skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just use the maxmind API directly, which is super cheap and has no rate limit to my knowledge. This site is using the maxmind dataset anyways.

https://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/geoip2/web-services/
Maybe they'll start making trains. Then they can have a conductor between two points.
New free fun crossword website
Can anyone check if my new crossword site at http://funcrossword.net/ makes any sense? If you guys like it I will add more and make it possible to automatically create from questions and answers.
Flyover: Stuck Suez Cargo Ship
>I dig it

At least there's two of us amongst the sea of ridiculue.
You said it was provably not as hard and didn't try to prove the point you're making. I agree you can take more risk, but there's no guarantee that you're taking better risk and nothing about what you claimed proves that.

It's almost certainly more challenging to take better risks as the investment requires gets larger. All sorts of new challenges crop up that didn't exist with smaller investments. It's the reason why companies have a harder and harder time sustaining the same growth rate as they get larger.

Within the stock market alone, you get access to the same exact risks as the people with the $10k YOLO accounts. If you look at WSB, you'll see a lot more posts about people posting losses on their YOLO accounts than posting massive wins. There are a lot of sharks swimming in the capital markets with deep expertise.
And now with records and pattern matching coming to Java, even more so.
Uniton – Instrumentalize Unity with Python
México: Pathetic!
> it’s nothing like patent trolling

Sega has army of lawyers and probably massive budget for court fees vs a small 2 people run shop who are actually not infringing anything and don’t have any of those resources. You get where this is going?
> This is not one of those tech acquisitions where the company is bought to be shut down.

I’ll believe it when I see it. I didn’t know there was any other kind of tech acquisition.
That's interesting. I never considered this to be a problem but it makes sense. This could be quite challenging if every car manufacturer does something different, but I suspect over time just like with ICE cars they'll iterate towards some local optimum and things start to be very similar.
> That implies they're believing the article isn't talking about a structural chassis.

"The're also" The use of the word also means they fully understand that both are structural.

> Why are you treating this like a fanboy competition?

WAT?

> It can both be true that Tesla is coming to market with a real product & that this announcement is an important advancement in the state of the art for structural batteries.

Why not? If we take Tesla's statements at face value, it does seem like they intend to reduce weight by using the battery cells between two sheets of metal to function sort of like corrugated cardboard and provide structural support to the frame - as opposed to just being dead weight.

If we look at this article, these guys have made a battery using carbon fiber and fiberglass to make a material that can store energy and provider structural support.

Why would you think only one can be true? They're independent.
It's only March. What's that saying about counting chickens?
The Infinite Conflict of Hiring
Poisonous mammals – American short-tailed shrews
https://twitter.com/thexpaw/status/1376796965942464515

> We've got in touch with someone at SEGA of America and it is being looked into.

> Thanks for your support everyonee, it is truly amazing to see that my hobby (!) project is useful to so many people
What part of the rocket is toxic?
The CIO Is the New Hero of Data Science
This is the Long Island Iced Tea Corp. to Long Blockchain Corp. stunt-rebrand, writ large.

They're still called Long Blockchain; they even changed their ticker symbol to LBCC. I wonder if VW will be as committed.
I think it could be more valuable to find a problem you find interesting and see if there is a model in the literature that you can use / implement starting with the most general/available and specializing if necessary. Most of ML work is, as the article alludes to, collecting and managing data.
does anyone have any guesstimates about their business side of things? i know they raised a series A focused on crypto (https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/15/unsplash-simple-token-seri...) but ironically they seem to have completely missed out on this NFT wave.

serving up that many images every day is costly. im guessing they ran out of money.
Sega is probably the most friendly videogame company regarding copyright, specially to fan games.
Seems odd they didn't acquire voltswagen.de and voltswagen.com though a subsidiary company.
That was before Google increased the price to 14x around 2018.
I’ve never seen a US President as mistreated as Donald Trump was and it’s weird that it seems to have become a cultural meme to denigrate the guy. Whenever I’m reading an article and they decide to randomly take a jabs at him with no context or criticism of a specific policy it really takes the wind out of the sails of my interest in the topic at hand and makes me wonder if I can even trust the author not to mislead me further.
They also did a FAQs page about it:

https://help.unsplash.com/en/articles/5097983-unsplash-getty...
let me recommend LyX to you, which is a graphical frontend to latex that instantly renders.

https://www.lyx.org/

watch here for a demo

https://youtu.be/3GdJUI0-YSo?t=42
CCP is highly pragmatic, they're just using everything as a nationalistic smoke screen to get what they want - control of Asia and probably the world.

It's funny because anybody with a brain could look at China in 1970 and look at it now, while asking themselves: "Hmmm, how did China do with that opening up to the US/West?"

It's laughable, but anti-US will say "buh buh buh... IRAQ!" as some sort of blanket example that the US has to stand aside now and let anybody do anything they want.
Apple likes flashy presentations but they are far, FAR behind on proper support for developers. Addressing problems would go a lot further with developers than a bunch of videos.

It’s not even difficult to come up with a starting list:

- Add COMPLETE documentation (but we’d all settle for “any” in most cases)

- Fix all the NEW bugs being added in each update (and obviously get to the old ones too); also, it would be nice if an embarrassing number of problems weren’t in the developer tools themselves...

- After 10+ years provide support for sane income options on the App Store (free trials, paid upgrades, no need to create complex IAP patterns)

- Abolish 80-90% of App Review, since it clearly fails to prevent any scams but does steal endless energy from developers dealing with pointless rejections or delays

- Put some restraints on the UI “designers” that keep ruining functional UI and making it work worse than ever; development is actually becoming harder because things I use everyday are being fiddled with
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So, did they take it down, or is VW really blocking European countries?

EDIT: it's back up now. Site was probably just hugged to death.
I am not a US Citizen and have never lived in the US.

I just finnished watching HBO's "The Wire" and my reaction was Jesus! Does is this really happen?
DARPA Ace Program Using Heron Systems AI for Dogfighting
What's the point if you cant even deposit crypto to paypal? Does the crypto ever even exist?
It really depends on how you want to play it, as the requirement difference between 1080p single screen vs. Valve Index are massive. As opposed to most other flight sims, you'll want a GPU that is pretty close in performance to your CPU (which should be as powerful as possible). So essentially you want as good as you can afford / actually find in stock.
>someone's downloading a new game as well (and wants it now not in two hours

That isn't a very compelling need case. I can obviously see why some would pay more for that. But my mom won't.

The average person doesn't spend much time waiting for large downloads to finish.
They should have gotten rid of the “wagen” part too since this is the US. VoltSUV might work better.
Probably a mixture of all three.
Just to save calories in case someone actually spends non-zero time thinking about this: it is never true. Its a "put 2 and 2 together" type thing.

- Getty is a for-profit organization.

- Profit means money.

- Getty is lawsuit-happy.

Now it is only a matter of time before Unsplash is "incredible journey'd".
Well, one of the Yuca plants got the top sliced off. And the Nasaspaceflight camera got shovered with dirt. :)
First, I don't have numbers so everything is speculation.
Second, I didn't say that pure React is faster than pure D3. Instead I said that pure React could be faster than React + D3 (using Ref). See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26630618 for the reasoning.
"expresso"
5x less dense is 80% less dense.
It's technically possible, but involves forsaking: personal mobility, the ability to start a family, private healthcare, taking leisure holidays, costs of seasonal cultural/religious events, the ability to buy a home and any safety net for disasters, emergencies or unforseen events. It also excludes inflation, which is likely to outpace any pay rises or promotions.

Even if self-imposed, I'm not sure choosing to live a life which excludes things listed on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights should really count. This is why the idea of a "living wage" was created, to show the cost of entry to participate in society as it is - more than simply having a phone contract. https://www.livingwage.org.uk/sites/default/files/LWF%20Life...
I also have a "create feature branch from JIRA issue" (it was in the list of ideas in this post I wrote for the engineering blog at work [1] about autocompleting EC2 instances, although I was already using it). The JIRA API is a bit too slow for fast response, so what I do is populate a text file via a cron job that requests from the API regularly, and use the text in the file for the completion.

[1]: https://engineering.hybridtheory.com/aws/devops/2018/08/15/fzf-autocompletions/
I can’t agree with such binary thinking.

There is an order of magnitude difference between 3 and 30. And even at 30 you are unlikely to experience gun violence first hand, which is often situational anyways (people looking for trouble find trouble).

If you move to the states, choose a good state and a good city, and you and your family will be ok. The USA is not homogenous with respect to violence, it’s actually a very large country in that respect.
Why don't you use the devtools debugger? I generally find people in webdev tend to use debuggers more than other fields because it's so readily available in devtools, or with `debugger` in JavaScript.
> I wonder how much internal resistance there was to this shocking name change.

"Ohm-y!"
And who was charged with leading this change?
Wouldn't being "brought up on charges" then not being prosecuted potentially "scare" the perpetrator, or alert them (if they didn't already know) that what they did was against the law, and maybe a lot of people - knowning they "skirted" jail time would be thankful for the second chance and do everything to stay out of jail they possibly could?
Batteries are a kind of semiconductor. They're bigger than others, but still semiconductors.

Most kinds of semiconductors have a stage in the history of their development where their cost / performance ratio does am exponential Moore's - law plunge. Batteries could get there. So, all sorts of research are good.

In the meantime, maybe this kind of tech could be used to combine PV solar panels with electrical storage.
Pronunciation doesn't go like that but that is a big discussion for its own thread

Funny remark though while watching the F1 Netflix show, Schumacher said his name like SchumaKer , hence the Engish Pronunciation which goes to show that he adapted to the audience.
this is the "IHOB" of cars
There are always debit cards that let you 'spend' crypto, paypal is obviously less useful than that. The volume would also be nowhere near big exchangers since trading is by far the biggest activity in crypto
Positive for crypto in general.

However judging by PayPal track record and scary stories of arbitrarily freezing accounts I’d advice all my friends to keep their cryptos away from PayPal hands or any of their services.

Not your keys - not your coins
At best you should be posting this to Show HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

Although TBH, this is just self-advertising and shouldn't be here at all, don't be surprised if people start flagging your bi-monthly posts.
Agreed. It's really more like playing with Lego. Take residual connections, for instance. The insight was that information wasn't traveling far enough when the networks got too deep. So they just.... Plugged the earlier layers into the later layers. And this has been a very important development.

Or things like batch norm. We don't know why it's important. People do math to try to explain what's going on, not so much to figure out where we should go next.

Related: Understanding is a poor substitute for convexity
https://www.edge.org/conversation/nassim_nicholas_taleb-unde...
Odd to fixate on the "mistreatment" of Trump in an article that also takes jabs at other wealthy people (perhaps even all wealthy people)
There may be a free (non-profit) legal clinic that can help him get the charges expunged (or sealed, whatever they're calling it these days).

Here's one from my state:
https://arlegalaid.org/

Might also look into getting a governor's pardon. I think it's called executive clemency.

I also spoke with one of my local congresscritters and he was a great help in getting some of my ridiculous small charges sealed.

This is another reason to NOT raise the minimum wage, and instead consider abolishing it. If people can work for a little bit of money instead of nothing while they build their reputations, it can go far.
I'm in Israel. This is extremely normal. We have trackers on the TLV. If you work anywhere and have any sort of pension, the default (i.e you sign your employment contract, and forget about life) is 80% tracking the S&P 500. To be clear, pensions are a thing in this country - most employees are legally mandated to pay into them, with pre-tax dollars that are received as a credit, with an employee match. That amount is 7% of your gross salary. Meaning, in my example, at a minimum, the average Israeli is saving $122 (USD) per month.
Since I've been victim of this practice, let me elaborate:

There are individuals in Germany (two photographers IIRC) who upload photos to the Wikipedia. The licence is always CC with attribution, but that part is badly presented on Wiki (or was). Next thing, they wait for people to use their images and go around to sue everyone who doesn't display the attribution string alongside the image. It is just predatory behavior. They guy sent me an E-Mail with an pay early option. Their claims are also this weak, that the guy trying to pull this off with me was instantly silenced after our lawyer sent him a single letter.
Does this even count without a movie where they abuse the robot mercilessly? #thisiscruelty
Mislabeled images. This is going to be common and who knows how they are planning to use that data.

Many websites don't need captcha anyway. They could go with options like OOPSpam API and silently flag spam based on Spam Score.
Show HN: Rekowl – Preserve and organize your knowledge
Assuming this is a good faith question, the pollution generated by ICE cars driving 1+ metre away from me pollutes the air I breathe in a much more concentrated way than the pollution generated by a power plant 10+ miles away.

Air pollution in cities is a real problem that nobody really talks about because there's no easy solutions.

I don't drive an EV, because it's not practical / affordable for me yet. I hope this changes soon.
Relevant Onion article, "‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens":

https://www.theonion.com/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-na...

The Onion has published the article 17 times:(
Base Web – Base Web React UI Framework
Forgot to add that at some point I had a similar autocompleter to the one in the blog above, that would connect to N chosen machines (using the _multiple_ fzf setting), pane them in a tmux session automatically and thus allow you to send the same command to all of them. I only used it twice, but was kind of fun to write.
I can see it from Europe.
Ei sink ju wud bi surpreist if Ei wud tok to ju leik sis.
(I think you would be surprised, if I would talk to you like this.)
German pronounced English. :)
> Their brand is so tainted in the US that they're renaming it.

If they changed the name because of how people perceive them, they would have pick a name which is different than the current name, not the same name changing only one letter :)

They do it, because they want to get the valuation of a electric car company
> This is not one of those tech acquisitions where the company is bought to be shut down.

Translation: This is one of those tech acquisitions where the company is bought to be shut down.

I wonder if it sounds as ridiculous to the one writing it as it does to someone reading.
Not for such small transactions
Seems to work fine from Germany, but here's the archive.org link:

https://web.archive.org/web/20210330121521/https://media.vw....
Can confirm it is still up and working for me. I am located in the continental US with an IP that nominally appears to be US based. Maybe they have configured CloudFront in an "interesting" way.
Why? There isn't much, if any, toxical chemicals involved.
> the space of "the hard stuff" is shrinking over time

That's theoretically true of programming in general - and has been true of programming since programming started. Network programming used to be super specialized, but now the standard for applications is distributed over the web. Graphics programming ability used to be rare, but now it's strange to see an app without a GUI. Yet programming takes longer to learn than it used to - precisely because the state of the art has advanced so much.

I've worked with a handful of people who thought they could just use the libraries but didn't understand what they were doing or why they worked - people who could put together fancy UIs in, say, jQuery and such - and inevitably, they would find themselves hopelessly lost because they didn't actually understand what asynchronous callbacks were and couldn't figure out why, when they stepped through their programs with a debugger, the debugger kept "skipping over" their callback function.
I would imagine it’s because you are working with rockets and satellites that actually go into space. Personally I’d gladly make the trade off with 2/3 less comp compared to FANG in order to work with Falcon 9, Starlink, and Starship. And considering how many capable engineers SpaceX has I think there are more top tier engineers willing to make that trade off.
I'd be impressed if debris could travel 10km from a RUD at <1km.
Thanks appreciate your feedback.
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What is SJ?
By contrast, Baltimore - which has roughly 9%-10% the population of Norway - sees as many murders each year as Norway does every seven or eight years combined. An approximate 70 fold difference, give or take.

Does Norway have open borders? I'd like to live there. No? Oh well.
The Voltswagen text badge will be on EVs only, but the gas cars will still be sold through the Voltswagen US branding. The gas cars will keep the classic VW logo.
congrats gang! this is a huge release and its only Tuesday. one step further toward becoming a full Open Source Firebase™.

as a frontend dev i was naturally drawn to the Frontend piece of this launch - doing both columns and lists and rich previews is very thoughtful! makes it a joy to use.

you've probably thought about this but i didnt see it addressed in the blogpost or docs - i'd love for TTL or soft deletes to be built in to the Storage API. i could of course model that myself with a backing table and some scheduled functions but... it'd be nice to just have it built in :)
They're having no trouble starting the engines on the ground, for launch, like any normal rocket company.

They're having some trouble restarting them on landing, because getting the fuel to flow properly with that dramatic flip in the air is a bit of a challenge, which nobody else has ever attempted.
There are dens of "nerd ego" (narcissists? insecurities?) who feel emboldened to delve into -ists, -isms, trolling/abuse, test other people looking for "failures," display their MENSA statistics, and other BS to feel superior. It's unfortunate because that kind of hubris is personified in the fictional Simpsons' character, Comic Book Guy: so talented but fundamentally-incompatible with social, interpersonal, or economic success.
And security. SO MANY CVE's related to serialization issues.
The other big downside is that enforcing the unit of review to be a single commit instead of a branch tends to encourage over-large commits. Rebasing a series of related commits for gerrit is a major pain.
Volkswagen to Voltswagen

By having 'Volts' can they can grow market share ?

Can anybody think of a similar name change that worked before ?
Writing better conditional expressions in JavaScript
It's going to turn out bad. Great site for now.
YC startup founder floating above silicon valley in a black jumpsuit, greasy hair floating upwards, charged with the power of pre seed

"I'll make you eat those words!"
I don't have numbers (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26630618 for my speculation).

Regarding how I should confirm this is the case, I'd just run a controlled experiment and compare the frame rate produced by the two approaches.
On the git server itself, can signed tags and commits be enforced in the repo's config file?
It's back up now. Site was probably just hugged to death
Thanks! I am aware of LyX and I did try it earlier. I guess I prefer a non-WYSIWYM approach.

I also wanted to be able to share the board snippets discussed during the meetings in the same format, i.e., a simple HTML that self-renders itself as a board. That helps in both archiving the boards as well as reusing the boards in future meetings, if necessary. This was one of the few reasons why I just decided to write my own tool that suits my needs.

I have explained some of the reasons behind writing this tool here: https://github.com/susam/muboard#why (see section "Why?").

Here are a few examples of what the distributable board files look like: https://antmeet.github.io/boards/ .
“ The company will charge no transaction fee to checkout with crypto and only one type of coin can be used for each purchase, it said...”

PayPal will likely compensate “no transaction fee” with draconian exchange rate or bid/ask spread.
Your flaw is the assumption that all, or even most, customers prefer the non-tangible idea of "reducing pollution" to the tangible experience of greater performance.
We knew it would happen and with the bills they had to pay each month I understand the decision. I just wish Unsplash will not become another item on a list of services Getty killed/made worse.
So we have car companies who can trace their names to Alessandro Volta and Nikola Tesla.

Up for grabs: André-Marie Ampère? Faraday? Edison?
Their website says JavaScript support is "primitive and incomplete" and disabled by default:

https://www.netsurf-browser.org/documentation/info.html#Java...

My point is that they should not even attempt Javascript support, I think they should just drop it completely and focus their limited development efforts elsewhere.
$20M net worth at 27 while being financially independent at 17 years old here. AMA.