skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's paywalled, so I'm working off the title, but I honestly would have to say not unless we reverse course on quite a few issues.

First, the incredibly pernicious idea of "Intellectual Property" will put the brakes on any kind of innovation. Arguably, California's loose "Intellectual Property" attitudes and laws led to the ultimate success of Silicon Valley, just as the stricter laws and attitudes of Michigan and Massachusets led to declines in high tech industries there.

Second, the US has prospered in the past by allowing immigration of engineers, scientists and promising foreign students. "Build the wall" is hardly going to encourage that sort of thing.

Third, we're going to have to allow some competition in markets, even if it means displacing old favorite incumbents. I know "anti-trust" has gotten a bad name since the Reagan Years, but well, evidence is piling up that consolidation is not that great for innovation.

Fourth, our elite classes seem to be turning against higher education: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/imagine-a-world-with... This does not bode well for "high" tech, maybe tinkering and fields where theory doesn't lead practice. Unfortunately, high tech is not one of those areas.
Sorry if I'm misunderstanding: Lenovo T420 is a laptop, a Thinkpad that's about 2.5 kilos, and doesn't have a touch screen.

I like my T420 a lot, especially the build, keyboard, screen, general familiarity. I've used it for 7 years (i7, replaced the original HDD with an SDD a while ago, replaced the battery too).

But a T420 is far different than a tablet with a touchscreen that weighs a few hundred grams.
https://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/study/NCT03430037

https://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/study/NCT03675724
That's brutal. That said, you're not necessarily contradicting the OP. They were talking about cities demanding helmets via helmet laws.

Whereas you (I think) are recommending individuals use helmets, and also bicycle infrastructure.

OP isn't saying it's bad for an individual to wear a helmet. They're saying it's a bad requirement, because making helmets required will take marginal cyclists off the road. And fewer cyclists leads to more accidents like the ones you had, because drivers aren't used to cyclists.
What’s wrong with 15 yo taxis as long as they are compatible with emission regulations? If they work fine, we should encourage long term cars usage and repairs instead of throwing them away after 5 years.
I often end up doing that, but it feels “dirty”, you know?

And I also underestimate how long-lived my report will be, and get stuck having to move those sideline calculations out of the way when I need to refresh the pivot (“This will overwrite existing data.”)

Which brings up another gripe: why can’t the Pivot allow me to push those rows or columns down/over instead of clobbering them?
>Contrast that with Linux (Ubuntu distro in mind) where updates happen when the computer is shutting down.

Since when?
> “It's very relevant.”

No, it is not relevant.

> “This is called life; you don't control the Universe.”

This too is not relevant.

> “About 90% of Americans enjoy their work on some level [1], and about 50% are 'very satisfied' (58% for folks with Uni)”

This is not compatible with either common sense observation nor other hard data such as [1] - [5] below. I utterly do not believe 90% of Americans enjoy their work on some level, even after reading the citation you gave and reflecting on it. That just doesn’t comport with vast other data on the topic.

> “'The system' is pretty good, better than it's ever been, even massively better than it was maybe only three generations ago when most of us were on farms, mines or factories.”

This also seems irrelevant. Just because a very bad thing is perhaps better than it used to be doesn’t make it good, neutral or undeserving of focused skepticism.

> “Given that the vast majority of folks are generally satisfied with their jobs”

They aren’t, and this point invalidates your perspective in your reply as far as I can tell.

[1]: https://news.gallup.com/poll/165269/worldwide-employees-enga...

[2]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-21/people-st...

[3]: https://www.fool.com/careers/2017/06/12/hate-your-job-clearl...

[4]: https://qz.com/375353/half-of-us-workers-have-left-a-job-bec...

[5]: http://scienceblogs.com/retrospectacle/2007/04/19/americans-...

The summary among all these is that somewhere between 50% and 85% of Americans “hate their jobs” and only around 13% of employees are engaged in their work (not mentally checked out).

Given the breadth and consistently large effect sizes seen in the numbers reporting they hate their jobs, I simply do not believe the lone YouGov survey with contradictory results has an appropriate methodology.
A person who's been writing the same type of inflammatory articles for 30 years is suddenly fired, while an article he wrote recently blasting 5G is completely replaced by a new article favorable to 5G... I think you're using Hanlan's Razor to cut in the wrong direction this time.
I think it would. A lot of people on Patreon have a very simple model: you pay to get access to the highest quality version of the thing and you get access before everyone else.

To give an example, I support a singer that puts out a few songs every month. When she publishes something she includes the wav and a link to the unlisted YouTube video. Then a few weeks later she makes the video public and she puts up her song everywhere.

After following her for a while on YouTube I eventually became a supporter because I want her to continue making great music.
I remember a memorable comment here that went something like "Windows updates are like vaccinations that have a high chance of making you blind, grow an extra ear, or turn your skin green."

Besides, if you look at what sorts of vulnerabilities they're actually patching, the majority of them require local access anyway; remotely-exploitable-by-default ones (fortunately) tend to be few and far between.
I spent several days walking around Madrid about a decade ago. Compared even to the SF area cars were much less obtrusive. Most street level views were not completely blocked with cars. I as amazed when I got back how even potentially beautiful cityscapes here are cluttered up with cars - as if "used car lot" was our aesthetic ideal.

So I'm really glad to seem them take this even further.
The company I worked for tried to rewrite everything in Java twice.

Both attempts cost millions, both were abandoned.

The lessons (and pain) from the first attempt were ignored because not enough of the upper management were still around, and the only people who remembered the pain were the rank and file, who were ignored by the new upper management types looking to leave their mark on the product.
1m people play the game with no issues. Did you open a support case? Did you open a bug? What’s the ID? Also giving more RAM to Java is a bad thing as GC can cause lag. I run 1.13.1 on an old AMD 2ghz under Windows 7 with a Nvidia cards from 2011 and get 30-90fps. Also runs fine on my 2017 MacBook and on an intel compute stick (i5, 4gb ram, Win10 on a 4K screen). Something else is your issue and you just see it in the game.
5g affecting health isn't crackpot theory?
You should blame your simulation software vendor (which could be yourself, lol). Windows gives software a way to tell, that computer is busy, and if your software did not do that, I am not sure how is this fault of Windows?

Without that, computer might go to sleep, which would happen on any other OS too under default settings.

See https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/api/winbase...
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The ARRL did petition the FCC to drop the symbol rate rules in 2013. It was met with tremendous opposition.

https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/search/filings?proceedings_name=RM-...
Something strange about those names. Can’t put my finger on it...
The open source database vitess is pretty much designed to be a cloud native production mysql and there are helm charts for it (https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/tree/master/helm) an operator based on the the metacontrollers (https://github.com/vitessio/vitess-operator) and a company called planetscale thats making an operator that has even more features then those two (I work for planetscale and have been building our operator )
I don’t understand this comment.

The USA has a strong semiconductor industry. Probably stronger than China’s. China is traditionally not very strong an semiconductor fabrication.

What they are strong at is PCB assembly. Or rather cheap PCB assembly. You can do that in the USA too, it’s just not as cheap.

I’d guess most military stuff is done in the USA of domestic and mostly non-China made parts.
The onus should not be on the user or the user's application to tell the computer "don't do this thing". It should be up to the user whether some thing gets done. The user is supposed to command the computer, not the other way around.
Would this be a better link?

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/04/opinion/ro-khanna-interne...
Interesting! I see that you've decided experts based on sentiment analysis of their comments. How do you decide upon the high quality of information/ news on a topic?
The former is blown out of proportion because the vast majority of vulnerabilities are only locally exploitable, and the rest is mostly "visit shady site in IE with default settings" with a tiny bit of "hackers can own your system if you connect it directly to the Internet and don't do anything other than leave it on." My thoughts on the above are, respectively, "meh", "why would you use IE with default settings" , and "yes I definitely need this fixed." Unfortunately Win10 doesn't give you that choice.
I've found my Lenovo and Alienware laptops to be easily modified. I have the latest Alienware 15 and I can access everything that's important which regular screws. Same for the Lenovo Thinkpad Yoga.
> Do you have any pointers about this?

There are certainly similarities, since they are both military organizations, but at least in my experience, a couple of key differences are:

(1) The equipment the Navy operates is much more complex, so there is more emphasis on technical expertise in the equipment and less emphasis on the kinds of skills that you need in, say, an infantry unit.

(2) Ships at sea are much more self-contained operations than anything the army does. (This is even more true of submarines, which might be out of communication with the rest of the world for days, weeks, or even months at a time.) This affects the workings of ship crews in many ways: for example, the captain of a ship at sea has more of what might be called absolute power than the commander of an army unit. Also, officers standing watch on ships at sea, particularly at night, have a very grave responsibility that doesn't have any obvious counterpart in peacetime in the army. (One illustration of this is the collisions in the Pacific, which show what happens when those watch officers make mistakes.)
Sorry, I was trying to make a joke.

My understanding last time I read about this was that nobody knows why.
A good filter for life seems to be 'if you don't want to be manipulated look for the one with a price' or tldr: 'Don't trust free'.
I always think of Kafka's writing as human logic vs. inscrutable systems, usually some bureaucratic organization. When people want an answer for how to read Kafka, the lack of a simple meaning seems to be the entire point, almost like the challenge of a koan.
We've been using kube2iam for this for a couple of years.

You just create a role give it an assume role policy that allows the node to assume it. Then annotate your pod w/ the role arn. When they make a call to get their instance profile you get the role instead.

It's a little annoying in that your pod code thinks its making a metadata call (which is super super fast), but what is actually happening is kube2iam intercepted that and will make a sts:assumerole call... which takes forever. So people just need to set their timeout a little higher than normal.

https://github.com/jtblin/kube2iam
> google replaced the package manager

Google uses portage: http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/packages/portage

It would make more sense for Google to be using Portage to make/install their binary packages. Emerge and quickpkg can both make binary packages: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Binary_package_guide#Creating_b...
One of the things I love about open source projects is they are almost forced to do this and it works great. Having designs written down and iterated on helps in planning and designing, and helps when its time to make changes. Being able to see why something was done and the arguments at the time can really help prevent people from making the same mistakes twice as they make revisions on a project.
Duet, Hoppy Birthday, Pure Hoppiness, and Nelson were four out of my five favorite beers. I'll keep it short and just say it was crushing watching GF fail over and over again with that merger.

You are also right about West Coast IPA changing after Silva left. They turned it into a DIPA and it wasn't nearly as good. Much sweeter and less balanced.
thanks for the pointers.. passing them on to our UI designer.
Voice control engine that runs fully in the browser using WebAssembly
This is partially true. He did contribute but he was certainly not the only one. He seems to get all of the credit for the hard work of many.
The article was submitted with no date; I commented on the article date.
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If you think about it, it's crazy that personal motorized vehicles are allowed in cities. I mean, with the amount of petty legislation that we endure without thinking about it twice, having those huge noisy and smelly masses of metal moving freely in our streets is a bit insane.
Ok, change my view. Quoting him directly, “I believe that caste has saved Hinduism from disintegration. One of my correspondents suggests that we should abolish the caste system but adopt the class system of Europe, meaning that the idea of hereditary castes should be rejected. I am inclined to think that the law of heredity is an eternal law and any attempt to alter it must lead to utter confusion. Hindus believe in transmigration of the soul and Nature will adjust the balance by degrading a Brahmin if he misbehaves to a lower caste, and upgrading one who lives the life of a Brahmin to a Brahmin in his next life.”

He believes in hereditary inherited caste apartheid. Any wiggle room in his words there?
What terminal theme was that in the screenshot? I saw command icons, so it’s a Mac, but how do you make iterm look like that?
IMO, copyright needs to be much shorter. Once you share something with society, which is the mechanism through which your thing becomes successful, you give up control.

If you publish a great novel, I don't see why I shouldn't be able to write a sequel or short story, as long as I'm not passing myself off as you. For that matter, I don't see why people shouldn't be able to rewrite parts of a story. The original doesn't suddenly go away, it's just been forked. Maybe the fork is better and people enjoy it more. Let the best story win.
Maybe he doesn't need the features, or maybe it is slower
The decrease started after the Democrats took sole control of Congress in January 2007 and accelerated while they were still in total control of Congress and the Presidency.
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Not surprising insofar as we Texans require a little thing called verified identity to vote. I have heard that the majority of those registrations were invalidated because they could not be matched to real people living in Texas cities.
There's a very long pause where they just hang out on screen before saving - it's at least ten seconds. If you tap them you can delete them from that screen.

What's making you accidentally hit the screenshot gesture?
Singular 'they' is not that recent. It's first attested in the 14th century and has been a subject of linguistic peevishness since the 1800s. The idea that 'he' is preferable to 'they' for a person of unknown gender is actually one of those modern inventions like the prohibition of split infinitives.

Also, you should maybe consider an analogy less extreme than _sexual assault_ for people using grammatical constructs you don't prefer.
> Any reasonable voter would interpret “you can fax in your form and mail a copy” to mean that you can do precisely that.

True (and it should be obeyed as written)... but it's also hard to imagine the purpose behind mailing. The fax is already a copy!

Every other circumstance where I've had to mail something in addition to faxing/e-mailing it's always been because the original signature was required. Just using common sense, it wouldn't be surprising if the wording is a mistake where "original" was intended. But hey, unless they fix it, they've got to obey it, right?
Decades of force-feeding users unwanted features has trained them to not install updates. I know most people in my family flat out refuse to update software because they're afraid the developers will have decided to re-do the UI again, or move menu options around, or just break major functionality. So because we, as software engineers/companies, can't resist the urge to keep changing things and doing endless re-designs, end users are trained to not get the vital security updates they need.

As an industry we need to get better. A software update should mean things like "improved performance" and "better security", not "totally different UI" and "20 features nobody wants". If users really want the new shiny, it should be optional.
Nope, just thought that ferrets are cool :)
fixed the flicker, was a Cloudflare rocket script issue
Obama appointees, yes, thanks to discovery pursued by Judicial Watch:

http://www.breitbart.com/irs/2017/03/13/fitton-obama-irs-sca...
It does, actually. Thanks for being so polite with the response and being informative. I've seen comments almost exactly like mine on here get voted up quite a bit so I didn't think anything of it. I do see your point, though. I'll try to avoid it in the future. Thanks again!
A good starting point for someone to make:

youdontneedablockchain.com
Maybe I'm old fashioned, but I think updates should happen when the user commands them to happen, not when the computer (or operating system vendor) decides when they should happen. If the user affirmatively commands the computer to update at a certain time, or on start-up or shutdown, fine. But why are we letting the operating system run the show?
I did set everything to metered. That's how I finally stopped the updates. My point though was that MS doesn't consider very many non-mainstream cases.

One study says nearly 7% of all internet users in the US use a satellite connection. These are slow, and almost always metered. That is a lot of people getting surprise hammering of their connection.
This is mostly why PHP6 wasn't a thing.
That would be a worthwhile activity :) If successful, post URL on HN.
Amazon has had that for a while too, but I just learned about it recently, see [1]. I wonder if this is doing the same thing under the hood, or if it is a competing project within Amazon. Regardless, something like this is sorely needed for making infrastructure changes deployable along with application changes.

1. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/provision-aws-servic...
I can point to one that succeeded quite nicely. Quincy Market in Boston.
I would check to see if you have 32- or 64-bit Java installed. I've seen similar issues (years before 1.13 was a thing) due to 32-bit Java. Install 64-bit and should be good to go.
I am sorry but I will be cynical here. Does the author know how many shit people give about clarifying and planning things these days? Let alone documenting. ZERO.

I worked in many companies scaling from small to huge and in-between and generally the process is the exact opposite. Small minded managers and insecure engineers want to build things as fast as possible thinking this will be their big chance to leave a mark in history. So they implement some crap (not uncommon to even see different teams building the same thing at the same time!!!) with the speed of light. Then 6 months later they keep patching bugs every week! If you ever mention them to slow down or try to find a working example before building or at least organize the work let's say by starting to explore the problem domain they would just bully you into oblivion...

Case in point: Facebook. 'Move Fast and Break Things'

One thing I learned is that being successful in an IT engineering company in the 21st century is let the idiots do their idiotic ways and concentrate on my work and if they propose stupid things than let be it. Politics are always stronger then engineering considerations.

Maybe Uber got it right from the beginning, I cannot confirm that claim. But I am very skeptical that any established organization would change in this direction proposed by the author.
I am the technical lead of the CII best practices badge, so ask me anything!

I'm not sure what the point of the poster was. You can see the projects with "passing" or better here, and there are over 200:
https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/en/projects?gte...

There are very few projects with gold, sure, but gold is a more recent badge level and it's pretty hard to get. In addition, we've been emphasizing helping projects get the "passing" badge, and we have so far spent less time encouraging projects to work on higher level badges (silver or gold). Most projects working on higher level badges tend to work on them slowly, instead of trying to get it all at once anyway.

I think a more telling chart is the steady increase in the number of participating projects:
https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/en/project_stat...

If you are involved in an open source project, I would encourage you to get a badge. Go here for more:
https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/
The good news is that the back glass price should change here in the next few weeks. I run independent repair shops (not affiliated with Apple) and literally today we did our first test on a new back glass removal tool we bought. We successfully removed the back glass on an iPhone 8 housing we purchased broken.

These devices just hit the US a few days ago, so give it a few weeks and I would expect independent shops to offer back glass replacement in the $99-$149 range.

This is also why Right to Repair is so important. These tools are not built or sanctioned by Apple, but the demand is there, so third parties build, test, and verify them to help reduce prices for iPhone owners like you.
For those missing context, both copyright extension and FOSTA 'reign in the internet' are Hollywood.

When the US dropped TPP, Canada took up leadership of the process as CPTPP. TPP was called two treaties in one, though not often in the US press. Canada kept the free trade part, and "postponed" the Hollywood copyright, pharma patents, and corporate ISDS. But what's the point of being a hegemon if you can't provide one-stop shopping for arm-twisted world-wide regulatory capture?
Been pining over a SDR and that (well, TFA really) got me looking into renewing my license I let expire last year, luckily there's a 2-year grace period so all's not lost.

Also been wanting to play with some 70cm transceiver chips I got a while back off ebay but never really messed with.
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Here's her original article:

https://medium.com/s/the-big-disruption/why-i-left-my-big-fa...

It was posted on HN but didn't get much attention:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18155961