skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was born in Tulsa and left before my teens (to us, Oklahoma was the South West/South as opposed to Midwest). Lived elsewhere in the United States, Germany, and now live in Switzerland.

I have a lot of fond memories of the place, but returning there after 25 years completely shattered my romantic childhood feelings. The city was not doing great when I lived there, but it felt far worse now (husk comment earlier). You want to know where MAGA came from? All you need to do was live in Tulsa 25 years ago and compare it to today: the rust and rot. The place is sprawling; you’ll need a car. Summer is oppressively humid against biking. It is far more diverse than it was, but I have doubts about the true level of comforts minorities (all stripes from ethnicity to political) feel. I felt somewhat insulated from religion with Unitarian parents, but the prevailing religion runs strong here. I don’t think they’d accept me if they really knew what I thought today. Infrastructure is laughably in poor shape. My father tells me corruption/nepotism/patronage still drives most appointments in OK civil service. I recall fondly of the — can’t believe I am saying this — sweet smell of crude oil refinement from West Tulsa that permeates the entire town and ambient sounds of the pump jacks (yes, sporadically in the neighborhood).

Food is certainly better than what it was. Folks in their early 20s seem to be pushing for more. I actually had a respectable bowl of ramen there. Growing up, there were two Chinese restaurants only. That tells you a lot!

I always appreciated how direct the people were — zero pretense or two-faced behavior. A lot of small talk. You’ll have to be OK with the provincialism. Miss the intense Thunderstorms a whole lot.

My parents were not especially political or conveying of class or social consciousness. I recall a few trips to Arkansas when I was young and crossing the border from OK into AR and wondering what the hell was wrong with that place. It seemed like that much of a step down.

Tulsa has — or had — it’s quirky charm. Everyone knows about the South Park episode about that Mexican restaurant Casa Bonita. Well, guess what, that one in Colorado it parodied is based on an original in Tulsa. Also: in that same strip mall (yep, you’ll love Tulsa if you love sprawling one-story drags of strip malls), there was Starbase 21, a store dedicated to Star Trek franchise paraphernalia, which I think closed recently (sadly). Let’s not forget the world’s largest McDonalds in Vinita that spanned an interstate. These days, the place feels dreadfully big-boxed.

I am a parent now. While nature access is OK (not great but not terrible), certainly faster to reach than in the Bay Area (sorry), I would be concerned with the schools. They have been starved to death and the school day largely cut to four days.

I realize this won’t satisfy anyone’s claims for empirical remarks, but it is just the perspective of someone who knew the place intimately and returned recently. My feelings are textured.
Grabbing phones of people also means it doesn’t matter if they display messages or not if you have the SIM you don’t need their device.

This isn’t any different than stealing a ubikey of someone it’s game over.

Also at least in the U.K. it’s pretty hard to get a replacement SIM through social engineering you either need an ID in store or they send it to your billing address only with signed post.

In either case the previous SIM would be disabled on the spot which would likely mean that the owner would notice and block it before this can be leveraged for an attack and this is also less scalable than stealing phones since it’s actually more involved in most cases.
> Gibbs remained interested in academic questions, but there wasn’t much he could do as a nonprofessional researcher. “As an independent scientist it’s hard to keep up with everything that’s going on,” he said. “But if you find the right kind of niche, you can do some stuff and come up with some useful results.”

Amateur seem accurate, and relevant.
It's like "deep learning". That used to mean 1 (one) hidden layer (as opposed to a single output layer).

Now: https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1600/1*S3TlG0XpQZSIpoDIU...

Even that is in danger of slipping into the medium category.
I read it all before posting here. I assume you're referring to this part:

> The DFIR lead leaned down next to my ear and whispered, "No one in Accounts Payable ever runs Powershell..."

> Alright... That last part had a bit of dramatization added to it.

I interpretted the "last part" to mean the part where the DFIR whispers in his ear.

I'm still not convinced this is real. It smells like fiction.
Brilliant! Oh, oh! I have another idea! We should tie the units together some how, like maybe the unit of volume ties to unit for weight/mass by something common, like say, water.
FUIF - Free universal image format coming up
> just like anyone else with a household income over £16k

You've assumed that this child has been refused free school meals because of their financial status. The rapporteur is talking about the mis-application of "no recourse to public funds" rules. A family that has NRPF should still be able to get free school meals, but sometimes the schools don't understand this.

This is a family who is poor, and who should be getting free school meals, but who aren't.
> Combine sugar and sugar and sprinkle with the sugar.

What is this quote from?
Impressive. Personally I preferred the version before this, in which Compose wasn’t “pay-attention-to-me red”.
Anyone have any insight on the relative popularity of C in Asia?
Probably off-topic, but there's a great cheese-making web page linked down at the bottom: https://web.archive.org/web/20160304022738/http://biology.cl...
I read it to mean "next to last part".
The government has not increased spending. The government has decreased spending.
Things like that should be browser features.
10 can easily be divided by into fifths.
Good for Mr. Huang. It is surprising to see them grow that much in that sector, despite it being quite marginal. GPU's use in corporate sector and HPC will still be dwarfed many times over by sales to gaming PC market
Interestingly enough, I've recently found a couple of similar triggers. (Lifelong sleep issues, getting and staying asleep.)

- Thinking about a conversation (real or otherwise) between two OTHER people (I can't be involved), or
- counting down backward and visualizing the numbers, but I have to visualize them floating above and behind my head (i.e. not floating in space, or looking directly at them (figuratively speaking)

Both scenarios, when they engage, seem like they trigger an almost physical sensation of the brain shifting modes. I'm sure someone has a reasoned explanation for this, but, crazy as it sounds, when I notice the thoughts seem to be "behind my head" I know it's working and I'll drop off to sleep shortly after. (This is imperfect, and I still don't have restful sleep, but anything that aids is still helpful.)
Controlled burns are best practice but are not being done. For federal land, agencies have had their budgets repeatedly cut. This has left less money for thinning and other prevention work. Fire fighting money comes from a different "emergency" budget even though fires happen every
year so it's not really an emergency. For private land creating a defensible space is on the books but is not being enforced.
If you ever have a guest who takes a photo of other guests with a family picture in the background, Facebook's algorithms can correlate all the relevant metadata automatically. Your consent is not needed.
I'm not sure what your point is. A numbering system based on five-fingered hands is still base6. It doesn't make mathematical sense to argue that we learn base10 today because our hands have 5 fingers. Even if you argue that we have 10 total fingers, that's base11. Does anybody advocate that? How did we come to such an arbitrary thing as base ten?
> What even means the 'public debt' number when a country have its own currency and inflation is under control?

This is a question that you have to ask when using the analogy between a country's finances and e.g. a household. It _can_ mean that one part of the country (government, central banks) has created and loaned money to _other parts of the same country_. In other words, liquidity and investment. i.e. good things! This is fundamentally unlike a household.
>Prep soil

That's not required at all. Most grain is grown no-till, you seed directly through the residue of the previous crop. This is the typical problem, people researching solutions to problems that don't actually exist. Why are agricultural researchers completely unfamiliar with basic farming practices?

>you could work an area of land with less than half the total labor.

And get less food from it because the grain has such a low yield. You're burning fewer gallons of diesel per calorie of food produced to grow normal wheat than any of the perennial grains they have come up with so far.

>Less soil prep and planting (with heavy machinery) means less soil erosion, less microbiome destruction, healthier soil

But we solved that problem decades ago, solving it again but worse isn't very useful.
Facing Deadlier Fires, California Tries Something New: More Logging
I wonder if something got lost in translation and the "thread safety" section should have been called "type safety"? It seems to be what the paragraph is talking about (though in the case of rust you could say the static typing lends it a measure of thread safety)
> Because no other search engine provides nearly as smooth an experience as Google.

DDG is actually smoother, it loads faster and is more lightweight on phone browsers.
Increased spending on disability (eg, on providing adapted cars or lower cost transport to disabled people) reduces future spending because it gets disabled people back into work and work is generally protective of health.
That an also to avoid posibly revealing internals and details of the designs/architecture/etc to non-intel people.
Now that Inbox is ending, anyone know of other clients with the Pinning and snoozing capability?
They did Azure: https://www.expeditedssl.com/azure-in-plain-english
That was a good fun read. Especially where they zip tied him. Good change of pace.
Issue of finding random numbers and hash functions
I was hoping to find out what the blue team should have done in a real incident.

Does the blue team tech guy tackle the red team guy and restrain him? Give chase and hope the guy exits through a door with a security guard? Let him leave and hope the cops will care?
1. Cars are getting smaller, and more efficient

2. Fewer people use private transport because public transport is slowly improving in Western countries

3. More people elect to own mopeds, which eat like 10 times less gas than a car

4. More people move to big cities, pushing even bigger incentives to abandon private vehicle ownership
I just tried to create an account but clicking the 'create an account' button doesn't work
There's something qualitatively new in the DGX machines. GPUs have been great for numerics in HPC, but most workloads that matter in HPC (and where there is a market for expensive chips) don't fit on single GPU or even single GPU nodes - until the DGX(2). If they can scale this up (i.e. a tree of NVswitches connecting multiple DGX) it means that suddenly you can treat a whole datacenter worth of hardware as single GPU with a single mode of parallelization in the code. Where conventional HPC today does MPI+OpenMP+Vectorization(unrolling, intrinsics etc.) that only a handful of experts can really program effectively, abstracting this to a single interface of kernel definitions is a huge deal. This will eventually (over the next couple of years) allow "users" of the data created to program these machines directly, i.e. HPC engineers may become less necessary. The actual effective usage of these systems has always been one of the important bottlenecks in HPC.
I agree. That paragraph is odd. They seem to be trying to use the concepts interchangeably.
Let's see what they'll tell about the Texan Oil War and the Coal Wars.
The university in Austin teaches it right, but
even Wikipedia is wildly censored to spread the government POV there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_oil_boom#Discoveries_spr...

> These efforts at controlling production, intended to protect both the independent operators and the major producers, were largely unsuccessful at first and led to widespread oil smuggling.

The largest producers demanded the governor to shutdown competition. They did this with the help of the Texan National Guard to protect their cartel and thus the Railroad Commission was born.
Upton Sinclair or Howard Zinn are much more accurate than Wikipedia.

The other prominent high-profile Texan criminals are either still alive or just died, so their rosy view of history is still censored in their favor.

On the other hand the Coal Wars Wikipedia article is pretty accurate, but this didn't happen in Texas.
What's the largest amount of great code you have ever seen work?
Inspired be the question "What's the largest amount of bad code you have ever seen work?", I would like to know if we could identify the largest great amount of code you have ever seen work. Thanks a lot for your thoughts!
You don’t truly mean popularity literally ruins everything, correct? There are all kinds of things that are better because they’re popular, or at least could not have been as great without their popularity. Smart phones, for instance: if they didn’t get really popular, and there was not as much competition in the hardware and app space, the apps and hardware would not have gotten so much better so quickly.

Other ones off the top of my head: air travel (popularity has led to fairly low prices, even if the experience has suffered for those looking for bargain basement prices), computers, coffee, beer.
An earlier entry from the same blog on generated recipes. My wife and I were laughing so hard at these we got some weird looks from the waiter. The use of asterisks is priceless in that one.
> “Utility Co. uses data to predict household size,”

How about "Utility Co. shares data with city, predicting when you have an Airbnb guest or take a vacation"?

I'd say a utility using data from its own systems is the definition of what used to be allowable. Sharing that data without consent and using unorthodox sources (detecting objects in the background) is what most people find objectionable.
I’ve definitely noticed the culture changing for the worse as the tech gold rush attracted many whose primary motivator was money and power more than building something great. That said, the quest for power at all costs including deliberate misinformation has been part of facebook’s DNA from day one (e.g. Zuck “dumb fucks” etc)
good communication happens when there's good [shared] motivation
Normal people don’t do that. They just know that a gallon is a gallon, a meter is a meter, a pound is a pound, etc. People rarely have need to convert between mass and volume. And they don’t weigh their milk or water.
"Can anyone detail what technology breakthroughs got these mileages so high?"

I am not speaking of hybrid cars where the technology change is obvious - I am speaking only of pure ICE cars.

The "technology", where there is any at all, consists of mostly petty optimizations to the existing ICE model ... engine start/stop at intersections, cylinder deactivation at cruising speeds[1], optimizations to cam timing and making the fuel injection system behave more like a Diesel engine, even when it is a gasoline engine.

Again, all petty optimizations that don't represent any interesting technology and I find it laughable to see car advertisements in 2018 for various aspects of the engine/drivetrain.

The real gains have been from switching 6-cylinder, 3.x Liter engines out for 4-cylinder 2.x Liter engines and attempting to make up the difference with turbo and super chargers (sometimes both!)[2].

The end result is what you would expect to see in a mature, already optimized, already spec'd technology: very small incremental gains that have large tradeoffs in other areas. These little 2L 4-bangers are loud, they vibrate a lot, and they're going to be very finicky in terms of maintenance when the dual turbo/super chargers get to 8 and 10 years old.

I can't wait to never see any of them again.

[1] I think this is only applied to 8 cylinder engines which are turned into 4 cylinder engines at highway cruising speeds.

[2] ... and generally failing. I hope this "wisdom" is lost to time because we move away from ICE cars entirely, but for anyone still interested: "There's no replacement for displacement".
The chosen visualizations are not helpful. They look like slides from a slide deck for executives. The green blobs in the corners are not related to to the data. Geographic data should be shown on a map.
They're supposed to call in physical security. Many companies have security crews that are qualified and authorized to use force (and promptly call law enforcement.) Sometimes these crews are armed.
works on my machine™
Airtable is great - I use it every day. It's perfect for anything in-between document and spreadsheet; when you have to deal with database-like entries that are awkward to handle with a word processor or spreadsheet.

I was hoping that Dropbox might acquire Airtable one day, and integrates it into Dropbox Paper. That would put them ahead of Quip, Coda and the like in an instant (for my use case).
Although it's kind of silly trying to make these judgements, I'd say Google has been a net-positive, Facebook is a little murkier.

Google's net positive has almost certainly been search. I believe this has probably had a huge net-productivity improvement across the world. I don't even use their search engine anymore, but they started the modern search engine and made a great deal of information more easy to find. I don't think they've improved communication otherwise. I don't believe Gmail or Hangouts have improved communication. I don't think buying Android and mostly giving the OS away has been a net-positive either.

Facebook is much harder to say. They've definitely connected many, many people via their service, but it has also been shown that the more someone uses Facebook the less happy they are. Now, this could easily be conflating causation with correlation (sad people use Facebook more), but they've also been caught doing bad things.

It's fun to think about, but there are so many what-ifs. How long would it have been before modern search came about without Google? If we had a federation of smaller social networks, would that have limited the damage that a single company could have done?
As long as those middle-aged people keep clicking ads, younger people keep clicking Instagram stories, and angry mobs keep sending each other incendiary messages on WhatsApp, the Facebook juggernaut has nothing to fear.
In this particular disaster, there are more factors than defensible space. Some well-maintained, well-built homes with large yard spaces are ash now; other homes with no defensible space at all came out unharmed, including one with several cars in the yard and a 5 gallon can labeled "flammable" right against the garage.

Removing fuel from on and around your home is a good idea regardless. Beyond that, I don't think most of us are qualified to guess on the fire behavior in Paradise (or Redding, or Napa, or Santa Rosa...).

I will say that of the buildings still standing in Paradise, a disproportionate number of them seem to be brand new construction (<5 years old).
Same here.

But I probably wouldn't look too much into React if I wasn't forced to do it in a project 3 years ago.
Whispering-gallery wave
Show HN: Makerkit – Customer feedback, public roadmap and product changelog
"Well, one pharma company has the patent, and we need to let them charge what they think the market will bear. Sorry LPLD carriers, you have to die now." Apparently, this is the best the world can manage in 2018.
100M repositories
Why did I respond to a comment that drew conclusions using the wrong statistics? It's pretty simple. I was teaching someone a small lesson about drawing conclusions from the wrong statistics, and backing myself up with a link to a study to show them what statistics you should use to draw such conclusions. As the HN Guidelines say, "Eschew flamebait [...] unless you have something genuinely new to say" - I don't have anything genuinely new to say about inequality and suicide, and I don't see you or the other person who responded to me saying anything genuinely new either.

Also "Please don't use Hacker News primarily for political or ideological battle" - please stop making my comment (about drawing conclusions from the wrong dataset) about your own political interests, unless you have something genuinely new to say, in which case I'm all ears.
I'm a bit more cynical and think that the beneficiary of this is not you and the objective is not to reduce your electricity bills. Rather, you (collective you) are the product, and the companies that want your attention and will pay the most are the customers.
I don't think this is so much a facet of growing up in an English culture, because their names make no sense to me either; I was born and raised in America, and work in web technologies. This isn't an American/English speaking cultural thing, it's something else.
You can search for documents and scans too, if I'm not mistaken. Any bills, certificates, other documents etc you may have photographed can be trivially pulled.
Meanwhile 4 put of 5 webshops we check have critical vulnerabilities and half the owners don’t care because “it just costs money to fix it and things have been fine so we’d rather spend more on Adwords”

Security, no scratch that - the human psyche works in mysterious ways :)

This company seems to run a tight ship though!
You gotta understand how it works though - basically, it works by diluting a pepper seed concentrate as many times as necessary until every member of a panel of 5 testers can no longer taste a hint of spiciness.

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

the problem is that we don't have a physiological basis for "spiciness" in order to create a more objective scale. Instead, we rely on subjective taste tests to get those numbers, and mitigate the subjectivity by having multiple taste testers.

I'm actually thinking about applying a similar process to a few image analysis problems at work that are (currently) necessarily subjective, in order to produce better data for the eventual ML algorithms.
Gett Is Said to Court Buyers as Ride-Hailing Apps Battle It Out
Around three quarters, and all busses are electric.

The need for long charge time is not that big of an issues as drivers still have to do mandatory breaks, and show up at depots for cleaning at least once a day.
Ask HN: Minimal html code to make a black page
This is totally pointless, but can you feed a browser any code smaller than the example below that will produce a fully black page?

The smallest code I could work out is:

<body bgcolor=black>

Although I'm fully aware bgcolor is deprecated since HTML 4.1 this still produces a black page in almost any browser today (2018).
Cute but Repubs just lowered taxes again. American politics can be really simple once you remove all the fluff.
Growing sure, but still extremely niche. I think a recent report showed ~15 open jobs worldwide. A lot of Haskell users learn it for intellectual curiosity rather than any expectation of actually using it at work.
We will only release data about companies, not individual recruiters. We will then use their name to (try to) get their contact details and send them a link to the data so that they can be more aware of how their actions affected (and how many) people. What we're doing should ideally benefit both sides, not just us.

Hence why I said we should make this more clear, as in: we're not going to publish the names of the individual recruiters.