skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing is that while a lot of things that seem obvious will be confirmed, a lot of seemingly obvious things will turn out to not be true. So we need to apply scientific methods in order to determine which “truths” really are true and which are not. (In cases where the truth is testable — not everything is.)

Beyond that, the fact that they have identified what receptors the mosquitoes use for sensing sweat means, like the article says, that new ways to foil the mosquitoes from sensing humans might be possible to devise in the future.
Global Stock Market Valuations and Expected Future Returns
I started using FB in '05 as a junior in college and it instantly became my 'favorite thing in the world'. IMO, Zuckerberg gifted University students across America with FB and single-handedly made the college experience better than it had ever been prior. On top of that, he's a smart guy who made it big in a world where endless shitloads of smart people never succeed in life and visionaries like Nikla Tesla die penniless. IOW, for a bunch of reasons I'm always rooting for the guy and I'd always thought of him as extremely lucky for getting to fast-track into the real world.
Now that you and Rushkoff mention it, the second half of the 4yr undergrad experience is exponentially better than the first, and success effectively robbed Zuckerberg of all of the great upper-division courses.
Some schools provide kids with 3 free sessions with a counselor.

I wish tech companies did the same... that it was just a "normal" thing for our mental health. We focus much more on physical health, whereas mental health is taboo.
Why is this correct take being downvoted?

Add consistency to your codebase by saving all timestamps in UTC.

Edited: Storage size is the same.
Except that their modification of MPL2 has a giant loophole. If you include MPL2 code as part of a larger work, you can license the larger work as GPL. At that point, their restrictions are scrubbed from the license of the GPL codebase.
I'd be happy with everyone being extremely clear about the two kinds of time: Wallclock-time and duration-time.

What's the difference? Duration-time does not have leap-seconds.

I'll say it again: Duration-time does not have leap-seconds.

Once more: Duration-time does not have leap-seconds.

For duration-time without leap-seconds, give me TAI:

> International Atomic Time (TAI) is a statistical atomic time scale based on a large number of clocks operating at standards laboratories around the world that is maintained by the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures; its unit interval is exactly one SI second at sea level. The origin of TAI is such that UT1-TAI is approximately 0 (zero) on January 1, 1958. TAI is not adjusted for leap seconds. It is recommended by the BIPM that systems which cannot handle leapseconds use TAI instead.

https://tycho.usno.navy.mil/leapsec.html

Document that it is TAI.

Include in the documentation that TAI does not include leap-seconds.

Thank you.
Please don't irritate the TSA agents. If they don't get you for it, they will take it out on everyone behind you.

Instead, write your congresscritters. Nearly all of them fly every week, so they feel your pain.
There's no difference in storage between timestamp and timestamptz in PostgreSQL. Both are 8 bytes.
I always found the feed url in a web browser, copied it, and then added it manually to Thunderbird. Granted, it's not the exact same thing as how Firefox used to do it, but it works well enough once you have all the feeds you want set up.
> and predates lots of modern trends and things like concurrency and functional programming and whatnot require more complicated code patterns..

And golang does what exactly for this? As a matter of fact, Java is superior here to golang on these fronts, and is only going to get better. There is a lot of unsubstantiated golang hype and people should know better.
Is your argument that companies have zero responsibility to pay their employees reasonably?

What is even the purpose of a company? Make unicorn valuation through low wages, write a couple blog posts, then dip?
welp...back to flip phone for me
I like the UI and it's simplicity, but not exactly sure how it is different from IMDB. I would say right now it is not much useful for me.
> They'll be obvious about it if it's not optional.

I don't believe this is required (or even typical) in the US. Law enforcement is generally allowed to make non-mandatory requests and hope that you comply with them. A prime example is needing to explicitly invoke your right to remain silent (https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127352...). You might also look up videos of people refusing to cooperate with the immigration checkpoints in various states along the Mexican border.
Yes, and if you don't like something you leave the country.

And if your partner does something annoying you leave them and get a new one.
I'm facing the same problem & I've heard people talking about certain blood group being more attractive to the mosquitoes;but has this been proven?

The article doesn't mention blood group & specifically mentions that the merit of the research in finding the path i.e. CO2, Odour.

I dont' understand how blood can form path, unless it applies to only second bite i.e. Mosquitoes prefereing individuls with certain blood group after tasting it once.
Aren't signups closed on upfund?
Here's a product I found awhile back: http://www.mosquitomagnet.com/
Downvoting me saying you shouldn't trust me, creates an odd little paradox :)
The connection between gender, gentrification, and household size
They'll tell you that Heroin and nicotine are addictive.

But! If you use either of those two for no more than two days in a row every ~2 weeks, and no more, you'll never get addicted.

Probably true with ketamine. I've used it a few times, but never abused it. Occasional recreational use is possible.
Saudis hacked Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’s phone, company's security chief claims
Kakoune Emulator for Atom
Copyright does not protect game mechanics and rules. In Tetris v. Xio, they successfully argued that the game infringed on trade dress.

They claimed that the pieces looked like ones in other games, which in my view is impossible not to infringe on since there have been hundreds of Tetris games with every type of piece design possible.

They claimed that they used tetrominos, and the playfield was twice as high as it was wide, and so on. What Xio failed to point out was that all of these are functional aspects of the game, which means it is not protected by trade dress. Even the original creator, Alexey Pajitnov, has said that he originally tried pentomonoes, but that was too difficult, so he used tetrominos instead. That's functional, not trade dress.

Do you have a source for Tetris's trademarking tetrominos? Perhaps you're referring to their "tetrimino" label, which their own term for what the non-branded world refers to as "tetrominos."
Ask HN: Tesla electric cars: is the business in the battery
Noticing that Tesla dropped the swappable battery model with a very weak argument (lots of administrative paperwork), and sealing the battery in like Apple (and others) does with their iPhones, a friend of mine stated that in his opinion the real business is in the battery. Considering that having a swappable battery would resolve the main inconvenience of an electric car, which, in my opinion, is the charging time, dismissing so lightly the swappable option seems odd. What does HN think? Can the total control of the batteries be the real business in electric cars? Thank you
Storing Unix timestamps in a 64-bit signed integer field would probably be fine in that situation. The only downsides that come to mind are that you'd have to manually convert the number to an actual date when using it, and that you'd lose easy access to date-related functionality in the database.
I am a very sweaty person and mosquitos do not touch me. When other people suffer, I usually did not even notice there are any mosquitos around at all. So not that obvious for me.
Why delay the open source release of V for a complicated feature (C++ translation) that is not part of the core language?
I wish people were more open about their acquisition prices. An entire generation of entrepreneurs could be inspired if only they could see the potential upsides of doing a startup.
Yes, this entire article is bullshit. I'd bet 99% her phone/email/whatever were hacked from password reuse in a prior leak. Convenient this all happened when he divorced his wife (aka someone knew who she was to target her specifically) and figured they'd extort Amazon and likely short the stock. I've read the article, it really doesn't say anything.

I'm so tired with these pseuso-SOC style reports detailing <some group> from the US, north Korea (lol?), Saudis, <whatever> just because someone changed a path of a binary to /home/valdimir and made a post on a Russian underground forum.

Ockham's razor here, she reused passwords, got pwned, he sent her dick pics, as 80% of the people of this world do these days, and they got recovered.
That’s my style as well, and I followed the same path of yours!
at that price i don't think punters are the target demographic.

if your build target is an arm environment (industrial, embeded?) or you are a uni teaching/researching arm isa, then i imagine it would be a pretty nice bit of kit.
I used to be a very sweaty person, but always had less moquito bites than those around me (though I did have quite a bit if I was alone). So it's far from trivial.

(And preepting the question: I stopped being ultra sweaty after a 20 day water-only fast, never to be sweaty again)
Nikih1
Show HN: EduClan
Is the psychedelic dose necessary for treatment of depression?
Why would any one even listen to MZ now? I would listen to him and his company when it comes to computational tech stuff. But that's it.

Privacy policy, protocols, rules, process, identity and what not are strictly off limits.

Also, if MZ says something ought to be done in this way, I would give a serious look at the advantages of not doing it that way.
I don't think memorizing is to type faster. It's to think faster. CPUs speed up with more cache. Adding in a websearch/API lookup in-between thoughts will slow a programmer down.
One place I was at had a scenario where working on location with a client and they offered you a private chef. I told my manager there is no way I'm passing up a private chef.
Hashbrown is not about the hashing algorithm. It uses fx hash which is pretty commonly used in Rust. I imagine they will still keep SipHash
> Is your argument that companies have zero responsibility to pay their employees reasonably?

Yeah, that sums it up. Companies have a responsibility to keep the agreements they make, and to not harm anyone. They don't have a positive responsibility to improve people's lives -- they're not charities.

> What is even the purpose of a company?

To make some people better off than they were before, by way of voluntary exchange, without hurting anyone.

If they're not doing that, if they're actually making people worse off than they would be otherwise, then that should of course be stopped.
It's a quine
I feel capitalism is such a bad thing for our earth. If I had a reset button that would equally distribute all the worlds wealth I would push it.
Would payments for this be higher than the potential costs of leaving known exploits active on their devices?
Thule Crossover 32L Backpack, been using this for past 6 years now. Has held up really well, only finding an excuse to buy a new one, can’t find one though

It has held up great for daily commutes as well as 2 day official trips, enough space to carry all.

https://www.amazon.com/Thule-Crossover-32L-Backpack/dp/B004X...
Your 5th grade teacher, nor dictionaries, ought be considered authoritative sources of word meanings.

Words mean what people who use them intend them to mean.

But if you want something more authoritative than random-internet-comment, definition three from dictionary.com has you covered:

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/they

they

pronoun, possessive their or theirs, objective them.

1 nominative plural of he, she, and it.

2 people in general:
They say he's rich.

3 (used with a singular indefinite pronoun or singular noun antecedent in place of the definite masculine he or the definite feminine she ):
Whoever is of voting age, whether they are interested in politics or not, should vote. A person may apply only if they are over 21. They have been an actor since childhood.
Neural networks plus proof of work is interesting, but there is one, foundational problem: cryptocurrencies have no particular value. Bitcoin has a bubble of people who held a particular ideology and didn't understand currency, and folks who needed money laundering took advantage of that. Without a similar bubble, it's hard to convince someone to give you a currency that you can, say, pay taxes with in exchange for some numbers that you can prove were hard to calculate.

Beyond that, it's pretty straightforward to shut down. If a municipality decides it doesn't like this, you pass a law against it. You can't fully anonymize sparse nodes because the appearance and disappearance of objects under various situations lets you pinpoint where it is and either send the police up to break it or give the company running the poorly secured security camera an injunction to fix it.
> A Valid Use Case For timestamp without time zone

This should be "A Valid Use Case For timestamp with time zone".

This article gets it all wrong. The only time it's acceptable to store time with time zone is DATES that do not have a TIME component.
Hook it up to a chat bot (as mentioned above), so it takes ~no time after configuration. :)
Installing AOSP wipes some DRM keys and bricks camera on some models. Also effectively voids warranty.
> advising on controversial murder cases. I’ve seen a lot. And yet, I’ve recently seen things that have surprised even me, such as the National Enquirer’s parent company, AMI, being in league with a foreign nation

I honestly don't know how to feel reading something that ranks politics above actual state sponsored murder.

And having to accept that as the uncontested norm.
Noah Smith is out of his mind for putting China at the top of the list. How much did the CCP pay him for his "Up and coming superpower" characterization of a dystopian corrupt, fascist, totalitarian police state?

By the way, Shenzhen is packed with Americans and other Westerners complaining that "democracy didn't work for me." Let's see how it goes when they eventually find themselves on the wrong side of an exercise of state power.
If they're a real friend and you're not an asshole you'll call them as often as they call you.
The forced emotional attachment is a way of manipulating you into a lower salary.
It’s a misconception that the only good political actions are nonviolent. Many great political actions have had a large violent component, including those written down in the history books as nonviolent, such as the Indian independence movement, the American Civil Rights movement, and the South African anti apartheid movement.
Every TSA red team test has overwhelmingly found that they miss massive amounts of contraband. They aren't just missing pocket knives and nail clippers, red teams bring through mock firearms, large knives, drugs, bombs, etc. And overwhelmingly the TSA misses those items. The TSA is overwhelmingly security theater.
Let's listen carefully to what Zuck says he wants, and then do the exact opposite.
Now that you mention it, there really isn't a digital substitute for physically tinkering with mechanical stuff or rebuilding things. Hopefully you'll give the guy some hand-me-down desktop PCs, I was under the impression that mechanically inclined kids had become extinct in the developed world.
Xiaomi has Android One models with Google software. Though I’m not sure that they don’t bundle some malware there.
If they don’t want, there are plenty of other jobs out there

Maybe there are lots of jobs there, but do these jobs give the flexibility of working whenever one wants, like Uber does? In life, nothing is as simple as that. Applying the same logic, we can say if a woman is mistreated by her husband/bf, she can simply leave him. If a manager is bad, find another job. If a country is hostile to immigrants, leave and move back home or to another country. And so on. The reality is somewhere in between "just pack up and go" and "stuck indefinitely".

Uber/Lyft/Instacart etc are in fact exploiting their drivers simply because they can. The drivers aren't unionized, they aren't getting much help from government regulations (it isn't illegal yet, just immoral and unethical), so they are at the mercy of these gig economy companies.

Here is an exercise. Can you name one gig economy company that is treating its workforce well? I am trying, and failing.
More importantly, it doesn't matter. As a fellow nerd, I can sympathize why you ask. To try to prevent for yourself (or close sphere of influence). But you will either not get a true answer, or will be unable to prevent it.
iPhone release was quite late in Japan because SJ told Japanese providers where to stick their dumb demands, which ended up being a huge coup for SoftBank
That is really not what I would have expected, very interesting.
I don't think that the goal of a startup should be to get bought.

The upsides of doing a startup are many, being bought and seeing your baby/hobby being ruined outside of your control is torture.
> Bitcoin has a bubble of people who held a particular ideology and didn't understand currency, and folks who needed money laundering took advantage of that.

I'm pretty sure that the Bitcoin ideology specifically seeks to enable money laundering. It's not like people who needed money laundering took advantage of a design flaw; the point is to let people launder money.
"The number of calls received by Mr Beaumont has fallen from between 20 and 30 a month to just 13 last month."

I would have expected the calls to fall down to 0. I am amazed that at-least some cold callers don't mind paying the money. Their profit-margins must be high! Is the data on the profit margins of cold callers publicly available somewhere?
I think this version is more complete (at least, it includes the most recent acquisitions): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio...

Some other lists on Wikipedia include:

Microsoft: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio...

Apple: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio...

Facebook: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio...

Amazon (no pretty table): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio...
Pretty sure that'll show up in the X-ray.
If your target is some embedded device, you will still end up cross compiling for your target. ISA is only part of the picture.
This is what Linus was asking for, in order for ARM to make strides in the server market.
Can you share your blood type? I’m o neg, of the sweaty persuasion, and get destroyed by the buggers. My father in law is AB, is probably normal on the sweat spectrum, smokes and mosquitoes don’t bug him.
Maybe use pwgen?

Something like:

$ pwgen -1s 31
qHfKU46H2RA2WUr0EZ1zBHfIBLKZKuT
> Election integrity is a media hysteria. Nobody is forcing anyone to vote in a particular way.

It's not about forcing people to do something.

No ads, about any topic, can force anyone to do anything.

Yet billions of dollars are spent every year on ads. This money is spent not because it can force people to do things, but because it can influence people. This influence leads to real, concrete effects.

Coca Cola isn't forcing anyone to buy Coke, but they can influence people, and on a population level their ads can lead to more people buying Coke.

The key to understanding this is to not consider the matter in terms of any one individual, but in terms of a population of people, and thinking of the influence as a statistical nudge in a particular direction.
Hardware Security (2017)
> I am following Chomsky, that they're aspects of the same thing; language is a faculty in a specific, recently evolved neurological structure.

That is a bold hypothesis, certainly, but not one that you could use as a basis for argument at this point in time. I also deeply doubt it when viewed in the context of Wittgenstein's language games. A human and a sheep dog can very effectively engage in a language game, even subtle ones such as naming. Nor is it pure behavioral conditioning, as what makes various dog breeds better at particular things is selection for incidence of particular behaviors.

Then you go to a gorilla or a parrot, which can engage in quite abstract language games. Language games with parrots always make you aware of Wittgenstein's lion, though.

For Chomsky's hypothesis to be true, you would need to have a particular inflection point where language games become language, and for that inflection point to be reified as the evolution of a specific neural structure instead of exaptation of lots of aspects in the brain.

It feels too much like Watson and Crick's nonsense "one gene = one protein," which could have been discarded with a modest amount of thought before it was allowed to damage biology for decades.

> I think following thermodynamic efficiency seems a deep inductive step as that allows measure of what is arbitrary or not

Until you look at, say, bower birds and realize that conspicuous waste is a signalling mechanism for fitness. There you have an evolutionary game that rewards thermodynamic inefficiency.
Meditation and yoga help but they require lots of time and effort. And when you're stressed or depressed there's often not enough willpower.
No, he's right. Before you downvote me, check my bio for my experience.

Literally everything in zzzeek's comment I've personally seen causing live bugs in production code. Always use UTC without time zone and always convert to UTC as soon as possible in your application.

> Your assumptions are wrong.

zzzeek isn't assuming, he's speaking from experience. He wrote the SQLAlchemy library, so he knows what he's talking about.
Fascinating! Are there any easy to follow tutorial on how to manipulate pixel blocks (I wonder what the right term is) inside terminals?
That’s not the same. The cia didn’t hack phones and blackmailed businessmen and politicians.

Are you trying to change the topic?
> July 18, 2008 ZAO Begun

Not true, this deal never went through due to anti-monopoly regulations.
I'm going to put an alternative view here.

My guess is Uber has actually done enough legwork and figured out that contrary to these sob stories in the press, there are more than enough drivers that 1) have efficient vehicles that are cheaper to operate and 2) are willing to work for that profit in quantities to cover demand.

If the rates Uber is providing drivers are so dismal they're protesting in the street, frankly, they should quit. No one is forcing drivers into a money-losing proposition. I'm especially unsympathetic given that they're paid on a per-transaction basis and there are alternative ridesharing companies out there.

Those drivers can go work for a company that charges more for rides, and passengers who care about that can choose that option. The fact that passengers currently seem unwilling to pay for that (somehow we never consider it "socially responsible" that passengers are provided cheaper service...) makes me think that will be unlikely in the short term.
I'm sure there are voip carriers in those countries that will sell you a DID (inbound number), and then you can forward calls wherever.

However, I would expect most businesses to have their phone systems set up not to connect to numbers outside the US. It's not terribly difficult to get your phone company to disable international calls, and it's a good idea, unless you're actually calling internationally on purpose.