skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Multi-Channel or Omni-Channel: Which Strategy Is Right for You?
By that same logic, you might as well stop eating/drinking, because you're just going to die anyways, regardless of what you do to stay alive.
It's a URL
You might be joking, perhaps not too much, but at some point Google used NFS (see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AndrewPollock2), then replaced it with something else: https://github.com/google/clusterfuzz-tools/blob/master/CONT...
Bitcoin Lightning Network – capacity problem?
I would like to see this study on muscle gains supplemented by others showing the effects of these different exercise regiments on bone density and ligaments.
Given Google's history, is there any good reason to believe this service would still be supported by Google in a few years and not be replaced by yet another new-and-of-course-much-better-than-the-old-one iteration?
Totally. Switched my website to pure static pages about 3 years ago and haven't looked back. Good riddance.
I have noticed that people who swear the government can't do anything right thinks they can do this dead on.

My friend was investigated by the FBI for over 18 months. They acted in court that they miss everything all the time and was why they didn't have any video, audio (though several people were wired) or digital evidence and to please listen to the witnesses that got plea bargains after they got caught red handed committing several federal crimes and tax evasion of over $500,000. The audio sounded horrible. It was almost like listening to backward music lyrics and they could make you hear something possibly.

I doubt they can do much besides a handful of people.
You mean exactly like this bitcoin that was seized and sold by the government: http://fortune.com/2017/10/02/bitcoin-sale-silk-road/
> See antifa or the recent violence against butchers from radical vegans in France

Googling for news on "france butchers vegan" brings up stories like these:

http://www.france24.com/en/20180626-france-butchers-vegan-ex...

That this is making news suggests that this violence is not "acceptable".
That itself is a culture/ideology though. That is sort of the culture of the west in fact, to move forward, and whatever isn't helping move forward gets left behind.
Some of the previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17334733

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17320360
It's well argued that you're not significantly reducing your environmental impact by buying an electric car.

There are literally millions of used cars that will ultimately be less harmful over their lifespans than increasing the demand for new vehicles. You can't only take into consideration mileage, but must also consider the environmental cost of production, logistics, and electricity generation.

If you're going to whittle that argument down further by saying you _want_ a new car anyway, or you're drawn to reduced maintenance/fuel costs... you might as well admit that you don't actually care about the environment and just want a cool car (I won't knock that, but don't pretend that virtue is your motivation).
I'm pretty sure that's what he was talking about.
I've heard it as basically: anything that seperates you from the ground.
That is not what DD is claiming though. It is more along the lines of: "If X exists it is beyond this line. I can't explain anything beyond the line, so X is an illusion." That is what DD claims.

Maybe DD is a true zombie.
Thousands of Swedes are inserting microchips into themselves
Maybe you could give them pokemon/ikea-like nicknames? Stupid idea, but it might really help people searching for stuff.
That’s because the directory iterator isn’t random access, and I don’t see a way to get the functionality you want in any language, not just C++.
> If you buy a beef steak wrapped in plastic, the problem is the steak, not the wrapper.

Oh no worries about beef, they're definitely handling that problem in India well.
Come on though, this supposed austerity is nothing of the sort, with lavish benefits still in place and an unsustainable level of public spending, never mind the gargantuan debt - and we don't even have a proper low tax alternative political party anymore now that the Tories have decided to keep the spending taps turned on full. And no one really knows what's going to happen post Brexit. We could become the successful low-tax Singapore style trading hub that so terrifies Europe. I can speculate also.
Good point. Perhaps, I would think, Bloomberg's menu does this and he can just "borrow" their semantic + A11Y-centric markup?
It doesn’t sound horrible, but it is horrible.
Show HN: A smart app to repair syntax errors in very large CSV files
I read that Harvard is bringing back segregated graduation ceremonies. As a lifelong non-white let me just say, that’s pretty disturbing if true. All the progress of the last 50 years discarded in an instant.
When people imagine their consciousness/free will faculty as its own object, they sometimes see a theatre/stage, where they are in the audience and can observe the central point where consciousness ends up forming, or a deamon sitting in front of a bunch of levers and pulling one to make a conscious free will decision.

Yet, Dennett shows that there is no such single centralized point where consciousness emerges, just a brain creating that illusion to make a higher-level lossy sense of things (consequence of modeling your own cognitive processes using Descartes-era philosophy is that you have to place an artificial cut-off somewhere). Cognitive science has experiments like the Stroop Test [1], which proof that different cognitive faculties operate at different speeds and in parallel. They may even compete for attention. Consciousness is thus distributed and a "multi-agent" system, you may not even become "consciously" aware of what the fast operating faculties are processing and feeding up to more complex faculties. Other cognitive science reaction speed experiments have shown that data is processed (helping you make decisions) before it enters conscious thought (so all "behind the stage").

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroop_effect
Most normal websites don't make you rotate password. When a site has a breech and forces me to change it, I do have an addition to my algorithm for that. I use Keepass to store passwords that violate my algorithm (sites that don't allow my special chars, or that say my password is too long, etc.)

I'm on my third iteration of password algorithms. I use my password manager to store which algorithm I'm using for which site and try to update old ones to new ones as I encounter/use them.

There aren't that many exceptions to my rules, so I can usually remember those exceptions if I use them frequently enough.

Machine accounts that require rotation get their own special secure password that I don't use anywhere else.
There is very little antifa violence, especially in the context of a far-right that routinely murders people.
Great release. I feel like momentum has slowed down since the massive version 57 "Quantum" debut, but I haven't had any problems with Firefox on macOS or Linux since then. Keep it up, Mozilla!
Unfortunately not. Or maybe I was selling it wrong. :) I had designed something exactly like this.

I posted it to HN a few months ago to crickets. I might be reviving it soon-ish.
Apparently they have to do this to keep up with the faster processors. If they don't then sales go down and every one gets hurt!

;)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_alien
Really we are being too static in the thinking about it. Supervised learning can essentially be done by one brain region supervising another that is being trained. It doesn't have to be outside the skull.
What do we do with all the data that includes everyone else’s faces?
> with lavish benefits still in place

Without looking it up what's the current rate of universal credit? What's the current benefit cap level?
Is this history relevant for the Google Cloud Platform? Or are we still talking about RSS readers?
The Stratux project (http://stratux.me) does very similar work, pushing the aircraft positions to most popular electronic flight bag apps. It’s quite common among small aircraft pilots such as myself.
Yes, they measure the conversion rate of the ad campaign. If you bought the Gravity Blanket, then you were part of the cohort that converted.
Can we just call a spade a spade? "Terrible personality" is a euphemism designed to give plausible deniability for admission decisions. The metric itself is fungible and subjective enough that they could ascribe any number they please to any individual.

There was a systemic effort decades ago to reduce the Jewish admission rate, and now there's a systemic effort to reduce the Asian admission rate. History may not repeat but it certainly does rhyme
> What I've found is that jury systems tend to favor the "competition" model of justice, where prosecution and defense are locked in combat, with the judge as referee. Lawyers are gauged based on their ability to win cases rather than their ability to practice law well. Underhanded and unfair tactics, rather than receiving criticism, are honored and celebrated. It very much follows the American model of "win at all costs."

This is the case on legal dramas and very high profile cases, perhaps, but certainly not the vast majority of cases that actually go to trial - there is no interested audience that cares for most cases. Certainly the system is set up to be adversarial (though it generally isn't so much in practice), but for the most part, that benefits defendants.

Yes, I suppose if you're worried about Law and Order and the Public Peace, it's easier to just route everyone into a system that effectively mirrors the American plea bargaining system. But I'd rather a hundred guilty men go free because of their showboating lawyers than one innocent man go to prison. I'm not really clear on what "underhanded tactics" you have in mind; the ones I know well are practiced generally by law enforcement and public prosecutors, who necessarily hold most of the cards, and they do it for bench trials too.

But again, I think it's important to emphasize that the jury trial is an option for a defendant in a criminal case. It's an important option that no state-driven process can replicate, because you're ultimately ceding the case to the law and your peers, instead of just one or more out of touch, even elitist, judges, who may be "interpreting" the law very far from its plain reading or intent (in accordance with established legal practice) and who may take a very dim view of illegal behavior that society at large doesn't care about (say, smoking weed.)

> America hasn't actually progressed very far from frontier justice.

I think this remark deserves some expansion, since there's no obvious connection between frontier justice and the American jury trial system; it comes across as a wholly unsubstantive statement that's meant to tarnish it rather than explain it.
Provisionally

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jun/26/uber-case...
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/harvard-segregated-graduat...
I've always used Ctrl+/- as the ancients did. Does Cmd+ not work?
Are you referring to a particular GCP feature that got turned down after reaching GA?
>Anyone can disconnect you

so can someone with a jammer. I'm not sure how a protocol upgrade would protect against that.

>The password can be cracked offline

true, but the solutions presented don't really address the issue. they're variants of key stretching (using a better kdf, mandating stronger passwords, etc.). at the end he mentions "Contemporary cryptography provides tools that could solve this problem.", but that's hand wavy at best. i'm not quite sure it's even possible to implement such a feature in a PSK setting.

>Once you know the password, you can sniff traffic and spoof anyone

>This problem could be solved by using Diffie–Hellman key exchange (DH).

Doubt it. DHE does not offer protection against MITM attacks, which an active attacker can certainly do with a powerful enough antenna.

>From the user's perspective, unless you really know what you're doing, I advise you not to browse any sensitive websites (especially banking) over wireless

this is fearmongering. most "sensitive" websites already use https, which makes this an non-issue.

>It won't let you secure a passwordless network

>How could this be solved? The new WPA security standard could support the "passwordless" mode that requires no authentication, but keeps an encrypted channel of communication so that the anonymous user can identify himself and make traffic only readable by the access point.

how does this protect against MITM? that is, a rogue router pretending to be an hotspot?

> Silly "terms of service" in your cafe can break your applications and expose you to risk

valid point, but already solved: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotspot_(Wi-Fi)#Hotspot_2.0
Indeed, I've actually written such a thing (although in Rust, not C++), I'm still looking for a clean concise version. :-)

Here's the public API of mine[1], which is pretty blah, because it takes a closure (per-thread initialization) that must return a closure (executed on each entry in the tree). The most interesting part of the implementation is here[2], along with a suspicious termination argument.

Outside of that, ucg (written in C++) also has a recursive directory iterator.[3]

I also know of two written in Go, one in sift[4] and another in the platinum searcher[5]. The ones in Go seem considerably simpler as they fall back to goroutines.

I haven't carefully benchmarked all of these, but if memory serves, they're all faster than the single threaded variants. In my experience, the hardest part about implementing this is coming up with a solid termination argument because your consumers are also your producers. (I documented this a bit in `get_work` in my Rust code.)

[1] - https://docs.rs/ignore/0.4.2/ignore/struct.WalkParallel.html

[2] - https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/blob/b38b101c77003fb94...

[3] - https://github.com/gvansickle/ucg/blob/master/src/libext/Dir...

[4] - https://github.com/svent/sift/blob/2ca94717ef0bbf43068f217c8...

[5] - https://github.com/monochromegane/the_platinum_searcher/blob...
Fair Workweek: Fair or Unfair?
If you haven't been to the Alvord desert you should. It's amazing. Looking up at steens from the playa.
The hot stovetop is an interesting example to use, because the muscle-related reaction of your hand removing itself from the hot stovetop is often not a conscious act. But we do consciously perceive the sensation of pain.

In this very specific instance (and others like it) our consciousness might only be reacting to the world around us and comprehending the current state of ourselves and the immediate environment, as opposed to taking a conscious action.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand_Mountain_(Nevada) is fun to visit, but scary to walk around because of all the ATV's flying around.
Any chance of making it click-based? For example, once I open it, I'd rather click on Markets than hover to change the right side.

Also, and I realize this was just for fun, making it responsive would be a nice touch. For example, force the right col under col 1 and col 2 below a certain width. That's easy and I think more people are likely to find the example more useful.

Otherwise, sweet! Good stuff. Thanks for sharing.
To do that, you’d have to buffer records from the file and dispatch threads to perform your task. Lazily loading can be preferable for large workloads, but it requires fine-grained threading. (And probably dedicated reading/writing threads and/or locks.)

That’s a lot more work than this, though.
Thanks for making my life awkward, Vettery – or why I would never use Vettery
I work from home a lot at my current company. It's a small company, and yesterday I got an email from a VP I work closely with. His IM mentioned that a package was delivered to the office addressed to me. I thought that was weird, since I've never had anything delivered to the office. "Ok, thanks" I said, and figured I'd see what it was in a few days when I next drove in to the office.

A day later, I'm IM'ing the same VP, and he sends a picture of the package that was delivered. The label said it was from "Vettery". I'd never heard of Vettery, and then looked it up.

It's a job-placement company. A yet-another-we've-solved-finding-a-job company.

At first I thought it was funny as I responded back to our VP about it. As I was typing, I realized, wait, this is awkward. What if he thinks I'm looking for a job because of this? Dammit.

To be clear, I am not at all looking for a job, have not contacted a recruiter, and definitely have not contacted Vettery. I'd never even heard of them till that moment. I'm assuming they did a keyword search on people on LinkedIn, saw who I worked for and used my employer's address since they didn't know mine.

But sending me a package from a job placement company to my freaking place of employment? What sort of idiocy is that? They don't think someone would look them up, or know who they are? Just because I'd never heard of them, didn't mean our VP hadn't. It's unlikely this will result in anything other than everyone thinking it's dumb and throwing it in the trash when I get to the office, but, how do they think this is a good way to recruit people into their database? They try to make my life awkward, and now I'm supposed to be really interested in using their site?

I don't think so. In the event I do look for a job one day, I guarantee it won't be with them.
Why must they evaluate people's personalities in the first place? Why not just judge based on academics only?
> She doesn’t see her students as an arrogant, privileged “ethnic group” who think they “own admission” to these high-performing schools, as the new chancellor of New York City Schools, Richard Carranza, recently put it.

This statement was made in response to complaints about "a plan to change the way students are admitted to New York’s elite public high schools" that would correct a perceived overrepresentation of Asian students at the schools [1].

"'I just don’t buy into the narrative that any one ethnic group owns admission to these schools,' [Carranza] said on Fox 5 New York."

Shockingly, he's still in his post [2].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/05/nyregion/carranza-special...

[2] http://schools.nyc.gov/AboutUs/leadership/Richard+A.+Carranz...
The progress of technology is not the same as progress of energy infrastructure. They didn't avoid using landlines they got a better and cheaper alternative.

Poorer countries are using fossil fuels today, more so than they are driving around Teslas, let alone having solar on their roofs which is an investment mostly for those of us who can afford it (a small fraction of the western world)
And they are labeled on the package that way and you can choose to buy ones that aren’t.
Why chatbots haven’t (yet) lived up to their hype
Sounds like the Harvard equivalent of "culture fit."
I've heard at least 1 other story where a Tesla was being serviced (the owner was a VC, i think) and they guy didn't get it back for like half a year or more, it was also on hacker news. really makes me think twice about buying a tesla.
Organizing documentation won't make people document things. Ticket systems don't necessarily make anything better either. "We've always done it this way" just means your ideas are not convincing enough for them. It's hard to find good arguments for organizational changes though. Maybe start with the smallest changes that you can convince other people of. Let them see that your changes make things better for them, earn some trust.
The Asian admission rate reduction at Harvard has been going on for almost 20 years now. At least since I was in high school. I had an asian friend who didn't get into Harvard because they had admitted his older brother two years before _and they told him this in his rejection letter_...

Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders make up 25% of their admissions. They don't collect statistics on white, those who choose not to identify or other. Kind of hard to argue a bias. It seems like if anything the school is actively trying to be less homogenous, not more.

https://college.harvard.edu/admissions/admissions-statistics
Microsoft’s USB Type-C dongle for Surface Pro is finally here, and it’s huge
>but the "real" we're talking about in this sort of debate is some irreducible metaphysical existence, such as that posited by dualism.

But this seems like a mistake. When someone like Dennett says that phenomenal consciousness doesn't exist, it seems like he's denying the reality of the appearances of phenomenal experience. That is, we say that phenomenal experience seems a certain way to us, but Dennett counters that this appearance is false. Denying the reality of the appearances of phenomenal experience is denying the existence of what most people take as the explanandum in this debate.

But there's a difference between denying a theory of the nature of a phenomena and denying the phenomena. We can say that phenomenal experience aren't irreducibly fundamental and not deny the existence of phenomenal experience. But illusion talk denies the phenomena, it's not merely saying it doesn't have a fundamental existence.
The piece argues it's a way to lower the bar for lower performing ethnic groups, and restrict Asians from getting into the school.
The article explains it very well why:

> "To prevent a dangerous increase in the proportion of Jews, I know at present only one way, which is at the same time straightforward and effective,” wrote A. Lawrence Lowell, Harvard’s president in the 1920s, “and that is a selection by a personal estimate of character on the part of the Admission authorities"
> History may not repeat but it certainly does rhyme

“'When two-thirds or three-quarters of the C.E.O.s in Silicon Valley are from South Asia or from Asia, I think . . . ' Bannon said, trailing off. 'A country is more than an economy. We’re a civic society'" [1].

[1] https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/11/steve-bannon-racist-...
> It's why the core Unix shell commands are things like "cp," instead of "copy."

This has a lot more to do with how slow the ASR-33 teletype was/is.
Facebook Crypto Ban a Little Defused Since Today
It's not petty at all.

The forced white backgrounds on the latest releases have been a big problem for those of us who work in darkened studios.

Sad that new tabs and preferences used to honor system colors.
There is a big difference between what is speculated and what is demonstrated.

You can't take a local experiment and apply the findings to larger systems without a lot of uncertainty.
Absolutely confused, I agree. I cannot wrap my head around any of this. But to go further into the fog as it were, is there a fuzzy interpretation of non locality, meaning how can one work out "intuitively" how spooky action at a distance works out or is there a story of sorts to explain how a structure could encapsulate that?
Who knows? Try asking Apple directly.
The universe’s missing matter. Found
The wikipedia page for Carcross Desert says 50cm. That's almost 20 in.
The article talks about how it favors Hispanics and African Americans by ramping the personality score for them.
tails 3.8 comes with a handy typing blanket too!
Apple spent plenty of years doing what they felt was right, and not chase the highest demand.

On that example alone, I feel you're being short sighted.

Put another way, you're under the impression this is about people with special needs. Not at all. This is about people with special needs AND the people who believe they deserve the same "fair chance" the rest of us get. Not all of use are self-absorbed.

p.s. re: "similar to how cheap food came to be"

Seeing how this got us obesity and all the diseases that go with it, I'm not so sure you're model / mindset is the one that's ideal. Perhaps it's time to think more holistically?
> Class C's were literally given out like candy.

Are you implying that they were printed out, individually packaged, and offered in a bowl?