skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was me thinking it was some app configuration installation tool
So what's the Linux remote desktop story these days? It seems like modern versions of GNOME running on Wayland don't support VNC?
exploringjs.com
Even without the spam the learning set would be cancerous.
When ETH and XRP drop by 20% in 1 day, 1 month duration seems mild.
I wish I could remember where I saw the video (a guy with a bunch of gumballs representing population), but I remember he spoke about how the visa process is really beneficial for the USA but bad for other countries. The point being that we drain their talent pool while increasing our own.

The argument being that as we skim the top people from the talent pool of other countries we reduce their capability to push innovation and ideas within their own infrastructure. Instead the USA benefits in that we don't have to have the smartest people just the most attractive place for them to come and help our country. So while I disagree with his message behind this move, I think he inadvertently helped the rest of the world...
Are you thinking of derivatives? I agree that those are relatively easy -- it's the rate of change for a function. Or, in geometric terms, it's the slope of the tangent line of the function's curve.

Like I said, limits are used when a function "breaks", so they're naturally hard to visualize. I'll use my typical example for when I discuss teaching math by solving problems: Approximating the area under a curve using rectangles. The thinner your rectangles are, the more accurate your approximation is. So you narrow the rectangles, getting more and more accurate... Until you hit zero width, where the value of the function suddenly drops to zero... A discontinuity. A limit lets you find what the value would have been had that discontinuity not happened. So, there's a clear visualization of what the limit is letting you do in this particular case -- pretend like the rectangles of zero width don't have zero area -- but there's no clear generalization on how to visualize a limit.
And the rootless capitalist kulak falls out of the window accidently :-(
`~` is YAML for null - http://yaml.org/type/null.html
A part of me thinks that the VC industry will see a flight-to-quality type of event sometime in the near future. In this scenario, I think it'll be increasingly hard to raise a series A (and later) round. Instead, firms will back more big, promising startups (e.g. series C,D,E) that have paying customers, a defensible position, cash flow, and are still growing or a path to growth.

On the other hand, I think there are several "unicorns" that are still private that will do well as public companies -- Dropbox, Lyft, Stripe, and Airbnb. The success of these in the public markets will help the startup ecosystem and encourage venture capital funding.

With that said, I find the case of Blue Apron interesting. I have a hunch that it may have thought its best chance to go public and cash in was now -- that the environment for "unicorns" like itself (one that faces substantial competition, a weak product, fickle customer behavior, lack of customer retention and unstable cash flow) will only get worse.
DPI independent, but requires whole number scaling (1x, 2x, not 1.5x)
Henri Poincaré once said: "Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things"

I know the temptation is great to give lots of examples while teaching math, but you get the risk of only teaching little examples to students and not the abstract vision that math education demands.

Take your quadratic equations, it's all nice to demonstrate how coefficients shape the plot. But when you start talking about projectiles, you end up ignoring that quadratic equations are used... heavily... everywhere.

You may see them in chemistry, crypto or nuclear physics. But if your brain only remembers projectiles, it doesn't have the ability to abstract new problems the right way.
I look at it like taking a walk, or a smoker taking a smoke break. That small reprieve, the 15 minutes I take working on a side project, or tinkering with something for fun, rejuvenates me and gets me jazzed about the task at hand when I get back to it. That's a productivity booster, and ultimately a benefit.
SATA Active Link Power Management is or was broken on my laptop. Too bad, it is required for the CPU package as a whole to reach the lowest power state and dramatically improved battery life.

It also ate a ton of files on day 3 or 4 of me using it (not even files that were open, it just randomly corrupted ~5-10% of the drive). Probably wont be checking to see if that is fixed anytime soon.
Great idea, the sample of random users will probably be a lot more representative of actual traffic than the usual load tests!

Are the users of the affiliate websites aware of what is happening though?

From an ethical point of view I think this is no different than ads, so it's fine. Ads however are self-evident, so if I don't approve of them I can avoid the website in question.
Radar displays are not going to accurately display a displacement of 150m. They're set up for broader area surveillance.

Edit: here's a good example of a terminal radar display. The two parallel diagonal lines are the extended centerlines of two runways that are about 1570m apart (Athens airport, LGAV).

https://www.hvacc.gr/site/images/content/events/2003/athens-...
I've always liked that line, but it's clearly being cheeky and there are times it's applicable and times it's not.

All arithmetic is math, but not all math is arithmetic.

Except that if you dig deep enough, all math is arithmetic under the hood. Algebra is doing the arithmetic on variables before they're numbers. Calculus is just useful shorthand for compound arithmetic; the derivative is a divide and the integral is a sum. Exponentiation is repeated multiplication, which is repeated addition. Linear algebra is arithmetic on blocks of numbers.

So we abstract over the individual arithmetic operations for our own convenience, there are too many of them. But it's all still fancy arithmetic.

Maybe we should call math "fancy arithmetic" to help all the people who are intimidated by math...
Seems like that would be the simplest way to design one. Just leave off some of the high address lines.
Yeah. Huge hindsight bias at work.

I bet that investors would have shot down both the iPod and iPhone development if they had had a say in it.
There's a clear regime shift in the slope pre/post Thai floods. It's not a surprise that the floods set back Kryder's law by years, but does anyone have any insight in why it would affect the rate of progress and switch hard drives to a much slower rate of improvement? Surely the floods wouldn't still affect investment or R&D? Or is the timing merely a coincidence and reflect consumer demand being saturated, switches to SSD etc?
I originally thought that too, until I read through the entire article. Technically, the "one" that wins is not the company, but the style of how they treat shareholders.

Effectively, these two companies embody fairly different points on the spectrum of shareholder control: Google being effectively a public closely-held company; Apple being a public widely-held company. True, Google has millions of shareholders, but the _control_ is closely held, hence why I am using that term.

The control that shareholders (and activists and raiders) can have on Apple is significantly different than on Google. And that is what the article is about.

Over time, the market could adjust from the Apple model (which is the status quo in public companies) to the Google model. The implications are tremendous, as the idea of a public company that is closely-held over the long term hasn't really been done before.
That's easy for joining random hotspots, yeah. But for a more stable setup, wpa_supplicant is excellent. I have a config that prefers my home network (which is EAP-TLS secured, how does ifconfig on OpenBSD handle that?), then mobile hotspot, then a couple other known networks. It automatically decides the best network to use.
>So the #1 thing an American can do to fight climate change is be "pro-city". Move there.

I love the idea of higher-density living, the problem is that it's simply unaffordable for a large part of the population. They can only afford houses with yards and several feet of air-gap, as you put it. How do you propose to fix this?

For example, look at Japan. In Tokyo, you can rent a small (very small) efficiency apartment for perhaps $500, according to what I hear on YouTube. A larger one big enough for a couple might be $900 or $1000. Such a place will be clean, safe, and just a few minutes' walk from the subway. Now look at NYC: there's no possible way you'll find something to rent at that price in a place that's at all safe. So telling people to "move there" is really rather asinine; are you going to pay me $1500/month so I can afford a livable apartment in Manhattan? (I'll make up the other $1000 on my own, your $1500 is a subsidy)

As long as the property owners in a municipality have all the power over building and density, we're going to have this problem.
Ask HN: Which metrics Paul Graham refer to the 10% growth?
it's total user or weekly active user?
Why is it that all voices sound monotone when presenting a SIGRAP paper.
I feel any mention of HTTP Public Key Pinning should have the words "WARNING" surrounding it.

It can take down your site if you screw it up - https://www.smashingmagazine.com/be-afraid-of-public-key-pin...

I also believe it is one of the more difficult security features to implement & doesn't work well with Let's Encrypt https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/hpkp-best-practices-if-y...

I'm not against it and this case does seem to make me reconsider my prior risk balance assessment of implementing it.
Funny people don't want to question the reason on a bull run but requires a reason on a bear run. $3000 was way off chart in the first place, a little correction is normal.
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The article calculates that solar-radiation reducing shields for earth-sized exoplanets (like some propose for mitigating climate change) will be detectable by the next generation of astronomical telescopes.
Does anyone know if there are tools to detect Photoshopped/forged/modified images?
Gold has industrial usage as well - electronics, computers, even in space tech Gold it's used for it's unique properties.

I don't get why crypto keeps being compared to a metal.
Agreed. The article assumes that business/investment/etc. is a zero-sum game.
To be serous Putin's and old school Chekist
US Government research jobs these days really don't get anything done. You'll spend a career there shuffling paper and accomplishing zero.
Looks like they've been shamed into submission and have pulled the article. It was getting hammered with comments earlier. Well deserved ones.
Heh, I did it the other direction back in the day as a toy [0]. Back in TypeScript's earlier days I figured it could be a neat frontend for the otherwise ugly PHP...not really.

0 - http://cretz.github.io/pratphall/ - https://github.com/cretz/pratphall
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>It's silly to think we're unable to change. Nearly all of the CO2 emissions were done in just a generation.

We are unable to change. You're talking about change for the worse there (in environmental terms), not change for the better.

Show me one instance in history where a human society avoided disaster. It hasn't happened. Every human society has peaked at some point, and then collapsed. Ancient Rome didn't go from controlling most of Europe and northern Africa to being a stable power among many; it collapsed entirely. Other earlier Middle Eastern societies didn't even fare that well; all that's left of them is a few ruins at best.

Humans are pretty good at going from nothing and building up a society in a short time, but they aren't any good at dealing with problems that arise in that society over time, especially if they're compounded by environmental problems. So human societies are always "upwards or bust". What makes you think it'll be different this time?

As for all your ideas, ask yourself this: will the voting population vote for candidates who tell them they're going to enact these policies?
On secrecy
This seems like an opinion that was formed based on bad experiences with some SSG that have particularly poor management processes. And that could be wildly popular SSG with the tech crowd, but popular is not the same as good.

Obviously, bad SSG are bad, but not all of them are: any SSG worth recommending to the general public in exchange for money (i.e. recommending to your customers) is one that doesn't rely on the user first making sure their "tech stack" is set up properly: it just comes with a normal installer (even if that "installer" takes advantage of the OS it's running on to grab all the dependencies it needs for itself and uses a preinstalled scripting language to run the system under the hood).

And of course typically these still have a "this project is open source, click here for our git repo!" link that normal users will NEVER use, but power users are drawn to like moths to a flame. Their experience, however, is not what you're going to sell your customers =)
Easy example: create a 10gb EC2 instance with OpenBSD, start installing stuff, boom, you're out of space on some partition.

But really, just having rigid partitions makes me feel uneasy. ZFS datasets all share the same space, and you can set quotas if you want that can be changed anytime.
It’s because in SaaS it is easier to test it, to develop it, to gain new users etc. + we know this model very well :)
How to actually get a remote job as an intermediate developer?
I've been trying to get a Remote job for over a month now, with 0 luck so far. I know lots of HN readers are freelancers, so I want to address you.

How did you manage to get your first Remote job?
And if anyone has some spare time and will, could you possibly help me understand what am I doing wrong?

I'm WebDev - PHP BackEnd with 3 years of experience.
Cheers.
... People with far greater than average power to change society. I can't make laws. Can you?

Voting for representatives who will make laws that create the change you want to see in the world is absolutely not "relying on someone else."
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Nice idea! We'll think about it :)
I would really love to see an object map function. I know it is easy to implement, but since they seem to be gaining ranks through syntax sugar, why not just have a obj.map( (prop, value) => ... ) ? :)
You don't have to wait, it is already supported server-side and client-side.
His father inherited his money from his own father, who moved to the Klondike in order to dodge the German draft and became wealthy by running brothels catering to gold prospectors.
They say best time to build a business is during a downturn because you are truly forced to deliver real value to people.
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He quibbles a single data point and says, "Don't panic."
Source for your claim?
Is it a "blow" if the policy was never actually in effect?
> and if there were indeed government resources behind this, multiple accounts that each has 500 karma points are nothing...

And if that was indeed the case you would also expect other replies critical of China and the Chinese government to be downvoted to a similar degree, and yet that has not happened in this thread. Why single you out in particular?
What is up with decorators?
I’m intrigued by the question of what you were hoping to add to the conversation with a Wikipedia link with zero explanatory text.

Did you mean “look, some people think popular usage has won out and beg the question is now a reasonable substitute for raise the question”? Or something else?
Does Wayland work with proprietary nVidia drivers yet?
Yes very much possible if you are requesting across zones. I did extensive testing within zone and couldn't notice anything more than 2-3ms.
Let's add Chinese, Amharic and Arabic characters. Why not, expanding is expanding.
A different kind of error... I was returning from Las Vegas in the middle of the day and the tower cleared us for departure on 9 and another plane on 27. We had taxied out and then the pilot pulled over, turned around and waited for the other plane to depart. He told us what had happened - there was a bit of frustration in his voice. Imagine pulling up and seeing another plane sitting at the opposite end of the runway ready to go. (it may not have been 9 and 27 I don't know which pair it was) Earlier waiting in the terminal I had seen a different plane go around, but didn't know why. Apparently there was a noob in the tower that day. This is why you look out the window and communicate.
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I don't know where you live in the USA so I cannot really judge but I think you should also take in consideration the cost of life in USA and Canada. It's not only about how much you make but about how much you spend.
I didn't know this was a feature, just enabled it now and it seems to work great!
Full Text:

http://archive.is/8pkAH
Yes please do write a book on it.

I do have a slightly strange angst towards Windows - I feel somewhat cheated of my time. I used to reinstall Windows every 6 months just to stop it slowing down, and unlike other OSs where I can script the reinstall/updates, it took a whole day.

To think that all that time I could have been using Ubuntu (my primary work isn't in IT, and I still use Ubuntu) - Stockholm syndrome is probably the right term, or maybe being in an abusive relationship that was steadily getting worse.

I'm probably lying if I said I haven't had a linux problem for 4 years. But nothing major actually springs to mind...
You seem to be asserting that anyone who owns any stock is completely aligned with the interests of the respective corporation, regardless of proportionality.

To wit, If I own (say) $5k of Amazon stock as the result of being invested in a mutual fund, that is not sufficient cause for me to take time out of my day to call my representatives and actively lobby for Amazon.
Remember Peak Oil? Demand May Top Out Before Supply Does
Psst, hey, wanna be a "thought leader" in the tech field? Get out in front of the masses and start bashing React for being the overly-complex, bloated, tangled mess of overkill that it is. If you wait until everyone else is doing it, it will be too late. You'll be a follower, not a leader.

(And lest anyone misinterpret my intention, I'm not saying that's what the author of TFA is doing.)
I remember doing only simple (two-dimensional Euclidean) vectors before calculus -- length, scaling, addition, subtraction... Agreed that they obviously can get pretty hairy, but I don't think that side is exposed to people before calculus? Complex vector math was calculus III for myself.
In an ideal world where employer and employee trust each other it would be a great option for women who need it (not all women do) and a right thing to do. In the real world, where the level of trust is low, and sexism (both male and female) has become an extremely toxic topic, I don't see how this can work. Maybe only in small family-type companies.
Is Object.entries(obj).map((prop, value) => ...) close enough? Object.entries is newly standard in ES8.
Duolingo will offer language lessons in High Valyrian for Game of Thrones fans
I believe this hurts some clients of mine, who were looking at it as a possible answer. They have been spending significant $$$ in the US economy, developing a product that it's unlikely any domestic firm could, and struggling to find a way to stay here so that they have access to American talent. They are currently here on a importer's license or something, which makes it illegal for them to visit their home country.

While I don't want to be taken for one who is just losing their mind over Trump (since they have all typically seemed pretty lame to me), xenophobia is actively harmful to US economic interests.
It helps. It's much easier to notice something and take it seriously when it fits a theory you already have. Kind of like if your house is haunted, you might not notice that the sounds you hear at night fit that theory unless you already have it in mind. If you try to understand the noises in terms of your house settling, a fugitive living in your attic, or an animal breaking in at night to steal food, you won't notice, or won't take seriously, the patterns that would be obvious to someone who believes in ghosts.
There Is No Free Market for Electricity: Can There Ever Be?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPjzfGChGlE

That's only tangentially involved in this discussion though. That video is about whether opening immigration pathways to the USA can reduce world poverty. I never reviewed the rules that are being overturned here, so I can't say whether they made sense or not, but they were probably targeted at increasing US economic growth, not reducing world poverty.
I used Fedora years ago at 19 and 20 and it was great then. It worked and... Worked. The desktop came with sane defaults. It... Worked.
The implications of the study are useful only in certain contexts, it is not universal. You can't talk about your intimate feelings to a stranger of the opposite sex in Saudi Arabia, for example.
Not really object map. Does not return a new object ;)
The Telecommuting Trap, by danjoc J Anonymous.

Big Co decided to join the telecommuting craze to compete with scrappy startups. Employees seemed to like the idea of not spending hours in a car generating pollution each week so they went for it.

Then the trouble started. Instead of facing a regular 8 hour day like normal office workers, they faced round the clock emails and calls from work. Their privilege, it turned out, was more of a curse. Server hiccup at 2am? Fix it from home, sleepy head.

Not only were they worked round the clock with no overtime pay, but the lack of face time with management had a knock on effect. It turns out those who stayed at the office got to be better friends with management. Got better perks. More raises.

While those telecommuters... they received suspicion. Disdain. "What do they even do all day? Why am I paying them? Sure, the servers keep humming, but that's just normal behavior. They must be taking advantage of my good will!! Lazy telecommuters!"

Secretly though, management harbored impostor syndrome. If telecommuters can work from home and can manage themselves... who is there left to manage? Gulp. What happens to my job?!

In the end, the paranoia of management led them to kill the program. The work was done just the same, but at higher cost and to more dramatic effect. Management watched the work happening again, justifying their own existence. But since everyone had been set up to work from home already, workers could still be expected to put in off hours too! It was truly the best of both worlds now.
async/await +1

has been possible with babel on older versions of the JS, but nice to have it after all officially.
Is calling it "Javascript" even still correct, or should it be called "ECMAScript"? If someone says they write "Javascript using ES2017" are they talking utter nonsense?

I can find some references to "Javascript" being an implementation of ECMAScript, but doesn't appear to true [1]. Mozilla's implementation is SpiderMonkey, Google's is V8, and Microsoft has Chakra and JScript.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript#Implementations
This thread is about China and virtual private networks.
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