skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I am not naming the company here, even though they would totally deserve it.

I do wonder to what extent the culture itself of how we approach bugs is designed to benefit companies over consumers. That we avoid naming and shaming due to a chilling effect of blow back, that we have disclosure windows, that the legal framework for reporting bugs is so flaky, that we are all accustomed to bad security practices and getting our data hacked, it all feels like it is architected to benefit companies who rarely suffer from hacks (sometimes there is a significant cost, but that rarely outweighs the profits).

It reminds me of identity theft. The entire concept that you lost money because your identity was stolen from you, that the bank (or other company) who feel for the fake victim isn't even a party to the actual crime, pushes the costs onto consumers. Instead of seeing it as the banks being the victim and thus responsible to bear the costs that aren't recoverable from the criminals, is is their customers who are. Thus it reduces the cost to the bank of poor identity management. An entire culture that offloads the costs of the bank's penny pinching onto consumers.

Another such examples is when the early automotive industry pushed for people to view jay walking as the crime, shifting blame onto pedestrians for being in the way of cars.
Following this logic, nothing should be remotely controlled because there might be security risks. Including OS updates to laptops.
I don’t think english is the author’s first language. I wouldn’t get caught up in the errors he makes. He still managed to make it sound almost poetic.
Gee I really don't consider Linus Pauling to be a semi-quack, and considering he's the guy who coined the phrase.... http://orthomolecular.org/hof/2004/lpauling.html

I know the pharma industry has been trying to destroy his reputation regarding his vitamin C (l-ascorbic acid) L-lysine protocol as a way to prevent and revers heart disease. But so far it seem that everything Dr. Pauling proposed has been panning out. Frankly I'd blindly trust Dr. Pauling over basically anyone else, especial if the anyone else has a financial stake in their position, which is everyone, except Dr. Pauling.

It's too bad he was prevented from traveling due to his protesting the Vietnam War, because if he hadn't be prevented from traveling he would have stayed ahead of Watson and Crick and Dr. Pauling would have "discovered" the double-helix, and won his 3rd solo Nobel Prize.
Funny, here's the original HN discussion on the actual study:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20412291

I left a comment there...
"I guess now we watch for headlines like "Soda Causes Cancer" which is not what this really says."
> Essentially, in a simulation of the physical world that has tweaked physics, could information be processed faster than the processor running the simulation?

Nope, the simulator has to run it still - how would the simulation update anything unless being told to by the processor running the simulation?
Not sure what I should expect from esquire, but a relatively vacant article which elevates only barely above click bait... It's theses kind of stupid articles which make it hard to have educated conversations about climate change and are just as bad as climate change deniers.
Instead of always trying to debunk conspiracy theories we can also talk about some of the proof that astronauts went to the moon. See if they can debunk that. For example, every mission with Extravehicular activity brought back samples of moon rock (some collecting over 100kg). I find that to be pretty conclusive.
Do our pets ever love us – or do they just stick around for the food?
Does "modern" here mean that it supports all the expected ARIA accessibility standards, or are they talking about a shiny developer experience and fancy APIs whilst ignoring usability completely?

I checked some examples in the playground and they seemed to be devoid of any kind of accessibility tags, and the generated HTML sources didn't look super friendly to screen readers.
> If we eliminate king from the result list I would assume it's plural is removed as well.

In fact, the plural isn't removed. You can see the effect by analogizing A:B :: A:?.

For man:king :: man:?, you get [kings, queen, monarch, crown_prince] as the top 4. For man:king :: woman:?, the results are [queen, monarch, princess, crown_prince], with 'kings' as #6.

Of course, your model may vary.
You are not wrong; and yet, HOW they use their money is another big problem altogether. I can't find the right reference now, but BART is one of the most expensive transit systems in the world ("per mile", I assume the calculation was) in terms of maintenance and operations.
This is a chrome flag you can toggle: omnibox-drive-suggestions

Alternatively, use Firefox.
In some jurisdictions the law says that the car speedometer must show a higher speed than the correct one (as long as tyres aren't above the correct pressure), so that the driver can "trust" the speedometer to avoid them a speeding ticket. On my car 140 km/h on the speedometer corresponds to 128-130 km/h on the GPS.
I wonder how difficult it would be leapfrog oil and go straight to nuclear power.
If it made any difference whatsoever, the Drivers would complain and whine about it relentlessly - so no. They either plan it well, or the wash is negligible
It costs me less than $1 USD per day to get unlimited, high quality 4G data. $0.83/day to be precise.

My high-end Samsung phone to watch things on comes to $0.91/day. That's because I bought new. If bought second hand I'd expect to pay closer to $0.50/day.

So for $1.74/day, I can watch YouTube all day, on one of the most expensive devices, with a screen so high-end you can't see the pixels. It also gives me communication for free with anyone all around the world, real-time access to financial services, unlimited games, and access to various kinds of work.

It would be very difficult to eat or drink on $1.74/day, and it's vastly less than the cost of renting a home.

Does it really make sense to conclude the beggar women standing on the corner isn't struggling, because she can afford to watch YouTube on a nice phone?

This is the paradox of cheap technology next to expensive housing.
If you need specific PostgreSQL features then yes, otherwise switch to MariaDB instead.
Please name them.

> they would totally deserve it.

They do. It is important to warn their customers about their practices. They had their chance and proved they're absolutely incompetent and shouldn't have anyone's data.
You do tell them the sun isn't getting hotter right? Have you seen this? https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-whats-warming-the-wo...
That's where the language designer has to say "no". Trying to make ownership semantics work for arbitrary graphs is too much trouble.

I had to deal with this once writing a 3D collision detection system. Objects were convex hulls, with vertices, edges, and faces, all pointing to each other. I had an implementation in C to look at, and it was a mess. Ownership was so tangled that they couldn't delete objects.

So I rewrote it in C++, with each object having collections of vertices, edges, and faces. All links between them were indices, not pointers. Lots of asserts to validate all the consistency rules. Easy to delete, and much better cache coherence. Chasing pointers to tiny objects all over memory belongs to the era when cache misses didn't dominate performance.

So that's the answer. Some data structures are too complex for ownership semantics. So do them another way and have all the parts be owned by some master object.
> I am a farmer, was a net admin earlier in life but from what I have seen and heard myself and talking to my tribe from up north climate change is a natural event and there is nothing we can do to stop things like Earth's axis slightly changing making the sun way hotter.

Oh, well. That settles it! I guess the climate scientists who have been researching this for half a century should go find other jobs.
Methane is lighter than air and thus would rise up to the sky until mixed.
Sanitization of the text input (e.g. < becomes &lt;, > becomes &gt;, etc). This is automatic/implicit on a lot of modern web frameworks (since text and Html are distinct types and output to a page are treated differently, with text sanitization being implied unless you opt out).

You shouldn't ever be running untrusted JavaScript. Content Security Policy and similar are just extra layers of protection if you mess up.
Last weekend I used Apple Maps to navigate to a movie theater from within the Trailers app.

Not sure which one got it wrong. We ended up in some neighborhood two miles from the theater.

I knew once we pulled off the main road and into that neighborhood that we were screwed.
> Example: Model.objects.get(), because nobody could understand Model.get(), right? /s

That has a simple explanation: each Model can have multiple Managers [1], and the `objects` is the default one. Also, by convention, methods on the Model are usually relative to "one DB record", and methods on the manager are relative to N records.

[1]: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.2/topics/db/managers/
Fake News Could Lead to Real War
As a kid I learned this is the fastest way to... faceplant.
I guess this is OK since Thiel is on Facebook's board of directors, and I guess has a large investment in it. We as a country don't care about conflicts of interest any more, so fine, call your business opponents "traitors". But don't complain when that particular accusation comes around for you.

Or is this just an example of Peter Turchin's "intraelite conflict"?

In any case, Trump has exactly zero business piddling in the markets, can we all agree?
Vec is an unsafe built-in. If you can talk about partially initialized arrays, you can write Vec as safe code.
Can someone explain what flagging an article means and why this one was flagged?
You are assuming that when plugged the mouse would run from the battery, which quite frankly would be a terrible decision.
"The paper has been criticised for not being peer reviewed and other climate scientists have refuted the conclusions reached by Kauppinen and Malmi. Critics have said that in addition to not being peer reviewed, Malmi and Kauppinen fail to provide correct physical explanation, have not linked to- or sited to enough sources to support their claims and although they denounce climate models, they use one themselves to prove their own points." FTA you linked but didn't read.
"It's for the big abusers, like Google".

If the law actually said that, it would be great.

You never want laws to be ambiguously applied and to presume exemption because "it wouldn't happen to me". People will abuse laws: there will be spam scams aplenty selling snake-oil solutions, and ambulance chasers threatening to sue companies because they can. Excess legislation comes at a cost.

I am in favour of better privacy but I fail to see how counting unique visitors on a blog should become a crime. By setting the standard that everyone is violating the law, you encourage everyone to ignore your law.
Some people are brilliant but just want to be financially comfortable enough to do the things they actually want to do. Ask some CS majors why they are trying to get into the field and a huge swath with frankly say it's because they can bust ass now and get six figures at 22 years old and coast the rest of their lives. Not exactly the reality, but that's what freshman CS majors are thinking about when they hand their resume to the google rep during the career fair.
Electric cars have no direct smog production.
> Another tidbit that sadly sticks in my mind is hearing about ex-Vietnam pilots flying over New Zealand while sharpshooters culled (invasive, non-native) deer.

You can Heli-Hunt invasive feral hogs in Texas for ~5k/person
I'm partial to this graphic... puts things in perspective and puts paid to the notion that what's happening now resembles natural climate fluctuations.

https://xkcd.com/1732/
Growing up MUNI did have fare inspectors, albeit not too common and mostly on the light rail. However, I haven't seen a fare inspector in years, and fare evasion is noticeably worse these days.
The free Oldio Audiobook app for iOS plays Librivox books in the same ease and manner of the Audible app, if anyone is interested.
Yes, that’s exactly the skew popular media will give this (already way too sensational) reporting. And we shouldn’t do this, unless we want to lose the scientific moral grounds.
Because apparently traditional server-side rendering isn't complex enough...

It appears they are using server-side rendering with React...
Those pictures are heavily edited. When I visited Papakōlea several years ago, the sand had a green tint but looked more like this picture:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/photocontest/detail/natural-w...
It is indeed not for everyone since I personally hated it :)

I find it extremely distracting. When there is a dog around, you'll always find a bunch of people throwing the ball with it or something like that in the middle of the open space.

And there is of course the dog owner who just doesn't care where the dog is. Doesn't care that it's coming to my desk to lick my shoes, or bothering me while I'm trying to eat in the kitchen.

Purely based on empirical observations (so, it's worth what it's worth) I feel like dog owners automatically assume that everyone else loves dogs as much as they do. They care very little about people who are scared, allergic, disgusted, etc.
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I've never understood why companies force the battery to charge the whole time it's plugged in for things that charge quickly and discharge slowly.

If a full charge lasts 2 months, then why keep it topped up while plugged in? Just charge it to 85%, then let it discharge to 50%, then charge it again. The circuit to do this can't be that hard to design.
I'm surprised no one has linked Meredith Whittaker's statement on this:

https://medium.com/@GoogleWalkout/onward-another-googlewalko...
Firefox (at least for me) does the same thing and pushes search results before websites. I have to arrow or tab down 4-5 selections before I get to the first website result in the url/search bar.
Why keep reading markdown from disk and regenerating the page when you can just compile the site once and be done with it? Much easier to cache.
Why can't it be run directly in Emacs (instead of via cask)?
Ryanair plans short term cuts after 737 Max grounding
Interesting, but certainly not usable yet.

My "shorthand" address missed my house by about 5 miles, and the precise mailing address (like I'd use on an envelope) brought up a steakhouse about 8 miles away. My company name dropped me in Saudi Arabia, and the exact address dropped me in New York (I'm in Minnesota).

It's the same issue I have with Open Street Maps, if you're not in SF/NYC/Chi they're damn near useless. OSM at least gets me to the correct block, although it's still off by about 500 feet.

Edit: Oh boy, this is like Cuil again. Grand Canyon brings up a mall in Israel, Burj Khalifa is somehow underwater, Eifel Tower brings up Las Vegas, Roman Colosseum some residential street in Houston. Statue of Liberty and Taj Mahal are the only two landmarks I tried it got correct. I get it's a "beta", but ouch. If you can't get addresses or major landmarks correct this shouldn't even be public facing yet.
There are ways to track besides the search engine. The website you landed on might have done it. Not saying it wasn't ddg, but that there are many possibilities (and what I think is a major part of the problem)
How Security Keys Store Credentials
Our webpack builds are really slow and we can’t seem to figure out how to profile it.
sanitize the output of the car name field so that any html tags are escaped.
I think most educated people now days are aware that the earth is "getting hotter". Articles like this seem to just monger fear and not really encourage steps we can take to continue improving the environment and adapting renewable and reasonable sources of energy like nuclear.
Oh god those are terrifying. I don’t know if I have ever seen a more frightening animal tbh. They look very durable, fast, and the stinger is huge.

The article suggested honeybees kill them by surround them and vibrating to cause the hornets to overheat and die.

That is also fascinating. How does that ever evolve.
Don't think it's isolated to Russia either.

Alaska just reported their hottest June ever (It's in the 90's in a lot of places now), and the Yukon is seeing massive, massive climate changes in recent years.

The annual Redezvous festival used to be held ON the Yukon River in downtown Whitehorse. Friends tell of driving onto the river, having huge bonfires, etc. etc.

It hasn't even frozen over enough to walk on in a decade or more, and now it actually goes above freezing in January most years..... even 20 years ago it wouldn't go above -40 for all of Dec/Jan.

Things are changing very, very fast in the North.
Agreed. For sake of OP I was going with a known pain point in MySQL.
> The dataset is biased. Otherwise woman~nurse wouldn't have been the second hit for the query. Had the dataset not been biased it would have been able to produce the analogy "woman is to doctor as man is to nurse".

I think that this hypothetical example would be evidence of bias. "woman:doctor :: man:nurse" as an analogy only works because of gendered implications of 'doctor' versus 'nurse', so if that were a robust output of the model it would imply that the word2vec found that gender was of great significance in the manifold near 'doctor'. (The analogy would just be applying a negative weight to the gender basis, but that's mathematically fine even if not customary.)
And it's not even front page news.
It certainly seems like lots of people have already

https://climatefeedback.org/claimreview/non-peer-reviewed-ma...
Let's say you need 50x the number of drones to achieve parity. Are drones 50x safer (where safer includes the consequences of accident)

Regardless, good engineering dictates that one shouldn't change a working system.
Seems a bit higher than that on average, Dec/Jan were ~8.3%. Faregates are rarely the rate limiter on throughput (buses moreso than others though). Adding more cuts enforcement labor and increases revenue.
Isn’t there an improved Apple Maps being rolled out city by city? What’s the status of that?
This review is very disappointing. He's simply parroting all the marketing hype from the manufacturer and adding very little original thought. He doesn't even have a 4k monitor to test the Pi 4. That's one of the biggest new features and he just glosses over it.
Your cellphone already has all of this information too. Google Maps will tell me both my current speed and the road's speed limit while driving with navigation on.
Firefox is slightly better in this regard but it still searches when what you typed isn't a prefix match for something in your history,bookmarks,whatever.

It's extremely annoying behavior and the go-to add-on "Enter Selects" that fixes doesn't work with WebExtensions.

https://github.com/Mardak/enterSelects/issues/16
(Battery-powered) Drones have ridiculously short loiter times compared to helicopters
A single person has a disagreement and we end up at this? Seems a little far reaching.
Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection for IOS or Android is an excellent collection of games with variable difficulty. I enjoy Galaxies, Net, Inertia, Pearl, Guess, and Untangle the most.
Eight Deaths now tied to e-scooters
Enjoy your life, exercise a bit, don't eat too many processed / sugary foods. Enjoy life - we all die eventually.

If only we could make the basic step of getting the masses to understand why being obese isn't okay... i.e. fat acceptance movement etc...
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I switched from Webpack to Parcel (https://parceljs.org/), it requires far less configuration (only command line parameters for me) and runs faster. It's "batteries included", and I find it's enough for most of my applications.
There are an awful lot of educated people whose livelihoods depends on us not taking those steps. That's why disinformation and denialist propaganda like this study get funded.

Leaving those lies unchallenged would be journalistic malpractice.
We only had one photograph of the entire Earth–until 2015 (2018)
Twitter does provide a "why am I seeing this ad" option for each ad it displays. Maybe that'll give you some clues?
Congress Targets the Wrong Tech Monopolies
Apple Maps keeps confusing California St. and California Ave. in San Francisco. One is in downtown SF and the other is in Treasure Island, a part of the city surrounded on all sides by water only accessible via the Bay Bridge.
Show HN: LessPhone – A minimal Android launcher to reduce phone use
We should be requesting info on E-scooter involved traumatic head injuries / wrist and ankle injuries.

These are easier to hide / arguably have more of an impact on the public than death itself.
I mentioned this to my coworkers who brought up something I hadn't thought of - would this be illegal in the USA via something such as CFAA? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act He technically accessed Tesla's dashboard without authorization, for example.
Not sure if it's a lot to ask, but I'll consider it a killer app if DDG can let user opt which map source to choose from? e.g. Some may prefer Google, and some may prefer openstreetmap?

Just a thought.
> If you do any physical activity that you are unused to you will have slight pains etc.

It's not about being used to it - I'd been cycling for years. There will always be muscle soreness from using your legs, but an upright brings a totally unnecessary set of aches and pains in other places - wrists, taint, shoulders, neck - because of the awkward hunched position and the fact that you're supporting your body weight on a handful of tiny contact points. I made the switch to a recumbent and even with far less experience than I'd had on an upright, I was easily riding twice as far per day before things became too uncomfortable to continue - and I was able to stop needing padded shorts or gloves as well, which means less luggage when touring or less need to store special clothes in the office.

> Derailleur gearing has had over 110 years of development and improvement.

Derailleurs having so much history of development is precisely why I expect hub gears to take over as they go through their own years of development and improvement.

> They are cheap, reliable and easy to fix and almost never go wrong.

They jam or fall out of alignment pretty often, so I wouldn't say "almost never go wrong". Yes an experienced cyclist can fix them pretty easily, but it's a barrier for newcomers and for non-enthusiast commuters who just want something to get them to/from work.

> Sure the Rolls Royce is better and will last 20 life times but it costs 100 times and the cheap Ford will do most of what you want. If we compare Shimano hub gears (which have a terrible reputation) they are more expensive and less reliable and give you less gears.

The technology trickles down though. If you go back far enough then things like ABS, electric windows, or fuel injection were something you'd only find on the Rolls Royce (because carburettors were cheaper and more reliable and just required a little bit of manual adjustment occasionally); now you find those things in the cheap Ford too. It'll be the same for bicycles: right now you only find good hub gears on the Rolls-Royce tier tourers, but that will change as the technology gets cheaper.
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Well, photographed. Perception is a cognitive function that's not so easily measured as this...
Not sure why you were immediately downvoted. This is absolutely correct. Firefox only prioritizes websites over search when what you typed in the omnibar is an exact prefix match for a site.

Take a bookmark for mail.mycompany.com bookmarked as "Email" -- if you type "mai..." it will complete but if you type "emai..." it will search.