skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article is poorly worded and does a poor job of forwarding their argument. The overall tone of the article is amateurish and feels more like an article you might find arguing against vaccinations.

The claims presented in the article are extremely serious-if what they're claiming is true, the FAA, major airlines, and pilots unions have all been sitting on 'fume events', or actively suppressing knowledge of them.
Yep, I love Linux on the Desktop, but its really only a thing that works well when all of the hardware is supported. That happens surprisingly often with commodity hardware, but it isn't exactly something that I'd expect every random gamer to be able to reliably deal with.
this haphazard attempt at DRM seem like a perfect OpSec layer in case the purpose is to throw off the gullible media or any "experts" overly keen on cyber attribution. The method seems flawed unless you actually want your adversary to find it and make incorrect assumptions, it's probably not the right tool for the job.

EDIT/PS: the first one who finds the homoglyphs within this very status update and posts it in the comments wins an iPhone which has still not been patched against the జ్ఞ‌ా vulnerability ;)
Refactoring by Martin Fowler. Working Effectively with legacy code by Michael Feathers
The title is a reference to a line in the movie "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home" where Scotty trades the formula for "transparent aluminum" (from the future) in a barter transaction for plexiglass sheets (in the present) that the cast need to achieve their goal in the movie.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_IV:_The_Voyage_Home

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transparent_aluminum#Transpare...
Why don't I have to do it for Android?
Wifi: Works fine on linux as long as you avoid Realtek and Broadcom.

Intel and Atheros wifi works great out of the box 99% of the time

Video Card support: video drivers are still a pain point for sure, but I don't think it's fair to say 'video card support is terrible' as a blanket statement. Intel, Nvidia and AMD graphics all work on linux.

AMD is making great progress with their OSS drivers, and intel has been well supported with OSS drivers for a long time now.

Most issues are due to nvidia still insisting on only supporting proprietary drivers, and the annoying issues that come with that (e.g. drivers breaking after kernel updates).

Audio: Usually just works out of the box

Sleep: In my experience sleep works fine on most hardware, but there are some motherboards with horrifically buggy acpi implementations that have issues.
As a potential client, it is very valuable to me. I have reached out to a few people based on their blog posts. It doesn't always convert in an opportunity but it does give you a good advantage and edge. Plus it is not a lot of work if you really think about it. It just comes down to your ability to put your thoughts and knowledge into words. It does help.
Stalin's favorite scientist was Trofim Lysenko, to whom he gave an enormous amount of power to direct research in the USSR. And Lysenko was pretty ruthless in using that power to suppress science he didn't like, esp with regards to genetics and evolution. He set back Soviet science by decades. And Mao repeated his mistakes: Lysenko's literal bad seeds contributed to the famine of the Great Leap Forward.
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Spending on its own isn't the only measure. The US is incredibly wasteful with its military spending where other countries with better political systems are more savvy. Plus the US has to invent 80% of the tech in the first place, something that costs 10x what it does to replicate it.
For a purely software-based free modular ecosystem, the cross-platform and rapidly developing VCV Rack[1] is well worth a look Still in pre-1.0, it already has quite a collection[2] of 3rd party modules with all shades of Free-, free-, donation- and pay-ware.

Regards Magus, it seems interesting, but .. I couldn't see any code repos for its module library. Do they exist?

1: https://vcvrack.com/ + https://github.com/VCVRack/Rack/

2: https://vcvrack.com/plugins.html
I, too, disprefer Chrome.
So it says it will improve drone strike accuracy. Isn’t it a good thing? I mean there are currently a lot of civilian casualties from drone strikes, but that doesn’t stop anyone from using them anyway. Wouldn’t at least improving accuracy make thinks better in some regard?
could all these validators agree at their own whims to roll back their ledger to undo a change?
My general rule: always pick the boring major RDBMS - unless you have a specific reason not to.
I basically agree with you. Though I think you are ultimately exaggerating windows and Mac problems, they are far from nonexistent.
The Boglehead's Guide to Investing, mostly because my coworkers frequently ask for advice regarding their 401ks and IRAs, and it's a solid baseline for frugal investing.
> Yes, but he's profoundly mentally ill.

But how much of that is because of his situation? Is it possible to remain what we would consider a sane, well-adjusted individual given prolonged exposure to that situation?

Are dictators or the kings of ages past with absolute or close to absolute power any saner?

> Not a life you would wish for yourself.

Yes, as I said, not something I would want for myself, at least in my current mindset. But if I was in that situation for more than a few months, I'm not sure what or who I would be after that time.
The demo button just points to the image, is it supposed to go somewhere else?
I keep ~10 books at my desk. 9 of them are related to Javascript / Python / Probability etc [1]., There is one book though, that I really love to see everyday. Arabian Nights. That was the first book that was gifted to me when I was 11. I always had it with me. It reminds me of my childhood when things get too stressed and I read excerpts out of this book.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/JavaScript-Definitive-Guide-Activate-...
[2] https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Fast-Slow-Daniel-Kahneman/dp...
[3]https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Probability-Models-Tenth...
[4] https://www.amazon.com/Hackers-Black-Book-Important-Informat...
> ... the "natural state" is one where word-of-mouth and first-hand accounts are the most authoritative evidence we can have (other than physical evidence like DNA left behind)

First-hand accounts aren't always reliable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyewitness_testimony
Hopefully, future aircraft designs will follow the Boeing 787 in eliminating the bleed air system, which is the likely culprit in these kind of cabin air contamination events.
San Francisco is being overrun by venture-backed scooters
I've seen first hand something similar with a person I have known. It was similar detail (in a sense that it would seem inconsequential to everyone else - bent pages in some work log on a day he made a mistake only he knew about) that mightily added to his sense that peope at the company he worked at were after him for some small oversight he made. He was not sleeping well or at all, ruminating, and well on the road to a major breakdown or suicide.

We managed to save him, by taking him to a psychological crisis management center, where he stayed for a few weeks, got a big change in his daily routine, found some new friends and was able to recover.

Might as well be that she simply was unlucky, that she stayed in contact with people who added into her fears/anger and paranoia, instead of pulling her out of her daily context and meaningfully opposing what seemed overblown and crazy about her thinking, helping her see alternative ways to achieve what she wanted, etc.
> Parents need to raise the next generation of humans to be wise to the ways of the wicked mind-control cults.

This is exactly what I'm disagreeing with. If you're putting the focus on parents needing to do something, you're creating an intractable problem. It's hard enough to get parents to do basic stuff like feed and supervise their children. At best, changing views on parenting changes the behavior of the parents who listen to modern views on parenting. There parents are likely not even the ones whose children are most affected. Approaching parents about this is only going to be preaching to the choir.

The solution as a society isn't getting parents to behave differently, it's not tolerating wicked mind-control cults.
Silence, John Cage

Man Against Myth, Barrows Dunham

The Elements Of Style, Strunk & White (4th ed.)

Telling Writing, Macrorie

The Zen Teaching Of Huang Po

The Pocket Pema Chödrön

Why I Write, George Orwell

Others come and go from time to time, but those stay.
Mixins have terrible performance characteristics and lead to fragile code. While they were huge a few years ago, most new frameworks either avoid them or (in cases like React) chose to remove them for these reasons. In an existing codebase, that matters a lot. In newer codebases (or newer parts of existing ones) it shouldn't matter that much at all.
What's theoretical about drone strikes?
I've seen CockroachLabs refer to it as CRDB.
The point is certainly valid. If Google steps out of this, they are just going to find someone to fill those shoes.
Yes, it seems that way from the script. But then, why a transparent material?

(The answer of course is they're building an aquarium tank, and aquarium tanks are see through or have windows into it so humans can spectate. If they wanted to just bring whales back, they probably would have just flooded some crew room.)
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Don't know either, but the pharo MOOC I did a few years back only mentioned differences once or twice. I left with the feeling that beside a few, maybe syntax tweaks and new libs, it's 'same' enough.
> I recently had to create a cross-platform desktop app, and I'm still not aware of a better option then the JVM.

What GUI library(ies) did you use? Just Swing? Java-FX as well?

I'm curious about this - I've developed the macOS part of a desktop app, where the Windows part used WPF, and we shared C# code (.net core, so it would run in both platforms).

The advantages were that each app looked 'native' to its OS. But in my opinion, the disadvantages outweighed them: a) No linux support. b) Double the work on the UI parts.

The Java alternative would reverse this: no native-looking UI elements, but they would be done once and run everywhere, including Linux. Another alternative would be Electron, but I feel (though I'm not sure) Java would be more performant.

Can anyone chime in on this? I know there's no definitive winner on this space...
I'll take this over massive world wars.

I'd rather have neither, but I'm realistic.
> "...but her beef with Youtube is entirely justified."

I am curious as to how we concluded that? Until now, we have only heard her side of the story, and not that of YouTube. May be she was violating ToS? There could be thousands of well-justified reasons for YouTube to terminate her account.

Without hearing the other side of the story, how do we know that her beef was entirely justified?

And, of course, there is the usual argument that YouTube is a platform owned by a private entity. Nobody has a justifiable right to put their video on YouTube and earn revenue from it.
I'm trying to imagine in what historical period that would have been. Whether the border was that of a modern nation-state, a principality, or a village the effect would have been the same.
How to Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adler

https://www.amazon.com/How-Read-Book-Classic-Intelligent/dp/...
ASP.Net 4 and Java Programming used to hold up my monitor
That's an image that is a screenshot of the extension working. Not a link to a demo. I made the same mistake :D
firefox ?
> So it looks to be both more scratch-resistant and more shatter-resistant.

Refractive index 1.79, Abbe number 58… Why are my eyeglasses not made of this?
It works great for me when I'm not experimenting. But if I listen to an album of a genre I don't normally listen to my next weeks playlist gets pretty spoiled.
Hi bastijn, just following up. I don't see your email in your HN profile but I would like to take you up on your offer to get in touch with the appropriate lighting folk at Philips. I haven't heard anything back from my attempts via their online form. My email is in my HN profile if you don't mind getting in touch. Thank you.
I never worked with cell or ps3, but that description reminds me a lot of working on the ps2.
We call it CRDB internally
Then let's talk about how careful. "Right to forget" premises data ownership by the person, with which you apparently disagree.

So, if people should not have complete control over data about themselves, where should the line be drawn on the usage of that data when people can't tell companies what to do with it? Who should draw that line?
> I for one would rather have a drone strike program that actually actively avoids civilian casualties as much as possible.

Then “AI” should be the least of your worries. Not everything is a software problem.
Retromud is the only MUD I've ever played as well. Started in 2001 or 2002 and every once in a while will go through phases where I play again.

If you aren't that into Role Playing, and you prefer team based PvE combat, I think Retromud is the one to check out. 20 primary guilds (classes) and 80+ races, as well as branching paths from each of the primary guilds makes for huge number of possibilities for your character. Though to start out I'd suggest a Dragonian Fallen.
I followed this story last night into a live youtube stream where the presenter asserted everything with an authoritative voice:

After bumbling his way through some half-hearted doxing attempts and watching her videos, he was smugly confident in his extrapolations of her psychological diagnosis, political affiliations, family history, &c. And his commenters formed a sycophantic chorus.

Ideology is the failure of a mental model to adapt to error. It's an inflexible coping strategy that rams all perceptions into presuppositions.

Its air of authority is evidence of the delusion, not of successful reality-checking.
I love how we're all falling for this Russian troll BS and not attacking Facebook's business model of micro-targeting advertising
Right now: Modern Man in Search of a Soul, C. G. Jung
OK, the latest version of the RFC is much better than what I had initially read. Still, I see no discussion of side channel attacks with Argon2id. When they discuss the "best attack", it looks like they're discussing offline attacks that makes no use of timing information.

Assuming timing attacks breaks Argon2d entirely at relatively little cost, the attacker advantage for a 1-pass Argon2id would be twice that of a one-pass Argon2i: about 10. A three pass Argon2i with a third of the memory looks better: about 3. Not that it matters that much, but still.

Or is my threat model of timing attacks (which assumes they could recover whatever they can at little cost) too paranoid?
`hexdump` is part of util-linux, `xxd` is not. They do the same thing though, up to formatting differences.
Agreed.

YouTube is a mess right now. For example, if I go to see the latest clip from last nights various late night shows, it might show me one clip, then everything else is old or completely unrelated to my search.

I even uploaded two videos to my account, but only one of them shows up in my account. The other is there via direct link, but even when I’m logged in as me, it doesn’t show up at all.

Further, whomever created “G Suite” either hates users or is the worst product manager ever.

I bought a domain from google and added g suite for that domain.

It tied the domain to my personal gmail account, and it confuses which account services are tied to: now when I send an email from the new domain’s g suite gmail: any replies to those sent emails return to BoTH!! My personal gmail AND the new gmail account???

They have menu item that are inexplicably non-clickable. The links to things are black and thus not intuitively obvious they are links and a range of other problems.

You have to manage some items through your gmail, the other gmail, admin.google, domains.google etc it’s a freaking nightmare!
> "For example, on Messenger, when you send a photo, our automated systems scan it using photo matching technology to detect known child exploitation imagery or when you send a link, we scan it for malware or viruses," a Facebook Messenger spokeswoman said in a statement.

"A Facebook Messenger spokeswoman" who wouldn't put her name to the statement? Ugh. Child porn is terrible, but very few people produce it or want to look at it. On the other hand, opaque and unaccountable algorithmic censorship hurts everyone.
I would be shocked if they didn’t.
Ask HN: Finding startup meetups in the Bay Area
I live in Berlin, which has an active startup scene with meetups happening on any given day. They mostly follow the same format (2-3 knowledge-sharing presentations from startups on topics like marketing, their tech-stack, or simply pitches from new startups, followed by networking & drinks). These are hosted for free by more established startups as a way of employer branding.

I tried to find events like this in the Bay Area via Meetup.com and Eventbrite, but haven't seen anything comparable, other than purely networking events at Hacker Dojo or recruiting presentations by the tech giants. Am I looking in the wrong places, or are events like this not really a thing in SV?
Works for me on Firefox on macOS.
Kritische Sicherheitslücke in Windows Defender
04.04.2018 | 15:48 Uhr | Frank Ziemann

Microsoft hat ein wichtiges Sicherheits-Update für die Malware Protection Engine seiner Antiviruslösungen bereit gestellt. Es beseitigt eine als kritisch eingestufte Schwachstelle.

Eine Woche vor dem turnusmäßigen Update-Dienstag hat Microsoft am Dienstagabend eine als kritisch eingestufte Sicherheitslücke in seiner Malware Protection Engine geschlossen. Die Lücke hat die Bezeichnung CVE-2018-0986 und betrifft alle Antiviruslösungen aus dem Hause Microsoft, etwa den serienmäßigen Windows Defender und Microsoft Security Essentials. Ebenfalls betroffen sind Exchange Server 2013 und 2016 sowie Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 und Windows Intune Endpoint Protection.

Der Fehler steckt im Kern der Antiviruslösungen, dem Scan-Modul (mpengine.dll), das Microsoft als Malware Protection Engine bezeichnet. Prüft (zum Beispiel) Windows Defender eine speziell präparierte Datei auf Malware, kann es zu einem Speicherfehler kommen. Diesen kann ein Angreifer ausnutzen, um Code einzuschleusen und mit lokalen Systemrechten auszuführen. Damit kann er im Erfolgsfall die Kontrolle über das System erlangen und nach Belieben schalten und walten.

Anfällig sind alle Versionen der Microsoft Malware Protection Engine bis einschließlich 1.1.14600.4 für alle Windows-Versionen, einschließlich Server. Die korrigierte Fassung trägt nach dem Einspielen des Updates die Versionsnummer 1.1.14700.5. Die Installation erfolgt in aller Regel automatisch, ohne Benutzereingriff, erfordert jedoch einen Neustart des Systems. Zuletzt hatte Microsoft im Dezember 2017 eine vergleichbare Schwachstelle in der Malware Protection Engine behoben.
You made that word up!
Not at all, I was specifically responding to "what soldiers risk their lives for"

That said, according to the UCMJ, the orders given to slaughter civilians in Vietnam were unlawful and a soldier refusing to obey them would not have been prosecuted.

"Obedience to orders. It is a defense to any offense
that the accused was acting pursuant to orders
unless the accused knew the orders to be unlawful or
a person of ordinary sense and understanding would
have known the orders to be unlawful."

http://jsc.defense.gov/Portals/99/Documents/MCM2016.pdf?ver=...

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

https://web.archive.org/web/20120324030925/http://www.usna.e...
Rebel Tech repos can be found here: https://github.com/pingdynasty
A lot of actors have personality disorders. The mimicry of the behavior of others is a technique in navigating social situations when you are unable/unaware of how you feel.

In the "crazy interview" Tom did for scientology you can literally see him flick through a deck of emotions. His entire demeanor is a bit like a random walk through mimicking the emotional states of others.

I can't recall if I had any idea of the trigger in that case. But, hypothetically, it could be a technique to disguise an unpalatable emotion he was havin. Often, I believe, this would be rage/anger/contempt.

I wonder whether the "intense eyes" of cruize/kanye/etc. are that of an intense rage/contempt. Their demeanor is certianly mimicry, what it is they would be emoting is harder to ascertain.

People describe being around that type as like "walking on egg-shells". That's because they really are in an anger-prone state... you just can't see it. But you can "feel" that if you slip up, the rage will become public and take the form of abuse.
There's no law in the US that prevents Google from delisting a search result. Google essentially asked a US court to make something up so they could defy the order. I don't really feel that lies in the area of compliance with the order.
> People have put their political subscription above everything else and it is sickening.

Agreed.
The military also funded advances in airplanes, trucks, and medicine, but that doesn't mean that doctors should have no qualms about working on biological weapons.

Also, many people, including myself, consider drone strikes to be state-sponsored terrorism. Just because some part of the military may be justifiable, does not mean all of it is.
The defenders of american military in this thread have forgotten that for the past half century, the american war machine has commited war crimes across the world.

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdD9uSrNFT4

https://chomsky.info/1990____-2/

It is commendable that employees with moral fibre at google are saying no to the industrial war machine, that feeds on global conflict.

And there is no apriori reason as to argue that military funding is the only way to do ground breaking research. Ironic that some in the political spectrum who generally defend the military also feverently view goverment spending as inefficient to markets.
Sorry, we have a clean desk policy... :-(
In the past few years I've flown a bunch on the AA A321T configuration, brand new planes. I was shocked at just how much better the 787 is in almost all regards in terms of the environmental quality of being on the plane. From the air, to the noise.. everything was noticeably better. When the A321T lands, the noise created was peaking ridiculous dB and hurting my ears. I was expecting something similar on the 787 and chalked it up to "lighter/thinner materials, more sound gets through" and it was shockingly almost silent by comparison.
Gödel Escher Bach, or GEB.

It's one of the most informative books I've ever read with a really valuable perspective to view information through. I find myself applying it more frequently the more recently I've re-read it.
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