skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Industry wants you to open apps and click buttons and links, and not worry about such things as bothering with what the URL may be, or gasp, even typing in or editing your own URL. That's too complicated and dangerous for 'normal' users apparently according to them.
Its quite remarkable that some people value the fact that estiamtes have been beaten or not.
Thank you. There is a well-known sociological theory that things that matter cannot be gotten directly because you think they matter; rather because you want them, aside from their importance, then you can get them. Say you want to date a hot girl. You cannot say: "I want to be your boyfriend, because you are hot."

You acquire something important because you like it, you want it for intrinsic reasons.

You will go far in any field if you like it and want to excel in it. The ugliest man with the right amount of passion and intrinsic liking, and enough preparation can melt a beautiful girl's heart.

Taken to a logical extreme, someone very good at nothing, is notable, because he is "very good" first. In other words, the most boring person can also be interesting because of being "most boring".

The future of CS work increasingly looks like truly passionate programmers building things (like at YC). Companies have a shortage because of this, in the main, since the pay and conditions for real programmers is not good enough, and a real programmer can earn (by building stuff) even without doing a 9to5.
I very much doubt they want some bloody amateur wading in. They have their processes, and I’m sure they’ll make their own discoveries in their own time.
Maybe all the poor people aren't too stupid to figure this out but have various complicating factors that often tag along with poverty like bad credit or losing their home due to poverty or job loss which is often described as a "poor rental history". It also assumes that one can find housing so cheap in areas where other people in your household can also find work.

Lets be charitable and assume that poor people aren't struggling because they are too stupid to find cheaper places to live.
I'm from Europe so i would choose an European city - Wroclaw.

Polish city - so living is way way cheaper compered to the western Europe, while the city itself is neat and offers high standard of living.
Why was my previous response downvoted? What part of it was illegitimate? I tried to summarize some of the different types of arguments that I've heard online, on this particular topic. All of this is true, these are examples from actual conversations that I've had online:

"There are some other types of argument, similar to yours, that I've run into online. Some people insist that humans were genetically engineered by aliens. That argument is based on no evidence, though it does have the nice property that is not raced based. Some other people make a religious and/or spiritual argument, arguing that there is a universal consciousness and that it spread across the world 50,000 years ago. That has all the problems of any religious argument -- it could be true, but there is no evidence and no way to prove it."

There is nothing ad hominem about trying to clarify what sort of argument someone is making. So I am curious why that previous comment was downvoted?
Are you sure this is the case for everyone? On my two android devices, tapping on the address bar still opens the keyboard for direct editing of the URL. I've never seen the behavior you're describing on Chrome for Android, although I concede it may be geofenced or something of the like.
The X is superb. Upgrade! So long as it’s not a big financial stretch, you won’t regret it.
I'm north side of brissy too. Hello from Wamuran Basin :)
> What's the general lesson taught by such redactions by the browser vendor?

That it drives traffic to their search engine and increases their revenue. A lot of people always use a search engine to navigate to sites anyway, even if it's a site they've been to many times before and even if the URI is as simple as https://somecompany.com.

Personally, I always want to see the full URI.
Open City (wartime declaration)
Privacy enhanced BitTorrent client with P2P content discovery
Design UI well enough? I guess it depends on what you are used to.

For me, Google will always be the company that high-jacked scrolling to use for zoom. That still trips me up every time I have to use Google Maps or any other mapping service that copied them on a laptop with a trackpad.

They could keep that default (misguided as I personally think it is) if they just provided an option to let scroll be scroll but they don't.

I'd much rather pay a premium for Apple's UI. I think they do a better job and it's worth paying for.
> Wow, this shows how out of touch I am with social media and technology.

Doesn't it have to be done in real time for selfie cameras to work? I'm also behind the 8-ball and somehow only recently learned of smartphones shipping with reality distortion fields on by default: https://www.insider.com/samsung-phones-default-beauty-mode-c....

I wonder if we'll hit the point of photo/video evidence being unadmissible evidence?
South Seattle woman arrested, charged in data breach of Capital One
>Saying you’re going to build an intelligent talking computer in 1982 or 2019 is much like saying you’re going to fly to the moon or build a web browser in 1492.

Alex and Siri do a pretty good job of talking, and are almost up to the task of hearing. They are command and search interfaces only - the "intelligence" in them is very limited (hardly there) but it is clear that there is a jump between 1982 and 2019. These devices do exist and to deny their reality does cast a lot of doubt on the other perspectives presented.
That's exactly what the left wants, but they are facing bipartisan opposition from both Republicans and the majorty of centrist Democracts, both of whom receive large donations from the massive insurance industry that stands to lose everything.
Imagine there was a button you could push that would give every single person everything you're mentioning - a free house, free healthcare, and all the things you're not mentioning - free education, free sustenance, free childcare, free longterm paid pa/maternal leave, guaranteed high paying jobs, etc. Who wouldn't push this button? I think every single individual, right/left/libertarian/liberal/conservative or whatever other identity would. The reason people are critical of ideas such as you are mentioning is not because they don't want them, but because they do not think they are economically viable.

To get a ballpark for economic factors, let's try to figure out what the total value of absolutely all goods and services transacted, at market value, per year in the US and then divide that by the national population. I think if you asked the average person what they thought this figure would be, most would put it in the hundreds of thousands. Some might even put it in the millions. Fortunately it's really easy to figure out exactly what the answer is. It's precisely what the GDP/capita captures. It's about $62,000. And we're already chopping 27% of that in taxes to fund our current [generally underfunded] programs, so you can drop it down to $45k.

That is, as hard as it is to believe, the entire economic product of the country. Our unimaginable achievements - both social and personal can make it hard to realize how little we actually have. So you need to fund all the grand ideas you have in proportion to this keeping in mind that it doesn't mean you have $45k per person to spend. That is the entire economic product of the country.

This is why it's much easier to have a grand vision than to actually think about implementing it. Taxing the rich is hardly a solution because it again misses out on just how little we really have. If you go and just take 100% of Bezos' wealth from him, all $150 billion, that works out to about $470 per person - for one year. And he is exponentially richer than most rich. By the time you get to stripping the 20th richest person of all his wealth, you're down to $10s of dollars. Not too long after that, you're down to pennies per person. And that is, again, just money for a single year. These grand ideas need neverending annual funding.

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This is why even in places like Norway, which has extensive national wealth due to a mixture of a small population and large sums of nationalized oil money, it's not just free everything for everybody. Solving all of these issues requires much more than just a desire to solve them. The reason I mention this is because I think this shared desire is something that often gets lost in today's increasingly polarized world. We all want the same things; it's just we disagree on how to get there.
The study this article is based on uses the same Gallup client database and the same questionnaire.

(Table A6: The Gallup Q12 Instrument)
What new product can they offer? What new ideas do they have? Is there any sign of the originality that was on display 10 years ago?
You forget complex things that you don't use regularly. Math, spoken languages, written languages, coding...of course you can re-learn it, and re-learning is faster than learning it for the first time.

Based on speaking to my managers in the past, it seems like a year-long lapse is enough for you to lose an incredible amount of retained knowledge/skill. But it's not a permanent loss.
Replica Swords
Movies Set in Scotland and in the Highlands
Wow!!! Lorawans future is bright
Nice to see wavelets in here - but it's a shame that he seems to be encouraging people to actually use Haar wavelets.
They're fine for teaching - but there are usually better choices in real life. Daubechies are a good default
I'd say all of Europe, and America benefited from trade with developing countries, especially in terms of Energy. But then the definition of exploitation gets a lot trickier than it already is.

I believe exploitation is simply a not so useful label. Trade agreements, even those that appear lopsided, are in my opinion not morally wrong. The moral issues arise from accompanying violence, corruption and theft.

The developing countries who arguably have been "exploited" could not have developed even to their current state on their own. At least not within centuries.

The oil-rich countries in the middle east couldn't have used their oil for anything until they got the technology to get it out of the earth and somebody paid them for exporting it.

Same goes for many exports of African countries.

Sure thing, the "first world" has done a lot of wrong to the "third world". But the latter isn't going to get anywhere without help from the former, either.
Indeed, I think the HN submission title is erroneous.

The actual paper’s title:

> Algebra, Topology, Differential Calculus, and Optimization Theory For Computer Science and Machine Learning
https://openvpn.net/faq/what-is-tcp-meltdown/
SOCKS is not TCP over TCP. Application data (not TCP packets) is directly transferred over one TCP connection.
How about someone who is pissed off by looks in a public place or by ignoring their claims. Maybe they should not leave their visually protected home and issue commands there instead?

Seriously, if one expects some privacy, they don’t live in a glass house and then complain if you see ‘em, no matter what ToS on the entrance claims.
Publice service jobs (includes police) are very competitive in Japan because they have good pay, benefits, and working conditions. Ergo, there is no shortage of police because it is a desirable job.
In basic calculus one can burn countless hours memorizing mechanical rules to derive and integrate different function forms, or one can just plug the function into something like wolfram-alpha and get, for a lot of useful cases, a symbolic answer, or at least some approximate answer for a point or interval.

The point is, understanding integrals and derivatives doesn't require one to memorize all the mechanical rules. Using software to compute those functions can be a huge time saver. No one should go with pen an paper double checking if that polynomial integral is correct or not!

With a book almost 2000 pages long, I wonder if this books leans more heavily on the mechanical-rules side of math. In my mind, is the difference between writing a book such that you can write your own wolfram alpha, or writing a book so you can just use it.
Safari has been hiding protocol and path for years. I don't care for it, but I also don't think its a conspiracy to destroy the web as we know it.
Wondering how far they can take this. How long before we read that "Google will replace URLs with the Google search terms you can use to find the page you're viewing"
This is what it shows for me on latest Chrome when clicking the address bar while on Wikipedia: https://i.k8r.eu/WIPPrQ.png

You have to press edit for it to put the address back into the input field
Translation: 33% of dairy robbers get away with it
If people stopped most meat eating, it would have a big impact. I laud if someone makes the personal choice. It is hard for me to understand why some people take such a negative attitude towards that.

I expect people to do less flying in the future as well.
So your claim is that simplifying URLs, which on its face seems like an attempt to make them easier to understand, is secretly intended to make them hard to understand?

Forgive me for being skeptical.
I seriously gave thought to doing this exact thing. The problems I was uncomfortable with:

1. when you are working with multiple cars+models it is much harder to scale, every car is its own challenge, as such the operation is likely to remain small

2. customers might expect the rest of the car to also improve which would be problematic when you have to source parts or fix 10 to 15 year old car models

3. every new model you work with is a bit of an experiment, you don't really know whether your configuration is going to cause problems until it does; what worked with another model might not work with this one, in the worst case scenario, people get hurt and you're to blame; if you read any of the 100s of EV conversion blogs, they never get it right the first time round, there's always something that needs rethinking

As a side note, you don't have to buy anything from Tesla to do this. You can furnish yourself a whole package relatively easily from various suppliers. People were doing it before Tesla was even a thing.
As someone who left the 3d Industry a while back and rejoined it again, I have to totally agree. At the time, I was on 3ds Max, running on Windows. Things changed and I switched to OSX and never looked back. And then, Blender 2.80 happened. And wow, now I'm hooked. For the sake of a fair comparison and to see if 3ds Max really was the simple software it once used to be, I installed Windows again and played it for some time. Max has gotten advanced now (obviously), but also increasingly complex. The familiarity of 3ds Max 2009 edition was gone.

And so, I started investing time into Blender. I started out with something as simple as modeling a speaker box. It was such a joy. Still, it's not perfect. The camera movement is really terrible in comparison with 3ds Max. You can't create a camera from your current viewport view so easily like on Max and to manoeuvre the camera is such a pain in the ass. Still, it makes up for that in modeling. I'm enjoying 3d now again and even building a new rig to support my renders.

Well done Blender team. Thanks for the 2.80.
Japan still has traffic police (like NZ used to)
Oh my god, I just read news about some "centrist" Democrats arguing against universal single-payer healthcare on the grounds that some segment of the working population already gets a nice healthcare package as a benefit, and somehow it would be unfair to those people if everyone was eligible to reasonable medical care. I mean, with Democrats like that, why do you even need Republicans?
"Curfew enforcement" - is that actually a thing? What is this? Martial law?
This kind of debugging is one reason I loved Sumologic's Join query feature.
Because the feeling doesn't match the crime solving statistics, at all.
> Don’t expect traditional manufacturers to enter the retrofitting market though

I don't know, you might see it happen down the track. Currently the large manufacturers like Chevrolet, Ford, etc offer 'crate engine' products for retrofitting into older/other vehicles. No reason you may not see them offer an electric crate package in the same way you can get a LSA crate package.

Granted, it's not like a 'plug and play' proposition - some DIY is required - but still, I don't think it's too big of a stretch to imagine it.

https://www.chevrolet.com/performance/crate-engines/lsa
Not so much when you already remap the Caps lock key to Ctrl though.
Human Height – Our World in Data
> Relay based, more reliable and needing less replacement than vacuum tubes I assume,

Kinda sorta. Relays are mechanical devices that wear every time they're toggled. Every time you toggle a 1 to a 0 or vice versa, you risk destroying a relay.

Vacuum tubes don't have moving parts, so the wear is significantly reduced. However, when they're on, they're very hot, so their wear is related to power cycling. Every time you power the machine or power the machine off, you risk destroying a tube. Colossus was kept in a powered on state 24/7, even when not in use, despite using an ungodly amount of power. It was a measurable proportion of all of the electricity used on all of Britain during WWII.

So if you never run any programs on a relay computer and keep it in a low humidity basement, it will last indefinitely. But if you use it to do stuff, you'll be diagnosing and replacing failed relays routinely. If the computer has a clockrate of 10Hz and uses reed relays (the long life kind) with a lifetime of 10 million cycles, you can expect any individual relay to last 2,000,000 seconds of continuous use. Which is about 23 days. Multiply that by 1,000 relays and you've just figured out why it takes a full time employee just to keep the machine running. Imagine a RAID array using drives with a MTBF of 23 days. Eww.
Have you done a survey of different state laws to determine what is usual or did you just give the state apparatus the benefit of the doubt and assume it was sane?

I give you TN

>But after doing that for a few months, Tammy heard from officials at the state Cosmetology Board, informing her that she could not continue washing hair because she lacks a governmental license to do so. Under Board of Cosmetology regulations, an individual “must complete not less than 300 hours of instruction on the theory and practice of shampooing” at an approved school.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/georgeleef/2016/05/13/you-need-...

Here in Washington state hair design requires 1,400 hours plus 1750 hours apprenticeship. This is the equivalent of working full time for a year and a half.

Looking at a list of every US state

https://nacams.org/cosmetology-states/

How many of them require an 8 hour course?
Research on EV SSL Security from Georgia Tech: EV Domains 99.99% Free of Crime
In addition to all the ethical and privacy concerns brought up here, another thing that always crosses my mind is do we even trust these entities to properly store this information? What happens if all data that is being collected from these backdoors is compromised? Think about every private conversation you’ve ever had potentially leaking to the entire world.
Don't let it grate on you, just use Firefox. The only way you're going to influence their development direction from the outside is to choose a non-Chrome based alternative.
I'm sorry for your experience, but individual anecdotes are still not data.
Here is what the author of DSVPN says in the readme about that: «TCP-over-TCP is not as bad as some documents describe. It works surprisingly well in practice, especially with modern congestion control algorithms (BBR). For traditional algorithms that rely on packet loss, DSVPN couples the inner and outer congestion controllers by lowering TCP_NOTSENT_LOWAT and dropping packets when congestion is detected at the outer layer.»
But OP claimed that the two aren't even correlated.

Correlation just means that when goes up, the other tends go up (or down, as the case may be). It doesn't make any claim on whether there's a direct influence or not. Hence the common refrain: correlation is not causation.
> "Open source" has been understood to mean "freely redistributable and modifiable" source for a couple of decades now

I don't know if this is true universally, or only in certain communities.
Looking broader, there are markets for products to moderate use of other products.

Nicotine patches - cigarettes
Fake meat - meat
Gastric bypass - food
Fearful Parents Buying Bulletproof Backpacks
No. You don't get to make that call. A stop sign (or in this case a school bus that obliges you to stop) means stop, so you stop.

Perhaps a school started early because of a special event? Perhaps a driver in training was making his rounds with an empty bus? You can't know. Don't try to water down reasonable traffic laws because you think you know better.

It's not entrapment, because no decent driver would be tempted to ignore a school bus with its blinkers on.
The Mail and Sun will have a damn good try.
This is great news. To reach climate goals almost all cars need to be electric in under twenty years. That seems quite unrealistic if you want to do it only by replacing them with new cars.
> Notably Sony stands alone in being the only major manufacturer _without_ touch.

Sony has touch screens on their cameras. It's of limited usefulness though, mainly limited to focus points.
That kind of highlights an issue for me though. If Apple were really on the ball with macOS they would have a better remap utility built in.

Instead we have Karabiner Elements which has been of mixed stability in my experience.

Many times I've had it completely disable the internal keyboard on my late 2013 MBP to the point where I have to plug in a USB keyboard to recover or if on the road do a force power reset.
That is kinda obvious.
Every company today is somehow digital native. The web component is implied, not a feature.
I got into the whole idea of electric conversion a few months ago and came to the conclusion that it's really just not worth the time and money, unless you have a classic car that you really want to make electric just for fun.

There's some great videos out there explaining the process and EVWest sells kits for older VWs and Porches (the ones with the simplest motors and drive trains). https://evwest.com/catalog/

I'd love to swap the engine out of my 2007 Mini Cooper soft-top for an electric motor and zip around town silently with it, but unless I was willing to both spend the equivalent of a new car and do all the work myself, it'll never happen.

There really aren't any electric convertibles out there though, so it's tempting.
Absolutely. What I meant is, shit happens all the time and you have to be prepared for that. Medication cost didn't cause me an issue, because I save my money quite aggressively.

Being poor (by global standards) in a developed country heavily depends on person's lifestyle and decisions.
Leave it to the HN community to view a lice outbreak as an acceptable price to pay for the freedom of the market.
Russia has an interesting solution. With much equiptment design an advanced model and a simplified monkey model.

The monkey model is used for 1) export (to avoid sharing tech) and 2) so they have a verison they can manufacture quickly and cheaply in war. This under the theory wars tend to be won very quickly, or via attrition. So if both sides fail to blitz each other, Russia is well placed to churn out machinery fast for the attrition component.

For the same reason they stack their army with officers (or used to) giving them the ability to bring in civilians and split officers into multiple groups if they want to ramp up man-power fast.