skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s going away very fast though.

In developped countries the cost (mental, economical, physical) of caring for parents drive away children, and where there was two to three siblings decades ago, in these day and age single childs are plenty.
My employer - doing lots of interesting engineering in among others the marine and aerospace sectors - certainly do that; we're based in Europe.

Basically, any device brought to the US and a number of other countries are issued for one-time use; if they leave our custody for even an instant, they are to be scrapped.
I actually enjoy eating pure erythritol with a tablespoon.
That sounds, to me, like snapshot billing. Any chance you have any snapshots on the account? Toss me an email at jdonnell@digitalocean.com or open a ticket with our support team, we'll take a look :)
It doesn't. They claimed that so they could enact the tariffs, otherwise it would be a WTO illegal tariff. I think Canada/others are arguing that it is not a security risk and therefore is indeed an illegal tariff. This is what I remember from some articles. Please correct/elaborate.
Rust evangelism strike force strikes again :)

I thought of Erlang initially, and so did others in the thread.
There's definitely something afoot. Bloomberg probably wouldn't have gone forward with just an in-depth piece referencing so many major tech companies unless it had substance. But generally even when legally compelled, companies tend to prefer silence or curt denials over lengthy detailed contrary pieces.

Is there a federal investigation going on into some sort of sabotage by the Chinese government? Possibly, and if so, there's a lot of reason these companies could even be willingly participating in covering it up. All of them benefit from the investigation being uninterrupted, and nobody needs the bad press.

Could the story be, in fact, fabricated? Sure. Russian trolls have seen to sowing discord in far more than just our election. They stoked drama about The Last Jedi even, as recently claimed. Is it possible they're seeing if they can get a major news outlet to publish something with absolutely no basis in fact? Maybe.

There's a lot of interesting possible angles here, but with the number of large public companies involved, this morning is probably the start of this drama, not the end of it.
As a user, fraud is not your problem. Security isn’t there for your benefit.
Actually it's very easy to avoid data-structure related deadlocks:

- avoid holding two locks simultaneously: that guarantees no deadlocks.

- if you have to hold several locks, always acquire them in the same order in all scenarios.

The "avoid holding multiple locks" rule also harmonizes very well with "minimize the durations/sizes of critical regions". That is, hold a lock over the minimum number of machine instructions necessary. That reduces lock contention, promoting better concurrency.

Of course, we don't get anything free and easy. Not holding multiple locks means that you can't lock in some consistent condition across multiple structures to do an atomic update. Any time you let go of a lock to go do something elsewhere and re-acquire the lock, the "world has changed". If the code hangs on to any previous assumptions about the state (e.g. cached info in local variables), there will be a bug.
Hah! Good one. To anyone else not in on the joke, parent is referring to the language that is often discussed on HN and known for having a sometimes overly enthusiastic community, Pony: https://www.ponylang.io/
I write notes to re-explain the material in my own words and test my understanding. Then, once I'm sure I've got it right, I read the notes and use them as reference.

Writing in a normal font and then switching to Sans Forgetica to read/study the notes would be my use-case.
Is this a RUST reference?
I agree Go is more popular than Elixir — but is it actually a popular language? At least I wouldn't consider it mainstream in the sense Java, C# and Python are.
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I'm actually kind of sympathetic to Apple here.

One of the company I worked for once received request from a news outlet about potential rumor around us, and bullied our CEO into an interview to disprove that rumor.

Then the journalist picked several quotes out of context as proof that rumor being true.

While I don't trust megacorps, I don't know if I can trust journalists more when a major breaking news is on the line.
PHP is way better with this than Go, and much easier to learn.
Indeed there are only a finite number of moments. If this was not true you could effectively 3d scan an object by just measuring its inertia response.
Why can't we use privatekeys as a way to log into websites? It's good enough for servers, and it's good enough for git access. I'd be way more comfortable about simply having my browser have access to a privatekey, and prompt me to use it to login when a webpage had a keyed login prompt. It seems like privatekey login would solve the problem of guessing & phishing passwords.

(Someone plz fork Chromium and build this in! And hit me up when you want me to make the Django/ExpressJS auth plugin for it.)
Off the top of my head:

1) Being arrested for real or framed crimes. In case you don't know, once someone has your sequence they can easily produce craploads of the regions checked by the police in bacteria and leave it at crime scenes.

2) Being denied certain jobs (eg GATTACA).

3) Being charged more for insurance, etc. In general you will start from a poorer negotiating position than someone who has your genetic data.
I'll be honest, my knee-jerk reaction was "BlackBerry is still in business?". Anyone on HN own one or know of someone who does? I can't recall the last time I walked into a store who actually carried BB products on their shelves.
Uh-huh.
I would LOVE a monospaced version of this. If any type designers are out there, please make this happen.
The Information Terrorists Trying to Reshape America
imgur is terrible for mobile users
I should have added to that: We're not actively trying to collect anything under $1, so to us a $0.15 balance is not something we need you to pay right now.
Them being public companies and all, can they lie to stockholders and prospective shareholders?

If China did this, kudos to them, in the sense that that's their job. Just like it is NSA's to do the same to them.

Apple, Google, Microsoft, Intel, FB and a few other companies can probably match China's expertise and expenditure. What about the rest?
Or the IBM Selectric Typewriter implant.

http://www.cryptomuseum.com/covert/bugs/selectric/
Their argument is that you need strong domestic steel industry to build tanks, ships, etc, in case of war. Not saying I'm agreeing with it just pointing out the stated rationale behind the tarrifs.
Also consider that said “individuals” may be corporations.
How is that any different than YouTube?
We also do this via air pressure and the vocal tract with words.
I’m not sure they faze much of anyone besides some of Reddit and HN. The tech literate friends I know don’t care much either. There’s a handful of things that both those sites over-do like crazy compared to the norm and this is one of them.
What about using Kubernetes to manage several personal projects simultaneously? Different namespaces, but with a single point of administration.
That is an alternative to using the modulo function for hashing, not an alternative implementation of the modulo function.
I really wish someone like Mike Pall (of LuaJIT fame) would work on BEAM to make it computationally as fast as Go on raw performance.
UFOs would make a hell of an Easter egg, though.
It doesn’t really matter where you draw “the” line for mainstream languages, so much as that there is some reasonably drawn line between Go and Erlang/Elixir.
Why not, though? Energy is energy -- we (humans) oxidize food, basically burning it slowly, to power our bodies. Whether the energy is carried by glucose/ATP or electric current is just an implementation detail.

Comparisons are frequently made in other domains as well -- e.g., cyclists measure power outputs in watts.

The rule of thumb I've understood is that the brain runs on about 20 watts (peak power), and a human on average runs on about 100 watts. That's 8.64 MJ/day, which converts to 2064 food calories (kcal), at 4184 J/kcal.
Amazon really feels the need to get in front of this story before their stock falls any further, down almost 3% as of writing this comment.
I think people should know how stark the differences for assembly in the US are vs outside of it. Something that costs, at low prototype volumes mind you, $20 in China for a dozen boards or so, would run hundreds of dollars in the US and still take the same amount of time. As it scales up, the ratio might improve, but these aren't like 10%-20% differences.
Interesting. Wouldn't this imply that belief in our universe being infinite and belief in the validity of the simulation hypothesis are mutually exclusive? Basically, believing we're in a simulation would mean believing that our perception of an infinite universe is simply a feature of the simulation.
I understand how load measurements work but it doesn’t mean it works as intended on the measurement side either.

Many of those meters are not passive and provide the full USB connectivity offered by the micro controller on the output port also.

So so far I haven’t seen anything conclusive, every charger I tried works but one which definitely provides OTG capability.

N=1 but same goes for most of these stories so far.

Could there be a problem? Sure could be cross talk on some faulty phones which makes them think there is data but it could also be that people don’t understand what is it they are connecting.
That's not entirely valid. There is SOME number where it may not be beneficial because another learning technique would be more efficient, but having to read slower isn't a problem of itself if there goal is simply "get better at retaining this information".

Also, there's a certain point where the delta is relevant enough to justify the extra effort invested (things involving safety/security for example).
Silicon Valley’s Keystone Problem: ‘A Monoculture of Thought’
Thank you for taking the time to write this comment.
I would say to the author that for most small/personal projects that dokku is probably about as extreme as you want/need. Use Docker for (Windows|Mac|Linux) locally as needed, and use dokku for your deploy target. A $40 DO/Linode vm will go a long way for small scale. I've even setup round-robin load balanced deployments, where the app just deploys to two hosts with the exact same config. Works great on smaller things.

Of course, if you're in a workplace on a project likely to see more than a few hundred simultaneous users in a given application, definitely look at what K8s offers.

Edit: as to deploys, get CI/CD working from your source code repository. GitLab, Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS), CircleCI, Travis and so many others are free to very affordable for this. Take the couple hours to get this working, and when you want to update, just update your source repo in the correct branch.
Maybe we (or is it just me?), a collection of brains are the ones simulating the universe.
That doesn't strike me as odd at all.
They pivoted to making software.
The entire market is selling off.
We do too, nominally, but the headcount kept growing and the real estate didn’t.
hard to believe the companies are knowingly lying.

If you're working with the feds on a national security incident, and the PR department comes round because some reporters were asking about it, the correct answer is "I don't know what you're talking about."
I like Wind VF — https://v-fonts.com/fonts/wind-vf
Look, to do science you have to believe the world outside your head can be observed; and if you are ready to trust the rickety and convoluted stack that encodes pulses from a keyboard into photons from a screen to accurately convey information, then gravity waves have been observed and match predictions for black holes exactly.

If you want to stick to reading Gorgias of Leontini that is fine, but please don't bother the rest of us that do accept the world outside as real.
They're much less a hardware business anymore.
Pearson Hashing
Inulin may "help with loose days" much more than you probably think. It may actually help to systematically decrease your appetite and insulin resistance, decrease ghrelin (the "hunger hormone") and increase leptin (the "fullness hormone") if you eat it every day. I can recommend Dr. Raphael Kellman's "The microbiome diet" book for more info, it is easy and exciting to read and has a fair amount references to scientific research in it, it may happen that you will never have to worry about calories again after you read it.
There are supermicro servers _everywhere_.

Surely, organizations that don't have anything to hide are talking a peek by now.

If there aren't a lot of reports of these hacks in the wild in the next couple of days... then we'll know who's not telling the truth, right?
Sure. I'm assuming if someone wants to stream something into your head, the assumption is the person is seeing.
Also, time may not be relative to "outside". For all we know we might be in worldgen (historygen?) phase for a "Humans vs Aliens in the Year 50k" game.
How much do you think you would have to pay them to make it worth their while to not use cheap components (so as not to risk losing you as a customer)? It’s amazing how people never consider using economics.

Edit: But let’s not get away from the matter at hand. The issue wasn’t cheap components, it was full-on credit skimmers installed in yor hardware (IIRC). Should be easier to incentivize the conpany into halting those before they get shipped to you, no?
> in that you know it when you see it

I would contend that one takeaway from companies like Facebook is that this phrase doesn't actually hold up all that well on a global Internet.

Facebook originally classified breast-feeding as explicit. At the time there was actual controversy about whether or not it fit into that category (public perception now is mostly that it didn't). Facebook's shift from "no pornography" to "here's a giant document about exactly what is and isn't pornography down to the number of nipples you show" feels to me like the white flag of a company that has decided it no longer knows it when it sees it.

I think "you know it when you see it" works very well for small, tight-nit communities, and maybe not quite so well as soon as as you start operating on the scale of a country. On that scale, I kind of prefer the narrower definitions we have on stuff like libel and slander.
The Art of the Pan
Information overload is nothing new. Leibniz fretted, too
Bloomberg has turned into tabloid-level shock journalism when it comes to tech. All about the scares, not much substance. It doesn't surprise me at all that they might've screwed up their article this bad, but I hope it's a wake up call to the staff at Bloomberg (though I know it won't be).
Valid question. Their definition of privacy doesn't go so far, and I assume if they would really want to create an ecosystem where this kind of data is protected they would need to create their own search enginge. Because google is still what the majority of people expect.
Submission from EFF -> FLAGGED
Business culture is different in the US and China. If you tamper a chip in China and go unnoticed you are considered smart & the winner. If you do so here you'll be getting a more negative reaction.
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Could you please expand how it's better in your opinion?
Well, as long as the hardware does not source their parts from SuperMicro
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-h...
> By David Wolpert on October 4, 2018

But I’ll take this opportunity to make my usual PSA: any time you are posting about the state of an industry please please date your material
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English isn't my native language. Of course you are correct it is called moment of inertia.
you mean something like this?:

https://blog.codesolvent.com/2015/07/why-not-signed-password...
Paid, not payed.
I think you are being down-voted for just making a generalized claim with no mention of why? care to explain, what areas does PHP out-perform Go?
The best way to become the best at something is to choose that "something" wisely. For example, Scott Adams, creator of one of the most successful cartoons:

> Recapping my skill set: I have poor art skills, mediocre business skills, good but not great writing talent, and an early knowledge of the Internet. And I have a good but not great sense of humor. I’m like one big mediocre soup. None of my skills are world-class, but when my mediocre skills are combined, they become a powerful market force.

More info here (and in Scott Adams' book): [1]

It's like Google AdWords: very difficult to rank highly for one keyword, but possible for a set of three or more related keywords.

Adams alludes to the fact you don't have to be the best to succeed; there are alternate roads to success. Another take on this is "relative expertise." You don't have to be the foremost expert on a subject before you can help others; you just need to know more than the person you're helping.

[1]: http://sourcesofinsight.com/scott-adams-success-formula/
https://www.tomsguide.com/us/BlackBerry-Saudi-Arabia-Lebanon...
Dutch being so great at indoors doesn't surprise me the least. They've had plenty of reason to perfect that considering their history of Cannabis legalization.

> Open air lagoons with pig poop...disastrous with

Wasn't there recently some tornado/flood going through a US farm area spreading the literal "shit", out of these lagoons, everywhere?

> I am afraid I might have digressed..thanks for reading!

Heh, I think not digressing is sometimes impossible, especially on such topics like farming and food production, which are often rather wide-ranging if not all-encompassing.

Agriculture is the basis of our modern human civilization, at some point or another, it's all leading back there.
This is really awesome! Thanks for writing and sharing your book for free!
> Sans Forgetica is more difficult to read than most typefaces – and that’s by design. The 'desirable difficulty' you experience when reading information formatted in Sans Forgetica prompts your brain to engage in deeper processing

Based on this logic - harder the process better the processing - its obviously a mistake that schools are increasingly using technology to teach, like visualizing geometric shapes on screen in 3D instead of painstakingly drawing on the board and letting students see it in their heads.
"Increase your chances" is not the same as "guarantee."
you will need to revise the power once more: when idle modern notebooks use 5-10 W, even under load it's closer to 30 W.

These guys measure idle power consumption for all laptops

https://www.notebookcheck.net/HP-Elite-x2-1013-G3-i5-8350U-S...
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I second this, in order for it to be a fair comparison we have to level the playing field, by converting the total available calories (for humans) and electricity (for computers) into some common unit that represents the total capacity available to the US (or world). Another commenter brought up Joules which I think would work, I just can’t fully wrap my mind around what all will go into the calculation, like food growing and transport energy requirements, vs power plant emissions, maintenance, coal/oil transport.
>>I'm not really top percentile in anything save my ability to communicate.

Being top-percentile in communication is nothing to brush off. It's about finding where to use your top-percentile skills that can be the challenge.

I could be in the top 1% of people who grow green tomatoes, but if I'm not using that skill for something, does it matter? Maybe skill-for-the-sake-of-skill does matter on some level, but maybe I should find a way to use my mastery for something.
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Mexicans jailed... and the problem is?
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How are the deployment, library ecosystem, build, and tooling stories for Elixir?

Note I don't really care about the answer to the above, I just wish as a profession we could get past the tribalism and boosterism and have rational technical dicussions about things that matter as opposed to banal declarations about 'expressiveness' etc.
WebAuthn does this, and chrome/FF/edge support this. They're also adding CTAP2 support allowing the use of biometric, BTLE, and NFC devices to provide authentication keys.

Soon you'll be able to use TouchID to log in to your website, provided you've associated the pubkey from your fingerprint authn with your website.

https://www.chromestatus.com/features#component%3A%20Blink%3... (TouchID on MacOS: TBD)

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=780078... (CTAP2: merged)

https://www.chromestatus.com/features/6288375388569600.

We're integrating webauthn for our medical clinics as a way to support easy, secure authentication without 2FA to reduce sharing of ipads with a session logged in.

More reading: https://duo.com/blog/developments-to-webauthn-and-the-fido2-...
> For your average developer who just wants to get something running on a port, Kubernetes introduces two barriers: containerization and Kubernetes itself. These are non-trivial things to learn, especially if you don't have an ops background, and both of them add substantial debugging overhead.

From the application-developer side, I'd dispute this. I was told to use Docker + Kubernetes for a relatively small work project recently, and I was able to go from "very little knowledge of either piece of tech" to "I can design, build, and deploy my app without assistance" in about 1 week of actual study time, spread out over the course of the project. And although I have several years' experience, I'm not some super-developer or anything.

What surprised me most is how well-documented (for the most part) everything is. The Kubernetes and Docker sites have a ton of great information, and the CLIs are rich and provide a consistent interface for all the details about your environment. (To tell the truth, that alone makes the time investment worth it.)

After this, there's no way in hell I'm going back to Heroku or similar and trying to piece together their crappy, one-quarter-documented "buildpack" system. I'd take a Kubernetes-and-Docker-first PaaS at a reasonable markup any day of the week.
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I had the same problem with the name, although in my case I attributed it to associating it with FontForge.
No matter how far back you go in any creation theory, something has to come from nothing. Multiverse and simulation theories kick the can down the road but don't answer the question "why is there something instead of nothing?".

I think that's why it's important to know where this "computer" came from that's simulating us if it's true. We can't just get one answer and give up, we have to keep following the trail.