skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except I can't even visit the landing page of Outline without the page trying to jam analytics packages down my throat. The ubiquity of that garbage is the topic at hand, and it's refreshing to see tools that don't take that route.
This sounds similar to Fleischmann–Pons 'Cold fusion' in 89 [0] (Could be related as the 30th anniversary?). It would be great if we could easily spit water to hydrogen and oxygen (unlimited clean fuel), but it comes down to those pesky chemical bonds, it takes a LOT of effort (energy) to pull them apart.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_fusion
Hopefully, someone can find a good video covering it.
Ask HN: Best web E2E testing library?
Getting into testing, currently a backend developer. Was thinking Puppeteer as it has so many uses. Heard good things about Cypress. Any suggestions?
Hmm, why is this a good thing compared to just using Nix / nix-pkgs to manage JS packages?
Review: Lamborghini Urus is a $200k fire-breathing super SUV
True, but the bit about interfaces is also not comparable between the two. There wasn't a lot of commonality between openserver and IBM (RedHat) Linux. It's not like the libraries on one system would run on the other. SCO's seminal allegation was that code was copied between the two, but they never produced evidence. Likely, because there was none. The case was eventually dropped when it was determined SCO couldn't even make a claim to begin with and the rightful copyright holder, Novell, stated they didn't believe SCOs claims. Then SCO went bankrupt and the whole situation just kind of quietly went away.
Plants need water, light, CO2 and some nutrients, here and on the Moon. What differences you expect in the cultivation methods?
I was surprised to see how low the gross margin is on their subscription business, it has only recently broken above 50%. The cost of revenue for their subscription business includes licensing the music in their workouts, and the costs to operate their NYC and London studio.

I was also surprised to see the margins on the bike itself are about the same as on the subscription business. They have room to lower the price of the bikes to get more customers hooked on that sweet, sweet recurring subscription revenue.
Ask HN: Programmer abroad, how can I help fight climate change?
Do you know of any projects/communities that I can contribute to?

Thanks in advance for any angle or opinion on the matter :)
and I heard it as:

Little Timmy took a drink
But he will drink no more
For what he thought was H2O
Was H2SO4
Instagram is testing a standalone messaging app called Threads
Do folks who profess not understanding why something is successful ever use such data to improve their outlook?
How Serverless Can Shape Enterprise Integration?
What Chinese companies actually do is both really. They take an order of 1000 say Apple iPhones then actually produce 2000, keeping 1000 for themselves. They then sell the knock-offs themselves within China or into the U.S. on e-bay and other 'used' sites.
(Not a spin-class person.)

I thought that was a high number, and I live in a lower-cost market (Atlanta). Looking at one-off/small chain spinning places that do not have outposts in New York State or California, I found single-class pricing to be in the $20-25 range. Given the cost of living difference between here and NYC, the $30 quoted for LA/NY/SF seems on target.
I know it’s easy to crap on people believing whatever is shared on social media and then laugh about how everyone got it wrong..

But I just don’t like this article. I don’t see how a 7% increase in forest fires in the Amazon is nothing to care about and something about the tone of the article doesn’t sit well with me.

It’s somehow trying to convince me that deforestation is going down, this is an overreaction and it’s hurting farmers.

I don’t know about that... i’ll just side with I want to remain living on this planet and I want my children to as well, more power to environmental viral hits, even if they got the facts.. a bit wrong.
It’s not outside the realm of plausibility that certain chiropractic procedures could help with digestive issues linked to other issues. There’s been a decent amount of research recently into stimulating the vagus nerve for example and how it affects not only digestion but also mood and immune function. If a pinched spinal nerve is causing digestive issues perhaps it could lead to other issues. Curing every case? Likely not, but perhaps it could help some individuals. Now the chiropractic field is also full of half baked practitioners as well, imho.
That means you too, @kevq! Please add RSS support to your site! http://www.rssboard.org/rss-autodiscovery
This was posted 2 years ago but bears posting again.
I agree again. A big cause of useless arguments is both sides having different unstated goals.
SAP and Pricefx Cover Hot Topics at TechCrunch’s Sept. 5 Enterprise Show in SF
Well there's two things there.

One is commit discipline. People care more or they care less, no tool can truly change that.

The other is how we collect information. I'm not convinced that version control systems are the right place for that, but I know others have explored it (eg. Fossil SCM). Github provides what is a de facto data store for a lot of such annotations through their APIs, I imagine Gitlab does similar.
They already announced that they're killing it. It was supposed to start sunsetting next month, with Voice/Fi users moved to Hangouts Chat.

I'm not holding my breath.
Is it a veil? Imagine you are a landlord and you rent to a Walmart. Are you as the landlord responsible for all of Walmart's products? It is the same thing but Amazon owns a virtual high traveled location instead of the landlord who owns a place on a busy street. Amazon shouldn't be responsible for the third party seller, but it should be extremely clear that it is a third party seller, like the sign on the side of a building.
Progressive Boomers Are Making It Impossible for Cities to Fix Housing Crises
What I meant by minimizing different realities is that I would rather avoid situations where I have to write code and look at code differently. I can definitely autoformat on save or on commit, but I’d rather not so I can always “think using the same code” and get used to the same quotes.

I’m happy to adopt to other folks projects as I don’t want to convert anyone. But purposely working on my own projects with a quote different than the record seems like an extra effort, even if minimal.
I think we agree, but I'd mention that they're non-native, but they're really not classified as invasive. I think those labels are worth being careful about when discussing ecology. Issues with honeybees aren't ecological issues, so much as human issues tied to agriculture, where if humans want to manage issues with parasites, we can turn to nature to find answers.
caution, there's loud yelling in that video with volume scaled beyond a normal level, RIP headphone users.
I feel like your description of Facebook is what all the employees who worked on it circa 2004 were envisioning it would become. It seemed so groundbreaking yet so serene. A brand new way to do the same things.

I wish we could have all the good without the bad, but I suppose that's what makes this field so insanely hard.
If you have the time , work through SICP and do all it’s exercises in both Python and Haskell.
Compared to a lot of cities NYC is doing alright in regard to cycling infrastructure. They’ve put in a lot of lanes and have plans to do more. NYC official statistics claim the number of bike trips has tripled over the last 15 years, so riders seem to be responding.

Obviously there are way more bike-friendly European cities but as far as US cities go NYC doesn’t seem that bad to me (I don’t live there, but have noticed all the new cycle paths when I visit occasionally over the years).
<https://climate.careers> is a good place to start. I recently read another HN post on this topic, and someone said to find climate-related jobs, you'll need to do a lot of googling for common strings like "green tech" or "clean tech", and as you start to find companies and job boards (like climate.careers), you'll pick up other search phrases you can use.
There's some evidence that the industrial boom in Germany in the 1800's came about because Germany did not have copyright laws. People copied, printed and disseminated manuals on everything.

I've been working on open source projects (D programming language) for 20 years now. There's little evidence that making code free of copyright, license, and patent restrictions has impeded progress and innovation at all. In fact, there's a great flowering of programming languages going on.
Termux is the answer to many problems:)
calling it a "success" and then shutting it down? talk about talking out of both sides of the mouth.
I didn't realize I wasn't attaching dates to posts, I will add those under the page headers.

This is off-topic at this point, but I still stand by the ending to that post -- Gamasutra did reach out to me and did work with me for a little while to fix some of the issues, but eventually communication fell off.

I didn't re-check to validate that the issues were fixed because I felt like I had done everything that could be expected of me at that point and because, honestly, the whole thing was really stressful. Even when companies are being nice (and UBM was really nice about the whole thing), public disclosure is still scary. You just hear horror stories.

I still recommend that people be cautious using Gamasutra. I only wrote up specific vulnerabilities that I found accidentally, I didn't pen-test the site. My point with this article was that the site needs to be pen-tested. As far as I know, that's never happened.
Well Miguel de Icaza started working for Microsoft, and Gnome immediately went into the toilet. Totally unrelated I'm sure, but that did happen.
“Necessary” might be too strong of a word, but it’s certainly valuable.

* https://hackernoon.com/constraints-and-creativity-14831a5386...

* https://www.fastcompany.com/3027379/the-psychology-of-limita...

* https://www.forbes.com/sites/groupthink/2013/07/12/creativit...
I don’t think earth farming methods are efficient. Should we be growing plants for our food would be my first question.
Do we have a link besides a random post from some dude we all don’t know?
Web server logs, API call logs, etc don't go anywhere, though, even with 3rd party cookies and mouse movement tracking disabled.
Except that it could eventually overtake Black so that Blacker becomes the new norm.

I don’t think Black’s dream of all Python looking the same is that worthwhile. Especially if people don’t like some of Black’s decisions.

I might use Blacker if it existed, but I’m currently ok with not using Black and just sticking with flake8.
But which is more effortful to keep accurate.

Whereas the commit is immutably and ideally exactly about what it's about. There is no better time to capture the information in a way that perfectly connects it to what it's describing.
One hint I can give you is that joining groups seemed to be the thing that really turned my news feed into something else. I've joined groups related to game programming, music production, Arduino and a bunch of others related to local music gigs (plus some support groups that I feel I can contribute to) and now there's actually a lot of interesting (and pleasantly technical) stuff in my feed. The other effect this had is that the ads I see are a lot better as well.
When I looked at using RSS to follow a bunch of blogs,
I figured that out "RSS with whole blogpost used by blogspammers".
It depends what you mean by "traditional" and "fuzziness".

In ray optics, shadows from point sources are black and white. (If half of the sun is obscured, the surface it illuminates is half as bright, but that's pretty obvious.) That's very old school. Newton could get it right, even though he got particles and waves entirely wrong.

In wave/electromagnetic optics, shadows are shades of grey. Just like water waves can be ripples at one end of a beach, crashing surf at the other, and vary continuously in between.

In quantum optics, shadows are a superposition of different shades of grey, due to shot noise from the photons. That matters if you're doing very precise interference measurements, but not when you're taking photographs, no matter how short the exposure.
I used double quotes for years, but appreciate being able to type more quickly with single quotes. It’s 90% convenience and 10% less clutter since single quotes are just smaller.

It’s not a big deal to me as I don’t care too much (similar to tabs vs space). I have a preference but would likely spend zero time caring if my team were trying to decide and would never in a million years try to change someone else’s project.
These days I learn of most "new" Google products from the shutdown notice posted here on Hacker News.

Also if there is a Google product that does something I need then I will almost always pick a worse alternative because I don't want to deal with the hassle of moving when Google eventually shuts down their thing.
It is one. It is a theory of a conspiracy.
> Avoid network polling to obtain periodic updates from a server. Use WebSockets or Fetch with a persistent connection, instead of polling.

Oh the irony. Apple’s new low-latency streaming spec is based around polling the server multiple times per second, for the entire duration of a live stream. The FOSS version of low-latency HTTP streaming is based on chunked-transfer encoding via a...persistent fetch connection. Despite chunked-transfer low-latency steaming being widely deployed in production for the past few years (Twitch, Periscope use this), they didn’t think it was the right solution. I wonder what the WebKit team thinks of this.
Agreed. Not only might your investment into a platform be lost, but there is a tail risk somewhere out there that if you hack something together and they decide they don't like it, it might actually hurt you. I'm not convinced that this would be more likely using an obscure service, but my intuition is that would be - since any bad press for them is instantly not worth it.
Interesting that would explain it. Thanks
A while ago I helped translate an investigative journal piece on the labor practices of this company's supply chain. It left me feeling ill for quite a while.

Worth a look: https://reporterbrasil.org.br/2016/09/electroshocks-punching...
Absolutely, bicycles depreciate much much faster than cars!

If you are handy doing your own repairs it's also very cost effective since not too many tools are required and compatible parts are cheap, easy to find and easy to install.

My road bike cost $300 AUD, I have maybe spent another $250 on parts and tools. I have been riding to and from uni and now work pretty much every day for three years and I love it to bits.
I think the exact same thing too. I know I'm in a relative minority in being able to keep my Facebook privacy settings in check, for example. It's a really tough problem.
Privacy and ads can co-exist
>> It's dangerous to throw extra sensors into a Kalman filter, because if the sensor goes bad it'll corrupt the output.

Not necessarily. A Kalman filter uses a covariance matrix to account for noise in the input signals. Another technique can be used to dynamically adjust that matrix while it's running. If a signal doesn't agree with everything else going on, it's noise level is effectively increased to the point that it doesn't contribute any more.

I know someone who implemented a system like that and it could drop sensor inputs and bring them back in real-time. I realized that all the traditional sensor diagnostics others had used in similar systems might be obsolete with something like that. It was a pure math-based system, no logic or thresholds for sensor diagnostics and it just worked (TM).
Zwift is a really great platform for this.
Kabelsalat ist gesund.
Convincing myself it's ok to be rude to strangers has saved me more than once. It's ok to not roll your window down. It's ok to refuse someone the use of your phone. It's ok to see a situation that makes you uncomfortable and just leave.
"It was built mostly for small to medium sized businesses, with a price that ranged from $200 to $400 a month depending on how many G Suite licenses you needed."

Hm. Does that price seem too high? When I think small business I think mom and pop restaurants or utility stores. Would they be willing to pay so much per month just to hire people which they'll inevitably have to pay for anyways? Do small and medium businesses hire at such large rates to justify this expense?

Obviously I'm just armchair generaling here, I'm sure G Suite's sales team crunched the numbers to make sure they made sense. But they don't make sense to me, and I'm wondering if someone can explain why.
Study Suggests Link Between Air Pollution and Psychiatric Disorders
I believe it indirectly makes money as being a platform for Google's ecosystem, especially for their Enterprise Cloud apps suite or even Chromebooks.
It’s not very big, is the problem, and is often full of tourists.
You, Too, Can Be a ‘Thru-Hiker’
It definitely can be done. A process similar to this is used for ultrasonic imaging.
You’re assuming that people who buy a Peloton want to ride outside. Also, half the purpose of Peloton is the tracking and app integration.
DOJ’s plan to make Dish the fourth major carrier has a fatal flaw
It's a bit niche (and caveat I've been on it), but for functional-language-specific info focused primarily on Haskell, there's https://haskellweekly.news/podcast/.
"MIT police" is absolutely not a misnomer: they are a civilian police force tied to the University, with their jurisdiction set to the bounds of MIT property.[0] Their website is a .mit.edu address.[1]

Your second statement is misleading, in that MIT did not decline to press charges, they just declined to press charges with regard to criminal trespass and breaking-and-entering.[2] Interestingly, the MIT police arraigned Swartz on precisely those charges; it was only later that the charges under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act were used.[3]

Further, MIT insisted on seeking time-behind-bars for Swartz! From the Wikipedia article for US v Aaron Swartz: 'Marty Weinberg [Swartz's lawyer] said he nearly negotiated a plea bargain in which Swartz would not serve any time. "JSTOR signed off on it," he said, "but MIT would not."'[4]

So, all-in-all, I would say it is pretty ironic coming from an MIT blog.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Tec...

[1] https://police.mit.edu/

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20150912185122/https://www.polit...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Swartz
I have a pet theory that saving children from natural deaths is harmful to future generations. Surely by intervening so much, we're giving unhealthy people as much evolutionary advantage as healthy people. If the whole world reaches western standards of infant mortality and stays there long enough, will children eventually become dependent on even more interventions and be even more vulnerable to death without them? It might take a lot of generations, but aren't we supposed to value future humans higher than present ones because there will be more of them?

I would have died in childhood without modern medicine, and have a lifelong illness as a consequence of surviving. I may pass that on to my own children. That's a problem that never happened in all human history before about a 100 years ago when useful medicine started to exist, so maybe its effects will be disastrous for the human race. On the other hand, perhaps it's OK if we evolve more dependency on technology. We already need clothes, cooking, and shelter which helps us have advantages and flexibility that animals don't have.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but isn't this what the ConvertFrom-{Json, Xml} etc are for?
If it was successful why not sell it and let it live on?
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It’s a CCC talk, millions of regular folks are not going to be watching CCC talks.
Field Call Hierarchy

Eclipse has it. It's awesome. Please upvote the issue.

[You have to log in before clicking the :+1:]

https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-160274
The age at the end of each one makes it genuinely sad. Well done them.
No, compressed sensing only allows you to attempt to reconstruct the original signal from a limited subset of the data sampled in a specific way, as long as you can assume some kind of sparsity on the data in another domain.

Fundamentally, you cannot get something from compressed sensing that you wouldn't be able to otherwise normally.
Without that manually added link in the one article, there's no way to locate his feed. His blog could have been one of the ones he's complaining about.
small business is defined as anything up to 500 people. mom and pop, restaurants are in the same group but it covers a pretty big swath.
What? A regular, upright pentagram?

And also, you know some of us are actually practicing Ritual or Ceremonial Magick, and this is actually a sacred symbol for us?

I'd understand if it was upside down, which is part of the laughable LaVeyan Satanic cult, but I assure you there are likely people you know who may be members of very serious Magical Orders.

I will not mention my specific associations with any of these Orders, but even Freemasonry, which I was involved in for years, if studied carefully, has its roots in Ceremonial Magick.

Their use of the pentagram was highly attractive to me - and, furthermore, funny, and clearly educated in Magick to an extent - the I/O symbol at the top is an adorable nod to that being the node of the Spirit.
Because they want the people who worked on it to work on something else.
I'd consider those products safe since Google is completely dependent on them internally.
“Is he worth that much though?”

Of course he is. He is(was) about to help Google make many billions of dollars of which he and his team would only ever see a very small fraction.
>> any idea of how the control software was written for a flying water tower? Could they use the Falcon 9 software?

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Lossless-Convexificati...

Reddit blurb about that paper:
https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/7t2tb2/a_paper_by_l...
For some context for those who aren't SpaceX fanboys (card carrying member here)...

Starship is a new two stage rocket SpaceX is building. It's going to have similar launch capabilities to the Saturn V Moon rocket, but be 100% reusable. The upper stage is planned to be able to take people to Mars and back.

The test today is a very early prototype. It's just the upper stage, just a mock up of it (literally built by a company that makes steel water towers, I've heard) and it had just one of their new "Raptor" Engines. The test was basically "Can we hover 150m in the air and safely land?". It passed almost perfectly. Why do this? Because the Raptor is a really complex and new design and SpaceX need to test the hell out of it.

Next after this will be two higher quality prototypes of the upper stage, probably with more engines, and probably to go high enough to test reentry. And then eventually a test of Stage 1, which will be a massive reusable booster (like Falcon 9 but many times larger).

The whole thing is designed for rapid reusability. No refurbishment between launches and no new hardware needed (100% reusable) means very low variable cost per launch.
I’m slightly worried that at some point they will hit an integer overflow and crash the simulation.
CDNs like akamai make money from user tracking across sites.
Yeah, it's strange to me that the people working in this subfield are proposing more exotic approaches to basic time migration which is ideal for this problem and has been known for more than 50 years now.