skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not even the maintainers really understand what they are doing :

https://github.com/g0tmi1k/debian-ssh
> There was an #ifndef PURIFY there for a reason. It's because the openssl authors knew that line would cause trouble in a memory debuger like Purify or Valgrind.

Where a debian maintainer screwed the RNG of OpenSSL to make valgrind happy. This made any key generated on a debian or ubuntu system from 2006 to 2008 very easily breakable.

Downstream should never touch packages beyond backporting fixes made by upstream.

Here's another example of upstream vs downstream conflict in debian :

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=477454

Or PHP developers being fed up with both RedHat and Debian messing with their runtime on whims :

https://derickrethans.nl/distributions-please-dont-cripple-p...

This is why I heavily support the desire for a new packaging system targeted at developers: snaps, flatpak. The downside of having multiple copies of the same libraries pale in comparison to giving back power to upstream. Distro maintainers are routinely modifying codebases they don't understand. Allow us to have a standard installation process that can install packages.. made by the developers themselves, upstream. Just like all other operating systems do.

And Debian, unlike RHEL/CentOS, packages a lot more than they can even reasonably maintain. The vast majority of packages in a Debian stable are insecure, the security team simply cannot handle the large amount of software outside of the truly core stuff (kernel, web servers) :

https://statuscode.ch/2016/02/distribution-packages-consider...

If you aren't supposed to use the packaged wordpress, phpmyadmin or node, why is debian distributing those packages? Debian by distributing these things in their repo encourages the naive first time linux user to install them through their facilities.
After reading points 1 and 2, I thought your post was satire. This sounds awful.
Sadly Android developers don't share the same experience.

It was required lots of vocal complaints for them to start having any kind of Material Design support on Android libraries.
>A 200TB proof is already incomprehensible to humans.

Not really, since what matters is the compressibility of the proof, not its size.

We might not be able to read all individual clauses, but it's enough that we know how the clauses are constructed.
> tcpdump/wireshark simply...

There's nothing simple about tcpdump/wireshark.

Wireshark does deltas for you if you want and can even calculate the RTT at every point in time during the lifetime of a TCP flow. Wireshark is fucking awesome and I'm sad you would say "simply provides..." :'(

But if what you want is just to know the RTT for a 3 way handshake against a remote endpoint, try something like gotcping: https://github.com/pjperez/gotcping/releases

tracetcp (and variants) is not what you want, because it calculates the time it takes for you to get a "TTL expired in transit" ICMP back except on the last hop. Gotcping and other avoid wasting your time by just testing the final endpoint.
Better HTTPS verification for smaller companies
In my experience at huge companies, getting a 4 or a 5 is largely a paper-trail formality that managers bestow on people they are grooming for promotion. It's a political gift and a retention mechanism. Everyone else always gets a 3, whether they've been kicking ass or competently coasting.

Systems like these create strong disincentives to focus on job performance above and beyond a certain baseline, and strong incentives to focus on self-promotion, politics, and lobbying for sexy projects and allocations. Especially true when there is a forced curve or stack ranking involved. (Spoiler alert: there is almost always a curve, whether formally mandated by process, or informally expected by leadership.)
Sextech rising: crowdfunding the industry’s financial holes
Hy – A Lisp-flavored Python
Coming from Turbo Pascal TC++ was a bit underwhelming. When I tried it didn't colour syntax, there was those weird #include and compin=ling felt so slow. So my first contact with C was pretty negative :\
> However, it is now unusable for proposals, because a techreport is "not published" even if it is properly archived and went through peer review.

IMO, the definition of 'published' is a huge issue. I have always read published as archived peer reviewed research. Your paper is both, but remains in an not published state which I think is wrong and hinders future research.
Large company. Performance reviews always come with a non-negotiable raise. The raise + budget issues result in 2-5 year gaps between employees getting them.
> Wouldn’t it be cool if you could discover music that was released a few years ago that sounds similar to a new song that you like?

Perhaps. But of course, this is likely to put the user literally into an "echo chamber" :)
Moreover, even if you don't read the file, and the bit rot is discovered during the monthly compare, at least on Linux the disk that is considered correct will be chosen at random. So you need at least three disks to have some semblance of protection. Have you guys seen many laptops that come with three or more drives?

Just use ZFS. Even on a single disk setup you will at least not get silent bit rot.
Wind and solar generation are highly predictable on those timescales, you can find predicted and actual generation graphs from various sources. They're certainly more predictable than demand.

More realistic excuses I've heard are long term contracts, potentially with minimum run times for fossil plants. Which are therefore the actual problem at the moment.
If I am anti-x, and I profit from it, am I an extremist anti-x-er? Do I deserves to be put on a list with nutjobs and whackos? Does putting me on a list of extremist when my positions are not extreme reduce the credibility of the organisation which does so? Is the article an obvious hitjob?

The answers are: Not necessarily, not necessarily, yes, and yes.
Would like to know also as I would never wish to work there.
Ask HN: How 'safe' are the new gTLDs?
How safe are new global top level domains to invest time and content in? From my understanding some of them are owned and controlled by various startups (.xyz for example); what happens in case of bankruptcy or corporate acquisitions?
> Openly anti-trans too.

He is not against trans people at all. He is against being legally _forced_ to use dozens of new gender pronouns.

You keep using far left sources who don't back their claims. Jordan Peterson has hundreds of _hours_ of videos and lectures where he explais his positions. Link one of those to have an argument. Not some paraphrased nonsense to justify your position.
“E-mail prankster” phishes White House officials; hilarity ensues
Only if the current best fitness trackers don't also iterate.
I use keysnail for the emacs key bindings but I think it has a vim mode too
I define a docker stack .yml file, and have GitLab CI run docker stack deploys.
> It did a really good job classifying trance music while at the other end of the scale was hip hop / R&B with 61%, which is still almost 6 times better than randomly assigning a genre to the image. I suspect that there’s some crossover between hip hop, breakbeat and dancehall and that might have resulted in a lower classification accuracy.

The first step to analyze this is to make a confusion matrix, [1]. It would be nice if the article included it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confusion_matrix
IIRC $5k per node, per year.
They should copy Soundcloud's 900TB as a demo
Hackers can turn Amazon Echo into a covert listening device
wrong, this is what they used to synthesise MSG https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrylonitrile

I believe some MSG is still made with this and causes migraines and other heart issues, it's mostly phased out though, and can cause mixed reactions as the type of MSG isn't labelled, let alone MSG.
Even if you don't vote, the voting rights in your stocks make them more valuable to someone else who would buy the stocks from you.
Wow thanks for sharing + reading my blog post! I did this for my final project on the Data Science bootcamp at Metis [1] this spring.

[1] https://www.thisismetis.com/
Opioid Prescriptions Across the U.S. – FiveThirtyEight
Mike from CertSimple here.

Not only has the process for non-incorporated companies sucked but some of the steps for a company aren't relevant (business directory entries) and there are additional steps (face to face government ID verifications) that are specific to sole props.

We've been trialing this in production for a couple of months and can now handle sole props and partnerships as easily as regular incorporated companies.
Is you project open source?
Machines Are Developing Language Skills Inside Virtual Worlds
MSG can be made using toxic chemicals https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrylonitrile
I don't know off-hand. AFAIU the Unisys machines use ones' complement representation. My guess is that the native unsigned set of values includes the representation for both positive and negative 0. Or there could be a trap representation that is hidden in unsigned mode, which presumably would also make these machines examples of hardware that traps on signed overflow.
"successfully escaped" is probably more accurate than "forced to quit"
Retiring the Green Padlock
The war between Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple
Exactly. The frameworks that the article describes know how to run say Cassandra or Spark, but you can do the same thing in Kubernetes using TPRs or CRDs with operators:

[0]https://github.com/coreos/prometheus-operator
[1]https://github.com/coreos/etcd-operator
[2]https://github.com/huawei-cloudfederation/redis-operator
[3]https://github.com/CrunchyData/postgres-operator
[4]https://github.com/krallistic/kafka-operator
[5]https://github.com/pegerto/cassandra-operator
وظائف جريدة الاخبار 2/8/2017
material-ui.com is not an official library by Google.
Which Nomos? If you don't wear it are you looking to sell it?
it's all about the quality of the MSG and the manufacturing standards. if you added MSG to foods yourself, you'd know which brands to use or avoid.
It is a propaganda outlet now owned by Steve Jobs' wife.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Atlantic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerson_Collective

The move by tech industry people into media/propaganda is rather worrying.
The way that they determined the the object was moving, and the direction, by comparing consecutive images is exactly the way that scientists are currently looking for a predicted dwarf planet quite far out in the solar system.

An excellent podcast ep from the Wholesome Show where the lead scientist talks through the process - including a mass citizen science approach to scrutinising the image series - is here: https://soundcloud.com/wholesomeshow/looking-for-plu-two-a-b...
You can still move to Switzerland as an EU citizen.

https://www.ch.ch/en/working-switzerland-eu-efta
Comments are often toxic, and there doesn't seem to be a way to fix that.

It's impossible to know without watching something whether it's full of swearing or homophobic / misogynistic / transphobic hate speech.

Ads are not targeted to the actual viewer, but to some combination of regular browser user and main youtube user. this means that children will be shown ads for alcohol or gambling. (note this goes against what Youtube says here about complying with local law: https://support.google.com/adwordspolicy/answer/6012382?hl=e... Note that this is something all ad networks get wrong, and it's likely they're going to see regulation in the uk at some point if they don't fix it.)

It's hard to know before clicking a link whether it's sponsored content or not. (in the UK sponsored videos need to be clearly identifiable before the user clicks the link or clicks play. in the US sponsored content needs to be clearly identified).

If two people (eg a parent and their child) watch Youtube the recommendations fail hard. If a single person watches youtube the recommendations are pretty poor.
False memories and false confessions: the psychology of imagined crimes
Maryam Mirzakhani, a Candle Illuminating the Dark
> how can you be so sure that he isn't actually arguing the free speech case?

A fair point. But I'd suggest that if he was just actually arguing the free speech case, there would be no need for arguing whether trans people are a legitimate thing (cf his comments on biological sex <=> gender causality). His broadening of his argument to that and "leftists are trying to force new words into the language" (cf Canadian Senate testimony) suggests he's not actually entirely about the free speech but rather just finding a fanatical new audience for his railing against SJWs and snowflakes and political correctness.

> to suggest that Dr Peterson hates trans people

I'd say "anti-trans" rather than "hates trans" - there can be a world between those two viewpoints.
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That last part happened to me at one point. Thankfully me and another colleague it happened to fought against it consistently until it managers stopped using it openly as a metric.
Heres my script https://github.com/jbhamilton/Soundcloud-Downloader
Strange decision, as systemd-nspawn[1] specifically mentions and supports btrfs as a CoW filesystem for its containers. And as far as I understand, systemd is primarily developed by Red Hat employees. So either they'll add support for CoW alternatives, or they'll remove btrfs support from systemd-nspawn all together.

[1]: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-nsp...
Maybe there are some hardware startups hiring EE's around here.
I hope someone might take it upon themselves to make a Wall of Shame to let me know which apps I should just uninstall if I rarely use them.

Although the updates aren't always huge, Slack has been an atrocious app on Windows and iOS for performance and indexing. Absurd that the biggest companies have, well, the biggest apps.
just like people with Phenylketonuria and aspartame. Aspartame contains Phenylalanine and can cause issues for some, and it varies from product to product (quality standards). I used to have issues from drinking cheap diet cola.
You should keep in mind that probably none of those machine-learning researchers has studied only math specific to that domain, so their papers are likely to include whatever math they have a background in, plus any new techniques they had to learn to get their results.

That said, everything I saw in the papers you linked was linear algebra, calculus or probability theory plus the usual smattering of background notation and set theory.

Once you have a solid background in those areas, it is likely more productive to look up the specific concepts mentioned in a paper (such as the Kullback-Leibler divergence or the Bellman equation), because by then you are probably too deep in the woods to find one resource that adequately covers all those different directions.
I mean it was that and also that my free plan was too generous. And I am no marketing genius so the customers I got were organic and came in slowly.
Samsung and Apple Lead Phone Shipment but Huawei, Xiaomi and Oppo Gains Margins
Jsx ha I said it
Snark noted; my claim was simply that it provides a poor user experience, not that it was unintentional.
People are making a bigger deal of this than it is. Since I left Red Hat in 2012 there hasn't been another engineer to pick up the work, and it is _a lot_ of work.

For RHEL you are stuck on one kernel for an entire release. Every fix has to be backported from upstream, and the further from upstream you get the harder it is to do that work.

Btrfs has to be rebased _every_ release. If moves too fast and there is so much work being done that you can't just cherry pick individual fixes. This makes it a huge pain in the ass.

Then you have RHEL's "if we ship it we support it" mantra. Every release you have something that is more Frankenstein-y than it was before, and you run more of a risk of shit going horribly wrong. That's a huge liability for an engineering team that has 0 upstream btrfs contributors.

The entire local file system group are xfs developers. Nobody has done serious btrfs work at Red Hat since I left (with a slight exception with Zach Brown for a little while.)

Suse uses it as their default and has a lot of inhouse expertise. We use it in a variety of ways inside Facebook. It's getting faster and more stable, admittedly slower than I'd like, but we are getting there. This announcement from Red Hat is purely a reflection of Red Hat's engineering expertise and the way they ship kernels, and not an indictment of Btrfs itself.
Karma CSS - mobile first, responsive CSS boilerplate framework
> Don't stir up the fanatics, they really enjoy bashing disbelievers.

Weird, that sounds a lot like what you folks are doing, too.
Hyperloop One’s full-scale pod reaches 192 mph in new Nevada track test
Tangential: has anyone found anything that doesn't completely suck for recommending books? Goodread's recommendations are terrible.
Booster, an App for Rich People Who Don't Want to Pump Their Own Gas
Yep. He has been for years and years.
http://attrition.org/errata/charlatan/kimble/
That's partly true because many don't know about it.

When they realize that middle machines are inserting their tracking software and/or modifying their content people will start to ask questions.

But it's a situation where people don't know they are being protected so theyay not care as much
We are a remote team, so metrics are very important for judging performance. Some of the most important metrics are: time online (huge one), PRs opened, PRs reviewed. There is a formal review process to give employees time to improve performance before an action is taken.

I find that even with all these formalities, actions tend to be totally up to the subjective judgment of management, just like any other company. Companies are not legally bound to abide by the rules of their own HR department -- HR is mainly there to provide an illusion of objectivity. In a conflict between leadership and rank-and-file workers, HR will always side with leadership. "Whose food I eat, his song I sing."
Chernobyl and Fukushima were mostly contained by people that were around, yet they still had a profound effect on the environment. Doesn't it make sense that uncontrolled meltdowns at ~ 700 reactors world wide would release so much radiation that pretty much all higher forms of life would die off?
We stopped doing them a number of years ago after a discussion between management and HR where we all came to the conclusion they were not beneficial.
How America’s two greatest rocket companies battled from the beginning
I think you have things backwards. CSS is meant to support HTML, not the other way around. Given that, the "CSS" class names (really HTML; classes have uses beyond stylesheets) absolutely should reflect "what something is".
Do you have data comparing profits from CAFOs vs grass-fed operations? Wouldn't grass fed sellers earn more as it's a premium product?

How did the North American plains support millions of bison just on grass at one point?
Warning: this comment has little to do with the article, beyond being a rant on the approach taken by all recommendation engines I've seen.

This an interesting approach, but the objective is similar to most recommendation engines: "Find me something similar to something I like". Sometimes that's a good requirement (e.g. when trying to queue up the next song in a playlist, it's good to have some similarity to the song you're currently listening to). However, when trying to discover new music it's generally a bad approach; since (depending how the requirement is tackled) you'll get recommendations that tend towards some median; i.e.:

- Other songs by the same artist
- Songs by artists who have collaborated with the current artist
- Popular songs (i.e. if almost everyone has a Beetles album in their playlist, getting "people who bought this also bought" recommendations for anything would list Beetles, since technically that's true; it's just uninteresting.
- Songs in the same genre
- Songs with a similar sound / structure

i.e. it tends to list things which you're likely to be aware of anyway. Also this means you'll get lots of songs with little variety between them; making your playlists monotonous.

What I'd be really interested in seeing was an engine which finds things on the peripheral; i.e. figures out the things that are likely to appeal to you because of the more unique things you're interested in; or the popular things that you dislike. That way you're likely to get a more eclectic mix of suggestions, and broaden your musical awareness. This would likely produce a lot more false positives initially, as it's expanding your taste range rather than narrowing in on some "ideal" average, so may stray into unknowns; but once you've heard and rated something in this new area, that data can quickly feedback into the algorithm and thus you learn of things you'd previously never have discovered.
Salt gland
EWG Tap Water Database (water quality by U.S. zip code)
> but pass the buck on housing those employees to other municipalities.

And this is the key argument to be made here. Building stores and offices has a cost - the people who work on those offices and stores must be housed somewhere. A regional empty homes/unhoused inhabitant number could be used to guide a global rule for new developments. If you want to build offices at some place, you need to build k * offices houses at a nearby location.
Probably around 6 or 7 years ago (I think?) when I was in high school, I would go on SoundCloud all the time. I downloaded the free trial version of FL Studio and made electronic music in my basement that I uploaded to SoundCloud. Because it was a trial, you could do everything but save, so I had to make the entire song in one sitting over the span of a whole evening after school.

I'm not good at putting this into words, but I felt like I was a part of some thing, even if that sounds silly. There were so many people like me that I could find on SoundCloud and listen to what they made. I found a guy from the university I wanted to go to and messaged him about it and then told him I liked his music. A guy from my mom's work heard from her that I was using SoundCloud and he was on it too playing acoustic guitar. We would listen to each other's stuff when it came out. There were young producers from the UK who put out all sorts of awesome stuff without needing a record label or anything to go through. A few of them have gotten bigger now and I can't even find their old stuff any more, so of course it feels cool knowing that you listened to their stuff when they weren't "big".

I wish I had something moving to say at the end of this, but those memories are all I have.
Show HN: Keep Your Bundle Size Under Control – VSCode Extension
Probably just you. This product is indeed capable of changing the world for the better if scaled up. "Saving it" is hyperbole. But it's not about making a nice meal for vegetarians, it's about sustainable meat consumption for a growing population.
Surveillance software believed to be used against critics of Mexican government