skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems like a needlessly unreadable alternative to Array.from unless you're combining multiple iterables or values an iterables e.g.

const unique = [...a, ...b];

You might expect that concat would work, but it doesn't handle arbitrary iterables:

> [].concat([1][Symbol.iterator](), [2][Symbol.iterator]())
[Array Iterator, Array Iterator]
> [...[1][Symbol.iterator](), ...[2][Symbol.iterator]()]
[1, 2]
Chrome is getting more and more user hostile. At the moment you can't inspect a site's certificate without going into developer tools.

Terrible decisions, the developers should be ashamed.
To me the function table examples were eye opening. I wish I got this point of view earlier both when I was starting out with mathematics but also when I was starting out with programming.

When you focus on just one function application at a time you might miss the beauty and the patterns in the overall picture.

Forests & trees.
Lost City of Z
People like meritocracy because it simply appeals to the desire for fairness which luckily many people like very much. There is no further hypothesis needed to explain why some might like the idea. It doesn't have an inherit contradiction to a standpoint that the advancement of a society should be measured by how the weakest members are treated for example.

The hypothesis you linked can justify monarchies which meritocracy is intrinsically opposed to.

You can find inherent contradictions between freedom and equality for example, so a compromise is needed if you try to achieve both to a sufficient degree.

Social security has its dark sides in Europe and it isn't really clear what its future will look like with demographic problems. Is it better than the American model? I would enthusiastically say yes, but that is more due to corporate interest in medical fields in my opinion. Something the state might have difficulties to solve at this point.

But in many countries social security is in favor of older generations against younger ones. Still, it supplies aid where it is needed for now.
La la la la I can't... oh never mind.
There are hundreds of Ketamine clinics using it off-label already, the problem is that the insurance won't cover the off-label use and a course of about 10 infusions might cost around $5k at the current rates.
We have a micro:bit and I agree that it's lots of fun. The ability to see your code have an effect in the real world is especially compelling for 8-11 year olds. There are many more possibilities available if you use the Raspberry Pi, as well.
I have a hobby project in Electron but agree, the forced separation of "main" and "renderer" processes with multiple methods of influencing each other (ipcMain/ipcRenderer, remote, webContents.executeJavascript/send), and the further splitting of the renderer process into multiple similarly-named substructures (webFrame, webview, BrowserWindow, webContents) is a lot to get one's head around right off the bat and make stick, especially if you're the sort who wants to survey and disambiguate all the facilities of the platform beneath you before starting to code, rather than just trusting tutorials and tweaking code snippets towards some degree of satisfaction if and when they 'just work'.

On the Rich Hickey "simple vs easy" scale, Electron is very much leaning to the "easy" side.
Because there is no need to transmit power mechanically when you can stick wires to electric motors and drive directly to reduce complexity, improve efficency, and save weight.
From the letter:

> Within AWS, that same pattern has recurred many times. For example, we invented DynamoDB, a highly
scalable, low latency key-value database now used by thousands of AWS customers. And on the listening-
carefully-to-customers side, we heard loudly that companies felt constrained by their commercial database
options and had been unhappy with their database providers for decades – these offerings are expensive,
proprietary, have high-lock-in and punitive licensing terms. We spent several years building our own database
engine, Amazon Aurora, a fully-managed MySQL and PostgreSQL-compatible service with the same or better
durability and availability as the commercial engines, but at one-tenth of the cost. We were not surprised when
this worked.
Are you speaking about the gateway? If so you can have more info here:

https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/docs/gateways/
I’m not sure I’d do the math the same way. First, it seems to me that the median household income is a better number, as most people share expenses and many households have two incomes. That seems to me to better inform ability to get by. In Washington, that’s $70k.[1] Half that is $35k, or just shy of $3k/month. With ACA subsidies, a person in that situation won’t likely be paying $400/month in health insurance. The max for a family of four at $35k is actually $1300 per year, or a little over $100/month, and an individual at $35k is closer to $200.[2] $2800/month is not a great deal of money, but it’s not living in squalor. And, as you say, it depends on location. A high proportion of of those people will not be living in Seattle, but rather rural areas where the cost of living is cheaper. The median household income in Seattle is closer to $85k. Also note that federal after taxes income after accounting for transfers actually goes up for the second quintile.[3]

[1] https://www.deptofnumbers.com/income/washington/
[2] https://www.financialsamurai.com/subsidy-amounts-by-income-l...
[3] https://taxfoundation.org/average-federal-tax-rates-income-g...
In Turkey, a power play will leave ancient towns underwater
i hope the boffins who mandated weaker encryption take notice of this. The congress members who supported the bill for weaker encryption should be personally DOSed.
KaiOS. The entire article is selling KaiOS. Side feature is JioPhone.
Regulating infinite scrolling seems like a major overregulation. Even if it kinda makes sense in terms of FB, Twitter, and other social media newsfeeds, it's still a great (and beneficial) UX in many other cases.

Overusing social media could be solved via e.g. Screen Time or a similar time-limiting solution (perhaps w/o an option to "snooze" the daily limit if a parent set it on a child's device).
yes. in theory it is a bad idea.

in practice it works absolutely fine and infinite-percent better than a blocked udp-tunnel.
You can definitely have elective surgery through the public health system but there's a set number done per year whereas all other treatment are done as soon as possible.
A regular user certainly isn't going to say "I want my Slack app to be built with a lean framework that uses less resources". But they very well might say "It's really frustrating that my new computer is so sluggish all the time", without knowing why.
How would such a bill not be struck down on first amendment grounds?
Whatever the former prime minister, or the current prime minister say, it only becomes so once it is voted into being. When you have a majority of 3, and a controversial policy, prior to vote it's just aspiration. If Theresa was lying, Boris is likely to be lying. Neither brought good governance.

Unless there is an election and the Tory party are returned with increased majority, it is certain that the current prime minister will have as little success in the house as his predecessor. They have a majority of 3, soon to be 2, held up by the DUP. There are enough moderates left in the Tory party to lose the government a vote on every problematic exit scenario, and on a no-deal exit, just as was the case for Theresa.

> Meeting Israelis without filing the right paperwork is trivial compared to it

No, it was worthy of dismissal. She preempted that by resigning. She was not Foreign Secretary or Prime Minister. It was not her role to make policy on the hoof on a topic irrelevant to her office. She blew her chance to explain by continuing to leave out some of the meetings, resulting in a second summons to Downing St. She does not deserve to return to senior office.
During [2012] Greenland's ice sheet lost 450 million metric tons -- the equivalent of more than 14,000 tons of ice lost per second.

During a year like 2012 or 2019, water produced by Greenland's ice sheet adds more than one millimeter to global sea levels, according to Box. But countries in the tropics could see a rise of two millimeters or more, he said.

One millimetre? It’s hard to get panicky about that, unfortunately.
Fewer components is good, but too few (and certain switch wiring) and your led bulb can't be turned off due to the capacitance of the house wiring

https://youtu.be/1uEmX5XClPY
There are so many issues with udp2raw, including: poor support, weird configurations, poor code quality, strange DNS solution and loss spikes. Simply put, it's too unreliable at the moment.
Ask HN: Modern (open-source) VoIP/SIP client
There are many startups that provide cloud-phonesystems, some of them do also have webrtc-implementations right now.
Some do have a own voip/sip client, but alomst any of the clients do lack in usability, UI (sometimes very old), stability, maintenance and/or cross-platform support.

I am looking for a SIP-Client for Windows which does simple provide a "just-working" calling-feature in a modern and stable UI / UX.
It would be great, if the same tool is provided for iOS with call-kit integration.
Open-source would be an awesome bonus.

I am happy to pay for the software, but just can't find one. Do you know one?
"addictive" being the key word, I think - which implies machine intelligence picking the next show, not network executives.
>Horrible Romans were so violent. What have they ever done for us? Well, besides roads and the aqueduct, but other than that?

Exactly. The same people who claim about colonialism are the same ones who complain about intertribal warfare when we leave. We should be thanking colonialists for bringing Peace to the places they conquered, a peace which has washed away since decolonization.
Glorytun: A small, simple and secure VPN
The conviction rate is high because prosecutors have discretion over which cases to take to court, and there is no jury. The outcome of a bench trial is often predictable, and prosecutors will only take to trial cases they believe will succeed.

A large proportion of prosecutions in Japan rely on confessions, often obtained by duress. Even if only a small number of perpetrators (or innocent suspects) confess, taking only those cases to trail keeps the conviction rate high. The rate at which crimes are solved is somewhat lower -- less than 30% according to the article.
Good to hear the politicians are focusing on the big issues of our time.
Integral Area of Learning: Types of Welding
Never be able? C'mon, your app is basically one of the Qt samples dude.
My understanding could definitely be off here, but according to the official EU energy report (2018 report, 2016 numbers) [1] France is still consuming about 45% of fossil fuels, while whole Europe is around 70%. Further the energy network is connected throughout Europe and nuclear is great at providing base capacity, but not easy to scale up quickly and at least Germany is completely exiting nuclear fission. That's why we're using coal/gas/oil power plants for that.

So, when we are adding additional energy consumption to the network in the form of (many) EV, it will not charge with nuclear power, but more likely that we need to burn fossil fuel to keep the network up.

[1] https://publications.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publi...
Baidu’s Optimized Ernie Achieves State-of-the-Art Results in NLP Tasks
I don't like sites with autoplay. I only expect autoplay when the page I am about to visit is in a video site like YouTube. I hate it when I am reading a news article and a video autoplays.

Autoscrolling also can be irritating. If I click a TechCrunch article on HN, I don't want TC to load more articles at the end of the article I was reading without my consent. It is better to suggest related articles and give me an option to click on them if I am interested.
Streaming Data to ReactJS Using Websockets
A simple resistor or capacitor is not a current limiter unless the current it delivers when shorted would be below the maximum the LEDs can handle.

A resistor as a current limiter only works reasonably on low wattage LEDs (ie your cheap 0815 plastic LED) and with a stable power supply. 220V grid voltage isn't stable and the LEDs aren't low power anymore.

You need an active limiter that regulates the current that flows through the LEDs (or monitors the voltage across a shunt in series with all LEDs), otherwise you risk collective meltdown.
So what if it’s not a real option? What are you saying? What should I take from that?
Just like German car makers bought the EU, in exchange for protectionist measures and to get away with emissions that have destroyed a continent's climate? How come the EU is not looking more inwards, or into Chinese company practices, but instead it focuses on American tech giants? Politics perhaps?
Who imagines the law to be clear cut? There is a lack of precedent and therefore ambuiguity because the cases were never strong enough. They still are not strong enough. The ambiguity favors the incumbents, who have enough cash to finance any litigation they so choose. They do not want the law on scraping clarified through legal precedent lest they end up the losers.

The price of losing a weak case against a new search engine would be worse for an existing one than avoiding litigation and instead relying on other methods of blocking competition.

The OP who admits he is not a lawyer yet proceeds to advise others. Why? He cannot distinguish the difference between scraping and publishing scraped content or between something being "illegal", i.e. a criminal offense, versus something legal that someone perceives as violating their "rights" and prompts them to file a civil suit. As is typical in the US, such suits may ultimately be meritless and purely used to intimidate.

There are law firms that make money from convincing people to file civil suits against potential competitors. They might list a number of potential causes of action against someone who visits your website. You might be able to sue your users. It does not mean you will win. In losing, you may create legal precedent that in effect enables more of them to violate your "rights".

LinkedIn is taking a calculated risk. If they continue to sue web users who use automation (as does LinkedIn), not every defendant is going be intimidated. Some will defend themselves. I think one of them is going to win.

It is one thing to purport to limit how someone can use some data that you provide to them. That is not "scraping". That is something else. It is another thing to purport to limit how someone can choose to use their own computer, i.e., interactively versus non-interactively (automation).
I mean, sure, I agree on the motives. But there are the usual questions about tech regulation:

1. How hard will it be enforced? Turns out GDPR, for example, has been significantly harder to enforce than the EU expected.

2. How punitive is the punishment? Does this become just one more "cost of doing business" that further raises the barrier to entry to competition to the tech giants?
just don't pay the bill.

That's the solution. It won't ruin your life. It may mess up your credit for a few years, but how many people in the situation have both good credit and will actually use it in the next few years? Hell, having bad credit may protect them from "predatory lending" we also hear about constantly.

Remember kids, if some areshole sends you a bill for hundreds of thousands of dollars that has little legal recourse for you to actually pay it. Don't.

just... don't... pay... the... bill...
It amazes me how the problems with our drug and medical regulation system never come up even when it's staring us in the face. This article is typical, framing it as a problem with pharm companies rather than with the regulatory system. Between stuff like this, the opioid crisis, and cannabis deregulation, it should be obvious how broken and monopolistic the system is (referring to the FDA, DEA, and medical licensure system).
Sorry to hear about what you went or are currently going through. The medical insurance situation in US is beyond f’ed up. Most people who can afford it just don’t think about how terrible it really is. It takes some serious illness or accident to wake people up to the insane situation that is US healthcare. It sounds like you are well aware of that, unfortunately.

I grew up in a communist country and for all the shit communism gets, I was never denied medical care or could not afford it. In US I made above average income and yet the cost of healthcare was far from unnoticeable, especially with deductibles, excluded procedures and ridiculous billing free for all. I have some f’ed up stories, but for another day.

I now live in Japan. I still pay a fair bit for insurance, but I can feel very confident that in a case of a serious injury, illness or extended hospital stay, I will not go bankrupt. In fact, it’ll be like nothing changed - financially. I used to lose sleep over thinking about insurance issues in US, but now I never think about any of that. It’s such a huge relief to focus on other more important things in life. But, Murcia, they tell you it’s the best place, if you kindly forget about the healthcare issues. Don’t get me wrong, there are many wonderful things about the good ol US of A, but healthcare is not one of them.
The current border crisis is a reasonable facsimile, same in the Mediterranean.

6 degree warming however, we are thankfully a ways away.
Threaten one industry, see the lobbying money pour in.
What's the problem with that? How does rich and prosperous China threaten U.S. security? If anything, destitute and hopeless one does - they would have nothing to lose and would push through some radical agenda for the rulers to stay in power. If China becomes richer and more influential, there is nothing bad for the U.S. in that. World isn't zero-sum.

Soviet Union was dangerous because it pushed through Communist ideas which threatened to uproot everything the Western world stands upon, starting with family and religion. China isn't going to do any of that shit, they are a super-pragmatic nation and they don't believe into any "ideas" themselves for that matter.

If their way of government threatens Western democracy i'm more on the side of them rather than Western democracy: i strongly believe that market capitalism is incompatible with (universal) electoral democracy and for them to coexist, you have to turn one of them, or both, into fakes. It's time for West to get back republican model of government back to it's roots when only responsible, tax-paying immovable properly/production asset owners voted. If Chinese pressure will nudge them to do it sooner, good for them!
There's a huge difference between "poor as in can't afford a meal or go to a doctor" and "poor as in can't afford an apartment in the middle of New York".
This has always irritated me. If someone wants to go running or walking through a park at night, let them.
What stops the government from just saying I want to target every single specific person that uses your app?
I never said that wasn’t the case, I replied to one specific part of the comment.
Search "social media mental health study". Theres a flood of universities that have pretty good evidence of social media causing a lot of mental health issues. Namely towards teens and young adults who grew up with it.

Yes, it does seem silly, but the rise of anxiety and depression in society is linked to social media. Theres a good reason why people do the social media fasts and cleanses. A lot don't go back.
>What makes you think someone who can "work in tech or medicine" is somehow EU immigration eligible?

Most of the more restrictive EU countries (e.g.: UK, Ireland, etc.) have barriers to getting immigration stamps, which the most oft way of immigration is through employment and the most labour available to foreigners is either tech or medicine.

For example, in Sweden, a position must be listed as a highly qualified skill, the role must be listed for 20 days (I think it is) - so that EU citizens can be afforded an opportunity before the role is given to an immigrant, and then the employment contract must be agreed upon by the labour union before it can be approved.

You're not getting an employment contract, for example, to work in Burger King in Stockholm because it wouldn't pass the labour market needs test.

So, this is presumably why the OC thinks that medicine and tech make you immigration eligible.

Worthy of note is that tech or medicine are the best ways to get the EU Blue card (the equivalent of the US Greencard); so, the assumption isn't without its merits.
How is not doing something you don't want to do childish? Is it childish go to Barcelona instead of Paris on holiday?
Clearly I meant "toll" not "tool" above...
These base stations (we call them gateways) are owned and operated by individuals, communities or companies. The gateways demodulate transmissions and forward them to The Things Network's public community network.

There are currently over 8000 of these gateways worldwide (see also the map on https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/map).
Run-down low-rent apartments, shady brothels and the sketchy pimps that run them, and occasional street violence between different yakuza groups.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_wrath_of_khan/3799825607/i...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/special-report...
Would it be possible to send random bytes through the wire when it is otherwise 'idle' and/or randomize the packet rate?
Not at all. One is saying that it's possible to get out of poverty by making good choices. One is saying that it's impossible to be in poverty if you make good choices. Subtle but big difference.

I disagree with both statements regardless, but there is a difference.
That's not entirely true, because even if we don't know who, we can know about the how and why, and try to limit such crimes in the future.

In this specific case, knowing that the crime took place has already led to different and more varied emissions testing.
I don't think Amazon can roll over supermarkets as easily as the average mall store.

People visit mall stores sporadically enough that they might forget about the bad experience they had or hope it might be different or feel they don't have a choice.

Thus mall stores can damage their brand image for a quick buck; in fact they are often brain washed by their own advertising and have no idea how the customer sees them.

Grocery, on the other hand, has a customer that does back at least once a week, if the brand image is not upheld they can get similar goods elsewhere.

That awful whole foods at union square with the cattle chutes at the checkout might look good compared to the local bodega in NYC, but does not look good compared to a good suburban supermarket (Wegmans). It is one case where urban folk could be out of touch with the broader market.
How Do I Prove the Value of Self-Serve Augmented Data Discovery?
FWIW, I've not taken the number quoted by the website ("at least x bits", which appears to be the maximum of the per-characteristic numbers, which sort of assumes that the characteristics are fully dependent (such that knowing further characteristics does not tell you anything beyond that one maximally informative characteristic)), but the sum of the per-characteristic numbers (which sort of makes the opposite assumption that the characteristics are fully independent, and knowing all the other characteristics does not reduce the information added by any one characteristic).

So, the true number is somewhere in-between.
so somebody here thinks pornhub's recommendation system doesn't also encourage the viewing of more and more extreme content? if so, say so, don't be lazy.
Is there any translation for the video available?
I'm a Tamil speaker, from southern part of India. The word Thamugadi feels like a Tamil word. Tha + mugam + adi.

Tha(give me) + mugadi (mugam+adi)(faceprint/ witness/ bless).