skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Airflow losses for a car will be dominated by the outside air. Surrounding the car with helium seems impractical, and hard on the occupants.
> the Harmonic Flux Resonator

That's hilarious, I'd swear I've heard that on Star Trek Next Generation an age ago!
It's mentioned half-way down the blogpost (https://hackernoon.com/what-does-it-mean-to-be-an-open-start...)

>There’s no official definition yet, and the Oxford dictionary weren’t available for comment, so let’s write one; A product or company which operates in the open and shares their statistics publicly.
Any Linux system is a timeshare machine.
Does AMP even make sense for a website like HN having user authentication?

I sheepishly haven't even seen an AMP page yet because I rarely surf on mobile. But it seems like you'd click into an HN AMP page from google results which of course is cached unauthenticated. And then you'd have to click into the website proper if you want to up/downvote or write a comment.
From the subheading of the site.

> All these startups and side projects are building out in the open. Check them out!

I think this definition is a little lose though. I went to try and see the Muzeek source code and the only thing I found was open source SDKs. I wouldn’t call that building in the open
I remember that in the past, it was common for hackers criticize the concept of "intellectual property" and all exaggerated laws created to enforce it much after the original creator death. These times are over. In the new current ideology, people which doesn't follow these "laws" (which are US internal laws, that not all countries follow in the same way because not all countries agreed with the same international deals) are thieves who "steal" things.
Different way of AB, multi arm bandit
You are impyling my bullshit detector needs "regligious art" class.
Without explaining in laymans terms, you implicitly position yourself being "smarter than me" and I should be understanding what you say or go learn about it.

I'm fine as it is, thank you.
It may also be that you realize that your shareholders know better how to invest the money than you do.

If, as a company, you feel that the thing you’ve been doing won’t be relevant in the future, you can either try to do new stuff, or give money back to shareholders so THEY can do new stuff.
Show HN: A browser-based multiplayer clone of the DOS game Liero using WebRTC
Interesting. How are you different from Robinhood?
The probability distribution is deterministic, but not the particular outcome.
Thinkpad p52s running Debian 10 and MATE. I've had a couple of issues with the Trackpad but besides that it runs pretty good. I primarily use Tmux + Vim/Neovim for coding and writing.
> Regardless, we're looking for glitches plenty, that is in my view, what modern physics is about. The study of glitches in our model and the adjusting of our model accordingly.

At the very least, knowing that violations of the model might not mean the model is wrong, but that there are glitches in the simulation would have a big impact on the search and interpretation of such glitches.

No longer could you say, "Well, our model is wrong." Now you would have to say, "Well, our model might be wrong, but also this could be a flaw in implementation." And the latter may be more exploitable than the former; at least for awhile.

> If we were in a simulation the "glitches" would probably be something small and subtle, at sub-atomic level, not something that teleports you or gives you superpowers.

There's no guarantee of that at all. A bigger problem is that if we find a glitch, the simulators might just shut down the simulation, patch the glitch, roll back time a bit, and then restart it and we'd be none-the-wiser.
It's almost like the political thoughs of a leader of most other countries aside from America, are complex and can't really be effectively summed up in a short article about the manufacturing of a ballpoint pen.

Also, by 'they' do you mean all of China or just Xi?
you might want to look at the kinesis advantage keyboard, moves the backspace and enter to your thumbs cluster, and greatly improves ergonomics for your pinkie fingers.
Yeah, if you have to constantly remind everyone why you shouldn't be fired, that doesn't sound like a very fun job to me.
I don't know if it is just nostalgia, but I have played them all and like the N64 version the best. It is fast-paced, not as cluttered as some of the new ones, and has a good balance between relying on driving skills and the usage of extras.
I don't remember the Atari TT030 as being easy to buy. I had been developing on STs since the initial developer offer but have never seen a TT.
If you look at countries sorted by population [0] - and my justification for that is that communities don't scale up linearly - the US, Germany, Turkey and the UK are clear outliers.

And Australia isn't necessarily a target; Australia is basically importing a new population every century - ignoring natural population growth. That sort of growth requires a bit of thinking to justify; it isn't going to be for everyone. And if it is even achievable off a high starting population (without overwhelming infrastructure, etc) is questionable.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_net_migra...
I haven't done the math either, but I've seen serious discussions of it.

It requires zero infrastructure investments to load a hundred Tesla batteries on a truck and drive it to place with a different climate situation.

Compare that to long distance HVDC lines, which for the US are desperately needed, have been discussed for decades, and show no signs of ever getting built.
It would not be proving the existence of gods, because it would lead to the question of why is there a reality wherein a being could create a simulation (which requires ordered laws of physics etc.).
Red isn’t a flavor and nice isn’t a texture though. Those $4.50 tomatoes are light red, mealy and flavorless. They’re the Red Delicious of the tomato world.

If you haven’t tried California dry farm tomatoes do yourself a favor, they’re worlds apart and worth every penny.
The initial parameters still could be stored in a small yaml file :)

You can fine tune those like artists do with fractal renderer programs. Maybe the Universe is an art project exhibited in some kind of museum.
This reminds me of a person who somehow managed an invitation to give a presentation at UC Berkeley on database compression in 1993, with similar levels of snake-oil. I remember one of the funnier moments, a theme of the presentation was how there were more and more large data sets out there, including the Library of Congress. In a burst of enthusiasm, the presenter gushed about how they even had a Stradivarius violin in their collection. I turned to my friend and said, "well, I can imagine how to do data compression on that, but the decompression is going to be hard."

The actual technology was just a variant of Lempel-Ziv, and the claims about lossless compression were just hiding the entropy by not counting a huge dictionary off to the side. Even so, there were claims that this result "extended information theory" and the patterns found could be the basis of learning.

The presenter had climbed in their regional market, and gotten a puff piece in a business magazine, but obviously the grad students at UC Berkeley weren't buying it. The presenter's startup didn't go anywhere, but they have had a successful career, and are now a VP at Gartner.

I guess the lesson is that there's a network that runs on technical expertise and ability to deliver results, and a parallel network that runs on bullshit and the ability to convince people. There's a lot of money and power in the second network, and it intersects with respected, established institutions. Grant seems to be playing that game masterfully, and the publicity from being publicly attacked at a "Black Hat" conference plays into his hands beautifully. Maybe Gartner will be hiring?
Poisons are typically bitter, so that point doesn't seem unreasonable. That being said, the poisons the plants produce themselves to fend off insects are also bitter, so maybe the Tongan farmer was doing something not mention to reduce insect depredations without externally applied insecticides.
I find it not ideal from Blackhat to remove this talk.

They paid to speak, so why not leave it at that. In many ways the guy hacked Blackhat with a few thousand dollars, which is kinda noteworthy.

This guy certainly gets all the attention he wanted by Blackhat removing the video.
Under US law¹, a monopoly is a firm that holds monopoly power, and monopoly power is "the power to control prices or exclude competition"². I don't think it's a stretch to say that Amazon has the power to control prices in that market.

¹ Under EU antitrust law, the word "monopoly" is not used

² See United States v. E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.
I built a brag doc several years ago while prepping for an interview. I used it to match the list of expected interview questions - it worked like a champ. Highly recommended.
Hmmm.... wouldn’t farmers have figured this one out pretty quickly? Spray their fields then plant a month after? Sure, some of them use around-Up resistant seeds, but not all.
There is a open source controller for the advantage that makes it fully programable and fixes some problems that the advantage 1 had with some ghost presses and stuck modifiers. I've modified two advantages to use it, it requires a bit of soldering and some willingness to compile your own firmware from qmk.

https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2013-03-21-kinesis_custo...

https://oshpark.com/shared_projects/BwWRYP5c

https://qmk.fm/

I've presonally never managed to get caps/mode leds back to working, but I also don't really care enough to dig in that deeply.
Hey, thanks for your question. We're an asset management platform that offers curated portfolios. Robinhood is great but we see too many people left behind with no clue about what to invest in and or what to buy. Systematic investing, regularly is key to building long term wealth and we're democratizing investment strategies so that everyone is not just able to invest but knows how to as well.
>It's like the party have been taken over by masochists who derive sexual pleasure from being mocked.

That could describe a lot of modern politics. Is almost spot on for Boris. Perhaps they are having a contest to see who can go lowest.
Shelflife has always been a big hurdle to cooking for me, and I’m a bachelor.
Plenty of "security professionals" buy snake oil by the tanker full
Principals for radical tax reform and a universal dividend
The memoir he refers to is finished. It's called Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing. Unlike the rest of his books, it's short. Having not read any of his other books, I found it fascinating and I highly recommend it.
Broke the needle.

I wonder who they're targeting with this. Given the nature of the product and the high production value bullshit video, I guess they must be after either rich individuals or incompetent upper management.
How about this?
If you don't need gauth compatibility I think this is as good as that.
> But the whole point of AMP is to make prefetching possible in a safe and privacy-preserving way.

Scripts forced on us by biggest Ad company are privacy-preserving? Was it sarcasm?
> if I wake up on the morning of my vacation, and my car is at < 100%, I'm not going to be happy.

That will never happen, unless you intentionally jump through several hoops to shoot yourself in the foot.

For example, there's a company called OhmConnect that does aggregated demand response. You can sign up for it, optionally connect your smart thermostat/plugs, and bank account. When there's going to be a high load period, OhmConnect notifies you asking if you want to participate in an upcoming "Ohm Hour". If you do, they will pay you $5-10 for your trouble. So, if you had a vacation the next day, of course you wouldn't opt-in to the demand response event.

Disclosure: I am on a nonprofit board with OhmConnect.
Ask HN: How do you separate art from the racist artist?
I've recently gotten into self-learning philosophy, economics, science, and mathematics and it's been eye-opening to read about how the most revered people felt about those like me (african american)
ie. Plato, Aristotle, Darwin, Marx

I understand it was a different time and I'm not naive enough to disregard all of their work due to some personal beliefs, but do any of you have any tips on disassociating the bad and keeping the good?
Organic only means that the grower can't use synthetic pesticides, so Organic Foods are not pesticide free. The Government has allowed various Organic Pesticides that growers can use. I still choose Organic for most of my food whether that makes a difference or not.

Getting back to the Original story, the Pesticides used in Organic Farming still kill insects.

Here is a link with more information.

http://npic.orst.edu/ingred/organic.html
Promotion, creating onramps
Correct, although the context on why that is relevant is missing?

The post was in response to:

>> there's not too much of Asia where Uber still exists
wow, Liero is my favorite!
People differ about which point Audiophilia descends into nonsense. Obviously the magic stones and $5000 digital cables are ridiculous.

I would probably argue for a more expansive definition. If you have to listen really, really hard to hear the enhancement piece of equipment gives then it's a waste of time and money.

But hell, I grew up listening to music recorded onto a C90 through a $40 walkman.
The One Year Anniversary of the Death of Terry Davis [video]
Central planning is a failure throughout history.

The problem isn't the capitalism that transitioned the US into a powerhouse that feeds the world or provides goods at discounted prices, or ensures that millennials in Minnesota can enjoy avocado dip while complaning about having to much.

This is a failure at the local level. Ever spent time in the grocery isle? Children believe their meat comes from meat packages. Not that it was a living creature at one point. As people have moved into cities, they've lost the connection to the land that provides for them, and life's interconnectedness.

Top this off with the crony capitalism that gives subsidies to farmers for tariffs, or subsides for a myriad of other reasons all of which are asinine(like ethanol or which crops yield most), and prevent groups like Monsanto from any real liability (both civil and criminal) by giving them government/EPA endorsements.. Such endorsements often take years before they recognize a mistake was made or that their data from 1977 is woefully inaccurate.

No this is a horror story of central planning gone horrifically wrong again, and no one can prosecute/sue these terrible companies out of existence because they have the EPA's blue checkmark and some politicians endorsement.

In the absence of the ability for individuals to hold companies liable for their mistakes, it is absolutely incumbent on individuals and parents to make sound choices. Depending on the government to be your saviour simply leads to more tragedy.
Towards Generating Stylized Image Captions via Adversarial Training
“This comes off as desperate”

I think this is exactly wrong. This kind of response is what people often fear when it comes to self-promotion. And it certainly may be what you fear (but I’m not you so I can’t say for sure), but I can assure you (and others out there) that it is not desperate to look after your interests and make sure the hard work you do - visible and invisible - gets recognized.

What I think you’re saying is addressed by the author in her post - that good work will automatically be recognized on its merits alone and that it’s desperate to go above and beyond that.

And in many companies this is the case (and has been since work began). But the author’s whole point is that it is actually ok - and not desperate - to make sure your work gets recognized outside the scope of the normal “big projects get visibility” way things often work out.
Apple Card Review: The Credit Card of the Future Is No Card at All
Even disregarding the Bezos ownership, wp is not a nonprofit. I dont see how they cant uphold free press without subscriptions, nor why they uphold it more than others.
When I last looked I to it, it turned out that blocking certain scripts from Google blocked page rendering and only showed the page in full when the browser eventually gave up trying to load the blocked resources.
Considering they manufactured "38 billion ballpoint pens a year" that isn't much no. They probably made all of the costs of buying it from suppliers back in sales margins.

This is more symbolic of their manufacturing and design prowess which historically has been limited to: everyone else does the design, we just build it.
I would say all the companies are different branches of the same Con artist.

Just working on different directions.

I clicked around and some of them even don't exist outside of strathspeycrown.
Several of them have just plain placeholder sites.
People and groups do not have "Discord servers" any more then people have "Facebook servers". They've just coopted the jargon from actual voice chat servers like mumble, teamspeak, etc which you do run on servers and control what happens.

Using a centralized service like Discord where you are the product, where the protocol is intentionally and legally enfoced as proprietary, is a real bad idea.
Bit offtopic. But I'm looking for extensios, that will allow me to set pernament filter on directories that are displayed in the explorer (sidebar). I quite often need to check some source file from node_modules and scrolling through all installed modules is painful. I wish I could filter those directories, like you can do in search (files to include/exclude).
Drug use by Marines, Taliban and Afghan police/army during the Helmand province campaign needs its own study and book.
Building a Modern Extension for Adobe After Effects
Guns don't need to make sense -- in a free country people don't need to justify their actions. Rather, the government needs to be able to justify its policies -- we need to be able to show that the trouble and expense we are putting people to makes a real difference.

So gun owners feel punished when their guns are taken away, and they feel this punishment is more severe than all the lives that are taken away because of mass shootings?

The underlying thinking here is a kind of collective punishment trading or social bargaining; but that's not generally how regulating dangerous stuff works. There are lots of things that kill comparable numbers of people to guns. Do I need to list them? Generally with things that most people use safely but some people use in a way that gets them or others killed, we don't try to ban them but instead we:

(a) Criminalise misuse adjacent to death based on data (not based on emotion or intuition about what seems "dangerous" to uninformed people). For example, criminalising drunk driving because although it doesn't always kill people, it certainly kills them all out of proportion to other driving.

(b) Introduce restrictions in venue that are conducive to safety.

(c) Try to educate the public and post warnings.

(d) Opportunistically encourage people to delegate responsibility to make things safer, even if we don't change their rights overall. For example, Uber seems to reduce drunk driving deaths; but that was not accomplished by either taking people's cars away or preventing them from drinking.

With regards to guns, there simply is no data to support the idea that assault rifles are more deadly than other weapons; or that other things which leftists oppose -- open carry, 30 round magazines -- lead to much change in the overall rate of gun deaths. Banning these kind of things makes about as much sense as banning liquor that's "too strong" because you tried it and "no sane person would like it".

Rifles are rarely a cause of murder, suicide or accidental death. Yes, they are used in mass shootings -- they aren't used in much else. Do you know how rare mass shootings actually are, and how small a cause of death mass shootings actually are? If we took the same approach to other small causes of death as you are proposing taking with regards to assault rifles, what are the policies we might have?

What definition of mass shootings are you actually using? How frequently are assault rifles used in them? There is a lot of variation in the way they are counted so it's hard to talk about the real impact of what you're proposing.
There are a LOT of modern games released with modding capabilities, just not most of triple A games, one I can actually think of is Skyrim which still has an active modding community. CSGO, Dota 2, StarCraft 2, Arma, is other examples.

When people say "golden age" how i understand it is that they feel like it was "better" experience playing the games then, and for me it means i enjoy playing games just as much now as i did when i was 15.

Sure, game preservation sucks, nothing I have given any thought. But that is not what I am talking about, I thought we were talking about the quality of games and how much people enjoy playing said games, not the state of the industry at large, privacy, DRM, and the future of gaming.
Revisiting the Photon-Drag Effect in Metal Films
Apparently there was a Series/1 in 2016 still running to support US nuclear weapons.

"According to this document, there is still a Series/1 that "Coordinates the operational functions of the United States' nuclear forces, such as intercontinental ballistic missiles, nuclear bombers, and tanker support aircraft." This system still uses 8-inch floppy disks, however the agency plans to update some of the technology by the end of the 2017 fiscal year."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Series/1
Well, the author is a). she, and b). she tells a personal anecdote because she's about to write an article about her own experience at Yale.

So obviously she needs to present her bio in order to express the position from which she's seeing Yale.
> “We are reducing the likelihood of future errors by removing you”

It's discriminatory. I doubt this would be legal.
Since we are correcting stuff, it is: Oops

I also was thrown off by the word module. I said to myself, unless he is talking about modulo I have no idea what that is.
I'm somewhat happy that's the case. And I've been an IE6 hater myself for keeping the web back. But let's face it, Firefox isn't in a position to save the web from Google ducking it sideways to their liking, so safari is pretty much the only thing with some significance, able to push back. AMP being broken there is good news to me. Hope they don't bother improving this so some users will just be driven away to other search engines.
> Nunberg can see how scrolling through AITA might be a “stupendous timewaster,” but he believes the sub has the potential to do some good in the world

I hardly believe so. Reddit is an echo chamber by itself and people's judgment there is way far from perfect. In this subreddit you can see a similar effect than the "fake news" one: present an emotional scenario in which you look like the victim, no matter what you do, and the majority will get on your side. That's why you need to hear all the parties involved in a conflict resolution, otherwise you can be easily manipulated.