skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. Cost. It is (presumably) much cheaper to use the same COTS SATA HDDs that are used in desktop PCs.

2. Since now your copier/printer/scanner/fax/coffee machine has a 500 GB in it, what are other ways we can take advantage of that space? Save a copy of every printed document ("for compliance"), e-mail documents straight to the end user, dump scanned documents (PDFs) straight into a network share (or run such a share on the device itself), cost accounting (by user or department or ...), "hold" printed documents in the queue until the user actually shows up at the printer to retrieve their print job (they can quickly/easily "release" it -- prevents other users from inadvertantly seeing documents they shouldn't), and ...

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Off-topic edit: Right after I wrote this comment, I remembered how years ago it was possible to "bounce" TCP connections off of HP JetDirect devices. I had a cow-orker that was overly paranoid and always had a terminal window open tailing the logs on his workstation. The look on his face and his bewilderment as be watched his PC slowly being port scanned by a 10-year-old printer in a building 60 miles away (but still within our network) was absolutely hilarious.
Postal investigators have a reputation for taking any violation of the mail system extremely seriously. It seems like yours in Oakland is breaking the stereotype. Have you reached out to his higher ups?
A while back, Anthem Blue Cross' automated phone number was flagged as "Scam Likely" by T-Mobile Scam ID. Can't blame me for ignoring those calls.
Definitely excited by all the progress on the "run Rocket" front!
Funny you'd pick those two. :-)

Software Foundations includes, for example, the use of type systems to ensure bug-freedom, program semantics, and more. Matt Fredrikson focuses on the intersection of formal programming languages research and security. For example, lecture 3: https://15316-cmu.github.io/lectures/03-safety.pdf

Cyber-physical is one of the hardest classes I've ever seen. Seriously - it combines very solid differential mathematics with logic and formal verification. It's a different set of skills than Semantics, but it combines a really solid dose of the same kind of logical and proof-centric thinking that advanced PL courses do. And rapidly runs into the logical underpinnings of both fields. For example, lecture 13: http://symbolaris.com/course/fcps16/13-diffchart.pdf

(In large part, this is because the course relies on identifying PL-style semantics of differential systems, and thus, students in the course end up being exposed to nearly identical proof methods as they do in the more straight-up PL semantics course, in addition to a lot of differential equations.)
So how many businesses are actually important?

Check out a few of Netflix's blog posts, AWS re-invent presentations (available on YouTube), the podcast interview, I posted earlier, and thier open source project. Netflix uses a lot of AWS services.
totally fair, but Go did stablize the language itself. i can with zero effort and 100% confidence run any old Go code i have lying around. that's pretty awesome.
Not by a long shot they don't. In Q1 2018, Apple made nine times more money from iPhones than it did from Macs [1].

[1]: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/pdfs/Q1_FY18_Data_Summary.pdf
It does seem really weird that somehow a business relationship between spam companies and the United States postal service means that I have to be responsible for recycling a bunch of garbage.

Once it's in my mailbox, what can I do, drop it on the ground? That's littering and a crime. Leave it in my mailbox? I tried that and the mailman eventually stuck a Post-It note on my box saying I wasn't allowed to do that.

So I'm in some sort of weird uncontracted relationship wherein I must ferry a bunch of paper from my box to the recycling bin.
Storage density has gone up so much that its cheaper to get a consumer drive with ~100GB than a specialty drive with 5GB. Even then a full harddrive seems excessive.

I have the feeling that these aren't true harddrives and more likely some type of flash memory. The flaw is that the copiers are probably programmed to managed the memory like a massive ring buffer in order to make things like managing page order easier.
Apple doesn't commercialise most of their services and none of them through ads. iMessage is another subsidized feature of an Apple device.
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> Because of this astroturfing campaign, I now have doubts.

Wouldn’t it be ironic if the campaign were actually promoting the truth, and yet the effect it had on you was to persuade you of the opposite?

Not trying to change the subject but I see a parallel in US politics. This is how Trumpers harden their beliefs. So much true reporting about Trump’s lies, results in people becoming more loyal to him. Confounding.
> "Henderson-Spruce did not identify himself on the one-page form. At first, the initials 'HS' were written on the signature line, but the initials were then scratched out and replaced with 'UPS,' according to the charges"

Come on, this guy is a genius. The fact he managed to pull it off by literally using cartoon-level forgery is nothing but remarkable.
And what about “We want less traffic. Build more roads.” Macroeconomics rarely have such simple solutions.

Sorry, I thought it was obvious that when I said "build" it was building housing, since that is the YIMBY platform were talking about. The simplicity or not of macroeconomics may or may not come into play, but citing roads as example when we're talking about housing is disingenuous.

In the context of housing, "We want less traffic" is equivalent to "We want housing near public transportation", to which the YIMBY solution is the same "Build [housing] near public transit". Attacking it from the other side, build more public transit, is entirely possible too, and is a problem worth tackling, and fits within the YIMBY platform in general, but it's not directly about housing. And YIMBYs have rightly realized that focusing on too many solutions at once spreads effort too thin and plays into the incessant delays that result in nothing getting done.

You’ve articulated exactly the problem; YIMBYs have an over simplistic understanding of economics yet exhibit extreme confidence and authority. This leads them to be dismissive of and even paternalistic towards those who actually experience the direct effects of displacement and gentrification.

So while we're here, your claim that YIMBYs are not listening to low income communities could use some substantiation. Which concerns are being ignored by the platform of build more? And you can't say "more below market rate housing" because driving down prices by encreasing supply is exactly the position that YIMBYs have.

Unless we're concerned that a protected class of people would disappear because housing would be affordable and there would be no need for a BMR classification to rally for.

have an over simplistic understanding of economics yet exhibit extreme confidence and authority

You can say this about pretty much EVERYONE on EVERY SIDE of this issue. This is really a debate about which economic solution is the best/most appropriate, which is why it makes no progress. Everyone and their dog can show up and spout off.

That being said, I find the refutations, refutations of well established and accepted supply-and-demand solutions, to this problem to be naive and unfounded. And part of the problem is that even trying to experiment is difficult because good ideas and compromises are shutdown. And those who prefer the status quo of no building get exactly what they want, so status quoers are incentivized to muck up the process and cause delays by whatever means necessary.

Part of the debate is if those who prefer the status quo should have as much voice or influence as they do.
The free market is what allows this to happen in the first place. The free market's goal is to abuse workers and push them to just near their breaking point for profits.
This would be fine if it was optional for people who wanted to be included in a national ID system. As an American living under the ever-growing surveillance network being constructed and expanded by corporate and government agencies of every type, a national ID number is not something that appeals to me in any way, even if it slightly reduces the small chance that I'll be a victim of some sort of fraud.
What about that fiction?
except this is more about politics than technology
Python is for systems programming like your fist is for hammering nails -- it will be slow, and there will be blood.
Rotenone is no longer an organic pesticide.

[Even in America. It can only be used as a "fishkill"]

source: http://npic.orst.edu/NPRO/#
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The architectural pendulum is starting to swing away from co-location of storage and compute (the trend of the last 10+ years) to decoupling of storage and processing to avoid exactly these issues, but legacy architectures hang on for a while.

In the streaming and messaging space, Apache Pulsar (pulsar.apache.org) is a more recent solution that has an architecture that decouples processing and storage. That gives you nice properties like independent scaling of storage and processing, infinite data retention, dynamic resizing and others.
TFA isn't about starting an ISP. It's about net neutrality, ISPs, and through United States.

You've stated that returns take time. That can be, and is already, costed into an ISP's stock.

Why do strong net neutrality laws prevent ISPs from making enough returns?

How did ISPs turn record profits when net neutrality laws were in place a short time ago?
I'm still on the fence if it is superior governance (corruption is common). Although the same could be said of the USA's economy. Most of the growth in the USA is just random luck from the end of world war 2 and then riding the wave of growth without screwing it up (much).

The point I was trying to make is don't expect a revolution any time soon. They are fairly happy since life is generally improving for "most" Chinese people.
In college, I did a deep dive into GMO safety research for journal club back when the Seralini "GMOs cause cancer in mice" paper hit (2010 or thereabouts) and found quite a counterexample to your rule: bogus (obviously p-hacked) science from Seralini and an aggressive misinformation campaign from Greenpeace to convince people that Monsanto was using terminator genes (bio-DRM) against poor farmers when the truth had been quite the opposite for some time (Monsanto patented the idea, promised not to use it, and kept the promise).

Blind opposition to industrial progress -- which is what you are suggesting -- carried by the rising tide of public opinion will cause a ton of damage in the century to come, and the damage will never be repaid.

EDIT: oh, and there's a National Toxicology Program study -- "cell phones cause cancer" would be the sensationalized headline -- working its way through the bureaucratic pipes at the moment with another round of "review" landing in a few months. Somehow it got through the first draft and review process while completely ignoring the first law of toxicology, so I suspect it will pass the second round as well, and while I trust the official document will contain sufficiently reserved wording the media circus that spins up around it will become a second excellent example of bullshit from the "little guys."
How could you do a web version of iMessages without losing end-to-end encryption?
I have a cheap startup task in cron that greps my todo files (generally one per project, and an everyday one) for any scheduled tasks and adds them to my calendar. Which syncs across devices.

If I modify times then the calendar events get killed and reinserted. (Diff checks for changed todos for me)

Finally, the feedback loop gets closed by email. I can send an email with a task, and it gets pulled down to insert or modify todos.
Thanks for sharing your carefully considered analysis.

Care to walk me through your minimax of the various tradeoffs that went into my design, including the janky custom software I'll run on it?
> Not quite. It suggests that it’s possible that regular food has glyphosate residue. But samples “brought from home” may have been contaminated elsewhere

It doesn't matter to the consumer where in the supply chain the food got glyphosate on it. If it has residue by the time I get home, I don't want to eat it.
I believe the debate is around whether or not they are facts to begin with.
> Personal ethics be damned, we've established that 0.08 is the line. 0.07 is not above or equal to that.

Quite a few of the laws aren't written that way.

A 0.08 is dead to rights guilty--generally a DWI--driving while intoxicated.

However you very much can be convicted of DUI--driving under the influence--even if you blow significantly less than 0.08. This is especially true if the police also have you on video doing something stupid or speeding excessively.
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"AGW skeptics" just want a sincere conversation based on science. Like one would say, what about the effects of water vapor on climate change? And pointing out, you can't come to a conclusion and when it is disproven, cherry pick facts to fix your conclusion. It just doesn't work this way. So is it a sincere conversation or what? There's no point to engage with people who aren't honest about the science. Name calling, shaming, or framing them as "in denial" just confirms their observation the conversion isn't sincere.
Would have been funnier if you said "thrice"
I'm well aware of potential cognitive biases based on the arc of personal experience and I think I've accounted for that above. Meanwhile you've addressed zero of my objective points. You're a troll.
I think the main character is a Savant, who others view as an idiot. The title and its characterization are ironic. He is the smartest character in the book, but viewed as an idiot, due to a consistently ignorant society.

Not unlike, for example, Sufi poets who claim to be gods and then are humiliated and executed for heresy. His label of “idiot” is his execution. A crowd crying to crucify Christ.
We have "secure mail" here in Australia, where you have to go to the post office to pick it up.

It's actually incredibly annoying, my rental contract was sent via this method, so I have to go to the post office to pick it up, despite the fact that I actually live closer to the real estate agents office.

Why they couldn't just email it to me, I'm not entirely sure.
This is fantasy land
This stuff is now second nature to me after a couple decades hacking C, but boy if it was hard to find information on this stuff as a teenager in the early 90's.

It is easy to forget how much the internet, and the WWW in particular, has changed programming.
Thanks a bunch. We started with a default 2 weeks, 1 week, 3 days and 24 hours and recently changed it so you can tweak which reminders you get.

A thing I like about the phone number implementation is I can snap a photo and push it to a loved one (just search their name in my contacts, saved with a NanaGram number behind the scenes) with a few swipes. SMS is the first option on iOS when sharing an image.

We've spent a bunch of time obsessing about notifications and they're not quite where I want them to be yet, but close. I'm not a big fan of addicting apps or services that steal your attention. Every user can tweak exactly what notifications they get. Right now, by default, we notify all the users on an account when a new photo is posted by another user. This is nice since it makes a community of sorts, like a private social network for families. It also helps teach people how the service works. Recently I created a setting allowing you to subscribe to a Saturday morning email instead. This makes for a nice surprise factor, kind of like getting film developed. I'll probably adjust things at some point so all users move off the instant notifications (which help teach people what the service is all about) and onto the Saturday morning digest after a few weeks of using the service.
Most methodologies standardize bullshit so that your bullshit is consistent; and consistent bullshit is (allegedly) better than inconsistent bullshit.
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I wish I could work 20-24 hours/week. I'd be so much more productive. I'm at 65 now if I calculate in my unpaid commute. It's a total drain on life.

I see China's system making it's way to USA soon, in my opinion they just lay the blueprints.
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WebCrypto?
I sometimes feel guilty for not keeping up with the world of crypto but love being here in the physical world focused on smiles.
Yep, and printers should be on their network, with a firewall in between them and end users -- print jobs must go through a print server. An end user device should not be able to communicate directly with a network printer.

Last I knew, most HP network printers still have SNMP enabled by default (with the default "public" and "private" community strings as well) and many (most?) also have exposed web interfaces and the default credentials often are not changed.

Even relatively competent tech people don't realize they can get "pwned" via their printers.
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A deadly frog-killing fungus probably originated in East Asia
No, that just means the subset of genetics noisily estimated by this particular method & sample can predict those extremes (ie top 5% vs bottom 5%). They don't report the full polygenic score in the paper that I see, although they note the SNP heritability is ~10% of variance (and I assume full heritability is a lot bigger since I do recall chronotype as being highly genetic).
But that's the reason why Duplex is interesting, and why there's a grain of truth in what ZainRiz is saying:

Humans have settled on a de facto API for scheduling appointments. It uses the telephone as its interface, speech as its medium, and Duplex is exploiting it.
I think this was what I was thinking about.
Hidden in “plain text” when rendered using their special font. The special font slightly changes the shape of each letter to encode additional information. Title is pretty clickbait. If you copy the “plain text” to ASCII or use a regular font this won’t work.
Can't agree; know too many hobbyist beekeepers who've had 20-40 years beekeeping who can't keep a hive alive through a winter now. When I was a kid peoples' hives survived a harsh Minnesota winter. Now they all die even though we don't have enough snow to ski.
I can't help but always be skeptical with these rulings, as if someone's always just being thrown under the bus to protect the higher ranking career military persons.

I think about how easy it would be to have a culture of sloppy, poorly trained sailors, and when something goes wrong, whoever is in the chair at the time takes the punishment for that.

Naturally I could be completely wrong about this or other cases. But it's hard to shake that skepticism.
Soros didn't destabilize the pound. The Bank of England destabilized the pound. Soros said it was a bad idea, and put his money where is mouth was, and made a fortune because he was right.
Any broker can reduce trading fees to zero. How does Robinhood afford it?
With the release of impl Trait (easily the feature I've been most looking forward to), has there been any talk of/proposals to allow anonymous trait implementations? (see: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/2406#issuecomment-384... for an example of what it might look like)

Being able to return anonymous trait impls from inside functions could eliminate a lot of what seems like boilerplate structs/impls from Rust code. As an example, the code in futures-util that adds combinators to a Future defines a type (Then, Fuse, Map, etc) for each combinator function. With those functions now able to use 'impl Future<...>' as the return type, being able to actually type 'return impl Future<...>' could make code like that a lot less cluttered.
I like tilling, but it requires lots of diesel fuel and it increases evaporation.

The future is probably robotic weed picking. That still requires fuel, but perhaps not as much.
Gusto's new office in SF has a no-shoes policy
I think you're right, at least in an academic sense. I just associate "minority rights" with "liberal" by applying the principle that people should be allowed to do whatever unless there is a (relatively) objectively justifiable reason to do otherwise. So enshrining that principle in a constitution makes for a liberal and minority-rights protecting component, while the democracy makes for the authority-of-the-majority component which counterbalances it.
Again, the jury was never out about vaccines, there's no scientific research claiming they are harmful. This scenario is not analogous to the grandparent post where scientific consensus is being actively manipulated by vested interests to delay regulatory action

Doctors don't make vaccines. Pharmaceutical researchers do. And pharmaceutical manufacturers wouldn't blink twice before selling you drugs that they know are harmful, there's plenty of well covered precedent for that. It's not that the medical field is more or less moral, it's just that in the case of vaccines, they actually perform well with no significant side effects so there's no reason to engage in morally questionable business practices to sell them
Doesn't that just bring up a dialog box where you have to search through the radial buttons for "Paste Without Formatting", select it with the mouse, and hit "Ok"?

An obscure keyboard shortcut (vs 4-5 common ones), finding your option, and switching to the mouse doesn't seem like a better solution. Plus it's not universal.
As my algorithms professor said on his programming project. A program is just a number, pick the right number.

At least he made it funny.
When you are saying some social phenomena is "new", yes.
I find it more comfortable not to wear shoes at work but, I think they are needed to go to the bathroom.

Anyone from Gusto want to comment if they provide slippers for the bathroom?
See Pharma companies for an example of what happens when you have a guaranteed market that capitalises on research funded by the public. Solar is very similar.
I used to work for a company that made a POS system for hospitality.

It was incredibly hard to make everybody happy. Every restaurant and bar and cafe had their own way of doing things, and wanted our system to do it that way.

We did have a few "rules" that helped make the system easier to use and to avoid stories like this.

We tried to ensure that nothing that was used more than a couple of times a day was more than 3 taps away from the main screen.

We also did a lot of visits to our customers. If there were sticky notes around the POS terminal, that was always a red flag that our system wasn't doing something the right way.

One important take away from my time at the company, where we worked fairly closely with our customers, is that people love sticking to the old way of doing things, even if there's an easier, new way to do it. If you changed this system to only require one click to change bookings, they'd probably still use a whiteboard marker on the screen, because that's the way they've always done it. Cargo culting is incredibly common for non-technical people using technology, and even fairly common for technical people.
a pretty informative read re: cell phones and cancer: https://www.thenation.com/article/how-big-wireless-made-us-t...

(as usual, article headline is clickbait, not chosen by writer, please do not judge the content based on the title)
On the contrary they have little or no presnece in the consumer area they only deals with institutions. It seems to me they are insignificant in this space.
WebRTC didn't exist at the time.