skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is even more proof how powerful a 0-day in the wrong hands can be.

All of the affected companies' should be considered compromised by the NSA.

Actually, every single Windows PC with an internet connection that has been used before March 14 should be considered irrevocably compromised. Ransomware is much more visible than spyware. Think about all the spyware-infected PCs/networks that nobody knows about.
Agreed. Previously following the steps here removed the problem for me on 3 different Windows 10 computers.

(PC gamers were particularly impacted by this, as the command prompt flickering would minimize full screen games...)
The flaw I feel is that the entire idea of being part of the elite is that you are above the law.

We already have courts and laws, however being rich and well connected offers a degree of immunity.
If you have more than 50% market share in a given market you're considered a monopoly. Although practically, these type of actions aren't usually taken until around 75% market share.
Not all teams that do what you suggest write garbage code as the GP implied. I have worked a places with large garbage and excellent code bases.

The places that have garbage and years of technical expect far less from their devs because they can get far less. These are also the places that prevent tickets for refactoring and never let devs pay down technical debt, then they get mad when development is slow. They value the next piece of "functionality", even if it as simple as new entry in a menu more than they value their future. When there is so much technical debt that adding that menu entry takes a skilled developer 60 hours this becomes the norm instead of a problem to solve as a business.

I would rather not hire a developer familiar with such situations and failing to fix them. Whether the failure was their ability to recognize or communicate the problem doesn't matter the problem existed and they were near it and it wasn't fixed. If I start having those problems I want people who aggressively deal with technical problems in my technical positions.

I can of course be persuaded to hire such a person if they explain what they did and they seem highly competent. Perhaps, they did do all the right things, did go above and beyond and the culture was still so toxic as to prevent progress, I have been there before. But the interviewer would need to convince me and I think that is the point of an interview.
Over 60% of government benefits go to the employed. Walmart has built a whole business model around this, giving workers information on collecting government benefits, which is essentially a huge government subsidy for Walmart and similar businesses.
Could they still sell ads in those countries? Or other services?
There is no solid evidence of a connection. Go ahead and Google it yourself. The only "evidence" against it is a bunch of biased sites who love to pooh-pooh "toxins" and "unnaturality"
interesting. that chart describes caffeine as more toxic than glyphosate.
UW study finds Seattle’s minimum wage is costing jobs
You're going to get this service shut down if you let anonymous people republish arbitrary content while running everything on Google.

I (obviously) think personal archives are a great idea, but republishing is a hornets' nest.
Oh, you want me to explicitly state it?

The starting premise is that taxes should be judged based on how they impact your quality of life, not on how much quantity of money they take.

Logically then, progressive taxes are better.
I wonder, for a container plant, if you can reliably use weight as a measure of soil saturation. Of course plant growth would add to the weight, but I suspect that could be accounted for.
> So your suggestion is actually introducing a second magnetic field, so now you've doubled the chances of blowing up your Pi and or the MOSFET.

No. You haven't fixed the original problem, but your motor is now isolated from the rest of the circuit.

You've just now have a relay with an inductive element instead of a motor. Ultimately, you haven't solved anything (unless you are using an AC motor, and you don't have a triac or something else solid state to control the motor). You still need the flyback diode.

But you haven't doubled your problem by introducing a relay, merely moved the issue to another part.

Now - in regards to the mosfet - many mosfets (not all!) have a built in protection diode between the source and drain. Check your datasheet for details (including what kind of back-feed voltage/current can be handled by them - some may need an added diode with better ratings in detail).

EDIT: Also - some relays have built-in protection diodes (or can be ordered as such) as well (again, check the datasheet). You see this more on relays for automotive applications (ie - standard BOSCH style relays) than ordinary bare PCB relays.
$2.7B EU Fine for Google
Excuse my ignorance but how is it better than googling the symptoms and eventually getting to cancer for pretty much any symptom? That's a serious question, though. It's not suddenly you will be able to cure yourself and save trip to doctor's office.
> let this country be alone for a while

Please don't leave us alone with these people. We in the US need you more than ever.
Why? Flawed studies get run all the time. If you see a flawed study about bat flight, does that make you more skeptical about all bat flight studies?

Do you get joy from hippies being wrong? That's probably going to cause huge biases in your science reading.
Step 1: "the more consumers use a search engine" --> presumably because said consumers like the product (search engine)

Step 2: "more attractive to advertisers"

Step 3: "profits generated can then be used to attract even more consumers"

Wait, why were consumers attracted by the product (search engine) in the 1st step, but were convinced by the profits in the 3rd step?
I can't believe I'm reading this. I'm gonna suggest you read that again. I can't believe you can be that naive. "Trust corporations' PR because they wouldn't do such a thing as lie", that's some neat stuff. x) Besides, there's this something called burden of proof?
The bulk of the Old Testament was transmitted orally prior to being written down. It was a time of oral literature.

https://www.amazon.com/Lost-World-Scripture-Literary-Authori...

If one is up for reading a book written by a Christian, this book describes the world well.
Fusion is simple — practically primitive — whereas plasma physics is insanely-mind-numbingly difficult.

To sustain a fusion process, plasma physics have to be tamed. That's the hard part. The Wendelstein 7-X, which the article is about, can't even do fusion, it's entirely about plasma physics.
I'm not trying to be offensive, but what point are you trying to make? It sounds like you disagree with the author but your commentary seems like incoherent rambling to me.

I think the author makes excellent points.

It's hard to build a general AI business. E.g. a computer vision API provider. The technology is so democratized that you can't compete on algorithms alone. These APIs/services are more or less commodities nowadays.

Compare that to credit card fraud detection. For many years, there was one company/product (HNC/FICO/Falcon) that dominated the market (and largely still does) because they had a monopoly on the data. They smartly created a consortium and only they have the rights to train models on the data. They still use a relatively simple feedforward neural network with a ton of hand-tuned features. This is an example of vertical AI that created a wildly successful company.
>I mean there are stories of farmers blasting it on crops later in the cycle but those seem to be an exception.

Glyphosate is used regularly as a desiccant, I don't think it's an exception[1].

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crop_desiccation
> Never trust CNN on anything. They're just a propaganda outlet at this point.

Seems like every news network is in the pocket of one party or the other. Are there any (relatively) unbiased sources left?
Because you can make lots of money in the EU, you just need to follow more strict rules than in the USA.
Old Tech vs. New: Don't Latex Old Oil Paint
On Competing with C Using Haskell
Then the filter would be "The skills of a Google Engineer, but can't get in there so might work here". All others need not apply?
Why is a local bank of general interest to HN readers? Am I missing something?
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Mailgun is now charging for email validation
https://www.google.de/search?q=wendelstein+7+x&tbm=isch

https://www.google.de/search?q=wendelstein+7+x+magnete&tbm=i...
This one looks very cheap at few $ a month, how reliable is it? Do you have a personal experience?
I love the idea. I think microgrids make sense for a lot of applications. However, I don't see how the blockchain really fits in to it. At the end of the day, someone has to maintain the shared infrastructure: the wires that connect the homes in the microgrid, and presumably some hardware to manage connecting to the macrogrid. That organization a) needs to be funded somehow and b) is a logical central party for managing the flow of electrons and money.
Is there a way to downvote stories? Maybe you mean it was flagged?
Acquired.io launches with $2M funding to take the grunt work out of user acquisi
> FYI, anyone with a decent job in the US has access to some of the best health care in the world.

And have the possibility of seeing their life savings evaporate and facing financial ruin when paying for this health care.
> I don't believe the decision against Microsoft is controversial in 2017.

Well, in one sense that's obviously true: it's no longer a source of controversy. On the other hand, if there is a reason you believe the people who argued against the Microsoft antitrust action - or aspects thereof - in the late nineties would retract their opposition today, I wonder what it is. More to the point, I wonder if you have read any legal scholarship or punditry to the effect of "I was wrong, the Microsoft antitrust case was correctly decided." I don't recall ever seeing anything like that, and I'm interested in this stuff.

(plenty of us thought bundling IE was not an abuse of monopoly power twenty years ago, and still feel that way today)
how do you konw it's only one wallet
Thats a video released by O'Keefe and Project Veritas who are confirmed frauds. They've altered context of statements in videos before, and lost out in court when confronted about it.

They're simply not credible. Besides, that guy doesn't produce in the same department as the journalists working on the Russia story. He's a supervising producer for CNN Health.

Leave the misinformation campaigns out of here.
...before getting €2bn in fines, a good part of it for "forgetting" to show the browser choice popup for 6 months, in Win 7 ServicePack 1, after successfully showing it in Windows 7. Looking back, they did really play cat-and-mouse with the EU.
I like one of the more recent transactions:

https://blockchain.info/tx/82698e1f2fbf31914019da738e24515ae...

For 0.0000666 BTC. Sender is theoretically 1FuckYouRJBmXYF29J7dp4mJdKyLyaWXW6
I really want a t-shirt saying in bold letters "This person contains chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer."
7 Ways to Increase Your Google 'Crawl Budget'
It's changed a little bit -- 50% of your advertising budget is wasted, and you can generally tell which 50% -- but past performance is now a poor indicator of future returns. So you can tell what 50% was wasted, but it's harder to tell what's going to work next time.
1. Not all first world countries have minimum wages. Scandinavia is an example of an entire region that doesn’t have them, yet still has generous safety nets.

2. The assumption that minimum wage jobs are dead-end by default is decidedly not true. Even the most menial minimum wage job provides people with employment history, which is very important for the poorest people in society to establish in order to get other jobs.

3. The logic here assumes that everyone who is displaced by the high minimum wage is capable of becoming a higher skill worker as long as their current employment opportunities are taken away from them. This is may be true for teenagers who are still in school. This is very much not true for all sorts of other minimum wage workers. Such as:

* Old people who are working to get a little extra money during their retirement.

* Single mothers, who often choose to take lower-paid work because many jobs have more flexible scheduling.

* People who have already been displaced from another high-skill job mid-career and have no where else to go to make ends meet (e.g. factory workers).

* People with disabilities that prevent them from pursuing high skill work.

4. The logic here also assumes that, even if someone does improve their skills, that there are enough high skill jobs that exist to employ all of these people. Higher skilled workers tend to be more productive than lower skilled workers, which in turn often means there are fewer high skilled jobs available than lower skilled jobs.

5. The problem with a large social safety net is that it acts as an alternative to working. You might find that trade-off to be acceptable, but you need to be aware that the likely choice many people will make isn't going to be to go to their local lending library to learn Javascript; it's going to be to stay home and not work. It's not because they're lazy or whatever people say; it's because the structure of the benefits incentivizes not-working over working for $X/hour or $Y/year. The values for X and Y go up when the safety net becomes more generous.
> Step by step, down the giants. Claiming the resolution of the matter in a single step is unrealistic.

My concern is that even one step like the fine here will significantly chill their innovation with their search service in every category. As they will see adding any special advanced listings in search results as a big risk of being fined.

We're stuck with this giant so I'm not sure why you want to down it when there won't be comparable alternatives popping up in it's place.

This isn't just Google shopping being pushed further down the results ranking but how the shopping subsite is deeply integrated into the search results.

Which is why I said the proposed solution is regressing search engines back to simple directories which harms customers for some neglible gain for other small companies.
Not that I'm aware of, just windows in this case.
If I broke the pin on your smartphone and obtained evidence of infidelity on your part and gave it to your wife, did I hack your marriage?
Compared to Python or Ruby, NodeJS has phenomenal performance. The single threaded argument is also flat out wrong, given that you have clustering or web workers to take advantage of every core. It's also completely misleading even within a single core, as non-blocking nature of JS will accomplish on a single core what otherwise behaves as threading would.
How would you make votes verifiable and still have them be anonymous? The anonymous voting made possible with paper ballots is a killer feature from my point of view.
What good are those laws when concerted lobbying and corruption means they never get enforced?
Serena Williams’s Love Match with Alexis Ohanian
How to Stop Avoiding Hard Work So You Can Become the Master You Long to Be
The Modest User Interface Manifesto
How Baking Soda Could Help Fight Deadly Superbugs
You can't go into a building in California without seeing a sign warning about carcinogens, so you tune them out. I have no idea how you're supposed to know if there's something truly dangerous.
> Our ability to do that well isn’t favoring ourselves, or any particular site or seller

"not favoring any particular seller"? If it pays, it's on the front page. Are you seriously telling me that somebody who has paid nothing still can get on the front page competing with others who paid?

I don't trust you, Google.
As for the faulty soil moisture, check out tropf blumat. It's made in Germany (you know the Germans make good stuff). It uses osmosis and gravity to keep the soil moisture consistent, no electricity. I've had great success with roots even growing up out of the soil towards the drippers https://youtu.be/UWPLr0Selh8
I have often thought on my flights into California that as soon as the plane crosses the California state line, the pilot should just come on and announce "The State of California is known by the State of California to contain things known by the State of California to cause cancer."
Interesting you should say that. I wrote a Reddit comment about a year ago listing reasons why I generally advise against use of Immutable.js, and the "infectious" API is exactly one of the reasons that I listed ( https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/4rcqpx/dan_abra... ).

Also worth noting that if you are going to do Immutable -> POJO conversions, you should avoid using `toJS()` as much as possible. The conversion process is expensive, _and_ it always creates new object references. Either use `getIn()`, or use memoized selectors to ensure the conversion only happens when the data actually changed.
LD50 and carcinogenesis have very little to do with each other.
Who are 'they,' exactly? Lawyers are citizens too, and more than capable of employing PR agencies and lobby groups. It's not like propositions just pop out of the collective will of the citizenry; being voted on and confirmed by a majority is just the last step after some lobby group has already successfully waged a publicity campaign.
Yes, but "Vertical AI" is the thing the author was trying to better define.
What exactly Google will win from spending money just as it is spending today to run the services but stop making any financial returns?

Why would investors be happy of Google catering to a market that has only expenses but no profit or hope for future profit due to regulatory reasons.

I guess EU locals would enjoy the ad-free experience...
Not accurate or useful would be an apt description of your comments here.
That's pretty cool. A full-fledged open source project is really about people and communication and sharing ideas, not just pressing a 'fork' button. You need a mailing list, and maybe some kind of chat thing (IRC) as well as what github offers.

I wish github would make it easier to have some kind of "leader election" or something to point out which one is the actual project.

I hate it when I find some project with 192030 forks and 0 coordination of them, it always feels like such a wasted opportunity.
Jibestream Announces Support for Google and Apple Indoor Maps
Keep in mind that salt accumulates in the soil. Eventually, if you use too much, you can end up with soil that's too high in salt for plants to trive, and the only option is scoop it all out with an excavator and replace it. Of course, that's the extreme scenario and not super likely unless your concentrations are high.

Vinegar is less of an issue if you monitor soil acidity; and you can always compensate with lime (our soils here in the South East are naturally acidic so we often have to ammend them).
Could you elaborate a bit on the false equivalence. Depending on what you mean I may or may not disagree.
Unfortunately, my kids already know from watching How It's Made that most wiener-type sausages sold in the US are fully cooked at the factory, and when you "cook" them at home, you're just heating them up. One would just eat it without bothering with the foil for even one minute, and the other doesn't eat hot dogs at any temperature.

I remember, as part of a wilderness survival challenge, being told to eat some breakfast, then they gave me one match, a juice can, a raw egg, and two uncooked pork sausage links. The "correct" solution was to build a fire, drink the juice, cut the top off the can, grease the inside of the can with cooking sausage, and then fry your egg in the greased can. Alternate solutions turned out to be a whole lot easier--left as an exercise for the reader because many of them are disgusting.

Knowing how to do this was of great comfort to me, because sausages, eggs, and juice cans actually grow on trees in the woods near me. Along with plastic tarps and alkaline batteries. It felt like the sort of thing that might give kids just enough confidence to wander off alone to die in the actual wilderness, or to miraculously return in five years speaking fluent Wolf, with plenty of helpful suggestions for the next edition of the manual--such as a primer on the intricacies of wolf pack politics.

That manual probably should have just skipped the solar oven and gone straight to starting a fire with the foil. (As though your average Boy Scout doesn't already know too many ways to set something on fire. Have you ever seen someone start a bonfire by shooting an arrow into it? That guy was probably a Boy Scout, and the secret he wouldn't tell you is that the tinder had KMnO4 in it, and the arrow popped a hidden balloon with some glycerol in it. It wasn't actually a ghost.)
> Once you get used to the ultra-safe communities like EU/Australia/Canada you can just wonder why would you even think about visiting US risking your life and your families life?

This is why I love Waterloo, Ontario. You can walk around the sketchiest allies at 2 am in the morning and feel safe.
Bup: incremental backups using Git packfile
In Texas, a mental health measure both left and right should support
The performance bottlenecks I mostly see as a frontend engineer are those related to the browser (execution speed, DOM manipulation, and painting). I'm curious what workloads wasm can improve, since I assume it'll mostly deal with operations in memory. Maybe physics or graphics calculations in JS game engines?
If you remove the drive. Lots of backups are done on to always-connected devices.
Getting Your Feet Wet with Kotlin Using the Command Line Compiler
Spring, Jackson, and other libraries that perform various "magical" feats around DI and serialization make heavy use of reflection to inspect private fields. Generally though they don't require write access to those fields (Spring possibly being the exception), but do generally require at least read access. Would be nice if there was a system to flag certain classes or jars as OK to violate access restrictions while still preventing others.
"""Market dominance is, as such, not illegal under EU antitrust rules. However, dominant companies have a special responsibility not to abuse their powerful market position by restricting competition, either in the market where they are dominant or in separate markets."""

It's not about "punishing" but it is about holding dominant companies responsible for handling the great power that comes with this dominance.

Companies don't usually do this by themselves because like you say, their goals are orthogonal to this.

Doesn't mean it's contrary to their goals (which would be "punishing", in a sense), but "commercial success" or profit just isn't a force that drives ethical behaviour and responsibility. It's not. Things would be so much easier if they were.
I have editorial, which I love, but it does not have that wiki style feature. Great for markdown though.
Why are you surprised? Just count front page Google related stories here on any random day, and you'll get the picture :)
Watch This Star Wars: The Last Jedi Trailer Made Entirely on a 1984 Apple IIc
Interestingly, WPP mandates all it's employees to shut down their computers – irrespective of the OS.

> As a precaution, WPP is mandating that everyone immediately shut down all computers, both Macs and PCs. This applies to you whether you are in the office or elsewhere. Working on an office computer remotely is not an option. Please leave your computers turned off until you hear from us again.

> Many thanks for your co-operation and patience.

> Best regards,