skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
XNU target config for Raspberry Pi 3 (2016)
"We are so Agile that we are not agile anymore"...
Get a split keyboard! It feels so loose and natural after you get used to it. Downside: going back to a normal keyboard (or a laptop) feels bad.
Businesses are inherently lazy. Business shrewdness and laziness are literally the same thing; businesses always take the easiest path to the greatest profit. "Lazy" just means "unwilling to expend energy".

Let's say Dow Chemical wants to start dumping chemical by-products into the Mississippi River. Thankfully, we have the EPA and strict laws which make this impossible. The only other force which would stop them from doing this is consumer outrage, which only works in some situations and even then tends to be very fleeting.

Now, let's say Slack wants to build their app in Electron. By doing so, they are collectively forcing their 8M users to burn more CPU cycles and purchase machines with larger memory footprints, all of which literally waste resources and cause pollution. Not to the same degree as the previous example, but the comparison is very valid.
Feature decomposition is an antipattern. This is not related to JIRA. Features are the result of integration of systems. Starting with features is insane. Design the system, then integrate parts of the system to create features. I don’t think prose is the answer, but it certainly sounds better than starting with features.

If you get the chance I’d recommend taking the architect/project design master classes by Jowal Lowy. If you can stand the delivery the message is extremely on point.
Great question.

>“Displaced”? So let me get this right. If my wife buys a Coach handbag for $100, and it’s a counterfeit from China, and she enjoys the handbag, then the “cost” to America is $100? I’m guessing that no actual economists participated in the writing of this government report.

This "economist" (your words) seems to think that the value his hypothetical wife gets from the handbag she or others thinks is a real Gucci offsets the fact that Gucci spent a fortune on their brand and China gets to take a big fat bite out of Gucci's sales because the US isnt willing to stand up to China on trade.
Because otherwise your claim for Bitcoin's ability to store value is circular. Bitcoin has value because it's supposedly a viable tool for commerce. But it's not currently useful as a medium of exchange, and it competes with systems that are far better than it.
I’d bet there’s a healthy chunk of “nostalgia for times and technologies past” that is affecting your perception as well. The “default settings” are different, but nothing you can’t do in Photoshop.
You missed where he said "research findings linking stress/trauma with physiological conditions like inflammation, immune weakness, digestion etc, which aligns with my experience."

My experience is similar to Tom's, and the science is increasingly showing that stress and emotions are linked in pain, fatigue, neuroinflammation, cytokines, etc.
Yes, you are disconnected.

Do you/Did you have a 15-year-old daughter?
Credits for the find: https://twitter.com/s1guza/status/1071951039115464704
How to Pay Off Your Debts Quickly
“For one study, Norton and his collaborator paid each respondent about 46 euros for every completed questionnaire. “You can run a survey on regular people for like a dollar,” “

Hmm I refused to give my email to a cable provider for a $100 Best Buy gift card (I was in Best Buy). At the time I thought who would trade their email address for a lousy $100?

Now I know.
What I'm wondering is why the 1k resistors in the power supply. Wouldn't 100k, 1M or 10M resistors drastically cut the idle current consumption? Or would that compromise the performance of the opamps by choking them off from the current they need?
Why You Start Things You’ll Never Finish
I think this is partly why "old money" isn't flashy like nouveau rich money. It's easier to blow a fortune than it is to make a fortune.
Those licenses still require you to display acknowledgements, copies of the original license, disclaimers etc.
The point is that gold is beautiful to most of the world.

Bitcoin is beautiful to maybe a few hundred people.
There are several options depending on where you are geographically. Bittrex and Gemini are exchanges that’re also big in the USA.
I remember being blown away by that video but apparently there has been some criticism of Savory's work. Searching his name returns a few critical articles such as this one:

https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2017-2-march-april/feature...

He has responded to some of them and sticks to his claims. It seems the picture is very complicated and we haven't figured it out just yet.
Maybe he’d be better off just using a transformer. Don’t these high end headphones have a high impedance?
@13a note this “... (2) every single Apple product.” work but not PC and phones. Consistent with the article trying both Android and Linux ... Consistent with image that Apple is in the A/V world. Just wonder there are exception e.g. would Sony (a multimedia company) would have the same problem.
Quora logs you in automatically if you're logged in to google.

Also makes it extremely hard to log out.

Not to mention they have no respect for users.
FWIW, it looks like Redhat actually fixed the rpm dependencies and you can remove polkit without breaking systemd now.
Well spotted. The reason is that this chart's author is the designer of Oz, which is a multi-paradigm language if there ever was one, as is reflected in the chart, and the design of which is painstakingly and very well explained in his book, "Concepts, Techniques, Models of Computer Programming".
Ask HN: How to make your remote life better?
I'm starting a small side project with the goal of creating useful tools for fully or partially remote teams.
I think the main collaboration tools (chat, video, screen sharing) have been covered pretty well, but there seems to be a lack of more "team management" type tools.

Some ideas include:

- Onsite trip planning (A flight aggregator but you can input numerous departure cities and find the best combination to bring the team together at various destinations)

- Quick timezone availability/scheduling integration with G suite.

- Onboarding. Send schwag to new employees at their house.

As a remote employee/founder what tools do you wish you had in your day to day arsenal that don't exist?
I always say to people visiting Yunnan: find a dead end road or a dirt road that goes through an area of green on the satellite. Go there. It's usually spectacular.
So is this basically like a Markov chain attached to a C++ analyzer? If so, then I think the title is a bit gratuitous with the whole "AI" thing, but I can't say it's not a convenient feature to have in an IDE.
The bourgeoisie have false consciousness too.
Why would they need to keep it a secret? Doing it in the open would probably be more effective.

Are you saying they couldn't at a bare minimum force Bitcoin to switch hashing functions?
Well done! Did you consider using other metrics (like median instead of mean) or other techniques (e.g. removing outliers, calculating confidence intervals, considering the standard deviation, etc.)? I'm aware that things can become complex (to visualize and interpret) and maybe not many people would be interested in something more complex than the mean. :)
It's incredible on HN the lengths people go to assert their authority and their righteousness over things they know absolutely nothing about.
How big philanthropy undermines democracy (2013)
I agree with the view... But how do you get non HN people to stop using Quora? Ultimately it's that much larger audience that determines if it lives or dies.
> How do you do stations? [...] high-speed turnouts have to be long to deal with turn radii [...] to get a train to merge back onto the trunk at speed

It's a highway. Paying with tunneling to avoid surface real-estate constraints. And needing fewer lanes for similar throughput due to density and speed. With minibuses. That are self driving. And don't have to worry about human drivers. And can be street legal.

So how would you do X? Well, how would you do it now, with a highway and minibuses? What if you could restrict it to networked automated minibuses? What if they were tightly integrated with infrastructure?

So for stations? Now: highway ramp to/from a lot, platform curb, or street. Automated: similar, but with tighter non-human margins. Integrated: so many possibilities... including elevators?

Consider a subway station. A short station. For a single minibus. Minibus and mini platform and elevator. Everyone gets off the minibus, crosses the platform, and gets on the elevator. Platforms are expensive. Why have a platform? Ok, so minibus and elevator. Everyone steps off the minibus, directly into the elevator. But the minibus isn't all that heavy, so why craft an extra human space? Ok, so you could have the minibus get on the elevator. At the "top", of ramp or elevator, in a mall, or lobby, or platform, or garage, or street, the minibus could play elevator cab, or PRT, or kiss-and-ride Lyft, or lot rideshare, or neighborhood minibus trundling off down the street. And continuous elevators for tightly-integrated automated vehicles could have surprising throughput. The artist sketch[1] of a point-to-point Chicago-O'Hare station has them playing PRT.

[1] https://www.boringcompany.com/gallery/2018/6/14/io1dfpyvs1y6...
For the curious: https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders
I don't know how you think this is actually possible. It sounds to me like you just logged in using oauth…

Edit: Hey, downvoters, it's not possible to just use Google's login mechanism without prompting an initial OAuth flow at some point in time. If it is, instead of proving me wrong here, tell Google how and you can make some good money out of it.

As was said below, if you want, you can revoke tokens here: https://myaccount.google.com/permissions
The existing mainstream banking system can easily handle instant payments to anywhere already, they're called wire transfers. Within certain regions like the EU, it can be even faster.

The only reason international payments can be somewhat expensive is because of all the regulation involved into balancing a global currency system and making sure you're not funding the wrong people.
Other people recommended Scratch, but I personally think that it's a poor educational programming language. It's extremely limiting and lacks abstractions such as script-local variables, procedures that return values, and a first-class way to group data. As a result, people pick up poor programming practices such as storing results in global variables or using strings for compound data.

Snap! (https://snap.berkeley.edu/) is based on Scratch and Scheme and features local variables, lambda expressions, and first-class lists (both Scratch array style and Lisp linked-list style). You could also look into Racket (https://racket-lang.org/), another language similar to Scheme. Both these languages have multimedia capabilities that make them attractive to new programmers and a more sensible design that better captures the essence of abstraction and composition.
I did, once. But after that one entirely new sessions, they automatically "click" the sign in to google button behind the scenes and log me in with the token.

Very creepy
Ask HN: Is there a bio lab with up to date systems?
I was referred to a lab (LabCorp) and found their office a bit sketchy, Wireless ipads that you scan your drivers license and insurance card. Understaffed. Other red flags.. so I left and started researching them. It turns out they were hacked recently. [1] I do not regret trusting my instinct.

Is there a modern lab that has up-front pricing for their options and modern secured systems? I know nothing is perfect, but I am looking for a lab that at least makes an effort to secure patient data and has extensive capabilities.

I am asking here because I know there are a lot of good scientists that read HN daily.

[1] - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5959021/LabCorp-blood-testing-labs-hacked-sparking-fears-exposing-MILLIONS-patients-records.html
It will be interesting when we have our first outbreak of phishing, claiming to be ASIO and demanding backdoors to all IT infrastructure.

Literally any employee would be subject to these laws. They could just quote the laws and demand that any employee installs malware or creates a backdoor admin account.
If you can find a Chinese person that is willing to be open about the topic with a foreigner (no mean feat) you will find they almost certainly agree with what the person you are replying to is saying. It is not just this one individual... it is an endemic problem in China and is pretty much just as that person claims, sadly.
Discussion of related article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18626215
Sure thing buddy, next thing you will tell me is that my microwave is spying on me!
You don't own the book itself though, you own a license to the book. The doctrine of first sale does not apply, and they can revoke your license at any time.

They have revoked licenses in the past and deleted books from people's devices. I know you have a physical file that contains the book, but that file is secured with DRM.
You don't execute all the paths all the time.

The framework is basically the entire Scala runtime. You need a list - you execute that code. Not a biggy
All philosophical views aside, there are some really core issues that got me to stop using Quora and unfortunately the case to stop using it is made by the site itself:

* The content quality has deteriorated significantly since the site's inception. The content is far cheaper than before and far less interesting in very obvious ways.

* Moderation systems have not done a good job of growing the site as a community. The site has lost the character that drew many people to it in the first place.

* The machine learning models terribly over-fit to user signals, creating a frustrating experience.

These 3 core issues with the site are what got me to gradually stop using it as someone who was initially an early adopter.
There was a well written comment on Reddit a few years back about how your life changes at different levels of wealth:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/2s9u0s/what_do_i...

The main gist was that in the $10-30 million range you can live a comfortable life without having to worry about finances again. In the $30-100 million range you can start doing "rich people" things like have a private jet (though this might be a stretch at the low end), have multiple residences in expensive parts around the globe, have personal staff, etc. After that level of wealth, more money doesn't really get you material things anymore, so much as influence and access to other important people.
Not at all. Where I live if someone's animal is on your property you're absolutely allowed to shoot it. If the owner places so little value on their pets life that they let it run around unsupervised, who am I to place more value on it than they do?
Depends on the headphones. Some have higher impedances, some have lower ones. Transformers bring their own complexities into the circuit.
The South Korean government's obessession with regulating video games is quite interesting.
I despise code autocomplete features. I could not stand using Jedi in Emacs. It just slows me down way too much to have to interact with an autocompleter. I’ll never understand why anyone would want this.

I’ve found code autocompletion to be particularly troublesome and hindering on large legacy code bases, where the suggestions not only prevent you from quickly typing out the method, class, etc. that you were trying to type, but also add a hindering layer of misdirection to trying to learn the architecture and code layout and form a mental model of the code organization.

Code autocompleters have only ever been pure waste to me, across a wide range of projects of various ages, states of code complexity, states of maintenance.
what do you mean by "on the satellite"?
The article says that "every possibility has been explored" before undergoing this treatment, and that "his team has sent patients back to the referring specialist, recommending more tests", so it clearly isn't some kind of "mental health catch all".

Also bear in mind that stress is a known trigger for MS, and psychological therapy has shown to be effective at reducing MS fatigue (see for example, Rona Moss Morris' recent trial, and others), so we're perhaps close to coming full circle with MS, recognising that psychological factors are important in triggering it, and also in treatment. (Although I suspect when I say "close", we're talking about another 50 years before neurologists -- especially in the USA -- get the memo).
Double spacing lets you handwrite comments and other markup between the lines.
Millennials - the generation of photographers, because of smartphones and instagram.

Does anyone else get irritated when their friends feel obligated to whip out their phone to take pictures when you're out and about in new locations?
How can you prove your recovery wasn't due to a sort of a placebo effect, and that the act of you believing you found a panacea for recovery through addressing your childhood traumas was what was actually causing a cascade of neurological mechanisms that made you feel better, rather than working through childhood traumas themself?
> Jira was designed for agile software development like Scrum

it says it was created in 2002
> We have been conditioned to use wealth ... as a proxy for merit.

I imagine this is especially true for people who have a high score on this metric. It appeals to ego and vanity.
I ripped all my CDs at one point, realized it was a pain in the ass, deleted all of them, and then redownloaded them from Oink.cd/What.cd.

I stopped buying albums for a while, because I have a Google play music subscription, but a couple albums I really liked were deleted from the service recently. I had "added them to my library", understanding that I didn't own them, but I never expected them to get pulled from the service.

I'm getting pretty sick of Google Play shenanigans altogether. I'm probably going back to ripping my own music because the streaming services suck, and oink/what are shut down.
It sounds like you haven’t worked on many real world applied problems.
JIRA is a pretty flexible tool. We use it primarily because it is a ticket list that we've been able to get approved in our corporate IT system. Personally, I prefer Trello, but no tool is going to be a substitute for good management. If your projects are failing, it's because of lack of communication in the team, which will happen with even the best tools, and can be done well without even the worst tools.
Some thoughts from Seneca:

"Let me share with you the saying which pleased me to-day. It, too, is culled from another man's Garden: "Poverty brought into conformity with the law of nature, is great wealth." Do you know what limits that law of nature ordains for us? Merely to avert hunger, thirst, and cold. In order to banish hunger and thirst, it is not necessary for you to pay court at the doors of the purse-proud, or to submit to the stern frown, or to the kindness that humiliates; nor is it necessary for you to scour the seas, or go campaigning; nature's needs are easily provided and ready to hand. It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - the superfluous things that wear our togas threadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores. That which is enough is ready to our hands. He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich."[1]

"Do you ask what is the proper limit to wealth? It is, first, to have what is necessary, and, second, to have what is enough."[2]

"I do not regard a man as poor, if the little which remains is enough for him."[3]

[1] - https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Moral_letters_to_Lucilius/Let...

[2] - https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Moral_letters_to_Lucilius/Let...

[3] - https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Moral_letters_to_Lucilius/Let...
As one of those friends: I’m sorry I enjoy your company and want to cherish it as a good memory.
Using TOR to access a social media site defeats the purpose of anonymity, once you login facebook knows it's you and they can see your messages so TOR was useless. At that point might as well just go the PGP/GPG route to post your message.
Are bitcoin payments somehow easy for the average person to use now? Seems unlikely.
No. CH depends on offline preprocessing while A* is entirely online. Even if you allow for only static environments, vanilla CH are not necessarily the best choice for games maps.
Not to mention xulplanet.com which had been very helpful as well.
> What crap. For nearly 100 years the subway has been just fine, and after 10-15 years of corruption and mismanagement we're expected to believe the only solution is a multi-billion dollar upgrade with technology that didnt even exist the last time the system was functioning properly?

CBTC has been an utter shit show in San Francisco. The transit consultants LOVE it. The riders who get to put up with extremely delicate equipment? Not so much.
I don't like Quora, but... that's just how OAuth is meant to work.
The first part of your comment doesn’t seem related to the second part, and neither part seems related to the question of whether most applied problems do or do not benefit from making a distinction between the sampling distribution used for generating training and test data and the “true” distribution.
You can do this with trello right?
When a service typically uses an external identity provider, they usually still have local accounts that are created and linked to that form of authentication. Of course the user will always need to authenticate using that same external identity provider ,but it can be forced by the application server by initiating oauth without provocation in the backend.

What this seems like is after the user initially logged in and consented with Google, Quora went ahead and decided that they would initiate the oauth flow whenever the user visits the page regardless of whether the user explicitly hits the login button or not.
Revoke the auth with google and clear any cookies you have with Quora. Worse that will happen if they redirect you to google to login.
It doesn't yet, AFAIK. You should open a ticket and ask them if that is planned.
I'm in the U.S. and I've had a root canal. I was only given a local and nothing more. I've never experienced the high and not knowing where I was, and no pain meds for later. In fact, I drove myself home.
This is an agony. An attempt to support falling volume.
The first time you logged in with Google, you were presented with a User Consent screen that said "this website wants access to this information, do you agree?" and you clicked yes.

To break the link, go into Google and see what sites, apps, etc you granted access to. That's a good thing to do regularly anyway with every social provider.

I wrote about the implications of poorly implemented and abusive social authentication practices last month: https://www.scmagazine.com/home/security-news/using-social-a...
Past performance does not indicate future results.

The most common disclaimer in finance, but equally applicable to all things in life.
kinda, but the important bit is that it pushes the problem onto both of them. The dev has to write the code, and then the sysadmin has to deploy it. And they have to communicate to do that. The secret is not so secret any more. By the time everyone else is involved in deploying it, testing it, paying for the extra traffic, etc... it's not a secret any more.
And worse is when it's the pictures are ultimately used to compete in the popularity contests of facebook & instagram :)
How Firecracker Is Going to Set Modern Infrastructure on Fire
This seems mostly like a not-so-humblebrag about her daughter than anything else. Child of NYTimes editor and journalist in Brooklyn has 1000 followers on instagram. Real big news.
I never signed up to Quora, but they made me an account and started sending me notifications anyway.
Several of my peers found the same thing.