skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, our blog is currently a pain to work with in a few ways. It's generated straight out of our source repository from Markdown files, and you have to do the full pull request, merge, deploy to get posts out.

We're looking at moving the blog to another platform, and usability review will be part of that!
> The QNX OS from Harman

Is it true that Panasonic makes some head units for FCA? Are all UConnect head units Harman?
My apologies. I'm not a consultant. That was a joke.
When you start seeing cycles or cps instead of Hz in the references you know you have reached the good stuff! x)
"Who are the Biggest Procrastinators?"[0] by David Allen

[0]: https://gettingthingsdone.com/2016/06/who-are-the-biggest-pr...
But one could argue it‘s always better to re-invent something superior and the timeframe might as well be nonexistent
Learning to speak quantum
There are two phase wires and one neutral. Diff between phases is 240V, the diff between any phase and neutral is 120V.

In Europe, you have three phases (R,S,T) and neutral. Here the diff between any phase and neutral is 250V, and the diff between any two phases is 380V.
Can confirm they use creosote....nasty nasty stuff.
I like AMP. Brave browser seems to block most of the ads by default, and I get the speed benefits for free.

I really dislike ads or using my CPU cycles to mine bitcoins for unrelated entities (cough cough Salon).

Am I stealing the information these entities provide for free on open Internet connections? Maybe. I don't really care though. I also benefit similarly by gut bacteria processing my food, and also don't want them taking their "fair" share of my life by ending up in places they don't belong. This particular analogy is, of course, open for expansion.
Not really. They're pretty different things.
Yes - assuming you trust Google not to fiddle it. I would expect that a document I stored in Google Drive wouldn't update itself a week later.
Yes. I would say there it is pertinent to consider why the Senator did not word the question as "Would you recommend private American citizens avoid using products or services...".
This problem is even worse with PCL, which is so viscous it's almost unusable for most purposes. Thinking about PCL fibers in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16380491, it occurred to me that I had made some crude PCL fibers by hand — while the plastic wasn't molten. So it occurred to me that you could probably make PCL fibers by the process of die drawing, the same way you make copper fibers or steel fibers, maybe without even the annealing steps in the middle. Presumably this would work for a variety of plastics with high elongation at break.
Still used in the audio world to this day, because it has a short coding delay. This patent expiry will be good news to many.
Ask HN: How did your startup begin doing business with the government?
What was your path to doing business with the government and ultimately winning a contract? What challenges did you encounter to procure those contracts?
we will see how good DVB-T2 will be... I don't think it will get critical mass and it will end up being used for LTE/next gen.
I mean it's mostly a paid service, at least in germany and it will not have any benefits over next gen mobile network. at some point it's easier to merge terrestial over IP, especially if you can have IPv6 only networks, which makes some stuff simpler (multicast + mcast routing).

Also LTE next can already do everything DVB-T2 is capable of, so I doubt that without any full free plans that DVB-T2 will gain traction.

There is also a standard for mobile television called MBMS which will probably kill of any dvb-t stuff in the long term.

Edit: since we talked about a codedc. most of these services currently use H.264 and I do not think that they will migrate to H.265. Guess as soon as mobile devices ship with hardware AV1, there will be Mobile TV with AV1.
The existence of patents also was meant to create an industry for selling ideas rather than physical goods.

How often are people really inventing novel things, patenting them, and then licensing them out to other parties or selling the rights? By far the most applied use case of patents is to fabricate or buy bullshit IP to sue anyone even remotely close to your product or service into bankruptcy.

In some ways, yes, patents have created jobs. Except the job is not to be innovative or discover new things, but to manipulate and optimize your language in a patent filing to cover as much existing IP as possible that you can then harass with your patents.

It is only most obvious with software patents because of how insane it is to restrict math like that.

The question always has to be do the benefits outweigh the costs. Are the few and far between actively able to use the patent system as a means to come up with legitimately novel inventions worth all the innovation lost to corporations using patents as weapons to shut down competition and prevent innovation.
> patents are not intended for [...] business processes

Says who?

> that's essentially all software really is

The implementation of MPEG2 is "business logic"? I wouldn't call it that.
That's good to hear. One of the reviews I saw said that it did not maintain that connection; maybe that was a bug or I misunderstood.
VMware Acquires CloudCoreo
https://github.com/kelseyhightower/nocode
> Both prongs absolutely carry power.

Both carry current. But not power. Power is volts * amps, and the neutral is defined as zero volts (if you ignore the voltage drop).

> you can get shocked when working on junction boxes for the neutral line

Only from the voltage drop on that wire. It's not the full 120v. (Unless it's cut of course, but that's a whole different story.)

> Here you use voltages as a relative measure, which is correct.

First you introduce the concept, then later, explain other less important details. And that's how I wrote it.

> Walking on carpet in the winter, I can be at a potential of thousands of volts away from that though.

It's a good nitpick :)
Mousewheel/scroll too!
And what about the facts coming out about voting system intrusion and all the buzz about manipulated voter rolls that could easily have accounted for the number of votes that dictated the outcome of the election in key states?

It was quite a bit more than "some ads on FB and twitterbots" and to downplay the extent of their actions is disingenuous.
I'm not sure that's true. The big player, Hughesnet, has satellites in geosynchronous orbit over the US. You can't "see" those from China.

SpaceX's plan is unique in that they aren't planning to run satellites in fixed, geosync orbit, to my knowledge nobody is doing that yet.
While GDPR should be a privacy win for users, it is a giant pain for us as a small business. 1% of our customers are in the EU and the administrative overhead (as portrayed by our legal counsel) is unbearable at our price point. We decided to pull out of the EU, along with the other players in our niche.
Why not play the two big TechCos off each other? Use a Google Voice phone number on an account whose backup is "user@facebook"

That way you've decoupled those particular services and annoyances from the rest of your life.
12 years ago I started out of college at $75k. Starting salaries are much higher now if you live in a major tech area (100k+ for SF Bay or new york city).
> Don't actually do this, but if you were to cut the neutral line with a live circuit, you would see sparks

Only if something were actually drawing moderate current to cause the arc. But yes, one side of that cut is likely to end up "hot" and could give you a decent shock.

(How many levels deep can we nitpick here...)
Realistically the cost of entry is more like $2,000 which is not a small, powerful group of players.
Every algorithm is in some language, which means it's software.
I don't think so actually, it seems like they are having a series of old SHAs hanging out, not just one new and one old. I did have the reaction you did initially though and had to do some reading between the lines to come to the conclusion that this is not what they're doing, so you could be right!
Have you thought about making woven products with the UHMWPE you're presumably using? I want to replace my daily-carry satchel, which is leather, and the 200 grams of leather is a big chunk out of my 1500-gram satchel budget. I'd actually thought about building a machine to unbraid UHMW fishing line and thread it onto a bobbin for weaving. And 20–30 denier was about what I was hoping for; I feel like 20–30 denier UHMW twill would make for a satchel that was satiny, lightweight, impossible to stain, easy to clean, abrasion-resistant, and damn near bulletproof.
The bill text [1] appears to only transfer authority related to section 9(a) of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993. Maybe I'm reading this wrong, but it looks like the FEC only regains the ability to coordinate voter registration regulations and processes--not regulating general election standards.

Huge grain of salt: I'm not well versed in reading legal documents and may be way off the mark.

[1]: https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/634/...
Yeah, probably true - I did mention our non-standard DIGEST.SHA1 (I'd like to change that algorithm at some point, though the risks are kind of overblown, particularly since we inject some randomness in the SESSIONID field that's part of the Received header added on every delivery)

That said, if you tried to claim that a message was from somebody and used a tampered version, then checking the DKIM signature is something I expect would be done as part of the forensic analysis, as would checking the mail server logs. At least on our servers, you'd be able to tell from the logs that the digest changed when the new copy was uploaded - assuming you claimed something about downloading it and moving it to a new folder with your client.
No, they typically bail out banks because otherwise the government is on the hook for the shortfall anyway because of the federal insurance of the individual accountholders balances.
The little known secret of ALL cryptos, is that they are all fundamentally backed by a SOCIAL consensus, and not just a technical definition.

If everyone in the world just decides that a new fork of bitcoin IS bitcoin, then it really does become bitcoin.

This exact thing happened with Ethereum. A bunch of people in the community just decided to hardfork, and then it happened. And now the hard forked ethereum is the real ethereum.

Computing power doesn't stop your "real" version of the old currency from becoming worthless, and the "new" "forked" version of the same currency from becoming worth more money.
Why Is Instagram So Worried About My Mental Health?
EzPi4ME – Using a Raspberry Pi to Get Rid of Intel ME for Dummies
Google experiment writes IM replies for you, lets you send them with a tap
220V isn't very high in the power world. The US has 765 KV. I'm not sure what the highest voltage cable in the world is, but now I'm curious.
They care about cultural values. If you've been raised your whole life to believe that every good thing in your life is because you live under your current political system, your self-interest and interest in your family will manifest as a desire to uphold that political system.
Road salt and underground vaults isn't a great combo.

At the micro scale: Toronto Hydro had to start a campaign of replacing its handwells or spraying then with an insulating coating because children and pets were getting shocked.

https://www.torontohydro.com/sites/electricsystem/Documents/...

At the macro scale:

Mmoke from vault fire: Nearby building closed for 6 months for decontamination

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/rbc-hydro-vault-fire-t...
While this page is mostly about sound waves, here's a great talk using similar tools to explain RF:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUGr_Z04SKs&t=12m31s

Here's the interactive slides to play with:
http://visual-dsp.switchb.org/
This web page is also the first I've heard of Halide and Polyhedral Compilation. This is exciting to me because I've been working on relational (database) data and logic comprehensions, and in a case of convergent evolution Halide looks a lot like my notation and Polyhedral Compilation looks much like diagrams I've been drawing on my whiteboard. Where can I learn more on this?
Most manufacturers are installing firewalls in 2018+ vehicles, so even if someone hacked the headunit, even in drive by wire systems it shouldn't be able to control your accelerator, transmission, parking brake, steering, etc. With the past few years of vehicle hacking and the automakers being embarrassed, they have started to take Bus security extremely seriously.

In my opinion, with full display gauge clusters becoming popular, the entertainment and vehicle operation busses should be completely separate (including unique J1962 interfaces for each). Any software driven driver options should be controlled via the gauge cluster display instead of the entertainment system. That way, it's nearly impossible for a head unit hack to affect vehicle safety and control ECUs.
Sure - and as I said in the blog post - this is already an issue with embedded images - which can be made to look pretty good and, if remote, can be changed later. Spam scanners penalise messages that are just a remote image for good reason.
As a counter point: What if your old 2006 car decides to die while you're going 60+ on the highway because it's old, and you die because it doesn't have as many safety features as newer cars do?

I mean, I get where you're coming from, I share some of the same worries you do, but the reality is that there is already hard evidence that newer cars are tons safer then older cars. It's really not clear to me that you can conclude that the chance of your new car deciding to kill you because of a software update/issue is a higher risk then the one you're taking by driving an old car. All of the examples you've given are more or less one-off events with newer cars, and they are serious, but people die every day in crashes with old cars that they could have survived or could have been prevented completely with a newer car with better safety features.
Then you should use Apple Mail for macOS which has the option of including a PDF of the webpage rather than the obviously fragile URL.
What browser are you using? I can’t reproduce this on Firefox for Android (scrollbar rendered in grey, as is usual) and can’t easily imagine what could be causing it.
Car companies seem exceptionally bad at both software and hardware. Not only does the tech lag years behind the industry, it's horrendously designed. Like, your media network should be airgapped from your critical systems, but in practice they are not. This allows people to make your car slam on its breaks using nothing more than radio waves.
Kotlin/Native v0.6 is Here
really like the demo of you hanging in the climbing harness for a demo of strength, but I request the following demo of strength:

A belt sander.

Put a side of beef/ham/whatever (sorry vegans) in a pair of these hose and rub it up against a belt sander.

This will emulate "road rash" that could ensue assuming you do a sports line (like sleeves/leggings/elbow/knee-pads/etc)

you have established your strength arg, but now please establish your anti-abrasion claim. Then you become a unicorn.

Also; please measure the hydrophobic properties of your material.
Got a KX3 a while back and I can confirm that it does live up to the hype. I may be getting their 100W amp down the line with the current state of the band conditions though.
user@facebook.com email addresses were killed, even in their reduced, forwarding-only form, on May 1, 2016.

So that's not going to work.
Interesting use case! I hadn't considered going in that direction, but it does remind me of a pitch I saw on Shark Tank where someone used UHMWPE to create a bag. https://loctote.com/
Thanks for this writeup! You've done a great job at organizing many of the points that were discussed in this Bitcoin thread[1] from last month. I'll be using this as a starting point for discussion with friends that are interested in cryptocurrency.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16158463
Be careful, you just might get what you wish for.

There definitely are major problems with the patent system and with copyright but without them there would be other problems taking the place of the ones that we have now.

Reform is the way to go, and reform - good reform anyway - is hard to get right.
Thanks, it was interesting.

From the article:
"To my mind, translation is an incredibly subtle art that draws constantly on one’s many years of experience in life, and on one’s creative imagination."

This is true, I just think that we'll arrive at the tools to accomplish this in the future.

Specifically I think(hope) it will be through clever application of GANS and reinforcement learning after a few more applications of moore's law.

Advanced AI would be able to learn about us through replaying years of possible generated experiences.
Ahh, you are right. I didn't think about that possibility because I don't have a smartphone.
Source 5 is a broken link. It should be:

https://www.barrons.com/articles/the-bitcoin-consensus-yes-i...
Only other possibility is a download to a USB stick. Not sure if they have this option though.
Thanks Mike! Appreciate you saying so. I've really been enjoying the conversation.
Not if you've already converted. Those are likely wasted impressions that drag down numbers, not improve them.

Often what can happen is you can have retargeting lists setup that populate automatically, but depending on how they are implemented, how frequently they are updated, etc., they may have set things up as exclusion lists properly (or even just removed people from the retargeting list). Likewise, that data may not carry over super well across devices in all cases.

This stuff can be a headache to setup and maintain, particularly at scale, and I think a lot of people don't realize the complexity of what is involved when they haven't done it themselves.
Probably they computerized this back in the seventies, and the books are moldering in a closet somewhere.

Oh, sweet naive summer child.
There are Procurement Technical Assistance centers in every region of the country. They are staffed by former procurement officers, and help companies learn how to sell to government and prime contractors.

http://www.aptac-us.org/
How  Women in Tech Can Take Action in 2018
text/x-amp-html is intended as an optional enhancement over an email that other clients will still be able to cope with. So un-AMP-ing is mostly just called using the text/html part instead of the text/x-amp-html part.

Pre-downloading or proxying content is theoretically quite possible with AMP (its limitations make that possible where it would not be readily possible with freeform JavaScript), but some modes of doing so will probably play hob with its interaction models. But it’s too early to reasonably review that aspect of it—better to wait until we can see what people actually do with AMP.

Make no mistake: AMP is all about making emails applications instead of static messages. That is its raison d’être.
The younger generation seems to call Facebook by the name MomBook. Facebook is losing younger people by the millions.
No, I work for business people. The very same type of people you tell me I should gift money by leaving it on the table.

This is going to be the last reply, but you've not made your case as to why I should gift my employer free money by leaving it on the table. There is exactly zero benefit to me for not getting everything I can, and quite a bit of upside. I have also found your double standard regarding the behavior of companies and the behavior of employees, and your handwaving away of that double standard, to be quite insane.

In short, you feel free to do whatever you want, and gift your employer free money. I, on the other hand, am going to take care of myself and my family by getting the maximum value I can out of the time I have to give my employer, and get paid as much as I can.
It's a type of pride that I can barely remember having. I think as westerners we don't feel a threat to our country's reputation when outsiders are criticizing it, we trust that our country is perceived to be generally good no matter what.
I wouldn't trust it for write concurrency but it's been great for my use case (reads are multiple orders of magnitude more frequent than writes; and the writes can be queued), I'm using s3sqlite for this from the Zappa project: https://github.com/Miserlou/zappa-django-utils/blob/master/z....
There aren't any mathematical tricks, rather how the real world (generator) translates to math.

The generator at the power company has 3 stators that are on equal distance between each other on a circle.
As the rotor rotates, it induces AC voltage at each of them.

Because the rotor rotates at a stable speed, the AC voltage follows a sine function.

Because the stators are placed 2/3pi apart, their sine waves have a phase difference of 2/3pi.

Because 2/3pi+2/3pi+2/3pi=2pi, if you add them all together then you get 0 (sin[2pi]=0) and this is your neutral wire.

Quite honestly I learned that very late in the university which is a pity.
Once you see how the real world translates to math, many things (like euler's formula which is of utmost importance for engineers) fall in place.
Even NPR reports that there was no voting machine fraud perpetrated by Russian actors, only that intelligence agencies say it appears they tried and expect them to try some more.

Interestingly WaPo is going counter tight wing as well as left wing predispositions and calling for national voter id.
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This is terrible and totally shit. FB had opt in by default spam notifications when I provided my number and as I stopped using the service regularly spammed my number. I turned off notifications and then the password reset link didnt work via phone. Also, the random intentional "security" interruption to force you to send a selfie to train their AI model.
Yes. One of Tesla's more useful inventions was figuring out an simple way to get a synchronous motor started. Pre-Tesla schemes involved auxiliary starting motors and clutches. Tesla figured out how to run a synchronous motor in induction motor mode during starting.
A bit of information: Openstreetmap includes a field for the identification number on utility poles. A lot of people fill this field in when they do mapping (I do). Thus OSM is quite a good reference for these numbers, and the general topology of the electricity grid.
The best example in my stats class on why sampling was used: working for the phone company he had to determine if poles were rotting. Practically speaking he could not use a random sample: he sent a pole climber to an area and while there, climb a few or several in the area. It would not be practical to climb one here, another 3 miles away, etc..
I'm not accusing you of anything.

When I wrote

> The "don't roll your own crypto" is simply wrong in general

then I meant the negation of

> The "don't roll your own crypto" is true in general

I should have used the much clearer

> The "don't roll your own crypto" is not always correct

I differentiate between "A is not true" and "not(A) is true". The latter I use when the negation of A is a tautology, the former I use when A may or may not be true.

In the case of "A is wrong in general" this led to

"A is wrong in general"

-> "A is not true in general"

-> "not(A is true in general)"

-> "not(A is true in all cases)"

-> "There are cases where not(A) is true".
The value of that MP3 vs FLAC is like 90% less than it was 20 years ago.
Among sports, keep dance in mind — somehow, we became a dance family, and we go through a lot of tights!
Inflation seems to only kick in when it enters the money cycle (non-banking sectors). The US Fed built up massive amounts of securities holdings over the last 10 years which injected a lot of money into the economy. However, inflation mostly never materialized because banks held onto that money instead of lending it out.