skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I bet if there was a one-click to install firefox with ad-blocker and some other stuff enabled by default people would start switching.

Check out Brave, been getting my friends to switch as it has a built in blocker that is even more verbose than ublock. Works on mobile as well which helps them save data and load websites faster.

https://brave.com/
> hundreds of Mars trips launching daily

Not realistic. The minimum-energy launch windows for a Martian expedition occur at intervals of approximately two years and two months. Worst-case is four times the distance.
Dealing with fears after quitting my job
I apply the scream test when refactoring. Comment out a feature and wait until someone complains. After half a year or a year start removing things. Works pretty well. This works better with internal systems. I wouldn't do it with external customers or at least only with a lot of thought.
Synchronize two tables together using Align function in Python
Erlang (from Ericsson) turned out OK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlang_(programming_language)#...
Decimal numbers are still "stored as binary" at the silicon level.
It even has a built in 3 node "Tor" browsing for their private windows if you want.
But apparently not a simple search of trademarks to know you are stepping on one by a very large and litigious company.
> In 13 years of PT government, Brazil became nowhere near "becoming the next Venezuela".

Brazil has a a more diverse economy. Even though PT left Brazil in economic crisis, it surely wouldn't fall as much is Venezuela (which had an oil dependent economy when oil prices dropped dramatically).

I'm merely explaining the sentiment that took over the country and resulted in Bolsonaro being elected.

> Most of the anti-PT sentiment was fueled by the media, which wanted a right-wing government back

It seems to me that mainstream media was constantly attacking Bolsonaro during the election, so may I ask what is your evidence for claiming media wanted a far-right government?
We see this because small players have a visibility problem: if they stick to their private little corner of the internet, they have to put a lot of effort into getting noticed and attracting customers. Likewise, customers also have a harder time finding good offers if they are hard to notice. Centralized market platforms (Amazon, app stores) reduce that offer on both sides by pooling both sides and making them accessible to each other. And because of the inherent networking effects, these platforms can ask a nice premium and still be attractive.
> Can you really say you're in open source, if...

...your source is open? Yeah, probably.
My quick impression is that the choice of a rounding algorithm is relative to the purpose that it serves. For instance, floor(x + 0.5) is good enough in many applications.

In some cases, rounding is performed for the primary purpose of displaying a number as a string, in which case it can't be any less complicated than the string conversion function itself.
Standard Oil had ~90% of refined oil in the United States.

Google generates ~63% of all searches [1], with Bing ~25%. I'd hardly call that unchallenged or Standard Oil sized.

And as eyes move from search ads to places like Facebook or other platforms, they stand to lose more and more as they don't control where people are. Being so dependent on one source of revenue is very dangerous for them.

Interesting fact: Rockefeller's worth was 1-2% of US GDP, which in that metric would be $500 billion - $1 trillion now.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/267161/market-share-of-s...
Just an aside: the header image on the FairPhone homepage is nearly 750kb.

Why do companies feel the need to add such bloated images to their homepages even when the image adds nothing to the user experience?
wow this little CLI made my day! just installed it and used sample.conf and it already looks great, will customize it later but this will be used often by me, as I live and breath with CLI daily
Is it just me or are there increasingly more 'ProductHunt'-ish sites on the frontpage?

Last week we had Burnout.so, which was questionable, now this. I'll leave this here :

Registrar URL: http://www.namecheap.com
Updated Date: 2019-06-02T10:26:14Z
Creation Date: 2019-06-02T10:26:10Z
Registry Expiry Date: 2020-06-02T10:26:10Z
Aviationis growing rapidly, and it's effect on global warming is bigger than just the CO2 emissions due to other effects in atmosphere (2.5 is a commonly used weighing factor).

Combined with the fact that the global warming pie is made up of many small slices makes it one of the most significant slices of the pie.
Similar post from a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17938181

YT's recommendation algorithm drives watch time and engagement, but based on the behavior of other users; so when the YT algorithm sees that driving to extremism pushes high engagement, while driving users to more mild content reduces engagement, the algorithm knows the best course of action for future users.
What Happens When You Launch a Browser for the First Time?
I do not know but I encountered this more often than not. Direct links to images are a rare occurrence in my experience. I usually just right click on the image, then click on "Open Image in New Tab" which will get me what I want. Off-topic but: was it not Google that tried to work around this so one could not do even this in the search results?
Whoa. In FF, I just see a screenfull of blank boxes. I scroll down and see content wrongly rendered. On Chrome its a dated design with an uncomfortable text size, and the narrow column creates boxes where I have to use horizontal scrollbars. The Motherfucking Website revolution cant come too soon enough!
Firefox (hardened config) for browsing.

Chromium for web dev.
Firmware. Qualcomm no longer provides updates for Snapdragon 801. For quite some while, if I may add.
Movie Plot Analysis via Turning Point Identification
yes, exactly. Why do musicians, who have a job (e.g. as a teacher) charge for concerts they give in their private time?

Sure, they invested time and money into into it, but they have a JOB which should pay their rent.
Pretty rude for them to ask the audience to contribute back.

#sarcasm
They funny thing is that we haven't had a planned economy where everybody was honest. In the communist states everybody was lying and everybody knew that everybody else was lying. And the planners were ignoring this. This makes me wonder how things would have worked out with more honesty.
who is using skype anyway?
Playlists can be semantically different things. They can be "top 50 songs of 2018" or they can be "history of WW2 parts 1-50". It might make sense to recommend more than one video fron the first kind of playlist, but not the second.
> And Google is giving exactly the guarantees they promised - 1 year of notice before shutting down a product.

This is mostly true, but a bit more nuanced than one might think. Let's take the Go 1.9 runtime for App Engine. It was deprecated on June 27, 2019. [1] Existing deployments will keep working for an undetermined time, however new deployments won't be accepted starting October 1, 2019. That's just a 3 month notice! The offered solution is to migrate to Go 1.11 [2], however that's not straightforward either, because the Go 1.11 runtime is using 2nd generation App Engine, which means a bunch of App Engine specific code that you had working before will need to be rewritten. To make things even more spicy there's already a migration path to Go 1.12 which deprecates every single App Engine specific API. [3] Google is basically slowly shutting down the whole 1st generation App Engine.

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[1] https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/go/release-...

[2] https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/go111/go-di...

[3] https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/go112/go-di...
How to Deploy Your Sails.js App on Heroku and Live Longer by Tapas Adhikary
This article is a little confusing. It implies that most white and asian kids are going to gifted schools. Can that really be the case? Kids that are actually gifted probably benefit from more challenging material but they don't need that all day long in a separate school. Think of them as handicapped kids that need a little extra attention but attend the same school as every one else.
Yep…

https://www.apple.com/legal/intellectual-property/trademark/...
I don't think I have changed anything related to captchas, at least not intentionally.

I see a lot of "Request to access cookies or storage on https://www.linkedin.com/ was blocked because of custom cookie permission." in console.

However, my Preferences > Content Blocking is set to "Standard"; no add-ons are enabled; not a private window. I have DNS-over-HTTPS enabled. There are no linkedin-related entries in about:config.
It's an old trope, but the concept that everyone thinks that the BBC is biased (against their point of view, naturally) is probably a pretty good indicator of their neutrality.
Lock-in is anti-user.

If you don't like Chrome/Edge, then switch to Firefox. Open standards give you have that freedom.

Unless, of course, you can't switch to Firefox because the set of people you need to work with are communicating using proprietary protocols, eg. Skype. Or developing software you need that only works on proprietary operating systems. Now you're locked in.
WhatsApp users were sold $55 each. Data on employed people could be worth more.
F* – an FP language with effects, aimed at verification
Yes, for ordinary words, I believe every language assimilates them after some time. But I was talking about names. No Czech would in their right mind write Čarlí Čeplin even after many decades. So let's not do that with Čapek in English either. Let him be written Čapek (or Capek due to the limits of our keyboards), but pronounce [Chapek], remembering he is Czech.
They should be prioritizing count (I mentioned that was the performance metric). They actually wouldn't need to "make sure all their nails weigh the same", only that on average they weigh as much as the template. If you can't save time by using less material, and you can't save time by generating fewer units, might as well make the foundry mold match the template, no?
It's easy to check for deleted ones on archive.org or in google cache and I would guess they have access to much more powerful tools to cross check if you're lying about this. For example access to Faceboocks back-end where your account is marked as hidden. And then they would obviously ask you why you were lying.
Have quality control that verifies the nails meet specifications, and only reward production of good nails. It's better but still lacks normal market feedback.
Tarball dumps are OK. The GPL doesn't require change history. Although it can be quite helpful, it would be quite hard to define universally - what level of history is required? It could range from "every character typed" to "changes from the last public release", which is essentially what we have now.

GPL requires source code, which it defines as "the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it."

This prevents release of compilable-but-obfuscated code, or transpiler output, etc., or intentional removal of information required to build the software (though this clause causes GPL-compatibility issues with authenticated-build platforms).
This question was asked numerous times on every bike/trainer related discussion board. They handle just fine. I have my carbon bike on a trainer like 5 years already every winter and part of spring
This is a really bad trend. The little guy never develops a reputation. Let's say you are the best Uber driver or the best Amazon merchant with a perfect track record. The day Uber or Amazon decide to cut you off you lose everything. You have nothing to show for.

it would be better if these platforms were neutral entities that just connected sellers to buyers in an efficient way. But they try to totally control the sellers.

Back to the contracting example. For a while I worked with an agency that took only a 3% cut for filing paperwork with the big company. they provided an efficient service for both buyer and seller (me). But the 30% guys are just parasites that control the market.
Tuning Hyperparameters and Pipelines
Regarding the mindless followers, there's still the question of why they're mindlessly following the protesters and not so much the counter-protesters waving the Chinese flag and chanting the national anthem.
I'm genuinely curious:

> The bike’s only have a lifetime of a couple years

What's your source for this figure?

> and the experience isn’t that great.

According to whom? You? Or the legions of apparently very satisfied subscribers?
I wonder why he's getting rid of the vehicle.
Very detailed writing, thank you! But this “Costs for maintenance totalled £3056.0” is shocking! It’s a golden car! Ok, it has internal combustion engine too, but 100€ maintenance monthly is shocking. 8 tires for 45000 km is also shocking. I am driving almost double that with one set (except nasty flats). Are other electric cars cheaper to drive?
For me, what triggered it was noticing several startling graphs that all seemed to show a) something sudden, b) at the same time. I started collecting such graphs. It appears the author of this website has done the same. Note that all the "commentary" is embedded in the images - there's no indication that the webmaster has any agenda beyond mine (although the various graph publishers might).

I don't really understand your question about throwing out graphs that don't show a phase-change. There are infinite unrelated graphs. "But, your honor, consider all these photos of my client not murdering the deceased!"
Yes! We should just make all crimes illegal, then there will literally be no issues at all!
Don't have Pi-Hole.
DNS-over-HTTPS is enabled.
Never trust anything from the client.

[1] https://research.kudelskisecurity.com/2017/10/04/defeating-e...
I use the cosmetic filtering feature of Ublock Origin [1] to block everything except the video and related controls. I then only access youtube via the "subscriptions" page [2]. This effectively blocks the recommendations, autoplays, linked videos etc that make YouTube feel like such a cesspit.

[1] https://www.maketecheasier.com/ultimate-ublock-origin-superu...
[2] https://www.youtube.com/feed/subscriptions
Site getting hugged.

https://web.archive.org/web/20190828121621/https://tomkiss.n...
That's because Safari disregards this option, as it is hostile towards users.
I use Firefox devtools only when I need special features:
Mostly:
Grid editor
CSS Shape editor
He mentioned the tires are a very specific size only really available from one source, and that they are narrower than a typical tire. I’m guessing that means reduced tread life, and not having options means it’s probably harder to find the perfect tire for your climate and region to optimize longevity.

I agree, though; I can usually get the same range out of one set of tires.
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The free market will tell us.

It works well for companies like Apple, Ticketmaster, etc..

That's what I tried to highlight with my post, which seems very reasonable, so I don't understand the massive downvoting.
Iran signed it. Why can't Iran produce safe, clean, rainbow creating nuclear power technology?
Money quote:

"I completely reject Dr. Wright’s
testimony about the alleged Tulip Trust, the alleged encrypted file, and his alleged inability to
identify his bitcoin holdings.

Dr. Wright’s story not only was not supported by other evidence in the record, it defies
common sense and real-life experience."

The Judge goes on to dismantle Wrights claims. He does not believe one bit of this fairy tail.
> the most significant reductions in emissions have been generated by free market activity

Not sure what you mean, globally there are no reductions in emissions. And you would have to phase out a lot more than just air travel. Personal cars too and overall reduce consumption like ten fold or more, basically destroy this whole capitalism-driven consumerist way of life.
The BBC is blocked all (it is blocked right now because of the Hong Kong protest/riot happening at the moment) the time and its live news feed is also cut off regularly in the middle of stories.

That being said it is trusted a lot more than CCN & Foxnews which are the other two news sources that are on cable TV (neither are blocked at the moment).

I wouldn't really say that the BBC has a China-friendly stance. I would say that it tries to be more objective most of the time (which I agree with when compared to CCN & Fox News).
IMO the git/github scenario was the least harmful because git is actually decentralized. If github goes down or turns bad, the exodus to a new platform would happen faster than it happened on sourceforge. The SaaS should be walking on eggshells by design—that can only happen with real decentralization at the protocol layer, like git but unlike smtp or xmpp. That way we are just freeloading off whatever cloud company wants to take us before we jump ship.
I don't think it's about a need to add bloated images, it's actually reverse : putting the full unoptimized version of an image is the default, and they don't take the time to improve this because they don't feel the need to (or they may have other things priorised)
And the platforms become middlemen. Infact, they are the definition of middlemen.

What needs to happen is a standardization and commodification of different platforms. I think Elizabeth Warren has this as a part of her campaign.
I am not sure if people understand what kind of hellhole is IT in general.
i3 tire are notoriously expensive. People call them "bicycle tires" as they are large in diameter and very narrow, and they also have different sizes back and front.
Using the jet stream for airship transportation of cargo and hydrogen
Now why can’t we build nuclear plants underground? Seems like that would be pretty safe.

Or build them in a depression and flood it with water if there’s a major problem. Or build them on a floating platform in the ocean and simply sink it if something goes wrong?
It's worth mentioning, at 10k miles per year this driver is significantly above the UK average of 7k. EVs are more advantageous the more they are driven, anyone buying one should do the math for their expected mileage.
The answer is almost always economics.

Unfortunately, in modern society, or really since the human condition has existed, we address symptoms and short-term fixes not root cause analysis and long term fixes.

Criminals don't usually want to be criminals, but sometimes that life is alternatively better. For instance, cartels in Mexico or mafias in general sometimes offer a better quality of life and protection that regular citizens don't get, so it is an attracting force.

We could fight cartels with guns and enforcers, leading to ramped up violence all around and making a health issue a dangerous violent criminal one that decreases harm reduction and increases addiction, production issues and safety issues.

Or to get at the root cause, we could fight cartels by ending the drug war taking away their massive hundreds of billions of annual black market funds, which gives them power of nation states over decades, and shift that to the legal market to help regulate and make recreational/health uses safer with harm reduction and addition support, as well as providing economic plans to give people a positive legal market choice.

Unfortunately we choose wrong largely because of propaganda by the military and prison industrial complexes and the incessant pressing haphazard decisions to blame, fight and go to war with the human condition when health/medical/personal freedom matters are criminalized.

We go to war on everything as a solution to peace and quality of life... surveillance state comes from that same corrupted/short-term thinking place.

The surveillance state has been going on for decades now in all major countries, there probably isn't much actual detective or investigative work even being done anymore, nor a case by case analysis for justification of these methods, just massive privacy breaches and lots of data noise. Smart criminals and corporate espionage will learn how to use that lack of investigative skill and manipulate the surveillance data, or gain access to it to it and dominate.
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Computational topic-modeling perspective–Philosophy of Science journal 1934-2015
That would be amazing... I've never tried a spin class but if I knew that I could play Mario Kart or Burnout or something like that on the bike... what an idea!
Looking at Ticketmaster or the Apple app store it seems that a free market will lead to monopoly behavior once players grow beyond a certain size.
Three year leases are common in the UK
TCO is supposed to include the total cost; buy a car that didn't cost 17,400 and your price goes down considerably.

Cost of car: 17,400
Fuel: 712.99
Maintenance: 3,056.08
Other: 940
TCO over 3 years: 22,108

Buy a 5,000 used car, and your 3-year TCO goes down to 9,708. But that's gonna be gas powered, so you have to lower the maintenance and raise the insurance and gas. And higher cost per mile means the amount of miles you drive matters more.
Interesting word choice, maybe. Consider the "banality of evil". We like to think of it as something sensational, perpetrated by outlier individuals or small groups of extremists. In fact, it's everyday acts that cause greater harm in the long run. Buying a product that destroys the environment. Or yourself. Tolerating a system that burdens individuals and even entire countries with unrepayable debt. And so on. All quite banal.
Assessment methods for athletes’ self-talk [pdf]
"What needs to happen is a standardization and commodification of different platforms."

Exactly. Right now the seller gets commodified instead of the middleman.
Too bad, AFAIK, the i3 REX (with range extender gasoline engine) is hobbled by a tiny gasoline tank. The total range is something like 200 km: 100 electric and 100 gasoline.

With my current car I can drive to the summer cottage and back with one tank. It's just carefree and convenient. With an i3, even when starting with full charge, one would have to tank about halfway each way.

It is hard for me to understand such design decisions. I have heard that in some countries the gasoline range must be less than electric range to secure some tax credit.

Edit:

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_i3

REx 60 Ah: 116 km (72 mi), Total: 241 km (150 mi)

REx 94 Ah: 156 km (97 mi), Total: 290 km (180 mi)[12]
Since it was added, my favourite way to do API requests is IntelliJ Http client

https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/http-client-in-product-c...

You just write the requests. That's it. Not much of an interface or anything.

It also supports creating requests from a cURL command (so in Chromium devtools you can copy the cURL request and then paste it in IntelliJ).
18 Years of iTunes Design History
We may have to revisit that rule for electrics.

Or one option is that we normally don’t let li-ion batteries discharge completely to preserve battery life but that could still count toward your reserve with the right software.

Or I believe there are some existing one time use batteries that are way more entry dense than li-ion? Perhaps those could be part of the system just for emergency use and to meet reserve requirements.
What percentage of your users are on IE11?
Did you measure if there's at least one user on IE11?
The problem is the division after truncation. That division by a power of 10 can produce errors in binary.