skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I maintain open source software with bugs 10 years old. It's my free time and I can choose what to prioritize and work on. Popularity can be a burden because more users lead to more support cases. https://mikemcquaid.com/2018/03/19/open-source-maintainers-o...

> What you all sugest for this type problem for OS softs?

If it fits your purpose use the OS software. If it doesn't (yet) then paid software (with support) like Wolfram Mathematica, Matlab
While that is true, I am under the impresssion OpenJDK project is mostly Oracle developers
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In this SSD case, if they only certified the algorithm then all the SSDs would be fine (probably). The encryption itself is probably good and wouldn't be easily broken if you only had access to the encrypted data. It's the key generation and usage outside of the algorithm that is broken in these drives.
You will be surprised how many companies already doing so
While I generally agree, the free market did give us the likes of Tesla and SpaceX. The optimal strategy is to allow both.
Colemak: a keyboard layout built for programmers
You can "not vote" by going out and spoiling your ballot. "Not voting" by abstaining is functionally indistinguishable from apathy.

Actual voter fraud is a non-issue in the US compared to voter suppression and gerrymandering.
If the alternative was just as comfortable and fast, I would be the first to throw away my car. I have zero ego attachments to such objects, I am after their comfort and practical value.
BleedingBit: two critical vulnerabilities in Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) chips
VSCode is not Open Source and is spyware too : https://code.visualstudio.com/License/.

It's only open source if you build it yourself from Github
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Thanks jirenandcell. We invited some of our female community from citysocializer initially, then got a whole bunch of new users from product hunt and then it's been through word of mouth referrals. Right now its only in English and majority of our userbase is US and UK, but we will look to implement more languages as we grow.
> Okay but we're talking about razing houses and replacing it not with infrastructure and transportation networks but with more housing

Who’s talking about that?

All you have to do, literally, is just stop actively preventing people from building apartment buildings. The market will have no trouble taking care of the rest.
> Most of us spend our day fleecing

Yet another poster berated me for considering it anything but rare... what gives?

At any rate, fleecing, exploitation and deception of all kinds are externalizations of costs that will always bite the groups and individuals who do it in some form, and the ecosystems that choke on it.

> here's nothing that says one has to be wearing their consumer hat when using hacker news.

Is there something that says you aren't allowed to wear it? I mean, the comment I was responded too sure is be written from that perspective. And as you say, everybody is also a customer. So why not always be in mind of that, why not refrain from fleecing people simply because you don't want to be fleeced? These hats aren't actual hats, they don't actually make you different persons.
I wish people would stop using the phrase "Orwellian" for everything they consider intrusive.
Since I can't edit my original comment I'll just add that people have had a lot of relief from ankylosis spondylitis using these books [1], [2].

Yes it may not cure you fully but it may help you to regain your quality of life like it happened for me or this HNer [3] and thousands of others who thought the had some incurable illness but healed themselves after just reading a simple book.

[1] https://zacalstin.com/2017/06/30/how-i-overcame-ankylosing-s...

[2] http://www.tmswiki.org/forum/threads/big-improvements-in-ank...

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18151061
People would not care and would ditch cars if the time and comfort were the same. If the comfort factor is not there though, I feel most wouldn't part with their cars.
You could create an extension which checked certificates of visited sites, which includes information like country of origin, CA, etc. then have an interface for warning about certain parameters and configuring what to trust, warning about anything that doesn't meet your criteria.

The other part would be creating a way/file-format for experts to provide information about which CAs they trust and which are suspicious, then let the extension consume those.

It's not as good as built-in browser support, but it's a heck of a lot faster and more do-able.
Given the rapid rise of politically motivated violence, you can consider yourself lucky if the only thing making you a target is who you voted for.

If you're being "oppressed" for your public political affiliation (including party membership), you're not oppressed.
Is your argument really "why teach them to do something specific"?

Why teach C++? Some students might not prefer that to C#.

My problem at school was always "how do I apply this lesson to an actual problem?"
Picking _something_ (anything!) to teach is great (to me), because canny students can go off and use the lesson to do _anything_ else.
> We, consumers, like to shift all the blame to someone else,

An analogue: committing a crime is punishable, inciting it in some cases may be. It is the companies who dig up fossil fuels and use them --- "consumers told me to do it" is not an excuse that absolves from responsibility. Those trading in fossil fuels do what they do on their own accord, for financial gain, and hence carry the responsibility.
Energy cost of 'mining' Bitcoin more than twice that of copper or gold
Bill Gates brandishes poo to showcase reinvented toilet tech
I hope they have solved the problems with latest security flaws before releasing these CPUs
In order for CT to really work, we will need a better way to handle actually distrusting CAs.
I think that includes a way for a site to have multiple different certs at the same time, so their one CA isn't a single point of failure.

Without this, we will always be dragging our feet in dropping CA trust, because it will leave some perfectly valid sites shit out of luck.
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'Almost all' Pakistani banks hacked in security breach
Drawing is something I'm absolutely awful at. I was talking to some friends about it a month ago. They draw very well and they very much picture a mental image, then essentially translate that. They can conjure up images out of their minds, hold them there and draw each detail.

Meanwhile, if I'm not literally line-tracing, I'm woeful at it (like, stick-figure level bad). I can't even directly look at something and translate it, though that may be due to my general lack of practice.

Regarding dreaming, I know I've dreamt maybe 3 times a year? When I'm in very light sleep and drifting in and out of it. Within seconds of waking up, I've lost it however, so I never remember my dreams, just knowing that I did in fact have dreams happening. For the other 360 days, I'm essentailly closing my eyes to a void and then teleporting to the next morning.
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The underlying logic of the reporting blaming Facebook for the Rohingya genocide is that Facebook somehow has more power than a totalitarian, genocidal military dictatorship. Given that assumption it's hard to see why we shouldn't also treat any restrictions they place on speech in the same way as we would a totalitarian government.
As I mentioned in another sibling comment here -- that's not my problem. I pay my bills and the rest is for them to figure out. I work, I buy my tech fairly, I don't see what else I could do.

I am not a law regulator, I am not a technician, I am not an environmentalist. I buy tech because it helps me save time and effort in my busy day. It's the corps and the governments responsibility to make sure the tech is eco-friendly, not mine.
> Tesla employs medical professionals to make that decision.

Medical professionals that they "incentivize" to make a specific decision they like.

> “It was bullying and pressuring to do things people didn’t believe were correct,”
Not voting is the equivalent of saying "I support whatever the outcome is". You're effectively submitting to the status quo (or rather the future status quo).

It's a legitimate choice in the sense that it's a decision you can make and that it carries a political message. It's most likely not the message you intend though.
>[1] Most misheard lyric from "Blinded by the Light" by Bruce Springsteen

Actually...it's the Manfred Mann [0] cover of the song that contains the lyrics in question; Springsteen's original version [1] uses slightly different words for that line and so it's perfectly intelligible.

[0]https://youtu.be/Rpq35wyDi7I?t=10

[1]https://youtu.be/7Iaca30QbOo?t=80
Brexit means Brexit?
My faith in humanity is at an all time low.
Can you name an example where this news organization (Center for Investigative Reporting) has lied? If not, the fact that it has won a number of widely recognized rewards and has received a MacArthur grant should give you confidence that the reporters have been careful in their investigation and reporting.
I catch myself skimming over details like that too, because they are essentially meaningless to me. That said, I've never had the situtaion of a mental image being wrong, because I never end up actually drawing one. I just end up getting lost, like I'm constantly encountering new scenes that haven't been described to me. It's disorienting but now I've come to adapt to it, I know that I'll not necessarily follow details I would otherwise expect myself to follow, not because it's badly written (as I used to sometimes wonder) but that it just doesn't gel in my mind. So I've come to adapt to that, in a ways.
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Hey folks

For the past few months Barry (https://twitter.com/pace) & I have been talking to a bunch of young'uns about their news habits and one thing that keeps coming up is that people are overwhelmed with the news, and in particular, they're sick and tired of Brexit. So tired, they've switched off.

So, why are we providing more Brexit commentary?

We believe context is important, that our democracies need us all to be informed and engaged. Brexit is the defining issue of our time (at least this side of the pond) and so if anything deserves some extra effort, it's this.

But context, though vital, must be given in the right package.

By slicing it into 5 bite-size, interactive chunks (~3 min read time each), we hope to be able to clear some of the fog surrounding Brexit to help play our part in our nation moving forwards with clarity and purpose.

We hope you enjoy this short-series, but whether you do or don't, we'd love your feedback. We'll be hanging out in the comments here most of today ️

Many thanks to Larry Ryan (https://twitter.com/larry_ryan) for writing the content & Alicia Gomez (https://twitter.com/ali_gomeztapias) for making it look good
> I'm on the right and the sad news that you must digest is there isn't enough resources for all 7 billion people.

Well this is simply not true.

I'm no fan of ballooning populations myself because I'm kind of a misanthrope but resource quanity is not the problem. There is more than enough to feed, clothe and house up to 15 billion people, just not at the same standard as the resource-guzzling United States.

The problem is logistics and political will. That's what we don't have to provide for 10+ billion people.
How would you stage a legal way to do this?
Closed source software from proprietary vendors also have long-standing bugs.

You just don't have any easy way to get a list of them.

All dev teams (no matter if they are OS or not) are always shortstaffed.
That means bugs needs triaging (prioritizing) and only important (either due to risks of the bug or then number of customers it hits) are fixed swiftly ...

On open source you can at least fix it yourself (or pay somebody to fix it for you) if it gets sufficiently annoying..
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I find that hard to believe. So you're saying that Prius, despite being more complicated (as it needs to route both internal combustion and electric power to the wheels), has an electric motor/transmission more efficient than Tesla and internal combustion engine more efficient than power plants? The only way I think that's possible is if weight is taken into account, Prius seems to be a bit smaller and thus possibly lighter than Model S...
The site is almost unreadable on mobile. Font too thin, doesn't scale and most importantly, the contrast is way too low.
It takes a long time to design and fab new layouts. So at best you would get firmware mitigations baked in. Or, as mentioned in other comments, the HT sidechannels might be fixed simply because HT is turned off.
Much of US ambulance staffing is done by EMTs that start with less than 200 hours of training.

https://www.nremt.org/rwd/public/data/maps

(the circle thing that should be a table)
I think your comment typifies the tribalism and faction-based shaming that OP was alluding to.

Telling Republicans “there is no legitimate reason to vote Republican anymore” is not a logical argument that will win people over.
Dan Carlin (hardcore history - which is awesome btw, and common sense) mentioned a couple of ideas that sounded interesting. I’m sure he’s not the inventor of the concepts and I have no idea how they’d actually work, but sounded similar to what you’re talking about.

One would work where you have 1 vote per ballot item. If there were 24 ballot items, you get 24 votes. You can allocate your votes across the ballot however you saw fit. If you thought president and senate were more important than city council and an infrastructure bond; you could put 18 votes for president, 6 votes for senate, and nothing for local issues. No idea how this would be normalized but it’s a novel concept.

Another idea is to rank options in each issue, and if my first option loses; my votes go to the second option. Say I wanted to vote libertarian for president in the US but was afraid it was a protest vote that wouldn’t win so I voted Democrat because I didn’t like the GOP candidate. Under this system I could say I want the libertarian candidate first, democrat second, and not pick the gop candidate.

After the votes were counted and the libertarian lost, my vote would be reallocated to the democrat; and the votes would be re-tallied. This would encourage people to vote for a non binary political candidate since they knew their vote wouldn’t be “thrown away”.
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I’ve been thinking about Stallman and Free Software recently, and there’s another point that doesn’t seem to get much air time. Ever since the Snowden revelations, we’ve been woke to the fact that “they” are collecting an enormous amount of infortmation about us. We’ve also learned since then that “they” include both state and non-state actors. Correct me if I’m wrong, but if you use a machine with even one small piece of non-free software, then you always have a “black box” running on your computer, with no idea what it’s doing. “They” could be using that black box to run their instructions on your computer. And there is nothing you can do about it. You are required to trust the company you bought it from that it isn’t doing something you don’t like.

To head off an objection, I realize that the fraction of the worlds population that can read code is minuscule. And so, just like I have to trust my mechanic with my car, I’d have to pay someone else to review the code and trust their report. So trust would still be necessary, even if every bit of software running on your computer was free. But, I’d have a much greater ability to decide who I trust.

I don’t really see a way around my basic point: if you have non-free software running on your computer, it could be doing anything. Why should we accept that as the status quo? It’s one of the most compelling reasons I’ve seen for advocating and using Free Software.
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For a ground heat pump system you don’t need to remove the rock. You just drill a hole into it. My parents did this and their house is built on top of solid rock.
Comment from me: a few years ago, all banks in Pakistan were ordered to install a state developed "front-end" for banking software in order to connect it to national biometric database (in Pakistan, a big portion of ATMs have biometric authentication.) The flaw is rumoured to be a banal SQL injection in that piece of software.
I am from Eastern Europe. Here nothing ever changes politically-wise. The politicians expend a lot of PR effort to make things look like they are changing but they don't and it's pretty visible even for the not very well educated population.
Open access: two major funders won't cover publishing in hybrid journals
It also doubles the effective amount of cache per core. I kind of like that.
as I understand it would have little effect since it's implicitly assumed to be that way, might be wrong though
Just wait until Apple drops Intel. It's going to be a bloodbath.
See also: "Good fences make good neighbours", which was (possibly/probably) intended to be sarcastic.
Say you have a problem which is hard to reproduce — e.g. your service gets slow in the early morning but the app-level metrics don’t show anything unusual, and maybe the problem duration is too short for someone to easily catch it in action.

You could set a trigger based on CPU or memory load so e.g. the next spike will capture a few dumps over a set period of time. You don’t have to deal with a ton of data from a simple periodic trigger or having to try to time an irregular event — nothing world-changing but a nice time-saver.
It's okay to have a platform that does not serve the interests of white men.
I made a similar thing a couple of years ago: http://powerstones.ivank.net/

Instead of producing an image, it is an actual game :D And instead of running just on nVidia, it runs everywhere (in a browser, even on phones etc).
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" … currently believed to be a 5903 pin connector."

This thing has way more connector pins than the 6502 (the processor that ran inside the AppleII) had _transistors!_
Oddly, my advisor (I have a BA in lit) asked the class to comment on the often ignored line -- but then left it when no one offered the more correct interpretation. (Why I didn't bring it up is another story.)

Funny enough, not long ago a friend who attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop (considered the best MFA in writing in the country, if you're not familiar) said, out of the blue, "about that Frost poem" and I replied, "about the same." We both laughed. Apparently that misreading is widespread, even among the most promising new writers.
lol, blockchain
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In some countries they stain your finger to show you have voted, it lasts days to a week. It's used to stop voter fraud like voting twice.

It has also been documented to have been used to coerce people into voting for 'certain' people.

If you vote should be as secret as who you vote for.
No doubt they’re scrambling but managing to name a product after an STI is more “Gerald Ratner” [1] than “on point”.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Ratner
Of course it's just better organization of the codebase and a less-polluted namespace.
Also, if you're writing a library, it may affect the API you give to the user. If you move a function to a static method, the end user only needs to import the desired class.

But again, they are "usability" benefits. I'm no CPython expert but I don't think that a static method would have noticeably worse (or better) performance than a function.
Imagine you read the fiction where the only way for heroes to express their feelings is to utter word "fuck". How long would you read it?

The prose by Watts is so much against my life, hobby, sports and work experience that at some point of time I started read his work as something like this: "some uninteresting rant, fuck you, Serguey, some more pseudointellectual babble". I even started to re-research what I knew because I looked to myself so very wrong with what I considered correct and right. This is quite an achievement on Watts behalf.

And no, I cannot imagine how Watts would be able to satisfy me with the necessity for humans to enter that alien ship. In my opinion, it does not follow because of so many things before.
I could not disagree with you more. The Republican party is not a far-right extremist party, the Republican party is an extremely confused and poorly defined cooperative between conservatives and liberals. The Democratic party, on the other hand, is increasingly radicalizing and unifying in favor of socialized policies.

I think that the American left wing is far more unified and further left as a collective than the heavily fragmented and incoherent right wing. American liberals have effectively been excommunicated from the left wing, and as such are beginning to represent a sort of tentative alliance with the conservatives in opposition to the Democratic party.

TL;DR, I think the Democratic party is more cohesive and further left than the highly polarized Republican party is right.
It makes sense. Unlike speaking, reading is something we don't just learn naturally, yet it completely changes the way you see the world. When you see some written language you can't not read it.

I do wonder, though. Do humans with no written language still understand that writing contains information, or does it just look like noise to them?
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The amount of government subsidies to both those companies has been staggering. Neither of those are free market stories.
Great! That means we can make more steel.
I don't think your analysis here is right.

If you look at the history of the price for aluminium, it has steadily dropped as production has risen, which is the opposite of what you are saying. And to pick another metal, the lowest copper price of the last 100 years was around the year 2000.
The pointer to the patent was to show that the term 'data binding' in the modern sense was already in use by that time. I did not read the patent to know what it was about.
Lime skips scooters in Seattle to reportedly test out small electric car rentals
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I would guess given the news climate against tesla that that strong push was intended to avoid attention.
Is Apple really a major customer of Intel? I’m not so sure.
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It is a gdb protocol server. All of language support is on the side of gdb client, so yes, it's language agnostic.
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Yes, it does -- why else would the endurance racing world be embracing hybrid technology? A hybrid car has won Lemans for the last 5 years.

At least with the Prius-style hybrids, though, regenerative braking isn't the only advantage:

* The engine is an Atkinson cycle, which has better thermal efficiency than a typical Otto cycle engine.

* The electric motor is providing torque off the line, so there is no need for a torque converter (which reduces efficiency).

* The engine can be completely shut off when cruising at low speeds.

* The power split device (PSD) is more reliable than a traditional transmission, reducing maintenance costs over the lifetime of the vehicle. (it is much less labor intensive to replace the battery than to service the transmission)

The advantages add up when driving around town, but at highway speeds, a 3-cylinder or small 4-cylinder non-hybrid will often have better gas mileage.
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