skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But I'm skeptical ... everyone seems willing to give away everything

Well, I hope you get your optimism back! :) FWIW, I think there's a mountain of evidence pointing in the positive direction. It might not be a majority yet, (and it doesn't take a majoriry!) but there's tons of awareness about the loss of privacy that comes with Facebook and Google, and it's growing and being reported in the mainstream press every day now. HTTPS actually is almost everywhere, and 10 years ago it was almost nowhere. GDPR happened. There are a ton of reasons to think cellular privacy is on the way. No doubt it's frustrating that it isn't here already, and no doubt that it takes time, but personally I feel like skepticism and hopelessness is on the disappearing end of this, and that it's inevitable we'll get better mobile privacy.
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Discrete is the word for that.
> Hashtables can never guarantee constant time operations.

A bit mask is a form of hash table and is guaranteed O(1) lookup for O(lg(Universe)) space.

When you have fixed universes, all kinds of options open up. I personally love vEB Trees, which can do set operations in O(lg(lg(U)))
That's not at all what he's saying. Maybe understand the article first before calling it nonsense. Kind of funny how all you people are making his point for him!
Also check out borgmatic for configuring Borg. Works well with rsync.net: https://torsion.org/borgmatic/
If you let us know about the package, we can work with you to create a variant.
And they're infuriatingly hard to block as well. But I suppose a single conversion is worth 10,000 annoyed visitors.
Those reports are used to gauge the public opinion. You "leak" that the valuation is going to be $XYZ and then watch the public comments, news reports et al to estimate how willing will the public be to buy in at this price.
I know Google makes a lot of money but a billion here and 5 there--and the forced behavior change--might make a dent in their pocketbook.
I think that a lot of statistical statements are just unintuitive and are very difficult to explain in terms people grok quickly.
Ubuntu certifies most Thinkpads:

https://certification.ubuntu.com/desktop/models?vendors=Leno...

I currently have an X1 Yoga (3rd), where Lenovo messed up modern standby on both windows and linux. Luckily they have since added standard S3 as an option in the UEFI settings.
Everything else works out of the box except the fingerprint reader. Battery life is comparable.

> I would seriously consider switching my work machine to any laptop/distro combination that would get closer to the experience one has on MacOS

In my experience hackintoshes are pretty annoying and quite far from "close enough to be productive" out of the box. Or were you comparing with a laptop where your OS of choice is preinstalled? Then "without spending time on tweaks" is trivially true; someone else did that for you already.
You'd end up with an empty reading list.
Apple Is Compensating for Being Late to the Party
These were human trafficking victims. They were raped.
>> An EV with a solar array that generated just ~0.7kwh during 6 hours of daylight, would still be charging itself an extra ~20 miles of range per day while parked.

An EV uses ~250wh/mile. This varies a bit for some, but none of them are going to come close to 20 miles in .7kwh. Maybe 3-4 at most.

The ability to use something like this when left parked at an airport would be nice, though. Though I suspect that readily available 120V outlets is actually a cheaper option in the long run, relative to deploying panels on every car.
Whenever I think about writing an ebook, I write out twenty blog post titles. If I can't get to twenty titles, I don't have enough knowledge or passion to write a whole book.

Then, the one time I wrote an ebook, I blogged each of those twenty titles. I set up a mailing list. I participated in forums on the topic, with my signature linking to the blog posts/email signup form.

Then, after I'd written the blog posts, I used leanpub to pull in the RSS for them. Then I edited them and expanded where needed.

That worked for me once, that's the path I'd take in the future.

Things to realize:

* writing a book is hard. I remember spending an hour on one sentence of my book (just testing to make sure I was correct about a statement).

* technical books have short lives. Tech moves on. That said, people are willing to spend money to save time.

* marketing is at least as hard as writing the book. Prepare to spend time doing this.

* If you aren't using the tech in your work (or won't be in the future) you better love the tech or your book will need changes and you won't want to put in the time.

Here's more about my book launch: http://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/1339
The joke was not lost on me.
Could you provide more details? Has the culture been dictated and led primarily by its CEO? I assume that culture is guided by behavior mainly from the top down.

What is the future you see?
Source on that? Most kids don't make a habit of killing local wildlife. Or are you using "kids" as a proxy for "habitat loss from rising human population"?
Von Emde Boas (VEB) Trees
I was so sure that the article would be by Ioanna Iordanou, but it isn't.

She is about to publish a book about this:

Venice's Secret Service: Organising Intelligence in the Renaissance

Amazon says it will be out in October.

https://www.amazon.de/Venices-Secret-Service-Intelligence-Re...
I seriously doubt this is the case. That's not how overhead works. Amortized across all users of the service, it will be well under 30 cents per user-month for this kind of service.
You do need lots of capital to scale rapidly (I don't sell capital for a living).

If you're a company and want to expand you either use your profits, or borrow money, the more money you borrow, the more widget machines you can buy.

The open question is how big you should grow before demonstrating profitability.
> No Greg Gutfeld sketch ?

Who?

> I think there ought to be more representation from right-leaning organizations

For a search specifically about a left-leaning organization?

> National Review, Fox News, Wall Street Journal, reason, Forbes, RT

Two of those publications have much stricter paywalls/adwalls than any of the other publications you mentioned. One is a foreign outlet that's decidedly not known for quality international reporting. One is downright obscure compared to all the others. One is actually present in the Google News results for this topic.

> Slate (wow)

Do you have something substantive to say about Slate or its inclusion in the news results?

I feel like you aren't trying to make the fairest or strongest arguments. I'm sure you could find some more valid ways to try to make a case for google news results being politically biased.
How much money was spent on it, building it, operating it, cleaning it up, and losing what had been invested in the region around it? How have these costs have been passed on to the Japanese population as taxes, fees, or in other ways? I don't think we'll ever know.

If you are arguing that because you missed something, then the figure is zero, I don't think that's a reasonable argument. I don't think that is what you are saying, right?

Whatever the amount is, if that same amount of money had been put into renewables, many of those people would still be living in their homes today, with sustainable power for the foreseeable future.

Sometimes, when there is a crisis as you mention, the alternatives have to be weighed against each other. Just because one alternative addresses the crisis, doesn't mean it is the best alternative. Sure, we can use both if absolutely necessary (renewables and nuclear being the alternatives we are talking about here) but it makes more sense to me to start with the sensible one, namely, renewables, and use both only if, repeating myself, absolutely necessary.

Nuclear energy is less sensible from a consumer standpoint because it is more centralized, has larger safety issues, creates more hazardous wastes, impacts property values more, raises anxiety levels more, and is more susceptible to corruption, big industry control, crony capitalism, cost overruns, and leads to huge tax increases imposed to pay for all these issues.

Even the property value impact alone should be enough for nobody to want to have a nuclear power plant in their area.

We should go as far as possible with renewables before resorting to a technology that has larger problems.
Wile E. Coyote has run off the edge of the cliff and yet his legs are still going and he isn't falling. But at some point he will stop, look down, look at the camera, and then fall a long, long way.

We're just waiting for the look down.
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On the Design, Implementation and Use of Laziness in R [pdf]
No where to click confirm on the cookies popup on mobile.
Does any one know how to erase "personalized search" information from being not logged-in?
You can't convert hardware into software model, the software model is necessarily an imperfect idealization, created deductively even, which thus doesn't necessarily work IRL, because fundamentally it's imagination.
Ask HN: What do you think of chainlink?
Your smart contracts connected to real world data, events and payments.
The Chainlink network provides reliable tamper-proof inputs and outputs for complex smart contracts on any blockchain.
It's not "new and immature." It has a formal specification and is used in production on devices/pcs everywhere. The comment itself was sort of vacuous and nitpicking a single aspect which is something that could be remedied through collaboration.
Yes, Softbank invested at that valuation. That's their problem, really as that's a crazy valuation.

For an IPO underwriters will look for a more reasonable number as they have to actually flog the shares to the market.

If the IPO goes ahead at 10b valuation, Softbank will have to write off a massive amount and thus they are unsurprisingly fighting against it.
CBS own the Ten Network.
1) Assange is a journalist

2) He's being tortured

3) I wasn't addressing this
Even if you are happy in your role you should be applying for a job a month and updating your resume every 2 weeks. That's the best way to know your value on the market and which skills are in demand. It also makes you feel more confident in your current role if you continue to receive interview offers.
I wonder how much of this is about timing and perception of potential public investors?

Early enough and maybe you don't get as much money, but the public money might be more willing to take a chance on who knows what might happen.

Too late and enough people have pointed out that the emperor has no clothes and people start to belive / realize it.
I just don't get it. Education is everything! How is the United States placing such a low priority on it!? It is really only a matter of time until we are blown out of the water by Asian countries, who seem to understand its importance.
I can't recommend enough watching the The Salt of the Earth[0] documentary. It's not only an impactful review of Salgado's career but also a great (and visual) way to expand our knowledge about the world and its recent history.

[0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3674140/
I read about this wet bulb temperature thing too, but then I wondered what about saunas? Super humid, can't lose energy by sweating, hotter than human body temperature, yet people stay in them for hours? (Not me personally, I don't like saunas)
I was thinking the same. Depends on what "random" actually means. If you want to "pick one of these that you haven't already", a LFSR is great. Less so if you want truly random, or if anyone will start looking closely.
Sometimes paying for services that you don't use has unseen benefits to parts of your life and the wider community. Consistently well funded services can develop institutional knowledge and allow greater dissemenation of the fruits of labour.
The salaries of welders does seem a bit over-hyped. That said, there are people out there working in the trades making decent money. I have a couple of friends that went to school to be electrical lineman and both are making close to 6 figures now with minimal student loans. I think it just requires a little bit of research and perhaps the help of a decent high school career counselor.

Average salary of electrical lineman: https://www.salary.com/research/salary/benchmark/lineman-sal...
Unfortunately, it's because they still work. The designer may not want them, but the marketers do.
I don't think designers want them. The data probably shows that it increases conversions or whatever metric, so the product owners and business pushes the designers to jam in the dark ux patterns.
Windows has WSL (2 by now). ChromeOS supports desktop linux apps. Samsung has linux on DeX.

I wouldn't be surprised if in the not too far future also macOS or iOS ship with some version of homebrew or macports included out of the box.
> You can not ever discover in a statistical test that some probability is 0 or 1

Sure you can: if you are using inferential statistics and trying to determine the population incidence of some trait and every sample has a sample incidence of exactly 1 then the population estimate will be exactly 1. And that works the same way for 0, or any other value, too.

> c is a valid speed for massive things.

No, it's not. An object with any rest mass would require infinite energy to reach c. It's an excluded upper bound, not a valid speed.
You do realize there is a second, third, and even a fourth line (and more) after this first line.
He's a founding member of a very well known journalistic enterprise and has won an award for his journalism? He performs journalism and has done so for years? He calls himself a journalist and virtually every other journalism outlet does as well?
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Has the Mystery of Skyjacker D.B. Cooper Finally Been Solved? TV Newsmans Quest
I was similarly surprised as the original commenter (without so much drama). I am just starting to look for Offline storage ideas for important files for my very very early startup And I thought rsync.net was very cool. However I think right now I will have at most 10 GB, but given that there is no option for that, I will have to concentrate the development efforts to integrate with GCS + S3 to have the offsite redundancy I have.

I think you guys could benefit form "early adoption" people like me. My company might not be a very big client now, as with any startup, we plan to grow and thus our offsite storage requirements. But for me, I prefer to spend the dev-time to integrate with a provider early once, preferably in something that will last for a long time (so I don't have to spend dev time again soon)
Tips for Buying a Laptop
I see literally no-one one this site suggesting we go to full communism, if that's what you're implying.

Carefully regulated capitalism should do fine. This is obviously not easy to achieve.
What do you think POS?
La preuve d'enjeu ou preuve de participation ou Proof-of-stake (PoS) en anglais est une méthode par laquelle une chaîne de blocs d'une crypto-monnaie vise à atteindre un consensus distribué.
This is one of my favorite pieces of historical trivia. To put it into perspective: the grandsons alive today can say "My grandfather's president was George Washington".
How to Help Your Child Succeed at School
This is a bad take and odd place to criticize Go programmers.

Go convention is often short variable names, but the only place I know where single-letter variable names is encourage is for receiver methods. https://golang.org/doc/effective_go.html#methods

In that case the definition of the single-letter variable is literally a line or two of code away.
Try sauna with multiple heat (~10 minute) - cold (1-2 minutes; immersed) cycles; some of my friends with various skin disorders reported significant improvement after 3 sessions and I could see myself their skin first dried on affected areas that then quickly recovered to almost perfect state after 3rd session. YMMV ofc.
A wonderful read on a Friday morning. Thanks for sharing.
Ask HN: BugsEverywhere was a great idea – why didn't it catch on?
The BugsEverywhere (http://docs.bugseverywhere.org/1.1.1/)project has been dormant for a good five years but the idea of including a distributed bug database alongside your code seems like a no-brainer. Several other systems (Fossil, AccuRev, Veracity) include this functionality but I'm wondering why BE didn't catch on with the CLI crowd since it can be layered on top of a variety of SCM systems.
Moral relativism does not negate good/bad/right/wrong to the point that they are equivalent to "like" and "no like". That is a radical reduction, and removes the whole process of moral reasoning people use to live a moral life.

There are plenty of examples where the "right" thing to do is not pleasant, it is not socially acceptable, etc because it is instead congruent with a greater ethical structure. Please check out some moral philosophy before throwing the whole field into a bin.
Skilled trade demand varies across the United States. Welding is not a major trade in the western North Carolina. You can jump right on over to the eastern portion of Virginia and find a large number of welding opportunities. The temp agency I work for as opportunities from 13 to 21 and beyond for 5XXX and CuNi in South Carolina, Norfolk, Knoxville, Tampa, and Columbus. Several of these go so far as to offer per diem.. When I got hired I was in initial OSHA training with a guy from VT Halter in Mississippi who came up here on per diem and was being paid 29 + per diem. The skilled trades have a good amount of opportunity if you're available and able to reside where industry is located.

This guy was fired twice for missing work. So that's just a bad sign off the rip. I think welding is being pushed too hard. Every one needs to do their research and see what trades are in demand where they reside.

12 -18

https://gmn.avionte.com/basic/posting/26693cff-8967-4b2c-a62...

https://gmn.avionte.com/basic/posting/e30dd4d1-fe81-4f71-825...

20 - 23

https://gmn.avionte.com/basic/posting/2541dfe5-4f21-41fa-aef...

https://gmn.avionte.com/basic/posting/59ec0ea9-e975-4ff8-931...

Unlisted, but based on reading 20+. Mostly 5XXX, CuNi, etc.

https://gmn.avionte.com/basic/posting/cf1967b7-0e04-4a5f-9ff...

https://gmn.avionte.com/basic/posting/b3482924-7abe-44bd-b76...

https://gmn.avionte.com/basic/posting/29c1474d-a58c-4299-aba...

https://gmn.avionte.com/basic/posting/d5ff023f-c22e-4ad9-95d...
Why do they keep making the cables shorter? 0.8m seems very impractical for applications like charging a phone.
Or incredibly arduous and you need to train for years while your actual working life is 10 years or so. I know metalworkers who can't pick up their tools any more because of the damage their bodies have sustained from their work.
Or decided to drive traffic to pages with ads from google.
This is objectively false. Taxation is you paying the government for services rendered (or, if you want to be very pedantic, access to those services, even if you don't actually use them - which, given that you're on HN, is extremely unlikely) - emergency services, roads, a military, courts of law, antitrust regulation, and far, far more. By being a citizen of your country, you are consuming these services, and therefore owe the government money. You don't like it? The vast majority of countries, including the US, allow you to leave anytime you want.

Edit: Come to think of it, using the government's services without paying tax is theft.
If you start off as an electrician, you don't have to remain an electrician forever. You can move up to managing other electricians. You can become a general contractor and manage multiple trades. You can become a real estate developer and manage your own custom or spec builds.
Welding, electric, plumbing, roofing - that's just the skill you start with, but entrepreneurship in these fields is alive and well, and the sky's the limit for ambitious people.
>will have to sell its holdings for 60% of fair value.

That makes sense, possibly in some cases if they sold now.

WeWork is big so maybe it isn't relevant but I know folks in real estate in my area and they were a bit surprised at the prices paid for what became WeWork buildings. Not every purchase in the area, but there was buzz in that community about "Who else was bidding it up that high?" and they came to find out, nobody. WeWork just paid a lot more than anyone thought it was worth. Granted maybe WeWork can afford to do that here or there.
Americans Would Pay – A Little – To Save the Planet, a Poll Shows
It never showed up in my PHD (personal health dashboard) so it may have been a brief anomaly. Shared here in case others were seeing issues.
Various flavors of a course based on "An Incremental Approach to Compiler Construction" [1] have most or all materials free online, some with excellent notes. Taught at UCSD, Northeastern, Swarthmore College:

https://ucsd-cse131-s18.github.io
https://course.ccs.neu.edu/cs4410/lec_let-and-stack_notes.ht...
https://ucsd-progsys.github.io/131-web/lectures/05-cobra.htm...

(I designed the original version, though it's improved a lot in the past few years)

[1] http://scheme2006.cs.uchicago.edu/11-ghuloum.pdf
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What country are you talking about? Also, citation needed. Underwater welding requires a very specific skill set; I can imagine the sort of people who go in to it will be daredevils but it would probably be illegal to put them in situations where the risk was bad enough to say "well below average". Plus, they are probably quite important; companies wouldn't want to risk them.
I didn't say it's _fair_, I just said it's not racist.

It's probably too much to put ordinary people under suspicion right away, but for for legal bodies it's totally reasonable if you ask me. To assume that you can run business in an authoritarian country and be totally independent from the government is plainly naive. Even if you are not formally a member of the ruling party.
In fairness, where I live in flyover country, people are pretty realistic about how much money you can get as a welder. Or carpenter. Or plumber. Or what have you. They are relatively good jobs, for around here. But everyone knows you're not gonna make six figures being a welder. Not even close. (Maybe if you're working on a pipeline, that's underwater, but even that's temporary.)
I dunno, I remember going to a talk at SXSW in 2011 about how A/B testing helps you reach local maxima but you need more to reach the next “peak”. I believe the story about Google testing 40 shades of blue was also in common currency back then.

I don’t think any of this stuff is new or undiscovered, really.
I get the sense that with some of these companies, the time to IPO is the peak valuation the company will ever achieve. That seems to be the name of the game today, to maximize returns for early investors. Legally, I don't know if there is an issue with that, but I see a moral one: you shouldn't be bringing a company public if you can't think it will grow further. It's a misuse of the public markets. And we can count many companies in 2019 and 2018 who's valuations peaked at IPO.
Ohh, how nice it is to see this comment on every single article with a subscription modal.
There is nothing wrong with vocational education. But the reality is that, on average, how well you do with college education largely depends on what degree you pursued and same is true with vocational education as well. If there is a lot of demand for your vocation, salaries will be higher regardless of whether it requires college degrees or not.
Charge $1/m and annually.