skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thinkpad Yoga (20CD-S02C00) owner here. 4 years and going strong. People on airplanes perpetually confused by my oversized "tablet" that I switched from coding on to highlighting passages in ebooks with a pen. Battery is finally starting to fail though and even though it's an i7 w/ 8GB RAM it is finally starting to feel "slow".

I'd love to hear your thoughts on battery life doing anything useful (not watching movies) with your new one. I'm debating an X1 Carbon, HP Spectre, or XPS 13 to upgrade to in the next few months.
Spintronics Takes One Step Closer to Digital Logic
Are the upper class not simply the descendants of those who were once the upper echelon?
everyone has experienced trolls, but most of the time it's 4chan people trying to upset you for laughs.
Have anymore thoughts on that? I'm looking to upgrade my old Thinkpad Yoga.
>I’m reading antifragile right now

I commend you for that, I just find his writing style to be so annoying that I can't even finish reading a simple article of his.
Painful, but if you know that a template will be only instatiated for a finite set of types, it can be worth it.
You didn't say how Facebook relates. I don't doubt that Facebook has made the Myanmar genocide worse, but I also think they would be genocide-ing regardless.
feedback: the labels below the circles are very hard to read because they get cut off so soon.
That wouldn't be an enforceable contract. Contacts require some consideration on both sides to be legally valid. However if the training is provided by a third party then the employer may be able to pay for it as a forgivable loan with the balance being written off if the employee stays for a couple years.
I'm happy to share my personal opinions on a lot of topics. This one I don't know about and don't have any more insight than you. Your question kind of touches on future product direction, and in that area I'll keep quiet, not even saying what I do or don't know.
How  Smart People Sabotage Their Success
one study from the period estimated “sixty-five on-the-job deaths per day among autoworkers.”

That is absolutely insane. It makes me think of Upton Sinclair’s 1904 novel The Jungle, about the meat-packing industry.

Do you know of any books that address the safety/exploitation issue specifically?
Super informative, thanks
I used to have stacks of these yellow sticky notes with my password printed on it. I ensured, that whereever I went, I would stick one of them to anything I touched, so I'd have it ready just in case.

Thanks to fingerprint biometrics I can do this now just as well without even having to buy sticky notes.
I'm no fan of facebook, and obviously there's a lot we need to examine regarding social media impact on society at large, etc, but I wonder to what extent this recent demonisation is a result of the existing press powers flexing their muscles. For example, https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/12/facebook-rupert-murdoch-thre...
LTO is still an opt in thing though. I suspect that most pronects still don't use it.
also hire felons
I wish you would post a product link. For me personally, I really enjoy when some library or what have you front pages, and people post a mix of comments and products showing off its usage or an alternative to it.
> It's much more the modern style of defining sweeping generalizations and then trying to establish negative or positive associations by placing them next to descriptors, but without actually making the connection.

Great comment
What about option 3?

3. New Republic and the rest of the MSM decide what is reliable and how you think?

Isn't that what this is all about? The mainstream media and the power brokers behind the MSM wanting control of a major means of communication?

Isn't that why they attacked google and google news? Isn't that why they attacked reddit? Isn't that why they attacked youtube? Isn't that why they are attacking facebook.

I think most people want option 1 and were happy with 1. But the MSM is trying to force option 3.
I guess you didn't read the article, then. The whole point was Facebook's dishonest reaction to Russian disinformation activity.
I guess OP meant 1) to be chronological timeline vs 2) FB-curated. It's very easy to skew what is "normal" perception of society by downrating some opinions and sticking others at the top. Especially with topics where there's no objectively correct answer looking at the big picture. Curating newsfeed and the resulting hivemind bubbles is the highway to polarised society.
Nebula Genomics Aims to Speed Research and Lower Cost of Genome
It's not just cute, it's an open problem in the theory of recursively self-modifying AI design--there's no general solution to an AI hijacking its own reward channel, so far. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/upLot6eG8cbXdKiFS/reward-fun... is the most recent thing I know of in the area.
True, although the cheaper ones have a pretty significant spike at DC and you end up using a tuning offset and IF in software instead. Not the case across the board, but pretty common.
Brexit Mug: Art Imitating Life
The Biggest Dilemma in Security Tokens: Infrastructure vs. Applications
Renewable Energy Is Surging, but Not Fast Enough to Stop Warming
nulis.io is freaking cool! Do you ever think of having vim-like navigation mode for it?
I was hoping in the context of discussing this article, it would be clear what a .o file is. Discussing libraries without that knowledge is hard, so i just have to assume the person asking the question knows it.

.a is an extension for one type of library, sorry if that confused you, but it can be ignored for the purposes of this explanation.
This seems super click-baity. I'm going to draw my own conclusions from the original NYT report.
Despite your argument being a false analogy, a bit of a strawman, and a non sequitur -- many historians have indeed chronicled the violent societal effects of the invention of the printing press:

"The effect of the discovery of printing was evident in the savage religious wars of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Application of power to communication industries hastened the consolidation of vernaculars, the rise of nationalism, revolution, and new outbreaks of savagery in the twentieth century."

-Harold Innis, The Bias of Communication

See also:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gutenberg_Galaxy
I'm curious if it's actually possible to treat all employees as more than a disposable cog. I worked at Google and have several friends that work at Google. There's a ton of work to do that is not fun and doing it feels like disposable cog work. It's not fulfilling but it needs to be done. This is one reason lots of people leave. There's a few glamorous jobs and lots of not fun jobs. I'm sure others can come up with better examples but basically with such large code bases things take forever to implement, pass all the tests, and need maintenance forever. There's so much to do and the team so large that you personally get to concentrate on one tiny tiny part of years. Maybe another example is working on drivers for the various new ChromeOS devices. Another might be all the solutions engineers for companies using Google Cloud related stuff. I know people doing it. Their job is to take a call from the customer and then try to write code to show them how to fix their issue. Maybe there are people who want to do those things but I don't.
But it is not like a phone company at all, it is a publicly accessible space not a point to point communication mechanism.
Jampp Is Looking for Senior Go Developers in Buenos Aires (Argentina)
Well, I guess no one can hack his computer at least. Most secure minister in Japan perhaps even.
That's one way to stay secure... If you don't have a computer your computer can't be hacked :P
I have a hard time with the "exploitation" argument. Nobody is forced to work for Amazon, it's not slavery. People who inhabit the economic strata who typically work at Amazon warehouses may very well be exploited in general--because that Amazon warehouse job is just like every other stupid, low-wage gig those people are able to land. I'm sympathetic to that problem, but it's not Amazon in particular that is exploitative here, it's the entire retail industry and the industries who support it. In other words, it doesn't matter where you shop and never has. Even Mom & Pop stores who order inventory from China are part of the mass exploitation of workers. It has been this way since the Industrial Revolution. This is what launched Marx's career and gave us that terrible wetware virus that is Marxism.

If we want change, we have to reform government and getting it working for the people and not the monied interests alone. Marxism has failed to accomplish that. We need something far different--maybe just real capitalism with real accountability? Smarter humans who don't fall for the same bs over and over? Just spit balling here.

In any event, I hope NY enjoys their Amazon HQ they are paying top dollar for. But it's all just another tax scheme--NYers are taxed to death, then they get a few shiny trinkets in return, and everyone is happy. Tax and spend, tax and spend, until there is nothing left to extract from the peasants who have no rights and no real prospects. It reminds me of how Manhattan island was purchased from the natives (who were total rubes) using a few seashells. This game has been going on for centuries because people are dumb.
But how likely is it that they loose two keys at once, especially since one is basically made to be part of the keychain...
Freedom is not an ad blocker; Apple has approved other apps that block ads; iOS ships with native support for ad blocking and VPNs.

It's a bummer for fans of Freedom that it got blocked, but it's not accurate to extrapolate that into some general Apple opposition to ad blocking.
That's probably much closer to the truth than any of the participants are willing to admit.

Facebook has always been the devil, using your friends and hacking your brain to keep you using more Facebook. It's only now that the media has starting waking up to the existential threat Facebook poses that suddenly they're some huge problem.

Note that while commentators all seem to agree that FB is a problem, the type of problem is always skewed to whatever audience that media outlet is more likely to sympathize with. That's not analysis. That's rallying the troops.
The fact we prevent forest fires from spreading is the reason they spread so bad. Eliminate the fuel and you wont have these fires.

Instead of living with nature we push nature off until it overwhelms our defenses.

Eventually humans will learn ?
Video encoding up to 86.47% faster with Transloadit's 'Turbo Mode'
Question about PR, when an event like this happens, why not be transparent?

Unless facebook is actively working to help one side, this could be resolved by telling everyone what they know, and any new information...

What I'm most concerned about is that they knew it was happening and were okay with it.
And if Facebook wasn't the most popular group communication tool, wouldn't we just be blaming whatever is?
I agree that increasing wages is definitely a good way to get more folks in the door!

That said, a very real problem here is the fact that health care and basic benefits costs have been increasing significantly over the past 10 years but it's much harder to convince an employee of that value vs. dollars in the door on a salary number.

Just keeping your health care premiums steady year over year as an employer could be the equivalent of a huge wage increase, but your employees won't see it that way because nobody understands the true costs of care.

Nobody says "Thanks for the 10% raise" when they get to keep their benefits. This is only part of the problem with "you should try paying more." as an argument.

That said - for jobs without benefits especially, paying more should be the first reaction to this, 100%.
> I think folks are upset not so much at the cleaning services of the world, but the oligopolies, where you soak up the surplus value of the labor.

These aren't the companies that minimum wage laws hurt. According to https://www.businessnewsdaily.com/5314-entrepreneur-salaries..., the average salary of small business owners in America is $68,000, which is much less than most software developers on this site seem to make. They're not exactly filthly-rich businesses gobbling up profit. Even a small increase in costs can be enough to put them out of business, leaving their employees jobless.
This all seems to have gotten utterly out of hand and gone a bit crazy.

I stopped using Facebook when my friends started to express political views more than social content. I wanted a place to hang out with friends, not rage. People don't do that in real life. Not that much, anyway.

Somehow it seems like over the next five years or so it all descended into madness and everyone became a politician.

What went wrong?

How can Facebook even be used to 'spread a narrative' if it's just my friends? Why are my friends posting this nonsense rather than stuff about their lives?

Something just doesn't add up to me. I don't understand what other people want from a social platform.

The same seems to apply to Twitter. Everyday, normal people, seem to be spending their lives raging at each other. What gives?

I want a pint now. Damn. The real world is stranger than fiction.
Beyond other advice (e.g. therapist).

1. It's worth keeping in mind that different companies have different kinds of interviews. You might do worse at some but better at others. So one thing you can do is try different kinds.

2. There are places you can _practice_ interviewing, which means you can see how you're doing and learn without the pressure of actually trying to get a job. https://interviewing.io and https://pramp.com. You might get occasional jerk interviewer, but if you treat it as exercise it should be less stressful.
This is fine if you can recompile a program against a new version of the library, but if you just want to relink it doesn't work well. This is actually while common when a .so is replaced with a newer version in a system without rebulding the world.

Some languages have, like ADA I think, have first class support for runtime sized, stack allocated types, so it might work there.
The business model appears to be to get established and then use a combination of network effects and monopolistic pricing techniques to be profitable. The problem is though, you need to establish yourself as the dominant player, and jack up prices to start being profitable. That's a fine business strategy. The problem is that Uber has an outside clock ticking. The first player to economically produce a fleet of self-driving cars is likely to undercut Uber on price so violently that Uber's business model goes up in smoke pretty quick.

So either Uber wins the race to autonomous vehicles (which I think most people now regard as unlikely) or they have a hard limit on when their profitability is going to go away. So the valuation needs to reflect something along the lines of "How much money can uber make between now and 2025" and every year that goes by without profit, is a year towards the day that uber's business model goes poof!
Betrayal implies loyalty to something. Companies have zero loyalty to anything except their stock price.
Anyone else here thinks there is too much drama going on with email? I get like 80 emails per day. I have two slots for resolving them during the day, one in the morning and second one in the evening. I reply, delete, forward and that's it. Why the drama?
Selective cosmopolitan universities: Eliot studied at Harvard and and Oxford. Tied to a place: born in St. Louis, schooled in Cambridge, resided most of his adult life in London. It seems to me that he was an outsider, however well thought of he was in England.

"Levelers seek to destroy the stratification of class, and with it the integral life of the nuclear family and local community."

Not clear: does the integral life of the nuclear family and the local community depend on stratification? It is very possible to end up with one stratum at the bottom that finds it hard to afford the nuclear family, and one at top that revels in serial monogamy.
It was once quite common for people to work completely unglamorous assembly line jobs for decades at the same company. Maybe the real issue is that google's hiring practice selected for prima donnas?
> they could have emulated it

What's the cost/benefit of that? How much would it cost to build it and how much could they make?

You can theoretically do ANYTHING... but a business exists to make money...

Why does Microsoft support 16bit? because - without a doubt - someone is paying them for that "extra" support.
Agreed. Ethernet is just more convenient and there's always the possibility to add a USB WiFi stick
Ask HN: How would you compare pCloud and Dropbox (performance wise)
I currently use Dropbox, and the only other Linux compatible (native support) cloud storage provider that I have found is pCloud.

From looking at the feature set of both of these, pCloud seems to offer much better security and that's the reason that I am thinking of shifting.

But performance wise (app/native desktop client/upload/download) how does it compare with Dropbox?

PS: I pay for Dropbox and will pay for pCloud as well. My intended use case for cloud storage is to back up everything (basically, almost all of my $HOME).
I'm not saying that writing for Javacards is easy, but that's not the problem here. There is plenty of software written already

https://github.com/EnigmaBridge/javacard-curated-list

It's just didn't catch on, there's no thriving community around it. You have the software, you have the hardware (search for JCOP21 or JCOP3 on Aliexpress), but no users.
Today's developer is tomorrow's enterprise architect.
Thank you for the feedback. Yes you are right I have to improve this part... cutting off or not depending on what device is being using.
I opened package.json I can see:

"react": "^16.4.1",
"react-dom": "^16.4.1",
"react-emotion": "^9.2.4",
"react-hot-loader": "^3.1.3",
"react-portal": "^4.1.5",
"react-router-dom": "^4.3.1",
"react-values": "^0.3.0",

Looks like it requires react+vdom to me to be functional,
Core has a peer dependency on react too.
Not at all, the specification is indeed very clear. Thanks for the link!
https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/19/politics/russian-troll-instru...

Also, below is a recent article about professional Iranian trolls, but mentions that the same cybersecurity company has been tracking Russian disinformation campaigns for years. There are thousands of people in Russia, in Iran, in other countries who go into the office every day and earn their paycheck by trying to move opinion in the USA and elsewhere in a certain direction, or spread FUD.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/23/technology/fireeye-facebo...

> FireEye’s information operations analysis team was formed in 2016, when hacked emails from several political figures were beginning to appear on the site DCLeaks. “All through that period, we were tracking the Russian effort to influence U.S. elections,” Mr. Foster said. “Obviously, social media is a very important kind of medium by which these campaigns are undertaken.”
The only people with an even better understanding of cybersecurity are the Amish
Should a minister always have hands-on experience with what they are minister of, though?
3. Is there another team at work you can transfer to?
I don't think that framing of the issue is very useful on its own. Public and private entities both participate in the market, and the question of which entities are most efficient depends on which definition of efficiency one deems most relevant (i.e. which inputs and outputs one chooses to measure, and by which methods).

Also, people often attribute exclusively to government a class of dysfunctions or inefficiencies that have virtually nothing to do with an organization's ownership structure, but have a great deal to do with management structures typical of large organizations (e.g. wasteful spending due to "use it or lose it" budgets). With respect to these problems, I would be very surprised if substituting public vs. private does anything other than change minor details of how they manifest.
Based on their comment history, it's Prezly: https://www.prezly.com/
That’s not all climate change is.
There's plenty of places that have no other option. They have to use said utility company in order to get utilities.

Example,

https://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/news/2014/02/06/commi...

I guarantee you that JJ's restuarant in this example is still using MGE for their gas. They have no other choice here. Even though it killed one of their employees through negligence.
thank god someone said this. Even educated, rational, and skeptical people fall into this.
Getting that set up though costs way way more than it costs to simply hire an employee here. Large companies can do this, but small to medium sized businesses certainly cannot.
Show HN: Listen to Interview with Derrick Mar of  Pathrise (YC W18)
Diode ring, just like the linked article.

The cool part of the gilbert cell ne602 series (and similar) is its one chip with an oscillator and a mixer and the performance is barely good enough for 1980s analog cordless phones at 49 mhz with small antennas over a short range. However intermod and strong signal performance is dismal when connected to a large 80M dipole or whatever in some ham radio application. A diode mixer will require some external (IC?) oscillator of course but performance will be vastly better.

The "new era" of design as seen in some SDRs seems to be a nice DDS synthesizer driving something like a Tayloe mixer (four very fast analog switches in an IC).

I don't have the numbers in front of me but from memory the 3rd order intercept point (higher means less self-generated interference for strong signals) is ridiculously higher for even a cheap analog switch IC as a Tayloe mixer.

Of course the power consumption of a DDS and a fast switch will be a little higher (10x? 100x?) than an analog cordless phone chip. There's always tradeoffs.
"Fellow travelers?"

Been a while since I've heard that.
The article doesn't mention it, but controlled burns are actually a regular occurrence in the east and southeast US. I always assumed it was some decision by the Californian state government to not do so. The rest of the country is not stuck in the mindset described in the article.

Fires are necessary for ecological reasons. You can either start them on purpose and control them, or you can wait until they happen anyway and watch them get totally out of control.

Exacerbating the situation, I heard on NPR this morning that some POAs in California forbid cutting down trees on your property. Something has to change. Even if you put a complete stop to human-caused fires somehow (not possible) and stop climate change tomorrow, you will still have fires from lightning strikes, etc. You can either thin forests and underbrush (incredibly labor intensive) or you can have controlled burns.
Um, with things as technical as cyber security, yes.
I know. My tenure at my last few jobs was 2 years, 1 year, and now I just hit my one year anniversary at my current employer and am bored out of my skull (they stuck me on legacy maintenance). So, I'll be moving on soon.

I'm 38, I really do want to settle into someplace and stop hopping around, but I'm also not willing to allow myself to stagnate and become unemployable after you decide to "green" your workforce 5-10 years down the line.

Provide me with growth opportunities, challenging problems, creative freedom, reasonable pay increases, and I'll stick around. But alas, I haven't found a company willing/able to do that yet.