skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you open any window with toolbars, it's not okay anymore.

I used to work with the laptop everyday. The density is not up to today's standards, and it never was.

Lenovo puts sub-standard displays in their laptops, even the high-end models haven't improved in brightness in many configurations available though retailers.
And shoddy business rates that drove the high street away.
Jameson Lopp’s thoughts on Bitcoin and its development
As a gay man on prep, I find this comment quite offensive.

Within my circle of friends (some of whom are quite adventurous) none of them says “let’s donate blood and see what happens”.

Furthermore being on PrEP requires strict complete STD testing (Chlamydia, Syphillis, HIV, included) testing every 3 months before allowed to be prescribed again. The same time interval as any recommended STD testing.

I had a discussion with my Dr last week about Truvada on similar topic. Her reply was that Truvada is not enough to suppress viral load and thus they can be detected if a person is infected still and is not on treatment. Also Truvada is not magic pill and can take time to take effect (about 1-2 weeks) and there have been cases of people getting infected while on PrEP because their drugs haven’t taken effect yet.
Interesting to note that Vox is reporting on something real.
What Comes After the Roomba?
In addition to the sls this idea is deployed to some extent in IC cars as well: electronic limited slip differentials can send continuously varying torque to each wheel, see the Porsche 918 spyder (combo electric and IC) or the Nissan GT-R which has a famously odd driving characteristic as a result of the computer controlled torque vectoring.
This is a really interesting critique that is hard to disagree with. But, what would be an interesting alternative that doesn't have such problems?
> I almost always struggle with Google's login thing. It's always chosen the wrong person. I'm always having the wrong permissions, and it's infuriating. Places like Slack do this as well. Go and try to log into your Slack account on a specific one. It's like, "Oh my God. I have like, 12. And I have to remember that my one password is just littered with Slack log ins." It's like, "I'm just one person. Either I have access to a room, or I don't."

Ha, I have the same issues with accounts on Google and (previously) Slack. GitHub's approach to simplicity is really something that differentiates them from not only competitors but other companies in IT. It's an interesting counterexample to the typical stereotype that engineers cannot build products with good UX.

> Which is where a lot of our chat up stuff came from.

It should be "chatops" instead of "chat up".
“stomp” is a bit exaggerated... Democracies are usually more economically efficient, whinch in the long run means more productive power for tech progress or weapons/munitions manufacture. But the catch is “the long run” there is some history of tribal/ dictatorial states distabalizing democracies and “winning” if they do it quickly and ferociously enough. Or even just ferociously.

A very good source of info about a lot of the powers and incentives in something like this is the “rules for rules” youtube video from cgp grey https://youtu.be/rStL7niR7gs
Sorry, I don't remember anymore. It was a scholarship called WISE, but I'm unsure what type of work permit I got, etc. If I can hunt down my old passport I'll check
I've never had a counterfeit item, as in not the actual brand I bought. There is a lot of crappy cheap stuff though.

One thing I've noticed is items with the "top seller" tag but if you actually check the category in which they are top seller, it's a category that has nothing to do with the product.
Nice! I was looking for this the other day, would have been nice to find a writeup on this site about it (since its writeups are always so clear). I ended up doing hexagons on a sphere (with 12 pentagons). There's a writeup on this site about that too. It goes to great length going around the pentagons, but for my purpose they're not an issue.
This is how tanks steer! And also (to some extent) why using them on roads ruins the roads. If you tried in a traditionally wheeled car then all of the drive shafts would snap though!
that's a good point. i agree. but i never used twin, maybe it's configurable.

greetings, eMBee.
Difference is the world, and particularly the USA, doesn't need Saudi oil to quite the same extent as previously.

Perhaps now they don't need to be the West's principle ally in the region, or given a free pass on every human rights abuse.
Probably the inventory variant scam. They added the new case as a variant of older ones and got the reviews carried over.
You don't need to have "agency" to invent.

LSD and sticky notes were invented by accident -- as were tons of other things.

Sure, one could add several pedantic reservations here, if they wanted to be thick on purpose, but the meaning of the parent's statement is clear. This series of passive aggressive counter-questions seems to violate the principle of charity.
Yeah exactly - this isn't a minor inconvenience, it's a fundamental part of being in society.

I appreciate OP's point about lack of clarity, because yes, the capitalist game has nothing to say about anything except following whatever you can get away with. But that narrow game is being played in a much broader context of society that exists because of a broader social contract and set of values which keeps everything running.

The reasonable answer to where you draw the line is: when something is no longer compatible with your value system. And if that's not clear, the issue is that you haven't yet spent enough time defining your values. That's the thing to talk about, research, consider, ask advice on, etc. People having a solid, well-tested personal value system is critical to society's function, because that informs how groups of people like companies then operate, and so forth on up.

To make a bit of a broader (and possibly controversial) point on this, we're in a situation right now where software engineering and finance are two fields with the highest leverage in society, yet these fields are some of the least concerned with values/ethics, from the point of view of both the education and experiences people gain in these fields. Small parts of these fields may care a great deal about values/ethics, but broadly speaking the situation we're in is "with great power comes great unawareness of responsibility." It's weird and scary.

The result of this lack of concern is that many powerful people have under-developed and unsophisticated personal value systems, and consequently do not know what to do in ethically nuanced, important situations like what OP is bringing up. There's a whole lot of people in tech waking up to this realization nowadays. It'd be nice if we were able to fix this at the source and raise the next generation right, rather than flail around rediscovering this every few years when yet another societal crisis hits.
Thank you! We will correct it.
Thinking about it, on the other hand Quora is excellent so far. Much higher quality, no jerks, no unneeded censorship. Maybe it's too young.
Medium is such a garbage site these days. So I open this article in Safari 12 on Mac, and I am unable to scroll. Nothing floating above the content that I can see, but it just wouldn't scroll. I wish people would stop using this shite. There are much better alternatives out there.

The absurd is, a few years ago Medium was seen as a hope for change in a sea of bad sites. Now it's one of the most glaring example of bad sites.
Something doesn't have to exist in a "platonic realm of forms" to be discovered.

It's enough that it exists in the real world.
I've only ever had them 404, which is why I assumed it didn't. Weird that we've had different experiences there.
Author here, I created and alpha-launched https://comments.network/ a while back, but have since officially discontinued it and you should really not depend on it. I am considering open source-ing it, would that be interesting at all?
Door Dash more or less forces users of their app to review the last delivery they had in order to place their next order. Maybe there is a way around it but it’s non-obvious. As a result, the worst rating of a restaurant I’ve seen is a 4.2 out of 5. Because people, myself included, just tap 5 stars to get it out of the way.
What's a really good alternative to Windows Explorer?
Russia is no longer the large funding source they were during the days in which a young Facebook was hoovering up their money. There's an actor ~50 times larger than Russia - and even worse on human rights - when it comes to venture capital.

Where's the push-back against Chinese funding? That money is sloshing all over the valley right now, nobody cares in the least. There are no protests, no outrage, no fake performances by politicians and business persons. They've routinely disappeared journalists, human rights workers, etc. over the last decade.

Most of the world is absolutely terrified to push back against China on anything at any time. There isn't a single major player in Silicon Valley with the nerve to stand up to China these days.

Saudi Arabia is a convenient target (and not in any manner undeserving of the negative response they're getting), that's all that is going on. The aggressively selective outrage, magically showing up now, is how you know it's shooting at something larger.
Thank you for the comment. It is really free , I do not sell user search data I do not even record them, I only use Yandex Metrica to see how users use the site to improve site usability. One main problem is user try to chose "Most reviews" sort option without choosing any Amazon Department (When All Departments is active most of sort options will not work so I do not show them) and I even placed a site tour to make users notice it and it worked for some some users but not all of them but it is an improvement. Actually money comes from Amazon Associates Program that's the only way to monetize the site.
Healthcare startups to keep an eye on
the only thing i miss is a terminal. some time ago i actually found one, but it needs porting to pharo.

greetings, eMBee.
Would be interesting to chat more about this - would like to learn more about how the request queuing works (that was where we ran into problems with puma). My email is in profile
You're welcome. Just some things that immediately caught my eye.
What's Amazon's Grand Strategy in Israel?
If you host just your own Open Source projects, does it need to scale?
It's the same no? If there are 10 times more fake reviews than legit ones and they can spread them over time, you can't use the distribution to detect it.
Just a few weeks ago my organization was in the position of choosing a version control platform for our repos. I'm so glad we went ahead with self hosted gitlab. We installed it on a CentOS server at our premise, SSL'd via Let's encrypt, I've even set up a dedicated gitlab runner to use Gitlab CI for continuous delivery and so far the testing is progressing pretty smoothly.

All this for $0.

Update:

I agree, gitlab and github will cost the same in the long run. Time costs money and self hosted has a lot of downsides as well.

However, gitlab being self hosted (and not costing anything in terms of separate invoice) makes us feel like we're more in control and are somehow saving some money (as we add more developers as well). This comment here was just sparked by a sigh of relief because this week is an important release for us and had we been on github this monday wouldn't have started too well.

Overall, all the comments listing the trade-offs are true. Time costs $$$ and a paid hosted solution is worth the minimal cost, time and expertise required.
So you don’t feel bad for the employees at these companies?
My 2c: sounds like you’re trying to force too many buzzwords, ie reinforcement learning, chatbots, google killing off product lines. And you’re avoiding embracing the actual offering which is simply segmented ab testing. Chatbots are a massive scam and failure, you really should avoid comparison with or aspiring to emulate them.
Concatenating strings with template literals. Tagged templates
Since yesterday, his blog posts are also available as a hardcover book: http://www.blurb.com/b/9008339-category-theory-for-programme...
I'm currently reading The Book of Why by Judea Pearl and I think that he makes that claim that our brains are Bayesian and then some.

Haven't finished yet, he gets into artificial intelligence in the next few chapters, but he seems to make the claim that our brains work by doing a number of computations involved in causal inference beyond just Bayesian inference, such as subconsciously constructing causal diagrams and using them for causal inference including asking questions about counterfactual scenarios.

Would be interested to hear if anyone else who has read this book can help elaborate on this some.
So you’re saying you looked at all of the LPs of every fund and then every LP of those LPs (and so on) when you took your current and past positions and are sure you’ve never been paid a dirty dollar in the past? And you will do so in the future and would decline offers from companies that had “compromised” investors?
So you’re self destructive?
I remember the daily deals used to be all useful products. Now I just feel like I am browsing some Chinese market.
Ok, looks like this is more nuanced than I had realized.
That's not how these deals work. A little infrastructure downtime is not going to stop a 7.5B platform acquisition.
For several hours it was alternating.
The problem for porn and pot companies is while legal businesses credit card companies don't accept them.

In the case of porn sites they're forced to go through third parties which charge very large fees for each transaction.

Pot stores are also cash only. Unfortunately cash isn't possible to send digital which is what cryptocurrencies essentially want to be (the term "digital cash" is sometimes used). Interestingly there have been reports of pot stores going bankrupt when the nearby ATM has been removed.

The difference between 3rd party services like credit cards, PayPal, Apple Pay etc and cryptocurrencies is that nobody can prevent a payment for any reason.

This is also why it's better to donate to Wikileaks with cryptocurrencies instead of PayPal since PayPal can if they want to freeze Wikileaks account. In fact this has happened [0].

Another difference is that you don't need to trust a 3rd party to deliver your payment. This is why you can't send money to Venezuela via Western Union but you can with cryptocurrencies (as long as they have internet of course).

Leaving Venezuela's border means you'll get searched and forced to leave all your belongings. It's therefore very hard to bring your wealth with you as you'll most probably lose it or you can't carry it. With Bitcoin for example all you need to do is memorize or write down a 12 word seed and you can bring as much money as you want with you.

Finally it's very difficult to make digital payments in today's world if you can't get a bank account. In effect you're locked out of society pretty hard if this would happen to you. Cryptocurrencies are permissionless and is for everyone.

[0]: https://wikileaks.org/PayPal-freezes-WikiLeaks-donations.htm...
Congrats for being on Ruby Core, we really need more people to push Ruby forward. And thanks for the work on Fibre and Falcon, I hope I will have time to test it out and see if it could fully replace Nginx + PUMA / Unicorn.
They’ll get a pass until oil doesn’t matter or the water runs out and it’ll all be irrelevant very shortly thereafter. Saudi Arabia’s long term future is no brighter than Yemen’s. If any of the Arab petro-states make it it’ll be the UAE and that’s borderline.
RubyCademy.com
For the people who are reading these comments and this story, I think a lot of you might be interested in this "discovery" I made (an off-hand HN reference) that I haven't understood in all the time since:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17902043

When you look at what was done, they got Firefox and x-window forwarding working on it. It's super fast. I don't understand why it isn't just fantastic for running all sorts of things on the embedded Linux level.

Why isn't something based on this just super popular?

I'm really missing something here. It's not 512 MB, but 32 MB RAM is (easily) enough to run Go programs. I don't understand why such a cheap and tiny computer doesn't make it super useful for everything. At that price and form factor, you could put it in a toothbrush.

I just can't believe there is no application for this or something like it.

I didn't get a clear answer the last time I asked - do any of you know? What's the big missing piece, what am I missing here? This is an SD card form factor! It's $30! It has 16 GB filesytem! And wifi, wifi, wifi. And weighs less than two pennies.

according to here: https://elinux.org/Wifi_SD it draws 50 mA idle. That means it would run for 2 days on an AA battery (idling).

I Googled the processor the above elinux.org page mentions, and got an exact match on the processor revision here: http://club.dx.com/forums/forums.dx/threadid.626327?page=3 implying it runs 175 Mhz. More than enough to do anything you want, really.

Running a Python script you develop on a desktop should be a breeze.

I don't understand why this isn't driving...anything. Nobody has this thing in anything. And the remarkable achievement of this device is 4 years old (all the links are 4 years old.) So....

.... can you all help me understand why this isn't being used and hacked into anything?
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing

Your entire post is prevarication in an attempt to justify taking the money of a murderer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qws713t3HBY [The Decline of Sears...What Happened?] An interesting video I came across yesterday.
I think the point in this car is that they have enough torque to spin the tires at any of those speeds where they've had to "nerf it" to make things smooth. Once you're at that point might as well take advantage of it to simplify. A transmission wouldn't add anything except maybe some efficiency which they don't care much about given the application.
The person who does the McMansion Hell blog has a guide to historical kit houses:

http://mcmansionhell.com/post/155602312686/the-mail-order-am...

Part two: http://mcmansionhell.com/post/155922980391/the-mail-order-am...
There is no blame on you. There is no way you can provide a configuration that will be secure on every server.

My recommendation: add a big warning message that there is at least one known security hole and many unknown ones in the server code and it is up to the just to secure their server properly.

Then fix the demo code but leave the warning there.

It's always up to the developers to check the system they build for security problems. They could use the best frameworks in the world and copy thoro reviewed example code. The end result might still have huge security problems.
This blog post describes exactly the scenario we were experiencing here. A master (single writer) failure, with missing fail over. You can only guess what went wrong with this plan. Looks good on paper, but some unexpected network or HW or routing problem could have caused the problem to identify the single writer.
And you may have shortened its lifespan by publicizing it.
Because a char is meant to be used as a character type not a numerical type, and sign doesn't mean anything in that context? Yes, I know people use it to mean byte (even though in most cases the compiler will promote it to 16 bit or whatever the word length of the platform is) but if you mean to use an integer, you should use an integer. The only time I can think of when you would use char as an integer is on 8-bit microprocessors with limited RAM/storage (which, given they're 8-bit, they probably will be limited). But if there are other use-cases, or my understanding is wrong (I haven't done any serious C/low level work in 20 years), please do correct me.
Would be reeeal sweet for my use case if it supported finding shortest paths based on some link properties out of the box. That way I can get rid of neo4j.
From what I've read (mostly here), Amish still use some tech. But I agree with you on renouncing some tech might be necessary to survive.
Here is one paper about that:

Music conservatory students in the U.S. and China were tested. The Chinese subjects
spoke the tone language Mandarin, in which pitch is involved in conveying the meaning of words.
The American subjects were nontone language speakers. The earlier the age of onset of musical
training, the greater the prevalence of absolute pitch; however, its prevalence was far greater among
the Chinese than the U.S. students for each level of age of onset of musical training.

http://deutsch.ucsd.edu/pdf/JASA-2006_119_719-722.pdf
The youngest person to have conscious memory of these things would have to be 82 or 83, and wouldn't be much of a help in building them. The 95 year old adult in 1940 is even rarer still.
More likely than not, you will be up and running inside of minutes.

My most recent laptop upgrade ran like this: http://bsdly.blogspot.com/2017/07/openbsd-and-modern-laptop....
The solar project was scrapped before the journalist was murdered (September 30th that news hit, versus October 2nd for when Khashoggi went missing). It was likely known the solar project wasn't going forward a while prior to the news release in September. They don't appear to be linked.
Which example would you say that is?
That's why the Saudis have for a long time extended their business, investing heavily in real estate and what have you. Oil will be gone in 100 years, the skyscrapers won't.
> I'd say that people should be allowed to manage their own affairs.

> If a country is better off with a dictator, then so be it.

Those do not mesh. Democracy _is_ allowing people to manage their own affairs.
You can buy a house kit today from places like Menard’s - my uncle purchased a garage and we assembled it over a couple weekends, I could see doing a house with much more time and skill

https://www.menards.com/main/building-materials/books-buildi...
+ cost of additional labor
Morals are flexible when they're offering you $100 million or more. Mine would be. And it's not directly doing something immoral, just turning a blind eye to an investor's government's actions - like one would when working with a US based investor.
I feel like this is the first chapter of a story whose ending is probably happy, but whose plot twist is "and then the on-prem server crashed and it took a week to figure out how to fix it".

Self-hosting vs 3rd party hosting has a ton of tradeoffs, but systems can fall over no matter who's hosting them.
Ditto. I’ve been wondering what happened to this as well.
Looks nice, the throwing looks a bit stiff.

How did you get together to work with those people? Do you have a nice track record and reached out, hired them or how does it happen? Mostly interested because you referred to them as your 'heroes' so the path towards them might be interesting.
If I understood correctly, the 45% is what they were estimated to be able to reach without a complete overhaul of their system, but they are in fact overhauling everything. I don't believe a final number is mentioned, however.
Passive Fingerprinting of HTTP/2 Clients [pdf]
You value your time at 0$ ?
LegoOS: disseminated, distributed OS for hardware resource disaggregation [pdf]
Plus cost of nobody can work because their single server crashed
Well... When film was not a retro thing, I always preferred to use Fuji film over Kodak - the results were just better, with Fuji capturing the lighting the way I intended it to. It's not only that Fuji picked the pivot to digital and Kodak didn't, but it felt they were always committed to solve my problem rather than to milk me for money. Kodak was too comfortable.
How to solve child’s special problems?