skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that technical details sometimes gets misrepresented or come out plain wrong. That's my observation as well and it's annoying when you're knowledgeable in the subject and try to make sense of what you've read (or read between the lines).

I think a contributing factor is that it's generally hard to write about things you don't fully understand with the correct nomenclature. Especially when you might not be able to talk/ask for help about specifics with people more knowledgeable because of the secretive process.

Things could've been dumbed down, intentionally or unintentionally, by those involved. It wouldn't be hard to imagine a conversation like: "-So it was sort of a coupler thing? -You could say that, yes". Or what if the technical detail came from a Chinese source and Google translate mangled it?

The coupler thing is dumb and so is the picture (assuming it was a random product picture) but at least they might serve as a way of communicating the big picture: a hard to spot electronic "coupler" thing.
Read the next sentence after what you quoted.

What I mean is that services CAN BE hooked into the OS. My messaging service being independent from my messaging app (sms as an example.) What I mean is, by default, Google has best in class services. (Photos and Maps are clearly superior to Apple.)

Being able to SET my default maps service. I need the os to be aware of what kinds of queries my maps app can handle.

Being able to swap out my voice assistant between google, alexa, cortana, m. I need the hardware and os layer listening, ready for me to trigger my voice assistant, but once they do, they should had it off to the service of my choice. Or my Roku being able to deep link directly to content within apps, apps that advertise their content to the os search.

Android is built to allow google, a manufacturer, or a user to swap out services, but still allows the service to feel integrated.

I do think there is a distinction between Android and Google Play Services. GPS is an advantage, and a great set of default services, but im not stuck with them for the life of a device, if I choose to replace them.
That's pretty much exactly what option #2 from TFA is.

The author quotes a higher price, but that's only because the recommended pair of headphones costs more than the entirety of the first option.
Software Quality – The forgotten ingredient
Is the sandboxing of flatpak more or less secure than docker?
CQ Contest, CQ Contest...
Fair but why should a certain nation or place be better at solving the combo problem than another?
> At the risk of stating the obvious, we need to pay more attention to making more "zone-friendly" workspaces. I.e., not loud, open offices where everyone feels okay talking at full volume.

In an office of six employees it takes six to maintain silence and only one to cause noise. That's the sad truth. Also stepping in and enforcing silence is a simple way to become unpopular very fast. Also lot of noises are caused by sounds which are direct expressions of someone's personality - that simply cannot be stopped by asking for it.

It's a lost cause. And the reason why I resorted to QC25 and since two years ago to QC35. It's a subpar compromise - but there's just no better option when working with several people in one room.

I'm very much looking forward to the wh1000xm3 - sadly, they seem to be sold out in Germany for weeks to come.
> Getting bad commentary on geeky/nerdy HN is, almost by definition, bad communications/PR for a tech company.

Except there's always going to be some critics, especially when you're talking about a corporation of Google's size.

There's going to be people concerned about privacy, corporate overreach, the nature of some of its activities (such as defense contracts).

You will also get various biased opinions, such as people who were hurt in some way by Google: rejected candidates or businesses that folded due to some Google service grabbing their market share.

Hell, even if Google religiously avoided all the above, you will still get some astroturfing campaigns by its competitors!

Negative commentary on a niche website like HN doesn't actually mean much in the grand scheme of PR. Check what the average person thinks about Google. Most likely you will find it quite positive. If you're looking for a company with serious image problems, compare to Facebook.
Medical staff assisting in a medically unnecessary procedure.. The complicity is amazing and a violation of the hypocratic oath.
I have been thinking the recent Navy navigation related crashes are related to enemies tampering with systems. They are testing live how weak a windows based fighting ship is.

https://www.wired.com/1998/07/sunk-by-windows-nt/
Yes, automatic positioning is the goal, and one of the key differences vs. TikZ (the other being a separation of substance--the math--from style--the graphical representation). It's difficult, which is why there is real graphics research in the project.

Penrose enables the user to tweak the diagram manually after it is produced. Constraint solving continues to apply during the tweaking so that if you grab a shape, then things attached to it will move as well. Our goal is to get end results as good as, or better than, TikZ, while staying at a higher level of abstraction.
> Turns out yes we did know. Literally everything leaked.

Well, rumors a few months ago were that plans had leaked for a third device that would be the spiritual successor to the Nexus line, with stock android at reasonable prices.

We thought we knew, but it seems like a jerk move for Google to make fun of us over our vain hope they'd put out something we wanted.
Nothing wrong with it, I spent endless hours playing it. But I saw the arcade version only afterwards, and I went "oooooh, colours!"

The "native" Spectrum games were better IMO. Sir Fred comes to mind. Pentagram, Gunfright, Knight's Lore, Abu Simbel Profanation. These worked with the limitations of the hardware (most notably the colour clash), not against it.

I mean, there even was a Spectrum version of Operation Wolf, and it was kind of atrocious (but still unbelievable that they made it work on such modest hardware!)
Probably a reference to Penrose Diagrams which this looks like it would be good at, or possibly Penrose Graphical Notation. Both creations of Roger Penrose.
Stop Installing Tensorflow using pip for performance sake
The term you're looking for with the AWS Portal is "they're shipping the org chart". Different teams build plugins for the portal, with a bunch of latitude to define the custom experience.
Yeah because Apple removing the headphone jack took lots of Courage didn't it?
Good luck getting content editors to commit code to a repo or in markdowns. The contentful + netlify setup is really elegant.
Uber CEO: We're going after groceries next
I can also recommend the Sony WH-1000XM line. I have the XM2, though the model 3 is out now. Some of the only headphones out there that beat Bose in active noise-cancelling. The sound quality is top notch; the one complaint people tend to have when I show them off is that the earcups are on the small side and they touch some people's ears. Doesn't really bother me though.
even if such travel became possible, what could motivate anyone to actually do it at scale? if they're anything like humans, there would probably be a few crazy beings who would do it just to do something extreme, but aside from escaping a dying world, i can't see any reason why such a journey would be attempted at scale. what's the point of having a galaxy spanning civilization when the origin system would be destroyed every time you made a roundtrip?
Sennheiser did sell an ANC Momentum for short while, before rebranding the ANC version as the HD1, so I assume that's what GP is talking about.

I happen to have a pair of those, which I chose over the QC35s, however I would disagree with GP that their ANC is superior in any way - at best it's almost as good as the QC35s.

I bought them because they were more comfortable on me, the ANC was good enough for my occasional use, and I liked the way they look.
I havn't used the Azure portal for a few months now, but every time I have used it, it's driven me up the wall.

AWS's UI might be inconsistent, even old fashioned - but it's extremely quick to navigate around and find things.

With Azure I'm either having to spend 10 minutes hovering over an array of icons trying to figure out which one will take me to the service I want, or I'm fighting with their panels which hide information I actually wanted.

When it comes to other basic functionality like updating billing details - Azure only lets that be done by the root account, which I really don't want to hand over to our accounts department, and they don't want me to know the card details they use for it. So we're at this stale-mate where I have to log in as root, navigate to the right area, then let them enter the card details.
This is an awesome opportunity for learning!

Much of what you should do depends on your specific situation, company type, and if you anticipate other devs eventually joining you.

The specific stack and container technologies that you choose for the architecture will vary greatly depending upon your scenario, but I will say that picking something stable, with a large community that other devs are familiar with will make your life easier in the long run.

Since you are currently alone, something that a solo developer can be quickly productive in (like Rails + React) would be ideal!

For workflow, you need some sort of beta/staging environment so that code isn't going directly to production. This is simple to setup and has big pay offs: you can use it to showcase new features to stakeholders and gathering feedback before "pushing to production", as well as increasing stability. In the future with other devs you could scale this to a full pipeline with auto CD/CI etc

I would also recommend trying to keep fairly decent documentation. If other devs join you in the future, they will greatly appreciate this. If you leave this job and they hire another contractor or dev, they (and hopefully your company) will appreciate this.

If you have to manage a lot of cloud servers or network architecture, I would highly recommend taking the "Infrastructure as code" approach. It's pretty simple to get up and running on Digital Ocean with just a few lines of Terraform, and the benefits to devops are huge

Best of luck!
Why is "React" capitalized every single time?
Radians is a natural unit. You don’t need to specify it if you’re talking about rotations.

It is like how you need to specify % if talking percent but don’t need any units if talking perunum.
There's no real correlation between the "goodness" of an insurance plan and its deductible. In the end all that really matters is the quality of care you receive and how much you have to pay for it.

Many employers offer high deductible plans but also contribute into the employee's HSA which can be used to pay deductibles. In theory that incentivizes the employee to shop around and get the best possible deal on care.
Google+ Shutting Down After Info from 500k Accounts Is Leaked
Wait a minute, did somebody get so pissed at flatpak that they bought a domain name just to specifically host that single blog post?
It's not even that. We're talking jobs, not people. It doesn't matter whether a low-skill job engages 100% of worker's skill or only 10% - the point is, someone doing a low-skill job can be a massive productivity multiplier for someone else doing a high-skill job.
Async operations might scale better, but the cost and latency per single operation is higher than a synchronous one.
It's important to differentiate between power and perceived volume.

Usually a person won't notice an increase in volume unless it has a 3-5dB (3dB = double in power) increase. And won't perceive a double in volume without a 10dB (10dB = 10x increase in power) increase and even then it depends on the specific frequency.

Some things to check out would be:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevens%27s_power_law
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weber%E2%80%93Fechner_law (and thus Just Noticable Difference [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-noticeable_difference])
I work for netlify, and yes, we ask you to upgrade, don't just turn you off if you go over.
Art and Literature aren't sciences, either.
A colleague of mine was working on this very same technology years ago! And they don’t need green boxes - it works perfectly with real billboards that happened to be included in the footage.
Maybe those who care that much about privacy should use a complete different set of products. I, for one, would be more than happy to let Facebook/Google/Netflix/Yelp to use my personal data to customize their product to serve better content, better ads and better everything to me. I'm much more upset about Yelp when they keep recommending restaurants that I apparently won't care about even I've been feeding them so much information by checking into restaurants I actually like. I'd be glad if they share that information with Google/Facebook, who are much more likely to have better recommendation algorithms.

I downloaded my Facebook history when they provided such a feature, and was completely unable to find anything interesting. Why would I care if they would protect my privacy or not. If protecting privacy leads to much worse user experience, I'd rather they don't
If DB is one of your biggest expenses... why no run your own DB? Paying for someone to spin up instances is quite optional in the big picture. The operational complexity of running a DB is not hard. That said, Mongo is a poor choice for any app ever written. I would question why you would use a best-in-class at nothing Database with many operational issues.
are you like a SJW for the Internet Research Agency?
I disagree. Shelter is only bound by what it costs to build a new shelter. This is where regulation has had a dramatic impact over time. Nobody would ever allow you to build a pioneer log cabin as a primary dwelling these days, even though the costs would be minimal to erect such a structure. There are very strict standards that must be adhered to in order to build shelter now.

Land is also necessary on which to build said shelter, but vacant lots in rural areas can be had quite cheaply. Lots of places where an acre, which is more than plenty to build shelter on, won't fetch much of anything dollar wise. That is, where regulation allows you to actually buy a small lot in a rural area from the surrounding landowner. Regulation often makes doing that very difficult.

The problem, at least not in a huge country like the USA, isn't population. There is incredible amounts of unused space ripe for housing someone. The problem is being able to build shelters for those people without getting caught up in red tape.
> Sadly, it's obvious Red Hat developers working on flatpak do not care about security, yet the self-proclaimed goal is to replace desktop application distribution - a cornerstone of linux security.

Sheesh, while the issues raised are all valid, this does not actually justify such a conclusion about the intent of the Red Hat developers. Telling people what their side of the story is for them in a dismissive fashion like this is not going to make it more likely that they admit their mistakes.

A bit of Hanlon's Razor[0] goes a long way to resolve problems involving human cooperation (of any kind) more smoothly.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor
Domains are cheap. Often free for one year.
Those timelines don't seem very conservative. 1% sounds like a nice, small number, but 1% of the speed of light is insanely fast. It's about 200 times faster than our fastest craft to date. We might envision launching a probe 200 times faster in the future, but a colonization ship would also weigh millions of times more and have to slow down somehow.

It's not clear that we'd be able to do that in 10,000 years (or ever) with "shoot stuff out the butt" propulsion, so we'd probably need propulsion based on different physics which may or may not actually exist. We'd definitely need new physics for constant 1g acceleration into relativistic speeds.

Maybe we could hitchhike on progressively faster interstellar asteroids or something, but that would void the assumption of having the ability to reach all parts of the galaxy.
Yeah, I read it that way too. Been too long since every other article here was "how to understand nomads"...
I tend to agree with the many people that say that ham radio is a dying hobby - both literally because it's practitioners are becoming silent keys by the hundreds a day, and newcomers are in it only to meet the minimum requirements for legally using cheap Chinese handheld radios (if they do so at all) and to use high-power transmitters for drone control and video, or as "preppers," and figuratively in that there are a lot fewer innovations in radio by radio amateurs today than there were several years ago, when the science of radio was primarily in the hands of hobbyists. Now it's in the hands of telecom corporations, academic and research institutions, and the defense industry, meanwhile ham radio is more or less still stuck in a bygone era, slowly coming to the present time through grassroots innovations in software defined radio technologies, the free and open source codec2, extremely robust synchronous digital modulations for shortwave channels, which are slowly starting to be recognized by the mainstream.

We don't have the kinds of technologies in a ham radio that we take for granted in our cell phone - yet - and bringing ham radio up to speed really hasn't been a priority of its licensees since a lot of them are members of the aforementioned industries who take pleasure in antiquated pastimes, not unlike maintaining and restoring historic vehicles. Younger people don't have really have a good reason to join, and several are led astray by the large gap in age. I got in it at 15, and since it gave me a lot of technical background, it led me to a career. Now in my 20's, I'm finding less interest in it seeing it's basically a bunch of people exchanging names over the air, and sending proof of that exchange over the internet. A lot of youth cannot fathom why you need the radio when you have the internet already. There are a million more facets to ham radio than that, but it's hard to see the forest through the trees.

A lot of the advances in ham radio merely tacks on a previous invention to the face of the service, such as this one. It's pretty cool, nobody has done it before and it might be a worthwhile and noble task to apply it to other forms of radio communication, but it - and other recent innovations - kind of lacks the "wow" factor ham radio needs to resurrect itself from it's path to obsolescence.
The computer hardware market is pretty different from the video game market. Video games tend to be much more reliant on pre-orders and the first few weeks of sales, while computer hardware is subject to seasonal fluctuations but otherwise maintains strong ongoing sales throughout the product cycle. Games are also much less amenable to objective comparative analysis.

In the computer hardware world, a review embargo that coincides with the product hitting the shelves does not carry any negative connotations about expectations for the product's reception.
Actually, Apple collects plenty of information. They collect app usage statistics, one of the reason why they banned collecting that type of information from third party apps is because Google and Apple have monopolies over that extremely valuable data. Being able to see trends in app usage, who's getting user engagement, is huge. No, your contact details aren't that interesting to them. But your life is still interesting in figuring out how to direct their products. Don't be fooled just because they aren't sticking ads in your face.
I work for netlify. We support 2FA on any tier, since you can auth via git provider and require 2FA there.

We presently don't support REQUIRED 2FA (you can also set a password) under the enterprise account level, since that's what enables SSO using a SAML-based identity provider and enforcing those limits there.
Microsoft begins re-releasing Windows 10 October update
3D printed spaceman sent to space in model Tesla Roadster
Dude, it’s a profitable farm. The only main difference is how they allocate ownership and organise labour. Your criticism applies equally to all farms.
The question is not their ethics, it is whether their bosses would let them do it.
As I understand it, from reading this page it doesn't actually matter much how secure the sandbox is as many applications effectively disable it.
Eh, the slow travel still has lots of issues.

You have to travel with a massive amount of mass. Space is really dangerous. There are high energy particles that want to mess up your 'ship'. Even worse things like neutral hydrogen are hard to block with energy style shields. Then you have the issues of long times without high gravity. Then you have to carry enough 'stuff' and energy to recycle absolutely everything you need, ever.
Rancher Labs Releases Rancher 2.1
They use a lot of similar techniques. One big difference is that docker uses user namespaces and flatpak does not. I'n not sure about the reasoning, but it's probably a combo of "not trusting user namespaces" (disagree) and user namespaces requiring privileges to use.

It sounds like the bigger issue isn't that the underlying technologies are fundamentally better or worse, but that the de facto configurations are worse. In particular, the median docker container can not write to my home directory. The median flatpak can.

Despite the ordering, the "no updates" seems like a way worse issue than the "most of the sandboxing is ineffective". It seems pretty clear to me that a lot of apps need wide access and the first person who does a great job at that will do us all a big security favor but we're not there yet in terms of UX. Sometimes I really want my text editor to edit my bashrc. Maybe that should require a privilege escalation, that's fine.
As you can see from the SO question that was posted as a comment, I am running the TF Docker image and figured that it must be an internal domain - I didn't realize this was a thing, but on deeper reflection, since blog.google evidences custom TLDs (ccTLDs iirc) I'm a bit confused why everyone can't have their own TLD and be able to run their own internal networks. Guessed it was related to Google's internal domain(s). How does one establish your own TLD domain? Can you just make it happen yourself without paying anyone else? I mean after all I have all these computers that are sitting unused, it seems technically feasible to deploy my own network and write adapters to make it just compatible enough with the rest of the Internet to get what I need in terms of information
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Apple Dramatically Reduced Multi-Billion-Dollar iPhone Repair Fraud in China
TLS with GKE with BYO cert isn't very clear I agree. It's basically in Kubernetes Ingress docs: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/ingr... For GKE specific features, multiple-certs per Ingress explained here: https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/how-to/ingre..., and LetsEncrypt here: https://github.com/ahmetb/gke-letsencrypt

If you use GKE ingress, you can access end-user IP in X-Forwarded-For header.
You’re only half-right. It’s true that hunter-gatherer societies are traditionally much egalitarian than agricultural ones, but this does not apply to pastoral nomads, which is what the Bakhtiari, and other well-known nomads like the Bedouin, are. Nomads and hunter-gatherers aren’t the same thing and their societies look pretty different: nomads are about as patriarchal as you’d expect of traditional tribes.