skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like the idea of using Arch but it concerns me that it's probably not used a lot in critical places. So way less real eyes in the packages. By real eyes I mean people who will get fired it they introduced malware by not reviewing what's getting installed. It's my own bias but projects like Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian makes me feel a lot less vulnerable. I understand the AUR/PKGBUILD, it's not about that. I'm talking about the official packages and the core.

And when I installed Manjaro it felt like a 13 years old edgy kid riced the defaults. As much as I liked installing Arch from scratch I'm not always in the mood to do it. And if you automate the process you're essentially doing the same (but you don't lose street cred right).

> It also has by far the best documentation of any distro.

It really is the best wiki format and has a lot of valueable content. I wish more projects mimicked the approach. When I'm using Debian's wiki it feels like I have to think too much.
Don't they still have that? Isn't that what the .DS_Store folders are for? I feel like I used to do that with USB drives to use on school computers.
Yep. I've pretty much given up on fiction at this point, and when I want good stories I read non-fiction accounts of historical events, people, discoveries, etc. There's material out there for practically every field of interest, region of the world, culture, religion, whatever. I've yet to get bored.
I'll just leave this here ... https://github.com/snapper26/shapeshifter
Why India? If we're gonna move everything we can as well try to move it closer to home. Europe/USA. But it will take longer than 2025.
Apple Investigated Possible Business Misconduct in Its Supply Chain
Citation no 2 -

Farmers protest = political unrest for you?
Are you even serious?

India has gone through harsher political climate and emerged unscathed.
My 1/4W THT zero ohm resistors are about 0.025 ohms according to my bench meter. In theory, that implies a 400 amp rating... not going to try that anytime soon :)
BSD support of hardware is terrible. It's not worth the hassle.
They make sense when the primary vulnerability isn't the person doing the recording but the possibility that the data might be tampered with or misrepresented before it gets to the consumer.

Consider, for example, the problem of restaurant reviews. We know that one person's review of a restaurant isn't going to be 100% accurate, because it's subjective. Socially, we've figured out ways of getting around that, like soliciting reviews from many different people, looking for reviews from people with tastes like ours, looking at the specific details they post, etc. They're also not generally incentivized to lie, because they've already eaten there and their review isn't likely to influence their service in the future.

All this falls apart if, say, the platform responsible for collecting these reviews has a business model where they are incentivized to bury negative reviews and manipulate scores upwards, but only for restaurants that have given them money. It'd be a much more trustworthy system if the reviewers could receive currency directly for the information they provide, provided by the potential customers who benefit directly from that information. Alas, basically nothing on the web works that way.

If only current blockchain implementations had acceptable performance to handle terabytes of data on mobile phones...
Newton's "..standing on the shoulders of giants..." was a dig at Hook (who was short). It's Isaac being an arrogant jerk, which he was in spades. (Even if he revolutionized thinking in a number of areas.) It's not a statement of humbleness..
I think trucks were also exempted from fuel economy regulations.

This all combined to kill off the station wagon.
> Which reads as an excuse to dismiss any inconvenient finding as a lie.

No? I'm not even sure what fields we are talking about any more, but the findings of some fields and some works are so thoroughly polluted by their political motivations that they can indeed be dismissed entirely.

There are no doubt scientific works that are manipulated not merely for commercial reasons (e.g., the classic publication bias with pharmaceutical research) but for ideological ones as well. Some fields attract this sort of thing with such regularity that every work in the field is at least somewhat suspect, if the field itself has any credibility left (e.g. phrenology)

> Also, to nitpick, the facts themselves still cannot be social actors, they aren’t people.

Perhaps the term "actor" is the source of the nitpicking; my belief is that some science is done primarily to be a social force; to push a certain ideology.

> This is where all of the magic of emotionality and meaning that you are talking about comes from. They’re a bunch of imperfect heuristics designed to ensure survival and reproduction. As they are simple they often go wrong and are easily hijacked, see the term super-stimulus for an example.

Perhaps we agree here; I am arguing attraction and partnership and all of that is very complex, that there is a lot of emergent behavior. And that, to use your "super-stimulus" as an example, it is often beneficial to consciously override the simplest impulses in order to live a happier and more fulfilling life.

"I only date the most attractive person I possibly can; it's my genetics after all" is about as good a strategy as "I only eat sugar; it's my genetics after all".

> This is also about giving advice to younger people, and telling them that following in her footsteps is fine and dandy would be doing them a disservice.

I stand by my previous reply in that the destructive forms of an attraction-focused ideology are the far larger disservice. The message that a woman's worth is strongly related to her attractiveness which is strongly related to her age is the far more dangerous (and honestly, pervasive) message.

Far too many people are embracing a message that tells them to "lay down and rot" because they aren't attractive and have no chance at a normal, meaningful human relationship. Far too many people are convinced their attractiveness is extremely low, when it is low-average.

Far too many people believe that they are unattractive and unloveable and let that view trap them in bad relationships and decisions; I know I did it. I've seen this stuff rip through my friends and communities far too often. It doesn't even need to be age; there are countless ways people of both genders can be less than ideally attractive and feel worse for it.

My own lived experience tells me that as a 36 year old woman I'm more successful at dating than I was at any previous point in my life. Would I be even moreso if I was 10 years younger? Probably, but in my case success has come only with age, so I find it hard to accept a narrative that insists otherwise.
Years of Ethics Charges, but Star Cancer Researcher Gets a Pass(2017)
As have more and more information the context is loss anyway, we cant glean it from the noise, and even if we could most of us wouldnt care about it anyway, we are busy making our own context.

The fact that we cant access some old software is not a loss akin to forgetting our enslavement of others, and really we need no such memory, we enslave people today.
FYI you can link directly to frequencies / modes like this: http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/?tune=198am

Also, the neat thing about this particular instance of WebSDR is has a custom SDR receiver that covers ~30MHz of spectrum, whereas most of the ones listed on http://websdr.org/ are much narrower.
In order to push the performance on high end chips, you have to improve thermal conduction between the wafers and the chip package. This usually requires some sort of material (sort of like thermal paste) that doesn't interfere with the electronics but still provides excellent thermal conductivity. You can't use metallic compounds because it would short the wafer so in practice the material usually has strong bonding properties like a glue.

The smaller your feature sizes, the higher the probability that opening the chip to reverse engineer the wafer will rip up part of the silicon you're trying to see. The most interesting pieces of an integrated circuit also tend to be thermal hotspots (i.e. the Intel CPU instruction pipeline vs the cache) which are more likely to be destroyed because they use a stronger bonding material.
If Elasticsearch is at the end of an ETL pipeline, does that mean that if Elasticsearch gets corrupted you can rebuild it by re-running the pipeline?

If so I wouldn't call this a "primary data store", since durability isn't critical.

The article says:

> After drafting many blueprints, we went for a Java service backed by Elasticsearch as the primary storage! This idea brought shivers to even the most senior Elasticsearch consultants hired

I'll shiver if Elasticsearch corrupting irreversibly loses data, but if it can be rebuilt from another source I don't see any problems with it at all.
The other major issue with the single family home focus in the US is with how much wealth Americans have tied up in their homes–the goal of having affordable housing is at odds with the goal of having houses be investments that forever increase in value.

Plenty of people will advocate for ensuring that there is plenty of affordable housing, but as soon as prices actually go down and homes become more affordable it's as if the sky is falling. It makes sense given there are millions of people whose net worth/retirement/future stability is tied up in the long term growth in the paper value of their houses, but it's a tough problem to solve from a policy point of view.
From my personal experience, they seed foreign factories with Military Hackers. It happen to us back in 2004 and we ended up closing the factory since it became a huge headache. They were constantly trying to get into our financials, HR and R&D network. It was comical when we would send a team to confront the employee. They would basically stand up and walk out without saying a word. There was nothing we could do. I still don't know how a company thinks it can remain secure having operations in China.

Samsung announced today that the Chinese stole their new bendable screen technology.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/30/tech/samsung-china-tech-theft...
Show HN: Browse “Who's Hiring” remote jobs by eligible country/timezone
The latest Node.js LTS can make permanent changes to Windows Update and UAC
Hi folks!

A lot of the REMOTE posts in “Who’s Hiring” have specific location requirements (e.g. ‘US only’, ‘within +- 2hrs of GMT’ etc).

This is a quick tool for browsing/filtering those.

Feedback appreciated!
I learned English in the context of a native language with lots more structure about genders, forms, cases and tenses. So I guess that it was something my teachers missed. And I went from that to immersion in American culture.
Google is splitting of the AI research community and creating a monopoly in deep learning.
> But the entire setup of China is made for stealing tech from companies who invest there

That's a really weird statement. A large part of China has no foreign dependencies. China has a vibrant and closed ecosystem tech industry right now -> Most of the Chinese tech startups nowadays have diverged so much from other countries and they're mostly focusing on Chinese market.
For starters, Google Talk had an actual client app (and then of course you could just use any XMPP client). Hangouts is a Chrome web app, which in practice means that it doesn't really behave like a proper app at all - e.g. on Windows, if you pin it to the taskbar, then close the window, and click on the taskbar icon, it'll open Chrome extensions page, not the app itself.
There are multiple mile long trains with only 2 people on board at any given time, unmanned trucks won't be a problem as they'd likely travel just travel convoys with a couple people overlooking the fleet.
At least in King County WA (which contains Seattle) EVERYONE gets mail-in ballots. They can be dropped off at drop boxes, and they can now also just be dropped off in any post-office box (without a stamp).

Every ballot is a mail in ballot.

~4 weeks before the election that thing arrives, I spend a few hours the next weekend going over the choices I didn't already evaluate in the primary before the election, and I drop that thing off like a hot potato as I ignore the political ads.

Everyone should have mail in ballots and as much time as they need to fill it out.
Only if you have a paid Gsuite account. Those of us grandfathered in to the Gsuite service with their free account don't get access to Meet.
Just look at Tom Selleck in Magnum PI trying to drive the Ferrari. They had to take the seat bottom out, and even then he always drove it with the roof off. His knees flanked the steering wheel.

They had a scene once where he drove a jag, and the top bezel around the windshield was right at eye level.
Those WTO protests/riots happened exactly 19 years ago today.
Maybe you trust the source, but not the broker?
Sure, so each party in the supply chain registers their private key with a PKI by going to the PKI's website (e.g. GoDaddy) and sticking their USB fob into their computer. The PKI associates the private key with an identity, and allows private keys to be voided and replaced if they get lost or whatever.

Then as each head of lettuce is picked, it goes into a crate that's securely sealed and then signed with the farmer's private key in a way that originates that crate of produce on the ledger. When the farmer sells their produce to the middleman that transaction is also recorded, and so on, all the way to the end consumer who buys the produce in a grocery store or in a restaurant. (And consumers would just use their phones or credit cards for this, rather than using any sort of external fob.)

Then when the first person gets sick they report their illness as per usual. Nothing happens at this stage, because there's no way to narrow down what made the person sick. By by the time the second person gets sick (with E. coli of the same genetic signature), now you can find the furthest place back in the supply chain where both people's purchases intercept. So you can now see if e.g. the contamination came from a single farm, and if so only recall lettuce from that farm rather than all romaine lettuce produced worldwide.

Because the database is open anyone can download a copy, and there is no risk of a single entity imposing a 30% Apple tax on each head of lettuce or whatever. And each person benefits from participating, because it's a pareto improvement in terms of their profitability. (Now their products only get recalled when they are at fault, rather than their products getting recalled when anyone is at fault.)
The Republican Party is morally bankrupt.

I would argue creating special voting opportunities (i.e. Sunday voting) that directly appeal to the people who vote for you is morally bankrupt.
Show HN: C# Implementation of F# piping for better, natural read code
Because there's lots of upside to keeping them (analytics) and basically no downside.

C'mon GDPR and CCPA! They will bring the downside.
This is not a replacement. This is just Hangouts for business (which is not getting shut down), but if you are not a business user, then you have no replacement.
My favourite terrible blockchain idea is real estate on the blockchain.

Because presumably that means that if someone guesses or steals my password, they now own my house.
Yes. A lot can be gained from reading any projects source code. This stuff is just as valuable today as it was when it was written. A programmer would learn a lot by reading this source code.
Peeking at your data, and calculating the sample size you need for a test are separate statistical issues. I agree that peeking messes up significance levels :).

The point I was trying to make was you can decide to run a test with a very small sample (e.g. n = 5), and it will still have the level of type 1 power you set if you chose a significance level of .05.

> You need to make sure you have enough samples in order to know if you rejected the null hypothesis by chance.

You do this when you decide the significance level (e.g. .05). The value needed to reject, given a significance level, is a function of sample size.

The definition of Type 1 error on wikipedia has a good explanation of this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_I_and_type_II_errors
"Even our development instances are done using basically the same ansible setup as production (it catches more than I'd expect in terms of "that would have hurt in production")."

At the risk of a glib comment, the essence of your statement would be VERY high up on my "biggest lessons I've learned over the last decade" list, if such a thing existed.

The benefits of having your develop look as close as naturally possible to your production (and then abusing it in every way imaginable as one tends to during dev) has caught so much on my end.
A pillar yes, C pillar is bad but doesn't bother me because the reverse camera is fantastic (for a mid priced sedan). My only complaint is that there aren't turn signal cameras for lane changes.
I'm no lawyer, and therefore may be invoking Cunningham's Law - if so, please correct me!

According to my recollection and brief searching, sworn affidavits taken under oath and making false statements in a sworn affidavit is therefore considered perjury.

However, they're not usually considered as evidence without the witness is deceased or otherwise incapable of giving evidence in court. I believe they may be used to refresh a witness' memory.

Again, I'm not a lawyer, nor am I even in the US, so exact judicial conventions etc. are beyond me, but I see them as being less serious than court testimony. Possibly serious enough to get a case to court, but if witnesses are then unwilling to testify in court I suspect the case would not get far.
Suppliers at every step of the chain enter data into a blockchain. Every organization runs a node. Therefore they can’t lie later and tamper with records when something goes wrong. Investigators can trace provenance easier. That’s it really. An append-only cryptographically secure database would do that same thing, but that’s just another name for a blockchain, which is a rebranding of a specific type of distributed database that has enhanced trust properties.
China's egregious violations of human rights and privacy have become so common that I am not surprised by this kind of news anymore (I mean, has China's current government ever respected human rights?). The only thing that can really be done now is to hope that somehow the regime falls apart. I personally have zero respect for China's government, and cannot understand why the hardworking Chinese people don't just rip it to shreds.
The article is meh, but the nostalgia was off the charts. I miss people having their own personal web sites. I made my first in 1995. Good times.
To be fair, usb connectors don't change very often and the changes are genuine improvements. Even apple is moving towards usb-c on mobiles devices (see latest ipad)
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You seem to be suggesting that a distributed ledger would have made it possible for regulators or buyers to track the specific source of the contamination and pull it out of the food system. DLTs are starting to be used for that level of tracking for diamonds, but key to that system is the ability to establish a "fingerprint" for each diamond that involves a laser-inscribed serial number on each diamond.

So to apply that, wouldn't we have to somehow register each individual head of lettuce with a tamperproof fingerprint? Just registering the bags the lettuce came in isn't good enough; the "farm" selling you their romaine might actually be selling you romaine from somewhere else that they've repackaged. (If that wasn't the case, we wouldn't be having this lettuce problem to start with.) And this is setting aside the possibility that lettuce might be leaved/shredded before packing and shipping, because now we have to put that tamperproof fingerprint on each and every leaf.

Oh, also there's the thing about all the leaves actually being in contact with one another as they're shipped, so by the time the consumer actually eats the leaf and gets sick, the best you could possibly do is say "we think it's from one of these packagers."

Maybe you're envisioning some other way entirely for Distributed Lettuce Technology* to solve this problem, I dunno. But I have trouble seeing it.

*I'm sorry, but cut me some slack, the joke is RIGHT THERE
My High Score: 387

Very impressive. Fluid animation and granular synth-like sound design. You have the seeds here for the next Agar.io ;)
I do connect via nested VPNs. Bandwidth isn't bad, but latency is 100-200 msec. Maybe the site is just confused.
Because they have 1 billion people and wages are low.

This can only work (fast), when big corps can keep their profits.

The world is not perfect I'm afraid.
no, I get that, but int is not for pointer<->integer conversions. That is very specifically a separate type:

uintptr an unsigned integer large enough to store the uninterpreted bits of a pointer value

https://golang.org/ref/spec#Numeric_types
LOL, most of the replies here are about how google fucked up, and sucks at stuff, yet this here HN Frontihspost is a dead-ass PR campaign for their paid work/collaboration tools; hangouts has probably been a technical success, so it's going business class only.

we use https://talky.io/
Bill Gates' current goat is indeed… goats: https://www.ifad.org/web/latest/news-detail/asset/40266618
> Google misled the public about the size of the company’s contract to develop AI for the Pentagon, and its executives chose against publicizing its participation in the project, leaked emails obtained by The Intercept show.
Same. I was inspired by https://christian.gen.co/ring, and in fact worked with the same designer. I got to iterate over four or five designs and ended with a very nice design, and choose the stones separately.

(I didn't go with cubic zirconia, but that's a whole 'nother topic)
The new Google Chat for G Suites is actually not even chat. Each chatroom is a collection of Google Wave style cards that jump over each other as activity happens in different ones. The experience is so bad I wrote a blog post about it here.
https://technex.us/2018/11/google_chat_is_the_worst_desktop_...
Ways for saving costs on Heroku when you're running Ruby on Rails app there
The Firefox for windows extension needs a binary installed for some functionality.
This is akin to arguing living in a room with an unlocked door is no different than living in a locked jail cell if you happen to never try to leave.
There are a lot of great narrative games:

- Firewatch

- Life is Strange

- Tacoma

- Gone Home

- Oxenfree

- What Remains of Edith Finch

It's probably my favorite indie genre and when done well it's a lot different than anything else out there.