from the Moon. In case of solar eclipse, the view of the Sun is obscured by the Moon itself (which throws shadow on Earth), i.e. you don't see direct light from the Sun blocked by the Moon.

Both are pretty real and both are called eclipses.
XMLHttpRequest was useful enough to become a standard browser feature. That doesn't prove that ECMA is somehow nonstandard, or even a poor standard. Or that frameworks built on top of it are.

Besides, today XHR is being replaced with the fetch API.
> Case in point: Haiku applications appear to be files, but if you try to move them then you get told you can't modify a read only file system.

It's not an illusion, though. They really are files on a read-only file-system. The message is entirely correct. AppImages would do the same.

> I have other criticisms of Haiku, but we seem to be stuck on this one so I haven't brought them up.

Well, I am interested in those, too, of course. And despite how antagonistic this apparently is to you (sorry), I really am taking notes here.

> Why do you insist on making this appeals to the majority all the time?

Because the general case is the one that should be optimized for first, and other ones come later.

> If it is developers, then, well, it's kind of a feedback loop isn't it? Keep going that way and if you're not careful you become Gnome.

If you are trying to protect software from the developers making it, you are going to have a bad time.

> Besides, as I keep saying, I don't really care what the "majority" thinks.

That's fine if you are just you. Obviously people creating products have to think about it.

> Fair enough, but why does it need to have applications installed on the same partition?

Nothing "needs" that, this is just how it is set up; the current default as it were.

> Of course, right now that would mean recompiling Haiku if I wanted to run something off a thumb drive.

Because there is no GUI, yes. Or you know, like I've said before, the executable bit still exists and you can use it, too.

> Linux doesn't need to do things the way it does either, but culturally it is impossible to do something else at this point.

Yes, indeed...

> If what you're saying is true, then no, it's just a cultural one. That's almost worse.

No, it is not. Linux has created in everyone the fear of the culture above all else, to the point where elaborate technical solutions are crafted to cultural problems. Haiku has, and will continue to, change its "culture" when it becomes clear the time has come for that.
Verbose = fitting for announcing news about a newsletter startup, no? :)
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No, you don't get to choose. You have to be privacy first which narrows it down to DDG and Apple. Deal with it.
Have you confirmed this? In the example the ID is retrieved from the finished upload response, but on the actual YouTube website does tell you the video link with the ID in advance, and the API parameter 'part' does appear to allow you to get the ID.
For anyone interested in a brief exposition of Postman's thinking, his "Five Things We Should Know About Technological Change" speech transcription is a good read:

https://www.technodystopia.org/
And then cut away the beginning.
I don't have any strong opinions on the product being built by Substack Inc, but I do feel weird that they swiped the name "substack", which is a handle that's been used by open source hacker James Halliday for at least a decade. [0]

It's been his handle on GitHub, Twitter, Hacker News, YouTube, Reddit, etc., and it makes me uncomfortable to see a startup try to turn his name into a corporate brand.

[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20091113043728/http://substack.n...
Maybe with this API, but when uploading a YouTube video through YouTube, you definitely get the URL before the actual upload finishes. I don't imagine it'd be terribly hard to reverse-engineer that API.

My guess is that you can start an upload, get the ID, and then stream unimportant and non-comitall video headers and chunks (e.g. subtitle tracks or other metadata) slowly enough to keep the server from closing the connection on you. Then you can just record your video and start uploading actual video chunks once ready.

Or maybe YouTube doesn't have a huge timeout for starting your upload, so you don't even have to do all of that.
I owe you some clarification, as I probably bridged the two in my mind, but clearly not in my comment :)

I think that Substack focused very nicely on product effectiveness, and as a result its business is now doing so well that A16Z decided to invest.

Most crypto projects in the media space tried to offer similar features, but instead of focusing on a great user experience, they mostly focused on "cool technical stuff" that had nothing to do with adding value for the user.

Perhaps it is more clear now? I hope so.

You also say: "[crypto] it is arguably the most fair way to pay developers for their work".

I think that we don't need a cryptocurrency to pay for a media subscription.

Also, we don't need crypto for micro-payments - you can simply handle it with a credit system (e.g. you pay 1$ and you can then use $0.01 to pay media content 100 times using your credit).
I think some geographically isolated village may survive even a nuclear war, and as long as a village survives, humanity stands a chance.

I don't rule out the possibility of us making ourselves extinct, but I think it's a low-probability outcome. Also, if only few humans remained, I'd still call it game over.

WRT. the study, it's scary stuff. If that threshold truly exists, we can kiss humanity goodbye.
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The technology was only recently developed, and transit systems are usually not flush with cash to keep upgrading payment systems more than maybe once a decade, if that.
Given that North Korea has been able to place satellites into sun synchronous orbit, its missile program has far better than continent-level accuracy.
http://archive.is/e00mA
Just read through most of the paper. It's basically an attempt to build an autoencoder feature extractor using genetic programming, by having multiple levels of feature extractors, somewhat similar to how convolutional neural networks look for basic features (edges) at a low level and then complex features (eyes, etc) at higher levels. They make a point of only using arithmetic operations (add, multiply, etc) rather than higher-level operations (edge detection, etc) in an attempt to not introduce any domain knowledge requirement or bias. The paper also contains a lot of background of the current state of genetic programming and a proposal for further research.

I think it's an interesting attempt to push GP using some of the structure we've learned is useful for deep neural networks. I've always found genetic programming intriguing, although it's hard to argue with its inefficiency these days compared to DNN's.
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I agree, Andrew. I think that the current model is only the tip of the iceberg for what Substack can achieve once it reaches critical mass.
It's also really dangerous. Maybe I am just really autistic, but I have a real difficulty comparing myself to others, mostly because there isn't enough reliable data available.

The funny thing is: If I don't compare myself at all to other people and just try to "be", I quickly run into problems: People find me condescending because I use words they've never heard.

So, I have to actually think about how smart I am, and how less smart other people are. If I factor this into account, and then engage people with the right vocabulary, I never run into problems. But ironically, this is actually condescending, but the audience never knows about it.

It's less good for me to describe myself as "normal", because actual "normal" people get "deranked". Society's asking me to see myself as the "smart" guy and act accordingly.

Honestly, I prefer to not compare and just be. I understand, or I don't understand, and I have no problem admitting either. I thought this was normal, but it appears, it isn't... in fact, some people would (maybe even literally) rather die than admit they don't understand something, and while most aren't this extreme, this kind of behavior seems to be the norm rather than the exception...

I guess it's more socially acceptable to not give credit and respect to 10x where it's due, because people probably expect these people to be so successful just the way they are, they believe they wouldn't require it.

EDIT: To come back around as to why this is dangerous: I've alienated most everyone of my friends and family in the process to learn the above. It would've really helped me if somebody just told me "You're damn smart, other people aren't, treat them like kids or something." Sure this sounds condescending, but read the above, it would've kept things not just for me, but more importantly, my friends and family, much more comfortable. But it's too late now, already.

EDIT2: In conclusion, talking to people requires active effort from me, and I find it very frustrating and annoying. So I prefer to be alone, and sometimes will be harsh, abrasive and arrogant in a preemptive effort to keep people away from me... My greatest fear is accidentally pushing someone away whom I'd rather not (there are people whose company I do enjoy), but if my logic holds up, that person should understand that...
Fact check: The Antikythera Mechanism was a completely GREEK artifact. It was recovered in the wreck of a sunken Roman ship but there is zero dispute about its origins due to the Greek inscriptions, Greek calendars, everything Greek. It's not Roman in the least but I understand the confusion since it was found in a Roman vessel. The Romans had conquored Greece by that time (c. 85 BC when the ship went down) but the mechanism and other Greek marbles, sculptures etc. were tributes FROM Greece to the Romans, who valued and treasured Greek art and invention. The device is firmly dated to 160 BC, incidentally, before Roman conquest of Greece
Presumably that is not always the case, though. What about live video, for example?
There's also the methane hydrate just under the seabed of the continental margins of the world's oceans. A rise in water temperature may destabilise large quantities, releasing huge amounts of methane, accelerating climate change further.

https://worldoceanreview.com/en/wor-1/ocean-chemistry/climat...
I think more semantic arguments only detract from action at this point. It's already an "emergency" according to a number of official organizations.

Showing more physical evidence and pushing developed plans is the only way forward I can see.
1. A recall, which is a real business event with a big price tag.

2. Another recall

3. Corporate accounting announcement.

4. Product announcement.

5. Product analysis.

6. Product announcement.

7. Product review.

8. A third recall.

Those all seem awfully newsworthy to me. And they're sourced well, with citations going all the way up the corporate ladder.

How exactly do you argue that these are journalistically equivalent to "here's a picture of tape"?
Will make it easier for people driving by my house to pick which packages to steal...
> The Apple Thunderbolt 3 to Thunderbolt 2 adaptor supports nothing except Target Disk Mode.

This isn’t correct. I use it daily to connect a MacBook Pro with Thunderbolt 2 ports to a RAID enclosure/dock with Thunderbolt 3 ports via a TB2 cable terminated with this adapter. An external monitor is attached to the enclosure, as well as several USB devices. The display port alternate mode signal and USB hub functionality all works simultaneously with the RAID.

Of course, half the problem with USB-C is that the failures are incredibly opaque, so it’s hard to say why the adapter failed in your case. Maybe you plugged it into a USB 3 USB-C port instead of a TB3 USB-C port? My enclosure has separate USB-C ports for each protocol, and I need to be careful to select the right one.