skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Only for the first few redevelopments, after that prices will go down across the board.
> It's becoming an evolutionary disadvantage to be off Facebook.

This is the most chilling thing I've read in a while.
The Network Effects Bible
> not everyone is walled off in their car/suburban house all the time

I can't compare to Italy, but I find suburban US bleaker and more isolating than I did living in Germany. My suggestion would be to go to your nearest urban area. Even the worst car-centric US cities have walkable parts - in a pinch, figure out where the local college is to start.

Apologies to those who like them, but suburbs are culture-deprived wastelands[1]. Go somewhere where people actually want to engage with the world and you'll have better luck.

[1] Obviously, I like cities. But even rural life is better - much cheaper, and instead of the illusion of privacy, you can actually be alone.
Ask HN: “Who is hiring” less in Berlin
The "who is hiring" post for March 2018 contains the word "berlin" 7 times, and has 1187 comments.

But on 4, the post had only 997 comments and contained "berlin" 43 times. So while the comments went up, "berlin" was suddenly mentioned less. I noticed that, because I thought the current thread as too few jobs in berlin, and wanted to compare.

Check yourself:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16492994

https://web.archive.org/web/20180304000450/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16492994

What could be the reason? Are people in Germany more likely to delete the comment, after finding someone for the job?
This explains why two of my keyboards were randomly fried using the new macbooks.

Between this and the keyboard, these machines are disasters.
Hah, you'd think. Just because you're not clicking on ads on Facebook, doesn't mean you're not ratting on your friends whenever you use Facebook. By liking things and talking to friends, they can correlate what your friends would probably like to see and show them better ads which they are then more likely to click on. By talking to some friends but not others, you tell Facebook who is most likely to like your likes. By your message's contents, you tell Facebook what your friends like to talk about. The list goes on and on.
I'm from the US, sometimes self referred as the land of free, and it's not easy for me to move to a different country.

Imagine how much worse it would be if it was under an oppressive regime, with strict internet censorship.
The logic is: have patience, reject neophilism, take things in with all the benefits of 20/20 hindsight by reading the best from the past year or month or whatever instead of whatever is new right now.
Interesting idea. Good luck!
MacStories has some visualizations with data from previous quarterly results https://www.macstories.net/news/apple-q2-2018-results-xxx-bi...
Spend a week writing in assembly and you will never call C a low level language again.
When I wear my tinfoil hat it becomes clear that Cambridge Analytica was a manufactured crisis to give Facebook the public permission and mission to purge developers off its platform, which has been its plan for a while now.
72% of renters have rent control and thereby have the primary reason to care removed
> But USB-C isn't limited to 5V, power delivery is at 20V. That might explain what's going on here (since the user reports 20V on the output) - it thinks that the peripheral is a power hungry device and it's trying to charge it. That's a problem, but it could be that the peripheral is poorly designed and is mistakenly asking for power that it can't actually handle.

This was my interpretation, the host sets the output voltage to 20V incorrectly (due to a software bug or a hardware failure). Putting a crowbar circuit defensively on the peripheral side would save the peripheral.
> I also wish they would spin out their computer business (Macbook, Ma Pro, Mac Mini, iMac) into its own division

To me, one of the core strengths of Apple is integration of all its devices, and it seems to me that creating separate divisions competing with each other would risk undermining this integration.

In the late 90s, I heard hair raising stories of how various divisions at Sun were operating at cross purposes due to a myoptic focus on their own balance sheets. I believe you worked there. In your opinion, were the competing divisions a strength or a weakness of Sun?
Same problem applies to USB-C cables. Understandable why (want to spend $100 for every cable you buy?) but intensely frustrating.
But all the success stories just post a simple intro to their apps (actually available on Android/IOS app stores) on their sites. Not valuable.
Which DOJ official and/or senator is going to go after facebook and reddit? Unless they're openly promoting sex trafficking I don't think the giants are going to have any issues.

Just to be safe, though, reddit did take down any subreddit that discussed prostitution.
developed in Golang?
I have as few bills as possible. Just rent, phone, gas, and health insurance. No Netflix or other entertainment subscriptions, no amazon prime, no mortgage etc. I don’t have the latest phone or clothing, I don’t buy things I don’t absolutely need. Most of my money goes to rent and food and my health insurance.

No I don’t support a family. But keep in mind my parents raised me waiting on tables.
As I understand it, a few people were regularly parking their RV's in front of people's homes for weeks on end and in rare cases being rude to local residents. It only takes a few bad apples to ruin it for everyone. Apparently this has been a problem in Portland as well:

https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/it-shook-me-portland-man-s...
The way it breaks in older browsers is incredible, and far more diverse and interesting than I would have ever imagined.

Chrome 17, Firefox 3.6, Chrome 9, IE 5.1.7 Mac:

https://twitter.com/waxpancake/status/991412919656005632

Opera Mobile:

https://twitter.com/coreh/status/991395667720507393/photo/1

Opera (unspecified older version):

https://twitter.com/dz/status/991365966553591808/photo/1

IE 9 (my personal favorite):

https://twitter.com/jamieparkinson/status/991329118267609088
> Except memory is virtual. Memory location 0x1000 might be forward, or backwards compared to 0xFFF, depending on the state of the Translation-lookaside buffer (TLB).

Does that matter though? I would assume that the "prefetcher" (or whatever it's called) can make its predictions in terms of virtual memory.

Regarding the linked list, it has been common wisdom for a long time that one should prefer sequential memory instead of linked lists. A nice benefit is that this simplifies the code as well :-). Growing and reallocating sequential buffers might not be possible in very dynamic/real-time and decentralized architectures - like a kernel - though.
One reason we don't see much follow up is because DC are not of interest to most users. But their DC has definitely grown. Much like their CDN.

Then there is the DC project in Ireland, more in HongKong, and few other places. I think their original plan were to have most of its cloud usage move back to its infrastructure by 2019, given delays in many parts of DC may be 2020.
Try using atomic instructions or initializing various tables during system boot. You will find that there are things C cannot do, unless you write assembly and call to it from C.
> You can see these operational patterns being used together to create a fairly advanced on-prem cloud infrastructure. At times, to me, it looks like over-engineering.

well consider you wanted to have a High Available solutions that supports Blue Green / Rolling Deploys without downtime. You either built it yourself or you rely on something like k8s. It's not that much over engineering.
K8s is a lot of code, yes. But the constructs is still pretty simple. I think deploying k8s is still way easier than most other solutions out there, like all these PaaS's and Cloud solutions. Spinning up K8s is basically just using ignition/cloud-config, coreos and PXE or better iPXE. Yeah sometimes it's troublesome to upgrade a k8s version or a etcd cluster. However everything on top of k8s or even coreos itself is extremly simple to upgrade.

inb4 or our current system is using consul, haproxy, ansible and some custom built stuff to actually run our stuff. System upgrades are still done manually or trough ansible and my company plans to replace that with k8s. it's just way simpler to keep everything up-to date and run for high availability without disruption on deployments.
it's also way simpler to actually get new services/tools into production, i.e. redis/elasticsearch without needing to keep them up to date/running.
Apple Beats Sales Estimates; Shares Rise
I feel like Amazon has a moral obligation to name the country that is forcing them to do this under penalty of having their entire IP block black-holed.

I assume Amazon would not take this step unless that was going to happen otherwise, or at least I don't see why they would.

They don't need to make a political statement about it, just say they did it to comply with law / order of 'X'. <cough>Russia<cough>
I'm confused. Does this just act as a wrapper around the php function imagejpg?

It looks like the compress function just, makes sure the file names are set up ok, and then uses the built in function imagejpeg (and also deletes the copy of the image that was passed as an argument I guess? I didn't read it closely.)

I think I'm likely missing something
"I think incidents like these are a pretty solid argument for incorporating overvoltage protection into 5V USB peripherals."

Agreed, though for some peripherals effective overvoltage protection that goes up to the maximum port output could cost more than the device itself. I would rather get the chance and redesign the connector so that there won't be any risks of exposing old devices to higher voltages, then introduce it slowly to new laptops (say one port this year, two the next two years, etc) and possibly provide small external adapters that fit on the new connector on one side and export the old one (maybe more if working as hubs) with adapted voltages for both signals and supply lines.
To me having multiple voltages driven by software on the same connector where one could insert devices that can't protect themselves in case of failure is asking for troubles. One day someone will connect a cheap LiPo charger to one of these ports and if the port firmware flips nasty things can happen.
Ditto.

I also don’t like anything peddled as a fake fruit or vegetable. (Ok, never had the latter, but fake fruit juice abounds. )
Really too bad we called another incident Donglegate already.
Learning to Use Big Computing for Small Projects
Just an FYI, though I'm sure you're already aware, this doesn't offer any improvements over the Gear VR's VR experience. The screen and performance are worse than the newest Galaxies.

It does offer better ease of use (always ready, no messing with docking your phone) and a lighter weight. Additionally it (obviously) doesn't take away from your phone's battery life.

Again, I'm sure you're aware of all that, but I'd hate for someone to spend $200, expecting something that this is not.
Live on the east side of Venice / west side of LA. A fellow lives in his tiny pickup in street parking directly across the street from my front door. Been there for many years, much longer than I’ve been here.

I’m fairly confident we’ve never had an Amazon box stolen partly because of his constant presence.
Just a slight point: iMessage is only relevant in Australia and US. In Europe, its WhatsApp, in China, WeChat, in Japan, LINE, etc. iMessage is not a competitive advantage in the markets where Apple can extract greatest growth going forward.
Oakland City Council / Rules for Surveillance Use
just propose a means test on prop 13 so they at least have a harder time justifying their opposition to it

this would mean proposing that the law that's supposedly meant to help old people would actually be limited to those old people
I honestly don't think it is a big deal. It's far preferable to having people sleeping in tents, which this law basically forces an RV dweller to do. It's a horrible law and I hope it gets repealed.
That would be a very, very good thing.
I disagree with #1. An example of non-academic cheating which I think is an issue is the VW emissions scandal. They were essentially supplying the 'answers' to the 'test' and then performing otherwise. This was adversely affecting the environment (which harms us all) by letting the cars drive around producing more emissions than determined allowable.
> Could this be related to the recent rise in tribalism and identity politics in American culture?

No, because there is no recent rise in tribalism and identity politics in American culture. There is a recent rise in people who aren't sociologists, political scientists, and lay observers with intense interest in those fields talking about the tribalism and identity politics that have long prominently featured in American culture, but that's not the same thing.
I think the solution to this is...classes have homework assignments throughout the semesters, but your final paper is one that you write in class. And it's like 50% of your grade. The purpose of the homework assignments throughout the semester is to prepare for the final. If you ace the final, even having paid for essays - then congrats you were able to learn.

Cheating is too easy now. There's a website where you can get solutions manual for free. I've even seen websites that give solutions to Kumon homeowork. For those who don't know Kumon - it's an after school curriculum to help kids develop academically, to get to grade level if they are behind, of to accelerate ahead even further if they are already ahead. What's the point of cheating on those...

When I was in high school in the late 90's, babelfish had come out and kids were cheating on their Spanish homework because it would spit out poor Spanish. Now with the gig economy I'm sure you can scan your homework, upload it and a native Spanish speaker would give you the perfect translation. I remember reading that adjunct professors writing essays to supplement their dirt poor income.

As far as YouTube Stars getting paid to advertise...meh.
This is going to make Facebook look cheap and gross if not executed well. It will at the very least mean more fake accounts being created.
The renters - if they would vote (they typically don't) however have it in there interest to have more development: more places to rent places downward pressure on rent prices and thus limits their costs. Unlike homeowners (who benefit form prop 13), a renter faces the potential of their costs increasing yearly. If the large group that wants to move in can find a a place without having to displace someone else that limits landlords ability to raise rent. Renters now have to take rent increases because if they don't someone else will, but if the renter can respond by moving elsewhere instead...

Of course this assumes renters actually vote. As noted before, most do not. Thus the tyranny of the minority situation.
The groans are not usefully distinct from being told you're clever, the groans mean the audience gets it.
You own your land not the conditions that surround that land.
It was a sad day (ok, sad years I suppose) when Sun and Apple gave up this battle to conform to the PC world. Control was already in that spot for real computers.
I don't think it would have a significant negative impact on Facebook at all

All I can tell you is that Facebook had a large audience before the pixel, and few advertisers were able to generate ROI from Facebook ads. Now he is suggesting that we will return to this state. Showing irrelevant ads to people based upon basic things - like being one of 150 million people that like Coke’s Facebook page - just flatly doesn’t work.
I tried it based on stories I'd heard about old timers using it as the mortar in log cabins between the logs, and later reconstituted. Don't know if anything really survives or not, but I was able to get it to rise and make bread so...
This thread is filled with people complaining about the same thing
If you are considering a Vive, you should probably avoid this. It's only 3dof, unlike the Vive's 6dof. In my opinion this isn't VR at all. It's a glorified 360 degree viewer. See my other comment in this thread.

(Disclaimer: Vive owner)
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Sticking to the proprietary side of the fence makes a lot of sense for you. Steve Jobs is among the many who would tell you that you could never get ousted from your own company as long as it creates proprietary products.
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I see it as one of the big failings of USB standards in recent years.

USB used to be simple, and they worked so hard to make it so that whatever plug could be plugged into whatever compatible socket.

Then we had USB on-the-go, and issues with then a micro-A port isn't just a micro-A port.

And now we have USB-C and Thunderbolt. Ugh.
I was expecting something a little more...technical. Awesome! I really laughed at this.
> Does that matter though?

Yeah. Meltdown means that the OS (as a security measure) wipes away the TLB whenever you make a system call. So all of those cached TLB entries disappear every syscall due to Kernel Page-Table Isolation.

And then the CPU core has to start from scratch, rebuilding the TLB-cache again.

So last year (when we didn't know about Meltdown), a system-call was fast and efficient. This year, on Intel and ARM systems (vulnerable to Meltdown), system-calls are now forced to wipe TLB. (But not on AMD-systems, which happened to be immune to the problem)

Both AMD and Intel implement x86 instruction set, and now the performance characteristics is different between the two boxes for something as simple as "blah = blah->next".

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The important bit is that C is still quite "high level", and indeed, even Assembly language "lies" to the programmer through virtual memory. The OS (specifically page-tables) can interject and have some magic going on even as assembly-code looks up specific addresses.

The simple pointer-dereference *blah is actually incredibly complicated. There's no real way to know its performance characteristics from a C-level alone. It depends on the machine, the OS, the configuration of the OS (ie: MMap, Swap, Huge Page support, Meltdown...) and more.
Misrepresenting your ability is morally wrong and can cause actual harm - personal, economic, or other forms of harm.

You cheat on your test and become a lawyer, I may end up in jail because of your cheating.

... Or, you become a teacher, and my education is harmed.

... Or, an activity worker, and I fall off a climbing wall.

... Or, a scientist, and I waste time and resources repeating an experiment because you didn't understand what you were doing and lied to cover it up.

... Or, become a shop worker and I get short changed.

... Or, make sandwiches, and kill people because you don't follow basic hygiene and cheated to get your certificate.

... Or, a million other possible scenarios where people trust you to represent yourself so they know whether you're capable of carrying out the tasks you're set.
I don’t have a career. I don’t want one anymore. I work for low wage at a sign shop part time, and do consulting part time. I have some software side projects but they don’t make much money. I’m saving all the money from consulting and odd jobs to put towards starting some sort of small business, but I don’t know what yet. I sometimes build bikes and sell them.
Did they re-appear after you had remembered deleting them, or were they just not fetched when you looked the first time? I think Cassandra might be to blame where it returned a bunch of wall posts but not all of them when you looked back in history the first time.
My opener runs a tiny little garage door in parallel with the big door in front of my garage, and monitors the position of the little garage door with simple switches. This is all in the plastic housing that holds the motor. If yours is the same, you might be able to steal the same signal.

Sadly, the little garage door doesn't look like a dollhouse garage door; that'd be too cool. It looks like a wire on a track.
You mean soft delete. I'll eat a sock if FB really deletes all of your history. Another one if they make that the default and you only get the other treatment after opting in.
I think it would be highly surprising if anyone invented a new product category at the scale of smartphones any time in the next few decades.
Not quite 0. If you participate in liking, sharing, or commenting on Facebook posts that were sponsored at some point further up the chain, then you are part of the value that Facebook offers to those advertisers. (Advertisers are paying for the initial exposure and the network effect.)
It's pretty much impossible to not use Messenger these days. I stopped using Facebook, but I can't just quit Messenger unfortunately.
Exactly, free countries (or those who consider themselves as such) should make it fully illegal for private companies to aid in any kind of censorship in behalf of oppressive countries. But what we see in reality is the opposite, all companies trying to make it as cheap and as simple as possible to censor anything every government dislikes; meaning the liberal fantasy of allowing every private company to do as it pleases is not going to cut it in a world where every important event you can't find in Google for all practical matters never happened.
Take a look at the third paragraph with links to accounts from Mobike (bike-sharing) [1] and Yiguo (fresh food deliver) [2].

[1] https://www.pingcap.com/blog/Use-Case-TiDB-in-Mobike/

[2] https://www.datanami.com/2018/02/22/hybrid-database-capturin...
I’m not a huge Facebook fan these days, but I think this is an example of market expansion that really makes sense. Instead of trying to find more creative ways to advertise to users, identify new services you can sell directly to users based off of all of the data you’ve collected on them.
As you say it will only be used against the bad guys, until if isn't. Like civil forfeiture, which originally targeted dig dealers, it week expands over time to be anything and everything that runs afowl of some interest.
It seems to be a Western phenomenon and much less of problem in Asia where NIMBYism is seen as being not socially responsible
I wish youtube had this feature. I watched a few videos a while ago, and now my "feed" is filled with similar videos. I keep clicking on them, almost instinctively, see what they're about.. then exit, but still. It's annoying.
They really look like Picasso versions, absolutely incredible !!!

So cubism's kinda like a bug ?? :p
Same here, seems to only be if you changed your password recently (within past ~1 month).
> I think incidents like these are a pretty solid argument for incorporating overvoltage protection into 5V USB peripherals.

That isn't going to fly for product companies in general. The issue? Cost, as usual.

Adding 5 cents of cost to a $15 USD (retail price) mouse is a non-starter, because the actual production cost is closer to $3. So even 5 cents is a lot.