skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First, Google doesn't need to prevail, it just needs to get a sizeable enough chunk of the market to make a profit. E.g. even if it's an eternal long-term 33% to AWS, Azure and GCP, it's a rational investment for Google. The market's big enough.

Second, Google is clearly betting that its scale will indeed give it a benefit -- the scale of its data centers which include all of Search and everything else (e.g. raw costs for computing and storage being cheaper than competitors), the scale of its investments in machine learning which it makes available on GCP, the scale of its investments in private networking and security, etc. Part of Google's pitch is that it's providing Google-class security and networking which AWS and Azure simply can't match.
Calling Facebook a "site with user submitted content" is not incorrect but to make it a bit more accurate is to add that FB makes massive amount of money from the site with user submitted content (you may want to ponder how exactly Sudanese users are monetized).

With this in mind it looks like the occasional slave auction is just an unfortunate consequence of the scale and ambition of the enterprise.
Indeed, yet different languages seem to have different slopes.
None of this is surprising at all, and most likely it’s chump change compared with the institutional criminality going on right now, today. Ever wonder why the price of insulin goes up 5% per year, every year? Yeah. Bribes, price fixing, and market manipulation.
> The Pixel line isn't dead. It's logical that harware gets updated

Agree and was similarly put off by a few entries: some of the items listed are evolutions of a product line. Reader was the biggest deal for me but... interestingly, it helped me deGoogle-fy.

I'd be curious to see a similar set for Microsoft products. Off the top of my head, they had Zune, MSN network, Mobile (pocket pc) and the recent attempt, Microsoft Money, Windows RT, some Office Products for Apple (which, if I recall, really hurt the OS at the time)...

They also had a number of products, that on the surface, appeared to be a continuation of a line but seemed (to me) a way to force users into new data formats (and reinvigorate sales).
I know people on Hacker News have no love for multi-level concrete parking garages, but it seems to me that such structures could easily be engineered to withstand the effects of a fire like this one. This way residents could shelter in place, or at least shelter "nearby", in the event of similar massive, fast-moving fires.

If you built structures like this in most every neighborhood, well, I guess they'd be big eyesores, but then, on the other hand, you could get rid of a bunch of on street parking.
It is possible to criticize money in politics; that's not what Facebook was doing. In fact, Facebook was spending money on politics.

Their act was a dog whistle because it was done with the intent of discrediting Soros (to protect Facebook from his criticisms), and the main way it could achieve that was by appealing to the anti-semites.
Local law enforcement using mysterious new tool to unlock cellphones
My main work desktop is still on 8.1 and will probably remain so. Laptop is 10 and yeah, no issues there.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/sdel...
In a society where women can’t participate in the work force and the economy and peoples’ health is uncertain, parents already have huge incentives to get their daughters married off.
Perhaps you're right that the people who allege the unfounded stuff are doing so for anti-semetic reasons, it doesn't follow that the people who believe such allegations and repeat them do so because of anti-semetic reasons. I admit some of them will. I just find there's a simpler explanation in that the particular stuff, founded or unfounded, is undesirable in itself to many people, independent of whether it's a Jewish person doing it or not. Put another way, the criticisms I see associated with Soros are always in relationship to some alleged act. I imagine there are criticisms of Soros that are nothing but some reminder that he has Jewish heritage (like that parentheses wrapping thing around Jewish names a couple years ago) and those you could call clear anti-semite criticisms. You'd see such people do the same to any Jewish person who does nothing but give their surplus wealth to GiveWell. But you won't see the same relatively intense response on that hypothetical Jewish person, because there's not a critical mass of non anti-semites who disapprove of giving to GiveWell, but there is a critical mass of non anti-semites who disapprove of the mission statements of groups Soros' money has helped finance (or is alleged to help finance).
S3 Multi-Part Upload API can be used to chunk an object into smaller parts, which can succeed or fail independently.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/mpuoverview....
I think this is because most people that are against it only talk about turn key tyranny. But few talk about how hackers can use the same things. How a foreign government can use the same tools (by hacking us), or as John Oliver pointed out, the government has your dick pics. And any nudes you sent.
Does the refrigerator still need helium? Getting rid of helium might be a bigger deal than just raising the temperature.

Edit: Thanks for the comments. Adding a note: As I understand it, in some of these materials, the transition temperature decreases when the material is in a strong magnetic field, so there's a limit to how strong a magnet can be made, and further cooling may be needed to deliver sufficient field for an application. Still, I'm excited, and hoping that the "grail" of helium free refrigeration is achieved soon, due to the tricky issue of world helium supply.
As a solo dev you often don't use a lot of the more challenging Git features, like merge conflict resoluttion, rebasing, etc.
Semi off topic, but I used to work with his girlfriend 10 years ago or so. It was really strange seeing pictures of her and Snowden pop up in my Facebook feed, and even stranger seeing her on the stage of the Oscars for Citizen Four.
>Is it not scary to you a Company like FB would under shield on anonymity hire a PR firm to publicly discredit someone? And you don’t take any issue with the idea the later falsely denied hiring the Firm to discredit an individual?

This happens all the time. Theranos literally did this when they hired Fusion GPS for air cover and that’s just one recent example of many. It’s credibility laundering and anyone can pay organizations like Definers that get outlets like NYT and WsJ to publish ‘credible’ scoops

https://philip.greenspun.com/blog/2018/03/15/elizabeth-holme...
'Facts' bend to the funding available. Money (can) drive conclusions. Interpretation is a matter of prior experience and available terminology. Even our hallowed logic stands on unprovable axioms.

That and there is an incredible shortage of reproductions and garbage publications that are difficult or impossible to replicate with the available information.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis
[1] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/04/170411104516.h...

These point to soft sciences, so I suppose my point doesn't stand so much for things like climate change publications, or evolutionary biology.
Surfer Boy
https://www.wnyc.org/story/the-brian-lehrer-show-2018-11-19
I feel like there is a market for something like this. Surprised there isn't one on Kickstarter yet
In the very simplest form, because there's a large class of people for whom "We're being attacked by Soros" translates directly to "We're being attacked by a massive globalist (read: Jewish) cabal", and Facebook appears to have exploited this. It's a clear dogwhistle in my opinion.
This use of 'judder' is what I would call 'jitter'. 'Jank' I'd just call 'skipped/dropped frames'. I never realised how much this terminology varies between groups, I think it's fascinating!
Similar gripe: you want to buy a water bottle holder. You find one you like in terms of design and price. Comes in a two pack. A two pack. Of bicycle water bottle holders. Who the hell wants a two pack of bicycle water bottle holders? Amazingly I humorously griped about it in a group chat with friends and someone needed a water bottle holder. Two packs...
Thank you for this. I never made the connection for market signs. Amazing.
Typical bus holds 50 people
ehhhhh... Idk about that. I think there's still a strong sentiment that the way privacy is handled is still better in the US than places where collected information is used to greater effect. I think the world at large always knew that governments monitored large portions of the public so I am really not sure it's become as big a change as your comment about "We can never go back" implies.
Of Plimoth Plantation [pdf]
1) The Slack emulator is super cool! Any chance there's plans to open source it as a Nuxt or Vue plugin?

2) re: Reaction to the karmabot, I'd echo the sentiments expressed by others - I really wouldn't want to see this in a work environment. To provide some context/background - I work remotely and use Slack async. I'm always "offline," and I rarely monitor/post in channels. If I'm needed, people @me or DM me and I respond. Once or twice a day I'll quickly scan through unread messages in channels to see if there's anything I can contribute to a discussion. And then there's a few channels configured to alert me on every message, but those are mostly channels for critical alerts and stuff. (We've got regular team meetings via audio/video as well). But with this "karma" system, I'd be at a disadvantage because I don't _avidly_ use Slack and my "karma" wouldn't accurately reflect my "business productivity/performance." The numbers would be, in the best case, inaccurate and ignored, and in the worst case, detrimental to my career because my "business performance" was summed up into a single number based on how often I contribute on Slack and how popular my messages are. We already have tools to measure our "business performance," e.g. Jira, and I'd argue that they're more accurate than a system reliant on people reacting to Slack messages or rewarding coworkers with "karma".
There is a ruby implementation too: https://github.com/janko-m/tus-ruby-server
> Historically in the US it was common for girls to get married at age 14 to 16.

A misleading statement. It is common in the US for people to die in a car crash, but it is still only a small percentage of people. The median marriage age was much higher, then and now.
What I don’t understand is why everybody is swallowing this latest admission of guilt by FB as the whole truth. Isn’t it just so convenient that the man responsible for this latest clusterfuck is already on his way out?

I mean, what are the chances that neither Zuck nor Sandberg knew absolutely nothing about this? It’s just too convenient to have this guy jump on the grenade to spare upper management. I don’t buy it for a second.
Amazon does extensive testing for the main retail site. If it seems counter intuitive I can still almost guarantee you it’s either a test to see if it increases revenue or has been shown to increase revenues.
Yes, they make a lot of money. But, I'm pretty sure they don't make a lot of money from all languages equally.

According to Ethnologue, there are 401 languages with over 1 million speakers, and 1370 with over 100,000. Now, can Facebook justify retaining moderation teams with skills in 401 different languages, even 1370 different languages, when most of those languages probably make very little advertising revenue, not enough to pay for the required moderation?

Should Facebook be forced to provide moderation services, at a loss, for lesser used languages? Or, should they ban the use of those languages, where advertising revenue is insufficient to pay for moderation? Or allow them on the platform unmoderated, at the risk that their speakers might get away with saying or doing some horrible things?

I don't think Facebook should be forced to provide moderation services for languages with little or no revenue, and I think allowing them to be used unmoderated is the lesser evil than banning them.
>This happens all the time.

That makes it all the more frightening
What are the odds of a destructive earthquake happening at the same time as a wildfire blowing across your garden?
Excellent to have some calculated numbers!

Two thoughts:

1) Possibly the road could be rearranged to allow travel only in one direction, freeing up at least 1 extra lane?

2) It might be possible to get some of the bigger 50 or 80 capacity transit buses, or some large school buses? One article I found suggested California had in excess of 20,000 school buses, although I'm still looking for a reliable source to back that up.
this is interesting. how often does it update its list/database of vulnerabilities?
Sandberg admitted that it “came across her desk”.
You aren’t being naive, but you may be credulous. Whereas there is evidence that FB hired someone specifically to undermine their critics, where is the evidence that Soros commanded his philanthropic grantees to wage an attack against Facebook?
X is their base fee. The difference is your precommitted punishment. Want to keep the money? Finish your project.
Most of it is still written in java/ruby (or somehow rendered). it’s sooo hard to change for some reason. Guess there are enough backward compatibility issue with elder customers(yes amazon still thinks mid age customers as their major customer)
That navigation method is genius. Can't wait to try this out.
They don't have to strike at the same time.
There is a task manager in Outlook too!?

Maybe I should use MS Office.
Quantum Computing: Atomic Clocks Make for Longer-Lasting Qubits
1. Because something happens “all the time” doesn’t make it news worthy? Or concerning/scary behavior.

2. From what you linked it’s not clear Theranos did the same thing (ie hired a firm to dig up dirt on an individual and attack them in the media, got caught and lied about it).

But if Theranos did the same exact thing as FB and what you linked to states that...well isn’t that proof such behavior is newsworthy.
Yeah but if I’m hiring you that kinda makes me the boss, no?
In contrast to the common expectation and statements in this article - most turbines are already not using the rare earth magnet design.

Study: Substitution strategies for reducing the use of rare earths in wind turbines [1]

>According to our estimations about 23% of the global installed capacity in 2015 is based on wind turbines using [permanent magnet] technology. The remaining 77% are using conventional electromagnets generators based on magnetic steel and copper windings, both of them posing no issues about the security of material supply.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030142071...
There's an excellent German TV series called Deutschland 83 that aired:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutschland_83

Followup series is Deutschland 86 and then hopefully Deutschland 89.

In Deutchland 83 there are a few interesting scenes around early gen compputer hardware and storage mediums that's good for a quick laugh.

A really solid(and I presume accurate) portrayal of the look/feel of the period leading up to the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Hiawatha Glacier and impact crater
I'm working on https://kanrails.com. Eventually I hope to achieve a similar thing, except that Kanrails (the bot) will be the one nagging you incessantly.

Anyways, brilliant idea.
Windows 10 has the Linux subsystem feature now. You can have a Linux CLI without a VM :)
Vim uses an on disk file as a buffer. It's the .swp file. That's how you can open files larger than the available memory, and recover files when it crashes.
I typed out a long comment but it is not yet the time to say so much.

I am starting to see paths unfold that I would not have thought possible ten years ago when I was first introduced to HN by some fellow members of a student union I was in.

These past ten years of my life have been a mixture of a lot of things. Failures, despair, depression, but also successes, personal growth and learning.

For now I just want to say that spending a lot of time on HN is a double-edged sword, and I've seen both sides - it can be a time sink, as it has been for me at times, unhealthy even, but it is also an amazing place, and one that I am so, so happy that I was told of and that I decided to stick around on.

And in case it wasn't abundantly clear - these paths that seem to be unfolding are in very very large part thanks to knowledge and awareness that I have gained from the posts and discussions that I read on HN and spent my time on.
If you keep it simple then git is pretty simple and straightforward. I think some people just get a little too obsessed about source control.
if you think a giant concrete parking structure would (a) work to shelter in place in the face of a giant, wind-powered fire or (b) be appropriate in a northern California locale like paradise you are more out of touch than the president telling us we need to "rake the forest floor". I don't want to come down too hard on someone proposing an idea in good faith, but you need to dramatically re-align your perspective to truly understand the scale and scope of this problem.

We can't use simple buildings to mitigate this; it's not a minor change to forest practices. It is a fundamental convergence of decades-old policies, millions of people living in the forest interface and global climatic changes.
The rumor was bezos had to sign off on every pixel. Not sure if that's still true?
Any particular gripes with AWS? Genuinely curious, not defending anything here.
There’s No Terrorism Like Islamic Terrorism, Despite the Left’s Lies
The full thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17517514

That was an interesting comment, it's a pity it went out like this.
Is Google Always Listening: Live Test [video]
These fires burn hot enough to melt any metal in the construction, consume all the oxygen and create an atmosphere equivalent to the surface of Venus. What you're proposing is essential a giant oven.
Or it's not their main priority. I think amazon's dominance comes from a lot of things other than their website design. Maybe they could make more money if they improved the UI, but the impetus isn't there because the focus is on improving their delivery network for example.
I received a 2017 mb pro with touchbar a couple months ago at a new job. After two weeks of utter frustration with the touchbar, Fisher-price keyboard, and comically large touchpad I went to IT and switched it out for a 2015 mb pro. It’s the model of MacBook Pro I’ve used for years and is such a better overall design that I haven’t even looked back.
I don't follow what you're trying to get at with Warren Buffett. What are you referring to that people won't like?
Meh. Just another bash Facebook rant. When are we going to ask the grownups at Goldman Sachs to stand up? Chevron? Dow Chemical? Dupont?

And on and on. There are no morals in corporate America, only quarterly and year end bonuses. Any talk otherwise is delusional hanging on to a mythical era of corporate responsibility that has never actually existed.
>Isn’t it just so convenient that the man responsible for this latest clusterfuck is already on his way out?

Exactly...I mean as a publicly traded company maybe this should be investigated. I’d start by taking a look at the severance package/golden parachute the departed received.
Generally "high-temperature" means liquid-nitrogen temperatures - in general, 77K is a common lab benchmark for these materials.

EDIT: See, for example, this paper on the superconductor in question, which gives properties at 77K and zero magnetic field: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09214...
Interesting, but doesn't this incentivise the boss to not do their job quite so well?

Edit: read the second part of your original comment which clarified this. Perhaps the charity idea circumvents the wrong way risk altogether.
Fundraising doubt – FrontApp case study
I have a doubt about fundraising from many individuals.

For instance, at FrontApp series A slide deck [slide 19](https://www.slideshare.net/MathildeCollin/front-series-a-deck-64596550), it's showed that the Series Seed was raised from 34 individuals.

In my experience, this get really complicated because:

1- Whenever it's needed to sign a contract from the company, we have a lot of people to read and sign it (incorporations, shares conversions and so on)

2 - The board turn out to have a lot of people (some of the individuals went to board)

3 - The cap table went big and it's easy to lose control of it.

I'm considering that at a seed series, you don't have much money to spend on expensive lawyer. (They raised 3.1M but could be a lot less with the same amount of individuals - a worst case but real scenario)

So my main questions are:

1-) I've seen the lecture about startup legal mechanics, but how do you deal with this structure without making the business slowing down?

2-) How can to deal with the 3 points that I've mentioned above?

PS: All my questions are based on a case where it get hairy on a startup in Brazil, so the answer can be a US type, so I'll adequate for our reality and companies possible structures from Brazil :)
I did think of similar approaches, but anything I could think of that helps you to quickly determine if a given string contains the password also helps an attacker if the passwords and salts are compromised.

In the suggested case, storing the length of the password alone massively reduces the search space, and storing the XOR (of the plaintext with the hash, I think you're suggesting?) negates the value of using a hashing algorithm suitable for passwords, since the point is that checking if a password matches a hash is an expensive operation.
>This happens all the time.

So is this an argument that the behavior is acceptable?
Pedra Furada
It's not a joke. I've seen real people doing this.
I've previously dreamed of a community version of this, and I'm certain others have as well. There's a chance the concept might be flawed, but it's worth considering. Members would be encouraged to act as "productivity coach" for one or more other members, and in exchange could receive the same service. I like it because it could be cheap and/or free, and having members experience both sides of the equation could improve the overall experience. There are some challenges that might render this impossible, though:

- Is there a target audience, ie. procrastinators capable of being productivity coaches? (I, for one, believe I fit the profile)

- How can the coaching be incentivized? Points system, matchmaking?

- Should it be monetized? If yes, how?

- How much community moderation would be required, and how could it be implemented?
Soros is also famously a Nazi collaborator.

There’s a 60 Minutes interview of him talking about the joy he got in confiscating property from fellow Jews.
Cool, thank you for those. My personal favorites 'Roger Screws Up', 'Mr. Blanchard' and 'Car!', but no 'Dang!' in there.
You can consider USB-C which MacBook has as a fake TB3 port :-)
So many (LEGO® clones) building bricks in this catalog...

Anyway, wooden Bi-Plane on p.19 would be awesome gift!
A sufficient amount of mental fortitude to continue with the struggles of living.

Dark Souls.

Friends I can count on one hand.

Everyone working at improving the human condition.
I believe it's called survivor bias :)
Nobody forced FB to run a business that allows a slave auction on their platform. How to make it impossible is not my problem - it should be their problem.
> Soros donates to a lot of progressive groups, you'd be hard to find any single company/organization that have not been criticized by a group that has ever taken Soros money

> for all the folks who think Soros is a Jewish globalist puppetmaster

I wonder if that’s because he is a billionaire Jew who funds a lot of fringe globalist progressive groups?