skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd say it's been a worthwhile investment -- but not really on the merit of the community. That's probably my own fault: the community seems cool and I probably ought to be less of a hermit. There are certainly plenty of Chinese Esperantists; the China Radio International (the PRC's equivalent of Radio America, roughly) even has an Esperanto service that's pretty interesting to listen to[1].

What's really made it a worthwhile investment is that it's given me a better understanding of language itself. All languages have idiosyncrasies, including Esperanto -- but Esperanto's idiosyncrasies are unusually consistent, making it really easy to map things onto. So I often find it easier to comprehend some weird construct in (say) Hindi or Japanese by mapping it onto straightforward Esperanto, rather than trying to map it onto an English construct that's probably even weirder.

Plus it's just such an easy win. I can order off a menu and find my way around town in a fair handful of languages, but haven't really gotten much further than that. But I can easily read just about anything in Esperanto, with 1/10th the effort that I've put into any other language. Which is just kinda gratifying to be able to do.

1: http://esperanto.cri.cn/
I think the CTOs role here would probably be to make sure a process or team is in place to do this but not actually do it themselves? (For a company the size of oculus)
This seems to be a somewhat common type of problem. I wonder if companies should routinely test on machines with the clock set one year into the future to catch them before they hit customers.
> I think "team software engineering" plays a big part of this, if not even the main reason.

You're not wrong, but perhaps that's an indication that software companies should use language & environments which enable them to have fewer developers, and enable those developers to keep track of things like resource usage?
It seems much more likely to just be invention of fire and control of fire. Turning cellulose into energy that promotes some sort of evolutionary advantage is pretty limited in the macroscopic biological world. Sure, cows and the like do it, but only by enlisting the aid of bacteria and having four stomachs, etc. This excess energy and exclusive ecological niche then allow for more complex social systems, feeding into some sort of positive loop selecting for intelligence.

That's all conjecture from me, but it seems to make sense from basic principles.
Explaining Modern Authentication Like I'm Five
This is cool. I was wondering, though, because it isn’t mentioned — is the music part of her software or was it put on top by the people that interviewed her? My favorite demoscene productions are the ones that include music.

Also, did she upload her work to pouet.net? I think probably she hasn’t but it’d be cool if she did.
Steam does several billion dollars in sales each year. Just maintaining that alone must take a significant portion of their 300+ employees.
Agreed, its a long time coming, but it's definitely coming: http://www.socketsite.com/archives/2017/11/housing-pipeline-...
Hi there -- We are currently ingesting 150M/day -- though it's not evenly distributed -- probably peaks around 3,000qps

Agreed that it's not too much yet. I think the element which kills us is needing to do rollup tables, and then query against both the raw data and rollup data for our customer analytics dashboard.

The data is a combination of date/time, strings, and ints. 22 fields.
Here's a great example of subtle media bias in mainstream print media from today.

The Washington Post just emailed an alert about the FL legislature's passage of SB 7026, the gun bill in response to the Douglas HS shooting:

"Defying NRA, Florida legislature passes new rules to impose waiting period, raise purchasing age for long guns

The Florida House bill imposes a three-day waiting period for most purchases of long guns and raises the minimum age for purchasing those weapons to 21... The response to the Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that left 17 dead signaled a major shift for a state known as a legal laboratory for gun rights activists. It could become a blueprint for other states looking at new measures to address mass shootings."

Now, that spin would have you believe that this was a major Democrat victory and an NRA defeat.

In reality, the bill was watered down to near-meaninglessness and actually passed with Republican support and over Democrat opposition. All but 3 Democrat senators opposed it. 31 of 41 Democrat House members opposed it. None of that critical detail enters the WP narrative at all.
Is it open source?

I mean, what if it breaks, can I go in and fix it myself?

If you decide to raise prices on me, can I just host it myself on AWS?

Are there any opaque parts?
Answering question #1, an alter table command that adds a new column without a default value is essentially free. Even on a large table. Even if the table is busy. However altering an existing column, or inserting one with a default requires locking the whole table.

But adding a column is a much more common operation than anything else, so this gets rid of the biggest pain point.
Influxdb is a new fancy cloud bullshit to scam you. Don't fall for it. Eventually it will get rekt like everything rekts. You can't replace decades of hard work of postgresql engineers with a fancy toy.
Any app that had microphone permission at all already has your permission to use your microphone.
UUID1 vs. UUID4
(life insurance good to go)
I think a lot of the engineers are working on new filters.

Then a bunch are working on 'location based promoted filters", these are basically just graphic designers, or maybe web designers, but they are getting lumped in.
It's more complex than a display; it's a display plus a collection of USB sensors and some low-level hooks into display management. This requires kernel-mode drivers, for good technical reasons, where a normal monitor wouldn't.
Virtual private networks with WireGuard
> It's simply impossible for FB to record audio.

You should check your sources again - that statement is false.... You only have to look at the release notes from the dev preview on Android P today to see that was possible for any background app to access the camera and microphone at any time:

https://developer.android.com/preview/behavior-changes.html#...

> Android P strengthens privacy by limiting the ability of background apps to access user input and sensor data. If your app is running in the background on a device running Android P, the system applies the following restrictions to your app: Your app cannot access the microphone or camera.
I wasn't aware of telepresence. Why have you opted to go this route over using docker compose and bind mounting host volumes? Does this work across all major platforms? (Windows/Mac/Linux)
I'm curious what you do for Postgres to get an HA, as the last time I worked with Postgres it was a nightmare to get even a bare bones HA working. I swore I'd never touch it again until they had a real HA solution. I ask ever year or so and keep being told it still doesn't have one.
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Yes! I had this idea too (or maybe I stole it off you, who knows :). Though I changed my mind at some point and thought I would first do it according to preferred retailer (since I normally want to order at Farnell and then RS, if Farnell doesn't have it, because both will deliver next-day in the UK for free). Check 1.6 and 2.0 on the 1-click BOM roadmap [1]. Though it may be better to integrate this with Kitspace.org rather than build it into the extension.

[1]:https://github.com/monostable/1clickBOM#roadmap
I think that's better handled through a Certificate Revocation List (CRL), especially in this case where's it's fairly easy to enforce and keep up to date.
Great, I feel like an idiot. I advocated slack, because it granted the freedom to choose a client. Now I helped lock-in others.

Suggestions for alternatives, that I could migrate to? The requirements are: mid sized teams, desktop and mobile, all major os. People used web based client, native clients, irc gw, and bots. We need search and archive. Self-hosting is an option.
Your influx cloud pricing is exorbitant because ifluxdb is a slow piece of incompetence multiplied by exorbitant AWS prices.
That's not very typical. (Pun intended, and John Clarke reference intended too.)

It was just a mistake. Given the topic, it's possible that that was written by someone who's not a native speaker - but whose writing is otherwise very good. (And arguably better than that showoff sentence!)

As you noted, a native American English speaker would write "...a language whose reach..." And that's that.

RIP John Clarke:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM
Includes a nice description of how WireGuard works on Linux, and how it's different from other VPN implementations.
That may be true for greybeards, but I've found the opposite with people of the younger generations.
Druid Society in Ancient Europe
How is the cost for iOS/Android integration?
Why humans learn faster than AI–for now
The psychological experiments scandal was a nothingburger from the start. Facebook is not an academic research institution. They already operate with user's consent. Every business that engages in advertising or product design is performing psychological experiments.
but I can't help commenting on a post like this I mean seriously. Earth is such a terrible joke.
Have they confirmed whether they are giving up on their hardware play or not?
Uber has burned through $10.7B of investors’ money
Robot smashes Rubik’s Cube record with 0.38-second solve
Rekindling the magic of computing - broadcasting Analog TV on an ESP8266
Some of the bigger SaaS companies are missing from the list
First Tesla Semis Leave Nevada Gigafactory, Filled with Batteries
To be fair, people who believe that are not bright bulbs. They fail at very simple statistical analysis and conspiracy theory testing.
Seems like alot of us have an issue surrounding walled gardens. We too see the problem and have recently launched https://m.io to tackle the lack of interoperability across teams and platforms. For now we're allowing for anyone to chat across teams and with users that are on other enterprise messaging platforms like Cisco Spark.
Recommended practice is to timestamp windows drivers (and software) when they are signed. Without a timestamp, the driver is not trusted after the signing cert expires, which I guess is what happened here.

With a timestamp, as long as the signing date was within the signing cert's validity period, the signed driver continues to be trusted beyond the signing certificate expiration.
...and I just deleted the Uber app.
Do "smart" tap systems exist? Here's what I'm imagining:
* instead of a tap being a valve that opens or closes, relieving or building pressure, a tap is a switch that signals..
* to the "smart manifold" that it should start pumping water (hot or cold) to that output.
* if the tap is shut off, the water is sucked back out of that piping and recycled.

So then you would have instant hot or cold water, instead of any mixing at all.

Here are some reasons why this is a dumb idea:
* can't handle branching,
* pipe networks have "welling points" where water will simply remain by gravity, and no pumping will get it out.

Has anyone tried something similar?
It really sucks. Apple did the same:

https://www.appleworld.today/blog/2016/8/8/hey-apple-any-pro...
Your pocket is irrelevant. Location tracking and shared marketing databases have nothing to do with what was in your pocket.
VVPATs do not add complexity, they cheaply allow a layman to verify if a proper record of his/her vote was produced.

I can't parse your last sentence, sorry.

PS: Yes, I would prefer to redesign the whole thing from scratch and tightly integrate physical and electronic records, as in an optical scanner, but this is very unlikely to happen anytime soon.
Brain tissue samples suggest we stop growing new neurons in our early teens
Take a look at Matrix. https://matrix.org/
I solved this problem for a small house w/ oversized hot water pipes by installing an endpoint electric tankless heater. It had a sensor for incoming temperature so it would apply electric heat until the hot water from the tank caught up. The initial phase wasn't as hot as the direct feed, but it made it comfortably warm (vs the very cold winter water.). Installing that was much cheaper than adding a return circulation loop - but I wish I had thought of the option dropping the pipe diameter now. Though it might have still been cheaper to install the point heater.
Tangentially related, I have to take issue with this:

> addressing with user-owned identifiers like phone numbers

Phone numbers are owned by telecoms, not users. Sometimes they're transferable between telecoms, but not always. I, in particular travel internationally often and do not maintain phone service in the same country continuously. I've had to change phone numbers with Signal and Whatsapp a couple times now and have not found it to be a particularly friendly experience.

I got a free Google Voice number and might use that in the future, but I had to tie that to another US-based phone number. What will happen if someone else starts using that number, especially if they also connect a Google Voice account to it?

I don't know that I have a better design in mind, but using a phone number as an identity has some nasty edge cases.
I think they're sort of caught between a rock and a hard place - a lot of "retail investors" have bought into cryptocurrency at this point. Aggressive action by the SEC to crack down on digital currency would adversely affect the price of said currency, almost certainly harming "retail investors" in the process.

I'm using quotes because that's code for unsophisticated investors, the very group the SEC is supposed to protect.
If they have positional data they could do a correlation of location speed, along time time of week. If they constantly see you going to the same places on the weekends, that might be a clue, especially if in close proximity. Especially if traveling at the exact same high speed in close proximity (Driving there). GPS, at the high range, can tell location within meters.

And none of this would have to happen while you were talking about cars, or anything else. Just enough times to make the correlation, and with data that could have been collected months to years ago. Google Now did that for my commute from work to home.

I think it is more likely Facebook is using location data to create edges on a shadow social network. We just bleed metadata.
>Can you imagine if a student organization supporting American students studying abroad was deemed suspicious because the US Embassy bought them a turkey or two at Thanksgiving?

no imagination needed. In Russia the organizations accepting foreign resources (private or public doesn't matter) must register as "foreign agents".
Enterprises do this on PC --- they have to be able to MITM all their user's traffic. Not sure how mobile devices are covered.

As for transparency, look to GDPR and friends to see what rights are being declared.
Well, personally, I subscribe to:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_walk_hypothesis
Animated images and emoji can be disabled in the Accessibility settings.

Spritesheets can be disabled under Advanced.

Maybe it helps, sorry I have no before/after but my Slack is sitting at 300MB right now and I deal with an high number of very active channels.
Telepresence is really neat, I saw a demo last week from another team member.

Speeding up builds is something I'm interested in. Google's FTL is one good solution; I think we'll see some more from their container tech team before long. Personally I've pitched a notion based on automatically building layers for "synthetic" images by identifying commonalities between filesystems.
So someone could set up a skinny people airline, with 15 inch seats for a lot less, and grab that sector, let the others carry the hippos...
It says that apps in the "background" cannot access user input and sensor data. This means that even if the app gains permission in the foreground, it won't have access when the app is running in the background.

Note that this use case was extremely rare anyway, but I know Google did this simply to ease people's minds (I know several people on the Android framework team).
There's lots of talk about controlling the user experience and doing UI experiments on the landing page and no instance of direct marketing to UX professionals. How come? Just curious.
Stuxnet used malicious drivers signed with a stolen Realtek certificate.
Smartphone-based blood pressure monitoring via oscillometric finger-press
I think you're on to something here about the indirection.

I too have witnessed the uncanny ads, but not even from my own phone (I don't have Facebook on my phone). A friend mentioned a particular restaurant I have never been to, been near, or searched for.

I can only assume my friend's conversation was geo-tagged either by my phone (android, no non-system mic access), or the data was combined on the server end to place both of us at the same place / same time, and used his recording to market to me.

I'd also like to note, the 'amount of bandwidth needed' is almost nothing by today's standards. Not to mention it can wait to transmit that data until on wifi. 8khz audio (telephone quality) is just kilobytes per second. A reasonably unsophisticated algorithm could trim the audio for an highs and lows (IE, statistically, sound below or above some dB threshold is trimmed because it won't be useful) and uploaded. We're talking about just a few kb per conversation.

Of course, the Facebook app is a memory, storage, and cpu hog (IMO), so I don't think it's unreasonable that given today's modern phone hardware some word recognition software may be present on devices themselves.
Nice app, I like the sending max amount ethers / tokens feature.
Is the increase fully accounted for by weakening solar protection, magnetosphere, and atmosphere?

What are the causes for reduced protection in the latter two?
This is why I’m reluctant to shift completely to ebooks.
The "run the DAG" part is very small and simple (as you can verify). I don't think there is a good argument against "rebuilding" that.

As I explained my motivation was primarily keeping my build description in my own datastructures (see the text database). IMO that's a very worthwhile goal. I then went on to see what it takes to NIH everything, and it turns out that detecting what files need to be rebuilt is hairy, especially considering transitive C includes (which requires a dependency cache). But there is no one solution to these problems, and I do think there is some value in controlling that logic.

And if you get the concepts right, it can be done. I've divided the code into loosely coupled building blocks. That hopefully makes it easier to understand. It should also be possible to recombine these blocks to make different build systems.
＞There's been an interesting trend over at least the last several months where NYTimes has been promoting fears about China

10+ years. NYT is at the frontier of American propaganda, as we saw with their Iraq lies following 9/11
The Newton quip is a missed opportunity to make a reference to Diamond, his favorite dog who burned up all his papers...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_(dog)
Something similar just happened to me. I have a windows computer I only Use for gaming. After the last update My Samsung display is no longer usable. It has a polarized effect now only when using the windows Computer. However the Computer Works fine Connected to another brand monitor. So much money, yet windows still sucks when it comes to most basic things
If doesn't affect their bottomline, then why will they bother?
We don't have a license fee or anything like that.

Right now we're working directly with everyone in the beta to understand their process and make things work.

We've added specific features like CSS/HTML export that people wanted for their workflow, and we've also spent a lot of time on Skype with folks to help them change their "throw pictures over the wall" process to ones that help them better bring their designs to production.
Out of curiosity, what is your toolstack?
Is Discord any better? It's still a centralized service run by one company, is it not?
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16541235, which is currently on the front page.
Instead of using <service>@, sign-up with <service><secret>@ and forward only the messages that match *<secret>@
However, it's worth noting that you call the official language of China "Mandarin" for political reasons. The analogy would be if you called French "Bureaucratese" and said "Yes, but Breton and Occitan are not mutually intelligible with Bureaucratese".

The statements "Bureaucratese is not mutually intelligible with Occitan" and "Mandarin is not mutually intelligible with Cantonese" are both true, but we could just say "French is not mutually intelligible with Occitan" and "Chinese in not mutually intelligible with Cantonese".
James Dyson on why not every device needs to be connected
clearly a bad sign from management as the co is looking for growth: $22b can’t afford it and if you’re left, you’re next ..
The matrix protocol has already emerged as a successor to IRC that maintains backwards compatibility. It has room encryption, voice and video, and it bridges to almost every chat service in existence (including Slack, at least until now).
It's great for consumers of APIs, especially focused on web frontends and mobile apps. That's about it.

Anyone offering APIs can help their users but like all things it takes effort to do and usually isn't worth it unless it's a very big service with lots of users.

If you control both the client and the server then there's little, if any, benefit over REST.
This is the most amazing and cool computing demo I've seen for a long while and left me thinking for a while just to understand what the heck the underlying technology is doing to make it happen.

It's sparked my interest in radio, televisions and Arduino. Unbelievably cool.

And if you liked that, here's some more inspiration:

Broadcasting COLOR Channel 3 on an ESP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcez5pcp55w

WebSockets for awesome on the ESP8266

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ISbmQTbjDI

AM Radio Transmitter on ESP32

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRXHd3HNzEo
But people posting tonnes of GIFs, emojis, and tagging @all on #general isn't spam? I don't disagree that email has a spam problem (though spam filters have gotten quite good in the past 20-30 years), just that spam isn't an email problem.
Based on the data exposed, probably from LinkedIn's employee count.
I do take requests but mostly for documenting other people's projects and getting them in a state to be put up. I was going to have a go at HackRF [1] next but if you know any good projects you would like to see put up, let me know.

https://github.com/mossmann/hackrf

P.S. I should really have a go at this power supply too: https://github.com/eez-open/psu-hw
> Slack initially integrated with IRC and XMPP because they were more popular than Slack.

Bait

> Now that Slack is much bigger than all IRC and XMPP traffic combined, the integration is no longer worth its weight in code.

Switch
They are reportedly working on two new versions: https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/12/snap-is-developing-a-secon...