skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This reminds me of a lighthearted paper my former CS professor wrote back in 1978, where he looks for equivalents of “it was Greek to me” and uses them to created a directed graph between languages to determine which is the hardest:

https://people.cs.umass.edu/~rsnbrg/hardest.pdf

Spoiler alert: it’s Chinese.
> The data has to be sourced from somewhere, which would be the airlines.

Such nonsense.

Pretty much all airlines don't own/run the source of truth for their flights and haven't for decades. They outsource that to GDS[1] such as Sabre and Amadeus.
Their backends are not fragile.

You just have to pay for every query thus the caching.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_distribution_system
Nice, thanks. Sadly he passed away not too long ago.
An image search for "umberto eco library" gives some impressive pictures.
Oh, odd that there is no mention of it on the Wikipedia page, nor a translation.
Yeah, and that’s why most of the message passing interfaces struggle with race conditions.
The Internet's Final Frontier
No absolute figure given, so it feels at least fishy.

I doubt that the current record of 10kw per kilogram is beatable by any significant extend.

This is limited much by limits of material science, and not electromagnetics. Those 10kw/kg motors fully utilise close to like 80% of the flux, so much bigger advancements from geometry change are unlikely.
"Command and Control" had an excellent discussion of the wide variety of ways that icbm fuel and oxidizer will kill you. (It's a truly great piece of journalistic writing, with excellent systems thinking. highly recommend if you haven't read it.)
> They also just recently spent $200M to hire the two people behind the catastrophic final season of Game Of Thrones.

That's a pretty ridiculous way of putting it, given that those same two people are also responsible for creating one of the most successful shows in TV history.

What will determine the success of this decision is the quality of what they produce. The number of people who will cancel their subscription simply due to D&D's involvement seems like a completely insignificant risk.
The Lonely Runner Simulator
Whenever you want to watch or continue a show, the link and continue watching is hidden far down the page.

When you want to discover a new show, Netflix shows you mostly shows you already watched and voted on.

During all this, you are constantly at danger of misclicks or misscrolls, whixh start some loud trailer or an unwanted show.

Essentially, netflix ui designers are extremely incompetent. Either that, or they truly do want to enrage their customers.
What if we had just 4 digits on each limb or even 6 perhaps.

How does those numbers look in base 8 or 12.
socialism is already present in most countries, including the US. and people are still unhappy.

i personally think there will no difference. automation has been happening for at least two centuries, and so far it’s been a major success on all fronts.

i think this fear of automation just shows how conservative people really are.
microfs looks interesting to me, but unfortunately crashes with a SEGFAULT on Ubuntu 19.04:

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00007ffff7de88b8 in __GI__IO_fread (buf=buf@entry=0x7fffffffd4f0, size=size@entry=1, count=count@entry=1024, fp=0x0) at iofread.c:35
Which mentions "High Dutch" and "Double Dutch" being used in Britain. The latter being what I experienced.
Cycling NYC: Astoria, Queens to Citi Field, Corona, Queens
I am genuinely curious, why aren't there transmissions for electric engines? Surely the advantage would be the same as for an IC engine. I remember hearing that Tesla tried to build a 2 speed transmission for their Roadster back in the day, but apparently it kept breaking, so they stuck with no transmission.

Are there transmissions out there for EVs, and I just haven't been paying attention? And if no, why is it so hard? Is it because of the torque?
From what I understand it is simply not useful to expect Bootcampers to have such knowledge. These courses are made to spit people out to the easiest part of the market: start ups and other (small) businesses willing to pay little and receive a lot.

Learning PHP, Python or Java for back-end development is ineffective for Bootcamp courses and bootcampers. They require you to understand programming instead of programming languages, for a quick and functional delivery.

IMHO: It is the role of such companies hiring these people to actually teach them how the "real world" looks like and shape them accordingly.
Cellphone Calls with a Satellite Dish
Truth is that we know that Apple, Microsoft, CISCO and pretty much all the US corporations cooperate with the US
intelligence services. Of course Huawei competes with Apple(among others) and CIA/NSA compete with their chinese counter-parts. Now, some of us are not very into communism so we rather prefer the US surveillance to the chinese one but make no mistake that the US corporations can't make their own choices when it comes to National Security. They have to obey the law and really they don't mind a powerful US government, why would they?
like most people nowadays you’re confusing socialism with communism.

socialism is already everywhere. communism on the other hand failed on all fronts.
If she wouldn't have taken care of the 940 severely malnourished children, more than 105 of them would have died.
Doc: No wonder this circuit failed. It says "Made in Japan".

Marty McFly: What do you mean, Doc? All the best stuff is made in Japan
Multicore Hogwild Implementation
Bleeding edge has never been the point of Debian, it's one of the most stable and well tested distros out there. Things are upgraded only when necessary for the most part.
Arrow of time explained via thermodynamics is a circular explanation. Thermodynamics follows from equation of motions or field equations. In those the time is different from space in that from conditions across 3 space coordinates at particular moment in time one can deduce conditions across the whole time (except black hole and other singularities). But from boundary conditions across two space coordinates and across the whole time one cannot fill the conditions along remaining space coordinate. But those equations just reflects experimental observations. So arrow of time exists because we observe arrow of time...
Given how Dutch and Frisian and German relate to english, puzzling that double Dutch means incomprehensible,since for any sailor on the north sea coast and many Scots Dutch was a trading and neighbouring economy. Pantiles on roofs in Scotland came over as ballast trading sea coal to the Netherlands.
Hospital with many fully trained staff accepted patients who were terminally ill. Thousands died.
Another vote for Kiwi. Using circles for to search in multiple departure locations is currently unmatched.
5 furlongs in a kilometer, 8 furlongs in a mile.

Easy peasy.
DEF CON and Stack Overflow: What Our Traffic Says About Cybersecurity
On colleagues taking advantage of you
I have no conclusion on this topic but I think it's a species wide existential question.

There was a time when you barely had enough time or energy to ensure survival. Doing less was an obvious optimization. But now I think we're pushing the system on the opposite limits. Doing nothing is also detrimental.
That's fair enough. Whatever the advantages of Imperial in some narrow contexts, I'm not sure very many would argue for them absent legacy.

On the other hand, it's pretty much an academic debate because a switch isn't happening for mainstream use. The desire and political will just aren't there. The little push that once existed is essentially gone whatever some tech types might want.
Refactoring for Beginners in Java
> large Asian companies is that there is much less in-fighting between parts of the organization

Not true. My observations are opposite, however, I am not disapproving what you said, but I don't think there is a conclusion to make.

However, if you prove yourself as a capable strongman that doesn't take objections, then in Asian companies, under the certain circumstances/directives, I believe you can have much more dictating power over your subordinates, which can go to great extent to have them sacrifice all other aspects of their life except work.

For example, Tencent carries out a stunt to have its staff run a 24 hour 2 shifts schedule to deliver PUBG on the mobile devices, to beat its competitors on speed, which I don't think is possible in Western countries.

source: https://xw.qq.com/cmsid/20171212A0E8UP
Probably the influx of foreign tourists, pricing out the domestic tourists?

Checking Eurostat for nights spent at tourist accomodation

2007:
213 mn domestic
163 mn foreign

2018:
212 mn domestic
217 mn foreign

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/bookmark/cbe7ecda-...

edit: Eurostat is great! Hotel occupancy is also up, indicating that prices should also have gone up. This is even in an environment with the rise of AirBnBs

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/bookmark/9f9a92e0-...
I also found this: https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/double-dutch.html

Which seems to suggest that "Double Dutch" (and "High Dutch") actually refer to the German language.
OBVIOUSLY this vigilante justice was not planned over the entire time span of McElroy's rein of terror, or it would have happened long before. So there is no intrinsic aspect of flash-mob vigilantism we should be concerned about.

OBVIOUSLY no one here is in a position to exonerate any of the specific crimes McElroy committed.

Sounds like a nice place to live, but if you were to be drawn there because of this they probably wouldn't want you living there. That is the attitude of people who feel resentful that 'doing what needs to be done' has drawn more national attention than the collected crimes of McElroy ever did.
IMHO I think your best next step is to make your resume current and look for another job. There is nothing like seeing an employee being desired by another company to motivate your current employer to treat you better. In todays economy that should be easy to do. Be sure you have well defined what would make you stay or go. Make it quantifiable numbers, like in a spreadsheet.
Not that it’s what’s going on here, but as an aside: it’s possible to get over 100% efficiency, so long as you can take from the environment to achieve it. Reverse-cycle air conditioners routinely get 300–400% efficiency when heating, because they’re moving heat that already exists, rather than generating new heat.

As a layman, how it sounds to me is that your 90–95% figure is the optimal efficiency, but electric cars don’t spend most of their time driving their motors at the speeds that yield this optimal efficiency; this motor, then, has a wider range of speeds at which it can be optimal. They’re also taking reduced weight into account. Hence talking about all this in terms of range rather than electrical efficiency.
Hi! My name is Egor, I currently work as Chief Knowledge Officer for a US-based it product company. For the last 3 years I have been responsible and accountable for all documentation (both external and internal) for my company, and for designing, building and supporting internal tooling, integrations and business process automation.
I feel that the time has come to move on, so I would be happy to join as junior dev if you would have me.
My tech stack: nodejs, c#, AWS (lambdas, cloud formation, EC2, S3, APIs,etc)
Win/Linux
Here's my email address: esohanev@icloud.com
Hope to hear from you soon.
If by "socialism" you mean government owning all the robots, deciding what to build, and how much everyone should get, then the majority of people will not get good life. (we'd be lucky if people don't forget how to build robots in generation or two!).

If you mean that when majority of work is free, people simply by existing will produce enough value for other people to deserve UBI large enough to live(1), then yes, but it is not a system that is called socialism today.

(1) the value for other people will be produced simply by increasing the likelihood of new science and art being created, so like investors are happy to waste lots of money to get one really successful startup, people as a whole would be happy to waste lots of money on UBI to many people, to get some really talented scientists.
It's on YouTube.
I was never aware of the origin, but I know the use. And I was born and raised quite far from the Dutch border, so it’s not local spillover.

I’d put that down to the notoriety requirements of the German Wikipedia which are somewhat peculiar.

Edit: It’s mentioned on this Wikipedia page https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Hase and TIL: The expression was coined in the city I was born in.
I live in a smaller city where I’d say the number of escape rooms is about equivalent to the number of bowling alleys (less than 5 of each come to mind).

How’s the best way to measure if the market is saturated?
Oh yes, then you need to figure out if 7/16 is bigger or smaller than 3/4. No, thanks.

You can easily divide by 2 and 4 in metric, because guess what, you just add a decimal point to your measure and 10cm/4 is 2.5cm and not some crazy fraction or weird unit and the math is not harder if you're dealing with 10m as opposed to 10cm.

10cm/3 is 3.3cm or whatever the precision of your tools is. It's the same "problem" (it isn't) with dividing 1ft in 5 for example. You go by the tolerance of your tools
She got children killed by performing random medical procedures on them. She literally had to Google symptoms because she had no clue what she was doing.
I don't think it's hard. My high school chemistry teacher did this, reusing the same copper every year. (I dont remember the details though)
I don’t know if you read the article, but she was performing medical procedures with absolutely no training.

The care part may have been ok to good. But stuff like performing a blood transfusion on a 9 month old and then not being sure whether the baby was having a reaction because “google says there should be a rash if there is a reaction, but I see no rash” isn’t just insane, it may be torture.
This list gives me shivers...is the USA a scary, uncivilized country?
Nope the person confusing communism and socialism is the person I am replying to hence my usage of word socialism.
The gov influences companies through economic and legal incentives (subsidies, large gov contracts, etc..). This is especially true in important industries (energy, health care, tech).

Does having a large % of ex-gov/mil/intel board members increase the likelihood of a company landing these contracts? I wouldn't be surprised, if true (for many reasons).
Mission to Minerva B
I was thinking the same thing. The RAT they used is well known in underground skiddie forums; it's known for being expensive and shitty.
3- If a place has more than one room some people come back and try the other rooms too. But if you did escape from a room, you already solved the puzzle and it's not fun to do it again.

Most people I know did it with some other people from work. Also myself, somebody at work asked and we went with around 10 people to a place with two rooms.
checking it now
Juggling: Theory and Practice [pdf]
Ask HN: UK-based Dev stuck in a bit of a rut
Hi hn, just after some general advice/a bit of a sanity check on my next career move.

I've been a web dev based in the East Midlands of England for the past ~8 years.

I've been in my current role for 3 years and find myself really not looking forward to going into work each day any more. I've worked on a multitude of projects as a senior dev with PHP/node and react.

What I really fancy trying is contracting, remote work or some kind of working holiday visa-type situation abroad. Is the market buoyant for contracts in London/Cambridge? What kinds of places could I move easily temporarily to try? I know H1-b/the US would likely be a pain for me. What about Canada?

I'm trying to keep things interesting with side projects outside work, but with none likely to become full-time gigs any time soon, I feel like I need a change.
c’mon guys, this is the old trolley dilemma:

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.iflscience.com/editors-bl...
Twisting the Triad: Evolution of the Dolphin Smalltalk MVP App Framework (2000) [pdf]
"Major power failure affects homes and transport"

Is a HILARIOUS headline! In a region with many electric trains it's double-funny! In the future they'll be able to make homes levitate on electrical power (just because they can, and for views and breezes, neighborly one-upmanship etc)and power outages will have even more spectacular effects!

And it will be funnier still!
I take it that without the phone data they can't prove that the "suspected gunman" was the person who committed the crime? Perhaps the next suspected gunman will destroy his phone before the crime, or maybe not own one in the first place, so perhaps destroying or not owning phones needs to be made illegal.
Open source advice for new programmers breaking into the industry
.5*(1+sqrt(5))/1.609344 - 1 = 0.00539970867005111... actually, but that doesn't seem interesting either. What do you mean?
Study finds workers would rather be replaced by a robot than another person
Shanghaiing
I use a similar method of easy-to-remember numbers in conversion between celsius to Fahrenheit:

0 = 32
10 = 50
20 = 68
30 = 86

Then roughly, subtract/add two F for every extra C. It’s easy to remember 32 and 50, while 68 and 86 are reversed.
Still, don't do it. It's against the unwritten rules. You don't get to game the system.

Solo is interesting to the HN audience. But not more interesting than everything else. If you truly believe you deserve special treatment, mail hn@ycombinator.com. They can boost visibility in other ways, although I doubt they would do so here.

And Show HNs do not disappear quite as quickly.
I like arguing for arcane standards, and there are aspects of the imperial system I like.

Specifically, I tend to advocate for a base 12 system based arround the inch. Base 12 because the very structured multiplication table, which also makes for easy dividing. The inch because I find my lengtg estimation accuracy to be better captured by inches.
Yes, Unicode specifically does not standardize the look of a glyph.
Show HN: Building Community via Geolocation
Our project is running through Startupschool and has evolved quite a lot. Its a cross between Yelp and Nextdoor - helps users connect with neighbors and nearby events/businesses.

Suggestions welcome especially user acquisition.

Here it is https://its-near.com
Afaic the upcoming Porsche Taycan has a two speed transmission. In the Taycan it's used for more efficiency at >160 kph or so something an American car really doesn't need and it costs them a slower 0-100 kph. Tesla uses another trick to get better acceleration to 100 kph. They have two motors and one is geared for high efficiency at US highway cruising speeds (so ca 120 kph).

In general electric motors have a very wide band of excellent efficiency and an even wider band of great efficiency and they are orders of magnitude more efficient than ICE in any part of their operational torgue/speed range.
Guys you seem to have some issues with women, but rather than chastise you for it, I’m gonna give you the 3 steps towards getting a date. Ready for this?

1). Get good at talking to people, getting to know them. Making jokes and small talk. This requires practice but you can practice on anyone, talking to men and women is kind of the same skill.

2). Expand your social network. Join a book club. A lot of times the people you go on dates with will be friends of friends. This takes time and effort.

3). Take care of yourself. Get some exercise and take care of your skin. Get a flattering haircut.

All of these things are doable by anyone, especially if you’re young, they just take some time and effort, and a lot of time we nerdy men are too busy with projects and work to do them, that’s why we end up lonely. Not because women are all irrational or something. That’s just an excuse.
Knightscope robots also assault children apparently without repercussions.
https://abc7news.com/news/parents-upset-after-stanford-mall-...

I wonder whether a cardboard box is a good first line of defense against these?
Isn’t Tencent also infamous for running teams against each other by having them build competing products?
The "robot economy" has certainly failed so far. People are working more than ever and it's a travesty.
Send audio recordings to podcast producers and interact
I'm all for honoring the dead and paying respects when a coffin goes by, but the American obsession with soldiers as heroes is truly disturbing.

What's wrong with titling the article "...the return of a fallen veteran"?
Who Was Sir Maurice Vincent Wilkes?
Note: This is a reaction to the headline, which has an obvious statistical problem and therefore smells dishonest. It's not a reaction to the story, which has value in it's own right.
Also true, but I didn't say otherwise.
Now that MOSIS won't work with universities outside the US, this might be an interesting way to have very simple student designs fabricated.
Same on KDE: ALT+SPACE
https://i.postimg.cc/43ZSzJ2m/Schermata-2019-08-10-12-49-10....
Safest way to buy from a stranger on classified websites
Energy Storage Investments Boom as Battery Costs Halve in the Next Decade
Have you read the article. This facility was supposed to provide the lowest level of care (nutritional) but instead chose to perform medical procedures designated for the highest level of care facilities. This without docters, a permit or otherwise subscribing to local law, norms or customs. The end result was a death rate only comparable to that of a highest level of care facility and a high one even for that. That's criminal and she faces charges. The US has an extradition treaty with Uganda.
Just curious, if heat is such a limiting factor, why does electric vehicles typically not make use of a regular air intake in the front grill?

I imagined that cooling wasn't that much of an issue since they don't seem to prioritize it a lot.

(I get that there are other factors, but regardless they feel they have the luxury to do without it)
I think that the smartest chimp probably isn't in captivity.
Honor Vision, the world's first smart screen equipped with HarmonyOS
It's unwise to extrapolate the US defense industry's procurement problems onto the Russians and Chinese. There's reasonable evidence to suggest the Russian Kinzhal and Zircon hypersonic missiles are already Working As Designed, or fairly close to it.[1][2]

[1]https://www.scmp.com/news/world/russia-central-asia/article/...

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3M22_Zircon
> In the early 1870s, Kelly was reported to have shanghaied 100 men for three understaffed ships in a single evening. Renting the paddle steamer Goliath, he announced that he was hosting a free booze cruise to celebrate his "birthday", and to say "thank you" to his fellow crimps and runners who had helped him through the years. After leaving port, his bartenders served opium-laced whiskey to his guests, who were then offloaded to the waiting ships.

> His greatest concern – returning from a well-publicized event with a boat devoid of revelers – was alleviated by a stroke of luck, when he learned that the Yankee Blade had struck a rock and was sinking. After rescuing everyone on board, he simply resumed the celebration, and those on the waterfront were none the wiser upon his return.

from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kelly_(crimper)
> "The American cultural narrative is that these countries are basket cases." And so, says Gostin, Americans assume that whatever their qualifications, they're sure to be of help.

I didn't grow up with this narrative at home, but I sure did and do see it a lot.
So it seems he went farther :D
Wow! That makes Taxis largely useless, IMHO.

I think about 99.9% of my taxi use has been call-ahead, often a day before ("I need a cab to the airport at 9am tomorrow").