skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>You can have that connected to IRC, or interoperate with ICQ, or whatever other nonsense you want. In doing so obviously you destroy most of the upsides of the Signal design, but whatever - your choice.

What I had in mind was to make a gateway that would act as an IRC server, not client. Basically I'd run it alongside my usual IRC client and use it to access Signal discussions using the same interface that I already use to browse IRC. The IRC connection would be local and completely trusted so as far as I understand it nothing would be "destroyed". Alternatively I could just write an irssi plugin that would directly connect to Signal for instance.

Basically what I want is to use Signal as it is today but with a different UI. I don't want to tweak the protocol or anything like that and I'm perfectly happy using a Signal-sanctioned implementation of the protocol.

I suppose they could forbid non-official clients to connect to the network (although I'm not sure why they would care) but then since as far as I know the server-side software is not available in any form it's not like I can rehost it anyway.
It’s only available in rose gold.

It can be yours for the bargain price of $1999.95 USD.

Don’t be the last person in your herd of Apple users to pay money to add scrolling functionality back to your MacOS and iOS devices.
"Ethical" was added as a clarification, since you were talking about crime.
Taken to the logical extreme in this Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/DieTukkerfries/status/105369668935211827...
Show HN: Space invaders, but the invaders evolve with genetic algorithm
That's double press - double tap on my 6s still brings the screen down. Not sure if they kept that distinction when they moved to the not-really-a-button home button whenever that was though.
Games compatibility is key. I had an Android phone I used years back with a PS3 controller and an external display to play Modern Combat 3 and it worked great as a game console... except every now and again the game forced you to swipe the screen to perform some quicktime action. Really unexpected when you're sitting 5 feet from the screen.
Let them play video games.
>In the last two years I've built five very complex forms for the healthcare industry that not only had crazy looking flow-charts...

Can you maybe elaborate a little bit more? I've had to do some pages for configuring industrial machinery, some having over 100 parameters, many of which would affect what other parameters could then be used or selected. Used Vue.js which worked pretty good, but I'm curious of other ways...
Eyeglass frames in the United States.
This release is particularly exciting because it’s the first to include the Fedora Modularity feature across all our different variants. Modularity lets us ship different versions of packages on the same Fedora base. This means you no longer need to make your whole OS upgrade decisions based on individual package versions. For example, you can choose Node.js version 8 or version 10, on either Fedora 28 or Fedora 29. Or you can choose between a version of Kubernetes which matches OpenShift Origin, and a module stream which follows the upstream.

I continue to be bewildered by the idea that this should be a foreign concept, that individual third-party software versions should not be tied directly to OS update releases. Literally no operating system works like this except Linux.

At least Fedora is more prompt about keeping up to day than other distros.
Well given the main criteria for med school is study, study, study...is it that surprising that this is the case? Most med schools select for test scores as their primary criteria and that is the single largest factor by far.
It's locked me up twice now.

Version 70.0.3538.77 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Windows 10 Professional
Nvidia drivers
Using a standing desk part of the day and weight training worked for me.
Always amazes me how people won't acknowledge there is plenty of things we humans don't know. I didn't think this was clickbait, it's just some interesting ideas based on our limited knowledge of something, nothing pretentious or over reaching IMO
I've found ob-ipython [1] within Org Mode to be one of the best options for interfacing with Jupyter. If you're sick of the limitations of working in a browser, it's worth checking out.

Scimax version: https://github.com/jkitchin/scimax/blob/master/scimax-ipytho...

Video of Scimax version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMira3QsUdg

Previous HN discussion highlighting key features: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17839926

Some relevant blog posts:

- https://vxlabs.com/2017/11/24/getting-ob-ipython-to-show-doc...

- https://vxlabs.com/2017/11/30/run-code-on-remote-ipython-ker...

- https://kozikow.com/2016/05/21/very-powerful-data-analysis-e...

[1] https://github.com/gregsexton/ob-ipython
It's guaranteed memory safe and halting.
Maybe, but unlikely. I have some future ideas that might become a premium service.

Also, I'm not sure what the OSS community would gain from this being open sourced. The "algorithm" is just "hash a bunch of hashes". The rest is just a neat frontend and a really simple backend.
It depends on how you use it, I tried it a couple of years ago and ran into a couple of issues with the tooling around it. I used it on a fresh install of OpenSuse and ran into issues a little while later because the distro was saving btrfs snapshots every day, and they eventually filled up my small SSD and prevented the system from being able to boot because it didn't have enough free space to create some small temporary files it needed. You'll also need to get used to using btrfs tools certain tasks, because tools like df and du don't understand how much space btrfs is actually using so you get innacurate results. Things may have changed in the past couple of years, but having to tune different paramaters and learn new commands wasn't really worth the effort because I wasn't using most of the features on a standard Linux desktop install.
Any chance of this being offered for on-prem install in the future? Looks interesting but cloud only makes it a no go for my team.
Asynchronous HTTPS server built with oat++ Async API.

Features:

- HTTPS based on LibreSSL

- Basic endpoint with DTO serialization to JSON

- Asynchronous proxy endpoint to remote service
All they did is train a neural network to recognize flies. they haven't replicated the nervous system of a fly. To say they "built a fly brain" is wrong because that actually has been done for nematodes and it's different.
I have been seeing billboards for Brex on my way to or back from US101, saying BrexIt. Always caught my eye, making me think it must make SEO pretty hard. :)

Either way, good luck. Looks like a good platform.
Germany? Switzerland? Both are welfare states (even if not as extreme as some places), and have low unemployment.
I hope more people do this. By having everyone post content on their own domains, it drastically increases SEO for them instead of piling it on to FB and other platforms. These social platforms are nothing more than SEO aggregators, they are essentially stealing profit from people.
It IS a theme park, albeit a sloppy one. If the city did not rely on tourism they would have more efficient boats, perhaps some other transportation system (so that the city is actually livable by working age locals, and not just by pensioners), some squares would have a playground instead of cafes and jewelry shops etc. Tourism sets the whole city to "tourist mode", slow and geared only towards tourism-related businesses. It wouldn't work as a tech city for example (even though i would love to see the innovations they would have to build for it). It has been museum-ified by choice of the Venetians.

I love the history of Venice to bits (I live in one of their former conquests) , but nowadays its indeed like a disney construction, you can't trust it to maintain a culture. Even the art students who frequent the various squares look like posers.
> I blame myself.

This is a narrative the game industry has been successfully pushing through organized PR campaigns and astroturfing online discussions, of course parents share some responsibility but this angle is disingenuous and lets publishers off the hook too easily. I wouldn't beat yourself up too much here you're aware of the situation and actively involved in fixing it.

> Game shops are exploiting advanced psychological tactics to turn young generation into addicts.

This + the instantly available secondary market which allows you to gamble with your digital goods/currency is the major difference between this and it's predecessor: baseball/pokemon/magic the gathering card packs.

Belgium/EU are making strong moves on this but very doubtful we'll see any movement in the US anytime soon, a New Hampshire senator dared to question the situation and was blasted by an aggressive letter from the ESRB claiming loot boxes are not at all gambling.

The games industry is uniquely positioned to allow for this kind of abuse because the primary targets (marks) are unorganized young children that don't know any better. Most games are just a vessel for the 'marketplace' which is an online casino for kids. The current state of gaming is shocking, regulation is desperately needed.
I really have no idea why it allows you to run scripts in chat window, LoL. It's useful for me, because I sometimes write addons and use it as kind of REPL, but surely this could be hidden behind "developer mode" in some Config.wtf file. I think that nobody really thought about it too much just like browsers allowed javascript: URLs in the past. Nowadays if you're pasting /run stuff into chat window, WoW asks confirmation whether you really want to execute it, so they took some measures to limit it. Also there are tons of useful `/run` scripts that some people probably use and that experience probably important enough to preserve that functionality.
I would wait about 6 more months to see how reliable the updated butterfly mechanism is. Having a failing keyboard is no fun, repair apparently takes ~1 week. The new Pro's (and probably the new Air) use a membrane to keep the dust out, but I'd wait and see if it works well enough.
Why do they need these monster images?
AFAIK it doesn't. You need to provide your own microphone.
Odds are they already have ARM-based Macs in house, with all the cross-compilation stuff worked out. The reason they haven't made the switch yet isn't because of work they haven't done.

Back when they switched from the PowerPC chips to x86, it was revealed that they had been building experimental x86 Macs in-house for years. That's just good planning.
$800 for the base unit (i3/8GB/128GB SSD) is frankly ridiculous. Their price is roughly double what you'd pay for an equivalent NUC.
Certain limitations must be checked (e.g. can be proven to halt). It's a bit much for an HN post, see https://lwn.net/Articles/740157/ subsection "The eBPF in-kernel verifier" for more background.
I think that would be within reason for most of our users, but we have a couple of Windows users. I'm not particularly keen on telling them to install putty or WSL.
1 Year Machine Learning Journey
Well, good thing you got your Minecraft in time, because they're dropping support for the Apple TV.
A totalitarian ideology is one that tries to creep into every aspect of our life, and rejects the exploration of alternative models.
I think K N King serves best for the purpose. Many haven't mentioned this already and I am surprised about that.

amazon.com/C-Programming-Modern-Approach-2nd/dp/0393979504
That's $70/month for 2014 hardware (dual core no ssd), or $120 if you need a quad core or ssd. Prices for the new hardware haven't yet been announced.

Either way, if they keep their same pricing, there's a 12 month break even of buying your own hardware if you don't need to be on a data center backbone.
Tapes have a use case that hard drives do not. Tapes are the lowest cost/GB stored and are more shelf stable than hard drives.

SSDs are higher performance than HDDs and have none of the packaging constraints. Flash storage is going to be put into everything and the economies of scale look quite good.

Storage is scaling but the r/w speeds of hdds aren't keeping up. Following the trend line and we see huge hdds that are functionally useless due to how long it takes to do disk operations.

HDDs only exist above tapes because of their performance. And only exist below SSDs due to cost. Tapes are the floor and SSDs are the quickly lowering ceiling. HDDs are likely to be crushed between.
Most likely they all support 64GB of RAM. What has allowed Apple to offer 64GB is that Samsung released 32GB SO-DIMM modules this summer based on their new 10nm process. It's still almost impossible to find them aftermarket though.
Contacted. I think that is a great business model.
Get-LocalDisk
Could this not be considered identity theft?
> At this late date nothing can prevent a substantial increase in the world death rate...

Well, technically that's not wrong. Bigger population = more deaths.
Me too - I have one of the first intel models - it is still running - the only thing that kills them is that they eventually become obsolete.
Where should one begin? There are going to be new folks accepting offer from FAANG, where/when should they begin to look?
I am surprised that Google/Facebook ad spend is not showing up as a major spend category in your reports, which seems to have led to the 1x earn-to-spend ratio for that use case. I know of several companies that use Amex Business Gold because they get a higher ratio on their ad spend.
Normally an SSD has an on-board flash controller that communicates something like NVME or SATA to the host and a protocol like CFI to the actual NAND chips, it will also map from disk blocks (OS unit of storage) to NAND columns and cells using an internally stored table. These chips do a lot of other mundane things like wear leveling for NAND, clearing written cells, etc. If the T2 is taking the place of this controller and communicating directly with the NAND chips it would be at best duplicative of an external SSD controller and at worst completely incompatible.
For all those of you who are worried, and want to help work on solutions to the harms that come with our modern technology, I invite you to join the Humane Tech Community at our community forum [0].

We are still a relatively small community, having just repositioned ourselves as a separate subsidiary of The Center for Humane Technology [1]. We will start a number of crowdsourced community-driven projects - all in the public domain - to help Re-align Technology To Humanity's Best Interests Again.

Just created our first Awareness Campaigns project and will soon launch our community website. Our forum has lotsa information about tech harms and their solutions. But we are just at the start, and need as much help as we can get.

[0] https://community.humanetech.com

[1] https://humanetech.com
You mean a "lie." Calling a notched iPhone "all-screen" is a bit of a stretch. This is just straight upfalse.
But consider https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
I'm interested to know what you run on this server...plex? torrent client? file server? on-prem file backups (if so, which software you use)?

I have a small Intel NUC running windows that runs always-on and does some of these things just fine, but I'm always looking for some excuses to upgrade a gadget.
Seems like these are issues mainly related to using older versions of the kernel and/or Docker.
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http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/06/28/why-are-transgender-peo...
In terms of "Apple units" it's a slight jump

They tend to price their stuff in units of $100.

So the jump is 2 'apple unit' uptick.
> High density living in the form of apartments with common gardening, grilling areas, shared yards and complete reliance on public transportation.

Did you just describe most of EU and some of east coast US cities? ;)
Does the luascript interface have a vulnerability for actual remote code execution? Can someone launch calc.exe with the HUD API?
Last time this came around I believe it was shown that the process was similar to the one used in iOS.
Centauri Dreams can be highly speculative at times but it definitely does not do clickbait.

Note that the title on that article is actually "‘Oumuamua, Thin Films and Lightsails". I suppose it might have been different when submitter submitted it, but that seems unlikely.
On a serious note, here in the US, to get into med school these days, you have to be pretty much the perfect blend of Albert Einstein and Albert Schweitzer (or Alberta), which doesn't leave lots of time for needlecraft and the like.
Unfortunately all the windows and mac versions of Adobe applications are extremely slow and bloated. Using Draw on the first gen iPad Pro to draw a portrait or something works extremely well and then saving that and importing it onto Illustrator on the mac is a tragedy, for example.
> ... XML grew a "type system" of sorts with XML Schema (which is widely used IME, esp. where interfacing with external services as in SOA) ...

The type system came from both XML Schema and XPath and was codified with XSLT 2, then expanded when XQuery was defined. It's not been a type system "of sorts" since XSLT 2, which filled in a lot of gaps and undefined behaviours.
The only practical solution, given human nature, is your second option: "accept economic inequality".

Humans being what they are, people just won't accept being told that they can't fly to New Zealand for their 2 week adventure holiday.

However if the price of the tickets reflects the cost to the environment - say it costs $10K instead of $2K - then the environment can be protected, and the lucky few can continue to indulge, while others must forgo or get there by e.g. deck handing on a yacht (by which I mean a sailboat, not a Larry Ellison style super yacht).
I mean it was already maliciously exploited in a highly used addon. It was a lot easier to slip in a short one liner than some highly suspicious "hack the user" blob of code. It was also extremely flexible. They could then do different things to each person instead of one fixed attack.
I'm not sure how it is in other industries, but in automotive this is usually referred to as badge engineering.

It results in some interesting vehicles. In the US, GM used to sell Toyota Corolla badged as Geo Prisms.

And in Japan, Toyota sold Chevrolet Cavaliers rebadged as Toyota Cavaliers.
>I will also note that I misunderstood "free as in beer" for a very long time.

Yup. When I first heard about it in high school forever ago, I thought it sarcastically meant for-pay software, because beer costs money. A free ($0) beer is very rare.
> Maybe if they started defining a 'modern c++' subset...

Here it is: https://github.com/isocpp/CppCoreGuidelines/blob/master/CppC...
Intellectual Status Isn’t That Different
USB-c cable is a good use case where you just want to pay the cost and get it from the google store or at least get a benson leung approved cable.
Trying your luck with a cheap usb-c cable is not worth the hassle IMO.
feedlots do not dominate US beef ranching. It is regularly used but the average head of cattle spends less than six months in a feedlot per it's average 1.5-2 year lifecycle. Even so advocating that feedlots are replaced by grass fed cattle is much more likely to happen and the growth of the grass fed beef industry shows that it is/can happen.
Can’t see that as a valid argument. Doing anything in life can cost you dearly.

Personally wow curved me around 2004-2007 as a person.
Helped me find my passion about development in general.

I didn’t feel like I’ve lost something playing wow, actually I have fond memories of it.
Only thing I would change if I could go back was just to spend a bit less time on it, but again I’d play it with passion.
The thermals on the entry level Macbook pro (non touchbar) is atrocious. It has one less fan than the touchbar model and runs hotter and unless you're in an icy cold room it's guaranteed to make your palms sweaty like a teenager on prom night. I would imagine that the new power-sipping i5 they've put in the MBA will run much cooler.
I don't disagree, but I do want to point out that they did release an X variant of the A series with the new iPads.
Internet speeds are slow in some places, such as France (specifically the Pays de Gex near Geneva, where my parents live). My dad uses iCloud, but he drives to CERN to upload (he just retired).

I have 18 TB: 5 TB Seagate (x2), 4 TB WesternDigital, 2 TB WesternDigital, and 2 TB internal.

Backups take the most space - I fix laptops for friends from church, and they don't back up but still want their files to be safe. I had to shuffle some files around to free up 650 GB for a recent repair, mostly photos & videos.

Virtual machines use a lot of space too. I made VMWare Fusion images of every Mac OS version 10.5-10.13, Windows 95, 98, 2000, XP, 7, and 10, in several languages ( https://peterburk.github.com/i2018n ), and some Linux distros.

Another 1 TB is a dataset of Chinese characters from a machine learning project of mine ( https://blog.usejournal.com/making-of-a-chinese-characters-d... ).

Music, mostly from repaired iPods back in high school, accounts for a lot as well. There's some movies too, though I missed a chance to get 2 TB from a friend because I didn't have enough space at the time. If I upload those, even those that I legally ripped from CDs & DVDs, I'm worried that it'll trigger content filters.

For these, local disks are more useful than cloud services in my opinion.
FB = Facebook :)

XDP = eXpress Data Path, it's an eBPF program that runs before the kernel network stack and allows you to process raw packets as fast as your network card will allow.

eBPF = extended Berkley Packet Filter is a BPF program that is compiled and run on a virtual machine in the kernel (allows you to run kernel code from userspace). It can talk to user space through maps and hook in to various parts of the kernel. An important point is that once compiled, an eBPF program is guaranteed to halt and has other verification performed on it, to make it safe to run in the kernel.

BCC = BPF Compiler Collection, is a set of tools for working with eBPF, it uses llvm and clang to make it easy to write eBPF programs in Python, Rust, etc.

butterFS = btrfs, the filesystem. People often call it butterFS in conversation, even though the btr stands for b-tree.

cgroups = Technically the work is on cgroup2, which changes the way processes are laid out in a resource hierarchy from the original cgroups. This is how resource constraints are placed on containers, although many people use it just to monitor processes (without constraining resources).
The concept that in NYC a licensed physical therapist working out of a medical office can peddle this shit as a medical procedure and bill it under health insurance is ridiculous.
I'm surprised people put up with the Amazon integration. Like Windows has been forever (first third-party junk vendors would add, now telemetry and advertising), I feel like I have to spend 30m "cleaning up" a fresh install before I can start installing the stuff I want.

I'm skeptical about the IBM purchase, but like with a lot of big changes I'm just keeping my radar up before I jump ship.
I'm curious who sold you a NAS with SSD caching that didn't support bypassing the cache for sequential I/O. That's a pretty basic and obvious feature, and it seems like the manufacturer must not have been taking their SSD caching feature seriously if they didn't implement bypassing.