skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ha. This depends on developers being able to stand each other during the MVP slog. I've seen launches derailed because nerd #3 didn't like to be told how to do something by nerd #5.

Technical talent is a the-odds-are-good-but-the-goods-are-odd kind of deal - at least outside Silly Valley in the developing world. You can hire a huge sum-total-IQ but you can't hire people who can work independently and collaborate.
Am using the same.

I advise installing an SSD and thinkfan or TPFC. Mine is mostly silent (except when watching video)
Great recommendations. Thanks for the tips. We've found it really useful recently to sit next to someone in person and ask them to navigate. It reveals a lot of unexpected outcomes just by watching them use the site.

But of course, in-person testing can be tricky to scale so an online service is exactly what we're looking for. We'll check them out!
Ask HN: How do you keep cell phone away from bed room when you are oncall?
Hi,

I have been wanted to keep my cell phone away from my bedroom at night, but I am oncall most of the time so I need to watch for any escalation. Any tips on how to keep the phone in a different room without missing calls?
https://github.com/rancher/k3s
Your post is not indicative of someone who followed the thread. You would understand the contextual reasons for saying that, but instead you quoted it to sit here and involve yourself in this thread, for some odd reason.

"If that's your #1 point" -- one only need to read the actual thread to understand the elementary timeline of what was being discussed.

If you're here to troll just come out with it.
I developed the first version of the screening system for a corporation about 10 years ago, when UGC was still in its infancy. We had the help of a Microsoft tool that would match the visual fingerprint of a photo against a known-images database that prevented human operators from re-seeing an already tagged image in a different cloud, hoping to reduce the psychological scarring of the human workers that screened the content. We also evaluated automatic classification of images, but it's very hard to detect soft core porn from shock images even with today's algos, never mind 10 years ago.

One advice from a legal counsel that I received at that time still stands in my memory; she said: "Never look at the images, nevermind how curious you are. It's not just illegal and can land you in prison, but it's permanent. You cannot un-see something you've seen."
It's easier to just pick a varient which works in your new language. I've changed the pronunciation of my name because they Dutch have know idea how to pronounce it. They can't spell it either, however the phonetic spelling is close enough so I just let it slide. It's not worth getting precious when your name is unique enough.
>Throwing your hands up and saying it’s too hard...

Sounds like the "not operate" option.
Maybe this content is equally soul sucking for the creator and the consumer, and what started as a cynical click farm grew into Fight Club-esque detachment?

Seems more likely than being part of an ongoing effort to destabilise society by disseminating disquietude and distrust, probably.
Exactly. I'm all for adding authentication elsewhere, but there's no need to kill DNSSEC.
The enneagram is a great tool for this. Also, a therapist or other person is a much better vector to learn about yourself vs trying to do it on your own.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enneagram_of_Personality
If I'm understanding your argument correctly then you are basically saying that what we currently call mental illnesses are in fact symptoms and we have yet to determine what they are symptoms of.

Would that be a correct interpretation of your thoughts?
I cannot spell bureau. It trips me up even typing it. Maybe this is the thread that will have finally jammed it into my brain. I'll get back to you in a week or so. :-)
> if you can figure out the 32bit efi booting

Multiboot Debian ISO FTW, there. (And rEFInd 32-bit as a bootloader for the installed system.) This trick also helps deal with crappy low-end hardware that is 64-bit capable but ships with 32-bit UEFI and Win 8/10 installs. (They do this, or at least used to, because Win 8/10 in UEFI mode is restricted to running the same architecture that the UEFI is. A 32-bit UEFI only runs 32-bit Windows, and 64-bit UEFI only runs 64-bit Windows. Of course, Linux is not so restricted - and it certainly can boot from 32-bit UEFI and then switch cleanly to 64-bit operation!)
Come on, just humor me. Following my first example, why couldn't I visit my younger self and give him my life research? What physical law could possibly prevent us from working together and building a second time machine in a few years, thus guaranteeing a paradox?

I understand why I shouldn't be able to accidentally cause a paradox, but if I know how to cause one and have the means to do it, and the universe is mindless, what could stop me?
We shrank our trip planner till it didn’t need data
I don't think its so much credential based gatekeeping that gives professions bargaining power. You don't have to look any further than game development vs financial services development. The former get exploited to the point of lunacy, the latter are extraordinarily highly paid and respected despite doing basically the same job with a different coat of paint. And its exclusively because there are more people qualified for both jobs trying to go into the former than the later. Its the same effect as to how SpaceX can underpay its employees.

Fundamentally all an employer cares about, and all that will determine if you are paid more, is if there aren't many other people applying for the same job. Even high skilled jobs requiring extensive qualifications - an opening for a CS PHD will always pay way more than a History PHD because there is so much less competition for the later pool of candidates, even if there is a greater performance disparity between a "bad" and "good" CS PHD than a history one in a similar capacity.

Appraising candidates definitely factors in, but even in highly skilled disciplines like game development, as long as the employer can assume a strong likelihood of getting good qualified candidates to replace you they will exploit you. Its when the prospect for replacing you is in any way questionable that suddenly your wages and respect will rise.
It does look good, especially since it looks like it folds flat. Samsung's version (which might be more durable, who knows), when folded, looks like a wallet that's been stuffed to the gills with cards. The front-facing screen when folded looks pathetically small compared to the bulk of the device.
All MacBooks apart from the old (and sadly missed) 11" are 16:10.
I feel like every other month Gates guest edits the Verge or has an interview there. Or I see his annual letter all over LinkedIn, or an AMA...

He gets so much exposure I imagine because he’s a “good billionaire trying to fix the world.” I guess it’s the most we can hope for these days from our growing class of ultra wealthy, but I really don’t think that means they should get the right to shout their opinions at us from every corner of the web.
"Ideally, your colo facility is within driving distance of your office if you absolutely need physical access. Otherwise, you pay someone at the colo a few hundred bucks a month for remote hands services."

That remote hands service is usually very limited. Datacenter staff usually don't have the time or the skills to do detailed troubleshooting, setup, or maintenance. Maybe they'll swap out a disk for you, power cycle a server, or turn a knob on a KVM switch. If you want more, you'll have probably have to buy in to managed service, which they'll do on their own hardware and with their own setup, where you'll be paying closer to AWS prices.

Now if you want the kind of availability and redundancy that AWS offers you, you'll have to have a presence in multiple datacenters around the world, where these sorts of issues and others will multiply.
I'm using webpack/babel and ES6 syntax anyway, so the transpile doesn't bug me. It's also very close to E4X which I really wanted for a very long time, but never gained acceptance outside of ActionScript 3 (Adobe) and Mozilla. VB.Net also has a similar literal syntax).
Hard to understand what you're proposing... A language with a type system that brings its own serialization format (so you don't have to deal with the fact that SQL and friends have no good way to represent polymorphic data types such as enums or interfaces)? Or a language with a runtime that uses disk as main memory (this seems to be the implication from 'program can be terminated and resumed transparently')?
And yet if Facebook really valued these contractors as much as their regular employees, they would be hired as regular employees and not contractors. The fact such crucial staff are contractors shows how much Facebook values them.
> I can assure you, they got a lot of use in the 90s

Alright, maybe that's a regional thing or something. I knew of no one who did that.

Regardless, even you admit that it was not about security, so why have user accounts? Simply being able to change the profile is sufficient.

> The UX of the device that lives in your pocket needs to be different from the UX of a device that sits in the middle of your living room for the whole family to use, like a television.

I still contend that this is an incredibly tiny use-case today, precisely because mobile devices have largely supplanted the role the 'family computer' used to serve. More importantly, that use case can be served without user accounts.
Kind of unrelated to the article, but does the Moore's law joke about the cat constant make any sense? The `-C` constant should be on both sides of the equation (since the formula is future computation _relative to_ current computation), and thus cancel out. As it stands, the equation doesn't make sense when 'Number of years' is zero, and is inconsistent between calculating twice in 2-year intervals and calculating once with a 4-year interval (as an example).
Pretty content free, even for Lunduke. I don't see much value to this at all.
Don't forget that DOS 1.0 didn't have subdirectories or long file names, so most of the complexity in the article comes from years of shoehorning new functionality into it.
Nothing quite illustrates the death of Moore’s law quite like this does. I brought out an old thinkpad for a similar reason and was able to do everything I needed to do.
Relevant Xkcd
>I would not exchange my eyesight for the whole world, literally.

FYI vacuum exposure can cause blindness, visual impairment, and death.
> I went to live in buddhist monasteries for a few years. There I was able to turn my focus away from outside of myself towards my own body, feelings and inner world.

That's from their Main Story.

I'm trying to tell myself that I can think effectively as long as I'm in focus.
The other downside I see is that it rules out booting other operating systems (at least right now). Other than linux itself (and maybe freebsd?) you can't kexec from a running linux kernel to another OS.
A company choosing to operate in multiple jurisdictions with competing/contradicting laws does not put a requirement on lawmakers to make the laws more amenable to the company trying to satisfy both jurisdictions. If you take that path, consumers end up with little protection under the law.

Maybe the company should split up operations, or operate under licensing agreements with foreign companies rather than thwart the will of the people who they seek to fleece.
> If microservices are never combined together, they are essentially monoliths under a cooler name.

This assertion completely misses the whole point of microservices: have highly specialized services that have a single and very limited responsibility, which clients can query independently and enable systems to be scaled (even horizontally) on their performance bottlenecks alone.

Describing a microservice architecture as a bunch of monoliths is simply missing the whole point.
Critical vulnerability in Ledger hardware wallet
> I have never felt the need to fold my phone.

What kind of analogy is that? I haven't felt the need to fill up a tank of gas every week, but I still bought a car.
A History of Singapore in 10 Dishes
I think some people are using the tests for intelligent life for conciousness, which is wrong.

Does the matter, dead or alive, experience its surroundings at some base level? If you are not a rock, then dont "lifesplain" for that rock.

I question, is it really the presence of energy, which all matter has, that leads to a relationship with other energy in the universe?
I've kept a 2008 MBP running by upgrading the RAM and putting in an SSD. But I'd never buy another one since (at least according to Apple's website [1]) the last upgradable model was released in 2012.

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201165
If such a system were created, facebook would no doubt instrument it. Or at least the employees would suspect that facebook instrumented it. Then you'll have employees worrying if they are deblurring "too much" or "too little".
Automatic updates are a good thing, otherwise far too many machines would be lagging behind on security fixes.
There is room for 1.2T new trees to absorb more C than human emissions each year
>In Lisp and Smalltalk it's obvious enough how composite expressions are evaluated, and they don't have the usual infix syntax to begin with.

That's Lisp. In Smalltalk they do (have the usual infix syntax).
Facebook should mandate that the contractor companies have nicer and better policies.

The use of "contractors" in general is a shell game of abject responsibility.
It is a platitude when someone like Gates says they want more taxes because, the Treasury has a means for anyone to send a check for whatever amount they want. If he wants to write a $2b check to the treasury, he could do that today. What he is really saying is that other people should be required to pay more taxes — or alternatively, it’s just an empty platitude to endear himself with leftist anti-rich intellectuals. If he himself feels undertaxed, he can simply pay more. Anyone can choose to pay more, so the question is, why doesn’t he? If he feels that the government is a better steward of his money than he is, why does he bother with a foundation? Why not just give everything to the government? It’s hypocritical: “I should pay more, however my Foundation spends money better than the government would, so I will instead have my money going to a private foundation where I can direct money to causes I care about because the government doesn’t spend money they way I prefer.” Why are donations to his foundation tax deductible? He benefits from tax deductibility while simultaneously calling for people to pay higher taxes?

I think Bill is being disingenuous here and thus it smacks as a platitude rather than an actual real position. If the ultra rich feel like they should pay more taxes, what’s stopping them?
You'll be surprised how many people ignore Gates Foundation's deep involvement on ending Polio
Hah, at the time, “USR” files were the biggest mystery to me. I knew PRG, SEQ and REL, but this „custom“ file type seemed very special.
In some cities 1 hour commute is from one side of the city to the center or the other way around, not from suburbs to city. My commute is 1.5 hours per direction inside the city, going out would take more. Also spending 2 hours in a car, even self driven, is not the best way to spend your time. Otherwise you can live in a RV parked in front of your office.
Show HN: Automatically synchronize subtitles with video
A few years ago, I did the math on planting trees to offset your carbon emissions, and came up with an affordable $15/year/person for the average US resident: http://shindyapin.tumblr.com/post/141034501197/climate-chang...

There was only one problem: it did not seem feasible to scale to the point of offsetting all of the human-caused CO2. Now, a new study says that is is feasible (see the original post link).

I have been offsetting my family's carbon for the last four years. If you want to do so, as well, you can donate here: https://trees.org/carboncalculator/
My memory is hazy, but the way that most DOS programs handled file iteration was to use FindFirst/FindNext, and that used data in the program-segment-prefix (PSP) - which was borrowed from CPM.
While I agree that there's many factors that go into success anyone looking to control for luck at scale had better be willing to rack up an impressive body count because those kinds of systemic changes to society are never peaceful. People will not just accept being told they do not deserve what they have and that it is the result of luck. You are not going to get people to give up what they have without a lot of force.
What is an example of a response to a question that wouldn't be a platitude?

Big-G tells me that "platitude" means: a remark or statement, especially one with a moral content, that has been used too often to be interesting or thoughtful.

He was asked: What do you think the greatest threat to humanity is at this moment?

And responded:

There are some things that aren't likely but we should worry about - nuclear bombs and bioterrorism (from nation states or terrorism), or a big pandemic. This is the 100th anniversary of the Spanish flu and if it came back the amount of travel would make it spread faster than it did last time.

Once you get past those threats then the biggest question is global cooperation to avoid climate change and reduce the risk of war. It is disconcerting to see a rise of countries turning inwards and not investing in alliances which have helped us avoid big wars since World War 2.

Climate change is a real test of how we can work together globally since it is a complex problem where major changes need to be done well in advance of the big harms.

With a link to: https://www.gatesnotes.com/2019-Annual-Letter?WT.mc_id=02_25... (a 431-word expansion on his thoughts on climate change)

I don't think any of his responses have fit the definition of "platitude".

I think an example of a "platitude" would have been the response: "War, we need to give peace a chance!"
Thanks for sharing, I found that very interesting.
> This behaviour doesn't break under DNSSEC; the blackholed domain either blackholes or the resolver fails due to the bad signature and effectively blackholes as well.

If you give an address that always sends back ICMP unreachable messages, the client fails immediately and continues to load the rest of the page, but DNSSEC proscribes that.

You could refuse to send a response for those names, but then the client has to wait for the timeout. You could send a response with an invalid signature, but then the client should discard it and continue to wait for a valid response, and you still have to wait for the timeout.

There are also circumstances where you want to return a specific address, e.g. so that attempts to send traffic to that address can be monitored, and redirecting the address doesn't work because it could be a shared host using SNI and you don't want to affect every name pointing to that address.

> And what does that gain you over DNSSEC+DoT/H other than being non-standard?

It's simpler, more efficient, lower latency, has less attack surface and can't be used as a DDoS amplification vector.

And if you want something standard, why not standardize on DNSCurve? Using DNSSEC over that is only the sunk cost fallacy.
Master of Web Puppets: Abusing Web Browsers for Persistence [pdf]
Yep. I’ve got a mid-2012 Macbook Air as my personal machine. Was thinking about picking up a new 2018 one only to realise that the CPU had increased by 50% in that time. Substantial, sure, but not enough to bother spending another €1500. Cheaper to spend a few hours optimising the long-running scripts I was using at the time.
Advertisers boycott YouTube after pedophiles swarm comments on children videos
I have some Dell D430 ultralights that max out at 2GB. Usually once a day the OOM Killer slaughters the file manager or GIMP or sometimes X itself. It really is too chancy now for serious use, I'd suggest 4GB minimum.
I thought the next few decaces was a climate change reference.
If the plays are dissected carefully, then the person involved shouldn't matter a whole lot. For example, a "flagrant foul" instead of a "common foul" may be a possibility if one does a "wind up" (pull back and then forward) of their arm(s) before a facial hit. If there's a disagreement about what constitutes a wind-up, then other wind-ups on other videos are analyzed and a mutual agreement hopefully appears about whether a specific case matches the agreed-upon working rule(s).

Perhaps the actual calls from the other game videos are used as a reference, such as whether a mere hint of wind-up is enough to score as such, or if the pull-back has to be very clear. Since different refs may have diff interpretations, perhaps the ref's history should be used as a guide. After all, the key question is about whether a specific game or season is "fixed", not all games from a given ref. If a ref has say 3 years of requiring mostly clear wind-up motions, and they were consistent on this during the target game, it probably wouldn't be considered an oddity.

Sure, that's a lot of digging and a lot of work, but if a play-off conspiracy has potential merit, it's worth it.
Disagree. Some proofs are very straightforward and standard. Those are easily checkable with a solution guide.
Ah yes, the "randomly click on the screen while typing G or H" device. I always pulled that off mine. Didn't love that tapping it produced a mouseclick.
It would be cool to have the data in a virtual cacheable JS database that can run SQL queries. Eg something that you could just include in a script tag. And also run locally. To allow anyone to easily create and share cool interactive graphs.
Taxes are not a punishment, it is a fair contribution to the costs of having a government and society. If you make it a punishment you turn it into the whip you use to herd cattle, recognizing you treat people like cattle.
Robert Kraft may have to disagree with you on your last assertion that the law can't touch rich people.
Apple had a file type and nice, long names.
You have no ownership over your descendants. Nothing about you as an individual will be exploring those galaxies.

In the end, it's all an arbitrary sort of stew.
I was thinking the same thing, I turned it off after 10 seconds. It really needs a voice over and a much better video production quality.
> Now if you want the kind of availability and redundancy that AWS offers you, you'll have to have a presence in multiple datacenters around the world, where these sorts of issues and others will multiply.

Wikimedia is serving Wikipedia (ranked #5 for Internet traffic) with ~550 servers out of Dallas, TX and Ashburn, VA for about $4 million/year in tech costs. OpenStreetMap infra is ~$120k-$150k/year (albeit with volunteers and some donated hosting capacity). Do you need Amazon to do better?

I am not trying to be a "stick in the mud". I am trying to save you money.
GP cited Netherlands. No way that's a typical temperature.
Publicist sure, no. But this has been totally sanitized by Bill when he makes as one example statements like this: [1]

> 'The other thing is that I sometimes use a private jet. It does help me do my foundation work but again it is a very privileged thing to have.'

He inserts the word 'sometimes' to lessen the impact of 'private jet'. He adds that it helps him do foundation work implying that that should make it ok in normal people's eyes. [2] He doesn't mention that it's actually importantly needed for security purposes he is obviously a target and not flying like the general public. He then acknowledges that it's a privileged thing to have.

[1] Remember the movie "An Officer and a Gentlement" when Lou Gosset character fights Richard Gear character? And Gosset character replies (something like) 'oh I see you've had some training!'. Well Bill Gates has had training.

[2] Which is should be anyway. Without saying that.