skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm curious what these kids who start out on Facebook as sonogram pics are going to think of Facebook when they become cognizant.
How does version control work for an architecture like this?
Read the patent or watch the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeNXRD8eziA&t=0s

In simple terms, the laser transmitter, the laser receiver and the beam that is used introduces a feedback mechanism that the transmitter can employ to immediately detect an unsafe condition and cut the high power (infra red) laser transmission. The response is so fast that the risks to damaging eyes, etc are acceptably low.
Would there be any profit in making fakes for those, given the already very low price of the original?
The local hackerspace in Belfast is called Farset Labs :)
Libgen link: http://libgen.io/scimag/?s=10.1016%2Fj.wem.2017.10.004&journ...
Device allows a personal computer to process huge graphs
> I missed the part where this was ever a good project.

Agreed.

> Cryptocurrency mining has to use the cheapest available power

Mostly agreed.

> A big problem with successful ICOs is that the companies immediately have too many shareholders to let them pivot.

An ICO doesn't give you shareholders. Some ICOs outright call the money you give them "contributions" or "donations". (Tezos, who had a very successful coin offering and then hit somewhat similar challenges as this lot was very explicit: "Any contribution made to TEZOS during the Contribution Period as described below is qualified as a non-refundable donation...") But even the ones who label the money as an investment aren't giving out anything remotely resembling ownership, control, or voting rights to the purchasers.

I don't see any reason why a pivot wouldn't be possible. And, cynically, a lot of ICOs do pivot almost immediately, from "building the product they promised" to "spending the money they raised". :)

> not with 100s of retail shareholders demanding progress

They can "demand" all they like, but what can they do? They have no ownership, no control, and no votes. The company is apparently owned by one Matthias Woestmann; as the article notes, he doesn't even have to listen to the founders. He certainly doesn't need to listen to the people who participated in the ICO.
The temperature swings are the killer — I think they lose about 8-10 days per season as compared to the 80s.

https://www.northeastern.edu/climatereview/?p=282
this looks very useful ..and very forkable
I can attest to this (HS student). Although I specifically don't have an account, my peers definitely use FB as a means of communication, a way to publicize for school events, and organize group activities. The network effects run strong.
LOVE Sinatra. It’s so easy to get a web app going with it, and it’s super easy to test against!
Man makes panda of man.

People are watching us constantly, everyone has more-or-less enough food, there's a ton of shiny stuff and panda tasks in the enclosure, there's nasty loud machines everywhere, and if you have some young they're like this tiny very-vulnerable creature who will be shortly moved to a different enclosure to be watched by different creatures.

May not be economic!!
But nowadays people can choose if they want to have children. In the past, that was not so easy, at least if you wanted to have sex.

Once people can choose to not children, factors like the economy affect population growth.
I will put it this way.

I have an aunt who has a nursing degree, burned down a barn with horses in it and attempted to kill two people (her mother and her sister) by injecting them with insulin. At some point in between all of that she drove a school bus and for some reason decided to slash herself up with razor and claim that she was assaulted.

We heard that she'd gotten a job as a nurse and we we wonder how that happened. My father-in-law was in the hospital (not where she worked) and she changed his IV bag when it ran out and started beeping.

A week later we read in the paper that she was raiding the medicine cabinet at the nursing home she worked at and found out she was also stealing ADHD medication from her grandson.

Turned out she failed to tick the box that asked if she'd ever committed a felony and the employer was too busy to run a background check on her SSN.

Dangerous people are out there.

That kind of behavior is a direct threat to life but I think tax evasion, corruption, rent-seeking, a lack of responsiveness to problems such as global warming, homelessness, and affordable housing and similar behaviors threaten our civilization and one thing we know is that when a civilization goes down the people left behind turn their back on everything that civilization stand for. (Ex. look what happened when the Christians took over Rome)

The main thing our civilization stands for is individualism and if you like the idea of being able to decide anything at all for yourself (or people 50-100 years) you should have been helping turn the ship around 20 years ago and it might be too late now. (Eg. Listening to people like Frederick Hayek is the real "road to serfdom")

An Iranian physicist living in the UK threatened to sue me under the UK libel laws because he thought I brought attention to him that might lead Iranian grad students to come around looking for job. Well, I was chewed up and spit out by that system and I was not going to be intimidated by that -- if you are sitting pretty on a tenured job on the back of young people in an unfair situation you deserve to hear the voices and see the faces of people who are harmed by your privilege. It is not such a big thing.

Somehow your domestic intelligence service, foreign intelligence services, organized criminals, rip-off artists and other people are going to steal your information and the more that information is pushed underground the more impunity that they are going to operate under.

(To paraphrase Heinlein: a transparent society is a going concern)
https://sps.boisestate.edu/politicalscience/files/2018/02/Gr...

"The 2018 Presidents & Executive Politics Presidential Greatness Survey was conducted online via Qualtrics	from December 22, 2017 to January 16, 2018. Respondents	were current and recent members of the Presidents & Executive Politics Section of the American Political Science Association, which is the foremost organization of social science experts in presidential politics. 320 respondents were invited to participate, and 170 usable responses were received, yielding a 53.1% response rate"

It's impossible to prove anything. But these people are scholars in the field, it's non-partisan, the survey methodology is transparent, the results are fairly consistent across partisan self-identification, and they are fairly consistent over time (2014 poll of same org, 2010 Siena College survey, et al). It's significant.
As an ISP, I'm skeptical of the motivations of big CDNs and Google in general, but it's becoming an ietf standard. I run recursive resolvers for clients numbering in the hundreds of thousands, with an ACL that allows only our ARIN IP blocks to query them.

It is not hard to put a dns-over-https frontend in place for my clients which pulls queries from my own trusted bind9 servers.

Any ISP with a clue can do the same.
Just wondering, why don’t you disable all of that tracking? I just checked the opt-out screen and there’s literally hundreds of ad “partners” (partners in crime that is).

Ironically, one of those “partners” is called AntVoice.
I read a lot of studies and listen to political scientist lectures who draw the same conclusions that I do (Charles Murray. Victor David Hanson). Most times, I am too lazy to link to the case studies or books that discuss my points. Guilty as charged for having strong opinions; however, when I try to discuss them I am attacked, vilified and down voted into oblivion. Do this often enough and you will start to get resentful and seek like minded individuals who think the same way. Then bam, you are trapped in your own ideological echo chamber. I recognize this and am trying to grow beyond that. J Peterson lectures on maps of meaning, actually helped me realize this and I now see that it goes both ways. Growing up, my peers and elders told me I was very intelligent and had enormous potential. If I had not able to out think my frustration and anger, then perhaps I would have been one of these incel mass shooters when I was a young teen. That same rage and frustration I was able to overcome, I see it prevalent in many young men and women. People often tell me I am insightful and have future vision at times, so my concern for humanity and our collective future often leads me to ranting like a cranky old curmudgeon with anonymous throwaway accounts. This is one of few available outlets to vent and express myself.
So people should buy batteries, charge them at night and use them during the day. Over time, they should recoup the cost.

Of course, this will arbitrage the discrepancy away.
The Manifest – a podcast about package managers
My 11 y/o cousin says Facebook is "instagram for old people"
I saw a group of 3 or 4 seagulls take down a pigeon in this way on an office rooftop next door.

It was too gruesome to watch. When I next looked out there was just a wing with a few feathers hanging off it sitting there.
The article itself explicitly makes the comparison to the US Magnitsky Act.
If you are constantly getting turned down for dates, you are doing something wrong - probably approaching the wrong kind of people in the first place. Instead of looking for the super hot chick at the bar and then using cheesy pickup lines, why don't you seek out people who share your same interests, even if they don't seem like "your type". Most times you'll find their company vastly more enjoyable than the hot bar chick and you also won't have to pretend to be something you're not.
Exactly, have you seen these mid west ghost towns? Scary dystopian stuff.
How to build a brain: Fundamental process by which brains are built
I bet you the lasers in these transmitting devices will not be gas but small solid state units. As this becomes more popular, like surface-mount camera dies, these SMD IR laser diodes will become smaller and smaller.
So don't participate.

Besides: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Most of productive apps are web based these days. It seems like the desktop era has long gone.
It does not need to be centralized at all. Any internet service provider with a modicum of Clue can install a DNS over https frontend listening on the IPs of their recursive resolvers, and pull data from their existing bind servers.

This does not contain any sort of proprietary or non free software. People are free to ignore the content delivery Network provided recursive resolvers, and set up their own.
how are the two even comparable?
I still have my account as I chat with a few friends using Messenger (via messenger.com) but almost never use facebook.com. I removed everything from my account except for a generic profile picture and cover image. Limited as much as possible to "Only Me" and left it at that.

If I could get those few friends to use something else for chat I would just close out my account but until then it offers me more than it bothers me.

I mostly use WhatsApp (also Facebook obviously) with everyone else. It works great with the desktop app (WhatsApp Web) and phone app. I would prefer to use something like Signal or Wire but getting people to change is pretty much impossible without big external pressure (marketing).
Both Facebook's Willow Village and Google's North Bayshore are in "transportation deserts" with no rail service and very few, already-crowded routes to get to the other side of US 101, which forms a hard barrier to the rest of the valley otherwise. The parcels for both were acquired cheaply for that reason.
Was just wondering... what value will DNS over HTTPS provide if/when we all move to IPv6 and presumably everything could potentially be identified by IP address directly? Will datacenters/ISPs be incentivized to do NAT with IPv6 or have some other way of introducing indirection into the routing?
This is why I run an openvpn server on port 443 in tcp mode, not UDP, for places like shitty airport captive portal wifi.
The data could be stored on an SD card, or emmc flash, or the cloud. Erasing is not reliable there. The more data you have to protect with secure hardware, the easier a time the attacker has.

Destroying encryption keys stored in a small, secure processor is the most reliable and secure method.

The encrypted data can and should be wiped too, but it's a lot more reliable to have your security model not rely on that.

We have no reason to believe AES-256 will ever be broken within the lifetime of the universe. Maybe in 100 years I will be proven wrong, but I am willing to bet the security of my phone on it.

I suspect we will have human beings living in another solar system before AES-128 is broken.
> There is a theory that the root cause of these problems is the continued dismantling of traditional gender roles.

Except that Japan has kept traditional gender roles, where the woman leaves her job when marries, and they have one of the lower fertility rates in the world.

At the same time, Sweden with very strong gender equality has a higher fertility rate than other European countries. Even that it is still low compared with historical hights.
I believe you mean that some theoretical structure vaguely like social security could work, in principle, without population growth. However, the social security system we actually have acquires its funds from the income of individuals.

You could structure social security as a tax on capital, but that isn't how it currently works.
It would, in effect, make gcc (and MSVC) into "obscure platforms," or at least non-tier-1.

I remember when Mozilla had trouble when they ran out of virtual memory space in the linker (see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=709193 , but this wasn't the first time that happened) and caused serious churn for the Windows build because Visual Studio was their only option. To be sure, this was exacerbated because VS was and is a proprietary product, but if you're going to bet that clang doesn't suffer some similar critical failure in the future, maybe you shouldn't bet every single tier-1 build of your core product.
Dynaconf 1.0 – Layered configuration system for python
There is no need for cloudflare to be a single point of failure. Any ISP that is capable of operating a high availability bind9 cluster has sysadmins with the knowledge to implement DNS over TLS and DNS over https. The software is all either gpl, bsd, lgpl or Apache licensed.
There are many implicit assumptions to any statement. Don’t like this wasn’t one of them.
On the contrary, there are lots of different programming communities. They represent different areas of interest, levels of knowledge, experience.

I cannot see how we could have a "single community" that is equally relevant to CS researchers and newbie programmers and all the other variations in between.

To take your example of "discussing programming", Lambda the Ultimate comes to mind. But even there how could reconcile the "conversations" of JavaScript hackers and Haskell gurus?
I'd love to love one of these explainer video services, but it seems like it really is hard to make good video with all I've tried. I wish someone had a good review of all the different offerings. Anyone have experience with animaker?
>"Cryptocurrency mining has to use the cheapest available power, or else it loses money because the mining rewards float at just above the cost of the world's cheapest power."

How much energy is being wasted each year due to power plant and grid inefficiencies?
Well, basically because there are TLS libraries available in nearly every language. DNSCrypt is a custom protocol.

For example here is my implementation over rustls in TRust-DNS: https://github.com/bluejekyll/trust-dns/blob/master/rustls/s...

Basically that’s a thin wrapper over the TLS library, and I was able to do three different libraries. DNSCrypt on the other hand was a much larger project, and I gave up on implementing it when I saw the DNS-over-TLS RFC complete.
> What's the relationship between the existence of a bug in the codebase and the propensity of the bug reporter to respond to an email?

It's not clear to me the question here, can you be more specific? Many bugs filed are not necessarily bugs in the codebase.

I do wish we treated bugs and user support separately. I rather prefer the terseness of an engineering journal for what it is, but that tends to anger those expecting user support.

> How does Gitlab prevent those same maintainers from creating that same problem again?

In Bugzilla, the only real option we had was "Closed: WONTFIX/NOTABUG" which almost always resulted in hurt feelings on the part of the bug reporter.

I think the gitlab tooling allows us to be more diplomatic in closing bugs that are out-of-scope or not aligned with the goals of the project at large.
This appears to be a link back to this comments page.
Have fun remembering every IP by heart.
Ask HN: What are your favorite tech sites besides HN?
Everyone wants one grand unifying tool/standard/instruction set/architecture/theory/system to handle all use cases because it seems elegant to do so. (See obligatory xkcd which I won't post, but you know which one I mean.) It feels right to harmonize everything, even when it actually isn't, or it stifles innovation, or may lead to long-term technical debt.
Interesting, that sounds like the perfect solution to above problem.

This reminds me of reading I needed to learn C++ to make games back in the early 2000s, because that was what all games were made with. I probably missed 3-4yrs of programming exposure because I found C++ so impenetrable from the local library books I got on the subject.

Working from appreciation of the subject matter, to a light introduction to the inner workings, to the hairy details of how it was all put together seems to be the ideal approach.

Although this analogy may be a bit more niche and involved, the idea of being forced to read Shakespeare at a young age before being able to really appreciate the plays in production, with all of it's subtleties, seems comparable to attempting to pushing their heads into C++ before they appreciate the basic mechanics of game construction.
> America’s Teens Are Choosing YouTube Over Facebook

Wow, that's like saying America's teens are choosing Jenkem over marijuana.
Dangerous people are out there.

Yes, and psychopaths like your aunt exist, but if we design society around authoritarian ideals designed to totally eliminate their ability to do harm society breaks every time. A balance has to be struck that acknowledges the presence of a significant minority of criminals, while protecting the rights of the majority. A thousand anecdotes will not change that.
Self driving trucks don’t pay payroll taxes (as distinct from general income tax). The engineers and mechanics maintaining them do, but if the net cost of them plus the tech isn’t cheaper than the current human driving approach then the industry wouldn’t be switching to it anyway.
your mention of a big contract sounds true, also i somehow got the impression that we did not get all the details in this story. But then JEDI seems to be about creating a cloud for the DOD [1], whereas this contract seems to be about image recognition; but what do we know...

But then: why didn't they create an alphabet company for military research ? (you can even call it Google Mars or Ares). Would have been more compartmentalized away from the rest of the company (that's how the military likes it).

also interesting that this item seems to have disappeared from the front page - is this an editorial practice here with discussions that have gone 'bad'? (idea for a new application: track HN stories that have been on the front page but then disappeared from it).

[1] https://fcw.com/articles/2018/03/07/cloud-jedi-dod-contract....
A canine geneticist and an expert in animal behavior showed this to be the case and their research agrees with previous studies, but because you happen to think otherwise, it must not be true.

Maybe I'm missing something and you can help me out, but I really don't understand this sort of thinking.
Can I suggest at least attempting the default favicon location, like bestbuy.com/favicon.ico?
Turn the other cheek. Steer the conversation back towards something less contentious. If necessary, confront them... but not as a partisan. Challenge them to abstain from political discussion in favor of a happier conversation. If they really cannot be adult enough to make that choice, then it really isn't politics that is the problem, it's just a symptom.
CSS is a disaster of a programming language and a pretty great markup language for styling. It seems like many front-end projects and frameworks are a disaster of overbuilt tooling and compiling where things need not be.
No, I mean that simply by observing the IP address of packets, you can know which hosts are being requested, since there are enough IP addresses to go around.
Hey, I'm not a soy boy, I'm a soy man, and I'm up to my eyeballs in cute, fun, financially self-sufficient women.

Shame they show so much interest when you're engaged to another cute, fun, actualized lady, eh?? Sorry, to use the jargon you might understand....cute, fun, actualized female.
As a parent of two teenage boys who's had this conversation with many parents of teenagers: a) this has been the trend for several years b) they are choosing Youtube over TV, Netflix, etc c) teens go where their parents aren't (Discord, WhatsApp, Snapchat, etc).

As I heard a teenager say a couple years ago "why would I create a Facebook account, its for old moms."
Job ads being one. Also, HN has behind the scene deals to peddle certain news organizations ( nytimes, wapo, wsj ) and certain ngos with certain agendas.

What do you think HN is? What do you think dang, sctb and the mods do?
I've noticed that my Pixel asks me for my PIN for "additional security" every few days. Apparently it asks you for your PIN if you try to unlock your device without having entered your PIN for 3 days [0]. I never realized this was the reason, but it seems like a fairly decent deterrent to law enforcement - I wonder if there's a way to reduce this frequency to a day or so.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/nexus5x/comments/3us0f6/pin_require...
That's pretty much exactly a strong English west-country accent - spoken a little more gruffly (not sure if that's supposed to be dramatic effect or authenticity), and I say that with the authority of growing up and living in that region and hearing it in all range of strengths and subtle variations.

I wonder how it was determined that would have been the accent.
There fact that they can't solve problems without us is why we can leave them alone in our houses. Can you imagine a dog with great problem solving skills in your house all day?
People use the word community in such false ways. I've heard phrases like "the pancake eating community" and so on. People who eat pancakes aren't a community. Your community consists of the people who will let you stay at their house if yours floods. Or the people who will come and get you if your car breaks down. That's a community.
Lambda also has very long (15+ second) cold start times if you start lambda functions attached to a VPC (such as lambda functions that connect to your MySQL server).
Exactly what it seems like
I believe you’ve missed the sarcasm and humour in the way the above comment was phrased. :)
Looks like it's aiming to be async/await compliant but dunno how that is implemented.
Among my circle of friends and parents at school (K-8), Facebook is eroding as an ubiquitous platform. Many parents in certain professions feel that it is best avoided.

iMessage, SMS is ruling the day now. It’s incredible how utterly Google failed in this space by tossing Talk.
What personal attacks? I responded directly to the guy's comment. It was an attack on what he said, not who he is.
I use it for the music instrument groups, groups is where it's at for me and that's about it.