skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dunno what you want to achieve by copying sentences straight out of posts I have linked to. I've read them, everyone else can too, and they sound quite positive and hopeful (yeah, aside of comments from people who... don't own the phone ;]). Some of these things were expected to be missing at this point from the very beginning, some others are just small bugs with big consequences that need to be eradicated one after another, some others come from lack of experience (like the Electrum one, as you simply need to install QtWayland for it to work). I've used plenty of open mobile platforms in the past, even contributed to some of them. I know what to expect from an early pre-release, and these early owners seem to know it as well. Otherwise I doubt they would opt into receiving an early batch months before actual mass produced one.
What are these Capture The Flag competitions? Do you mind posting a link?
I assume this law effectively bars certain mergers or acquisitions as illegal.
That allows proving who cast which vote. Instead, you could generate the ID when the vote is cast using a coin flip protocol.

Some effort would be needed to create an actual proof that the coin flip protocol doesn’t allow the voter to generate any sort of proof that they participated in the coin flips. I think the usual schemes do have this property (at least, they do if the parties don’t collide), but I haven’t seen this specifically proven.
To reiterate threeseed’s point: the user wants the website to work well and work efficiently. They don’t care if it’s HTML or an interactive app. In a lot of cases, the web works better when pages are served as plain static HTML.
> CO2 emissions need to be zero

Net emissions. Planes burning fuel synthesised from electrolysed water and atmospheric CO2 is a closed carbon loop.
I think there might be a fun idea in that. I wonder what kind of learning materials we could generate by holding competitions on who could explain a topic the simplest
And this is something that can be fixed with current technology. Today you can easily build housing that uses no fossil fuels for heating, and in actual fact will generate more energy than it consumes (over the course of a year), even in cold climates such as Scandinavia.

But most people disregard this on the basis of cost (in reality it costs a little more upfront but saves money in the long term) or outdated conditionings that buildings need to breath naturally and should not be airtight.
Teamsters pension disapeared more quickly under WallStreet than the mob-2016
The challenge with many environmentally-powered renewables is specifically that they can't be used for spot production.

Nuclear tends to share this. Most nuclear reactor technology is not optimized for rapid swings in production. A reactor is a very expensive thing to not run most of the time.

The two technologies aren't terribly compatible. The first tend to be intermittent (not great for on demand needs) and the second are best suited for base load.

What you need is something that is relatively cheap to maintain, and can be ramped up quickly. This is where you typically see natural gas peakers in a fossil-fuel based system.

Wikipedia summarizes these well:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peaking_power_plant

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_load

For peaking demand you need something that can store energy and can adjust to load rapidly. Batteries do this (I include mechanical solutions as batteries, e.g. a flywheel or pumped hydroelectric). Natural gas plants tend to fill this role now. These are not the only options, just common examples.
Most of the criminals are not _that_ careful. Among a group of 5, one might forget or have a reason to hide his phone from others because his child is sick and he is expecting a call, for example.
They’re creating liquidity !! /s
So much negativity in this thread.
At first glance this is really well done. Subtitles and translations for Japanese are tricky due to furigana so good job!
While that is interesting to hear, is there a single book that brings someone who hasn't used Java in the last 5 years upto speed, like the book Bjarne Stroustroup's 'A tour of c++' does for c++.
I would lightly recommend avoiding these addons and turning on fingerprinting protection in Firefox instead.

> about:config

> resistfingerprinting -> true

> webgl.disabled -> true

Firefox's fingerprinting protection will block canvas fingerprinting by default (put it behind a prompt). It will also spoof your installed fonts. The second setting I listed will take care of webGL, although it won't be behind a prompt, so it's annoying to re-enable for the (very few) sites that need it. I think resistfingerprinting also handles audio fingerprinting, but I'm not completely sure. I do know it reduces timer precision and a few other things.

Firefox's fingerprinting tools are being uplifted from Tor, which means people who care a lot about this and have a lot of experience in what actually helps are working on it. I am cautious of random extensions even if they're not malicious; it's very easy to get this stuff wrong and accidentally open up a new fingerprinting vector instead.

If you are going to install a new extension, install UMatrix and block Javascript by default. That won't help you with a site like Tiktok's since you'll need to turn Javascript back on for them. But a nontrivial portion of the web works without Javascript, and it really does reduce the number of attack vectors you have.

I keep my extension list very small: Ublock Origin, UMatrix, DecentralEyes, and HTTPS Everywhere. Extension sandboxing is very bad, so I don't like to install new extensions if I can help it. Firefox profiles are very cool and potentially very useful, but I don't currently use them. Maybe that will change in the future.
No, just take an air can to it every once in a while. I don't know how other people treat their expensive electronics, but its certainly not a hardened, combat-zone machine. I work outside all the time and dust and crap get all over it. No issues. I can only imagine that people are eating above the keyboard and then not cleaning it off. I spray mine off every so often and its been great. But people like to whine, so...
Searx (https://github.com/asciimoo/searx/wiki/Searx-instances) is exactly what you described.
This is very unfortunate, I will admit when I read about this project it seemed like a good idea.
Now with 20/20 hindsight it is almost the exact same premise that Jurasic Park had...LIFE WILL ALWAYS FIND A WAY!!!
Would be an excellent application of a travelling wave reactor located in a remote spot.
I think they're closer to Nazi internment camps (which rather quickly transitioned to death camps) than the various US internment camps, yes.

Are they death camps yet? Well, perhaps not. But there are none the less a hell of lot dehumanization. There are reports of forced abortions, rapes, medical experiments, and other tortures.

To be clear, the US internment of the Japanese is a horrendous stain, but it clearly is far less evil than these camps.
Timestamping doesn't prevent fakes, it just means you have to create the fakes ahead of time instead of being able to generate them retroactively.
Rolls Royce makes small nuclear reactors for submarines, and naturally, their solution to the worlds climate crisis is for more people to buy their small modular nuclear reactors. Don't pay attention, this is just salesmanship. It is a little depressing to think that with the world at crisis, the best companies like Rolls Royce can respond is to think "well there must be some way to shoehorn our existing products into this existential crisis everyone is talking about".

Small modular nuclear reactors are very dangerous because they are not secured under heavy concrete and thus can easily blow up when something goes wrong. And something usually goes wrong.

Their reasoning for using nuclear is nonsensical. There is no reason why those green fuel generating facilities cannot be connected to the grid. And as far as building new power generation for the grid, renewable energy is already far cheaper than nuclear.
To be fair, there’s also no layers in linear regression
Ask HN: What mistakes did you make when starting as a consultant/freelancer?
What was the specific mistake, what did you learn from it, and how did you change the way you do business as a result?

For example, I was told by someone who started a project without taking an advance, only for the client to decide not to pay. So he now refuses to take on a project without at least 30% advance.

What lessons did you learn the hard way?

I'm setting up my own consulting practice: kartick.org and would like to learn from other people's mistakes rather than repeating them myself.
It is already taking over the light plane market. Short haul flights will all be electric in less ten years.
In aviation weight is more important. Volume is important, but weight (and distribution) is more important.
I've always assumed I have zero privacy on all social media apps. I am more worried that if the next few major social media apps are all Chinese, then the Communist Party of China will control what the world sees and believes.
The article mentions hydrogen at the start but then says the hydrogen would be used to produce synthetic jet fuel with the properties of regular fuel.
You sound like a great developer! And being around people smarter than you and is one the best ways to learn incredibly quick.
If you feel like lacking confidence in your skills, one thing that really helped me get over imposter syndrome was to pick up problems or projects that I never thought I could do. Pick up something interesting yet seemingly challenging (I was always fascinated by operating systems and embedded hardware, so decided to make an OS for embedded hardware).
Work on it, talk about it with your peers.
Once you solve such a problem you get a big confidence boost that you can tackle any problem out there and that on its own can help you with approaching things without fear and solving it.
Hope it helps :)
Japan's conviction rate is 99.9%. https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-topics/c05401/order-in-the-c...
I don’t think any cryptographic system can actually accomplish this because the problem spills into meatspace.

A 3rd party could verify each person then sign each vote but then that 3rd party can mint valid votes. And if you have a trusted 3rd party then why do you need a complicated voting system?
https://www.tiltfive.com/

Edit: Adding a Tested review...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jse-GwkcYgI
In this context of disparaging the state of Android development, I must plead: take a hard look at Flutter/Dart. There are quite a few wins with it, including a pleasant developer experience. Declarative, composable, JIT compilation in dev, AOT compilation in production. The list goes on.
Could google change the terms and say that device manufacturers can not preinstall custom specific types of apps or services?
> UN sanctions are not imposed on bad state actors. They are imposed on weak state actors.

That is a great point and I agree with it.

However, the way I look at it, a state sponsored attack like this is no different from a country firing missiles or shells on another country from over the border. And as such, such attacks should not go unpunished and there need to be consequences. In addition, the countries being attached have a right and a moral duty to protect themselves.

The mechanisms of such I leave to those with the power to make it happen.

And yes, blocking .cn doesn't do much, but it does some.
Your xkcd passwords are pwned
Don't forget that ships aren't very efficient either. So there isn't really even a great alternative (though better, but also much slower). It is a complicated issue, unsurprisingly.
Solar is way better for this. Producing jet fuel can start and stop which is perfect for solar. Powering houses has to be constant
How China’s AI Plan Works – MacroPolo
Yeah..the Haskell one recently at least had the HTML in a Haskell EDSL instead of raw strings.
Bitcoin is not a company and has no business model.
Another day and another bad take about Bitcoin on HN.
This exact scenario happened in July: https://gizmodo.com/automatic-wifi-login-helped-police-id-te...
EEK. CEO of The Food Corridor here. Are you a client?
https://www.amazon.com/3M-Peltor-Over-Earmuffs-X5A/dp/B00CPC...

I use these exact ones and can attest to them working, keep in mind though that the size does really make them look funny. You can get smaller sizes but I’m not 100% sure how well earbuds will fit with them. If earbuds do fit main trade off would be that for silence you’d need somewhat higher wind noise but I’m sure they’re not too bad either.
Aviation does not use that much energy. In fact if you look at it from pure energy point of view it would be very easy to generate the energy used by all aviation in the world by wind and solar.

The problem with aviation is that it is hard to store energy for the actual planes. Since everything on a plane must be light, then the energy per weight (i.e., energy density) is crucial, and fossil fuels thus far have unparalleled energy density.

So the solution is to make some kind of fuel that is similar to fossil fuels but is carbon neutral. What Rolls Royce is suggesting is that their nuclear plants will be perfect to power the factories that make this green fuel. But of course that is not true. Any grid connected generator can power these factories including renewables that are already much cheaper and safer than nuclear.
Not saying it'll be commonplace by then, just that the technology will probably exist.

As I understand it today, Neuralink already has a surgical robot that can thread electrodes in between individual neurons with minimal damage.
What's the actual story here? This can't be the first trading firm that doesn't have human traders?
So the idea being: if you pull the carbon out of the air to make your kerosene, burning it again is carbon neutral? That makes sense.
I Want That on a T-Shirt
As to the optimization and the user not being able to and/or not having the tools to do it.

This was one of my favorite uses for ML. However the specific result i remember wasn’t that useable. The short version was they asked a model to program this FPGA to make a 1khz sin wave on a pin hooked to a speaker by listening to the result. It eventually worked, and the FPGA did indeed output a 1KHz wave. But... when the logic gates set in the FPGA were examined it was nonsense. And it wouldn’t work on any other chip. It was using defects in the silicon and was truly a one off success.

Obviously this optimization is only possible for a machine but yes, the tools from high level to bitstream could be a ton better.
I’m actually surprised they’ve sold any. Are there any practical uses/games/anything useful or enjoyable you can do with them?
That makes sense. Because I heard on a podcast, this week in tech, I think, from a VC on the panel that was an investor and the rest of the panel was comparing it to Microsoft's ar product and he was adamant that he had seen things that he couldn't talk specifics about but that it was a total game changer.
It's like playing music. You improve as a musician by playing with others. That's when you listen to others' tempo and dynamic and combine it your own. But you can't just improve by playing with others. You need to drill your own repertoire by yourself, alone, for countless of hours.
Generally yes, and I won’t get into the weeds about how inlined methods can have their inlinedness invalided if you look too hard at or breathe on them- but this isn’t a deterministic process. The first time you touch an ActiveRecord::Model, the database is queried and your classes ARE redefined. It’s not even close to the same ballpark of loading a new class on the JVM, and the stabilizing assumption you’re hoping exists often doesn’t. Death by 1,000 cuts
If you’re listening Cliqz, I (and I believe others) would pay $50-100 a month for a search engine that gave me the ability to blacklist sites. I think this alone could solve the biggest problem I have with google which is the reversion to the (what appears to be regressive) mean of the internet today.
Ask HN: What are your predictions, about your field, for 2020?
Field/Industry: Software -

- no code hype to continue

- software companies labelling themselves as - “superhuman for X” (whatever that means)

- more open source products (not just libs or frameworks, but full fledged products)

- more companies opting for in-house development

- fight for privacy is going to continue, but it’s all going to be in vain

- decentralised internet, software would continue to be a toy

- in programming language, no new breakthroughs. Python, JS, Golang would continue their upward trend.

- Remote teams trend to continue

- SaaS offerings would grow more vertical (see “superh... X”)

- I don’t think SaaS consolidation is going to happen (have read a lot of predictions about this)

Opinion- Experienced developers, that side project you always wanted to start, now would be a great time to do that , or switch to engineering management.

Overall it’s going to be a great time for the MBAs and not so exciting time for the techies (a suggestion to techies - go watch uncle bob’s - future of programming and let’s start bringing some fundamental changes to our profession).
Thank you for that link haha
That's because they only arrest guilty people.
> it would be really cool to have a way to create compilers for arbitrary languages using advanced syntax macros. especially if the lisp representation is callable from other lisp programs AND other languages

You are perfectly describing Racket here.
Nobody really knows, except for a few people who aren’t telling. There’s some clues in the mathematical backgrounds of the kind of people they hire though. Fifteen years ago they were snapping up experts in stochastic calculus. Nowadays, I’m not sure whom they’re hiring.
Nobody here seems to have heard of Rebel Foods from India, which is (as per its own claim) the largest cloud kitchen company in the world. They now have their own 'brands' across multiple cuisines, leveraging the delivery services provided by Zomato and Swiggy (both unicorns).
Ref :
https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/31/rebel-foods-which-operates...
https://rebelfoods.co/
Yes. However, of the artists, the publishers, and the producers, only the artists are entitled to copyright, no? The Constitution limits copyright to artists and scientists [0], and in practical terms the Constitution is understood to refer to the artists who create works of art, and the scientists who describe physical inventions.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Clause
Hopefully more than 60fps :) It's currently 72fps, and the Index is 120/144, which sounds close to ideal. I've been pretty happy with the Quest's 72 for now though.
The majority of climate scientists are pro nuclear. But that is just talking about grid energy.

There's still a lot of problems in other industries (and sub problems within energy and transportation). There's no great green revolution in:

- Flying

- Shipping

- Heat and A/C

- Industry

- Concrete/Steel/Construction

- Agriculture

and many more. We often talk about transportation and grid energy, but that isn't even half the problem. And the US is only 15% of global emissions and the EU-28 is 9%.

What's happening here is that there is no good solution currently proposed. If you want to critique the proposed solution, that is welcomed. But critique it on its merits. But from your comment you seem to believe that all reactors are the same, that no advanced have been made since Chernobyl, and most importantly that you haven't read the article.
That's part of it, but HFT is also a pretty saturated field. It's typically not enough to be fast and physically near the exchange these days; that's a necessary but insufficient condition. A lot of nontrivial math and CS is still poured into HFT at places like Two Sigma, Jump and Hudson River Trading.
I have a contabo ssd vps with 8gb ram for ~5eur/month I'm quite happy for bango for buck
We don't allow users to pick password. We generate it and store it in plaintext
I've tried duolingo, but it's not for me. It just teaches you phrases and words, without teaching you the structure.

I need grammar rules and lists of prepositions and verb endings. I need ten examples in a row where you change out a single word, to teach you how it changes the rest of the sentence.

Duolingo is just random flashcards, claiming to be grouped into lessons. I can absolutely see it as a companion tool to a proper language course, but it's not sufficient in itself, at least not for me.
As they deserve. What was the last invention that came out of that huge juggernaut?
Faster to type make than go build.
For me it's a very conflicted project. All they've done since release has been admirable, and NMS is now a good game well-worth the fee. Thing is, most of that work should've been done before release, and is it right to commend a company for marketing creme-filled donuts and then sending us the creme in the mail eighteen months later? Even so, I would've said yes it is, except for one issue: they still refuse to apologize for deliberately lying to us about launch features. They deflect, they say they got too excited, too ambitious. What they don't do is admit the moral failure inherent in marketing features they hadn't even begun adding to the code base. They didn't even start to try until after they got caught lying and they still refuse to admit it.
There State Department thinks Russian is hard for English speakers to learn, but has Arabic, Chinese, Korean, and others as even harder: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikibooks:Language_Learning_Di...
I guessed he had a shock. You can't hold people accountable for saying bullshit while in shock (and desperately trying to get help) in the USA, right?
Time to make your own microwave network
... when they should be complaining about broken-as-designed legal system.
I have no love lost for Java the language, I find it cumbersome as hell to work in and as such all of my JVM work is done in Kotlin, but I appreciate having conservative and well-thought our evolution of platform features that ultimately effect all JVM languages; seeing as Java The Language is heavily tied into JVM semantics.

Quite frankly even with all the new features Microsoft has been putting into C# they’ve been prime to ignore the existing implementations in F#, leading to a clusterfuck of an ecosystem where I can’t use many C# libraries in my language of choice due to conflicts in implementation. I don’t have that on the JVM, I know I can use a Java library in Kotlin, Scala, Clojure, hell even Ceylon without huge headaches because they all share the same primitives.

Let other JVM languages incubate need language features, Java needs to be where they are eventually stabilized and standardized in how they work on the platform.