skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I added 15px when I was tinkering with it, but only to match the horizontal padding. That looks better to me, but I'm definitely not a designer.
It's called being polite.
Using Hotel technology to attract more guestsin 2019
This seems like a remarkably easy way for governments to raise revenue without directly harming their citizens. Not all 193 sovereign countries in the world can (or would want to) implement such a tax. But, I can imagine that there are dozens of countries that are going to view this new approach to taxation as the easiest money they've ever confiscated.
Seriously, there are open Safari bugs that have existed in Apple's system for 6+ years. At least slap a wontfix on there.
I see an estimate for 1% every 110 million years, is that enough to make Earth uninhabitable? Surely not.
Plus, it has wideband receive coverage for whenever you want to monitor airband or marine VHF. Similar marks for the FT-70, which often costs about the same as the -60.

Same price as four Baofengs; will last longer than four Baofengs.
IBM's quantum computing ambitions get exponential like Moore's Law
The classic UNIX "fortune" program has rather a lot more jokes, although oddly doesn't seem to be hosted at a single canonical place on the internet.
Biometrics are just fine as a username or one factor of a MFA, but they are terrible for usage as a password due to the simple fact that if they are ever compromised, they cannot be changed.
Top Serverless Solutions for Kubernetes
Static symmetric keys is one of the ways to authenticate an IPSec tunnel. It does also support certificates for authentication or fully unauthenticated connections (but still encrypted).
This is fantastic. I got teary eyed running VB and actually making an Application. What a flood of wonderful nostalgic memories. Well done.
We've been using Elm since Nov 2016 right after the 0.18 release to rewrite an old B2B web app.

- The system has 150+ users that was migrated over night and has been online for about 2 years now.

- No runtime exceptions in production. In testing the only thing we had was "Stack size exceeded" in Internet Explorer due to a poorly written time zone module.

- Translation was solved with one build for each language to avoid passing down the model everywhere.

- Coding takes more time but things don't gradually turn into spaghetti and refactoring is a breeze.

After the initial functional struggles it feels like writing "the code of your life". Overall, a very positive and fun experience and I don't regret us betting on this new fairly untested technology. And none in the team had lots of prior SPA experience so we had to learn new stuff anyway. Almost as good a tech choice as when we decided to use gevent or MongoDB but for a very different problem.

This was for a custom client project and not our main 46elks service which is an API that mostly uses Python.
I dont trust forbes.com
I have a question. Under the section "Where did that come from?" The author states:

>"But after a bit of futzing about I found it to be remarkably close ..."

And the number under the radicand symbol he shows "ln(4)"

What is this exactly? Why is it significant?
It's actually good to promote the rights of oppressed people, and it's also highly suspect when other people pretend it's inappropriate to do so purely on grounds of stuffiness. It makes it seem like you either aren't familiar with what you're opining about at all, or you just don't care.
Here is a similar tool all contained in one shell script that only depends on openssl. [1] Albeit, a bit more verbose and doesn't have that nice one page output.

[1] - https://github.com/drwetter/testssl.sh
Agreed, it's some of the worst prose I've ever read. Since I don't read Mandarin, I can't know how much of it can be blamed on the author and how much on the translator. There are some really interesting ideas in the novel but also some patently absurd ones, not to mention the terrible dialogue and characters.
BirdBoxChallenge for Accessibility Awareness
I've been writing shitty puns since years.
You might know me from my greatest hits such as:

Confessions from the Sex life of a Network Engineer https://thequickword.wordpress.com/2014/05/17/confessions-fr...

Olatunkboh Prosper Goodluck https://thequickword.wordpress.com/2014/09/20/olatunkboh-pro...

The Code from Ipanema’s not working https://thequickword.wordpress.com/2014/08/25/your-code-is-l...

The dream which made me reconsider Java https://thequickword.wordpress.com/2014/08/22/the-dream-whic...

Stuck between Imposter Syndrome and Dunning Kruger effect https://thequickword.wordpress.com/2014/08/17/stuck-between-...

journal of a Neckbeard https://thequickword.wordpress.com/2014/08/15/journal-of-a-n...

Cloud Computing to be embraced by the Catholic Church https://thequickword.wordpress.com/2014/06/23/cloud-computin...

The career change of ‘Trusty’ the crusty sock https://thequickword.wordpress.com/2014/05/25/the-career-cha...

A new Christian Dating Service: altarboy.io https://thequickword.wordpress.com/2014/06/23/a-new-christia...

my writing has been getting lazy the past few years (mostly due to my severe depression) also f-u-c-k t-h-e h-a-t-e-r-s
The consumers are always at fault, as they're the ones with the purchasing power, and the voting power.

>And as your SUV example illustrates, bigger sells better.

There's no such thing as "vehicle zoning"; if consumers wanted to buy smaller vehicles, they're out there on the market. No one's forcing them to buy and drive huge SUVs.

>In most newer SFH developments, house size is usually dictated by exclusionary zoning (i.e minimum lot and house sizes) and developer business priorities, not by what is financially prudent for buyers.

This is controlled by the local government, which is controlled by the voters, who are the consumers.

They don't have these problems in Japan, because they don't have exclusionary zoning. If you own the lot, you can build whatever the heck you want on it, and the neighbors have no power to stop you.
Author here, thank you for the feedback. I'm a little bit confused by your comments, though. Can you point out a particular page and some specific improvements you think would help? I admit that I'm not a great UX designer, I would appreciate help in refining my approach.
It would be nice to have for Firefox as well.
> it's important to point out that in a authoritarian state like China, laws are often deliberately made very strict but only loosely enforced. In time, everyone is likely to have already committed some crime as a matter of necessity and thus nobody is safe from the law; the constant threat of law enforcement make people fear the authorities.

Expanding a little on the point mercer is making, the legal situation in the US (and other "friendly" countries) does not differ from what is described here. What's different is that people mostly don't fear the authorities so much.

But since the legal situation isn't different, it can't explain why the authorities are feared in China. I suggest that the fear is based more around "what is the government likely to do" than "what is the government allowed to do".
I'm currently creating an online platform with user generated content.

I'm based in Belgium, but if this bill passes, it leaves me no choice but to take my company abroad. Funny how the EU tries to compete with US startups and multinationals, with various incentives, and then tries to get this crap enforced on all of these same companies within the EU.

Bunch of idiots.

Although I live within the EU, I hope various companies will block access to their services.
https://www.troyhunt.com/heres-why-insert-thing-here-is-not-...
That’s not really true. Tariffs are clearly a form of tax. Both taxes and fines are used to discourage undesirable behavior. One difference is businesses typically assess on their own how much they owe in taxes, whereas the government tells them how much they owe in fines.
Most of the support emails are really dumb. Instead of reading product description or help they simply write you email and ask you. 98% of users get through intuitive design.
Example1: Customer didn't know how to switch camera back/front and the product used the same icon and approach as Apple.
Example2: Customer denied access to camera and asked at support why camera doesn't work.
Indeed, I often use all 3 in the same file, let alone the same app.
>many links don't look like links (because they're black or gray, like the rest of the text)

I strongly agree with this. I see that mouse-over styling is being used for links. I think links should be always formatted in a way that makes it obvious that they are links. In other words, I like the old-fashioned way of having persistent link underlines, or one could do what Wikipedia and others do and make all links consistently blue text, which seems to work well enough.
What does this solve exactly? We already have client-side certificates in TLS, am I missing something?
Ah, they will find their way. Make some concessions, cry about the laws, show some figures and bribe some politicians. In the end there will be exceptions which are strangely well-tailored for those big players...
Readable to me, and I assume most other Java programmers. Here's an example I recently came across [0]:

Option A:

static <X, Y, Z> Map<X, Z> transform(Map<? extends X, ? extends Y> input,
Function<Y, Z> function) {
return input.keySet().stream()
.collect(Collectors.toMap(Function.identity(),
key -> function.apply(input.get(key))));
}

Option B:

static <X, Y, Z> Map<X, Z> transform1(Map<? extends X, ? extends Y> input,
Function<Y, Z> function) {
Map<X, Z> result = new HashMap<>();
input.forEach((k, v) -> result.put(k, function.apply(v)));
return result;
}

Personally I find Option B more readable. Another example:

Option A:

protected boolean isCashBasis(CalendarDate effectiveDate) {
return priorVatReturns.stream()
.filter(r -> r.period.contains(effectiveDate))
.findFirst()
.map(r -> r.basis == AccountingBasis.CASH_BASIS)
.orElseGet(() -> super.isCashBasis(effectiveDate));
}

Option B:

protected boolean isCashBasis(CalendarDate effectiveDate) {
for (VatReturn r : priorVatReturns) {
if (r.period.contains(effectiveDate)) {
return r.basis == AccountingBasis.CASH_BASIS;
}
}
return super.isCashBasis(effectiveDate);
}

Again I would choose Option B, although I suppose Option A isn't too bad.

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/a/25905196/76295
Author here - Wanted to learn Rust and have been hacking with my HomeSeer system a bit so figured this was a fun place to start. Happy to answer any questions.
Corey Quinn on why Lyft is right to pay $300M over 3 years to AWS
Facebook scolded for how it protects user phone numbers for security
I mention the supplements as a comparison. Like the nonsense peddled here, the techniques (increased physical activity, blood pressure management, and cognitive training) have shown preliminary promise. But all three (I boldly predict) will fail on further testing, and even now, as the article itself notes, have failed to produce results that exceed statistical significance.

This is irresponsible reporting that is falling for the exact same magical thinking that led to the hype around supplements. Because attempts to prevent dementia have been previously shown to be without merit, we should report on new ideas with a great deal of skepticism until the evidence becomes very strong.
>I would tell them to vote for me. I am very aware of what being on a HOA requires because I already do it and yes I think it is not that hard. So to be clear: ME.

Maybe you're willing to volunteer your time for another job, but I'm not. Moreover, I'm under no illusion that people would vote for me; I'm not highly charismatic.

So who is someone like me supposed to get people to vote for? Where's this magic person in every subdivision who has the time and talent to take on this thankless job? Your solution doesn't scale.
A community survey on the economics of remote work (march/april)
Peter Attia did a podcast with Francisco Gonzalez-Lima. Its a pretty fascinating listen where he explains the vascular hypothesis of Alzheimer’s which describes one the problem of impaired blood flow to the brain. The podcast is called "The Drive" if anyone wants to look it up.
The Physics Still Hiding in the Higgs Boson
For now tinc makes more sense to me. I plan on fully switching everything to WireGuard once it actually enters the mainline kernel.
Its almost as if lithium dulls reality. This is highly worrying.
I know... partly why I said I was surprised there wasn't a fan driven effort that just did it.
This study reached a different conclusion:
http://www.princeton.edu/~reddings/papers/CEPR-DP13564.pdf
Hey man, broccoli is delicious.
Exactly. For a real world example, Ubuntu's current LTS release 18.04 is running Linux Kernel 4.15 (released Jan-2018). Using a year version format it would be Linux 2015.15.

A lot of less technical people and fake security "experts" are going to freak out about a "2015" kernel. In general people seem less interested in how something is, than how something appears. That's why most companies still insist on password complexity rules and disable pasting to password fields, because it FEELS safer.
Tesla owners protest over drastic price cuts
Mitigating Gatekeeping and Impostor Syndrome with Emotional Intelligence
These sound like legitimate user experience problems. I have fallen into the trap of example 2 at least once, not because I didn't know why the camera didn't work, but I didn't know how to resolve it at the time.
thanks for the clarification-- i hadn't even realized it was on netflix until after i'd seen it in the theater
Despite being somewhat of a Unix/Linux junky, I really want ReactOS to be a thing. I would love to get older family members who refuse to upgrade from Windows Vista to something that is still being updated and will work on their older hardware.

That said, the last three times I've tried dogfooding ReactOS, I had trouble keeping it stable for more than 20 minutes, which is a complete non-starter for getting non-technical people using it.

It seems like the people working on the project are very smart and motivated, so I have to wonder why this is still a huge issue? I know almost nothing of OS/Kernel dev, so is it basically impossible to salvage all the stability work from the Linux kernel?
USB 4.0 –Intel Takes Steps to Enable Thunderbolt 3 Everywhere, Releases Protocol
Length is a poor criterion. Movies used to be shorter than they are nowadays. Forty to fifty minutes wasn't unusual in the 1940s for cinema.
The hierarchy of buying:

- Brick-and-mortar retail store: basic necessities. Cheaper for easy-to-find items. Relatively small selection.

- Amazon: Books and other items where selection trumps price, to an extent. I can get all sorts of books on Amazon that I couldn’t at a bookstore. I wouldn’t buy a perishable good on Amazon and they likely don’t have more niche items.

- eBay: Rare or used items. Compared with Amazon, used items are a lot cheaper (compare ‘ThinkPad X220’ on both Amazon and eBay). The largest selection comes from eBay, but it is also the most variable in quality.

I noticed the following trend: 98% of my shopping is done at brick-and-mortar stores (mostly groceries). 1.5% comes from Amazon. The remaining .5% from eBay is usually just what I can’t find from Amazon.
Ah Japan ... and excess packaging.

I was just there and I managed to get an item which was triple wrapped: It was a small tray which came wrapped in cellophane already, which the shopkeeper (very beautifully) wrapped in a paper bag and then put the whole thing in a plastic bag before handing it to me.

I didn't beat triple wrapped anywhere else, but 7-11 did sell me an "eco bag" which they wrapped in a plastic bag for me, before I had time and the presence of mind to tell them I didn't need the "fukuro" (plastic bag).
Independence not independance
The EU doesn’t really need to compete since they can get as much revenue as they want with regulatory fines. They don’t care if you go abroad since if you get big they will find a way to get their money.
Dang, Windows 95 looks like it ALMOST ran on my Apple Watch, but the browser crashed after it downloaded the image.
https://i.imgur.com/DkbaWF6.jpg
I’m not sure that a new company being a startup, and having a high probability of lasting 100 years, are aligned with each other as goals.

It is possible that I am confused/incorrect about what the term “startup” refers to though. (I thought it generally referred to the “grow fast, particularly high risk of failure” model)

Edit: though, I suppose that “probability of lasting 20 years” and “probability of lasting 100 years” might not be as correlated as I thought?

Perhaps making a company which is more likely to fail quickly, but if it doesn’t is likely to become large and stable, would make it overall more likely to last a long time than making one which takes fewer short term risks at the start and which is therefore more likely to stay around for at least a smaller amount of time? I don’t know.
This Video Is a Weapon
No, he’s arguing that they should be ineligible for the Oscars. He’s campaigning to block them from the Oscars, not to open them up for inclusion in the Emmys. The Emmy reference is merely a rhetorical device he’s employing.
Shouldn't you commit your cargo.lock ?
Too Cloudy for Omaha’s Oracle
The wardrobe cartoons at 9m32s are pretty common in the UK, or at least were when I had a student job as a removal man nearly 30 years ago.
Ask HN: How does your team share files securely?
What do you use when you share access keys, passwords, secured files to your teammates?
$100M/year for infrastructure is insane when it’s all dockerized containers.

Build out some bare metal and you could be down to something like $10M/year.

I’ll happily take just $1M/year for this advice. :)
> what drives the majority of lurkers that are the majority of said growth?
It would be interesting to see what the demographics of lurkers are. Are these mostly older people who are not so enthralled with seeking status via likes/followers but still want to be able to minimally participate? I'd also be curious to know if the propensity to be a lurker is dependent on the platform - i.e. the work to gain status is too high for some platforms, but not for others - or if some people are generally more likely to be lurkers on all platforms.
more we are closer to customers in any way possible, we will have a great future as we get to know what we our customers want not what they need.

We need to understand customers the way we understand our program. deep dive and debug their issues and come out with a solution that is win-win.
Are We the Smartest Kid on the Cosmic Block?
Have you tried Cutter? https://github.com/radareorg/cutter

Looks like: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/radareorg/cutter/master/do...
My most recent job the head of the company had a great comment. One of the first things he told me "Our end users are not smart, no matter what anyone tells you. They can barely use a computer. Remember that."

He wasn't wrong ;)
You're absolutely right! 90 days does seem incredibly arbitrary, like it was chosen for political reasons. And this policy is definitely equal, but wildly inequitable.

Is it perhaps possible that equitable treatments of vulnerabilities and companies might not be particularly high on the list of priorities for GPZ? Some might even argue that past attempts at equitable treatment have backfired badly, with many cases of companies abusing the time this gets them to not fix vulnerabilities.

Again, you're completely correct. Though I would genuinely love to hear your ideas of what equitable policy would look like - it could easily be better!
This is somewhat outdated, LEDs are now powerful enough and emit much less heat.
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They grew tremendously because they turned their citizens into commodities at the hands of a few families who were able to bribe their way to the top.

Samsung, Hyundai, all of these guys built their company on the backs of children, women, and men which they exploited the shit out of.

Now, young Koreans are asking, was it worth it? With one of the highest youth unemployment and suicide rates in East Asia, existential questions are being raised about the authoritarian past.

I would've agreed with your statement 10 years ago, but now I'm not so certain, and I firmly believe that everybody is just repeating the government propaganda.

How the fuck is it that everybody just seem to know that authoritarian was responsible for economic revival? It's not even for debate. Yet we have countries like North Korea, still unable to dig themselves out of the economic recession. Argentina, South America, all had similar authoritarians and dictators, the only difference being that they possessed natural commodities that the Western countries could bribe and extract it out of that target country.

It's not exactly a secret as to the extent of subversive & covert actions of American corporations in exploiting South America for their rich natural resources. ex) United Fruit

When you don't have anything your land can provide to the empire, they accept human collateral, in the form of labor (slave?) or mercenaries. ex) South Korea's participation in the Vietnam War was traded for billions of dollars in US aid, that were spent on building the country's infrastructure.

Why is it that we have to be the richest? Why is it such a fucking competition, and why do we not stop and think, what the fuck is the reward at the end of the race created by Yet Another Empire?
I do. Allmost exclusively for anything js related (except node).
Works pretty good since they made saving files stable. Seriously, it is pretty good nowdays. You can do debugging, and when you find a error - you just fix it there instantly, without the need to change enviroment.
Is that actually that widespread in theaters? I can't find good sources, but most I can find suggest that it's not yet.
Tell that to everybody I know who uses WhatsApp to communicate and coordinate.
53 isn't all that advanced, and certainly in the "too young to die" category for me.

To compare it to an example much closer to me, my mother died of pancreatic cancer at 69, about 3 months after diagnosis. The whole family was in shock, but she seemed surprisingly at peace with it. She'd always been worried about her health, but after this diagnosis, she was calmer than I'd ever known her.

(I miss her badly, though. I want my youngest son to know her, but he never will.)
Spain logs hundreds of shipwrecks that tell story of maritime past
crap yes, good find, thank you !
I appreciate the mention and use of breadcrumbs. I think breadcrumbs are one of the most under-rated UI elements. Breadcrumbs make one's position in the navigation hierarchy instantly obvious. It is a shame that they have fallen out of fashion.

Also, +1 for not using icons. Instead of having a link with some undecipherable symbol that requires a tool-tip to translate it for the user, just put a damn word there!
Rhino poachers are not starving or desperate any more than high-end diamond theives are. They are basically military mercenaries.
Ask HN: Opportunities, working conditions etc in Canada/Australia?
Thinking of moving either to Canada or Australia. I'm interested in learning these - which cities are the tech hubs? from a purely job perspective, are there any specific technologies which can get me interviews/jobs easier? Attitude of companies towards remote working? Anything else that I'd need to know, from someone who moved there fairly recently?
> Please don't insinuate that someone hasn't read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."

Gentle reminder of this HN Guideline, which I find helpful for civil discourse. It's easy to miss something in the middle of an article.

Re: the OP's question, while the article does confirm it was found by DNA analysis, I also find it surprising that DNA can be extracted at 500k+ years. I'm curious if there are any experts on it that could chime in here on what modern limits are for that type of stuff.
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