skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can watch videos like Linus Tech Tips up to 2x speed and get just as much out of it as otherwise.
RIP

I guess Dr. Floyd's work is not that famous, but in large part, the work by her and Van Jacobson unlocked the bandwidth potential of Internet. Without their work, the Internet as we all know might progress slower with 2-3 years setback.
Yeah, my first thoughts too!
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The market has built-in circuit breakers or collars to stop wholesale panic selling. It's basically a pause so everyone can stop and come to their senses.

https://www.cnbc.com/2015/08/24/when-do-circuit-breakers-kic...
The reason there are so many Thai restaurants in America
Uber Argues Driver Names Are ‘Closely Guarded Trade Secrets’
My feeling is the article entirely neglected any valid reasons for performing this exam.

I'm wondering if there are any?
No dogs are needed to conduct a random search and land your ass in jail and/or on the news.

Still illegal: Texas law on CBD oil lands grandmother in jail after DFW airport search

https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/article230704704.ht...
Inheritance laws, the tax code, spousal rights, some legal protections including in the court room, property rights, and family law are keyed around marriage. There are allowances for non-matrimonial relationships, but generally it makes your life easier or your SO’s life a lot easier from a legal, inheritance and property perspective if you’re married and one of you dies. You also receive some tax advantages while you are both alive.

Put it another way, there’s a reason marriage has existed and was pervasive on every continent every human was on, even prior to the Columbian exchange. You can go against the grain and say the government has no place qualifying your relationship, but it does have some say in that and for some good reasons.
The energy density doesn't matter if the engine efficiency goes up. Early experiments with electric engines for planes seem to suggest that efficiency may go up enough that hydrogen fuel cells may be viable, whether or not battery tech gets there.
Comparing yourself to others isn't the only potential mechanism here. It might be that you get your social "fix" from facebook and don't make new connections here, feeling worse than you otherwise would have.
You have a massive misunderstanding of what PM's do, likely because you only ever see one half of their job when you're trying to explain how something works and they're not understanding why it's needed. Trust me, if you had to deal with the OTHER side of a PM's job (dealing with upper management and answering questions about why you're three weeks behind on deliverables without giving technical explanations to people that DEFINITELY have no clue) you'd very quickly decide that it's better to have a meat shield between your team that needs to get shit done and a corporate structure that wants nothing more than to shitcan all of you and outsource you all to India.
The depth of of these companies markets can be measured in fractional inches.
Presumably ads are so valuable because people click through them and go on to purchase.

I realise I am in a minority, but I have never clicked on a digital ad and went through to buy something, and I never will.

The minute I see ads on a webpage, I automatically associate that site with trash. (Please take note HN :))

It is as if humanity cannot be trusted with technology. This creates a certain "ceiling" for us in terms of development as a species. Such a shame.
One should always be grateful to their future overlords.
Perhaps. But:

1. Much of the relief sought in an infringement suit is the equitable relief (i.e., the injunction), not necessarily monetary damages.

2. If ElasticSearch can prove that Floragunn GmBH committed willful infringement, they can avail themselves of statutory damages of $150,000 per work, or, alternatively, any profits received by Floragunn (and all ElasticSearch has to show is proof of revenues minus expenses). See 17 U.S.C. section 504.

3. The fact that you give free samples away or willfully ignore some infringing behavior is not, in my experience, a conclusive indicator of the overall value of a good or service. (And there is not, to my knowledge, a legal doctrine that says so.) Apple gives all of its Macbook purchasers MacOS for free, yet nobody would seriously claim that a court wouldn't award them millions -- if not billions -- if the source code were misappropriated.
> there is no particuliar enthusiasm towards it.

There's no particular enthusiasm towards quite a lot of things in the OCaml community :-) there are even some holdouts who don't like or use dune/opam. I wouldn't take that as a point against ReasonML/BuckleScript, which is bringing devs en masse to OCaml who would have never looked at it before.
It's all good! It's definitely a useful comparison to draw, since it's a critical piece of the puzzle on how "Western" government has evolved over the centuries in that gradual migration from absolute monarchies to democracies. It's always interesting to identify and examine those vestiges of governments old in their modern descendants, in the same way that wings, flippers, and arms can be so similar in structure yet so different in application :)
National Parks and National Forests are another place you cannot possess even if that park/forest is in a state where it is legal. Park rangers are federal police and the land falls under federal jurisdiction.
> Chmod(filename, 0777)

Nice example of something else that should have been depreciated about 35 years ago.
How we made Figma fast
New large generation (Millenials) coming to the housing market. Low interest rates driving folks to refinance. New housing is flat YoY if you look at "House Starts" statistics.
That bit of text is 64 characters long. Do people who write in these languages just totally abandon line length restrictions? In Python, PEP8 dictates that lines of code be kept to 79 characters. Personally, I wrap at 72 characters in Python unless the entire statement can be placed on a single line of 79 characters or less.
I don’t agree with this. There is a lot of value to releasing open software. I’ve learned a ton from reading other people’s code and looking over various ways to implement certain patterns. Additionally, it allows a developer to see and understand how something internally functions, which can bring clarity to the positives and trade offs the software comes with.
2 adults and part time work though is getting close.
If you just make a TUI-style app in graphics mode, is it really that much harder? Granted, there's a bit of boilerplate for setting up a drawing context, and you might want to make your own minimalistic drawing framework (because windowing toolkits might be too much), but apart from that I'm not sure it's hard. And you even get image display for free! Plus an easy upgrade path for example for minimal mousing, keyboard combinations, etc.
Anecdotally, I never got into drones because of the batteries. Everyone I met that had them absolutely loved them, but had like 4 batteries they needed to keep charged for about 15 minutes of flight time.

And quite a few tried pushing that a little too long an ended up with crashed drones. So my half cent is that batteries need to get better before people like me even consider them. Mentioned 0 times in that article.

Alternatively, drones need to get efficient enough to be solar powered, which is maybe the intent behind the acquisitions by PrecisionHawk Inc.

https://www.precisionhawk.com/blog/media/topic/precisionhawk...
I think we were at the rock bottom of Psychedelic Medical Research, research (search?) in Psychedelics never really stopped.
Fuck you bitch
The link to amiunique.com was pretty interesting. In particular, I enjoyed the webgl render. Hardware/driver dependent things such as that are.. a conundrum of anonymity.
> Yea I am amazed this quote continually keeps coming up.

People on the Internet are extremely pro-drug. People like to believe things that confirm their priors, and since nearly no one on the Internet is against marijuana legalization, the quote does normally go unchallenged.
Does only happen in comments, not in "threads"
I think this is more like a small store owned by one of your neighbors so how they do it is that they give everyone credit and just black-list all of those who don't pay

Since it's mostly cheaper items I think they can afford to do it that way and there are many people that go to this stores on a daily basis so it shouldn't cause much trouble to do it
> The minute I see ads on a webpage, I automatically associate that site with trash.

You might want to reconsider
Why? The morality depends on the size of the group? or the present wealth of the group?
Why should we give ad-tech their one millionth chance to "do the right thing"? They've proven time and time again they cannot be trusted.
VW seems to think the efficiencies of scale for EV production will catch up real fast to ICE vehicles. They think as soon as next year (and almost definitely by 2021) their EV cars will be cheaper than their equivalent ICE models.

There is going to be a really interesting tipping point in the very near future where the simplicity of electric drive trains is going to outcompete the very complicated supply chains of ICE engine parts. I've got a feeling VW is correct.
Horrible user experience, they require you to install the app or use a larger screen. What the...!!!
"The racial crap" appears to be crap media mongering primarily to those who haven't been on the receiving end of the fire hose (metaphorically or literally) some time in the past few decades. I'm sure it makes for good ratings, and the media makes the most of it, but that doesn't mean it's any less of an issue than portrayed.
To be honest this is the only useful comment in this entire thread and that's why you're getting mass downvoted by the online army of Brave shills (they are employing shills all around 4chan and reddit too). Brave has been repeatedly exploiting this website (or maybe YC just has business interest in it?) by attacking the company that made the product Brave contributed nothing to but theming and rebranding it and selling it as if it were built from scratch.
I wrote something like that: https://dev.to/yawaramin/typing-and-code-flow-in-typescript-...

I tried to be as objective as possible, since I am using TypeScript a bit in my day job (main project uses Flow though). Anyway, even when working on the simplest code example for the comparison, I still found more gotchas than I'd have expected.
Unfortunately the reason it's hard is because nobody wants these products. They don't do very much, they cost hundreds of dollars - where is the value?
Hurricane Dorian in Pictures
Is marijuana even particularly strongly associated with Blacks or Latinos?
Same here. I've honestly never cared much for Mastodon, but this client makes it a bit more appealing to me.
And I'd say the opposite. My grandfather just wanted ads gone; user experience isn't even on his radar. I've seen the thesis you've presented here before, and while it sounds plausible, I don't think it's as cut and dried as it seems.

People really do hate ads. We're inundated with them, constantly. Low grade psychological assault, at all times. I don't blame people for wanting a respite.
Yes. From an energy efficiency point of view we'd be better off burning the oil used to make gasoline in a thermal power plant.

Your comment about Tar Sands reminds me of a quote I read a long time ago about the price of coal being linked strongly to the price of diesel. Not to mention fracking boom is just a way to turn free central bank loans into Nat Gas.
I would argue that management often doesn't truly understand "Agile" beyond "software engineers should operate this way." In my organization, the engineers are willing to be disciplined with Agile practices, but product management has no interest in real planning that would achieve a manageable backlog across releases. Instead, they change release scope numerous times, and nearly every release cycle runs long because we never finish what we start--by the final iteration we are working on entirely different stories than what we groomed in iteration #1. To them, "agile" means "do what we want whenever we want it."
thanks for highlighting my opinion on this scam, I am too lazy to write the same argument every time.
Heuristic, yes. But I specifically said "deduce" to eliminate heuristics.
Hurricane Dorian forecasting shows how models have improved since Floyd in 1999
He tends to dog-whistle "burn it down" in his rhetoric while his actions wink to the entrenched interests a sort of, "don't worry, I don't mean it"
$0.75 has been deposited into your Rivian Wallet™
You're exactly right. Add in the fact that Facebook can pose this as a puzzle to be solved, and attract a steady stream of sharp young people who can solve the puzzle without being bothered too much by the ethical consequences of solving the puzzle.
CircleCI Security Incident
"then it's not a stretch to give this claim the benefit of the doubt."

Wow, where is your brain?
Be interesting to talk to someone that has real experience with those.
This. I recently worked with a company that produces drones among other things, and spoke with the head of research there.

More or less, they said they had given up on putting money into drone R&D until battery technology caught up, as they had plenty of ideas that they believed in but were unfeasible due to battery life.
Question: shouldn’t we work towards gene editing ourselves?

Isn’t that more logical?
They didn’t have a lot of money; 6.5M $ isn’t much to do robotics development. As someone else pointed out, consumer robotics is hard because shitty robots are still expensive for everyday users and are mostly useless toys.
If someone didn't read the OP and tried to go to the amiunique, the website is dot org

https://amiunique.org
Prohibition was somewhat successful. If it has lasted longer it would probably have become even more effective, since culture could change.

> Second, alcohol consumption declined dramatically during Prohibition. Cirrhosis death rates for men were 29.5 per 100,000 in 1911 and 10.7 in 1929. Admissions to state mental hospitals for alcoholic psychosis declined from 10.1 per 100,000 in 1919 to 4.7 in 1928.

> Arrests for public drunkennness and disorderly conduct declined 50 percent between 1916 and 1922. For the population as a whole, the best estimates are that consumption of alcohol declined by 30 percent to 50 percent.

> Third, violent crime did not increase dramatically during Prohibition. Homicide rates rose dramatically from 1900 to 1910 but remained roughly constant during Prohibition's 14 year rule. Organized crime may have become more visible and lurid during Prohibition, but it existed before and after.

> Fourth, following the repeal of Prohibition, alcohol consumption increased. Today, alcohol is estimated to be the cause of more than 23,000 motor vehicle deaths and is implicated in more than half of the nation's 20,000 homicides. In contrast, drugs have not yet been persuasively linked to highway fatalities and are believed to account for 10 percent to 20 percent of homicides.

https://www.nytimes.com/1989/10/16/opinion/actually-prohibit...
Where can we find CS practitioners like this now?
Keyboards can be cleaned out by wiping them, spraying them out with compressed air, or if they are really filthy, pulling off all the keycaps and soaking them in soapy water (some people put their keycaps through a dishwasher; the obsessive use an ultrasonic cleaner), and thoroughly wiping the space underneath. In extreme cases the case can be opened up and the plastic parts can be washed separately.

If a keyboard sits on a very dusty garage shelf for 20 years with no cover, sometimes dust works its way inside the switches; cleaning that out is a lot more complicated, requiring desoldering and disassembling all of the switches. Don’t do this to your keyboard, and watch out for the condition of decades-old used keyboards.

* * *

Personally I like very loud clicky keyboards, like the IBM model F or anything with clicky Alps SKCM or SKCP switches (from the 1980s–early 90s).

If you can find one in good condition and don’t mind an adapter, I quite like the Apple Extended Keyboard II from ~1990 which is reasonably quiet (likely louder than the Amazon board; if you want to further reduce the sound you could open up the case and fill the empty spaces inside with some kind of padding – I know people who have successfully damped sound with sheets of drawer liner or felt).

Tactile Cherry MX switches (or any of the many MX clones) with added o-rings or other padding are reasonably quiet. I’m not really the person to ask though. Again, filling empty spaces inside the case can do a lot to damp the sound.
Even more generally, when I've thought about getting a drone, I imagine flying it around my house a few times, take some video, and then what?

I don't really want to take it out into nature environments. That seems obnoxious where it's even allowed.

I suppose I could find clubs that fiddle with the things but I don't really have the interest.

So, basically, I have trouble imagining how I'd use them for more than a couple days.
If this had European users, will they get slugged with a 4% of their revenue fine under GDPR?
My credit union (First Tech) does wires. It goes through another bank, but they allow me to initiate it from my account etc, so there's no practical difference.
But as an index fund investor isn't the dollar amount invested in those tiny market cap companies quite small? It's unclear to me if the cumulative effect of liquidity problems for the stocks of those companies would be enough to make a sizable dent in an index fund portfolio of someone not looking to panic sell.
This is just a bit of idle speculation on my part as a former astronomer, but I wonder the extent to which the LIGO pipeline allows for non-zero eccentricities in the orbit. Because the signal-to-noise ratio is so low the pipeline has to find events by matching the observed data with precomputed templates. Thus in some sense you need to already know what you're looking for in order to find it.

My understanding is that the LIGO team generally assumes that the orbits are perfectly circular before merger. This is normally quite a good assumption because gravitational waves will circularize the orbit, so if the orbit began with any modest eccentricity the eccentricity right before zero would be nearly zero.

The interesting thing is that if the original system was not a two-body system but was a three-body system, then the influence of the third body could have driven the inner two to extremely high eccentricities (say, 0.999). Although gravitational waves would still reduce the eccentricity, there could plausibly still be a residual eccentricity of ~0.1 at merger. It's not clear to me how signals like that would match with the pre-calculated templates.

Back when I was in the field (four years ago now) there was just starting to be a pretty good awareness in astronomy about the importance of three-body systems for various astronomical events, but I had the sense that that awareness hadn't yet spread to the LIGO community.
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I think this is pretty on point. You have a lot of disaffected people who want something to change but don't see a reasonable path for the type of change they want. Instead they just make decisions towards the most amount of change, even if it isn't good change.
I've seen it in Heraklion a week ago it was really interesting to see. We also speculated a lot about it with my girlfriend :)

My ideas were

- it's a showcase of different symbols in the workshop, but why repeat them then?

- a diary, a plan, a calendar

- random doodling :)

But it's definitely one of the oldest compact discs out there.
ReasonML ints and floats both compile to JavaScript numbers. See https://bucklescript.github.io/docs/en/common-data-types#sha... for a type mapping table.
keeping up with old friends is good, but not to the point where it interferes with the now.
Hadn't noticed that. I assumed when he said it to 1400 seconds then it did come up with a solution. Makes me feel less bad then :)
Why 'Zero Day' Android Hacking Now Costs More Than iOS Attacks
https://www.google.com/search?biw=1920&bih=949&tbm=vid&ei=lE...

Subtantiating that CNN are pretty bad on this front.

It seems to me that if anyone should be pouring scorn on unsubstantiated techno-hype it's all of us here. People doing startups have the most to lose when snake-oil salesmen have their way and dominate the discussion. When the market then implodes we're left without funding and support for real technology that makes the word better. We get the reputational hit for BS we were no part of. Forgive us if those of us who are serious about technology and reality feel just a little emotional about that.

It needs to be called out by the knowledgable every time.

Especially when everyone who posts regularly here knows it to be true. Hype for snake-oil-tech is poison for us as a community, if indeed that is what we are.
Circle-CI analytics data breach
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For those unfamiliar with Stross & his site, the site name is not "anti-pope" as in "against the catholic pope". It was a drunken mistake a few decades ago-- the site name was supposed to be "autopope" (specifically autopope.uucp)

Otherwise, just like his highly entertaining books, he often offers up incisive commentary on society. Whether or not you always agree with it, it always makes for an interesting read.
In followup, turns out they didn't even lose data as claimed.

It was a case of either lying or incompetence. Hunt didn't like that and blocked me for calling it out.
Unless you're currently resident in DR Congo or North Korea, you have a lot to lose. Rock bottom is far rockier than most people can imagine. Civilization is immensely precious and remarkably fragile.
Originally the PowerWall was meant to be all recycled batteries, though there aren't generally enough vehicle batteries to recycle yet, so far as I know Tesla has never sold a PowerWall with recycled batteries.

Nissan actually drew up a plan for a PowerWall competitor before Tesla even announced theirs, but has never produced one. Nissan has claimed to actually be waiting for the point in time where Leaf and other Nissan batteries are recyclable (and also that it has so far been pleasantly surprising how long the batteries are lasting in "first use" life).
The best way to stay attentive behind the wheel is to actually be the one driving. There's virtually no way of being both attentive and passive for long periods of time. If a driver can't check their email or whatever on their phone while autopilot is on, then autopilot is not safe to put in cars. And while I'm okay with not-exactly-safe for most things people willingly consume or use, driving is not an area where it's okay to roll out a feature that may cause people to stop paying attention to the road.
Thanks for the listen. All of my tests are always using Youtube's playback controls btw.

Were you able to listen to Joe Rogan's podcast at 2x? Skip somewhere in the middle and listen for 15 seconds maybe.

You are right in that I speak slower in that video. Most of my more recent Youtube videos are unscripted so I'm just thinking about things with zero preparation, where as I script my courses word for word (which leads to faster speaking generally) but I don't have any course videos with the same audio equipment to compare side by side.

I didn't read the paper but I wonder what they classify comprehension as. Personally I wouldn't listen to hardcore technical things at 2x because understanding the words isn't usually the goal of listening to it. It would be to fully absorb and understand what you're listening to so you can apply it on your own later. There's a big difference between a mechanical understanding of the words and really "getting" what you're listening to.

I typically reserve 2x for listening to tech talks where my goal is to get a high level overview of something quickly.