skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Still got it somewhere? I've got a project to demonstrate a bunch of Hypercard stacks in a retro-computing context, and it'd be definitely interesting to see, in the case that you'd consider finding it and sharing it ...
I'm sorry that you had a bad experience with dogs, but this is crossing into flamewar and even getting personal. Please don't do that on HN. It's enough to express your view and leave it at that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
There is a difference in advertising when it is like some "BUY THIS TSHIRT" sidebar thing and the more pernicious "promoted" story that shows up in your feed you are consuming all times a day.

Also listed in this article is an app called Muslim-Pro which apparently helps with prayer times etc. As someone who is not American, I wouldn't trust this as much as everyone is freaking about Huawei being part of 5G.
Load Balancing in Distributed Exascale Computing Based on Process Requirements [pdf]
Let's set a more ambitious goal. The real nightmare scenario for these institutions should be: people buy houses like refrigerators, as durable goods, with financing being only for the very worst-off.
Sounds cool. If you have more questions just ping me tadhman at gmail dot com , happy to help.
The UI was slow as a trickle of cold honey on my machine. Because it was asking my machine to do more than it was capable of. Normally this isn't a problem. I use this machine to work on CAD models and while not a speed monster, it is doing just fine.

Heck, I can even run Slack on it.

Above a certain response time threshold a UI goes from being "slow" to being "unusable" or simply "broken". This isn't a matter of opinion, it is a reality. And I'm afraid that you will have to be a lot more charming and persuasive to make me forget reality :-)

UX specialists that do not take sluggishness seriously simply aren't UX specialists in any meaningful sense of the word. I'm sorry, but life doesn't hand out medals for mere participation.

(As for the site: I clicked around a bit, but the sluggishness of the site made me lose interest before really grasping what cleverness I was supposed to experience)
I love how it integrates a built-in binary diff tool. Version Control basically lets you watch a binary as it evolves over time. This can be used to check if bugs have been patched, to inspect new code for bugs (which are often less well-tested than existing code), and to try to work out what recent patches have fixed (so you can target older versions with new exploits). IDA doesn't ship with such a feature, and plugins which do implement it are kinda clunky, so I'm excited to see what the version control feature will bring.

I am also curious as to what was left out of the public release. It's clear that not everything was included (even though there's a lot here).
I think IDA's lack of significant competition until now is nearly a textbook example of how charging a lot for a tool is no indication that the funds will go toward improving the quality.

What's been significantly improved in IDA over the last 10-15 years? Certainly not the x86 decompiler, which costs something like five times as much as IDA itself. The interface is still super-clunky and missing functionality like keyboard shortcuts for frequently-used functions.

I'm ecstatic that there's finally a realistic alternative.
Since when is verifying facts a pointless process?
UMass president calls for online college to help face ‘existential threat’
The history of ImageNet
Getting paid is a pretty powerful motivator. Maybe you can afford not to, maybe others don’t want to afford not to. Salaries are good, the experience is good, job hunting sucks.
The two situations really aren't comparable as it's more likely that the entirety of the Americas would've been pulled into a unified communist state like the Russian revolutionaries were hoping would happen with the European communist uprisings that were happening at the same time (and quelled by fascist backlash in Germany, Italy, and Spain). At the same time, it's entirely possible that the Axis would've conquered most of Europe and something equivalent to the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact would've held without the ideological conflict there. It is possible the anti-Slavic racism would've still pushed Hitler to try to exterminate large parts of Germany, but it may have been a harder sell to the German public than it was when coupled with the threat of communism.

If you're asking the broader question of whither the (self-proclaimed) state capitalist countries that came out of the retrenchment when those revolutions failed, I think there's still an answer there. They developed differently, used their resources, and prioritized different things than more liberal capitalist ones in ways that you can make some broad claims about. But they did so in a context, as did the liberal and non-aligned/miscellaneous blocs.
The Tesla Model 3, reviewed (finally)
You're certainly right, many aren't (I always check). A lot are though. I'd give it maybe like 50/50.
You want to know the other side of Silicon Valley?

Download the app called "Blind", where people talk openly while being anonymous.

What you see there is that everyone is trying to maximize their TC (Total Comp). For most people, that's the only goal. The whole "Let's make the world a better place" is something that was sold by PR people.

To talk more specifically about facebook, I have seen two attitudes in their employees:

1)They use Whataboutism when confronted: Basically they will show you that Google and Apple are also evil, so it is ok for them to work at FB.

2) They openly say that they know it is a bad company, but they treat employee very well and they are overly well paid so are ok with it.

For me, It makes me lose faith in engineering
I stopped setting an alarm and sleep 9h a day now.

Don't know if this is good or bad.
This view seems somewhat reductionist, no? I don't work at FB and never have, but I could easily see a case for working on projects that contribute back to the developer community (e.g. React). These wouldn't be directly related to user tracking/privacy violations and they might be selling their souls, but are contributing something useful to the world. In this case, what do you think would step up to fill the void in OSS, and what do you think is the best move for one of those developers?
Prototype iPhones That Hackers Use to Research Apple’s Most Sensitive Code
Reading it, it seems not to fit very well. I can process speech just fine, I just don't seem to be able to switch from one person to another without a long time to make it happen.
I like your optimism, but, again with all the bad PR, how could someone join FB and believe they are improving the culture? Unless they want to join to try to change it from the inside?
Simulating event pipelines for fun and profit (and for testing too)
Claims of "it's much cheaper" from something that isn't even at pilot plant stage yet are usually suspicious. There are many articles on early-stage desalination membranes.

From 2010: [1] NanoH20. That actually worked. LG Chem bought the company and they sell reverse osmosis cartridges using the technology. In the end, it was about a 20% improvement.[4]

From 2012: [2] Contact membrane. That worked, but doesn't seem to have reached production. Inventor developed other interesting membrane separation systems, mostly for non-seawater applications.

From 2018: [3] Improved membrane production process. No product on the market yet.

Actual progress tends to be in the form of improvements in the 10-20% range. 20% gets you a startup company win.

[1] https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/nanoh2o

[2] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/desalination-memb...

[3] https://today.uconn.edu/2018/08/new-findings-may-lead-sea-ch...

[4] http://www.lgwatersolutions.com/en/product/seawater-ro
Yes, that's what I and the person you responded to are arguing. See this comment [1] and the video I linked for more.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19320093
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlCG2fK-abo
Google Is Working on Securely Storing Digital Driver’s Licenses in Android
Profit-taking hospitals are absolutely predatory.
Majority of Americans have less than $1000 in savings, I don't think "paying for the entire house in cash" is what's going to disrupt the housing market.
The other side is 90th percentile market pay...?

At a certain point in a company's lifecycle, most employees shift from being intrinsically motivated (by the mission, the team, the leadership) to extrinsically motivated (by the money, benefits, and resume stamp). FB is no different, and that shift happened way before 2017. I would guess most people who happily work at FB did not care before Cambridge Analytica and do not post Cambridge Analytica.

If anything, I would guess FB employees are feeling relatively better now given the broad criticism on many tech giants (Amazon with cities/labor issues; Google with gov't censorship; Amazon/Google/MSFT with DoD controversies). The main thing I think going for FB is that they don't (yet) compete for any military business, so no one's accusing them of helping kill people at least.
I don't think the pilot factors in that much into the cost of operating a helicopter. Even a small helicopter (e.g. Robinson R-44 which is a bare bones trainer) needs a ~250k complete overhaul every 2200 hours/12 years in service. Add $60 dollars per hour in fuel and 60-100 per hour of miscellaneous other maintenance, and your variable costs quickly approach 300/hr. Add in all the fixed overhead, and a tiny helicopter that can take 2 passengers and limited baggage will run $400 dollars per hour easily (which is about what they rent for). A bigger turbine helicopter is significantly more expensive.

Most of this is because helicopters are complex machines (you're spinning really big blades pretty fast. Then using the blades + bearing to also lift the weight of the helicopter + more. Oh and you're changing the pitch angle of the blades. Oh you mean changing the pitch angles of the blades WHILE THEY GO AROUND...) and any failure in any of these parts is usually fatal so they have to be built and maintained to a very high degree of reliability.

Airplanes are much simpler (the spinning propeller attached to an engine is one part. The wing generating lift is another part. the flight controls are yet another part) and have more opportunities for redundancy ( a wing has multiple spars, and is attached to the airplane with many bolts. All helicopter blades meet in one hub, which is attached on one axis).

Combine that with aircraft scaling up more (you can build 500 person aircraft, but only 20 person or so helicopters), going much faster (a 120 dollar/hr propeller plane will outrun many/most helicopters) and the cost to go a given distance by plane will always be much cheaper than a helicopter.
What services are you thinking of?
Have you done the math for your company? No one I know wants to do that because the talent wants to be where the other talent is. Perhaps you’re targeting the niche who wants to live somewhere as your hiring pool? How has that worked out so far?
I would emphasize that the workforce is going to change in the next couple of years -- due to automation, AI, robotics, etc.. And a STEM education is vital as most jobs we know of now may no longer be here.
Who are these people you speak of? I don't think they exist.
> In think the effects you’re mentioning are insignificant compared with having your sleep schedule disrupted twice per year. People have literally died due to it.

That's quite the claim to make. If changing the clocks has a negative effect, it last at most a few days. Getting the timezone wrong for the whole of winter / summer is an effect that lasts months.
I have personally told them this, and my rationalization for "closing the door" so to speak is that there is (hopefully) no future reality in which Facebook is the only place that I am getting an employment offer that I'd accept. If I can get an offer from Facebook, I can almost certainly get an offer somewhere else.
Downloaded fine in UK
Sending Messages into Space – A New Trend in the Bitcoin Community
Maybe legislation should focus on that problem makeing sure that a) people who could have this autonomy can get it and b) where fixed schedules are unavoidable they get shifted accordingly instead of playing with the clock.
I listened to it on NPR as well and they did mention the patent
Experts cracked laptop of crypto CEO who died with $137M, but the money was gone
This is the most trivial program on the entire OS. Hooray for Microsoft, I guess.
example code ?
Dynamics of bed bug infestations and control under disclosure policies
Google Dragonfly Is Not Dead Just a Bigger Secret
> they're written by the same journalists who are focused on maximizing revenue for their own companies?

That's a pretty huge accusation to casually throw out. Where is the actual evidence that a journalist writing an article critical of Facebook is doing so because they are focused on maximising revenue for their own company? Most journalists have nothing to do with the business side of their company, and this feels like a way to shut down absolutely any critical article without further analysis.

Further to that, the two articles you cite have nothing to do with Facebook. I'd be interested to know what technical knowledge disproves the stories about Cambridge Analytica or genocide in Myanmar:

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/3/23/17151916/f...

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/technology/myanmar-facebo...

I find the genocide case particularly interesting to talk about because it doesn't really require much technical knowledge to understand at all - the military set up fake FB profiles in order to push propaganda and promote ethnic cleansing. It's a question of Facebook's role in society and how proactive they should or should not be about moderating the content transmitted through their platform. I don't think there's a simple right or wrong answer, and it feels like a shame to dismiss the idea entirely because the article was written by a newspaper that technically competes with Facebook for ad impressions, or to dismiss it because of an assumption that the story is false because other false stories exist in the world.
Maybe they should lower prices like every other industry does when customers are sparse.
Could very well be that you're just leveraging your circadian rhythm coupled with the appropriate sleep stages cycled.

You're likely waking at the optimal time of completion of a complete sleep cycle. That doesn't necessarily mean you're getting enough sleep overall.
USB version is $75
> If so, then I think you're being consistent but I would also suggest that you look into the history of colonialism and how many of the residents of the countries under rule felt about it (Gandhi did a lot of writing on this for example).

Colonialism and health care aren't the same thing, though—colonialism was an attempt to exploit other people for your own profit, the point of spreading universal health care would be to let people have better medical treatment at more affordable prices. There is actually a difference between good things and bad things.

> If not, how do you avoid being labeled "callous" using your own standard? Do you not care about the people in other countries as well?

Well, the simplest metric would be this: that there's no political body that someone in another country and I both belong to.
SQRL does not give the real identity to a phishing site. Full stop.

Now a phishing site can do a fake SQRL login, accepting any credentials. But the client will send a different identity (derived keypair) with no information linking to the real identity, so the phisher will have no information with which to persinalize their fake site.

The user might press on anyway and divulge some sensitive data if the fake site is really convincing. But the phisher cannot use any credentials passed to them against the “real” site.

WebAuthn does NOT solve this “look-like site exists and accepts any credentials” problem either, nor does any other authentication mechanism.

The only protection against against what you describe is preventing registration of look-alike domain names entirely, and ensuring all DNS is secured with DNSsec or TLS. Good luck with that; it’s been tried.
> relentless pro house price inflation agenda

Strong accusation. Probably a reflection of a UK culture of house buying, rather than BBC bias.
We already have dozen of other similar submissions.

We have one that has 270 comments here [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19304857
Why is there a never ending stream of FBI chiefs who peddles this crap?
Show HN: Create Tiered Pricing Proposals Easily with SalesRight
You are showing your privilege.
Jetbrains uses Swing not JavaFX from my knowledge. And yes, the performance can get slow for a Java app on the scale of Android studio but that shouldn't be of concern to a beginner.
Hospitals are extremely predatory. They're the number 1 cause of bankruptcy in the US, and that's not even including the extreme financial drain they cause through all those insane insurance premiums. The banks, facebook, apple, not even at&t can compete with hospitals in terms of the financial damage they've caused. It's funny how the media never seems to mention them?
New AI tool serves up creepily accurate assessments of your work style
FWIW, I found very little overlap between the opinions that were popular on blind and the opinions of my colleagues who opened up to me. The people who become active Blind users are the ones who are already frustrated and want to complain loudly.
Also https://medium.com/tensorflow/test-drive-tensorflow-2-0-alph...
A bunch of universities are now releasing their official academic transcripts as signed PDFs, which I think is a very clever approach. The signatures have proper trusted certificates issued by major CAs, which makes verifying them very easy.

If you can spoof the signatures, well, now we can have people saying they got 4.0 GPAs from Stanford with legitimate signatures and all...
Dimensionality is a type of structure that can be applied to quantities. Dimensionality refers to being able to find independent bases within a vector space. The study of vector spaces is a richer language than set theory. By allowing only cardinality to be meaningful, you are denying the value of dimensionality as an organizing principle. Therefore, its meaninglessness is tautological.

Your mistake is to think that 4 is the same as 1. It is not. You are putting a hand up to one eye and complaining that stereoscopy is meaningless. You are pretending that only set theory exists, and claiming that therefore linear algebra is meaningless. It is rhetorical nonsense!
I agree, VNC+JPEG is a good fit for this kind of thing.

I posted a comment recommending TurboVNC earlier, but it looks to be hidden. It compared favorably with TigerVNC when I tested both. VirtualGL support is baked right in, though of course you have to first set up VirtualGL itself. That'll allow you to use the GPU on a headless machine and share it between users. (with some caveats)
We actually find some PDF signature collisions in the wild in Polar (https://getpolarized.io/).

One user found that a few of the documents he added conflicted with the signature of other PDFs.

I knew that the PDF signature wasn't strong but didn't think we would actually have real world conflicts.

We're already moving to SHA256 of the raw binary data instead of the fingerprint for newer documents added to your repository.

We're going to use the actual strong hashcode to enable "distributed" annotations so that two people annotating the same document can easily discover each other and share comments, highlights, flashcards, etc.

I'm pretty damn excited about this feature actually.
People in open-concept homes are realizing walls were there for a reason
I think they were chosen such that the weight and height values become negative for Females and positive for Males.
Intel Responds to White House AI Initiative
Odd to see so much complaining when the page works beautifully on mobile.
> For me, It makes me lose faith in engineering

I joined a certain tech company in the 90's when everyone said they were going out of business (if I don't call out the company it might be because I still work there). If money were what motivated me I would have learned to program Windows and headed instead to Redmond.

In fact I found that nearly everyone I met at said company were also there simply because they loved the company and its computers.

Times change? (AKA: Money ruins everything?)
There's also a third attitude where people don't think FB is bad. In fact I bet a lot of people think it made/makes the world a better place.
I would like to know if the application owners/developers get some other compensation/$$$$ from the 'pings' they so freely give to my FB. I think I will write to my bank asking them and then ShowHN of the results/letters.
Wow, detailed forest mapping! What are some things that would be doable with detailed forrest maps?
Announcing the Open Sourcing of Windows Calculator
Recording multiple returns has been common in aerial mappers for years. It's called "first and last" in the industry.[1]

[1] https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/142443/what-are-lida...
Book Review: Serious Python
NSA’s top policy advisor: It’s time to start putting teeth in cyber deterrence
That’s a great question, and something we grapple with often at The Juggernaut — we want to heal divisions. But one of the things we’ve observed is that healing those divisions also comes with beginning to understand one’s own heritage and feeling human again. (Some of our readers have mentioned how powerful it is for themselves to finally feel seen, which makes them feel more human.)

I would argue that more and more of us actually don’t see ourselves as just Indian or American. More of us see ourselves as multidimensional and want to go deep on some of parts of our identity so that we can understand our place in the world as a global citizen.

Instead, we as humans need to challenge and celebrate our cultures and it's hard to undo or clear the slate of culture, too. Being South Asian does come with its own traumas — and every culture and group has this. By discussing this group’s nuances, we hope to open it up to the world. We also have found several of our readers are not South Asian, and by reading The Juggernaut, they realize how alike we are, not how different. In that way, it’s the opposite of balkanization.

I'd love to continue the conversation and figure out what stories you think we can cover that will help ensure we don't balkanize.
Because if you transfer too much money through them in a month they are required to verify your identity. Federal laws.
On Tolstoy's “War and Peace”
I dont. I gave them the first two, and the third just speaks to how powerful their compute abilities are and how much money they have. I didnt say they were doing it.
This seems like really flimsy reasoning. Sometimes news stories are wrong, therefore 90% of what you hear about Facebook is false?
Teams like the React team get paid well, are "separated" from the actual product, and work on something that means a lot to them.
> In fact, you may discover that you already have a dozen of microservices deployed at your organization.

Very true, robotics/avionics/etc. have been using "microservices" for a long time, nothing new here. Robot Operating System (ROS), Data Distribution Service (DDS), Lightweight Communications and Marshalling (LCM), and others all encourage that architecture.
My problems were with an IDA Pro license I purchased from hex-rays. I have no complaints about BinaryNinja. If you represent hex-rays I'd be happy to PM you my business email.
Its defined by whatever accounting standard they are used. Profit is usually income less costs required to bring in that income. In your example the that surplus isn't profit. That's more of a balance sheet item, so an asset. If you have $10m in cash and buy say a factory, that doesn't effect your profit