skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tiny nitpick, you'll probably wait longer than five minutes:

>In the case of a nominally 10-minute bus line, sometimes the span between arrivals will be longer than 10 minutes, and sometimes shorter, and if you arrive at a random time, you have more opportunities to encounter a longer interval than to encounter a shorter interval. And so it makes sense that the average span of time experienced by riders will be longer than the average span of time between buses, because the longer spans are over-sampled.

https://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2018/09/13/waiting-time-parad...
Knowledge as a side effect of habits.
...all the connections in 1/3rd of the fly's brain
Good luck. We may constantly decry the erosion of privacy on HN, but I guarantee you that the populace at large (like 95%+), even if they may sometimes complain about a lack of privacy, also generally really like the stuff that personalization provides. People (again, the vast populace at large) make their purchasing decisions based on things like price and perceived quality; privacy considerations are a distant follow up. Why do you think the ad-supported web is the dominant model in the first place? Because to most users it feels like "free", because the stuff they're giving up (like privacy and the cost of advertising baked into things they buy) isn't readily apparent.

Privacy is a concern that really doesn't matter much, until it does. For other concerns like this it seems like regulation is the only thing that works. For example, insurance companies are highly regulated because the default risk of an insurer is something so amorphous for the average consumer to determine that it's basically impossible for them to judge on their own. So that's when government steps in and says there are basic standards an insurance company must adhere to to operate at an acceptable level of risk. I feel like that's the same for privacy. The average user isn't really able to comprehend, or value, the gradual long term effects of privacy erosion, so that's where the government steps in to demand all players must have basic standards.
The worst part is how the diseases from other animals are way too deadly to humans. The human-specific diseases like the common cold are a great example of a disease that is ideally adapted to its host. Its high adaptable (thus getting around our immune system), it spreads effectively, and crucially, it's very rarely fatal. Because it's not deadly, it can easily infect the same host over a hundred times throughout its lifetime.

Viruses that are routinely deadly to the organisms catching them are not adapted well to their hosts. We see this with HIV (came from monkeys), the worse flus (came from birds), and all sorts of other stuff.
Some really cool things about this extension:
- the code is not obfuscated
- nothing leaves your browser

How it works: Instagram sends this data anyway so we just inject and get it from their json and put it on the page.

Enjoy!
California is stereotyped as being the most burdensome when it comes to this sort of thing. I don’t know if that’s warranted, but it does seem so when hearing from people who live in urban areas who have dealt with this.

On the other hand, I live in a “city” in Arkansas. According to the municipal code here, most residential electrical and plumbing work can be done by the owner of the property without obtaining a permit beforehand. While the code requires that the work be inspected prior to closure - e.g., we’re supposed to have electrical work inspected before subflooring is laid or drywall is hung - my experience is that it’s not only not required, they don’t even have a process in place to meet that requirement.

My home was damaged by a fire a few years before I purchased it. In fact, that was one of the reasons I bought it; while the home was built in the late 1960, all of the electrical and almost all of the plumbing was stripped out and redone in ~2008. That work was inspected... and it was very bad work, honestly.

Since buying the home I’ve reinstalled every outlet (properly) and re-run about 1/3 of the Romex in the walls and below the house. I spoke with the city inspector and he was incredulous when I asked when he’d be available to come look at it - he advised me that there was no such requirement unless I had paid someone to do it. He said he’d never had someone ask him to inspect work done by the homeowner. After a few minutes’ discussion at his office about what I had changed and why, his answer? “You obviously know what you’re doing, so you don’t need me to come out. If you want me to file an inspection certificate I will based on your word, but it’s not worth my time to drive out to your house to look at it. Don’t worry about it.”

Outside the municipal limits, to my knowledge there is no requirement at all for inspection.

Furthermore, my homeowner’s insurance specifically allows for improvements made by the homeowner so long as they “comply with applicable local codes and regulations”. In my case that means a document that I had to track down and modify for my situation, the inspector signed without ever having visited the property, and I had to physically take to the city clerk. If my home were 100 yards further South (and therefore outside city limits) there would be no documentation required at all.

So, in short... for a lot of the country, the TCO of a new toilet is the cost of the toilet. Maybe the cost of a new wax ring as well if the homeowner is experienced enough to realize that the old one is going to fail eventually if they re-use it, so they go ahead and buy a new one at the same time.
I emailed you as well.

- not an asshole ;)
Green text, black background.

I’ll open a terminal in my university courses and take notes in vim just to see people’s reactions.

Even better, doing anything with a lot of stdout. Fast scrolling text in a terminal freaks out a lot of people.
The act of eating the bat is plausible from people catching them (alive), storied then, preparing them, and people coming to an area where that happens to consume them.
We know that the Chinese Government is hugely overreacting

Do we know that? All of the criticism I've seen has been of the government under-reacting. In fact, in a speech yesterday Xi told the local authorities that they weren't doing enough.

Non-Chinese estimates (as of 24 January) are that there's 6,000 people infected vs. 1,300 from the Chinese government.

The 6,000 figure comes from the Laboratory for the Modeling of Biological and Socio-technical Systems at Northeastern University in Boston: https://www.mobs-lab.org/2019ncov.html
No one should listen to this persons recommendations about blood pH. Body homeostasis maintains pH of 7.4 - if it is anything else your physiology is disturbed. It is absolutely not true that ‘modern diets’ cause a more acidic pH, and it is NEVER normal or regular to see a pH in a well person of 6.5-7 - any doctor will freak out seeing that as it is severely disturbed
There is no single TCP monoculture codebase -- even among Unix-alikes, the Linux networking stack is a reimplementation, with no common ancestry with the BSD stack. (To say nothing of routers with their own implementations, often including hardware assist at the high end.)
This is a grab-bag of uncited bunk. pH! Conspiracies! Misreading of studies! Bizarre cures! It's all here.
And we have the capacity to eliminate pathogens that don't have animal reservoirs. Smallpox is extinct and polio is relatively close.
I think “Pulling a Digg” is more apt. The change to digg was abrupt and user jumped ship immediately.
Honestly mate, you need to find better news then. It's out there, but it's not 24/7 stuff. The GP is right, there are vastly more good, professional journalists than the celebrity-style 'It-girls' on the networks.
For us, sure. But look at Hong Kong right now. When everyone is aware of and agrees there is a risk, it becomes more socially acceptable.
But realistically it can't go on much longer, right? The diameter of a silicon atom is like 0.21 nanometers, so we're almost within an order of magnitude from rock bottom, right? I don't actually know anything about this stuff so I could be hopelessly confused, but that's my impression.
> ...White House itself is hardly faultless...

Are you referring to the difficulty the White House had acknowledging their client, Saudi Arabia, murdered a Washington Post journalist in their embassy?

Or are you referring to the spectacle Trump incites at his rallies toward the reporters who are covering them? (E.g.: “Rope. Tree. Journalist. Some Assembly Required")

My point: If you survey political journalism and come away with a sorrowful conclusion that "both sides of the aisle" have problems with accurate reporting, then you're not really acknowledging that Trumpists have an agenda of demonizing any reporter or organization that reports uncomfortable facts.

The media still don't know how to respond to this asymmetrical warfare, and that's the real story for anyone who believes that facts matter in political reporting.
Maybe this is for the better, though. I totally understand why they'd want to restrict membership and keep things focused and civil. But there is also something that feels off about excluding people who are probably qualified to be there.

Sort of like interviewing at tech companies, there may not be a good solution. I imagine they're willing to put up with false negatives as long as false positives are minimized.

And that does make sense. But being on the other end of it is weird.
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Fruit Fly's Connectome
Would those databases also have the option to trace the data back to the origins of that data?

It wouldn't solve the privacy issue but I think if companies are compelled to hold a record from whom they purchased/obtained data, it would help. It would help to determine if the originator had informed consent to share it and also if that included every company in the chain.

Currently if a company 'loses' their data then people who never even interacted with this company gets their data exposed without them knowing. If you're dealing with personal data, why not keep a record how, where and when you obtained it from?
Computers beat chess by grinding out the answers, something previously unattainable for humankind. Computers can beat chess,go and starcraft now with curve fitting ml programs.

The problem is for all this power people still play chess,go and starcraft and we don't know how their brain works.
I mean, it absolutely is an insecure protocol. It has no security whatsoever built into it, and anyone can inspect or modify the contents of the connection with impunity. The only way it's not "insecure" is if that word has no meaning whatsoever.

Other insecure protocols besides HTTP would include Telnet, basic DNS, port 110 POP3, FTP, basic IRC, etc. None of this is controversial or really even arguable.
Just because a common open source engine has been decided upon doesn’t mean there’s no competition or that no innovation can happen.
I think the problem is that you're associating people calling out media bias and corruption with Trump. I explicitly said the white house has issues too. Major issues, tons of them. That doesn't absolve the mainstream media, there are a lot of valid things to critique there.
Ask HN: What is the easiest and fastest way to make API?
See Ebbinghaus' Forgetting Curve. [1]

[1] https://www.inc.com/scott-mautz/train-your-brain-to-remember...
> I don't think there is /any/ x86 laptop on which we know how to do DRAM initialization without closed-source blobs

Pre-SandyBridge 2009 era stuff?
> Diet without exercise however can work just fine.

I think that's the point. Earning more is hard, you need to get a raise or find a new job. That's "exercise". It's the obvious fix, but it doesn't really work.

Instead the workout makes you hungry. The raise in pay tempts you into buying a new car. So you stay over weight, or fail to save money.

Cutting your spending or going on a diet can work on their own.

I think the math works better for people earning lots of money and spending it all. Being poor is hard and unexpectedly expensive.
Income and wealth is like speed and distance. It's not hard to have high income with no wealth, and no income with high wealth.

Unfortunately, a lot of people conflate income with wealth.
There are powers definitely working on it. "Super" just doesn't mean "kills as much people as efficiently as possible". Ability to control the destruction is a crucial feature of any weapon. In the past, this perhaps meant viruses that fizzle out quickly, so they could be deployed on enemy territory. Today, with recent breakthroughs in genetic engineering, that likely means aiming for high selectivity - targeting ethnicity or lineage.

Ultimately, people will be working on it no matter what, because bioweapons are to molecular biology as nuclear weapons are to nuclear physics. A crude and violent application of a field of knowledge of vital, cross-cutting importance to many areas of life.
Having more features does not make a browser superior. IE had a universe of memory leak and CSS rendering quirks. Their rendering was so overly permissive that "anyone" could put a mess together and it'd render. That permissive client almost single handedly slowed web development progress by a decade. Because nobody wanted to produce a browser that failed to render some web pages that could be rendered in other browsers. Nobody cared that the pages in question were gibberish. If anything all these IE only features did more to harm web dev than help it. They're why we're in the situation where all this enterprise software still requires old versions of IE to operate.
Easier for you to assess the technical competency, however nice for you = larger attack surface for the site. Why would anyone in their right mind expose unnecessary info for hackers (whether whitehat or blackhat) to assess whether they’re an easy target? This is like asking people to turn on nginx server_tokens. Also, unnecessary headers -> more bytes transferred -> more bandwidth cost, especially for very short responses (but probably doesn’t matter for Cloudflare.)
> TikTok has succeeded not because it has unique features. It simply started its strategy to take on the world with the freshest possible generation of users, children aged 11-15.
> Look at the beginnings, it was disgusting, but they were there patiently spending money to convince the generation that now

Source? Interested in their early marketing breakdown.
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Can someone if medical background comment on the claims about facial masks. Specifically ineffectiveness of N95
I was just thinking today that I'd love to see a solid retrospective of what parts of Gears really made it into the web we know now, and what got left behind. I don't remember enough of what Gears was like.
The ASF and the 2019-nCoV viruses are not related at all.
Can you reference some?
Wait until they hear about neodymium processing for wind turbines.
Slightly modified so that it runs either a Ruby file or a Python one:

(0 and eval(IO.read("ruby.rb"))) or eval(compile(open("python.py").read(), "", "exec"))

Granted, this doesn’t close the Python file, which is delayed until garbage collection or program termination.
It's their "Full Strict" HTTPS setup [1]. It's included on the free tier, I've been using it over a year and counting.

[1] https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200170416-E...
You'd have to be really trying, in order to have no income with high wealth. You'd have to purposefully not lease your properties and try and keep all your money somewhere you can't make interest and also refuse to invest in even the most risk averse prospects.
Blatant fear mongering. At the bottom of the article, in case you missed it:

Lastly on an Economic Note: SARS did $50 Billion in Economic damage and this is going to be hundreds of times worse. It is going to shut down most of global travel and tourism. It is going to slow business across the globe in almost every sector. It is going to take an already precarious global economic situation and push it over the edge. On a very, very short term good news point – I can hear those money-printing presses firing up for “Q.E. 4 to Infinity” already

I think they should stick to covering Big Canoe, GA.
China has had wet markets since forever basically, how often do outbreaks of this magnitude occur in other such markets in other cities without those kind of labs. If this was a regular occurrence it might not be significant.
Correct, and being in orbit is not a requirement to be considered an astronaut. The threshold for being "in space" is 80km of altitude, a height that all Virgin Galactic customer flights will pass.
> IIRC a typical child birth can cost $10,000 in medical bills.

Assertions like this — there’sa similar one about hip replacements being more expensive in the USA than flying to Spain for the op and living there for two years — always make me wonder why health tourism from the USA to basically anywhere else isn’t more common.
> what does it tell you that you actually need to know?

Have you actually used Google Analytics? Doesn't sound like it.

First, being able to get stats on real traffic and not bots/crawlers is very important and GA does an excellent job of this.

Google Analytics also allows you to see how people actually use your site. Stats like how long, what their visit path looks like, and when they leave your site. It also lets you see demographic info, like age group and gender.

I've only touched the surface of what GA does. Yes, it is equally frightening and amazing how it tracks users.

Good luck doing these with your server logs.
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https://amp.businessinsider.com/wuhan-coronavirus-people-chi...

"Wuhan's party secretary and governor cannot soothe the people's anger"

Faith is losing but but only the local governments. The vast majority of ordinary people still believe that the central government is being hoodwinked by local governments, and taking their anger on them.
They still trust the central government would be responsible for them.
It's ridiculous, but it's true.
It seems like the local government under-reacted, and now the central government is (hopefully) over-reacting.
I have two links related to tiled window management:

The links are for WM configurations that let you move or resize windows
keeping the corners on a configurable grid:

[1] https://github.com/luigirizzo/lrtile-chrome (chrome extension)
Ctrl+Shift+Arrow move the current window, Ctrl+Search+Arrows resize it

This works for all Chrome windows so it platform independent.

[2] https://github.com/luigirizzo/lrtile-cinnamon (cinnamon extension, linux)
Alt+Arrows move the current window, Shift+Arrows resize it

(I have a similar Javascript configuration for Spectacle, I can post it if there is interest. I believe the javascript is easily portable to other scriptable window managers.)

My rationale for developing lrtile is the following:

I like having window corners on a grid because it helps locating information.

However, in many tiled WMs, resizing one window causes resizing of nearby ones (very distracting) _and_ windows generally do not overlap (a severe limitation especially on small screen). Finally, shortcuts to place windows on half or a quarter of the screen are often built-in (in chrome, windows, spectacle default...) but very few WMs have larger, configurable grids suitable for large monitors (I use a 40" 4K screen).

lrtile addresses the above problems as follows:

- the grid is configurable;
- movement/resize only affect the current window, allowing overlap if user wants;
- commands are arrows + 1/2 modifiers, and try to be intuitive
- screen borders act as hard stops, also making behavior more intuitive.

In detail, I typically use a 6x6 grid on small screens (so I can have halves or thirds) and 12x10 or even bigger on large screens. Each window side must be at least two units, and resize extends or reduces one dimension at a time and by one unit.

My typical workflow is to make windows visible with a comfortable size and no overlap, and occasionally expand the window I care about (e.g. make the browser wider when a page does not render well; or expand the editor window vertically when I want to see a larger chunk of code), reverting back when done. The fact that move and resize commands are very similar to other cursor movements makes the operation very quick.
I just use longs with the value representing the number of pennies.
Why wasn't the Windows 95 shell prototyped on Windows NT? (2012)
A couple of posters on HN say Vultr has intermittent internal network problems. I've found no wider mention of this - can anyone confirm? I ask as their High Frequency Computer looks (and in testing has been) good, but if the internal network blips then that counts for nothing in a multi-server setup.
> we're still trying to pass off as a reasonable way of making the world a better place.

Outside of the SV bubble, this is seen as the creepy grandstanding that it is.
Disclosure: I work at Google on Chrome. Opinions are my own.

Using chromium as a base, browsers will have to differentiate by offering a better product.

“Better” is less likely to be better performance, compatibility, or accessibility.

By using much of the same code as another browser implementer, any browser vendor [hint hint] that still makes their own engine could reduce the resources they put on the foundations and web platform and put more of it on the product itself.

Perhaps we’ll have more groundbreaking innovations to move browsers forward. The last few big ones: multi-process architecture, tabs.

In effect, by using the same foundations, the browser wars could in fact be reignited and the users could be the winners.

On the web platform side, I.e., the stuff you see on MDN and w3c specs, using the same “base” doesn’t mean the browsers won’t have different implementations of future APIs if the vendors’ opinions diverge strongly. Case in point: Chromium used to use WebKit as its renderer and now uses blink, a fork of WebKit.
I’ve declined to invite a number of “growth marketers”...
Apps offering third party sign in options on iOS must also include sign in with Apple

https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/124006
How do you get high wealth with no income? Unless you get it inherited or something similar.
I know; I've been playing around with "Rasa", a chatbot system based on Tensorflow. All the ML part does is match up canned answers with incoming questions. Someone has to provide all the answers and a few questions for each answer, then look at errors from user input and manually classify them for retraining. The rest of the system is just a template system for implementing phone trees.

Interestingly, MIT's START questioning-answering system is pretty good.[1] That project started in 1993, before machine learning, and it's more "traditional AI". Try it and comment.

[1] http://start.csail.mit.edu/index.php
Snapchat = in the US
Same as how so many young people in the US don’t have Whatsapp.
AFAICT Instagram is king in Europe (for now).
why does there always have to be a deflecting “what about”-ism with literally everything any one says here?