skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s a bad sign when setup involves turning so many things off.
On iOS for me it’s keyboard clicks (worst feature ever) most notifications, Siri, those notifications that tell me travel time to home every hour and reachability.
I never plug it into my computer to sync, but I often plug it in to charge. Plugging it into the wall to charge would require carrying an adapter, which would be annoying.
> I thought sunspots killed radio communications?

They can. Sunspots can also greatly enhance radio communications. Outside of amateur radio this effect is rarely appreciated; ordinary radio service users usually only become aware of sunspots when they interfere with communication. Amateurs, however, operate on many different frequencies, and they achieve communication under unusual, rapidly changing conditions. They often use solar activity to their advantage.

The story mentions "10m DX." This is ham speak for the 10 meter or 30 megahertz band (the high end of the 3-30 MHz "high frequency" or HF band, which is extremely low frequency by today's standards) long range (DX; multiple "hop", frequently international) communication. Using traditional modes the 10 meter band is presently "closed" to long distance communication, meaning you get nothing but static when you listen and no one detects your transmissions. The lack of solar activity is the reason the band is closed. When solar activity is high (lots of sunspots) one can use a low cost transceiver, a small antenna and an easily obtained license and reach people thousands of miles away.
Man, I am now 90% convinced that someone intentionally misled Bloomberg. It looks like this may end up being an extremely embarrassing episode for them.
FWIW, Yuri Gurevich is famous for the Abstract State Machines formalism.
I'm the opposite direction. I got a RWD LR model 3, but I hardly ever drive it. And when I do it's all local stuff, well under 100 miles per day. I'd rather have saved the $4,000 and gotten a mid-range.

If someone approached me and offered to trade their mid-range + $3,500 for my long-range, I'd happily take that deal.
What an intersection could look like:
http://i.imgur.com/OMhCCI1.gifv

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Part of the problem for SF is that a critical part of “solving” homelessness is actually having homes. But a very large group of people (that I cynically suspect overlaps a lot of the pro-prop C people) also fight the addition of apartment buildings. I saw numbers along the lines of 5400 homeless people in SF a long time ago, but even if that number were the same now, that means you need to add enough buildings to support 5400 bed rooms.

Basically there’s no way you can “fight homelessness” and “fight apartments/evil gentrifying landlords”, and actually expect to do anything about homelessness.
> Once convicted of a DUI or drug possession, this criminal record can be used to bar employment, rescind voting rights, and legally practice housing discrimination.

And Canada will not let you enter their country if you have a DUI in the US.
Science Has yet to Prove Mold Makes Us Sick
My wife is fond of the reddit /r/personalfinance/ group. Bogleheads is also quite good (https://www.bogleheads.org/). Mr. Money Mustache is quite popular. In the end, most of these tend to converge on similar high level advice. Don't take on credit card debt. Live beneath your means and save. Etc... Of course, there are numerous smaller details that these can help with.
Absolutely agreed. Brains are bizarre. My mother-in-law once had what we (and her primary physician) believed was a serious flu. The moment we realized that it was much worse than that was when she started calmly speaking total nonsense. She appeared to think it was normal English, but each word was unintelligible, though it used plausible parts of speech. At that moment I picked her up and drove her to the E.R., after which she spent several days fighting meningitis. She came out of it okay, thankfully, but I still vividly remember how scary it was to watch her "talk."
Allegations of a security breach is useless without evidence backing it up. So far, Bloomberg has provided zero evidence.
> The house already adequately represents the people

By what standard?

> that's how it was designed.

That may have been the design goal, but it's debatable whether the original design met the goal, and key elements of the original design (the original representation ratio) were not fixed in the Constitution or preserved over time.

> Expanding the house doesn't change representation.

It changes both the equality of representation (reducing quantization artifacts) and the proximity of Representatives to the represented, both of which are key elements of representation.
On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (OEIS)
We're trying: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/03/us/california-today-strip...
Interesting. But as a non-ham I find the article chock full of ham jargon which leaves me completely lost.

> What happened to take an esoteric mode designed for multi-hop E skip on VHF and overnight turn it into a worldwide phenomenon across all bands from 2200m through 70cm? In other words, what makes FT8 a killer app?

Indeed. What does make FT8 the killer app? Anyone care to break this down in layman's terms that an EE with basic radio knowledge can understand?
While that's a fine aim, in reality it just means "do nothing". There are much more achievable short-term things that can be done to ease homelessness in SF than solving the decades-long problem of affordable housing.
Are you proposing that the rule should be "of course you're still allowed to tell people what happened, but only if you do so inefficiently and with little effect"?

What if the top hit is a personal website describing the crime and its effects, rather than a town newspaper--should Google knock that personal website off the front page?
Context for non-SF or non-SV people: Prop C is a proposal to increase the budget dedicated to help homeless people, by taxing gross receipts taxes for companies with more than $50 million in annual revenue.

Patrick's view is essentially that instead of adding taxes for such companies, which could potentially impact middle class workers, we should let the current SF mayor take care of this issue, being in favor of additional taxes to fund whatever initiative is considered valid.

Now, here's my view. I've been living in SF for six years, I know exactly one homeless (Charlie), I'm not an expert on poverty or homelessness, but let's say I've seen my fair share of bad things in the world to at least have an opinion.

We don't have exact data on how and why people become homeless. We know that (mostly) they're not born homeless, they become homeless.

I think we should work on the causes. But "we", who? Patrick Collison, Sam Altman, Marc Benioff, etc, you can pick a trusted, smart serial entrepreneur, give him a big budget ($100M), and ask him to discover the causes and try to solve it by measuring how far these $100M go.
Edited to explain a little further - missed out a key point that they’d match then original style of the laptop.
I find the Touch Bar to be incredibly dim and low-resolution compared to the monitor or display of my iPhone.

It doesn't relay a lot of practical use. The removal of basic features like MagSafe and the little power LED's is maddening. The removal of the classic white glowing Apple on the back is practically an announcement that they're not even the same company any more.

I do iOS development for a living, and I'm rocking a 2018 15" MBP, and I'm very disappointed if this is the future of Apple.
"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"

Anyone know why this discrepancy exists?
I know this includes rental assistance for those "at risk" of becoming homeless (but not necessarily homeless), so the value, when calculated "per homeless" resident, is meaningless.

However, this calculation "per city resident" in general seems to point at some deep infrastructural issues. I'm trying to find an analysis as to why and coming up empty.
The hatred of strain protectors is the issue here - MagSafe with strain protectors would make me happy. Bare wires, cellotape and dubious safety is what the clean design has actually achieved.
On a related note, what happens at parties where lots of people don't know each other? (Assuming that happens at all.)

As much as smalltalk is unneeded in everyday life, having a script that brings out some general background ("so what do you do?", "are you from around here?", "how do you know {host}?") does help when strangers are looking for common ground where they can talk more deeply.
Oh for God's sake, dude. Write a Go program with a function that seeds math/rand from time.Time, compile it, and then load it into radare. "aa", then find the symbol for your function, then switch to disasm view and look at the function.

(The Terraform function you found this problem in is literally called "generatePassword", in case you planned on writing 6 paragraphs on how hard it is to find the right symbol to start analysis at.)

This is such a silly, marginal bug, it's bizarre to see you kibbitzing on the "right" way to fix it (the bug is that they're using math/rand to generate a password instead of crypto/rand, not that they're seeding math/rand from time). But whatever! Either way: it's clear as day from literally just the call graph of the program what is happening.

Your example of a bug that is hard to spot from disassembly is a terrible, silly example, that I've trivially refuted in just a couple of Unix shell commands.

I don't think you understand the arguing you're trying to have. I get it: you have a hard time looking for bugs in software. That's fine: auditing messengers is supposed to be hard. You don't have to be up to the task; others are.
Ask HN: Worth it to reach out to HR about hiring malpractice?
HN, Always learn a ton from this board so I'm hoping I can get some insight from this. A very large tech company reached out to me about an open contract role on their marketing team in my hometown, and began a series of interviews (four total) culminating with a submitted project that I completed for them to get a better idea of my skillset.

Two weeks after submitting the application, I received no response. I reached out to the hiring manager (who would also be "the boss" were I to get hired) and they commented that they had to tie up loose ends with HR.

Another week goes by. I reach out again, and received a response a few days later, that hiring for this role has been paused indefinitely.

On Monday, I noticed a new role posted. It's now a full-time role, though responsibilities are largely the same. I reach out to the same Hiring Manager, and they confirmed it is on their team.

So I applied and let them know that I'm keen to re-start our conversation, especially given I've had four conversations with them and others on their team. Now, I've received an automated rejection to my application.

Frankly, I'm surprised such a large org can mismanage their hiring process to this point, and am thinking about reaching out to their HR team to get a better understanding of what exactly happened. I worked very hard on my submitted project, and an opportunity on this team and at this company would be massive, but I'm really shocked and upset about how this transpired.

Is it worth it to reach out to HR to, at the very least, get feedback on my work and interviews? I put a lot of time and effort researching this org, and working on the project they asked of me, and to get nothing from it really makes me feel like shit.

Thanks HN!
control [ is the escape character, if useful...I use it in vi that way all the time.
In this case, there is no evidence saying Apple has anything to fix.
I realize your statement may be slightly hyperbolic, but I want to reassure you there are many moderate/centrally leaning individuals passionate about free speech and the power of questioning any status quo as a tool to seek truth. (obviously not as many as I might desire, but...) This _cannot_ be an issue that only becomes provenance of the worst kinds, because then it becomes easy to dismiss. One need only be a student of history to see the importance of the above for _breaking_ oppression and tyranny.

(Sorry, not to distract from the OP and the primary discussion, I just felt strongly enough about the above statement to wave a "I promise we're out here" flag.)
Are these all not physically the same battery and the range is a software unlock? ISTR Tesla unlocking the additional range for free last time when there were storms in Texas.
You need to worry about the battery degrading at this point and what the costs to repair it would look like
With all the strong denials so far, my guess is that heads are going to roll at Bloomberg and that there may be retractions. Worst case, Bloomberg gets caught as publishing fake news endangering entire countries and companies, and closes shop in shame. There’s too much at stake for Bloomberg here.

Hopefully someone at the top at Bloomberg is taking this seriously and looking at some quick and decisive actions. These back and forth exchanges don’t seem to be working well in Bloomberg’s favor as far as perceptions are concerned. Bloomberg might also find itself an outcast in the tech circles.
Something I posted elsewhere -

I highly doubt Bloomberg would run this story without a lot of faith in this. Michael Bloomberg has strongly hinted at plans to run for president on a democratic ticket and it's in his interest to undermine trumps anti-china agenda and something you can expect his eponymous news org to help him with.
> Nations are abstract. They don't weep. They don't bleed. They don't suffer. Neither do Empires. These are metaphors.

I was not referring to a nation as political abstract but as a group of people sharing common descent/history/culture/language, inhabiting a particular territory. They do suffer, bleed and weep.

> One side effect of this has been an end to millennia of multiculturalism, often bloody.

You seem to be operating on the premise that caliphates were peaceful multicultural, almost utopian, societies. They weren't. All kinds of crimes against the subjugated people were the norm. And it's not just the massacres, slavery, and the usually stuff but also bizarre practices like the blood tax practiced by the Ottoman empire (young Christian boys taken from their families, converted to Islam, trained into Janissaries, and sent back to kill their own people)

As for Syria/Iraq, it wasn't any pretty under Ottoman rule. Perhaps a quote from Mark Twain's Innocents Abroad describing Damascus massacre can help paint the picture.

They say those narrow streets ran blood for several days, and that men, women and children were butchered indiscriminately and left to rot by hundreds all through the Christian quarter; they say, further, that the stench was dreadful. All the Christians who could get away fled from the city, and the Mohammedans would not defile their hands by burying the 'infidel dogs.' The thirst for blood extended to the high lands of Hermon and Anti-Lebanon, and in a short time twenty-five thousand more Christians were massacred and their possessions laid waste. How they hate a Christian in Damascus!

edit: typos, formatting
The problem is you can legally say you were never convicted of that crime if it's expunged. If a background check is performed, it will not show up on your record, which will be contradictory if it's still in a newspaper article (or some other public source). It's a catch-22. An employer cannot legally use it against you. If they see it in print they can discriminate (illegally, but who would know) against you. If you can legally claim "I have not been convicted of a crime," then it shouldn't be in print showing you have been. It should go away, just like the criminal record, and just like if someone were to conduct a bg check.
Something similar, albeit not as severe happened to me, also as a result of a bicycle-related head injury.

I was on my way back home in Montreal. I consider English to be my second language. I have two mother tongues - Ukrainian and Russian. And, due to living in Montreal, I had passable French. So I lost ability to speak or understand French for a few days. After I re-gained it, it became visibly worse. Also I had short term amnesia - didn't know who I was, where I lived or where I was going from/to. Luckily, most of the things came back to me within the next few hours or days.

Brain is a bizarre device...
Depends on your state:

http://www.ncsl.org/research/environment-and-natural-resourc...
That said, u/nostromo raises a good tangent. When I worked at my college newspaper, which was before Google had become so dominant a fact of day-to-day life, there was no second thought about publishing the name, age, and address of suspects in the police blotter (the daily listing of suspects arrested, mostly for public intox). The age and address were part of the arrest record, and important to disambiguate between similarly-named people. Back then, it hadn't yet occurred to society how Google effectively made info permanently, globally, and efficiently searchable.

Nowadays, I think the status quo for college newspapers is to not print names: https://www.poynter.org/news/college-papers-dropping-arreste...
Interesting tidbit from the linked twitter post:

"Something is wrong. Blanket denials from companies, NCSC and DHS are v. unusual. The only precedent for this is a 2014 Bloomberg article, by the same author, which claimed NSA exploited Heartbleed, and was vigorously knocked down with zero follow up by Bloomberg or correction."

https://twitter.com/nicoleperlroth
Has anyone written a blog about the game theory of this whole ordeal? Feels a bit like the snowdrift game.
Stay tuned...
How do you reinstall OS or make non-iCloud backup without computer?
My personal feeling is that the world is moving on from distance fields, and the state of the art is doing vector rasterization in the GPU. There are a few approaches to these, and currently one of the most promising is pcwalton's Pathfinder. Distance fields require lots of memory, have an expensive preprocessing step (and doing that ahead of time, as in this work, limits flexibility), and don't render very thin fonts well. GPU vector rasterization doesn't suffer from any of these limitations, but does of course require more sophisticated GPU programming.
“Seventeen individual sources, including government officials and insiders at the companies, confirmed the manipulation of hardware and other elements of the attacks. We also published three companies’ full statements, as well as a statement from China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. We stand by our story and are confident in our reporting and sources.”
This is exactly what I plan to do! After the new year I’m going to buy a new iMac and a full keyboard and a used MacBook Air with the intention of using then as my non work computing environment for as long as I can, hopefully 5-10 years. And maybe by them computing will be in such a different place I never have to worry about a touchbar or shitty MacBook Pro keyboard again.
an absurd strawman. To you there's no way to increase representation from more populous states without letting decisions be dominated by CA and NY? Can we argue in good faith here?

Pretty sure the rest of the country depends on states like CA and NY as well. It is hardly a one-way street.

There are many objective criticisms of the system. Like election methods, for instance. I personally think it's ridiculous to suggest that our understanding of governance and political systems hasn't increased enough to substantially improve the US. It's been 300 years.

I would point to the amendment system as evidence that the founding fathers knew they hadn't made a perfect system. I would point to the fact that they explicitly warned against political parties to show that the system is not at all what they intended. And lastly I want to say that this deification of the founding fathers is a big part of the problem.
Ironic that you made small talk to mock the concept of small talk.
I'm working on getting better at cooking. My partner loves to cook with me, but I kind of suck at it. It's cool because we can spend some quality time together making a meal.
I came back here to say exactly this. I couldn't help but think of Emacs the whole time I was reading the linked post.
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I frequently have similar thoughts about whether I am capable enough, whenever I join a new project or take up a new task. So you are not alone.

One thing that helps is to look back and remember some of the cool things you have done, or the times when people acknowledged your work. Then that makes me think "I can't be all that bad".

Good luck!
Yeah, that's right. Normally you use the infrared, but the blue are still included and the instructions usually specify exactly how to use those properly/safely :)
I thought I could trust PaperSpace. My account was hacked for the second time and was charged for all the machines I did not start. I'm done with them!
Hopefully they will use the funding to secure their system and create a responsive customer support.
If Japanese culture works how the article describes, it seems relevant. The bidding war wouldn't happen without the return gifts, and it could be stopped by eliminating them.

But in order to change a law or rule, there must be the political will to do it. Japanese culture appears to give the return gifts a plausible pretext. If you oppose the return gifts, it could sound like you don't understand tradition.
I don't see how Magsafe and USB-C are mutually exclusive. Also, if Apple wanted to, they could have given their Magsafe adapters pluggable cords, so you don't have to buy a new adapter when the cord frays.
"Attempted to pass" might be clearer?
Apparently a tough chicken and egg problem for them: not having enough money to print so they stop accepting new subscriptions and hence will not getting any more funding. I really want to pay for their print magazines.
The problem is, racial realism and the alt-right are driving a resurgence in anti-Semitic and neo-nazi ideology, and the anti-globalist and anti-progressive movements around the world do feed into that, despite that not being their real genesis or purpose. Trump is (probably) not a white supremacist or neo-nazi but his election caused white supremacists and neo-nazis to come out of the woodwork and the left should not be the only ones concerned about that.

Unfortunately, the left seems to have succumbed to the same sort of race-baiting, extremist paranoia that caused the right to meltdown over two Obama terms and they don't even see it. We can't come together over this issue because the right has embraced racism in the name of defending free speech causing the left to consider "free speech" to be a euphemism for supporting racist ideology.
You have a right to not be murdered (a negative right). But by granting you that right, the government takes away someone else's freedom (a positive right), specifically, their freedom to murder you.

Obviously, this is an extreme example, but the idea that "negative rights" are bad because they infringe on someone's "positive rights" makes no sense. You're ignoring the fact that the act of publishing information can cause harm to someone, and that we generally recognize that your rights do not include the right to harm others.

Also, your comment fails to recognize that Right To Be Forgotten is very clear on what can and should be forgotten, like false claims, which by news outlets "remembering" them, infringe on the individual being falsely accused.
um, many of these people are mentally ill, physically ill and/or addicted to drugs: they need a lot more than just housing.

(I live a few blocks from the worst areas and see people dealing drugs and shooting up every day)
So it's about the money