skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article states and asks:

> I had a new IP

> I had a newly installed operating system and browser.

> What exactly about my behavior is unusual?

It's not that this behavior is unusual (though, it is), it's that this behavior looks exactly like a bot. It's sad, but this is the state of the world now. If you're a big actor like Twitter, you end up blocking anything that looks like a bot, with an escape hatch a user can't do. Phone numbers are the an option for that, and it not doubt helps block other cases Twitter wants to block as well.
Thank you for this, been looking for this article for a long time!
"all worlds are private worlds" means that all of our experience are necessarily private - I don't have access to your world simulations. The delusion is that we have access to the external world directly. So, breaking through the delusion doesn't mean gaining access to the some shared, public world, it's a recognition that such access is impossible.
Lidar startup Ouster raises $60M in production run-up
Prohibition is slavery, do not help these assholes.
Thoughts on the Apple Credit Card
Does Twitter have a right to police their platform or not?
Is that even GDPR-compliant?
Wow, most of the comments in this thread completely miss the point, which... is the point. So meta.

We suffered this exact same issue for years, but it isn't only in git, readme or marketing pages that the problem exists. When pitching or telling people what we do, because what we are doing is new, we struggled to find the right words and therefore, got blank stares about what we were doing.

The same thing happens with the introduction of many new products and systems.

We have gone through many iterations of how to describe our product and the industry moves making it the next big thing. From "3d visualizations" to "interactive 3d scenes" and currently settling in on "spatial media". Each version gets successively better, but until you give someone a hook to hang your product on, they don't know what to do with it. That is the shared vocabulary.

For us, it goes like this.
"The future of media is spatial,viewers expect to be able to control their perspective in a 3d scene. We've seen this with VR, 360 video, and gaming. We are another type of spatial media. We're like drone shot video, but the viewer is in control of their perspective, and we create the scene without a camera."
Maybe (I'm also a HAM licensee) but making a device available on a IP network without any authentication and weak protocols such as telnet doesn't justify this.
> the industry is filled with junior engineers doing ineffective algorithm whiteboard interviews

What industry? I've been a hiring manager for years and am not familiar with this happening.

> Hiring is too important to leave to engineers who don't want to do it. Generally they will do a bad job because it's just an annoying thing getting in the way of their work.

So ask them. If they don't want to do it, don't force them. Most DO want to do it, because they get to pick who they get to work with, and do a fantastic job contrary to what you're saying.

Random algorithms locking Google accounts is nothing at all like hiring and I am failing to see the parallel you're trying to illustrate.
This might be useful:

https://impossiblehq.com/complete-guide-leaving-google/
I haven't played it too but from what I've read about it, I suspect it might cause a so called Tetris Effect when the game mechanics basically invades people's though patterns.[0]
It can be used as a somewhat effective "distraction" for your brain during episodes of anxiety[1] helping to overcome it. So if someone is planning their crops, they're probably just distracting themselves from anxious thoughts.
Just my understanding from reading the article and different opinions of players.

Anecdotal: a friend of mine used to play some casual mobile game for quite some time (Candy Crush or something), she told me once that when she was giving birth she involuntarily started to "play" the game in her mind when the stress and pain became too strong, she said it helped her both to distant herself and to focus. :)

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris_effect

[1]: https://www.nature.com/articles/mp201723
Well, it works, and it's a minor annoyance at most for our legitimate customers.

Abusers, on the other hand, have to burn a phone number on each account that gets locked.
Paying with a card may cut down the fees for the business, but it won't cut down the amount that the end user has to pay.
The valley is a pretty capitalistic place and one that's willing to eschew orthodoxy.

But managers are still the norm. If it were economically preferable to not have managers, I think you'd see that model gaining lots of traction.

Maybe this is a common model though, I'm not familiar with very many truly flat organizations.
We have the unusual position of a government that in any previous parliament would have fallen. The Prime Minister would have resigned on the first defeat and I think we'd already have a new government elected by now. A better government seems unlikely, but probably one with a majority.

Thanks to the badly designed fixed-term parliament act government is effectively stuck there, powerless, breaking records for scale of defeat, and utterly discredited. Thanks once again to Cameron then - for letting the LibDems break something they didn't understand.

The popular has a chance, while the rest is ignored as government fails to consider anything but Brexit, and can't even deliver that.

It would be unbelievable in House of Cards, or Yes, Minister.
Nothing about "just use a PAAS" changes this. Sacking ops and telling developers to they should "just use EKS" or whatever is precisely why we keep seeing open S3 buckets and ES servers.
People who get seriously into optimizing credit card rewards won't go for it. But that's a niche audience. For me, I'm basically indifferent between all credit cards in terms of rewards, but the promise of stronger privacy and not having my transaction history sold is very attractive.
I agree. I would rather pay them some fee. But they don't seem to want to monetize their service via user fees.
Is it logical that your long term goal of "getting something productive done" is really more important than your short term goal of "having fun with video games now"?

Who knows if you run into a car accident 2 hours later and die? In that case it would've been better to play video games, right? Or maybe it would have been better to call your mom instead and tell her you didn't mean what you said last Thanks Giving?

The thing about life is: It has no meaning besides the meaning you assign to it. It might be okay to prioritize short term goals. It might be okay to suffer for long term goals. It might be more important even to do something completely different. Nobody can tell you.

Therefore I would argue that instead of evaluating things on artificial scales, to simply be aware of the trade-offs, make choices according to the circumstances you encounter and the stuff that you can know (e.g. you can't know if you die in 2 hours in most cases), and be confident due to your awareness that you made the best possible choice for yourself and you might be able to learn something to make an even better choice next time.

I.e. start making sounds by clapping with just one hand.
Ask HN: What is the best way to digitalize old photos?
Hi, I have tons of old photos I'd like to digitalize. Can someone share best practices/ experience on how to do this in the best way possible (equipment, common mistakes, etc.)

Thanks!
Glioblastomas are generally the only really common type of brain cancer precisely because your neurons aren't proliferating in adulthood, which is very much a good thing.

That's why I mentioned you should always be wary of anything that purports to increase neurogenesis, as even if it does, that can lead to significantly increased probabilities of cancer development. And brain cancer specifically, is one of if not the most difficult types of cancer to treat, with extremely limited survival outlooks.
My doctor claims to have treated several fishermen in the past for mercury toxicity. This doctor has been practicing in what was historically a “fishermen’s neighborhood” for some 30 years (Ballard area of Seattle) so it seemed plausible.

I have nothing but this weak anecdote to contribute to the discussion. But I’ll ask the doc for details next time I’m in and report back when the topic comes up again.
I can take a lot of pain if the money is right so the decision is not that easy.
I found this, which seems to be a build of Okular for Windows: https://chocolatey.org/packages/okular

(I haven't tested it -- happy Okular Linux user here. It was linked from the site you linked, though.)
Kubernetes v1.14
In the time it took you to write this you could've switched the notifications off.

Settings -> Notifications -> News.
I disagree, I still prefer the old-style Macbook Pro touchpad. Though I haven't used the new one on daily basis, I have always thought it felt strange.
https://speedyverify.com/
There is a long explanation at https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/14056/how-does-g... that gives all of the details.

Here is a simplified version.

First you need to understand Fermat's principle. Light will follow a particular path from A to B when all nearby paths take approximately the same time as that one. Distant paths may be faster or shorter - consider a straight line vs a mirror. But if nearby paths are different lengths there is destructive interference and no light travels.

Now suppose that we have a spiral galaxy between us and the distant source, but tipped on its side. And that galaxy is most of the way to us. From our view it is somewhat elliptical. There are five paths from there to here that meet the description of Fermat's principle. They are a straight line through that galaxy, a bent line to either side of the galaxy, and a bent line over the edges of the galaxy. At all other angles and directions, you don't meet Fermat's principle, and therefore light doesn't reach us that way.

However the central image gets blocked out by the lensing galaxy. Therefore you only see the other four.

Somewhat counterintuitively, the short side of the ellipse represents a greater gravity gradient, which bends the light more. Therefore those two images are farther apart and we don't get a perfect cross.

Also the lensing object is never perfectly lined up. This will also affect the size and placement of the images. Plus the length of time that light takes to get here.

Your understanding matches mine if you follow the following explanation. In the 2015 supernova, the lensing object was slightly off center. This meant that light that passed to the side of the lensing galaxy more or less straight to us had a fairly short route. Likewise light that passed by the long ends of the ellipse were bent less (because less gravitational gradient) so were also short. Therefore the light of the supernova came fairly close in time along those three routes. The fourth image, which went on the far side of the center of the lensing galaxy, bends the most and therefore had a longer route. Which is why it arrived with a significant delay from the other three.
Only if you don't mind that the next person who gets assigned your burner phone number might be able to take over your account.
Phone numbers are extremely easy to obtain. This won't achieve anything in the long run.
Wow, they must be really desperate to think this was a good idea. Maybe it's their last ditch effort to say "we tried everything" before petitioning for a change of laws to open up more packages for inspection.

It's kinda silly, the only sample data is for positive detection of opiods from xray images. They don't give you any examples of things that are false positives or give you dimensions of the packages in the images or details on what was actually in those xray images (like weight or something could be good info?). So yeah, maybe you could set up some machine learning thing to be like "ooh it looks like powder!" but they don't give you info about how long it even takes to take those xray images or the size of those machines or how frequently they get used currently, all of which are appear to be factors in their selection process.
Well, that's very nice. Meanwhile, while you're all eating humble pie and becoming more enlightened, you'll keep making the Earth hotter and less hospitable to human life.

Tick tock.
Arctic Sea Ice 2019 Wintertime Extent Is Seventh Lowest
I guess the price of old accounts is going up a bit.
Just guessing here but probably Backblaze b2? It has a similar pricing.
Companies shouldn't be regulated at all ever except when it comes to letting racists spout hate. Then they should be regulated into requiring that. Plus harassment and other bad behaviours.
Yeah, I snagged it when it was available in my state.

It was labeled as an "online-only pilot" and it was rolled out state-by-state, though I'm not sure all 50 were ever all covered. Then they took away some states and then discontinued it completely. Guess it really was just a pilot program. Was available for maybe around a year?

Best part of the card is that you can redeem any amount of cash (no minimum) and you can redeem it right away, even before the statement closes.
You misunderstand - not divulging what triggered the suspicion isn't lying. Claiming a phone number is required due to suspicious activity, when in fact it is required of almost all new accounts, is.
Not sure about now, though I remember they hit $1B with around 500 people. How is the PPE/RPE comparing to FANGs I have no idea; I might do some study during my 3rd master degree on that topic ;-)
The internet has always had more noise than signal. HN used to have an incredibly good noise reduction mechanism, mostly thanks to self-policing in the community and the occasional intervention of the moderators.

Thanks to this mechanism, most of the time, the top comments were really interesting ones. The noise usually ended towards the bottom of the page.

I'm pretty sure that the expectation that this would happen made people - often busy people - spend time to write very thoughtful comments, which could then raise to the top. A positive, self reinforcing loop. Which is getting slowly, but surely, less effective with the years.

I wish there was a simple formula to reproduce the original mechanism. But I'm afraid there is not.

/rant
GNU Terry Pratchett

http://www.gnuterrypratchett.com/
Easy to say until you're running a service that's a target of said abuse. Do you have a better solution?

If you do, it'd be quickly adopted because no one likes adding unnecessary friction.
The post did help project take off. It's just a little annoying to read negative comments when we can easily convey the same point in a constructive way.

I still love this place and am a big lurker for a long time. I am pretty sure if we were a bit more humane, many many lurker will actively participate, which would be a win-win.
I could blame them, but considering everything else wrong with Twitter there is no point. Avoiding Twitter is easy and you lose very little.
Two years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13945418 (“Sea Ice Extent Sinks to Record Lows at Both Poles”)
I hope this isn’t a stupid question, but what about dogs? Are dogs fast enough for airports but too slow for mail?
So far as I can tell, most orgs have meeting problems to one degree or another. If they're on the good end they're only spending ~2x the person-hours they would if meetings were scheduled and run about as well as conceivably possible. On the worse end... sky's the limit.

I think it's part of a broader problem with communication. Lots of heavy, poorly scoped tools and processes, way too many channels (in the sense of a communication channel generally, not Slack channels or something) tons and tons of look-busy chatter because people are insecure and can't figure out what to do with their time, piles of messages and emails and reports that no-one ever reads. Huge amounts of waste and down-time and frustration due to all the above. On and on and on. "Efficient" market. Maybe gross organizational inefficiency is really the best we can manage.

Also it seems like every org is perpetually in the middle of trying to figure out how do store and distribute documents of all sorts. I sometimes wonder whether for most orgs the benefits of tech have even been positive, outside maybe one or two things they're really, actually leveraging well, in the best cases. This sort of organization that's totally screwed up but doesn't know, or care, and is making money regardless, is well documented back to at least the middle of the 20th century—but more technology seems to have made the inefficiency more efficient, more often than it's eliminated it.
Here are some best practices from a security perspective:

https://makezine.com/2017/09/07/secure-your-raspberry-pi-aga...
I have found that playing active games that makes you move helps a lot. Things like wii sport or kinect type of games. You don't need a fancy machine, just buy an old wii or xbox 360 in ebay with a bundle of sport games. Many depressed people don't want to go out to gym or even to the street for a walk, having something at home that makes you move and forget the world arounds you helps a lot.
uh oh, according to this I am the 97 percintile height but 127% the weight...

Does anyone have this information for American in the 2000s?

We can call it the McDonald's effect...
Touchpad - my work Dell touchpad is not as good as my old Macbook Pro, but my Xiaomi Air touchpad feels just as good to me. The only gestures are use are two finger scrolling so I don't make use of the touchpad as much as others do.

Sleep mode. It's failed on my a couple of times in the last year, but my Macbook Pro failed about as often. I'm not sure what the issue is here.

USB-C display. Using one right now. Got a USB-C hub plugged into my Xiaomi Air that is providing it with power, keyboard, mouse, HDD and display. What is the issue you're seeing with this?

My Dell is running Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Xiaomi Air is running Linux Mint 18.3 Sylvia.
A Roseanne by Any Other Name – Mark Rosewater (2011)
And let's be honest with ourselves, if they were trying to destroy things (and not... well... terrorize...) then there are A LOT of sectors that are EXTREMELY vulnerable [0]. It doesn't take much knowledge or money to perform acts that would have extreme economic impacts. But wannacry (or something far worse) is less scary than a person shooting up a night club. Terrorists are trying to strike fear, not economical damage. State actors would be the ones trying to do economic damage, but we're not really at war with people that would do that (on a meaningful scale).

[0] a quick google search will lead you down a huge rabbit hole. Here's a good start: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pL9q2lOZ1Fw but there's huge flaws in all these sectors and even in cellular communication. Just watch some Black Hat and Def Con conference talks.
I'd find anyone creating a Twitter account in 2019 to be somewhat suspect.
So instead of growing back the missing /damaged nerve, an entire new nerve string grew from the brains back to the original nerve? Didn't know that
Do you have the negatives?
This is the phenomenon where, for an unfamiliar-but-notable website X (and especially for startups), the Wikipedia page for X often does an incomparably better job than X of conveying what X is and what it's doing.
I wish that I had the time or money to help out on this. This is the last thing holding me back from buying a Linux laptop for when I upgrade or when I get a job next year and have to choose between a Macbook or Linux laptop.

Any way to keep up to date on this? (And really only this, no newsletters or anything, I hope you understand.)
One of their reference links (https://www.dhs.gov/news/2017/05/25/written-testimony-cbp-se...) does mention that they are piloting a study to see if dogs can detect fetanyl, but I'm guessing it's either not going great, or they just want to explore some other options.
OSS offers a lot of interesting lessons for companies, especially on how to communicate and organize large numbers of devs, IME they are dead set on ignoring them.

I was recently on a "globalization" project, trying to get teams around the world all working on the same products/teams, everyone in management seemed to think the only way to get communication working is to have global conference calls 3 times a week, usually at stupid'o'clock. The idea of open discussion on a mailing list was something they just couldn't comprehend. Fast forward six months and the corporate overlord has changed to one that actually does have some pretty good async communication methods in place, they still feel the need to have a global conference once a week while so everyone can read their kanban board aloud.

I don't know exactly what Torvalds reaction would be if he was asked to join a weekly conference call at 4AM with all the lieutenants, but I'd buy tickets to see it.
You have access to this, you just don't want it. I like the cushion of corporate incentive which holds up the vast majority of the internet infrastructure. It is very inexpensive to access it, and it remains relatively open. Just because you don't have experience operating or directing a corporation, doesn't mean they are all evil entities which ruin everything.
I crank it all the way up, myself.

But I wanted to point out that this is a spot to be careful about decisions. The natural choice is to pick a default that you like yourself, but that's probably a choice that would ultimately hinder adoption of Linux as a desktop OS.

Geeks like a faster setting, but geeks also universally know that this sort of thing can be customized, and can easily figure out how to change it. Non-geeks are more likely to find a fast setting to be frustrating or unusable, and are also less likely to know that they have an option to slow it down.
Is it a secured card?
How do they determine the credit card limit?
About a year ago, there were a lot of topical submissions to HN (that I liked reading) but received community backlash, because they consisted almost entirely of posting tweets (of Trump et al) about the current political situation. The community here made an argument that I could agree with: if I wanted to read it, I should just follow them on Twitter.

So I made a Twitter account, that I checked about once every two months, that followed the relevant players. I didn't make any tweets of my own and I didn't favorite or retweet anything. Just catching up on what people have been saying worked for my interests. Twitter banned me for Harassment. I had nothing that could have possibly offended anyone - I didn't even have a bio for my profile. I'd say the system assumed I was a robot? It was frustrating to me, because in order to appeal my ban, I had to provide my phone number. I don't want to give Twitter my phone number. I get the fewest spam calls of anyone I know, and I do that by protecting my phone number. Twitter has earned no trust from me, and is not getting my phone number. I tried to delete my account, but it needed my phone number to do that. I tried to sign out of the account so I could just see tweets as a guest, but it wanted my phone number for that too. Well, I signed out by deleting browser data, but there is still a tombstone on my email address in their database.

This experience has sown distrust with me about Twitter's harassment numbers. It's not that I don't think harassment is a real problem, it's that I think they are often self-serving in their actions and analysis, and for them to say they're doing something because of harassment isn't enough for me anymore. We can speculate all we want about what their reasons might be, but to be so trusting as to take their harassment claim at face value isn't something I'll do.
1. Fidelity Visa has international transaction fee.
2. Same for Citi DoubleCache.
3. The rest also have some annoyances (foreign fees, annual fees), so I'd say Apple card is not a bad one for an average CC user who doesn't want to spend too much time optimizing every last penny.