skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it all started with WoW, when they realized how much more money they could make by going for things with the most mainstream appeal (which is why they now have Overwatch and Heroes of the Storm and such). It's way more bang for their buck compared to making a true improvement on a classic like Warcraft. Many other entertainment companies have realized the same, once they've gotten big enough.

Starcraft 2 is still quite good, though, IMO, and they still pay a lot of attention to keeping it as balanced as possible. I still find the high-level tournaments very entertaining to watch.
LCDs don't work like that, they block the back-light with polarization:

http://soft-matter.seas.harvard.edu/index.php/Phase_transiti...
There Is No Tech Backlash, Worse We Think There Is One
Choose a Career, Not a Job
I don't know enough about the history of journalism to give a satisfying answer.

I consider "being the newspaper of record" to be an ideal. It is almost certain that anyone striving for the ideal will fail at times. Do I think the NYTimes ideals were lies when they written? No. I believe the organization tried as a whole. Even if individually or collectively they fell short at times.

But I don't think that is their ideal at this moment in time. Their new ideal is one of activism. Which I personally find disappointing.
Nice!

6502's are fun to play with and relatively easy to put together a system with one.

There's still quite a community of us building new systems with the 6502 on the 6502.org forums if anyone is looking for more info re: programming/hardware, hints and tips etc
Serious question:

How do these materials both perform against radar?

Will we be seeing them as stealth paints on planes or satellites?
Usually when it’s raining there isn’t much need to run the display at full brightness. It’s largely a wash.
I’ve found that a windshield at a shallow angle and RainX can negate the need for wipers at high speeds.
The lesson here is expect failure and don't do something stupid like introduce a nonnative mosquito species, even if you're sure they won't be able to breed. Because who knows, you could be wrong.
Aren't you competing for price @ upwork?, that aspect doesn't seem very attractive to me. Are you happy with your hourly rate?
Why Vinyl, Books and Magazines Will Never Go Away
That explains why their pizza isn't that good, especially compared to, say, Costco.
> If they want to have one single blade move back and forth, that's cool, but this seems like a bafflingly complex way to do it.

Some Mercedes models do this. The wiper shifts inward toward the middle of the stroke.
Same with the age 18 :)

Historical consensus, then.
And a table of pre-sliced pizza would be less prone to philosophers starving while deadlocked on acquiring utensils.
Gov bonds, corporate bonds, REITs, that today all pay USD, or Yen, or Euros, or what have you. So still based on fiat. Except this revenue basket just looks like an opaque, complex security, and we saw how well that turned out during the last financial crisis.
Language Recognition by Non-Biochemical Chemical Automata
I'm seeing that dysfunction pattern in a lot of industries. Irrelevant middle-man creating a lot of drama and fees to justify their existence when they can be easily bumped out of the way digitally....
I prefer cloudformation
To summarize:

* Multiple contingencies occurred simultaneously (loss of generation from two major generators and lost of distributed generation totalling 1,400 MW) resulting in a drop in system frequency to 49.1 Hz

* Standby generation (frequency response reserve) was deployed, totaling 1,000 MW or the largest single generation contingency and began to arrest the system frequency decline

* Just as system frequency began to recover, a third contingency occurred resulting in the loss of a further 210 MW of generation. This caused system frequency to decline again to 48.8 Hz

* Load shedding kicked in as designed and dropped 5% of load to stabilize the system

The largest loss of generation was from Hornsea offshore wind farm. The wind farm should have rode through the system disturbance, but instead its control and protection systems rapidly curtailed active power generation in response to an undamped oscillation in the response of its voltage regulator through the disturbance.

Basically, the internal voltage of the Hornsea wind farm collector system dropped due to the voltage regulator oscillations (from 35 kV nominal to 20 kV), while active power generation remained the same. Power = current * voltage, so an overcurrent condition occurred and protection systems operated to prevent overload of the wind turbine generators.

Subsynchronous oscillations (SSO), i.e. oscillations at below power frequency (50 Hz), are a known issue in power system controls that can lead to unstable or unexpected consequences during system disturbances. The reduction in system inertia caused by the replacement of large synchronous machines with asynchronous generators as wind and solar replace conventional generators exacerbates the possibility of problematic SSO because there is less damping.

Nowadays, in North America, very specific modelling is done in design stage to identify the possibility for such behaviour and ensure that if present it is adequately damped. Some system operators, such as ERCOT (Texas), require this for new wind projects. I imagine that this major occurrence will led to revisions to modelling and grid code testing standards in the UK to protect against future incidents.

All in all, kudos to Ofgem, National Grid and all other participants for producing a thorough, public technical report in just about one month.
Does he not consider Ashes of the Singularity a RTS game??
Hm, even LED TVs use something like 30W, don’t think you’d get much out of dimming a tablet sized screen.

50W for 5 hours is 250Wh, which is a mile extra range. That’s worth having.
No link to article.

Also, an article with this title was extensively discussed yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20962780
Extensive discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20962780
I think of it as a trigger, like in a database.

By now we are having unconditional triggers; but I think lambdas plus some kind of status/context/finite_state_machine could make some interesting piece of software not just for web services.

Also transaction isolation would be great. I mean, enter a lambda make some calls to whatever service and if everything is OK, commit all those changes.

If something goes wrong, do an automatic rollback.

That would have a huge impact on lambda usage since you are not leaving half-done stuff.
Rome to Florence on high speed (Freccia) trais purchased three days in advance is ~$40 for an economy fare. Is someone quoting business class?
Read long enough for this:

> “Isn’t school for learning math and science and reading,” [our son] asked us one day, “not for teachers to tell us what to think about society?”
It would be interesting to test performance of a single fibre optic thread pulled through and coated with this to see the performance output.
> Iron fluorides have more than double lithium’s capacity of traditional cobalt- or nickel-based cathodes. In addition, iron is 1/300th the cost of cobalt and 1/150th the cost of nickel.

I'm curious how much the cost of cobalt/nickel is relative to the whole battery's cost.

The lowered geopolitical risks and general availability could be significant regardless.
How to build your startup product idea with ZIZO design
and fb will be forced to create a mechanism that bans those exchanges or ppl who use them. being centralized is an achilee's heel for a cryptocurrency
Could you link the sternum stretch thing?
It will be interesting to see how the U1 chip fits into Apple's widely expected 2020 AR glasses rollout
I clicked your links and don't see any replies from you to those comments.
Makes gravel bikes even more attractive.
Obituary: Joan Johnson, the leader of a black hair care revolution
Self limiting is needed.
HK continues to thrive under Chinese rule.
Correct me off I'm wrong but wouldn't livestock grazing in previously uninhabitable regions have effects like reducing foliage and attendant erosion? This is the same reason the state parks where I live require you to stay on trail when the trail is maintained. The tens of thousands of people walking wherever have destroyed some hillsides by damaging foliage and causing erosion.
It is an inherent property of the chemistry. It's a property of the electrode materials and how they release/accept electrons during oxidation/reduction (with voltage being a measure of the energy transferred per electron). Keyword is "Standard electrode potential".
My understanding is this shouldn't be necessary. If you only start using your SSL cert after your origin is protected behind Cloudflare, and don't serve traffic to anything except Cloudflare's CDN IP ranges, your real IP can't be discovered through Shodan, Censys, or any other technique.

And even if you don't lock it down to their CDN, it may still never be discovered if your origin only serves the relevant content when a specific host header and SNI are passed (rather than served by default regardless of host header or SNI), which Censys/Shodan may never try. Someone could still scan a huge chunk of the Internet to try to look specifically for your origin, though. Anyone using Cloudflare or a similar CDN should always spend the minute or so it requires to restrict inbound 80/443 to only Cloudflare's published IPs at https://www.cloudflare.com/ips/
The children of Donor H898 – 12 autistic children fathered by same sperm donor
I really hope Apple can show enough restraint to not make these glasses cameras or video recorders like Google glass.
Well, as an old-school "ideological informational-freedom anarchist", "information wants to be free" for me was always mostly about the Internet as a workaround against censorship, and domination via propaganda.
I don't want to have to add a photo to my profile. Doge.jpg! I choose you!

Once a value in the "city" line of salary selection is selected, I can't unselect it. If all I want is remote work, and I accidentally click that line there is no way (that I found) to undo it. Except for starting over. Which I did.

I'm interested in what you do for a "profile review".
For us Russians, it's a very welcome feature. Our government illegally does mass-scale censorship/blocking of websites, making the Internet almost unusable without commercial VPN, and it looks like soon commercial VPN services would be blocked too. This DoH feature might help to combat the problem without complex measures.
Here's a little something to get you started:

https://gist.github.com/jeffallen6767/ceeb804c19ac998f877607...
ah, yeah the old "GMO is same mechanism as evolution" argument.

But unfortunately it's also completely wrong. Evolution is local optimization (walking around Australia in search for the highest mountain), whereas GMOs are global optimization (flying to the Himalayas).

For another counterexample, natural nuclear reactors exist (i.e. can happen "naturally", because chance), but we're still concerned about artificial (engineered) nuclear reactors, because they can have much worse consequences than what could happen just by chance.
My biggest issue with CloudFormation is that it absolutely refused to start managing any resource it didn't create. "terraform import" is clumsy but better than nothing.

I always thought CloudFormation was also less extensible, but it looks like they have Lambda-based macros now, which might actually be less hassle than writing gRPC plugin servers for Terraform.

Now I need to look up how to extend Pulumi. I'm reluctant to use anything that will require generating a lot of Go code.
The problem is the reader world is bifurcating. It is no longer viable to write "for the middle" of the audience.

The two profitable price-quality points are:

- Cheap content for the masses (lowest common denominator, ad supported)

- Deep content for the vested (at a high price point)

"The middle" graces you with:

- High cost to produce (research, depth, diction)

- Limited audience

- Zero willingness to pay

A writer demanding the world take them seriously is the last step on the way down.... performance begets entitlement, not the reverse. There are critical writers in the business world: those who write landing pages, build core content, drive desirable activity. They are often very well paid and - in the event they aren't - are frequently positioned to go out on their own as an independent publisher. It's the ones that write what in retrospect was the filler who tend to complain....
Second the Lite Salt approach. After you adapt it seems just like regular salt--but with half the sodium and it provides the potassium.
>The best part was that there was zero quality control, because anyone could edit anyone's map, so you constantly encountered variations and remixes of popular maps. Apart from a handful of very popular main maps, you often had no idea what you were going to get.

Absolutely the best part. It was so easy to modify maps and just try stuff. You could play a brand new game every night. So much creative flourishing, constantly inventing multiple genres. You might even give it credit for AutoChess since the Dota mod was inspired by a similar Pokemon WC3 map.

It looks like the most comprehensive map archive site went down and never came back up -- all those maps will be lost in time.
"[C]onfront[ing] their own psychological and existential voids" is a luxury in which parents should indulge only after making sure their children are all right.

When you have a kid, the first duty is for the kid to be alright. Navel-gazing is only constructive for the kid when it improves the kid's situation.
EVs and security is a fun topic, including obvious sarcasm. They generally are more secure for 3 reasons:

1) hardfail on revocation checks
2) you can't get around any errors generated by an EV
3) you can't fake them by truststore manipulation (except ie and maybe edge) as the ev roots are hard compiled into the browser and not dependent on the external trust store.

Validation would have been a 4th reasons if it wouldn't be for all the obvious problems with it especially lately.

The problem is what people imply or are made to imply from different cert types.

Back in the day people were told to just check for the lock, which obviously is dumb considering now everyone can get a dv for free.

Then with EV CAs told people that sites with ev are more trustworthy. Obviously nonsense considering the excluded usages of EVs in the cabforum documents. EVs are only supposed to make a hard link between an offline and online legal entity, and even that failed with stripe.ian.sh (although that's not exactly the fault of EVs)

EVs now get so much higher implied security that the real vs implied security ratio is obviously very ugly while DVs becoming standard obviously have much more real security than implied (if people check the urlbar correctly)
What if facebook allowed libra holders to hold elections and vote for the leadership of the project? They could build the worlds first virtual state, arguably a very popular and populous one.
"Arab World" is perfectly acceptable. It's understood to mean the 22 Arabic-speaking states from the Maghreb, the Horn of Africa and the Middle East.[1] See also the Arab League which represents the Arab World.

[1] http://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/arab-countries/
The only lessons to be learned from Jurassic Park are

a) Michael Crichton is a better writer than people think
b) Wow, this CGI thing is going to be huge!

It's fiction. It did well because it tapped into the zeitgeist and gave form to people's fears. It is not evidence that those fears are justified.
Shoe-Fitting Fluoroscope
And outside of AWS?
Yea, I'm looking for the SSH CA (certificate authority, the one that generates/signs the ssh certs for end users) to do more granular authorization. Or, something associated with the CA.

Eg, UserA only has been granted access to ServerB, so only show them ServerB as a target and reject all others.
If you're citing Jurassic Park as your source, I'm not sure how persuasive the argument is.
The beginning of the article reads... "In a joint statement, the two governments affirmed that “no private entity can claim monetary power, which is inherent to the sovereignty of nations”. Is this irony in the US that a private entity, the Federal Reserve, is in just such a position of monetary power. It's all smoke and vaping, chickens and eggs, hemp and da kine.
AWS Fargate Deep Dive
Nice. Nostalgia of playing this in elementary/middle school is great.
Ask HN: Why isn't rust-up signed for Windows? The message will scare away users
I wanted to get started with Rust and Windows popped up three different warning messages about it being unsigned. Is it safe? Why didn't the author sign it?

https://i.imgur.com/DfIEARa.png
How would they augment reality without a camera?
Well, it's already one of the site guidelines...
Follow-up serious question: if I paint my car with this stuff, can a policeman tag me with his radar gun? If I wear clothes impregnated with it, would it confuse a "smart" surveillance camera? I'm also thinking if I used it as war paint, a facial recognition cam would probably be awfully confused by what appears to be a hole in my face.
I always thought code signing was a class of its own (especially since i also saw the names of people in those, which directly contradicts EV as ev cannot be obtained by people, only legal entities like companies or govs or whatever) but okay.
It's a rough in, I guess.

Site has spelling errors, you sign in with linkedin.. but, you still have to enter all your details (job experience, skills, etc).

There's no way to change your email address, or delete your account. When you click on 'contact', you have to use email.. they don't have a build in messaging app.

I'm guessing it's very much a work in progress. Which is fine, but ... not for me yet.
Terrible example, does not encourage best practices. It recommends checking in your credit card information. A good example would show how to properly protect this information with Vault or a cloud specific secrets provider.

I can just imagine all of the exploited credit cards of devops engineers due to this.
The tracking tags are still pretty interesting, could see apple succeeding with a "tile" like device.
GDPR requests shouldn't be a lot of work, most data protection agencies provide example letters. I usually customize them a little, but it's mostly copy-paste. I guess the most laborious part is censoring and watermarking a picture/scan of your ID/passport.
Make the screens transparent.
It pretty much has to have cameras for working AR. The MS Hololens has 6 cameras.

Any solutions have to be software-side, like an external indicator light when images are saved in some form. I think Google Glass attempted that too.
Solid gold toilet stolen from London museum
> That would be well and good, except that he's talking about terms like "sexual assault" which have well-defined legal terms that fit the case at hand.

You've got it entirely backwards. The whole point made by RMS is that the accusations do not fit the well-defined legal term, thus he pointed out which crime in fact does fit the accusation: statutory rape.
I'll read up on it, thanks. I'd expect that it was a function of the electrode area or another physical property, so this interests me, thanks again.
Doesn’t that just shift the controls on corporate behavior and consolidate the controls into a political process?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Choke_Point
I was a delivery driver for dominos in the 90s. It was monumentally bad pizza back then.

It's gotten better. Not great. Better. If you haven't tried some recently, do so. You will be merely disappointed. But no longer hungry...
> Unlike most large-scale festivals, these events were not years in the making.

According BBC, any open air party first session was ‘possible humanitarian disaster’.
This is a technical impossibility right now. Any inside out tracking will need at least one camera, multiple if you want it to be good.
I’m currently building Ben’s earlier 8 bit computer. His videos and kits are great. Can’t wait to get started on the 6502.
germany has outsize influence, whether it is by choice, and whether they like it or not. Their decisions have such effects as bank bail-ins and capital controls in other euro countries
Best bet I got is a reference to the book "Seveneves" which uses a nuclear reactor buried in primarily ice asteroid. They consume the ice and use steam essentially as a propellant.
Much of boost's compilation time is a result of being so template-heavy. It's still got to parse and do much of the generic processing, even if you don't actually instantiate a template. Whether boost's style is the pinnacle of elegance or ugly as sin is still somewhat in contention, but no one wants to re-write it. I am some what put off as some one who started with C, but most of the C++ people reference it regularly as an excellent example of code style and structure.
If they put the tech into a keyfob, as suggested by the article, does that mean I would never lose my keys again?
Everybody has transparent screens on their AR googles, but how do you overlay information over real objects if the device has no clue what real objects exist and where they are? Without cameras you are restricted to being essentially another screen for your smartphone.
Ask HN: What marketing channels are working for you in 2019?
We have seen the decline of free channels in the past decade and more and more I hear of startups buying FB and IG ads to gain initial traction for their products and services.

What marketing channels are currently working for the HN community in a sustainable way?
Bad Ways to Get Data
Terraform supports multiple vendors, but your templates are not vendor-neutral, you have to rewrite them all. I don't see it as that big a win over using each vendor's native tools, as long as they all support a config managed in git.
I think that's exactly what this means, friend. /me cackles loudly
I freelance and agree that you will command higher rates with another language or speciality. Yes PHP is widely used and can get the job done just like a lot of other languages. However, I worry clients do not appreciate a professional PHP developer the same way they do a python or javascript developer.

My recipe for being a successful freelancer is to write clean, tested, maintainable code, PLUS specialize in some kind of niche. I mean specialize like crazy. I feel that employers like to hire polygot programmer employees because they envision them doing different things over a long period of time. But clients hire freelancers for very specific purposes and they only care about the immediate need right in front of them.

For example, my speciality is improving existing web applications written in python with Django or Flask frameworks. I can talk all day about monitoring errors in production, reducing response times, adding features, or improving app reliability, etc. But if someone asks me to support data science, build a new app from scratch, or an alexa skill, I decline.

You can definitely do well with Javascript, but again, I would be really good at one framework, such as Angular or React. Then I would focus that skill on a particular industry.