skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are right, it wasn't my intention to imply the 50% refer to France. I'll try to edit the phrasing.

I don't get why you think comparing to offshore wind is misleading, though. Could you expand on that?
Good point. I guess workflows where a keyboard and mouse are not primordial work better on a touchscreen.
Have search warrant for data? Google wants agencies to pay
The authors choice of words is terrible ("real work"), I'd phrase it as "making digital products". E.g., in the fitness instructor example, the product is of course the fitness training. I think most people who use this phrase "real work" are in the digital product business themselves, e.g., programmers, designers, even people writing for websites (although I think an iPad works decently well for web writing already, if you're willing to make a couple of adjustments). I think the author is only really looking at work through their own prism of being involved in making digital products. And files have been remarkably resilient in that domain (while there have been some inroads to non-file-centric workflows, e.g., No Code comes to mind). It's overwhelmingly how those products are made today, and, as the author points out, one of the iPad's biggest flaws, if you're trying to do use to make digital products, is it's resistance to working with files.

I agree 100% that calling it "real work" is terrible, but I still think the authors points about resilience of files in the process of making digital products are important.
Making organization membership public would trample on personal privacy quite effectively in some respects, such as with disease support groups or PACs; medical privacy is taken seriously, but is there such a thing as political affiliation being private? Is it a violation of someone's privacy to reveal they give to the ACLU?
https://www.electricitymap.org shows a rather simple pattern. When the wind is clam in EU it goes brown in most countries right now. I take a walk outside and even if south of Sweden is only a single data point, I can often make a pretty good prediction about the color of the map.

More dynamic energy grid and storage could change that, as could investment in nuclear. In the mean time the investment money are currently going into the combination of gas plants and wind farms. Its a local maximum where investment into wind pays off as it is cheaper than fossil fuels when the winds blows, and investment into natural gas pays when the wind is still because then its a sellers market.
Litecoin API and Its Usage
But it only needs to be accessible on the port WireGuard uses for communications, and WireGuard also has a nice property where it acts passively for non-wireguard packets.

So someone on the internet doesn't necessarily know the node is reachable from the internet if they try and scan it for example.

Edit: IIRC only one end of the connection needs a stable endpoint as well. IIRC WireGuard supports mobility (changing IP addresses) for one end of the connection.
The UK is one of the most surveilled countries in the world. Growing up in the 90s I began to see cameras appear in public spaces. By the time I emigrated to Canada you could basically be tracked from town to city, cameras on the street, on public transit, and on the motorways.

In Canada I rarely see any evidence of surveillance outside of the cities. Public transit being the exception.
Fascinating and also good news IMHO as it starts to highlight that bitcoins can be tracked and today a stolen mobile phone can be blocked and logged upon a database as stolen, so could bitcoins.

I'm thinking that there is a need/opportunity to be able to register bitcoins as stolen and if vendors used that database, the whole raft of bitcoins used for nefarious activities and more so stolen ones, can be curtailed.
Counterpoint to that thinking would be that it would not curtail the criminal activities such as ransom payments, only shift them into other forms.

Also interesting that the incident response team do not track or follow up tracing and tracking the bitcoins used and that a separate company and process was avenued. This shows that incident response is still a learning process, though encouraging that such situations are within their remit of response and as a service for companies - an important one.

Another take away from this is that law enforcement need to up there game, had this been hard cash, they would be driving this and not the insurance company. That shows how they are behind the times and most likely, budget/skill shortages playing out. But a million dollars is a million dollars in any currency, including crypto currency and again, had this been hard currency, you know that they would of been more resource involved. Though please don't take that as an indictment upon the police services, more an indictment of their resource limitations and one that needs addressing and raised up the flagpole.
What I'm trying to say is: For every popular content creator on IG, there are tens and hundreds of (more or less automatic) content curators that do nothing more than scrape content with lots of likes, and re-post on their own channels. Then when they get sufficient followers, they make money through paid product placements, account flipping, pay-to-play sharing, and what not. More often than not, there's no linking to the original pages / creators.
You can write down the serial numbers of paper money you hold, but that's not going to help you recover the money if someone steals the money and spends it at a shop.

Traceability doesn't need to be a problem.
Swift Cookbook
Wouldn't be surprised if this is getting pushed through (although with a seemingly favorable outcome) because of gov't projects similar to ClearView.
At what point should he have said "This is enough"? Most people think just being able to live comfortable lives for themselves is "enough". But those people also can't donate 50 billion dollars to charity like Buffet has. Do you think it would have been a net positive if Buffet gave up investing after his first million?
I assumed this was title related to standardized machine learning practices. Expanding "ML" to "Meta Language" would make this title clearer.
Yes, to quote, as I wrote,

> notes to get a nephew of 9

I'm writing the notes for
my 9 year old niece.
So, the notes are for a boy of 9.
And it's calculus, for a boy of 9. Of course it's "calculus 1".

I thought I mentioned it was for a boy of 9.

So, I omitted (1) a real valued function of a real variable with a compact domain has a Riemann integral if and only it is continuous on a set of measure zero, (2) for such function, if it is differentiable, then it has no jump discontinuities, (3) there is such a function that is differentiable but whose Riemann integral does not exist.

But, still, it is amazing how easy it is to get 36 decimal digits of e, and 500 if want.

I've been through calculus, advanced calculus, advanced calculus for applications, differential equations, local series solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations, exterior algebra, real analysis, measure theory, and more, have taught calculus in college, applied it in US national security and business, and published in it, and still I'd never seen a clear treatment of how easy it is to get so many digits of e from Taylor series.

The results I found are amazing, and
my good and long experience indicates that only a tiny fraction of calculus students appreciate that.

And as we know,

e = lim_{i \rightarrow \infty}
(1 + 1/i)^i

and it turns out that that iteration is painfully slow, and from my experience this fact is also amazing and poorly known.

It was amazing stuff and a productive weekend.
> If someone is going on there and listing thousands of dollars of gift cards that should be a huge red flag.

There are legitimate reasons for doing this. Buying gift cards using a rewards-earning credit card and reselling them online is a great way to rack up airline/hotel points if the gift card can be sold for anything close enough to face value.
Try to opt out of Advertising ID (Settings -> Google -> ads) and see if apps continue to be associated with your facebook account. I suspect Swipe sent both your account ad advertising id during login.
The signature can be anything, though.

I usually sign a big ‘X’, or draw a smiley face.
This is why facerec is so important -- it, unlike any other technology yet developed, can find abducted people. One suspects there's a silent majority applauding these facerec companies. That majority is defined as anyone who has been a victim of crime.
> 96 bitcoin could be thrown through a mixer

One, mixer output could be, by default, added to the registry as laundering proceeds. Or two, the subunits could be traced through the mixer, thus retaining their black marks.
> get in and out beating 5 min

I can't even rinse the soap off with cold water in 5 minutes.
It's the same everywhere. We want to be paid but reach is even more important.[1]

[1] https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-apr-09-fi-micro...
This makes me wonder how emoji might be used in the future. They're becoming pretty ubiquitous, and even adopting meanings of their own. Might they replace punctuation entirely in the future, as a marker of tone the way punctuation marks pauses?
"just going to be a big iPhone (...) lay back in bed and casually browse the web, read magazines, watch movies, play games? On something with a decently large screen" -- isn't that just a big iPhone, then? Especially now that the iPhones are fairly large themselves, and mobile layouts are almost universal. I have an iPad, but I've never really found a good use for it. Web browsing, reading, and watching videos I find more comfortable on a phone (or a Kindle) I can hold in one hand. The form factor of the iPad combined with its touch screen means I can never find a comfortable way of holding it long-term.

To me the big draw of the iPad is that it combines the simplicity of a phone OS with a screen that can render large fonts and still be usable. That's great for people with poor eyesight, like my grandparents, who can fit only a few words at a time onto a 5" phone display and who find the Windows interface frustrating (being full of small buttons, accidentally-pressed keyboard shortcuts, things minimizing to the tray, and multiple windows containing multiple tabs). As someone lucky enough to have escaped that problem so far the iPad exists in a strange halfway point between a laptop (large, powerful, keyboard-equipped, capable of running and doing anything) and a phone (comfortable, portable, long-lasting) that's never quite right for the job.

Admittedly I've never used the Pencil which I imagine can be quite nifty.
Hypermodern Python: Documentation Ft. Sphinx, Darglint, Xdoctest, Nox, Flake8
From the Conclusion at the end of the paper addressing all types of nuclear technologies, fast breed reactors, Generation IV reactors and "fusion or fission, uranium or thorium":

"Even a lesser goal of several terawatts of nuclear power would run into many of the outlined limitations. Therefore, the notion of a nuclear utopia is a false one. But there are two types of nuclear advocates: the nuclear utopian and the nuclear realist. A nuclear realist would only suggest that we need about 1 TW of nuclear power as part of our world energy mix. However, one only has to divide the results, in this paper, by 15 to see that 1 TW still stretches resources and risks considerably.

One then has to count the cost, consider the safety, the complexity, and the issues surrounding governance of nuclear power. Also if the technology cannot be fundamentally scaled further than 1 TW, one has to ask if the same investment would have been better spent on a truly scalable technology.

It has been suggested that for the same investment, solar thermal farms (with storage) would exceed the power output of nuclear stations and eliminate many of the problems [5]. Solar thermal is also scalable as it has the capacity to deliver hundreds of terawatts should mankind require it in the future.

The weakness of a scalable renewable solution, however, is intermittency. In the short term, this problem can be addressed via dual use of solar thermal with natural gas. Then, the natural gas can be phased out, as storage and grid balancing techniques come online to solve the intermittency problem."
Did your Comp Sc degree give you enough knowledge for a software developer job?
AWS beat you to it[0]. Not a van, but a 45 foot trailer.

[0] https://aws.amazon.com/snowmobile/
Study: Current model for storing nuclear waste may not be sufficiently safe
You can also sign ‘Refuse to sign’.
It's different for broadcast films and tv https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retransmission_consent
What stops fraudulent reports?

e.g.
1. I pay you 1 BTC
2. Wait until I receive whatever I paid for
2. Now I tell you to send me 0.5BTC or else I'll report the entire 1BTC as ransom payment.

The blacklist is just a new and very powerful tool for additional fraud!
Sounds like multicore OCaml is finally nearing completion:

https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/multicore-ocaml-january-2020-upd...
May I ask, are you under 40? As it was around that age in which the memories of all those adults saying "school, best time of your life, enjoy it whilst you can" and thinking "you crazy fool, silly adults" and retrospectively at 40, thinking "Hmmm, now I get it, now I get it".
I'm not implying that work done in integrated suites or "apps" is illegitimate. I'm just trying to close the philosophical gap by explaining that this sort of work is a subset of all the work one might want to do with a computer.
A little off topic, The author here describes the use case for this and mentions for those situations where "if you do not need probabilities attached to your parse trees, you are probably better off using nearley instead"

This lead me to wonder (and unsuccessfully answer via google-fu): What is the difference between [jison](https://zaa.ch/jison/docs/) and [nearley](https://nearley.js.org) and when would I use one over the other?
The arms race would intensify, and detecting/blocking/deceiving scrapers might become a lucrative field.

It already is. There are entire companies, like Distil Networks, who exist solely to protect companies from bots/scrapers/etc. Actually, looks like Distil got acquired and are now part of Imperva, but anyway, the idea is the same. This is definitely an existing field.

https://www.imperva.com/products/bot-management/

Disclosure: former Distil employee, but I have no financial stake in this discussion, and have mixed feelings about scraping. Clearly it can be beneficial in some situations, but when I think about having to pay exorbitant prices to scalpers for tickets to an event, because they used a bot to buy up all the tickets, that is less appealing.
I get that this is how it works in the real world, but the argument that transaction fees are necessary for the credit company to cover the risk of the cardholder not paying is a bit feeble, because to my non-banker mind: that's what the interest rates are for. If someone is risky, simply don't approve their application, or raise their rate. Am I missing something?
Xcode is too expense for iPad by minimal hardware requirements.

Animation CPU should be good for dev apps too

https://twitter.com/acpustudio
This is why I wonder about the reasoning in the article. You have platforms that are NOT walled gardens, where you CAN write your own great file manager and those also have same ballpark hardware, yet nobody rushed to write this groundbreaking filemanager that would trigger platform success remotely comparable to iPadOS. Maybe, this is not about walled gardens and filemanagers? Maybe there are best tools for certain tasks and for author's job tablet is just not the right one? Since I got my first ipad 10 years ago I almost exclusively read things on it instead of my notebook. And I read a lot and it is part of my work. But I never expected it to replace my notebook or phone.
Why did you ever think he was more than human?

This is kind of what the original criticism highlighted....
I'm pretty sure the US has the same thing, basically. You can't copyright facts, but you can copyright presentation. So someone can't copy your map directly and sell it, because there's an artistic component to it. But they can make their own map with the same data, with a different style to it, and sell that.
You can expect it to be in the same ballpark as C or C++ for single-threaded code, especially if you use idiomatic Rust (combinators instead of manual iteration).

Where Rust shines is that it often takes jaut a few minutes to turn a single-threaded program into a multithreaded program — and the type system guarantees that the program won't have data races.
As someone familiar with the name already, expanding it would be very confusing for me.
Multi One Password – The Most Secure Password Manager for Windows OS
Wait - how does a Raspberry Pi help you here? Do you ssh into it from the iPad? How do you connect to it physically?
Camera Lucida
APIs are often not as complete as the web interface, since the customer sees the web interface and normally the customer is what drives the revenue model of the company.

If pages are driven via an API, then the API is preferable, but publicly facing websites are often a mix of server-side HTML generation and API enrichment, for caching if nothing else.
This article is oddly similar to the Daring Fireball article that just came out and was just posted on HN. Both talk about how, 10 years in, the iPad has failed to revolutionize computing and both complain about awkward UX.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22166421

https://daringfireball.net/2020/01/the_ipad_awkwardly_turns_...
Yeah, one of the primary uses of my iPad was learning to read music.
> but if the user does not have a service account (as is the case for HiQ, it doesn't seem they were using accounts for it), then your ToS does not apply, since you've technically not entered a binding legal contract with them.

Are you sure about this? I am not a lawyer, but I believe that the Terms of Service applies to all users, not just those that explicitly set up a user account.

I have interpreted the LinkedIn ruling to mean that scraping public data is no longer criminal activity but it still leaves you open to civil lawsuits for violating the ToS of the website you are scraping.
Gatsby Cloud: The best way to build and maintain Gatsby sites
Nobody says "Standard Meta Language", though.

I find it very irritating how people try to make others give up established words and phrases. There will always be ambiguity.

See also "crypto" or the recent spat here on HN about an old SQLite page.
Been playing around with the Release Candidate, coming from Unity. Here's a list of things which I like / dislike:

++ Open License and friendly community.

++ The scene graph (node tree / prefabs) is well done, better than Unity. You can easily switch between scenes (Prefabs) through tabs and convert subtrees to separate scenes. Nesting scenes works really well.

++ The inbuilt scripting documentation is great.

- C# is not fully there, yet. No Visual studio integration. Debugging through VSCode is a pain. WebAssembly Exports are not optimized yet. That's why I sticked with GDScript.

+ GDScript is a nice language with optional type hinting. But refactoring can mostly be done through search/replace.

++ Windows and HTML/WebGL exports are super fast. I did not have problems since the RC.

- The inbuilt editor for GDScripts is ok. But I'm missing my VIM shortcuts...

- Arrays, dictionaries are not generic. Enums are not typesafe either. Bit me a few times.

- You cannot inspect the scene in the editor visually while debugging. This is what I miss the most coming from unity. Some things are really hard to debug this way, for example if you use procedural generation.

- 2D coords starting at the top left corner of the screen and increasing right/down is really confusing. If the player jumps, y goes down. It's a bit strange.

- I'm a bit afraid regarding the +5000 open issues on github. I wonder, how they will handle that in the future...
In this context, it is obviously about productivity.
Yes, the iPad is a great device for information consumption, production not so.
Global temperatures are not influenced by yearly emissions. The driving factor of climate change are cumulative emissions over the last 2 centuries. China is a huge emitter but their emissions only started rising 20 years ago. [0] Their cumulative emissions are still significantly below USA.

[0] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/15/World_fo...
If we follow the stolen-property example, if a stolen car is broken up and sold as parts, and I buy a widget from it, the fact the car was broken into 96 bits doesn't make the widget any less stolen, no matter how many hands it passes through.
"yoga mamas" comes from the grandparent post. Far too many people get their "facts" from their friends and repeat whatever they made up/heard without any critical thought.

This isn't just Trump, I see at least as many liberals do that. A large part of the Trump-hate I see is from made up facts that have no basis in reality. (which isn't to saw Trump is good or honest, just that his opponents are doing the same thing they accuse him of - they believe they have the real facts)
A conversation with ‘the most ambitious female VC in Europe’
> To be fair, Switcher had limitations due to memory and no hardware multitasking support in the original 68000.

Ahem, the Amiga would like a word...

The 68000 hardware could support preemptive multitasking just fine; what it lacked was a hardware MMU. You couldn't run an OS with protected virtual memory on a 68000 without external hardware support (sometimes another 68000 was used for this!). Accordingly, all tasks on the Amiga had access to each other's memory space and even the kernel's. But the fact that Switcher, MultiFinder, and later versions of Mac OS could only support cooperative multitasking was more a Mac OS limitation than a hardware one.
> What is this silly ‘real work’ gate-keeping? I guess the author means their work.

This is about productivity. Real-work is usually about being about to do many different things with a single machine. This typically requires interoperability between applications, a file system (to access data thru a unified interface even outside of apps), and standard ways of storing data. The iPad can be very good for doing very specific tasks in one application, but everything else is lacking.

Of course, if your "work" depends only on a single application, then you will be happy with pretty much anything. If you need to work with a wealth of different applications, at the same time, on the same machine, then "real work" won't be possible on an iPad easily: probably do-able, but akin to painting with spaghetti instead of brushes.
In that case it seems that the webmasters complaining about scraping need to make sure their APIs actually provide access to all the same data, if they want people to use the APIs instead of scraping.
what’s the practical use of this model? For example, can I assign some domain knowledge or some area of specialty to the bot, so that it can be a question answer machine. Or I basically can’t control its reaction?
This needs a 2011, neglects discussion of implications of construction of first long time nuclear waste storage facility in Finland couple of years ago (i.e. is that scaleable or even repeatable given politics now that we have an example) https://psmag.com/ideas/the-hiding-place-inside-the-worlds-f...