skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tough to say. All I saw was a blank white page with no text or images. After jumping through some hoops I saw all that javascript was for a couple paragraphs of text. So I'll just mirror it here for others.

As an aside about the actual content: cats come with vet bills you have to be able to pay if you want to ethically own one. That's a huge expense.

Cat v panel heater: Which is better?
6:34 AM, 24 Aug 2020 James Powers

Cats are affectionate, panel heaters are not.
How many cats do you need to heat an energy-efficient home?
It’s the question on everybody's lips. Well, maybe not everyone's lips, and it's possible this is a niche topic, but it is relevant.
A 3kg cat has a heat output of 14.8 watts, or 129.65 kilowatt-hours - the metric commonly used by power companies to show you how much energy you're using.
These numbers are important when it comes to the design and building of energy-efficient homes, as the heat output of random things like cats can lead to overheating.
For example, to be certified Passive House, a building must have an annual heating demand of less than 15kWh per square metre to maintain a comfortable temperature.
For a typical Kiwi house of 150sqm, the annual energy demand would be 2250kWh. The number of cats required, therefore, would be 17.35, but let's avoid chopping cats and round up to 18 whole cats.
This equates to 1 cat per 8.33sqm.
Easy as. Let’s bulk order a cat litter.
Cats cost about $250 per year to ‘operate’ which equates to a total running cost of $4,300 per year*. This is a bit more than $475 for gas or $675 for electric, although the installation cost is less for cats.
* The calculations have used an average heat load. In reality, the heat load will vary considerably throughout the year. You will need significantly more cats in colder weather and less during mild weather.
In hot weather, you can, of course, let the cats out, but this represents a significant waste of resources if you continue to feed them. And as cats cannot be used for cooling, you would also have to introduce an alternative cooling system such as lizards or other cold-blooded animals.
Yeah, customs would have to be sealed in Montreal, just like the US pre-clearance at the airport.

Sure, it being an international link adds hassle, but it would create a stronger connection to a Global Hub instead of a regional one.
> Cloud computing, crawlers, and JavaScript have all approved and come together to enable this shift

Is this a typo?
"rental house"
How is this any different from Windows? If your code is not signed with an EV code signing certificate, a similar warning will be shown on Windows. The difference is that, that certificate will set you back 500-600 USD a year. Though I believe you can obtain "trusted" status without a cert through people using your software and not reporting it as malware.
This is absurd and I loved every word of it.
Drop in Brazilian coronavirus cases prompts herd immunity questions
I've thought about doing this before as well. One challenge you might face occurs when one algorithm goes by different names in different circles. I can't think of good examples that I ran into, but some statistical methods have one name when physicists use it, another for biologists, another for statisticians, etc.

Could be interesting to compare the similarities of the semantics of the algorithms as understood by an NLP model. E.g. depth-first-search vs. monte-carlo, or dijkstra's vs Kruskal's. Both used in similar contexts, so you could group algorithms into families. I'd love to see more NLP-driven meta-analysis of scientific literature.
username certainly checks out.
This is the CyberTruck of fonts, and it is brilliant in a similar way. I think this designer is on to something. The legacy type styles are proven over centuries - or have we just been conditioned over centuries? I think of this as a Serif with the legibility of a Sans.
This is true, but I would hope that readers here know enough to at least keep WordPress up-to-date. Most attacks target old exploits. There are millions of small WordPress sites that may never get hacked if they stay updated. If you become big enough, however, you become a much more likely target for zero-days. In that case, you probably don't want to be running WordPress any more than you want to be running Windows.
Okay but if we're taking radial slices instead of parallel slices one side will be thicker than the other, an actual optimal sandwich would rotate the slices so that the sandwich was ~equal banana thickness for every bite.
Things like AMP and WebBundles clearly appear like a self-interested attack on the open web by Google, all the while making reasonable-sounding noises about efficiency and speed.

With the inexorable rise of ad-blockers, allowing 'User Agents' to be true agents of the user is a threat to Google's business model, and any significant engineering and standards efforts by that company can and should be evaluated by assuming the driver is not web altruism, but ferocious defence of their business model.

Interesting to see Google accounts drop in to misdirect on the essence of the argument outlined in the article: the essence being that bundles create private namespaces for URLS, which is an attack on the agency of a user in consuming content.

It should be unsurprising that Google wants to blackbox websites. If these kinds of initiatives succeed the philosophical debate around whether a user has the right to filter content running on their machine becomes moot, because technically they won't be able to.

The bottom line is: Google's business model is threatened by users being able to control the content they consume. Splitting hairs on how bad WebBundles will be in practice wilfully or otherwise misses this larger, more important point.

Operating in an Australian context, it's exasperating arguing forcefully for Google and Facebook [1] in regards to the new shakedown laws outlined brilliantly by Stratechery [2], all the while knowing there are very real criticisms that should be discussed, such as AMP and WebBundles.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24186376

[2] https://stratechery.com/2020/australias-news-media-bargainin...
They brag repeatedly about their “data collection” methods although of course details are hard to find. I’m not convinced they just make the tool and have no access to the data.
I was suggesting you post the urls here or email me at my username at mozilla . com
I had seen such a statistically fine tuned data structure on github.com some time ago but can't find it.

I wonder if in memory representations for compute such as apache arrow exploit this
They threatened the supply chain. Would they do that to a normal developer? If you're a developer and one of your apps is found to violate an app store rule does Apple remove not only that app but also all your developer credentials and licenses? I imagine Apple just removes that app do they not?
I think some popular misconceptions about OCaml are actually driven by its connection with Jane Street. Because they are the most prominent industrial user, people can think it is good for their niche but not useful outside it, or that it's very academic/difficult to learn/ideologically purist. But actually it's a fine general purpose programming language.
Once the Kunming-Singapore link opens, you'll be able to ride to rails to the southernmost point in continental Asia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunming%E2%80%93Singapore_rail...

Despite the name it's actually a series of different routes, and while all of them still have gaps, the Boten-Vientiane link connecting China to Thailand (and hence Singapore) via Laos is scheduled to open in late 2021:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vientiane%E2%80%93Boten_railwa...

Although the corresponding line on the Chinese side also needs to open (ETA 2022):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuxi%E2%80%93Mohan_railway
My personal favorite math-input-system is Mathematica, which has sane keyboard shortcuts and WYSIWYG typesetting.

https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/menuitem/Typesett...

https://reference.wolfram.com/language/guide/SpecialCharacte...
OpenZFS 2.0.0-Rc1
Yea.. Epic is the company using information provided by their customers to develop competing products.
There are so many cases that pdf.js can't handle that it seems like a bad idea to open the door to that trap to users that might not know better.
I'm quite fond of umatrix.
I remember a similar effect, but maybe it wasn't as pronounced as if I had been in totality.
One of the reasons I recommend volunteer work to people who graduated or are about to graduate with nothing like a plan for getting a job is that this is how I learned a lot of organizational skills (and got my first references).

It also makes that, “what have you been doing for the last five months?” question a lot less uncomfortable to answer.
When have factories ever sprung up without cities?

Historically never, since you need convenient access to a population of workers. Rural areas are too spread out.

In modern times car companies, in particular, have built factories in the middle of nowhere because land is cheap. Small cities then spring up around them to support a population of new workers.

As a side note, the car companies are pretty savvy doing it this way. They get to pay minimal amounts for empty, "worthless" land and force everyone else to pay increasing prices on the surrounding land which may be purchased, directly or indirectly, by the company.
There are multiple kinds of mosquitos only a few carry human-infectious disease. It is my understanding that displacing Aedis Egypti (probably spelled wrong sorry) would not materially wipe out the ecological niche
Brutalism has been hot the last year or two, so people like to emptily invoke it for their own designs.
Thank you very much for the proof. I can understand the proof in my analytical thoughts, but what I have a problem with is an intuition for it.

Of course it can be that I need to sit with it more, work with it more, connect more basic subjects to my intuition first to make it work. It can also be that if everyone waited for things to make intuitive sense we will fall back in science. Math is a great tool where it can take you places even when you don't possess the correct intuition if you just follow the rules.

But I have decided to try the intuition way nonetheless. My main problem is that, it was not immediately obvious to me that subtracting coprimes successively will always result in 1. It is still so strange to me. In comparison the fundamental theory of arithmetic is also strange but there is a good intuition behind it: any non prime number is a product of primes, because if it wasn't it would be prime itself!
This is a really great comment. In your opinion was Edmunds.com able to translate this culture into business success?
Especially since they now get an outcry and see which features are actually required and which others, they could have invested time on are not required.

In the FAQ they announced a few features "within three weeks" which for me is the thing about "most frequent pages" being shown on a new tab. Quite a habit of mine to use that ...
Reddit discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/zfs/comments/igmjfh/openzfs20_rc1_r...
It's a New Zealand website on a New Zealand TLD that specifically qualifies, "for a typical Kiwi house", but you thought it wasn't clear that they would be dealing with NZ dollars?
No harm in taking these drugs even if you doubt the studies. The number of patients that have 'recovered' from COVID19 but are suffering long term debilitating effect is very scary. These drugs/minerals are been consumed by millions of people but little side effects before COVID. At best, it's somewhat effective; at worst, it's usefulness.
What is the point of the IEEE if the results are not public domain? Seems like burning cash to no common benefit.
I might misunderstood how web bundles work, but it still seems significantly easier to implement with web bundles than without.:

Your cookie-based solution still requires the cookie as a sort of state tracker to memorize the URL in question. This requires some server-side logic to coordinate different requests and deal with cases where the cookie gets lost.

In contrast, implementing the same with web-bundles is as easy as generating a single HTML page: There is only a single script needed that generates the whole bundle in gone go and therefore can also ensure the randomized URL is used correctly without any kind of state.
You might find the explanation here more helpful: http://hyperstition.al/post/urbit-an-introduction/

The project website isn't trying to be decentralized, it's trying to share information easily with people using existing services.
> who adds or repeals constitutional amendments? The government.

Yes, but that doesn't change the fact that Constitutional amendments usually impose some limitation on the government (Federal, and in many cases State as well). And once such an amendment is passed, it's much harder to repeal than an ordinary statute (only one US Constitutional amendment has been repealed, the one imposing Prohibition, and it's relevant that that amendment was not one that imposed a limitation on the Federal government--it gave the Federal government more power, and it got repealed).
Their early investors were the CIA. I know the point you’re trying to make but Palantir isn’t really in the gray when they have been basically a branch of the spy agencies since the beginning
It's less powerful than hotspot
But also a lot less hairy I imagine
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24273851
Why do crypto OTC desks fail faster than regular markets?
Superstorm sandy wasn’t much later
I dunno about always, but in this particular case The Verge hyperlinked to the order in the first sentence of their article: https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/25/21400240/epic-apple-rulin...

(and the greatgrandparent comment has the hyperlink from The Verge)
If its sole purpose is assisting you violate somebodies rights or privacy, it's probably not "socially useful".
You can chat Amazon support and ask them to block certain carriers from delivery to your address due to constant misdeliver and lost packages.
Yeah, you can upload an epub to Amazon's Kindle publishing portal, and it will convert it and provide a download link for the converted version (if you want to double-check it before hitting "Publish" -- recommended).
This is absolutely incredible
To be honest:

I didn't look at the domain name.

I didn't look at the about us page or anything else to indicate the location.

I assumed kiwi house was a style of architecture and didn't make the link with nz.
Was meant as a simple example. I live in a rural area and get Amazon delivery too (though much of the volume I get is USPS).

It could easily be self-selecting, Amazon puts out their own deliveries essentially the same way as Uber. They set rates for drivers and if they can't get drivers at the rates they set, they send the packages off to USPS. The result is more-or-less the same. Much as Uber drivers don't service unprofitable areas, Amazon's contractors don't either.
Just got the new Firefox on my tablet earlier and ublock origin did unfortunately not work well after the update. Ads are no longer removed, but replaced by whitespace with a loading icon in the middle. I'm still considering if I find that more or less annoying than browsing with ads enabled.
Huh; it's got extension support. Experimental and hacky, but still...
This mean OpenMPI, right? Not sure of what other cross platform provider of shmem there is.
Harvard and Sony built a tiny surgery robot inspired by origami
definitely going to be selling my kindle now...
I really believe customer service this effective is worth its weight in gold.

I worked on a SaaS product that was essentially a booking engine. Vacations, rentals, tours, b&bs; etc. Their product was complete shit and it was so stressful to work on. Nearly a decade of terrible choices and the wrong technologies stacked up like a card house.

The only thing that kept the customers there was the insanely talented and competent customer service. They knew the app inside and out and were able to smooth out the insane number of rough edges for new and old customers alike. When gifts were sent to the company, they were typically sent to customer service.

Everyone in CS was paid terribly. It really bothered me. The software team was doing a Bad Job and getting paid well for it, and CS was really saving everyone’s asses. Since then I look at the customer support team a lot differently.
Those kinds of pictures only show up when I manually switch region to United States.
pretty much where I am at. at this point pretty much the only thing to get me out of their ecosystem at this point would be either a government break up of amazon/a long series foot shooting measures by amazon, fallowed someone else making a low price color e-ink reader before amazon. But color e-readers like that wont be out a reasonable price for 10-20 years based on patents owned by e-Ink expiring around then. (eInk really doesn't seem to want anyone to use their technology for some reason.)
I don't think so. If there is any kind of predictability, I think at least 80% of the spam would come back. And these aren't rogue sysadmins. Huge companies are doing this.
As an adult who tries to remember the NATO phonetic alphabet but can't because I only use it once per month, I don't make up words "for fun" or "to be cute". I do it because I can't remember the NATO word. Compared to just saying the letters, the words I choose certainly do reduce ambiguity, even if using the NATO alphabet would go even further.
I mean the better question is what speed did the ISP provide at the termination. And if this was moved off-site then uploaded at a higher speed.

27MB/sec is nothing crazy on regular commercial plan.

Now if they have information that they office had a crappy 100/20mb TWC plan... Sure
I think I will cancel my monthly support for Reddit, partly over this and partly because I find it less valuable than Twitter and HN and don't visit that often anymore.

BTW, in general I support whistle blowers - they play an important part in free and open governments. I have heard Bill Binney before and thought that his experience and opinions were interesting.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24222491
It provides some indication that it may have been transferred to USB at some point.

That point could be directly from the server, or from the hacker's computer to a USB drive, or from a USB drive to another computer.

It says nothing about the original hack.
If your stock options were exercised, you now are a shareholder and you pay taxes in the state of residence at the time of sale. If you don’t live in California (for real) then they aren’t going to be able to tax you on the sale.

RSUs with a double trigger on IPO will still be taxed on vesting as if you were in CA.
And they will save you a fortune on vet bills compared to allowing your cat to roam free outside.
I don't understand the point about tail call optimizations not being a part of C... Sure, but you can just rewrite the tail call into a loop and get the exact effect, no?
The way to remember is that all the minutes after noon are definitely in the afternoon (including 12:01PM) so noon is the PM one.
I've mostly seen DNS hijacking from large ISPs. Probably hardly any sysadmin anywhere wants to implement DNS hijacking, but have corporate overlords that tell them to do it. The first big ISP would get it working pretty quickly no matter what Google did, then other big companies would see it and tell their sysadmins to figure it out, the other company is already doing it.

I bet there's a decent amount of cash in DNS hijacking for big players, so you should probably think of it like the hypothetical cryptography attacker. You should assume they will know everything about your method but still can't beat it. If you can tell them what you're doing and they can beat it, they will. They wouldn't have done it in the first place without motivation.
> Yes, there is some point to be made about pensions and 401ks being raided, but now is not the time.

When would the appropriate time be then?

The point of 75 year pension is to guarantee, in no uncertain terms, the existence of a retirement for the over 470,000 postal employees.

That is absolutely huge - particularly for an organization that's subject to the political whims of the day.

The only thing certain to happen 75 years from now is postal employees will be able to enjoy a rightfully earned retirement. Why would you want to deprive them of that?
NZD $0.30 = USD$0.20

However, even that can't be compared, because in NZ, electricity charges include all distribution costs. Americans typically only look at the generator charge per kwh, ignoring transmission, lines and any daily charges.

The breakdown works out approximately [1]:

30% - generator
10% - national transmission network
26% - local lines operator
20% - retailer
13% - sales tax

New Zealand has split transmission, generation, retail, and the local lines operator into separate companies. There are generators without retail and at one time there were retailers without generation (I think they were all killed by the wholesale market). The government runs long-distance transmission (through a crown corporation) while local lines operators can be private.

The amazing thing is that in a country of <5 million people, there are 22 retailers.

[1] https://www.ena.org.nz/news-and-events/news/your-power-bill-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_electricity_market...
yeah~ its clicking a bit more now, thank you. I am comfortable with the fact that the remainder is a coprime of a and b; but that corprimes have a definitive path to 1 is strange. Why now 0 or -1? or -2? it is not clear to me why it must always converge to 1.
In addition to sibling replies which point out network-wide usefulness... pihole (or any dns server) can/will return NXDOMAIN instead /etc/hosts which will only return an ip. A dns server can also be configured to match a domain and any subdomain (wildcard match) without having to specify each entry individually.
What’s TTS?

Poor typography is a degraded user experience. If a Kindle is to be an electronic replacement for a paper book, it is nice if it also has decent typesetting, like a real book.

There are tradeoffs. If some things are more important to you, I would hesitate to accuse you of being “misguided”.

EDIT: It hit me: text to speech. You are right about this, of course. But if you have a system for generating a selection of PDFs, including a text version would be trivial.
Who would ever not want to block ads? The only people watching ads are likely those unable to figure out how to block them.
Information compression as a unifying principle in human learning
I think they will be a good investment. The way the wind is blowing, people will demand a more “hands-off” approach to day to day policing. We will still demand safety in our schools, streets, and public spaces. It can be sold in such a way that we are “saving lives” by using tax revenues to stop putting so many cops on the streets and instead using surveillance tech and automation to bring people to justice.

I’m not saying I want this. But in my eyes it is the inevitable next step to prevent law enforcement events that end in death while still being able to stop criminal activity sometimes before it happens.

Tech eats the world and old methods of policing are ripe for disruption.
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I'm confused about what a WebBundle is.

Right now, when I Google "WebBundle," the first result is your article. The second result is an intro to Webpack.

These just look like optimizers that bundle multiple JavaScript files into a single file to avoid latency.

I'm confused. At least for adblocking, it's always an arms race.
You could probably get alright performance running in the browser using webassembly. No idea if anyone's working on anything like that.