skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
is just second nature at this stage that nova launcher gets installed straight away. export/import the settings and you're all set to go
This just proves how little understanding and tech education most users have (still doesn't stop them from having strong opinions on this though).

Android data collection which has been happening for close to a decade is orders of magnitude more intrusive than what Microsoft does with basic telemetry.

Yet most people see MS as bad and embrace Google for being "ethical". A classic case of "guess what".
Google it.

Nah. Jk! Knock yourself out: https://market.unicef.org.uk/inspired-gifts/polio-vaccines-t...
If that's true, how it's possible for TB3 to drive dual 4k monitors at 24 bpp 60 Hz and have enough bandwidth on top to drive gigabit ethernet etc. peripherals?

(3840 * 2160 * 3B * 2 * 60)/s in Gbit/s = 23.887872 Gbit/s

So two 4k monitors at 60 Hz alone should require almost 24 Gbps, not counting audio streams, etc.
The electric power produced by "peaker plants" (e.g. gas turbines, hydroelectric, pumped storage) will become more important. If there aren't enough of those, the cost to buy power from peaker plants will rise and investors will build more of them.

More long distance transmission lines will be built to average out local variation in production.

Grid-scale battery systems like brine4power may start to come online.

Excess power may be dumped into power-to-gas systems which enrich natural gas with hydrogen.
I do agree.

In 2 decades there will be hundreds of millions of electric cars in the world which currently do not exist. This is a huge increase in battery power even with battery technology not changing in the next 2 decades.
FYI, Windows support just got merged: https://github.com/FiloSottile/mkcert/pull/46
Check out the Audiobook then.
This isn't quite in the category, but John Carreyrou's nonfiction book "Bad Blood", which covered the rise and fall of Theranos, satisfied me in a similar way. There's plenty of crime, although it's really about pretending to be high-tech rather than actually being high tech. For people in tech who love a good fraud story, I highly recommend it.
one cannot do this with nuclear
I'm curious of what your opinion of hydrogen is, I know that it's still very expensive because of energy lost during the conversions. Do you think it has a viable future when it comes to energy storage?
The price is up from Friday's close.
Looks like a done deal.
It's not different at all. It's just that on mobile the "frog" has been sufficiently boiled before this happened.

Didn't Google deny something like this very recently saying it was an "error" (Facebook's favorite excuse, too), though?
The actual track record of battery improvement is pretty incredible, especially the recent fall in prices.
A tweet from him: "My hope is all current investors remain with Tesla even if we’re private. Would create special purpose fund enabling anyone to stay with Tesla. Already do this with Fidelity’s SpaceX investment."

Still doesn't really make sense to me though. Not sure how that would work.
There is just one coal power plant under construction Dateln 4. [1]

This is not going well, with boiler and legal issues meaning a plant which was supposed to open in 2013 is to open 7 years later in 2020. Making it not exactly a great poster child for how to build a coal power plant. Being in construction for 13 years is not cheap and fast.

[1] https://endcoal.org/tracker/
Police need a warrant (or probable cause) to search basically any private, locked space.

Hotel security are not police. They are more like landlords. So the 4th Amendment does not apply to them (which every security professional on Twitter is currently experiencing collective amnesia about, apparently).

However, like landlords, state/local jurisdictions usually set rules on hotel tenant rights. I'm not sure what those rules are in Nevada, but I would bet that they are much more lenient there than elsewhere due to regulatory capture, since gambling is such a lucrative industry.
"Lack of vision. So we did not then have the vision to identify this as an industry of the future and set out to capture it the way the Japanese did. This is a completely different topic, but we’re now making the same mistake with AI."
Python isn't that great as a scripting language in general.

Its really more like a glue language, a step below Java.
What a sexist view.
> Those who are the earliest to expand into the universe, would have access to the most resources

Eons ago, the universe was room temperature. I've always wondered how an intelligent species adapted to that time would perceive our universe.
I couldn’t agree more. Perhaps we need a curated list with endorsements from those who use it in their own teaching curriculums and another list of users who endorse it.
That's on my daily rotation too; but I still don't sub to NYT.

After seeing the low NYT subscriber #'s in this thread, it's amazing to me how much reach 'new media' creators have. There are hundreds of YouTubers that get more eyeballs daily. Crazy.
ip_vs_mh!
Maybe he could contact the Norwegian Oil Fund also. They should also be interested in something else than oil and Tesla sells a lot of cars there.

https://www.nbim.no/en/the-fund/
Oh, boo hoo, poor Microsoft. When Microsoft open sources Windows so we can hack out the bad shit like we can with Android, then you've got a point.
> I am also really hoping for razor blade tipped ramming drones

In my high-rise neighborhood we have peregrine falcons. That's pretty much the same thing.
Wish there were a viable alternative to the duopoly--for now, Apple remains the lesser evil.
Luckily morals and beliefs are only skin deep in tech or all those people might be conflicted supporting a company funded by a country who still stones women to death for being raped.
"Judgement error" I guess.

But with phones after destruction of privacy-minded Nokia there was basically no alternative, and they executed marketing flawlessly, having both geeks and normies desiring their phones, stuffed with tracking.
> all the interesting spacetimes (such as the Alcubierre drive) require exotic matter

Does it have to be matter? Or could we coax the vacuum into behaving as if it were occupied by exotic matter?
The OG of true crime hacking books.
Sure it does. Author could've been clearer about the goals, though. Say that rather than pre-selecting 50 stocks, we ran the analysis on the whole market - then each component intuitively corresponds to some segment of the market. For example, some component might correspond to agro companies whose prices fluctuate with the weather. Another component might correspond to NFLX and other companies who rely on AWS, which fluctuate together based on cloud storage price changes.

This kind of interpretation kind of falls out of the math (the eigendecomposition/SVD/covariance matrix interpretation of PCA in particular).
Indeed a great book.

And (tiny spoiler-alert): a small easter-egg (though not intended as such) for people on HN: the founders of HN/YC show up in the book, admittedly in a very minor capacity.

Btw, I recently discovered that Cliff Stoll is one of the awesome guys who appears on the Numberphile YouTube channel, so if you watch that, know that it's him :)
For those of you wishing for a lower-surveillance experience on Android: please try LineageOS (AOSP) without any of the Google apps or Play Services. Instead, get your apps from F-Droid and Yalp Store. Firefox with NoScript plugin, AdAway, Syncthing, etc. This has been my daily driver for years. Google Maps works well enough in a browser -- I use it as a 'homescreen-installed' web app. Google sees my location only when I am actually using Maps.

I'm missing out on a few slick features in the Google native apps (mostly in Maps), but I'll gladly trade that for a device that is not trying to erode my privacy at every possible opportunity.
I still think Windows 10 is several orders of magnitudes worse.

Android is a toy OS. Very few does anything serious on it. A desktop OS on the other hand has access to the very most sensitive information you ever come across. If you can't trust your desktop OS everything is game over.

Windows 10 telemetry is the most convincing reason to jump ship that has ever existed in my opinion.

That said, android is of course also very bad. Problem is that there is no decent alternative to iOS and android. It is quite frustrating.
The last being one of the founders of ycombinator
I expect minimal (or even zero) energy density improvements.

However, I do expect cost improvements. Even if the cost to make a battery is constant when measured in joules, PV is getting cheaper and can supply more joules for less money.
Yeah, I would skip this and read Cryptonomicon again.
I found this line confusing:

> The printed lines above show that both algorithms capture more than 50% of the variance exhibited in the data using only 4 of the 50 stocks.

Based on the sklearn PCA documentation [1] this has nothing to do with the coefficients on individual stocks, and for PCA should read more like: "[...] capture more than 50% of the variance exhibited in the data using only 4 components [...]" which is not the same thing.

1. http://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/generated/sklearn.dec...
They seem to do a similar thing with Youtube. I have both Youtube watch history and Youtube search history off. The other day I watched a very amazing video about iron smelting in Africa. Now, each time a open a Youtube link, that specific iron smelting video appears as "recommended for me". So, it is obvious that Google remembers which videos I have watched and openly advertises them again to me.

By the way, the video itself is super interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuCnZClWwpQ
VLC is currently in FDroid, though perhaps there was a time when it had been removed.
Definitely check out Indiehackers[0] for a HN-like community specifically around for side-projects and validating ideas.

[0]https://www.indiehackers.com
After seeing a few of the ads, I went and looked at their HR website to see what kind of jobs they had open.

Their HR website was all flash, around the time when it was obvious to any competent engineer that flash was going the way the dodo. It also didn't work. (It was one of those websites where someone spent a lot of time concentrating on graphics but didn't really know how to get it to work.)

"Bad smell" was an understatement.
Macro_railroad: library to generate syntax diagrams for Rust macros
Honest q: What home-use workstation would use 32 cores? (Excluding home labs or servers).
https://steamcommunity.com/stats/SpaceChem/achievements according to steam achievement "beat the game", it's actually 4%. I do agree that it makes it a difficult game to finish. Then again, my point is that I think it's fine not to be able to finish a game, especially a puzzle game which have no story. You just have to spend more time on the puzzle you are stuck on, so in a sense, you get more game time for your money :)
duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17749330
I'd use it for home labs or servers.
How can these stats about apple possibly be real?
emachines?
> It'd also be very hard to really eliminate _all_ use of location across all products.

I'm sure Google has great programmers.

> Even very basic queries like [buy flowers] needs some rough idea of the user's location to give results that aren't nonsense.

No, they don't. Back in the days when no tracking was done, I could buy flowers without any problems using [buy flowers location] query myself. Hell, I often use it today, because I'm not at the location anyway and am looking for such things in advance.

Having location data is nice improvement, but it isn't a necessity.

> Even just opening Google Maps has to request the tiles for your current location

It doesn't. I can show me the world map initially until I type in what I want to see. I use it like this all the time and it works great.

> How do you implement that without Google knowing your rough location?

Let the user type in their address. It's inconvenient, but if people value their privacy more than convenience, let them.
Okay hardly anyone on this thread of 84 comments is even discussing the article. Half the comments are just people going back and forth about the Vegas shooting.

What this hotel(s) did was unacceptable. I hope some lawsuits come out of it for the more egregious violations. No one was worried about some hackers going off the deep end, this was a heavy handed display of power over guests. I'm surprised none of the intruders had guns drawn on them. These were unidentifiable goons seemingly breaking into rooms. DEFCON is the most important security event of the year, I do hope there is a boycott after this event and all of these hotels are blacklisted by the security community.
Yes, wonderful, they can host the event in the Airbnb convention center
Do you think only one person caught "the phage"? :)
The History of Mathematics
There's more to a buyout than the funding though; lack of board approval or any agreement on terms (i.e. not just financial terms) are obviously deal-breakers.

Certainly the market doubts whether this deal will go through, but it's not clear to me that it's all about Tesla's access to capital.
Apple's implementation of TB3 on the MacBook pro (my only experience) can only do one 4k monitor at a time.
You obviously dislike them and is willfully conflating a bunch of stuff but it's definitely not "the job of the press" to manufacture scandals.
Rendering is something I could see people doing at home if that's their hobby.
Virgin Galactic's Rocket Man
The Business Behind JOOQ : Growth Is Not the Only Goal
Between businesses, a handshake agreement means nothing. If the agreement is not committed to paper it doesn't exist.

However, a handshake agreement could be valid between individuals depending on the context.
some home labs or servers
I think that most of us who are interested in high core counts are at least hobbyists. For example, I use Monte Carlo simulation to compute the pagerank vector for all of the biomedical literature on PubMed. 32 cores is either 32x faster than 1 core, or lets me improve the precision of my results. Sure, this isn't browsing the web, but it's also not a real research project or a business.
The Mind Is Flat: The Illusion of Mental Depth and the Improvised Mind
Then the tests in this article are hardly convincing.
Tech Tip: What Chrome Means by ‘Not Secure’
I'm no electrical engineer, but I think we can do some napkin math.

80khw battery in an average model s * 300000000 million cars / (3,911,000,000,000 kwh energy use in the in all of 2015 [2] / 365 days per year) = 2.239 times as much storage in cars on the road versus energy usage which seems pretty doable. Also, it also gets better because as car batteries age and their storage / weight goes down, you can replace them with new ones and put the old ones in grid storage locations where weight / storage does not matter and run them till they are literally dead.

[1]: about a little less than 1 per person (just rough estimating here)

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_electrici...
Interview with Aircall Founder and CEO Olivier Pailhes
Home servers? In what situation would you ever need 32 cores for home usage? I'm genuinely curious.
> Android is a toy OS.

Aside from the fact that Google also owns a search engine you might've heard of (so it's not like they only make phone operating systems), I think this type of thinking is quite old-fashioned.

People put most of their lives into their phones these days. They carry them everywhere, document their lives through photos, call and text their friends wherever they are, read the news, direct them to their destination, play games, etc. To pretend that most people's primary computing device is a "toy OS" is to pretend as though we are still in 2004. That's not the world we live in anymore.

I don't personally own a smartphone anymore (precisely because of these sorts of privacy invasions), but I sure as hell wouldn't pretend that the majority of people don't use smartphones as their primary computing device. I agree that Windows is also absolutely immoral, but we shouldn't be debating which is worse here -- they're both reprehensible.
Micro$oft is evil man, don't you know that.

Google is geeky, they bid sums like $3.14 bil in auctions, how cool is that. And they have awesomely nerdy and human April 1 jokes. They are with us man. You are being paranoid.
There are deployed lighting systems that internally measure the LED output to compensate for aging. Lumenetix makes one, for example.
The problem with the kind of community Facebook is building
I'd like to be convinced otherwise (both because I like what Tesla is doing and I think Musk is a great executer) but I don't find anything on that blog post that suggest that "funding is secured".
Saudis&co give fund $lol, fund buys all tesla stock. Existing stockholders given option to buy % of the fund's stock with the cash they got from selling shares.
The factory had been the mainstay of the town for 60-odd years, that would be an awful lot to wind down overnight. It was also that that kind of work was evaporating everywhere with the wind-down of manufacturing in the West in general; if the people did move where would they go?
The thing in puzzle games is that (assuming they are well written) that the puzzles have a logical solution. Many real life puzzles don't.
That is not a list of plants being built, it's a list of planned plants (for a broad definition of planned).

- 3 plants (Lünen, Profen and Niederaußem) have apparently been cancelled.

- The promoter of Kalkar-Appeldorn has applied for a permit

- The one of Stade has gotten one, but there is a lawsuit against that

- Datteln replaces a plant that was shut down in 2014, though the old plant only had about 1/3 of the power.

Meanwhile, coal power plants are being shut down without being replaced all the time.
Oh, if that's your point, then you may very well be right. (I thought you meant it wasn't the recommendation).

I think that the recommendations either were based on science, or at least weren't really disputed until about 10-15 years ago. Then again, what I think I know about this mostly comes from hearing people talk about the issue, e.g. in interviews, forums, etc. But I haven't really read any of the source material on this (either modern-day or older) so I really have no idea if it's at all true.
Security for Engineers
New-SelfSignedCertificate – Create a new self-signed certificate for testing
Extra hot humor kit №49 – Channel FunnYCubemix (2018)
Will a robot do your work in the near future?
Free and Open Source Logos Designs for Your Startup/Dev Projects
In the early stages(MVP) maybe you don't want to invest in a logo/brand, I've made an open source library of modern logos that can be freely used.

Hope it will be helpful for some of you :)

http://developerbox.xyz/
PSA: Registering domains on Route53 does not automatically enable transfer lock
You must manually request it.
TIS-100 and Shenzen-io are actually a good introduction to the concepts behind assembly, even if they're on a toy platform.

I had done a lot of python and ruby programming, but I didn't know what a register was or an op code, etc, until I played around with those games. It also was the first time I understood what a pointer is and "low level" programming in general, and gave me enough of a knowledge base to get a grasp on Rust and start learning it.
I'm probably going to get downvoted for this, but I think this was a good move by the hotel. I'm glad that if people are bringing suspicious looking material into the hotel, and declining maid service for days on end that they are searching the rooms. One search like this could have prevented the Vegas shooting, and its worth it. There is a line we shouldn't cross as far as privacy / safety, but if you're staying in a hotel, you're on their property in a shared public space -- same as on an airplane or mass transit.

Edit: we already have the counter-example where the search didn't happen and saw the result. Lets agree that there shouldn't be any unknown contraband / dangerous items in the hotel for everyone's sake.
France has never relied on FF energy in the first place. They have a modern, well run nuclear program, lots of hydroelectric, a few geothermal, and FF power plants as well.
1 Week with Azure Rest API
You haven't read the GDPR, have you?
This is a command built into Windows, built into Windows, and can be used to get HTTPS on local web development without installing anything. Thanks to nickcox for mentioning it elsewhere on HN.
content type is one of the fields which is almost always required for an application to function upon the sent data. it's not by RFC, but i noticed most servers and libraries won't handle requests missing this header properly (likely because they will have to guess media type and you will be lucky if it guesses the right one...)

from rfc:
A sender that generates a message containing a payload body SHOULD
generate a Content-Type header field in that message unless the
intended media type of the enclosed representation is unknown to the
sender. If a Content-Type header field is not present, the recipient
MAY either assume a media type of "application/octet-stream"
([RFC2046], Section 4.5.1) or examine the data to determine its type.

here it says SHOULD, which is:

3. SHOULD This word, or the adjective "RECOMMENDED", mean that there
may exist valid reasons in particular circumstances to ignore a
particular item, but the full implications must be understood and
carefully weighed before choosing a different course.

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616

Ran into so many things that just don't respond atall when that header is there, that i made it practice just to include it in every http request i make, even if it's mainly just plaintext media type which you fill in... you can see that by rfc one would assume it's an octet-stream, so an xml would never be excpected if someone built to specifications.
> A tweet from [Musk]: "My hope...

Elon expressed a hope, not a goal.

Fidelity's SpaceX SPV is restricted to a small number of accredited investors. Goldman tried the "put investors in a box, put the box on the cap table, and call the box 1 investor" schtick when Facebook was private [1]. While Facebook went public before they fell afoul of the law, the authorities clearly expressed their views on such structures [2].

[1] https://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/01/03/facebook-and-the-500...

[2] https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704723104576062...
First, I question your premise: did Apple, in fact, have a commanding share of the MP3 player market in 2007? (Not trying to claim you're lying here; I genuinely don't know offhand.)

Second, I question the mechanism by which Apple parlayed this into making the iPhone as strong a player in the cell phone market as it is (and it is certainly not in anything like a commanding position). Buying an iPhone would pretty much mean replacing your iPod. It wasn't a situation where having an iPod meant you would only be able to effectively use them together by buying an iPhone.

The only part of the puzzle I could see even remotely contributing to a "lock-in" factor was the DRM on the iTunes store. But by the time that was removed, in 2009, Apple still hadn't had a single quarter where they sold more than 8 million iPhones.

No; I dispute your conclusion entirely.

Apple became a big phone company by making a phone that people actually enjoyed using. It was the user-friendliness of the capacitive touchscreen and the overall iOS UI that made the difference, and continues to do so, not the long-since-defunct iTunes Store DRM or some other handwavy effect of their "monopoly of the MP3 player market".
Is there any bad shit in say Google Maps app or GMail?
This is how you end up with "f* you" settlement money.

Today's Vegas is not your parent's Vegas. It’s all professional investors now, very little mob left.
Not yet published, but I've high hopes for The Mueller Report.