skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your argument is equally misleading. Does the fact that those contributions come from individuals somehow make them less profound? It's exceedingly important to point out who these individuals are associated with employment-wise.
User Experience Mapping for Dummies
Huh, I’ve only ever used it as a friendly “dude...” equivalent. Well, TIL. Thanks for the info.
I was not expecting this from a country like Finland.
If they did, you could abuse it by just trasfering every byte except the last, add that in a custom link to complete the file transfer and have unlimited distribution ;) I think it's best the way they did it.
I actually think things are a lot less rocky these days - nothing in Michael Stapelberg's post is new, it's just a difference of scale and perhaps the developer population getting a bit older and more committed to their day jobs. There are a lot of things helping with scale: Alioth (running a fork of SourceForge's code) was replaced with Salsa (running GitLab), which effectively collapsed the options for version control from CVS, SVN, Git, Darcs, etc. to just Git. Debhelper 9 standardized a ton of workflows. Team maintenance is a lot more common than individual maintenance, and uploading packages owned by unresponsive maintainers has gotten a lot more socially acceptable. But a lot of the old problems have scaled more quickly than solutions: if you're doing an archive-wide change, there are more packages you need to touch, more people you need to contact, etc., so each old problem happens more.

(I also don't think any of the problems in that post are about developers being disagreeable or argumentative - just about Debian having a lot of technical debt and no easy way to pay it down.)
> Some Genetic Tests Apparently Can’t Tell If You’re Dog Or Human

We do share a lot of genetic code, so checking for a specific aminoacid sequence could very unsurpisingly detect it in both
It is pretty funny when you work for a company that pays you enough to put you in the top 10% of earners, yet still treats you the same as the boss you had working for McDonalds.

All your points are basically counterpoints to a low trust environment. Such places usually aren't fixable, and anyone stuck in one should start looking for other opportunities ASAP, even if they've only had the job for less than a year.
Well I suppose these goofy women won't be giving birth until the Earth ends. Actually this is probably a wise decision on their part, but not for the reason they believe.
Walmart, Kroger, Walgreens and Costco are not marketplaces, they're retailers, and they have contracts with suppliers and pay distributors to purchase goods to resell to consumers. Amazon is a marketplace where any retailer can list their goods for sale.

I believe Warren's argument is that Amazon is abusing their position as the marketplace platform owner by listing their own goods at prices that undercut marketplace retailers.
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-open-distro-for-elastic...
Apologies. I was operating under misinformation given to me by a smart friend. You appear to be correct.
You don't really need ifttt for this, both platforms have some form of "shortcuts"
Yep. Can't view newly open PRs, also random GH related failures in CI
Lobby groups.
You appear to be right, and I was operating under misinformation. I’ll edit my comment.
You have to be rich to live in California. Either that or willing to sacrifice your retirement, because saving money is nearly impossible for lower and middle class Californians. There are too many costs that come with living and working there.
No. The for-profit company only recently setup that foundation after projects like mine pressured them to do so. They have absolute control over the foundation's board and direction. There are a few minority seats for others -- they are not filled, last I checked.

Nothing I said was wrong.
I think voice is underutilized as a 3rd, powerful complimentary interface; mouse and keyboard being the first and second. A smart speaker doesn't enable me to be more productive on the tool I use most, my computer.

I'm building something that I think is much more powerful than smart speakers for the following reasons.

1. It's software and lives on the hardware that you already have... your computer. It's not a standalone hardware device silo'd from the existing tooling you use daily.

2. It provides visual feedback (live transcription, with colors indicating what's understood), because it can. Smart speakers can't.

3. It's a browser extension, so it easily integrates with all the webapps that you use daily: gmail, google docs, hacker news... any webapp you want it to.

4. Plugins are intuitive to develop and open-source so anyone can build off and improve them (https://github.com/lipsurf/plugins)

It's a work in progress, but in case anyone is interested: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/lipsurf-voice-cont...
Dozens Charged in College Admissions Bribery Scandal
Acteon: 8-in-1 Hybrid Adventure Blanket – Over $100K Raised
Then use the proper term for the FAANG companies: A criminal conspiracy.

And we have laws against conspiracies. RICO act for starters.

And collusion is also a crime, no? How many execs have gone to prison for the wage fixing that FAANG was accused of and lost?
I'm sure Borski saw Africa and didn't even bother to look up the safety record.
That's true enough, but a large electric field can wirelessly power a fluorescent light bulb, without moving your key ring at all.
I’m worried about breaking up Apple. Control of the App Store is how they keep the iPhone secure and malware free. They make money on things sold through the store, yes, but they make most of their money in the phone itself. Break that up and now whoever runs the store has a lot more pressure to make money by exploiting your data, cutting back on curation, etc.
You can work around it by creating a cargo config with a wrapper. Eg:

cat ~/.cargo/config

[target.x86_64-unknown-freebsd]
linker = "/home/drewg123/bin/cargo-ld"

Where cargo-ld is just a wrapper:

#!/bin/sh
exec /usr/bin/ld -L/usr/local/lib $*
The Marshall Plan was the US keeping the Reds at bay.

Peanuts in comparison to the jackpot that WWII was for the US, and it cemented their influence.
Investors say... SELL, SELL, SELL.
Neat!

I saw him give a talk once; he's an extraordinarily good speaker.
Exactly, so, not a monopoly in ecommerce. And only a single-digit share of commerce.

And, of course, there is literally nothing inherently illegal (in the US, at least) about building a monopoly in any case.
Secretary of Defense is irrelevant to this subject however. FAA is under U.S. Department of Transportation, run by Elaine Chao. I don't think she's related to Boeing (although she is the wife of Mitch McConnell).
In France you're also obligated to give your employer 1-3 months notice before leaving by law.
"biggest" =/= "monopoly"
Elon Musk Learns Faster and Better Than Everyone Else
then maybe you should learn that a lot of HN readers are not native English speakers.
Tim Berners-Lee calls for joint fight against disinformation
Best way to send money is through internet banking as it is fast and safe mode of transferring money. It is super good. Even you have a proof as well in the bank statement that money has been transferred to so and so person on so and so date. It helps in keeping track of your money. It is super fast mode of transferring money. Depends from bank to bank, as some banks transfer money in 15 mins to 3 days time span.
I'm not going to debate you in three places at once, that's just obnoxious and clutters the thread.

Ultimately this is an argument about the precise semantics of "removable storage". I don't regard an MTP device as "removable storage" - it's another computer that one speaks to using a special protocol, with severe limitations. So is an iPhone - with special, protocol-speaking software, you can certainly put arbitrary files on it. I interpreted the parent to mean that they wanted to plug the phone in to "any PC" and have it Just Work. MTP isn't so great at that, especially from my perspective as a Linux user, where MTP support is no more built-in than iOS-protocol support. From this standpoint, "removable storage" == "USB mass storage".

On the other hand, it sounds like whatever Apple provides is much worse even than MTP, and less well supported in general.
I'd say hearing protection is more important than brushing your teeth. You can get artificial teeth that look and function just like real ones, but not ears.
DTrace for Linux CTF hacker here.

The BPF people cannot be blamed for not using CTF. Even if it had been relicensed to the GPLv2 way back in 2005, until recently (https://github.com/oracle/libdtrace-ctf release 1.0 or 1.1) it was impractical to use CTF on larger projects because the file format could only encode a strictly limited number of types (2^15 in each of a parent and child container): it had a lot of related limitations as well, but that was the big one. This is not enough for a largeish enterprise kernel, even assuming that you share types used by multiple modules to reduce the overall type count. Also, BTF and CTF serve rather different purposes: CTF specifically encodes knowledge about C types, while BTF is specialized for encoding information about BPF maps. You can't use CTF for that: C doesn't even have a map type, nor anything like one, and the bits CTF spends on things like the details of floating-point formats are wasted on BPF.

As for the other part... obviously, as someone working on DTrace and using it ever more, I think it does hold value in its own right. It operates at a different level of the stack from BPF, in any case: it's a user-facing tool like a kernel-level awk, which is nothing like BPF.

In my opinion, saying that DTrace doesn't hold value because of BPF is like saying that C doesn't hold value because ARM assembly language exists as well as x86 (in this metaphor, C == DTrace, ARM assembly language == BPF, x86 assembly language == DIF, the DTrace intermediate format). It certainly seems possible to replace the DIF portion of DTrace with BPF, but this will not obsolete BPF nor DTrace: instead, DTrace will drop DIF and the DIF interpreter and build on BPF, generating BPF instruction streams the way it now generates DIF instruction streams. We get to improve BPF if needed and drop a redundant interpreter and BPF tracing gets a hopefully-nicer user interface in the shape of DTrace, and wider usage. Win-win!

(I'm not doing most of the work on this, so my opinion is far from authoritative, but I did do a preliminary experimental conversion of the hand-rolled DTrace code generator to emit BPF instructions instead, and it seemed perfectly practical: the two encodings are remarkably similar, and BPF is pleasant to generate, as such things go. That's only a small part of what needs doing, of course...)
The runaway hit is probably Amazon buying. Miss that so much on my Google Home.
The best thing we can do?

Lower the barrier to get rich.

Think of a reverse Amazon store. You go there, you do what your phone tells you, money is added to it.

Guaranteed job public utility

vs.

I need to apply for a building permit to launch my app public utility.
The Unknown East of the Ancient Lisp World [video]
Well let's see about that. I've heard about companies "planning" IPOs...
It could also be interpreted as changing the plane because the pilot is harder to fix. Sometimes you have to accept that the user is going to do things their way, and adjust the software to match that expectation.
43% is a massive market share but a monopoly by the definition of the word has near 100% control of a market.

I think the modern test is is it possible for someone to compete with Amazon? Costco and Wallmart certainly do. If you break up Amazon, I think online retail will just move to the next biggest player.
There's no reason the hardware can't do it, the driver actively attempts to see if you're on a VM and refuses to talk to the hardware if so. Google "Nvidia error code 43" if you're curious, and some people like to virtualize a video game on their Linux dev PC.
I've used MTP and my experience is it that it leaves a lot to be desired regardless of the platform. My wife's Samsung phone never worked right with her Windows 7 laptop. Neither my Huawei nor the HTC handset I had before worked properly with any of my Linux machines either.

I get the point of MTP is that is't supposed to be a transparent (to the user) interface but my experience is it falls short by a long way of achieving this in practice.
> Integrating a browser engine with the core operating system increases security...how?

In particular, how process isolation and Just-In-Time compilers work. Since mobile phones are extremely resource constrained, there's a tradeoff between security and performance that is more difficult on mobile than on the desktop. That means the way things were sandboxed on mobile was different on the desktop.

For example, the ability to allocate memory that is both writable and executable, one of the features used by Javascript JITs, opens up a huge attack surface area. Apple basically solved this problem by making JavaScriptCore the only blessed Javascript engine able to do this, and for a long time, only Mobile Safari itself could leverage the JIT.

Granted, modern phones can relax this, but there's definitely benefits to controlling the entire stack. For example, some functions of the browser could leverage enclaves or enclave-like containers for privacy oriented calculations.
lol priorities remain same
Sorry, are you implying this has anything to do with race? Because if so, please don’t join the conversation.

I was operating on information from a trusted friend, and hadn’t taken the time to look it up. That’s all.
Firefox Send lets you share 1GB files with no strings attached
Most Dutch banks are well aware of how important tech is, and the IT departments are run like tech companies. ING in particular tends to be maybe a bit too much on the cutting edge of front-end development. They're all reasonably Agile in my experience.

Although they're also still big, old organisations, subject subject to lots of regulations, and with tons of legacy systems. So they're unavoidably more limited than startups. But within those limitations, they're doing a pretty good job in my experience.
Why not? Apache 2.4 with the Event MPM is async and event-driven, just as fast as nginx, lower latency, more fully compliant w/ RFC specs, robust reverse proxy w/ load balancing and dynamic configuration, super-fast caching,... and fully and completely open source.
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This is so on point, I think every manager needs to read this sentence over and over and over again until they really understand how detrimental this one behaviour is to the wellbeing of their team.

If you didn't trust me to do the job you hired me for, why am I here and why do you pay me so much? Why not hire an intern for almost nothing and micromanage them instead because you'd be in the same position and you could give yourself a nice fat bonus with the budget you're saving.
Agreed! Ippudo in NYC has been a great experience. There is apparently one in London, which I've heard is not as good...
Access to images and videos is read-only. So it can't be used like a USB drive.
The usage of "Breed Ready" gives me goosebumps. Feels like the dystopian future is here.
> license plate surrounds.

they're free whereas new ones cost 10 bucks.
>others are reporting that the price they end up with after going through the subscription process matches what they were initially shown.

That's consistent with an A/B price test.
That's cool, but it's still the same party providing both the storage mechanism, and the JS that encrypts the content on the client-side. You have to trust them that they are not "peeking" at the keys you are generating using their code in your browser.
There are always witnesses to plane crashes who will tell you it was on fire, whether true or not. The safest assumption is that we have no idea what happened but we trust in the NTSB to be quick with their recommendations.
Meatless meals to kids? Wow. What a way to feed them. Good luck guys.
Open Letter Sir Timothy Berners-Lee – 30 Years On, What’s Next ForTheWeb?
Jinya Ramen is Los Angeles and other parts of the US is also FANTASTIC!
Using Alexa for tasks like this is a qualitatively different experience. Hands-free/voice control can be very useful in that your hands can be busy, and you don't need to find or walk to and manipulate a device or remote.
I was really big into Counter-Strike (1.3-1.6).

Someone created two apps. Amytal would scrape Steam IDs to confirm what leagues the players were in. Bazbar would have a bot in IRC for #findscrim and allow us to chat with people.

Both apps could be run by sending commands from ingame chat.

It was awesome. Still no idea how they worked.
Probably not until someone figures our artificial ear neural implants.
Sure, but doesn't help with the PR does it. If people start using it to send/dist the stuff, the news will mention it.
>are on their way to abolishing book ownership outright.

This is hyperbolic. There has been a resurgence in small bookstores, and Amazon sells quite a few physical books themselves.
Democracy dies in darkness!
Oops. Germany, too, follows suit and closes their airspace for the MAX.

https://www.faz.net/aktuell/wirtschaft/unternehmen/deutschla...
In discussions on reddit yesterday some people suggested this was merely a bad translation of ‘child rearing age’. If so, the bottom end (youngest) of 18 seems to make sense and is a lot less dystopian than it might otherwise read.
Create your own entry point to wordpress for faster data delivery
Fair enough and based on what I read yesterday your comments about problems scaling faster than solutions makes a lot of sense. You seem to be more on top of it then me.

As someone who no longer uses it but has a lot of history using Debian I hope you are correct and that this latest issue of not finding a leader according to the standard schedule is just something they route around. Based on the tone of the end of today's article it sounds like that's the case.
It’s five bucks a month!
Seem working alright... hmmm
While the breach is a reminder that people don’t have good security practices, piling on or focusing on the words ‘breed’ and ‘ready’ shows how eager journalism is to jump on something that isn’t quite fleshed out.

First, they don’t know if it’s governmental or otherwise, second they’re not sure if the words are mistranslations or a shorthand categorization.

The government is concerned the population drop will happen too fast and are also concerned some men will have issues finding a partner due to previous reproductive policies. These latter issues are socially graver issues that could be discussed at length but the article instead decided to focus on speculation.
Yes, the symptom described in the article is congruent with the diabetic theory because loss of small blood vessels is also a symptom of diabetes.
I wonder what took them so long. Zero Hedge is more insidious than Infowars, where they are at least up front about the lizard people conspiracy.
The one thing we have learned from the last few years is that white-collar / upper-class crimes are rampant and radically under-prosecuted.
I bought the domain rational.app and secured the name "Rational" app on iOS and Android, in order to do exactly this.

I believe a lot can be done. But there has to be one place where people can come and have structured debate about each claim - news, politics, religion. Today everyone has phones and can be citizen journalists. We just have to make a site where each specific claim has its own page with arguments for an against, listed once and upvoted, and each argument links to one or more claims. The tough part is that this is a centralized honeypot for altering "the truth", and so there need to be high-stakes games for challenging things, where you lose a large % of the karma you accumulated painstakingly and so on. Where someone can vandalize it but it will be quickly reverted by the crowd. At the end of the day, though, it's hard to have the crowd determine the truth in esoteric subjects. Wikipedia has to recruit editors.

Planning to launch it around May 2019. If you're interested in working together on this, contact me, with the name greg, at the domain qbix.com
Does anybody else feel GH has a much higher than normal incident rate?
This is clutching at straws... The anti-Chinese propaganda is too obvious on this one, sorry.
You got it! The only thing you'd have to worry about is malicious JavaScript on the Firefox Send website which I believe would be highly unlikely. And of course, you must keep your link secret.

Yes, such a CLI tool would help protect you against a MITM with malicious JavaScript.
Without a whitepaper it's not really credible.
ZH, circa 8 years ago was half decent, lots of conspiracy nonsense but also lots of market rumours, since then it has become a Russian propaganda page full of nonsense.
Because that's easier than feeding the link to archive.is and posting the archive link? ;)
This might be more overt than the usual form, but how does this differ from donating a new building, department, or scholarship fund and subsequently getting your kid in?

My mother did well in the Masters program at Stanford and I would have likely gotten in if she donated a couple million dollars but she didn’t and I didn’t (despite getting an invitation a year after accepting enrollment at another university).

It’s not like we ever had that type of money, but if we did I wouldn’t have wanted that.

It seems like they’re targeting this more obvious version of bribery but not digging in and targeting the systemic issue of affluent people buying their children’s spot in college.

I really don’t think it’s much harder to prove that an underperforming student who got in because their parents donated a couple million (or tens of millions of) dollars took the place of a more qualified candidate. Maybe I’m wrong...
Walmart.com is a marketplace.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/268513973_Reliabili...

> At an airshow in 1952, a supersonic fighter disintegrated in the air causing
the death of both crew and 29 spectators (Staff, 1952). Over 100,000 people
witnessed the accident. A public appeal was put out for witness accounts and
photographs to help solve the mystery, resulting in several thousand letters being
collected. Rivas and Bullen (2008) found “many of the accounts are touchingly
detailed and well intentioned, but the whole of the vast mail was of little use” (p.
186). The vital clue that led to determination of probable cause was supplied by a
cine film. The in-flight breakup happened in less than a second, and almost all the
eyewitnesses, including experienced pilots, gave grossly inaccurate accounts
when compared to the film record.
This could be just a coincidence, but just now I also noticed HN was down as well as several global services (non-tech related stuff) we integrate with that are all timing out. Some deeper infrastructure issues at hand?
There are banks that do provide value to their customers. Not every bank is Goldman Sachs.
Declaration of Elon R. Musk [pdf]
Note that "without a vote" in this context means that no one in the plenary session opposed passing it, so no vote was held.