skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve been thoroughly surprised by how much I can do to a hotel room that doesn’t result in any “incidental” charges

So I’ve definitely upped the ante and I guess others have taken it to a further extreme

I think a lot of hotels are a conduit for phantom customers as an accounting convenience so this stuff really isnt a priority
> am I understanding you correctly that the big advantage of this technique is that it makes the initial reading of the codebase easier? But as soon as you need to do the „real work“ (a.k.a. debugging) you revert to the full source code anyway?

No, I've seldom tended to look at the generated C++. It's an escape hatch of last resort. Mostly I live in layers.

> how do you deal with unexpected interactions between layers, especially when you don‘t see all the layers as you implement a new one?

If you're constantly having to think about interactions between layers, you probably are trying to over-use layers.

Did you ever find yourself creating git commits that tend to change one line in some place and add a function someplace else? That's a sort of classic use case for layers.

But I'm not sure I can convey this any more clearly through prose. Perhaps what would work is for you to try to read a codebase built in this way, to get a feel for what I use layers for. Candidate codebases:

https://github.com/akkartik/mu#readme

https://github.com/akkartik/mu1#readme (an earlier prototype that uses very different mechanisms, and entirely different code)
You're not alone. To me is a matter of if I have to _think_ on what I'm doing or not. During graphic design work, music allows my mind to wander and be more creative; I could say I _need_ it. But during coding is more difficult: I can listen at low volume some instrumental music while coding CSS and HTML; but for Javascript or other programming languages I need no music (but not necessarily silence, I can code with mild background noises).
Indeed, sounds guilty of...whatever!
Link for anyone interested: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2mtlhuFVOFMn6Ho3JmrLc2?si=...
You are right and I should clarify that.
I never said anything like "the Deep State perp-walked to Guantanamo and The Hague", nor did anyone on this discussion. Maybe there is a right-win conspiracy theory about that, but it has nothing to do with the discussion here.

FBI / DOJ violation of the protocol in secret courts is really a serious matter in a democratic society.
Nowhere near as flexible and powerful as Huginn.
Did you ever asked someone out and later found out that they were laughing about your with their friends? Did you ever got reject after a code interview where you had to implement a whole system over a period of a week, with no feedback whatsoever? Well my friend, this is the tool for you. Send a special "thank you" note and be happy. Just add a link after your comment / post / e-mail with the message:

https://victorribeiro.com/fireEffect/?message=FU
A good quality cabin-window cover costs about $80 and takes about a minute to fit, with magnetic anchors.

No more iced or snow-covered windows.
Google Assistant can now interpret 44 languages on smartphones
> I don't see any party here that needs rescuing by the government.

Contrary to public perception, there's no robust investment market for student debt. US government ends up purchasing most of it through Treasury. In theory it's a great deal, as it gets to borrow at low Treasury rates and originate at higher rates.

I don't have a link to the original source, but "In September 2018, the U.S. Treasury Department revealed in its annual report that student loans account for 36.8% of all U.S. government assets." https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/08121...

Edit: here's a more updated analysis of the Treasury disclosures, which puts the figure at 51.2% as of September 2019 https://www.advisorperspectives.com/dshort/commentaries/2019...

Devaluing those assets (which Treasury marks to market) would significantly dampen (if not destroy) US government's borrowing ability as well as make some government entitlement programs [at least temporarily] insolvent.
In Marijn Haverbeke's "Eloquent Javascript," there's a great section describing how crows employ termite mounds to create information relay networks -- remarkable stuff
I agree.

There are definitely big changes in how produce is being purchased now, with closed-market strategic sourcing replacing older markets that were more transparent. Producers are paying for increasing consumer competition in grocery.
There was police raid in the office. After that founders were captured and brought to interrogation. If it's not "detained" then I don't know what any other meaning this word may have.
Honest question, does anyone actually gain anything from reading slides without hearing the actual talk?
<p>Thanks, fixed! :)
And that's yet another reason why copyrights can not last forever.
That's curious, this hasn't been my experience. Why are they needed physically at the office so often?
Reminds me a bit of https://www.reddit.com/r/CitizenPlanners/ the way you describe it.
A reminder that remote work != work from home.

Obviously in many large cities people live in small apartments . It wouldn't be crazy to assume someone would work out of a Cafe, Co-working space, or Library.

So you can still do a small commute with a bike or etc.
> Do you see these statistics as implying the whole thing is just a rubber-stamp process altogether?

That's overstating my (not the GP) view, but I do believe the operational mechanisms in federal law enforcement push heavily towards conviction once accused.

Let me ask you a question: Do you believe there have been zero false convictions in those districts?
This is, again, situational. Try it~
I suspect people planning to steal a mattress didn't use their real name and credit card.
True, but you know you have done your private network correctly if borking your VPN config means no access.
I heard this when I was in Egypt too. Seems to be a common problem.
Maybe to avoid destroying the environment and other people's health even more?
It doesn't help that with this and most other science news, press releases always try to make the discoveries look like major breakthroughs when they are, in fact, incremental additions to our knowledge.
If you're willing to pay for the incurred server cost, I'm sure MapBox doesn't mind if you download tiles based on OSM data from them.

Or build your own from planet.osm (that's a file, not a domain (it's hard to tell these days)).
Intel promised 10 Ghz by 2005, if I remember correctly.
Same here. I use Brain.Fm and a number of playlists that have instrumental jazz (Miles Davis, Bill Evans, etc), and television/film scores (anything by Alexandre Desplat is great).
Is there any evidence to suggest those rumors are actually the result of unusually high levels of sophistication on the part of Facebook's ad targeting systems, and not just an artifact of confirmation bias and the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon?
I'm not saying that there were no delays, just that they didn't stand out as interfering with the discussion.

This is a group that has worked together for a long time, 30 years for some of us. I'm guessing there is an element of knowing each other's speech patterns from talking face-to-face that will help with knowing when to contribute.
Ask HN: What are you looking forward to learn in 2020?
Hi everyone,

With the holiday break coming up, many of us take advantage of the time to catch up on our professional or personal interests, plan out the coming year, etc.

What are you going to be learning/playing with during the break and in the coming year?
True, but I was talking about the actual issue primarily being that Stingrays are mostly micro targeted, often with warrants due to costs, etc, while the vast majority of cell providers have warrantless, sometimes even subpoena-less web portals for LEAs to conduct spying operations on the public, or how the vast majority of the cell tower companies (separate from the major providers) themselves have the most useful information and do the same types of things.

While stingrays are an issue, the vast majority of spying on cell phone users (read: vast majority of US pop) comes from those other mechanisms which do employ the third party doctrine loopholes. I should have been more specific, but you are right about Stingray.
> The first two 3D-printed homes in Tabasco sit side by side on Lavacrete, a proprietary material developed by ICON.

vendor lock-in spreads to home construction
Linen theft is enough of an issue that some hotels invested in RFID-tracking to cut down on loss.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2011/05/rfid_tags_pro...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/roadwarriorvoices/2015...
That's how it's already phrased in the law, but it isn't a practical rule for DJI to implement. Maps aren't detailed enough, so they'd have to put ground radar in the drones, which wouldn't work...

Or they'd just reduce the max altitude above launch site limitation already in their firmware. An easier-to-implement limitation that stays within the legal restrictions.
I wonder if some of these are outside of busy metros. Lots of non-metro 5 star hotels that aren't open 24/7
Divert to an airport with as long a runway as possible and fly a "short field" approach. That uses maximum flaps and aims at minimum touchdown speed. You can land and stop most small planes in under 200m that way (if the brakes work)

Most commercial airports have runways of well over 2000m, So you just land there and let it roll out.

Large planes typically have multiple hydraulic systems, and within those systems there are "fuses" and accumulators to protect the vital parts (flight controls, brakes) in case there is a leak in another part.
Yes, but when should you decide to take action on that belief? At what point should people go out of their way to prevent an attack that may never happen? It's possible to steal passwords by listening to someone typing on a keyboard and reconstructing the key presses based on the sound. Should everyone stop using keyboard? Stop using passwords and stop using every service that requires a password?

In the security world we develop a risk matrix. This compares the likelihood of a threat compared to the consequences of that in order to determine how concerned you should be. Someone breaking into your car to steal things based on tracking the Bluetooth signal seems a lot less likely than someone breaking into your car because they can see your backpack laying on the back seat, but the consequences are exactly the same. So since thieves seeing your bag and deciding to break into your car is more likely, the natural course of action is to stop leaving your bags in a place that's visible to thieves. If someone then tears open your trunk to steal your bag, then you can worry about Bluetooth.

This article provides absolutely zero proof that Bluetooth was involved in this break-in, so why should anyone rush to the conclusion that Bluetooth was responsible for it? It's not an impulse or a prejudice, one is objectively more right than the other.

Blaming Bluetooth is begging the question when the backpack was visible through the window.
I've been slowly learning Lisp to hack on Emacs, org-mode and org-babel. Main goal being to turn AWS JSON data into org-mode headings and org-babel data to do further work on.

Very much a side project and I'm a bear of very little brain, so it's taking me a long long time.

Seeing Clojure and other Lisp stuff in the wild gives me hope that I can lean on enough people's documentation and source that I can eventually learn what I need.

I know some folks sneer a little at Lisp, but I really enjoy trying to learn it. I haven't felt as motivated to learn a coding language since about ten years ago when I used Perl to transfer/munge data from different LDAP systems into Zimbra.

So, thank you for sharing, this is fascinating stuff.
By top cover, do you mean managers shielding lower level employees? That was my experience at a mid-size finance firm,
it was only possible for my team do to decent work because my team lead was fairly competent at keeping the
higher-ups up at bay.
> I have a BMus in Piano Performance

That's probably then reason. The more you know about music and music production the more it consumes resources of your brain.
If the video works well, I think it can be useful, especially when there's only a few people per camera -- watching people's (well synchronized) faces while they speak helps with comprehension, and watching faces while you speak helps confirm if what you said was understood. If the video isn't working well, it's definitely distracting and not very useful.
I like working while having music as background noise but with a couple rules: no vocals and not many instruments. I tend to listen to atmospheric, jazz, hotel lobby music (but I cant take out Morcheeba or Portishead from my playlist, it deserves my divided attention).
This also links to Datashat's own Businessfunk compilations, which are excellent on another level from your regular ambient: http://datassette.net/businessfunk/

And btw, there's also a fourth mix for the Near Mint web radio: https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/near-mint-8th-march-2016-...

But as heavy-artillery concentration music, I recommend TechnoLiveSets. It's the ‘accidentally done all work in one day’ grade material: https://www.techno-livesets.com/

P.S. I'm also gonna gripe about lack of volume controls on the site, which for some reason a bunch of sites consider acceptable. All volume levels on my machine are carefully tuned—and then this site comes along for which I have to fiddle with the master volume. While listening to this explicitly background music, I'll likely come across some videos that I'll want to watch for ten seconds—and then I'll have to either crank the video volume, or scramble to stop the music each time. Don't do this.

On top of that, site authors' ideas of proper volume pretty much never matches mine: Bandcamp and Soundcloud both have to be cranked down a lot: Soundcloud's embedded clips make me lower the system volume to 1/4th of a notch on my Mac, which is about 1/32nd the normal volume for me.
I'd say it still takes a lot of intelligence for all that training to be effective. If we were much dumber it wouldn't even help. Long life is probably necessary but definitely not sufficient.
"2. Entertained by how HN thinks ad targeting works (we don't want to know everything about YOU. we want to know basic info about all of our users.)"

I'm sorry but this sounds so naive to me. As you say in your last paragraph Facebook was tracking a ton of info about everyone. This is why a lot of people distrust Facebook. You might find this entertaining but this happens when you spy on people. We can't know what Facebook does with the data.

There are also people who targeted a friend as prank and succeeded. So it is possible to target very specific people. With enough money you can do a lot of evil with this (Cambride Analytica).

Because we don't know how they use the data a lot of people now actively block requests to Facebook when they visit a website.

I don't think this is very entertaining.
I am doing it for 10 years, with almost 0 downtime, also smtp server that hands over mail to your server will retry and wait so - no, it doesnt need to be up 24/7. Actually rejecting email with try later is a way of fighting spam.

Also with a $100 worth UPS, raspberry pi lasts forever. And pi is all you need.
Ask HN: How do you cope with non technical product owners?
As software developers / producers, how do you deal with non technical product owners who do not understand the intricacies of how the software works, troubleshooting etc?

A recent example is where a product owner always blame latest deployment whenever something went wrong in the system - even if the issue was caused by a release several months back.

Also, is it a good idea to have the PO on Skype, reporting bugs and glitches on the go?

How do you deal with such stress?
This looks worth checking out but I’d love to see a Lambda version of it
This is a reference to the ridiculous scene from the 2001 movie Swordfish where Hugh Jackman is writing a program to hack into a bank network.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1Ds9CeG-VY
> Why would a business agreement be necessary for the ISP to send traffic over the IXP's switches to the CDN(s)?

Because that's how distribution works and has always worked under corporate capitalism: the company making money off the content itself pays to distribute it (on the Internet, this is generally understood to be the originator of the packets). So the ISPs charge the CDNs and companies like Netflix to accept their traffic. A common argument is "well I already pay for that as a customer!" Telecom business models are a lot more complicated than that, and if 100% of their revenue came from subscription fees you'd be paying a lot more than you do now.

> What's the point of connecting into an IXP if you add the 'overhead' of business agreements?

Because it's a convenient location to house network gear with easy access to multiple large ISPs and upstream networks? An IXP is just a datacenter. What makes it an IXP is the fact that multiple large telco networks are hosted there.

From the wikipedia article linked above: "The Vancouver Transit Exchange, for example, is described as a 'shopping mall' of service providers at one central location, making it easy to switch providers, 'as simple as getting a VLAN to a new provider'. The VTE is run by BCNET, a public entity."
Presumably they steal them to sell them on, not because the thief needs mattresses for every one of their 14 bedrooms. As long as it's reasonably new and clean (or maybe even if not) it can be sold on eBay. New mattresses are quite expensive too - £1500 for really nice ones - so I suppose this plus the TV makes for a worthwhile evening of grifting.
me as well.

but I found some exceptions like Wardruna. :)
> That's overstating my (not the GP) view, but I do believe the operational mechanisms in federal law enforcement push heavily towards conviction once accused.

Possibly, but that's a separate point from the one I'm making.

> Do you believe there have been zero false convictions in those districts?

Seems unlikely. But that's not the baseline.
I made this comment elsewhere, but I’m wondering if this is due to you being a musician.

Somewhat related: I’m an amateur photographer and have studied photography extensively. When I see pictures I can’t help but mentally pull them apart to determine how they were made. Seems like musicians might have the same inclination.
I started the project while I was working at Google, went through the open source process, and then left a short while after to work on it full-time. There's no affiliation with Google.
How is your insistence that “something even worse will be revealed” not a conspiracy theory? It’s almost literally the definition!
To make in-person connections and to present and teach in-person. I don't think it's particularly contentious to say that these things often work better in-person, even as someone who thinks remote work is best and has been doing it my whole career. Once a quarter also probably doesn't seem like a lot to people who are going to a conference every month or so anyway.
I agree all that stuff was interesting and innovative. Maybe we just disagree on how far you have to push expectations to be avant-garde. When I think of avant-garde I think of creators trying to push toward a paradigm shift or break as many rules as possible or be experimental. At their heart Metal Gear games were still action games but Kojima was innovative enough in how he presented the story and gameplay mechanics to the gamer that they felt like more than that. The Metal Gear games I played never felt experimental, they felt like exquisitely done versions of an existing genre.
I don't think this is a compelling example. React would implement this almost identically:

const Counter = () => {
const [count, setCount] = React.useState(0)
return (
<div>
<p>You have clicked the button {count} times.</p>
<button onClick={() => setCount(count => count + 1)}>Increment</button>
</div>
)
}

Replace the atom/swap with a useState hook and it's almost identical.
Exactly. Also, crimes against children didn't happen before 1995?

This is an easy problem to solve with a proper whistleblower program. There are people adjacent to these criminals and they may be dependent or fearful of repercussions for coming forward. Treat them with witness protection and appropriate and large (millions) in monetary incentives. Like most things in life, you get what you incentivize. But this issue is about total surveillance not about protecting children.
I have found several “brown noise” tracks which I find great for getting into the zone.

Right now, my absolute favorite is “cockpit” brown noise (the sound of muffled airline jet noise). For example, you could set this track to repeat endlessly:
https://open.spotify.com/track/01Kk9an41cyVj7oIXd2Fsj?si=NnC...

For whatever reason, it gives me the feeling of “fast” (jet), important (I’m the pilot of this important thing?), and cozy (strapped in tight in the cockpit), and I never get the distracted (hmmm! What is this song?) feeling that I usually get from programming to music.

FYI: Difference between “white”, “pink”, & “brown” noise:
https://www.soundofsleep.com/2017/07/18/white-pink-brown-noi...
Physics, mostly. To hold the weight of any significant armor, fuel, materiel, etc. you would need an unbelievably large interior space surrounded by a relatively thin exterior.

Deployment is another issue - how do you get it to where it needs to be quickly?

Armor also isn't a good defense against modern missiles. The goal is to intercept or avoid getting hit in the first place, rather than sustain multiple hits.
What I want to know is what five-star hotel doesn't have someone at the reception desk 24 hours?
This hypocrisy is a reoccurring issue with most people who favor coercive political solutions to problems instead of voluntary and cooperative ones.

When people make arguments like "taxes should be higher" or "air travel should be more expensive", they almost always mean "for other people".

People need to eat their own cooking or they instantly lose all credibility, even when the facts are on their side.
I've thought about this, the problem is the cost. My trip would cost 3-5 times more, which is hard to justify to the company. They'll probably just tell me they'll pay for those "CO2 compensation programs".
NeurIPS 2019 – Live talks with slides
Hello from Russia.

I've read documents provided by nginx employee Igor Ippolitov, and I'm convinced Rambler is commiting a offence under article 306 of criminal codex.

In brief, in Russia an employee retains all rights on his/her/it's intellectual property if he/she/it was not instructed to do this job. Former Rambler CEO confirmed that Sysoev has no instructions to create a web server.

At the same time, Rambler claims that:
"unknown person at an unspecified time acting within the scope of his duties and on behalf of management".

unknown person cannot have a scope of his duties. management cannot give orders to an unknown person.
A seemingly common one in the move fast and break things world is to provide all information in the form of hello world tutorials and youtube videos. The source code is its own reference, amirite?
Technology Causes Anxiety
> The way I see it is that the government wants Greek nationals to use electronic payments for at least 30% of their expenses

That does not compute. How does one prove that 30% of their expenses were done using electronic payments? Submitting paper receipts for the other 70%? It's been tried and it's unfeasible.
It's not easy to find product market fit. If there are so much traffic and customers, I will probably try to scale the project instead of selling it.

Who knows if the next project will take off again? As a bootstrap developer, if you cannot nail marketing, you will just have the same problem in the next project
Ok how do I use OSM to calculate routes?