skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have an extremely strong sense of smell, inherited from my mother. Both of us are able to detect smells at lower concentrations and identify them more accurately than almost anyone else I know. My partner has told me that there are many things she didn’t even realise had a smell until I pointed it out—she is not anosmic, because she could recognise the smell after I drew her attention to it, as long as it has a high enough concentration. I have identified people I know by smell (who left their sweater behind at the party?), detected someone slicing cucumbers or celery a few rooms away, can identify what the neighbours are cooking, have pinpointed the location of certain types of ant nest, and more. If anyone is studying smell and wants to use me as a guinea pig, feel free to get in touch! I also have synaesthesia, which may play a role in how I process smells, but it seems to be mainly a physical thing.
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I wonder if we are doing the same thing to China and it just doesn't get as much press here or China doesn't disclose it. From a layman view, things seem very one-sided.
It's a dangerous assumption that he thinks that. Arguably, he's just playing a role that's designed to increase net support. That is, he's a classic populist. And so what he gives us is a mirror to contemplate. Plus lots of policy that benefits his real supporters.
I wouldn't call San Francisco open and friendly. Hacker News frequently has articles showing exactly the opposite.

Here, just 4 days ago, is an article about the city abusively forcing a person to build an undesirable house because a hostile neighbor wanted to cause trouble:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18695241

We've seen articles about violence too, for example in BART stations and against tech company buses.
We are already trying here to offer FREE personal website for User at https://UserCV.com/users
No, that's just not how these new-style digital projects work in the UK (and the few that work the old way have a habit of hitting the headlines for all the wrong reasons). I've been the delivery manager on two of them myself and advised a third. They're highly iterative, very committed to user research, user testing, and continued evolution based on real feedback. Contractors are certainly involved in most of them but there are also staff members in the teams in key roles. They start not with a big spec but with a goal and a discovery exercise.
He wrote that after most messaging had already moved to proprietary networks. That happened primarily because Facebook and Google wanted to lock in users. The most popular desktop clients were multi-protocol clients that were slowly neglected. The most popular mobile clients were hobby projects.

Now we have uncertainty around which networks people use, which devices they use them on, and which features each network supports.
I agree the idea that a defence contractor might be working together with the Pentagon is totally preposterous. </sarcasm>
Professional load testing tools usually require you to proof ownership of the server
Blind is to Silicon Valley what 4chan is to the internet
This isn't really relevant at all to the linked paper.
Why bother trying to prevent crime is what you’re saying?
I'd rather form a white/gray hat team in the government that actively tries to break into commercial and government infrastructure, then privately disclose it to them with recommended fixes.
Not at all.

If you want to use PGP for encrypted email, and they supported it e.g. in their webmail - that would open them up to being a valid 'target' for the new bill, to provide access to your encrypted messages.

If they're just a conduit for your PGP (or even S/MIME) encrypted messages, the government can compel them all they like - there's literally nothing they can do to decrypt those messages.

Note: I am not a customer, or involved in FastMail at all (I am Australian though). This is just one of the facets of encrypted email IMO - if it's decrypt able somewhere between your laptop/phone/etc and the other persons laptop/phone/etc, it's not end-to-end encrypted, is it?
Totally agree with you. And it's funny to obeserve that history repeats itself in the comments of this post, like GPS vs voice assistance.

I'm in my 30s too and I can remember how I tried to walk to the library in the city for the first time: a map, tricks to figure out the orientation, and asking passerby. Back then, it's not as convenient as navigation with GPS/Google Map, but people were used to it.

The point is: concerns about privacy had and has never been a issue for any technology. The fact that everyone can own a cellphone with GPS, mic, gigabytes of storage makes them forget about that their location is being tracked by both cell towers, OS itself, and possibly some apps. It's totally possible that in the near future a device in the size of earpods can: help you learn a foreign language, teach you certain professional skills such as singing, and control all appliances. Then people will say something with absolute certainty: visual assistant really helps and my life will be a totally mess without it, but technology XYZ is too much, useless for me,and it tacks my movement.

PS: I use GPS related apps a lot on a daily basis: find nearest restaurant, navigate, and many other location-based apps. But here is a interesting report about taxi drivers rely on their memory instead of GPS:
https://www.thenational.ae/opinion/comment/exercising-your-b...
A jet would not be able to fly slow enough, or turn tightly enough, to track a drone. A helicopter might be able to do it, but even then, getting rid of the drone safely would be very difficult...
The end of Lean In: How Sheryl Sandberg’s message of empowerment fully unraveled
Yes, none of the buildings actually look like that.
Worked at three of those. Yes contractors, but also staff. Part of one my roles as delivery manager at one of the 'exemplar' projects was to train up my replacement (which was cool). I'm a massive fan.
This might be a good opportunity to rebuild the whole thing. It has always been slow because of basic problems anyway.
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So CBD and THC products are illegal if they cross state lines unless the FDA decides otherwise. Wonderful...
You've got that backwards.

End to End encryption defeats the purpose of the "server-side" component of any government request/demand to decrypt messages/data.

Any server-side email platform that 'integrates' email encryption (that is, envelope encryption, not encrypted transports) is effectively not "end to end" because your computer is not the server, and thus it's decrypted before "the end".
>Having a voice assistant means not having to learn to change application contexts inside an operating system follwed by a few seconds typing. You are ignoring the hundreds/thousands of hours you've spent learning which software is appropriate for which contexts. Not to mention the latency of instantiating them, or possibly even installing them, migrating data between them, etc.

So, it's interesting. I resisted the iphone-style smartphone for a long time (I loved my nokia communicators) - I mean, I was super into wearable computers; I owned an Xybernaut at one time; I had the palm v with the cdpd modem... but I resisted the winning form factor for so long.

And... yeah, it was a mistake. Not really a huge one, 'cause the things are designed to be easy to learn over being easy to use (there's usually an either/or there. the easiest to learn process is rarely the most efficient process) but still, a cost; to this day, I'm not all that great at typing long messages on a phone keyboard, like young people seem to be. For that matter, I didn't buy a car GPS until far after they were common, and I am unusually bad at reading maps for a man who started driving before consumer GPS was common, so I would have saved many hours and more than one job interview if I had that technology sooner.

I kind of feel the same way about voice control. I mean, essentially it's a command line interface with a wonky input method, no? and it's a command line interface designed for regular people, not people who are familiar with the command line tradition. I don't think it's super useful now, and I kinda think it will be a fad, like the '80s talking cars.

But, I could be totally wrong. What am I missing out on by resisting the voice controlled garbage?

I mean, if someone does come up with a google maps level 'killer app' that makes you way more effective if you use the voice control, I'll be behind the curve.
Having been on blind for nearly a year, I find it interesting how weak the rumor mill on Blind is. The real rumor mill at most large companies basically knows everything that is going on; blind is mostly junior programmers flaunting often made-up compensation and scrambling to gain a low-tier grade level.

Blind could have been an opportunity for them to get direct and honest insight into how the sausage is made but instead is trolling and leetcode-your-way-to-fang obsessing.
> It's a dangerous assumption that he thinks that.

So far all decisions he's taken are in-line with someone that thinks that, which is far more important than divining what he truly believes.
"but the brochure warns us they can’t accomodate kosher or vegan diners. (Keeping meat and milk separate in the tiny galley is impossible, and no one could endure five weeks at sea with a vegan.)"

Interestingly DansDeals just recently organized a Kosher tour to Antarctica https://www.dansdeals.com/points-travel/trip-notes/join-life... and https://www.kosherantarctica.com/
Do other people notice the distinctive smell of stainless steel?
These weren't posted yesterday, just the RSS feed for the blog had been throwing errors for a while, and seems like Maciej has fixed the bug recently.
(My opinion)

I'm generally against any form of regulation, but as long as we live in a society where drug laws already don't make sense, regulating the headshop CBD industry is going to do good things.

The industry around cannabidiol is disgusting, particularly when it comes to products sold outside of states with medical or recreational marijuana. Outside of your average stoner looking for holistic medicine, a great deal of people interested in CBD are cancer patients or family of cancer patients. At best, these companies are making money selling snake oil to dying people. At worst, they're introducing dangerous toxic chemicals to immunocompromised individuals and actively harming them.

I can't find the article but there was news a few years ago about a head chemist stepping down from one of the largest (at the time) legal producers of CBD. She wrote an exposé about how their leadership was pushing for higher purity at the cost of safety, and how it forced her to resign.
Beach plastic is different from ocean plastic. At the scale which the ocean cleanup intends to operate, removing plastics from the ocean is almost always worse than leaving it alone and sometimes just as effective as doing nothing. It sounds counter-intuitive, but it is the truth. This system will not remove 92% of the plastics in the gyre. It will neither remove nor reduce plastics which already contaminate the human food, air and water supplies. Its wide-scale, automated deployment will result in by-catch and contribute to the rising food-security issues throughout the pacific due to dwindling fish populations.

The ocean is extremely fragile. The ocean, and the communities who depend on it are on the brink of irreversible collapse, and Mr. Slat really, truly, objectively, is not helping.
The data hasn't ever been stored in Australia. All our data is currently stored in the USA and Netherlands.

Of course the "people are planning to leave us because of the hamhanded way you introduced this legislation" is a major part of all our feedback to legislators.

The AABill happened the way it did in Australia because our politics is particularly broken right now (seriously, we have a minority government which has change leaders twice and lost multiple members to scandals). We call it "wedge politics" and Labor were forced into supporting it because otherwise they'd look soft on terrorism going into the holiday period, and anything at all which happened would be blamed on them not supporting the bill.
Sure, some particular DDoS campaigns can be seen as a sit-in protest and personally I'm not personal objective or supportive to these campaigns, but under the current architecture of the Internet and World Wide Web, DDoS cannot be prevented, and as a vulnerability, it not only enables "sit-in protest", but essentially enables a mechanism of censorship, especially after the rise of these "DDoS as a service" vendors, they are effectively a "Censorship on Demand" service. Any self-published speech on a personal webserver now can be kicked out of the Internet by anyone. For example, during the Hong Kong Occupy Central protest in 2014, some news websites experienced a government-sponsored 500 Gbps DDoS attack. The recent example was Krebs On Security blog, which has been a target for blackhat groups and hit by a 1 Tbps attack.

The World Wide Web was supposed to be a (to some extent) permissionless publishing platform, that means if you are already connected to the Internet via a commercial ISP, as long as the content is legal and the law of your jurisdiction protects the freedom of speech, you don't need anyone's particular approval to run a HTTP server. But now under the threats of DDoS attack, no independent webserver can survive, the only solution is utilizing a centralized CDN / reverse-proxy, and accepts EULA of their choice and theoretically they can modify and censor your traffic arbitrarily. I think decentralized systems such as ZeroNet or IPFS may be a solution, and I hope they can be integrated into a web browser one day.
Pretty interesting, Facebook generally does not have a reputation for 'jumping on the bandwagon' so I assume they have thought this through. Many of their whatsapp users live in very poor areas that are not traditionally served by banks. If they integrate a wallet into the app it may allow for a real use case. They would still need to provide some sort of 'convert to fiat' functionality for those same unbanked users though. Could very well result in them creating their own economic ecosystem in third world / emerging markets. Effectively locks in a new customer base and revenue stream.
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Legalizing CBD, pulling troops from Syria & and it looks like we're leaving Afghanistan soon too. It's a good week for America.
> But deeply screw people like this lady who make a voluntary diet choice who use it as an excuse to bully others and make people cater to them. They trivialize people's actual medical needs, breed a culture of "Yeah, sure lady, there's no gluten", work against whatever cause they're in favor of, and largely, they're why we can't have nice things.

You know, I can see where these people are coming from.

As a picky eater, you quickly get the message that your existence is offensive and if you have any wisdom at all, you'll never eat in the company of others. Refusing to eat what someone else serves you just because you happen to hate it is an insult, and people frequently take offense.

Is it easier to go through life with everyone constantly feeling that you're insulting them, or -- if you can pull it off -- that they're insulting you?
I paid full retail for my HomePod (BestBuy in the states has them for 150 usd off) and love it. But I love it more because of the company behind it: Apple is not in the business to sell my data to the highest bidder. And their stance on security and customer privacy allowed me to put a talking tube in my home. There was no way in hell I was going to add a listening device from Google or Amazon.
Hemp (according to the FDA[1]) is just cannabis with very low THC. It can look nearly identical to "marijuana". Hemp is to marijuana as Dachsunds are to Golden Retrievers.

Super "dank" CDB plants already exist (see "Ringo's Gift"). Its not a stretch to get them under .3% thc.

1. https://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/PublicHealthFocus/ucm421168.h...
Everything on https://www.teamblind.com
Personal CV websites are future, but they need more like "FEED" or "RSS" and "followers" mechanism
They also notably charge more than FastMail.
Teaching however can supress genius.
With Mattis resigning and Kelly also leaving... I'd argue it's very bad week for America.
Two things that have helped me a lot are one speaking at toastmasters. It's a public speking community. Just show up as guest to one near you and pick a topic for an impromptu talk and speak in front of few dozen people. It will make interview seem like a piece of cake: https://www.toastmasters.org/

Second, speak more with people in events and stuff. It helps a lot. Talk to strangers, cab drivers, kids, elder, everyone. Good luck!
Yale needs to take a clear stand against this "secret society" nonsense. It patently has no place at a global research university. To be sure, a significant amount of all the talk about it is likely grossly exaggerated and unfounded. But the core fact of a respected institute of education having any relationship with organizations rooted in sociopolitical elitism (with an attendant history of discrimination) that serve no benefit to the institution or the public remains.

In practice, the system may or may not be harmless. But to keep it alive serves zero useful purposes and degrades the reputation of the institution.
Well, as noted elsewhere, they've created a lot more demand for food that is labeled "gluten-free". They haven't created more demand for food that is actually gluten-free, since they can't tell the difference; lots of people are willing to humor these people by giving them the label they want without going to the effort of taking the gluten out of the food. The same thing happens with "locally sourced".

But unlike "locally sourced", food that has been mislabeled as "gluten-free" is dangerous for celiacs.

As another side effect, the fad people do a lot of work to train everyone to believe things like "people who claim to be gluten-sensitive are stupid". I don't imagine celiacs appreciate that either.
A lot of business will make a lot of money before climate change affects them, and after, when they pivot to take advantage of a population that all of a sudden needs X (sandbags? boats? water purification?).

Change needs to happen at the government level and be imposed on businesses in spite of what they think. It needs to happen at the alliance level (UN) because governments don't want to act against their economic interests unless they have to, even if their economic foresight is short (a presidential term, maximum).

That they (people with short term economic advantage) have succeeded in making climate change an optional belief is the biggest worry of all. Now we have sheeple (half the general population) blindly running to the precipice while loudly proclaiming anyone that can see it coming as stupid/liar/hands in ears/la la la.
Hi all,

I was the lead developer on the service mesh implementation.
I've just pushed https://github.com/Kong/kubernetes-sidecar-injector public, which should make deploying kong a service mesh simple on kubernetes.

Let me know if you have any questions, I'll try and check over the next few days.
Now we only get groceries delivered when we’re just too sick to make it to the store. The amount of waste plastic generated by this service is just beyond the pale.
I agree, though the "stated purpose" of the site being to anonymously complain about coworkers probably doesn't help it stay as a positive environment for intelligent discussion either.
I've been helped by police several times.
also many shades of this in the Pynchon classic Gravity's Rainbow
> that serve no benefit to the institution

What makes you think such an affiliation serves no benefit to the institution? Exclusivity can be enticing unto itself. People want to have a shot of being elite.
Would you expect your phone service provider to monitor its lines for illegal behavior?

If not, why is that different?
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You can check out [1], which is used to teach 15-210 [2], the parallel data structures / algorithms course at CMU. The most recent version of the book is students-only it seems, on a private site (I took the course last semester), however this version is close and comprehensive.

[1] http://www.parallel-algorithms-book.com
[2] http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~15210
An interesting factoid illustrating power begetting power is that in 2004, the two major candidates for US President were both members of Skull and Bones, which admits 15 college juniors per year.
Stuff like this is really needed. Optimizing around the next ad-click won't help at all. I fundamentally we as a society need to re-align our focus away from social media and towards solving the 'hard problems' (not because they are easy, but because they are hard)
He’s pointing out a scam.

You might not believe it’s a scam, but it’s a valid opinion.

Maybe try moderating HN if you don’t like the quality of the posts. Up voting and down voting is cute but it’s not moderation.
the DLA makes up for the low # of cores. doesn't matter though because you can't buy them in volume
Costco does this. We were very disappointed. Made it impossible for us to properly price how much we’d pay for the “free” delivery, making it a non-option.
Bohmian mecahnics isn't identical to Quantum mechanics empirically. I used to think that but there are counterexamples. Additionally, the metaphysical strains it takes are philosophically appealing but not experimentally productive.
This is why I look at people funny when they say Wikipedia should not be used at all. Yes, it should not be trusted outright but open information with open discussion and transparent edit history enables magical things.

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Agreed but the government is to blame for a lot of this. People are super thirsty for CBD, it is very effective for many people. Especially elderly people that have been anti-pot most of their lives.

These people don't have any good ways of making good buying decisions, let a lone having a regulatory body to rely on to test this stuff. So they just choose stuff with good marketing and high concentrations.

Not to say your article isn't making a good point -- just that these nasty companies being successful is due to a vacuum created by decades of complete head-up-our-own-ass marijuana policy.
We had a long running bug in McAfee which was causing our software to crash whenever it was working with SSL and some system .NET code deep in the bowels would somehow cause an AD lookup, which got intercepted by an injected McAfee DLL which crashed and took our process with it.

We found it by attaching WinDbg and finding this dll on crashing threads’ call stack.

Disabled McAfee, problem solved.

We opened a ticket, they never fixed it while I worked on the project.

In the end we dumped Windows as a platform since customer IT would never sign off on deploying a server image without AV, and rewrote everything in Java, deploying using Linux containers, where IT has no power.

Cheaper, faster, less crashy.
As many others, I had heard about it and never actually took a look until now. Seems like a waste of time to me. Make a throw away account on Reddit like everyone else, and you'll probably get more well thought out and measured replies.
Scientifically, sure. But legally these are all totally different. "Marihuana" is different from "Cannabis" in the eye of the DEA.
Fun (or actually not fun at all) fact „winter is coming“ and the endless game of thrones is actually George Martins metapher for climate change and our reaction to it.