skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's how authoritarianism is and will be implemented in the US: by using the excuse that because a corporation is doing it, then it's not bound by the constitution. "Twitter is a private entity, so they don't have to follow the first amendment." But when the government has privatized and outsourced everything to corporations, then the corporations control the narrative, and censorship becomes de facto instead of by law. Corporations are a workaround to get around constitutional limitations.
What are those? According to Wikipedia most countries have 60% 4G penetration. Not sure what it means and how accurate it is though.
I don't really read WaPo anymore. They've got to the point where you can't really trust their articles because they distort the facts.
L.A. Fire Department used drones for the first time
Is this sarcasm? I don’t understand the reason for this comment, would you mind expanding on it?
Wayne County is only 40% and this goes back as far as '84 when Detroit City was less than 75%
But that's true in general. Attractive people have lots of advantages.

I wonder if anybody has ever done a study with a group of waiters where on alternate days they alter the quality of service they provide but nothing else. Are their tips constant?
Not when 82% of the population are African American.
Remarkable as they are, today’s computer chips cannot harness the quantum effects needed to solve the really important problems that quantum computers will. To solve problems that address major global challenges – like climate change or complex diseases like cancer – it’s generally accepted we will need millions of qubits working in tandem.

Are there non-classical algorithms with theoretical advantages for biological or climate simulations? Or is this just more hype-nonsense courtesy of the press office?
Order of magnitude increase =/= unlimited, right? Also, it's my understanding that there is already plenty of work done on post-quantum cryptography. I don't know if it's entirely a solved problem, but my understanding is that it's at least solvable. Perhaps someone with more domain experience can weigh in.
It's a circular argument that people get into because they have the incorrect kernel settings. Even if you have 4TB of ram, someone will say to add more memory on disk. It just means the system is not configured correctly. I have 30k servers and not a single one of them has swap.
One promising piece of tech is Pachyderm [1], which runs natively on Kubernetes. It allows you to set up pipelines of batch jobs (no streaming yet, as far as I know) that operate on immutable, versioned data.

There are some gotchas, though. For one [2], it requires read-write access to your storage buckets (!), and so on GKE you have to modify your nodepool's access scopes to give the whole node read-write access to all your buckets. Not is this terrible security practice, but access scopes are deprecated on Google Cloud. You should always grant access through service accounts, not scopes. We spent some time fighting this, as there's literally no way to make Pachyderm use a service account.

There are some other niggling issues, and the Pachyderm team has been less than enthuastic in addressing them (e.g. see [3], which has zero activity despite being absolutely crucial to run in production), but it does seem quite promising. The architecture, at least, is sound.

[1] http://pachyderm.io

[2] https://github.com/pachyderm/pachyderm/issues/2538

[3] https://github.com/pachyderm/pachyderm/issues/2537
> Sound isolation isn’t a virtue in that case

It's only around 20-25db of isolation, so unless you really have your music cranked, you can still typically hear vehicles (and can definitely hear horns).

I know a few people who love IEMs for exercising (including running), since they pretty much never fall out unintentionally. You can't even really pull them out by the cord.
Ask HN: Are Uncaught Exceptions a problem in production Node apps?
When these happen node exits and gets restarted by PM2, etc. But what happens to the clients? Are they dropped? And if so is this considered acceptable? (Thinking of big node users: Netflix, PayPal, etc)

I would like to know if Uncaught Exceptions are a problem and if so, is there a solution?
Interesting. I wonder what opportunities blogging has given him.
You're conflating a lot here. People think Trump should be banned from Twitter because of the inflammatory content of his tweets, not because of objectionable things he does elsewhere. Unless Barack Obama made a bunch of tweets exhorting drone strikes that I'm unaware of, the comparison you're suggesting doesn't go through.
Amazon in talks to buy cybersecurity startup Sqrrl
I use a git GUI for staging commits, but the CLI + text editor for everything else (and no aliases). The CLI is universal--I can go to another dev's computer and get them out of rebase hell without learning their particular git GUI interface. Knowing the CLI by heart is also useful if you ever have to use git server side through SSH. I have found that the CLI fits into my workflow better than the GUI for everything except staging.
Incredibly slow. I was never annoyed so much when using a software...
Based on your statements here it doesn’t seem like you hate to say it. Why should there be no rehabilitation for this crime? If it is possible to fix these thoroughly broken people, why not do it?
This website lacks all information about the project. What does it look like? How to use it? Googling returns only irrelevant results. No findable docs.

This looks like a toy or side project.
> E.g. that the European countries have heavy welfare and tax burdens that reduce social mobility and the chances of earning private wealth through work.

I agree with the general principle, but the US has lower social mobility IIRC than most of the EU countries. My current model is that whatever flaws our model has are currently dominating Europeans' reduction of social mobility.

Given how much better we integrate immigrants (especially in the parts of the economy that are high growth, like urban coasts), I wonder how much US social mobility is overstated. We didn't have a lot of money when I was growing up and my sister and I are both in a pretty high percentile of income, so we'd certainly show up as a data pt of social mobility. But my parents are upper class in "the old country", they both have master's degrees, and their kids' income relative to their human capital isn't really a central example of social mobility.
You don't need to click to configure jenkins jobs, they're yaml files containing "builder" steps.
> And why are the customers buying USDTs in such large volumes?

Tethers purchasing is currently unavailable for general consumers[1]. The only way for new customers to trade in Bitfinex is to purchase cryptocoins elsewhere and then transfer them to Bitfinex.

Bitfinex claims that there are unnamed "institutional investors" that are purchasing all those tethers [2]. I find that hard to believe. Most likely, the vast majority of tethers in circulation are printed out of thin air and haven't been purchased by anyone.

> Technically all cryptocurrencies are "fake money printed out of thin air"

Assuming a perfectly competitive environment, the bitcoin mining rewards should converge to the cost of mining, which leaves a smaller profit. On the other hand, Tethers are unilaterally printed by Bitfinex, with no mining cost. All the printed tethers go straight towards purchasing Bitcoin and defrauding Bitfinex customers.

> I just don't get the appeal of holding USDT.

Bitfinex attracts speculators because they allow leveraged trading (including shorting), trade lots of different cryptocurrencies in addition to Bitcoin and have lax know your customer / anti-money-laundering requirements. But I agree with you -- I am baffled why any sane person would want to come anywhere near Bitfinex.

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[1] https://wallet.tether.to/app/#!/signup

[2] https://medium.com/@bitfinexed/https://medium.com/@bitfinexe...
While I agree with your opinion about removing headphone jacks, I think OP means that even phones with a headphone jack tend to have it break due to OP's heavy use of it.
3 Boxes of AIRPODS at San Diego Airport Terminal 1 Best Buy Machine
Gotta be past security, cant miss it!
Because Detroit was less than 8% white non-Hispanic in the 2010 census? Honestly sounds like white women are overrepresented in this sample.
> I have yet to use a phone in the last 8+ years that I didn't destroy the 3.5mm jack on over the course of <1 year of running

Interesting. I have a similar issue, but rather than destroying the headphone jack on the phone (iPhone 5s and SE), I've been destroying the 3.5mm connector on the headphone. Since the headphones I used ranged from $80 to $150, I got real sick of broken headphones. My solution was purchase these https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00ZK43S4Q/ in bulk. I get about 3-4 months out of each adapter, when it flakes out, I toss it and install the next one. So far, so good, I've gotten a 15 months out of my latest set of headphones so far.
I was about to downvote you but then I saw his quote “Titles are 80% of the work”. Ugh.

You’re right. F* him.
No, the demographics of the city are similar. So, no racial component to the victims. For the suspects or judicial system, perhaps.
The industry doesn't want to change because there are too many people tied to jobs that feel they can't find new work in an evolved environment.
“Oh shit I give up” should perhaps instead be `git clean -fdx`
Yes, I was certainly confused. When IBM announced they are building a 7x7 = 49 qubit machine, I naturally assumed they meant logical qubits, not physical ones. Using surface codes, they can probably get one logical bit. But what confuses me are past records where they used Shor's algorithm to factor small integers on a quantum computer. How is this possible if we haven't even built a single logical qubit yet? It's surely necessary to have ~2N logical qubits to factor an integer of N bits.

I have an idea that might help though: if logical qubits are so difficult to build and require thousands of times more physical qubits, and physical qubits are also difficult to build, perhaps we can simulate physical qubits with thousands of times more "ultra-physical" qubits.
Distributing money to the economy = fiscal policy.
In Less Wrong/Slate Star Codex circles, it's called the Non-Central Fallacy (basically, trying to assert that a technically-valid edge case of X should be treated as if it's a typical example of X):

http://lesswrong.com/lw/e95/the_noncentral_fallacy_the_worst...
zram is cool, but still considered experimental. Even zswap is still fairly young. I have used both on my own systems. zswap is much easier to conifg.
While I understand the sentiment is a common one, I disagree with the premise that these things are due to race.

This is due to economic inequality, with race being used by the wealthy as a tool to pit the majority against each other, no different from how religion was used to label the pious and heathens. It's binary nonsense.

There are parts of the country where you WILL find poor white people being treated the same. I grew up in one; rich construction company owners kids get busted for growing pot, are let off the hook by the judge who throws the book at poor white kids living in the trailer park doing the same.

The trailer park kids were doing to support the family cause they couldn't find a job due prior felonies related to crimes undertaken to again feed the family.

And the judges speak to it with scary justifications like (paraphrasing a longwinded rant) "If God didn't want those kids in jail, he'd have given their family a construction company for them to manage some day."

White wives are beaten and abused daily. Cops do nothing. Wife maims husband, goes to prison.

The meme as I see it: The rich are given a pass, they are just following their manifest destiny. Poor people don't appear to have one, so fuck them.
Oh shit I give up could instead be `git clean -fdx`
Show HN: A tool for analysing Facebook group chats
As I allergy sufferer I hate the approaching of Spring since it means about two months of hiding indoors waiting for the first hot days of summer to kill the grass and end all the pernicious pollination. Thus I have learned to embrace the long winters.
It's said that Claude Shannon experienced this growing up in rural Michigan.

edit: Apparently not North Dakota
I’ve been using Concourse CI and it’s fairly light weight and has great declarative pipelines. Learning curve is not too steep and it has a command-line tool to update your pipelines. Maybe it’s a stupid suggestion, but you could connect the worker in that setup through ssh to a Mac for building, but of course that takes away some of the comfort, but you will have to run a dedicated build machine anyway.

Also, doesn’t Travis CI have macOS support ?
In the publishing business, titles are usually chosen by the editor, not the author.

Although the editor has a tough job, I don't think anyone would say that they're doing more work than the person who wrote the piece.
Note that this is not as difficult as it sounds. Here is a video explaining how laser cooling works, by using 6 lasers pointing towards a sample with a wavelength just longer than the absorption wavelength of its atoms in order to decrease its momentum regardless of which way it's moving (details near the 2:20 mark):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFkiMWrA2Bc

So mainstream cryogenics could be a side benefit of technologies like this.

After rereading this, I'm not sure if the ESR itself can perform cooling.
bash scripts are the most light and most flexible :D
Yeah tipping sucks.

In Northern Europe it's it something we do. Unless we want to.
Reddit launches new mobile apps with real-time comments, chat, mod tools
Mostly the answer is "if you want to do it all yourself, go for it";

Things like this, and especially Kubernetes, are about creating a common and agreed upon language for infrastructure - both patterns and specific "off the shelf" applications

It's very nice to be able to start a Proof of Concept data pipeline with `helm install incubator/kafka` (https://github.com/kubernetes/charts/tree/master/incubator/k...)

And likewise the common language/interface creates opportunities for wider coverage and easier adoption in tooling for monitoring, autoscaling, smart routing (see "service mesh"es), etc.

You may not need all of k8s functionality immediately but it's the agreed upon common core for modern distributed systems functionality

And to everyone's credit it's also being done pretty much as modularly and extensiblely as we could hope for
Quite possibly some of the rape kits also included files where the victim said “Joe did it” but wasn’t believed at the time. Now when Joe’s DNA is found in a bunch of other rape kits where the perpetrator was unidentified, the picture of our friend Joe gets a bit clearer...
Protein folding and fluid simulations theoretically rely on these sorts of quantum calculations. I don't think any directly relevant algorithms have been developed because the hardware deosn't exist for it in the first place.
We're talking about a place that struggles to have a functional response to murder and fire.
That makes 2, greenkeeper.io
Remember, a hash that takes much longer than 10 minutes is worth absolutely nothing. You don't get a coin, and you can't participate in a pool.
Atom-IT is an open-source, lightweight, RESTful microservice for IoT
Yes it seems odd that no legislator has proposed that the vast sums spent fighting a "Drug War" that can't be won be redirected to more important uses like this.

If police could focus on violence only, so many problems we have would simply disappear.
I have a 40" 4k curved monitor at home (AOC C4008VU8, ~$1000 CAD, off-brand version of the Phillips one), and a pair of 24" monitors at work that I use in portrait mode. xmonad (tiling window manager) in both environments.

No question the single monitor is better, and at these sizes you need the curvature, otherwise text at the periphery gets hard to read. With multiple smaller screens you inevitably get locked into a workflow where the code goes on one screen and browser/terminal/etc. on the others. With a single screen... well it's probably the same overall workflow but you can set up that partition wherever you need it. So dedicate more space to the "main" activity, and less to the other things.

I'm really looking forward to 8k becoming mainstream; 4k on such a large screen just gives you the same kind of pixel pitch that you get on a ~20" 1080p monitor: "normal" but not "retina".
So they should just call it 'push'. The word 'sync' is not in the Git terminology.
> With hundreds you can already speed-up chemistry simulations

You can? How?
Personally, I'm strangely happy that this is turning out to be "just" an ordinary piece of space rock. Imagine if it looked more like a spent booster or a probe from remote observations. We would have no realistic way of intercepting it to learn more about it. It would forever remain an open question whether it was just a strange rock or a once-in-a-life-time missed opportunity to explore an artifact from an alien civilization.
Well there is gab.ai and the mastodon network to provide similar services with (allegedly) less censorship.
Bluetooth Audio. Manufacturers have failed to pursue an "opt-in" deployment path.

If/when they wanted to make the transition, they should have made (the next revision of) Bluetooth good enough that users want to use it.

Instead, after being present for years and years on phones, they finally decided to force adoption by dropping the headphone jack.

Why? Well, there are the "thin" and "no room" arguments (oh, and, "waterproofing" -- really more splash-resisting), but those don't seem convincing of themselves.

There's the chance to sell expensive headphones at substantial markup.

And, there's however much behind-the-scenes pressure to transition the delivery channel to entirely digital, where DRM can ensure that content is not copied and, as part of a larger push, that all revenues for listening become recurring revenues in perpetuity. (The thing Microsoft's been trying to accomplish with Windows and Office licensing, for years now.)
Indeed, decentralizing the algorithms that power things like Uber Pool (Lyft Line) seems like a monumental task. But, not impossible I guess.
No? I mean, we used to just always have it around, but now we don't. But I can't think of a single emergency that would require cash to solve that credit or venmo can't.
I use Instapaper for reading online articles and the Safari extension adds a handy link below each submission to add the article to Instapaper.

I've really been trying lately - especially the busier I've been - to use that link exclusively and save all of my reading for later. And then I only engage with the topics I'm actually interested in.

But of course here I am in a comment thread :)
That's a very specific number, do you know what the relevance of 128 is?
Does not matter what percentage of the county is black, what matters is what percentage of the population is where the rapes occurred, these rapes weren't all happening in the Pointes, Northville, Livonia, etc.

The majority of these kits are from a period of time where the Demographics were over 80% black in the city.
There are several quantum resistant crypto currencies. I.e. IOTA
It's debatable how generic this 56-qubit simulation is. We can already "simulate" millions of qubits, with entanglement, as long as they dance in a particular way...
Hmmm, not a bad idea. But they only give like $20 back, right?
Isn't climate simulation in and of itself a quantum calculation?
I use my dumbphone to play music, it will take a 32GB SD card and has a FM radio. Dropped it a few times without any damage.

I have a slightly broken iPod but the phone+sdcard was cheaper than getting it repaired.
I guess this is as good a time as any to make my post-PyParallel pet project public (holy alliteration Batman): https://github.com/tpn/tracer.

I started it about 2.5 years ago because I wasn't really happy with existing Python tracing tools. I didn't like:

a) the performance hit when tracing non-trivial programs,

b) the inability to say: "hey, trace all code living in modules mymodule1 and mymodule2; ignore everything else", and

c) the inability to say: "screw it, trace everything", and have an efficient means to persist tens of gigabytes worth of data (i.e. don't separate in-memory representation from on-disk representation).

So I came up with this tracing project, creatively named: tracer.

It has relatively low overhead, efficiently and optimally persists tens of gigabytes worth of data to disk with minimal overhead, and allows for module-based tracing directives so that you can capture info about your project and ignore all the other stuff (like stdlib and package code).

Like all fun pet projects, once the easy stuff was done, this one devolved into writing assembly to do remote thread injection (https://github.com/tpn/tracer/blob/master/Asm/InjectionThunk...), coming up with new "string table" data structure as an excuse to use some AVX2 intrinsics (https://github.com/tpn/tracer/blob/master/StringTable/Prefix...), and writing a sqlite3 virtual table interface to the flat-file memory maps, complete with CUDA kernels (https://github.com/tpn/tracer/blob/master/TraceStore/TraceSt...).

Edit: something pretty fascinating I observed in the wild when running this code: a tracing-enabled Python run of a large project ran faster than a normal, non-traced version of Python in a low-memory environment (a VM with 8GB of RAM). My guess is that splaying the PyCodeObject structures each frame invocation has the very beneficial side effect of reducing the likelihood the OS swaps the underlying pages out at a later date (https://github.com/tpn/tracer/blob/master/Python/PythonFunct...).
Yeah, fugitive seems pointless to me. Might as well just use the git cli...which I do, but when I want something quicker to navigate/visualize, magit is my go to.
There are several misconceptions about what universal quantum computers could do. One of them is talking about exponential increase of computing power with each new qubit. It just doesn't work like that. This brief talk from Scott Aaronson tackles this issue quite well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvIbrDR1G_c

While quantum computers threaten some cryptographic schemes, it will just be the end of those schemes, not the end of cryptography in general (see: post-quantum cryptography). As long as we still have problems that are hard to compute and easy to verify, we can have cryptocurrencies. Quantum computers do not give "unlimited computing power" and do not threaten the existence of cryptocurrencies in general.
Thanks! Seattle Times now reports rumors of a collision with something on the track. Since this train was the first with passenger service, that seems plausible.
This is a problem that crosses socio-ethnic boundaries as well, unfortunately. Not that I mean to minimize the historic and ongoing mistreatment of minority crime victims...

Austin Texas -a predominantly white and affluent city- has a terrible history of mistreatment of rape kits, 850 in this case:

http://www.statesman.com/news/local/city-memo-mold-found-con...
It's a Graphical User Interface.

I think that the distinction that makes a Commnad Line Interface is the REPL.

I consider anything with a non-linear UI that you can see a GUI.
You should fire your host for not auto-scaling.
Does anyone have a link to the official government release of this information. I have been searching for sometime but only can find secondary news cites (and we all know they have there ways of messing with the facts).
Clever way to teach language syntax!
That remark was not snide... I found it informative, I had no idea Wikipedia had "Demographic history of" pages.
> Accounts that affiliate with organizations that use or promote violence against civilians

So, every US federal agency's, and every local police force's twitter accounts will be shut down?
“CL REPL”: a pocket Common Lisp REPL for everybody (Play Store)
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