skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn’t read optimism at all. Look at the very next line after that quote.

> The party appears to enjoy broad public support, and many around the world are convinced that Mr. Trump’s America is in retreat while China’s moment is just beginning.

> Then again, China has a way of defying expectations.

In other words: China seems to be doing well but then again they could totally fail

The author is clearly uncertain of China’s future, not too bearish but clearly not bullish either. He even makes reference to Xi’s crackdowns and return to autocracy as being troubling signs, not sure signs of success.
True, but that would apply to everyone else that uses the acronym, not something Amazon invented.
He's doing what most companies do: try to reduce their legal tax liability. If CEO's didn't do this, the boards of these companies would replace them with someone that will do it.

You are blaming Bezos and an entity for standard corporate fair. That's a symptom of the problem.
I think this is great. I see a future where designers can draw and create an interactive prototype. Anything beyond that is, my (educated) guess, long way off. Anybody hoping this will remove the need for designers or front end devs will be disappointed.
Once you admit to fraud, though, they have no idea what else you might be lying about -- including the admission itself. They can't exactly call his old professor to confirm that he built and used a cheating machine.

Plus, after you admit to doing it once, if I weren't the sort to reject you outright, I'd still call every single person and institution on your resume to confirm all of those were real. Right out of the gate, you're proving yourself to be a lot more trouble than anyone else I'm interviewing.

It sounds like mostly luck that they weren't caught before. Are they going to try again, at my company? I don't want my company's legal footing to rest on one person thinking they'll never get caught.
I live in flyover country in Wisconsin. We still got hosed on our Foxconn "deal". Living in flyover country does not make us immune, we can fall victim to these deals as well.
Sounds like a strong ego fearing its own loss of importance.
Yet, you still need to remember that even though your data is going through Tor you still need to ensure that the data still doesn't contain personally identifiable info, and a carrier can still track your position by triangulation of cell sites.

Tor isn't the holy grail of anonymization the media makes it to be, it's just a tool that you still need to use correctly to protect yourself.
Hey Raph, thanks for the vote of confidence! I spent a lot of time looking through your research on OT and CRDTs (plus your Rope Science series) in the course of writing my article, especially as documented and implemented in xi. Really fascinating stuff. I love how many different ways there are to approach this problem.
As far as technical problems, there are plenty of optimization sorts of things that come to mind. But I'll go with a different sort.

A while back I was working on an embedded 3D scanner at school. Part of this was using a freescale ARM processor, and a USB interface to transfer scanned models back to the computer. But a weird problem was happening: only when trying to use the USB, every once in a while the processor would have a fault, and the fault was often different and seemingly unrelated.

After a week of constantly banging my head on the problem, I came upon a stroke of luck. We were smart enough to have built in a programmer on the board that supported gdb debugging (we built the circuit and populated the PCB). While in a gdb session, I read from the code flash section and noticed that there was a zeroed-out word (4-bytes) that definitely shouldn't have been. More intriguing, a subsequent read was correct, or had a different word zeroed! So the random faults were when one of these zeroed words occurred while code was read (and would have a bad effect depending in the instructions).

Now that I had found the problem, the solution wasn't too far, but still took some fiddling. Eventually I found that reducing the flash memory clock fixed the issue. We had all the clocks set to a valid configuration according to the documentation, and they did work fine when the USB module wasn't enabled. But as soon as it was enabled, it apparently interacted with the flash in weird ways.

I was glad to find a fix, and luckily we didn't necessarily need the flash to be fast. Embedded systems (and other complex black boxes) can cause some real frustration at times. But it's always fun, and I still found it rewarding :)
That's pretty funny and I'm glad to hear something other than another barely believable "I did this god mode hack" story... The mechanical realm doesn't get enough love. Indexing shifters have become better, but progressively more miniaturized (and ironically flimsier IMO) over the past 30+ years. Good work!
Troll groups and meme groups
Great. But, Facebook is surely collecting a shitton of data from you and the other beer group members and, possibly, selling it to data brokers, who, in turn, sell it to beer advertisement companies.

You are the product.
3D funny Animation
> May everyone reading this be happy and free.

सुभ्मस्तु as I would say in Sanskrit.
Please do, why not?
Did her pessimism ever subside or did you just learn to accept it as part of her?
Education is, by intent, the opposite of indoctrination.

Using scare quotes and imolicitly asserting that most of what goes by as education is actually indoctrination without argument as if it was an established, uncontroversial fact is not a substantive contribution to the discussion, though it is a good way of signalling a particular tribal affiliation.
you make it sound like those numbers are completely comprehensive and without agenda, and that these subsidies are an unmitigated good. but they completely ignore jobs lost, companies shuttered, environmental impacts, and opportunity costs.

you're looking only at inflows and ignoring outflows. no systems dynamicist would take such an analysis seriously. systems have boundaries (by definition), and you must look at all traversals across the boundaries, not just the ones you like.

plus, you ignore the fact that amazon probably would have set up shop in nyc for far fewer, and probably even zero, dollars in subsidies. i.e., the same benefits without redirecting tax dollars to the already rich.

yes to more, savvy economic development; no to corporate giveaways.

EDIT: to your point about actors acting rationally, i would hope a group of business owners who don't get such subsidies put a bill before the people to either hold amazon accountable to promised performance or rescind/restrict the subsidies (or failing that, vote the bums out). the economic development program dollars they used should be directed toward entrepreneurs and small businesses, not mega-corps.
Ask HN: Open source, hackable router?
Any recommendations on routers that run open source firmware (OpenWrt, Tomato, DD-WRT) with some basic firewall? Would be great if it could also run a PiHole. Tired of crappy routers running closed source firmware which also have abysmal security...
Is this different from node-red?
I physically kept track of my consecutive day streaks... maybe gamifying it for myself in a sense. But I wrote down the date that I started and put that paper in a safe place. If I miss a day, I start a new sheet with a new date and start over but I keep it in the same place. It took me a few months to hit 30 days, another year to hit 100 days, and I rolled past my 1000 days mark like a year ago and it hasn't been that hard to keep with it since. But I still got my sheets stashed away.

The 30 days, 100 days, 1000 days mastery I got from my yogi who taught me kundalini yoga. She said it's basically a habit after 1000 days in a row. Good luck!
And yet I just heard that the MTA is raising prices again this year.

How many Fortune 100 companies need to move here before we get a working subway system?
Why affordable housing is scarce in progressive cities
I see lot of good suggestions for starting out in meditation but I see lots of "use this app, go to this camp, read this"

While in reality meditation is an exercise you need to practice in order to build that muscle. I don't like people productizing what's already has been available for millenias.

Basically the core of meditation is not escaping as some people have mistakenly believe but simply allow yourself to become aware of the fact that you are aware and awake. You are continually observing yourself observing and gradually you remove those superficial noise that cause so much suffering in our daily life.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigpa

1) Visualize the Tibetan letter "A" with your eyes closed and in a relaxed state.

2) Open your mouth slightly to make an "ahhh" sound barely audible.

3) No other effort than continually visualizing the symbol.

Another technique I found was when you are sitting in your bed in a dark room with your eyes slightly open and focusing on a point in space. You will see everything fade to white and it's very easy to slip into the meditative state. I don't know what this is called as I discovered by accident during my teenage years.

One final technique which may help those that still have trouble keeping their mind focused, I know I did, smoke an indica joint, sit in the sauna or steam room.

Okay one last final technique which I don't recommend to those who are virgins to psychedelics with safe alternatives like Psilocybin mushrooms. I don't recommend LSD because those are purchased of the streets and are usually not LSD but some other shit. Not the case with Psilocybin mushrooms, it's legal in Canada. I say I don't recommend this technique to newcomers or especially those who have never experimented but it's the closest I ever got to be on a plane of existence that I cannot identify as of this 3rd dimension. But overall the after effects are long lasting calm and freedom from anxiety. Ironic because intense anxiety can be felt depending on your surrounding and state of mind. It's definitely opened my third eye but after going on a heroic dose, the trip has scared me from ever attempting large doses. Instead, micro dosing with small caps not only ended up being the best fucking nootropic ever, but my life felt improved in many ways.

TLDR: there are several ways of achieving meditative state and you don't need an app. Some drugs may enhance your spiritual journey but I wouldn't rely on it as it fails to be useful after a natural tolerance builds. Instead, it should be used as a guide to put you in a state that would otherwise take many hours of meditation sessions, and allow your mind to make that "leap" into the serene state of mind, free of ephemeral desires and judgement that society has programmed into us from the moment we are born, which we forget in our next life.
Campbell? https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/07/25/in-n-out-burger-propo...
What if you could sketch your UI with a stencil, paper, and pencil. Then take a picture of it and have it translated into native components?
If you care about data not randomly failing, btrfs is not an option.

While working in that specific industry it seems like there is a motivation to specifically go out of their way to make things unreliable, extra complicated and utilize bad technologies.

The fact that IBM and Toshiba on POS is frightening.
it's great as long as everything you need is already in their repository. if you actually have to write your own code to build things, though, you're looking at one extremely hirsute yak.
End-to-end encryption like these shouldn't be considered private as long as no one else than yourself control the private key.

It's not as convenient, but misplacing trust into corporation that has no interest in your privacy is dangerous.
Honestly, public & private FB groups. Groups dedicated around specific subjects (mostly related to my career) have been some of the most influential places for learning, networking, building relationships that I've been able to call on later.

FB groups are king because:

1. Everyone is already there.
2. It's tied to your real identity (for the most part).

Other areas to learn/network and ask dumb/advanced questions exist, but to "community" vibe in FB groups is unrivaled.

My FB feed is almost nothing but groups posts. I've hidden/unfriended most people I don't care about and no one I've kept really posts to their actual pages much these days anyway.

I really wish Groups was a separate app. I'd keep that and messenger.

I realize my privacy on fb, and likely around the whole web is the tradeoff for this but unfortunately that's what's required to stay on. The advancements I've made in my career and personal life directly & indirectly due to the FB groups I'm in are definitely worth it, and likely would not have happened without the existence of FB groups.
The history of silk production is similarly full of continuous theft between cities and countries, from China to Turkey to Italy and beyond. Some cities tried harder than others to keep their secrets, but “theft” eventually happened anyway.
In original Patanjali Yogasutras, Yama, Niyama, Asana, Dharana are first to be practiced and perfected.
Hello ! Thank you for your comments, it is true that this repository is not in ideal shape. I shall work on making this much more user friendly by tomorrow. I had no idea that this would be seen by this many people. The react frontend is currently not in this repo, I shall add that along with documentation soon :) Thank you for your comments and your review.
Hey those kids chose to smoke those Camels! How's the cigarette company responsible?
That just sounds like an alternative form of mediation. There are a lot of variations out there.

>Just chuckle when your mind tells you something because you now know our mind operates from a place of fear and uncertainty.

That sounds like what Buddhists or psyconauts describe as the ego, rather than the mind.
It's been a while since I needed one, but do you know a decent Tabu search package for R or Python (or C)?
It's a struggle to fit into shrinking airline bathrooms
Isn't 96.3% prediction accuracy actually looking like overfitting ?
Excellent reading. In my experience,internal politics is the greatest threat against companies.

Most of us here can walk into most companies and engineer end to end encrypted,least access,zero trust,mfa authenticated network using strictly foss tools and methodologies. Question: Who will let you?

No joke,OP wasn't exaggerating about how easy most of his pentests are. Most companies throw money at it,do risk analysis and say "hmm,this is enough,a compromise is tolerable".

IMO, when it rains,it pours. Risk analysis only tells you what the risk is based on known data. Unknown unknowns will be your doom. Best to build things right even without an incentive.
I wrote a transactional object store for an early PDA that could use both vanilla battery-backed RAM and flash media. Took about six back-to-back hundred hour weeks (and had a surprisingly short tail of bugs).

http://www.dadhacker.com/blog/?p=948

Later, I hooked the store up to the NewtonScript garbage collector in a way that let us have garbage-collected semantics for persistent memory-mapped objects. This let us do things like "receive a FAX" on a system with not a bunch of free RAM.
I don't understand. People try to tell you that cystic fibrosis isn't real?
Ask HN: Software Engineering Book
Which is the most comprehensive modern book on the practice of Software Engineering?
Talking is good when you are starting out as your mind probably wanders very quickly. Once you have some experience it gets in the road.
I accidentally stumbled on an interesting approach to sow discontent. There was a forum that was hotlinking a "words to images" script I had on one of my websites. They would post these images as their "text" instead of plain text.

It was hammering my server, so I changed up the script to return random inflammatory and/or inappropriate images if the referer was this forum site.

I was using the source IP as the rand() seed, so everyone on the forum had a different view of the images, but consistent in that it remained constant for any single user.

The resulting chaos and infighting was pretty funny until they figured it out.
I see some parallels with “guns don’t kill people, people kill people.” Facebook doesn’t share awful hate speech, people share awful hate speech. Half of us will be like “not enough, take away Facebook” and the other half will be like “some people suck, but I should have Facebook”.

I think the answer is to tag content using ML and then allow users to apply filters. It could be a “protect me” button in settings. I’m assuming most hate speech is in image and video format with text in the image but Facebook can probably figure that out with less than $1B worth of dev hours. It’s easy to delay sharing into “protect me” enabled news feeds until after processing and tagging.
Dynamic DNS and Falco: detecting unexpected network activity
That article is an example of people not understanding what this deal is. Amazon is not receiving $3B in public dollars, they are receiving $3B in tax breaks. They are shifting a small % of that via PILOT and some other funding Amazon has agreed to.

I don't understand how people think this is in any way a bad deal for NY.
> 2. It's tied to your real identity (for the most part).

Why would you prefer this, versus anonymity-by-default on somewhere like Reddit?
not all "bioetchics hand-wringers" are against gene therapy ( in fact you too are taking a bioethical stance).

bio-ethicists aren't only interested in the net good of the patient of the therapy, but also in any harms onto others: perhaps child victims of organ trade (for example sourcing fibroblast stem cells from unnecessary circumcision of infants), perhaps harvesting organs from political, cultural or criminal prisoners, or from refugees, and yes, some of them are worried about viruses ...
What is a “GPU motor”?
It looks like the only public official who could change the terms now is Cuomo since he used unique powers of the NY governor's office to make the deal to override municipal laws. It might be possible for the state legislature to try to amend it but it's totally out of NYC officials' hands.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeff-bezos-is-right-at-home-in...
What do you mean by real number? Do you mean your Telegram username?
Could we change the url from the AMP one to https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/d3qqj7/sim-card-f... ? The normal one loads much faster.
They tell me I am making up the story about getting healthier. Or they say I don't really have it. Or both.
I wouldn't teach binary, assembly and C before teaching Java. That's a bad analogy. It's different with the web. You have to understand what clients and servers are, and it's much more clear with a basic apache setup than it is with, say, the node.js ecosystem which blurs that line between client and server to a confusing degree.
Cloud Storage with ZFS Send/recv Support
If NYC was a smaller city you'd have to price in the depression once Amazon went of business or lost market share /cut costs. But NYC is huge and 25,000 people will not skew it that much either way.
There was a time when a large amount of the email travelling the 'net was spam. I'm glad that the solution did not consist of removal of all email servers and clients. Inline images in web sites are (ab)used to show advertising, on many sites this accounts for the majority of use of this feature. Should this feature be removed from Safari for that reason?

For some category of web 'applications' notifications are a boon so it is good to have the possibility to use them. Apple is slow to implement it as it can be used to make web apps more competitive with native apps, something which they're not that keen on as native apps makes them a lot of money.
I mean Apple has their own flash controllers, so they’re really the only company that owns the FS and the flash controller. So really they can depend on it.
Not that remarkable: the USSR had done it before China, and Japan had a similar big push in the Meiji era, in similarly short timeframes (taking into consideration the communication and transportation technology available at the time).
This is one place where syntax that allows easy monadic composition really shines, because it becomes really simple for programmers to "walk the stack". Of course this still requires the "in case of error" state to be defined, but purely functional expressions can allow that to be trivial.

A good example is the Monad instance of Either in Haskell.
I'm so confused by this. The people that negotiated these deals are perfectly content with what they got. You think Amazon said "jk, going to build two" and got the same deal?
Hm. Always thought Toyota made pretty durable pickups :

"Killing a Toyota Part 1 | Top Gear | BBC" :
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xnWKz7Cthkk
.... XFS?

I've had a single issue across many EBS drives partitioned with only XFS, in several mdadm configurations. The data-loss occured during a maintenance window, so I'm convinced it was an EBS issue and not XFS.

I've also used it on physical hardware and never experienced dataloss, even losing drives in RAID configurations (I will admit I was lucky enough to never lose 2 drives in my normal RAID10 setup).

I've had several filesystems become corrupted, but the XFS community is extremely helpful, and the tooling that comes with it has never failed me in at least letting me figure out what's actually wrong.
It doesn't come off as "very aggressive", it comes off as slightly annoyed at not being taken seriously and getting curt answers.

It's every open source author's right to be a jerk and blow off people asking for help! Blaming and patronising the problem reporter is not necessary.
ESs don't consider uniform sampling and there is no step-size adaptation involved in his algorithm so it is just a (mu,lambda)-EA.
I would counter this by saying China has been and will always be an inward looking country. This alone limits its ability to be a global leader.
Precisely. Mass surveillance under the pretext of some fuzzy cyber warfare remit has a chilling effect. This does not have to be mentioned, it is just a silent fear thing. So if people self censor themselves then they never group to that 'far larger scale'.

Conversely the 'cyber 9/11' is if some idea - an idea that isn't limited to civil disobedience comes in a message where people don't self censor themselves then they could 'group to a far larger scale'. The status quo can't be threatened even by common sense ideas. So an idea in a message that 'goes viral' is the 'cyber 9/11' most feared. There is an art to controlling information in a democracy.
If you are being super paranoid...

Unless the open source app is transparently built and app store deployed from a public build server, it's very easy for the owner to inject a back-door into it.

There's no mechanism built into the app stores to validate an app against its source code.

So the owner could checkout master, add a back-door, build and publish to the app stores, and you'd update, never knowing you're exposed.

Nothing is 100% safe. It's just dependent on how much trust you assign.
Indeed, the Constitution states that the form of government of the United States should be a republic. Thus it already provides for the "low information voter" problem by mediating the will of the voter through his or her representative.
So you would advocate for, say, learning JSX and react before learning how to use vanilla JS, and maybe a little bit of JQuery to manipulate the DOM, or learning HAML before learning HTML? No wonder the current generation of junior devs is so damn confused.
Spying on the kids NSA style
Why not just write in C?