skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ll add another: firmware password. Even though it is easy to bypass on many generic PC laptops, some are fairly secure and prevent unauthorized parties from messing with your EFI or booting from flash drives.

Without a BIOS or firmware password, a malicious person could theoretically replace your boot loader or the software that asks for your disk encryption password with a version that logs the password in plaintext and/or sends it back home. Although much less important than disk encryption, firmware passwords can be a good additional safety measure.
That an education should be pursued primarily or solely as a means to achieve employment is even more dubious. Unless, of course, you're trying to claim that having a highly educated populace isn't, in and of itself, a Social Good?
"I'm a data scientist"
Yes, those are talkers masquerading as thinkers. Not all talkers are bad, in fact some are great to work with, but the bad ones seem unable to not burn bridges.
There is in production you start out with x pages of script and have 7 days to shoot it.

Listen to and commentary with directors and actors they will often refer to getting the day done i.e. they shot the required number of pages and having to cut stuff or not be able to do some cool shot they wanted.
What is "Zulu" time?
One awesome project was called CastAR https://youtu.be/AOI5UW9khoQ. It didn't take off like porn or anything, but that doesn't mean it wasn't a really cool technology.
If sticking to a single frequency, the main loss is in producing the light in the first place as the new fibers can take a lot of power and conversion from light back to electricity can get above 90%, but laser efficiency is still pretty crap.
On Android I use an App called Epsilon Notes synced to my vimwiki via syncthing. It handles md files like vimwiki.
Georgia needs to get it together
Sure, but the argument is specious for all of the same reasons that philanthropy has a track record of exacerbating the social problems it intended to solve.
You also don't need modern wheels, when just pulling a simple carriage wheels were invented for.

Modern JS engines are not written for playing funny tricks with "window.status" or "window.title" as in 1990, but for more complex applications.

Not all uses are useful, but that's to subjective. As with wheels.
Ummm...if you believe in God, the idea is that he is to be thanked because thanks to him the scientists etc...

But in reality, the phrase has lost a lot of its original meaning. Still we need to be thankful, while we may nt get the Saudi Prince medical care, we still get a lot better care than Kings got 100 or so years ago. If I had a time machine and a few neosporins I'd be the richest man in the world. Plots of land in the middle of London and Paris for saving the King's life.
Also construction waste is a debatable one. Sure it's not good stuff, but did you produce it? Or did you just move it? I'm sure, at least....i hope, whatever you replaced it with in the house is better for the occupants than the materials you removed.
Is there an RSS feed or associated twitter etc that can alert me of new articles?
This is (probably often) true for all those who can load a few dozen arbitrary type signatures into their active memory and start drawing conclusions. For the rest of us a few examples of how to do common things would help a lot. Please include documentation.

I have experienced what you're talking about with Haskell but it was a lot of uncomfortable work. But it's "technically" true that the types often describe how to use a library, sometimes so well that errors cannot happen.
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> > He thinks you have to "save" to "invest" later.

> Because that's the truth.

Well, start telling this VW, BASF, Dow Chemical, Ford and the whole bunch the next time they take a billion dollar loan in expectation that it will pay off. Even Intel has 30 Billion long term debt.

> You can't just produce "things" out of thin air so the
> idea that you can finance future production without
> (someone, somewhere) deferring present consumption is not > really valid.

Exactly this is what capitalism is about. The the pressure created by debt, is exactly what makes capitalism very dynamic.

> Unless, of course, you just print up a bunch of money and

The idea that "only gold is money" was stupid, is stupid and always will be stupid. Even with gold back money you would be able to take loans. The only thing you would achieve is lower economic growth.

> And that Robinson Crusoe bloke stuck on an island...

THe Robinson Crusoe guy is perfectly a guy that Mises is describing. But he is closer to a middle ages barter economy than to anything called capitalism.

This touches some things:

"In simplest terms, our problem is that we as a people are no longer getting richer. Instead, we are getting poorer, as evidenced by the difficulty young people are now having getting good-paying jobs. As we get poorer, it becomes harder and harder to pay debt back with interest. It is the collision of the lack of economic growth in the real economy with the need for economic growth from the debt system that can be expected to lead to collapse."
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2014-02-12/limits-to-grow...
You and I take the same situation and see it very differently.

My impression is that most people don't see intelligence as a good thing; not socially, at least.

15 or 20 years ago, if I said I was a programmer outside of my chosen peer group, people were more likely to respond like I was someone not worth associating with socially.

Now, people almost treat it like any other high earning professional. My impression was that then, it was only a job you went into if you didn't have opportunities in business or law or whatever. Now? it's on the standard path to both of those, and catching up (but still not there) on renumeration.

My impression is that a lot of the people who came into the industry after me were the sorts who would have gone into business or law in the '90s. This makes me seem a lot more socially normal than I was when I was younger.
not needed:

1. more money (we can't buy back the environment)

2. more information (we already know)

badly needed:

1. action to reduce consumption
It's stochastic. Could happen tomorrow.

We got lucky in 2012. [1]

[1] https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2014/2...
While I'm glad this is the case, if my computer is compromised to the point where I can be spied on with the webcam/microphone, I'd be far more worried about my entire photo library, web browsing history, message history, email history, bank credentials, etc. being exposed.
I'm curious what your opinions of Windows Loader/picoKMS et al are.

On the one hand, it would get an Enterprise copy running.

On the other hand... this is old (may 2017) and the URL shortner hiding the "followup article" is down, but there's this: https://twitter.com/m8urnett/status/866353982217699328 / https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14389441
> It’ll also be a reasonable Metro ride away starting in about two years.

Is that the official estimate? If so I'd double it :)
British soldier will attempt to be the first person to cross Antarctica solo
Scandinavia and the entire Soviet Union spring to mind instantly. There's nothing particularly white or privileged about healthy skepticism of any system that hinges on labor arbitrage to accomplish it's goals. Go meditate on the econ definition of the word "exploitation" until enlightenment is achieved. Note, if you're planning on trying to muster McCarthyite arguments at this point you're going to have to overcome the fact that the first manmade object and the first person in space were both put there by communists.
I used to drive around in an old ‘91 Lexus LS400. It was a fantastic car. I still see that generation of LS400 on the roads :)
I keep 6 gmail tabs pinned and I don't find it sluggish at all on my 2016 MacBook Pro. The only thing that's slow for me is how long the non-default add-ons take to display after you load a message.
Original Twitter link for those who want to avoid the broken garbage that is threadreader. https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1058676834940776450

archive.org link: https://web.archive.org/web/20181104213003/https:/twitter.co...
Thermal contraction would typically not change a particular part/material’s coefficient of friction but rather would potentially decreasing acting normal force. Friction is reduced because contact decreases not because some material characteristic changes.

Pedantic maybe, but it does reiterate the point that a software dev couldn’t design a spacecraft.
Extensive discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18370409
under the direction of its new owner, Knight-Ridder

This much is incorrect. K-R owned the Mercury-News from 1952[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_Ridder
>we developed in a natural world without all of this electrical pollution.

That big glowy thing in the sky might disagree.
All snark aside... You get what you pay for. I am slowly moving away from Google services. Paying in some cases reduces functions you might be used to, but also introduces freedom of ownership (well, maybe). But overall we are spoiled and I prefer using non mainstream services now.
That is also very true. I worked with someone like that who was really wonderful (and a wonderful person)
From what I understand there have been several successful pilot projects that are variously shut down or are considered inappropriate for other cities (politically unpopular). Utah just straight up housed people to great success. NYC has a massive homeless population but they also put a ton of money into housing their homeless- also to fairly decent success. For drug addiction, there have been successful needle providing clinics in Canada and America currently has methodone clinics to great success. There are various police programs just for connecting homeless people to resources to get clean and start working, and otherwise providing them what they need to survive until they’re ready, and we know these have had success also. None of them are politically popular and there’s a lot of opposition to implementing any of them.
I once worked with a "Data Scientist" at a hedge fund that was clearly pattern matching whatever problem you had to some random Apache/Google tool without actually listening to the problem.

{
"Unit test" : "google mock",
"CSV" : "Apache Parquet",
"message" : "google protobuf",
"queue" : "Apache Kafka",
}

etc

His data science recommendations looked like a markov chain of various analysis algorithms.

One time I started digging into his recommendation trying to figure out why it was even on topic and he starts going on about how he's a "big picture" guy and not to bother him with implementation details. The thing was, his 'big picture' ETL was breaking our trading system every other week due to some inane dependency strictness that wasn't necessary.

There's nothing more 'big picture' than not fucking trading!

I guess because portfolio managers aren't specialized in engineering, we see a lot more of these fakers in finance than tech.
'strawman' you're going to have to look up yourself since I already did all the other ones.
How would you live on, say, $1200 a month without leaving the US and without roommates/a partner? Currently I pay $400 a month to share an apartment with one of my family. And it's been hard in putting aside money to save. I'm trying to see where else I can get by that actually allows me to save on more expenses (and I don't know yet if I can ditch the car because the cheapest places in the US tend to be the most likely where cars are a major benefit)
I've experienced that hypothetical perfect world, it comprised teams of data scientists, developers, and system engineers working on making progress towards multiple distinct 'business insights' and operating within a big data ecosystem. People's job roles were tightly defined but their participation in tasks was largely determined through self-selection and reputation.
After the inbox debacle I decided I didn't want to use Gmail and am now a happy Mailspring user. If it could just implement Google inbox's sweep function, it would be perfect.
My experience has been mixed. I do most of the work stuff on Chromium and the UI is okay-ish, used to be better, but whatever.

However, the personal stuff I keep it for Firefox, and it's just as OP said: 4-6 seconds to complete an action and even when the UI has loaded, not all icons are shown immediately.
On Firefox it’s unusable for quick work (open, quickly manage emails, close). The interface is noticeably slower than the classic UI. It’s maddening.

Not sure what I’m going to do when it switches over for our Google Apps account. Any alternatives people like?
A week or two after reverting back to the usable gmail, Google notified me they would switch my Google apps mail to the new gmail in a popup on the corner.

It presented me with two options: Now, Delay One Week.

Instead of choosing one, I adblocked the notification. Two weeks later I'm still on the old gmail that responds to clicks. Hoping it never changes.
Two New Bluetooth Chip Flaws Expose Millions of Devices to Remote Attacks
>The only weird thing with my hearing that I know of is that I'm missing a band of frequencies entirely. I don't have a good explanation for that one.

That's normal hearing loss. You'll have damaged or be missing some stereocilia of that resonant length.
High power on a fiber has a problem called "fiber fuse" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiber_fuse).

I followed the link on this article to the article on a more recent solar storm (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_storm_of_2012) where I found a report from Lloyd's which mentions that there are workarounds (like "neutral-current-blocking capacitors"), so it might be possible to make even large power transmission systems resistant against solar storms.
I will bet that MSFT is going to embrace and extinguish Red Hat's position in the corporate Linux market.
Yes! And the recent versions of Chrome on macOS are equally bad.
Absolutely this. See https://google.github.io/guava/releases/23.0/api/docs/src-ht...

For a discussion on some of the dangers of invoking completion listeners synchronously.
If actions are fully deterministic, a list of actions is isomorphic to a list of events: you can always determine what happened by looking at what was requested.

A list of all past states avoids the determinism problem, but the consequence of each action is only implicit in the difference between two states.

For event sourcing, "the state" is the list of events, and what you're calling "the state" is just another selector/projection.
I was able to find one stumbling around google, if anyone else is interested. Lenovo X1 G3 from Sporton[1]. And a less comprehensive report from Intek, for 2016 random brand convertible [2].

[1]: https://fccid.io/2AJN7-TP00089ASI

[2]: https://fccid.io/2AAWC-ELL1102
Seems like a very Windows tool. By that I mean it's a full "application" to do what could be done in about 15 lines of shell script:

#!/bin/bash
set -e
pid=$1
if [[ "$pid" = *[^0-9]* ]]; then
pid=$(pgrep -x "$pid")
fi
lasttime=$((2**64))
while sleep 10; do
read pid comm state ppid pgrp session tty_nr tpgid flags minflt cminflt majflt cmajflt utime stime cutime cstime priority nice num_threads itrealvalue starttime vsize rss rsslim startcode endcode startstack kstkesp kstkeip signal blocked sigignore sigcatch wchan nswap cnswap exit_signal processor rt_priority policy delayacct_blkio_ticks guest_time cguest_time start_data end_data start_brk arg_start arg_end env_start env_end exit_code < /proc/$pid/stat
newtime=$((utime+stime))
if (( newtime - lasttime > 1 )); then
gcore $pid
fi
lasttime=$newtime
done

This one has the benefit of being extensible to handle whatever metric you want, or execute whatever command you want, change the polling period...
Protosure – cloud-based, programming-free, policy issuance system
Setting up your own mail server is way more work than that. Setting up the software is the easy part, you are now gonna have to deal with spam blocklists as well as ISP that just blanket-block some hosting companies IP ranges.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18097569 discussion for that, in case anyone else was curious
No, I don't use GMail.

Fastmail is great, though.
Sure. And no one left their home country to come to the US with meager resources. They were all wealthy.
It's clear that people's understanding of EMFs is low overall based on comments like this - where the presence of the sun and other natural levels of EMFs that make it through our atmosphere at different quantities, at different times, etc is being compared as equal to say electrical power lines, screens/monitors, CPUs, etc; it's naive.
Shit man, you are correct.
https://www.fool.com/investing/2017/04/24/yep-netflix-inc-is...

Call them. Tell'em they are doing it wrong. They should start saving first to do some "investments". By the way, Mises never worked one day in his live in any free market enterprise.
I can’t stand the new gmail to the point where I check my email only once a day. Every time I open that interface I get enraged. I am a UX designer and the new UI is a total clusterfuck - something you’d expect to fire someone over. Big G really messed this one up and I suspect many feel this way. If they have any sense left at all they’ll add the old view option back or revert completely.
It seems like almost everything Google related is sluggish. The new Google AdSense, the new Google Analytics, the new Google DoubleClick for Publishers, and to a lesser extent, the new Google Maps. These are all products I use that perform worse now (on modern hardware) compared to a decade ago. I really don't understand how this happens. Does no one at Google notice some of these services literally taking 10 seconds to load simple pages?
>Very few people want ads for games or anything else than their operating system focus in their start menu.

Why do you think the average person wouldn't want these popular apps a click away?
How much is it autodidact friendly compared to Full Stack engineering? What would a "hello world" or "first learning project" of distributed systems even look like? I can only think in terms of learning via building a concrete project eg. a to-do app built on whatever tools you want to learn.
I dislike Google's preference for making their experiences optimal on chrome. Gmail and youtube both seem to run faster on Chrome. It feels very monopolistic that their services run best with each other and poorly on the competition. It's probably not intentional, but very frustrating.
But that has nothing to do with what I was saying. I was saying that engineering is different from writing. There is no reasonable interpretation of what I wrote that is saying that different types of engineers could do each other's jobs.

So the entire thread is unreasonable.
There is no "Arduino chip." Its a hardware module and software ecosystem built around the Atmel AVR microcontroller series.
Considering how good a job Microsoft has done of fragmenting the UI, breaking things with frequent updates, and generally turning Windows 10 into a Goldberg-esque nightmare, it looks like they're already practicing running their own Linux Desktop Distro.
i wish i had thought of this
Not only sluggish but I couldn't stand the custom font, it makes reading paragraphs of text a headache.
The waiting queue mechanism in the article is related to the specific requirements of that auth network request rather than Swift in general.

The queues provided by Apples GCD are an abstraction above threads and mutexes.
The equivalent to your critical section example is:

let dispatchQueue = DispatchQueue(label: "com.mycompany.myComponent") // Initialize queue, just as you would with the mutex, label will show in debugger

dispatchQueue.sync {
// Critical section
}

There are several wins here. One is that gcd controls thread creation as needed. But the bigger win is when you have a longer running critical section and mustn't block the calling UI (main) queue.
Then you can simply do an async dispatch on the queue and callback to the UI queue on completion. GCD will also introduce the necessary memory barriers for passing data between the queues.
Seriously considering going back to imap+MH.
God damn that was clever of you.
What is fastmail missing that gmail has?
To put things in perspective, Susan is incredibly talented. She went from barely knowing high school math to enjoying advanced mathematical physics in fewer than three years, which means in this three years, she learned Analysis (not Steward Calculus, but at least Baby Rudin, mind you), Differential Equations, Linear Algebra, Abstract Algebra that covers at least groups, rings, and fields, Functional Analysis, Advanced Probability and Mathematic Statistics, Differential Geometry, to say the least. Besides that, she also needed to learn mechanics, E&M, Quantum Mechanics, and what not. She achieved all these in her part time as she was majored in Psychology. What's even more amazing is that she didn't find her latent talent until she went to college, and she could immediately enjoy Feynman's textbook with almost zero background in Physics!

Bravo! Bravo!
I'll recognize when my time is coming and be able to just wander off into the woods or something and die that way, with my body left where it drops.

Please don't do that. It sucks seriously for the people who have to go find you when the missing person report is filed, and it really, really sucks for the "doesn't know what is going on" person who finds your body. Predators are not exactly 100% effective.
I'd argue the T2 chip is actually more secure than your method. Magnets can be removed. The T2 chip cannot. Not without rendering the computer unusable and the data irrecoverable.

The chip provides a hardware disconnect for the microphone, just like your idea. Except it's baked into the silicon instead of an additional large part in the body of the computer.

Regardless, if your attack model is "T2 chip is compromised", all bets are off. Worrying about the microphone would be the absolute least of your concerns. All your local and iCloud data can now be decrypted, your 2FA is compromised, so on and so forth.

The T2 chip and Secure Enclave provide the strongest security guarantees in today's computers and mobile devices respectively. I'm not worried about a compromise of the T2 chip, to be honest.
> the engineering-related department consuming the ETL’s output should likely be the ones writing/maintaining it.

This is exactly the author's point. The Data Scientists are consuming the ETL's output, so they should learn how to write and maintain ETL since it isnt very hard or time consuming with modern tools.
That's why I switched to the simple HTML version of the Gmail. Not as fancy, but it covers 90% of my needs. When I need fancy interface, I temporarily switch to it.
What are those benefits?
2. Action to produce clean energy

3. Action to economically account for pollution

4. Action to incentivise removal of carbon from the atmosphere.
From what I understood he only downloaded docs he had access too but did not distribute them.
Not to be a rude, but this just feels like an affiliate micro site...
Even if it's scientifically imperfect, it's excusable. The crew needed to enter Big Ben to advance the plot by [rot13:rkcrevrapvat gur arhebybtvpny rssrpgf bs gur fpenzoyref svefgunaq].
They are like like a person running.

You've clearly never seen a scooter clip a person's ankle and break it. I have. The point of contact is not torso to torso, it's metal to ankle.

It's common here for scooter retrievers to stack multiple scooters crosswise on the driven scooter's floorboard when carrying back for charging or deployment, making it a 3+ foot wide wrecking platform.
.... it works perfectly fine for me
Welcome to 2018, friend, where we have several orders of magnitude more computing power and somehow everything is less responsive. It's all accomplished through an advanced process called "Software Engineering".
Great stuff. Never got to building this myself but this is awesome.