skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By use a diverse set of browsers and minimally using apps, we can slow down the silo'ing of the Internet. If users don't blindly buy into every app out there, big corps will have little choice but to interoperate on the open web.
>$0.004 per hour

>8760 hours in year so 35 USD

So much for free tier to host low traffic websites.

Good bye and thanks for all the fish! The free VM & ip was appreciated while it lasted :)

Fortunately I built everything on a Ubuntu VM...so damn near any provider works for me.
From Twitter [1] It's Cedric Lynch's car. There is a YouTube video [2] of him showing it off and saying it goes 55mph and gets 150-200 miles on a charge of its Lithium batteries. And another picture of him with it (and also barefoot) [3]

1. https://twitter.com/mikel01/status/1163709573984899072?s=21

2. https://youtu.be/KnqoH0YaCsE

3. http://www.bikeweb.com/node/2601
a good example of endurance differences would be the track bicycle hour record (merckx type frame/wheelset, or modern track bike) difference between men and women:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hour_record

men: 55 km

women: 48 km
What U.S. Cities Facing Climate Disaster Risks Are Least Prepared?
My favourite slogan is "More doctors smoke Camel". Kind of mindboggling by today's standards.
As users, a step in the right direction would be to vote with your wallet, not use nasty services and prefer respectful services wherever possible.

As engineers & designers, we need to stop being complicit and building this shit nor working for such awful companies. If the majority of engineers become ethical then companies like Facebook, Google, etc will have a hard time hiring people to do their dirty work.
>Colombian cartels smuggling in black-lab vape cartridges

Source?
Of course not malicious, but not a little bit presumptuous. As you can see from other commenters here it's apparently not unexpected that a woman might win. The organizers if any, should have had a hunch this might happen, even if it didn't happen before. Well, there were good laughs to be had anyway!
Facebook expands data abuse bug bounty programme to Instagram
Corbind v1.0.0-RC – Kotlin Coroutine Binding APIs for Android UI Widgets
Unlimited amounts of the Saudi's money in this case so who really cares?
what3words is a much nicer system. It's actually such a simple system that I could think of a few other things to apply it to:

1. Random but fair distribution of domain names to everyone on Earth, if that becomes a thing.

2. Any kind of unique identifier that should be user memorable.
I agree, great story but seems off topic for HN.

From the guidelines: "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon."

A woman winning a race is not a new phenomenon. A quick google search produces:

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/jan/17/jasmin-paris-f...

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/08/06/world/fiona-kolbinger-win...

https://trailrunnermag.com/people/is-women-winning-ultras-ov...
I agree that what3words is easier to remember. The disadvantage is that close by places don't have similar address codes.

In principle, armed with just a compass and odometer and knowing your current plus code, you can make your way to a nearby plus code. Similarly, once you get a feel for the distance increment a plus code give you, you can tell how far away a given location is, and in what direction.
Definitely

Running with some intensity is tiring, even if the pace is slow enough, also I think marathoners manage to deplete their glycogen supplies in the race

However, focusing on running for the entire time is something I personally (and I guess a lot of people) wouldn't be able to do.
If the moon had still pockets of lava - could the range experiment detect that or would that vannish in the noise?
I think that's what bug bounty companies are doing by changing the model from paying for time spent to paying for (accepted) findings.

Personally I don't think any serious pentester will spend considerable time in this model though.

That said, I also think that one of the main challenges for buyers of pentest services these days is to evaluate the quality of a report or of the work done. Thoughts on how to improve that are most welcome.
Telepathy: Origins of Randomization in Experimental Design (1988)[pdf]
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I don't think slippery slopes are productive to constructive discourse at all, and are merely used as a rhetorical device with the goal of invoking Ethos or Pathos to certain demographics. Aka, "virtue signalling".

The "this policy/rule/law (moral or legal) could be applied in a way that I don't like" argument is a tired, boring, uninteresting, and fearful one. It is tautologically true of any policy/rule/law. Better is putting forth an actual argument for an alternative policy/rule/law, whether it's merely a small clarification or a complete systemic overhaul, turning that fear into a constructive argument with actual participation in the matters at hand.

Less fear and signaling, more activism and constructive dialogue without divisive rhetoric.

Edit: if instead the intent of the arguer is to refine something someone else said, just ask! Going back to your example, the (no-longer) sabatuer asking pointedly "Do you think all people deserve empathy, only LGBT (as opposed to flurries and goths), or something else?" is way more productive to directly ask than perform a slippery slope dance. The argument can then be provided without reservation since everyone is being genuine and clear. It might be compelling, it might not. Either way, it'll get made. Rhetoric matters to discourse quality.
Pres Donald Trump doesn't seem to care about climate change. Koch's give him a lot of campaign money so he does nothing.
Normalize it based on the fraction of women in the race to start with maybe?
>And Google hasn't been buying up big blocks like that, so are probably running out

That seems like poor planning for a big cloud provider if true. IPV4 will unfortunately be around for a while
> A pro-woman athlete could dominate most of us average peeps (male and female)

In most sports pro womens’ performance is achievable by trained amateur males, which is why there is controversy around biological males competing as women
You will find a few talks from JuliaCon 2019.
Those sentences make complete sense to me. What's the problem?
because they are independent systems; they cannot communicate triangulation data between themselves
You're right, but what I meant about it was that just because the variable is const, doesn't mean it can't change from somewhere else between reads. Even if you use synchronization to avoid data races, if you read the pointer to const twice in the function, it could change between the reads.
Yeah wtf is a "male" trophy ?
This is one brilliant piece of modern technical humoristic literature, a genre that is still rare and should get much more attention!

The author has written that really well, simulating a style that some cloud marketing guys still will take serious. Of course every developer with some background in webdev will start to chuckle after a few sentences, but he keeps the flow on a very high level, great!

I wonder if some kind of NLP was involved and a second article with sources attached will follow.

Very good piece of parody!
> Contrast that with e.g. home internet, where in many parts of the US there's literally just a single company providing internet connectivity, a single ISP, and it's illegal to start a competing ISP.

It’s not illegal to start a competing ISP anywhere. (It’s illegal under federal law for local governments to grant exclusive franchises.) But your comparison is interesting. Almost everywhere in the US, you at least have DSL and satellite service as competition. They’re lower quality alternatives that few people choose, but the same is true for DDG and Bing. I think you correctly perceive that ISPs have market power because they have little effective competition. But by that same logic tech companies have substantial market power in many areas.

And there are theoretical reasons why these markets would tend towards concentration. In the ISP space you have the tendency toward natural monopoly that comes with physical utilities. But in the tech space you have strong network effects, which are another kind of market characteristic that tends to limit competition.
seunosewa is referring to these paragraphs:

> After the race, Hardy ordered a first place male trophy to be made for Ellsworth. When asked whether the race might offer first place male trophies in the future, Hardy said probably not. Instead of giving out more awards, he is more interested in awarding the top six finishers, regardless of gender.

> “It’s tricky, because in the world we live in now, people would think I was being sexist if I just gave out overall awards and didn’t have female-specific awards,” he said. “But I think a race is a race, and the best women can beat the men on a given day. And that’s awesome. Other times, they don’t make the podium. What we don’t want to do is water down the prestige of placing on the podium, no matter if you’re a man or woman.”
Thanks, unlike the submission that demo actually works for me (!) - and is longer, which is a big bonus for demoing this in particular.
Nothing about TLS, a lot about getting the same setup as I can with nginx. E.g. getting rid of the behaviour of random TLS certificate from random block being served when no SNI matches (wtf?) and closing the connection instead.
Honest question: why do you consider it great when women win these races, as in, is it in some sense worse when men win them?
All the records actually show men still have the physical advantage at these distances that they do at shorter distances. It would be cool if somehow women were faster in comparison the longer the distance, but the records don't show that to be the case.
The issue is that the man didn't get a trophy for winning his class. Most times, that's the overall trophy, and then there's an additional one for the fastest woman.

So the article is clear enough, I think, given that most runners know this already.

Edit: I haven't commented on if I think this is a good thing or not, just explaining the article.
Entirely unsurprised. There's various reasons why it could be so, e.g., https://www.ft.com/content/0ead55ca-1d85-11e9-a46f-08f9738d6... or https://time.com/5049887/women-fitter-than-men/

What does surprise me though is that the expectation that the winner would be a man.
The only way you can avoid suffering is by not being born and since you are already here, you have lost from the start.
It's not just latin countries. In Germany, and most east-European countries and Russia as well I believe, newly build roads get generic names (named after flowers, for example), then later get renamed after persons, though not living ones, which helps with politicians promoting their names I guess.
I've been using Scala Native for two years now, and I find that it's C interop is state-of-the-art. The way I would pitch it is: Scala Native gives you the capabilities and performance of C, embedded in a Scala DSL.

In particular, pointer arithmetic and memory allocation feel really smooth, and struct syntax is getting reworked for the upcoming SN 0.4 release.

The affinity with C, and with systems programming in general, isn't something you necessarily get with Swift or OCaml to the same extent. And even Rust, although it is outstanding for some systems tasks, isn't 100% mature on concurrency and async use cases yet.

In contrast, Scala Native works really nicely for low-level concurrent programming - I'm writing a book about SN for Pragmatic at the moment [1], and the entire second half is about building up a fully concurrent backend service framework, from scratch, using C libraries like libuv and libcurl. We're also preparing to release an official libuv binding for Scala Native 0.4 [2]

1: https://pragprog.com/book/rwscala/modern-systems-programming...

2: https://github.com/scala-native/scala-native-loop
Also by setting good examples and not using this shit ourselves, even if it's the expedient option.
Show HN: A subreddit dedicated to beta-reading
(it's naked and will stay naked for at least a week or two)

There are stuff like Discord or Scribophile, which can provide good opportunites, but it's such a mess and sometimes it can be frustrating - for both parties.

So, r/betareading is meant to become a platform for both parties to meet and exchange freely.

I'll have more free time soon to work on the subreddit and promote it. Probably will add guidelines for both writers and beta-readers.

Because a writer can name the genre of his text and his length, but beta-readers skills should be categorized and made public: from grammar to pacing or character development, including favorite genres, format, languages spoken fluently and time available.

And maybe a wiki afterwards. This has always existed presumably, it's time to make it more formal.

For writers I see two advantages:

- easier to send your copy to your stranger than maybe to a buddy
- a good, well-read and well-trained beta-reader will provide better feedback than your bud

For beta-readers I see one advantage:

- easier than to lurk Scribophile for a month wondering wth happens over there, or to join Discord and read thousands of pages of Sonic fanfic

https://www.reddit.com/r/betareading/

In the meantime, feel free to join and stick to the one and only rule existing for now; tag your titles with [R] or [BR]!
Nothing against women but they are not able to "compete just as well as men on equal footing" in ultras. Her time of 3:58 is more than an hour behind the men's record, suggesting the men's competition at this race was not strong.

At the shortest distance, 100 meters, Flojo still has the world record at 10.5 seconds, a full second behind Usain Bolt's 9.5. Whether long or short races, women cannot physically compete with men.

In the ultra world Sierre Zenal was just recently run where Killian Jornet set a new course record, and Pike's Peak Marathon is in a few days. Most of the serious ultra runners are doing those events, not this one.

That being said, very cool for her.
There was an excellent old website (it when by the name Mr. Sharkey but is sadly no longer around except in some archives with missing photos) which detailed a guys experiments with an old VW Rabbit EV. He actually built a range extender trailer for it based on the front of another VW rabbit. One interesting thing is he wasn't powering a generator but actually pushed the car via the tow ball and the engine and transmission from the donor car.

Found it on archive.org: http://web.archive.org/web/20121105135914/http://www.mrshark...
Why X ditched Y...

Why we left Python

Why we switched to GCP

Why I dumped Netflix

These used to be comments in community forums that one could easily scroll past after reading the first sentence (yeah, doesn't apply to me), now each one is a Medium blog post and requires a click and another tab. Maybe viewing an add or two. The world is suddenly supposed to pay attention to these opinions based on niche preferences and circumstances...

But the thing is, a lot people still use (say) Python, and whatever reasons somebody had, it's more likely than not that you'll use it too. Most of these posts are highly irrelevant and don't apply to more than 80% of readers but for some reason people still pay attention to them...
It's a time value of money problem; there's been plenty of investigation into the future costs of climate change (most notably the Stern Report [1]) but people prefer to have money now, rather than pay now to defer future cost.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stern_Review
A Case for Universal and Simplified Journal Systems
It sounds pretty straightforward. There was a trophy for fastest woman and a trophy for fastest runner. Since she was fastest overall she won both. There wasn't a trophy for fastest man. The organisers just seem to have assumed that the fastest runner overall would be a man, so they didn't think a fastest man trophy was necessary.
When people talk about women being better than men at endurance, they don't mean things at the ~1hr level. Instead, the events where the top women are close to competitive with the top men are at the ~days level.
Honestly that isn’t a bad idea. It would also allow you to go on road trips where there is no charging network. Better than buying a fully ICE car instead.

I wonder if a electric car with a generator in a trailer would still be tax exempt...
It's not like Youtube is not annoying and filled with crap (ads).
Images of Recursion (Seymour Papert on Logo, 1986)
Yep this is fingerspelling, a small part, used for names and things there aren't signs for.

Here's an instructor running at medium speed for clarity. Experts go faster, drop more letters bcs cn undrstd wthout thm, and combine motions, like dipthongs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yizRk2CP9gs
Show HN: Banky.cc – personal finance tracking app
Hi, I just launched my initial landing page for https://banky.cc.

banky.cc lets you manage your personal finances more quickly and efficiently - you can import large amounts of financial data in a matter of minutes with OFX file imports and auto categorisation of transactions to get very quick insights into your spending habits, and create and track savings/spending goals.

banky.cc is currently in development and the public beta is expected to be released late September. At the moment, I'm looking for some initial feedback on the landing page, and for users to sign up for free as beta testers once the beta goes live.
Where's the hacking? It's common knowledge that if you stretch a small image, it blurs. As far as I'm aware, this is commonly used for backgrounds.
Okay so, serverless means that "I don't manage the servers that my stuff runs on."

Why don't they just call it "Sysopless" or something?
Presumably they think they are rich enough to buy themselves out of any problems.
Disincentivize company founders from cashing out to the detriment of their users by moving the cradle of these technologies to a place where you can respectably buy a house and raise kids without millions of dollars.

We did this to ourselves through decades of equating personal wealth to community and social value.

Which is ironic given the economic purpose of hacker news.
Because men will win them almost every time? Like "I identified non-binary for the duration of the race, don't be a bigot!"
They wouldn't have done it if a they had a significant user base using Mercurial, or if Mercurial usage was showing promising growth.
> I think that lightweight processes with no shared memory, connected by streams [...] are the way to go.

No, at least not in general. There are a lot of problems in the real world for which "no shared memory" is incompatible with "efficient parallelism".
All they would have to do, in order to have a functional and transparent recommender 'algorithm' is to rank order articles by how many of your followers liked, or read, an article... so if you have 100 followers and 50 of them happened to like another article 'B' then that article would be highly recommended to people reading your article. If they knew who was reading the article (logged in) then they could simply exclude articles from the list which the person had already viewed. That would help people browse through groups that shared similar interests.
These are all the same product with different switches and labels on the box, interestingly enough.
There is abundant incentive to not act unilaterally in a manner that hurts the bottom line in a competitive environment (i.e., most business environments). There is very little incentive in that environment to act collectively.
That says the IPCC revised down their final report from the earlier draft, which accurately described what the models projected. Your article even said they did that revision without consulting the scientists who made the models.

That's entirely consistent with the claim that the IPCC's final reports have been underplaying the actual science, for political reasons.

(Your article is also from five years ago, and still talks about the "missing warming." That was always nonsense, but even hardcore deniers have abandoned that talking point since warming in the last five years has been dramatic.)
> The US is able to block GPS signal to a specific area ...

Anyone can block the signal given how weak it is, and there are news reports of people doing so (and being charged for it). You can supposedly buy jammers online for not a lot of money.

> ... (I think it was done on the Gulf War) or disable the unencrypted GPS signal (only the US military can decode them).

What you are probably referring to is "Selective Availability" and is the purposeful degrading of the signal to make it less accuracy. The DoD said it will not do so, and has given assurances to the FAA (because planes are now highly dependent on it). The newest GPS III satellites no longer have the S/A hardware:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error_analysis_for_the_Global_...

By 2000 people had figured out to get quite accurate results even with the S/A enabled, so the whole thing not as useful:

* https://www.aviationtoday.com/2000/07/01/the-real-reason-sel...

If there's a war on it's probably cheaper to just jam in the area of operations.
It seems that Bitbucket and GitHub are trying to emulate GitLab’s strategy of being a one-stop tool rather than just version control.
The main limitations for towing with cars and car-like platform is tongue weight (not a big deal if you don't mind going slow) overall power and cooling. Don't get me wrong, easy starting from a stop is worth something but 90% of the benefit in that regard is gotten by going from a manual to automatic. Going EV isn't nearly as big of a jump in ease of use and it doesn't really solve any of the pain points so don't expect electric cars to revolutionize towing.

As others have pointed out, the range also tanks when towing (it tanks with gas cars too but not as badly). This is a bigger deal in an EV because you can't just gas up in 5min but not that big a deal if you're taking a pre-planned trip IMO.
That is strange. I had about 13 bits of information, so did my coworkers.
There's the Google Javascript library: https://github.com/google/brotli

Also, there's also a Dropbox Rust library: https://github.com/dropbox/rust-brotli
It would be more than enough to cure hair loss, it's almost the same thing.
*conquered
Public companies sign declaration on company's values
Looks like Cafe X (https://cafexapp.com/)

Seems like a gimmick to me. But who knows, maybe their sales are great? Also the real question isn't the upfront (or potentially distributed) engineering cost - it's real estate. Can the robot justify the larger footprint of a typical coffee vending machine by increased sales? My guess is they're targeting the place between vending machines and Starbucks, which seems like a pretty big void in the coffee market. I still don't understand why a robot arm would do anything other than add to the novelty.
I and the dozens of other remaining Mercurial users will be severely inconvenienced by this.

Still, at least SourceForge still has Mercurial support!
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But how is this related to chorded keyboard? Those are just smaller keyboards, with much less buttons.
"If your work isn't ready for people to try out yet, please don't do a Show HN. Once it's ready, come back and do it then. " https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
> Barely, if any, difference between the sexes in races at this distance

This is 31 miles, which is not much longer than a standard 26.2 mile marathon. Marathons have a lot of competition, so we can see how top athletes compare, and there the record is 2:01 for men vs 2:15 for women. What you're saying is for much longer races.
No Company Is a Monolith