skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not really a conspiracy. The CIA actively uses vulnerable phones, televisions, and other devices as clandestine listening devices.

99.9% of HN readers are just too boring (read: not terrorists or foreign officials) to have to worry about it.
India’s banking system is flirting with a Lehman moment
Pocket.

OneTab.

Those are my go-to options.
Something similar - my university changed the dorm policy such that, to stay in my room another year, I was required to purchase a meal plan of 20 meals a week at the new buffet-style cafeteria to live there.

I moved into an apartment.
FB needs good data and good security so that they can sell what they collect. If it could be obtained from FB without paying them, they wouldn’t last very long.
Yes, but also the upgradability!

If I was stuck with the original 120gb HDD and the stock 4gb of RAM it would be in no way 'usable' as it is now.
I challenge you to find one commercial website that only use cookies for login features.

The fact is that the cookie rules apply to more or less any website in the EU. In fact websites do not even comply with the regulation 100% since you cannot use tracking cookies until you have consent - but almost all websites just comply with the information part of the regulation.
Economic growth is irrelevant. It has no effect on the standards of living. What does have an effect on standards of living is economic growth per capita.
How to Watch a Near-Earth Asteroid Zoom Closer to Earth Than the Moon
Ask HN: What are some interesting programming challenges to solve?
I have tonnes of free time as I am between jobs at the moment. I'm helping a friend with his app but that is mostly CRUD stuff.

I'm looking for interesting problems to solve using programming. Like a website that has challenges. Or something that broadens my horizon/requires brain power.

I know :- Python/C++/Golang
Interested In : Functional Programming

ThePythonChallenge seemed interesting when I did it a few years ago.
I find that feature of Facebook pretty distasteful. Someone at Facebook said “how can we use natural disasters and terrorist attacks to boost our engagement figures?”
Wonderful to see. Just finished the trilogy - extremely thought provoking and I enjoyed all of them. So interesting to see a Chinese perspective - how someone whose life experience was shaped by the cultural revolution would think about humanity. A couple questions for discussion (doing my best to phrase in a non-spoiling way):

Could anyone interpret the “land of no stories” fable before they cracked it? Incredible talent to put a compelling story in a story and have the awesome metaphors.

Did the sword holder make the right decision? What about the second time?

Would you choose black domain or the alternative?

Why did Wade make the decision he did?
In addition: there is a constant pressure to “upsell” the clients medication, i.e. refer them to psychiatrists. He felt frustrated at the institutionalised proclivity for medication, and had to fight hard when going against it.

(And one bit that struck me hard: he mentions suffering from vicarious trauma so much that at some point he was crying with patients every day. Makes the video worth watching, imo. It makes you think about the kind of therapist you’d hope to find yourself in a room with, if necessary, one day.)
I'd think the absolute vast majority would not have spent any time wondering about that the slightest. And most that do would just assume that the app asked alexa and retrieved a local log.

So much of what is collected today completely hinges on the fact that the public doesn't even grasp the feasibility nor the desirability of keeping track of them.
https://medium.com/unicorn-supplies/angular-vs-react-vs-vue-...
I think we can all get behind privacy as a right. Making bad arguments for it doesn't help anyone though.
Right—that was a source of inspiration for this aspect of my language. The original stated motivation in Haskell’s case was to make it easier to generate Haskell source code without needing to worry about indentation, but I wondered if it could also be helpful for accessibility. (Sadly there’s no way to turn off layout-based syntax in Haskell, and not much interest in such an option last I asked on /r/haskell.)

Explicit delimiters also have an advantage for keyboard navigation, enabling some degree of structural (by-block) movement. I prefer not to use a mouse/trackpad if possible—my main editor is Emacs in a terminal—and I know some people who have trouble using pointing devices or just don’t like switching between keyboard & pointer.
I'd say this is why automation will grow in importance in the medium term, but it'll require a complete rework of Western economic principles (and companies will have to pay far far more in taxes than they ever have in history).
Congratulations to Cixin, the Dark Forest trilogy is not my favourite work but especially the first book reads very very well.

The last two books suffer from exposing the "Dark Forest" base premise/theory which I find too simplistic* to carry the narrative realistically forward. Almost wish more of the internal mechanics of the universe had been left unexposed since it would have allowed the reader to extrapolate/fantasize more.
I went to Crucial.com, downloaded and ran their little spec checking tool and then maxed out what I could.

I was lucky in that the model I had allowed an EFI upgrade (I think?) a few years ago which enabled the 16gb ram.

I use a new 15' Macbook in the office and I have with-drawl symptoms with that new keyboard. Nice machines though, just a pity they are not serviceable.
I'd have to agree with this. It sounds to me like Cloudflare is sacrificing security for performance in a fairly unpredictable manner. I also think the "Disadvantages"-section of the article casually skips the comparison of security between docker containers and V8 isolates.
I'd say the only one really doing blue sky in any sense of the word is Microsoft. Most of their stuff in R&D never comes to market and is never intended to as its entire purpose.
> My company would respond to a similar subpoena by explaining that we make archery bows from wood. That also doesn't add anything to the HN discussion.

I believe your parent's comment is relevant to this HN discussion, quite unlike your company's occupation. Your parent's comment suggests their company's users upload data (albeit encrypted client-side) to the company, so a judge could — without an understanding of client-side encryption — reasonably subpoena the company for user data. Compared to that, it is quite unlikely a judge would mistake a company that makes wooden archery bows for a company that collects much user data, or believe that the former fact has much to do with the latter supposition.
Personal attacks are not allowed here. We ban accounts that do this, so please review the rules at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and don't do it again, regardless of how right you are or superior you feel.

Edit: it looks like you've been posting a lot of unsubstantive comments to HN, as well as a lot of ideological comments. Both of those things are against the guidelines as well. If you'd please use the site as intended instead, we'd be grateful.
Yet C# and friends managed that just fine for many years..
Agreed.

Whilst it's less obviously impactful, I think it's important to note that it doesn't have to be a whole person-swap though. Group dynamics can change over time as the people in it have different life-events, hit different points in their career-path etc. That change can then go and have exactly the same kind of effect that you outline, without any people-swaps.
I remember in the 90s Smalltalk was going to be the next big thing, IBM were all set to throw their weight behind it with VisualAge as the next big enterprise development tool... Then Java happened and IBM ditched Smalltalk and leaped on that bandwagon instead and the rest is history

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_VisualAge
Discussed in 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10250132
Rapid Bus systems work very well when heading towards suburbs.
The T2 chip is the flash storage controller. It is not talking to a soldered-on PCIe storage device, it is addressing the NAND directly.

Apple theoretically could have a slot for NVMe separate from the system drive, but there is no industry standard for "card with NAND on it that the T2 chip understands".
This is amazing, thanks for sharing and creating!
The short-term benefit of a lower birthrate is called the "demographic dividend". Think of it like a Golden Age in the Civilization video game series. If you fail to fully capitalize on it, you are storing away trouble.
Hey,
Thanks for posting. Its nice to see a summary of things you learned.
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/07/04/churchill-prepositi... has more detail.
This is probably obvious, but just in case : for point 4 this is DOM-based XSS protection that is missing.
You can find therapists who has remote sessions over internet. If you're worried about someone acting against your will, you can have a Skype session without revealing your real name. Even with someone in another country - if your primary language is English, you have lots of options.

You can't get things prescribed this way. But it doesn't sound like that's an issue here.
It’s relevant because the whole point of the service, clearly stated, is long-term relationships. My point is that not only can they help you out with the initial matchmaking, but they could also help you maintain your relationship. Other products like tinder/bumble/etc are standalone and have to maximize engagement even after their initial matchmaking, but FB does not.
100% Boeing's fault? I would disagree with you after reading the article. That plane should have never been allowed to fly after having problems for many days and without figuring out proper fixes. Perhaps Lion Air should have flown in some Boeing engineers to look at the plane.
Thanks! I was looking everywhere without luck too
Here in Auckland even road-illegal 1500W e-bike with throttle kinda struggles to climb uphill, just like Limebike.
The elimination of day use or parking fees in BC parks coincided with a significant reduction of their budgets - after all, much of their money was from those user fees - and since then trails and infrastructure have been left to crumble. And that's to say nothing of the lack of resources for staff - in 2016 there were just seven park rangers in the entire province[1]. You can see more than seven rangers in one room if you walk into a Yosemite or Yellowstone visitor centre. That's not democracy - it's just neglect.

[1]https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-parks-ran...
Simon Peyton-Jones is (was?) known for writing blocks in “aligned” instead of “hanging” style, with separators in prefix:

someFunction =
do { foo
; mx <- bar
; y <- case mx of { Just x -> do { baz
; pure (quux x)
}
; Nothing -> do { fnord
; blurch
}
}
; xyzz y
}

I find it nice enough to read, particularly because it leads to rapidly increasing indentation and consequently discourages deeply nested code, but it’s a bit of a pain to edit & diff. I would write the above like this:

someFunction = do
foo
mx <- bar
y <- case mx of
Just x -> do
baz
pure (quux x)
Nothing -> do
fnord
blurch
xyzz y

This prefix delimiter style is actually fairly standard in Haskell not for “do” notation, but for records and lists, since Haskell doesn’t allow a final trailing comma in these structures:

list :: [Text]
list =
[ "this"
, "that"
, "the other thing"
]

data Numbers = Numbers
{ numI :: Int
, numF :: Double
, numS :: Text
}

record = Numbers
{ numI = 1
, numF = 1.0
, numS = "one"
}
You need to look at torque for hill climbing. Power defines top speed.
Higher voltage batteries mean higher torque. There are ton of road-legal bikes with huge 52V batteries and top speed capped at 25km/h.
If you sit on a couch or in another chill place, browsing the web with a good trackpad on a laptop in your lap is so much better than by touch on an iPad display. My impression is that the people hailing iPads that much are actually mouse and not trackpad users.

The iPad just requires more physical interaction to accomplish the same things.

The only device(s) that would be able to beat the laptop experience (imo) are comfortable (24/7 wearable) AR glasses + screenless laptop body as a keyboard. This would maintain the laptop/trackpad benefits while improving ergonimics (screen height) and also enable desktop like workflows, meaning thatcreatives don't have to switch between desktop and mobile desktop UX.
Multidimensional-relational-algebra
I came across this proposal to support analytics on unstructured data. It proposes extensions to relational algebra to handle unstructured data called "Multidimensional-relational-algebra" or MRA:
https://slamdata.com/what-is-multidimensional-relational-algebra/

Apart from this spec in purescript: https://github.com/slamdata/purescript-mra
I could not find any formal spec.

I was attempting to understand this as a way to treat both JSON and DB views (joins on tables) as "nested objects". Any pointers about MRA (above)?
Yes, that's exactly how we do it in Fortran 77.
Playing devil's advocate here but maybe they had already targeted many similar businesses in the area and were giving them all bad reviews. For these bad reviews to make a difference, there needs to be one with good reviews.
The best of developers need a different breed of managers. These managers usually stay away from their path, shields the team from bureaucracy/clients and made sure they are aligned with the business goals.

I've been a prolific developer, a designer, and a manager. At the onset of my career, I didn't really care what the designers did. I took up designs as I saw the lack of all around. I married design into development. I've designed many digital products but have always coded them right in after the initial wireframes and the pen/paper prototypes.

Until about 2010, I tend to brush aside managers as stumbling blocks and just try to get things done. Well, I started leading a lot of high calibers, high performing developers and designers. They are way better than me. That when I realize a new way of helping them move 10x faster.

I try to bridge the gap between them and C-Suite stakeholders, clients and their tech teams. I can move between design, engineering, sales, marketing, and business discussions with relative ease. I've been thanked many times for blocking the onslaught of "requests" and meetings. That's when I knew that the best of engineers and designers can benefit from highly capable managers.
EBOLA IN CONGO – THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN BEHIND THE OUTBREAK
> The BMC (IPMI) is also a self sufficient ARM computer

ASPEED BMC SoCs (popular BMC SoCs also used in OpenPOWER systems) have a ColdFire (m68k) co-processor buried inside them. In OpenPOWER OpenBMC firmwares we use the ColdFire to bitbang a JTAG-ish protocol into the POWER chip
Mostly because by the time conservation of wilderness came into vogue, the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand were the only Western-style democracies with large, intact tracts of wilderness remaining.
How does this work with Istio? I believe Istio also collects traces and sends them to Jaeger/Zipkin.
So hyperthreading and multicores are a security mess, but a JavaScript VM is going to safely allow "10,000 tenants" on a single machine?

Sure.
C# being the recommended way to build Windows apps played some part in that.
Ebikes start to feel unsafe over 50kmh. Mopeds can do 70kmh (see Niu) and more.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18369384
Rabies vaccine is crazy expensive and takes multiple shots. Even then you still need immediate post-exposure treatment.
How to Attract New Customers and Double Your Restaurant’s Bookings
Σεξ στη σάουνα: Τι να προσέξετε για να μην καείτε
a good therapist will not hospitalize you

In the USA, anyway, a therapist is legally required to intervene if s/he sees the patient as a threat to harm himself or others.
A good proportion of these accelerators are either funded by the government or by well established corporates. Most of the times, I think the end outcome for the accelerators which provide these equity free funds is steady deal flow of startups with rich information on their performance, so that they can help the late stage investors with more information.
Interactive online quantum circuit simulator
As a Canadian who has visited the backcountry of many US and Canadian national parks, you're completely off base. The US NPS has a far stronger wilderness ethic than Parks Canada. Yes, there are manicured front country areas, but there are also vast areas of designated wilderness - a legal designation that requires land to be left 'as though untrammeled by man'[1]. Banff and Jasper both have major private, commercial operations inside them that severely impact wildlife and continue to expand them (see the plan to expand the Sunshine ski area in Banff). Parks Canada funding for protecting the backcountry is almost nil.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilderness_Act
I don't see it that black and white.

The big difference between iPad and PC is the input. It's no surprise that consumers are less power users of input methods than people working on their machines.

Power users always use less intuitive, but more efficient input. The mouse accelerates my cursor, it moves farther then the mouse travels and has great accuracy. On the iPad I'd have to stir my arm around all day and selecting within text with your finger in the way was never fun either (though the latter can be fixed easily). I could only imagine in "air mouse", like a touchpad on your desk with mouse-like tapping and scrolling per finger.

Typing is where I see input methods might evolve. A touch-typists will remain more efficient, especially coding for a long time. Physical feedback on screen-keyboards would have to improve to the level of physical keyboards to fix that. Good speech to text (or mumble to text¹) might overtake the keyboard for prose but not for code unless the synax of programming languages adapts.

After that I see eye-tracking and direct brain interfaces, but those wouldn't be iPad exclusive either.

¹ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuUSc53Xpeg
If you plan on using Javascript on Lambda the bashing makes perfect sense.

So if want to write serverless functions in Go or Python you go somewhere else. But if you, as most other do, write them in Javascript, then this is a relevant platform to consider.
You mean, Windows?
There's a very simple reason why phones cannot be recording all the time - it would have an impact on the battery life. But an always plugged in device like the echo does not have such limitation.
Modern CPUs have other CPUs inside them, they never give birth though.
Credit score made easy to hack
I wanted to get a house for my family because I wanted a bigger space for my kids but I couldn’t get a loan because I had a poor credit score so we were renting for the time being, I needed to get this done. I was just surfing the internet one day then I read one article about a good hacker called universal hack9, so I contacted him on UNIVERSALHACK9@GMAIL. COM and just about 4weeks he raised my score from poor to excellent what a miracle. Now I have a house and a bigger space for my kids to play. I’m still marveled at this. Thanks for your help man [universal hack9].
I’ve loved Suzanne Vega’s music since I had her first album on cassette when I was about 13 years old. I finally got to see her live last year whe she toured her Solitude Standing album as a 30 year anniversary - she did the whole album and indeed opened with the A Capella Tom’s Diner.

It’s great to hear how she embraced other people’s versions - she totally understands the social aspects of ‘song’ and she’s not just ‘in it for the money’.
Do you really think Larry has never had a similar thing happening, in the 40 years he’s been in business?
Both just work so well together. :)

Also, salt in meat and vege stews ~ if you have nothing else in terms of flavour, salt makes it infinitely more appetizing.
Mary Meeker Reportedly Raising Up to $1.25b for New Fund
I agree with the conclusions. I got rid of all social media except for Reddit ( for ML related discussions) and Hacker News. I always calmer since. It amazing how fast my mind felt better from the negativity.
> Alvin Nathaniel Joiner (born September 18, 1974), better known by the stage name Xzibit (pronounced "exzibit"), is an American rapper and broadcaster.

I'm not getting anything else from Google except https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xzibit
Original reporting from BI (paywall) https://www.businessinsider.com/mary-meeker-raise-1-billion-...
The part of this that leapt out at me that I wish there were comments about was:

> ...custom on-die silicon (implemented by Intel on Xeon chips for a number of its biggest customers)...

I'm only aware of Amazon having custom CPUs, but I know no details about what's been customized.

Where might I be able to read more about this sort of thing?
Yep I've got an index.js file that creates a simple API gateway via a basic switch() on the url pathname. Then individual files for each function. Bundle them into a single script with webpack and copy that into the Workers UI (there's an API for deployment too... eg can use Serverless Framework).

1MB max size, max 5-50ms CPU time, max 128MB RAM: https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/writing-workers/re...

That said I've got a worker script running a pass-through websocket to GraphQL origin server and it keeps the connection open.

I'm doing authentication within the worker too. Long-term I can see ability to run absolutely everything there: microservices, GraphQL server (Apollo has a beta), auth, static SPA files, SSR etc. $0.50 per million calls ($5/mth minimum). And they intend to be within 10ms ping of 99% of the global population.

If they can workout how to do databases on the edge (they're working on it), then I can see a future where you could build scalable apps that serve millions of users for maybe less than $100/mth across the entire stack.
I was hoping for something insightful but really got more of the same antiestablishment alt-med ranting you'll find elsewhere on the web.

Dude even cites his anecdotal experience to claim psych meds don't work while at the same time claiming mental healthcare is full of psuedoscience and vaguely endorsing something that sounds an aweful lot like Freudian psychoanalysis. So that was pretty rich.

Well, if we're comparing anecdotes, my experience is that when a certain relative of mine was on lithium, she didn't try to stab me in the bathtub with a steak knife to keep the demons from getting me and when she wasn't on her lithium, she did.
The consent emails are evidence that people in charge were mindlessly following some rules given by some consultants.

Not all of them were necessary, and some of them might be harmful to those sending them down the road: if they had a valid reason before but asked, question is what happens if the person on which data was collected rescinds their permission? Answering "you refuse, but we have a legit reason according to GDPR" is a recipe for bad PR at least.
Tetris Effect review: a glorious love letter to Tetris
Windows isn't exactly a Microsoft Research project ...
> I support the banning of smoking in a similar fashion as tightly controlling the supply of opioids.

Are you saying that you want to model tobacco policy on the most unsuccessful public health policy of all time?
So you optimized some code, cool!

- How certain are you that you didn't introduce a bug?
- Is it also running faster on this exotic platform that we still need to support?
- Did it involve API changes?
- Do we need to put this into production now, or wait for the next optimization to save some time?
- How much time did we spend on this? Was there something else that would have made a bigger impact?

In theory you can improve things without drawbacks, but in practice you always have to make the right trade-offs.
Excellent talk! I always admired the Eve guys as they had the ability to build things I could imagine, but I never had the skills to actually make myself