skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I run them with different color themes and fonts (randomly chosen from a list on startup) so I can instantly see which window is being used for which project (I juggle several at work - I also take advantage of Windows 10's virtual desktops so get them spread out all over the place). If one of them goes haywire I don't feel bad about killing it since the others remain unaffected, so I never really considered using just a single server instance. Since I don't run out of memory and have CPU cycles to spare most of the time, it works well enough for my current needs.

I also tend to run the windows with partial transparency so I can see bits and pieces of other sessions/browsers/etc behind them - something I was slightly hesitant to start doing but that has made using the computer feel much more "lightweight" (for lack of a better term). I've found it surprisingly useful to have emacs show a second buffer slightly faded directly through the first one.
Perhaps you'll find the words in Hunter Thompson's obituary of Nixon [0] fitting:

"Richard Nixon is gone now, and I am poorer for it. He was the real thing -- a political monster straight out of Grendel and a very dangerous enemy. He could shake your hand and stab you in the back at the same time. He lied to his friends and betrayed the trust of his family. Not even Gerald Ford, the unhappy ex-president who pardoned Nixon and kept him out of prison, was immune to the evil fallout. Ford, who believes strongly in Heaven and Hell, has told more than one of his celebrity golf partners that 'I know I will go to hell, because I pardoned Richard Nixon.'"

[0]: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1994/07/he-was-...
Yeah, screw those sites. I do toggle JS on for select places that I have more trust in, but generally most places I browse work fine.

There is no site so wonderful and special that I'll tailor my operating environment to suit their business model for the privilege of viewing it.
It's possible that this turns out to be a real sign, and I think other commenters have some good reasons why it could be. That said, I have been an AAPL stock owner and watcher for a few years and have noticed a pattern. Every September, Apple introduces new iPhones. Later in the fall, the articles come out citing weak demand.

2017: "'Anemic' iPhone 8 demand drags Apple shares lower", https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-iphone/anemic-iphon...

2016: "Apple may be cutting iPhone 7 orders as demand falls", https://www.cultofmac.com/456431/apple-may-cutting-iphone-7-...

2015: "Apple stock slides on claims of slashed iPhone component orders, weak iPhone 6s demand", https://appleinsider.com/articles/15/12/01/apple-stock-slide...

Note that there were articles in those years also suggesting high demand. My point being that articles suggesting soft demand happen every year. Except 2014 when the iPhone 6 came out. Everyone was in total agreement then that demand was insane (and that quarter proved to be very hot indeed for Apple).

My point is that we won't truly know what demand looked like for the new iPhones until late January when Apple announces earnings.
The real solution to vibrations is a thoroughly damped bike, like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N39uwTykTQk -- it features some next-generation thinking in its spring system.
But remember how quickly he followed through on closing Guantanamo Bay?
I wonder if Apple is purposely trying to financially destabilize their suppliers in order to gain leverage over them.

I have a 6S and I'd love a new phone, but at the end of the day the trade off for getting to work on my startup is that I need to prioritize spending money on things that will actually contribute to my happiness or well being in some way. And since I know a new phone isn't going to improve my life in any way, that just makes it really easy to dump the money into crypto or whatever instead.
It's based on the observation that what counts as a 'viable position' is based on social control and totalitarianism is put into place by replacing these social control mechanisms with fear and terror.

In case you didn't get the memo, here is a primer on how to turn a democracy into a totalitarian system:

1. Invent an external scapegoat ('the enemy')

2. Polarize: Either you're with us or with them. Mediating center positions and compromises belong to 'the enemy'. Argue that you're for the simple, honest-working men and against the elites, who belong to 'the enemy'.

3. As part of point 2, push radical radical positions into the public discourse to erode social control mechanisms. ('Why can't I say X' where X is something despicable, like being a racist, being for for genocide, etc., but dressed into a seemingly legitimate 'arguments' and 'concerns'.)

4. Instil fear of the external enemy and, as much as possible, terror against the internal enemy on the streets. Ideally, there should be bands of people on the streets who mug or kill perceived enemies (e.g. the S.A., Bürgerwehren, death squadrons, etc.).

5. As a result of 3-4, once a certain threshold is reached, public discussion has been radicalized and mediating center positions have been quenched. Voting will become a false dilemma between us and them.

6. Seize power by vote or coup, eradicate the remaining control mechanisms, eradicate free media and put them under state control (in a fight against 'fake media'), eradicate remaining political opponents by abusing the justice system (anti-corruption laws work well).

The idea behind limiting freedom of speech is to prevent 2-3 from reaching a critical threshold that enables 4 & 5.
Xu's actions through out the article were quiet self serving, and selfish, no? G-Research is what it is, the behavior he exhibited while quitting and before that, going through sensitive code at the Company is not an innocent mistake.

You have to understand that a company like G-Research could easily be put out of business (or made to suffer severely) if their IP is stolen/disclosed - and Xu's refusal to cooperate with authorities is Xu's own undoing, not G-Research's.
It's nice that rather than paying people sensible wages, we make people mega-billionaires and then they hand back a fraction of it.
Who is applying it illegal?

I feel like your statement is misleading. Regulators have come out and said they don't want PG&E to go bankrupt. PG&E and the regulators are probably both supportive of extending the existing legislation to cover 2018.

However I am not aware of PG&E or regulators having acted illegally. Publicly stating an opinion before taking action is not illegal.

Plus the bailouts are generally being used to fund PG&E's rebuild on fires where they weren't at fault (from a common sense perspective) but were found liable under California law (see my earlier statement).

People are angry and want someone to blame even tho this was a natural disaster. With current laws, PG&E is being painted as the bad guy and are stuck between a rock and a hard place.
It's the third git repository, which is on your own hard drive, that has those.
CDC alerts have a fairly narrow, action-driving purpose; every extraneous word increases the number of people that tune it out, with negative public health consequences.

Complaining that they aren't adding information that—true as it is—is irrelevant to the task at hand to the alert is, quite literally, asking to make the immediate public health issue worse, and for more people to die.
DevOps is for everyone
How exactly did you violate the GPL? It is not forbidden to use GNU/Linux or free software in commercial projects.
To put the price into perspective, adjusted to inflation, the 3GS was 50$ cheaper, the 4S was 35$ cheaper.

https://i.redd.it/jclu70hbjzw11.png
there is no EB-visa, only EB green cards. But you need to get H1B first before you can jump through the EB hoops.
I hear that slave labour and not worrying about workplace injuries really reduced budgets for the original.
I don't think that's clear.

- HOL4, Isabelle, ProofPower : Standard ML

- Coq, HOL Light, HOL Zero : OCaml

- Lean : C++

- Agda, Idris: Haskell

- Mizar : Pascal

- Metamath : C
Although I generally agree, there are a couple of things that can have a big difference. Most obvious one being proper cycling shoes and cleat peddles. Big efficiency gains there.
Sure you can, but it won't be easy or necessarily profitable
> Humanity hasn't figured out any other way (yet).

Maybe we would if it was physically impossible to use violence. That we haven't figured out a way around it under realistic conditions doesn't mean that it couldn't work under the completely arbitrary conditions that a game imposes.
Maybe, at some point, ad companies would prefer asking a visitor which topic he is interested in, instead of trying to collect some giant amount of shitty data to feed their profiling engine and then being GDPRed for failure to register consent. Sometimes the best solution is also the simplest.
we all deserve this.
Personally, I think they've become too big, too heavy and too expensive.

The XR is honestly a huge misstep, IMO. It's bigger, heavier and dramatically more feature-less than its 2018 counterparts. Who is this phone for?
They had a platform for distributing music to all the online music stores like iTunes, Spotify, etc. I thought I'd be working on this platform to add support for new music services, which I was. Except the only purpose to distribute music to YouTube is so that it can be used by their Content ID system.
Fair point. Although, there are some key differences. We have a trend of machines with increasingly intelligent capabilities. So we must ask: Is it reasonable to extrapolate? How far? What are the risks? Difficult questions.

I'm personally not terribly worried, as I think we have a ways to go before creating human-like general intelligence, let alone super intelligence. It is also not clear at all to me that an exponential increase in intelligence is likely or feasible after some threshold. Still,
treading carefully seems prudent. There are some serious risks, and even if the likelihood appears low, there are a lot of unknowns.
Not sure why so many places do this. Their account database has to be polluted with 1 time only logins (the majority like you and I just exit before creation). Asking for an account before anything is the quickest way to make sure I'll never think of your product again. This is like internet behaviour 101.

To Brainfm: Five to ten seconds of time is generous of users to give, you have to make it count.
Not only do they not address the technical aspects of the paper, their response starts with a direct personal attack:

"It seems Nadim (the author of this paper) took it really badly when we called him out for intentionally spreading fake news this weekend." [1]

That's really low. The beautiful thing about computers is that we can prove each others right or wrong with technical arguments. If ProtonMail thinks Nadim has a personal grudge against them, wouldn't it be beautiful for them to disprove him with another professionally written paper as Nadim did? They can't.

Also, I think Nadim knows more than anyone the dangers of pushing weak products and marketing them as secure. It happened to him with Cryptocat. It's a thing that can harm reputation and also harm users, Nadim went through that and I believe he has good intentions by presenting this paper.

---

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/9yqxkh/an_analy...
I can't find the source at the moment, but there was actually a test done where riders rode bikes of carbon vs. alloy or steel with the frame material obscured from view. They couldn't tell the difference. When everyone is telling you that carbon has a better ride quality, it's hard not to feel it.

Steel is the best frame material for 95% of people due to its durability. Quality steel frames (not Schwinn travellers) are quite light. Cro-moly frames like Salsa are a good choice and weigh around 2-3 kg vs 1-2 kg for a carbon frame. There's plenty of framebuilders who can build custom frames out of other alloys as well. There's been steel frames built down to a kilo.

If you have a problem with harshness, wrap the bars with another layer of bar tape. Another option is to use wider lower PSI tires, preferably with wider 23mm rims. Not only is it softer, but the rolling resistance is actually less than standard road rims and tires.
[GitHub]The framework to create command line program easily in Swift
There's also LineageOS which is great when it comes to being in control of probably, but unfortunately not all phones have it supported officially.
If wooden bikes were the best the bike, we would have figured it out a hundred years ago. This is dumb.
If we take humans as our model for AGI, it's worth noting that well-established networks of humans have proved efficient at ahem... deleting more-intelligent but potentially threatening human minds, that status and EQ has tended to prevail over IQ when it comes to manipulating humans into acting against their interests, that relatively close physical copies of human minds often have very dissimilar goals and abilities so self-replicating AGIs might ultimately be self-defeating... but above all that we've already got multiple threats to humanity in the form of human intelligences, augmented by technology that's often as dumb as it is deadly.
> But what value is there in constant boxes that users become accustomed to clicking through like trained monkeys?

The truth is that on the privacy advocacy side of this issue there is an understanding that those boxes are not meaningful, informed consent. On the programmatic advertising, suck up all the data side of the issue there is an understanding that an intrusive pop up with psychological nudges towards acceptance is meaningful, informed consent.

The GDPR was drafted in the way it was because of the industry's poor reaction to the tracking cookie law. They added hefty fines and a necessity of informed, meaningful consent because the industry reacted with a wink and a nudge by implementing loop holes. This ruling seems to confirm that the commission was not joking, that it wasn't just political posturing, that they want the industry to cease and desist.

Given that I have edited the html of any form ever given to me to change "I agree" to some form of "I don't agree and waive no rights", in what way have they diligently acquired meaningful, informed consent from me and therefore from anyone?
More likely the founders of GitHub were not expecting world domination and so did not consider every ramification of a word choice.
Show HN: A Flutter-based no-code application builder
Nice try. I'm not a tourist on holiday or a random stranger. Most real people just have enough sense not to compare brussels to murderous autocratic regimes, especially if they've lived through the latter.
I think the key words here are "with some effort". Ultimately anything is potentially worth the price depending on the amount of effort a person is willing to dedicate to solving something vs having it "solved" for them.
Victimless (they're not really, but the victims are diffuse and don't know that the crime is happening) crimes are inherently hard to prosecute. That's because the first step in a criminal investigation is usually someone calling the police to report that something has happened.

The hard part of prosecuting a mugger or a thief is finding out and then proving who committed the crime - that a crime took place is usually obvious. The hard part of prosecuting "victimless" white-collar crimes is even knowing that anything has happened, that's before having to prove that what happened was illegal and determining exactly who did it.
First let me say that I haven't looked at Trac since I ditched it from production (prior to the Bloodhound incubator). So don't expect this to be fair criticism today.

> It seems not that many people have enough time and long-term interest in contributing significant improvements to such projects.

I am not convinced that is the only reason. The trac mailing list was (in my opinion) hostile to people that showed up with an idea and willingness to work on it; nobody would give encouragement or guidance and there was usually a "fk off and fork" or two in there. People aren't going to stick around to contribute if the maintainers/community are not interested to include them. That is/was a serious shortcoming.

The data model was not well thought out, with lots of UNION and UNION ALL in the queries, row-modelling things that should be normalized, and so on. That's probably my #1 technical issue, in terms of the code, it was hard to correctly add functionality because things were just read into RAM and manipulated there (expert SQL knowledge is of no use when working with the trac database)

The switch of templating engine did not make the codebase simpler, but instead made everything more convoluted and difficult to work with.

The primary issue though, was the lack of Milestone customization, and the incredibly poor performance. I had to implement custom search, custom indexes, custom reports, and custom everything else. And this was a 5-person team, using only ticketing (no repo, no wiki, nothing).
Control of privacy
Identifying Unused Indexes in MongoDB
It sounds like a lotto
As Facebook's crises mount, Mark Zuckerberg stands his ground
While true that tire stiffness is a major player in vibration transfer, it also trades off friction. As we all know, stiffer tires (higher pressure) is faster. I think you're reducing a complicated mechanical system to a few variables; mountain bikes, for example, have dedicated shock absorbers. Granted, they're for much harder impacts, but something similar could be said of high-frequency shocks.
That is true. And I am in no way generalizing my experience with whole of India. But, in my experience, I have seen less crowds on Holi and Diwali. And taking flight has not failed me till now.
While there is considerable truth to what you say, it's not the whole truth. Food is a bad example, anyway: it's cheaper now than it has ever been.

"If everybody bought just the grain they needed to eat, and every grain producer simply put their product on the market for people to buy, without a "liquid global market" and price index, without traders in the middle wanting to profit from it, my food would be affordable."

Well, yes, but the grain would be in Saskatchewan rotting and you'd be wherever you are starving.
I see a lot of suggestions to throttle or randomize the cache somehow, and none to stop JavaScript for background tabs. What are the reasons that disallowing background JS might not be preferable? Doesn’t Safari do this by default? And I’m not sure but I imagine that even allowing a background timeslice every once in a while would allow for background notifications and connections while preventing timing attacks?
Yes they provide liquidity. But that is not the reason traders become market makers.

The liquidity is something that the exchanges want so they can provide better services to their other users / customers.

What the market makers get in return is some privileges on the exchange, such as favorable credit exempts or short sale treatments. This depends on the exchange.

But being a marketmaker, basically obliging to be able to quote a price on anything and everything, is regarded as much as a nuisance as it is a benefit.
Sure, but can Rock'n Roll be used in a vacuum?
What lock do you use?
None of these mean anything without their respective context. In fact, they're all pretty pedestrian taken as a single sentence.
The new phone offerings across the board are weak. It just feels like useless gadgetry now on the same candybar.
Every fork is a fork. They're just not all long-lived or significant, which seems to be the distinction you're drawing here.
Hugo lime pro
I agree that they aren't exactly up-front about their model. They do provide a link to a pricing page that lays out the tiers: https://brain.fm/pricing
But we already have a situation where smart but nasty people can set up companies. Either they are rent-seekers in which case the harm they can do is limited, or they're creative, in which case their activity benefits society.

Even what they do with their money and influence in their spare time is limited in its harmful effects, because as personalities they are at root afraid of other people and/or inflicted by a profound sense of lack. These qualities ultimately lead to dumb decisions.

To summarise: buying and selling are ultimately pretty boring. So is controlling people. Real power is the power to create, which is fun.
> For most riders, going above an entry level carbon fiber bike with Shimano 105 components and alloy rims is probably overkill

Even the Tiagra line is very good these days. Aside from the 11th cog on the 105's, I'd say that they're pretty even in terms of performance. Especially in regards to shifting.
The SSID for the WiFi at SFO is called “#SFO FREE WIFI”. It’s named as if someone has a wireless hotspot in their backpack running on a battery pack trying to steal the login information for your bank.

I had the same reaction the first time I saw the WiFi SSID at SFO. “Surely that can’t actually be the name of the official WiFi here. Let’s let it keep looking for networks...”
Show HN: Have I been Pwned on Steroids
I guess spaceships are very inspiring to the crowd here.
Acting ethically has nothing to do with talent (you can be unambigously crazy smart and yet direct it towards bad things).
Those people got foreclosed. The banks got bailed out, took property off the market, and prevented the market to properly settle. Tons of people are still locked out of the market in order to protect everyone else’s “investment” by artificially propping up the value.
I'm loyal to steel because of it's stiffness. It's almost twice a stiff as the next best material, and 20x as stiff as wood, according to the chart in the article. So I don't think wood is for me.
How can you know that? I remember back in high school I made a few flash games, that was the only time I ever got a few ECPM mesure of every countries, and I could get up to 10$ per 1000 views from the US. It did include video ads though.

Let stay conservative and say 3$ per 1000 views. I heard of plenty of people that make more and that's including what Google take out of it. There's no way you only see 20 000 pages a year. It's at least 5-6 times that amount of page.

Ads are also amazing by the fact that they still pay even though you are underage and can't get a credit card. My passion of software engineering wouldn't have been fulfilled if it wasn't from all the free resource. I learned from Site du Zéro, I was there pretty early when they started, I've seen the website owner going from nothing to building an amazing company. Now they no longer depends on ads, so that's good, but that's only because me seeing their ads at the being was enough for them to work full time on it.
Oh for sure. Indexed shifting, better alloys, for example.

There have been some major innovations, but most of what has come out in the last 10 years in road bikes hasn't been great. Lots of new BB standards that all creak, thinner chains, too few spokes, etc.
> there is no EB-visa

Citizenship and Immigration Services thinks there's 5 different subcategories of them.

https://www.uscis.gov/working-united-states/permanent-worker...

> only EB green cards.

Nope, Green Cards don't have categories, they require you to be currently admitted in an immigrant visa category (EB-1 through -5 qualify, as do a number of others, but not H-1B or other non-immigrant visas.)

> But you need to get H1B first before you can jump through the EB hoops.

No, you don't.
>> it doesn’t “envisage” serving EU users

Strange then that "techcrunch.co.uk" redirects to techcrunch.com/europe
A Piece of History
Yes. Some of the DoD work I did was probably a net-negative for the world.
IPhone 7s is 2 years old now.
Mountain Gorillas Are Doing Better
I wholeheartedly agree with this endeavor. Traditional packaging is so messy with a unified tree. We have claimed a lot of ground toward immutable systems. I totally love how easy it has become to scale horizontally in hardware and add virtual nodes to extend containers into.