skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What if a story could be modified dynamically in order to maximize the chance that it moves you? Or to deepen its impact? I figured that’s what the GP post was getting at.

Just more tools for geniuses to use to move us and move us more deeply.
Surveillance cameras in malls and shops are often installed in places where they are easy to spot because they are an effective deterrent. Even if they are nothing more than decoys. I wouldn't expect many surveillance cameras to be hidden away from the view because their main function is to discourage crime from happening, not recording it.
> I'm really not interested in disconnecting for good at this time

This is all they heard.
No, they can't. If I wanted to protect my privacy I'd use a service like RespectMyPrivacy that hides my name.

Just as a rhetorical question: do they decline local parts in the form of firstname.lastname? Thought so.
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Actually the GAN systems do have a way to check if art is beautiful. This is why they can produce novel results via experiments. So yeah, such system have a sliver of an idea of what they're creating.

The problem is not in discrimination at all, but in generation of novel and correct output. (grammatically and syntactically) Discerning correct syntax and grammar has eluded all AI so far. (Even specialized translation systems are worse than babies at it.)
Does this popup block plan include exit popups and email capture js boxes? If so, some specialized SaaS companies like Sumo could be out of business
My little brother used to do electrical installations. He once set up a device that deactivated the power in a building as soon as no more consumers were on. Of course that thing is probably still using power continuously itself.

On that same note, shouldn't it be possible to install a mechanism that doesn't use any power at all? Something like, uh, I'm not gonna say a light switch, but a weightless switch, to mix a few metaphors here.
# funclatency -i 10 -p `pgrep -n mysqld` sys_write

Whoops, that was easy. I think argdist can do this as well.

I'd have picked a different one-liner. It's not hard to come up with DTrace one-liners that are currently horribly hard with eBPF and bcc.

Which is why I said we could have DTrace's D as a front end to bcc/eBPF. Or the bpftrace project will do that, and already has similar one-liners. Check it out[1]. Either way, we win.

It's the kernel eBPF code that is more featured. It's great that Oracle is doing more with open source, and we may use some user level components, but Linux already has eBPF in the kernel now.

[1] https://github.com/ajor/bpftrace
Tool isn't on any streaming services. They don't believe in streaming or something. They're probably the last popular artist/band to eschew all streaming.
Amazon have something close now in the form of their channels service, which allows you to subscribe to specific providers who’s content then becomes available in the same way as Amazon Prime Video
I was going to say "and pobox.com", but then ... they're now part of Fastmail, so I guess it's all good :-)
I cannot tell you where exactly this stems from in law, but it is roughly the same mechanism as for inventions. If you create or invent something outside of your regular work that may be relevant to your employer, you have an obligation to inform them and offer them rights to it. There are several sources out there (in German) that describe this.
How much does it cost to design a web application?
Another useless scientific article about obvious things.
Yes, you have a higher chance of dying when you get older, is this really a "news" we need on HackerNews?
Notice that the article doesn't even offer new facts, only statistical observations.
I haven't entered a dealership since 2010 and part of me was holding onto hope that most of these "upgrades" were optional. This thread is confirming my fear that I'll never be able to find a new car worth buying again no matter how much money I bring to the table.
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If I understand correctly, you propose a tax that everybody in the industry pays, that is shared with all relevant "inventors". I don't think it's a workable sistem since it removes the free market from the distribution and replace it with a committee driven disbursal of fees, offering little incentive to disclose valuable ideas.

I would much rather see a large patent fee with annual inflation indexing for the patent holder. If it costs you 1 million USD each year to hold a patent, then you only acquire one for major, truly revolutionary ideas that will easily recoup that money. It's a sum that can easily be fitted in the budget of any significant research and development program, yet prohibitive for most submarine, defensive, or warchest IP operations.

A large anual fee forces you to "work" the patent, either directly or by licensing it. If you are not sure if your "idea" is valuable, then you don't deserve a patent.
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For people in the EU a EULA isn't legal anyway - unless you need to explicitly agree with it before you can buy the car.
The most likely collapse will be a societal one due to growing inequality.
One strategy to survive this type of collapse would be to move to a country with very low inequality. For a billionaire this could be painful because the taxes will be high (they are the reason for the low inequality). But hey, better than being lynched by an angry mob, right?
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They actually have a word for this, it's "Russophobia" [1]

And from reading left-leaning discussion forums (HN included) you'd think they have a point. Try mentioning anything about Russia and see how long it takes until someone suggests it's probably Putin's friends doing it (Telegram is a great recurring example here on HN [2]).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russophobia#United_States

[2] E.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16327159
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I think that a women quota is useful in cases where the proportion of female (one could also insert specific cultural backgrounds here) possible applicants for a role (be it junior or leader) is much higher than the proportion in the actual role. For instance, in theatres or hospitals in Germany, a large part of the employees is female whilst the bosses tend to be male. You cannot argue with "but better candidates will be turned down just because they are male" because obviously, the criteria for choosing are heavily unbalanced already.
It's harder to determine whether a quota is useful in jobs the reason for not choosing women might be women not applying for the job. But we won't solve the matter by hating each other over the cause. Let's try to be critical, yet empathic.
Hi,

Thanks to everybody who commented the post.
With your help I was able to close the gap in my knowledge and summarized it in my new post:
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> No one gives two shits about you furiously torrenting the shows you think you're entitled to.

You just gave two comments about exactly that.
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Emails have that now, though, with tracking pixels and the like. Google prefetches them all; marketers have no idea if you actually looked at it.
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Also they reset your notifications settings regularly. I have disabled the email notification settings at least 5 times but after a while they keep coming again.
The parent comment pas paper as 'kami', yet the 'k' morphs into a 'g' in the final word. Is this common in Japanese? I've not seen it much outside of Welsh, my own mother tongue.
Please don't post snarky dismissals of other people's work. This breaks the HN guideline which asks:

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize."

That principle applies as well to articles as to persons, and there's clearly more in this piece than you reduced it to. But even if you were right, the combination of an empty comment and an acidic pH makes for a sourer website, and the internet is hostile enough already.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Excellent piece, but this is not the original source. It points to and credits The Conversation.
It doesn't look like AAA [1] has any 3D?

From what I remember it was more like my Retina Z3 card but better. Had some discussions at conferences, it seemed Amiga hardware engineers didn't believe in 3D and were frozen in their graphics mindset of blitter and copper (huge when I wrote 68k demos in the mid-80s, but meaningless when 3D happened).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_Advanced_Architecture_ch...
"Consumers love free content, hate micro-transactions and subscriptions."

It will will be interesting to see how this pans out away from LaLa Land where people work for free.

Personally I wouldn't be sad if a huge chunk of the internet content industry disappeared and we returned to the halcyon days of amateur bloggers. But many people being sold on the evils of advertising aren't fully understanding the economics of the market that provides their daily fix.
iPhone refuses to load because of full page advertisement
Exactly. It's literally the first time I hear of giving to GW. I always thought everyone uses them as a ranking of what charities to give directly to.
We've done the opposite. After ten years in operation we've only just begun to add html parts to our emails. Its just easier to render plain text, and no one has the time to be spending hours templating and testing emails, we've got better things to do.
That won't work.

Already today many companies don't even patent stuff anymore, but claim their technologies to be trade secrets, and still manage to prosecute anyone trying to share them.

From Waymks Lidar to SpaceX tech to Google's TPUs, both is even patented anymore, it's not even published in any way.
I don't disagree with you on the type issue but you can see in a large organisation how this would easily fall through the cracks. It's also entirely plausible that an intern came up with the sms notification idea and it wasn't caught in code review. I don't really subscribe to Hanlon's razor but in this context I can understand how it could happen quite easily.
Statistical observations are new facts to those who did previously have knowledge of them.
Congrats, OM! (or YL as the case may be ;->)
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> Russia has denied responsibility for the NotPetya attack - which is estimated to have cost companies more than $1.2bn - and pointed out that Russian firms were among those whose systems were affected.

Or perhaps this has become a standard OpSec playbook to provide sufficient diplomatic cover? Not sure who to believe.
> 99.9% of the world population couldn't fathom how Internet would take off back then when it launched.

The dotcom bubble was fueled by speculation in how useful the internet would be. Granted, it busted but many companies survived it and some are now the biggest companies in the world.

> That was why it was not mainstream for a long time until it took off.

Internet growth has been incredibly fast: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Internet_usage

I can see some utility in blockchains. However, my main point is that the economics of them make them terrible for 99.99% of problems.

Internet: 10 orders of magnitude faster/cheaper communication than before.

blockchains: 10 orders of magnitude more COSTLY.
Depends on where you are in the country. Here's some 3 wire I found by dropping a random pin: https://goo.gl/maps/MkoiprJ1gWM2

I've always remembered it being 3 pin around where I grew up.
The Gender-Equality Paradox in STEM Education
Yeah, I don't wanna drag this out in this thread since it's been hashed out many times, but these are the types of concerns that make illumos appealing to me.

You get a system that has been developed and thoroughly tested as a single cohesive whole. It has advanced features that you know work well out of the box, which require a lot of fiddling and custom hackery to replicate reliably on Linux. Anyone who has tried to get LXC working well on Linux will instantly appreciate the ease of firing up a zone in SmartOS; all that crap you fought for hours to make work on LXC works automatically, it works well, and it doesn't hide its guts from you.

I appreciate how the system coheres and operates together in a sensible, straightforward manner, that I trust to work without crashing or getting in my face or breaking between incremental updates.

You can't say that about Linux containerization. You install Docker and then overlayfs is a broken piece of crap. You update your overlay driver, and it's still a broken piece of crap. You try to work and hack around it, and you eventually find something that mostly-works, but it's disgusting and terrible, like having to do eight different commands as a single RUN line with continuations (just had to do this today; saved 200MB on my Docker image).

illumos looks like a potential modern refuge from this, where I can still run Linux containers thanks to LX zones, and where I can still keep the monkeys happy by giving them a Kubernetes and they're none-the-wiser that it's running on something that isn't going to be crapping itself every time I blink.

Crossbow is impressive, as you say. There are a lot of gems and features that are only half-implemented on Linux and a total nightmare to get working, that work out of the box on illumos. At least on paper.

I have a SmartOS VM that I'm playing with. Tried to grab an image from Docker Hub. imgadm doesn't support Docker v2 images. There's a pull request that's been open since September with the changes and no information about it in Gerrit. Tried to poke the Joyent employees who participated in this PR for an update and up to this point, radio silence. Not a very inspiring start.

It would've been a godsend to confidently and quickly be able to pull images from Docker repos and deploy them on SmartOS. Seems, however, that they want this to be hard if you don't use Triton, because they want you to buy Triton (yes, I know this is open-source; the setup demands at least a couple of machines, the "cloud on a laptop" is a VMWare image that spawns multiple components (a la minikube) and I don't want to try to run one of those right now, and I want it to work on plain SmartOS!).

Lots of promise, but sadly, not certain that it's firm footing right now.
Weird, I think you might have misspelled "IED," there.
Hey, thank you for this. Honestly I've been cringing for the past day and a half about my comment, so your reply was a happy relief.

It's not really an exaggeration to say I felt insane. And like a worthless excuse of a washed-up community member. I know this isn't the goal of the penalties, but the psychological effects after 90 days are quite real.

Other people, though, take the opposite approach and paint him as a saint, willing to paint over the negatives.

Good point. Which kinds of negatives?

It's an important question for alt-HN. It seems like it'd be mostly harmless to let Terry post there, but your comment hints at possibilities I hadn't considered.

I'll probably lob an email your way. There are a few crucial questions to answer before alt-HN goes live. Like "What should we focus on?" and "What color should the topbar be?"

Everyone is convinced the new topcolor should be x. Unfortunately x turns out to be thread local to whoever's speaking. (Ba-dum tss.)

Do you think it's possible to launch a site with an arsenal of bad jokes? We've got hundreds. "The Bikeshed" would be a good name for a bar in SF.

Thanks again. Really. You have no idea how nice it was to find empathy anywhere in the replies.
From my experience location dependence is the greatest obstacle for women to join high earning STEM jobs. With paygap women find it more difficult to live in expensive cities. Also remote work allows more life balance for care givers (who are mostly women).

It should be seen as sexism, if company does not offer remote jobs.
Facebook has become the place my 60+ year old aunts and uncles share false/exaggerated/fake news. Doesn't matter how many times I point out how easily they can search for the real facts. The sky is falling every day.
Your body was also not built to travel to the moon and drive a buggy on the surface. Didn't stop us though.
Tried this in VR (via https://www.supermedium.com/) and was very impressed.
> we still perceive the pitch as that missing harmonic

I think you mean missing fundamental here.

But aside from that, you make some very good points. The human brain has some amazing abilities to understand what physical phenomenon might have caused the frequencies it's picking up, even if it isn't getting all of them.
They pay one way or the other. The ad campaign cost is factored into the consumer price. In my eyes, this all comes down to convenience. If there would be a way to automatically deduct the small price for an impression from my account every time I visit a site, I would totally do that in order to avoid ads, crappy js, malware and all that shit. I don't even think it would cost that much.
Given the effects of commute time on happiness, if I wanted to make life drastically worse for as many people as possible like some sort of cartoon villain, this brand of public-transit advocacy is exactly how I'd go about it.

Artificially depressing commute time is one of the greatest accomplishments of humanity.
My non technical partner was regularly finding herself out of data because she would turn off WiFi for some reason, forget to turn it back on again, and use a months data in a week. Since that change, it’s never happened. Yes, the option is misleading, (although there is a banner saying “turning off nearby WiFi until tomorrow”) but the vast vast majority of people don’t really turn off WiFi and want it off for good, they mean “I don’t want to use WiFi right now”.
If you really do want to turn off WiFi, it’s in settings. I’d rather have a convenient feature that does what I want, even if it’s over use an un-updateable device where all the core services are tied to one of the largest tracking companies in the world, thanks.
It is quite obvious that living organisms are not build to last - we are supposed to live just long enough to produce and raise some offsprings.
Sure, it's also reasonable to think that these companies were in on it and received compensation or hadn't signed on to an agency's agenda/paid protection money/whatever. Plenty could have happened, we just don't know.
yeah and leds
Why Android Developers Need Code Signing Certificate for Their Android App?
No ad on my desktop browser (Win10/Chrome/Firefox)
It's cool. People dowmmod you for asking about Linux but its a legit question, I moved to Windows a couple of years ago and having them in .sketch has always been a pain.
Ahh, I got a friendly SMS "reminder" to log back into Facebook when I got a new phone.

Haven't logged back into Facebook since I got the new device, primarily because I don't use Facebook all that often.

But despite the outrage here, I can see the vast majority of Facebook users finding this sort of thing useful. I know it seems counter-intuitive but there are A LOT of people that use and like Facebook.
The actual conclusion is fairly clear also
"Developers and users cannot rely on Microsoft's current compiler mitigation to protect against the conditional branch variant of Spectre."

"Speculation barriers are only an effective defense if they are applied to all vulnerable code patterns in a process"
Which they are not, since that would be a huge performance hit.
Tldp.org does not respond anymore 8-o
This sounds like a very bad news for the GNU / Linux community.
TLDP was a true biblio place of GNU / Linux knowledge :-/
awesome! look forward to trying it
Wrong guy. That's the troll from Sun. David Miller is the SPARC Linux guy.
Isaac Asimov wrote in The Caves of Steel, that human body could last 300 years. But on special diet, in sterile environment...
Quite a lot of fuss over not a lot of real estate.

Not much here to indicate that Peter considers this a real bug out plan. At this stage it seems more likely that he just enjoys the views.
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> Is the 2018 really that much safer than 2007?

Yes. The raw stats show that newer cars half around a 50% reduction in fatal accidents. You can find the stats here[0], but the relevant information is below (Sorry the formatting isn't great. You can find this exact chart from the linked page, the important point is that the numbers are about half of what they were):

Occupant deaths per million registered passenger vehicles 1-3 years old, 1978-2016
Year	Drivers	All occupants
Cars	Pickups	SUVs	All passenger vehicles	Cars	Pickups	SUVs	All passenger vehicles

2006	77	101	49	73	112	137	74	106
2007	70	95	44	67	104	128	69	99
2008	65	87	35	61	92	114	52	85
2009	57	63	25	49	82	83	36	69
2010	49	64	20	43	71	80	29	61
2011	43	49	17	37	62	66	24	52
2012	42	44	16	35	61	56	23	49
2013	41	39	19	34	58	52	26	48
2014	37	38	18	32	53	47	24	44
2015	42	40	20	35	62	52	29	51
2016	43	39	21	35	63	48	32	51

A lot of things are simple, like standard back-up cameras. Newer cars also have stronger frames and more air bags (Especially side airbags, which your car almost definitely lacks).

One feature in particular, ESC[1][2], is probably not on your car but is mandatory for all cars 2012 and later, and IIHS estimated in 2006 that if the feature was standard on every car it would prevent as much as 1/3 of all fatal crashes each year (And of course, the above charts don't disagree with this estimate).

[0] http://www.iihs.org/iihs/topics/t/general-statistics/fatalit...

[1] http://www.iihs.org/iihs/news/desktopnews/electronic-stabili...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_stability_control#E...
About the she-wolf that raised Romulus and Remus: keep in mind that said she-wolf was most probably a prostitute, rather than an animal[0], much to the disdain of medieval clergy and dictators infatuated with mythology.
[0](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lupa)
It's important that no exploitable paths get missed. An attacker needs only a single vulnerable code pattern, which can be anywhere in a process's address space (including libraries and other code that have nothing to do with security).

Hmm, I don't understand this statement. My (simplistic) understanding of this attack is that speculative execution produces detectable side-effects that result in memory being leaked from another address space that the attacker isn't supposed to be able to read. Surely if Spectre is used to leak the contents of something useless then that's not going to help the attacker compromise the application. Spectre is read-only, right? Am I missing something?
> Yep. As as a European WhatsApp has become as essential as breathing.

Sorry to burst your bubble, but I am an European, and I have never used WhatsApp.
Electronic fare collection systems are municipal IT projects and, as such, not cheap.
What an amazingly deep analysis of a person's mind just based on a few words.
The Gompertz–Makeham law the author uses, actually allows also to modelize the accidental death rate. I don't know how hard it is to fit this additionnal parameter with real-world data though.
I know a few people that completely block every IP range owned by Google, Amazon, or Facebook.

Most of that works fine, sometimes some shitty websites are on AWS or GCP or load JS frameworks from their CDNs, but the worst is:

You can't connect from Android to their WiFi anymore.

Android pings a Google server, if it can't open a connection, it immediately disconnects. In Android 8.1, there's no way around that anymore. You can try every setting in the WiFi settings, and it won't change a thing.