skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Sounds like a good use case for SELinux

kinda, although you could implement sandboxing with SELinux it's going to take much more effort. SELinux is a Mandatory Access Control Framework and Capsicum is a hybrid Unix capabilities system. While there is overlap in what you can do with them they really our different sets of tools.

Mandatory access controls are for system administrators to lock down and control access on a machine. Capsicum is for application authors to sandbox their application. Ideally they should be used together.

Back to my point that while MAC(SELinux) can be used for sandboxing but will take more effort then using something like capsicum or pledge. With MAC you have to think of all the things you don't want an application to do. With Capsicum or Pledge you only have to think of the things you want your application to do and everything else will be blocked automatically. So for example to sandbox chromium with capsicum it took 100 LOC, to sandbox chromium with SELinux it took 200 LOC so not bad but it doesn't stop IPC primitives. So half the code and more protection.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raNx9L4VH2k
No, there aren't two callable types in JavaScript. Thats precisely the point. Every single function has a `this` argument:

function f() { return this + 5; }

But there are only two ways to call it:

f.call(5) // calls with `this` argument set to 5

and

let x = new Number(5)
x.f = f;
x.f(); // syntax sugar for to x.f.call(x)

The confusing part here is that `x.f()` is very different from `x.f`, and is most definitely NOT the same as `(x.f)()`, but more of an `(x.f).call(x)` Other than that and the fact that the argument is always there even if you don't specify it, its exactly the same as Lua, metatables (prototypes) and all.

To resolve this confusion once and for all, we desperately need the bind operator [1] to provide a primitive on top of which the rest can be explained.

[1]: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-bind-operator
A race to monetize our attention is now eroding the pillars of our society
I always keep mine on DND, but I find that I impulsively check news sites and social media. It puts me in this constant state of never really being bored, so I'm less likely to pursue new and interesting things (reading books, practicing hobbies, exploring new interests).
Women say Charlie Rose sexually harassed them with nudity, groping and lewd calls
> i.MX6 is modern-ish and is bootable without blobs.

i.MX8 will soon be released in quantity to the public and it is claimed by people who experimented with testing samples of it that it is similarly open as the i.MX6 in this sense.
What do you see?
You can create a Windows PE image which can be booted from a USB thumb drive, see my comment further down this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15744152
The Economist is a great alternative, it filters out all the pointless crap that doesn't really matter
I feel like they're solving the right problem. Not sure if it's the right solution though.

If 2 years down, Android and ChromeOS merged their foundation components and Pixel 5 switched between Android UI and ChromeOS UI when docked, I think it would totally make sense.

Not sure I'm interested in a Samsung Android and a self baked OS from Samsung.
We've been using something similar at Automattic/WordPress.com for about a decade now: https://wordpress.com/theme/p2-breathe

We use Slack for real-time communication (it replaced IRC) but we use dozens of these threaded blogs for making real decisions that can easily be referenced back to in the future.

Our CEO wrote about it a little bit here: https://ma.tt/2009/05/how-p2-changed-automattic/

(non-Flash version of that video can be viewed here: https://videopress.com/v/YYNW9iSj )

We don't use email at all internally as a result.
About having it all: https://www.theonion.com/microsoft-patents-ones-zeroes-18195...
Having used Firefox as my primary personal browser since its inception, Quantum feels like greased lightning to me.

I do use Chrome, but generally only for dev work, or edge cases such as video on mobile.

It was surprising to learn that Firefox's market share had reached single digits in recent years.

It's really nice to see Firefox catch up. Also nice to see Rust flex its muscles.
Few people manage to combine "humble", "nutcase", and "kind" as well as Andy Pavlo.
America Is Now an Outlier on Driving Deaths
How does this affect Apple products? I've looked around for discussion of Intel ME with regards to Apple and the silence out there is deafening. [edit] I guess I also want to know is, does Apple provide Intel firmware patches bundled with their own software update?
got a pop up modal when I started reading. I was killed by the irony.
Well, not quite restore consciousness...
Very interesting product - my guess is that past attempts failed because of distribution and marketing strategies. (Motorola Atrix, Windows Continuum, etc).

Enterprise companies with large workforces seems like an interesting market for this. Employees would only receive a phone (no laptop), doable when work relies on MS Excel + email. For instance, consulting and sales orgs seem especially interesting, given their mobile workforces and lack of fixed office seating.
> The smartphone and mobile markets [2] have smashed up the tech sector. Nokia, once a giant, is no more, and Microsoft is far less relevant because they missed the boat.

They didn't miss the boat, they got on a much earlier boat that wasn't quite going in the right direction. Some better touch screen controls and MS would have had the iPhone a decade earlier.
Whats a js library that would do this? Would love to put a demo up on my website to show the user.
I work in a large company, and we have a mostly mobile workforce, meaning we already have the majority of the company on docks with monitors and unassigned desk areas (show up and pick one when you need it). I could definitely see lots of our workforce being able to use something like this.
> That's ominously sounding bullshit. You decide what to do with your willpower, and if you don't like the consequences, it's your fault, not some nefarious engineers.

This is simply a fallacy. You can’t decide to switch off selective psychological mechanisms in your brain.

Facebook, Snapchat etc. are weaponizing and exploiting these against us/humanity in ways similar to Vegas casinos.

It is easy to not drive to Vegas, enter a casino and engage in a psychological loop designed to hack my brain.

It is not so easy to escape the all-permeating tentacles of social media and its finely tuned intermittent rewards etc. mechanisms.

Given that willpower is a limited cognitive resource, your proposition is not realistic.
Azure claims they can do it, but it is still Early Access, so I've not tried it.
The part you guys are missing in my comment is that I said this is the problem "I" have with this woman.

I am not trying to pass judgement for all of humanity here. If you are OK watching videos of a nearly naked woman playing with tech and think that's great for women and humanity, so be it. I happen to thing it's disgusting.

All I can speak for is myself. I see this person as a clown who demeans every single female engineer I have every worked with or hired. She might as well be doing soft porn videos and make more money, she ain't too far from that.

Because of that I can't respect what she is doing.

Do we really want to portray women in tech this way? Really?

At one end of the spectrum people are up in arms about politicians objectifying women (and worst) and meanwhile, on the tech side of things we are OK with a woman walking around with tits and ass hanging out there?

Is the tech community OK with women being portrayed this way? I am not. Definitely not. If you defend her you are defending the objectification of women. Which is shameful.

Sorry, this is disgusting to me.
Marko keeps some bechmarks here: https://github.com/marko-js/isomorphic-ui-benchmarks

Not too sure how accurate or biased they are, though.
I never said that you were. Also, relax. The examples I gave support my argument. Whether you agree or not is fine, but that you won't even admit they're relevant is strange.
But is the static analysis of input strings passed to a random library function really a core feature of a compiler, just because the compiler has a switch for such analysis? Yes, it's a feature of modern well-engineered tool, but I would argue it's strictly not part of the compiler.
This is why I abandoned Google search too. The results are just so spammy. But like any dinosaur, it'll be a long time until the head notices you kicked it in the tail.

I have abandoned other Google services as well now. Firefox is now my preferred browser for development. Apple Maps is good for navigation. Gmail I still use, as one notch above mailinator: it's my dumping ground for unwelcome mandatory site signup. All the mail I want to receive is on Fastmail. Microsoft's office software is vastly better than G Suite. And so on.

I trust Google as much as I trust Facebook or any other advertising network: not at all, and I welcome and adopt alternatives.
>We should work on actually reducing stress instead of abusing mindfulness to handle stress better.

yep, and to achieve that the people causing us stress should use mindfulness to better handle their own stress and cause us less of it as a result.
Yes, while most of my marketing would be online, there's definitely a dearth of potential local customers.

Other factors: Finding potential co-founders (I've met very few software engineers around here I would consider good enough, and I haven't met a single person who knows anything about bizdev and/or sales for a B2B SaaS), and of course no possibility of getting any funding around here (not that I'm wasting any energy thinking about it as noone would invest in a 37-year old first-timer in any case :) )
Dam this is crazy..
Yes! Especially when you compile your kernel with VIMAGE and use ZFS as a filesystem. I should imagine that Illumos zones are pretty awesome too because they have the same features and Illumos is the source of ZFS, but unfortunately both my servers motherboards were not supported by SmartOS, so besides for messing around in a VM, I didn't really get do much.
Tools we use: Easy and Free Screen recording tools
Cloud providers should already be concerned about rowhammer related DoS anyway, and be mitigating/preventing rowhammer through other means (e.g. buying ram that doesnt suck).
Dam this is deep and serious.
> What issues do they cause? Really?

Biggest one by far is the super-ambiguous "boot failed" with nothing else while trying to get back into windows after turning off Fastboot (see step 7 in my other post). Once you've got that, you can fix it for the next boot with bootrec /FixBoot & /RebuildBCD, but it'll keep coming back every time its restarted. Only failsafe fix I've ever found that keeps it from coming back is to move everything, including GRUB itself, onto separate disks. At that point it cooperates, at least until Windows thoughtfully turns FastBoot on for you again.

A close second is secureboot's "invalid signature detected". You get the same message when you try to chainload off a non-present drive or one that isn't bootable, but if you make the non-booting disk the only one, suddenly it'll start working again. Usually a grub2 reprobe/reinstall will fix this, but its really annoying. The dual-OS desktops at work all get this upon reboot whenever we lose power.

> Clearly annoying, but easily fixed.

Sure, until it resets itself at the next update, suddenly won't work when you turn it back off and you have to do everything all over again...

> I'd rather have this once a year than Windows deciding it has the right to write to my MBR, and overwrite GRUB, causing my Linux installation to be unbootable without a recovery-disk.

Only there's no risk of your linux installation being completely hosed in this scenario, like there is for the Windows environment with UEFI thrown in. Instead of starting over from scratch/backups, you just have to mount your drives, re-probe and install GRUB. That takes maybe a few minutes. Also, in a multi-volume system it can be completely avoided by disconnecting your dedicated GRUB disk for windows updates; the same can't save you from Windows declaring itself king of the computer and suddenly turning on UEFI settings that you don't want.

> That may be true for multi-volume scenarios. For systems with one volume only however (like most laptops), it's absolute the opposite.

Its worse on single-volume scenarios, since you can get completely screwed. In a multi-volume environment, UEFI's fragility is somewhat compensated for by the fact you can boot off the boot sectors of the individual drives when it breaks.

> My experience is quite the opposite. With UEFI I feel I can fearlessly dual/multi boot several operating systems without fear that one OS is going to mess up another one.

Huh. Yeah, that's ... pretty much the exact opposite of the experience I and everyone I know has had. You're honestly the first person I've seen that's been a fan.
More and more sites are using React for general purpose server-side rendering, even if the site isn't a single page app. I believe that's what the article is targeting.
> I wish that people would actually take more time to enjoy silence in its own right.

It's pretty hard to enjoy silence in two second chunks.

Someone might use smartspeed to save half an hour, and then use that time to enjoy nature uninterrupted.

I'm not going to downvote you, but you basically are yelling at clouds. The two kinds of 'silence' are completely unrelated.
Probably because we use so much of it ourselves for housing and stuff.
It was actually added about six months ago, blog post and all, but most people only heard about it once it was mentioned in the newsletter, which was last week.

I’d qualify the inclusion of FastMail because the mobile app doesn’t yet support the dark theme. (It will, it just doesn’t yet. There’s a fair bit of refactoring of the style system to make it work better pending.) Then again, half of the websites listed on this site depend on applying user styles or installing a browser extension…
>why is Louis Vuitton always on the first floor in a shopping mall?

Tried googling it to no luck. Any idea?
I could similarly say: Maybe you've never had to deal with a false rape accusation in your own life or in the life of someone who was close to you. Congratulations, you've been lucky.
Building Hybrid Intelligence Systems
Before I jumped back on Hacker News here, I browsed Twitter. I set a timer for 7 minutes. I closed the window after 7 minutes. It was slightly painful as it was just enough time for me to get interested.

Hacker News is not perfect either, but I consider it generally healthier than Twitter now.

This all reminds me of when I used to be a smoker and had to use psychological tricks or less harmful alternatives to curb cravings.

The good news is: I eventually quit.
Thanks for the heads up, I've definitely seen that one credited but I thought it used to not use template literals. Clearly it at least does now.

EDIT: Yeah, looks like it's always worked that way. Maybe I was thinking of another lib.
By that logic, menstruation could be considered murder too. How stupid! My original comment stands; people's stupidity is in no way a defense of their disgusting actions and culture, and shedding light on that stupidity in no way lessens the horror of their actions.
If you're trying to get shit done all of these are pretty high on my "number of times per day performed" list
> Hardly anybody uses emails these days.

What?
1) Some of the accusers are Republicans and voted for Trump. They probably are ideologically aligned with Moore in many ways.

2) It's not a he-said-she-said story. It's 9 accusers, whose stories were corroborated by others (who were told 30 years ago). One accuser can describe the inside of Moore's house in detail. Another has a yearbook signed from him referencing the restaurant he claims to have never visited. Still others from the community note that he was banned from the mall for being creepy with teenagers. And finally, Moore himself cannot offer a full throated denial that he has pursued teenagers in the past. Just not these particular women.

3) Claiming these women want "15 minutes of fame" is naive. No one is getting "famous" off of this. The victims are opening old wounds and getting new ones in the form of death threats and attacks on their character. It's not fun for anyone coming forward.
I'd be curious to know if this cost is similar with Ember's implementation of SSR, Fastboot.
ctrl-f "font"

Yes, please.
Why is the image a picture of a D-Wave chip?
John “Cap'n Crunch” Draper banned from cyber conferences for bad behavior
I love it! So awesome.

I'd love to make a mobile app for it. Is it an abuse if I just pinged https://harvestsignal.com/api/v1/public/whatsfresh/[zip code]? I don't want to spam you but I doubt I'll have any traffic any time soon anyway.
I have a similar strategy and highly recommend Self Control App: https://github.com/SelfControlApp/selfcontrol/

Once I started blocking sites from myself I realized I was reflexively jumping over to distraction sites, particularly when I felt stuck or discouraged. Don't fall into the trap of thinking that willpower is the only way to get more focused. Use software to level the playing field.

Another thing that's helped: placing my phone on the other side of the room to charge at night. I also have a strict no using tech while in bed rule. Waking up and checking Instagram/Twitter/News on a phone is a terrible way to start the day.
> But in this case, you have to decide who to take the word of.

That is true. And by refusing to give the allegations credence you have implicitly decided whose word to take.

> There is no way to logically analyze the claims and come up at the correct answer.

Sure there is. You can evaluate the plausibility of each claim. You can verify that the claims are internally consistent. You can ask what motivations each party would have to lie, or what motivations each party would have to tell the truth here and now. None of those will get you to ironclad, unquestionable certainty, but it sounds like you're at ironclad, unquestionable certainty now and I'm not sure logical analysis had much to do with you forming that opinion.

It's fine, really, if you've looked at the evidence and found it unconvincing. It's fine, too, if you've decided it is convincing but that your partisan interests are strong enough that you're willing to overlook them. But it sounds like you're just refusing to engage with them because they're confusing. That's not wisdom. It's anti-intellectual tribalism at it's most raw, and I for one expect better of the commenters at HN.
I've solved this problem by simply being aware of it. When I catch myself opening a website that I just had open, I minimize my browser and do something else. It can wait, and I'll enjoy the run later anyway when the world's had some time to bake, and there's more news stories to read.
NoScript 10.1.1 Released for Firefox 57
I find that audio quality plays a huge role in playback speed tolerance.

I can enjoyably listen at 2x for some people, but others I cannot go beyond 1.5x and I've been listening to audio at 1.5x or 2x for a long time.

It's much less about their pace too. It's overall line quality and how clear they enunciate words.

For my own recordings I try hard to make them feel good at 2x (even tho I naturally speak fast and manually edit out pauses). About 10% of the people who take my developer courses listen at 1.5x or 2x and have enjoyed the clear audio experience.
One by one, heroes, once respectable men, have the harsh light of society turned on them.
I agree. The podcasts I enjoy the most are produced by radios (CBC, NPR, BBC) because there's not much fluff, inside jokes and rambling from the hosts. The audio is good, the content is good and well presented by the hosts. Sometimes there's sound effects or music, but it's not a problem.

But stuff from Twit.tv is simply unbearable to me.
Ah yes the method of loci[1], the book Moonwalking with Einstein explains this and other techniques very well

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci
Isn't the dataset biased?
Airbnb vs. Marriott: Clash between Silicon Valley and hotel industry intensifies
Is the most significant military robot slinking around a lab in Massachusetts?
Focusmate is a middle ground of sorts - social but without leaving home. https://www.focusmate.com/

The core of the UX is the Focusmate session, a structured, 50-minute video interaction, where you and another user act as accountability partners for one another.

You'll find lots of solopreneurs as well as a handful of sole founders, but above all, you get human interaction without compromising productivity.

Disclaimer - I'm the founder. I was a sole founder for a lonnnng time and doing these sessions was my saving grace.
it might be if it was true

in reality the house voted against requiring the government to add a clause into the EU Withdrawal Bill that would have then bound the government to include it as part of the EU withdrawal:

Clause 7, page 6, line 18, at end insert—
“(g) fail to pay full regard to the welfare requirements of animals as sentient beings.”
Member’s explanatory statement
This amendment holds Ministers to the animal welfare standards enshrined in Article 13 of the
Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.

which isn't the same thing as "voting against animals feeling pain"

the government could still do this, just it isn't bound to

(the environment secretary has been on a bit of a roll recently, such as requiring CCTV in slaughterhouses, a total ban on bee-harming pesticides, and so on)
Uber Expands Driverless-Car Push with Deal for 24,000 Volvos
Remember the state of Microsoft's operating systems in 1992, when OS/2 2.0 was released: DOS, a purchased operating system that was barely worthy of the name, and a graphical shell on top of it. In other words, a house of cards and just as reliable. Cooperative, not pre-emptive, multitasking. 16-bits when 32-bit CPUs were standard. Contrast to OS/2 that had a 32-bit API, pre-emptive multitasking, and a more robust file system, all with the backing of IBM. That might not be a sure bet, but it was a good one. Turns out it wasn't, but it might have looked like it at the time given that it was inarguably technically superior to Windows 3.x and DOS.

As it turned out, IBM refused to effectively market OS/2 and Microsoft was busy cutting bundling deals with manufacturers while releasing their "munchkins" (look it up, it's well documented) on Compuserve and Usenet. And then Windows NT came out, giving Microsoft a much less laughable operating system in their quiver, and that was pretty much it for OS/2.
Some hypotheses:

1. First floor space is the most expensive (a testable assumption), and only luxury brands like LV can afford it.

2. Brand name on the first floor attracts people walking by into the mall.
I think it has a reputation as a pseudo science because it's derived from religious practice. While religious practice isn't always bunk (as is the case here) assuming that religious practices are bunk is a pretty damn effective heuristic.
Another interesting change that’s happening, that this article omits, is that artists/factories are able to reach customers directly on Alibaba/Amazon/Etsy. A few years it would have required visiting artists/factories Daifen to get things rolling. It’s a bummer to see the impact FAANG are having on startups... but in this case they may actually be helping poor artists keep a bigger share of the revenue.

Sites such as Instapainting.com / Paintyourlife.com (endless options/higher prices) / Oilbyhand.com (few options/lower prices) / pixeli.st (good UX) still have the advantage of focus and marketing (and customer support?), but the actual products they deliver are likely the same as you’d get directly from the artists.

Link to Alibaba search:
https://www.alibaba.com/trade/search?fsb=y&IndexArea=product...
Would be more interesting to see an analysis of almost equal files - to detect reimplementations of the same thing