skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is great ! I just subscribed for a year. Just what I needed to keep track of my current project.

All I wish for is a budget software built in :)

It reminds me of NearlyFreeSpeech.net in a good way !
One place I worked for had a similar setup. I just installed the latest Ubuntu and ssh'd into nearby boxes when I needed something from them.

No way I'd tolerate a desktop almost 10 years behind.
Yep. And it’s worth pointing out in the wake of the 2008 recession, Peter Thiel made a similar bet against the US dollar and lost.
When Elon Musk Tunnels Under Your Home
yep -- I've had this exact issue on zero w - corrupt FS, but not physically destroyed.
In the example of Japan's cyber-security minister... while he may be able to effectively manage people who might be able to make the right decisions... how can he competently decide who to hire/fire and manage their roles if he has fundamentally no experience in the domain of computers and cyber-security?
This made me cringe so hard when I read it.

Sounds like a IBM Watson promo already :D
Their main competitor Fieldbook shut down earlier this year. I liked Fieldbook better because it was faster and had a cleaner UI, but Airtable always had more features and better pricing. I’ve migrated over to Airtable now, and I’m happy they’ve raised this round because they’re definitely here to stay.
Except Elon Musk is notorious for diving deep into any subject he's involved with.

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-elon-musk-learned-rocket...

Christian von Koenigsegg taught himself how to make Hypercars.

This Japanese minister has no interest in learning the topic he's responsible for on a national scale.
I don't trust Breitbart to do factual reporting (based on their extensive history of false reporting) and this report from May 2016 shows nothing about a caravan in November 2018.

Even if it was related, this report says nothing about open borders. As I understand the migrants are looking for asylum, which is an extensive process with a low success rate. How is that "open borders"?
Yes, true. Slate is not common in the west. Tile is, although I think faux-tile is getting common.
This looks like a nice way to get your non technical friends onto the federated network, and shows that xmpp really isn't behind centralized silo messengers in functionality and usability.
How to Optimise Your Google Ads Budget
Here's to hoping they make a version for Windows and/or Linux. Mac support is nice, but this seems business-focused (though handy for casual use).

Most businesses, especially outside of Silicon Valley, don't use Mac; Windows will likely be a larger market.
How does the free market account for the cost of researching options?

I am sure I could find a better deal on many medical purchases, but the cost to find them is significant. Purchasing the default/readily-available option is often the best bet because of the hours or days required to find a better solution. Spending a few hours to save $100 or a few days to save $1000 is a clear loss to me.
Let's say a minister talks to two groups, which give him two different pieces of advice. Each group is an industry body with supporters that includes some companies the minister has heard of.

Group A says he should ban IoT devices that don't come with a guarantee 5 years of security updates.

Group B says he should ban cell phones that don't come with antivirus software.

How would you propose a minister weight the advice of the two industry bodies?
The name is different... ;)
How about don't build your house in the forest?
Housing in Vancouver is disproportionately high compared to salaries but I probably wouldn't use Kitsilano as an example. Point Grey and Kits are some of the most expensive neighbourhoods in the city. You can find more reasonable, but still very high, prices in other parts of the city.
Wasn't python required for YUM to function correctly? Or has DNF been written in something other than python?
Weather in the Mono basin is irrelevant to conditions in the Feather River canyon. California, it turns out, is a large state with multiple distinct climate zones. As you note, it is the length of the summer drought which is increasing. This is not even contradictory with increasing or stable annual precipitation. It just means more of the water is coming in a shorter, rainier season.
I'm trying to plan in advance. My doctor wants me to get a couple tests done. It's not urgent, but the results will inform the future steps I take in managing my health. So far I have not been able to get a single provider to tell me how much it will cost. The tests are known, there is no secret, no emergencies will come up during the test, but still they can't tell me. They need to talk to my insurance company first to even have some idea, and even then no guarantees they will be able to give me a dollar figure.
I have read the basis of this provided in (1). Unfortunately, like many other “strategies”, this so called AI strategy is completely missing a good (root cause) analysis. It jumps to conclusions and “activity areas”.

With no good analysis, there can’t be a good strategy (2). This money won’t change anything.

(1) https://www.bundesfinanzministerium.de/Content/DE/Downloads/...

(2) https://www.amazon.com/Good-Strategy-Bad-Difference-Matters/...
Minister in Charge of Japan’s Cybersecurity Says He Has Never Used a Computer
The way I've usually seen this split is "emergent" vs. "non-emergent" (as in "emergency).

You are correct that non-emergent care is a WAY bigger market than emergent. Most people completely ignore this. Chronic conditions like diabetes and Crohn's, end-of-life care (hospice, assisted living), dialysis, smoking cessation and weight loss, blood transfusions, most flavors of oncology (cancer treatment), knee replacements, etc.

We need way more cost discipline in non-emergent situations. Changing the perception that all care is emergent might be the single biggest thing we could do to lower healthcare costs. It would let people see that there should indeed be a market in everything from X-rays to MRIs and we could finally have a sensible conversation about cost.
Not sure how those two compete...at all. This point actually works against you, because using momentum as a good, Netflix beats YouTube on movies because of their momentum in that category.

Which is why a big service like YouTube can't just walk in and steal their thunder. Kind of proving the point that critical mass in internet technologies is a type of good or "moat" that could, in some views, count as a monopoly.
I think that was a typo...
But that's only really a concern for your email provider, right? Like, as long as I know that resetting my login on service X will trigger an email, then I'm okay with it.

And if you're the email provider, you probably already have my phone number anyway and could/should send a text message to notify me about anything like this.
Currently also on the front page of HN:

- #5: Facebook reportedly discredited critics by linking them to George Soros (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18460406)

- #10: Facebook’s weapon amid chaos and controversy: misdirection (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18460962)
Google updated their sexual misconduct policy as a result of employees taking action and speaking out. The policy is a good iteration, but moreover, symbolically it means a great deal for a company of that size to show it listens. I don't work at Google but can only assume that these changes have changed the culture for the better.
whatever one's beliefs are, it is very intuitive to everybody what is going to happen to charitable contributions if the tax deduction is removed.

In accounting grand scheme of things employee salaries, materials, depreciation of capital assets, etc is just the same thing as charitable contributions - just deductions.
Isn't the main variable impeding the % of bare metal container deployments scaling with automation in areas such as inter-container networking and visibility.

Many years of "wrappers" around VMs in those areas - people, processes and software. A few years for similar to develop for a containerized world?

Until then, we run containers on top of VMs for use cases at scale because (even if not efficient from other perspectives) we do get the wrappers (wrappers which do impact time, TCO, risk, etc)?
Interesting Ref - https://www.bl.uk/learning/cult/bodies/vitruvius/proportion....
Still they pay more than market. EU salaries are not very high in general, but taxes are. So big tech firms just need to pay a bit more than the market to attract talent.
For the last couple weeks I've been trying repeatedly to vote with my wallet. Since nobody will tell me how much any of this is going to cost, I have zero ability to do that. It is extremely frustrating.
Pretty sure the 4 usb ports and ethernet were all being fed from one root usb controller port via a hub and usb ethernet bridge. You can easily add what they removed if you need it, or pay the $10 extra for the bigger board.
I’m not sure why aside from the fact that end-to-end encryption should make it harder (impossible in theory) for them to read your messages. They still have access to your contacts book, which is kinda scary since some people I know keep Social Security numbers in their contacts.
>Then what the hell is their job!? To "people manage"?

Yes, absolutely. I work for a "people manager" with enough software development experience to ask the right leading questions when someone's stuck on a technical question. Never seen him make an overriding call on the "how," only the "what."
The Times actually did a great writeup on this exact thing recently: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/31/us/politics/george-soros-...
At a certain point in a company's lifecycle, you go from attracting people who are excited by the mission to people who are there for the money. Facebook has long shifted from the first to the second phase. I don't think things that have happened recently will phase most people who work there unless it materially hurts their share price.
Love Slate. Amazing plugin system -- I've started integrating a backing CRDT with Slate, enabling realtime collab. Would recommend. Coming from Draft, it's a order of magnitude more maintainable and much better developer experience.
What exactly makes the two "polar opposites"?

They both seem to have acquired a taste for reaching to the top by fooling everyone along the way, at least.
The original source is https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/14/technology/facebook-data-...
This is an interesting and strange viewpoint I have never heard before. Might you elaborate?
Beaker is fundamentally a builder's tool. Right now, building means programming, and programming means typing- and typing means the desktop!

I see mobile as primarily a communication platform, while desktop is for productivity. So, I think we should approach them differently. It's true that mobile growth is up, but I don't think that means that desktop is dying. Desktop still has a strong user base. At this point, I almost feel like desktop is the most neglected. We'll get to mobile when the time is right.
>expects constant overtime and 24/7 employee reachability

Doesn't that conflict with German labor law?

Edit: Definitely agree about credentialism ("people that are better than anyone else"). Germany takes that to the extreme. Career change in your 30s? Not possible.
I don't consider his incongruence with a nuclear family to be an imperfection, I consider it privilege. I never said even said it was a lucky wild swing, there is no interpretation of what I said that meant that, your hyperbole is based on a completely wrong assumption of anything I care about it.

Perhaps you decided to latch on to "highly speculative" as "wild swing and got lucky". Lets talk about the curve of risk, buying distressed companies after consolidating your friends and family's money with the addition of massive borrowing on top of that to accomplished your 'principled investing' would still be called highly speculative. This exists within the category of "highly speculative". There is nothing wrong with that?

I find it entertaining that his approach to inspiring people is the exact opposite of risk, as he could easily just be another Carl Icahn or Soros if he wanted and only inspire finance majors to make massive bets against governments. He is so successful at this image that people would actually ask me to post a source for my allegations.

This is obviously a lot more important to you than it is to me, and your cognitive dissonance is showing. This has been enlightening.
Not presently, no, but I'm not opposed to adding it.
They didn't really have a choice, PHP runtime versions have aggressive EOL dates these days.
The problem with this is twofold:
1. How do we define the "best" search engine?

2. How can we know that the only reason Google can keep being the best out of incumbents is because of past network value. e.g. if a competitor had access to the same amount of historical sea h data as Google, could they use it in a better way?
I wonder why not 4.19 which I thought was an LTS kernel?
They do do that - they have fact checking things below stories and are trying different things to make that better.
Odroid by HardKernel may fit the bill. Their XU4 is $59 and about 5x as fast as RPi3.
I think that's because HR tends toward avoiding false positives rather than false negatives, as the latter tends to be more expensive. Therefore, they would rather miss an ideal candidate in order to avoid the risk of hiring a sub-standard one.

In a perfect world, HR would understand the position well enough to properly vet it but in practice they tend to revert to easier measures like the ones described.
On unix systems you can always do a sync(2) to commit the buffers to disk.

https://linux.die.net/man/2/sync
Good list! With the holidays coming up I have already started thinking about choosing gifts for my family and friends. I have already bought a tribal skull carved leather biker wallet (https://www.bikerringshop.com/products/tribal-skull-carved-l...) for my husband. Now I'm looking for the ideas for other people I want to present. So, thanks for sharing, I'll look through this list one more time and I'm sure I'll find something useful there. Thanks!
Shaken by Amazon’s rejection, some cities ponder what went wrong
It's called a dominate marketplace. Amazon, google, facebook, microsoft, apple. They have a monopolistic platform that they use to bundle other services and products.

Also, in google and facebooks case the "consumers" are the product and the advertisers are the buyers.
Slightly pedantic point:

A shortage is a market failure where you have willing parties who want to transact (a guy wants to sell at $10 and someone wants to buy at that price) but for whatever reason they can't.

For shortages in particular, there are more buyers than sellers (surplus is the reverse condition). The price might normally rise but it can't.

The failure to transact is the first-order condition. That prices can't rise are sometimes a cause or effect, depending on the situation. But the main thing is that you have people who want to transact who can't.

Shortages often happen due to price controls. Say I want to sell my house. I won't take $100K for it but I will take $200K. You are fine paying $200K. A rule is made that no houses can be sold for more than $150K. We both are fine with $200K but I can't sell my house because I won't accept $150K for it. So we don't transact. The sale doesn't happen, even though we both want it to.

In the long run, producers don't bother producing because their upside is capped. That usually makes things worse: not only can the price not rise, but the market becomes systematically undersupplied. But that's a follow-on effect, not the "shortage" per se.

You are completely correct that this (a shortage) is a highly technical condition that doesn't correspond to the common use of this term, something like "it costs more than I want to pay".
Ignorant? It's a well known fact that European tech salaries (especially SWE salaries) are dwarfed by American/SV salaries. Just look up the difference in what GOOGLE pays its American vs EU employees. This doesn't even take into account taxation rate, which is favorable in US.

Virtually every "How much do you earn?" thread that pops up on HN has loads of comments with Europeans being surprised at the amount of money Americans make in tech.

Further - right now America is close to uncontested in the amount of technology it is producing and exporting. The only widely used European software I can think of is SAP. America is winning the talent war. I've only had a few friends who moved from US to Europe for tech work - and in all cases it had nothing to do with the job. Had more to do with wanting to "explore new places". On the other hand, I know tonnes of Euros, Indians, and Chinese who have come to US to work.
No, not really. You can install yum, but by default, any yum commands are translated to their dnf counterpart.

(Many don't need translation other than `alias yum dnf` sort of thing)
Have fun with the data breaches. Maybe if we were talking about unikernels...
I spent the last two years reflecting on FB (was an early employee in social media), and put some reflections on the bubble at Facebook:

https://www.nemil.com/tdf/part1-employees.html

Management will laud what employees do, show them selective facts that justify their views, and hire/promote those who behave similarly to them. Employees in isolated teams with training in a single function may not realize the broad, unintended effects of their company's work. They'll assume the best of their friends and coworkers, without inquiring into the larger effects they're having.
> Eventually users will be able to add custom base images, which will permit the use of Windows (if you can get an sshd running there, at least).

msys2 has an sshd. I use it on a Windows VM runner with Gitlab CI. It's not easy to set up but it can be done.
When your product is compared to Linkedin, you’ve gone way off piste.
Always found the obsession about Soros odd, how can one guy be at the root of everything wrong in the world, like a comic-book super-villain? Just because he donates to some political causes, like most billionaires?
That's a fair point about differing degrees of integration over time. GM spun off Delphi in 1999. I don't know enough about the current auto supply chain to make fractional assignments of supplier companies' employees toward "GM vehicles."
To me the rhetoric around "globalists" in general and George Soros in particular really are functionally very similar to anti Semitic rhetoric against those same groups (who happen to be mostly Jewish). This is seen where the person responsible for the Synagogue shooting referenced a conspiracy theory about how Jews were helping the migrant caravan and then president Trump echoed the same theory about George Soros.

Edit: the connection between the rhetoric is fairly close and the real question is do those ideas about globalists come from anti Semitic ideas, do anti Semitic ideas come from rhetoric around globalists or is it both? Personally I think it's both as the anti Semitic ideas had similar rhetoric long before people started talking about "globalists".
I didn't realize you were such a victim, it must be tough. Is this just a new throwaway account for innuendo?
It will not enable anything new as the RFID device would work just as fine outside your body as it does inside (arguably better outside due to no skin). All it adds is the convenience of never forgetting your tag/card. RFID juwelery is a good less invasive alternative.
One of their primary functions is helping governments track people [1]. They market their suite as aiding the fight against crime/terrorism, but many argue that they're providing tools to governments to track their own citizens (see GP's Bloomberg link). I fall into the latter camp.

There are even some old (fairly unrevealing) demos on Youtube [2]

1 - https://www.wired.co.uk/article/joining-the-dots

2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51YYljuz4u4
That might not work for already existing constructions.

The system can be designed to not add to the fire, we can possibly add this to the already existing power infrastructure.

This is a solvable problem.
Excuse me I get an ad after every 2 stories, sometimes 1! I find the posts boring. Its he stories which capture me but yet, they make me feel bad every single time.
Regarding your shower suggestion, I find that it works even better with a cold shower. YMMV.
Or more accurately, don't build your house in the middle of a forest that has fire as an important part of its life cycle.
> You are moving the goalposts. You first asked why only Soros was being targeted and not other liberal, Jewish billionaires.

How I am moving the goalposts? The initial comment I replied to was "There's a reason why George Soros is singled out among liberal billionaires by certain right wing groups, and it certainly isn't evidence.", which I think I correctly interpreted as claiming that Soros was only being targeted for being jewish.

> That was proven false (Bloomberg, Steyer also targeted)

I've never heard of this Steyer guy, I know Bloomberg and I'm not aware that he's banned from Hungary, or that he has a dedicated wikipedia page to "Bloomberg conspiracy theories", so I don't think he can be remotely compared to Soros.

So yeah I don't know what you're talking about, honestly.
Counting crowd sizes with AI on iOS
If they leave, they'll just be replaced by others who are willing to do what they weren't.

Which, alas, may not be the best and the brightest.
They say this is only used rarely. I’m curious why people wouldn’t design every antenna this way
Which only the co-founders got...
You assume most people will vote at random? That is a completely uninteresting case that does not happen in reality.

People tend to approve of candidates they know of. Likewise they tend to not approve candidates they do not know of or they dislike for any number of reasons.

So these marks are not drawn from random distribution at all.
The consumer often doesn't know the cost, either.

It's like a restaurant that doesn't tell you the prices until after you've eaten, except it's the only way to get food.
A Facebook patent would use your family photos to target ads
I built a simple receiver circuit called the Zeta SDR and then used a 192 KHz sample rate USB audio device to do the A2D... Combined with an antenna tuner I received PSK31 signals from France in Ohio... The antenna was a mains power extension cord I had lying around alligator clipped in and strung up indoors.

Quite possibly the craziest and most satisfying electronics project I ever did and it was like 10 parts or something.
He knows.

I too have deleted FB account long ago but I use Whatsapp. I realize it is much harder to quit Whatsapp than Facebook because I really 'need' whatsapp. But as of now I don't see any strong reason to quit Whatsapp because Facebook isn't using it to show ads in creepy ways.

If only I could persuade my family members and few friends to ditch Whatsapp...
Evolved antennas are good for certain purposes, but for highly directional links, the laws of physics say that there isn't much better than some variation on a human + CAD + Matlab designed parabolic reflector (whether it's center feed, compact cassegrain, elliptical offset feed, etc).

Take a look at the dishes used for 71-86 GHz band mmwave links for instance.
my guess is they bought redhat because it bought coreos.
and ibm wanted that, too.
>but I'm a person not a business and $25/mo is a bit too steep for what I need

Same. There are several things I want to do with Zapier but at the free tier I have to limit it to one if I want it to for sure work all month.

I'm not using it for business, I'm using it to make things a little easier for myself wholly unrelated to any income generating thing so it's just not worth paying 25$ a month to me so for right now I only use it to get text messages when I get email from a specific individual.
Database Security – Backup Encryption In-Transit and At-Rest