skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would dealers be in a good position to transition into a sort of local power station? Would be a neat transition into a new business model.
actually your amazon link is a reflink, the whole amazon link is just:

https://www.amazon.com/Bushnell-Falcon-133410-Binoculars-Bla...

which is basically the product name + model number + asin

ASIN:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Standard_Identification...

Link can also be shortened to just the asin. (ASIN = ISBN applied to everything)
Open to the idea I’ve got a different issue, but I’m still seeing an issue with 1.10.5.
+1 to OpenWRT 18.x / Netgear R7800.

It's one of the only WiFi routers I've ever worked with that has a fallback flash mode in the bootloader, and the only one that I know you can buy today. This is invaluable when you're not sure if something you're doing could make it fail to boot, like installing an upgrade without knowing whether it uses the same partition layout as you had. When it does you can just try again. (I've needed this once already.)
Plus they do the battery pack design, construction and software themselves. That includes testing of what temperature, power draw and charging regimes cause degradation, how to keep the cells within a good regime while maintaining performance, when to cheat, how to prevent fires and so on. You don’t just put 7000 cells in parallel and call it a day. (Well, some manufacturers do, but the results vary).
Shift user behavior from URLs to branded search queries where either the brand pays exorbitant CPMs (low CPC but high CTR, leading to higher earnings per mille than even insurance or law related queries) to protect their branded traffic or risk losing traffic to competitors trademark bidding.
As someone in a university right now, albeit in Russia, I do feel a full unbridled ability to say what I want, learn and research what I want, and think what I want. And, I don't say this as someone who has super mainstream opinions; in fact, I can be fairly young and radical at times ;-)

I can't imagine American universities are too too different. Maybe I'm wrong. But, it seems like there is a weird anti-higher education culture right now that I don't fully understand.

I really do respect my university a lot for the freedom they give me. The authority here is pretty lax. As long as you get the job done and don't smoke in the dorm, they don't care.
And perhaps total and unique visits will increase as they share it with others. At least, I wish it were that way.
> Is that all that's being transported? Communication? Those bags seem to be holding more than just text.

Computers, code books, secure phones, etc. are required for communication.

Sometimes, more interesting things get sent. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomatic_bag#Noteworthy_ship...
> Employing 103 couriers at 12 hubs around the world, the DCS boasts a delivery success rate that would be the envy of FedEx and UPS.

Do they? The article never backs that up:

> Nobody at the service could remember a single lost pouch or unsuccessful delivery in the service’s modern history, though missions can be aborted for political, weather, or mechanical reasons if necessary. The service did once manage to lose a baby grand piano along the Orient Express in 1919. Evidently, the courier—David K E Bruce, later a renowned diplomat—slept beneath it on a railway platform in Bulgaria and woke to find the piano was gone.

I'd count cancelled missions as unsuccessful, just as I'd count a cancelled delivery by UPS.

Given that the Diplomatic Couriers Service must have orders of magnitude fewer packages than e.g. UPS or FedEx, it's entirely possible that those few failures are a higher failure rate than the commercial carriers.

None of that's to detract from the DCS's really cool achievements — I just dislike journalistic hyperbole.
> Also humanity in the past was far more violent and gruesome

They needed to kill humans one by one with blades and rocks and this was cumbersome and messy. At 3000 kills by minute we, definitely, are much more violent than they.
I just finished working through it. It is well written with an interesting if macabre example dataset. The interactive bits worked well once I enabled web components in Firefox.
I usually find a lot to agree with in your posts, but this time I want to push back on arranged marriage = forced marriage. That's just false.

Also want to push back a bit on having kids and then "just hiring other people to do everything for them". Many cultures have extended family, grandparents, other wives, other adults/older children do child care. The nuclear model is not the norm in the world or in history and we should examine that. Economics in India are pretty different, and it's seen as a responsibility to the community to employ people as cooks/maids/drivers/nannies. If you don't hire people and you can, you're a selfish person not contributing to the welfare of your community. Americans hire help to free up time for work; it's not the same aesthetic in India. Moreover, the number of full-time dads is still disappointingly low, though it isn't brought up when we talk about SpaceX or NASA. Thanks, though, for acknowledging that not all children are planned and that options for planning are eroding.
As I see it, Purisim has been doing OS pieces for their laptops, whereas Fairphone was starting from scratch.
Pretty sure this would be seen as defiling TempleOS... but as a way to preserve it, can someone get it to run inside WebAssembly? Maybe inside a VM?
> the decision to launch iTunes on Windows was a major turning point in Apple's growth.

How much of this is because iTunes is any good (not very much) and more because it uncoupled a good, affordable product (the iPod) from an expensive product that didn't justify its price tag to most people (the Mac)
>In the US, enrollment has been declining at smaller liberal arts colleges. These are private schools that rely primarily on high tuition costs and alumni donations to operate.

Does that surprise anyone? As an EU citizen I'm just dumbfounded that people have to pay so much money to get some minor that is totally worthless to the marketplace in order to get a more worthwhile major. Especially in liberal arts, like who in the world thinks getting a gender studies minor in order to enroll to some kind of teaching major is a sound idea, especially given the current wages of teachers? I understand the allure for lawyers though.
Where is the requirement that we only see "brand-new" stuff on HN?
Are you assuming an update to a number will use the same memory as the original number, and that the original memory will be released?
The Unwise Update
UNL's calculations with you living at home say otherwise. Even state schools are pricy these days. $80K+ for a four year degree is the norm.

[1] https://financialaid.unl.edu/budget.html

[2] http://www.collegecalc.org/colleges/nebraska/university-of-n...
The Azure status page has more information. I suggest updating the link.

> A severe weather event, including lightning strikes, occurred near one of the South Central US datacenters. This resulted in a power voltage increase that impacted cooling systems. Automated datacenter procedures to ensure data and hardware integrity went into effect and critical hardware entered a structured power down process.

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/status/
He is obviously not properly counting calories.
Terry was such an interesting dude. Just check out his response to all the haters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBgIBF9Y6PE
I'm really loving the simultaneous predictions that > $35k demand is drying up and complaints that the $35k car isn't shipping yet... because > $35k demand is too high.
Yeah, there's plenty of open positions that the State Department needs people for, but they can't actually accept applications for those positions because of the current Administration's hiring freeze:

https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/06/07/pompeos-pledge-to-lift-...
Honestly, this shit is a non-event. It's gossipy nonsense. The cave thing is over. Who cares. Big deal. Name calling and mud slinging over minor disagreements is not some career shaking debacle. It happens all the time, and doesn't really need to be good-natured or well-intentioned. No laws were broken, no one is being ruined by this, and everyone's entitled to their opinion.
Yes, every diff has a timestamp. The clocks aren't synced across devices, but the assumption is that they are "close enough" such that a user isn't going to do something like mark a task as done on device A and within the clock delta jump to device B and mark it as "not done".

Conflict resolution falls apart if there are multiple users on multiple devices, but my assumption with my solution is that it's only to be used by a single user across multiple devices.
Does anyone have an opinion on how Laravel compares to Django or Rails?
My user experience has continually depreciated on google and most websites the last few years.
Ask HN: Why is MacOS so popular among developers?
Could be a different story, but I have this vague recollection of someone who, by taking advantage of sloppy wording, won a bet against someone else who said he couldn't compress random data.

This was a long time ago, maybe as long as twenty years ago. I'd love to find it again, though.
Social media is a constant, unyielding reminder of exactly how popular you are. It doesn't turn off when you go home, and all of your friends are on it.
Amazon has historically been evaluated against their revenue instead of income.
Why nobody can bring a hit marketing idea instead of getting stuck into a better product design trap?
Thanks, and agreed. It was my first Ubnt gear, and I suspect it will be my last. It was so much cheaper than some of the alternatives though (that should probably have been a red flag…) but firmware that’s at best in continuous beta really isn’t good enough.
Visual Studio Online has been offline all day. They say it is due to the same Azure outage. This has had a productivity impact.

If Microsoft didn't own GitHub, this may have prompted a move, but since they do it seems a little redundant given that Github will likely be on Azure too before long.

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vsoservice/?p=17405
Argentina Is About to Feel the Venezuelan Oppression
Your indifference to the hardships of having a mental illness is nauseating. You think bigotry is a good tool to fight racism?
Sure, will add the feedback and report page. Thanks for the feedback.

Cheers
I honestly don't understand why he would get into a legal fight publicly with an unknown man, even if he had very secret info and his claims were true.
Ha ha! That video is on another level entirely. The appeal of that particular channel has nothing to do with ASMR, and you know it.
And I was wondering why my App.Gateways are not deploying last night
> But if it's not as secure as an iPhone, it's unethical to claim otherwise.

This seems silly, you can easily flip this on its head and say "Well the iPhone is closed, so there's no way to verify it has any security". You can't separate the ethics of security advertising from the ethics of everything else about how the device works.
I don't remember exactly. I've tried a couple of times without success. I like the way you can setup two pages and do your regular dev. process with the GA experiments. Like if you want to something server side, you can't as it's only JS on the client side with Google Optimize. So you can only A/B cosmetic. Or maybe I missed something.
People here seem to think Christensen is saying higher ed is dying, but I don't think that is the point he is making. Flagship state schools and the Stanfords, MITs and Princetons of the world will be just fine, but there are many small, private, liberal arts colleges (often with a religious affiliation) that are in a big trouble financially. Many of these schools are fairly expensive at 30k a year or more and they are having a really hard time attracting students. This article has a lot more details about this trend:

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/11/13/spate-recent-...

Something like 30% of the colleges in the US have less than 1,000 students and those are the schools that are in trouble, a drop in enrollment for a school that size is a death knell:

https://www.chronicle.com/article/The-Real-Reason-Small-Coll...

Many of these schools haven't changed their curriculum in decades, in fact they can't even give a reasonable definition to the term "Liberal Arts" and with costs so high parents and students are expecting a little bit more to justify the investment.

https://hechingerreport.org/with-enrollment-sliding-liberal-...

Personally I think the way we handle higher education in the US is totally backwards; get the degree and then try to figure out what to do for the rest of your life? What the heck kind of plan is that? If someone came to you with a business plan written like some of these kid's plans for the future would you invest $200,000 in their business? And yet somehow we loan kids money to pursue this plan and/or parents spend the money to fund it. It is absolutely insane that this has gone on as long as it has. Imagine if these kids had to submit a 10-20 year plan before they could take a out a student loan?
With my system, I create a UUID for each entry, so I'm guaranteed uniqueness there. The other properties (task name) can be whatever you want.

You're right that it gets even more tricky if you are doing key=>value pairs and are expecting that the key is something that may not be unique across devices (i.e. two devices using the same website domain as they key would lead to a conflict).
Anecdote: last year I was repairing a bumper on my older Ford sedan, this was in Minneapolis mid winter (so tis the season for mild-severe body damage) and one of the body shops I got a quote from was also the only authorized Tesla dealership in several hundred miles. They had an entire lot just for body damaged Tesla's waiting on parts. The owner commented to me that they were getting Tesla's hauled from southern Iowa for repair. Nothing like a 500 mile flatbed ride to really spice up the total cost of repair.
[These days I'm entirely industrial, but I used to be an academic working in this space. I am extremely biased.]

This is the EU – and their allies at places like the Gates Foundation and the Wellcome Trust – negotiating with tanks in public (and not before time, in my personal view).

The centre of the argument is in life sciences, because that's where the most money is, because all of the physical scientists read arXiV anyway, and because the scholarly societies, led by the American Physical Society, have managed to hang on and are notably less rapacious than Holzbrinck and Elsevier.

Nature/Holzbrinck/Digital Science are arguing the other side, because of course they are, who wants to get disrupted? And Nature is their bully pulpit.

A lot of this comes down to the scholarly societies – many of whom are much easier to deal with, a notable exception being the American Chemical Society, who are very hard to deal with because they're led around by the nose by the Chemical Abstracts Service – being displaced by a small number of vehemently commercial big corporates. They know fine well this is a wasting asset and they've been trying to wring as much cash from it as possible, and it's hastened this endgame.
Remember that you also to implement need memory (the UP5K actually does have quite a bit of SPRAM, though), a memory controller, a ROM, the NES PPU (which was mixed signal) and that comparing transistors to LUT/DFFs is not really a fair comparison (as transistor based logic is not immediately always convertible to RTL logic, and that high-density FPGA designs are much more tougher to route while meeting timing).

Finally, the UP5K is actually fairly slow (when it comes to routing timing) compared to the iCE40 HX/LP, and especially compared to other, more modern FPGAs. The iCE40 routing in general also tends to be underwhelming at high density designs.
Instagram building standalone shopping app
> Actually he is threatening to expel US citizens who are Mexican who he doesn’t believe have valid birth certificates. Not because he believes they are forged, but because the babies were delivered by midwives at the border....

According to your article the passports were denied for the same reasons during the Bush and Obama administrations. Because the midwives actually admitted to committing fraud.

At that point the affected people will have to come in and sort things out. What's the alternative? Don't sort things out? It's a huge pain but you can blame the midwives for that.

> ICE also detained an American citizen that was speaking Spanish.

Law enforcement is constantly looking for a stupid pretext to check your papers. "Speaking Spanish" is a stupid pretext to check your papers.

But you're claiming it's evidence of racism. If they had detained a white person for speaking Spanish, would that also be racist? If they had detained a Mexican person for "speeding" (but really for being Mexican), would that be less racist?

The specific pretext isn't the issue. The issue is that they're using stupid pretexts to check papers. But that's a very broad problem with law enforcement in general.

And notice what you're doing with it -- speaking Spanish is the cultural rather than racial characteristic.

> Not to mention that whole Obama’s is not a US citizen but he is a “secret Muslim” trying to spread Sharia law.

This is kind of my point. "Trump is a jackass" and "Trump is a racist" are not the same thing unless you're just defining racist to mean jackass, in which case everybody knows that already.

> If it were about socialism and not race, why is he so enamored by people from Norway?

Because they aren't immigrating here (in violation of the law) in numbers that could change the outcome of elections.

Also because the people who immigrate legally are more likely to be affluent (and thus more conservative) than their home countries, the people who sneak across borders the opposite.
Your indifference to the troubles and hardship of people that have to deal with racist is nauseating. You think ignoring it and calling it by a different name is a good tool to fight racism?
Reminds me of being able to store files in DNS.

https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/dns-filesystem-true-cloud-st...
There's a piece that covers this pretty well:

https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths

Last posted on HN 2 months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17433487
I really, really love these machines. I'm using one with OPNsense myself. They're just fast enough to get gigabit throughput, but no faster (or more power hungry). Personally I like to separate switching from the firewall and so I've got everything attached to an unmanaged switch or a Unifi AP.

My one complaint about this approach is that there are so many interactions happening at the software level that any time I set up a network stack, I always feel as though the whole thing is very fragile and only works because everything is precisely configured. Since I like to tinker, I want a system that feels more reliable, and so I go for the router-in-a-box approach of pfsense or opnsense. I wish it was easy to get a network configuration that "just works".
Sheryl Sandberg's opening statement to Congress: 'We were too slow'
How do they get around the crypto signature checks that the CPU does before loading a microcode patch?
AWS and Azure have had "big" outages people because actually use them. Rackspace and IBM are almost neck and neck with Google's best efforts (3% markshare Vs. 30%/40% for Azure/AWS)[0].

[0] https://www.skyhighnetworks.com/cloud-security-blog/microsof...
شركات تنظيف المنازل في العين – للايجار شركات تنظيف الكنب في العين
Writing. There’s only so much information that can be kept in one person’s head.

And it takes a long time for writing to catch on — classic network effects. If only a few people can read, it’s not that useful and nobody bothers writing stuff down other than personal notes or business records.
I don't understand the point you are trying to make?

It doesn't matter if Musk would not have said these things "on the record" or not, since he never had an agreement to be quoted off-the-record. It would seem to be his mistake.
What percentage of that 200,000 is in California? I don't think the sample size is near large enough, nor properly distributed to build a comprehensive risk model around.

I'm not a subject matter expert either but I would love to hear from someone in the industry.
Sheryl Sandberg's prepared statement to Congress [PDF]: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HttCuxAY-mdxtf0RfGRDx3kjVS_...
Why you should not build your startup as Single-Page Application (2017)
There's going to be four things you have to confront when it comes to helping people.

1. Resources. Money and people are the two hardest resources, although space can also be a problem, especially when you start taking eg homeless shelters. It's not enough to have a big pile of money to spend on the problem, it's hard to find people who want to take on a front-line position in solving it.

2. Morality. It's odd to say, but one of the harder questions when trying to help people is how to do so morally. What if someone doesn't want help? What if they don't want the sort of help you want to give them? The low-hanging fruit of helping people is giving help to people who want it. What to do when someone refuses to leave a dangerous situation or refuses medical treatment is a hard question if you still want to help them.

3. Information. Having resources available to provide help to people who want it is all well and good, but if you don't know who needs help and people who need help don't know about you trying to give it, it doesn't do much good. Knowing who needs help is a really hard problem. Even if you have a vague notion that your neighbor is having a rough time of things, you don't always know how rough of a time, and they don't always tell you.

4. Risk. When you put yourself out there to help, you make yourself vulnerable. That scares a lot of people. Most people are nice people and most people aren't dangerous but some people aren't and are. If you do anything in the world that involves people, including helping them, problems will crop up. The challenge here is mitigating the risk of them without losing your humanity in the process.

If the four points above don't daunt you, then the next thing is to avoid the classic hacker mistake: reinventing the wheel unnecessarily. There are countless organizations already trying to help people out there. Can you join one and help it help more hackers?
It is very sad to see him seek out problems and controversy. He has accomplished an unimaginable amount to this point and so many hopes for the future ride on his shoulders- and it appears to be breaking him.

He's sliding into the Howard Hughes path to self-destruction and I desperately hope he can pull out of the dive before it becomes a terminal one.
"Google content experiments to be deprecated"

https://github.com/dwyl/learn-google-optimize/issues/8
The smallest unit of time the FAA uses in their requirement documents is "one man-hour".

It could take 5 minutes or less to boot, but the FAA will still say it takes an hour.
This is exactly what I'm doing with my solution.
I know many people that have iphones so they can use iMessage. Doesn't mean they don't use other apps, but imessage is pretty common around my parts and a distinct reason some people don't buy android phones.
Yeah, I don't know why, but I really enjoy trivial mechanical errors like that. It's somehow so wrong, but so right.
Interesting. I'm in the UK and I have always thought of Mercedes as the "taxi manufacturer of choice" rather than a luxury or sportier brand, in terms of where they do their big volume sales, both in the UK and globally - i.e. the S/E/C/V class. I have literally never seen an X class in my life, although I see quite a few G-wagens (easily more than I see A-classes).