skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live in one of those European cities where cars are just about banned from the city center. (They can access parts of the city center, but driving is limited to 30kmh and mostly one-way traffic. There's 3 dominos near me and they all use scooters. Bikes wouldn't cost them a lot of extra time.

The furtest one away from me is about 10-15 minutes by bike. And that's at a comfortable pace.

Deliveroo (delivery by bike) is already quite popular here.
You do (1). Give me an alphabetically-ordered list of search engines and let me choose for myself. If the user takes .0001% of the responsibility here and makes anything resembling an informed decision, everyone wins — Google avoids antitrust action, the user gets the search engine they want, and all competitors are represented.
Maybe just have something like the USB killer [1] to "sterilize" cables. Zap the cable with a high voltage/high energy pulse, beyond what normal on-die ESD protection could handle. A bunch of copper and plastic won't get damaged (unless you really get crazy and it arcs over and carbonizes or something), but it will probably burn out any covert semiconductors in the cable. It's hard to absorb high energy pulses in small packages.

[1] https://usbkill.com/
I recall listening to an NPR story about the increasing overnight temperatures, particularly due to concrete//cement//pavement. One man interviewed speculated that within his lifetime he'd experience overnight Phoenix temperatures of at least 100F. This aired around roughly 15 years ago, give or take.
An interesting concept could be for future devices to have a light wired into the hardware of your camera and microphone, so you know when either of them have power, period. Someone trying to remotely activate either device would have no way to hijack the hardware covertly.
I'm not sure what point you were trying to make here

>Because you people

One of the worst ways you can start a discussion if you actually want people to listen to you but ok. You people being those that trust and listen to scientists and data over politicians and pop culture figures with no scientific training or background? If anything, it is climate change deniers that treat it like a religion, blindly believing in something.

> Some things are true, some things aren't. Your 'climate change nightmare' of what might happen in 40 years is the daily reality for billions of people

Correct, and climate change is true and a daily reality for everyone living on earth.

>And just because someone doesn't buy into the same bs you do, does not make them a troll

He never said it did, he simply stated that there are a large number of trolls online that deny climate change exists which is also true
When it finally loaded, I found it horrific fun. My sentiments lined up very closely with the labels: FINE, COULD BE WORSE, and then IT'S WORSE and worse.

The variable latency mode was truly annoying.
Cost of production is a big factor. Economic theory generally holds that in a competitive environment over a decent period of time, prices will fall to just about the marginal cost of production. Think of the commodification of the PC in the late 90's/early 00's. Highly competitive environment drove prices to just a hair over costs. However, at least one company, Apple, held a very customer-friendly stance (not to mention good marketing) and was able to charge a decent amount above that as a result. (In some ways the good marketing was spreading the message of their customer-friendly stance)
> If I search "Non-standard evaluation in left-hand side of mutate command R", it's a bit weird that I'm expected to click the first StackExchange rather than getting a canonical answer excerpted.

Are you saying that there's no excerpt at all above the search results, when you expected one; or that there is an excerpt, but it's not from the most appropriate/relevant source?

It's annoying when there's a page that has all the information you might need, but to find it, you first have to scroll past a bunch of Stack Overflow posts that are more suitable for dilettantes who prioritise trying a quick fix over learning best practices. But when you do make the effort to find the most promising link and your browser allows the search engine to record your choice, you at least get a vote regarding how the ranking should be adjusted. When users just look at the results but don't interact with them any further, that feedback vanishes.

A win for Google isn't necessarily a win for Google users.
>These same people who distrust the average american and institutions, according to the chart, are more likely to trust politicians and business leaders. Literally the two fields that are known to produce lying, self serving assholes (I have a small business, I'm in that group).

Just the opposite. The graphs are kind of swapped in the direction that means "more trusting". The first one is proportion of people who agree with the statements (which are based on distrust) so right is less trusting. The second one is proportion of people who have a great or fair amount of confidence in that group, so right is more trusting.
Oh, the other argument for the JSF is that it could be exported to allies, whereas the F-22 is US-only.
Huh, nice to hear, I was waiting for this to happen but apparently missed it.
Why do people choose such names for their product? It's s city and its one of the most widely reported works in education (programme for international student assessment) with millions of news articles. How do you want to be findable with a name like this?
What you're saying is no one has perfect forsight.

That's a given.

You don't need the notion of "Tech Debt" to deal with that.

It is a complete given at any given time, during any given sprint, that all the features in the queue are ASSUMPTIONS.

That's just a tautology.

"Does my system need to handle 1M concurrent users?"

Maybe you answer Yes or maybe you answer No, but you have to answer something to make decisions about the work ahead of you.

The worst possible place is to be in the fuzzy middle saying fuzzy things like Tech Debt and rolling along fuzzily.

Many teams -- especially teams that love this term "Tech Debt" -- do exactly this.

But they are willfully navigating in the dark and "Tech Debt" is just a term that makes one feel psychologically okay with their ignorance.

But it's euphemism, that's all it is. It does not aid in rational navigation.
The food pyramid pushed in all the elementary/middle schools comes to mind

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_pyramid_(nutrition)#Contr...
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> pick a CDN to cache with.

Every link aggregator that indexes your AMP page will cache it, including Bing and Baidu. That's what makes safe prerendering possible.
User (spoken): Hey Google, what's the monthly payment on a 20-year mortgage of $500k with 3.9% APR?

Google Assistant (aloud): $3,004

Seems pretty straightforward, no need for a web page.

Actual current results: "Sorry, I don't know how to help with that yet"
I've less repositories, ~30 repositories. 5 or 6 of them I would consider significant projects at least from my point of view (aka a lone developer who is actually more of a sysadmin/devops in his day job, so not it's not really my main trade).
I've yet to reach a project with 100 stars (even if two of them are getting close \o/).

And indeed, I never got or even tried to make money out of it. I already fell kind of a moral obligation to answer to tickets, sometimes emails, and exceptionally phone calls (actually happened only once), if someone gave me money for a project I would feel even more morally obligated, so that's why I don't even try. Also, my projects don't exactly have a success in the thousands of starts and users, so it's kind of hopeless.

However, contrary to you, I'm far less active in the last few years (contrib per years, 2014: 491, 2015: 1228, 2016: 1095, 2017: 646, 2018: 225, 2019: 288).
Basically, I lost a good chunk of my motivation, not sure why however. Either I grew tired of it, or my current job (since 2016) drain me of my motivation, or seeing tickets accumulating in my half abandoned projects discourage me, half thinking, "let not create another ticket generator" and "I should really fix this project before starting that new project... (and in the end doing none of those)".

It's not the lack of ideas, I have actually a few from small to quite big:

* web ui in JS to calculate production in Hearts of Iron IV (actually started that one, and also a good opportunity to learn frontend development)

* a dead simple and as transparent as possible artifact manager

* a small daemon to name your NIC because it's on a given network (think servers with several NICs and dedicated prod/admin/backup networks, it would far nicer to have them named eth-prod/eth-admin/eth-backup instead of eth0/eth1/eth2 (and sometimes eth1/enp0s3/eth0 because this special duck is wired differently).

* a C clipping library (I need one for a current project).

* a tsdb taking ideas from rrdtool, like fixe size DB, values computed at insert time, reducing resolution as time passes, round robin, with meta data like the unit attached to the metric, with a network endpoint, and some support for a multi-node setup, all that written in Rust (because I don't know the language yet).
Ask HN: A 3rd party service to validate Twitter/Facebook accounts are humans
This is a half baked idea so trying to facilitate feedback.

FB + Twitter have done a horrible job preventing bots from infiltrating their systems.

I'm thinking a 3rd party system could be used to validate accounts.

I think we could do it with a web of trust though it would take a long time for the trust to propagate.

The idea is generally that the user validates their account by tweeting to a profile that they've created on a 3rd party site. Let's call it botkiller.org.

The two accounts both link to each other.

A -> B and B -> A.

Only bidirectional accounts are considered.

At this point you've ONLY validated the account. Not the nationality.

You have to physically meet someone else on botkiller.org and each user would have to have an app from botkiller.org.

The app shows up on user A's phone and user B scans the QR code.

A looks at B's drivers license and verifies that it's legitimate.

If we know that A is a US citizen and they are asserting that B is a US citizen then can flow trust from A to B.

Now users can NOT use this system of course but validated users can have more influence as you know they're not a bot.

One issue is someone could just PAY A to falsify B.

A couple issues that could resolve this are for A to use a notary so that B would be guilty of perjury by issuing an affidavit where the user states their information is correct.

This would cost $$ of course.

Another idea is to have multiple users validate each other and possibly for the app to detect this in real time so that if you're NEAR a user the phone beeps and ask you to verify them.

I mean a system like this COULD work but the real governor is going to be whether people would actually use it and how do we market it so that they participate.
http://archive.is/I7axm
I have no trouble believing Google is going to fall.

Their results have gone into the toilet - I ragequit Google search about once a day and do something else like forum searches.
I find a related issue when astronomers talk about "other solar systems." There are many other star / planetary systems, but only one Sol. At best, they could say "other Solar-like planetary systems" since that is usually the context this phrase gets used in.

Having said that, this Wikipedia page lists the Electrical Motor as a type of engine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engine and nobody takes issue with the term "rocket engine."

I can't find a Wikipedia page describing other stars as a type of Sol, though.
>”The assertion was more than just spin or fake news.”

Wait, is there a difference, or is it just a matter of scope?

Surely we know China is a great propaganda power. This is the bread and butter of any serious socialistic regime on the left and right. It’s no surprise and no revelation. What is surprising to me is the nonchalant approach to fake news western media is prone to when it comes to both domestic as well as foreign issues. So, yes China is foing bad things, but come on NYT, you also do the lesser evil when it fits your agenda (or doesn’t fit the agenda of the day)
It's strange, but information like this makes me more sick to my stomach than if they were just crushing the protests with brute force.
Blockstack engineer here.

Regarding financials, I invite you to read our SEC offering circular for details on the source of the money: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1719379/000110465919...

> None of these apps need a blockchain. None of these apps gain any benefit from a blockchain.

The blockchain serves as a "shared source of truth" for everyone's name/public-key/storage-URL bindings. So as long as you trust that the blockchain doesn't get re-orged, you may assume that your Blockstack node will independently calculate the same such bindings as everyone else's node.
All other application activity (rightfully) happens off-chain, via commodity Web infrastructure.

EDIT: typo
I quite like "neurodiverse", if you intend to be that specific.
If you really want to shock everybody, and become a highly respected artist known for redefining the modern gallery in ten to thirty years, you should probably paint some nice landscapes or portraits.
I don't think China misreads the protests, however their state media depicts it. They see it clearly as a challenge to their authority. It is a push for greater independence for Hong Kong. Beijing simply isn't willing to yield.
It's important to note that this is strategically incredibly important for Google because this forms the backbone of their voice AI. The better at answering questions directly, the better their voice AI becomes and that leads to a lot of future products.
That's true, although I would expand communication to encompass code comments and other documentation, which can scale better.
In the age of post-truth news cycle, it’s so easy to read only the reports (or just the headlines) that you care about, and dismiss the other side. This type of article should be on the front page every day.

If it’s difficult to keep up with current affairs, imagine to form an opinion about something that happened 30 years ago. (Oh, the curse of year ‘*9.) If they are protesting for Lam’s resignation, it’s still not too late for Beijing to take a step down; if as they say they are demanding free election, no way it will happen under Xi and it’s anyone’s guess how it will all end. My opinion is that they badly need someone (all the ex chief executives and also nonpolitical figures) whom both sides trust, just like some Republican elders need to come out and stop/rein in Trump. Both are unlikely to happen.

If all this happened back in 2015/16 when the bookshop keepers were taken, it would have been a clearer if not stronger message, and depending on the outcome the discontent/distrust might not have risen so high as it is now.
I'm actually suing an airline in Europe for a cancellation caused by the Trent 1k engine.

I was in Poland and 23 hours before my flight, it was completely cancelled. I spent hours on the phone and finally was able to schedule another flight 3 days later. The problem is the airline knew these airplanes need to be grounded for maintenance much often but continued booking flights as usual. British airlines started losing similar lawsuits recently.

I would not be surprised if someone sued Boeing or RR.
I would argue that the Turing Test was never really the "gold standard." It has, and has always had, a lot of issues. First and foremost to me, is that "teaching" a computer to "pass the Turing Test" amounts to teaching it to lie very well.
Do you think that language exists right now? I can't think of a good alternative.
It does.

https://www.thelocal.dk/20190318/danish-house-prices-reach-h...
The loop that, if strong enough, would consume more plastic than a bag? For every single item? I mean, I loved your idea when I first read it, clever. But loops aren’t cost-free, unfortunately.
I also bounced after step 7, but namely because I kept getting sign-in errors with the email link.
>Isn't the most of the Midwest already in normal times quite hot in the summer

Yes

>Summers in the Midwest tend to be humid and hot. Temperatures in the 80s and 90s are common, and in many areas of the region, the temperature rises to triple digits at least a few times each summer.

>https://traveltips.usatoday.com/typical-climate-midwestern-u...
I had little caesar for the first time about 2 months ago. It's so cheap! If you're going to eat unhealthy take-out, might as well make it cheap take-out. I did prefer Dominos but I'm comparing them across 2 countries (continents, even), so it's not really a fair comparison.
There'll definitely be Windows and Linux versions, but focusing on the macOS version for the time being.
That's why I put in the beginning "if you're not willing to take the price hit on the chin" caveat. Some will be willing to do so, and for good reason if they have workloads that really need windows and specific features of AWS. My point is simply that some people will abandon Windows, and I could be wrong but even if they have some revenue gain in the near term, losing a bit of market share is bad in the long term.
Canada is the same. Nearly impossible to find a mortgage where the fixed term is longer than 5 years.
3.6 releases are "beta quality," which I agree is very usable but not "fully ready." as per grandparent.
yes I only really notice the single core performance on OpenVPN streams which, despite the CPUs' AES-NI and offloading to mobo's Intel-branded Ethernet chips, still cap out at ~80Mbps. it's fine for most internet needs and a few simultaneous video streams, but really bottlenecks torrenting and shifting large files around the web, on 1GBps FTTH. I toy with the idea of buying a generic fanless Chinese 4-port i7-8th Gen 15W 'U' variant to handle most networking duties, thus rendering the behemoth to be purely on-demand, WoL, semi-idle, etc. which would cut costs on electricity long term, but with such devices currently priced ~$300 and with Brexit threatening to bloat that, I am not in any rush. plus it gives me more time to research / discover / await / implement a multi-core VPN solution
Try not to take all advice... I think gp's suggestion was aimed at a target audience of "weird people", whereas your audience–as I understand it–is neurodiverse. They don't need "weird" or "crazy" things on the site to feel at home.

Besides that, something _original_ or eye catching might be worth it. But that's something that requires excellent execution.
Ah he's a classic! The bold moves, the rebellion! He's a symbol of LGBT "revolution". The acceptance of what was previously considered unacceptable.

There was only one, unique place in history for his genre and he took it.
A true American hero.
> They address a specific category of low-cost, high volume, non-serviceable products with limited functionality. You need to wait for the push of a button and then let an LED flash exactly five times? You need to control a battery-operated night light? The sub $0.10 MCU is your friend to reduce BOM and shorten development time.

If you're allergic to 555s, I guess?
I have diabetes, what do I smell like?
"So unless you use your reusable bags for years and years..."

That is literally the exact point of reusable bags. The hint is in the name.
So...what's the real advantage of using server-grade hardware for this use-case? Wouldn't a desktop/workstation with consumer parts work just as well, and give better performance for a similar price?
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All the other major search engines also use snippets and AMP precisely because users want it. Should all of them stop too? Can you clearly define the regulation you are proposing to impose on search engines?
Yes, Google and similar companies should be 100% responsible for anything published on their platforms. No more “safe harbour”. They have chosen to take positions in many issues, that makes them more like newspapers than phone companies.
I mean I have an answer which helps me understand but it is not a particularly “satisfying” answer… the answer basically boils down to this being a mathematical theorem.

So you have an election cycle. Each election is a function Polity → Polity, the people who performed the election look at the election issues and they vote and they look at the results and they are changed by that process. A cycle of these will chain a bunch of these together; the time delay between them is a sort of diffusion process in the middle of them. That diffusion is kind of the only way to escape the basic theorem. So there’s a broad set of theorems about these x → x functions called fixed point theorems; under very general conditions repeating one indefinitely causes it to converge to some value which is equal to its input, x = f(x).

So the mathematical theorem says that whatever your election process is, your nation will fall into a state where those elections do not change the polity much, except to eliminate any diffusion.

It seems then that the fixed point of the “divide the country into seats and run first-past-the-post elections on each seat” looks like this:

1. There are two spineless political parties. By spineless, I mean that they are not actually associated with real deep-held convictions; over long time-scales you will see seismic shifts, such as a “party of Lincoln, freed the slaves” becoming a “definitely favored by white supremacists” shift or so.

2. Each party maintains approximately 50% of the popular vote, and probably 50% of the control of the government. Note that this happens both with gerrymandering (the House) and without (the Senate).

3. Typical people do not belong to one party or the other. People think they are relatively independent and they disagree with “their” parties in many many ways. What makes that party “theirs” is not their identification with that cause, but their abject terror at the policies of the opposite party.

Presumably these three trends continue to polarize the nation until an inevitable civil war. One can also predict that, since the casus belli of the civil war was chosen by spineless political parties, after the situation is resolved one way or the other there will be some sort of movement from the losers to forget that casus belli and recast their motives into new lights as the political climate changes—so in a post-slavery America the US Civil War is understood as not being about “slavery” but about “states’ rights to self-determination,” which is not really about white-washing history (the Republicans after all won the US Civil War and would not mind reminding people of it if that were politically expedient) so much as re-stoking the same demonization of the Other that keeps the system going (“those Democrats are part of a dangerous Northerner lineage that dates back to the Civil War and wants to take away all of your rights in the name of improving your life, whereas we in the South prize individual liberties and would never do such barbaric things”).
But Hacker News comments are the best part. The top comment always disagrees with the headline/article. :)
While poor search recall is a bit ironic for the name of a search engine, I guess it's because Antonio has studied at the University of Pisa and later worked as researcher for the CNR institute for research, again in Pisa. (Me too, hi!).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM9f0W2KD5s

Lots of relevant conversation within.

There's a quote in there somewhere along the lines of: "we've built the computer from the starship enterprise, but we possess little other tech from Star Trek"
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