skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And Voyager 1, the furthest man made object has already completed 0,0023 lightyears from the 4.3 lightyears to the nearest star Alpha Centauri. But its heading in the wrong direction anyway...
Dead Code Society – Quitting Facebook
One year I had to take a class before school and by winter it started before sunup and it was horrible.

On a handful of occasions I had a moment while washing my hair where I could not recall the alarm going off. I'm not sure anything aggravates a night owl more than discovering that they have accidentally gotten up early... except discovering you'd gotten up four hours early.

And then barely getting to sleep in because fixing wet bedhead takes almost as long as taking a shower.

I did not sign up for the follow-on class.
If you sleep hot, memory foam is what you want to stay away from. You sink down into it and it molds around your body.

Non-memory latex foam lets you sleep much cooler because you don't sink into it so much. I also tend to be too warm and have used latex foam mattresses for the last 20 years. They have been fine, unlike memory foam.
Some of the guarantees, at least when I looked a few years ago, include pickup for return. Presumably (cf article) not to original location; but still, hard to image something more zero risk than this.

With something like a 120 day no-questions asked, no risk return I think they are more relying on you getting used to it in that amount of time. And huge markup means they can eat quite a few too, I suppose.
How to Vertical Center
Also sometimes you need to move your car to affect the environment, for example if your car is stopped at a parking lot type intersection, and there is a large crowd of people passing, they would keep crossing unless you start to move your car a little indicating, that’s it for you let some cars through
Ask HN: How to view top submissions for a domain?
Submissions from a domain can be seen by clinking on it but is it possible to rank them by upvotes?
Too lazy to look it up but IIRC it helped kill bacteria in the mouth.
Why We Sleep is a good book on this topic and addresses many of the comments and concerns in this thread.
cool im gonna take this thanks
But a used 2018 minivan is a lot better than a new 1996 minivan and costs less even without adjusting for inflation. So, I can get a better car for less money today than I could in 1996.

I think the issue might be status. Driving a brand new minivan in 1996 might have felt like you were getting ahead in life. Driving a used minivan today might feel like you're falling behind just because other newer and more expensive cars carry much more status.
Looks like a 9 mile drive.

When I was a kid in the 1970s, I remember people in California joking about how they loved to drive. They couldn’t see the point of mass transit.

They even tried to build a high speed rail, but no one saw the value. 50 years later and it’s nearly impossible to build one now.
Time to First Byte Impacts Web Performance
I'm using a pi 4 with ubuntu server and plex. The Android tv Plex app works really well with it.

It's connected to my wifi router via an ethernet cable. I used 32 bit ubuntu as it's only a 1GB pi and 32 bit saves some ram. I had some voltage warnings when booting up, I should probably get a better power supply for it. The Usb drive is non-ssd.
cf "radioactive data" to tag datasets and see which downstream models used those datasets for training: https://ai.facebook.com/blog/using-radioactive-data-to-detec...
Mattresses have been sprayed with flame retardants for decades. Supposedly, many of these new-age foam ones don't contain them.
Playing Elite Dangerous, a lot of these names are quite familiar. I have at one point held base at Wolf 359 at least :)

Maps like these are so fascinating, anyone know of something similar with updated planet information?
Ah, the old Ross 154 <-> Barnard's Star milk run.
It’s funny, I see people online in random comments saying “AI” hasn’t materialized in to anything useful. But if you realize that most talk of “AI” is talk of ML, and if you pay attention to robotics, you’ll find it’s making a huge difference. The fact that anyone can credibly say perception is not the major hurdle anymore is a testament to what the current generation of machine learning algorithms have done to advance the state of the art. I’m excited for the time when even prediction feels like a solved problem.

I would think that perception in poor weather remains a real challenge, but certainly we’re leaps and bounds ahead of where we were even 5 years ago.
Be careful with brick and mortar mattress stores (although you said department store). Many will have "restocking" type fees for returning a mattress.
Should Facebook, Google shield users from the legal consequences of posting illegal posts?

If we were using e.g. Ted Nelson's Xanadu (instead of the WWW) every post and link would have provenance information and it would be technologically feasible to make the original source of a given piece of illegal content liable for the legal consequences of publishing it, as well as each and every person/entity that promulgated it across the network.

As it is now, these platforms omit or delete provenance information, making it technically impossible to moderate at scale.
One thing I noticed is that you example seems to be too meta, in that it's a complaint about the complaint platform, which is just confusing to read.

Would be good to change the example to something simpler and more relatable like; "I keep getting logged out after 30mins" or something similar.

> Optimised for complaining

I had a chuckle at that. Nice work though!
GDScript can infer the type by writing it as var x := 5.0. I'm guessing it's just the authors preferred style to include the type.
You start by installing elm
Back in ~2014 Fastly was somewhat more visible in tech space - they gave nice conference talks, published deep technical blog posts and overall were a breath of fresh air in CDN world.

Since then it fell of my personal radar, sadly.
I feel the same way about foam toppers, and foam mattresses are exactly the same.
What specific privacy guarantees are you hoping to provide and how do you know you are satisfying them? That is the key to basically all of it and most work on this subject falls flat (except for differential privacy, but current evidence indicates that it doesn't work very well for generative models).

Guaranteeing that certain values are not passed is both useless and trivial. I can easily satisfy that by simply adding 0.1 and a space character to all values in my dataset even though that doesn't remove any of the sensitive data.
No, they are the most efficient known solution to global consensus for double-spend. There are alternatives that relax the constraints using extra information such as connections in the network to get a relatively good approximation of the global consensus. See Safecoin, for example.
To ensure your single digit aged child reaches the bus. Good luck trying to explain what happened if they don’t.

Pretty sure Otto Mann doesn’t know if you’re child is supposed to go to school today or not (scheduled absence), so the driver can’t know to expect your child or not
If you're truly baffled as to the context in which the term "nazis" is employed in reference to weev's political views as an exemplar, and don't understand how it can possibly be the case that such views and their advocacy deserve to be opposed by civilized society, I'm not going to be the one to hold your hand and gently teach you how the lessons of the last hundred years have led most of humanity to reach that obvious conclusion.

But really you're not confused at all, you're just trying to bait me into a tedious semantic argument in which you'll suddenly forget how English works and what words even mean, and I'm not wasting my time with that.
I've bought mattresses from Ikea in the UK, China and USA.

In all three of those countries, Ikea sells mattresses in the regular local sizes. I recall that, maybe 20 years ago, Ikea in the UK only sold beds and mattresses in their native (Swedish? Euro?) sizes. But, in the last few years, I've bought both beds and mattresses from Ikea that are standard UK and standard US sizes.

Of course, it's always good to double check the actual measurements of your old/new mattress before pulling the trigger.
Off topic somewhat but there was a news story of a library that lost a ton of books because someone return a book infested with bed bug eggs. Went on the shelf and spread throughout the library.
Probably more along the lines of, "if I love it thiiiiiis much, then I'm willing to spend the $2k, but I only loved it thiiis much, so I couldn't justify the expenditure."
That's a bingo
I agree it's a definition issue, but I believe it's your intuition that's steering you wrong. You're using a mathematical definition for a non-math domained problem. The domain of discussion is software. The quote from the article is:

Every application has an inherent amount of irreducible complexity. The only question is: Who will have to deal with it—the user, the application developer, or the platform developer?

In this case, I believe it's clear that the "problem" are the provided requirements of the software, and the "solution" is the union of the user's required knowledge, the application complexity and the relevant complexity of platform the app is running.

In this domain, "4" is not a well formed problem. Produce a program that when given "4" returns "4" is well formed. Produce a program that when given any integers and arithmetic primitives produces a reduced value is well formed.

And in both cases the solution/program to produce that is at minimum equally complex as the requirements description (if it were rigorously defined).

Or put in mathematical terms, the proof of a theorem/statement cannot be any less complex than the theorem/statement itself. The closest you can get is a trivial theorem/statement whose proof is of equal complexity to itself.

And back to the original post, it is handwavingly saying that every proof has some level of irreducible complexity. It is either captured in the complexity of poof itself, the complexity of the proof system / axiomatic-system being used or (here is were the analogy breaks down a bit) in the required user's knowledge.
> Exactly who it was that was both upwardly mobile to pay for this service while also having a barren kitchen, nobody really knew—but by the divine math of Silicon Valley gamblers, your existence made this an idea worth several billion dollars and potent enough to “disrupt” the grocery business.

I mean. My partner and I are both software engineers, she loves to cook, and these meals make up a hearty portion (for two people) of healthy, really diverse and flavorful dishes that come to around the same price per person as going to Chipotle. We eat them three nights a week and are really very happy with it.

I'm not surprised to hear that they overestimated their market (who doesn't these days?), but there definitely is one.
yup, this is what I was here to say
Yup. First question - "what do the logs say?"
Heroku was really built for Web Apps (especially Rails)
Data Scientists Get All the Glamour But, Wow, Is There a Need for Data Engineers
It’s a very tricky issue. Investigative journalism plays an important role keeping governments accountable but technically they often do illegal stuff or get information from people who did illegal stuff. Making a law around that will be pretty difficult if you want governments to keep the right to classify things.
Whenever life gets you down, Mrs. Brown,

And things seem hard or tough,

And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft,

And you feel that you've had quite eno-o-o-o-o-ough,

Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at 900 miles an hour.
It's orbiting at 19 miles a second, so it's reckoned,
The sun that is the source of all our power.
Now the sun, and you and me, and all the stars that we can see,
Are moving at a million miles a day,
In the outer spiral arm, at 40, 000 miles an hour,
Of a galaxy we call the Milky Way.

Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars;
It's a hundred thousand light-years side to side;
It bulges in the middle sixteen thousand light-years thick,
But out by us it's just three thousand light-years wide.
We're thirty thousand light-years from Galactic Central Point,
We go 'round every two hundred million years;
And our galaxy itself is one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.

Our universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding,
In all of the directions it can whiz;
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth;
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere out in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth!

John de Prez / Eric Idle
I agree with the edge support and foam mattresses. A friend of mine asked me about whether he should recommend a foam mattress for his grandparents. I specifically said no because of the edge support. I fear someone with mobility issues might not be able to support themselves if they were to sit on the corner.
I have the greatest sympathy for discovering you have a Big Ball of Mud. It may have even been polished by years of grazing touches by many hands into a dorodango, achieving a kind of beauty. Someone, perhaps many someones, spent a lot of time on it and this is your inheritance. My condolences.

Still, even the dorodango is fragile, prone to cracking, sensitive to many conditions. Inheriting one is a situation which may occur to any programmer. What the organization decides to do once they have a Big Ball of Mud on their hands is the real issue.

I consider this the reaction to the eventuality to be a real test of organizational mettle.
"The solution was ... a dynamic, real-time, photo-real background played back on a massive LED video wall and ceiling ... rendered with correct camera positional data."

Gee, that sounds a lot like a holodeck. We've come a long way from using Wii Sensor Bars[0] for position tracking.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC_KKxAuLQw
>Except for the scale; to get equivalent results, you'd have to have thousands of people watching.

Which is the only thing that matters. Sure, warrants aren't necessary, but the concept of mass, automated surveillance is so new that we simply haven't figured out what to do about it yet.
On the demo site (https://blurha.sh), if you go down to Components (where there's two input fields, separated by an X) if you type '99' and '99' the website becomes noticeably unresponsive.

Besides this very small bug, very useful piece of technology!
The benefits of attending job interviews
That's super interesting
Nope, ssh tunnel.
This is completely stupid. This small power plant produced as much power in 2019 than 3400 2MW windmills, needing much more land, space and material than the nuclear power plant.

See
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1199938890142044160.html
Regulation is another factor.

The 1996 Grand Caravan is not legal to sell new anymore. Many new costly features are now mandatory, in the name of security and environmental protection etc.

This is fine for the comfortable Ivy League class that controls these things, but for poorer segments, it means they have to pay for a much more advanced car than they'd pick if given more choices.
Awesome! We've been using Metabase for a while now, and it's amazing!
Students being given too much homework is a separate issue.

Students' circadian rhythm is shifted later compared to adults. Why shouldn't we let them sleep later? Why do you disagree with this?
You mean like those drivers who aggressively creep into the intersection to scare pedestrians into letting them through, even when the pedestrian has the right of way? I can't wait for Waymo cars to get them off the road.
Important points from the link:

“I propose the following Cost-of-Thriving Index (COTI): the number of weeks of the median male wage required to pay for rent on a three-bedroom house at the 40th percentile of a local market’s prices, a family health insurance premium [without employer subsidy], a semester of public college, and the operation of a vehicle.”

“To assign an annual cost of college to a family whose tuition payments will be concentrated in a few years, the COTI uses the federal National Center for Education Statistics esti­mate for half of one year’s tuition, fees, room, and board at a four-year public institution. Two children pursuing four-year degrees would require a combined sixteen semesters of college, so a household preparing for those costs would need to save roughly one semes­ter’s worth of cost per year before the children reached college-going age.”

”In 1985, the COTI stood at 30 [weeks] — the median male worker needed thirty weeks of income to afford a house, a car, health care, and education. By 2018, the COTI had increased to 53 [weeks] — a full-time job was insufficient to afford these items, let alone the others that a family needs. A generation ago, the worker could be confident in his ability to provide his family not only with the basics of food, clothing, and shelter, but also with the middle-class essentials of a house, a car, health care, and education. Now he cannot.“

There is definitely something to his argument. In the past in a majority of families, one person could work and provide for a family. At present in a majority I think both parents must work to be able to cover necessities in New Zealand. Many more hours work just to “live”.
I wonder if the movement to zero transaction fees will facilitate the development and greater adoption of software written to implement passive investment strategies like indexing. Fees for funds that do passive strategies like indexing are already incredibly low, but there's no reason they can't be zero.

It ought to be pretty straightforward to implement this with some sanely written software connecting to your brokerage of choice. You may lose out on revenue streams like securities lending, but it's probably not that much anyway. Anyone have any experience with this?
I know very little about the environment in British call centres, but many call centres used by British companies are in India.
How does Java not copy much of C's API / syntax and type system -- which I'm sure is mostly copied from something else.

It's turtles all the way down.
The real problem here is that convoluted UX allowed a smart-tv to be turned into a radio.
2010s: Our Decade of Deep Learning / Outlook on the 2020s
Last time I checked Vultr included a DDoS service [1] an DO did not.

Caveat: I don't really know much about this service, maybe someone here can chime in?

* I don't know how reliable it is

* I don't know if a small/medium app really needs it

* I don't know if you would be better off using something
like cloudflare anyway

* Etc...

What I do know is that a long time ago I used to host some stuff on a VPS (Linode I think) and I would routinely run out of bandwidth because of traffic coming most of the time from random AWS IPs, which seemed like shady bot networks or something. Ergo having a DDoS service like this seems useful even if you are hosting a small site.

1: https://www.vultr.com/products/ddos-protection/
Time for fun project stories: I once wrote a Java GUI program. That was 2007, Swing was still a thing, and "rich" frontend were still very basic (since there were no really good HTML engines for Swing/AWT).

So one day, I thought I would replace all bitmap icons in my application with SVG icons, because hell yes, vector, it must be better. And other projects did it alreay at that time, such as KDE/Gnome which used https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Projects/LibRsvg

So I added a Java library for rendering SVG to bitmaps. It brought several Megabytes of JAR dependencies. These libraries were much bigger then my whole application.

Conclusion? The whole program was much slower then before. Rendering time was really a thing. And this was not about thousands of icons or so, just a pretty standard GUI application with a few (less then ten) icons at a time.

Lession learned: Processing vector images to bitmap takes more time then just displaying bitmap. Especially on old slow computers.
You are ignoring the sun.
GitHub Incident on 2020-02-20
How can I reduce page load time in 2019?
I don't think that this in particular is really a good example of this gap. It feels more like a sloppy implementation. Just like humans, an autopilot has multiple sources available for guessing what an appropriate speed would be. Simply including information from a map application should be enough to prevent these kind of mistakes/hacks. Now things like children playing on the side of the road certainly seem more difficult to handle..
In case people think that your "text message with gun emoji" hypothetical is too contrived, it is worth remembering that software systems making assumptions about how to render characters, even with the most innocent of intentions, can occasionally result in disastrously unintended consequences:

https://gizmodo.com/a-cellphones-missing-dot-kills-two-peopl...
I accidentally made a folder (in my pinephone's / folder) the other day called '', and I was about to delete it with rm -rf .

Maybe that shouldn't be allowed, but it is :P
tldr: Possibly the author worked at FB and quit because of Trump/etc.

Kind of hard to tell because it's sort of a psychedelic wall of text, perhaps machine-generated.
Reminds me of the old movie "The Pentagon Wars" which I would highly recommend. Its about the absurdity of said politics, but in the army, where lives of people are on the line.
The sad part is: The Story is true.
I see. Since the PATRIOT act was put into place the US government can pretty much justify anything at this point so i tend to share the same viewpoint. Thanks for the sources man.
As extradition trial approaches, defense lawyers seek French asylum for Assange
"How do the CIA, NSA, DHS, and FBI all share critical data without breaking the law with regard to specific details about certain types of collection targets (like citizens?)"...

FEDRAMP it. Now run that as a service inside a secure cloud environment. You need enough runway for the FEDRAMP / engineering / sales process plus a contract win and then I'd imagine the income gets pretty steady.

Commercially? Unsure of the use case. I'd imagine as those sharing data are typically in competition. Not so in the government / intel community / finance space and I'd imagine you have to write a metric ton of policy and sign a bunch of MOUs to do this kind of stuff properly. People in government do care a great deal about these policies, believe it or not.

This is also a huge problem to solve in the "Know Your Customer" / Anti-Money Laundering space for financial institutions, where sharing data between companies or government and companies is often prohibited and/or really difficult. See the recent FCA TechSprint for more on this: https://www.fca.org.uk/events/techsprints/aml-financial-crim...

Lots of talk of "Homomorphic Encrpytion" and "Encrypted Cloud Runtimes" as options but if you don't really need to share all of the data to get to an outcome (but rather synthetic data - though synthetic identity seems to be the hard bit here...) that could be interesting!
The details and complications aren't the general taxpayer's problem, though. It's Google & Facebook's problem. We don't take any of the profits they made off of Section 230 -- why should we have to pay to clean it up?

> It's a mistake to measure complexity in lines of law, in the same way that it's a mistake to measure program complexity in lines of code.

Removing code that's outdated is usually a step in the right direction.

And when you fix a bug, you always want to fix it at the source of the problem.
Your Passion Mission