skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I propose a new internet metric, to complement TTD: TTAS (time-to-anti-SJW). It will be a count of how many messages/replies it takes for someone to bring out the term "SJW" (this could be expanded on, for example, a "strawman" scaling factor inversely proportional to how related the original topic is to feminism or civil rights).
I use both ag and rg with fish. For me, both are equally fast (because my repositories are small enough that it doesn't matter), but ag has better UI (I remember the --python option, but have no idea how to filter with rg). Those are about the only differences that matter to me, so I use whatever is muscle memory. Usually rg, unless I want to search for specific filetypes.

If you're wondering whether to switch, don't bother unless you find ag slow.

Fish, on the other hand, I can't live without. I recommend fisherman and z, and a few other plugins I forget now (I use one that shows a notification if your long running command completes while the terminal is in the background, I love it).
Now that's an interesting take...
Google's quantum computing plans threatened by IBM curveball
> json package.json keywords

Didn't output the commas between keywords, so in addition to formatting it output invalid JSON.
Wouldn't the VM software itself using ASLR and running the VM in jails, such as firejail for Linux, reduce the risks?
There are edm milling setups. I'm not sure what the major constraints are but I'm assuming the usual: accuracy, cost, repeatbility.
The opinion states that there was an absence of evidence (ie, evidence presented in court, not evidence that might exist somewhere in the world.) It's the job of the litigants to produce the evidence, not the justices.
I can see this being surprisingly useful in a variety of cases. Unfortunately I'm still in the "Aww, wish I didn't have to learn this to code for iOS" phase, as well as the "Pssh, Swift is for kids" phase. Neither of which is endearing or productive I'm sure ... Thanks for the link!
I'm sure it seems like that if you don't understand that the energy consumed has almost no correlation to the number of transactions being put through.
>people routinely decide to come off them for some psychotic reason

Sometimes it's for a non-psychotic (but maybe ill-advised) reason like "they made me obese and diabetic."
It's easy to be an armchair quarterback.

I hear this every time someone with a difficult job has it pointed out to them that they're doing it badly. They don't even pretend that somehow makes it acceptable to do the job badly; I honestly don't know what effect saying it is supposed to have.
I created a docker container that hosts the gcc cross-compiler I used to build my own OS:

https://hub.docker.com/r/brett/gcc-cross-x86_64-elf/

It hosts the gcc 7.1 x86_64-elf compiler with redzone disabled.

If you don't want to use the docker container, you can view the dockerfile to see the steps required to build the cross-compiler yourself:

https://github.com/beevik/docker/tree/master/gcc-cross-x86_6...
Mocking is a Code Smell
Comments like this are why I still use HN. Thanks a bunch!
Silvergate: How Robert Mueller Tried to Entrap Me
Better try instead of reading standards (and inevitably misreading, or reading differently than compiler authors)...

#include <stdio.h>
void test(int& x)
{
printf("Hello, world\n"); fflush(stdout);
printf("and the number is: %d\n", x);
}
int main(void)
{
int *x = NULL;
test(*x);
return 0;
}

It's just a syntactic discipline. Null references are undefined in C++, just as NULL dereferences are undefined in C.
The person I was responding to wasn't talking about pricing power, they were talking about monopolies. Apple isn't anywhere near a monopoly in any commodity or service. In fact, they compete with the near monopolies of Microsoft and Google.

Also, being a monopoly isn't in and of itself illegal, it's abusing your monopoly position to harm competition. You have to be a monopoly first.
You continuously scan it with an xray that is hanging just below the print line scanning the previous weld is just one idea.
It’s generally a bad and dangerous idea, especially for someone who is schizophrenic, but antipsychotics can have very serious side effects, and I think it’s painting with a brush that’s a bit too broad to suggest that someone would only stop taking them for “some psychotic reason”. People who take these medications are often facing some very difficult trade offs.
Aren't they also accomplices on the net neutrality attacks?

They could stop companies from advertising "free" Youtube if they were for net neutrality. Same goes for Facebook and others, of course.

some examples from the 3 big operators in Portugal:

http://www.moche.pt/tarifarios/moche-legend/

https://www.yorn.net/yorn/tarifario/yornx.html

http://www.wtf.pt
Apple doesn't set prices for the apps they distribute except for their own apps. The developers do.
Distributed Deep Learning Reading List
A Stinger ground to air missile can easily be carried by a soldier so I assume that's OK. I have also spent considerable time carrying around an anti-tank missile. Heavy but very doable.
Similar diversion: one of John Lithgow's childhood babysitters was Coretta Scott King. That shocked me.

https://reddit.com/comments/73fbct
and facebook has had to spend millions in making it work for their use-cases. it's not like facebook just enables the --scale flag for vanilla mysql and then walks away. not saying they'd be able to make vanilla mongo scale to their needs without serious investment either, but saying "facebook uses this so therefore it's good enough for me" discounts a lot of work that goes into making those solutions work for their needs/scale.
Gotta say... this is pretty badass.
... and that they're punished pretty severely when they betray that trust.
We have different YouTube probably. I can easily search and find fetish porn videos. The fact that we don't see it recommended videos doesn't mean it not exists.
Please explain how Apple has monopoly control over high end phones.
- Sweden: Volvo is Chinese-owned now and Saab is gone, I think, at least for now.

- Spain: Is there anything other than SEAT, which is part of VW?

- Brazil: I think they assemble a lot of cars, but I don't think I've heard of a local company, despite there being an Brazilian aircraft maker.

OTOH, Tata Motors Cars would make India count, right?
Kinda reminds me of holyC ;)
The Risks of Unsolicited and Automated Engagement
There is a pretty big difference in your two examples. Models of bosons behave in a predictable way. I can think of several likely reasons that reports of use-of-force incidents would not correlate directly with actual use-of-force.

As a result, in a study or a journalistic write-up of said study, I wouldn't jump to the shorthand of "tracked use-of-force incidents" as opposed to "reports of use-of-force incidents".

Just because something is the best way of measuring a quantity we currently have doesn't mean it is good enough to equate the measurement with the quantity in shorthand.
As a programmer, I definitely empathize, but I feel like the author (Mo Bitar) under-appreciates how much his perspective is a consequence of his specific background.

This comes up all of the time in conversations with my girlfriend. I find the "slow crawl" of managing personal relationships exhausting, but I do it because I recognize its long term necessity. I'd much rather just dive into hard engineering problems to solve because I understand how the journey will look.

But that's only because I've spent many, many years mastering dealing with the uncertainty inherent to engineering! Well, programming, in my case. How do you know that XYZ will work? You don't really. Most of the time you're just pretty sure it will work after you deal with the unanticipated complications that inevitably come up. As you get more experience, you get better at anticipating complications, but they're still there. And industry best practices keep moving for better or worse reasons, and it's still a rat race because the bar for what you should be able to pull off keeps going up. In practice, there are so many layers of abstraction in programming work that there's actually not much certainty. The confidence you get is really about your process for learning, debugging, and thinking through the problems when they happen.

My girlfriend looks at the engineering process and thinks "I'm not sure I'd be able to mentally/emotionally deal with the constant technical setbacks." But I see the same patterns when I watch her doing business development work. She's playing a very intentional the long game: keeping in touch with a large number of key people in the industry, trying and constantly adjusting how she talks to people, and slowly building towards what she actually wants over the course of many conversations with many people. From my bystander's perspective, I can see that she does it very deliberately. It doesn't always work. Sometimes there's just no social rapport, or maybe they're just uninterested, or flaky, or have ulterior business motives. But it's no accident when it works out in the end. She never really doubts that she can figure it out, even though she frequently has doubts about specific meetings or calls.

I've done solo projects before where I also had to do marketing and evangelism, and I don't actually think it's less predictable than programming. It just requires a mindset that is willing to deal with human problems, where failure means maybe those particular humans aren't viable paths to success anymore. I know I'm not talented at it, but I've worked with people who are talented at it, and that just makes me appreciate their abilities more.
I hate to think about it, but answering questions about things like risk aversion may be akin to the coding interview, where they could be studied and memorized. The flip side is that with business experience, the older candidate could make an educated guess about how likely it actually is, that they will have to work outside of their existing skill set. So, objectively assessing the risk is sometimes an alternative to simply avoiding it without knowing if the risk is real.
Reading all those stories of lagging iphones after upgrading to ios11 really makes me start to believe in planned obsolescence... has anyone seen an article giving any kind of concrete proof of a company such as apple doing that ?
* Every action movie or TV show.

* All form of weapons enthusiasm.

* Pretty much all anime and 'adult' cartoons.

* A lot of tweets praising the military.

* "Punch a Nazi"
Where does that number come from? I see the NYT reporting that he got a "golden parachute" of that amount, but they give no source. The WSJ says he sold 55M in stock he owned, which is quite different from an exit payout.
Not for a shared building guard who works for a property company. They are there to keep rifraff and salesmen out.

Look at government and large corporate entities for how to address this. Visitor conference rooms are on the ground floor or away from the office environment. There’s a receptionist who controls access to the employee area, and identification is captured and associated with a staffer for both signin and signout.
But no one is forced to use their eco-system. You can buy an Android and use their ecosystem. You can buy a Blackberry or Microsoft phone (I think) and use theirs.
YouTube/Flickr/etc are far from ideal data sources. Do dogs drive cars? Flickr has tons of photos of dogs driving cars, eating ice cream, and doing tons of other rare-for-dogs things. Ultimately whatever the raw data source is what matters is how well is it curated, and that’s always going to be a highly labor intensive job that can be done well or poorly regardless of the source of the images being curated.
Ask HN: Spookiest Recommended Connection
About a year ago, I had the unfortunate experience of an ambulance ride. As per protocol, an attendant rode in the back of the ambulance with my wife and I. The attendant talked to me most of the way, making small talk for about 20 minutes, I believed to make sure I stayed alert and lucid. I don't remember his name. But I remember his face pretty vividly.

A few weeks later, I was connecting with some new business acquaintances on LinkedIn. After each connection, LinkedIn served up a set of recommended connections. In one palette of faces, I saw one I recognized but couldn't name. His company was 'American Ambulance'. It was the attendant.

After I got past the shock of realizing this, I spent a fair amount of time trying to figure out how LinkedIn made that association. I had no contact with him before or after the ride. I made no social network contacts with any other person involved in that ride or the subsequent emergency room visit. I still can't sort it out, except to conjecture that he and I traveled the same route at the same time in close proximity and LinkedIn somehow obtained that information. Did we both have the LinkedIn app active during that ride? Do people riding in the same bus at the same time get suggested as connections?

What is your 'spookiest' recommended connection? Or, in other words, how else have we tendered our privacy?
You've been unsurprisingly downvoted, but there's some truth to what you say, as long as 'typical' is parsed as 'stereotypical' rather than something more mathematical. Anyone who has spent any time in Australia knows the type well.

My guess however is that the stereotype represents a shrinking proportion of actual Aussie males, though they're still there. We all have our own selection bias of course, but in my experience young Australian men are a pretty big improvement on their bald barrel-shaped shock-jock-addled beer-guzzling 4WDing [poofter/boong/woman/asian/tree/whatever]-hating coal-loving fathers who so despoil the Australian suburban landscape.
Wow, that's a reasonable description and stance. What do you think of "free speech" advocates like Milo and Jack Posobiec? And the people marching at the freedom of speech rallies?
I must agree. I was teetering on the brink of closing the tab with every new gif. I enjoy memes, but not in this context.
The service sector is pretty huge, particularly education and tourism.

I'm more concerned about what will happen when the long-running property bubble pops, because this is propping up huge swathes of the economy (construction, banking, etc) and a lot of people have made financially insane decisions as a result. Lots of people in their twenties holding multi-million property portfolios, where rental income doesn't even cover mortgage payments, because all you need to do is get on the "property ladder" and watch real estate prices go up 15% a year forever...
Yes it is an America-thing. If you're in the rest of the world move on, nothing to see here,
Αξία στο διπλό του Παναθηναϊκού στην Λαμία
The phrase "Multiverse" has become overloaded. Max Tegmark thinks that there are at least four different kinds of "Multiverse", which he organizes into levels. This article corresponds to level 2: post-inflationary bubbles. The four levels are:

1. Space beyond the cosmic horizon.
2. Post-inflationary bubbles (this article).
3. Quantum multiverse, i.e. Many Worlds interpretation.
4. Platonic multiverses. i.e. Other mathematical structures that "are" universes.

It helps to know about the idea of different kinds of multiverse, and how they are not mutually exclusive, when reading articles like this which use the term Multiverse without disambiguating it.

See: http://space.mit.edu/home/tegmark/crazy.html
> said it was the workers over 50 that were particularly struggling to find new employment

I always think it should say - there are some workers who've been cruising for 30 or so years and picking up a pay packet without reskilling. They probably won't be able to get a job without spending a bit of time learning some marketable skills
All attorneys are considered officers of the court (at least in America). It’s concomitant with the various ethical regulations imposed on licensed lawyers.
The sheer scale of Australia means that they're not about to get exhausted anytime soon though. Only something on the order of 1% of the continent has even been prospected yet.
> No added rules are going to protect users who write in languages which Twitter doesn't employee readers of

How would a user who writes in such a language get banned in the first place?
How exactly are taxpayers paying anything?
So at what point are leos liable to destruction of evidence?
Whats the current state of affairs?
Netlify continuous deployment is triggered by a Git commit, but you can run arbitrary Node scripts (though not _just_ Node scripts, of course) as part of your build process. I don't know of a way you could trigger deploys based on changes to the Google Sheets app without some code on your end (maybe IFTTT could work?), but everything else should be feasible if I'm understanding you correctly.
I think there's another side to this: Uber is hedging the supply of drivers in a period of high demand. By asking them to pay, the drivers are effectively committing to drive in that period.

Sounds like an interesting idea given all the outrage with price surges.
Those things are what gets HN riled up, but none of those things are noticed or cared about by mass consumer sentiment.

That's driven by stuff like political stances, ad and content moderation practices, search result ordering, and other much less technical concerns.
Malaysia probably also qualifies, although the local cars (Proton, Perodua) are crap.
How well is it working in Sub-Saharan Africa?

And, uh, Norway is diversifying its economy, instead of doubling-down on resource extraction. It's not actively de-industrializing.
Based on leaked figures, Uber has -8% losses to gross bookings and is still aggressively expanding globally and into new markets (Eats and Freight) and working on self-driving cars.

It's been widely reported that its mature markets are already profitable, which means that it's not cheap because of VC dollars. The VC dollars are only being used to supplement growth into new immature markets. The profitable markets are also being used for the same purpose. Enough markets should be mature enough for Uber to be profitable by sometime in mid to late 2018 at the rate they've been reducing their losses relative to gross bookings.
I once went to a building I had been in before years earlier, but had installed proxycard activated turnstiles. I told the receptionist I didn't have a card but I knew the building well and she walked me to the ID card office where they made me one on the spot with no verification other than to see if I had a driver's license. The card they made me was good for 5 years and got me right through the turnstiles.
I do. The person I was responding to is saying that you have to defend those if you wish to be a proponent of free speech. I reject that absolutism in it's entirety.
You miss some key products (>1B Users) Google has created completely within: Search, GMail, Maps, Calendar, etc.

Many of Google's products did start from acquisitions. Though those startups can't claim all the credit. Most wouldn't have become as big as they are now without the capital and talent that Google brought to them.
Well you could be right. His stock comp for 2013 was $40m. That was the scrappy year.

The point is that instead of cutting the travel and entertainment budget for the whole company it would have been a lot more effective to simply show Pichette the door.
My exact worry. All of this sounds pretty good but for a person like myself, living in Eastern Europe, ordering such a laptop means the physical shipment can go through 20+ places where an agent could intercept it, get to a back room, modify the hardware and/or the software for no longer than 1-2 hours, put it back in the box and you'll be none the wiser.

I am just not sure how can I trust anybody at this point. I am even wondering if the Librem products aren't a honeypot for the privacy-conscious individuals.

A good strategist understands the needs of their opponents and can imitate an organization that serves them. How much do we know about Librem really?

That line of thinking doesn't go anywhere though. And ever since the ancient ages, we haven't invented tamper-proof packaging and shipping.

Still, we have one thing going for us. The agencies are usually slow to adapt. So it's probably a safe bet that the first several thousand of those laptops will be secure for real.

(EDIT: With 16GB of RAM being the maximum, none of the three laptops are good enough fit for me yet.)
Anybody who wants to get out of Apple's system can easily pick up a different high-end phone[0], with different tradeoffs, with few repercussions beyond how their Apple Watch (if they have one) works and the color of their messages when texting iPhone users.

That's not monopoly power.

[0] as a consumer I care about the phone's features, not its profit margin for the manufacturer. There's still a healthy ecosystem of non-Apple companies making phones.
classic hn comment right here
For instance, in my opinion, no kid should be pressured to take part in any kind of religious activities it does not feel comfortable with. I found this disturbing as a kid in a way I can't describe adequately here. If a religion involves this, it is not making the world a "better place" for me.
Foreign ownership doesn't disqualify since Australia was in the club until yesterday. I admit Brazil was a stretch on my part (basically I thought Brazil should be a member without any precise knowledge of how they're a member)
Thanks for grabbing a copy and killing some trees in the best way possible :)

I won't forget about embedded systems, but I'm not sure this platform has that much power to change things overnight
It seems that the source code for any computer program who's output is used as evidence in a court of law should be available for inspection.
Yes, Novell, Netscape, WordPerfect, Lotus 123, Lotus Notes, Spyglass, Borland, CP/M, OS/2, ColdFusion: all dead or a shell of their former selves. There were many, many more I can't even recall. Most were superior products and didn't lose because they weren't good. Hell, they nearly killed Apple.

Spyglass was a particularly nasty stab in the back:

The deal stipulated that Spyglass would receive a base quarterly fee for the Mosaic license plus a royalty from Microsoft's Internet Explorer revenue.[6]
Microsoft subsequently bundled Internet Explorer with Windows, and thus (making no direct revenues on IE) paid only the minimum quarterly fee.

Ouch.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spyglass,_Inc.
I worked at a place like that had all sorts of crazy protocols for data center access, including an armed policeman in the entry area, which was on a different floor, and rfid/pin access to various areas, including vendor areas.

...except for the cleaning crew, who inexplicably had elevator key codes and physical keys and nearly unfettered access. They used to smoke and play cards in the ladies room, which was huge, had a locker area and small table and was nearly unused otherwise.
And yet thanks to it we have Replicant, LineageOS, CopperheadOS and even - Microsoft-funded Cyanogen OS.

It may not be great, but where the Windows Phone equivalent?
> A general all-purpose API to collect, persist and negotiate user preferences

I thought that one was called Facebook.
If you read the article you would find that very issue addressed:

"After a devastating 1998 Washington Post series revealed that the city’s police department had shot and killed more people per resident in the 1990s than any other police force in a large American city, the Department of Justice entered into a memorandum of agreement with D.C. to reform its policing.

“We went through a transformation with regard to use of force when Justice came in here,” Chief Newsham said.

Cities that lack such accountability in their police culture may find cameras more effective, under this theory. "