skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed, I subscribe to some kratom subreddits and some people do seem a bit irresponsible with their use. And after two or three weeks of daily use I could see it getting addictive. Though it wasn't hard to cut back on at all, but I wasn't using particularly high amounts.
If you have a long trip with a connection, most airlines will charge you the same whether you get the earliest connection or get one a few days later. If you aren’t in a rush this is a good way to break it up, and travel to somewhere different.

Yes it costs more booking a hotel for a couple of nights, but it’s still probably going to be cheaper than upgrading to business class. You usually have to book it directly through their website (look for “multi city”) rather than through an agent.
I use it entirely to offload identify verification to a 3rd party so that people, if they care, can be certain someone who has control of my private keys, who - with great probability - is me when I say it's me and sign a message.

I also use it to show people the basics of "why encryption" and for certain technical security aspects as it makes it super easy to have them sign up and play around with it. Signing messages, verifying signatures, encrypting messages, the tradeoffs of storing your private key with Keybase (and why you shouldn't), etc.

KBFS is also really, really, really awesome. It's a shame I haven't heard much about it since that (seemingly?) attempt at a pivot.
This world is built upon the dead bodies of men. Men who fought wars to protect their kin, men who fell from the top of buildings they were constructing, men who suffocated to death deep in the tunnels, or drowned in the ocean...

Let us not forget them. Let us not belittle their sacrifices.
Well the first thing I can think of is that the crew would be split (care little about the other side), and would generally be less effective at executing orders because of constant competing/infighting :)
Chinese AI Startup Brings Diabetes Prediction to Shanghai Hospital
> The limiting factor is politics not technology.

Right... The only technical problem, how to store waste indefinitely, is only a problem because there's a larger political problem that prevents the waste from being recycled/reused. Since the political problem is highly unlikely to be resolved within a few decades, that leaves us with the technical problem of how to deal with the waste as we are currently generating/storing it.
My interpretation of your statement is that you're arguing for Harvard's business prerogative to turn business knobs to achieve business outcomes. But do you not agree that there is moral wisdom in striking race as a consideration from the market?

There are all sorts of scenarios where there are natural incentives to discriminate on race; perhaps a bank can improve their model on creditworthiness if they considered race. Perhaps a company that provides security personnel can better model risk if they considered race. Perhaps Harvard can better improve their ability to accumulate powerful people if they considered race.

But isn't it agreeable that not all kinds of strife is useful to a nation? Perhaps strife between companies is useful for diversity in a market, but racial strife? Which brews into generations of mistrust?
I'm pretty sure they mean like Predator drones not your COTS hoverbots. Doing all that in a tactical/adversarial situation means the likely of catastrophic failure is high.
How did the RoR remote code execution difficulties of a few years back affect you?
It annoys me how every official statement from institutions supporting affirmative action doesn't seem to acknowledge that racial discrimination is happening and is actively harming individuals.

Any reasonable person would at least acknowledge the trade-off between racial discrimination and racial diversity.
By "majority" he may have meant majority of Linux distributions, not majority of Linux users. There are a ton of distributions derived from Debian: https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Census . All of them would have to update their distros to respond to Meltdown.
Off-topic: Is this person just yanking blog posts (https://oytun.org/bullst-jobs/) from other places? That was just in the homepage: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17874320. This behavior is probably not appreciated in the HN community.
An online mob can turn into violence. Or, the least look to silence opinion, either directly or by soliciting favor through boycotts, etc.
How well does that work on more than one ship with one helicopter? :D
Yes. Part of the motivation for RISC-V was to enable designers to do one-off experiments like this or small production runs with custom ISAs based on RISC-V, without having to worry about licenses or intellectual property issues. RISC-V even leaves some op codes uncommitted so designers can add their own custom instructions. Dave Patterson (RISC-V designer and Turing award winner) explained this at a talk I attended a few years ago.
Thanks! UK based for now, yeah, but I plan on adding support for the US next.

I'm aggregating the jobs, although my only source is currently reed.co.uk (they have a nice API!)
Nah, you spray soapy water all over the inside of the module and watch where it egresses.
Spectre affected virtually every out-of-order execution CPU in existence; Meltdown was much more limited in scope (and very few non-Intel CPUs were affected, but some were).
Nice writeup. A previous company had us participate in a simulation exercise. Split into teams, move around a board similar to monopoly except you were collecting accounts payable from customers, paying rent and utilities, paying payroll, paying taxes on xyz, lawsuits, etc. CashFlow was king. Losers all were paying bills as they arrived rather than on due dates. They had the money, on paper, but not on time. Timesheet-driven contracting - it showed how important it is to fill-in timesheets so customers can be billed. Miss the cutoff and your 48 hrs gets invoiced two weeks later. Your company doesn't thrive when it's borrowing money to pay you for time it can't bill yet because you forgot to sign your timecard.
Should surfing the web for a couple of minutes during work hours be deducted then?
Oracle holds JavaScript trademark. Nobody's safe :)
I use z [1], it builds up a list of folders you visit based on frequency and lets you quickly jump into them by fuzzy-searching it. Z also has tab completion allowing you to cycle through the matches. See project's home for examples of its work at the link below.

[1]: https://github.com/rupa/z
The US is just too fucking big to be subject to 24/7 bombardment.

The US military, which is ridiculous, couldn't even keep a lid on Iraq and it's not even as big as Texas. There's no adversary that could possibly mount a bombing campaign that big, not even the US itself.
9to5Mac Obtained Product Marketing Photos of iPhone XS and Series 4 Apple Watch
> It says that the car is not built entirely from LEGO parts: there is a steel frame, axles, and many other non-LEGO things in it.

So, it's look like correct title for this news should be:

LEGO built a life-size, drivable Bugatti that consist on less than 95% from over a million Technic pieces[0]

[0] https://www.lego.com/en-us/aboutus/news-room/2018/august/tec...
You're taking current batteries as the benchmark and comparing them to a 747. A 747 takes about 50K gallons of kerosene. Or roughly 150 tonnes; according to wikipedia the maximum takeoff weight for a 747 is around 500 tonnes. That's also a good explanation of why these big planes are being replaced by smaller ones; using that much fuel is stupendously expensive.

The reason why the engines and fuel are in the wings has more to do with the center of gravity. This needs to be where the wings are for the plane to be stable because of the non trivial amounts of fuel that get burned and the weight of the engines. If you'd store this in the back or front of the plane, the plane would get progressively harder to control through the flight.

With batteries, this is a non issue. You can put them wherever as long as the center of gravity is in the right place. It won't shift as you deplete the batteries. But still, the wings are probably going to be a popular place for this.

Comparing with a long haul 747 is of course a bit unfair. It is worth noting that these planes are being replaced by more efficient two engine planes that are lighter and much more efficient. But I agree it will be a while before we see cross Atlantic flights at that scale. But we're talking short haul here; 1-2 hour flights.
Even once you identify which module, there are many square meters of outer wall to find a millimeter hole in. And from what I have seen, every square millimeter of wall is more or less covered with stuff. There has to be a method to it.
We are centuries behind because we do not embrace the beauty of dimorphism. One sex complements the other. This is not a war for supremacy.
Still, California is big, people don't have to keep to SV
There are a massive number of systems running Linux that are not publicly facing (e.g. compute/service nodes in supercomputers, systems for providing internal infrastructure for R&D, manufacturing, etc).
This looks interesting. I like that it doesn't expose nonces when reuse is a vulnerability. That seems like a smart idea. Unfortunately, the C++ implementation doesn't appear to support Windows yet. I'd be interested in using this for a cross-platform app I've been working on but that rules it out.
I've always wondered why they don't reuse old frame designs with new materials and components. They're proven to fly well, so why a completely new design every damn time?

Russia seems to do it with the SUs and MiGs...
Emirates has actual transformable beds/chairs last time I checked, for the higher tier packages.

link and timestamp to casey neistats video

https://youtu.be/a7NJ6Gek9v4?t=424

Flight attendants on 2 floor planes have beds in the cockpit
I can confirm having owned 2 front loads. We leave the washer door open all the time while idle - sometimes blowing a fan inside to force-dry it out. Otherwise, mold city. It doesn't matter which make/model you buy, they all exhibit the same problem.
> Why do you expect them to do [this]?

Economics

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No less "wrong" than Nike moving its shoe factories out of the USA and into China, Vietnam, or anywhere else that doesn't have OSHA, EPA, minimum wage, labor unions, ACA, etc.

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I've read on HN about Facebook doing similar things. They brag up and down about the amazing benefits they give employees, while at the same time moving headcount to contractors who don't get to eat the free food ... literally.

[edit] found the article:

Facebook's underclass: staffers enjoy perks, contractors barely get by

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15350600

... heh, one commenter even mentions Eloi and Morlocks.
Inequality is systematic and generational, "because no student today had to live through a century of inequality" is a ridiculous statement when we still have major problems with inequality in schooling, health care, criminal justice, the list goes on and on. Just because things are better than they were 50 years ago doesn't erase 300 years of history.

There is no such thing as a completely "blind" process that can somehow "measures the potential of a candidate" outside that candidate's socioeconomic history and outside the history of inequality in the US. It's the dream of a pure meritocracy which is completely impossible in reality.
My Own Private CDN
> I'm not sure why you argue against giving the compiler the information it needs to do its job

There's several different factors to consider. Value objects will be a valuable addition to the core JVM if only to standardize the many different approaches in place today. But even the standard value types will have strict limitations -- they will likely be immutable and it's not clear that you'll be able to easily obtain their memory address. That means many projects will still need things like code-gen. Code gen, and buffer-backed objects in general, isn't a hack at all it's a proven, battle-tested solution for many domains (finance, scientific sims, big data) that are manipulating several several gigabytes of objects in a performant manner.
Why isn't a fee&dividend widely accepted as the solution here?

I don't mind if you buy and drive a dodge ram or a Sherman tank, as long as you reimburse me for the harm it does to me and my child.
I'm vaguely comforted by the fact that redistributionists haven't come up with the idea that 80% of them are going to vote to chop 2" off me...
Or it works in Harvard's preference by potentially hiding the academic disparities of the different ethnic groups studying at Harvard.

If everyone's score is truncated at 800 on a test out of 1200, then you can't tell the difference between a group that averages 800 vs one that averages 1100
By medium I just mean, stuff beyond CS 101. So for Java, I'd ask about standard lib or basic language-specific features or tools. What's the difference between a List, Set and Map? What does the final keyword do? What does it mean for a class to be thread safe? What do you use for dependency management? What's the difference between a checked and unchecked exception?

For JavaScript I can ask about let vs const? What are arrow functions good for? Maybe specific framework stuff if they say they know react.

For general web stuff, I can ask about response codes. What's the difference between 400 and 500 level? What's a CDN for? What is HTTPS?

You can ask basics about version control or CI. Sometimes I'll do process questions about agile.

I try to stick to what they claim on their resume (and what I know about) and can tell pretty quickly if they are actually what they say they are based on how quickly, confidently and succinctly they answer.
What about actually putting tax money to good use by offering free health care and education like Scandinavian countries?

Would be a good start.

From there the concept could easily be expanded. Reward those who work hard at specific things but let the rest of the population enjoy the benefits as well. Give them (free or cheap) access to your widgets. And ensure that you don't end up owning a monopoly taking most of everyone's money and giving nothing back.
Not in general, because of object mutation, subtyping, and the fact that object fields are semantically references. First, what happens if you update the value to point to a subclass with more fields? They won't fit in the data structure (there are some other problems too, but that's the biggest one). If the classes have to be final and can't be modified through reflection, you'd probably be closer to a solution, but now any time you take a reference to a value in the inner class, you will be pointing into an object of the outer class, which means that GC has to be able to figure out that the internal pointer is keeping the object containing it alive. That's a pretty tricky thing to do, at least in a precise GC. Ultimately, this is not the sort of optimization that a compiler can easily prove safe in general; you could prove it was safe in specific instances (e.g. a local variable that never escapes), but in such cases Java can often allocate the whole thing on the stack anyway (or even in registers). If you want the optimization to work in any other cases, creating something semantically different (that doesn't allow interior references and/or mutability) is a better option.
It looks like the company sifteo was aquihired and the cubes software wad opensourced but the actual hardware is now scarce. Just reading this article makes me fascinated with the project and as I have a young daughter who would probably benefit from a tactile gaming system like this I wonder how feasible it would be to resume production of the cubes or even hand craft them from components. I didn't see open CAD files on the GitHub repo but I did notice a UK professor has compiled all of the software and games and modded it to work without their central server. I doubt I have the time to mess with this anytime soon but it seems like it would be a awesome project to restart as a maker/hobbyist initiative.
>Stop spreading FUD...

Measure M was addressing a higher level transportation ordinance. You can't use that as proof of support specifically for the subway system. Either way, I have not seen any proposal for expanding the subway to Dodgers Stadium outside the one from the mid 2000s that has not progressed (AFAIK).

>Completely false. About 20-25% of the Dodgers crowd takes Metro to the game.

That ridership number you supplied for Dodgers games is legitimately surprising. I had not heard that usage has ticked up that much. Do you have a source on that? I would obviously admit I am wrong if there are legitimately 10k+ people regularly travelling to Dodger games using Metro.

>Elon has made numerous misrepresentations...

I am not going to debate this. Musk's word is good enough for me to entertain his proposal, but it should never be good enough for the city to simply accept without any contingencies. Contracts exist for a reason.
Re: bat > cat

Cat is just a tool to dump files to stdout and maybe concatenate them. If you want paging, syntax highlighting, etc, you probably want a tool to replace `less`, not `cat`.
Minivans have terrible cargo capacity in terms of weight and the cargo area is really easy to get dirty and hard to clean (does anyone even offer a vinyl carpet option?). If someone still made a RWD van with an interior actually meant to haul cargo and barn doors (because it's hard to use a forklift to load things if you've got a hatch) I'd be in the market. The Aerostar and Astro used to fill this niche but they're long gone. The Transit Connect and HHR are a little on the small side.
In France, reports are quoting 30% of edible food thrown away. Is it much better elsewhere ? I suppose not
Not the OP, but for iOS developers I've asked: "What's one thing you would change about Objective-C (this was pre-Swift), and what's one thing you would change about Cocoa [the framework that iOS apps are developed with]?" It's the kind of question that there are a lot of good answers to, any experienced iOS developer will be able to answer off-the-cuff, and it gives a good sense of the kind of work that they've done and how (plus it gets across if they know the difference between a language and a framework, which is useful).
On the other hand if you're paying your bills with Venmo you're not in the demographic that buys appliances... If this is actually a valuable thing the winner is Visa/Mastercard, not Venmo. Venmo thinks you had a slice of pizza at some point because of an emoji, but Visa knows what pizza slice you had, when you ate it, how many other people went there that day, etc etc.
Ah, yeah I see it now. It wasn't listed in the FAQ which would be useful.

That's a slight bummer because now there's another service dependency in your authentication flow. It's probably pretty rare that SQS will go down, but still is a bummer.
If you're ever in the Austin Texas area look me up and you can drive my Ram 2500 diesel around. It's a highly over-rated experience, IMHO.
The way it worked when I was interviewing was that every applicant had an interview.
You should avoid any flights with the new 737 MAX then. I flew on it recently and I have never been so uncomfortable on a flight and I am not tall (5'9)
The main booking websites themselves, e.g. agoda.com or booking.com, their reviews at least are from people who definitely paid to stay...
Exactly they absolutely were advertising it in a semi truthful way. It was totally announced as a company wide policy.....but like a lot of things they really were only talking about the valley.

When a layoff happened years later I got less because "that only applies to CA employees" despite repeated announcements with no qualifications.
Senator asks FTC to examine Google ads
> you can submit SQL for a government owned/contracted database

I’ve heard of journalists working with government IT folks to craft a SQL query, but not sending code in the records request. Do you by chance have an example letter that uses code?
I work at Microsoft (full time employee). We are offered some time for life events, including moving, death of a family member, etc. Also, a part of the benefits package (in Germany) is a company that helps source elder Care. Iirc it's partially funded, too (but don't quote me on that).

When you're negotiating your job, ask the recruiter about the HR concept. Some companies, like MS, really try to take care of employees and gear packages for the long term. Others focus on lifestyle, or on cash compensation... The benefits package is one of the more important ways a company should align with your needs.
Exactly how I feel about this, with the added bonus of white-coat syndrom. If some doctor says 'you are dead' then why fight.
Could you please stop being so thorny? It doesn't make your point any clearer, it just makes the discussion worse.
> and as long as Ubuntu uses apt and .deb, it's Debian

No, there is more to a distro than them sharing a common package manager/format. The kernel, which is heavily patched by canonical, differs from what Debian ships. Canonical also has a bad habit of carrying a lot of non-upstream patches for other core system components. Ubuntu may have been derived from Debian at one point, but they are fairly different at this point. So much so that you cannot take a system running Debian and 'upgrade' (or downgrade, depending on your point of view) it to one running Ubuntu.
They don't know, either. They are speculating.

You can't truly know unless you're on the inside, and then, you can't talk.
IANAL either but I agree, that is a statement of copyright which is not unusual, but there is no licence and therefore we have no right to copy & use it.
Still they could have kept alive the low level underpinning (what is called the "gonk" port) to let a community project go on. Mozilla's leadership choose to not do so for reasons that were never substantiated by any data.

Also, which other approach are you talking about?
If it were a hole, as in something punching through. These are cracks. Probably nothing passed through, these opened up beside the impact point as material buckled.
If Unix pipes gained support for exchanging some kind of out-of-band signalling messages, then CLI apps could tag their output as being in a particular format, or even the two ends of a pipe could negotiate about what format to use. If sending/receiving out-of-band messages was by some new API, then it could be done in a backwards compatible way. (e.g. if other end starts reading/writing/selecting/polling/etc without trying to send/receive a control message first, then the send/receive control message API returns some error code "other end doesn't support control messages")

I have suggested this before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14675847

(But I don't really care enough about the idea to try to implement it... it would need kernel changes plus enhancements to the user space tools to use it... but, hypothetically, if PTYs got this support as well as pipes, your CLI tool could mark its output as 'text/html', and then your terminal could embed a web browser right in the middle of your terminal window to display it.)
> a desktop computer can double as a heater

Servers are so much better...

http://www.supermicro.com/products/chassis/4U/847/SC847BE1C4...
"NET::ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID"

off to a good start...

Your cert is valid only for corastreetpress{.}com
This is a feature of Chrome as well, although it isn't very hidden. https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/2364824
Why is it the wrong thing?