skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds, in fact, like he had the story he wanted to tell, and then came up with the story to tell it.
From their paper, it seems you can write a 'style' file for anything you can possibly want. Users then write the declarative code you see which Penrose interprets with respect to that 'style' file to know what to actually do.
Nail on the head. Nice McKenna quote
Sort of, but if you live in one of these towns and something expensive that the university can opt out of is wrong then the city can end up subsidizing the university as the local populace is held hostage by monied interests. Assume that the city water quality is poor and there are 5k students and 7k residents, if the residents can be sated safely off of wells but to support 12k people the city would need a desalination plant then will the university shoulder that full cost? What portion should they be on the hook for?

It's a complicated question but in today's world likely the answer is that the university will threaten to remove all their tax paying and the city will shoulder the burden entirely themselves.
Hmm, Computer science isn't a science either, so what?
Do they come with a time machine?
I usually get a spare phone from the repair shop.
Google+ Security bugs – We reveal others company bugs publicly, but not our own
As far as we know there is no plan to make money. It has been founded and funded by a French billionaire who did not like the way traditional high education works.

I am personally really happy with the program, I started 3 years ago and there are so many different projects and different paths you can choose that I am planning on staying there for some time
the standard is pretty clear and give options to make a cheap or expensive product.

the shock is that apple and samsung both decide to make very expensive products, that implements the "cheap" options as a way to lock consumers. ...and there is a fool born every second, as the saying goes.

did samsung had to omit the ADC in their dongle? no. did apple had to omit the other bus protocols in theirs? no. their price and volume could have literally made the dongles cheaper with all the features. but doing so lock all the fools in for upgrades and prevent brand move.
This might explain why Apple hasn't released any new Mac Minis recently.
Such views can also be provided by userspace filesystems (fuse, coda, nfs, 9p, etc).

I have a fuse filesystem that shows different users different views of the filesystem, as a basic example.
I don't understand your question. This and LaTeX are completely different applications for completely different purposes
Surely the notch is necessary if you want the screen to cover the rest of the face of the phone, otherwise where does the front facing camera go?
Well all deployment aspects equal, I suppose it's the performance. ~200ms to first paint in the browser is pretty hard to beat.
I doubt they really care at the end of the day. My Instagram username is three letters and I (used to) get 4-5 reset emails a day prior to turning on 2FA. I also frequently get asked if I want to sell the name. I'm just worried someone will get in and take it.
Yuan Lending Rate Surges as China Struggles to Stem Currency’s Slide
Every RJ45 jack ("Ethernet connector") I've seen used in modern networking hardware has a metal case for EMI shielding.

Where would one acquire these metal RJ45 jacks? The ones I have are all plastic (usually clear), with the exception of the small (copper?) metal wires that transmit the signals. I am in fact looking at one right now on my desk and it's definitely not metal shielded.
Sad from the perspective of pretty pictures providing 5 sec of entertainment for Bay Area interested parties making 100k+ per year.

Not from the perspective of the starving, abused people that choose a better life, no longer at the mercy of uncaring mother nature.

(cue someone coming in here pointing out how their privacy and nature walks far exceed anything they have in the Bay Area, and how natural living is the highest goal of all who live and breathe)
There are many answers to this question. Sometimes you can be certain of what you synthesized based on observations about the reaction process, including heat absorbed or emitted. Sometimes you can put the compound in a solution with other known quantities and react them to identifiable products. You can run the compound through a series of different tests which collectively confirm that you've synthesized it. Spectral analysis can play a role. Chromatography. In extreme cases, you might bombard it with radiation and interpret the scattering pattern.

The kind of device that would function as a reusable detector for small amounts of the substance floating freely in the air, while useful for measuring air pollution, is rarely used when researching how to synthesize new compounds.
This is what happens when you try escape "dependency hell" by turning the host into a composition of hosts-per-application.

Now you have a clusterfuck of dependency islands which all need updating and have their own unique sets of CVEs and upstream release schedules and policies.

It's not really flatpak-specific, this is the reality of containers (in the image/rootfs software distribution sense, not namespaces+cgroups) in general.
Having gone through a couple pairs of the Bose QC35, I am currently happy with the Sennheiser PXC 550. The noise cancellation is comparable and I feel like the sound quality is just a tiny bit better.

But perhaps the best part is they protrude less than the Bose, making it easier to listen while lying down.
So it's a certification issue, not a technology one as the OP said? I wouldn't be surprised if it has something to do with e.g. security clearances of employees.
> Then, there is nothing stopping them from working around or disabling it at anytime.

Sure. But I think there's a bit of false dichotomy in this comment: you're either free or addicted with no control. There's a whole spectrum of behaviours. I do sometimes sink more time than I'd like into some service, and blocker apps solve that issue for me. Even a reminder: "do you really want to do this" would be enough in some cases. People I know have also been happy with a Facebook app blocker that monitors usage time.

You can uninstall all of that, but none of the people I'm taking about are completely out of control - just want to improve our lives.

If someone's literally addicted with no self control, that's a completely different issue though.
I think the reference is to the fact that on Windows you download some random .exe installer from some place on the internet and trust it, rather than selecting a signed package from a trusted repository that gets automatically updated. Should have been "download it, drag it to your desktop, and install it".
Saudi Aramco is somewhere in the 1.2-2T area:
https://www.bloomberg.com/gadfly/articles/2018-04-13/saudi-a...
Interesting, in America both the red and blue parties are right wing, one is just much more extreme.
I think it was the CEO of OnePlus [1].

https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/28/17152840/oneplus-6-notch-...
How  N.J. Transit Admits That It’s Failing
What we lose by reading 100,000 words every day
The median nationwide value of a home is largely irrelevant -- the problem were select inflated markets, and the deflation to the median is exactly what precipitated the problem. Markets like Dallas or NYC or San Francisco account for many billions in debt. Further we know that the real cause of the crash wasn't just those bad loans, but outrageous bets the big players made on them (effective multipliers).

I'm neither selling the doom scenario or not, but a lot of what you wrote has to be evaluated under the reality that the US has historically low interest rates, which are just finally starting to edge up. This despite full employment and a roaring economy. And despite all of that (those completely atypical rates being used to make long term commitments), mortgage delinquency remains higher than it was at the outset of the housing crash.
Yeah, in this case it was "Almighty".
I come down firmly on the side of allowing people with late stage dementia to think things that may be untrue but nonetheless make them happy.

If a patient is incapable of remembering that their beloved spouse is dead, it's simply unkind to insist on making them relive the death trauma over and over again when doing so has no effect on what they can remember ten minutes from now.
Whenever I go camping, I'm always glad to come home again.
The part where they say it's a sandbox, and it doesn't even attempt to be a sandbox. That's a lie.
I believe we are coming to a time where we will stop seeing languages as monoliths and we will name language subsets as first class citizens of our namespace.

I personally program often in a strict subset of JavaScript. Liberals, function declarations, and function calls only. Of course I can’t do everything in this space. But many projects are just fine. Most code, at least code that’s pretty close to human-relevant vocabulary) is just names and calls when it’s truly properly refactoreded.

Unfortunately this becomes untenable when I try to use third party packages. Almost all packages expose APIs in the most advanced sections of language syntax... promises, big rich configuration trees, weird chainable DSLs, objects, etc.

So to work with a language subset you need to be able to carve out a namespace within your package management ecosystem. Essentially a fork of the namespace, with people able to “take over” the package and port it to the subset.

In your case this would mean a subset of Scala with strict controls on composeability with the existing primitives.

And you’d port at least high level scala packages to that API space.
> 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.

How about the promise of future prosperity for whatever your group was, having a whole planets resources at your disposal? If we look at human history it's full of mass migrations, the colonization of the new world (original and 16th century) and the migration period (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Migration_Period) come to mind. These weren't just a few thrill seekers but hundreds of thousands/millions of people.
Ask HN: Non-commercial technology news
Are there any sites or publications left that emphasize technology ideas, theory, or experimentation? I don't have any more interest in funding, consumer products, or industry gossip.
Apollo 7: NASA’s First “Mini-Mutiny” in Space
If you have enough patience you can usually just wait for an edition to come out with all the dlc bundled. (if the game is suitably popular)
SELinux labels users and domain transitions, so it's "technically" possible to do so, but I see that incredibly rarely.

I don't think AppArmor has such a facility. It wouldn't make sense, given that AppArmor doesn't know these things like SELinux would.
> The (long) goal of flatpak is that the user would never download and execute from the browser

Just to be clear; the "download" model I was describing is not "download and execute the actual app from the browser", it is "download and execute an installer from the browser". Then either clicking on the installer or dragging it somewhere (on Macs it used to be dragging to the desktop, but I haven't used Macs for several OS X versions now) starts the installer.

> everything is updated through the flatpak repos (like the PPAs for .deb)

This I would have no problem with; I would be able judge whether I trust their PPA the same way I judge any other third party PPA (or the distro itself, for that matter). And the update would be through the normal mechanism I use to update everything on my system, which has well-tested security measures built into it.

> but with the addition that the apps are sandboxed and follow a runtime model for dependency instead of packaging everything or depending on other packages.

I understand the benefits of this as far as fixing dependency hell. But it doesn't seem like the sandboxing part works as advertised.

> Basically the goal is to have something like on Android or IOS

I'm not sure this is a good way to phrase the comparison since it implies not just sandboxing/packaging, but an app store curated by a large corporation whose interests don't align with mine, various broken permissions models, etc.
Well I did say 1-2h in the GP.
Isn't is partially an issue of oversaturation? If I search for an app/website blocker, I'll find lots of different, free solutions. (Both apps and browser plugins) I'm using the same ones for a few years now. If anyone new joins that segment, how would they get popular?
Not that you're wrong, but doing anything while driving, besides driving, is a health hazard, so I'm not sure that's a great example.
Yes, this is what I was referring to. Sorry for my unclear phrasing.
Sure, but its also a big sacrifice that is a larger sacrifice than, say, moving to another state. Sure, people do it, but it's expensive, time consuming, disruptive, and stressful. And there are additional financial implications such as currency exchange and repaying debts (if you care about your old credit rating) in a different currency, along with transmitting money across borders. Not everyone can just cash out debts.

So yeah, it's possible, but it is no walk in the park.
But they have not hired a team of 300 engineers to notify the government of the use of the emoji. Apple still uses the Secure Enclave in the iPhone in China. Apple still end-to-end encrypts most data sent to iCloud with the Enclave.

Google and Apple's products here are so disparate in how they infringe on user privacy that the comparison isn't even warranted.
Might be possible, but you can’t really advertise the latest LG vacuum cleaner on a cereal box, while on a billboard anything goes.
What features were "worth upgrading for" for you?
I just dont think its economically efficient. It would seem like a huge waste of talent and potential.
I didn't agree with you at first, but after seeing the painting out of its frame, I think you are right: https://1fuzz.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/art-owner-shred...
Quite a bit of data in iCloud is E2E encrypted with device-based Secure Enclave. This doesn't seem like much of an issue.
Parent was talking about Debian upstream patches making it into his platform of choice; in this case RHEL/CentOS.

That requires paid/volunteer package maintainers.
A World Without Sherlock Holmes
What do you then do when they upgrade/change the Quad SPI IC? A separate chip means a stable interface they can conform to.
Merging a Hasselblad 500C/M and a FujiFilm Instax 9
I agree there's a ton of software out there that wants you to install it this way, not just on Linux but on any OS. My point is simply that I, as a user, am never going to use software that wants me to install it this way. The extra work involved in setting up secure distribution is a feature, not a bug.
Man I'd like to hear more of that.
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Open source doesn't ensure it'll even build against new compilers, libs, language runtime, and all the other stuff we're reinventing all the time to keep the hamster wheel spinning. What open source desktop apps are you using that need sandboxing anyway all of the sudden? GIMP, Inkscape, Audacity? Come on.
Really easy to use, I personally don't need anything more than they offer
Sure, so BFG/filter-branch/rebase on a NEW branch, that can't affect existing developers, then automate cherry-picking `master` <=> `new-master`, get all developers to switch at their own pace...

Good point on log/blame/annotate.
I've read bits of it, trying to accomplish specific things. I always feel like I'm missing some foundational LaTeX knowledge, and it slows me down. Is there a good intro/manual for LaTeX that might help me there?
Maybe it's about time we break backwards compatibility and get rid of all dotfiles in ~ and move them to say .local/share/software_name and then start restricting access to those folders?
not knowing a term is not a good reflection of their ability.
>The chance of salmonella in a dozen eggs is quite low. The chance of it in 300+ eggs is quite a bit more - even with impeccable personal cleanliness. Likewise, if I got a bit of salmonella in something I made, it would affect me and my wife - which would be unfortunate but, that's it.

Eggs are the only food that fits this narrative, and they are only (very rarely) dangerous if eaten raw. I would be more concerned about eating eggs from a holiday inn breakfast buffet.

>I also know that I wash my hands, and I sanitize every cooking surface in my kitchen daily (or more often).

I've never sanitized my cooking surface. I was taught to use vinegar as a cleaner and have never had issues (it's not a disinfectant). I haven't even had a cold in three years.

>One of the things I do is infuse alcohols, often in bulk for gifts. When I do this, my sanitation protocol actually changes - I pre-sanitize every vessel using bleach, and I often times do wear gloves if I'm touching anything directly.

A few of the things I do are brew beer, wine, kombucha, ferment vegetables, etc. I, too, used to use sanitize all of my bottles and containers. I then read The Art of Fermentation and realized that everything I was doing was moot. Lactic acid bacteria and yeasts do an excellent job of preservation, provided you give them a nurturing environment to thrive in.

>Consider this: If you had a small cut on your hand, would you wear gloves before making yourself lunch? What if it was a stranger with a cough making your lunch, would you want them to wear gloves?

The commune deserves more credit. People who abandon everything to live in a commune take personal interest in caring for one another. You're more likely to pick up something from a stranger with a cough at a restaurant, who didn't call in sick because they're still late on last month's phone bill, than someone at a commune - who could just ask another member to fill in. Keep in mind this is how society was for a long time.
> Being as dispassionate as possible

Perhaps this is the issue? I know many of us software engineers hate to hear this, but... not everything can be rationalized down to cold, hard algorithms.

Most reasonable people with a shred of empathy would gladly ban censorship in China but also ban Alex Jones. Why? Because empathy tells us what is right and what is wrong.

Empathy is required to make many decisions, and ridding yourself of it in an effort to become more dispassionate does not always make you more correct.
This feels like someone discovered that multitasking doesn't really work (some studies show it causes brain damage). I've grown to hate multitasking. Do not try to design your project while building it. Do not try to understand what it is supposed to do while debugging it. Separate all things, focus on them individually. I've found without effort it is easy to find yourself working on several tasks at the same time that would each be completed much faster if focused on one at a time.
Count me skeptical. The two industries that a smalltown college supports are landlording and beer bars. Neither offer skilled employment for the townsfolk, and there's an incentive for the local politicians to be "business-friendly", i.e. anti-student and pro-landowner. Not a good combination, especially if the landowner lives out of town.
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This is why I advocate both 1. Not tying anything important to you to access to an online account that you don’t host yourself, and 2. Not spending money on digital goods that require further permission from a company to use.

People look at me like I’m wearing tin foil, yet these things keep happening where someone’s account gets suspended or they lose access to $1000 of “purchased” digital goods, and they act all surprised that this could happen!

If it’s not on your computer it’s not yours. And even if it is on your computer, but you need to activate it, it’s still not yours. Don’t complain when your access suddenly gets revoked—you should know better by now.
A similar situation to eating too much. You have to eat and so many events include food. Eliminating it from your life as a way to stem the over use is not practical.
Looq, the next Prisma is here
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Random Brave annoyance: when I look at the Mozilla form 990 in Brave, it prompts me to download the PDF. When I look at it in Chrome, in views it inline. I'm fairly certain Brave is capable of viewing PDFs inline; I could swear I've had some load. What gives?

https://static.mozilla.com/moco/en-US/pdf/2014_Mozilla_Found...
In general this is what class action suits are for. If a bunch of plaintiffs each suffer small losses they can join together to sue a defendant, whereas it wouldn't have been practical for any single plaintiff to sue individually.

In this particular case Verizon may well have put some weasel words in the contract you agreed to that allowed them to take away what you paid for.
> Housing is extremely affordable.

Is there data for this? I spent a good chunk of my life in a mid-sized college town in the south, and last I checked the average home values there are eclipsing $400K.

Just some data points, pulling median home values in some college towns across the US off the top of my head:

Davis, CA: $641,500

Charlottesville, VA: $412,700

Chapel Hill, NC: $449,980

State College, PA: $316,600

Williamsburg, VA: $303,400

Berkeley, CA: $1,281,900

Wellesley, MA: $1,267,600

Davidson, NC: $360,000

Ann Arbor, MI: $360,300

Some of these aren't too bad, but I don't think they fall into the category of extremely affordable. Professors and doctors and all the folks associated with Colleges and Universities make enough money to drive up home prices!
Hey, I'm a user at destinysets! I really love what you've done with the platform. The experience is a lot faster than some of the other tools out there.

I'm also a very happy Netlify user. Their product seems years ahead of other tools. My favorite thing is that you can now manage DNS and generate SSL for all domains with a single click. Perfect for static sites, SPAs, etc.
This happened to me as well with Uber. They use SMS 2FA and didn't provide any backups. I left my phone in an Uber and I couldn't log into my account to notify the driver because 2FA was in place. I also couldn't contact Uber about the issue because they try as hard as possible not to provide customer service mechanisms for people to leverage.

At the end of the day I had to use another friend's Uber account to contact Uber and explain the situation. They disabled 2FA and let me back into my account. I suppose Uber could validate the GPS position of the driver and my phone and use that to validate my story, but I doubt they went through all that trouble :(
The developers are employed by Red Hat, but that does not make this a Red Hat endorsed product. It is not included in the current offering of RHEL and unlikely would be in a new(er) version as the technology is immature/not well enough tests d/proven yet for inclusion within EL. I call the usage of 'Red Hat' here clickbait and sensationalism as there is no indication within the text that shows the aforementioned non-existence of endorsement or inclusion.

Note: the engineers working on Flatpak and both friends and colleagues of mine. Just concerned that the author misrepresents our employers viewpoint. We are allowed to work on side projects, but that does not make them default inclusions or endorsed.
Instagram now supports third-party authentication apps on Android
LG flagships have a notch, but are great otherwise. I'd argue their notch came first with the LG V10 and V20, but they were bigger and allowed you to use the rest of the screen as a 'second screen' which is what it is marketed as.