skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find it important to note that small communities where it is reasonable to know everyone and expect to be known are just as "real" as offline communites. I think there were a few years - at least for myself - where social media were mistaken and masqueraded as the same as small communities.
Show HN: ExchangeRates.Pro: price comparison of Bitcoin and 33 cryptos worldwide
At least you can drop down to the old Control Panel and get at the settings that they haven't bothered to expose in the new UI.

Unfortunately, you have to do so so often that discoverability of where things are in the new UI suffers. It's not worth bothering to learn, particularly when the new UI is in flux and changing often.
Intent. Hiring a hitman is like pulling the trigger.
Hi! We were working on this for last few months and now most of the features are ready. So please give us some feedback

ExchangeRates.Pro is a price comparison platform. We find the best rates to buy or sell Bitcoin and 33 other cryptocurrencies in any country and help choosing the safest and fastest exchange.

Our goal is to create something like Skyscanner for the cryptocurrency exchange industry. We compare the prices and conditions at various exchanges — trading platforms, brokers, P2P marketplaces, e-wallets and ease the process of picking the best one. We are seasoned Bitcoin users, so kind of know the struggle. )) Most of the functionality is ready and while we are adding more exchanges, etc. we'd love to hear what you like in our platform and what you don't. Thanks!
> you personally have no morals

About time to mention Hitler, no?
The pool of people who can solve IMO problems is much larger than the pool of people who can solve IMO problems at the rate of one every 90 minutes.

Also consider that fact that human IMO contestants have little training in university-level mathematics. The problem setters try to choose problems where knowledge of advanced mathematics doesn't help, in order to produce a level playing field which only measures raw problem-solving ability. But I suspect that postgraduate-level mathematics will nevertheless be useful in programming the AI.
Is there a way to track time spent on each book?
Based on watching Law and Order back in the day they seem to portray hiring a hitman as first degree murder in NY at least.
I would probably call that a feature...
This is the first and only time I've heard someone argue against scrollbars.

Even the very thin and translucent ones that just function as an indicator?
Wow, thanks! This is beautiful:

https://gitlab.com/mirtitles/tarasov-symmetry
(downvoted for the ad hominems)
I love the sentiment, but where else would you turn? AWS takes money from the CIA, Google has drones and Dragonfly, and Oracle doesn't even pretend to be a bastion of freedom.
That seems like the wrong question.

The topic was computer literacy and knowing different, non-computer things is irrelevant and knowing stuff about Fortnite, while computer-related, is not literacy.
> Don't even get me started how difficult it is to get your hands on Windows 10 LTSC as a private individual

This is really a damn shame, because it is far away the best Windows distribution ever. If I didn't have access to it through MSDN, I'd pay a couple hundred bucks for a license.
"Three finger unpinch" sounds like that move from Kill Bill 2.
These hitman need ISO9001 certification!
Thanks for acknowledging this. They did the right thing at least in my eyes.
You’d have a great point if you only mentioned VB6 and left out AIM and that word processor that spat out binary files.
Front-End Challenges Club
That's the problem with many proprietary consumer devices (take the iPad into this category as well).

1. Vendor lock: You can't install or change most of the things including OS and Apps.

2. Locked down OS: You can't do anything with your device. If you try to change the OS you'll maybe brick it.

3. Planned obsolescence built in: If the vendor decides it's "time to say goodbye" you won't get updates anymore and probably feature by feature your device won't work any longer. After some time it's so old, insecure etc. you don't even want to use it to do even the simple tasks it was designed for.

The kindle isn't a reference for me in this sector at all. If you want to start the discussion about nice e-Readers you should consider comparing the Sony DP, Onyx Boox Note and the Remarkable. Those are the leading innovators and so far I'm afraid I haven't seen any device that can compete.

Personally I'm waiting for an eInk device with color (at least some colors), wacom pen that works without battery (like in Onyx & Remarkable) but an open, real linux on it so you can do anything with it.
The Onyx comes close to this as it uses android but as we all know it's not really the linux you want when you wish for a "real linux" ;-)

I'm a bit sad that innovation in this sector stopped and I'd be willing to pay up to 1k $ for the described features.
Very nice usage of WebGL. Did you use an engine for rendering or physics?
IIRC there are many values like that. There are "subsystem" or "driver" directories that don't even look like symlinks but lead into other subtrees. You can use such inter-subsystem links to create infinitely long sysctl paths.
I still have a portable version of Word 2003 on a flash stick, because it still works better.

The most incomprehensible thing to me is how much worse all the IM software I have to use today is.
Not just the wiki page, it's straight from the rfc[1]:

> Unintentional encapsulation in hawks has been known to occur, with decapsulation being messy and the packets mangled.

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2549
If your goal is to get rid of A by any means necessary, make the business decision to turn off A at some point.

Not having the backbone to make that decision and allowing the call to forced at some arbitrary time by a bug and concluding the bug was a good thing (or at least had a silver lining) because it allowed the org to move away from A suggests a possible leadership decisiveness problem to me.
Inspiring story of a teenager who terribly burned as toddler
Federated subsystem authoritator
VC Ben Horowitz on WeWork,Uber, and one cultural value his employees can’t break
Those are all separate things.

A) Texans often think of themselves as 'Texans before Americans' in a completely different way than Californians or New Yorkers do. There is no nationalist/separatist streak in 'CA before USA' it's more of a cultural thing. Texas is like Quebec in this way.

B) I think 'nation' is an existential thing, different than family and community. In the end, we always put ourselves/family first really, but we also join Armies and sign up to defend the nation in ways that we don't contemplate at other levels. Many people feel very, very loyal to the concept of America, it's just in different terms than they might community.
Yes, give the employees back the time they've spent and they'll refund the money.
I usually do not comment on threads. But upvote for sure! This one is different. Nostalgia, First Science Education... What not! Thanks a lot for the website.
Dragonfly, right, like it's already launched.
I think that's more of an emergent behavior of modern languages being much more accessible to the "masses". If you can write enterprise code in C, it's likely you're an experienced developer. The same isn't true for Python since it's relatively easy to be able to write something useful.
In which case I guess it's good that they already have a significant part of the US military C&C under their control.
Unfortunately companies can't make devices for 1 person.
First Reviled, Now Revered: The Historic Albums of 1969
This condition was just in an episode of The Good Doctor.
‘Stealing Ur Feelings,’ an Interactive Documentary About Big Tech, AI, and You
This project has all of the goals that excited me about RethinkDB, I hope this project is more successful.
If you have keys that tend to have common prefices (e.g. URLs in RDF) then checking them in reverse (e.g. with a suffix tree) is generally faster, as you will hit differences quicker.
In my thirty-odd year experience, PG&E is more reliable in San Francisco than elsewhere in the Bay Area.
The US is a truly gargantuan country; large states like Texas are already richer, bigger, and more populous than many or most independent countries. In fact Texas once was an independent country.
Convert how? Does it actually resize pdfs, reflow text or something?
USB-C, the intention of one port to rule it all leads to 5 different cables using the same port all supporting different set of spec and functions. Or actually using something similar / variation of USb-C Plug but does not actually confine to any USB spec at all, aka Nintendo Switch.

Leading to Powering and Display in the same port ( aka Thunderbolt ) which is great in theory and idea, in practice there are much higher failure rate of frying the CPU or display controller for all sort of reasons.

USB-C could have worked if we have much more stringent spec, and force only two types of cable, Thin for anything below 25W, and Thick for heavy duty with 100W. Unfortunately USB4 doesn't want to be a better spec.

There are two things I hope Apple will never adopt at its current form, that is AV1 and USB-C. And it looks like Apple is making great decisions on the two so far.
Biggest PG&E Shutoff yet May Black Out 2.5M Californians
While true, PG&E is going to cut power to a lot of urban parts of the Bay Area later today.
> The utility value of voting is ... E[voting] = pV - c, where c is the cost of voting (time cost, information cost, etc.), V is the value of your preferred candidate winning over other candidates

That patently ridiculous. There are varigated and complex motivations for voting in general and for voting for a certain candidate or party in particular. It has to do with your sense of identity; self-fulfillment vs passivity; commitment to peers, family, friends; sense of gratitude for past actions by the candidate or the party/movement; and these are all factors which are almost orthogonal to whether the candidate you vote for wins.
I actually think it makes sense.

There are a lot of issues raised in the email. Some of them are small bugs that could just be fixed on the spot. But many of them are more like design flaws, which could only be fixed by designing and implementing new features. That requires time and planning, so it makes sense that they would be talking about who should be responsible for it.
Is ML more of a team sport? With specialists in operations, data cleansing data, configuring models, etc.
You have to press shift in order to unlock more power and clear that jump.
I must admit the main thing that puts me off GraphQL is that it's not built on JSON. Maybe that's silly, but it just seems like a move away from what we know and love.
Also the graphql tools seem to be based around the idea of a fixd schema, and I'm looking for something a little more flexible.
Strike a contrapposto pose to look more attractive, science says
Productivity tools.

You end up being more productive and finishing things faster; but most of the time, that ends up in no decrease in the time you spend on working stuff since the system quickly adapts to your new productivity level and you still spend all your time working.

Unless you are the one taking the majority of the surplus of your actions, which is rarely the case in a capitalist society, it is a dreadful feeling.

The end feeling is alienation followed by depression.
If they explained the rubric for how you'd be evaluated, I might play. I'd probably play the game for fun and then politely withdraw. Or maybe not. I'd have to see how I feel, which means it's probably not a terribly objective interview.
ITT: people who don't do incremental rollouts or run reliable software stacks.

Sure, there are scenarios where you can justify rolling forward when you're spraying packets of death everywhere. None of those scenarios are the default - the default is roll back. (Imagine if there was some latent bug in the new release corrupting data in transit that you didn't notice until 100%, and you're not sure where it is, just that it's happening - now you literally can't roll back, because your current release will hose the previous one. At this point all you can do is go ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.)

Also, the title of the post screams pretty loudly to me that the people making the call to push the backwards-incompatible release didn't seriously think through the implications of their decision.
Thank you for this. It is indeed a labour of love. Keep up the great work. Your work on the layout for Tarasov's book on Symmetry is outstanding and must have taken a lot of effort and patience.

Of course, you are still working on it as you continue to clean it up. Just noticed a minor issue in the image layout in pg. 64 of the document (pg. 72 of the PDF) where Fig. 50 covers some text. Perhaps related to this: https://gitlab.com/mirtitles/tarasov-symmetry/blob/master/05...

Thanks again, your work is greatly appreciated.
> And rather than showing the messages that divided each of the four groups, Pol.is simply made them invisible.

This seems like a good way to find some initiatives through consensus. The main mechanism seems to be giving a "conversational veto" to everyone in the discussion. A "let's move on" button, basically.

I find that very interesting. It would certainly help with concerns that "my legislature does nothing". It might actually be an interesting mechanism for legislatures themselves to deploy internally to set agendas, though it would necessarily weaken the power of the factions that actually set legislative agendas (the majority party, the majority leader, etc.).

On the other hand, giving a strong and hidden minority veto also doesn't seem to help with the issues that actually divide citizens.

- Would not talking about Brexit anymore actually help the U.K.?

- Should the U.S. Congress not pass a budget anymore, to avoid balancing it?

- Maybe all legislatures agree to broadly humane treatment for refugees, but how would they agree on healthy levels and categories of immigration?

- The biggest divisive issue in the U.S might actually be abortion, which generally isn't debated so much as such. It's also clear that not addressing the issue isn't making the underlying problems go away.

- More broadly, would the U.S. have ever done anything significant about civil rights if consensus was required first?

EDIT: Maybe I'm a bit too pessimistic about civil rights... the constitutional amendment process does require two kinds of consensus for ratification. And many amendments did deal with civil rights.
eth0: <NO-CARRIER, BROADCAST, MULTICAST, UP>
A huge amount of user research went into the original ribbon. However, it looks like they decided that no further research was needed and just started moving everything into the ribbons without any thinking whatsoever.
Interesting to know psychology also has a arxiv like preprint server
I collected old (60s-80s) machines for many years when they were still free or very cheap. So I have all kinds of ZX spectrums and MSXs and others (very rare dual cpu Z80) to play around on reliving my youth. With Symbos [0] it is a lot of fun.

[0] http://www.symbos.de/
Ideology determines how we view the world (and thus the issues) and what we want it to look like. Politics without ideology is impossible, there is no objective "null ideology".
SaaS startups are booming in India - Examples are Freshdesk, Zoho, Whatfix, Druva, Razorpay etc
> We've learned that better tools doesn't actually create more productivity. Lots of people talk about how they dread email. A singular mega tool like Facebook or Evernote isn't great. Lots of disparate little tools isn't much better.

I'm struggling to figure out what you mean by this.

Obviously it's not literally true (I've saved my colleagues thousands of hours with some of the tools I've made), but I can't figure out what else you could mean.
Is there still any place in 2019 for "system containers" like LXC/LXD?
But how negligent are they really being?

PG&E has a history of astounding incompetence and negligence, so probably very. PG&E blew up a San Bruno neighborhood because they were so lax about record keeping. I just heard something blow up about half an hour ago (sounded like a transformer). I still have power, but the last time this happened (a month or so ago) PG&E cut power for nearly 20 hours before even bothering to send anyone to investigate (overall I was without power for 22 hours).

It seems like the latest fire was caused by a tower that was regularly inspected.

The easy answer is that this infrastructure should be underground so that it can't cause these sorts of fires in the first place.

From reddit:

From OP's article: "The utility says the transmission level outage on the power line relayed and did not reclose."

Which means:

From OP's article: "The utility says the transmission level outage on the power line relayed and did not reclose."

Unless I'm mistake, the "re-closing" refers to a line that becomes de-energized somehow- the circuit is broken, or "opened". Sometimes this is because a physical cable broke from wind or a tree branch, sometimes it's a technical malfunction; so PG&E sends some juice through the (potentially physically broken) line to see if the current returns, and attempts to restart the line.

Basically, the re-closing sends live current through a line that may be physically compromised, in order to see if it's not compromised and can be turned back on simply. So, in this case, it seems likely that a) wind broke one of PG&E's major transmission lines, causing it to fall onto the tinder-like brush below the tower, and then PG&E sent juice through that broken line, at least once (in the past the re-closers would make three attempts.)

PG&E apparently let one of their cables fall on dry brush, and then sent sparks through it, possibly multiple times, starting the fire.

This poster goes on to point out that Southern California utility companies typically disable this behavior during fire season and other posters pointed out that typically older reclosing mechanisms were just dumb relays that you couldn't easily disable while newer infrastructure will be using SCADA devices that you could easily disable.
a. That depends on the relations with the US afterwards. For the UK example - think of their relations with Europe after 1945, before they'd entered the EU. It was fine. I mean, after 500 years or wars, but, you know, bygones.
b. Isn't it more that the supremacist attitude fuels the secessionism, rather than the other way around?
c. Secession from the US empire of some of these states might not be such a bad idea for those states.
The book: Serious Cryptography by Jean-Philippe Aumasson.
Or right click > eject, which I’m pretty sure is the same as Windows.
Whatsapp is the choice even for Apple users where I live.
Nobody I know bothers with SMS except for two factor authentication for online banking.
That's exactly what I meant by "up their game" and well stated.
I chuckle to my self sometimes when I see a toddler walk up to a TV or video advert and try touching it a few times, then walk away confused because what they thought was a touch screen isn't doing anything when they touch it.

I also chuckled when my 2yo did this, but stopped chuckling when he actually got it to switch channels. Turns out our tv has small near invisible touch controls beneath the screen and we just didn’t know.

of course, he wouldn’t stop messing with the tv after discovering this, and found a control combination (undocumented) to put the tv in demo mode: superbright, oversaturated and automatically forgetting its settings after a while.

I was not amused.
> (it's possible it's still attributed to me but I doubt it).

It's still attributed to you.
I know it was just an example but on any Vi clone you can set the default shell:

:set shell=/bin/bash
There's also yoptascript: https://yopta.space
Even people researching them for a living made a mistake this time.
He has a lot of other projects which are also 3d websites:

https://prior.co.jp/discover/en

https://www.orano.group/experience/innovation/en/slider

Unfortunately I got tired of the gimmick pretty quickly and didn't make it to the next few examples. Having to drive a car just to open a link is too much work!
180kmh at night is definitely not safe on a highway. Even with perfect visibility during daytime, anything above 150-160kmh is pushing it for most of the highways I've traveled in Europe.
That was also my impression. Good to see that both were viable contenders though
You can apply that argument to every person or group. I'm just one person, my individual carbon footprint is neglible – let the other 7 billion deal with it!
“But math is also very difficult to understand.”

Sure it is, if you’re not a professional mathematician. For those who are, it is a fabulously precise concise system of communication. The same can be said for “legalese”, “medicalese”, or any other specialist language that provides its specialist users with unrivaled efficiency and power of expression.

Whereas laypeople require lay language; which is why the best communicators are fluent in both, able to communicate complex ideas to both peers and public at a level and in a language that fits each audience.

That so many programmers resist – even belittle – attempts to understand and close the accessibility gap in their own constructed languages speaks volumes of what piss-awful communicators they really are; and how – rather than break that shortcoming down and work to improve it – they weaponize it to keep all those who are not like them out and so maintain their exclusive control at the expense of everyone else.

..

Remember, the point of software is not to encapsulate programming knowledge, it is to encapsulate business (or other expert domain) knowledge. That is where the program’s actual value is, and all that classes and types and conditionals and loops and whatnot crap is just a lot of bureaucratic bullshit that must be waded through when encoding that expert knowledge in unspecialized languages of poor expressive power.

Making programming languages accessible and useful to users operating in other domains will take far more than just some l10n sugar. Still, anything that can improve access for the 5Bn humans who don’t speak English, never mind “ASCIInerdese”, is a positive move.
The Apple A13 SoC: Lightning and Thunder
> The United States military has such a large presence in Texas because the United States Military is such a large organization, generally. There would be no reason for Texas to have such a comparatively large military, nor, I think, would an independent Texas be able to afford one.

Texans already pay the federal taxes that purportedly fund the US military, though. I’m not sure if the US has more military assets in Texas than Texas itself can afford to pay for, but Texas is a big, rich state so I’d say there’s a chance that they’re effectively subsidizing some of the military bases in other states.

Texas could and likely would contribute military forces to various US-led coalition efforts at times.
> If Texas seceeded from the US, it would need its own military. Given it has roughly 8% of US population, why could it not claim roughly 8% of the US military's assets and personnel?

Absolutely not. The US has a huge military with a budget that exceeds the next top-8 or so military spender states in the world. And - almost all of its activity is foreign deployment for proto/pseudo-colonialism, occupations, pressuring other states with the threat of force etc. Texas wouldn't need any of that stuff. Now, obviously it would not be able to militarily defend itself from the US, so if it seceded at all its military would be mostly focused on Mexico, if at all. So - try 1% of asset and 2% of personnel maybe.
Mistakes will happen, especially when your mantra is release early and release often.
They were there from the beginning. Personalities are a feature only Microsoft can use though and it’s only now that they appear to be using it for something positive. It could be another embrace and extend attempt though.
Games are important for Artificial Intelligence developments