skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed, the prices on diapers at costco are fantastic, but even better the quality of the diaper is on par with [insert-brand-name] diapers.

This is not the case with most discount or offbrand diapers. We did try one of the diaper online services (not the big one) and found the quality to be off putting.

I've been avoiding costco my entire adult life, but I finally find the membership worth it.
Hey, thanks for your feedback!

That's a good question, I have to admit there are a lot of similar softwares available these days.

I noticed that I tend to always listen to the same music, and sadly I even forget the music I have.
That's why I tried to put as many links as I can in the interface to easily jump from a title/release/artist/albumartist/genre/whatevercustomtag to another one. In particular, it should handle (custom) tags with multiple values, and it can filter over some of them on all views.

I also tried to make a recommendation engine that makes use of a SOM (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-organizing_map). For that it fetches data from AcousticBrainz (https://acousticbrainz.org/) and makes clusters of songs that have similar audio characteristics. I have to say it's not perfect (it's quite good to cluster metal tracks though), but I would like to go deeper into this subject.

Apart from that, it is really lightweight and that was not really the case of the avalaible softwares when I started it.
In your opinion what value tumblr has without the adult content (and the communities around them)?
> the next generation (350 kW chargers)

It's not even "next generation" chargers; it's next generation EVs at this point. Nearly all new Electrify America rapid charging locations have at least one station that can do 350kW. We're just waiting for EVs like the Taycan* to be released (less than 1 month -- Sept 4th!) to be able to accept charge rates approaching that. EA is on-track to get 2,000 fast chargers at nearly 500 locations up and running by end-of-2019.

*The first generation Taycan will charge at 250kW. But the infrastructure is coming online now as EV manufacturers iterate on battery pack technology to accept faster charge rates.
They have a few at work, but people complain about nobody vacating them promptly. With no guarantee that I would reliably have one every day, I'm not sure I see the point, I would always have to be prepared to get home without it.
Union contractors and brothers-in-law are most of it. I lived in Houston for a while, which is a very large and bureaucratic city. They can't get infrastructure done right. In the area are a few small towns which incorporated before being sucked up by Houston, and are much more efficient. They are called the Villages, and banded together to run their own police, fire, public works, etc. Instead of dealing with stupid unions, they hire normal private contractors and get things done quickly. Get rid of your horrible union agreements, and be more like the Villages.
This might go down as the first time in US history that a company was seriously punished for a data breach - are there any other examples of a very serious enforcement agency like the SEC biting down on something like this?
You are dismissing the primary issue at hand, which underpins the entire conversation. Phishing is what EV addresses. And if you're not addressing phishing, you're not meaningfully addressing any sort of Internet security whatsoever.
Why Wind and Solar Aren’t Enough
> at the extreme, you could have a language that always guarantees 100% correctness of safety properties by rejecting all programs

To get at this from another angle: consider a buggy C program. It will always be possible to write a Rust program that behaves identically, even faithfully simulating the bugs. They're both 'just' Turing-complete languages, after all, and correctness depends on what program behaviour you want.
Then again, the phishing problem is that you can get m1cros0ft.com registered. If you can get that one and trick someone, you won. If you can get it and a cert for it (free or not) then you as a phisher win. If you can't get it, then you can't get an LE cert for it either and you lose. Therefore, the LE part is just icing on the cake, not the enabler for scams.
Great work!!
Interesting, thanks for explaining. Any recommendations for good books on the impact of double entry accounting?
Also important context on that viewership, they banned adult content in December ‘18 - which presumably explains the acceleration in drop since then.
This is similar to what I'd like to see. Sharing cookies is somewhat dangerous since they could have login/user data, but it would totally work to avoid browser fingerprinting. With all the fingerprinting methods (screen resolution, GPU, HW, font-list, etc.) it's a losing proposition to attempt to remove all traces of a unique fingerprint.

Instead I'd like to see a browser that generates such a noisy fingerprint that it is useless: Each time I start an 'anonymous' session, grab a fingerprint from a pool that is sufficiently similar to mine that things render properly (matching resolution for example) but that has also been used by thousands/millions of others.
And before anyone says that the big dig was a success because it made traffic suck less and the waterfront got rich...

Anything they did would have made traffic suck less. With the influx of rich people back into the cities in the late 90s the waterfront was gonna get rich no matter what they did.

With the benefit of hindsight it seems clear that the original 1950s/60s plans (themselves adaptation of 1940s plans) for expanding the highway and subway systems should have been followed (in no particular order so long as it all got done) and they should have tossed in a beltway line (so that literally everyone who needs to get across the city doesn't need to go downtown to do it) of some sort. They had a plan and they didn't follow it. They basically assembled 80% of the puzzle and then left it. That's why none of the major road/rail arteries in Boston link up in a sensible manner. IMO had Boston and the state not shot itself in the foot by repeatedly neutering its transit plans throughout the 20th century (killing I695, not pursuing the North/South station connector, making the silver line a bus line instead of a proper subway, the list goes on) it could have been as economically developed as the DMV area or the NYC/NJ area.

Don't get me wrong, it's nice that the highway is below ground but it has its costs. Literally an entire generation of people grew up not knowing what regular infrastructure maintenance and upgrades looked like because the state was pouring all that money into a bunch of holes under Boston. It was not worth the cost. Given the choice of two ugly highways in downtown Boston bundled with any one of the planned subway developments (maybe the North/South station connector) or what we have today the choice is obvious.
Their adult content ban in December 2018 probably also accelerated that decline: https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/14/18266013/tumblr-porn-ban-...
Drugs have a negative connotation though. It’s more like eating out while making a point about this shouldn’t be done. Then listing all the fancy places you’ve been to.
Also as an example of "always deserialize to known types". Flexible boolean values can be convenient since it's relatively human-readable, but "deserialize into [whatever the heck you think is appropriate]" is a problem for quite a few reasons beyond confusion: https://lgtm.com/blog/swagger_snakeyaml_CVE-2017-1000207_CVE... (same techniques have been used against other kinds of serialization in many languages for many years)
> their dofollow / nofollow ratio is a staggering 10:1,

Wouldn't this simply be a result of them having tons of (presumably trustworthy) references?

> They have 210 referring pages linking to their curcumin page with the exact anchor text "curcumin"

What would a better anchor text be? It seems to me to be very informative ("what is curcumin? maybe I'll find out by clicking a link that says 'curcumin'...").

I'm no SEO-er, but these would seem to me to be normal for a "reference-style" website. I wonder how Wikipedia would score according to these metrics...
With the way Youtube, Twitch, and other large platforms share revenue with the content creators, the idea that an ad showing in front of content "associates" their brand with that video doesn't even go far enough. Those brands DO endorse that content directly with their money.

There was an issue on YT where a video from ISIS containing a beheading was monetized. Advertisers were directly funding terrorism in that case (until YT interceded). The same happens all the time with other anti-humanitarian videos all the time.

I agree that there has been some over-reaction, but let's not pretend it's not a problem.
Jason Richwine (one of the authors) is...interesting [1]

> "No one knows whether Hispanics will ever reach IQ parity with whites, but the prediction that new Hispanic immigrants will have low-IQ children and grandchildren is difficult to argue against.

> "the totality of the evidence suggests a genetic component to group differences in IQ, but the extent of its impact is hard to determine.

Disappointing that the WSJ is hiring literal racists to write articles these days.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Richwine
That's an argument for regulation reform, but not necessarily reduction - whatever overstepping occurred, there was an initial need for regulation that still needs to be met.
As someone with a direct interest in this (I run https://certsimple.com, a startup that focuses on steamlining the EV verification process), this is predictable but still hilarious:

> Through our own research as well as a survey of prior academic work, the Chrome Security UX team has determined that the EV UI does not protect users as intended (see Further Reading in the Chromium document). Users do not appear to make secure choices (such as not entering password or credit card information) when the UI is altered or removed, as would be necessary for EV UI to provide meaningful protection.

Chrome has never tested a verification marker that resembles ANY of the common standards for verification used on Twitter, Whatsapp, Facebook, Apple's App Store or Google Play.

No research into better indicators has been done because Google do not wish to do research into better indicators. Decisions are:

- made by one individual who believes users should be able to detect bad sites because they "don't look right"

- supported by another person who thinks users can use DNS to decider whether sites are real. Ask a regular web user, or even an infosec expert to determine which out of "google.im", "google.co.uk" and "withgoogle.com" is actually controlled by Google.

- and further supported by somebody else who thinks a study of IE7's UI:

foo.com VeriSign [US]

is relevant research (see this article).

Yes UX designed in the mid-2000s, prior to modern
verification standards, is sub optimal.

I've suggested Google's UX people investigate better alternatives for years. They're not interested.

The CAs aren't that much better either (being slow to realise how much the market is changing around them) but Google are absolutely not interested in finding out what would be possible with a modern verification UI, or making sure users know who they're connected to.
Well sharing adult content was the only thing I used Tumblr for so the adult content ban was why I left.
I think the point is that they apparently have spent a bunch of time on SEO, and it's backfiring.
which doesn't make sense.

I randomly generated an 8 character alphabetical (all lower case) password "jraxxhwr". According to keepass it has 32 bits of entropy, but the entropy should be 26^8 = 37.6 bits because the search space is all 8 character letter permutations. There's no way you can reduce the search space from 37.6 bits to 32 bits unless you have an oracle that says which characters I used.
Hahahaha best thing I've read all day.
The binder is something like PLA, and it binds powdered metal. The metal particles are quite small.

The low percentage basically puts plenty of metal into contact with other metal. This tends to hang together fairly well.

There is a process shrink, and it can be something on the order of 20 percent.

The 3D printed "Green" part is actually substantial. It can be machined, polished, drilled, etc...

One trouble area is support materials. Putting filament containing metal onto a support filament, like HIPS, can work. HIPS on top of metal generally doesn't.

One can use the same base polymer for both over and under support, but that can be difficult to remove. Often the metal filament itself is used. This is messy, can be difficult, but does generally work for most geometries.

The metal part can "wick" other metals during sintering too. Making a bronze with a copper "green" part with the other metal present in the oven works better than one might think.

I have yet to find a great use, other than art pieces and or simple metal shapes that could be machined at lower cost and difficulty.
Tamar Haspel, Oyster farmer, James Beard award-winning Washington Post columnist and general nuisance feels - I think - treated unfairly by a colleague.

I needed to stop reading his piece after a few sentences. I didn't even make it to "I could go on. (And I do, ad nauseam, in the notes below.)"... which is way to far down for my taste. Yes, he went ad nauseam.

Also, "Medium member since August 2019". Yeah, no. Thanks.
Noam Chomsky - Artificial intelligence

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAP0xk-c4mk
It looks like you're missing the forest for the trees. I'm perfectly aware that Rust can't express monads.
Canada doesn't have a universal ID. Companies have to figure out a way to keep track of employees without using the Social number, for example.
At least here in Finland, the cameras take pictures of speeding motorcycles, but they are not used. No front license plate.
What fun. Non-medium link at http://www.codingwithricky.com/2019/08/03/1-quadtree-photo-s...
Exactly this. I'm surprised they can even operate on such a policy.
Is “unnededly” in the final sentence meant to be “needlessly”? I enjoyed the article, but it would be a more satisfying read without that typo.
At my company they do EV valet for the chargers. But it's a big company full of crazy perks.
cat > /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf <<'_EOF'
Section "Device"
Identifier "Intel Graphics"
Driver "intel"
Option "AccelMethod" "sna"
Option "TearFree" "true"
EndSection
_EOF

this is what I had to do when I was using xubuntu to fix that
I'm not an expert on the internals, but virtualenv interactions feel more seamless. When you run poetry, it activates the virtualenv before it runs whatever you wanted.

So `poetry add` (it's version of pip install) doesn't require you to have the virtualenv active. It will activate it, run the install, and update your dependency specifications in pyproject.toml. You can also do `poetry run` and it will activate the virtualenv before it runs whatever shell command comes after. Or you can do `poetry shell` to run a shell inside the virtualenv.

I like the seamless integration, personally.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6259391
I think the physicists mean something like mutual information, i.e. some underlying reality describes the global probability distribution better than the individual probabilities themselves. It is this underlying reality that is 'really real' and the quantum fluctuations illustrate it like a flickering TV screen shows a globally consistent picture.
Oh you think that's bad? My email address ends in that most exotic of domains, .net

I find websites that won't accept it because they think it's an invalid address all the time. I have no idea what logic they're using, would love to find out.
I don't see it. Vietnam was not invading the US. Rather, they were trying to eliminate a long, ugly history of French colonialism. Ho Chi Minh at first actually thought the US would favor his movement, given the US's own history with British colonialism.

A couple million people's deaths were caused by the US war in Vietnam and Cambodia. I don't see how I could argue in favor of that.

Had it won, it's not clear that the US would have somehow turned the Vietnamese economy into the South Korean economy. That would have been mostly up to the people of Vietnam. I mean, in another light, consider the fact that the US cannot even turn its own economy into the South Korean economy.
> It's due to the lack of sufficient domestic expertise in designing, managing, and building such large scale works.

> Because we don't build that scale of project frequently in the US, when we do it, we don't do it as efficiently. A recent example would be the use of the incorrect grade of steel in San Francisco's new Chinatown subway line.

No, it's because the government doesn't do it often, because the government is slow and inefficient. Private companies can do it fine; let them do it rather than sending the work to corrupt union shops owned by some one's brother-in-law.
That'll be because there's no such thing as a tourist-only country.
Right, I just mean that they're regulated like for-hire "black cars", which are regulated by the TLC, just not under the medallion system that yellow cabs are
I encourage everyone to have a look at the extinction rebellion movement - it focuses on acceptance first (this is a global crisis) and then calls for local organized action on an interconnected global scale.

Most importantly for me, there's a focus on working together, to move towards a sustainable environment. And not an empty focus on individual action. We need to come together to enable better infrastructure (eg: many parts of the US its very difficult to live without a car - and that's something that needs community and local government to come together and change. From free public transportation to better co location of work/school/shopoing/homes. Or: for increased local consumption we need incentives, and for more sustainable global logistics we need cooperation across borders).

https://rebellion.earth/act-now/local-groups/
Which is mostly unmonetisable by anyone other than advertising more porn. So it's not worth that much?
This is bizarre. What was wrong with:

"Hey guys, I'm professor so-and-so, I need to get inside to fix the computer which I use for my research."

"Oh, professor so-and-so, nice to see you. Sure, come inside and we'll unchain the door to your lab so you can get in."
What a hilarious title, coming from the NYT, I thought, with no particular bias myself, just a grossed out observer of all American politics and media.
Which is one of the reasons why these digital addictions can be such a big problem. Someone can't repeatedly open one pack of baseball cards after another endlessly. A limited number of packs exist, it requires time and energy to acquire them, and you will often have to interact with a human to get them. Those limitations serve as minor interventions. They act as a throttle on the addiction that simply doesn't exist when opening a never ending supply of loot boxes in the privacy of your own home.
Just tried to implement a freeze on Equifax. They couldn't verify my identity. Now I have to send a letter.
Found a sample - https://media.dojmt.gov/wp-content/uploads/Z-Sample-Security...

Still looking for other samples but what is incredible is that they want me to send them a copy of my Social Security Card.

They have to find a better solution to verifying identities.
sounds pretty racist and misandrist of you. This sort of speech should have no place on HN.
See, I don't think there's much difference between writing a deterministic mathematical algorithm to have X site on top, hand-curating a list to have X site on top or writing a magic spell that consults 4 neural nets, a space dragon from Jupiter and the Canadian Prime Minister for weightings that results in X site on top.

That's all implementation details, at the end of the day site X is on top and site Y is not, and Google decided that.

And as mentioned in the sibling thread, that's the value of Google Search. If you disagree that X should be on top, then find an alternative search engine that has some different ranking algorithm, but there's no such thing as an objective search engine.
>the ROI calculation that nobody does on infrastructure catches up with the town

This is municipalities using cash accounting instead of accrual accounting. Infrastructure has a known lifespan, and instead of amortizing the cost of replacement over it, the cost is realized all at the end when it must get replaced.
More advertisement real estate space. Not that Wordpress.com was already not littered enough!

The heydays of "blogging" was/is all BS.
For extra fun, block access to the telemetry endpoint and watch Teams' memory footprint bloat to crazy levels as the data accumulates and re-attempts the sending.

There's some fun inspecting this data, too..
Cost is a barrier to entry, and when you are scamming people, you often have to be able to generate large numbers of scam attempts, as most will fail. A cert costing $70 is a big deal for a scammer, because a scammer may need to get certs for a large number of domains. Therefore, before HTTPS Everywhere, phishers weren't using them much, it added a lot of cost to each attempt. Now, it's a requirement to avoid warnings in browsers, and the certs are free, and hence, all phishers now use HTTPS. And unfortunately, a whole generation of computer illiterate users believe that lock means the site is legit.
Evolution and time will keep making the EV charge time shorter and shorter until it literally takes longer to park & plugin.

With the 150kW spreading all over, and already some 350kw [1] superchargers you are already just 10ish minutes to fully charge from empty. The 1.2mW [2] chargers seem insane, but over time they will get more and more capacity. As long as the cars keep up / catches up!

I agree though that gas/petrol stations will be a thing of the past. As you say charge in normal parking lots, or at home.

I expect restaurants, especially fast-food joints will be the charging places of the future.

[1] https://www.motoringresearch.com/car-news/first-350kw-chargi...

[2] https://insideevs.com/news/347476/350-kw-12-mw-fast-charging...
I wonder what @pple would do about:

Fu(|< 7h@7 13u115h17
I'd imagine it'll be something along the lines of "of course we market to potential customers".
Man Machine Rules
Sure. The kinds of IoT devices I work with aren't consumer IoT. We operate networks of devices where a sensor may be attached to a network interface and the application driving that sensor is somewhere out on the Internet (perhaps on a VPN).

The application wants to connect to the sensor (perhaps for configuration) and to do that needs access to the network on which that device is operating. The network won't be exposed to the public Internet, and is protected via access rules enforced at a proxy, and traffic management may be done at a proxy as well. The application vendor may not trust the network operator with payloads, so wants to keep their payloads secret. So the result is a need for proxies where the payload is secret, but the destination is not, and a secure end-to-end envelope (from the application to the sensor) can be formed. TLS can't address this. Nor can VPNs.
Yahoo still has some strong brand recognition in some sectors, and COULD make a massive comeback if Verizon made the right moves.

Yahoo Finance, Yahoo News, Yahoo Fantasy, Yahoo Email/Messenger.

Verizon should release a WhatsApp, FBMessenger, iMessage competitor and let you pick if you want it to be Verizon, Yahoo, or AIM themed. Nostalgia is all the rage. Being able to use AIM (like facebook chat at the bottom of a page) while I browse Yahoo News and Yahoo Finance, and Yahoo Fantasy....