skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I completely disagree. The walled garden has done far more good than harm, in practice. I like the ability to sideload, as I have needed to do on Android on several occasions. Remember the technical skill level of the audience - you are not their target.

Some level of curation is beneficial. Opting out of the curation should be essential.

Buy Android. (or some obscure non-duopoly platform)
You forgot car culture's contribution to the obesity epidemic, climate change, etc.

So yeah. Let's reduce driving. Good call.
The article is annoying, but the technology is impressive. Some videos of actual apps show a solid lock on position in the world.[1] Unclear how well this works when stressed, but at least in brightly lit areas with lots of edges the tracker can follow, it looks OK.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuO31Ro2ypg
> there is evidence of pig primate hybrids in the wild

I'm sorry, what?
The FBI does sometimes take an interest in massive ongoing fraud...
Yeah not sure why it's hyperlinked, it's a rather dull number.
If your HTML document is using a Unicode encoding like UTF-8, you shouldn’t need to enter escape codes to insert a special characters; you can just paste or type the character in directly and everything will Just Work.

(And to make typing in special characters easier, you can use a compose key: https://jasonlefkowitz.net/2015/03/make-typing-special-chara...)
Focusing on the wrong things is a great way to lose lots of money in poker, and in life.
If you lived in Port Dover, you'd know it's Friday the 13th by the sound of thousands of motorcycles suddenly showing up.

http://www.pd13.com/pages/1354819210/Friday-13th-Dates
Define “easily”.
Poverty reduces IQ by 13 points https://archive.is/bmj11
It's been a little over 10 years since the first bitcoins were mined and today's market cap is $147,490,754,701. Given that there are now bitcoin investment products like ETFs, some folks have a portion of their 401k's invested in bitcoin.

It certainly will be competition for central banks, especially in countries where the monetary policy is kinda wacky, like Venezuela, where bitcoin is breaking usage records.

Here's an article by a Venezuelan economist: "Bitcoin Has Saved My Family": https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/23/opinion/sunday/venezuela-....

He was only able to feed his family because he kept his money in bitcoin and not in bolívars, which was experiencing daily inflation of 3.5%.

If I recall correctly, early on in the life of Bitcoin, the United States had to infuse $14 trillion into the economy to save the banks and keep the country from going into a depression.

There's only so long people are going to put up with near zero interest rates or negative interest rates in some countries and with a slow down seemingly around the corner, Bitcoin's algorithmic certainly will look pretty good compared to the somewhat irrational economic policies that have been implemented.
I mean, this sounds good in theory but we have mandatory voting in Australia and all the same problems anyway. There's barely any correlation between people's votes and their interests, unless those interests are so simplified that they can be exploited (i.e everyone voting over and over to lower taxes no matter what they lose in return).

Even if you could get all the renters in California to vote, half of them will probably support more roads and urban sprawl anyway.
Why the world should adopt a basic income http://archive.li/5QVPj
In addition to galactic algorithms, there are also galactically proven algorithms. One example is the algorithm for matching with mismatches which I presented in the first chapter of my doctoral thesis; I proved that it was faster than other algorithms for inputs of at least ~10^30 bytes.

In practice, it wins starting at around 10^4 bytes.
If he weren't cheating, he would be happy to play poker in literally any other venue besides this one particular streaming program for which he personally set up the RFID. He would win in those other venues in similar dominant fashion, and we'd all hail him as a great poker player and not at all a cheater.

He hasn't done that.
State has absolute monopoly on legal violence.

Expect for very few exceptions like defending your home , self defence etc, you are even not allowed even show force let alone act violently.

State does not need to use violence in stable democracies they just have make sure ppl know they can to get everyone in line.

Also violence is not always physical. Threatening incarceration/ social humiliation / jail time for parole violations/ job loss and other economic harm etc is common tactic law enforcement employ to get cooperation.
Finally the state also offers the candy of lower jail time reduced charges and assorted other incentives for cooperation all of it beneficial because of the harm associated with the alternatives.
Django for Newborn Babies
WeWork is launching a lot of new spaces. The company I work was almost decided on moving to one of these new ones but with the crisis, potentially layouts, so increased risks of a worse service or even more serious complications; it is already kind of decided that we are going to another place.

WeWork growth promise, the basis for any investment (that seem to be very much needed now) depends on a lot of new spaces and these are the most affected by the public crisis. It can create a very damaging vicious cycle.
Ah. I still remember my computational geometry professor telling us about an algorithm to do triangulation (composing a polygon into triangles) in linear time: "It's very complex. I don't think anyone has actually implemented it".

It shocked me at the time that there were algorithms like this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygon_triangulation#Computat...
I don't get the point of the HTML style templates to be honest. JSX already works, can be typed, hooks in with existing JavaScript refactoring tools, can make use of existing JavaScript features like variables and functions etc.

Why reinvent it all so you can write something that looks a bit more like regular HTML? Is there some benefit I'm missing?
Anti rail sentiment has been with us since the advent of rail itself and really the arguments haven't changed.

https://www.archives.gov/files/education/lessons/anti-rail/i...

The same arguments against rail can be made (for example) against new roads and exactly for the same reasons: they just go one place, you have to fight land owners to put them in and what if no one uses them?
> “It brings us closer to animals,” she says

It is so human to act like we are not also animals.
Before the internet broke my attention span I read books compulsively
Individuals posting propaganda is far less concerning to me than a private company deciding what propaganda is.
Qubes OS and running the browser in a disposable VM works.

It should be possible to set up a lighter container with a browser whose data is completely wiped after the session competes for people who don't need or don't want to go all the way to use Qubes OS as their primate system.

Surely someone must have built this already? If not, it would be an interesting project.
It could also be easier to mass produce.
I tend to think statements like that say more about the knowledge and passions of the writer than about the laws of the universe.

The fundamental point underlying the Nature article is that we don't actually know "the odds of life creating itself via basic chemical pathways". What we do know is that life appeared on Earth quite soon after liquid water.
Once conceived of a plan to store a lot of data per user and thought of the same idea. How do you store the dbs? Keeping it on say s3 means there's a multisecond (or longer) load time when a user logs in and you need to load the DB to the hard drive right? (I'm thinking a GB or more data per user).I considered an ec2 instance with a multi terabyte ebs attached, that can then effectively store a thousand users: data. Are there any other possibilities?
Silicon Valley Goes Soft
It’s possible for climbers (though a climber doesn’t experience the rapid decompression that a jumper would).

Mount Everest at 29,028 feet is significantly higher than the 23,000 foot fall that Ivan Chisov survived, yet a few rare people have climbed Everest without oxygen:

“Reinhold Messner championed the cause for ascending Mount Everest without supplementary oxygen. In 1978, he reached the summit of Everest with Habeler. This was the first time anyone had been that high without supplemental oxygen and Messner and Habeler achieved what certain doctors, specialists, and mountaineers thought impossible.”[1]

Messner went on to climb all fourteen eight-thousanders (the 14 mountains that are more than 8,000 metres or 26,247 feet) without supplemental oxygen.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinhold_Messner
There's nothing technically novel here, this post feels like some kind of techno-proselytizing.
Free software follows a philosophy of “all people have a right to use computing knowledge” which has a very similar set of license scenarios but a different underlying driving culture:

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html

The “stricter requirements” piece is that the freedom bent sometimes leads towards more restrictive licenses (like GPL)
Wasabi and other modern bitcoin wallets run over Tor and have built-in features (like CoinJoin, coin control, etc.) to defeat blockchain analysis companies: https://docs.wasabiwallet.io/why-wasabi/

There are also decentralized, Tor-encrypted exchanges to buy and sell bitcoin like Bisq: https://bisq.network/.
Okay, how about: make extremely casual friends with the developers you can resonate with the easiest, and unofficially learn about any and all pain points and so forth. Maybe even hint at the truth about not having enough work to do, if you think it would be understood correctly (something to play by ear), and point out the specific area of tooling you work on.

If you play your cards right, you might be able to go up your chain at the same time you get your new friend(s) to go up their chain, producing a most odd coincidence where some random idea you offhandedly mention to your boss one day happens to be exactly what the boss heard the developer team lead really wanted :) or something to that effect.

Basically figure out how to engineer a planets-aligning moment in terms of approval. If possible, mix things up so it looks like your initiative was key in the new feature happening.

Maybe (more playing by ear) you could skip the coincidence stuff and just mention that you happened to grab lunch with a developer and heard they really wanted XYZ feature (that happens to be exactly the kind of thing you'd be perfect to implement etc etc). Sort of sounds a tad less impressive put that way, but could still work.
I think you've hit the nail on the head here. I live in a country where people don't get enough protein due to religious and cultural dietary restrictions. Once I got my own apartment I upped my protein intake and significantly limited my carbs, and found that the constant cravings I'd had pretty much my entire life decreased substantially, after a short but painful transition period.
I only learned this week that it supports recursive CTEs (although apparently you can't refer to them in subqueries yet?) and only yesterday that you can do this:

>>> import sqlite3
>>> con = sqlite3.connect(':memory:')
>>> cur = con.cursor()
>>> q = '''select x, sum(a * power(x, e))
... from (select -2 as x union select -1 union select 0 union select 1 union select 2) xt,
... (select 1 as a, 2 as e union select 4, 1 union select 2, 0) et
... group by x'''
>>> cur.execute(q).fetchall()
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 4, in <module>
sqlite3.OperationalError: no such function: power
>>> con.create_function('power', 2, lambda base, power: base**power)
>>> cur.execute(q).fetchall()
[(-2, -2), (-1, -1), (0, 2), (1, 7), (2, 14)]

That is freaking cool. Not evaluating polynomials in SQL, I mean, but defining a user-defined function for SQL in one line of Python.
I'd argue AR via a phone in your hand is entirely useless and a gimmick. The phone has a much smaller viewing area than even hololens and walking around staring through it is not just annoying it's dangerous.

That is not to say that on your face AR is any good yet, only that phone AR is mostly pointless IMO.

I did get to use a Magic Leap at GDC this year to shoot aliens coming out of portals in a physical living room stage. The graphics were PS2 level but the attachment to the real world in that contrived setup was rock solid as was the virtual gun projected in my hand. As I ran about the living room the portals with aliens coming through mapped to the walls of the living room worked well. It at least shows a step toward real AR.
This is what I had in mind when I wrote that comment, but 30 rock was a great show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvsTKbGKtbU
So apple would have to ban telegram and all Internet forum ?
Ask HN: Please review my website and let me know your feedback
Please review my gadgets reviews website www.meritmeter.com, and let me know if it makes sense to pursue it or should I shut it down.
You don't have to stop the blockchain. You just have to prevent the tokens from being exchanged for dollars which is a lot easier.
Yes .. specifically, I use vanilla VB to drive Vagrant. I noticed that libvirt seems to be an alternative .. does it work well? Any other options?
Examples link has no examples. That's the quality you'll find with this project. Stupid.
This might be a situation that calls for fat tires on a mountain bike rather than skinny tires on a road bike.
> presuming there is no firewall or nat between the client and the server

That's one of the issues though. If you can't access a machine via its internal IP, many useful usage patterns break.

Someone complained that the issue is that services aren't secure, but there's more to it than that: good security depends on defense in depth, and firewalls are an important part of that.
Judge Rules Planned Supervised Injection Site Does Not Violate Federal Drug Laws
Sounds like a fascinating research topic. Let us know when you're done!
Watch the First Video of a Virus Growing in Real-Time
Also there is dqlite[0]. I really do think that SQLite can go even farther than people think, but the exploration makes less and less sense the better and easier to run options like postgres become. That said, I'm glad projects like dqlite and rqlite exist.

There are also previous threads discussing them but here's one[1].

[0]: https://github.com/CanonicalLtd/dqlite

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20836331
> I'm calling out the idea that there's nothing bad (immoral/unjust) going on if someone doesn't pay within the ordinary term expected unless it's been explicitly agreed to

When I first founded my startup, I was vigilant about paying all of my contractors and vendors perfectly on time or early. As a business owner, I wanted to provide a great product and didn't want to chase people for money, and tried treating companies and people I worked with similarly.

What nice thought, and so utterly silly.

My company was largely geared towards large enterprises. When I started, I naively assumed that our relatively small fees, with easily cancelable month-to-month terms, would be so easy to stomach that these large enterprises would pay without issue if they found value, and would simply cancel if they did not.

But I found that the bigger the company, the more difficult it is to get them to pay anything. Big companies are more likely to wait until the day to pay, pay late and ask forgiveness, pay late and then ask for a discount to continue the service, or drag on a free trial as long as they can. These companies negotiate harder, spend more time going over insignificant line items, and generally create far more friction than much smaller companies.

I've had a relatively small $10k/year deals with big companies, where multiple attorneys negotiated agreements and haggled over price, their fees earning them multiples of the total contract value. Pushing folks to the limit, using disproportionate force, begging for leniency, and just generally playing dirty is the norm for large companies. Assuming morality plays any part in it is laughable.
iTunes has worked on Windows since 2003. If you buy a movie on iTunes from one of the five studios that support Movies Anywhere, you can port your purchase to Amazon, Google? Or Vudu v
The worst thing about this Politics and Rachel by the Bay Forum is how people don't even read the site description.
I think you missed the joke (maybe?). https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/30-50-feral-hogs
> But if you ran a contest for someone to do it then you take the act of someone completing the challenge as proof they cheated in order to do so.

That's exactly what I would do. If I provided the coin, and someone flipped 1,000 heads in a row, then they either figured out how to control the outcome of those coin flips, or they swapped coins. There's no chance they accidentally flipped 1000 heads in a row.

1/(10^100)^3 is === 0 for everything we make judgements on in life. If every single atom in the universe (about 10^100) were to do these flips for 15 billion years (about 10^19 seconds), we would not expect to see 1,000 heads in a row, never mind your lifetime. That's how vanishingly small the odds are!

You are far, far more likely to win a lottery jackpot (about 1 in 10^9) every single time you play the game, for the rest of your life, than you would be to flip 1,000 heads in a row. But if there was such a person, we'd know for certain they were rigging the game, right?

Any other explanation is going to be overwhelmingly likely against those odds.
That assumption is huge. The other problem is that this tech doesn't really solve a problem most people have, so there's no motivation against waiting for a different company to try this. Heck they could even use the same code and no one would care probably. But so long as the Facebook brand is on it, it will go nowhere today.
I think they are posting about how time is displayed, not measured. Digital watches seem fairly viable.
It doesn’t require a Mac or the $99 developer fee. You can use a free developer account and a non-Mac as the server.
Commander X16 a Commodore like project with a 16 bit CPU
This somehow hits most of my alarms for "bad science", hah.
Yeah, I guess I did.
Do you want to force Disney to allow streaming its own content to rivals? Who should decide a fair licensing cost? Commodity products don’t make money when they can’t differentiate - see Spotify, Android manufacturers, and PC manufacturers.
My son was playing a new video game. After he finished I asked him about it and he told me that was good but some buttons were inverted and he had to get used to that. He did not know or asked himself if maybe there are options to change the buttons/controls.

Same with your mother, she will not even know or consider the side loading app idea, this will happen only you are hit with things like your application or books are removed from your device, or a popular application is not approved because of political or moral issues.

Other example is ad blocking, my relatives do not ask me randomly , "hey is there something that can block ads?" , I need to notice they are missing an ad blocker, then explain why should install one and install one for them.

Btw my parents don't play video games, so since you decided if parents don't need something then is useless let's get rid of video games.
Or that no one trusts Facebook and companies realize that, and no one really thinks they need Libra?
And that's exactly why it would be regulated by other countries. Like France who announced it would block it and then also talked Germany into doing the same.
MDMA
> I'm saying it is possible that 1000 coin flips could come up heads in a row and doing so isn't proof of cheating. Unlikely, but possible.

FWIW, I think the '1000 coin flips' thing was an exaggerated analogy used to illustrate the point; I doubt the evidence here is anywhere near that strong, even if it is extremely strong.

But the problem that people are trying to point out is that you seem to be asking for a literally impossible standard of proof (think about it: for any evidence you could possibly gather, there's a non-zero chance that it has all been fabricated, or you're consistently misreading the data, or your memory is playing tricks, or...).

If your point is not that 'proof requires literal 100% certainty', what is it? It seems that you might be bothered by the idea of convicting someone based on certain types of evidence? (Maybe you're intuiting that when someone claims statistical evidence at the '1000 coin flips' level, the actual chance of a false positive is much higher than the claimed amount, because of the possibility of human error or mendacity?)
I don't get how that downtown even works. Do the Swiss not use trucks to deliver goods? That car lane is too narrow for anything bigger than a passenger car. There's no passing lane, so what happens if an ambulance or fire truck needs to get through? How do bicycles even exist on that street, since the bike lane seems to also be the passenger disembarking lane?

Why make pedestrians need to cross a line of traffic once they get off a tram? Do you think you can push a stroller between two stopped cars? What happens if someone spills a bag of groceries or goods?

I mean, it looks ten times easier to actually live in a suburb than this.
Did you ever watch He-Man, Transformers, or GI-Joe growing up?

Disney* is ad free.
Ask HN: Easy Workaround for Wikipedia Censorship in Turkey
Wikipedia (in any language) is banned in Turkey, which is very annoying.

A working solution (many thanks to whoever did it!) is the so called "wikizero", where you add a "0" to each wikipedia link (just before the word "wikipedia"):

So the original:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_Turkey
becomes
* https://en.0wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_Turkey

Now, is it possible to make this hack working automatically on my browser? I mean, without having to add the "0" manually on each link?
This video was an interesting experiment in optimizing trebuchets: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gn2RGPqe_A

Edit: and the followup with wheels: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpFTyE-wiNo
> I really do think that SQLite can go even farther than people think

I know different databases support different features (e.g., atomic transactions, ACID compliance, etc.), but it seems like the big differentiator is size, namely:

1. Can your database live within a single computer's RAM?

2. Can your database live within a single computer?

3. Can your database live across a cluster of computers in a single data center?

4. Can your database live across a cluster of computers spread across the planet?

Once you pick your category from the above, there are still choices to be made, but the "best" options narrow down significantly.
This book sounds interesting, what is the name of this book?
CUE also allows this in their scripting layer.

https://cuelang.org

https://godoc.org/cuelang.org/go/pkg/tool/http
Their movie catalog was always abysmal.
>he incentives for people to trick grandma and anyone else into downloading malware would outweigh any benefit.

What is your opinion on Apple Pay then? if Apple has such a large user base of user that follow every instructions they read on a webpage and put their password in random inputs then Apple Pay is even more dangerous
My big thing was how can you ride a bike when the same bike lane is used for passengers on the tram. So the tram comes, stops, and passengers disembark-you cannot ride at speed then or it would be superhumanly easy to run someone down.
Why would I assume you knew that? Not everyone is well versed in stocks so I was replying in case you thought tesla was unique in being priced based on speculated future earnings. I admit I said it in a pretty condescending way though.
CO2 emissions have been falling in the US for over 10 years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_gas_emissions_by_th...