skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not talking about merely enabling JavaScript. I am talking about normalizing more and more APIs accessible to every website I visit. Sound. Canvas. 3D. Local storage.
My FIL has/had multiple melanoma. One of the tricks for him is his support group. They swap treatment research, good local doctors, emotional support, and when things get bad, they help out in the hospital with nurses, food-runs, etc. Please consider joining a support group. Some are better than others, so feel free to try more than one out and see which one works for you.

Oh, and Fuck Cancer.
When you overestimate a foe, you waste some resources; when you underestimate them, you die or get tortured or etc.
> Is there a service that lets you associate your own tags with HN accounts? could be useful.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hn-friends/

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hn-friends/ffgfcbf...
Ford reportedly buying Spin as transportation companies seek mobility toehold
We support this, it's just enough of a corner case that it's not well documented. If you don't care about missed-message emails, you can install the Docker image (easiest to setup when offline), and then use https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/production/authentica... with an Apache .htaccess file as the thing that sets REMOTE_USER.

Send a message in "#production help" in chat.zulip.org if you have trouble figuring it out, and I'll extend the docs until you can get it working.
I am not sure why the service business is any better.

Sure you can cash the checks you get from your customers and write out a check for AWS. Or you can run a data center the old way or some new way. So can anybody else.

There is just no moat. Running the service you can pocket the money you make learning how to run it more efficiently. You share some attributes with Salesforce.com but you don't have the patent portfolio and other proprietary IP that makes Salesforce a great product for what it is.
The benefits are the free online service. You seriously can't say that Youtube doesn't have give us huge benefits, it fill so much of my entertainment nowadays, it give me so much knowledge and all theses peoples that produce theses videos are getting paid to made them. Gmail allowed me to have an email when I was too young to pay for it. MSN and then Facebook allowed me to connect to my friends and make communication so much easier.

Ads pay for theses services and not only does it pay for it, it allow people that literally can't pay for it (either by being minor (no access to credit cards) or simply not having the means). That meant that service that depends on a big market to survive can survive.
Linux Sucks. Forever
Condorcet means that a candidate who is 2nd choice of 100% of the voters, maybe even a strong 2nd choice (rankings don't carry that info) will always lose even in a case where all the other candidates are grossly polarizing

That's not correct, if there are 4 or more candidates.

If there were exactly 3 candidates the split would have to be something like 51-49, and then the candidate with 100% second place would come second. But it's arguable whether that's a bad result, and it seems like a very unlikely scenario anyway. Even 10% of people voting that candidate in first place would be enough for them to win it.
From a purely bi-partisan viewpoint, I think this is a big deal for many other reasons as well. If I remember correctly, a few Republicans defended Sessions saying that his firing would cause some backlash. This was due in part for their admiration of the man as he gave up a Senate seat to become AG and for being a pretty staunch Republican. On the left, Sessions is known to be the leader of all the big police/drug/immigration policies that the Trump Administration wanted enforced. He also was a piece of the puzzle between Trump himself and Mueller like you stated above. His ousting definitely has feathers ruffled on both sides from what I can see.

edit: More info.
Agreed. I think it makes perfect sense to have a phone that can plug into a tablet or any other form factor. The thermals might not let you run an iPhone-in-tablet as fast as a dedicated iPad, but given how fast their chips are getting, it's probably just a matter of time.
curious, how would this prevent being captured on camera? isn't visible light used?
Same thing applies to cutting cables. You'll be seen and tracked. Jammers are both trackable and illegal in most places.

Believe me, I wish it was that easy.
Backup link: http://archive.is/tH0Ae
Who fixes Getafix then?
http://archive.is/tH0Ae
This is nuts. The iPad Pro is so massively ahead of the game, it's even hard to believe. It is faster than the MBP 2017 and ALMOST as fast as the MBP 2018. We're talking a device that is 5.9mm thick and is battery-powered!

Now here's my prediction: Apple does not really want to build an ARM-powered MBP. Instead, they will eventually allow iPads to double boot into iOS and/or MacOS.

Call me crazy, but this would be huge. Of course, Apple would still build traditional laptops, maybe even with ARM processors in them, but only as a byproduct of their iPhone / iPad product line.
You forgot it's lispy base
> Allow me to propose a thought experiment: I'm a traveller from the future, where the notion of 'qualia' is understood and engineered

This is incoherent: qualia by definition cannot be engineered, or even validated by external observers. This isn't a technical limitation that can be overcome with progress, it's inherent in the definition.
Not sure whether this is how they did it, but a new law has given police 'hacking powers'.
Otherwise, it'd probably be a court order based on the claim they knowingly did business with organized crime.
Mobile OSes haven't been ready to accommodate desktop-level use cases. Apple is moving in that direction with iOS on iPad. Once they get there, convergence makes a lot more sense.
This is more or less what we do with our our client-side switching solution at Streamroot: we first make sure the user has enough video segments in its buffer, and then we try to get the next video segments for different CDNs, so we're able to compare the download speeds, latency and RTT between the different CDNs without adding any overhead. You don't necessarily download the segments at the same time, but with some estimation and smoothing algoriths you're able to have some meaningful scores for each CDN. The concepts and problematics here are very close to the problematic of bandwidth estimation for HTTP Adaptive Bitrate streaming formats like HLS & DASH, because you have an instable network, and you are only able to estimate the bandwidth from discrete segment measurements. [0]

If you want to do it on a sub-asset (video segment, or image or JS file) level, it's possible by doing byte-range requests (ask bytes 0-100 from CDN A and 101-200 from CDN B), but in that case you still add some overhead for establishing the TCP connection, and in the end as you need the whole asset to use it, you'll just limit the download speed to the minimum of the two.

[0]https://blog.streamroot.io/abr-algorithms-work-optimize-stac...
Which is why the next multi-billion dollar company is a simple ISP, the one charging $$ for delivering IP packets. Unfortunately, it is not sexy enough for VCs to fund.
Who is team lead?
Direct link to official blog post: https://code.fb.com/developer-tools/getafix-how-facebook-too...
As a person who works in education, I feel like many decisions are made this way. It's rarely about what is best for the kids.
I don't really understand any practical consequences of this.
Formerly unpaid? It was paid just as much in the past as it would be in the hypothetical future, in exactly the same way.
You'd think the same logic applied with profiling metrics used in areas that implement stop-and-frisk, but it doesn't stop them.

A false positive is an excuse to target someone police don't like, or suspect is guilty, so the dismantlement of a system that provides those convenient false positives will be fought.
It wasn't sly, OP is wrong. There were no comments on reddit till there were plenty of users to make them.
Got any links for getting started with SATCOM other than the SDR to weather satellite stuff you typically see?
When teachers are directly exposed to the light of the sun, they burst into flames. ;)
>but for commercial use, it might require 3% (say) of your profit from sales of the software product.

That's not OSS.
You're literally the first startup I know that sells tons of shit at scale, for which this is a positive description :).
I have a couple of videos that talk about individual components and their critical parameters e.g.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXEyCf1P0UU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyhzpFqXwdA

but it sounds like you are looking for content that explains line by line what every parameter means for that component. I definitely understand why you'd be curious about that stuff (I definitely was) but after years of working in the field I came to learn that most of the parameters in a datasheet aren't actually useful or relevant to most designs. For example when picking a MOSFET the datasheet might have 40 lines worth of parameters, but only 5 of them are of actual interest to a designer in 99% of cases. So that's why I chose to produce content that directs the viewer's attention to the most important stuff rather than overwhelming them with edge case scenarios.
Ask HN: Are there any B2B SaaS that only have native mobile apps (no web app)?
> I'm not arguing against white men's privilege. And by the way, the term "white men" can be found nowhere in the article or in my comment, and I don't know why you are dragging race into this.

Because in the United States, "black male privilege" isn't a thing. "Male Privilege" = "WHITE Male Privilege"

Do please give examples of the, "benefits of the man's privilege is in decline" when compared to the population in whole. Please do so without seeing this as an adjustment in overall equality.
From an OS standpoint. I only see two real limitations keeping iOS from being a desktop replacement for most people -- support for mice/trackpads and adding support for USB Mass storage devices to the Files app and treating mass storage devices like they treat Dropbox/iCloud/OneDrive, etc.
Makes me wonder if there might be any advantages to modulating Softmax attention in deep artificial neural nets, with some kind of mechanism for recomputing attention based on each previous attention.
Samsung folding smartphone revealed to developers
It's generically echo or delay.

Normally, it's called slapback when it's used for "rockabilly" (yes, basically sounding like Elvis--specifically his guitarist Scotty Moore).

People emulating Brian Setzer is the more modern thing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PY4CSScCKY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EW54TX4Pwl8
> Hypothetically, if your software were really simple and robust (think standard unix utilities), nobody would pay for support.

Yeah but reality shows that standard unix utilities are not used by the majority of people. So many people use unix based systems, especially macOS which has much more simple/bare-bones tools than GNU/Linux and still few people do read man pages for instance
Well, that's a great reply. Having read quickly through the docs, I think in particular the "Life of an Apache-based SSO login attempt" had enough information to clarify the process for me - until then I wasn't as sure.

I don't think I would have located this option while filtering for "works without email, and I'm okay missing messages". If it was present a year ago I definitely didn't. Very glad it's a supported corner case!
Wow that takes some serious gumption!
Personally I can't feel guilty about it. Copyright was a compromise. A limited privilege of exclusive rights to encourage the creation of new works after which they would fall into the public domain and everyone would have full access to them.

Companies have gone back on their end of that bargain and now we have perpetual copyrights and new works will never enter the public domain. Deal broken, I feel no need to uphold my end by respecting the rights they were granted.
> Why aren't girl scout activities as cool as boy scout activities? I honestly do not know.

You're right. A Boy Scout camp I worked at was trying to get Girl Scout groups to come use the facilities, but parents resisted because the facility had a shooting range. They said that they didn't want the Girl Scouts involved in or exposed to "violent activities" and they wouldn't come unless the shooting range was removed. Other parents felt that the majority of the outdoor activities were too dangerous.

There was one group that wanted to use the shooting range, though, and despite freezing rainy weather, the girls (and parents) came out anyway. That was great to see.

There's not much stopping the Girl Scouts from adding the other activities except for the female leadership themselves.

I'd love to see more cross-organization Merit Badges.
Why Not to Build a Time-Series Database
> "This is only true of uncompetitive markets. If Target refused to sell you clothes because someone made a false copyright infringement claim against you, you would laugh in their face and go shop at any of a thousand other stores. And for exactly that reason they don't even attempt to do things like that."

what you say would be true of (increasingly rare) mom-and-pop shops, but the relationship you use is highly asymmetric and favorable to the large bureaucratic organization, no matter the competitive dynamics of the market. target would be the one laughing in your face, not the customer.

the false dichotomy of preferring one bureaucracy over another because one is private and the other public is silly (in case it's unclear, you should prefer neither).

the rest of what you said is reasonable however. direct provision, direct subsidies, or removal of regulatory barriers in rural access would be better than the convoluted compromise we have now.
Nope, this would be enough for many people (both women and men) not to talk to you ever again. Can't see how this is average.
They have been fully supporting two instruction sets (at times three with arm32 and aarch64) since iphone came out in 2007.

I agree it would be odd for the mac line to bifurcate like that, but even in the ppc -> x86 days they supported ppc macs for quite a long time.

Apple has been getting great returns from its chip investments because they have been able to reuse the blocks in so many devices. If they do go ARM for mac there is diminishing returns as they move up the product line about how much of the silicon they can reuse. They are right at a point where power hungry multiple memory controllers, complex core interconnects and other things that will likely never make it into an iphone are going to be necessary. I suppose they can use the highest end macs as test beds to see if ideas work out, but is apple really going to have chips fabbed with 20+ big cores and complex intercore transport for products they will never sell in huge numbers?

I think for the highest end apple is better continuing to piggy back off intel's server investments and focus their chip team where it has been been absolutely dominating: sub 10W incredible performance per watt.

macOS on two instruction sets would require some extra developer time, but volunteers keep debian running on 18 arches. After the initial port there is some care and feeding, but it's manageable. The biggest issues are cross compiling, something apple is already really good at, and device drivers. Apple has that covered with the T2 chip. Move more and more of the peripheral connectivity into something like the T2 chip and then you only have to write/maintain aarch64 drivers.

The more I think about it the more it makes really good sense.
I’m amazed by this. I would have thought quality of radio was so low that the program would be unrecoverably corrupted.
Thanks for noticing! We'll make sure to improve this
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Ask HN: What are the guidelines to follow while opensourcing a project
I'm opensourcing an ecommerce solution for B2B sellers. It was our startup, that we are shutting down.
Would really appreciate any guidelines and pointers on how I should go about opensourcing the entire project?
The Price of Free Speech Is $100
Why is low solar activity bad for amateur radio?
Yeah, sorry. There was nothing in there that implied gender.

I know a number of people who work with children in education and there is a very clear change happening in the last 20 years with how prepared children are when starting school. The average amount of actual parenting time many children are getting now has dropped dramatically and it is showing in behavior and basic education preparedness. Of course it is the right of either parent to work but society has now made both parents working a requirement in many places, not an option... and it seems the fallout is affecting the children.

If you're concerned about society then the focus needs to be on preparing the next generation better. Either you structure it so that single income families are an option, or you dump a lot more into the education system to make up for the lack of input kids are getting from their parents.
> protoAST and AST hold the same information content

Not really. protoAST lacks the knowledge the specific code walker adds. For example there is no way to find out whether FOO is a variable or a function without actually 'parsing' the code. If one uses a different syntax in the code walker, then the conversion generates a different parse.
My first encounter with potentiometers was in the game-paddles of my Apple ][. Of course, I had to replace them by temperature sensitive resistors :) Fun times ...
I have been designing cryptographic protocols for securing card payment transactions, card data and pins. I then was going with those systems through stringent certifications from various organizations, especially PCI.

Not enforcing signatures when exchanging keys? Is this crypto-kindergarten?

With a well designed payment system it is expected that the attackers have access to basically all of infrastructure -- servers, databases holding keys, network, disassemble terminals, bribe employees, etc. and still have no chance injecting their own keys, read pins or get any cryptographic material of value.

Why can't you just guys who pretend to build secure system spend some times reading real requirements from PCI or Visa or Mastercard to get at least some idea how real secure systems are built in at least one area?
the average age of ham operators is well above 50s. You still have time for yourself! I'd love to get more involved, just don't have the time. Some of the best ways of getting kids involved is local DX events.
-KE7BRP :)
Yes, but if you're specifically studying placebos you should have a control group that gets nothing.
Making complex buggy software is the default. It is really, really hard to write simple, robust software.
Yeah, the front-page documentation focuses pretty heavily on "you should setup email" because it helps folks in a normal environment successfully setup Zulip quickly and reliably. I'm not sure whether this use case is common enough that we should put it in the front-page docs, but possibly we should write something that Google will find...
Great when you're furnishing the Netflix via HDMI.
And that iPads + keyboard are significantly cheaper than MacBooks.
Consumers even less, as noted on my last paragraph.
Amazon is hiring 1000+ devs to work on their Alexa stuff.
It's not open limitations but about extra Microsoft spyware included and making you agree with Microsoft Privacy Terms https://code.visualstudio.com/License/

"The software may collect information about you and your use of the software, and send that to Microsoft. Microsoft may use this information to provide services and improve our products and services. You may opt-out of many of these scenarios, but not all, as described in the product documentation."
I guess there would be no winters in this city.
Plug in a set top box.
StackOverflow has been a big source of users for us: https://blog.ipinfo.io/i-answered-99-stack-overflow-question...
Also the specific concept of gait analysis[0] has been around for decades. Changing one's gait has been an important piece of the tradecraft tool box for a long time now[1].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gait_analysis
[1]: https://youtu.be/JASUsVY5YJ8?t=278
workflowy is also another similar one - https://workflowy.com/
My father used to "download" things this way. Unfortunately given the poor quality of cassettes in communist countries rarely anything arrived in one piece.
>What not an iPhone with a desktop mode you can pair with a monitor, keyboard, and trackpad?

Because that would mean Apple doesn’t get to sell you two devices.
> i look around and see a world struggling with pollution and inequality.

Pollution is hardly a problem created by capitalism, and inequality is only a problem in the minds of those who for some reason don't stand the idea of anyone earning more tham them while not giving a damn about those who earn less.
> thousands of people are sent to die for nothing in a Middle-Eastern desert

This is sad. I don't like wars. A war is only worth it when all other means fail. I only see the point in defensive wars; the 1991 war in the Middle-Eastern desert was that, protecting Kuwait. Later, not so much, to say the least.

> violence first, democracy later

Rather, "independence first, democracy based on that". I don't see how this Middle-Eastern warfare ever helped US independence, or e.g. Iraqi independence. Except maybe it helped a bit Afghani independence, because Taliban long-term would likely be even worse that the total disarray they're having now.
Facebook just kept building compilers:

2004: PHP is quick, let's use that.

2006/7: PHP is slow, let's build a compiler for it (HipHop)

2010/11: Still slow, let's build a VM and compile to assembly (HHVM)

2012: types are cool, let's build an oCaml parser to pretend they exist in PHP!

I kinda view it as Zuckerberg profoundly agreed with the never rewrite code theory.
I love them! Done well, they can be extremely pleasant to read and understand.

A good friend of mine creates those as a hobby: https://pwacker.com/
I don't understand all the hubbub but I am for this. I bounce between the West Coast and the East Coast on a regular basis.

If DST is made permanent in California then Southern California will have the same nearly the same sunrise as Georgia when they change their clocks back. Clearly Georgia makes it through the fall and Winter A-OK every year.

Is the concern mostly squared around Central through Northern California?
Without defending AT&T:

Schwartz was prosecuted by a US Attorney. If anything he is a poster boy of over reach of government.
Living in a relatively northern latitude with fairly fixed hours far east in a timezone, I used to really value DST (though would just as soon have been in the next timezone east). Now, between lots of travel and flexible schedule, I don't care that much though I still prefer whatever tilts toward more evening light.
I think they hung on surprisingly long.

I know some people were asked to return their computers, but I've heard that some companies crashed so hard that the computers were just abandoned with their users.