skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Is there a tool to block people who brag?
I like social media, but it drives me crazy to see all the people in my field brag about their latest accomplishments. "I'm honored to...". If someone had a tool that could filter out social networks for people whose posts were composed, I bet there would be a good market for it. Thoughts?
I moved from Brooklyn to Baltimore five years ago, without changing my income. It meant an instant boost to my standard of living, as I was able to get a new luxury apartment in a nice neighborhood for the same rent as my infested Brooklyn studio in a "transitioning" neighborhood.

There are so many mid-size, low-cost-of-living, vibrant cities to choose from. Baltimore, Pittsburg, Columbus, Cincinnati, Charleston, New Orleans, Nashville, Louisville, ... And these days they all have great co-working spaces.
Tools usually just check CPUID and system configuration and don't actually test vulnerabilities. And not necessarily interpreting everything correctly. You can do that without running anything, just checking your OS updates and whether your CPU is out-of-order one, i.e. with speculative execution. N270 isn't and therefore isn't vulnerable.

If you want to truly test speculative vulnerabilities, compile this program: https://github.com/Eugnis/spectre-attack (EDIT: although this one probably won't work on N270, since it uses rdtscp, that it doesn't have, need to find version with just rdtsc)
POWER is actually competitive on price/performance now.
And while such a claim from a random would be dubious at best. Fabrice is a prolific genius. Look at this list of stuff on his main site: https://bellard.org/
I can confirm this. My brother is in high school and their school uses ipads religiously to submit work, handle slide decks and do quizzes. At his age, I had a typing speed of ~40-50WPM, he can barely do 30, with a lower accuracy (spellcheck subtly saving him). No proper typing form either because touchscreen devices are really just one finger-based. This definitely exists.
Of course it's more awkward. But it's also not hard. And if a phone is all you've got, and you don't have the money to spend on a computer on top of it... then you make do. It's not the end of the world. It's fine.
But you lose hardware acceleration. On a mobile this can matter.
you're a deep learning algorithm
> Anybody ever though about downshifting to 3rd world countries in line of this?

Many 3rd world countries have issues with government-provided infrastructure: security, healthcare, schools, etc.

But there’re quite a lot of 1st & 2nd world countries with reasonable cost of living but good quality of life. Montenegro’s one of them (that’s where I currently live) but there’re more, e.g. most countries in Eastern or Southern Europe have similar qualities.
People don't penicillin as a preventative to getting sick. I think you are talking about finasteride though. As we all probably know, it's actually harmful to take antibiotics as a general preventative, because that leads to increased bacterial resistance to those drugs.
Note that the author of the linked page is Fabrice Bellard. He created a PC emulator in JavaScript.

https://bellard.org/jslinux/

He's also made several other impressive hacks: https://bellard.org/
Why would it be dubious that one of the newest and most advanced video codecs has a highly efficient keyframe encoding which beats 20 years old tech?
That's why traditional books (especially references and textbooks) have an index at the back.
Solvent IDE on Google Cloud Platform
The website claims

>Supported by most Web browsers with a small Javascript decoder (gzipped size: 56 KB).

56kb isn't particularly small, but for an image galary it might be worth it.
If I understand correctly, neither heat dissipation nor existing manufacturing techniques are amenable to this approach. Also modern CPUs do have more than a dozen layers IIRC.
Agree. I have a job and you can either be remote or onsite. I am well on the way to c-suite roles partially because I choose to be on-site, and of course the necessary hard work. We don't typically make someone COO or Director of Engineering if they're remote for many reasons.

Another reason to eschew remote is impact. Much easier to have impact and do real, meaningful work from onsite where one can convince people of things and drove companies in certain directions. Imagine Steve Jobs as a remote employee. Maybe this is cynical, but remote is great if all you want from life is to be well paid and code. For many, there's much more.
Which IMEs have you tried with a physical keyboard? I don't type much Chinese on a keyboard these days but I recall that the Sogou IME for Windows had far more accurate ranking of suggestions than did the built-in one.
Our system was developed with an eye towards penitence (this started with Eastern State penitentiary in Pennsylvania). Forced penitence is a flawed concept to begin with which renders our penal system almost ineffectual in its current state. The fact of the matter is that certain people are better off separated from society while other people could do with a brief respite coupled with some therapy.

This is most aparant in non-violent cases involving drugs. The war on drugs has ruined more lives than conceivable and this is while our government has realized the bad effects of prohibition for almost a century now (there is an entire constitutional amendment). The war on drugs has the effect of granting criminal organizations a monopoly over vices. While vices might not be attractive, they are necessary and granting the monopoly to violent organizations is at best gross negligence on our government's behalf.
Carly was a terrible leader

That's putting it mildly. In terms of both jobs and shareholder value destroyed, she has a decent shot at the title of "Worst CEO Ever", of any company.
Because of the standard "if this was so great, I'd have heard of it already" razor.
Just reiterating this. Same guy behind FFmpeg, QEmu. One of the living legends.
less surface area per transistor makes the heat problem worse.
they are already a little bit 3d though.
I've rarely, if ever, seen such incredibly high readings from my bullshit-o-meter. But yeah, if you believe that "the best data" and "the best algorithms" merely need to come together (and will do so "through competition") to make useful, competent AI (with an actual "I" in there) a reality, I guess that's pretty cool stuff.

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This kinda captures one of my concerns. While I could care less about the particulars of how people interact with computers, I do find it concerning that modern devices seem to make general purpose computing less accessible. I love my phone but I haven't even found a decent calculator for it much less a tolerable equivalent of Excel, the shell, or programming environment. Part of me suspects it's an inherent limitation in touch IUs but that also seems like a cop out.
Install Cassandra on Ubuntu 18.04
It seems likely, to me anyway, that the CPU doesn't have any effective way of verifing what is running on the ME. So reversed firmware could just lie to the CPU and tell it that its firmware is signed when it isn't. A similar approch is use the microg project to replace proprietary google play services by spoofing google's signature.
Big data isn't just applied statistics, big data is just data.
Yeah, the question is "do cities attract people high on the 'openness to experience' spectrum, or do they make people that way". I don't think we can know for sure, but I suspect there is a little of both going on.

I'm reluctant to be a complete relativist about these things, even though I recognize that I'm biased. The fact is that a demogogue who wants to drive a wedge of fear between people (no need to state who I'm talking about) has a much harder time doing it in cities. All perspectives arent equal in this respect - some perspectives are based on ignorance and fear, and some are based on the actual experience of interacting with the kinds of people we're supposed to be afraid of.
I think it depends on how you rank growth. Sure, in terms of raw persons, the large cities are adding more people, but in terms of percentage growth, many of the fastest growing areas are actually small-mid sized towns/cities in the South [1].

Other measurements like job opportunities also tends to
favor small/mid cities. "U.S. Census Bureau metropolitan area population estimates for 2017, which show a significant increase in domestic migration away from the 53 major metropolitan areas with populations over a million and toward the 54 middle-sized metro areas in the 500,000 to 1 million range." [2]

As to your point about subsidies...many of those subsidies are for the production of food that the cities obviously rely on. I think it would be interesting to see how livable large cities -- dozens or hundreds of miles away from food sources, waste disposal sites, and water sources -- would be if the true, un-subsidized costs were passed through.

[1] http://worldpopulationreview.com/us-cities/

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/joelkotkin/2018/05/15/growth-in...
How many of these literature readers can't write? Not write well, can't write at all.
How many can't take a video? Not take a good video, but take one at all.

But you can use a computer without knowing how to create for it _at all_.
But this mostly matter for arrays and then an alternative optimization might be to store it as a structure of arrays. This doesn't need the padding and is more simd friendly.
Some of us don't feel comfortable if everyone knows each other. I don't know my neighbors and I like it that way. I have more options for stores,etc... More services are available in big cities too. More banking options,more car repair places,more grocery shops and placss of entertainment. There are nice parks if I want trees,or I could just drive out of the city on the weekend. I'm just saying, everyone has their own priorities.
You are describing a really small town and a Northern American one. Larger ones (≈100k pop.) don't have these problems and tiny ones (≈3-10k pop.) in Europe, Asia or Latin America usually have multiple stores in a walkable range.
Which part of this was quackery?
Love this idea. I think the next level would be to pool together different people's uncommonly used items (e.g. camping tent) to let other people in their community "borrow" them.

What's stopping you from working on this, just out of interest?
> Based on a subset of the HEVC open video compression standard

Is it patent encumbered then? And can it replace JPEG in such case?
She's not talking about TMVA or RooStats when she says "Machine Learning": those would be "MVA" and "Statistics tools" in our jargon. She's talking about XGBoost[1].

[1]: https://xgboost.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
They introduced "squash" and "modify commit message" on the last release. It worked 1 time on the 4 times I tried.
I got a simple XML document, that contains tasks and todos. I query it from either command line or via a web interface, using mainly XQuery and a little XSLT.
AFAIK this work only if the attacker is on the same subnet as you, this means that your router can't stop the attack.
Not if you target windows as well. After all, python is highly portable.

Besides, having your own command allow you to add goodies such as stats, various formatting and ergonomic tweaks and abstract from the file system. A useful feature if you ever decide to use other backends or make an api.
I was just about to post this so I guess I'll just upvote this instead.
Sigh. If only FreeCol[1] had more activity. The last patch was in 2015, and IIRC it's still hosted on SourceForge.

[1] http://www.freecol.org
Not MDF but a cheaper fiber board is often used in trim. The trim itself is often a colonial shape and doesn’t match with the vernacular design of the area or often with the house itself. It is usually 3/8” too thin and 2 1/4” to short.

You’ll often see press-formed cardboard doors in 6 panel colonial style on houses in cities that didn’t exist in colonial times.

Builder grade fixtures fail quickly, while the porcilin in the bathroom may last, a complete rebuild of the toilet is often necessary in as little as 3 years. Vanities are lower grade press board that melts as soon as water hits it. You’ll see mold and dry rot form are both the sink and bath because poor water proofing
Would you rather we have wars were America doesn't have a significant advantage?

Maybe like the civil war, where both sides were equal and 750,000 Americans died?

Or WW2, fighting against an arguably better Nazi and Japanese military killed 400,000 Americans?

Or WW1, where the stalemate between both sides led to 120,000 american deaths?

You must be right because all those american deaths are preferable to only 2,000 americans who died in the wars in Afghanistan.

/s obviously
A friens of mine was once working with a developer who charged SF market rates but lived somewhere in Idaho. Part of me wishes for that, how much he must be cash flowing.

Also i find it ironic that despite all our advances in technology most tech companies insist on people working in office.
Perhaps not, but they stop paying money because of bugs.
The newest super computer, summit, ranked as the largest/fastest runs ppc64le which definitely creates an argument that there is an alternative to x86 for servers.
> Sounds to me like, yes, universal basic health coverage absolutely could help someone resist the temptation for that amount of money.

Your thesis basically is that this could never happen in Canada or happens less frequently in canada. It could be true.

But there seem to be lots of these in canada too

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/uber-scam-driver-polic...
> and isn't made to game your neurochemicals for addictive behaviors.

Everything we do game our neurochemicals for addictive behaviours. Conversations, hugs, kisses. My question isn't how they are different on the surface, but how the intrinsic value is different. Try to leave any values you might hold out of it.

As for depression; one reason for this could be that the game is able to stimulate some parts of your brain (dopamine receptors), but might yet not be able to stimulate oxytocin and serotonin at the same level. Who says we won't be able to do this going forward?

I'm in no way an expert in this subject, but given neuro-plasticity (I don't really know how this relates to the amount of neurochemical receptors, so I might be totally wrong), we might even adapt to these new worlds rather quickly.
While other comments suggest the solution is to implement the hash function based on field values, it throws away the simple, efficient, and general implementations of original memory based hash function. But if we understand the true source of the problem, isn't the obvious solution is to redefine the structure into two 64-bit fields or add in explicit padding bytes so one can explicitly zero them when necessary?

The reason for undefined behaviors is to avoid over engineering. In a capable engineer's eye, it is beautiful.
Oh interesting, I was only familiar with the chemo-type testing. Thanks again.
The copyright on the code is not the problem, HEVC/H.265 patents are the problem.
It all depends on pro and cons. And if the gitlab people are doing this rather than fixing bug, is because they estimated that this is their best move right now.
Ask HN: What is your Amazon counterfeit story?
HN articles about Amazon get commenters who claim to have recieved counterfeit products from Amazon.

Seeing how rapidly Amazon is growing, I am wondering if there is a business opportunity in fighting these counterfeits.

Would you kindly share your Amazon counterfeit story?

How did you know the product was counterfeit?

Was Amazon itself the seller or a 3rd party? If a 3rd party, was it fba/prime?

Reference: https://www.google.com/search?q=amazon+counterfeit+site%3Anews.ycombinator.com
What i don't understand is how they managed to avoid to be sued to death after this. Not only the initial mistake, but their attitude after it.

Certainly state actors, and militaries, have somebody somewhere being crazy mad about this and the right pay grade to act.
Haha and I just learned the "draw a perfect circle around a nail" trick! No idea where that might be useful in my own life though.
This is just fantastic.
I don't think this is the first still-image application of HEVC; it's just that HEVC is a patent-licensing pit.

Also JPEG was 1990 iirc so it's closer to 30 years old by now.
It's a little disgusting how Apple has supported the Chinese dictatorship over the years. Apple supports 4.8Million jobs in China, more than double the US total. https://247wallst.com/jobs/2017/03/17/apple-supports-4-8-mil.... It chooses not to invest in manufacturing in US, instead opting for slave labor-like conditions in China. It built its magnificent spaceship campus on the backs of lost American manufacturing/communities and tears of Chinese laborers.
I coincidentally found out, when looking for a camera monitor, about a 10" 2K external screen⁰ that looks pretty sweet and is cheaper, but it lacks a bit of convenience in that it doesn't attach to the laptop and has an external power source because it connects via HDMI.

⓪ - https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Slim-2K-10-inch-Metal-HD-Mon...
Might you have some documentation or resources on the procedure for removing/disabling the ME?
When some websites are 5mb after all ad.content is loaded. It's doesn't seem that much
To add, the same author also wrote "McMansions 101 Revisited: Aesthetics Aside, Why McMansions Are Bad Architecture" to provide "objective list of reasons why McMansions are bad architecture that ignores aesthetics." [1]

[1] http://mcmansionhell.com/post/150597521816/mcmansions-101-re...
An actual screen and keyboard are inherently useful regardless of which form factor device its connected to. 10 years time is way to short a time for this to cease being so.
Chasing down modest database scaling issues when you're not sure what's going on
Most of the criticism in the article seems to be external, though. No mention of such practicalities as mobility within the house or ease of maintenance, just the aesthetics of the exterior.
Previous discussion from 4 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8704629 (328 comments)

Discussion about the specification from 3 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10604465 (32 comments)
> How do you phrase that in a way that doesn't offend?

Look, I'm GenX. Take that what you will.

> Are you upfront with your policy.

That am I. People who know me, know I value my time very well.

If someone doesn't know me, I tell them up front. It's down to them whether or not to continue forward or not. I don't mind.

It helps that I am an objectivist at heart. It makes things very very simple. I don't spend my life walking on egg shells.
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An "industry-funded study" is an oxymoron. That's about as compelling as sports players also being the referee. All the studies that have shown that alcohol is not negative to health have been funded by the industry. To continue my analogy, the player/referee signaled for a touchdown when he wasn't even on the field. This is all propaganda bullshit pushed by alcohol companies to sell more shit. And really, anyone who stops to think about such ideas that a glass of wine a day--in other words a small addiction to alcohol, the most devastating commonly used drug in the world--could be beneficial, and doesn't question the validity by using his common sense is a fool who believes what he wants to believe. To sell addiction to the masses through manipulated studies is both genius on the part of alcohol companies and something that should be punished severely, as in disbanding the company. Except that nih and other federal departments are too dumb/corrupt themselves to not take the money. In the meantime, millions of people are and have died, gotten cancer, cirrhosis, and other problems because of their incompetence and willingness to sell the alcohol companies' take that a little alcohol addiction is not bad. Of course, for people that trust such government institutions, there is no hope and their trust, as we can see, has been the downfall of millions. But that's another issue altogether.
Obviously. Do you really think a little addiction to alcohol could be beneficial given all the ill effects we've known about it the last 8000 years?
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And yet you do what every new Yorker does... "Not to make this story that is not about new youk about New York but really if you've never lived there it's souch better I really wish people would take the time to understand New York better".

This article isn't a about nor does it require defend of living in NYC or it's people. Your property value isn't going down because 3 people move to Ohio

The irony being you refuse to or are side tracking the thread and conversation immediately to talk about how misunderstood NYC is.

NYC doesn't need defending, millions live there. Tons of articles about it constantly. Media made there, hyped to infinity. It's not the topic of the article either.

What I noticed is many people from NYC only see other places as not NYC and complain about how they aren't. Talk about the article and the virtues of a small town. Have you ever lived in one or are you just a NYC snob like the lady was for Truckee? Discuss the article not threadjack it to extoll NYC.

Sure you know plenty of people on the street. Do you know 80% of them like you did in highschool? No, you don't, you don't know your whole burough. That's the point of know lots of people.

Not everything needs to be about you or NYC or defended. Many people here barely know small towns are an option or how cheap and welcoming they can be.

Not everyone needs to eat waygu steak every day... Chicken and tofu are also fantastic in their own ways.
When China already makes all the Apple screens, but somehow the author thinks they managed to target Apple by, erm, continuing to make them.
Hey thanks! I like it too because it's something I would definitely use. In the little bit of market research I've done (basically just asking a few friends on Facebook) the response has been "it looks cool and I'm sure someone would use it but I wouldn't because (it's too expensive|I already have plenty of storage in my house|etc.)" Seems strange to me because I would totally use it if it existed. But between other projects and a regular job and the lackluster response I got from friends I haven't been able to justify spending time on it.
My significant other and I frequently brush our teeth at the same time, and we have just one sink. Is that uncommon?
Is there any particular time tracking feature you are interested in?
As someone living in the Bay Area, I think it looks amazing and would genuinely love to live in it.