skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately this cannot be used to pack an integer that is sent over the wire or to produce a register for a hardware peripheral. Basically this is not a valid substitution for most use cases of bit packing and can only be used to save a bytes of memory without reverting to undefined behavior. ie, casting this memory to a byte/int is undefined. The language does not define that the first field will be the lsb, msb or some arbitrary bit. The reason "many programmers don't know this" is because its a mostly useless language feature.
Vegas Workers to Strike Over Automation
But these are not problems with React. Sounds like you want a framework, not a library.
Because content providers are making you care about that. They _demand_ that you're prevented from seeing high quality TV if your platform doesn't fully lock you out.
Brendan Eich is working on something similar - https://brave.com/
Spoofing Signatures in GnuPG, Enigmail, GPGTools and Python-Gnupg
In China, a picture of how warehouse jobs can vanish
It's a rather unfortunate coincidence, isn't it? Certainly it's not their fault that their buildings just happen to be constructed in such a way, and their products arranged such that it blocks signal causing customers to not be able to compare prices and have to use their approved internet connection. /s

I see this in the Targets in my town. I just expect signal to drop to zero.
Agree completely here. 20 years ago I was involved in a project that rolled out an integrated SAP/GIS system. The GIS server had 3Gb RAM and was able to support 100 users.

These days we can't even roll out a client computer with that little RAM -- and the end users can't get any more work done than they could 20 years ago.
The driver in front also knew about the stationary ‘car’ well ahead of time and was instructed to avoid it by merging into another lane. An actual human driver in a real scenario may perform better than the Tesla, as well as the Tesla or worse than the Tesla — it just depends.
Germany has a freelancer visa that is pretty straightforward (albeit lots of paperwork.) Berlin is the easiest place to get that visa, but it can be done in other cities. I've also heard about Switzerland, Italy, Spain, France, Bulgaria, and Poland.

You can also get a work permit in Thailand via Iglu [1]. They take 30% of the income that you bring into Thailand, with a minimum of $2,500 per month.

[1] https://iglu.net/
On the other hand writing such packages becomes easier as only two syntax extensions are needed (package header and import). You can easily abstract a package by replacing a concrete type with a package level parameter. More importantly, there is no other mechanism to tie together a bunch of objects, functions, methods etc. to the same parameter types.
The Metafilter Wiki has a page about finding help: http://mefiwiki.com/wiki/ThereIsHelp#Therapy

I run this wiki, and I'm proud it's a useful resource on this topic.
The FCC definition of broadband is 25mbps, not 8mbps.

There was a proposal to roll that back, however it didn't succeed.

You'll find that companies like Verizon do not call their slow DSL services "broadband." In Verizon's case they say: "High Speed Internet (DSL) service."

https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/18/fcc-report-keeps-faster-de...

If you look at Verizon's DSL page:

https://www.verizon.com/info/dsl-services/

You'll see they can't call their actual service broadband if it's not up at 25mbps. Instead they throw the "broadband" term around on other things on the page, such as "broadband routers" and they call themselves a "broadband provider" (referring to their FiOS offering).
How does one bear-proof a chicken coop?

My feelings exactly. I thought it was bad enough having to guard against racoons, possums and the occasional pack of dogs breaking into my chicken coop. Bears? Would be like Game Over, Man!
If the world's financial stability is at risk due to crypto-currency, you will see how easy it is for the government to effectively shut down the internet. What good is the bitcoin blockchain when all ISPs have been locked down and the only internet traffic is going directly through military run equipment?
An Open Letter to the Security Industry: You Have Failed the Developer
After working in the broadcasting industry for a few years... the answer is that the management of companies in the chain simply doesn't care. DRM absolves them of any kind of piracy blame and they happily pile blame around on people who push back on DRM. That's about it to the story - actual results never come into the reasoning.
> They already are: multiple low or modest cost, high speed satellite providers are targeting the US market for deployment in the next four or five years.

Hoping satellite will solve your bandwidth problems is wishful thinking of the worst sort. There simply isn't enough spectrum, and thus bandwidth, to go around.

Can't beat physics.
>A government-run economy becomes starved for capital and innovation slows way down; that is why the Soviet Union lagged U.S. technology and why Cubans still drive 50-year-old-cars.

This assertion of causality is sorely lacking in accuracy. Your examples alone are sufficient for highlighting this.

Being among the most ‘government-run economy’ on earth at the time, the astounding innovation achieved within the Soviet Union is the most glaring contradiction. Cuba is just an awful case study subject, due to so many drastic incongruencies, but let’s remember technological innovation has been fairly low on Cuba’s priority list. If it weren’t their access to the world’s selection of material and media resources would have likely remained open. And this access was very obviously the reason they are driving old cars. Those are just two factors I will assert are far more useful in this sort of prediction.

While of course the correlation is circumstantially critical to varying degrees, many other measurements are better predictors of rich innovation environments.
With forge, you can add, delete, or modify individual parameters as well as convert argument values or validate them.

import forge

def sumthree(a, b, c):
return a + b + c

@forge.compose(
forge.copy(sumthree),
forge.modify('c', default=3),
)
def sumthree_default(**kwargs):
return forge.callwith(sumthree, kwargs)

assert forge.repr_callable(sumthree_default) == \
'sumthree_default(a, b, c=3)'

assert sumthree(1, 2, 3) == \
sumthree_default(1, 2) == \
(1 + 2 + 3)

Today a major revision (v18.6.0) was released.
Yeah, I would think that legit value creation is the harder problem.
Though maybe it's nice to have the options, that this is an NPM package and CDN link seems like a parody.
Netscape launched a doomed portal in 1997 and relaunched in 1998 after they started losing significant browser share to IE. There were already plenty of better portals at the time (Yahoo, Excite, Lycos, Infoseek, Compuserve, Prodigy, AOL, etc) and Netcenter's only real traffic came via Netscape Navigator users because it was the default home page.

I don't understand the comparison to Netscape either. When Netscape was in it's prime, Elph's founder was 5 years old.
Max Planck head: UK must have ‘will to develop Europe’
In most of your reply you have failed to account for the third world (and frankly a decent chunk of first world). It seems to me you don't have an understanding of your user base. Please dig into how many people are actually on HD-capable bandwidths.

I am glad that Silicon Valley is driving it since they have users all over the world, not just fiber-enabled users. If and when other people have a better aim, vision and understanding of the problem, I think you should find a good collaborative atmosphere.

In the meantime, let's not design for 100m users when we should be thinking about 2-3b users.
I'd disagree. Government is much more efficient at funding capital projects. Public companies are largely incapable of sustaining them at scale.

The Bell System was built through implicit subsidy of capital expenses, by the allowance of monopoly, favorable tax treatments of convertible bonds, and a regulatory regime that locked in profit.
P2P isn't very useful for real time video.
No, there are actually a number of people on this forum who believe they need to make that disclaimer because someone said so a decade ago.

The disclaimer has absolutely no legal value, as what creates the attorney-client relationship isn't simply the offering of legal advice, but the offering of legal advice under the color of being in a position of legal authority to do so (i.e., claiming to be a lawyer). Just commenting on a forum post doesn't do that.

But people saw a warning a decade ago and so they keep doing it.
Antarctic ice melting faster than ever, studies show
> Bonus third thing: JavaScript rots your mind. Avoid it.

Could you elaborate on your hyperbole? What exactly "rots the brain"? Is Javascript deficient in some fundamental way that irritates you? Or do you merely object to its 20-something year history of use on websites?

Javascript is the only language that browsers support. Would you prefer if browsers historically supported only Python instead of Javascript?

Expressing only emotions toward a tool is inefficient and hinders improvement of the tool. Please help the conversation by identifying specific issues or failings.
Nobody needs dapps. That's the problem you need to solve first.
The difference is that Docker has centered their momentum on the transclusion of untrusted/unverified images. It's true that executing random untrusted code has been a major problem since people got internet connections (although most HN denizens like to fancy themselves as too smart for that, so this story is undoubtedly uncomfortable for them), but when Docker makes it a core part of the value proposition, it's worth calling out.
* I'm sick of this government handout to companies that want to have their cake and eat it too*

So you're advocating a federal subsidy so Google (4x the market cap of AT&T) and Netflix don't have to deal with the problem themselves? It is like fighting corporate welfare for big companies with even bigger corporate welfare for even bigger corporations.
So long as the printing press keeps running, the solution is to print yourself another 14000 in tether, convert to BTC and sell the BTC for 14000 in real USD.
Make regular video check-ins from any timezone in the world
My Lowe's and Home Depot both have free Wifi. I use it all the time to use their app or site to find the location of items in store (obv. can't talk to humans).
This is surprisingly only the second time I've heard of minks going after chickens. The first was when I was commiserating with a cashier at Tractor Supply after my neighbor's dogs found a weak spot in the fence around my coop and killed all but one of the flock. The cashier had lost one chicken a night to a mysterious predator that he finally tracked down. It turned out to be be a mink living in a hollow tree.
That is the reason I run a pfsense router/firewall. You never worry they are going to stop supporting your device cause your device is x86 with FreeBSD base.
First:

http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#classic

And just because:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=curated%20machine%20learning&s...
In a 5-4 decision in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyllo_v._United_States , the SCOTUS determined that police can't use thermal imaging on a house without a search warrant. I wonder what the vote would have been if the justices could have seen videos like this.
It really seems like traditional investing has yet to fully understand how to assess the value of Tesla. A lot of the value seems to be wrapped in from people's hopes/expectations of the future of energy/vehicles. Tesla is more than a car/battery producer, it seems to also be a figurehead for clean energy to a large extent.
Well, firstly, they have HSM-grade hardware available as well. Secondly, they have crypto processors that let you use PGP or PKCS11 certificates with the private key and certificate operations happening on the device, directly integrated into native system utilities.

Also, source on them being "much more trivial to exploit than the article's issue"? The only issue I've heard with Yubikey's certificate operations was https://www.yubico.com/keycheck/ where they also provided anyone affected with a replacement key at no charge.
SWAT team dealing with a hostage situation in a closed room
Typescript is pretty much just annotations and linting. Most of the syntax features have been folded into javascript by now.

In other words it's not a "secondary" level, you only have to learn one level to use it.
It's not just that modern CPUs are fast in eager mode; also str* and mem* functions nowadays use the FPU (via SSE/AVX) and the dynamic loader (ld.so) uses them. Therefore Linux's heuristics switched to preloading the FPU anyway for most processes, even before the program code started running.
> Meh, that seems a little sensationalist. Any significant metal would likely throw this in a loop

Maybe even chicken wire in the walls.
Ask HN: Does the term artificial-intelligence drive you up the wall?
This might be unpopular. There is no such thing as AI, there's only machine learning. Can intelligence even be artificial? So much misuse of this term.
Antarctica loses three trillion tonnes of ice in 25 years
I see what they are trying to do but I don’t see why staking a coin is necessary. You should be able to figure out what is a scam and what is sovereign through data.

Further, I don’t understand why Coinbase doesn’t leverage its flagship app instead of owning Toshi, Cipher, and funding this. How often does one use Coinbase? If you are a serious trader you are using their web site. You should be able to buy crypto and apply crypto to dapps in the same place.
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) GA
Data Science, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence for Art
I disagree that I'm being bigoted. That's an extremely strong accusation to lever, when you are the only person in this entire chain bringing up fat hate.

You call it dog whistling, for some reason, when usually that term is used in an occasion to rile up bigotry. I'm actually just discussing the seemingly low weight restriction on the device. Weirdly, it as if I'm actually targeting low-weight restrictions as an issue, so you've gone and broadsided someone who might actually be an ally to your cause.

And to what end? Clearly it has something to do with being seen doing it, as you rejected my offer to have a private conversation with another unsourced ad hominem.

I took a look at your other comments, because I was curious about the sort of personality that red herrings an engineering discussion into a weird attack against an entire forum for the comments of about four people. I have seen you repeatedly post direct insults that add absolutely nothing to the discussion - calling people idiots, challenging someone's knowledge about computer functionality without any attempt to source your own argument about why they were supposedly wrong.

What is the source of the vitriol? Do you feel hatred for this forum, and the people here? If so, why are you here? Why do you relentlessly violate the as-written etiquette of this forum? What's your objective?

As before, I'm happy to talk about this over email or even over a beer if you'd like. I think we'll soon hit that comment depth limit that HN seems to have (but I can never sort when that (kicks in)
I can't even buy internet in my city (with 2-3 competing ISPs) without having to bundle cable. It's cheaper to get the internet / cable bundle because they want to up-sell on-demand videos, HD, recorder box rentals, etc. which is only possible with a cable TV bundle.

Comcast and friends are not going to let the cord-cutters get away with $30/month 100Mb down sans media, as is possible in the rest of the world, it seems.

The only way I will believe that we haven't been fleeced by the FCC / end of net neutrality is if there are more choices in the end: If I can get a $30 / month 100Mb standard internet connection without any media content, while those who binge watch Netflix, Prime, Youtube, sports, etc. have to pay more for the massive bandwidth and distribution costs of all that consumable media, I'd be willing to concede that maybe the FCC was right.

But I'm guessing that this won't happen: I'll still be paying high prices even though I don't want all the media content, and those who do will end up paying even more.
Originally loads of people in industry came from print, so I can completely see how pixel perfect layouts were seen as desirable (hell, loads of our idiolect comes directly from print media, show me where a webpage folds over!) and conversely why they've died out over time as a generation of people who grew up with the internet have come through.
True for Kraken (although their USD withdrawal policies are very restrictive, so not a huge improvement over getting your money from Bitfinex).

Bittrex has a public pair between Tether and "True USD" [1], but their fiat USD market is not yet available to the public, and I don't know where we can find pricing data for the non-public market.

[1] https://bittrex.com/Market/Index?MarketName=USDT-TUSD
This isn't uncommon for sites that sniff adblockers too, though it varies how much of an obstacle it is. Often you can Inspect the div they are covering things up with and just delete it (or block it for good with uBlock etc.) - clever implementations won't fetch the actual content you wanted to read, so you'll only uncover an empty page, though.
Split California into three states, proposal qualifies for ballot
>I have friends over the border in Vermont who say that the bears don't bother him and his neighbors that often because they shoot them more frequently so they become more person shy.

Exactly. Deer, turkeys, addicts looking to commit property crime in order to finance their next fix, basically anything that people occasionally shoot is far more people-shy in northern New England than southern New England. Bears are no exception.
Persisting an npm package to your project for 5 css rules is a far more egregious case of "you might not need..." than a simple css reset could ever be.
Sounds like Twitter's Murder tool from 2010:

https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/a/2010/murder-fas...
This spec should be rebuilt from the start to extend http://cloudevents.io .
> Maybe SWAT can use this to validate that it's actually the right house when serving a no-knock warrant.

How would a stick figure images help a SWAT team validate that they're at the right house?

This could only help them by giving them a clue about where to point their guns once they bust down the door.
Evidence for biological shaping of hair ice (2015) [pdf]
That's the way to read it.
Everyone should read this. Then read it again. Lather, rinse, repeat. Even if you don't agree with everything esr has to say, most of this is totally on-point.
Are you referring to this specific article, or the "cultural Cold War" in general?

I'm honestly curious. In general I'm not in agreement with the direction we seem to be going as an industry, but it seems to be for different reasons that is generally assumed. I really think the biggest issue is one of impedance mismatch. There are real issues that can and should be dealt with, but we're speaking different languages and can't seem to get past that difference.

Speaking only for myself, I don't buy a lot of the thought around the concept of Intersectionality. When I say that, those who do buy in to that concept usually tune me out. Likewise, when I speak about how do identify and reduce implicit biases in hiring processes and building a culture of cooperation and, as the author put it, a working environment of "psychological safety", those on the other side of these issues tune me out.

I think that's really unfortunate - because I believe there is a lot of potential for efficiency gains (and therefore, ultimately, profitability) through purposeful cultural change. If the same actions also meet the goals of Intersectionalists... great! Finding areas of common ground and working together is the way the world moves forward.
Smarking (YC W15) Is Hiring Sr. Front End Eng in SF
Inside Amazon’s $3.5M competition to make Alexa chat like a human
> Only if you exclude wireless options, which is becoming an ever-less rational thing to do.

Maybe some day wireless will become a meaningful substitute for wireline broadband, but that day is not here yet. Thus it's very much the rational thing to do to exclude it.
This looks great! There are so many times I want to quickly grab text from things.
Isn't that the entire point of reusable rockets? Who invented that 50+ years ago?
> I don't know that much about the Soviet Union.

> I have been following some leftist stuff and saw this article recently by Trotsky.

so Trotsky has a better reputation than most leadership from the early USSR; he didn't last long in power.

It's worth studying the USSR as an example of how a revolution can simultaneously fail and succeed; how leftists fail, sort of, how ordinary people survive.

A lot of blinders were on people in the early years of the USSR - much of what was said positive was wrong; much of what was said negative later on wasn't really too right either. Again, blinders. What's incontrovertible is that the violence was endemic to the system for decades; Stalin's time was really bad. How that affected people... that's debated.

I've read some about the USSR and Russian history; there's libraries written on it by now. Recent scholarship seems to be better IMO; less emotionally charged and tainted by Cold War attitudes.

I thought these authors' work was well done - it captures a lot of the pre-1937 mode of the USSR in a relatively humorous way.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilf_and_Petrov
docker run some/container is basically equivalent to curling a shell script and piping it straight to bash isn't it?
If you could publish evidence of this phenomenon, the public would be very interested.
That isn't a particularly useful stat. Americans may just drive a higher percentage of their drives on highways, where one is most likely to kill oneself in a car. And saying something is 'dangerous' doesn't imply that it is 'deadly'. You may be much more likely to be in a small accident on a narrow, back-country English road than in a wide, back-country US road.
If you live in SF, Two Chairs could be a good option (https://www.twochairs.com/). They're a practice which strongly emphasizes the therapist matching component – and as others have noted, finding a proper fit is hugely important for treatment. Not sure if they're in other cities.

Disclaimer: no personal connection, but have heard very good things from friends.
I have no PNAS*, but just for starters...

Firstly, this is such a massive and important finding, even cessation of the Flynn effect would be, that one has to wonder why we haven’t seen it published until now.

Secondly, one of the frustrating parts of being a statistician is that a 90% explanation of nearly every effect comes from some common-sense factor. So much so that it raises suspicions when a strong effect is shown along with a series of specific and fairly complicated ‘anti-explanations’. The article seems more interested in disproving the ‘idiocracy’ effect than finding some alternative explanation.