skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The pain is made worse by the ransom note she received from the thief. She had remotely shut the Apple Mac down and left a message stating that she needed it back as it contained vital dissertation and other work, and would pay a reward for its return.

What's the ransom???
Is this even public for us as developers, can we influence it and it influence us? If not, should we even think about it?

I had a lot of curiosity about how JTAG works and how I can build my own debugger for general targets, but is seems documentation for this is thin. I should look over openocd to see how those guys are doing stuff.
I don't really see a market for that. Most desktop games these days are handled by store fronts like Steam, GOG, itch.io, Origin or the Blizzard Launcher that already handle updates for you. But it's certainly an interesting topic and itch wrote about it a while ago: https://amos.me/blog/2017/efficient-game-updates/
SFO is hardly the only airport where this has been occurring.

A TSA employee at Newark stole $800K worth of items.

https://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/convicted-tsa-officer-reveals...
I've used the 0.3.1 version. Waiting for the ability to open multiple projects at once before it becomes a daily driver.
Thanks for all the great work :)
This is pretty fantastic! I would remove the 3d effect to make it even nicer.
Or just strip clubs in general. I was in the most ghetto strip club I've ever heard about (unpainted cinder block walls), but they had an attendant.
Congratulation, you just rewrote the base for an orm.
Good question.

I'd say some big factors are:

It's more authentic than almost any other site. Moderators/janitors are pulled from the userbase, content is sourced directly from the users, and there isn't much behind the website beyond "we have stupid high amounts of traffic, let's get some ad revenue". The site is honest about what it is.

The site has a core feature set and doesn't do anything else. It's like Craigslist--it does one thing, and doesn't mess about with other things.

The site is remarkably uncensored, favoring containment boards. So, love it or hate it, 4chan is very free in the speech allowed. Everybody on the site knows the culture of whatever boards they visit, and there is a culture of mockery for people who are too thin-skinned. The flip side of this is that content that people really don't want to see (furry stuff, political stuff, etc.) has a clear place to go. This is the best strategy for that sort of work, since it keeps resentment from building up and makes it easy for users to avoid stuff they don't like.

Users feel empowered to enforce norms. Even using archaic tools, users feel directly responsible to call out ("sage") things that don't belong on their board. By contrast, a lot of sites have userbases who basically whine at mods and don't take responsibility for their culture.

The site has room for everybody, but it doesn't take itself seriously. There is a cooking board, a board for hardcore pornography, a board for papercraft and origami, a board for torrents, a board for animals, a board for nazis, a board for lgbtq+ folks...basically, there are clear communities available for everybody. And every board makes fun of itself.

Users are anonymous and posts go away. This is the one that always gets brought up, but the fact is that by having ephemeral accounts and posts, people are free to speak their mind and to change their position later without ill effect.
I live opposite the local drug dealers - there's a daily stream of walk-ins (including kids from the local secondary school), cars parking up for a couple of minutes, and bicycle/motorcycle 'couriers'.

After 4 years of reporting this to the police, attending local police/council meetings (they also run a car trading/repair business from the residence - ask me about my experience of weekend metalworking noise levels) most locals have given up reporting incidents.

Last we heard, the local planning office is now going to send the occupants a questionnaire about how they use the property. That'll sort it then.

/End of rant
Well that thread of conspiracy theories, hot air and cries of censorship yesterday was instructive.

These corporations have zero benefit of the doubt level of trust.

A few voices to be fair pointed out 1.1.1.1 is often incorrectly used and issues with it becoming ‘live’ mostly likely caused the outage.

Not judging this response btw, I can clearly see why ATT and other big telco wouldn’t get much leeway.
People don't actually realize that the convenience comes with a cost though because they haven't been exposed to the other end of the spectrum.
Quartz crystal vibrates due to the piezoelectric effect. External electric current is applied to the quartz to force it to physically bend. When it bends, it triggers the circuit to shut off the external electric current. With no external electricity applied, the bent quartz reverses back to its original shape and its piezoelectric property generates a small electric current in the unbending process. That current triggers the circuit to open the external electric current again, bending the quartz again. This bending and unbending creates the vibration.

Time crystal I gather just vibrates (ticking) by itself with no external power, which is amazing. In this case, it's at the sub-atomic level rather than at the crystal lattice level of the quartz.
Adding `-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch;` to the #content selector will fix it :)
> How can any reasonable person believe that one's "group" has absolutely no impact on one's life experiences? You're literally saying "one individual's experience as a member of X group has no impact on one's individual experience." Does that really parse in your head?

Of course, because that's literally what those words mean. Privilege is a statistical measure, to which a particular individual may or may not conform.

Obviously most group members' experiences are governed by the group's statistics, but this is again a statistical claim. You can't assume such claims apply to all individuals.

To put it another way: certain minority groups are statistically more likely to commit crimes, but we shouldn't then assume that any particular member of that group is more likely to be a criminal. Racial profiling is unethical, but your position suggests it should be ethical. It's simply a contradiction for the argument to apply in one case, but not the other, where I consistently assert that both are wrong.

> The end goal is to keep those people away, right? The end goal is to make sure absolutely nothing changes, right?

Just FYI, you have a habit of being uncharitable with people who disagree with you.

> Like internships for Pacific Islanders are absolutely harmless. They literally cause zero harm.

And this is the disconnect. We're all after a more equitable society where discrimination against anyone for any reason simply doesn't happen. You and others are consequentialists, who see a shortcut to that ultimate goal if we just compromise our ethics in enacting a small, temporary discriminatory measure to redress an imbalance.

Do the ends justify the means? Not everyone is a consequentialist. Deontologists think ethical compromise of any kind is unethical, period. Any discrimination is wrong, period. The path to an equitable society is not through compromise, but through rigourous adherence to ethical principles.

Consequentialists then started a word game in redefining sexism/racism and other forms of discrimination to be about "power", and so members of dominant groups in power can't be discriminated against, and thus, such measures are not unethical. This is true theatre.

In any case, I'm merely pointing out that just because someone doesn't agree with your ethical philosophy does not make them evil, nor does it make them wrong.
At lowering bad cholesterol and more after burn effect.
Sorry, put in my no-ORM edit as you may have been writing this. No, I mean higher level than that. ORMs suck as solving your problems specifically. Think more like an API than an ORM. I just started a side project and here's the beginning of an example of the iface I mean [0] and here's the beginning of an example of the sqlite impl I mean [1] (all untested and really early stage of course, but the idea is there).

0 - https://github.com/cretz/yukup/blob/eecb3b24b33f40e6a1eefaa5...
1 - https://github.com/cretz/yukup/tree/eecb3b24b33f40e6a1eefaa5...
Unless for example, your run a background process which periodically imports data from an external source and inserts into sqlite database, while your web application continues to render pages for visitors based on existing old data.

Your web page will fail, as it will time out on database lock because of that background process.
First, please accept my thanks for the excellent and difficult job you do in moderating this board.

I didn't believe I was engaged in name-calling directed toward any individual, however, calling policies that are discriminatory based on sex and race as sexist and racist merely seemed to me to be a straight-forward use of the English language. Either that or the analogy to cancer? I don't know.

I assume the relevant section of the guidelines is

> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

Therefore, please accept in spirit my amendment, that my comment should have read:

> It's frustrating that these policies that discriminate based on sex and race have multiplied out-of-control across our industry.

Best regards,

GarbageToss.

PS: Having been "burned" by social approbation due to incorrect sentiment in the past, I am very thankful for the opportunity to use a throwaway account so that issues can be discussed honestly, without the chilling effect of the fear of blowback. That is the main reason why I am responding, to let you know that I have read the guidelines, and my intent was to post within those guidelines. Again, sincere thanks for your efforts, without which we all would surely suffer from an inferior space where we can discuss these issues.
Maybe. My body is definitely less efficient than those runners. :-) According to this site, typical energy expenditure on the Timpanogos hike is 4000-5000 kcal:

https://www.bettercheaperslower.com/ways/to-the-summit-of-mt...
SPOILERS

It's a great show, and I agree with a lot of what you're saying.

> Jesse's girlfriend got him hooked on heroin. Jesse was on a downward spiral and would surely die thanks to her continued interference.

Jesse was on a downward spiral, yes, but the other two points are less clear. They might be true from Walt's perspective.

> Walter saw the toxicity of both the drugs and the relationship and did Jesse a cruel but necessary kindness by letting her asphyxiate. It wasn't ethical, it wasn't humane, but it served a greater purpose (even if it was so Walter wouldn't be without an assistant).

It's impossible to tell how much Walt's letting Jane die / killing Jane had to do with helping Jesse. I think it's clearer Walt killed Jane to keep control over Jesse and to protect himself. And that worked out pretty well, for a while. Jane didn't fear Walt, and she knew too much about him for Walt's comfort and safety. So he let her die / killed her.

> He did far worse deeds for less grounded reasons as the series went on; there are better examples to choose from to make a case of villainy.

This is true. For me, Jane's death caused a major nosedive in sympathy for Walt. Definitely previous things he did were villainous and later things even more so. But there was something about Jane's death. A big step down in his descent.
I feel like using drones in crimes would be more impractical and costly than the impression this article tries to present.
We know the score. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lru1Qxc1l8
The best of Vim and any combination of other editors is still just Vim.
I didn't get the impression it was more business oriented than Palm. I mean CE certainly had productivity tools like a cut down version of Office and support for Active sync (which I hated). I think the real problem was Windows PDAs of that era didn't even share a common CPU so you'd have multiple versions of software targeting different chipsets. I'm pretty sure that would have put a lot of developers off. But there were a few gems on the platform, like Tomb Raider (which actually played really well).

I might had a dig around and see if I've still got it. Might be a fun device to repurpose.
Page 510 appears to be discussing who needs overthrowing. It's a letter to Rumsfeld from the American Foreign Policy council.

> Under a Smith-Richardson grant, AFPC Senior Fellow, Elie
Krakowski hs been exploring ways to replace the Taliban
government. During the past year, he has held discussions with
relevant officials in Pakistan, India, Russia, Turkmenistan,
Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, China, and an anti-Taliban area of
Afghanistan.

> Someone from your policy shop should debrief him. His phone
is 410-xxxxxxx.
> Secondly, inventory what you already know -- and tell us.

I had a look at the user's previous question. 60 days ago the same question "Best way to get started with web programming for non-programmers?" so I figured answering with beginner resources on HTML/CSS/frontend Javascript. At that stage any structured course + dedication to work through it helps.
Depending on the definition of "difficulty", and the type of person, I'm not sure they're wrong.

We're all engineers here. Can you honestly say you'd prefer a job that paid the same, but where you wouldn't have to use your mind?

Of course, it's been used to justify some serious horrors.
I should have been clear. People across these teams were working together on projects, so in that context it meets your bar (as far as I'm concerned). That said, when I started at Google there were 7 countries represented in my initial team of 15 people, which is an entirely different situation.
I don't think for a startup you need K8s and most of the things you have outlined! Maybe for a late-stage startup, but then you are already doing something so a generic slap-it-there solution might not be the best idea.

You are describing a large-scale setup boilerplate, far away from what I'd call a startup in a box. Slap in a simple server like my own project [1] or no server at all until product-market fit, and then but only then start scaling.

[1] https://serverjs.io/
Don't get down on yourself, man. I went through a job search last year and applied to ~400 companies and got strung along by several start-ups, one of which even said they were very impressed and asked when I could start, only to change their mind the next day.

Eventually, I found one that was a great fit, and I've been here for over a year and am extremely happy. What I've seen at least in the Bay Area startup scene is that many companies have unrealistic expectations and are waiting for unicorn candidates that magically fit all of their wildest dreams.

If you were at a company that started from nothing and became successful, a startup that has sense should be interested in you.
Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design (2003)
EDIT: the title used to be "oni: better than vim, atom and VSCode".

It seems the title comes from the submitter here, rather than the web page.

I've looked at this, and as a VSCode user, it is not at all a useful replacement, it's barely usable for me. Also VSCode has a lots of useful plugins, which aren't support here.

I'm sure if I learnt all the vim shortcuts it would be great but then I'm using VSCode because I don't like vim.
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Bokeh depth of field in a single pass
But what is the value add in this specific situation?
> the car would have been done sooner and cheaper if they had released it with regular doors, and I doubt the customers would have minded

IME, and speaking very generally, when businesses take the approach that 'customers won't mind', their products revert to the mean, to commodities.

If you want to have a special brand, to charge a premium, you need to thrill customers, not do things in a way that the customers 'won't mind'. Consider Apple and their 'obsessive' focus on small details. Consider the Beatles - they didn't say, 'lets just do it the easy way; our listeners won't mind'.

Also, I think customers do notice these things, even if unconsciously. It applies to any craftsmanship. Most people can distinguish a cheap men's suit from an expensive one, even if they can't consciously name many reasons. The cheap suit is made to the standard of customers 'not minding'; it's a commodity and nobody cares about the brand.
Right. The real useless jobs are the 10 people working on animating hair for the next Assassin's Creed game or the CGI for the next Marvel film
Interesting theory. However, if you look back and watch many of Steve Job's interviews, you will find that he has been a long time proponent of protecting user data.

Additionally, he has also stated many times to make sure to inform users when an action involving privacy is about to take place "repeatedly and in plain English". Though I am not sure how much of this hardline stance on privacy still exist within Apple today.
Pfft what could those scientists/doctors/trainers/experienced athletes possibly know that some dude on the internet can't anecdote his way into correctness? /s
Thanks for trying to help, and yes date picker needs work! Should accept typed dates in this format: 05/31/2018

To pick older dates you can scroll back to the oldest year, pick a random date, and then open it again and it will let you go back further. Very rough but it’s a newly launched tool we’re working quickly to improve.
As much as I enjoy cycling, I don't have anywhere near enough time to accommodate a bike regimen equivalent to my running regimen. To my mind, the only way cycling comes out ahead of running for most people is if (1) they have an usual amount of free time (e.g. enough to go on three hour rides every day), or (2) they're unable to run without injuring themselves.
Well depends on the case, I needed a fast ip to country resolving, really fast one. I did my database in C for it and it was 120 times (yes!) faster than fully optimized postgres table, not to mention memory, disk and cpu footprint.

Custom made database for just a specific problem can be a lot faster than generic one. But depends on your knowlidge.
Along with this, we need a better way to program robots. I program Fanuc i200D and that whole industry makes my blood boil. Want more than 200 variables in your program? Shell out $10k.

High level programming language to program robots with safety in mind would be amazing. RoboDK is the only one that is doing this and they still suck.
The article says insurance only paid £500.
The linker script is what runs the global constructors in C++. Nothing preventing using a custom linker script in C to call some `premain()` function.
Credit to @tlb for surfacing it in a comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16995612

Reposting it here because I think it's awesome.
My point is that you _always_ have to convert path names to strings to display them to users, but you don't always know how because you don't always know the (sometimes implied) encoding.
>that may be balanced out by higher climate change impact when it's mined.

What do you mean by that? Natural gas is taken from oil wells, the exact same kind of holes in the ground that produce bunker fuel. It's the highest level on the refinery column.

Edit:
Here is a picture of the gas market right now:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_flare#/media/File:Niger_De...

If LNG pans out we would move those fires into the engines of ships. It would probably be carbon-neutral up to the trucks that the pipe welders drove.
But they abstract the underlying db very well and have an uniform api that you can rely on. It's also tested, documented and battletested.

It has drawbacks but if accepting several db is an important goal, you don't want to handcraft this unless you can measure inaceptable perfs.
The payment isn't for the friends, but for the environment in which you meet them:

You could pay membership fees for a club to be able to use their rooms to hang out with your peers. (paid community server)

You can meet at your home, where you have to clean up and bring snacks yourself. (personal hosting)

Or you can meet in a cafe, where access is free, with the expectation that there will be a different but related financial transaction (food and beverages). ("free" servers paid by ads)

I can't think of a good analogy of meeting your friends in a fully public space.
I have one of those (from Timbuk2), the main reason I purchased it was because it was TSA Approved and yet TSA never allowed me to keep my laptop inside it, even with it open like a book, nothing else inside it, they still required me to remove it every time...
Check this out http://www.businessinsider.com/how-many-calories-cyclists-bu...

"Each day participants ride, on average, about 100 miles and burn some 6,071 calories"

As a competitive, but still amateur cyclist I would do something in this ballpark almost every day. Hence 3000 - 5000 calories. And I'd often run for an hour or play soccer on top of this since I wasn't a pro.

I did spend a lot of hours on the bike, as serious athletes tend to do. Years of experience with myself and many other national caliber athletes tells me that we do in fact get sick from strenuous exercise, all the time.
Naively I’m imagining the flips are triggered via incoming particles - photons? If so, what are the characteristics required of the inputs and how does that affect the particles in/out of the system?

I’m wondering about possible applications for time crystals?

Anyway this is really intriguing! When I first read of time crystals they really seemed unlikely to ever be observed. But if they’re in human made crystals they just might be either more common or easier to produce than I’d thought.
This seems to be concentrating on what the system loader is doing without mentioning whatever the statically linked standard library gets up to before calling the main function?
Yep same in most airports in SE Asia too. TSA made everyone's job harder, sorry I mean travel safer, by banning more than 100ml of liquid, so nowadays probably reluctant to adopt more TSA rules even if they are now somewhat logical.
Not only desktop, but most mobile platforms as well. Beeing coded in a single C file makes it portable as hell. Their documentation is also a prime example, with great insight.
The screen wasnt locked?
Programming Language Theory in Agda
I mean, everyone has different requirements or preferences, so you don't get it all set up for you generally. But there is at least one such solution which more or less fits your description: DCOS.
Even more interesting, If staying bipedal means 'lets make sex' for bonobos, I wonder if human observers could change the behaviour of studied bonobos increasing the sexual encounters (just because we are standing there shouting 'lets make sex' with our bodies all the time). Wouldn't be crazy if we repeat the research with robots and remote cameras to find that they are not so promiscuous as we thought?

We must be a particularly foul-mouthed species for them. And we share also the 'stop what you were doing' grab/slap.
Airport security is a farce.
DutyFree shops are selling what should not be in a plane, not even discussing the batteries.
The experience feel like an animal going to the slaughterhouse, except they don't put you to sleep yet.
Through my long career, I've notice virtually no correlation between my pay and the utility of my position. And indeed, I've had one or two jobs like yours. Sadly for my bank book, I can only stand being useless for relatively short stretches.

I still reminisce about my lowest paying job, my first. It was probably the most enjoyable and satisfying. It was also useful, though perhaps not at the top of that list.

It's annoying that so many useless jobs pay so much. But even worse that it's so hard to find a position where being useful is even a possibility.