skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let me put it simply and clearly:

Amazon has no right to use Ebay's systems however it chooses and against Ebay's wishes, full stop. Ebay has every right to forbid that its systems be used for anything it dislikes, including as an advertising platform for its competitors.

If you disagree, and still think that Amazon should be able to exploit Ebay's systems to give "basic information to people"; then you must agree that I should be able to hack your computer to play audio loops giving the people around you "basic information" about how your ideas are wrong.

If Amazon wants to advertise, it needs to restrict itself to avenues that are legitimately available to it, such as Google adwords, etc.

For competition to work, the competitors need to have something like "bodily integrity." One competitor shouldn't be able to "infect" another to weaken it. We want the competitors to focus on strengthening themselves, not weakening others.
But that's not what he reported.
Yeah, someone needs to cough up a compromised board here. Otherwise the whole story stinks.
Agree. In summer I want the AC to start right when I get in. I don't want to wait for the car's computer to boot up. (And what if it freezes/has problems?!)
There is a subtle but important difference between solving the problem of "outrageous housing" and "affordable housing".

The difference can be illustrated by looking at how a measure meant to solve the latter, creates the former.

Suppose that we mandate that all housing created needs to be reviewed and a certain fraction of that housing needs to be set aside for affordable housing. You will indeed increase the amount of housing available at the price point that you have deemed affordable.

However the same action is a disincentive to build new housing, and also artificially reduces the supply of housing being sold at what would otherwise be a fair market price. This measure restricts supply, and in accord with economics 101 will increase average prices.

The result? More affordable housing AND a higher average price of housing. The net cost of housing goes up. (Which ironically will tend to cause more people who were on the edge of being able to afford housing to become homeless, making it likely that they lose their jobs, and thereby creating more need for affordable housing. Aren't you glad that we're doing something about the affordable housing problem to help them?)
AFAIK, homeless problem scales with population size. So if you divide by population size (which those values do), the value should stay roughly the same.

What are the factors that make this untrue?
I thought that the current consensus was that races don't really exist.

"Modern" racism can be more subtle than that, more about xenophobia or just classism.
There is no reason to believe than Tim Cook or any executive would be aware of anything.

In large companies with a hundred thousand employees and contractors, barely anyone is aware of anything.

Ask a thousand people about project something and they will assert in good faith that they have never heard of it. It doesn't mean that it doesn't exist, just that you didn't find the handful of people who knows about it.
In Finland we have these things called "Pönötys" and "kursaileminen". I'm half kidding, but half serious. Pönötys means awkward formal standing when you are wearing a suit or can of beer, but don't know where to put your hands or anybody to talk to. It actually happens a lot. "Kursaileminen" is kind of pretending that you don't need anything and have nothing to say. It's finnish way of being polite because you are not bothering anybody. Also happens quite a lot.

You do both of those and then you sneak to someone and ask them anything. It might well be "how do you know the host?" But Finns are quite flexible with the subjects because there is no culture of what you ought to speak about. You can ask anything, you don't have to ask anything. But do expect to get a throughout and honest answer.

It's great if you're imaginative and curious or if you want to be left alone. But if you fall in the middle it can get difficult.
Because regulatory comments aren't a vote or popularity contest, or even subject to much public attention, but are instead, in the normal case, subject to substantive review and response, ballot box stuffing in a way which makes them appear to come from less expert general public commenters doesn't really help the corporation. It only really helps on an issue where the regulatory process has public attention where the substantive outcome is a foregone conclusion but wants additional public political cover. This is quite rare for federal rulemaking.

(A milder—in volume terms—version where you try to make substantive comments seem like they are coming from involved parties with a different interest than yours—say, on a healthcare reg, a payer presenting fraudulent provider comments, might be useful, except in that case there is a lot more risk that someone would follow up on the particular comment and turn up something fishy.)
Ask HN: Data assets – Automated filesystem exploration?
Given the task to list and inventory a bunch of data assets on a large amount of drives, what would be your go-to tools?

Is anyone aware of any software, scripts, etc. that might help in the task of finding "interesting" datasets on very large filesystems?

Anything helps. Thanks.
Oldest ‘Working Man’ in Texas Turns 101, Still Drinks 2 Dr. Peppers a Day
Well, who scrubbed the emails? Who scrubbed the data center record? And the financial records and shipping records? Who hid the motherboards?

It’s going to take more than a couple engineers to cover this up completely.

Also, if the consequence for talking about this is being disappeared, why weren’t the Bloomberg reporters disappeared some time during the year they were working on the story?

And why exactly would a three letter agency do this to protect Apple?

It just doesn’t make any sense.
I'm interested! How did the proof of concept turn out? Any chance you could make to order...
If you have a full physical description then isn’t race redundant?
I also learned it the hard way, but coming from the other extreme.

I grew up in Italy, where asking “how are you doing” is not uncommon. Only difference: people actually expect a short summary of what you’ve been up to...
Not a database person, so I might be missing context, but why is FaunaDB the only implementation of this?

Intuitively, it seems to be exactly the way I would do a distributed database - distributed transactional storage with a global ordering of transactions that are based on ids rather than timestamps. The only thing that I wouldn't intuitively come up with is the actual consensus algorithm, but that already existed...

Both the tendency to use declarative rather than transactional queries and the tendency to use timestamps with clock skew rather than an id-based ordering always seemed surprising to me.
I think we are speaking at different levels, sort of. Jews (later Muslims) were given an actual, literal choice. For other groups/languages/whatnot it was "metaphorical."

Some of these processes are literal decrees, banning practices, languages or people. Some are less legible, like "soft power" in modern terms. I'm interested in the long term results, which was (in the case of Spain early on, and many/most places subsequently) a decisive change from multiculturalism (like the sephardi community of Bosnia represents) to national monoculturalism.

That is, over the centuries societal pressures and dynamics were such that a more monolithic identity succeeded a patchwork of language, dialect and culture.

My argument (I suspect we disagree) is that Spain was an earlier example of something that happened widely in the 19th, 20th and is still ongoing: Nation states emerging from empires and advancing towards cultural homogeneity, to the detriment of multiculturalism which existed under most empires.

When Turkey "emerged" this involved a similar process, expulsion (and worse) of Armenians & Greeks, and conformity pressure on other minorities.

A similar thing happened in Poland, which was barely more than 50% polish speaking catholic when my grandmother was born there, and is 9X% polish catholic now.

When Ireland emerged from Britain, migrations and border gerrymandering ensured "Irish Catholic" homegeneity.
I might add a lack of dedicated PgUp/PgDn/Home/End keys on larger laptops. There's plenty of space, but no, we are going to use the same keyboard for all of them (makes sense from a supply perspective!)

Mildly unrelated, but many split-keyboard designs put an arc of thumb-keys like this http://xahlee.info/kbd/i04750/keyboardio_m1_rgb_44488.jpg

There's plenty of opportunity for normal rectangle keyboards to put 2+ new metakeys below space bar, and almost none of them do.

But what about on a laptop - could there be key chords where the thumbs are on the trackpad? Could you have right_thumb_trackpad_top_right + j/k for PgUp/PgDn (picking from Vim bindings) ?
Of course it's fucking cattle. OF COURSE.

We need to get a leash on these ranchers who are making millions plundering our natural heritage and belching massive amounts of CO2 into the air.

Too much of OUR land and too many of OUR resources are handed to these people for them to chop it up and sell it back to us. It needs to end.

Drop the subsidies for the meat industry. Tax the real cost. Tax the carbon. Driving up the cost of meat will incentivize people to eat less of it.
In Greek, we might say "skip the formality". I don't think there's a word for "pleasantries", per se. There's also no superficial small talk here, although we do have the "hey, how are you? Good, and you? Good" greeting.
I've some weird type of a migraine which sometimes I'm not able to read or speak properly in English or Spanish (Always one of these combinations, fortunately). It's like I forgot how the words are "divided by syllables" and I'm not able to read or speak properly. Fortunately, it's for a few minutes and I got a migraine just one or two times a year.
I went to the doctor and he said it's not dangerous and there is nothing to do. Some people have migraines every week, even in the worst cases with vision loss so my problem is nothing compared to that.
You are correct that they serialize cross-partition transactions. So if your workload has a reasonable percentage of write/update/delete operations it is possible that you will bottleneck on the global coordinator. From this blog https://fauna.com/blog/distributed-acid-transaction-performa..., you can get 3300 transactions/second.
Daniel Abadi claims you can get to 500,000 trans/sec - http://dbmsmusings.blogspot.com/2018/09/newsql-database-syst....

In any case, there is an open-source in-memory database called NDB (MySQL Cluster) that can get to 100 million write transactions per second. The echo chamber of SV has ignored it, but it's real:
http://mikaelronstrom.blogspot.com/2015/03/200m-reads-per-se...

NDB has what i call lock-aware programming. When you read a row, you take either a read_lock or a write_lock, as it only supports READ_COMMITTED isolation level. But, it does not serialize cross-partition transactions. Transaction coordinators run independently, and it is up to the developer to ensure consistency by taking either read or write locks on rows.
You could do that, and US lawmakers will likely get lobbied to just block your site. Which is fair.
I don't like the phrase "microservice" because it now has a certain amount of baggage, similar to "service oriented architecture" which it was meant to be somewhat of a counter-point to. Whereas the issue with SOA was its association with maligned/feared technologies (SOAP, WSDLs, CORBA), the issue with microservices is the implied granularity. SOA was a good idea, but people (particularly in start-ups) don't want to say they're doing SOA because it has old-school, corporate connotations. On the other hand, the granularity of microservices seems too extreme for what most products would actually need but the concept is associated with more modern technologies which are attractive to developers, like gRPC or Avro or Kubernetes (or even something as simple as HTTP). So I would say the most pragmatic approach for a greenfield web product (rather than a corporate IT integration) is have a fairly standard core (probably a REST API, a server-side MVC framework, or a GraphQL backend if you're nasty) and factor out services that make sense to the team (maybe a service that handles push notifications, or a service that does image processing, or a service that is the secret sauce of your product) because they need to scale independently or handle async/computational tasks that should have dedicated resources or they pull from a data source that is orthogonal to the rest of the system. You need to strike a balance between "micro" and "service".

There is this idea that you either have microservices or you have a monolith, while its really more of a gradient. I guess what I'm advocating for is "modern service-oriented architecture" or "chunky services" vs "microservices"; reasonably sized, well-considered services that use modern technologies for inter-service communication.
I was struck by the similarity of working for a Startup and having the chance to gain mad skills, and the process of field promotions on the battlefield that I have read about in fiction: A whole other gear for advancement (aka dial set to 11).
According to your system, logically the smartest thing to do would be simply to execute pedophiles. Since we aren't doing that, presumably we are rehabilitating them. Since we are rehabilitating them, presumably we believe it is possible to rehabilitate them.

So what evidence do you have to challenge the criminal rehabilitation system in the USA?
There is a distinct whiff of the aroma of propaganda around this one.
Note that "at the time they most recently became homeless" is often a potentially misleading statistic. Commenters in the past have pointed out that metrics like this often count people being released from prison or jail and ending up on the streets as becoming homeless after being housed in the State. So if a homeless person gets bussed in from out of state, gets imprisoned, and subsequently gets released they're counted as having been living in California at the time they became homeless.
I think the idea that he has to know everything going on ahead of time or when it happens is certainly infeasible.

But while I'm not promoting some kind of executive supremacy, I don't feel it's a big stretch that the CEO can get properly informed of specific goings on of the company if the issue really lands on her or his plate. Even if there's some hole, having zero evidence that something weird may have happened on several thousand servers seems odder than anything.
If it turns out to be false, should the SEC look into it?
I'm all for globalism but that's one area where the best strategy is probably to keep production inside the borders. Not that I'd condone misleading the press to create a case for the legislation.
See what one of the sources says:

https://risky.biz/RB517_feature/

He showed the “emails he sent to Bloomberg, prior to the story’s publication, that said the hardware back-dooring the article described “didn’t make sense”.”

Another text about that source:

https://iphone.appleinsider.com/articles/18/10/08/security-r...
Impostor Syndrome is part and parcel of working with amazing people. Sometimes you'll feel like a goofball not because of anything you did, but because you're interacting with someone who is operating on a totally different level. But pushing through that emotion and learning from the experience is how you level up.
Show HN: Expod – your personal search engine
Have you ever watched those basketball trick shot videos?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_d-ON4ktkc

Do you think they made all of those on the first try?
Even if you build 5400 bedrooms tomorrow, they will lower rent and thus attract more people. So you need way more than 5400 bedrooms.
The global log sounds like a lynchpin but I didn't see a good explanation in the article. It sounds like all synchronization is done at the level of this log? If so, isn't that a bit of a bottleneck?
> Sixty-nine percent (69%) of respondents reported they were living in San Francisco at the time they most recently became homeless.

I am so tired of reading this bullshit "statistic". It is a self-reported number. If a homeless person thinks it benefits him to say so, he will. And homeless people will say anything to survive, as they are barely surviving.

If you came where from Podunk, MN and crashed on your buddy's couch last year before he kicked you out? Congratulations, you were "living in SF before you became homeless".

If you came here from somewhere else and stayed in a shelter for a day before you got evicted? Congratulations, you were "living in SF before you became homeless".

If the question was, "were you a rent-paying resident of SF before you became homeless", the answer would be totally different.

There are 76 non-profits that feed from the trough of homelessness[1]. Don't they have admin overhead? How much money is wasted on this overhead?

[1] https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/S-F-spends-recor...
There's an art to designing strain relief. Apple doesn't bother with it.

I have a new electric kettle with a plug that incorporates a ring into the strain relief -- your fingers will always grab the ring to pull it out of the outlet, and that's where the cable-to-plug connection is strongest.
Well, there is Shen which has a novel type system based on the sequent calculus:

http://shenlanguage.org/
MAKERphone – an educational DIY mobile phone
What does Spark's AI do?
> you get served with the most random ads at the most optimum moments

If coincidences are just coincidences then why do they feel so contrived?

How many things have you casually mentioned and not seen an ad for? Maybe the Swiffer ad stood out to you because you had just talked about it? Maybe the reason you were thinking of buying one is because you saw an ad for it previously?
Not work related, but I am working on my body. Trying to run faster marathon at the same time building muscles to look good. It's hard after 40, but I was a 123 lb weakling at 24, now a 145 lb with good muscle tone.
> If homelessness was just a question of money, this issue would already be solved. While cities report inconsistently, San Francisco currently spends around $430 per city resident per year on services and programs for the homeless, compared to $260 in New York and $110 in Los Angeles. Yet the problem in our city is worse, and despite increases in spending, has continued to worsen.

This is all you need to know. We should starve the beast, and then the city will actually do something about the homeless problem.
Amen. As a U.S. to UK transplant, I concur with this statement.
OTOH, Joe Fitzpatrick, one of the few named sources, is very very doubtful of the veracity of the story.

Blog interview with Joe Fitzpatrick: https://risky.biz/RB517_feature/

https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/10/08/security-research...
Curious what application you'd see said provider use the infrastructure for.
I know the word gets a bad rap, but I feel entitlement is a better word. Driving is a privilege, you have to prove yourself worthy and it can be revoked relatively easily.

Voting is (typically) a positive right - an entitlement, it’s guranteed to all citizens with no barrier to entry. Just existing as a citizen is enough (barring circumstances like felony conviction, though personally I’m against removing voting rights under any circumstance).
Pound* a steak through the heart of Big Beef!

* Pound based on 16oz sirloin precooked weight.
Map projections can be deceptive
One thing that's problematic with this approach is the assumption that dx is a small constant. Its not, it represents a limit, specifically a value approaching 0. Look at the quantity (x + dx)^2. By expanding the terms you get x^2 + 2xdx + dx^2. Look at the last two terms, which both involve a dx. Lets look at how these compare to each other by putting the last term over the middle term so we get (dx^2 / 2xdx). Since we are in a limit, consider the value of this as dx approaches 0. You can cancel one of the dx's so you have (dx / 2x), and now you can clearly see that this limit will be 0. What this last limit shows, is that the last term is infinitely smaller than the middle term as dx shrinks. Which is why it gets "pretended" to be 0 in some math and physics classes. This is no approximation though, and can be carried along in your calculations if you choose to keep it.
The most Apple solution to that I can think of will be to create a magnetic USB-C port on the next generation of Macbooks, that will require an additional adapter from magnetic USB-C to USB-C.
"one stick, alone, weak — many sticks, together, stronk". Just that the bundle is stronger than its constituents.

Isn't there a word for a bundle of sticks bound together?
really good related article: http://web.archive.org/web/20161006142042/https://www.scient...

"Analyzing how stories change in the retelling down through the generations sheds light on the history of human migration going as far back as the Paleolithic period"

archive.org because of the paywall
I can't think of a time I've wanted to reinstall the OS. I've wanted on several occasions to factory wipe the device (trading in the phone, fresh start, repurposing it, etc), but "Reset all content and settings" is an option locally on the device.

As far as backups: as a matter of general data hygiene I don't let my iPhone or my laptop be the source-of-truth for anything. Contacts sync to iCloud and Google, Photos to Google and Dropbox, etc etc.
In the future prop C may be viewed as a step towards basic income.
I live in SF, have for over a decade. I know several homeless people quite well. All of them keep getting kicked out of housing because of bad behavior that they just cannot help themselves from doing. They do not have the ability to live by themselves. They need supportive housing, and a path to get out of homelessness. None of the options today focuses on post-housing issues.
For the lazy: https://twitter.com/nicoleperlroth/status/104901890298483507...
The "man-ko-" term seems to confirm why, as I mentioned at the top, mancar in Portuguese came to mean to limp. To say someone is "manco" is effectively to say they're maimed in some way.

"Sleeve" in Portuguese is "manga", which in turn is also the word for mango, the fruit. The Latin "manica" meant "sleeve", while the name of the fruit originally comes from an Indian language, into English, via the Portuguese.

Etymology is quite the rabbit hole!
This is the design I always made as well (except I usually brought the top wings all the way down to the nose)
Here's some scattershot hopefully-positivity.

Keep in mind that a lot of these companies are good at hiring for potential, not for an immediate burst of productivity. You are supposed to have time to figure out how to fit in and how to work with other people in your new environment.

A solid first step in "getting better" is allowing yourself space to not be as good as you want to be, yet.

You don't have to be a copy of your coworkers.

Reaching out to people is something you can learn. It's a skill you may have to explicitly practice, but you can learn it. Make yourself do it at least once a day (more if you feel up to it!), and explicitly congratulate yourself when you actually do.

I think it's worth pointing out that your coworkers may rarely hear you making mistakes or misunderstanding anything, and might see you just as you see them. It's natural for everyone to present strength and hide weakness. You have a chance to make a positive impact on your team as you learn to clarify things as soon as they come up: your teammates might also be afraid to do this, because they also don't see anyone speaking up with non-perfect questions.
Distributed around the city. No more than one affordable-housing high-rise per neighborhood. Clustering them has been tried, and it usually ends with a concentrated low-income neighborhood with all the problems that follow.