skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm sure there are people that prefer 16:9 though.

16:9 is the most common resolution of DVD/Blu-Ray and other movie formats. It's great for movies, and the people that hate letter-boxing black bars and mostly don't understand aspect ratios are always going to prefer 16:9.

(Though ironically movies have plenty of non-16:9 widescreen content these days, so the complaints of letter-boxing by the people that hate letter-boxing and don't understand aspect ratios have started back up.)

It's not a great reason to prefer to 16:9, but "doesn't have black bars when I watch Netflix videos" is a surprisingly common request.
>we also need a legal system capable of functional resolution of these disputes fast, without abuses, mutual destruction stalemates and burdensome "costs"

i think there should be at least a couple additional levels between small claims and full blown court. The lack of those levels is what arbitration mostly trying to fill.

Wrt. the original issue of forced sexual harassment arbitration i guess Uber is just trying to get a good PR while it can - federals, NY, CA and a bunch of other states are coming with legislation outlawing it : https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/state-legislatures-tackle-...
No. A vacuum doesn't transmit heat at all. The chips will get very hot. Liquids (generally) transfer heat better that air. You can completely immerse your computer in 3M Fluorinert. That will transfer the heat. Then, cooling fins to transfer the heat into the environment.
> even though they're not as "straightforward" or "simple" as just blaming people you disagree with.

You're getting way, way off track. This whole subthread started when someone asked why lawmakers would "cede power" to arbitrators, and the response was maybe they don't mind, with examples where they sought reduced power for the government. You're the one who seems intent on making this about blaming them.
"That was a good approach 30 years ago, when we were fighting nation states. Now we're fighting large terrorist organizations that exist without a geographical border -- the types of people that would never sign a treaty."

True, but this doesn't require AI drones. To me that is just well crafted propaganda to make people (voters) accept further military expenses. Name one terrorist attack anywhere in the world in the last 20 years, therefore including 9/11, that could have been stopped by a swarm of AI drones (1). Today terrorism can be fought only with intelligence ops and cooperation between nations; we're talking about people either using AK47s and explosives just like 30 years ago, or driving vans to hit pedestrians. There's no war declaration in advance, therefore there's no identifiable enemy until the precise moment they hit. In this scenario you can't stop their action no matter the weapons at your disposal, not even alien technology, death rays, sharks with friggin lasers on their back or the Millennium Falcon itself. Enemies like those can be fought in one way: knowing them, foreseeing their moves and possibly infiltrating them, all actions involving intelligence, not weapons; with the right approach we don't need anything more advanced than what was available decades ago to fight them. But of course this reasoning doesn't help the weapon industry, so their puppets are instructed to brainwash people into thinking we need ultra advanced technologies when it's utter bullshit created to protect the weapons business.

(1) Actually the 9/11 attacks outcome could have been reduced by using AI drones, if they existed back then. Let's say the control tower operators realized a terrorist attack was in act on a number of planes and they knew the terrorists were going to crash some of them onto populated buildings (which is unlikely as it was unheard of before, but let's just pretend that). A swarm of AI equipped drones could have been instructed to patrol every plane literally following it so that in case of an attack each drone could down the plane to reduce the number of victims. All fine, and in this context it could work: tune the drone to the airplane transponder and let it share the plane flight plan, so that it can identify immediately if it deviates from route; if it does check with traffic control and the military and if they command so, hit the plane. What could possibly go wrong?
I'm not sure I'd want these things flying over my head 24/7 or behind my plane, not even for good reasons.
If you want dedicated infrastructure then we should introduce a bike registration tax.
Funny that if env is such a crucial part of the OS, why isn't it in /bin?
They're provided as guidance. They aren't some kind of internet law. Sometimes contravening standards is harmful; sometimes it's helpful. It's not productive to point at them as if they were dispositive in debates.
Did you install from the AUR? It works fine for me.
Bangabandhu Satellite-1 Mission
After Caviar courier's death, what about gig workers' rights?
Saying that a header is useless because it has been deprecated and displaced by a newer header is... misleading at best.

If all you ever code for is the latest version of Firefox and Chrome, you might not understand this, but there's a whole world out there with an astonishing diversity of browsers. (Also, your site is bad and you should feel bad.) Removing X-Frame-Options without first checking if 99.99% of your users' browsers support Content-Security-Policy is just asking for increased risk.
If it's at all profitable to produce a newspaper with more than the bare minimum writers, wouldn't a new paper start up after the last local one dies? What am I missing?
I still feel like I'm missing something, because it sounds like "If an attacker can rewrite your configuration inside CDN, bad things will happen."

I mean, Via might be useful as a safety check against mistake, but I'm not getting the security angle.
Fuse App.... Not to be confused with AppFuse
I can't tell if the OP is suggesting the bug they had was due to Rust, or if they adopted Rust for a safe language they once had a bug?
Not necessarily. Possible, but I had a cheap HP mouse that whined briefly when it first came out of sleep mode. Couldn't have been the computer, since it would make the same noise when the PC was turned off.
I wrote this game in the 80's for the Mac in assembler. Loved the 68000! https://www.macintoshrepository.org/3331-macgolf-classic

Wrote some others too: https://www.macintoshrepository.org/3732-macracquetball
https://www.macintoshrepository.org/3384-road-racer
If You Want to Master Your Life, Learn to Organize Your Feelings
The details are interesting but "adds overhead at a critical time in the loading of your page" ... this seems pretty unlikely to have any noticeable processing overhead. Doing things better is generally good, but this all seems very low impact.
This is the viewpoint the NFL obviously won't address.

They enjoy the game being turned into a hyper-violent gladiator sport.
Thanks for the response! Transparency is always appreciated.

It looks like the age range is a component of the plus.login scope. You’re not storing any data associated with that scope, so you can instead use the userinfo.email scope (and, possibly, the userinfo.profile scope) to ask for only the information you need.
You just never know who might turn up from your past...

1999: I was a sysadmin at an ISP in Austin. One day we had a tour come through, people looking to see if they wanted to colo in our datacenter. In walks in the former CEO and most of the technical staff from the Oklahoma City-based ISP I'd started my career at and left in '96. We laughed, shook hands.. and they headhunted me away a couple months later with a 200% salary increase for their new Austin-based startup.

2015: interviewing for a remote sysadmin position at a firm in California. They knew of me through some mailing lists I've run for a couple of decades. A couple of interviews in, I mention that I'd need to get off early on Thursdays to attend Lodge as I was a Freemason. Turns out two other execs interviewing me were also Masons. It certainly didn't hurt my job prospects.. And then after I started the CEO
asked "Weren't you mr_bill on efnet #unix IRC in the 90s?" I gulped and said "Yeah..." and he said "Cool! I was on there too..."

And, at my current job, after I got hired, my team lead said "Yeah, (other coworker) said you were cool and said you'd fit in well here..." - turns out the other coworker was another EFNet IRC buddy that I'd never met in person..

So, never lie about a contact or reference and never burn bridges if you can avoid it - you never know when someone from your past may be in a position to influence your future.
because it's definitive proof that we aren't alone.
Fish shell?
How Turing Decoded Nature’s Mysterious Patterns
It's profitable while there's a customer base that still (due to tradition, habit, brand name) are willing to pay for an increasingly bad service. The last paper dies when it has "spent" that customer base by motivating them to change these habits, and at that point it won't be profitable for anyone ever again.
I'd suggest an online course or bootcamp. Not because graduates of these courses are immediately employable (they're not), but to get an overview of what needs to be learned to be a web developer, and how much interest and aptitude she has. After that, I'd recommend a deeper dive into whatever aspect most interest her, in order to develop employment-ready skills.
History and Future of the Compressed Air Economy
That's the point; Rust operates in the places they needed C before, and C is unsafe.
Exactly. Some such policies/laws may be "worth it" because they have other socially desirable outcomes that we rank more highly than affordable housing.

What's odd when seeing my comment get down-voted to oblivion is that I am not making a value judgment about the laws/policies, simply mentioning that many of the ones listed have unintended consequences when it comes to housing affordability.

As usual, downvotes are used instead of a counter-argument because whoever does it lacks the sophistication required to offer one :)
Also, people actually had reasons for voting for Trump that were not related to the content of fake Facebook posts.
The Social Network Employers Love to Raid
Pi1541: realtime cycle exact Commodore 1541 disk drive emulator for Raspberry Pi
Sorry for misunderstanding. And nope, not touchy in this case. More like -- I get it where are they coming from but apparently people don't share the sentiment so find another way; we pay taxes for them to figure out stuff and make it happen, not to play eternal game of cat and mouse with their own citizens.
You can find my email on my HN profile.
I just get paid very well and like moving up.
> Anyone remembers something akin to "TV tax" ? It was a tax paid to sustain national TV (media) in a large scale, which provides them the possibility of being independent and not struggle with financing problems.

Yes, I do. I live in a country that has one.

> It is simple, and it works,

For some value of "works", and only if you're being generous. We don't have an
independent publicly financed media, they are PR outlet for a political
faction just fine.

You would do much better job by first learning what the world outside your
country has to say about those simple ideas of yours.
the "concept of ownership" is a bit too reductive given the contextual differences at play, because the context directly impacts practical matters like harm, customer autonomy, etc.
This is not a catfish. This is a person lying on their resume
> My team and I are a pretty savvy group.

Except for the repeated evidence of an overinflated sense of self, pretty fun reading. I'm left thinking, wow, this really happens?!?
> who feel they have skills but lack credentials, but it is no excuse for falsifying info.

Why is it no excuse? Because we work in a system where the majority of employees and employers are trying to do the right thing.

But that's becoming less and less true - I've interviewed with plenty of companies who have no problem with wasting days of a potential employees time with large take home tests and I've got no qualms about outsourcing those tests.
Scientists Create ‘Prosthetic Memories’ in Groundbreaking Brain Research
The author is missing the most obvious rule that they should have taken away from their experience: don't use the number and email provided by the candidate. Jim's email or number is probably readily available on the company website or by calling up the front desk at the company.
Not really.
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc791
^ Was burned in hardware all over the planet.
On or about March 15, 2017, members of the FBI searched the Residence. During the source of that search, law enforcement officers recovered, among other things, multiple computers, servers, and other portable electronic storage devices (the "Subject Devices"), including SCHULTE's personal desktop computer (the "Desktop Computer")...

During the course of reviewing the Desktop Computer, CACS agents encountered a volume of files in an encrypted contained, approximately 54 GB in size.

... law enforcement personnel were able to defeat the encryption used to protect the encrypted container by entering passwords recovered from a cellular telephone belonging to JOSHUA ADAM SCHULTE, the defendant.

It then goes into some detail regarding the files found, which I didn't have any desire to read.

They resume later with the technical details regarding a VM that was found, with an encrypted partition, which itself contained some VeraCrypt volumes. And how they found the passwords.

And then, to top it off, some incriminating IRC discussions involving the defendant.

In other words, this guys defense that "it wasn't me" is a load of shit.
sure, and understanding the category distinctions and how each person applies them leads being able to address things like wilsonnb's comment "That seems like a strange stance to take."
Wasn't there some weird flash game you could play that was narrated by someone describing chess boxing?
> Ask HN: Is there a service that summarizes news for the last week or month?

Yes, a weekly or monthly news magazine. They've fallen out of favor in the last couple decades, but there are still a few around.
Yes, it's mainly a legal/libel issue. The code is if they just verify someone worked there, it's usually bad (without saying they were bad). If they say they were great, they were great.
There is nothing wrong with considering a shared previous employer a "plus"; the hiring manager knows the employer so if a candidate was good enough for them, there's some reason to think they're good enough for you. If the work environments are similar it could also mean getting them up to speed more quickly.

There's nothing wrong with asking the opinions of people other than those a candidate directs you to. With both the references and the others, you need to understand what experience they're speaking from and what their motivations might be for telling you what they do. Anything that seems like gossip (not the speaker's direct experience) should be treated with suspicion, either ignored or backed up by corroboration from others who can speak independently; discussing it with the candidate themselves may be important. I'm more concerned about hearing only good things from official references or not.
You can't wait for retail investors to be slaughtered?
As another commenter pointed out, it also doesn't have to sift through thousands of faces. Chances are the doorbell is only exposed to a handful of faces a day which greatly reduces the volume of false positives regardless of the field of view and resolution.
Is there really a chocolately aroma, though?
They tried something like that. The Kazoo Helmet. It had the unfortunate propensity to briefly stick to an opposing helmet during a collision rather than slide off the other helmet's hard surface causing a wrenching of the neck.
Really enjoyed that book, and tend to agree, but it would still be pretty amazing to find microbes somewhere else....
If you've ever helped your friends move or have had them help you, you can weigh the economic benefit very easily.

Not only does it strengthen your friendship, but it takes the profit margin of a moving company out of the equation - that's the economic gain your group gains (even after you buy your friends beer and lunches - you should still be in the plus)
Country x region x sub-region x grape variety x vintage?

Obscenely hard randomly, multiple times?

I believe there are multiple levels that get progressively harder so even more unlikely unlikely.
Because it poses new interesting questions: If extra-terrestrial life exists, do we have a common ancestor? This is the theory of panspermia. Or does life spontaneously arise when conditions are right, but with variation?

It would be particularly exciting to discover life that is similar to Earth but with an opposite chirality, or a genetic code that encodes amino acids using different base pairs.
Of course you can taste temperature differences and see color differences. The question is whether you can taste wine differences without temperature differences and color diffefrences.
Just do a project in language X on a professional, senior level and if you incorporate, you can write you worked for that company on that project.
> Is not having a LinkedIn account going to come back to bite me,

In SF bay area, no. Of course hiring is local so YMMV.
it all depends whether you roll a 1 or a 20, am I right? ;)
Sorry, I didn't understand what you meant re the grizzly. Don't run and then? What ought one to do?
Really, I was speaking to quality. If it's good, informative, then heck yeah. I like that stuff.
I've been practicing making Dockerfiles for things so I figured I'd do this one too.

https://gist.github.com/allanlw/64aaa1ed1b24fa3eb833da7940b3...

Dockerfile style/feedback appreciated, although this is really quite terse
And where are they getting the total requests on the internet number from?
Yeah, I get the "opportunity of a lifetime" about once a week, maybe once every two weeks.
How automatic cashback in Bitcoin helps to save more
I completely understand. In my case, every one of my scripts has my name and email in it. They won't hesitate to reach out to me if something is broken. :-)
Ask HN: Slack IRC Gateway Officially Dead
Are you still planning on using slack or have you moved off because of this decision?
You know what? I’d rather die broke on the streets than work for dipshits who care about social media profiles.

Oh! I didn’t blog enough for you? My Facebook vacation pictures aren’t sunny enough? My user profile photo doesn’t smile quite so bright, so as to satisfy your insipid whims?

How about pay me the money I’ll need for the next 18 months, so I can save up enough money, in order to pad all this bullshit fluff walled garden nonsense, to make hiring managers feel warm and fuzzy inside.
The latter. I think it's a sheepish admission that the bug (caused by unsafe C code) is a reason to prefer Rust's safety, which should help them prevent another one like it.
Living in a large house with land next to farms and skiing mountains in an interior rural state, I have different priorities then you.

But you hit the nail on the head: most people like to live in a place with temparate weather, scenery, and things that only come with population density. So most people want to live in the same place, despite (or even indirectly because of) other people wanting to live in the same place too.
Valuation by McKinsey
Whiskey is 40% ABV, and wine is 13% ABV, So an $8 750mL bottle of wine is equivalent to a $25 750mL bottle of whiskey.
Flow is a bolt-on on type system, not quite OCaml (which it was built in) but it's pretty good.
There are companies that exist solely to verify employment history, i.e., if you leave Company X, Company Y will confirm your time of employment, titles, etc. to new employer Company Z.
Türkiye – Tokat – Erbaa Namaz Vakti – Diyanet Ezan Saatleri
(Speaking as someone who sees contact martial arts as a perfectly (mentally-) healthy activity ...)

I've known several amateur fighters, and they all report that the decision to actually attack their opponent in anger is the hardest step for most people making the transition from training for fitness to actual competitive fighting.

Two of those people were exceptions, though: one was a junior lawyer whose approach to her first fight earned her the nickname "Basher", and the second a cleaned-up ex-gang member who used to fight for fun in bars.

I've often wondered whether Basher was merely applying the same mindset she learned as a lawyer to the ring.
Yep, along with his admissions during the interview, well, it certainly doesn't look good for him.
I don't have access to the original paper right now, but Dave does do good stuff, he's no crank, and I'd believe him for the time being.

A possibility to what is occurring is that the RNA is 'interfering' somehow with the DNA synthesis. The synapse is very tightly regulated and getting receptors/transmitters into it may be affected by the production of the proteins in the first place (or the 'state' of the receptors, ie actelyation, methylation, etc). Under this idea, a memory is just the memristive state of the synapse, controlled by the populations of transmitters and receptors (all occurring in a network of neurons and synapses). The RNA may be affecting that downstream network during the DNA>RNA phase. But, I've not read the paper and seen their controls yet. I'd assume Dave really went all out on the controls.

I'm a mammalian/zebrafish guy, and my snail anatomy isn't that robust anymore, and I've not read the paper yet, so I don't really know. Histone methylation is a real thing and a cause of some epigenic phenomena, so I'd think something like this is the culprit.

Still, this is a really surprising result, and (sorry to sound like a broken record) more research in needed.
People play games with IP all the time.
Only? 10 Tbps is HUGE capacity. Biggest IX (Internet Exchange) which is AMS-IX have 5 Tbps at peak. Whole internet traffic in 2016 was around 160 Tbps. So it seems right.
> Do you supply it power? Then you it could induce feedback over the cable which triggers new programming in nearby electronics.

We could feed it through power a little solar panel. Or just give it batteries and accept that it will run out of power eventually. There are plenty of ways to power a computer without allowing it to connect back.

> Does it have any means of creating sparks/heat would could be used to make a hole in the faraday cage?

Assuming it has no access to electronics other than the ones that it needs to function, I don't see how it could overheat one of those parts to over 1811 Kelvin (the melting point of iron) to destroy its Faraday cage without destroying itself. Or we could just cut the power when it tries to mess with the cage, or does anything else that we don't understand.

> What about neutrinos or gravity waves? How would you stop those?

Why would we? We need very expensive detectors to even measure those. How much damage could it do using neutrinos and gravity waves?
Mediasaurus (1993)
True, aur package works.

I tried to manually build from source before.
As a divorced parent, moving to another city would mean losing access to my kids. That definitely weighs into my consideration. With the number of marriages ending in divorce, I wonder how common this situation is and if it also plays into the equation for them.
> Now every time you drive past a Wal-Mart, the font tells that story before you even walk into the store.

If so for me, then it must be subliminal, as I had not even noticed the typeface. If the message is 'bland' and 'unexceptional', then at least I have not been subliminally misled.
Not to mention the schemes that treat RAM as untrusted with cryptographic, integrity checks. Those architectures are making more sense than ever now.