skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personally I prefer multiple big monitors over a single massive monitor because it lets me divide organize things a bit better. But to each their own.
Add Extended Attributes to Resource Assignments and Better XER to MPP Conversion
I'm very concerned that the original post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17535801) was flagged into oblivion. It's somewhat understandable when it happens to political articles, but this is a high-profile tech CEO literally calling a heroic rescuer a pedophile. If nothing else, the event could cause significant turmoil for Tesla and his other companies.

Disappointed in the HN community today.
Great input, I'll keep this in mind for future versions. And thanks for the kind words!
https://imgur.com/gallery/FhiYXFA

For those lazy to click:

How a bad idea starts:-
“That looks easy...
I could do that.”
How a good idea starts:-
“That looks fun...
I should do that”
I meet so many people who drive all the way downtown instead of saving themselves time, aggravation and money by stopping further out and taking the subway in. It's very strange.
When I want to walk somewhere with my X1 Carbon in my backpack I typically have to open it to check whether I actually packed it.

Still has a great keyboard and milspec dust resistant design.
Wikileaks gets raked over the coals for (allegedly) printing similar information and the LA Times gets a pass.

I believe it was in the Noriega case where the first order to CNN not to publish was made. It was overturned by the 11th Circuit.
I am not judging wars, I am only trying to understand what wars are, as a general concept, not least because I don't want to judge wars but because trying to judge specific wars without committing to one side or the other is a futile.
When the filing is made before the appelate court. That's the way the system works.
Aye. My X1C1 is still going strong; buying highest spec has always worked well for me. When it says bye, it'll be another one (top model/current gen).
What are the modern bathing luxuries that will 'trickle down' (so to speak) to the rest of us sooner or later?

I know of:

Steam showers
Electrically-heated floors
Rain showers (not new; mentioned in the article)
Hot water recirculation?
Tankless heaters?
Show HN: Radium – A tool to search for cheat sheets, snippets etc.
Yes but I am pretty sure there very few people who need so much bandwidth and you can always buy a usb c flash drive.
When you have to generate your own kinetic energy, that's not due to a lack of patience as much as trying to minimize the amount of exertion you must do.
> Some of the bug reports here sound pretty obvious

That describes the state of ubuntu these days. More often than not when you get an issue you can find a bug report for it to and the bug report was opened 3 versions ago, never addressed and closed automatically by a bot. It seems they've been busy chasing squirrels and ignored the desktop.

My pet peeve with all recent versions (so xorg and wayland) has been user switching not working, but at least 18.04 is the first version that doesn't boot to an unusable resolution.
With karabiner, you can make it so that tapping capslock is escape and hold is control. You can make shift-caps be toggle caps if you need it for some reason. You can make hold-enter another control (nifty, but adds a nearly perceptible lag to regular tap enter).

I don't have a good use for the old control key. Maybe another fn? Maybe a super (or hyper) key?
It's really a shame when online services make overly broad generalizations like this. I use disposable email addresses for all of my services, because they are the most effective way I've found to manage spam. (They also have the side benefit of a little added security when someone hacks Site A's account database and tries to use the email addresses to log in to Site B.) When a potential provider tries to coerce me in to exposing my keeper address, it signals to me that they (a) put their own convenience before my security, and (b) don't have a particularly good understanding of the internet. For both those reasons, I take my business elsewhere.

Even worse are the sites that happily accept disposable email addresses and claim to send a verification message, but never actually send it. This wastes my time with rummaging through spam filters and polling my inbox, wastes their time when I contact support to find out wtf is going on, and is generally just (c) a terrible experience.
I bought a Dell Inspiron laptop in early 2017. After upgrading from 17.10 to 18.04, the ACPI became all messed up. Manually running "pm-suspend" (suspend to RAM) puts the machine into an unusable state. Of course the problem isn't when this happens manually but when it happens automatically, and the problems are the same. Running "pm-hibernate" fails as well.

I'm sure if I spent more time looking at it I could fix it, or at least work around it. I won't go into all the details of what I've looked at so far in this post. But how many hours do I want to devote to this?

There are also other unpleasant things like this in 18.04, like - https://askubuntu.com/a/1028857 . Starting in 18.04, right clicking on a touchpad is turned off by default, in order to be more "Mac-like" (if Ubuntu wants to be more Mac-like, they should get power management working, not shifting me from three Unix mouse buttons to two and now to one).

I should also add I have been burned in the past by upgrading to Ubuntu on the week the new release comes out ( https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1674838 ), so now I usually wait about six weeks for the major bugs to get squashed before upgrading to the new release (in the past, when I had more time, I would do the opposite - I would put Ubuntu beta into a KVM virtual instance, or even a partition on my machine, ferret out bugs, and report them, maybe send patches etc.)
Checklist automation does not have to be graphical, and does not even have to look like a todo list. A list of failing checks, separated from waived checks (with clear signoffs from specific usernames), is generally sufficient.
I don't know if it's cheaper in urban USA than here in Western Australia... But I find taking Uber every morning and afternoon works out to be substantially (i.e. prohibitively) more expensive for me than driving the car in to the office.
Actually this rescue was unprecedented from what I've read.
Electrifying Ford GoBike: One month of electric pedal-assist data
I'm buying BAT with every spare penny I have.

5 years ago I was a gadget fan boy, it makes me sick to think how much money I poured into those companies when I should have been saving.

Now I'm a crypto "fanboy" and all my spare change goes to support projects I like.
Memories of the Space Age by J G Ballard.
Because you get to the solution and you say, "But that's just the same thing..."
The vimwiki plugin more or less incorporates this idea and gives you some hot keys to change state.
[Event] Due Diligence: Digging in with the Investors
The delta-v and velocity for a suborbital flight with 5 minutes of weightlessness is very different than orbital... For those who are curious, try simulating it in Kerbal Space Program.

On the real earth (not KSP) including atmospheric drag you need around 8000m/s delta-V to achieve low earth orbit.
Personally I am highly suspicious of the 'for the subject's family' motivation as it seems very selectively applied and often comes up only when 'their people' are at risk from their own wrongdoing.

I'm of the view that it should be for everybody or nobody and not to discretion because their discretion always leads to selfish behavior that holds the people who most need to be held accountable to be the least so.
The more things change, the more things stay the same.
Brainfuck programming language
It's like the joke with boiling the pot of water and just dumping out the water; reducing it to the previous problem with a known solution ... or something like that...
TL;DR: stupid question. No, given that neither parent was American and he was born in South Africa.
> Showers appeared in sports clubs and other communal facilities but remained uncommon in private homes in Britain before the 1970s/80s.

I wonder why the exact opposite happened in Brazil? "Brazilians love showers (twice a day is common), but houses and hotels almost never have a bathtub; however, Jacuzzis and hot tubs are found at spas."[1]

[1] http://brazilsense.com/index.php?title=Common_in_the_USA_and...
I was thinking along the same lines... but a man can dream!

(I don't like the site THAT much that I would bother with creating a dedicated js bookmarklet I suppose is what I am saying)

Not saying I wouldn't install it if somebody else were to do so... ;)
I expected better insights from a person who has a PhD in AI and spans multiple other fields. I think there is a gap between philosophy and AI, and philosophy has a lot of catching up to do. I'm especially looking at the "hard problem" and "qualia". In the meantime AI people implemented a lot of the activities of the mind and philosophers are still stuck on these toy concepts that don't go so far. Instead, they should focus on the implications of agent-environment learning - reinforcement learning and evolutionary strategies - as the true sources of human intelligence.
So he's saying don't go to industry and waste your talents in intellectually lame projects, instead come do a PhD, it's more stimulating and rewarding. But what happens when the students get their PhD? There's very few academic jobs, they're gonna go back to industry no? And at some point in the write up he also says academia sucks, so I'm confused as to what his suggestion is, it seems to me that either way you are a servant doing "grad student descent", only that in academia you get to claim to have a bigger intellectual dick, but in industry you have more money. It feels like there's no good alternative.
I wouldn't call Shanzhai open source, its generally much more akin to being where you can obtain documentation on hardware (and the proprietary software stacks they run) from the same vendor on the street you bought the device from with no NDAs or other paperwork.

There is no way for the end customer to rebuild these blobs and make a blobless Mediatek phone for example, the best your going to get is creativity around the edges, where extra parts and separate bits of software are tacked on after the fact. Honestly, if more of these products shipped with source code, they'd be much easier to secure and extend, but that lesson has yet to come to pass in China.
The copy on the Yubikey Nano's website says, "designed to remain in port." Removing it is still an option, but it doesn't sound like it's the point of having it.
> every copyright performance enforcement

Apropos of anything else, if I go somewhere and broadcast Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody, or whatever, that is in no way my speech, and regulating the ability to do so without commission or royalty in no way restricts my ability to speak.
Is Haskell still a preferred introductory language to enter the Functional Paradigm with? Or do you think other alternatives do a better job at that than Haskell ? I'm learning Scheme with the SICP Book ATM, and am confused where to go next to get better at Functional thinking(and programming).
Casteism is worse than Racism;

Casteism = Racism + Slavery

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2325502/Map-shows-wo...
Upgraded my laptop two weeks ago. Smooth sailing so far.
the site this blog is hosted on is really great for explaining a lot of aspects of postmodernism to engineering-oriented or analytical thinkers. i got totally sucked in by it over my christmas vacation two years ago and read the whole thing.
> A common explanation [...] is that [...] we receive both sound transferred to our ears externally by air conduction and sound transferred internally through our bones. [...] So when you hear your recorded voice without these frequencies, it sounds higher

Actually the first time I heard my recorded voice, I was surprised by how low it was. So I agree with the article that there is more to the story.
I'm still a unity fan for various personal reasons, so my machine still runs 16.04 for now. But my wife's newest laptop got a fresh 18.04 install and I can report that amd proprietary drivers seem to be a lot easier to install without devastating hiccups in 18.04.
I populated my entire cover with own stickers - no place for new stuff
Thanks for reposting this. It made me go and re-watch Airplane - I forgot just how funny that movie was! It has aged relatively well.
> Double wrong

I think you mean "double-plus wrong".
Problem is, while you can get most of the hardware documentation you'll need from the vendor you buy your chips from (despite them not technically being allowed to redistribute it), you generally can't recompile radio baseband software for that 3G SOC you just bought, leaving you with something that can't be customized at its core. Want to optimize radio wakeups to increase battery life on your device? Good luck, you'll need to rewrite the baseband yourself!
I have been working on my roguelike for about twenty years. I've never come close to even playing a quarter of the way through it. It's never been anywhere near done.
>> To get a top of the line model now it's $4100AUD.

Is that right? The Verge article I saw said a maxed out 2018 MBP was $6700 USD, which should be significantly more than $4100 AUD.

Source:

https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/7/12/17563840/a...
I was talking about it in a proverbial manner - that the search for a co-founder would have to be methodical and systematic akin to sales. It can be excel, airtable, hubspot etc.
> often appeals courts who have protected the behavior, as various trial "...Judges have issued similar orders before..."

That omits every time a district judge has declined to issue such an order.

In reference to the original post:

> ask for forgiveness not permission

News organizations don't ask permission of anyone before publishing, least of all courts.

Finally, I'll add that if news organizations can publish the Pentagon Papers and Snowden's leaks, certainly they can publish an accidentally leaked plea agreement.
Todoist for personal tasks. Google Keep for checklists (like list of things to pack). Pen and paper for stuff at work. Overall I'm quite happy with this setup.
I feel like that's still the point irrespective of Dijkstra's apparent view on the parable. Creating exceptional cases is the best way to increase costs.
You're right. Didn't read the request fully.
That can’t be true. YouTube and some parts of Google run code with substantial python code bases and that was likely written in python 2 and without type hints. Sure they’re refactoring and such today but still
When I bought my 2012 MBP just after it was announced, it was a screaming deal. Retina screen (no other laptop had such hi-res screens), 256GB SSD base, 8GB RAM. That was the lowest configuration and it was $2400. Six years later, the $2400 model buys you basically the same laptop, same 256GB storage, except with a faster processor and faster 16GB RAM.
Technically, isn't it the youngest child going extinct and the middle child left to take on the role of the youngest?
Maybe those people should read the quoted article.

Last week, at the invitation of the Israeli government, three reporters, including one from The New York Times, were shown key documents from the trove. Many confirmed what inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency, in report after report, had suspected: Despite Iranian insistence that its program was for peaceful purposes, the country had worked in the past to systematically assemble everything it needed to produce atomic weapons.
Personally, I'd happily pay for an appliance or add-on to the plumbing that increases water pressure in the shower. (Maybe such a thing already exists?) Some places have good water pressure, but lots of places don't and weak pressure really kills the joy of a shower. Fancy showerheads, which are getting to be the norm, cut the pressure even further.
Show HN: Font Playground – Play with variable fonts
We almost switched to go at my little startup mostly because of gokit but the syntax is so abhorrent at least to me. I am glad we didn’t. I know it’s peobably stupid to make such a choice but programmer happiness for me comes in part to the syntax and cleanliness of the code. Something I didn’t see in Go
Doubleplusungood is the official term, comrade.
I think it's weird and unfair to say that research is lesser because it has a tangible goal. It's like saying engineers' discoveries matter less than theorists'.
I've seen electric baths in Japanese bath houses.
This seems to be a decent accounting.

http://www.freepressjournal.in/india/karnataka-google-techie...
> The idea that smart people are only produced by other smart people is nonsense.

Don't be ridiculous. If dumb people have more kids than smart people, the next generation will be dumber. Intelligence wouldn't have evolved if this wasn't true.
That certainly explains the success of “competence porn”

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/10744879/Are-yo...
Social status and testosterone
Depends on what you think you're teaching. Are you teaching computer science, or are you teaching software engineering?

Hint: Of your graduates, probably 95% will work as software engineers, and only 5% will be computer scientists. But CS departments think they're computer science departments, even though they mostly are located in the college of engineering. (I accidentally typed "enginerring", which I thought was amusing...)
It seems to me this "purity" test many progressives are using is getting too close to the kinds of tests a few bad movements which destroyed millions of lives and put civilization behind a few decades.

Basically any deviation is labeled as "not being Marxist enough". They are following this similar path. It's not good. Mao, Stalin and to a degree mr Xi is doing this. It's as if progressives who demand this purity are completely unawares of this.
So, I imagine what's happening here is that this guy played both sides, and was caught and was being used as a mole by the US law enforcement. By releasing these charges publicly, the concern is that the cartel will now know he was disloyal and may attempt revenge.

This is entirely speculative, but it seems much more probably than the judicial branch going out of its way to help the executive.
> To me, anyways, there's overwhelming anecdotal proof that having some limits on speech correlates (and more than likely contributes) to a safer and more just society without any virulent side effect.

no serious person would suggest that this is a situation which requires limits on speech. you're using it as a platform for suggesting that it is, which I think is insane.

> This is not a slippery slope.

this is the very definition of a slippery slope.
I suspect (and science is starting to suggest) that addiction is more of a spectrum than a binary and my comment is really just about the people toward the far ends of those spectrums.

The fact that your friends could moderate, while there plainly exist the graves of those who couldn't, also supports this view.
So, Apple has send him a high-end model (32GB of RAM!, dedicated GfX chip) and the verdict is, that this is worthy of the "Pro" in the name.

Interestingly, he left out the price.
> I would definitely recommend mailing lists in 2018

I'm curious as to why setting up a newsgroup (on usenet) or setting up a private news server (with public read access and account required post access) was never the standard way to communicate for open source projects.

The advantage newsgroups have over email is that it makes browsing archives of the list much easier, and they can be used just as easily with a mail/news client.
I have looked into getting a job in Antarctica. There are indeed some support people required. If you can drive big vehicles for example, that's something they need. The Ice Cube project even needs a couple of IT people. However, jobs in Antarctica have fierce competition.
I commented on the article because I feel I see this topic come up more frequently than I would expect, and wanted to know if others felt the same way. Do you think that is too far off-topic of a discussion for HN?
I know a couple how has been doing this for last 20 years. husband has been doing this for last 30 years. Both of them are the worst under-achievers I know.
> You will need to ask for someone else

Oh my God. You are right. Better leave "asking for someone else" to the professionals.

Seriously? THIS is the road block?
Apple doesn't give anything away.
I just want to point out that this type of all-or-nothing thinking may be the most effective way to alienate people from your perspective. I'd consider myself a free-speech nut, but comments like this make me want to distance myself from that label.
That doesn't hold them accountable. Just stops their action from causing further harm.
A lot of web forums lack proper threading implementation (other than a flat thread descended from the original post). Hacker News and reddit do implement threads, but make it difficult to see new posts when you refresh (though reddit does mark them if you have "reddit gold").
It took me a long time to put stickers on my laptop.. But I still would not put a sticker on the outside of my car, unless its a sponsors logo on the track car.

There's also another distinction there to be made, that a bumper sticker is a very low-effort garnish for your car. I wouldn't consider a tuning manufacturers logo on the rear of a race car to be a 'bumper sticker', for instance.
Why You Should Drink Green Tea Everyday 6 Reasons
How is it silly? I've used Debian Stable and Ubuntu LTS on desktops for many years. I've always had the latest versions of all the apps I use thanks to backports, repos managed by upstream developers (e.g., PPAs) and occasionally installing software from source. (Disclosure: I don't use GNOME, KDE or any other DE, which can be problematic to keep updated.)

Also, many upstream developers who provide packages for Debian and Ubuntu (e.g., PostgreSQL[1][2] and Spotify[3]) only test their software on Debian Stable and Ubuntu LTS.

Lastly, Debian Testing has the worst security update speed and should not be preferred if security is a concern.[4]

[1] https://www.postgresql.org/download/linux/debian/

[2] https://www.postgresql.org/download/linux/ubuntu/

[3] https://www.spotify.com/us/download/linux/

[4] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianTesting
Do you know Tencent? Maybe not, even it's the biggest game/social network company in the world, as it's located in Shenzhen.
Employer. The paperwork pretty much covered a lot of what would be required if it were a company operated office, stuff like there being smoke detectors, fire extinguisher, a basic first aid kit, that the work area was adequately sized and in an ergonomic configuration, that all exits from the work area are clear and unobstructed, no slip/trip hazards, that the lighting is appropriate, proper ventilation and adequate heating/cooling, that all electrical cords and appliances are in good order (didn't need to go to the level of 'test & tag' thankfully) and safely secured, etc.

It also stated that the company is entitled to send someone to randomly inspect my work area if they choose to... I wouldn't expect this to ever actually occur, it certainly hasn't happened for me in the last 5 years I've been working in this arrangement.

I know a number of years back there was a legal case where a big Australian company was ordered to pay the legal and medical costs of an employee who injured herself after slipping down the stairs twice in two months while working from home... so I guess it's not that crazy.
Population shrinkage is not healthy for a society.
> and the LA Times gets a pass

Hu? The LA Times took it down. How is that "gets a pass"?

The LA Times also acquired the information lawfully, Wikileaks did not.