skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Karsten Koch - The Blue Valley (darn, S3M can't be played on Bassoon) https://modarchive.org/module.php?37685

Skaven - Catch that Goblin!!
https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&qu...

Skaven - 2nd Reality (from the absolute classic demo)
https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&qu...

Uplink, the hacking video game, actually used a bunch of classic tracks as its OST: https://youtu.be/8Esv7RPM--c
I can't tell if this is meant sarcastically or not.
Their rights are limited, yes, but what about the person on the other end of the call? I feel this is a gross violation of the 4th amendment rights of anyone who receives calls from an inmate subject to this program.
There's a further implication that an instruction, but not a failsafe, exists to prevent the given condition. E.g. "do not reverse thrust until ground mode has fully activated." but no check to actually prevent the crew from doing so.

I'm not a lawyer; couldn't tell you where the fault would split in that case, but if my hunch about the lack of a failsafe for a given instruction is correct... it's still a surprise to me. I'd expect existing avionics production procedures to catch this sort of thing.
8bit Workshop
We figured that if the break was near the outside of the module, we might be able to dissolve the potting around the break. But unpotting the entire module to search for the break has way too big a chance of breaking more wires or causing more damage.
Hey everyone, this is Jo, the author of this article – AMA. Just kidding, really appreciate the discourse happening here, reading every single one of your comments.

A question for the UX designers in here: Do you think about what your users do when they don’t use your product? What tools/models do you use for that? Very curious for your feedback!
Follow Glider Labs GitHub Docker Alpine issue: https://github.com/gliderlabs/docker-alpine/issues/480
I’m also a glider pilot and I also appreciate the simplicity of the basic systems, but I feel like it’s worth noting that you’re far more likely to die in a glider crash than you are in a modern airliner full of complex software.
This isn't going to stop anything. Attribution was already "laundered" through multiple different agencies and firms who were conducting this research.

They'll just cut a check to another company and proceed from there and/or a company will just sell them the data on "teen social and mobile usage" and Facebook will be able to truthfully state that they had no idea the means by which it was collected.
I would think the kingpin would be outside of prison for that scenario, yeah? =]
Isn't this exactly what the FTC is for, though?
Sounds right. A friend who worked there said he did 100 interviews for devs, with 0 ending up hired.
> Captain - Space Debris

Actually part of the sample set on this tracker :)
CANNONFOD.MOD
Are you forgetting that time that the spy agency collected call records on millions of Americans through a secret court? [1]

As the other commenter points out, this only adds an attack vector and does not do anything to eliminate any.

The same incentives exist on all sides to find exploits regardless of an additional “legal” channel to crack the encryption. Particularly because your political enemies use the same devices and you can’t get a court order to tap their phones (usually).

[1] - https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2013/...
>A team of former U.S. government intelligence operatives working for the United Arab Emirates

no non-competes? So, when Snowden tells to public about mere existence of NSA hacks - it is a crime, yet when an intelligence operative brings his NSA and the likes sourced detailed technical knowledge to a foreign government - that is kosher.
Well, as far as I can gather from your posting history you are from Vancouver.

I know several people from western Canada that live openly trans and work without any issues. Don't give up because of a handful of bad employers and some bad experiences.

They added protection to the B.C. Human Rights Code in 2016 and there are a lot of protections Canada wide.

This is not an humble brag, this is your rights. You have the right to work in any field you want. In STEM we even have the opportunity to work remotely, which helps if you are too uncomfortable to be out in public.
How many spam calls are folks averaging per day?

I probably get one (1) every 3-6 months, and I answer calls from unknown numbers without hesitation. I've also been using the same mobile number for more than two decades.
Doesn’t this render the value of comments useless?

I don't find it so.

If any given post/article can stay on specific topic (which it most certainly does almost all the time) then why can’t the collective group of people do the same, particularly when the technology is specifically designed to achieve that goal?

I reject the premise that "the technology is specifically designed to achieve that goal". I believe a good conversation does branch out and lead one into a myriad to topics, where those topics relate back to the primary topic.

If conversations here were routinely jumping to something completely unrelated, then I could see your point. But I don't feel like I see that, at least not in the conversations I participate in.
Wouldn't be Boss as a service[0], you were thinking of?

[0]https://bossasaservice.life/
Interesting but it means nothing and has nothing to do with a test for people who live in the USA among other Americans in a region that can influence their accent.
It's controversial because the bar for 'dead weight' escalates over time. I worked for a company where eventually a Satisfactory rating became inadequate. Just doing your job wasn't good enough.
Strange Sex Habits of Silicon Valley (2012)
Distributed Phoenix Chat with PubSub PG2 Adapter
I agree. I've seen Facebook doing shady things but I don't think this is one of them.

As a company they want to collect data for whatever reason (a research project, training data for an ML system, creating a new product, refining an existing one or assessing the overall market). So they built software for data collection and are paying people money in exchange. How is this different from Amazon Mechanical Turk or any crowdsourcing platform which pays people for data?

I admit I haven't seen what the contract looks like but are people suggesting that the end user still does not understand that they are providing user data to be used by Facebook in exchange for money or have no power to decline such offer?

But it's much easier for the press to run click baity titles like "Facebook spies on teens! Again!!" and many folks on HN quickly jump on the bandwagon.

That said, the part of this backlash I sympathize with is if someone hates benefiting FB and have any of their data in their hands but then has a friend who uses this service and uploads all their collected chat conversations to FB.

and no, I don't work for them.
i’m curious why the internal tools would fail testflight beta review. i had an app fail beta review, but was still able to distribute with testflight after explaining to the reviewers it was for internal use only...
Is that true even if the turbines are still spinning very fast?
Seems like a likely candidate.
Because management is difficult and proponents of stack ranking and other data-driven approaches think there's a way to automate management. It turns out -I believe anyways- that for many kinds of jobs you can't really automate management. If you want to know who your best and brightest are, and who the chaff is, you need to get down and dirty and get to know them.
My main focus is on "productivity" applications and CRUD, not so much documents. One doesn't typically index applications in a Google-esque way. I don't propose we throw out all the Web, but rather create (or extend?) standards for the things HTML/DOM/CSS do poorly. My apologies for not making the scope clearer. (Maybe that's why I got a "-1" score.)

And, there may still be a markup language with text as text and other semantic info. The new standard may be able to use existing HTML tags, but add supplement attributes to control precise placement, and other features HTML/CSS lacks.

By the way, Google can index PDF documents reasonably well, depending on how the PDF was created. This is evidence that precise control over layout doesn't necessarily prevent indexing and summarizing of text and content.

I will also point out that many graphic designers are frustrated with CSS also because they envision a concept, but have a hard time getting web pages to do what precisely what they envision. It's why Flash was popular with them: the proverbial paint strokes wind up exactly where you put the brush down on the canvas. The artists may still want their work to adjust to the end-user screen size, but they want to control precisely HOW it adjusts: they want to write the size adjustment formulas themselves (or select among multiple API's), not rely on browser programmers and their variation on the CSS engine, which often differ across browser brands and versions.
Foxconn may not build a factory in Wisconsin after all
Can we cut the pretense and just admit it’s about the fact that you’re showered with money and the high prestige? No judgement, I’d do it if I was an elite too.
Well, Rolls Royce monitors those engines remotely and have access to their logs afaik. So, it should be clear by now whether it has been called from software or not.
About two per day.
Full traceability would be a good start.

When they see the actual engineers' answers of "NO" on the traceability report, then NASA would have stopped right there as a blocker and push hard.

Having execs make engineering safety critical decisions is a way to kill people. And hopefully now NASA forces this on all their contraters and internal staff.
Metaweb is an example of the forced liquidation problem with knowledge services that take serious VC.

Freebase had no business model and Metaweb took $57 million in VC. Then Google took the public service, which had been built up by a large community, and effectively buried it.

As with most of the other cases, their only possible path that involved sustainability and long-term knowledge value, was to not take VC, stay lean, and either API their system for a fee (not a huge business), or run an ad model. Either way, their business case was small, and they took a lot of VC. The end result, another dead, formerly promising, knowledge service in an increasingly long list.
How do you restart the Boeing 787 in mid-air? With the lack of an APU (they use li-on batteries, I think?), what's the mid-air engine restart procedure?
If they don't limit and detail all use of the data, collection would (probably) be illegal under the gdpr.
It might be a struggle at some stage of addiction, where personal choice is less accessible. But at some earlier stage, it is a personal choice to experiment with hard drugs in the first place, and there is individual agency and responsibility associated with that choice.

Coddling addicts (by possibly excusing/overlooking any associated criminal actions) because it is a struggle in a later stage of addiction seems like a removal of the disincentives that keep people from going down that path in the first place. Also, I really am not for social support or a different (relaxed) enforcement of the law for addicts _above_ the protection of law-abiding citizens and their property.
You should edit that to 'These are people who don't care. It's not good.'
Usually they just come to you or find you on their own.

You do keep an eye/ear out for them so you notice when opportunity knocks.

For me it is usually something I need or a client needs to automate, or something where a web app could do it better than how it's currently being done.

I keep a list of ideas/possible projects and then focus on creating the ones that are the most interesting have the most potential.

You have to watch out for shiny things, next thing you know you are jumping from one project to the next. Which is ok sometimes if you just want to learn something new or explore.

Usually you'll have one idea that has the most potential to be something that generates revenue so focus on that one if that's your goal till you determine if it's viable.

If you don't listen already you should check out StartUpsForTheRestOfuS.com, listen from episode 1 of their podcast in their archives.
The global hegemony is still being maintained, there still is 800 US military bases around the world despite those in Afghanistan and several in the Middle East being shut down.

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

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/06/us-military-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_with_oversea...
Apple bans Facebook’s Research app that paid users for data
the reason has nothing to do with the ones being let go.
It's about the people who remain: they're gonna be working a lot harder when they see their colleagues laid off. No one wants to be next. It's like running away from an alligator. You don't have to be faster than the alligator, you just need to be faster than your friends.
After government re-opened, SpaceX sought two Falcon Heavy permits
As a matter of interest, do you believe that the sane option is to shut down the NSA entirely?
I always like to take note of the ICs on new dev hardware I'll be working with.

For one, I may find that something isn't working and the chips may be relevant to that. For two, if I want to re-purpose the kit for something in the future, that list of chips will let me know if I'm going to need to write a driver for my target OS.

You can gather a lot of this info from a running OS, but it's much quicker and more accurate to just look at the chips in my experience.

(Purism did finally send me a return shipping label for the SOM today)
I wonder how "trapezoidal" are "we" going to be for "pivoting" once the bubble will burst
FWIW, customer service of your average corporation is likely to already have voice fingerprinting in place.
Intel Xeon W-3175X Review: Ultimate Performance at the Ultimate Price
There will always be high performers and low performers on a team, both in a relative and absolute sense.

Yeah, although the more heterogeneous the tasks, the trickier it even is to define these terms.

Many years ago I was on a small (2-3 people) team with a truly genius-level coder. He was close to what you'd call a savant. He was (despite being a sweet guy at heart) incredibly difficult to work with - he was unfiltered and abrasive, and would write reams of code to solve pet problems that didn't really need solving in the context of whatever the hell it was that we were trying to do at the moment, because they were "fun" coding challenges that captured his imagination.

The end result was that while he could do the work of several engineers, you also... needed an engineer or two to work with him nearly full-time just to keep him on the rails and actually working towards the project goals, and to act as a buffer between him and people outside the team.

So who was the high performer on our team, and who was the low performer? Well, I didn't suck, but he was certainly the better engineer! But was I really a "low performer" when I did some of the equally crucial work of keeping him on the rails? Was he really the "high performer" when he required lots of people-hours from others just to keep him on task?

Those terms really lose all meaning when you're all engineers but are contributing different things to a team... the high/low performer stuff really only works when people are working in true isolation under identical circumstances. Like maybe for ditch-digging or weightlifting competitions or whatever.
Fantastic site, I've used this for a few years. Almost wrote my own version before I found this.

I've always wondered, where do you get your flight route data from?
Well considering that the worse that corporations can do with data is sell your privacy compared to the worse that the government can do - throw you in jail if you give them too much power. I’d rather not give government more power.

Trump has outright said that he is in favor of jailing journalists for spreading “fake news”. You know if the government passed a law to “protect privacy” they would give themselves an exemption and want a backdoor.
It’s because they get a lot of money. It’s that simple. I don’t know if people know how much facebookers make because if they did they’d start to riot.
This is called "Dead Sea Effect".
Interesting, thank you for the advice!
a primer on design principals, which imo has some design-fails of its own. at least when viewing on mobile
Your response to "companies can thrive without forced attrition" is "Jeff Dean was wrong about a thing once". Does that make sense to you?
This didn't happen on the earliest Amigas. It just changed the power LED brightness.

I had one game (Psygnosis "Baal", otherwise fairly unmemorable) that flickered the LED with the beat of the title track just because it looked cool. It sounded awful on anything besides an A1000.
Yeah, no. Facebook had a cert for distributing internal apps. When one of their external projects was rejected by the App store, they used the internal cert to try and distribute it externally (circumventing the App Store). As a response Apple revoked the certificate that was being used in violation of its use agreement. There is nothing wrong with that action.

You're introducing a straw man argument by trying to make this about hardware ownership.
Monitor a website’s uptime for $0.75 a month
Not sure about threats, but I've seen plenty of fake news, conspiracies, etc; many of which have been tied to Russian disinformation groups (or other malignant foreign interests). See the Nation in Distress group; https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/10/11/faceboo....
NTSB is probably the best example of a safety investigation agency. Air travel in the US is extremely safe for many good reasons.
Does anyone know if we can get 900 number on our cell phone, which would charge the caller for each call? On landline, we were able to call a psychic on a 1-900 numbers (and 0900 in Europe) for a fee. If I charged $1.99 for each call, I wouldn't mind answering even those spam calls.
Store stuff in IndexedDB?
Sure hope Google will shut down theirs too...lol

https://support.google.com/audiencemeasurement/answer/757381...
I've been trying to get into trackers for sequencing for a while, but the learning curve is very steep. Has anyone got resources to learn how to sequence one of these beasts with a keyboard? They seem to be the key to making lots and lots of intricate breakbeats.
So it would take 3 years worth of poor performances to get let go?
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Ok. I brought it up because "I don't see race" is a popular rebuttal to any attempt to discuss racism - as if sticking our heads in the sand will protect us from predators. I'm sure you've seen this, too. So when I see it, there's some reflex involved.

Science itself is, of course, not influenced by the race of the scientist. However, racism has been rationalized by "science" for centuries, which is what Watson was doing. That's what the article is about. I kind of wish the author had reached back to debunked nonsense like phrenology to show the history of how "scientific racism" works, but it is what it is.

I thought the author's point that using exceptionalism to reinforce "scientific racism" was really interesting and important. I think there's a lot of valuable ground to discover if we analyze racism itself through the lens of science, to figure out why so many people will make irrational excuses to justify a morally repugnant belief system.
No, Rust has locks and shared data structures. What it does is enforce their usage. It will be a compile error if you try to modify the same data structure from multiple threads without a lock.
Correction: "I hope people are beginning to understand that the presence of poorly-tested software in any system is a liability."
Well for starters, there's X, some window managers, and firefox. It really just depends on what graphical software you need.
One more to add - Hired Guns soundtrack, amazing. Still Listen to it regularly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AddWUtIuFu0
Not answering your question directly. But found, for my needs for desktop support for Wayland is important (because I use AMD graphics cards without a fan (as I cannot cope with noise well)).

And since manufacture driver support for AMD is not there (my cards are over 5 years old) -- I found that speed of Wayland is really good.

So I 'standardized', on Fedora and just upgraded from 27 to 29 in one shot, using their upgrade plugin with 0 problems (had to uninstall like 3 packages and put them back).
> If you don’t like systemd so much then write something better.

Writing something better doesn't get rid of the dependencies other projects now have on pieces of systemd, which pieces then have dependencies on other pieces until you need the whole thing.

> I mean you’ll find literally anything to dislike about it, I don’t get it.

This thread is about one specific complaint: It has too many interdependencies without well-specified stable interfaces between them, and actively encourages things to take on more of them, as with replacing SIGHUP handling with systemd-run.

> The default makes sense for 99.99999% of users, literally the only point I was trying to make.

This doesn't make any sense. Most applications don't handle SIGHUP and are terminated by the default handler. Applications that do handle it continue to run. If they used systemd-run instead they would also continue to run. Where is the benefit from forcing applications to do something systemd-specific and breaking existing things that don't?
Can you imagine if Stackoverflow did this? The tech world would grind to a halt.
You can debate worst-case "the US gets taken over by Nazis" scenarios, but it's also important to consider current use.

I find Facebook a far more significant currently active risk to my privacy than I do the government. I'd love to see a GDPR in the US.
Agreed. I quarantine Medium links inside a Firefox multi-account container like the entertaining contagion it's become.
> It is a forced method of keeping the bar high or moving it higher.

You seem to think that this desirable goal is actually achieved by this method.
I don't mean specifically reverse thrust. I am saying features such as this. The Pilot expects something and computer does something else.