skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ive always truly believed that gullibility was one of humanity’s biggest, most exploitable weaknesses, if not the biggest. You can fake your way into almost anything with confidence and basic acting. I’m reminded of the folk wisdom about simply holding a clipboard and acting like you belong can get you into private areas of 90% of companies. All the fraud people fall for, all the scams, obvious phishing, you’d think we’d start educating people to be more skeptical/cynical but it keeps happening.

When I was much, much younger back in the 90s and obsessed with video games, I faked my way into one of the major industry gatherings which I won’t name, simply by pretending to be a “games journalist” and acting the part. A pack of fun looking business cards, a fake web site, and a cheap silk shirt was all it took. It’s incedible what people believe if you don’t break the air of sincerity. This was a harmless prank, but I can see how tempting it is to use this power for evil, and it’s evidenced by the fact that so much fraud continues to be successful.

How, besides education, do we turn off this trust-by-default gene? It’s really an evolutionary dead end.
And while I'm at it, how can he tell when an email is sent from the domain he's watching? That wouldn't be possible just from being able to see DNS traffic, would it?
> Caret is at least as good as Scikit-learn for general-purpose machine learning

Oh how I wish this was true! Luckily RStudio hired the author of Caret to develop a family of smaller tidy modeling packages (https://github.com/tidymodels), and with recipes we're finally close to having something like sklearn's Pipelines, which IMO is one of the best parts of sklearn.
> I've yet to see any third party lawyer make a claim otherwise.

You still don't get it. There is no disagreement in matters of law. Eric Lundgren even pleaded guilty to counterfeiting Dell restore discs. The only question that Microsoft was involved was how hard the punishment should be, because that is based on the value of the pirated goods.

Given that the restore disc images can be freely downloaded from the Internet and burned to disc by anyone, their value is negligible. Microsoft however lied to the court by saying that the value of the software on the restore discs is the same $25 as the value of the software and the refurbisher license. Nevermind that you need a valid license key to successfully install and activate Windows which didn't come with the restore disc.

And the court believed Microsoft's lies, and calculated the damages and prison term based on them. And this is why I stand by my original statement that Microsoft was "Having a man sent to prison for making Windows Restore DVDs from ISO images that you could download freely from the Internet"

And if you even in the face of the facts still claim that it is non-sense, then I am sorry to say: It is you who denies reality and parrots Microsoft apologism.
Which is about 25 days, or roughly a month, either of which would make a better title. I read the article hoping to discover how they ran a test that was 60 years long...
Hmmm...I am really confused...why it has been downvoted?
No, I worked with Ann Marie to get this published, we do not pay our writers. I'm actually surprised she didn't need to put the IBM disclaimer on it ;) But this is her sharing some best practices from her team.
Everything to know about the Google Assistant on our new family of hardware
John Young!
How is a preference for hiring women not discrimination against men?

Would a preference for hiring men be discrimination against women?
That's fair--I'm definitely looking forward to when it's added, since it will make putting up quick prototypes with R very convenient!
Thanks, didn't remember that.
works when compiled with -no-pie on xubuntu 18.04
Also don't underestimate our willingness to try and make our inbox stuff better - it just takes a lot of time to add new features without breaking some back-compat. We're hard at work improving conhost every day :)
Getting started with Minikube: Kubernetes on your laptop
Maybe we need progressive pricing?
absolutely brilliant. and sad, at least the part where people are being led blindfolded
that's exactly what i thought -- getting a "promotion packet" is absurd. your promotion packet should be the job you have been doing all year long.

then again, i hate office politics and i cannot see myself getting to close to this kind of big-company.
Your misusing terms. You are using the term refurbished but you really mean remanufactured.

Remanufacturing is the rebuilding of a product to specifications of the original manufactured product using a combination of reused, repaired and new parts. It requires the repair or replacement of worn out or obsolete components and modules.

Remanufacturing is a form of a product recovery process that differs from other recovery processes in its completeness: a remanufactured part should match the same customer expectation as new machines.
Apple's M&A is one of the best - they scoop up companies for a lot lesser than other giants, and the acquisition impact is typically higher than at other companies.

For instance, capacitive touch & gestures like pinch to zoom that setup modern smartphones for success was an acquisition of just $50M of Fingerworks!
While Mach 3.0 was designed to be a microkernel, macOS doesn't actually use it as one. The entire kernel, called XNU, runs in kernel mode, just like Linux.

The macOS kernel had a reputation for sluggishness back in its early days, due (to the best of my understanding) due to the sluggishness of Mach messaging, which is how Mach implements system calls to the kernel. macOS also supports BSD syscalls, and Apple has apparently done enough optimization here that it's now roughly on par with Linux.

Around 2006, Apple did have an internal, experimental version of macOS ("Darbat") which ran Mach on top of the L4 microkernel, but this project was canceled, for whatever reason.
>Personally I'm very impressed with the reliability of the Soyuz system.

I was surprised to learn that the abort was performed manually by the Cosmonaut and that it happened after the escape tower had been jettison. They apparently used the "RUS" system that is using thrusters on the fairing.
Circular graphs are perfectly possible to detect and manage compile time. It just takes a massively not complex borrow checker to run full dependency analysis to find where and if the cycle is broken or the whole thing released.

Checking for graph cycle is elementary CS - planning the entry/exit nodes is not. It is similar to link time optimization to implement.
No mention of NuxtJS in the article or in the comments here. I highly suggest checking out nuxtjs.org (built on Vue) with the `npm run generate` command to generate a static site.
If you give those to wikileaks, they will publish them, I’m sure. So go ahead!
Link Shell Extensions

http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/linkshellextensi...
Recently was reading the blog of the team upgrading conhost. On it they joke several times that the developers doing the work were not even born yet.

Well, this is the kind of thing that happens when your whole team is interns and the "senior" is 28.

Reading the associated bugs on github I also learned that there were lots of complaints about the new console, not on features, but breaking compatibility that is. Guess no one thought to start a new project, rather than changing a 30 year-old one that hadn't been touched in 20.

TL;DR: At least one codger is needed on teams doing this kind of work to give perspective.
How do you preserve Abrams building capacity without building new tanks?
Thanks! I think a unification of OT and CRDT is a very promising space, both for practical implementation and for deeper academic understanding. To be honest, I only skimmed the posted paper, but it didn't grab my attention. It's very difficult these days for me to motivate spending time in this space.
unlikely imo. rubisco has been studied intensely for decades without making much headway. furthermore, the evolutionary pressure for an improved rubisco is so immense that if it were possible we'd probably see it in nature.
Oh yeah, i've had a cutting i've been meaning to plant for about 18 months now in a teacup.
If by 'older posts' you mean early 2000's and prior, the open source Lisps weren't as many or as good as they are today. CCL is open source (back then it was closed source under the MCL banner), SBCL didn't exist in it's current form (that was announced in 1999) etc. In general, each decade back you go, think of whatever open source software that even existed as being significantly less powerful, performant and buggier. Many open source projects (esp. the GUI applications) started life as bad imitations of not much better commercial software vs. what you're used to seeing today. And to top it off, you were running it on radically less powerful hardware (in the early 90's you could still watch windows on the screen being redrawn on 'high end' hardware) so any software performance issues you had were magnified by the systems you were running on.
Here's a screenshot of their lowres public telemetry stream dated back to 2009 (Eutelsat W7, if I remember correctly). [0] Unfortunately I don't have any screenshots or recordings of the by-request one, but it had tons of info, down to the bus voltages. The L2 section of nasaspaceflight.com might have something available, but I'm not sure.

They seem to have closed it somewhere around 2014 or 2015, possibly to avoid bad publicity or speculations.

[0] https://i.imgur.com/2pzbGNV.jpg
Its a feature rather than a bug ;)

Can't think why someone would do that. Such a large number of milliseconds just not practical.
I want to remind everybody that Soyuz spacecraft - including the one with the famous drilled hole in the orbital module - is manufactured in Energiya, Korolev - about an hour drive from Moscow. The Soyuz-FG rocket - the one used and malfunctioned in today's launch - is manufactured by Progress in Samara, a major industrial center on Volga river, about 17 hours by rail from Moscow. Rocket design is traced back to Energiya historically, but Progress was making them last 40+ years.

Soyuz-FG is planned to be replaced with modified version of the rocket, Soyuz-2. Soyuz-2 is already used for launches of unmanned supply ship, Progress. Yes, I know, a lot of similar names makes things confusing.
Linux = a kernel and if it uses the Linux kernel well that is what defines something as Linux.
> If a company overcharged me $10 for a product, then as part of the settlement I should get at least $10.

This seems to misunderstand the concept of settlement.

A settlement is always going to be less than you are entitled to as a matter of right assuming everything you claim is true, otherwise, there's no purpose in settling rather than disputing the claims.

> Instead we get a system where the total damage amount is often less than the company's profits on their illegal activity.

There rarely is illegal activity established on the way to a settlement; yes, you could often get far more if you went to trial and proved illegal activity, but that would always be a significant delay, always add significant expense that might not be covered in a fees award (because costs and attorneys’ fees aren't automatically awarded to winning parties, that’s a separate fight that may or may not be won), and might fail entirely leaving you with nothing at all.
Jep, the escape system is definitely not a walk in the park. As far as I know, the Soyuz escape system is the only one that was deployed with people inside, in the Soyuz T-10a accident. Suffice to say, the cosmonauts didn't like it very much. They got between 14g-17g for 5 seconds, which removed them 4km downwards from the exploding launch vehicle.

After landing safely (and being badly bruised), they asked for cigarettes and were given shots of Vodka. [1]

[1] http://www.americaspace.com/2013/09/28/we-were-swearing-thir...
Nvidia Demonstrates How to Fake a Moon Landing, 49 Years Too Late
Maybe that's true, but I think Julia is the first effort to prove that out in the numerical/statistical world, and while lovely the ecosystem is far behind because of how much newer it is.
Because you have 3000 of them sitting in depots you can't figure out how you could possibly use.

click this and zoom out:

https://www.google.fi/maps/@40.1943036,-120.139446,105m/data...
Thanks! Much better this way, I think. What a story!
Not OP, but there are some common problems, assuming they were a non-founder CTO:

- Instead of leading an eng team, maybe CTO meant "our entire tech team".

- Maybe the founders sucked, or had personal conflicts.

- Maybe the business was broken in ways a technologist can't fix.

- Maybe the business was viable but this individual did not enjoy being a part of it. Could be anything from "there are too many salespeople yelling into phones all around me" to "the technical problems were not the sort I am interested in / good at solving".
Also might just be easier and more convenient to read the articles online. We have laptops, phones, tablets, emails as mediums to read "100,000" words but a novel (preferably on canvas) is physical and limited by nature. I can read hacker news at work but I cannot just whip out Oliver Twist when I'm 'sneaking' a break.
Convenience.

Basically CCL's compiled code is often as fast as code from SBCL, LispWorks, Allegro CL. But one has to declare much more types of variables and functions explicitly with CCL. The code needs to be littered with type declarations.

A compiler with a (better) type inferencer can propagate the type information it already has and this is often enough for fast code. A good compiler can then also tell the developer where it lacks type information and then you can decide to declare types explicitly. SBCL/CMUCL does that in a very noisy way with lots of information generated by the compiler. ;-)

See for example: http://home.pipeline.com/~hbaker1/TInference.html
The project I mentionned above was started by someone who did not have such a led on their laptop

I just looked at several severs I have access to at several operators, different physical hardware and distros, none of them has a LED defined for anything other than scroll/numlock
To be reasonably safe in space is a rather good measure... I do see your point though.
His memory is correct.

My grandma has lived in Yakima, WA (major apple producer) for 80+ years and tells me all the time that the red delicious used to be a good apple, but was changed with the goal of being prettier, but lost flavor/texture.

Even the article you linked agrees:

"But as genes for beauty were favored over those for taste, the skins grew tough and bitter around mushy, sugar-soaked flesh. "
They were widely adopted after the Gros Michel fell to Panama disease due to their perceived resistance to the disease and the fact that they travel and keep very well compared to other cultivars. A lot of consumers don't even know that other banana cultivars even exist.
Ask HN: Tips for First Developer at company
That video looks like a demo/marketing video. Are there any videos of the factory working at full load?
Interesting article!

> Would you believe that growth in January was two times as strong as in August?

I'm not sure I agree with the author's analysis here. "Quick Ratio" is an interesting metric, but a lot of companies would take the ~75k net MRR growth with more churn than ~25k with little churn in the short term. Despite that, it's an interesting measure to add to the toolkit.

I've always visualized MRR changes with the same stacked bar chart (New / Expansion / Churn / Contraction) with a line overlaid to visualize Net New MRR. That gives you an absolute sense of growth which is usually what you want from this kind of overview report.
Even Windows 95 lasted longer than that: https://www.cnet.com/news/windows-may-crash-after-49-7-days/
In Turkish, too!
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How Intel’s 9th Gen chips show the way forward after Moore’s Law
Since Win 2k; I'm using Link Shell Extension[1] that puts nice and simple GUI feature in context menus and on icons (green shortcut arrow for example or chain).

[1] - http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/hardlinkshellext...
> Honestly, I don't care enough about getting promoted to go through that whole rigmarole, nor would I quit a job over having to deal with that in order to get promoted.

Of course, that's also probably why I don't work at a FAANG and never will.

I don't think you should let that stop you. I work at Google and don't care about promotion. I expect that I will get it sooner or later but really don't care if I do or not. I get paid enough to live a decent life already so I prefer having the freedom to do what I think matters as opposed to what's good for my career since sadly those don't align as much as they should.
It's interesting that this went _beyond_ a prank. Almost the definition of "fake it until you make it."
https://www.file.io/

This is a nice one, throw it up there and they give you a link, link works once.
SLS will necessarily cost ~1B per launch. It will definitely never ferry people to ISS.
Well it would've been the same as what they did for the 25 days case I imagine - using libfaketime.
Contractors still do a bit better than employees, though HMRC keep talking about seriously cracking down on the practice.
> the brain can be simplified as a bayesian filter

I agree with everything else in your post, but just wanted to note that while this is true to some extent, the brain is much less rational than a pure Bayesian inference system; there are a lot of baked in heuristics designed to short-circuit the collection of data that would be required to make high-quality Bayesian inferences.

This is why excessive stereotyping and tribalism are a fundamental human trait; a pure Bayesian system wouldn't jump to conclusions as quickly as humans do, nor would it refuse to change its mind from those hastily-formed opinions.
You can't control what others do. You can control what you (and perhaps your immediate family) do.

Be the change you want to see in the world.
The work has been done. The total number of children being born each year is already falling. The world population will stabilise. We have serious problems but this isn't one of them.
> I sometimes talk with developers who praise static site generators as simple, which is hogwash. I’ve seen a few projects where content editors were handed off a site based on a SSG (especially in startups where devs may dominate the conversation), and could not manage any change without a lot of training and assistance. Nothing simple about that. What those developers probably mean is that they find static site generators elegant.

It sounds like this article is using "simple" to mean "easy", and "elegant" to mean "simple".

An SSG is simple, and it's easy for people who know "the command line, the plain-files-and-scripts philosophy, git and ssh" (which is not quite the same as "developers", though there's usually a large overlap).
Another perhaps less known aspect of these tax giveaways is that the details are kept secret. They are often embarrassingly huge giveaways, that's one of the reasons they aren't public [1]. I wish we could stop corporate giveaways. I love the software work that amazon is pioneering, they are pushing the envelope, doing great work, enabling companies to grow and do new things. But they are one of the richest companies in the world, they shouldn't get tax credits, imho. I don't think this location info should make it risky.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-hq2-candidates-keep-p...
The FDA did not exist until the early 20th century and laws relating specifically to food were scant before then. They've been quick to pile them on like crazy since then, but they don't actually have much of an effect when you look at comparative rates. According to the CDC [1], in the US each year 48 million people get sick from bad food, and 3,000 die. Worldwide rates according to the WHO [2] are 600 million ill, and 420k deaths. The US has 4.37% of the world's populations, so our normal expected value would be 26.3 million ill and 18,381 deaths.

So in terms of getting sick from food, we actually score substantially worse than the entire rest of the world. Our death rates are 6x lower than expected which sounds very good, but I think that's unlikely to be attributable to the FDA. Our relatively large rate of foodborn illness is more of an annoyance than anything. But an annoyance for us us is something that kills people in rural areas with less knowledge and less access to resources. In particular the way people die from food poisoning is not some crazy hyper virulent strain of some hyper dangerous ailment or whatever. It's just plain old diarrhea from bad food -- something that's practically unheard of in the developed world. A couple of bottles of gatorade, lots of water, and some pepto turns diarrhea into a mild annoyance for at most a few days for those in developed areas. But for those without access to resources or the knowledge of how dangerous plain old dehydration actually can be, it can kill quite quickly.

And in any case this is primarily going to be people cooking their own food at home and making themselves sick. I'd strongly recommending traveling to the developing world. I certainly never would have taken anything I've said at face value before. But living life in a different way makes you appreciate both the things we do right, and the things we do wrong. And having a million regulations on food for the sake of safety that doesn't even really materialize is something I think we are doing very wrong.

[1] - https://www.cdc.gov/foodborneburden/index.html

[2] - http://www.who.int/en/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/food-safe...
I guess you're referring to CPU Trigger led activity as defined by [0]?

As I said elsewhere, none of the (recent) servers I have access to, most of them Intel based, several distros, etc have anything else than LEDs defined for numlock/scrolllock under /sys/class/leds/, where I'd expect to find the CPU activity LED? What am I missing here?

[0]https://lwn.net/Articles/510986/
The expansion of global trade has done more to stop nuclear war than anything else. You don't want to nuke the guy who gives you all your soybeans.
www.hyperfiddle.net has no javascript payload at all.

dustingetz.com and the docs app both have embedded hyperfiddle editors, so they run in a development configuration. The 10MB is for the real-time editor which depends on the ClojureScript compiler and standard library. A production javascript configuration will bake/compile/dead-code-eliminate in advance and then asset sizes will be comparable to any ClojureScript project (which is to say, better than almost all JavaScript projects). We haven't gotten around to doing this yet. Thanks for checking out hyperfiddle!
Actually Franz Lisp is a pre-common lisp used primarily with BSD on vaxen.

http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/maclisp_fa...
That is the connection to government transparency.

The CIA is storing massive amounts of our data somewhere, so shouldn't we have the right to know where?
Pundi X Debuts New Decentralized Mobile OS and Device
HG Wells and a lot of the left leaning British intellectuals did and Sweden only stopped sterilising in the 1970's
HPC file systems are a classic version of "failure to thrive" in the software business. That is, they never please everyone with performance.
But you don't want it to select based on gender.
If something can be done by machine, it is done by
machine, and that's been true since the beginning
of the industrial era.

Imagine an online retailer that employed 1000 people January-November, and 2000 people during December.

Automating the seasonal jobs would have a payback time 12x longer than automating the non-seasonal jobs. The December robots lock up capital during the 11 months of the year they're idle.
The metadata of the PDF doesn't seem to include a date, but it's not particularly new. It doesn't have the London or Paris availability zones listed.