skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That some ethnic groups disproportionally are more likely to suffer from poverty is caused by racism. It’s not possible to fix that problem without addressing racism. Yes, not all poverty is caused by racism, but some clearly is. So if you’re starting from the position of not addressing racism, you’re limiting what you can accomplish.
The JavaScript ecosystem is a cess pool, horrible decisions everywhere.

Our build logs have JS library maintainers e-begging for money, e-begging for jobs and so on, its pathetic (esp. considering the crud code in them).

The bloat and resource usage is out of control too.

Time to start over I think.
A slightly more plausible example is “Who knows John?”. I think about turning to triple stores when I’m still exploring an application domain and don’t know what data access patterns will look like yet. Something like a hexastore that maintains full indexes for all query orders seems like a reasonable compromise for read-heavy applications in the prototype stage.
I'm going to suggest (without living in LA - I might be wrong) that LA needs a mix. A grid on the neighborhood level going to many distributed hubs with express lines to other hubs. Go to the local store or school - the grid works well. Getting across town the grid isn't so nice because there are too many stops.
I know, but that doesn't answer my question. I'm not asking which government prioritizes freedom. I'm asking which country prioritizes freedom.

edit: also, could you explain why philosophy caused you to move around the world? You mention this on your web page ;)
You can use sin/cos to drive leg animations procedurally. This works particularly well with things like arachnids.

Use one value to drive the forward/backwards motion of the leg. Use the other to drive the up/ down motion of the leg, although you want to clamp the range from 0.0 to 1.0 so the foot doesn't clip under the floor (although you could use realtime inverse kinematics to prevent that as well, in a game engine with reasonable IK support such as UE4).

You'll also need to negate the values for the leg on the opposing side of the body, and keep flipping those values for each pair from front to back (ie. the third pair matches the first pair, the fourth pair matches the second pair).

See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtHzpX0FCFY for an example of a (hand) animated spider gait.
Not only wave length, but also beam width. The laser is spatially very compact. Radio waves need larger antenna apertures to be that focused. It's hard to get tight spatial resolution with a beam that looks like a balloon animal.

Also, multipath and time-of-flight is difficult with radio waves, and the EM reflectance is weirder. Light is just much more convenient for this purpose. But - it's not outside of the realm of possible.
This has always been an insane "feature" of npm: the developers of a package can -- at any time -- message me whenever I install a version of it.

An ad is an obviously obnoxious form of this, but for years there's been the vomit of dumb messages

Library XYZ is now Library XYZ2. Please upgrade and thanks for all the love. =D

WHY IS THIS EVEN A THING?

Build systems/package management systems should be hermetic and reproducible. Touching existing stuff after you've published it is just wrong.

If I wanted to see what things you've done since a particular version, I would look at your version control history, or https://www.npmjs.com/advisories
Announcing 31 new Azure edge sites
Ask HN: Tackling Loneliness
https://www.city-journal.org/decline-of-family-loneliness-epidemic
There was quite a spirited discussion about this recently:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20116699

The discussion highlighted these problems:
1) neighbors feel awkward introducing themselves
2) people are lonely

I am going through Startup school tackling the above problems. Approach:
1) at a minimum, users create a small paragraph every 2 weeks. This creates a sense of familiarity with the writer, thus removing the awkwardness of introducing oneself or continuing previous conversations.
2) people bond over some characteristics - interests, geographical location of origin (from Kentucky, India etc) and family status (young family, single....)
3) the focus is on face to face relationship, so need to be geographically near.

To this end, platform capabilities:
1) Allow a push notification every week or two weeks of the created paragraph to friends of users.
2) Search criteria by hobbies, geographical location of origin, family status and nearness.
3) Recommend neutral activities such as poker, a beer, or show and tell (stamp collection, new car ...) to neighbors
who are "following" each other.

How does this sound?

Any suggestions?

Here is the MVP developed so far as part of the Starup school.
https://its-near.me
Headline seems overly editorialized.

Granted, I didn’t read the whole thread, but I didn’t see any indication that Spotify don’t have usage statistics on widgets and I also didn’t see any indication of actual customer loss.
You could build a ghetto imaging RADAR using RSSI and phase inference, sure, but once you started optimizing it past the parlor trick phase (pun intended), you'd quickly find yourself reinventing traditional imaging RADAR, which is very much a thing.
I would take it even farther than that and say that people vastly overestimate the time it takes to get good at most things. It might take 10,000 hours (or more) to be considered an expert pianist, but you could spend a tenth that much time getting good enough to impress everyone you know with a few songs at parties, and with just 50 hours of practice, you'll be better at the piano than basically everyone you know (you might not be "good", but a lot of people are also easily impressed, if impressing people is your thing.)

I think this is true of practically everything that we don't personally make a profession of. A few tens of hours doing carpentry, fiddling with plumbing, or hooking up electronics, and you'll seem super handy to someone with no experience. What passes for expert-level in a lot of arenas is more like what an actual expert would consider passing familiarity, but passing familiarity is enough to feel good and to be really helpful to your community in a lot of circumstances.

I agree completely about hobbies. I think I read somewhere long ago that we ended up with a zillion apps for ordering food because that's the kind of thing that college kids think about. If we all learn a lot more about a lot of things, we'll end up with a much more interesting tech-ecosystem.
Don't know about air mail, but for maritime and rail transport, there is much more going from China to the EU or US than in the other direction by volume.

This means cargo carriers have to send back empty containers to China.

As a result, it's cheaper to book a container, from, say, Antwerp to Shanghai than the reverse. The difference can be quite substantial, potentially hundreds of USD per container.

For the other parts of the trip I don't have any hard info but I would think rail and truck is cheaper in China per km when converted to USD.
I would love to see a blog post explaining the non-technical interaction for something like this. Is it a single person that understands all the networking plus the whole software stack, from HA-Proxy to the SSH hosts, or is it a team of people working together on the problem?

I feel like everyone involved would have to be more eager to solve the problem than worrying about assigning blame. Does that work because it's all within the same company or does GitLab make extra effort to dis-incentivize blame shifting and other unproductive behavior?

In my life (all small scale - local vendors) I call people and the only answer I ever get is roughly "our stuff if perfect. It's you."
I doubt he's open to civil suit - at least from Google: both parties are bound by an arbitration agreement that preceded the Uber debacle.
"Boneless wings" are nothing more than chicken nuggets with a fancy name.

When I cook any recipe with chicken, I replace the chicken breast with boneless thighs (Which actually is thigh meat with the bones removed), and it comes out so much better.
https://transportgeography.org/?page_id=1762

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_tran...

I am trying really hard to not post a bunch of expletives here, too many people on HN downvote facts, even with sources (my fault for thinking everyone has a brain and can use Google or something). Wtf happened to this site...
I meant the willpower aspect in my comment and I agree with your analysis, with a caveat that out of two societal problems, obesity is better than starvation, which was the reality for most people until recently.
Just look at the "sheepskin effect" (most of benefit of college is in the final degree-granting year) and the representation of Yale, Harvard, and Columbia among Supreme Court Justices (and other elite positions).

Furthermore, the model explains some other behavior, such as colleges attempting limit the number of certain minorities that would otherwise be over-represented based on test scores. Specifically, Harvard's quota on Jewish applicants in 1922 and their current lawsuit alleging anti-asian discrimination.
Heh, that's probably it. Thanks for the reminder.
The title of the article says “this happens”, but then body continues with “but it looks like it doesn’t matter”. It’s clickbait.
Fairly sure I've seen an MIT paper on passive wifi imaging; including seeing humans through walls.
Says company who refuses to implement VP9 (because other company doesn't want to spend on x264 licenses).

Result is power waste on the order of small country.

p.s. glad Safari finally shows offending Safari tab name in Activity Monitor (lately it's Twitters service worker that rip 100% CPU).
Nuclear for power no longer makes sense; wind, solar and batteries are just too cheap.

Nuclear for heat makes more sense.
Appreciate your interest, Lee. Coursicle is a pretty cool product: lots of users and engagement and really nailed the B2C2B play.

I'm inclined to agree that the best Higher Ed products are not actually all that great. Some of the VC's that I've spoken with joke that a B+ product in Higher Ed is a unicorn.

As for the CIO's - we're able to standardize a lot of that using something called the HECVAT which is basically a tell all for security reviews. If you're interested in learning more, looks like you have a super interesting github and would love to connect, just shoot me your email
This phenomenon (specifically, body breaking down muscles), is a very practical, and doesn't really need studies.

When doing bodybuilding (or sports in general), one can very easily measure their own bodyfat, and losing more muscle than fat is the enemy #1 during diet cycles (whose objective in fact is to minimize muscle loss and maximize fat loss).

Of course, "plenty of adipose stores" is relative. I guess that if one is 30% BF and never does any activity, as soon as they start to lift some weights, they'll put muscles and lose fat quickly for some time, independently of the calories deficit.

The other exception is when one takes anabolic steroids.
Yeah because the single largest logistics system in the world knows nothing about transportation. You free market only people really are blind to reality. The US government is the single best move of people and goods on the planet. We literally run our military on logistics. Show me any real private industry that runs their transportation as efficiently as a government one with the limited resources and requirements for service that public does. You know how the private market makes money? They cut out the poor people and inefficient routes which public industry can't do because their mission is to actual serve the community instead of shareholders.
I think you mean "than", not "then". "than" is the word that fits in those phrases.
Are we talking about RSS specifically or a syndication feed generally (i.e., "RSS" proverbially)?

Would Atom and JSON Feed be the best two to implement?

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_feed
I just use Emacs/elfeed[1] It's simple and fast with good tagging/searching. Thunderbird also supports RSS feeds.

[1]: https://github.com/skeeto/elfeed
> In other words, the accusation is that he stole technology that was the output of the entire Project Chauffeur team, not simply stuff of his own creation.

Even "stuff of his own creation" that he created for Google while an employee there would be Google's intellectual property (assuming the usual terms of employment), and if he took it with him after leaving, it would still be theft.
Is anyone using presidio in production?
I would be okay with that if Apple introduced a standard in the RSS feed that allowed subscription, paid for podcasts that worked across apps. I’m all for a business model that lets me give companies money and they give me stuff as opposed to advertising.
>>Levandowski was paid a bonus of $120 million while at Google, which is more money than any reasonable person will need for several lifetimes.

$120 Mil is about half after taxes. Or nothing, depending on the crowd Levandowski hang out with or wanted to join. Private jets, Aspen ranches etc etc cost a lot of money... IMO he felt he would get away with it and become a billionaire. Fame and billions might not let you enjoy your tens of millions.
You'll need less hours for your second thing if there are concepts that you can translate, or if you maybe start with a third thing in between that can be a bridge between the other things.
Apple is doing really good things in Safari for privacy and for the web, but removing support for RSS was surely not one of them.
> Light is just much more convenient for this purpose

With RADAR you get phase information, which helps a lot, and now that 60GHz wifi is a thing the balloon animal has a manageable size :)
Ask HN: Is hardware design disappearing in EU?
I've been working for 10 years in hardware design (schematic, layout, product design, etc..) now, and I find that the available pool of jobs is thinning out very rapidly.

Most of what there's left is jobs where no actual design is happening, just fast prototyping and duct-taping raspberry pis and arduinos into something to get (mostly public) funding flowing for a while.

As someone who has work with high-value added technologies like DDR4 or PCI-e, I find my skills seem to be becoming less and less useful.

At the same time, all I hear is that rapid prototyping, 3D printing and fast PCB production are increasing the number of jobs, not decreasing them.

I find this situation very paradoxical, and I wonder if this kind of feeling is common between other professionals in this field.

Also, to take advantage of the super-technical audience on HN, I've been thinking if I could transition into a software development career, so any thoughts or advice on how to do that (my current programming professional experience is limited mostly to C) would be very helpful.
Perhaps they enjoy not having their website marred by online advertisements?
They are pretty different. They have similar syntax, and their type systems are similarly strong, but beyond that they are pretty different.

Haskell has a huge syntax and a ton of language features. It has a big ecosystem. Haskell is very mathy. Elm is the opposite in each of those regards.
> Leg and thigh meat has so much more flavor and is much more juicy than breast meat.

It's only “much more juicy” if you prepare or cook the breast meat wrong. Of course, you often do that if you you cook them together since dark meat needs to be cooked to a higher temperature for food safety reasons.

But, yeah, dark meat has a lot more flavor (and dark meat cooked on the bone has the best.)
Excellent sources!
I wrote a frontend https://github.com/jeena/feedthemonkey for TT-RSS and I only subscribe to feeds with full articles which I can read offline.
I thought, the idea of the parent was to teach the user how to follow redirects.
Power saving is great, except when it breaks apps.

Unfortunately, Webkit has broken certain web apps by their power saving features.

For example, on iOS, I have a Pandora-like web app that plays music. When my app is in the background and the current song ends, it won't play the next song because iOS has suspended Javascript execution in the name of power saving. I'm not doing any active JS, just an event handler for audio.ended event. The event handler never fires when my app is the in background or when the screen is off, thus, I can't play the next song. This effectively makes it impossible to build a functioning audio app/radio station on iOS using web technologies.

I've reported this issue to Apple some 2 years ago, but they still haven't fixed it.

Bonus: as of iOS 12, it also breaks web apps that are packaged with Cordova and published into the App Store.
> ... Computable physics would be extremely useful.

Yeah, undoubtedly, but that has nothing to do with it being true.

Wolfram doesn't make the case, at all, that it might be true, nor does he suggest any reason a CA might be a better model than the Schroedinger equation, or a way of searching for CA oriented models. The fact that modeling physical equations is difficult on a Turing machine is probably telling you something interesting about nature, rather than telling you to dispose of equations as models of reality.

The whole thing is about as useful as Tipler's idea that God is a supercomputer at the end of the universe. Maybe thought provoking for certain kinds of people, but not helpful at all in the business of figuring out how the universe works, or useful things to do on a computer. It's basically an exotic form of science fiction with a higher than average cognitive load.
Consent power dynamics matter for GDPR
Judea Pearl: To Build Truly Intelligent Machines, Teach Them Cause and Effect
Is this a rhetorical question or a real one?
> My guess is that the company just hires dual citizens to avoid visa issues.

This isn't related, the company can hire anyone they want to man the trucks. Do it often, and you register with FAST.

> US lets you do personal imports up to US$800 per import without taxes/duties, so they limit it to that.

That only applies to personal good, not things you're bringing for commercial purposes, and there's a minimum away-from-the-country time.
People use Atom and RSS almost interchangeably. Generally, it doesn't really matter which one of the two you support, nearly everything does both, I'd personally tend towards Atom.

IMHO, JSON Feed is basically irrelevant: It adds little to no functionality, development seems to have stalled after a short initial burst of enthusiasm and as far as I know nothing supports it but not Atom.
I’ve been on macOS (OS X) for over a decade, never used Safari as the default browser, and have no idea what you’re referring to.
"Unfortunately, eating healthy is hard and kinda' sucks. Egg whites and chicken + broccoli gets old pretty fast."

I welcome any opportunity to point to almond butter as an extremely dense, and healthy, source of calories.

Easy to add to a smoothie.

Speaking more broadly, I would have a hard time with IF, etc., were it not for shifting about 20-30% of my calorie input to nuts, generally. Mostly raw in form.
Bypass XSS Protection with xmp, noscript, noframes.. etc.
Taking PCB design files and using them at a competing company absolutely is IP theft. I'm honestly surprised anyone would think they could even get away with this; the old company just has to get their hands on one of the competitor's units and open it up and look at it.
Does it still work reliably? I used it on a Windows 10 machine a few years ago, but then it stopped being maintained:

http://www.classicshell.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=8147

... which is a huge shame, as that single app alone made Windows 10 a significantly less frustrating experience.
I always wondered what Max Headroom was up to these days.
@fr0styMatt88 we've come to the same conclusion as well. We're all very argumentative online. We get sucked into these bubbles of discussion where we believe everyone else has the same critical thinking skills as we do. The problem is that the playing field on most social networks where you would otherwise debate these ideas is leveled where there is no opportunity cost to having a bad opinion. Yes, people can like each others posts, but there is no actual cost to them. I can give out millions of likes and only spend my time.

We were in the same boat you were, so we're building a solution to that problem. We're dubbing it a Social Debate Network called TruStory. We break the habit by posting our claims and arguments to beta.trustory.io

The network rewards open-mindedness, transparency, and humility. The problem with social networks is that they incentive all discourse. With TruStory, we're particular with what is incentivized to the benefit of those who would like to make progress through substantive debate. If someone writes something you disagree with, you can challenge it, though the finer tuned debate functionality around counterarguments are coming a bit later, we have a lot for what we are calling our beta.

We're still pretty early and are in the process of building out a lot of features and functions, but would love to have you join and give us feedback on what you think of the platform as we evolve! So far the community we've developed around productive debating has been awesome and they love the product given where it currently is in the roadmap. Everyone is open to learning from one another. If you want, you can email me: expherience@gmail.com and we can get you plugged into our Slack community!

Website: beta.trustory.io
Might be valuable if it reacted the same way in all environments (not always the case). And if someone answered faster (correctly - without sending them down an unrelated rabbit hole too!) then they could have found the answer out by just experimenting.

Don't get me wrong - I'm a huge fan of community support, but sometimes it's faster to just try things and see how the systems reacts.

Not to say you can't do both in parallel; and they might have - you aren't going to detail everything you did in a writeup like this.

As others said, I really enjoy reading write-ups like these. Who needs fiction when you have real world mysteries to solve?
China's Xiaomi is moving into India's consumer-lending market
They're talking about this story: https://qz.com/1355672/stacking-concrete-blocks-is-a-surpris...
Induced demand is unmet demand. Rural towns have no problem getting head of demand by building more. It is only in dense cities that nobody builds enough roads to meet the unmet demand for roads.

Of course I didn't mention cost above. A rural area can meet its demand with a cheap asphalt two lane road. A city would need dozens of levels of bridges at a much higher prize to get ahead of demand. Which is why cities should look to transit which is not cost effective for rural areas.
Humans are really good at adapting to new situations; even if climate change causes a massive reduction in population and standard of living, I’m confident that some humans will survive.

I don’t know what the solutions will look like, but sci-fi authors have shown us some semi-plausible solutions: domed, climate controlled cities here or elsewhere in the solar system; generation ships that aren’t dependent on any planet; a reversion to small tribal societies.
This is among other things is what the book Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman is about.

Totally recommended read.
Does anyone have a more ELI5 explanation?
I wrote a simulation that kinda behaved like this, without explicit code that actually started to behave like a lifeform about 8 years ago, here's a video https://youtu.be/OXceSiSEXIM
You're right that not all of them have tracking. The ones with full tracking are AliExpress Standard Shipping and ePacket.

Not that there's a noticeable difference in shipping cost: in some ePacket cases, the shipping cost was $0, even when the product itself was a $2.50 microcontroller board.
Combining the power of R and Python with reticulate
iPhone faces sales ban threat due to computer chip patent battle
What's Next for R?