skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which is crazy, right? Moff gets strangled using The Force by Darth Vader right after he says that. How the hell does he not think it's real?

If the Pope came up to you and threatened fire and brimstone, and a fkng fiery meteorite hit you in the head that same moment, would you not believe in Catholicism?
For me, most dental floss shreds between one particularly irksome pair of teeth in my mouth. So Glide-style floss is the only type that works.
"Article with headline "makes sense" to my worldview and fits with my stereotyped understanding of elderly people so everyone piles on to comment"

Congratulations. We just did the same thing this article purports most people over 65 do most of the time.

This study was comprised of people sharing their Facebook profile data with a research company. I wonder what their disclaimers said when they clicked "Yes"?

> “When we bring up the age finding, a lot of people say, ‘oh yeah, that’s obvious,’” co-author Andrew Guess, a political scientist at Princeton University, told The Verge. “For me, what is pretty striking is that the relationship holds even when you control for party affiliation or ideology. The fact that it’s independent of these other traits is pretty surprising to me. It’s not just being driven by older people being more conservative.”

Was his going-in hypothesis that older people are more conservative? Or that hoaxes only target conservatives?

I am not saying the entire study is BS, merely that everyone saying "haha yeah it must be that 65+ don't have good BS detectors because they watched Ed Murrow on TV" may not have employed their own detector 100% when reading this article.
I wondered that myself. It turns out to be a dev kit for a smartphone.

https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/
>After you've been doing this for a few years you realize that code is code, whether it's running on a server, or in a browser, or on a desktop or mobile device. It's just code.

Except, it's not "just code". Front-end/back-end/ops, whatever, all have vastly different contexts. Hence the separate learning paths. You should know all three, but that doesn't mean you have to learn them at the same time or the same pace. You people are taking this chart way too literally.
Both partners mention they knew from the start that AWS was eventually going to compete with them. I'm not sure there's anything to make of this. Looks like normal and healthy competition to me.
(1..100).map { |i| i.modulo(15).zero? && "FizzBuzz" || i.modulo(3).zero? && "Fizz" || i.modulo(5).zero? && "Buzz" || i }
I don't see any systems with security releases ready. Did they not notify the effected systems before making it public? I thought that was standard procedure these days.
Nevermind that the lands were private property and not feudal holdings.
Here’s how to spy on people using your Apple AirPods
15" Laptop has a 1920x1080 display that's not quite hidpi. So I'm using layout.css.devPixelsPerPx value in about:config of 1.4, and in GNOME Settings > Accessibility, enable large text.

This does make things a bit too big on the 24" external display which has nearly the same resolution, but it's not distracting. Some websites I use CTRL-+ and CTRL-- to change the scaling, or rather fine tune it, depending on more than +-20% and the rendering gets wonky. Firefox seems to remember this per site even after a relaunch or reboot.

The biggest problem I have is Bluetooth, my mouse is always disconnecting on Linux, dozens of times per day, but the same laptop+mouse rebooted to Windows 10 - no problem.
What business model do you think Google has?
We don't know yet if it is suitable for AAA studios yet, as no yet tried. But Unity itself for quite a long time was not suitable for AAA studios, and just quite recently AAA games using Unity popped up. I'd say that Godot has got the essentials, and most of what is missing is pretty easy to add yourself. Maybe the last thing that stops AAA studios from using Godot is that it still uses OpenGL ES 3.0 for rendering, but there is plans to use a new renderer based on Vulkan
Although perhaps the real hero is the toxoplasma, a brain parasite that originates in the feline digestive tract that has an extraordinary adaptation to infect a mammalian host and cause compulsive cat-seeking behavior. While there’s relatively little controversy that this can infect mice and lead them to disregard their own safety to approach cats to be eaten, there are some indications that it may be the culprit in cat-loving behavior in some humans as well.

And that’s as good an explanation as any, since cats are remarkably useless otherwise. A small, trained dog can hunt mice and rats more effectively, though there is some benefit to the relative autonomy of the cat when you consider the role of barn cats or ship’s cats. Cats living in close contact with humans definitely seem to benefit from those humans developing some hard-to-explain fondness for them. Yes, they’re so cute and fluffy and precious, I recognize that, but that’s exactly what I would say if I was infected by a brain parasite that wanted me to ensure the survival of its host.
See the nice photos here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabkha
FYI, they aren't books.

>articles, essays, videos, podcasts, conversations, maps, and visualizations.
Haha yup, that's what my cursory googling resulted in. Hopefully some HNers have traveled this path before and have some favorites... judging from replies so far, that seems to be the case.
1. This is very, very cool looking.

2. We would never in a million years sign off on any usage of this at any of our clients.

I think there's something of pretty great value here, but am skeptical of the multitenant SAAS packaging it has now. No serious firm can reasonably hand off SSH access to a third party like this.

Also: where's your security page? What verification work has been done on this?
It's funny that two entirely unrelated pieces of software written by separate projects have such similar names.

One of them should really change to avoid this unfortunate confusion.
Absolutely. The crow I rescued was euthanized. They give you a number to check on the animals you bring in. That said, they provide great care and release thousands of rescues each year, and if they are too injured they at least get a humane end. It tears me up watching an animal die slowly.
> they have been publishing unbalanced, poorly researched/uncorroborated articles.

So exactly like The Guardian of the Snowden days, which got PRISM ridiculously wrong by not interviewing anybody who had a clue. Worse, they never issued a correction, instead doubling down on the original story.
The destination above is a beach vacation destination. Hotels/motels/condos would all be hit or miss for any outlet. Rental homes might have a 110V outlet on the exterior (for lawn maintenance, etc). Chances of a 220V would be near zero, unless the homeowner added one for their own EV (or is trying to attract EV owners). That'll change over time, but slowly.
Los Angeles. New York.

You want MTV sized? Asheville. Boulder. Greenville. Santa Fe.

Slightly bigger: Ann Arbor. Berkeley. Cambridge. Lafayette.

Good chunk bigger: Savannah (140k), Madison (250k)

Smaller: Bozeman. Port Chester.

Elsewhere: Plenty of cities all over Europe that are in the 100k pop range and _much_ more vibrant than MTV.

The point is, Google's presence doesn't magically improve the place. It's still a bland suburbia, like, yes, 99% of US cities this size. Google's presence won't improve SJC, either.
> A DVR and a set of "old school" network cameras in an internal network have none of those problems

Ring is a $300 purchase and takes an hour to install. This would take me a few weekends and would cost thousands of dollars. Cloud centralization makes things easier and cheaper, by orders of magnitude.
You mean the same dossier that has increasingly had various points of data within it proven true?
Counter-anecdote (I admit that I'm ignorant about aesthetics, so I'm not addressing those points).

I got a personal 2016 XPS 13 (9350) because of Project Sputnik (https://bartongeorge.io/tag/project-sputnik/), which brought official desktop-Linux support to it. I also work at Google where we have a very solid desktop distribution, providing me a working example of almost every tweak I might want to make. Owning the hardware has been a great experience since two changes. First, I swapped out the Killer wifi card and replaced it with an Intel card. Unfortunately this is table stakes for any machine with that card. Second, I thought the spring on the keyboard's keys was much stronger than another XPS 13 that I'd test-driven, so I rolled the dice on eBay and bought a replacement for something like $20. I swapped it in, and it indeed restored the light touch that I liked about the other one. I wouldn't expect many people to do this.

As for software, I've settled successfully on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, running the same Cinnamon desktop environment we use at work. A key part of my success has been committing to Ansible for configuration management. When I make a settings change I want to keep, I figure out where it's persisted, and then upstream it into my Ansible repo. This has the three-part benefit of teaching me a little about the system (mostly dconf), creating a worklog of changes I've made to the machine, and giving me the psychological comfort that if things get really bad, I can reinstall the OS plus all my tweaks. (Just to be clear, these aren't

I've since expanded the Ansible setup to manage a tiny target-practice server I keep on a cloud service, and over the holiday break this year I successfully set up an old desktop in a closet by (1) installing base Ubuntu, (2) unzipping my Ansible repo to it, (3) running a bootstrap script in the repo that installs python, git, and ansible, and runs Ansible on itself, and then (4) drinking a cup of coffee. By the end I had a machine that was substantially identical to my XPS 13.

I'm sure I'm proving someone's point that Linux isn't ready for the desktop. But from my perspective, the Linux-hardware interface is excellent on a Dell XPS 13 because of Project Sputnik, and if you can factor out the likely dozens of hours I spent overengineering my personal Ansible configuration system, I now have a reliable, easily reproducible desktop setup that rivals the manageability of a Chromebook, which is my personal gold standard for desktop statelessness.
I think part of it is learning "everyone knows" that Tabloids are all "batboy was impregnated by bigfoot". It doesn't require any critical thinking.

Yet they fall for it because it wasn't socially embedded as "obviously fake" to them. Not to mention that sadly most people are very vulnerable to flattery of their beliefs (see the infamous Sokal Hoax).
This should not be a thing, I’m sorry. You’re selling an exploit as a paid service and I don’t even want to take the chance that a junior developer will fall for it.

Literally no amount of documentation is going to justify having private keys to other people’s servers.

One of the ways to fix it would be to open source ALL the code, let people self host it if they want to. You get to see your work live on atleast.
I still remember that time when systemd developers argued that a privilege-escalation bug systemd enabled was not really a bug. The criteria those developers* use to determine what merits a CVE filing doesn't quite match up with what you'd expect, so CVE count isn't a good metric for systemd security.

* Unfortunately, they aren't alone in their sloppy handling of security issues. Rust is also another project that is known to not file CVEs for serious bugs if they occur in previous releases.
You're right, it shouldn't be necessary, but their first sentence...

>I was convinced for a while there as I scrolled down that this was a joke. "Good parody!" I thought to myself. Then I realized to my horror this is actually serious.

...is pompous and holier than thou. Being unable to see the value in this infographic doesn't mean it's trash, and I think it's unnecessary to comment with such an arrogant attitude like that, especially when it's obvious they're just either not the intended audience or they're misinterpreting the goal of the graphic.
I spend somewhere around 30% of the time in a terminal, and the remainder outside of it. I am a former mac user, and after a year and a half the Ctrl+Shift+C thing still drives me mad.

Shortcuts are just better on the OSX side of the fence (not perfect, but way better). IMHO, global actions (copy, paste, select all, cut, undo, redo, etc.) should be mapped to one modifier (say AltGr) and local actions to another (say Ctrl). The most important part of this scheme would be that "global modifier + key" has an unsurprising result that is consistent system-wide. Then "local modifier + something, or modifier1 + modifier2 + something" can do whatever the app wants. This would improve things immensely IMHO...
The title with "poised to make a comeback" is misleading because it implies software patents existed and then were completely eliminated at one point, which is (unfortunately) not true.
the point is that our history is gendered. i mean, the history of western thought is almost entirely white and male. if i want to take politics seriously, i immediately come into contact with the patriarchy because we all live in the shadow of great white men. i don't see why language shouldn't reflect history, especially political language.
Well, do your duty. No excuses! My 12th is due at the beginning of summer.

If you are a capable software developer or better, you can afford this. It only takes one income of that type. You might need to trim back your expenses, but you can definitely support a dozen kids.
Keep your tidy, spark-joy hands off my book piles, Marie Kondo
Anxiety and burnout: why kids are consumed with worry
Look at https://zoneminder.com/. I used it successfully to do what you ask for at a fraction of the cost of cloud cameras. The only reason I switched to Ring/Arlo was for 2-way audio and the ability to have battery-powered cameras. ZM was really nice to work with.
Playing the devil's advocate here: not every box has a writeable filesystem.
If it helps, I'm over 65 and while I've seen it to an extent in other people my age, it hasn't happened to most of my friends and most importantly, as far as I can tell it hasn't happened to me.

Your father notwithstanding, I think education and awareness have a lot to do with who gets sucked into the fake news vortex and who doesn't. On the other hand, I've seen some of my friends whom I thought would know better post some real dingers at times.
Font rendering is a funny one. Some distros were limited by patent issues, but Ubuntu has looked great for a while. Now Apple removed subpixel anti-aliasing in 10.14. This may look better on hidpi, but lots of us still have non-retina Macs
Doesn't Unreal require you to code in C++? That's a big reason why I'd avoid it when I don't require maximum performance.
Drone Keyboard for Tello
Muscles atrophy but not that quickly?
I like OpenBSD a lot, but I have to nitpick your description: OpenBSD diverges from "standards" when they decide the standard doesn't make sense. They are not afraid to tear down working things when they decide it's necessary, and I've faced a lot of release-to-release breakage, forced reconfigurations, or features I've relied on go completely missing without a lot of warning.

Still a great project that I use every day, I'm not knocking it. It's just not a great example of a change-averse type of stability.
I think the 25 year payback quoted is way off. Those batteries are going to last 25 years? I doubt it. They'll have to be replaced at least a couple of times and that will increase the payback substantially.
Not mentioned: his little brother is 38.
Setting aside all the privacy risks associated by using a Webkit/Blink based Browser, using Tor inside Brave is like someone with a mask screaming "HERE I AM". Even though they have a mask on everybody sees you and hears you and your mask looks different to everybody elses so what's the point of the mask after all?

The mask only works if everyone is wearing the exact same mask. Which is the exact opposite of what Brave is doing.
Actual title: "Serum concentrations of PFASs and exposure-related behaviors in African American and non-Hispanic white women"
You should allow people to play without having to sign up; you know, like lichess.
This article was very underwhelming. It’s viz porn dressed up as something insightful. Looking at his clusters, he managed to “find” the transit systems. That’s not particularly interesting. It’s even less interesting because at the start he talks about how you can’t combine transit districts, and then he clusters to find the transit districts and then tries to say “look at all the transit districts I combined”, when in reality the ones he’s combining are tiny and inconsequential.

If he wanted to do something, he should demystify clipper card purchases. Every agency has its own bespoke fare system, and its complete bullshit if you transfer between systems. THAT would have been interesting, especially given how these things interact with agency funding.
Interesting, as someone considering using AWS ES for an upcoming project I'd love to hear more about your experience.
For me, the craziest prop bet in recent memory was a $2M weight loss bet Ted Forrest won in ~2010 to go from 188 to 138 lbs in 2 months.
It's been almost a decade so some of the most dramatic pics are hard to find but here's one of the ones I found:
http://www.flushdraw.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/forrest-...
Ask HN: Google Inbox alternatives?
Google Inbox shuts down in March but on Firefox it already feels like Google's attention has shifted away. Perhaps its just my particular environment. I am not fond of the "new" Gmail interface. I know most Inbox features have been implemented in Gmail but somehow it isn't the same. This question has been asked before https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17978427 but there wasn't much response. Asking again.
As somebody who was a Rubyist for about a decade but has worked at a Django shop for several years now, I definitely see how they're similar, but I don't think Django is clearly the better of the two. Django is simultaneously less helpful (you have to do more things explicitly, such as specifying routes) and less flexible (for one example, Django doesn't have a public query builder and doesn't have a replaceable ORM — you're basically stuck with either the built-in ORM methods or SQL strings).

For me personally, Rails is the best web framework I've seen — but in an age when static typing and other static guarantees are increasingly popular, Ruby as a language is not what people want. It's an artifact of the old Lisp and Smalltalk school of thought.
Chess and Tetris are two of my favorite games. I've known about Lichess for quite a while and recently discovered jstris, which is a sort-of similar site for Tetris:

https://jstris.jezevec10.com/

It's not quite as polished as Lichess and if you've never played Tetris with a keyboard before that may be a significant learning hurdle (though it's actually a very good control scheme for the game). But overall it's a really cool site. (There's also Tetris Friends, but I just always found the general style of the site very offputting.)
> You're very confused

Well, someone is; specifically, you are confused on what “sovereignty” means, and are confusing it for having limitations which are directly contrary to what it means. What you claim is demanded by “national sovereignty” is instead radically opposed to it (though it would be consistent withstand global sovereign imposing particular limits on a geographically-bounded subordinates.)
Ouch, good point! I was at work and a bit too eager to have the first post, I think ;)
I used to just use a bunch of Foscam's but I recently moved to Canary for the auto arming and push notifications.

Here is their security page.
https://canary.is/security/
I can't find the link, but yesterday the NY Times ran an article about the impact of the increase in minimum wage on local businesses.

One of the big challenges is that a minimum wage increase pushes wages up across the board. If minimum wage increases to $15/hr, then the people who were making $15/hr before the increase will expect more. As so on, as you go up the chain.

The impact is much bigger than just a few percent of workers getting a raise.
No, this doesn't work either. You need a threat to get people to talk to each other and resolve issues, otherwise dissenters will just happily continue dissenting, riding on the "defaults". Usually the threat of starving an entire country is enough to get people to act, but this is a special time with special people.
Honestly, if systemd is really that bad, why everyone adopted it?

We can blame Red Hat as Lennard's employer for forcing systemd into their family of distributions (RedHat, CentOS, Fedora, CoreOS). But why Debian/Ubuntu? Why ArchLinux and Gentoo which were never ever targeted at "people who don't know how grep works"? Why SUSE? Either systemd brings more good, than harm; or we have to blame Illuminati and Masonry.
This is a rules decision, not an interface limitation. You may or may not like it, but it is that way on purpose...
> A lot of people want to look at Venezuela as a place that used to be a progressive country with a strong welfare state, and now it's a broke regime. But it's easier to understand that they never were a progressive country

Don't you mean they never were a true scotsman?
> Kudos to companies which have commited to never using patents for offense, and bigger kudos to those who have gifted their IP to the world.

That gives credit to companies simply for being in particular types of industries. Facebook and Google have opened up large amounts of IP in the form of open source. They do so because they don't sell software; software is just a gateway to their ad platforms and user databases (which, unsurprisingly, are well-guarded). Does that deserve "kudos" compared to say, Microsoft, which doesn't open up IP as much because it's in the business of exchanging software for money? I don't see a moral distinction to be made there.
Oh, come on, how many compute-intensive things you need to do in a game scripting language? GDscript is fast enough for scripting, C++ is there for the compute-intensive tasks you might do (though most of them are already implemented by the engine).

C# on the other hand, is to attract Unity users that are too lazy to put in 30 minutes to go through GDscript's concepts. It's OK that it's there, but personally I found C# one of the least enjoyable languages to program in.
Modern Monetary Theory doesn't make single-payer health care any easier
I honestly find CNN to be fairly in the middle. Sure it's a little left leaning- but it's minimal.

If it looks very "left leaning" now that's because of the reality of how terrible Trump is for the world. But they still give him credit when credit is due. They aren't taking democrats sides all the time by any means. They don't tack up headlines right away that aren't substantiated. There is a minimal of sensationalized headlines. They will clearly have links to opinion pieces which lean way right.

What I actually like to do is if I see something that is supposed to be "big news" on reddit or such, I'll go to cnn. Lots of times, I would see nothing for hours about this "massive breaking news". And sometimes I will see it right away. It's a pretty good barometer to see how important something really is.

Anyway, I don't actually watch cnn much but from their website and clips I see, I think it's pretty fair. Especially compared to something like foxnews which is ludicrously biased.
Yesterday they announced DocumentDB - knock off (they could have at least picked a different name) of Microsoft's DocumentDB (which had a Mongo access API like 3+ years ago). People will eventually become more vocal about these practice. If these tactics might reach a critical threshold, the media will be all over it. 2017 Uber, 2018 Facebook, 2019 ?
No this is anticompetitive behavior enabled by monopolistic structures. No way around it.