skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh brother... the quote at the end there? "It’s important to me that when Max and August grow up that they feel like what their father built was good for the world." Why does it bother me? Let me analyze.

OK 1) There are people out there who live their whole lives according to good values pretty much the whole time, and don't need the shock of parenthood to finally make them care about acting like a decent human being. And most are not 2) billionaires. However, quite a few apparently do need that little kick in the pants, which explains 3) how trite this sentiment is.

But owing precisely to how common it is, we may never know if this is something Zuckerberg actually feels, or if it's 4) just something he picked up that he thought sounded like something an earthling might say. A nice platitude to conceal the true market-driven motivation for this move, and 5) you just know there is one.

Also even assuming it's sincere, there's a prominent tone of 6) narcissism in it, when people suddenly start caring about their legacy. (Like "my legacy" and "how I will be viewed" as opposed to anything about the kids themselves or you or me or anyone that person might've hurt.)

I feel like as outlandish as it is, South Park's animated version of him, voiced like a badly dubbed Hong Kong martial arts actor, saying "Ha ha ha, you cannot block my shtoyle" and such, is more convincing & realistic than the reality!
Seconded. I knew exactly what concept was going to be introduced the moment I read "tab warming".
Social Media Is Making Us Dumber. Here’s Exhibit A
i used it as pull a riot, which started this nonsense.
What Is LED – Cooling and Thermal Management?
Ask HN: iCloud forces usage of phone number for 2 factor authentication?
I switched from an Android device to an iPhone recently and was asked to setup an iCloud account. I went through the setup process and realized that my phone number was setup as a 2nd factor with no option to disable it [0]. Seriously? For all the talk about Apple devices being the most secure, not many people seem to be complaining about how Apple forces a phone number as a 2nd factor + account recovery method. Most people backup very personal data to their iCloud accounts and forcing a phone number as a 2FA is ridiculous. IMO Google gets 2FA right : I can setup a Yubikey + Authenticator + backup codes and remove my phone number as a 2FA method. And I also realized that there's no way to delete an iCloud account. wtf?

(First time using an Apple device, so I might be misunderstanding the 2FA situation, correct me if I'm wrong.)

[0] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204915
Haha. Yeah. My wife doesn't get it yet that when I pay a little extra for DeWalt it means I will not have to buy the same tool again for a very long time.
Don't forget the Roundup.
Yes, I'm still 'in'
They have to put at least a frickin' speedometer front and center (relative to the driver), and preferably a battery level meter too. It couldn't cost that much more to put one there.

Would be very surprised if there doesn't end up being a market for aftermarket mods for that sort of thing. Hopefully Tesla takes the hint and fixes it on the next iteration.
Are these Computer Science courses or Software Engineering courses?

I think we loose track of what we are. I'd much rather be a SE than a CS. Unfortunately no colleges have a dedicated tack for this.
Uzbl (https://www.uzbl.org/) is unixy and uses webkit underneath so it can render modern sites okay.
My car probably shouldnt have an API.
There aren't any artificial benchmarks I'm aware of that would benefit from this feature.
I completely agree. They are career politicians and both completely out touch. There are 79 members of the US Congress who have been there for at least 20 years[1]

And if they weren't enough, the age average of them is fairly close to retirement age:

"The average age of Members of the House at the beginning of the 114th Congress was 57.0 years; of Senators, 61.0 years."[2]

[1] https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-05-18/79-members-congres...

[2] https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R43869.pdf
I believe NOT using mechanical controls is a step in the right direction for UI/UX in cars. Eventually this will lead to voice controls which will ultimately be safer.
for comparison here's May 2017's https://web.archive.org/web/20170513061525/https://www.dropb...
How do you color things like a method returning a un/ordered list which you are depending on? There’s no code to ”color”?
And then you get to risk defending that in court against Intel’s lawyers, who are on retainer.
I see it as the Intelligence-Industrial complex flipside to the “Information wants to be free” adage: “FULL OUTER JOIN allTheThings AS you”.
The steering wheel assembly itself still goes on one side or the other, though. If they have to be non-symmetrical about that, they can find a way to be non-symmetrical with a simple speedometer too.
We use a combination of splunk, solarwinds' server & application monitoring and new relic. We're about to start using prometheus for monitoring some apps that we've moved into containers. We also have several thousand monitors/alerts that are setup in ipmonitor that we're trying to get moved over to sam.
They mention this quite explicitly: "As we make these updates, Pages may see their reach, video watch time and referral traffic decrease. The impact will vary from Page to Page, driven by factors including the type of content they produce and how people interact with it."

I think it's bold but good for the long term.
I don’t know if it applies to them, but I’ve got 52 ESR installed on my computer work because I need access to the Java plug-in.
Ask HN: Why doesn’t GitHub have drag n drop images in wiki?
Github has some awesome tools. But their wiki seems so not up to the same level as their other tools. In particular, users can't just upload a picture or file to the wiki. This feature seems so needed and we'll requested. Similar functionality exists for github issues.

Does anyone know why?
> We have 7 billion people on the planet and in my lifetime we went from more than half of all people living in rural environs to more than half of all people living in cities. Your hostile description of living in a bubble was the default norm for human life until very recently

Modern rural living in the developed world is not much like rural living in most of history, so, no the modern rural living the GP criticized was not the “default norm” for most of history.

> The aberration here is not people with limited contact to others. The aberration is that in recent decades it is the new norm to work at a job that exposes you to many people every day and attend a public school that exposes you to many people every day.

From the various descriptions of historical rural life (e.g., medieval European village life) I've seen, neither adults nor children having daily contact with numbers of other people rather than being isolated with their nuclear family was at all uncommon; for most of history that wouldn't be school for children or wage labor for adults, but it would still happen.
The Ultimate Guide – Difference Between Usability and User Experience
I really don't understand why Dropbox is trying so hard to be more than they are - A file syncing service. That's all anyone wants out of them. They sync files, that's all they do, and they do it well. No one wants them to be some collaboration platform pushing the envelope of UI design. I'm sorry Dropbox, but you're just never going to be the show runner. Just keep doing what you're doing - syncing files in the background. There's no shame in that.
Haven't heard of this stuff before, but I"m with you. "Brain Octane Oil" :rollseyes:
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> My main complaint is, people explicitly chose to follow my content and got used to seeing it... and now it's all gone. They still follow, but they don't see.

They're the product, so it doesn't matter if they get what they want or not, so long as they come back.

> Even if I pay, it's not guaranteed to hit the same audience I had before.

If it was guaranteed, what incentive would you have to pay Facebook more?
Every Facebook change seems to reduce Page basic reach, probably in order to increase the pressure to pay for additional reach.
Read all 539 pages of the FCC’s final order repealing net neutrality
Code Golf: Write Moby Dick, Approximately
I'm curious if this will change now that webapps/electron-apps have become so popular. It may be that users have begun non-native apps as the new norm.
>but those are options, which every vehicle has.

> Everything else is "it's fast and exciting and fun" which sounds pretty appealing.

These two are in conflict. The main expensive option was the range option, which also makes it accelerate faster.
Kotlin Native is exciting. But there's another way to run JVM languages, including Kotlin, on iOS: the open-source Multi OS Engine (https://multi-os-engine.org/), which basically brings ART (the Android Runtime) to iOS. Note: It doesn't bring the Android UI toolkit, or any cross-platform toolkit, to iOS, so you have to write UI code for iOS. But I think that's as it should be.

Of course, there's a trade-off between Kotlin Native and Multi OS Engine. Kotlin Native is a lighter runtime. BUt with MOE, you can use arbitrary libraries that target the JVM (well, the JVM subset that works on Android). So MOE makes a lot more existing code available for iOS. For Kotlin Native to truly deliver on the promise of cross-platform business logic, a Kotlin library ecosystem independent of the JVM will need to develop.

This space is going to be interesting to watch over the next little while.
THIS ^
If you are good generating good quality content that engages in a meaningful way, then you have nothing to worry about.
I wonder if this could violate RLUIPA [1], at least with respect to religious books.

An inmate's personal religious practice may include reading books about their religion. The selection of religious books available from these vendors is likely very small if not non-existent. This is especially the case if the inmate follows a minority religion. (And, reading books about one's religion, as a religious practice, can't be limited to just reading one's religion's scriptures.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_Land_Use_and_Institu...
Well we can’t really know if those have not leaked before. I imagine that this vulnerability was worth a lot of money, even if is was clear that it would be fixed one or two months later. There were too many people involved to think that nobody took the opportunity to sell it to the highest bidder. I personally would have preferred if google kept it in house as long as possible and made sure even at Intel, etc, a very limited amount of people could have seen it. This vulnerability could do a lot of damage if it was given to dangerous people.

But you are right it is very impressive that there were almost non public leaks (and the only leak was not more like a slip up which nobody took too serious until the patches were made public). I would not have surprised me if someone posted them and they got picked up. It would have made things a lot worse.
It kind of does. All modern cars have an "on-board diagnostics" port that devices can plug into to get information about the car, including while it's moving. There are various devices you can buy (Verizon has been marketing one called Hum a lot recently) that can connect to the OBD port and do various things with the information there, such as send you a text if your kid is driving it too quickly or if the car is reporting a fault somewhere. This connector is the same one that service garages hook their diagnostic equipment up to to when you take it in.

I'd imagine someone clever enough could wire together a speedometer which connects to the OBD's connector and shows a current speed, though I'm not sure if there are compromises on resolution or sampling time or that sort of thing.
(1) big projects just get moved over time.

e.g. philipwhiuk/gnome moves to gnome/core and there's a version published to philipwhiuk/gnome that pulls in gnome/core
Well you’d have to do basic research, come up with a hypothesis, then run a clinical trial to test that hypothesis. And hopefully find useful information although clinical trials do fail.
Work has already started on a new challenge using ALPN: https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/acme/mrKOeRK1K6H_42Hxb...
Sorry I responded but I forgot the newline.

In either case react is clearly the better ecosystem, but vue is a really, really solid framework itself.

We’ve hit our own limitations that we’ve had to work around, but imo most of the points you bring up have quite simple fixes.

Cheers!
I've been playing with a small amount of IOTA (<$0.01) and found yes txns get stuck waiting for confirmations for days and it is very hard to force them through.

Due to the one-use addresses your entire funds are stuck, because you can't resend from that address, so you can only wait, reattach and 'promote'. Promote means create a 0-value txn confirming your txn that ends up being more likely to confirmed itself. Nice in theory.
Feinstein was not a liberal (or a particularly) mayor. She profited handsomely from the assassinations of Milk and Moscone though. Then again, San Francisco is not a particularly liberal place even by Bay Area standards.
I guess it depends on what is considered a "social network". I canceled my facebook a couple years ago and don't have twitter or instagram or anything else like that. I do however belong to some forums (vbulletin type sites) and pay for some extra perks on them. Like being able to post in the classifieds, etc... I notice that since getting off of facebook I started going back to forums that had specific topics. I find that the discussions on there are much friendly an about a specific topic.
I had no idea about some of the connections brought up in the article. All I had to say was lol. She is opposite of Trump but still share same attributes: outsider from DC, rich, and media savvy.

It's not really her fault that she took off with her unscientific stories. There definitely was an audience ready for it. People usually hear what they want to hear. Or so I'm told.

Edit
> I don't want my friends texting me everything. That's far more disruptive than a passive feed I can glance at. And I don't want to text my friends everything either.

Real friendships aren't passive.
> This is like saying a Tesla car is just a machine that generates heat.

Not to that degree but I admit that I used a hyperbolic devise to try and pull back the implied necessity of Facebook.

> does not mean that others cannot be easily swayed by dopamine release

Facebook should be regulated as a narcotic :-P

Jokes aside, FB does have lots of ability to influence, and they shouldn't be able to operate with impunity, but that's a far cry from where we are now:

- Facebook is too fun (because AI!!) and my work is suffering!

- Facebook keeps giving me what I'm interested and engaged in!! (echo chamber)
AFAIK cryptokitties is "just" a clever Ethereum smart contract system. Has nothing to do with IPFS.

That said, I'm not familiar with it in-depth, and I'd love to hear otherwise if someone knows!
The most apt description I've heard for cryptocurrency markets is that it's a Keynesian beauty contest for blank drawings.
For what it's worth Buffett doesn't go on about cashflow much either, he focuses on profits in the traditional sense of the owners getting richer.
When the shoeshine boy gives tips about crypto, it's a bubble
Why not both? I don't want to be doing voice commands while I have a baby sleeping in the back seat for example.
Bit of a trick: build your own cloud and turn opex into depreciation on capital investment = become "profitable"
I run a productized service (design as a service) called Manypixels.co (https://www.manypixels.co) -- I got to $10K MRR by doing only two things:

1. Reaching out on niche Facebook groups to my target market (in my case: Entrepreneurs). I would simply say something along the line "Hey guys, I built this. Do you see value in this? Yes/No -- Why not?")

2. Creating content on Reddit / Indie Hackers about how we got to $10k MRR and being transparent about my learnings.

In the future I plan to do : 1/ More direct sales (via Angel list for example) 2/ Content on more marketplaces (Medium / Bootstrapped.fm / ...) 3/ Referrals 4/ ??? (open to suggestions here) :)
Silicon gains ground in quantum-computing race
All interactive programs are nondeterministic. If you remove all other timers, you can still tell the user to click something and see how much work you can do before they click it. That's an exceptionally noisy timer, but a timer nonetheless. The only way to completely remove timers is to revert to batch mode programs.
Researchers implement 3-qubit Grover search on a quantum computer
Very well done. I think the production pipeline is fully automated, including the cover. This is a very nice use of the CC BY licensed Stack Overflow content.
Dig something embarrassing from her computer/old emails, post it on her FB page. /s

People who never experienced large scale oppression, eastern Europe pre nineties for example, will have a hard time grasping the repercussions.
> and you require some addons that cannot be ported

Yup, Tab Groups. Plus I need the Unity 3D extension, and ALSA sound (which they also disabled). And Flash (although I know that's still supported for now, I'm never not going to need it - even years from now).

I have no idea how I'll ever get off that version. Really not pleased with Mozilla. I can't even go to 57.

My current plan is to keep 52 forever, and once it's not supported use the latest version for normal browsing, and launch 52 when I need it. Maybe in some kind of sandbox, since I'm sure there will be unpatched vulnerabilities.

I'll have to do something about all my Tab Groups though - I have around 20 or 30 of them, really not looking forward to migrating them, but I'll have no choice. And I'll have to install PulseAudio.

I've been using Firefox since it was a beta project (even have bugzilla reports from 1999) and I've never been as disappointed with them.

Edit: I know we're not supposed to ask, but I just have to, why did two people downvote this? What could possibly be there to downvote? Am I not allowed to have an opinion on Mozilla or something?
I like to apply a test to myself, which I fail every time. Goes as follows:

Can I literally write down a statement that would have changed my perspective on this statement/issue/perspective?

Most things that I'm against, I cannot imagine myself not being against. One possible explanation is Zuckerberg is evil incarnate, but I believe the world is much more nuanced than that. If I cannot bring to life (and even metaphorically "try on" the other perspective), there is a high probability that I am too biased to offer a fair judgement.
An API for non critical functions is fine: radio, air con, etc.

Probably only want a read only one for everything else though.
Intel advances quantum and neuromorphic computing research
Question: since an IPO is going to be a matter of public record, why would you want to file it confidentially? What's the advantage?

Thanks.
I read that putting the speedometer off on the side was done partially in the name of safety. Supposedly, it's easier for your eyes to switch focus between intermediate (center console) and far (road) distances. Not sure where I read that though.
I was not clear: I agree with you. Selling off the prisoner's labor is a minor source of income for the private prison operators (basically bonus revenue); most of their revenue indeed comes from the state.

I don't believe incarceration for labor is much of an arrest motivator any more. I think the primary motivation in the US is some sort of punitive cruelty.

Historically the point of incarceration has changed with fashion (and technology of course).
When it comes to Facebook, I don't really trust its statements when it says" "this is not something we do". Facebook, in my books, is deeply trust deficient.

Whenever I read something new (like this article), I assume that Facebook will do it now or sometime in the future (it doesn't have to and isn't certainly going to announce when it's using or implementing its patents). I don't think I'd ever go back to using the Facebook app, and will manage to use the browser interface with the precautions I take.
Wood gas vehicles: firewood in the fuel tank
Quantum speed limit may put brakes on quantum computers
I don't think it's the aesthetics that people react to. The aesthetics are a little on the 1980s neon retro side, but personally, I find this almost creepily dissonant purely in how far the message is from the product. Nobody would deny that lots of people use Dropbox for "creative" work. But Dropbox itself has nothing to do with creativity -- there's no sense in which Dropbox itself can be a fun, zany, kinetic kind of experience. It's not GoPro. It's a folder that syncs. This design reeks of someone uncool trying to appeal to a young, fashion-conscious demographic, with cringeworthy results. It's as transparently cynical as any attempt Microsoft (for example) have ever made to appeal to anyone younger than 30.
>But this doesn't completely "fix" the problem, since the exact same conflicts can still happen with the "author" name (if someone takes "google\" there are going to be some very upset californians)

The idea is that the author name maps to an actual repo and should serve as a second layer of authentication outside of NPM's control. The namespace should belong to the repository owner.

No one should be able to "take" google/ since the actual Google already owns github.com/google.
You have a personal track record of attacking me and being incredibly dismissive of me. I asked you once to simply leave me alone. You informed me that was not a reasonable request and affirmed your right to do as you please towards me.* I view your behavior towards me as a form of harassment.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15848464
And here’s my take on how this will play out...

Tech investors are almost totally unequiped to do the necessary DD. They either therefore go for plays that are easy to understand, largely computational exercises or in the rare cases they do go for something higher risk, they back something crazy (e.g. Theranos) because they don’t do good DD.

Getting an “expert” to vet the play rarely works. Because tech VCs don’t know how to choose good experts.

So most of (all?) these plays will ultimately fail. It won’t matter much to seed round investors though, because they’ll take 10 years to fail and they will likely have at least partially exited by then...