skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We simply have a drive to have sex.

What? Take even a cursory glance at any IVF, PCOS, or infertility support group, and observe the outpouring of fundamental NEED and the grief of unfulfilling that need. Humans absolutely have a drive to have children, not simply sex.

Sure, there are some people who lack this desire. Usually men, sometimes women, almost always young. The childfree movement (of which I was once a part) definitely epitomizes this. The proportion of people who don't care for kids does appear to be slowly rising, but make no mistake, they are still very much a minority. Humans, almost universally, want children.
Aircraft maintenance intervals and rotable replacement schedules are intentionally very conservative (and likely to be more so for new types of engine), and I can't imagine that simply being powered by electricity is going to make a propulsion system immune to stresses induced on propellors over takeoff cycles. If the cycles interval is longer than for the piston engines currently used on those route, potentially engine maintenance is required less frequently, particularly with an engine optimised for short hops, but there's still the rest of the airframe that needs maintenance checks and rotable replacements, and your overall engine maintenance cost is going to depend on availability of specialist maintenance shops and component costs too.
Default presets are not the user "choosing" something. It's why companies always choose the opt-out method vs opt-in.
Does anyone know if a plan to enable JIT by default exists? I would assume they made it optional to ease it in in case there's any baby problems?
Pando, the Most Massive Organism on Earth, Is Shrinking
Not to mention that a good night's sleep is one of the best feelings I know. I try my best to get at least 8 hours of sleep every night, and waking up in the morning is almost a joy.
You can now remove more preinstalled apps from Windows 10
I am not seeing the problem with his philosphy. We go to work for money, not because we are in love with the companies goals.

That sort of thing can come afterwards, but loyalty has to be earned.
High-Res Graphics on a Text-Only TRS-80 Model 4 from 1983
the cpu would burn out
Yeah, I have heard that argument from many friends. This is the failure mode of current civilization - child rearing has been made too damn expensive and even a legal liability for responsible people, while irresponsible people reproduce like rats and that's ok then. I see that happening, but I won't change the tide and I won't pey the personal cost.
I use a horse hair hygrometer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygrometer
Outside of very special industries and knowledge you can blatantly ignore non competes without consequence. They are basically unenforceable for most circumstances and no attempt will be made.
I'm actually pleased that the article points out that we don't even know if eating microplastics even matter.

I totally expected it to default to the assumption that eating the plastic is by default harmful via magic
Take, for example, an electronics or hardware project. The majority is a bunch of experienced engineers who will tell you that your project will take years based on their own experience with an earlier project. What they neglect to account for is that their earlier project took years because of the state of the art at the time. They're taking experience that applies to the era of NAND flash and board bring-up and applying it to the era of eMMC and main-line Linux drivers. So while their estimate is very conservative, it is also very wrong and you should take it with a grain of salt.

Any judgement that relies on some external context, like the industry state of the art, can no longer be trusted in a different context.
It does, I think this is more aimed at novice shell users.
The population of Manhattan is higher by over two hundred thousand people since 1980. Your narrative isn't supported by facts.
PostgreSQL has been such a joy to use for both hobby and professional projects. It's so reliable. I wonder when Heroku will support 11 and I'm curious if upgrading from 10 to 11 with heroku using the simple pg_upgrade would break anything. If it's just a pure performance increase, I'm looking forward to doing it to a few production applications.
A few minutes??! That sounds very slow.
Recommend reading Bakunin if you are interested in 'anarchist socialism'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Bakunin
Marx was a pied piper to nowhere IMO and in league with the oligarchs and bankers of his era
This may be it. Lets take away this write-off option.
I hear LA ( downtown ) is turning into manhattan as well.

The earth is turning into a world of boring stale cookie cutter cities full of starbucks and mcdonalds.
If the orbit is inclined the satellite will no longer stay above a single point it will move north and south throughout the day. All orbits pass over the equator twice during each period.
I just read a comment above that discussed this timbre sensitivity. In any octave the A sounds buzzy? What about on any piano? Do all 88 keys produce a kind of unique timbre signature for you?
> Because Simultaneous MultiThreading (SMT) uses core resources in a shared and unsafe manner, it is now disabled by default. It can be enabled with the new hw.smt sysctl(2) variable.

Is this on all architetures or just Intel's Hyperthreading? I'd imagine that other CPU's with hardware threads (especially the 4 and 8 way Sparc T series) would be quite hobbled in terms of performance with this change.
> The three brands that did not contain microplastics are from Taiwan (refined sea salt), China (refined rock salt), and France (unrefined sea salt produced by solar evaporation)

There might be more info in the research paper linked in the article.
Well, I just found the NextGen projects and have been playing around with them. This looks like a massive improvement. Fixes most of my pain points. I'm still going to miss Waffle's tight integration with Github -- being able to see the PRs under the cards along with their review and build status at a glance was wonderful.

But this makes Jira much less of an "Oh god, do I have to open that?" and much more of a tool I can actually make use of. Before I was in a state grudging accepting (because our PMs clearly needed it) while dreading the change. Now I can reach of state of peaceful acceptance. I'll make use of the feedback link as I find things. Thanks for the hard work I'm sure the team put in to make this real!

Edit to add: After playing with it more, I would just ask that you, at the least, make that PR icon that shows on the card clickable to jump straight to the PR. Or find someway to expose a list of PRs and their state on the card itself.
And the U.S.!
for you/your comment, no.
Easiest way is probably to get the pink salt from the Himalayas. The health claims around it are bogus, but as it's mined from the mountains (and usually sold in a highly unrefined format) it's fairly unlikely ocean microplastics have wound up in it. It's also readily identifiable in a way white chunks of salt aren't.

> In another indicator of the geographic density of plastic pollution, microplastics levels were highest in sea salt, followed by lake salt and then rock salt.
Multi-region replication like Cassandra? Sort of a question because the last time I really looked around the release of PostgreSQL 9 there wasn't a solution.
You would consider this article bad mouthing amazon?

The way I interpret 'bad mouthing' is saying things which are false, or misrepresenting what Amazon is does.

I don't think the author made any misrepresentations of what Amazon is doing with their involvement but rather bringing to light that employees do not agree with their policies, that to me anyways is in a different category than bad mouthing.
I assume that someone working on the project would do:

pip install -e .

in a virtual environment. I thought this was quite well-established. Is there a problem with it that I'm not aware of?

pip freeze > requirements.txt

for requirements.txt generation. For libraries just omit this? I'm not sure I understand the question. The article also mentions that several of the new tools aren't appropriate for libraries anyway.
This is the best argument I have heard for absolute freedom of speech and rugged individualism I have heard in a while. Thank you!
Does anyone know why the Python community has seemed to struggle with package mgmt fragmentation/churn so much over the years, compared to other languages? Did Guido just not really care about package mgmt?
That's why we needed to break down the permissions model to enable more local control at the project level while still giving administrators the ability to set the global guardrails. Jira historically has been a more globally focused permission model.
Are you advocating for a listicle?
Noncompetes should only be for moon-lighting. For highly skilled employees, or executives I think an NDA for any trade secrets should be enough.
Which actual differences exist between the hardware security of a Pixel 2 and an iPhone 7?
Right. It will probably be enabled by default in PostgreSQL 12.
I haven't been in Brooklyn for getting on 10 years. Can you elaborate on what popular tourist friendly areas are now about? (I'm in NYC in March '19)
For conformance, I highly recommend using Sonobuoy, which is the basis of the Certified Kubernetes program: https://github.com/cncf/k8s-conformance

For performance testing, please see: https://github.com/kubernetes/perf-tests
I know someone who can sing to match a melody from memory very accurately. They sing on key. But they have a hard time singing to match a single pitch, and they have a very hard time naming whether two consecutive pitches are ascending or descending.

I don't get it!
What Is WebAssembly and Its Future
Other discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18236345
I doubt it, tourists are fine with packaged experiences and seeing the sights, they'll keep coming, and those in the tourist industry will continue to provide what they seek.
What I'm trying to say, as soon as you could fit data and processing unit(s) into one well cooled room in datacenter, managed by two guys per shift, it is not "Big" problem anymore. Making it all local will probably speed-up their queries/analytics enormously as well
Great, thanks for the response!
The Greek system parallels the short scale, but the terms themselves are derived from the myriad system; δισεκατομμύριο disekatommýrio, 10^9, literally reads twice-hundred-myriad.
Linux is a depressing mess after you've used OpenBSD. Such a high quality system, with stellar documentation. It's unfortunate that Linux has become so popular even though the BSD's are so much better. A bad historical accident. Damn you Linus...
Imagine your CTO said this:

'I found a bug, therefore we should discard the entire system'; imagine it's a mature, complex, functioning system. If your CTO did it, you'd seriously doubt their leadership. The real question is, what are the outcomes we are choosing from? What is the outcome if we keep the system, and what is the outcome if we discard it? What would we replace it with - are we going to try to build a complex system from nothing? Are there third or fourth better options, perhaps improving the existing system?

The politicians have explicitly and repeatedly expressed their goals (see Trump's UN speech, for example): Undo international cooperation and jointly made rules, and create zero-sum geo-political competition based on power. It's fundamentally undemocratic and against the belief in the fundamental equal rights of all people ('all men are created equal') - i.e., that others should have an equal say. It also has a long and proven track record of leading to war, the experience of most of human history until the rules-based international order was built amid the ashes of WWII.

In this case it's backed by typical political talking points, designed to give people the impression that international treaties are generally bad and to rationalize the step they are taking toward their strategy. But as I said, it's should be transparent (and expected, though you never know which agreement is next).
That‘s good to read. I‘m hoping we‘re getting back to a state like with Ubuntu 10, and staying there.
In reality though, Iowa has more than enough corn farmers for the population, and plenty of low-wage manufacturing workers to create said farm machinery there. Especially when the Swiss Franc/USD are 1:1, the Swiss would just open a plant there and finance it
> They just turned it into a shakedown: pay for Precheck and you will be harassed less.

OTOH I've seen days where the precheck line was slower moving/longer if it's a time when lots of business travelers fly.
I'm not a lawyer, but I think this highly depends on the state you are in. From my googling, judges in my Midwestern state are very reluctant to strike down any kind of contract made between two adults.
Which is precisely why I do not shop at corporate mega stores that make it impossible for smaller businesses to compete using shady practices to lower prices.

Once Amazon or Wal-Mart are the only company left, they will be free to raise the prices to whatever they want.
> Which is why the web has the most robust permissions system of any platform, period.

I fundamentally disagree with that. Yes it has a permissions system but is it really all that robust? Let alone the most robust of any platform? First off you're dependant on the browser implementing that correctly (that's not always the case) and often there are thousand different ways you can still do naughty things even if those permissions are implemented correctly. Then there are the thousands of vulnerabilities built into the very design of the web that developers (of both web and browsers) are constantly having to code around (XSS, et al). And that's without even addressing the current problems we have with data leakage and privacy concerns that we seemingly have little control over at all.

Compare that to networking where you have VLANs, subnets, firewalls and other network ACLs; or Linux servers where you have tools like SELinux. These tools might not be simple to use from the outset but their certainly a great deal more robust than any of the models the web has offered us thus far.
Not true, depends on the state. Californians tend to assume this is universal, but other states do uphold them.
Well, not all... Googlers had no idea what a gold mine they were giving away up until around late 2016, when they unknowingly broke high precision timing in V8.

What about a keylogger with 50% accuracy?
Generally speaking yes, but it's not clear when exactly that will happen (if at all).

Firstly, at this point JIT requires LLVM, with may or may not be available when building (so it depends on the packager). We might add other JIT providers in the future (e.g. GCC) but that's not done yet.

Secondly, we need to improve the costing model, so that we make better decisions when to use JIT for a query. AFAIK this is the #1 reason why it's not enabled on JIT-enabled builds now.
How well does the inverse works - running VMs in OpenBSD to use Windows, Linux? Is it for example possible to run Virtualbox with good performance in OpenBSD?

I'm tempted at using OpenBSD as OS, but need to run things like MS Office. A VM is probably the easiest way to do that.
Trade wasn't anywhere as big as it is now; most trade was within internal colonies, not externally.
FYI for anyone else in the US who reads this and is/has been in a similar situation: the DOD hotline for reporting fraud & abuse of contracts is +1-800-424-9098.

http://dodig.mil/hotline
The two (non-mutually exclusive) most realistic options are to:

1) Become a career politician yourself.
2) Put yourself in the top 0.1% wealth bracket, and share your opinions with money.
Find Your Voice: Writing for a Webzine (1999)
I'd kinda worked out that people who know about this stuff didn't think it was a good account. Was more remarking that calling things dark and black (and, indeed, wimps and machos) sort of invites simplistic and erroneous pop-science assumptions.
I think most of the excitement is probably that it isn't something strictly Intel / AMD can do.

Which is pretty disruptive in the semi space.

The last times we had problem spaces that weren't economic to add to CPU (graphics, machine learning / GPGPU), a whole lot of value was captured by different players.
Ask HN: Bloomberg liability for Supermicro story
With Bloomberg having broken those 2 articles about Supermicro and the potential security threat to their hardware with this hardware "hack", I'm wondering if that would leave them open to any legal proceedings if they can't substantiate those claims, given the substantial hit Supermicro has taken as a direct result of those articles breaking ? Or are we safe to assume that they would have thought of that before breaking these stories and made sure they are legally airtight ?

I honestly just find the story very interesting, particularly the slight inconsistencies in their story. If some of what they're saying is untrue I would like to see them be held accountable in a similar fashion to Elon Musk tweeting about taking Tesla private 2 months ago.

Article 1: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-how-china-used-a-tiny-chip-to-infiltrate-america-s-top-companies

Article 2: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-09/new-evidence-of-hacked-supermicro-hardware-found-in-u-s-telecom

Thanks !
Almost all plastic release chemicals having estrogenic activity [1] so not be default harmful, but probably harmful.

[1](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3222987/)
There are widely different opinions about that. I have never heard someone proclaim MySQL has a great command line, while I heard that about PostgreSQL many times.

I am sure it's more a matter of familiarity.
Sounds more like Luigi Zingales, who is about as far from Marx as you can get.
Negotiate your way out of it, e.g. "can I just present my stuff at the beginning" or if you're really good at it, negotiate it out of existence.

Long form explanation of how to say "no" to your boss, of which this is just an instance: https://codewithoutrules.com/2018/08/16/how-to-say-no/
What Makes Human Brain Cells Unique?
It's nothing new. Hydra has done it for years and years.

https://creaceed.com/ihydra/specs

It can merge up to 50 images to create either a giant picture, or a zoomed picture.
I used to use pipenv and I find that hard work of actually properly learning the python pip/requirments.txt/setup.py/venv landscape well enough that I don't have problems anymore, took less work than actually getting pipenv to work right.
The new unveil(2) system call is now available.
Discussed previously:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18194008
Ask HN: Why isn't whitelist only email used more often or even the standard?
I plan to be Google and Apple free by the end of the year. I've been migrating my personal email over to Protonmail, which I feel is the best service option. The main reason to use a service is preventing spam. Obviously not getting your emails dumped as spam is important too, but that can be solved by anyone with a static IP.

I've been thinking about whitelist only email for personal though. Why isn't that more of a thing? You can definitely do it with existing services, but this could already be a standard and hosted independently.

You could give people a portal where they can make a request to send you emails and you can approve it and revoke that approval at any time. You can generate keys for people so they'll be whitelisted when they've signed up. You could even print those on business cards and tie their usage to events. You could use that to provide a more complete identity for contact. Chats, currency wallets, feeds of information you're publishing, but you'd never have to deal with an open connection to stuff you did not want.

When I search the problem it appears as if this idea doesn't have any traction anywhere. I had my own email server on Slicehost in like 2001 and haven't messed with operating my own since GHA came online. I am not an expert in this area. What am I missing?
Right, cause coffee is so hard to make yourself.

I guess I'll never understand the point of hipster coffee shops. I'm all for cozy cafes, but all the hipster style coffee places, like 9th st. espresso, are the opposite of that: more catering to the trendy, minimalist, i3-gaps ikea aesthetics of the mainstream of /r/unixporn.
I've tried a variety of search engines and I always end up going back to Google. They're just better overall for me.

That's been my experience and based on that I can see it being justifiable for Apple (who is after all a very opinionated company) taking a similar stand: we don't like defaulting to Google but they're just the best game in town so if we want the iPhone to be the best phone out of the box it needs to default to Google.
Relevant math here:

http://jxcrystals.com/publications/Mirrors_in_Dawn_Dusk_Orbi...

Money quote: "Applying this formula for a mirror in orbit at an altitude of 4200 km gives a sun spot diameter on earth of 42 km".

The report claims "The satellite would be able to light an area with a diameter of 10 to 80 kilometers, while the precise illumination range can be controlled within a few dozen meters", so either it's in a lower sun-synchronous orbit [1] (and maybe there is more than one) or it's a parabolic reflector [2] with controllable focal length, and there is no cause for concern. [3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun-synchronous_orbit

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parabolic_reflector

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_gun
Interesting thanks, I didn't realise they ever got that bright. I've also captured geosynchronous satellites when imaging the Orion Nebula, they show up as parallel tracks.

There is a big difference between producing a visible flare and actually providing illumination at that distance, that would require a huge surface. My best guess is that the original press release was talking about a paper project rather than anything there are any real plans to do.
SQLite fits the bill but of course fills a very different niche.
The Many-Worlds Interpretation Has Many Problems
Ebiten, a 2D game library in Go, now with experimental WebAssembly support
The new study estimated that the average adult eats 2,000 microplastics per year. Heck, I probably eat more non-micro plastic (by mass) by accident in a year.
They're a country-wide law enforcement agency for immigration law (ICE: Immigration and Customs Enforcement).

A big issue in our current politics is immigration policy, and there are segments of our population that dislike the current law so strongly they believe it should be go unenforced until the legislature writes an immigration law that they do like.

A lot of the dislike towards ICE is pointing out the harsh reality of any law enforcement agency ("putting people in cages", etc...), and holding that against them in the context of policy they dislike.

Edit: I'm trying to state this plainly for an outsider without showing my hand on our immigration policy. Even for a less-heated topic (e.g., obvious parallels with federal marijuana laws, selective enforcement thereof, and oft-abused LE powers both mundane and created specifically for the war on drugs) I'd frame it the same way.
Akamai Announces Platform Enhancements Designed to Bolster Security
The closer they are, the easier it is to illuminate. I believe that excludes most Lagrange points.
a very interesting writeup.

ex:

Tesla says tyres for a high-performance electric vehicle are challenged in a way that those on a car powered by an internal combustion engine (ICE) are not. A two-wheel-drive Model 3 with a long-range battery weighs just over 1700kg, so tyres have to cope with high loads as well as a 155mph top speed (for dual motor versions) plus continual torque input, either when accelerating or during regenerative braking.