skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Soft cotton and water would work well too.

People use wipes because they're convenient. The "juice" is 0.1% of the product and exists for its mild natural anti-bacterial properties. It isn't sticky like you're imagining, in fact if not told you would assume it was 100% water.

In general I think soft cotton and water is a great idea. I am contrasting Waterwipes against other "chemical" wipes on the market which often promote diaper rash and cannot be used on the face (e.g. Huggies, Pampers, supermarket own brand wipes).
You're right. Most people don't know the difference between QM and QFT, so I tend to use the terms interchangeably in casual exchanges.

You're right that GR doesn't rule out closed timelike curves, but to actually construct one you need to have matter with negative mass. So you can interpret this in two ways, as a prediction that FTL is possible, or a prediction that negative-mass matter does not exist.

Nonetheless, since you clearly understand physics, I'll restate my claim more precisely: the likelihood of FTL being possible is extremely small, for all reasonable purposes indistinguishable from zero on current scientific knowledge, and the existence of entanglement does not change this one bit. It would take something like the discovery of exotic matter with negative mass to move the needle on FTL.
First order of business: replace the fuel filling hole with a proprietary interface.
Meek Mill Is “The Butcher”
They lick their own asses with those tongues, so yeaaaaah...
That's just nitpicking. They blocked the enabling of a setting which allows Linux to see the hard disk. They went out of their way to make a firmware change that has the effect that you cannot run Linux - unless you flash your BIOS or you write a driver. In my book, they effectively blocked the installation of Linux.

Now, there are two options. 1) to support this hardware correctly, you'd need to make complex changes to the driver. In this case, I cannot see how it is the Linux' developers' "fault" that this doesn't work. It would be great to have a driver, but it depends on information that Lenovo doesn't give out. Or 2), it is trivial to make a driver, e.g. you just have to look for a certain ID. In this case, I would also blame Lenovo or MS, for there would be no reason to bock AHCI to "ensure a good customer experience" etc.

Whether this situation has come from malice or not, I don't care very much. Anyway, I think it is up to Lenovo to provide a solution (a BIOS update, a Linux driver, or information neccessary to write a driver).

Now, is it a conspiracy or not? I'd say the most likely option is carelessness. Maybe this happenend: "Shall we set this to AHCI or RAID? Currently it is set to RAID and works fine." - "Do we need AHCI?" - "Nah, Windows 10 runs fine, maybe for some older OSes" - "We don't care about those, just leave it on RAID. And while you're at it, comment out the AHCI option."

Did MS give any instructions to Lenovo to block Linux installs? Maybe not specifically, but we have to remember this is a "Signature" edition laptop. (There was the accusation that this only effects the signature edition and not other editions, which would be particularly damning btw..) I wouldn't be surprized if there was an agreement like. "The partner (Lenovo) shall install any crapware on Signature edition laptops. They shall not not preinstall other OSes. And they shall not offer support on installing other OSes." -- Which would be entirely reasonable for a special "Windows Signature" edition laptop.
If anyone is looking for a similar tool for JS, I've used codemods to great effect.

https://vramana.github.io/blog/2015/12/21/codemod-tutorial/
For a point of reference, NIH's annual budge is about $31 billion.
Previous thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12523042
Hahaha. This is what every sign up process feels like :)
There has been a disturbing level of contempt for the people that were concerned about the future of Free Software. There has been a major shift towards more locked down platforms for years ever since iOS was accepted by the developer community. With Microsoft locking down Secure Boot on ARM and requiring it for Windows 10, it is prudent to be extra vigilant about anything strange that happens in the boot process. The alternative is to ignore potential problems until they grow into much larger problems that are harder to deal with.

Obviously vigilance implies some amount of false positives. It is easy to dismiss a problem once better information is available. It's great that this Lenovo situation is simply a misunderstanding about drivers, but that doesn't invalidate the initial concern about a suspicious situation.
Maybe this is true because I've only worked in a software boom in a large city but the only reason I've been out of work in the last 5 years since I switched from working in politics to coding full time is because I deemed the jobs available either undesirable or the pay insufficient. And when I say the pay was insufficient I'm still talking something well above median income. So Spolsky seems pretty right on, at least for the moment.
Yeah, and perhaps I'm a lobster pretending to type on a keyboard.

The guy was a fucking moron.

The user database was a flat file array stored, unencrypted, passwords and all, in users.js. I told him that was a huuuge security hole, and he said "What, you think hackers are just going to browser through our source code, looking for anything worth stealing?"

The entire store database- users, products, orders, etc, were stored in flat JS arrays, and all of them were downloaded to the user's browser so the store could run client-side, "because then our site can scale infinitely since we're only serving static files!". Only the credit card transactions were transmitted to our server. Thank god he knew better than to store credit card info, because our entire array of servers (that he was in charge of) were hijacked by russians and turned into warez FTP sites.
Well, that'd sure be swell if we could get some engineer love in the US, but I don't see that happening any time soon. Got any suggestions?
Someone Made a Working Transformer Out of a BMW
The opposition to certification and professional organization is truly bizarre. It would likely do much more good than harm to the profession of software engineering, yet that furious opposition always ensues whenever you bring it up.

In addition to the points you make, real certification (as opposed to a four year degree, which anyone willing to go into debt can get) would simplify interviewing and reduce the "whiteboard hazing" and "throw darts at a dart board" methods we use today for finding good candidates. Organization would help fight for a proper career path for programmers, rather than having to, as an individual, constantly negotiate and hop from one employer to another in order to advance.
I think the point still stands, the longer you spend unemployed the more likely you are to describe yourself as "looking for a job" (unless you have given up entirely). If someone describes themselves as not looking for a job when they don't have one, it is possible they are just telling the truth, and when they do decide to look for a job they can find one quickly. I am pretty skeptical that thinking of yourself as looking for a job really causes you to have difficultly finding one - like you said, there isn't any readily apparent direct causative link.
My thinking is leaning toward a few concepts:

* Quantified content utilisation. I've been looking at measures of just how much content people can engage with in a day, and it's much smaller than you might think. Stephen Wolfram and Walt Mossberg both hit about 150 - 300 emails. The NY Times comment moderation crew tackle about 800 comments each per day. That latter means 36 seconds per comment, assuming an 8-hour day. At some point, your brain simply becomes full. I suspect a much smaller number of detailed items, and a small number (10-30) medium, and perhaps 100 or so trivial items, is about the sane limit.

* A quality metric for content, based on some finite, depletable, periodically renewed resource. "Time" might be one such metric (you've only got 86,400 seconds today, but you'll have more tomorrow!). I have a 5-6 point ranking of content, from '0' (actually makes you stupid for having read it) to 5/6 (defines a field, 6 == extends it). Most news articles fall in the 1-2 range, a good news article perhaps 3, a solid technical paper a 3-4. Key is to not assign everything a top-of-the-scale range.

* Assignment of reputations to sources based on those ratings. Both authors and publishers.

Increasingly, I'm simply adding clickbait sites to my firewall's blocklist.

https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/wgtaltzorrurzat3wf-lwa

Iwould very much prrefer to have that capacity on my tablet itself (Google and Samsung say I cannot, fuck 'em, fuck 'em hard), or in some brwoser-like tool (really a next-gen browser).

https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/ubkidr7yuc7azg9hdnl7lq
I came here to say this. I am not sure why you got downvoted so much.

They have behaved in negative ways for a long time they will need to behave differently for quite a long time before they are trusted again.

They have cleaned up many but not all of their behaviors. They are still abusing patents against smaller android distributors. If they care about their patents they would sue Google or the AOSP steering group (or whoever runs it). If they were actually with an open ecosystem they wouldn't be doing those lawsuits.

In the context of Microsoft's behavior, blaming them is not an unreasonable default stance. Though when evidence does come along to the contrary someone holding such a stance must be willing to change it or be wrong.
What industries understand the value of tech?
You are, of course, correct - unlike those people who write 'viri' or, even more often, 'virii' instead of the correct Latin 'vira' - which, as it happens, is not part of common English use.
Biotech is really just harder than software: https://xkcd.com/1605/

Everything interacts with everything else. Not to mention the capital requirements - bio-labs cost millions, while a software startup just needs a bunch of laptops and a garage.
I'd love to see this, please :)
I'm surprised at the incredulity expressed here, given MS's history of dealing with OEMs. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundling_of_Microsoft_Window...
FTA:

"For a consumer device, why would you want to? The number of people buying these laptops to run anything other than Windows is miniscule."

This is a really poor argument, and slightly disingenuous. Sometimes, people change their use for a device. Maybe they want to explore linux in the future, maybe they want to sell the laptop to someone who wants to use it for linux...

That the blame is being possibly misdirected ought not to detract from the fact that blame is necessary. If users don't vocally oppose measures like this, the industry will assume that this kind of restriction is reasonable. It's not. Yes, power management is important, but anyone who puts linux on their laptop will quickly learn there are limitations to the features of that device that were originally tailored to the OS the device shipped with. That's a good lesson, and a good opportunity for a community to develop around the device (if it's good enough) to mitigate those deficiencies and adapt them for the particular linux distro.

In short, Lenovo is at fault for not being up front about this limitation, for not explaining it, and for not devoting at least some resources to mitigating for their potential linux-inclined users.

Then again, perhaps a linux-inclined user might also be one of the many that don't trust Lenovo after their self-signed certificate scandal.
My take was it was either that, or a bullshit excuse to allow him to work from home. One the one hand, several other employees assured me his crazy home setup was legit. On the other hand, he would sometimes have to work a couple of days in our office during big events, and he seemed fine.
Critical thinking led me to believe this story was false.

The option in question wasn't cloaked under "security" or "encryption" as many lock-downs are, but instead an unsupported disk mode.

The evidence that it was a "secret conspiracy" was a quote from a low-level customer support rep. You really think that that kind of information is provided to the thousands of rep's at that level... It would leak instantly if that was the case.

So Occam's razor applies. By far the more likely explanation, in this case, is a hardware incompatibility between Linux and the Lenovo configuration.

do corp's (including Lenovo and Microsoft ) do shitty stuff to users, sure of course they do. Does that mean people should jump to conclusions without adequate evidence... no.
I have a Nexus 5 running the latest Android (excluding N) and have exactly the same problems the commenter above you describes.

Not only that, but when I've explained these issues to my friends they respond with the same response you gave, down to the 'weird.'
Respectfully disagree with your view.

Technology in and of itself is not bad. But when technology is run by technology companies whose motive is profit, it can be bad.

I think what we're seeing is new externalities caused by technology. I think junk food + soda + obesity is a more apt analogy than alcoholism. It's easy to say "don't get addicted to junk food or soda" but you have to remember that these companies specifically formulate their products to hack your body and make you crave more. Then they bombard you with ads. All so they can sell you more.

In the same way, technology companies make more money the more you use their products. So they specifically architect their products to hack your brain so you will use it more. It's easy to say "don't get addicted to Facebook" or "the problem is you" but, frankly, I don't think its that simple.
Note—tying this back into the article—a lot of people can write code. It's the person who understand what they're writing, why they're writing it, and why it works that you want to hire, so you would not be well served walking in with JUST the "programmer" title. That's a title many in the world can claim without being worth a hire.
no joke or reference, just a weird problem he claimed to have. I had no desire to get to know him well enough to learn more about it.
> If you focus on high-end CompSci stuff, it won't be relevant for the 99% who spend their careers building CRUD apps.

Engineer is not a guy putting things together on an assembly line. Engineer
needs to understand things that are base for his/her field.

> If you focus on tools, it will be out of date by the time the exam papers are off the printing press.

My tools that are dozen years old work just fine, thank you very much. And
they work faster, more transparently, and more reliably than most of modern
buzz, if we're at that.
Text to coordinate gatherings/hanging-out. Talk at gatherings/hang-outs.

[EDIT] remove (mild) snark
Somebody should notify the guys who went really deep condemning Microsoft of cutting shady deals.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12545878
> So be it, I hope y'all enjoy burning in hell.

Please don't comment like this here.
Its actually no problem not to be backwards compatible with your "crazy new super advanced hardware".

Except when that CNSAH is holistically proprietary and black box, with no documentation, no announcement of it, no schematics or free drivers or anything. "We made this black box that you aren't allowed to know how it works but you aren't supporting it so you are in the wrong".
That percentage for checking accounts is extremely low, and suggests that half of homeowners don't have checking account, and only a third of car owners do.

I cant reconcile how that large of a discrepancy is possible. Surely some people inherited houses or cars, or paid literal cash, but it cant be that many.

edit: This FDIC report [0] from earlier this month suggests only 7% of households are "unbanked", meaning they dont have access to a bank account (doesn't specify what type). That number makes way more sense.

[0] https://fdic.gov/news/news/speeches/spsep0816.html
Since nobody has mentioned it, maybe I didn't understand the implications, but does this mean there is a chance in the future we won't have "bandwidth"? I could replicate data from a server into my personal computer instantly?
Soccer players aren't responsible for designing walkways that won't catastrophically collapse when loaded. Also, not everyone in an engineering type role is a PE. There are some circumstances where the PE double/triple checks work done and signs off on it, putting their license (and livelihood) on the line if the work is shoddy.
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative announces $3B investment to cure all diseases
Should Lenovo provide a driver. Let's be honest, that's a commercial decision and entirely up to them if they want to support Linux installs on this hardware.

Why should a commercial company be forced to provide support for a platform?

If they advertise the hardware as supporting Linux then sure they absolutely should be required to support it. If they don't, then why should they have to support it?
The problem with SSRIs is that they can have wildly different effects on different people. Compounding that issue is clinicians misdiagnosing patients quite frequently because it's all subjective. You take a few questionnaires and they score them and say "this number means you're mildly/moderately/severely depressed."

In my case, as with many others with bipolar, Zoloft sent me into a hypomanic episode where I didn't sleep for 3 days and was severely agitated. I had never been diagnosed with bipolar in the ~15 years I had been in treatment. A change in my medication resulted in serious complications.

Recommending specific medications without experience is dangerous. Even doctors with years of experience can't get it right. It turns out for me SSRIs are a poor choice. I was prescribed lamotrigine and it changed my life. I no longer feel depressed for months at time, I sleep well, my libido is normal and I can ejaculate whenever I want.
Oscar Wilde thought that “to do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world”
Zuckerberg and Chan aim to tackle all disease by 2100
I'm an information addict and here's a fun fact about my recovery experience:

It didn't start til I stopped looking things up in books. That kicked off 9 months of vivid dreams that evolved as I managed to identify & slowly remove other innocuous compulsive behaviors from my daily life.

I want to be clear about this: I'm not saying you sound like an addict. Everything in the world is potentially addictive if it can help escape from or numb emotions. And it doesn't matter much what the source of the addiction is, but the behaviors involved in interacting with that source. That's why it didn't actually matter that I went offline for months on end.

My view of addiction is this:

Addicts are genetically (and likely epigenetically) predisposed to developing a learning disorder we call addiction in response to psychological trauma. The first step to solving the problem of addiction in society isn't to lock up all the addictive things. It's to recognize technology has made it easy as hell for anyone to partake in activities that provide immediate gratification and that means the world has become a much more dangerous place for people predisposed to addiction.

Information addiction is frightening as hell to think about, even when I'm happily moving along in my recovery. I live in a world where the spread of technology is always on the rise & any job that pays well will require me to, in one way or another, dive into my addictive behaviors.

If the author's (likely fearfully) suggesting what you see as extreme solutions, I can absolutely understand where he's coming from.
Actually, I find it very intuitive that reality is just information. It's much easier than setting it apart as ineffable.
> No idea who are the dolts who have downvoted you into light gray...

> WTH is wrong with you, people, really.

Please comment civilly and substantively or not at all.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
While it looks interesting, I honestly don't feel like building a system like this on top of node. Not because of the library itself, which seems properly implemented (hard to see libraries using proper formatting and JSDoc these days).

node is a simple, friendly technology, until you to profile it. Then it's not so friendly. With a realtime system you require a great deal of profiling and quite honestly the tooling is not there.

"Oh but what about Flamegraphs and DTrace?"... it is nothing compared to what you have in Java. And node tooling is better on obscure operating systems like IllumOS.

If I had to implement a system like this I would opt for Scala + Akka, or Elixir/Erlang. If it's for simplicity/budget reasons, try PubNub.
"Duplication" was the wrong term, I should have said "destructive-read/write", which I did in another comment.

2. There is no teleportation in the common man, sci-fi interpretation. In order to effect the information transferral we need three times as many particles as we're transferring the information of. Per particle whose state is to be tranferred, we need two entangled particles and a target particle. To translate that to the "teleporting a thing" case, if you were to teleport a cake, you'd need a cake, two (entangled) cake-equivalent mass collections, and a target "generic particle collection" to be turned into "your cake" after running the QT algorithm. It's only teleportation if you pretend that triplicate wasted-once-used mass isn't there, which we can't do: it's there, and this is QT, not 'regular' teleportation (ignoring the fact that there is no such thing outside of works of fiction =)

3. fair enough, I simplified that the wrong way.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_entanglement and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_entanglement#Applicati... might work better as highlighting links here, although something like "Quantum Computation and Quantum Information" by Nielsen and Chuang would be a much better reference.
Proof that they're not pointless: The adobe password leak. Other than the giant crossword puzzle[0] created by the password hints combined with their choice of ECB mode to encrypt the passwords that allowed people to infer blocks of passwords, I haven't been able to find any evidence that the encryption key was leaked or guessed. So, most of the passwords were never discovered. I'm betting their key was a full 168 bit random value that was immediately deleted when the leak came to light, so it's likely that value will never exist again in this universe. Compare that to something like LinkedIn (SHA1) where enthusiasts have cracked almost 97% of the passwords in that leak. How many more have blackhats cracked?

I certainly wouldn't rely on symmetric encryption alone to store passwords. If the password leaks, you expose all passwords in mere seconds. Plus you can see your user's plaintext passwords (since you have the key), which you should not be able to do. But as an extra measure symmetric encryption has already proven itself to be useful.

[0] https://xkcd.com/1286/
It could act like the downvote on YouTube, in which something registers but the actual tally is not visible to the public. It'd take some tweaking depending on the actual dynamics of how NYT readers interact. Maybe have a threshold of 3 to 5? And perhaps have a hidden karma score that drops (like in StackOverflow) with each downvote, so that chronic flaggers have diminishing influence