skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Navigation requests are very frequently home<->"place I went". Household-level driving/shopping patterns are incredibly valuable in their own right, but it's also easy for a dedicated company to tie your address to the personal identities of the residents (Apple's internal customer records, public records, private vendors whose whole business is selling this info), and then it's just profit all the way down.

Hypothetically, DDG could guard against Apple having useful navigational histories for your home by seeding requests with misinformation -- artificial navigation requests Apple can't tell apart from your real requests -- but I'd be surprised if this hypothetical is actually happening.
This is so anti-user. A similar service offered by Spotify is how I moved from Apple Music to Spotify. The playlists belong to the user - this is vendor lock in of the worst sort.
Why aren't you prototyping? Or even pre-totyping?

You're coming up with ideas, but I don't hear about your actions to take those ideas to the next step.

You might be sitting on million dollar ideas. An entrepreneurs life CAN be lonely.
I think the key difference is authenticity. This person admits they have a day job, they continue thier day job (at the moment), and they made 10k - not quite enough to buy a Lambo. If you were seriously considering launching a product, this looks to have some usefull information. Certainly looks better than the 'marketing 101' or 'seo for Google's books on Amazon.
'Anti'?

'Anti' is fine, it happens everywhere all the time.

You're conflating 'mass murder those people' (i.e. US, Israel) with regular, 'anti-xyz' rhetoric.

If the Islamic Revolution in Iran were merely 'anti-whatever', there would be no problem, no web sites torn down no sanctions, and their citizens would be wealthy, successful.

But that won't happen until they are gone. Gosh, maybe they could hold an election and see what happens.
Both are toxic waste, but one often ends up in landfill or flytipped, and the other is safely contained underground because its developers are legally obliged to plan for its disposal and long-term storage as part of the design process.

The cost of disposal is often ignored when pricing solar (PV).

https://stopthesethings.com/2020/10/10/lingering-legacy-mill...
One thing that is nice about solar is that it flips the entire idea of "power" on its head. Solar theoretically allows you to power your own life without needing to be a part of any power grid. That's pretty neat, and I think will be very useful in the coming decades.

But I think the argument here is a little convoluted. In my opinion, nuclear power is still the best "bang for your buck", and that's probably not going to change considering the same rules apply in the rest of the universe. Absorbing the energy of photons that were created by a nuclear reaction is going to net far less energy than simply using the full energy from the original nuclear reaction to power a turbine, no matter which way you slice it. On a large scale, nuclear makes sense. And even though there have been a number of high-profile incidents in the past 50 years, nuclear doesn't even come close to the amount of deaths and sickness people have suffered over the past couple hundred years by working in coal mines. I'd much rather take my chances with a bit of radiation than go into one of those mines, knowing that my lungs are going to be pitch black by the time I'm 45...and if it catches fire, I'm done.
Well, the Right Answer is surely to filter on a generator, rather than this ghastly mutable state - which points firmly towards what the author calls the "function" solution.
The National Geographic article attempts to make the point that the problems in CA aren’t fundamentally an issue with renewables.

CA’s specific mishandling of their push for a renewable-heavy power supply is the cause, but renewables aren’t inherently the cause.

This is technically true in a way, while denying the reality of the situation on the ground in CA.
Here is the thing made me a happier person this year: I realized when CSVs take too long to load, I should not be using them in the first place!

I love SQLite now <3
>the way to make fusion generate power more efficiently without changing the underlying technology is to make it bigger

Actually there was a front page item on here a couple of weeks ago showing that there's a new superconductor that can generate a stronger magnetic field, which will allow new, much smaller fusion reactors. So according to the guy from MIT who gave the talk, ITER is already obsolete technology.

Having said that, with fusion, it looks like every time they have a breakthrough, they find a new limiting factor when then takes billions to overcome, rinse and repeat.

It's amazing in theory but we have yet to achieve a fusion reaction that is energy positive and the path to that is still fraught. In theory with these Lithium neutron blankets you can even create your own fuel (Assuming Deuterim-Tritium reaction) but the hurdles are still insanely high to get something that's actually practical.

Also, I believe fission and fusion can be synergistic in that you can have a fission reactor that not only produces energy, but it produces some of the fuel for the fusion.
Tests come with a non-zero cost. They're code that needs to be maintained. Often complex code, with poor documentation. I don't think the value provided by testing states that you will never actually encounter in production outweighs the cost of maintaining the tests.
Yup – in fact I think the picnic case is exemplified in a Swedish Supreme Court ruling. It just goes to show that a lot of laws aren't so clear cut. ;o)
Not sure what it is specifically. When living on a sailboat, under the waterline, you can hear it quite distinctly.
For most of the modern economy, it's marketing treadmills all the way down.

The primary idea -- that a product will make the consumer's life better -- is what is being repackaged and resold over and over again. In most cases, consumers are buying the quick shot of dopamine they get when they swipe their credit card, not the product itself.
And everyone else was pretty much examples of "what not to do", though the characters themselves rarely learned the lesson
One advantage I've noticed at least (having been a contributor to the Julia language itself), is that it at least makes contributing to the language very approachable. Granted you see lower quality proposals from time to time, but in general, I even question whether I myself would have gotten involved or been brave enough to propose language features if I would have had to do such a rigorous, formal PEP writeup. In some respects, you're restricting the pool of people who actually contribute ideas to the language.

I also have appreciated the "meritocratic" approach of Julia language features; if someone can show that an idea/approach/algorithm is fundamentally faster, more flexible, etc. it's generally been accepted, regardless if the proposer is a first-time contributor or not. That also makes contributing feel approachable and very fair, as opposed to just trying to please a single core developer or playing some politics game.
This mimetic dynamic is exactly why I believe Brave New World and 1984 both have more to say about the large changes in anglophone society between 1910 and 1930 than an orthodox facile dismissal as science fiction dystopias would lead one to believe.

(my hobby: guessing not when costume dramas are set, but when they were shot.)

Bonus branding: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droste_effect#/media/File:Dros...

Edit: as to whether "his upper class peers" are upper or not I will leave to those of you who are nearer to them to discuss.
"using once stance to deny the totality of everything?"

My comment indicated nothing of the sort, not even indirectly.
What part of the TOS was violated, according to Spotify?
Yes, less amount and quicker to decay.
I have a question about how you generated collisions.

If each seed is a 32-bit int, and each hash is 60 bits, then you'll have to store 92 bits for each (seed, hash) pair.

With 2^32 (~4.3 billion) (seed, hash) pairs, you'd need 2^32 * 92 bits ~= 50 gigabytes.

But you mention only needing 8-12GB. Is my calculation wrong, or have I missed something?
Indeed, one is the kind of waste you can drop a few oil drums of into Yucca Mountain and never have to worry about it again.

On the other hand wind requires huge quantities of rare earth metals mined in open-air hellscapes in the far western reaches of China -- devastating the environment [1, 2]. So, why is it all mined in China you might ask, knowing rare earths are distributed all over the world? Specifically because developed nations are not interested in bearing the ecological burden.

Solar panels frequently contain cadmium and tellurium, which both have to be mined (see above) and then leech out into the environment [3].

Then there's the human toll. Nuclear energy ends up with about 1/4 as many deaths per TWh generated as wind, 1/10 as many as rooftop solar, and 1/2 as many as industrial solar. [4]

[edit] The nice thing about nuclear waste is that radiation is easy to detect. All you need is a Geiger counter and some lead underpants. Cadmium, tellurium, the run-off from refining rare earths? That's what I'm really scared of.

[1] https://earth.org/rare-earth-mining-has-devastated-chinas-en...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/aug/07/china-ra...

[3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5607867/

[4] https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy
Exceptions?
long hand on plain paper - then dictation onto the computer. it's a nice system combining the sound feel, including a first edit as you change the medium.
Allegedly 1800 people is not a

> Huge [swath] of post-war German police, judiciary, political personnel

And the Braunbuch is very dubiously sourced.
One of the neighboring comments mentioned something about changing assumptions. This is what limits the creation of decades-stable stuff. If you leave the performance crucial stuff in C, that stuff will not operate with the novel code you wrote (autodiff, probabilistic programming, GPU/TPU hardware, etc).

Julia is now experimenting with pure-Julia code that is faster than many LAPACK/BLAS implementations. But I actually care little about the fact that they are a bit faster. Same with the new ODE package in Julia, which is unsurpassed in terms of functionality. The actual reason these pure-Julia packages excite me is that they are generic enough to run relatively easily on different hardware (GPUs for instance), they are on top of modern compilers (LLVM), and most importantly, they are written in a language that permits much higher level of interoperability.

To rephrase it much more simply: The fact that you can not use scipy special functions efficiently inside of any of the autodiff frameworks is exemplary of how incredibly limiting python is, when it comes to developing new numerical techniques. Julia does not have that problem as far as we know.
Jupyter Notebook Environments for Deep Learning
"Several of the ceil functions were implemented by adding 0.5 to the input value and rounding to nearest."

What sort of clown would make that mistake and yet think they are capable of writing a floating point library?
Is the higher cost for nuclear related to the high regulation put in place? Are the low costs for solar and wind using subsidies and considering lifetime/replacement/disposal?

Don’t know. Actually asking.
I wonder how an array based language would fit the problem, would short-circuiting be possible or even matter?
Agreed. Google Maps has just gotten worse and worse over the past 10 years, slower to load, harder to navigate.
You should do a 'Show HN' :-) I would love to use something like that and move away from Spotify.
What a sitcom teaches almost never comes from the "moral" of a plot or subplot, but what it treats as benign and acceptable or what it consistently mocks in the background.

For instance, in The Office, a character flashing her breasts, blurred out mind you, is outrageous enough to be laughable but not outrageous enough for the actress to avoid doing so in front of the production crew making the show. That communicates a lot and shifts the overton window.

Or it may be the subtle mockery of the values of a kind of person by making the person who holds such values into a comical buffoon or disgusting character. For instance, Angela is a "devout Christian" but is written to be a flaming hypocrite, and as the only representative of a Christian on the show suggests that is what all Christians are.
From the article: "No nuclear energy program has ever launched without heavy state intervention — the capital costs are just too high for private entities to take on."

I think this misses the real reason. High capital costs are no barrier to private financing as long as the eventual profits will accrue to the investors. But in this highly-regulated industry, investors can't put money into nuclear plants thinking that in 20 years there will be a high demand, and they'll be able to charge a high price for power. Once the time comes, the regulators will likely decide that they can charge only a "fair" price. And that's assuming that they actually get to build and operate the plant - there's a substantial chance that political winds will change, and the plant ends up being banned or regulated to the extent that it's effectively banned. Government financing is the only solution to this problem, which is created by the existence of government.

We see the same thing in Canada now with pipeline construction - only government can finance them due to the government being capable of destroying any private company that tries to build them.
It's always a transcendental experience to move data from CSV into any more structured/flexible format!
As described in the article (:
Give it a rest, your argument is dead. You asked for a proof you got it, you asked for a different one, you got it, now you're just grasping for the straws.

Everyone who is at least a tiny bit interested in the world politics have heard plenty of death to America speeches from the horse's mouth.
Conventional military weapons aren’t effective against a Godzilla, and nukes only strengthen them. Effective means are strong basic chemicals, another Godzilla class monster, or fricken lasers.

It’s kind of a tangible realization of sense of grave defeat from WWII among Japanese population immediately post-war, hence weakened emphasis on militaristic means in its plot.
That's essentially what fuzzy testing libraries do. You tell the library what types of arguments you want, write your test, and it puts in some known corner cases and a few random values that change each time you run the test (but are saved as new corner cases when the test fails in the better libraries).
Good stuff, are you developing this just on your own or are you open to collaborate
First off, you can have both. Green new deal doesn't ban reactors or anything.

Second, I'm on the fence over whether I support more reactors and not because nuclear==bad. I trust the technology, but my concern is whether we can maintain a stable political environment for the decades/hundred years required to responsibly take care of nuclear.

Buying into a fission reactor means you pay billions up front, but you also promise to pay billions in upkeep, and then pay billions for decomissioning. If you aren't willing to do that upkeep or clean up after yourself then you can cause a radiological disaster.

What happens if we have a majority government that refuses to believe in the long term effects of radiation damage even as scientists explain to them over and over again what will happen? They just don't see why we should be spending that amount of money on reactor decomissioning or on upkeep and don't want to be seen as the one spending taxpayer money on something so costly. What if they decide to cut nuclear safety programs in a political stunt? I wish I could say that I know that won't happen, but on the hundred years in the future scale I'm just not sure.

Nuclear is amazing and could solve all of our short term energy needs, but it's ultimately people and our political structures that I don't trust, not the science.
World Nuclear Industry Status Report - Nuclear energy too slow, too expensive to save climate: report - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-energy-nuclearpower-idUSK...

The economics don't make sense and probably never will. Taxing carbon isn't going to make renewables more expensive.
At least one of these is just terrible. The “Facebook” one is written by some firm trying to hawk their monitoring stuff. It implies you can understand what happened inside from glorified traceroutes.

What actually happened that night is far more complicated, and has nothing to do with people intentionally disconnecting the site from the internet.
Could you explain how the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) results in "selectively use to punish the speech of anyone it disagrees"?

The original submission mentions that the issue was the IRGC was pretending to be a genuine new outlet, which is exactly what the FARA describes.

Link from one of the provided domains: https://web.archive.org/web/20200308072511/http://newsstand7...
Very cool initiative
I'll do a shameless advertisement of our open source routing engine GraphHopper as one of our main advantage over the big companies is that we do not track users. We rent our servers (not on AWS or GC :) ) and remove logs after max. 5 weeks https://graphhopper.com/maps/ (see our privacy policy for more details)

We only keep them for debugging purposes and attack prevention. The maps layer (visualization) is done from an external company though: you can change this in the upper right corner to e.g. the original OpenStreetMap or Thunderforest.

Additionally you get nice biking and hiking routes all with elevation, multiple other vehicle types like scooter or truck. And the possibility to export to GPX or using multiple via points. Additionally we try to update the road network as fast as possible (currently max. 1-3 days) from OpenStreetMap data, which is not always the case from other providers. Currently we try to revamp our UI to integrate new features like our alternative routes (you can trigger this via algorithm=alternative_route URL parameter).

Now it is always important to ask the question "how do they make money?" and to understand why we can offer this all for free and even have the routing engine as open source: the simple reason is that we do not have to earn money with the end user. We created the company to push our open source projects (we also have jsprit - a toolkit for solving rich vehicle routing problems) and we try to support OpenStreetMap where we can (e.g. we are the only European corporate gold member of the OSM foundation) and do this via our growing SaaS where we sell subscriptions to many small and medium sized businesses. We do not have VC and so there is no pressure into things we don't want.
The four seized by FARA make complete sense. Allowing news outlets to hide their affiliation with foreign governments or components of foreign governments will bring trouble. According to the release, those four worked a US audience, so good on the DOJ and FBI for seizing those.

The other 88 were because the Government of Iran violated our sanctions by not getting a proper license. The US had the ability to seize because the domains were owned and operated within the US and subsequently broke the laws.

So, it boils down to Iran breaking our rules by not improperly disclosing intent or failing to have the appropriate license. The DOJ and FBI did a good job. The Government of Iran could have registered those news outlets under FARA, but they didn't. Same for the obtaining the licenses, though I'm not versed in that approval process.

If you're looking for some riveting reading, check out FARA: https://www.justice.gov/nsd-fara/fara-index-and-act
Wouldn't this statement be true for any new technology? I don't doubt what you say about being burnt when adopting in the early days. However, it is simultaneously true that people have successfully used Julia in several commercial applications and significant research codebases for many years now.

I routinely point people to the Julia Computing case studies for this reason: https://juliacomputing.com/case-studies/

We also request people to please file an issue against Julia or a package if it doesn't do what you expect it to, or post on discourse. That way, even though you may go ahead with a different tool, someone is likely to fix it by the time you come back the next time. :-)
>The only issue with Python is speed, but if you use Numpy properly, even that isn't a big issue.

This is literally the pain point that Julia set out to solve. Nobody uses Python for real programs, they use an ad-hoc kludge of Python and C/C++. This is basically fine if you're doing bread-and-butter things that are well covered by existing libraries, but it's a serious drag if you're trying to do anything really interesting.

Python still suits a lot of people and that's fine, but "mature" is very much a double-edged sword. We're in the middle of a scientific computing renaissance right now and Python really isn't keeping up; it was designed by and for hackers, but Julia is a multi-disciplinary effort.
If only SuperMemo were cross-platform. My understanding is that the web version (the only cross-platform option, with app support on mobile devices) is not really equivalent to the desktop version (it's more equivalent to Memrise or Anki, lacks the incremental reading and other features).

And that was a non-option when Anki was created many years ago. At least Anki has plugins, though, which let you add quite a few capabilities to it bringing it more in line with SuperMemo.
Circumstances, Agency, and Just Deserts (2019)
Show HN: Live map of “good morning/night” tweets
Don't want to be rude but I'm getting really fed up with the state = bad mindset that's now becoming a dogma. State is there to be used appropriately. There's nothing wrong with state, gotos or whatever, and there's nothing right about functional or OO. It's how you use them.
No there could still be timing attacks after. Just dynamically request a cross domain asset
Holy fucking shit are you nuclear fanboys delusional (or well paid).
Many shops that "sell" GPL software (ie. the massive WordPress plugin and theme ecosystem) are actually selling support, convenient, secure(ish) updates, and good karma.

It's perfectly legit. You can find the sources for these items elsewhere on the web but the hassle and security implications just aren't worth it.
Wouldn't the act of timing a download mean that I download and pollute my cache with new assets from the site trying find where else I've been? Does this only work for the first site that tries to fingerprint a browser in this way?
Tweet thread with timelapse from running it over night: https://twitter.com/Omar4ur/status/1315325135990202369
Yes, but even with that, shows are responding. Shows grow together with society.

After Black Lives Matter protests this summer, Brooklyn Nine-Nine cancelled already-written scripts when they realized, essentially, that they were unwittingly part of this "copaganda", and that they need to start over [1]:

> “We’re all in touch and kind of discussing how you make a comedy show about police right now, and if we can find a way of doing that so we all feel morally okay about.”

Because the show being "morally okay" is a responsibility they actually take quite seriously. (Remember, co-creator Mike Schur also created The Good Place, a hit sitcom about morality itself.)

[1] https://hypebeast.com/2020/7/brooklyn-nine-nine-andy-samberg...
Can you give an example of when this wouldn't work? I'm definitely not qualified to write a float library (lol) but I also can't think of any cases where that wouldn't work?