skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FWIW - that's factually untrue, white men are actually a minority of the largest twitter accounts: https://friendorfollow.com/twitter/most-followers/.

There's nothing intrinsically wrong with showcasing accounts from underrepresented groups in technology or otherwise. The anger comes from being able to claim what is and what isn't diversity.

Women / people of color are underrepresented on executive management and boards of directors in tech. Guess what? So are Republicans... even moreso than the former. But diversity, as politically defined, only seeks to help the former.

That said, to the OP, great site, great design, and great video.
>Nobody is going to try steal the hot copper wires connecting my house to the grid.

Especially considering the wires connecting your house to the grid are actually aluminum.

Is PV theft really a problem though? I mean they could sell them on ebay but AFAIK most thieves aren't just fencing everything on ebay. I can't imagine a pawn shop would give them much for it considering how hard it would be for the pawn shop to resell them. With copper and aluminum theft the thieves can just go down to the nearest scrapyard and get paid by the pound.
/e/ has a dedicated discussion and support forum at https://community.e.foundation
In a country of 325 million people, it seemed like there wasn't anyone who didn't know someone either affected or directly harmed by the 9/11 (11/9 as you call it) attacks. It didn't feel like "some poor saps over there got the short end of the stick" it felt like "we're all directly attacked".

This wasn't the first time Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda reached out and touched us. Previously, we'd treated him more or less the same as you'd suggested, thinking back to the attack on the USS Cole we just lobbed some missiles off into the desert and called it a day.

As for the surveillance apparatus that sprang up in response, there was most certainly a backlash against it, with all the dystopian oppressive government warnings. The general public didn't really mind much, though, because they'd felt that the government fundamentally failed at what could theoretically have been a preventable disaster.

So, given that, what were we to do? Say to our neighbors, "sorry, you have to risk death in future attacks because I can't be arsed to wait longer in lines at the airport"?

I don't think the terrorists have won, because their objective wasn't to make our lives a little less pleasant. Their objective (as stated) is the fundamental destruction of our nation. Sure, we've compromised our constitution by allowing our government more power than it ought to have. The consequences of our reaction, our actions (and lack of actions in other places) will be felt for generations. That doesn't mean that the terrorists have won, far from it.
Exactly. It's one of their main competitive features in each of their annual reports, yet they collect just as much data...
I hope someone eventually reworks their massive storyboard into a Dune movie. They literally did all of the work already.
And that would have been fine. NY could get much more bang for their buck then giving it to Amazon by — for example — investing it in the subway system.
You can think of it like PNG vs JPG --- the former is entropy-coding only, the latter has a lossy transform before entropy coding. Minification is a lossy transform, and if it didn't provide any benefits, no one would be using JPG or any lossy video format.
I suspect you meant he claimed to be able to factor any number, not just primes? :)
Gael Duval is the founder of Mandrake which is the predecessor of Mandriva. Mandrake was a user-friendly, newbie-friendly, RPM-compatible Linux distribution which was cheaper than RedHat Linux back in the days.
Does anyone know of a vimv equivalent for vscode?
>It’s not possible to prove a negative.

_Of course_ it's possible to prove a negative. Why do people insist on repeating this as if it's actually true?
As someone who has to deal with groups on the internet often (I'm a moderator here), I know how upsetting that can feel. May I offer a tip? Try to remember that the vast majority of the community isn't reacting this way. It's just that most people don't comment.

When you post to HN or elsewhere on the internet, you're broadcasting to a large crowd. Somebody somewhere is probably going to get triggered—that's just statistics. But when it's a public forum, those are the ones who show up to vent their spleen. So comment sections are weighted towards these sorts of reactions, not because they represent the community, but because it's a self-selecting, biased sample.

This leads to the community seeming a lot more negative than it is, which sucks. The only solution I know of is to give more attention to the other data you have: e.g. the upvotes, and any traffic to your site. That's a challenge, because we're hard-wired to take personal communication more seriously, and comments feel like personal communication (though really aren't).
The author is willing to add compression to restic but that was in March and no ETA.

https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/21
The theory isn't wrong, it's what you'd expect. Outside the U.S., governments exercise monopsony power to keep prices artificially low, which results in a less-than-efficient amount of production of the generic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopsony. When you make prices artificially low you reduce the incentive to invest, and the result you're seeing is Econ 101.

What's happening inside the U.S. is harder to model. The patented versions of insulin are somewhat better than the generic ones. There might be insufficient incentives for people with health insurance to prefer the slightly inferior but much cheaper version. That leaves only those without insurance to pay for the generic, and that's not much of a market. As a biologic, insulin is expensive to make even the generic versions. And people who have no insurance probably have little ability to afford it.
First of all, props for shipping this! It says you're only 18 so great work!

I think that people are taking issue with this though:

> Taking aside what people might think about diversity, we've seen that ideologies radicalize when we are only surrounded by like-minded people, usually from similar backgrounds

You've classified people based on gender and sexual orientation but that doesn't actually mean they have different backgrounds. 99% of my upper middle class friends have nearly identical opinions (very liberal for the record). It doesn't matter if they're men, women, lgbqt+... I suspect you'd get more actual diversity by looking for people (regardless of gender or sexual preference) who don't live on the coasts or in major cities.
Decent unit tests are a big part of the answer. So are other forms of testing, such as checking results via DOM in headless Chrome. Not all of it, of course. But these things essentially form a kind of automated checklist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_oscillator

You can use NAND to make NOT.
Your IP makes incognito relatively pointless, and that's before you get into various clever forms of browser finger printing. If you want privacy you need to use TOR. Incognito should be treated as a convenient way to run without cookies / to log out of sites temporarily. It's also nice for sites such as YouTube as they'll pretend to not know who you are so you can get recommendations related to what you're currently watching instead of just constantly recommending everything you've recently (or not so recently...) watched instead.
What is the point of this project (and most other Android-ish projects) if you are still stuck with the same binary blobs, modem OS you can't see or change, ROM loaders in the SoC, persistent code running with higher privs than your kernel (which is often woefully outdated and full of holes).

If you simply don't want your phone to talk to google, connect to a WiFi AP you control which also blocks all of Google's AS-numbers and thus the subnets they contain.
Cool how you have been the only person to mention capitalism as the root cause.
Top comment says: "No explanation as to the cause of the shortcoming."

What? This is exactly what capitalism does. It wrecks everything in its path to later just turn around and say "Who did that? Do the medical companies not care about money?"
/e/ is right now just a fork of LineageOS 14.1 with a bunch of degooglization and microG. microG isn't currently compatible with the latest version of GCM/Firebase. WhatsApp, for example, works around that but that might not be what you want; it is quite the battery drain that way. Although such push messages are as well (like IMAP IDLE is). Depending on your phone, you got LineageOS 15.1 already. Though you might not find the differences between 15 and 14 major. Though the news here seems to be that there's a new version of /e/ based on LineageOS 15.x
This post completely ignores fault tolerance. The reason Kafka requires you to have three machines isn’t because it is somehow magical, but because that allows it to effectively recover from machine-level failure without data loss (Depending on how your producers are configured, of course).

Saying this approach is even “a bit like Kafka” is incredibly weak - if he is trying to do semi-durable message queueing, fine, but instead he consistently attempts to pitch his solution as mostly on par with Kafka. In the end he has created Kafka minus the utility.
Which is a genuinely useful stance in the case of products—pointing out why someone’s startup won’t work does them the service of laying out potential failure modes.
I mean something like this. It seems like just one person needs to do it, then it could be boilerplate since I see similar posts all over the place:

> "The great strides we're making in access to food and clean water and medical care"

-- What evidence is there for great strides being made?

-- Regarding medical "care", there is an implication that care is a good thing. How well is this "care" translating to health, rather than putting people on more pills and causing an obesity crisis?

> "[Improved access to food, clean water, and medical care] won't stop unchecked global warming from devastating human civilization.

-- Why couldn't it? I have often heard the argument that improved standard of living leads to lower birthrates.

> "It's not just a matter of rising sea levels"

-- What evidence is there for rising sea levels? I have heard they were rising before humans started pumping CO2 into the atmosphere.

> "if things continue apace,

-- Why should we expect climate change to continue apace? Looking at the vostok ice core data it looks like there is some negative feedback that leads to a glacial period once it gets too hot. In fact it looks like we are due for one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_core#/media/File:Vostok_Pe...

-- There is also the grand solar minimum we may be due for as well...

> "large parts of the equator will be too hot for humans to survive"

-- Needs source: If humans can find ways to survive in antarctica, submarines, and outer space I doubt this true.

> "By the end of this century, and hundreds of millions of climate refugees will be seeking sanctuary somewhere, anywhere."

-- Why, exactly? Are they incapable of planning ahead or building air conditioned structures? Does this assume some sort of energy crisis?
Or you could, you know, get an iPhone. A product from a company that actually cares about user privacy and also has the resources to do something about it. Unlike this project.
GDPR is just the newest privacy law, a lot of EU countries had privacy laws before GDPR. So it isn't that radical, but the fines are bigger.

We've already seen quicker reporting of breaches. Web trackers are down [0]. Telemetry without an off-switch has been ruled in violation (Microsoft Office [1]). In smaller cases, apps that don't secure passwords properly have been fined [4]. I'm sorry for linking to el Reg so much, but there just aren't that many English language news outlets covering these things.

As for "forcing me to consent", it violates the GDPR (e.g. [2], ICO "consent cannot be freely given and is invalid"). This is largely websites trying to see how far they can push it, because the data protection agencies aren't handing out fines straight away. This is actually very frustrating in obvious cases.

If you'd like to help getting rid of them, but aren't a European or can't be bothered reporting them to the relevant data protection agency, Max Schrems has founded https://noyb.eu/. Privacy international has also done some work in this area [3], but Schrems seems to be focussed on the "smaller" violation such as popups, and has a great track record.

[0] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/10/12/gdpr_helps_google/

[1] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/16/microsoft_gdpr/

[2] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/19/ico_washington_post...

[3] https://privacyinternational.org/topics/general-data-protect...

[4] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/23/knuddels_fined_for_...
Fair. I think I might've mentioned this in another comment, but although I've put emphasis on identities, I also take into account background through filters such as language (different cultures), low-income (so not upper class), migrants... I will expand upon these now that I've got a decent userbase.
I know you're talking about Someone Else's Network (tm), but isn't whitelisting MAC kind of pointless? MAC can almost always be freely set to any value.
Do you maintain such a dynamic blocklist?
The good thing of people using for small problems overkill queue systems like Kafka or RabbitMQ is that they usually have time to react and correct the mistake after burning lots of engineering resources. The sooner they make the mistake, the better.
> If someone wants to believe in the God of Abraham, the Spaghetti Monster, that we have free will, that we are nothing but accidental chemical arrangements in a cold and uncaring universe, why do you feel the need to lash out and label them as 'brainwashed' or 'part of a cult' or 'an idiot' or 'superstitious'. If they aren't directly hurting you, who cares?

People brought up into it from the time they were a baby don't get a fair shot to evaluate it.
Um, on-device means it's not collected. At least not yet. By definition.
It comes with online services, not sure any other alternative OS does that.
I find it funny that 400K people have put up a photo with an overflowing trash bin in their living room. We noticed this after we bought and couldn’t stop laughing. We literally hung up a picture of garbage.
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Right. "Tell me about yourself" might work well for Terry Gross, where the people she meets know of her reputation, are excited to meet her and get to talk to her, etc. If two strangers meet with little context about the other, "tell me about yourself" comes off very differently.
The adjective was in reference to the powers that are making these choices, obviously.
A couple of standard wordpress bruteforce attacks visualized
I don't they could get anywhere close to a 10X return on investment that way
Bitcoin Seed Security Analysis
Cool! Great job taking the sometimes rough feedback too. The more you ship the more haters you're going to get. Take it in stride and do listen to see if people have a point (they won't always). Seems like you're doing just that though, so keep up the great work.
Wooden planks actually do regularly come with knots and large differences in strength due to the grain - we are able to work around this due to familliarity with them at all parts of the supply chain.

As for why we use planks and not logs? They're all the same size - A lot easier to transport and use.
C64 Emulation can be cool, but still has a ways to go
Successors to Firefox OS, like B2G and KaiOS are still being developed. The app situation is more of a problem. Web apps are a partial, if imperfect, answer to that.
You can do it all with NOR gates as well if you want.

The Apollo computer, which used bipolar instead of CMOS, indeed did use all NOR gates:

http://klabs.org/history/ech/agc_schematics/

http://mikestewart.hcoop.net/2015/09/21/interpreting-the-sch...
Thank you, I shall try to think more like this. Indeed I am focusing on a minority here - I had great success either way with >700 users, >4K views and $420 from supporters in just 1 day. I should be more grateful of that, instead of focusing my energy on closed-minded people.
If this was a viable model, I strongly suspect you would've already seen this happen in one of the many countries with socialized health care. I suspect you're assessment of the approach as "relatively low cost" is faulty. Biologic production is extremely difficult and expensive.
I was glued to my tv for it. But they were still bound by early 2000s tech and budgets. Dune hasn’t seen the commercialization that the Harry Potter, Star Wars, Star Trek, nor guardians of the galaxy universes have. But it could be made into a similarly action packed film series. Though I’d argue Dune is closer kin to LOTR/hobbit/Tolkien.

My guess is that dune suffers from a dead author and it’s long passages on how societies work. Someone would need to translate the plots and central themes and ideas to the screen.
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If you would like to start at a slightly lower level, Charles Petzold has written a great book on the subject:

https://www.amazon.com/Code-Language-Computer-Hardware-Softw...
> And in two years it'll be obsolete anyway, because by then Microsoft will have completely changed their direction, again.

You could say the same about the whole industry, also I don't think "obsolete" is a good term, maybe some technologies are not the "new shining thing" out there, but well written systems with "old" and "uncool" technologies are still working perfectly fine and they will keep working fine in the future.
Ask HN: Startup 3D printer or China for manufacturing?
I need to produce PVC like pipes with some holes and engravings. 17-40 inch long. I need to make 300 of these.

Acrylic will be the material.

Should we invest in 3D printer or go china for producing this for startup?

Later, we'll need 5000-6000 of these every month.

Or should we be investing in some different kind of manufacturing?
You can't build better medical helicopters by saying "there are some things that should not be subject to gravity."
> frankly so unproductive compared to Django

Django is at a completely different abstraction layer.
Backup of GPG keys using both software and hardware encryption
Does it make sense to additionally carry out software encryption on hardware encrypted drive?
Software encryption would be based on LUKS following this guide https://github.com/drduh/YubiKey-Guide
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"But in the last 10 years of ZIRP, cash underperformed every major asset class -- stocks, bonds, real estate, fine art, private businesses, precious metals, cryptocurrencies, even rare books"

Yes, that is my point - the correct response to deflation is a very painful experience (and has been, as you note).

Since the deflationary collapse can be delayed be QE3, QE4, QE5, etc., that pain could last a very long time.

I don't know how to properly prepare for / hedge against the scenario I outlined.
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You're not wrong. I've always felt that I'm been a very strong interviewer (as a reporter, or when interviewing job/fellowship applicants), but I'm not at all great at conversation when I'm not in work-mode.
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Hmm, using BLE to send your WPA2-PSK password? Isn't that insecure?
Not effective. Use Tor Browser instead.

https://panopticlick.eff.org/
I suppose it's a shorthand for "no symmetries other than the trivial identity symmetry"?
So, drinking can be problematic, but I highly recommend Karaoke, and ... moderate drinking.

You may cringe at the idea, but it’s worked for me in the past and can be a way to enjoy drinks with complete strangers with whom you have nothing else in common and often without planning ahead.

When I had no friend group, I created a small one around Karaoke night - with complete strangers. I imagine the same might work for other things like pool.
Hi -- co-founder of Let's Fund here. We wanted to find risky, high-impact projects with a high expected value that we think ought to be funded.

This is our first campaign; keen to answer any questions folks have.
To be fair, Hawaii is a pretty extreme environment for mold problems. Bali likely is too, but it's hardly fair to judge the material for mold problems when hollow PVC will develop mold too...
I’ve always found that the people who pursue a diversity of skin tones and genders and the like are the most ideologically isolated (“safe spaces” and deplatforming and all that), so perhaps your platform does the opposite. Besides, “diversity” as you define it is mainstream—the people you’re trying to reach are almost certainly inundated with the thoughts and opinions you would try to expose them to.
Bananas have a lot of sugar. It's the reason I have only have a half of a banana when I choose to eat them.
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The easiest hypothetical option would be to instruct the .cshtml code generator to ignore insignificant whitespace, but I don't think it currently supports that.
>Unlike physical goods which can only exist in one place at one time, it is conceivable that with a powerful enough computer, the solution could be found entirely honestly by a third party simply doing some math and stumbling upon the answer at random, or by asking the right questions and exploiting some as-yet-undiscovered weakness in the implementation.

This seems fanciful, but there are in fact UTXOs which could be "owned" by multiple people without explicitly sharing the key. For example, Peter Todd created an UTXO that you spend by proving that a sha1 collision (any collision) exists [1]. Two parties could thus acquire ownership independently.

[1] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=293382.0
I can’t help but notice you ignored the content of the parent post entirely and answered the grandfather post instead.
Even Chrome 69 had an opt-out switch for this - chrome://flags/#account-consistency but it didn't seemingly change anything. Chrome has been updated at least 3 (probably more) times since then (I'm running 70.0.3538.110 now) yet nothing has visibly changed.

UPDATE: I've just stumbled upon https://www.howtogeek.com/fyi/how-to-stop-chrome-from-automa... and found now there is a switch in the Chrome settings called "Allow Chrome sign-in" (foundable by searching), not tested it so far but hope it works.
Why do they enable their ridiculous orthodox subset?
See Edbrowse[0] for a web browser and text editor designed with ed user interface principals. It’s made by a blind computer user.

[0]: http://edbrowse.org
>What exactly is their issue with Apple?

https://puri.sm/posts/apple-is-right-about-privacy-but-wrong...
You made your point already. Turning this into your own gender flamewar is a serious abuse of a Show HN thread. I pointed out elsewhere that you were hounding the submitter in a way that breaks the site guidelines, but going full flamewar breaks the site guidelines for different reasons. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and don't do this on HN again.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18521818 and marked it off-topic.
Really a bigger issue is that huge amounts of hydrocarbons still exist to be tapped. Which then get turned into atmospheric CO2.
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