skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get that MS isn't just twiddling their thumbs and that there are tradeoffs to be considered. It's just that from the outside, it looks like they're not really considering changing anything.

Also, I too can see that there is work that has gone into the task manager. It's still nowhere near where it should be, though. Personally, I'd switch to ProcessExplorer on any machine in a heartbeat, exept that I can't, because it's not bundled, and some businesses are very paranoid on software that has to be installed additionally. Note: I'm not saying it should be the default, but it should be there.

If the thing that's holding such changes back is the release model, then perhaps this reorg might change some things? Though, I somehow doubt that was the issue here...
I'm not interested in buying a Tesla because of the autopilot. Frankly, I'd buy a Tesla even without the autopilot option.
To reinforce your point, see all pre-modern crypto techniques. It cannot be argued that they worked, and they were all certainly security through obscurity.
Regardless of whether Tahoe winters are “real winter” or not, I don’t think they use salt in CA because of the environmental effects downstream - I believe they use sand instead.
Actually, that's downright terrible. I've used "Firefox" since it was called "Phoenix," but I know a lot of people that would click that link and go "huh? What is Firefox?"

The firefox homepage shouldn't be about advertising Quantum (which only applies to people already using Firefox and acutely aware of a new release (as it doesn't even introduce what Quantum is before diving in)), but rather about advertising Firefox itself.
Presuming it's OK to share own site: after countless iterations and lots of suggestions and feedback from HN and others, we're pretty happy with ours: https://neosmart.net/EasyRE/

Tells you what it does, tells a story, and then takes you right to the action. And it converts well for the market it serves.

Feel free to tell us what you think still sucks about it, constructive criticism > positive feedback.
They tried hardware. Whether they tried a product that the company had no hope of ever making practical and portable is the question.
Except for what happens when you get no sunshine.
My current CPU (AMD FX-8350) is a ZIF PGA Socket (AM3+)
What do you mean by KV access isn't it a relational data store? do you store the value as a blog? json? if so how do you then do queries on that value's values?
This prompted me to look up which states salt and which don't, and I learned the term "Salt Belt":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_Belt

(And yeah, you're right: CA isn't one of them.)
NVidia Open Sources GVDB v1.1, Sparse Voxel Library
Are you just figuring out that google is actually evil?
That's a nice project. I'll have to take a deeper look into it. Is there a central place where these types of projects pop up?
Yes, I saw it on page 3. It had 0 comments.
I think the OP stated that blockchains would alleviate the bureaucratic pains of international trade considerably. As bureaucracy requires labour, which is costly, I feel the value proposition is plausible.

Another feature is not related to inventory. Ledgers that have acute accountability features attached, where some stakeholders may have incentives to fake the records.

Like, for example transport truck driving schedules. Drivers are allowed only to drive so much, and there are penalties involved if the drivers don't rest enough. The main accountability measure here is the driving ledger. Whose maintainer has incentives to fudge it (the driver or the employer of the driver).
It’s a perfectly cromulent sentence.
Original documents are harder to reference directly but lots of old probate records have been transcribed; e.g.:

"The Probate records of Essex County, Massachusetts"

https://archive.org/details/probaterecordsof01dowg
America's Homeless Population Rises for First Time in Years (2017)
It's not jsx, which is just sugar for createElement(). It's because components are supposed to be stateless, but animations are inherently stateful.
Along with precedent and logical thinking.
I build few tools in Erlang few years back. The only thing hard during that period was there was little help as the Erlang community was not that great. I moved onto Elixir later on. Erlang is really an underrated language and hopefully integrations like these will help build a larger Erlang community.
Right? Why oh why it feels soo much like another Theranos?
Punchline:

GM Korea still wants the union to agree to cut benefits worth 80-90 billion won ($74-$84 million), a union official said on Tuesday. The automaker had already achieved cost cuts of over 500 billion won through union concessions on wages and bonuses and voluntary redundancies, the union official added.

GM Korea plans to slash 5,000 jobs, or about 30 percent of its workforce, but keep production steady if Seoul agrees to its $2.8 billion restructuring proposal, according to a document seen by Reuters earlier this month.

———-

The title makes it sound like the Union hasn’t budged. Sounds to me like they already gave a substantial fraction of what GM wanted.
Hashing passwords is security through obscurity by that reasoning. That does not make them less of a security function.

Just something to keep in mind.
I suspect there was a period when the older ones were better, even if this was mostly a matter of taste and survivorship bias. Bad violins and bad violin makers are forgotten to history while the very best ones (as judged by the very best players and orchestras) gradually gained stature and people exposed to those instruments decided the way they happened to sound was how fine violins are supposed to sound.

The trouble is, new violins kept getting better. A more interesting question might be when the quality of the new ones surpassed that of the older ones. I'd like to see a blind test rating that included new violins from 1990, 2000, 2010... Was there one particular step-change in quality that made a big difference, or was it just lots of mundane little changes?
A lot of folks who may download this app are unlikely to care about any of those questions. They only care that their problem is solved. If they landed on this website during their searches for an app to snooze notifications, the above the fold first paragraph answers that succinctly, promptly followed by a download button.
My apartment build has such a plaque because it was built on the site of an old factory or something. I am a recent import to California. I was not prepared for the amount of state sponsored signage.
The solution seems like it should just be a given, yet at the same time is really asking a lot of America.

It's pretty crazy that the combined market cap of 5 companies: Walmart, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Apple [0] are essentially equal to the entire GDP of Africa [1].

[0] https://www.marketwatch.com/story/amazons-market-cap-falls-b...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Africa
The huge growth of fake news/misinformation and punditry-as-news in the last couple years, which really has been on the rise for decades, seems analogous to trolling. It's very difficult to have a good discussion with nuance and mutual respect when trolls are involved in a thread. Likewise it seems the general public conversation is being disrupted and dumbed down. I see the same effect you do and I think on at least some parts it's intentional.
The Threadripper I put in last week begs to differ
Hmm. Your first comment is a complaint that the reason people talk about disease with regard to the conquest of the New World is to let themselves off the hook for genecide and that disease killing of the natives was largely a myth. I don't think you've demonstrated that. In fact your first link counters your whole argument as I understand it:

Abstract. The myth persists that in 1492 the Americas were a sparsely populated wilderness, -a world of barely perceptible human disturbance.- There is substantial evidence, however, that the Native American landscape of the early sixteenth century was a humanized landscape almost everywhere. Populations were large. Forest composition had been modified, grasslands had been created, wildlife disrupted, and erosion was severe in places. Earthworks, roads, fields, and settlements were ubiquitous. With Indian depopulation in the wake of Old World disease, the environment recovered in many areas. A good argument can be made that the human presence was less visible in 1750 than it was in 1492.

I don't think that anybody here is arguing that violence against the natives Americans didn't happen. (The genocide in Argentina was particularly egregious.) The discussion is about the importance of disease in the initial phases of colonization. I think that it's pretty clear a large die off was a necessary precuser to colonization. It is part of why you don't see as much European colonization on other continents.

You can read The Conquest of the Inca by John Hemming for an account of how disease affected the Inca before the Spanish invaded.

You can also read just about any history of Plymouth Colony to know that the settlers found an empty harbor to settle in. Accounts of Plymouth Colony like yours frustrate me because you imply that the settlers had to massacre people in order make an initial settlement when the massacre you refer to happened seventeen years after the initial settlement and comes from an incident where natives for fought alongside settlers. This is because the Plymouth settlers were initially welcomed by local tribes hoping to use them as support against their enemies.

This is why I bring up the universality of violence and empire. Oftentimes when people talk about colonialism as something that was done to the natives, as if the natives had no agency or understanding of their own. It reads like a sort of benevolent racism but I think that what's really going on is the replacement of one oversimplification with another.

Violence is not just a part of European and a few other civilizations but a part of humanity generally. This is important to understand. You can't treat the conquest of the Americas like it was some sort of aberration or the result of something specific to European culture that can be rooted out. This is a broader condition of humanity generally. So no, I don't think that modern gun violence has anything more to do with the conquest of the Americas than it does with the conquest of Babylon by Assyria.
Spain's military in row over flags at half mast for Easter
I'm reasonably certain that the link was changed from an article about the breach to the company's post.

I'm not completely certain, but that was my impression at the time I wrote the post.
We have this amazing pin-drop blood testing device. But no releasing papers for peer review is too risky. It's too revolutionary! No, don't ask us how it works, we don't even reveal it to family it's that amazing.

- Theranos
Depends on what is going on around you when it happens, how long it takes you to realize that something is wrong, and what to do about it. It wouldn't surprise me if many people would not even realize that they have power assist in the first place, and just assume that the wheel somehow got stuck and there is nothing they can do.

Although I would imagine that the most common failure case is the wheel slowly getting harder to turn over a period of days or weeks.
They are just yet another data mining/privacy invading marketing company

That type of company should be shunned, not touted as big tech
These days Google hands out your info to LE like its a street candy; it wasn't like this back in a day when I was a Noogler at least they had whole team looking at every single LE request; these days, I bet its just a blanket [select all], [accept].

Just another reason to switch to DuckDuck go, whether you are doing something shady or not.
Clojure Features
> How many EC2 instances can just be turned off and on?

I could actually imagine situations where you have loads that also follow a schedule -- for example, if you have a ton of data and customers can schedule summary generation/analyses, a lot of them will tend to schedule them on the first of the month (that is, after the last month has ended).

In a case like that with a predictable load, you could boot up a bunch of instances a bit before the end of the last day of a month, then turn them off (to go back to normal loads) a bit into the second day of the new month.

Machine learning could help you pick out other peaks, like say, every Monday or Sunday.
I initially really liked the idea of a hardware pepper, however, if that ever goes defunct or you need to spread the load over multiple machines the password now is invalid and the user is stranded and forced to recover their account via email or some other means. I think there are definitely areas where a hardware pepper would be awesome though!
California has a variety of climate areas, and a little googling tells me that they use various kinds of salt in the high Sierras, including the Tahoe area. Also, half of Tahoe is in Nevada, which uses salt.

Sand only works when it's barely freezing. Which can be true at low elevations, but not at 10,000'.
What If Prosecutors Wanted to Keep People Out of Prison?
Is Reddit 2.0 the one in Python? Was slightly confused and expecting Python when opening up the github repo.
Me thinks they didn't allow access to the db from just anywhere, regardless.
Can't we keep on applying the BB function i.e BB(BB(BB(...(BB(v)))) given that every application of BB still results in a finite number?
You have always gotten the canned response. That's not the point. If enough of us complain, the representatives sometimes get scared and change their positions. But we all gotta do it. We all gotta vote too. It's a collective action problem. Don't be a free rider
Seems like yet another own goal. If 12 states are now following the CARB model, and european emissions for both petrol and diesel engines are getting ever more stringent, why would automakers even want to bother with the remaining 38 states that have more lax standards? I'm not saying it's equally easy to comply with CARB and euro standards, just that the effort involved in meeting both of those is probably not worth skipping out on just to sell cars in less-populated states.

So, pass a pointless regulation that does nothing but point out how limited your power is?
Yes, but the state of California is the one enforcing it.
It would make more sense to warn customers about the health dangers of the sugars and calories.
there was this toy https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/paulgtoys/pterodactyl-5...

quite similar to this flying fox.
I appreciate the time you spent on your comment. Would you mind not indenting the block quote? People need to side-scroll to read it, which is particularly problematic on mobile. It's common on HN to use a ">" prefix and sometimes asterisks to italicize block quotes instead.
What Is the Best Way for a Software Developer to Stay Up to Date?
USB-PD is still allowed on classic USB-A/B ports
I think it’s possible to seek shelter at an alternate US airport without technically entering it through immigration.

From people’s real life experience: https://www.quora.com/What-happens-to-the-passengers-and-cre...
17£/mo is sustainable when your users are just scrolling through Facebook and streaming Spotify. When they're all using it as their primary data connection and watching a few hours of HD Netflix a night, you need to charge more.

Unlimited mobile data went away or got expensive in most places right around the time that smartphones gained the ability to act as wifi access points.
> Teen Boss isn't replacing kids reading the WSJ, it's replacing tweens swooning over boy band photos in Tiger Beat.

Why not say it "replaces" flying kites in the park?

> YT/Streaming isn't without its weirdness, but it's significantly more participatory and encouraging of people creating and making things as an alternative to purely consuming media.

Another false dichotomy.

> There are worse role models for kids.

Duh. You can say that about anything. If that's what you're reaching for as the first thing to say why something is "good", you should ask yourself what's going on.

Being obsessed with popularity is one thing, using numbers as "measure" of popularity is one degree more messed up.

Are there also better role models, or are these the best anyone could hope for?
Love the iconography and simple animations of the Roadmap landing page! The on-boarding experience of launchaco is phenomenal though.
I think hat the parent is saying is that you can adjust the lens of the camera to have the subject better fit the whole frame. For a scanner you’d need a specific adaptor and there aren’t so many readily available.
France, Germany under fire for failing to back ‘killer robots’ ban
"it's the lies that we tell ourselves, they introduce us to him"
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While policy will always be more important than individual contributions, for people wondering what they can do to address their personal carbon footprint without having a negative impact on their life: https://www.goclimateneutral.org

Btw, I'm not affiliated with them in any way. Just think it's a great service.
The minimum legal standard to manufacturer is not the same thing as "safe". Cut too many corners and you ruin the medication before it arrives.

For instance, I would run the fuck away from a Muro 128 generic sold by Walmart.

https://www.fiercepharma.com/supply-chain/bausch-lomb-blames...

> Bausch + Lomb began recalling 850,000 tubes of Muro 128 ointment--plus 35,000 tubes of an unbranded sodium chloride product sold by Major Pharmaceuticals--after users complained of a "gritty, sandlike feeling" in the eye, The Wall Street Journal reports. The Valeant Pharmaceuticals ($VRX)-owned ophthalmic specialist was unable to find the source of the problem at the manufacturing plant, leading it to conclude that the extreme cold experienced over the winter may have caused crystals to form in the product during shipping.

Do you really trust the logistical capabilities of Walmart's supply chain to properly control for temperature?
Yep, they're betting that there is a hope of that. They're not investing in blue chips here. I think it's a bit much to jump to the conclusion that ML knows they're on a fools errand and are defrauding investors, just because they're secretive and they pump out hype.
> Today we don't think twice about throwing away a cup we drank out of for 20 seconds. In the past such waste was shocking and absurd.

This reminded me of Hocking's analysis showing that the energy to make and clean reusable dishes can often exceed the energy spent making the cheapest disposables. Even though one answer may seem absurd, hidden energy costs can make environmental cost/benefit calculations really unintuitive.

PDF: http://www.design4x.com/misc/bus183/handouts/Hocking.Springe...
Yeah, "neoliberal" is pretty much a slur. No one calls themself neoliberal.
Yup! I remember getting some console dev kits early on that had a number of restrictions on them, like:

* Devices must be kept in an area with restricted access to those on the NDA; or
* Devices must be kept in a locked office; or
* Device must be chained to the desk; or
* Device must be covered with a cardboard box at all times

Keeping AR glasses in a safe doesn’t seem too outlandish.
Looking at the last week, I count at least five positive articles about tech companies, including Apple's new iPad, Waymo's expansion, an AI VFX startup, Dropbox's IPO, and Safari's picture-in-picture mode.
#MyMoney – #EarnMoney – #wealth – #MoneyBank – Google My Maps
I'd be surprised if there was ever a period where blind testers could tell the difference. This stuff is right up there with wine tasting.
The goals of the Republican party have been reduced to "do whatever makes liberals angry, even if it means shooting yourself in the foot".
Probably. I’ve experienced a haptic device that made it feel like I was pushing my hand through sand, so making it feel like knobs and switches must be possible. I also remember seeing something once where haptic feedback was used to make a flat surface feel like a keyboard.
You're correct about coverage -- 3 GEO sats can cover most of the planet -- but not about capacity, which kinda scales with satellite mass, and benefits from being closer (less power needed per bit.)
It is not possible for that to explain two phones on two accounts looking at the same route and getting fees $10+ apart.
RE: Server side Swift

Linux is second class citizen as far as Swift is concerned for sure. I had to jump through a few hoops to make sure my library works on both Linux and iOS.

Just tried v4.1 and everything compiled cleanly:

http://pdfjet.com/swift/PDFjet-Swift-2018-03-30.zip

BSD licensed code, 100% written in Swift (I went through the trouble of writing the compression code in Swift since the compression classes were missing from the Linux distribution and some older versions of iOS ) - give it a try.
Google and LG announced a partnership for 1440x1600 panels for an upcoming daydream viewer too. Seems to be the new standard.
I'm surprised a C level exec can sell their shares like that. I thought they all had to announce ahead of time? I'm a lowly employee at a big tech company and I have blackout periods.
Nah, You’re thinking of different constellations like OneWeb. This constellation is being way overbuilt by SpaceX. They want gigabit speeds and way cheaper data than LTE. They want to compete with fiber (at least in non-super-dense areas). From Spacex’s perspective, they’re happy to build it so large that it only breaks even (even though I think it’ll do better than that) because it gives them something to launch on their huge, fully reusable rocket that they’re building.
It seems a bit pointless to run these tests, since it’s up to each violinist to choose his or her own favourite instrument. Their own studies show that top violinists can easily detect the differences between individual violins.
Do you have a link to that article?
Interesting table! Some have much more than coffee, in the 1000s ppb

Coffees show a huge difference between not-brewed and brewed. Here some examples from that link:

not-brewed --> brewed (ppb)
458 6
377 6
411 6
539 7
3747 93

Compared to the French fries values, those 6s and 7s looks very negligible.

However, the article says: "At issue is a chemical, acrylamide, which is produced while roasting coffee beans."

So is the danger when coffee is being roasted? brewed too?
Is that a concern for people (employees especially) spending a lot of time in coffee shops because of airborne acrylamide? or acrylamide left on surfaces or something?
Are you going to say what the misinformation is, or just make a vague nonproductive comment?
I would turn it around and ask "why should you NOT hire me?"
I've just driven through 21 countries in West Africa. [1]

Every single country has 3G, a few have 4G. Often the speeds were faster than what I get in Canada.

A pre-paid SIM costs $1, data is anything from $1-$10/GB in a pre-paid bundle. So I think the biggest difference the SpaceX Constellation can make is price.

A huge percentage of the population in virtually every dirt street town has a smartphone with facebook and whatsapp.

[1] theroadchoseme.com