skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
James Harden doesn’t travel, he simply knows the rule book better than non-experts. Specifically, he knows the gather step better than most anyone: https://www.sbnation.com/nba/2020/2/23/21149538/james-harden...
Registration # information is public in the UK. You can just scan any vehicle on the road. I don't think ownership info is, but you can get all the detail of the car it belongs to (or is SUPPOSED to belong to).
That's a really fun form factor for touring a city. If they start offering these to tourists as rentals, especially in cities that have narrow streets (like most of Italy), I would happily use them.
Chrome Extension will save you hours every week
Happy holidays everyone :)

I was really annoyed about clicking each and every link when I was reading news websites so I created a Chrome Extension to show a summary of the page behind links. I found my own solution to a problem I had but I think this will boost everyone’s productivity.

It is totally FREE and I wanted to reach out to the community to seek for guidance.

I’d be grateful if you could share your views with me.

The extension can be downloaded at https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/link-peek/ogoenkiecpjnfccaclpikgfpoeddceci

Once the website is fully loaded, press CTRL and hover over a link to give it a try. This is going to save you hours every week hopefully. Go to your favorite news website and enjoy. I look forward to your guidance and replies.

Cheers,

Dogan
Works fine for small files, but got stuck with a 15GB archive. Does it load the whole file into memory?

EDIT: After a few minutes with a black screen it started transferring.

EDIT 2: The transfer was suddendly canceled.
With Money, and Waste, China Fights for Chip Independence
I agree. It was a roller coaster. If someone had told me halfway through 2019 that not only would a Biden/Harris ticket win, but also that I would be overjoyed about it, I would have responded that the first was unlikely and as to the second, not a chance.
Yet here we are.
Well, what "probably" happens is that whenever an out-of-warranty car is detected, they show a generic bilboard that says "hey, is your BMW out of warranty? Extend today!".

Like I said, in the UK private companies are explicitly allowed to use AMPR machines to read licence plates(every supermarket in this country will have AMPR machines that record when you come and go). BMW just cross-references that with their own record to see if the car is under warranty or not - but like I said, they probably don't actually identify you in any way on the bilboard.
“Full day, 18 hours” battery life ruined it all for me. Too much trouble to charge so often.
Right now I'm learning clarinet online via Skype due to COVID (clarinet playing doesn't seem to be the safest activity right now). It's honestly better than I expected. Try to get a decent microphone (not very expensive, I got one for around 30-40 euros, Skype does not have sound quality high enough to notice better mics) and headphones.

There are still limitations, teacher can't really test the reeds, and some things can't be heard through Skype, but it's better than nothing. You can also combine it with in-person classes once a month or once every two months so that the teacher can hear you for real and correct things every once in a while.
Fighter pilots revel after ban on custom helmet art is lifted
Very much agree to the view, in fact I think the gatekeeping has become stronger in recent years, in the past, playing piano was considered a more utilitarian skill, since it was more of a means to hear music in ones own house, before recorded music became popular. It was essentially a music reproduction device, like a record player/tape recorder.
Is this the final shoe to drop? The gamble payed off. Brexit does not seem like a terrible idea if they get tariff free trade. I can’t believe the EU would agree to this.
I actually laughed out loud when BMW ads showed actors dancing around a car, taking their phone out of the pocket, and having to hold it up to the door handle to unlock the car as an example of how modern and tech-forward the brand is.
Regardless of where it ran, to the C64 user, at a command level, it looked and acted like an extension to BASIC. You can see some examples of the basic code here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_DOS

Apple ProDOS had similar stuff...
its my first comment in this interesting helpfull site, and ... Im not pro or counter vaccines, simply I dont trust people who broken any kind of trust, so, If the international WHO change an important argument, like upsetting it, on the basis of speculations (is irrelevant what speculation are), I dont trust the WHO anymore.
only one platform of those four does not support bluetooth. Yes, it is definitely the industry who is not interested in collaboration.
What I like about this reply is that I think the best answers are probably the ones you don't immediately think of, as they've changed things so immensely that they're now a component of cultural background noise.

FWIW, I remember my uncle in 2007 trying to game his contract with Verizon just so he could get AT&T and the iPhone. I thought he was being stupid for what I gathered was a useless toy. But now...
Why propulsion? Why rockets at all?

https://youtu.be/LMbI6sk-62E
I taught myself how to flatpick on guitar. Three years later, I found out that I held the plectrum incorrectly. Though I've learned the proper way (and will switch to it in order to tremolo a la Dick Dale), twenty-five years later I still can't shake it.
Yeah, I have to believe this intentionally leaning in to the genre, but it's definitely just about every episode plot line (along with the rescue that comes just at the right moment).
There is a big difference between a BMW or BMW with M sport packet, and a BMW M.

The BMW Ms are actually developed by a different company (the BMW M company, which is different from the BMW company).

For some reason people think of them as being extremely similar, but anybody that has driven a BMW 3xx and a BMW M3 knows that there is a world between them.
Ethereum's Ice Age is real, but saying it will "implode if Vitalik doesn't intervene" is wrong on so many levels, and is incredibly misleading, if not outright dishonest.

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The "Ice Age" is a builtin feature of the Ethereum chain, where the mining difficulty deliberately ramps up to an unreasonably level past a certain number of blocks. The only thing which can reset this is for nodes to update to a revised consensus algorithm.

The point of this is to essentially force a periodic "vote of confidence" -- instead of nodes passively not updating their software, every few years they HAVE to, or the difficulty bomb comes into play. Which means when a major hard fork update is proposed, no one can sit on the sidelines, they have to either choose the proposed fork, or propose an alternative for consensus to rally around. This cycle repeated every year or so, and has gone pretty smoothly so far.

The point of this is to encourage active participation, so nodes can't sit there and cast "passive no" votes to everything, they're incentivized to actively participate in the network's evolution.

Even if a node doesn't update, mining just slows down. Nothing anywhere in that process will cause the Ethereum network to "implode", that's IMO a rather emotionally charged way of describing things.

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As to "requiring Vitalik's intervention" -- that's just an outright falsehood.

Not only is Vitalik not directly involved in the coding of any of the multiple independent Ethereum clients anymore, but there is a very large group of developers (of which the "founders" are a very small %) which work out the proposals for updates. And anyone can propose an update -- the software and the high level specs are all open source (and most are on github).

Proposing a full milestone update of the Ethereum network is complex, and probably more work than a single individual could pull off reliably -- but that's the whole point. There is no gatekeeper (and definitely not Vitalik), and the only way these things are accepted is because the larger community (validators/miners, folks running nodes, user community) all feel involved enough to accept or reject proposals.

You could remove every single founding developer, every incorporated organization, and the Ethereum network and it's developers would keep going. And the value of the token derives from it's use on the network, not on those companies turning a profit (and most of them are non-profits).

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All of the above, along with numerous other aspects of the new beacon chain, are designed to incentivize decentralization of assets and control, as well as active over passive participation.

I think the SEC was quite well aware of the situation, and made the right call about Ethereum.
I don't think parent means "every hour I'm not working I'm losing money", I think they mean "every day I spend on this vacation is a day I would normally be getting paid" so they need to make the opportunity cost assessment.
Yes, they tried to end the show a couple of times but the last-last episode is lovely.
The value is determined by the customer. An electric motor is, in every respect except its inability to use energy-dense fuels, pretty much perfect. Just not very interesting.

As a toy, an ICE has value. They shouldn't work at all! it's a ridiculous idea. It's quite cool that they do anyway.
I had a simple rust program that used reqwest -- it just pulled down a few web pages and parsed some data out of tables in the HTML. At the time reqwest had a simple synchronous API function that made this easy. The version of reqwest which added async support broke compatibility of that function and didn't appear to provide any similarly easy to use equivalent. Luckily my use-case went away (the website I was screen scraping died) so I didn't need to try to actually fix my program to work with newer reqwest versions. But it left a pretty sour taste regarding async...
Good. I swore my 2013 335i would be my last BMW, they keep giving me reasons not to regret the choice.
Awesome tip, thanks for that!
It is interesting how this topic comes up every once in a while here ( https://hn.algolia.com/?q=antilibrary ), and there is a number of VERY similar blog posts around, even some short articles in larger magazines. But for years now, while it is an interesting and relevant topic, it seems like everyone is just copying the same article, using the same references to Umberto Eco and Nassim Taleb.

Here are just some, from the first pages of hits on a search engine for "antilibary". All of them very similar:

https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/03/24/umberto-eco-antilib...

https://nesslabs.com/antilibrary

https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/columns/the-antilibrary-and...

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/jun/26/umberto...

https://medium.com/@suleymankoc/umberto-eco-on-unread-books-...

Kevin Mims seems to have introduced/applied the Japanese term "Tsundoku" to this "antilibrary idea":

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/08/books/review/personal-lib...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-44981013

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsundoku
Without sarcasm, I think cars as a subscription has some interesting possibility and I wouldn't object to it. Land Rover has a new subscription product but doesn't seem to have a lot of momentum behind it. You pay a monthly fee that isn't more than if you financed the whole car at the moment, and you can keep getting new vehicles and absolutely everything (servicing etc) is covered because they're motivated to keep re-sale value extremely high because re-selling it is their problem.

I think software, cars, etc, as a service is somewhat liberating and I'm in favour of it.
Has anybody the links to the previous years, so we can check how accurate these predictions were in the years before?
Why are hackers so insecure? (Ask HN 2013)
"we are not bound by EU rules"

Except if the UK wants to export anything to the EU they must abide by the EUs rules for those things (without any say in those rules what-so-ever).
Perhaps dumb of me but I never realized they were using an actual language. I presumed it was a made up language based on how certain African languages can sound.
Yup! I'd be happy to.

want to send me an email at ben@calmcapital.co
His initial bug report?

"I have hardware from 40 years ago, your software doesn't work, please fix?"

If I would have seen that I might have replied: "Patches welcome" :-)
Agree on this. I thought I would hate the watch but it has been very unobtrusive nice add on. I don’t use email or texting on there and all notifications have been turned off. Great for quick checks in Heath, weather, workouts etc. and mine seems to be bomb proof!
All images, included png and jpeg ones, are first internally (re)converted to jpeg when assigned to the Windows background. The default conversion quality factor is 80 (for no good reason). You can change it to 100 in the registry: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\JPEGImportQuality
Any of his books worth reading?

Group Representations In Probability And Statistics

Magical Mathematics: The Mathematical Ideas That Animate Great Magic Tricks — winner of the 2013 Euler Book Prize
15 years ago I made a simple alpha-beta minimax chess engine for a high school Java project. 10 years later it was used in a Minecraft mod called MineChess: https://github.com/theronic/chessmate

The Internet is wild.
So, it's like the choice of a Tokio executor? That's a top-level default, too.
Sounds like he would enjoy GNU Emacs, which hasn't changed its interface in decades. Even the copy-paste shortcuts are the same.
So I tried it for 5 minutes and didn’t get into it. How much time do I need to spend to make it to fall for it? Or am I the minority who didn’t vibe off it at the beginning?
Show HN: Oak, a simple package manager with popular packages for Debian 64-bit
Interesting story. Given this is a tech forum, this page has a link to hiker's scanned notebook with the code in it, just in case anyone else is curious.

https://www.colliersheriff.org/news/sworn-statement
I remembered the result that showed a coin toss was biased that way, but I didn't know that the degree of bias hadn't been nailed down. I guess it makes sense that it varies from person to person. Now I'm interested in an anthropological study of how different people toss coins...
Whether something is plausible doesn't make it actionable. "He said, she said" shouldn't be actionable because it lacks verifiable evidence, outside of two people's subjective experiences. Those two people are the most vulnerable to bias because they have the most incentive to disregard the whole truth. I think it was Charlie Munger who said, "never expect someone to understand that which their job depends on them not understanding."
Most likely they figured out that they are about to violate GDPR and altered the code to also show the notice to those who bought the extended warranty. I cannot imagine execs spending so much money on a project to shame both those who bought an extended warranty and those who didn't. In that case you can just put a static printed ad for the warranty.
In addition Zuck & Co have been meddling with people's thoughts thanks to their main contribution to the internet - the Like and Follower counter. Those unimaginative reward mechanisms effect thought and behavior.

So its not just about protecting people's thought, its also about protecting peoples thoughts from being fiddled with by fools too dumb to fully understand how dumb they are.
Jitsi is pretty good for ad-hoc meetings

https://meet.jit.si
UK and EU agree Brexit deal
Yes and no. There is an art to reaching someone with talent who is untrained. It's like their innate sense of music is a reservoir behind a damn and the damn is their facility on the keyboard. There's no shortcut to bringing that damn down no matter how much water is in your reservoir an often times the ones with the most water have so much pressure that it affects their ability to be patient and thoroughly build a channel through the damn. Sometimes my most successful students are the ones without much prior learning because, yah know, tortoise and the hair. But regardless, I'll do my best to connect to any student and help them build that channel.
GNU Users Who Have Never Heard of GNU
> in general, what separates the best tv shows from great tv shows - is that they are able to have a good ending.

"Dexter" has made this painfully clear.
What notifications? You mean on Android? I've never seen any and I use the send functionality constantly.
> the product is changed with an update you don't like

Well, you're just left with a 30-50k car with reduced functionality. And, to be honest, CarPlay functionality (or similar) is pretty much fundamental - music, maps - and there's a clear upside of having it integrated with the car (vs. the driver looking down at the phone while driving) and trivial cost (cheaper that developing own software & OS).

The reason I want CarPlay in the first place is because I don't trust carmakers to make good software (borne out of experience!). I'm buying a car to be a car, I want to BYOS (Bring Your Own Software).
Show HN: Clean Reading for Busy People
> Spotify objectively sucks compared to plenty of other services.

Is this a new thing?

"Everyone else's opinion * objectively * sucks".

Just because you write "objectively", doesn't make it so.
Popeyes Chicken Sandwich
Can i do Ruby in rails without having to learn Ruby? I like Python, I think.
I mean I know the UK just crashed out of the EU but surely there's a GDPR issue with this?
Yeah, that's what's happening now. It's been 2 years, so if you rent/lease one of these and you have cash, you're more and more likely to pay yourself even though you're not the landlord/freeholder...
> Dialogue audio was weirdly quiet

That's Nolan for you. His sound quality (there is probably a more precise word for this) is appalling. A lot of the music in Interstellar is too loud while the dialogue is hard to make out. Same with Dunkirk - the gunfire in the opening had me cover my ears in the cinema to protect my hearing and throughout the rest of film I was wishing there were subtitles.
Honestly, Frodo and Sam in the woods was also the least enjoyable part of lord of the rings for me.

Well, ok, second most if we're going by the books, there was the two chapters of bombadil
don't be a narc :P
I wasn't talking about Unix pipes. Apologies. I meant actual pipes. Like sewage piping.

Reread my pipe example but imagine a 2D diagram of physical pipes instead. This is the physical analog of the point free style and the origin of the term when used in unix. The diagram should get around the problem that is caused by the point free style (aka Unix piping) when you use text to represent the concept. In fact this is one of the few times where graphical representations of programming is clearly superior to text.
I feel it’s worth giving credit to Python f-strings in that case. They blew my mind in terms of convenience vs printf.
While 18 hours is what apple says, their scenario for 18 hour usage is probably very uncommon.

At least for me it is. And thus I get around 2 days battery life with a 4 year old series 2 watch.

Their official test includes "45 minutes of app use, and a 60-minute workout with music playback from Apple Watch via Bluetooth"[0] - so unless you plan on doing that you can easily expect double the battery time.

[0] - https://www.apple.com/watch/battery/
Agreed, although it will be an uphill battle. We are rapidly outsourcing governance to data brokers who will vigorously defend their core business model. Boycotts are likely a good place to start, at least until public institutions can be reclaimed, if they can be.
You’re lucky. You only got them after buying the car. I own a bicycle and a Metrocard and get one or two a week.
GNU is responsible for GCC, glibc, GNOME, GNU GPL, and more. Without these, Linux never would have gotten off the ground. For instance without the GNU GPL's copyleft, Linux would never have become as popular as it is today.

For a very long time, Linux could only compile with GCC and its only C library was glibc.
I think they mean a 25¢ fee to the platform for matchmaking; you’d pay the driver too.
Nier: Automata definitely lived up to the hype for me. A beautiful game through and through. I would say it's still very underappreciated.
But this is the case whether you pay up front or as a subscription.

So what is the upside to paying up front?
You could call it a "lease"
My experience was it clicked pretty much immediately. I think if you don't get it by the time you're on green science, then it might just not be for you.
We need to look at the actual deal but tariff-free trade in itself is still much worse than the previous situation.

Being in the EU/single market meant that UK businesses and individuals could do business, including in services, throughout the single market (EU, Switzerland, Norway) like if it was all in the UK: completely free and unrestricted for everything. Going from that to just being able to export goods with no tariffs would be a massive step down that would have a profound impact, especially on services (the bulk of the UK's economy).
> Shorter buildings (the majority) are up shits creek too.

Under ~18m tall building are much easier to escape from in a fire and thus have different fire safety rules. People can normally exit the building quickly. Worst case jumping from the 3-5th story is likely to result in serious injury but is often survivable. Start talking 6+ floor things get exponentially worse with every additional floor increasing the risks.

This is of course an arbitrary line, I would have a lower limit but the tradeoffs are complicated.
you wanna have a goat debate on hn
A car 'lease' is an existing way to get a car that isn't the same as these new subscription services.

Land Rover already do leasing - their subscription is a different product.
The Sega Saturn. No I'm not kidding! Panzer Dragoon 1/Zwei and Saga, Nights (and Christmas Nights!), Radiant Silvergun, Virtua Fighter Megamix, X-Men Vs Street fighter, Burning Rangers, Guardian Heroes, Grandia, the digital and analogue pads. I got fired from a computer game shop for convincing customers to buy it instead of the PlayStation, but to this day I'll stand by that amazing underappreciated black box.
Ex-NASA engineer builds exploding glitter bomb to catch package thieves
I was curious so looked up "all mouth and no trousers". It's corrupted from the expression "all mouth and trousers", and means the same thing!
Even light smokers could be addicted
> it's common to regard them both as left-wing ideologies

It definitely is common among people who want to advocate for far right beliefs but run into the slight issue of the most famous of those groups being culturally synonymous with evil. Simply defining the Nazis to the other side of the spectrum is a very convenient solution to that, and probably pretty convincing to most people who are usually not familiar enough with the history and politics of Weimar Germany to point out how utterly ridiculous of a statement that is. (The NSDAP was helped into power by the royalty-aligned conservatives to prevent a left victory, while the left fought the forces that would become the SS in the streets to try to stop them, before they were put into the first concentration camps. Coincidentally, they also sat on the furthest right side of parliament, opposite of the communists.)
As always with any trade agreement there will be winners and losers on both sides.

Sure on the macro level you can run some numbers and conclude that one is the overall winner, but this is of little meaning to the people. What is more meaningful is for each individual to figure out if they stand to gain or lose.

If the EU agreed to "sell out" an industry, that is only because they got something in return for some other industry. This is one of the criticisms of trade agreements in general. The government basically picks winners and losers... their say can make or break whole industries.
I'm referring to the sheer volume of calls I got to replace or update or reset the docks. It was probably in the top three of calls I would get maybe even #1.