skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why a Helium Leak Disabled Every iPhone in a Medical Facility
IMHO thing an MS Linux could really add for SME IT teams is.

1) An easy way to join a Windows domain. Being able to use AD user auth and Windows file sharing with AD groups that is as easy as it is on Windows server would remove a major scare factor for Windows admins trying Linux. I hope this could be implemented by contributing to SAMBA and being a wrapper for SAMBA rather than a reimplementation. I have had frustrating times with Linux unmounting Windows shares and having to reboot to get them to remount.

2) Training. MS have a well trodden path for learning to be an MS admin. Bringing it to Linux would surely help more people test-the-waters.
> a physics undergrad

Now imagine dozens of people with a PhD in physics doing the same. (Earning a degree in physics is hard.)
There is a contest run in Australia called the "UAV Outback rescue" https://uavchallenge.org/ It's run by Australia's peak scientific body, the CSIRO so the results are pretty rigorous.

The scenario is Joe is lost and incapacitated in the Australian bush. "Joe" is a human sized dummy with a (very) small infra red source under his clothing. He needs to be found and then have something done. He is located within an area of about 50 sq km.

The requirement has always been the aircraft must be totally autonomous from take-off through to landing - and that includes finding Joe. In the previous challenge, once Joe was fond the aircraft had to land beside him, and take off again - in an area it had never seen before.

About 6 years ago Andrew Tridgell (original author of Samba and Rsync) joined Canberra UAV (an amateur group of UAV enthusiasts), and started working on the Ardupilot AUV software Canberra UAV used in future attempts at the competition. At the time nobody had completed the challenge. After Andrew joined Canberra UAV, Canberra UAV completed the challenge every time (and indeed until 2018 was the only team to complete it) forcing the CSIRO to up the difficulty for the next competition to be held.

The location algorithm has been pretty simple in all cases - this is a group of amateurs who could not use expensive LIDAR's. From memory it's multi pass. The first pass happens from relatively high, and then promising signatures (which are barely more than a pixel) and then investigated more closely.
the last 'news' update on this is from 2015... did it fizzle?
I think it's important to sat that since you can deploy a smart contract for $2 then a lot of people do it for testing purposes or just deploy a new one for every softwat iteration. Blockchain is immutable and thatt expected.

Imagine counting how many deploys have been written on Heroku before the first user starts using the software.
No tool but I've had success writing code generators to better interface between various data systems, autogeneratoring various accessors and utility functions.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18340693
That sounds far more ergonomic than electromagnetic or possibly temperature sensitivity. If that was the case then the wireless keyboard should be even worse.

I found at times switching to a non flat keyboard helped when they were starting to bother me.
Actually, Linux manual says:

DESCRIPTION
Under normal circumstances every UNIX program has three streams opened for it when it starts up, one for input, one for output, and one
for printing diagnostic or error messages. These are typically attached to the user's terminal (see tty(4)) but might instead refer to
files or other devices, depending on what the parent process chose to set up. (See also the "Redirection" section of sh(1).)

The input stream is referred to as "standard input"; the output stream is referred to as "standard output"; and the error stream is
referred to as "standard error". These terms are abbreviated to form the symbols used to refer to these files, namely stdin, stdout,
and stderr.
You can't patent a dumb physical switch. That and the fact that the tech industry has moved so far away from even caring about users problems that it's now busy devising cool new solutions to the problems it created for them.

Seriously, putting cameras and mics in every device and then creating web browsers which potentially have access to them at all times? Yeah, I'm most worried about what happens when I close the lid.
Why are ICO contracts not useful?
That's really interesting. I honestly haven't given Redux DevTools much thought despite the fact I use it daily as a core part of my workflow. I thought, like I said before, it was mostly just visualizing artifacts produced normally by Redux. Makes the browser extension much more interesting!

edit: Here's the link where it's implemented in redux-devtools if anyone else is curious https://github.com/reduxjs/redux-devtools/blob/master/src/cr...
No, this isn't an ergonomic issue - though yes, my shoulders are relaxed with the keyboard on my lap.

Also, wifi would be far less of a strength of EMF than whatever is being emitted from the laptop base - so I'm not sure how you came to the conclusion that wifi would be worse.

Edit: For anyone wondering how I know this, I can rest my hands where I have my laptop, however if I have the EMF shield/cover over the base, then my hands don't start to hurt when resting them.
Being fair, the advertisements can be switched off (and Windows Setup offers this during the Out of Box Experience when the computer is first used or a major update occurs), and those icons can be removed fairly simply. Also, those third party apps aren't preinstalled; they're just shortcuts to the Microsoft Store to download them.

I see a lot of people spending more energy ranting about this, a problem that doesn't necessarily exist in the way that people might think, than doing a quick investigation to find that the apps aren't there in the first place.
I really don't think it was the manufacturers of radio equipment that have been informing me about the radio emissions of sellotape. It was an aside in an article about research into making x-ray images with sellotape as the source, so if radio manufacturers and their 'hangarounds' (whatever they might be) did smuggle that in, they are getting very subtle with their propaganda.
True, but this combined with brain drain creates a lot of perverse incentives and drives a further wealth divide.

For example, many low tax base areas accumulate a population with more problems that have higher tax rates, insurance rates, etc (and a more strained social net) than a rich city.

It is important to make sure rich areas are at least paying some of the costs they create in selectively pushing people out or creating bottlenecks to set a minimum CoL on who comes in.
But note that that kind absorption doesn't mean that such hydrogen atom becomes "less" or more the same "hydrogen" than before. The electron remains "there" in both states: its magnetic moment gets to be either parallel or anti-parallel to that of the proton, that's all. Also note that the "mean lifetime of the excited state" of that electron which still remains bound to the proton (that is, of the "higher energy" moment of the electron) is "of around 10 million years." So all this is relevant for the observations of the light passing through the universe, that is, when we worry about the photons traveling the many light years of space, but not relevant when we worry about if electrons remain by the same atom or not.

Compared to all that, the ionizing radiation (UV and shorter, that is, measured in nanometers or smaller, and not in centimeters) does remove or add the electrons around, changing the properties of the atom, and as soon as the electron is being hit by the photon. That is why it is provably damaging.

Of course, there's never only one wavelength of the photons, it's always a distribution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunlight#/media/File:Solar_spe...

But that would still mean that the potential for the damage is order of magnitudes bigger by the "plain" light than by the infrared, micro, radio or 60 Hz waves. The photon energy is proportional to the frequency (i.e. more Hz more energy):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck%E2%80%93Einstein_relati...
Capture a token, use it yourself, and show the user an error so they generate a new token.
Building and Managing a Remote Team
I didnt expect that! Interesting that there are even telecommunication experiments with "circular polarized" light. It still seems most light has no circular polarization though and it can't supercoil like DNA either, unless guided through a coiled fiber or something.
This is my guess and the one I'm excited about:

Azure is a cash cow. Windows brings in money but is increasingly difficult to monetize _and_ its increasingly difficult to keep bringing legacy app support forward and stay competitive.

PowerShell, .NET Core, and MS SQL are all happily running on Linux.

By all accounts WSL entered the market with little drama is pretty great to use (IMHO).

The idea of doing a native SSH from WSL into a Linux container on Azure running a bootstraped 'MS' version of *nix with official support for a discounted price compared to a Windows VM is certainly appealing.

I would run MS Linux as a dev environment in a heart beat. MS would do well to _not_ to brand a desktop and just run a very clean gnome or plasma default.

Then a dedicated app store can really push PWAs like Teams,Skype and fully manage the interop layer for other apps that need a little more hand holding (wine, mono, etc).

tl;dr - I'm into this.
> Why would they have any interest in Linux on the desktop?

Short answer: Chrome OS (also Android).

Chrome OS is a Linux distribution being aggressively promoted by a large, well-funded competitor. It can already run Android apps (in release versions) and Linux applications (in beta). Ironically Visual Studio Code runs really well on Chrome OS, as do the Android versions of Word, Excel and Powerpoint -- full screen like a proper laptop application[1]

Microsoft's applications already run on Linux; it's really up to Microsoft to decide whose Linux distributions they get to run on.

[1] https://imgur.com/a/rp0VFR4
People shouldn't have to spend any time on this, at all. Very few people want ads for games or anything else than their operating system focus in their start menu. There should be at most a subtle opt-in option.
I like the condensed meta reviews. As others have mentioned, only showing Amazon is a bit of a drawback. I'd love to see what categories are coming soon -- right now the list is small.

I was hoping to see a coffee pot category!
I guess the point is none of that affects enterprise users who are joined to a domain and have all of that turned off in group policy.
Believe it or not, some Amish communities do use cell phones. We look at their selective use of technology as a general ban on all new technology when it's more nuanced than that. But certainly some groups do reject cell phones some some sub-groups could be a partial control group.
Llama blood clue to beating all flu
“Cancelled”

I don’t believe for a minute that they won’t be renamed and developed by some people they’ve now identified as not giving a shit.
You have said alot of words none of which changes my opinion.

Using email as either Verification or Username has always been a lazy and insecure and should stop.

If normies can not recover their candy crush account and need to sign up for a new one in order to protect privacy i am find with that if companies like King stop collecting data

I am security and privacy first, convenience and "free" are about 1000000000000000 on my list of importance. If a lot of free sites die that is price we pay for better data security and privacy. i am fine with that.
Not readable on my iOS devices. I can’t scroll down to read the article.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18376376
And even AliExpress seems to be the "second tier" to Taobao - but you'll need an agent to get things from Taobao internationally.

I wish I could draw up a hierarchy of stores. Safe to say, a lot of the marketplace listings on Amazon US are coming from (the same suppliers as) AliExpress.
Breaking up various rocks is a good one. You can get all sorts of RF emissions doing that.
Elvish Shell
I'm getting access denied on that link. Do you have a mirror?
True. Another difference is that it's illegal for me to be my own doctor, but I can be my own programmer. ;-)
Sure, but thanking God for modern medicine is insulting to hard-working researchers and clinicians everywhere.
With better incentives hopefully. Nature has no care for morality.
For anyone who wants to get started with this, maybe this basic movie recommender [0] implemented in JavaScript is a nice start.

[0] https://github.com/javascript-machine-learning/movielens-rec...
Don’t forget the inability to install add-ons (i.e. ad-blockers) in Android Chrome.
That's the shape of a light beam, which can be arranged anyway you like.
Thanks for that. May I also recommend "Everything" [0] - multi-drive search is very useful for people like me with an unholy number of files.

0: https://www.voidtools.com/downloads/
> Being fair, the advertisements can be switched off...

There's nothing "fair" about that. I shouldn't have to.
Guess that didn’t last cause look they are hiring data engineers

https://www.stitchfix.com/careers?gh_jid=1252958&gh_jid=1252...
Uh, obvious reasons? The fact that they block EU visitors might not hurt them, but the fact that those people complain on sites used by US visitors will.
I have never seen an option in the OOBE to disable the automatic installation of Twitter, Candy Crush, Trivago, Fallout Shelter, Kindle and other such crap. What setting are you referring to?

You are correct in that they are stubs however the moment Windows finds internet access it begins downloading them. This is obviously their preferred solution to ensure the user gets the latest and greatest version of the appvert.

Some can be removed easily and some not. I know Microsoft are working on making it easier to remove more of their own apps which they should have done in the first place IMHO.

Yes I am spending energy ranting about this because it is a problem to me. I shouldn't have to spend any time on removing such crap from an OS that I paid around £200 for (Pro license remember not some free upgrade from Windows 7 back in 2015) that is baked into the £3000+ price of my Surface Book 2.

It isn't that it is too difficult just that it shouldn't be required. It would be like buying a Mercedes and having to remove advertising stickers from the back Windows.
Since the article starts with someone in SF (although he's leaving), I want to proactively dispel the myth that it's common for homeless people to be dropped into SF by other cities because we have good weather and liberal govt.

It may happen sometimes, but a recent survey showed that over 70pct of the homeless people in SF previously had homes in SF [0]. So it's mostly a home grown problem.

[0]: http://sfist.com/2016/02/11/71_of_sf_homeless_once_had_homes...
Approach Bash Like a Developer
Freelancers are compensated whatever the market values them at. If they can get better pay/work elsewhere, then they do.

Driving for Uber is as flexible job as it gets. I don't see how it's flexible for Uber - Uber can only offer a ride if a driver decides out of their own free will to accept a ride.

For many people (2+ Million), driving for Uber is worth the money. They decided that it's a better gig than their other options. If they decide that it's not worth it, then they stop. And because it's such a flexible job, they don't even need to give two weeks notice.

Even though you think that driving for Uber isn't worth the money, millions of people around the world do.
All that a GPS device gives you is your coordinates (latitude and longitude). It does not tell you whether these coordinates correspond to a street address (you need a map for that). It does not tell you how to move between two points (you need a pretty complicated set of routing algorithms and historical/real-time traffic congestion data to do that).
The article even turns it around: if no bussing were included, the homeless population might be double what it is. SF is a net homeless exporter (with the huge caveat of impartial data).
There's no daylight "saved" or "wasted." It's merely forcing everyone to change their schedules according to someone else's arbitrary desire to have their schedule moved up an hour. It should be gotten rid of entirely, and those who want to change their schedules should do so.
Interestingly, there is a belief in military pilot communities that pilots will have far fewer boys than girls. Two close relatives of mine are military pilots, and my observations have confirmed this. From individual families we know, to officer neighborhoods on base that have an unusually high proportion of girls. It's still anecdotal of course, but very interesting.

Apparently there have been a few studies, but with questionable rigor. For example http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.603...
I don't know what "dig" means in the context of this app and therefore I don't understand the purpose of the app.
This has nothing to do with me... if more people would like me Facebook, Twitter, etc would not exist at all, and Google would have a massively different business model more like when they started then what they have become.

I do however want ownership over my data, and the right to demand these companies tell me what they collect on me (often with out my permission see Facebooks Shadow Profiles on people that do not have accounts) and right to demand they delete said data.
Ask HN: How did you learn MetaSploit?
I've spent like 20 hours banging my head against the wall over the last few weekends.

I started with www.offensive-security.com/metasploit-unleashed. It "teaches" by example instead of concepts, though. I read a good portion of it for what it is worth but it's not worth much.

Then I tried "Mastering MetaSploit" but they don't include a target machine disk image so you can't follow along. Of course you don't realize that until you're some way through the book and have stretched metasploitable to its breaking point.

People joke about how MetaSploit is so easy to use that it's for script kiddies but I'm putting serious effort into learning it and getting nowhere.
Because sudo is the setuid binary here (so it's not affected) but everything else isn't setuid, they're just running under sudo with LD_PRELOAD set...
I don't think that is true. There have been cases in the recent past where the mods changed titles because they were overly sensational, even if they were the original title.
America's Next Water Contamination Crisis May Already Be Here
Disappointed in the response over at Ubuntu: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/initramfs-tools/+b...

IMO this should be treated as a bug in initramfs-tools.
Technology to resurrect [them] won't be around for 200 years and at that point the now current nation-state and international contracts won't have any standing. Welcome to being part of a convenient un-rights'ed anonymous forever-slave underclass. It would be interesting to know how best those who select cryonics now will be exploited then. Rich enough to afford it and optimistic and gullible enough to think it will turn out right.
So an affiliate site that claims to have no bandwidth intensive images but sends you to amazon to see said images. What is the point?
Especially in a Pro version. Groove Music is my complaint as that cannot be removed with the uninstaller.
What applications can be built with this? Any attorneys here who can comment?
This.

It makes Implementing CQRS in a single service really easy. GETs load the event log, replay and display the results while POSTs send a command that gets translated into an event. If it is valid it gets appended to the log. This approach is storage agnostic: It doesn’t matter how the log ultimately gets stored
Please put the tldr at the front next time ;)

Think about it.
Wabi-Sabi: The Japanese Philosophy for a Perfectly Imperfect Life
What, another mobile thrust? They gave up on that completely. All-in on cloud, unless something has changed?
They also seasonally relocate, heading south in the winter and spreading out in the summer. Seattle's transient homeless population is largely gone by mid-December
Old analog cell phones used about three times as much power, but the frequencies were lower and the antennas were held farther from the head. The old tower transmitters used more power but were much less densely distributed than today and especially tomorrow. Assuming microwaves do have the potential to cause some kind of damage (beyond simple heating with absorption), the power level would be only one factor and possibly not the most important one.
Not necessarily, since complying would likely yield only like 2% (number made up) extra returns on whatever their revenue already is.

The most important factor is still if your newspaper is any good.
That metaphor seemed like it was trying to show equivalent complexity, not that the jobs were interchangeable.

Engineers on a spacecraft needing to know that at a certain temperature a material contracts which changes the friction coefficient it has and increases the heat generated until two moving parts melt, seems to have the same equivalence as knowing that at a certain rate of incoming messages your cache technology starts hitting a race condition where messages are double sent and now the downstream work is duplicated but not able to be correlated.

All of this is different from ambiguous wording in natural language, where the ambiguity might even be the intent.
What’s funny to me is how many incompetent “thinkers” appear in meetings. Obviously, thought (even removed from implementation entirely) often has immense value. Eg, many people spent a lot of time thinking about arithmetic, linear algebra, floating point, compilers, and now I can go run whatever cool algorithm on my computer. But I continually seem to run into these people who seem borderline incompetent at anything but spewing out whatever pops into their head. Half is nonsense, one-quarter would be actively destructive if you tried to implement it, they always seem to know everything about everything but whenever it’s something you know really well you can tell that they are very confused, etc. when I meet these people now I just think “oh, you’re one of those guys who is good at saying a lot of things” and then move on. Oh well
I find it obnoxious to say "yes, a minimum wage makes for a better society overall but I'm going to take a principled stand because ideologically I'm opposed to forcing employers to pay a living wage." Seems silly to me. If I think something will make society better, I'm in favor of it.

> Even if there seem to be good effects from segregation didn't necessarily mean the government should dictate living locations.

To be clear, you're NOT saying there are good effects of segregation, right? That was just an example to illustrate a point? Because I see zero positives from segregation.
I was obviously not trying to suggest that.
>Unfortunately there hasn't been much legitimate study into this area

What would be your take on studies such as these two? -

Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity: A Systematic Review of Provocation Studies

https://insights.ovid.com/crossref?an=00006842-200503000-000...

Radiofrequency electromagnetic field exposure and non-specific symptoms of ill health: A systematic review

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001393510...

edit - they were picked purely as being the first two I came across in a very quick search. It doesn't seem as though research is that thin on the ground.
There's an astonishingly large number of books on basic QM (only, perhaps, comparable to the number of books about differential forms :). It is probably because each author feels that something is missing or unclear or outdated in all other books. And this is despite the fact that QM in its fundamental shape has been complete since mid-1920s.