skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Clients can choose to ignore multiple deliveries of the same message. They keep the message id around until they get an acknowledgement from the server that it won't be sending any more of that message. This is part of the protocol.

What it doesn't really guarantee is the order, which requires even more clever programming and more network exchanges.
This is really cool. There is a gas powerplan near my house I had no idea existed. The size of a gas powerplant vs coal is crazy too.
Both science and journalism are iterative processes, you report the facts you have so others can take it further.
We had a good "word processing and spreadsheet market". But somehow people and companies voted with their money for Microsoft.
Waterskins made from animal hide
> Before 2013 in the UK, not even truth was enough of a defense.

Wasn't justification a different name for a truth defence?
I think you have it backwards: $OPPRESSIVE_REGIME is already doing it, but Land of the "Free" somehow needs it, because terrorism.
Great, good luck!

Your GitHub README looks reasonably good. This is likely going to be successful. The website has some issues. The download page displays empty dropdowns on the left-hand side of the download buttons, for instance (I'm on a Mac).

You might want to fix all "WTFs" on the main user journey before posting your links as successful links cannot be reposted for a year or so. (And getting that success again becomes harder once you've had attention here.)

If you consider posting a direct link to your website, make sure it can handle the peak load. HN loads can be brutal.

If you need more help, let me know.
Unsigned Artist Looking for a Label
Why not just price water to reflect supply realities?

Why would anyone care about saving water when it's so dirt cheap? "Awareness" seems like a waste of time in comparison.
Ask HN: NYC tips to reduce burn rate?
I'm currently changing my NYC spending from "comfortable software engineer salary" to "startup founder" to prepare for someday leaving my job and concentrating on a startup. Current plan is to move to decrease rent (maybe go back to having roommates), cook instead of seamless, ride my bike more, and try to decrease my student loan payments.

Anyone have any other ideas or tips? I've been a digital nomad before so I might do that too for a while once I get some traction, but I really like it here in New York for a lot of reasons, the QoL here is just phenomenal, best in the world.
I think a lot of proposals actually underestimate by far the magnitude of the problem.
Firefox and Safari have incognito modes, too. Call them something different ("new private window" is the menu label, in both cases) but they're the same thing, more or less. Not sure about Edge. Probably has one too.
You could be right, but "more qualified" doesn't have to mean "technical expertise in this exact standard". They could easily be weighing factors such as previous leadership experience, team/group experience, stated career goals, stated interests, demeanor, or experience in other tangential technologies.
No, because there are intermediaries that allow non banks to use their tech, like venmo/paypal acts as a broker, and therefore has access to all the banking services they need to run their money around. And they are very careful to stay in that definition so they don't have to deal with bank regulations. I believe Vice media did a good interview where they cover this specifically.
I'm surprised Gates would be for this
...or the person gets promoted.

I previously worked for an enterprise analytics software provider whose success hinged on low-cost license agreements to schools and universities. Once the company became more successful commercially, it took the same tact--substantially raising these fees in search of profitability. Today, the firm is under serious pressure from open source analytical libraries. The point being, what looks to be optimal in the short run may not be optimal in the long run, as future consequences could be anticipated but short term revenue growth was too tempting.
> Put it this way— as Americans, we’re all pretty confident that our government doesn’t pay any substantial number of people to go online and propagandize our human rights abuses under the guise of just being reasonable world citizens.

You would be desperately wrong in that assumption.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird
Tesla owners overpay for car insurance in California
As a guy who's bulking, I worry about this too. I've been skinny my whole life and true nerds have always recognized me as one of their own. Will that change with a lot of weight training?

It feels really silly to type that but I feel the ability to seamlessly fit into that culture is a big advantage.

Like, my fiancee is an attractive latina woman and she is the biggest geek I know, but she feels like she has to "prove herself" to other geeks. I hardly know anything about that culture but they instantly see me as one of them.
Read this

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/19/magazine/the-water-wars-o...

> Local farmers had watched over the last decade and a half as waves of industrial farms arrived, tilling so much land that dust storms began darkening the sky. These enormous corporations were descending on the valley for the same reason homesteaders had a century ago: the year-round growing season and the lax regulation.

> In 2014, a Saudi Arabian-owned company, the Almarai Corporation, bought 10,000 acres in the town of Vicksburg, northwest of Sulphur Springs Valley, planting alfalfa to ship halfway around the world to feed Saudi cattle. Then, a United Arab Emirates farming corporation, Al Dahra, bought several thousand-acre farms along both sides of the Arizona-California border. These purchases were perfectly legal, but many residents felt these newcomers were essentially “exporting water.”
Look at it this way. In 1970 some scientists predicted how bad climate change will influence the Earth in 50 years.

50 years passed and their predictions in some areas match current state and in some preconditions failed because they did not think it will be THAT BAD.

Based on that I know it will be either what they say now or it will be way worse..

Ps. Im talking about the scientists which were hired by oil companies to create prediction maps.
Some of that was misinformation spread by Exxon, whose scientists predicted global warming fairly well (as a global average anyway) 40 years ago. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/exxon-knew-about-... So the real science is not as fickle as was reported.
Ask HN: What Are the Best Meetups in Los Angeles?
I'm learning front-end web development and concentrating mostly on HTML, CSS, JavaScript and React. Anything comparable to React is welcomed, and not necessarily required.

I've found a lot of the popular meetups are hosted by big bootcamps, which I've heard mixed reviews of.

Are there any good meetups on Meetup.com in Los Angeles that are not hosted by these large web developer bootcamps? Or are the ones hosted by them actually really good?

My main goal is to learn (I'm a beginner to slight intermediate) and to network.

Thank you in advance
This:

"Any investment where they call you is lousy. If it was any good, it wouldn't have paid marketers.
Avoid financial advisers who want you to trade a lot."
Calculus Series: Derivative of x^x, x^x^x and Hyperexponentiation
Often it just comes down to pure metrics for them. If it increases engagement metrics, keep it. If it decreases those numbers, drop or revise. Local maxima optimization.
I'm Italian, so neither really sound weird to me :)
How to Reduce Bias in AI
Yes, meat and meat eaters are a very big problem here. Not the only one as you pointed out, but look at is this way:

- Industrial regulations will take years if not forever to be reformed to offset the damage in that sector. You also have big money in keeping things "business as usual", so good luck with that. Things need to be made.

- Transportation: it will take years to get all the gasoline-fueled vehicles off the road, although there are some good strides being made here. However, the biggest issue is that electric cars are prohibitively expensive, and people still need to get to work.

- Production of electricity: again, good strides being made in this department but it's still years away. We need electricity.

- Meat eating: you, the people next to you, _everyone_ can immediately decide this very second to do their part. Here's the thing about food though - human beings don't need to eat meat. There is plenty of plant-based food out there and at this day and age and depending on your location, highly restricting your meat and dairy use is the easiest it's ever been.

Out of the list of issues you described contributing to climate change, the one you are annoyed at me for bringing up is the only one that you personally can fix, entirely by yourself. Yet, you choose not to, and I don't really understand why.

tl;dr: All those other issues require change at a massive level that the "average Joe" can't do a whole lot about. But eating no or less meat requires minimal effort, everyone can do it starting right this second, and it has a huge payoff. Not just on a climate impact scale, but on a global health level.

If people won't even make that first step that can be done for no effort, how do you think any of those huge issues will get figured out?
US Federal government to resume capital punishment after nearly 20 year hiatus
John Cochrane on Carbon Taxes
The vast majority of water use is agriculture. Skimping in your home doesn't change that.
Aquifers are a local resource, you can think of them as somewhat like lakes that rest in depressions in geological strata rather than in depressions in the ground. There is not one large aquifer which spans the US. As a result, the details of the situation depend greatly on the area. In the Southwest, where aquifer depletion has been a major concern, there are concerns that some aquifers may deteriorate in quality due to overextraction to the point that expensive water processing is necessary over a scale of one to two decades (e.g. along the Mexico border). It's also somewhat difficult to give a year range because there is generally not actually a cut-off point where you completely "run out" - instead, the cost of extracting and processing the water increases as overextraction continues, due to a lower water table and, worse, increased salinity. Alamogordo, NM has already initiated the construction of a desalination plant because of this problem - a very expensive proposition, and one the public rarely thinks of inland.

Concern about aquifer depletion is increasing across the nation, not just in the desert southwest, but the severity of the problem varies. What is reasonably consistent is that the situation is getting worse in most places.

The USGS has general information here: https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/fs-103-03/
This belongs on /r/iamverysmart
If these have a dehydrating effect, it will be (literally) drowned out by the amount of water consumed. It will be a vast net-positive.
From the article:

"To my climate-skeptic friends: Given that the government is going to regulate carbon, this is the way to do it with least damage. To my green-warrior friends, if the government is actually going to reduce carbon, not just subsidize cronies and engage in worthless value-signaling gestures, a trade of carbon taxes for absurdly costly regulations and subsidies is the only way to get anywhere."
While I'm not enthusiastic about YouTuber as a career choice, Astronaut nowadays is a singularly poor career ambition:

* Extremely high qualifications needed

* Minuscule chance of making it through the selection process

* Job is endless dealing with bureaucracy and the ever changing whims of governments, or, in the private sector, of narcissistic plutocrats.

* At best, you go on a handful of space missions in your entire career.

* And the work you get to perform on those missions is roughly the scientific equivalent of lighting a fart in space.
Why are so many water researchers opposed to letting the price of water vary and drive market-based conservation?
The one country? Come now, dont be so shy: the CLOUD Act of 2018 puts the USA on the same list.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act
Show HN: Simple ecommerce that integrates with any website
The distinction is between “8x8 glasses of water, independent of all other fluids you ingest” pseudoscientific rule, and “9.1 - 12.5 glasses of non-alcoholic fluids, which includes juice, milk, coffee, tea, etc, not just water”

Drink 6 cups of coffee, a glass of OJ, and 2 glasses of water would be just fine for an adult Woman, but the “rule” convinces people they’re still falling 6 glasses short of water.
Ask HN: What would it take you to join a funded startup that doesn't have a MVP?
If I have a startup that's been funded with up to $1,000,000 but no MVP, what would it take for you to join given I do have a detail mock-up / blueprint? E.g., money, job security, environment? I want to build a technical team after some of the top 500 e-business agreed to be early adopters through connections.
There is plenty of open source software thats regulated.

If you wanted to reach, you could say that anything that helps guide a vehicle to its destination is control technology, then apply that to something that flies and you're immediately under Aerospace.
The issue is that you're talking out of both sides of your mouth.

Free will's existence not mattering doesn't do anything for the "thrilling observations" or whatever. It says nothing to whether things get better or worse.

Not to mention, you have no choice whether you find it thrilling or not. So trying to convince someone else that it is thrilling is also implicitly figuring people have some sort of free will or discretion.

And you're assuming that you're right and that people need to get on board because "being aware of the nature of reality is a good thing". Well, the nature of reality is that whether free will exists is pointless.

You don't even address your cherry-picking of my other comment.
Show HN: Fast bayesian optimization library in pure Go inspired by Optuna
tl;dr: I tested an A2 'Application Performance' class card and found that it was half as fast as it should be, based on the SD Association specs (minimum 4000 IOPS 4K random read, 2000 IOPS write).

Then some people dug deeper and found in the specs that 'Command Queue and Cache functions' needed to be supported in device firmware and/or on the kernel level for A2 specs to be reached—though I haven't yet found a way for any consumer to get their hands on devices or software with this support... so no way to achieve claimed A2 performance.

So then I bought an A1 card from the same manufacturer (SanDisk), and it is actually much faster than the A2 card (though for price/performance you're still better off buying the not-Application-Performance-class-rated Samsung Evo+ card).

And in the end, being able to use an SSD or mSATA drive would be even better (the former of which is semi-possible today with the Pi 4 and USB 3.0—though you can't fully boot without a microSD card yet).
Haha, “changing electronic music” is a BIT of a stretch here, NYT. These are definitely fun toys, but if anything these are just entry points into analog synthesis.

Eurorack modules, and the massive DIY community around them are changing music. Ableton live is changing music. Behringer making super cheap, high quality synth modules is changing music.

Teenage engineering does make some really cool stuff though. Now get on making more OP-1s please!!
For some of us skinny guys it's really hard to even get basic beginner gains. I tried it on and off for years. My form was good, too, and I stuck with it for long periods.

Finally, I learned to get on a good program and TRACK MY MACROS. That's making a huge difference.

It's not always discipline. Sometimes it's finding the right program. It took me literally 20 years to figure that out, because I was laboring under the bad advice that "you should just eat healthy and you'll get there" that my dad kept telling me.

For the naturally skinny, you need a constant caloric surplus (or even just a regular amount of calories to recomp -- I couldn't even recomp effectively because I'd starve myself) or you're mostly wasting your time.
> Don't engage terrorists.

Right. Deplatform them, ban them, and prosecute them instead.
21C hotels own all of their hotels. That's the only one that I know of right now, but, I don't follow that much of the travel industry -- only the hotels that I stay in are the ones that I really look at.
In order to buy that home you signed a contract saying you would maintain your lawn. If you don't want to water there are other alternatives.
Wineskins, probably more so.
nytimes blocks Firefox Focus.
I managed releases for one of Norway’s largest hospitals, and when all in the ‘reliability list’ is checked and you have frequent releases the real headache is ‘cross system rollback’ between several systems/companies. Add that this is done with the whole hospital in emergency procedure..
I believe the amount of water used for lawns is an order of magnitude smaller than the water used for fracking. The water for fracking is definitely lost, while the water we use even for bathing is recycled infinitely.
Cyber Warfare Is the New Warfare
Ask HN: HN-like site for climate change discussion?
Many on HN are interested in climate change, but at some point the amount of climate-related submissions might grow so large that it'll be filtered more strongly.

There are some communities on the web that I've run across that talk about climate change, but I haven't found any yet that have the same kind of thought/industry leader participation, deep technical knowledge, and ability for participants to debate constructively.
Machine translation using RNNs actually uses two of them, one serving as an encoder and the other as a decoder (the Seq2Seq architecture)
There is the possibility of conflating between members who are hateful trolls vs members who are honestly critical, and there is the possibility of any given movement being legitimately defined by hatefulness, by sheer membership and public expression alone. It's hard to draw a line between those two things, but I think, personally, based on tons of experience in the places Gamergaters were most prevalent, that Gamergate lay on the hateful side of that imaginary line, and in fact was not even particularly close to the line.
> A mouse is not necessary to understand computers nor to interact with them.

Almost every operating system on the market comes with a WIMP interface that requires some sort of pointer device. So yes they are kinda necessary now.

> don't want schools to prepare the next generation of Web users that can create an account with Google, but barely anything more; that way the democratic oversight of technological changes and powerful companies fails, because the citizens aren't informed and competent.

You are building a strawman here. We were talking about concepts. Concepts can be taught on any modern operating system. What logging into Google has to do with any of this isn't clear.

> Humans are strongly bound to habits. I have seen that personally, and in reports about institutions doing the change. Some people were strongly opposed to change away from Windows because the alternative doesn't look and feel the same, so they don't like it. And that even if the alternative offers the same capabilities.

Sorry this is another mis-representation conflating habits with people not liking people changing something that works for them.

People generally don't like you changing things because change normally brings a new set of problems they don't want to deal with when what they already have works perfectly well. That is what they are really telling you when they say "It doesn't feel the same".

This has nothing to do with teaching computing concepts in schools. The reality is that only a small percentage of those children taught these core concepts will choose to pursue them in higher education.

> Building a habit around Windows is part of Microsoft strategy to bind people to its platform. That is why academics and schools get discounts. Public infrastructure like schools must not fall for this fixation.

Another way of saying this is "Apple and Microsoft make products that work well and people will prefer them if they aren't forced to use something else first".

Again this isn't anything to do with teaching computing concepts which can be done on any modern computer (or even ones from the past).
I was always told that when growing up but I never understood how drinking soda would actually cause a net loss of fluids. A quick search shows that my suspicions were correct. Even though drinking soda doesn't hydrate you as much as drinking water, it does not dehydrate you.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=does+soda+dehydrate+you&ia=web
Indeed it seems that half the things I see are sponsored posts when just a year or two, they were few and far between. Also, the quality of the content has decreased dramatically.
Cognizant Jobs of the Future Index
Realtime Machine Learning: Online Learning
I can't read this due to paywall. Is it the pocket operator by teenage engineering?
Yeah, I'd love to have something like BTF or CTF used widely for machine-readable type information. (https://facebookmicrosites.github.io/bpf/blog/2018/11/14/btf... gives some further information there.)

The limitations regarding macros sound like the biggest issue to me (both code-like macros and just simple defined names for values via #define). I'd love to see solutions for that. What do you think that would look like?
Back in the late 80s and 90s, there was the magazine Computer Shopper that was easily 90%+ advertising. It was incredibly popular.
One of my all-time favorite non-fiction books, perhaps even more topical today than it was when it came out in 1986. It's a shame that the author died in 2000 at the young age of 51; the book deserves a sequel or two.
This issue still seems to be much more ambiguous than good law should be.

Here is an article from just over a year ago, in which an actual lawyer specialising in IT and privacy is quoted, explaining how something remarkably similar to the situation we're discussing today wasn't going to happen and it was all fear and misinterpretation:

https://thenextweb.com/eu/2018/05/03/no-gdpr-wont-let-you-re...
Engineers: Do you read company blogs? Which ones are good?
This[0] is not a music generator, but a very handy tool for music makers. It extracts vocals and/or produces a karaoke version of a song. It claims it is using AI and I suppose it does so because the results are astonishingly good. It's not just the removal of the "center" channel which most vocal removers are doing. It literally pulls the vocal track out of the mix like magic.

[0]: https://phonicmind.com/
An asteroid just buzzed past Earth, and we barely noticed in time
Well the first one is drinking straight water 8 ounces of water 8 times a day and the second statement is you need to drink that many ounces of fluid regardless of source. That includes the foods you eat and any liquids you drink. I think even the diuretics are included in that second figure.
Well, 4XX are for client errors, so if the client fails authing to the API, it would be appropriate there. If the API fails authenticating to an API further down the chain, that shouldn't be returned as a 4XX status code, because it could be confused with the immediate API's auth.

HTTP status codes can be used to good effect if done thoughtfully, because there's often already a lot of logic in the useragent to handle some cases (such as redirects, etc). Not using anything except for 200 is limiting. Using a bunch of status codes to refer to things that make no sense is confusing. Defining a sane standard for how your application will choose between them that allows for the benefits they offer without confusing clients as to what is actually being communicated is the best of both though.