skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The child didn't choose to be in existence. Being born shouldn't equate to some sort of servitude until your parents pass.

In many countries, the parents are legally obligated to provide those things until the child comes of age.

You have no information about the parents or the child to make any reasonable assertion on whether or not someone should show gratitude. For example, the parents could have provided an abusive home, and scraps of food.
Makes sense. So I guess they could probably tell us an upper bound on how bright it is.
If I remember correctly from CCC, they had APs hanging from the ceiling on PoE cables.
The black hole at the center of the milky way is 4 million times the mass of our sun, the one in the photograph is much more massive. Im guessing that is what they were referring to.
>as the alternative to sharepoint for new projects/working groups.

>Team's live editing functionality of excel files

Teams is a Client, SharePoint is the server. When you use Teams to view a file list or open an excel file, all its doing is streaming the SharePoint web interface, like an iframe. Teams, as far as the file side goes, is a new form of browser chrome (the toolbars not Google Chrome, albiet Teams is also based on electron aka Chrome.) for SharePoint, instead of the Modern SharePoint Web interface.
> Please don't impute astroturfing or shillage. That degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about it, email us and we'll look at the data.

> Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Which seemed like a big deal in 2009 but here in 2019 with the misdeeds of Facebook, Google and Amazon they look like a shining beacon of corporate ethics. Funny how things change.
>Line 468: rm -rf "$STEAMROOT/"*

Oh man, reading that line made me cringe.
There's something to be said about reading focus, with Twitter and online articles giving us content faster than ever, and finding time and energy to read takes more effort, but why do we have to discuss it through the lens a horribly outdated article with no clear thesis?
I had a few Devolo powerline adapters (which include a WiFi access point) and I reflashed the firmware with OpenWrt as a last resort (the default firmware didn’t support 802.11r and it was hell without it). Works great since then and it saves me from buying a set of enterprise-grade APs.
No, the traffic from individual machines to my recursive resolver is already secured or trusted, either because it's a trusted network or going through a tunnel.

What I am missing is a way to secure the traffic from the recursive resolver to all the authoritative name servers in the world, i.e. to achieve end-to-end encryption for lookups.

Yes I am aware that this would require dnscurve support in most authoritative servers around the world and that the rollout would take many years. But DoH provides a false sense of security, to me it's a distraction that just shifts us from ISPs saying "trust us" to google&co doing it.
Fine how does tax funded vs loan funded vs private capital funded education align the interests of the school with the students?

The students interest is getting an education, converting that education into employment, and not being indebted. The schools interest is revenue.

The student would be best off with a free tax funded education and no debt, the school is best off with guaranteed federal loans allowing them to charge imaginary tuition rates no one can normally afford but for guaranteed student loans.

Where is the alignment of interests come from with private capital in exchange for future earnings? Students are left indebted (maybe not in debt but indebted) and schools face the reality the private market isn’t willing to pay runaway tuition costs like guaranteed federal loans because private market knows it’s a bad investment (as evidenced by the current amount of outstanding student loans and default rates, nearly 1million defaults a year). Next thing we know the private investors will begin negotiating tuitions on behalf their investments and leaving non- capital backed students footing the bill for the difference (kind of like our messed up healthcare system).
I think all this will do is eventually lead to China copying repositories from github that they agree with, make their own internal repo system and block access to the actual github.
So is that hazy diagonal line in the image the accretion disc, viewed edge-on from the Earth?
Automatically build and deploy machine learning models on structured data
Building APIs for the physical world/Ethereum smart contracts for legal property
No, that sounds totally bizarre to me. I certainly can think "words", but there is no voice associated with them.
When is the state going to fund college for its citizens for the mightiest nation on earth and stop letting Wall Street find innovative ways to rape us under the hood.
who defines what a totalitarian dictatorship is? you? Here is an example:

If you ask most christians (or minorities) in Syria what they think of Bashar´s leadership, they´d hail him as their christ and savior. Meanwhile, for us here in the west he´s a dictator and a murderer.

I am not justifying any actions or atrocities committed by such an actor. I am merely point to the fact that if you want to politicize an aspect of our lives, you need to at least have rigid and firm definitions. Otherwise, all you end up doing is giving ammunition to your opposition to do the same. Ex. I can add the same about Trump now into my repos and call him a fascist, or do the same thing when Obama was in office. Or heck, imagine having "LOCK HER UP" at the top of each ReadMe.

That cannot possibly be a healthy way of going about things.
A properly behaving site would not. One hacked by malware distributors could.
Has anyone started contributing lists of all the public DoH resolvers on any of the block-lists? e.g. [1] [2]

[1] - https://iplists.firehol.org/

[2] - https://github.com/firehol/blocklist-ipsets
New species of ancient human discovered in Philippines cave
I found this to be so true at a job I had in international development. Being on a small but respected team in the org and having input on how projects all over the world would be implemented was very fulfilling.
The fact that you're using cliched "conservative" meme tropes like "basket weaving" indicates you're not interested in having a non-ideological discussion about this. As of 2016, the most common bachelor's degrees in the US were in the areas of business and healthcare [1]:

[1]:https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d17/tables/dt17_322.10.a...

From the table in the link:

Business - 371,694

Health Professions - 228,896

Public Admin/Social Services - 161,230

Biological + Medical Sciences - 113,749

This is Hacker News. Please respect the community here and attempt to present some data to support your comment.
Not that I want to discuss family matters on here...
He remained behind because my mother remarried when I was 10, lost his job because of the war and increasingly worsening economic conditions and inflation. If I wasn't paying voluntarily it is very likely he would be begging on the streets without an apartment and anyone to take care of him. I do no want that on my hands.

So no and yes.
It's not only about that. We all have our political ideas and I don't want anybody to shove theirs up my butt while I am in github; if I want to read that kind of stuff I'll look at twitter or facebook, thanks.
Chinese programmers use English at about the same frequency as programmers from other non-English-speaking countries, but there are so many of them that the minority using Chinese for everything is still very visible.

FWIW, most of the Chinese-only repos I've seen on GitHub are tutorials, other study materials or social gathering places like 996.icu, so I don't think you're actually missing a lot of relevant open source code.

The most likely contender for a Chinese-language GitHub-replacement is probably the hosted GitLab instance offered by Alibaba: https://code.aliyun.com/explore
Agreed.

The argument "tool is misusable and therefore has no value" is absurd. Of course any discussion framework is going to rely on intelligent people using it sincerely, and even then will only provide some additional insight. It's a tool to help people make 10% better conclusions.
Ha! I just saw a guy wearing a cop-like getup on a white R1200RS and let off the throttle immediately (because Vance and Hines pipes + cop + overpass == possible $1k ticket). Totally thought he was a cop until I passed him.

I would love it if you started that account, but safety first. I'm about to splurge on a helmet cam, myself.

It __does__ seem to have gotten worse lately. The only cops I've ever seen enforce it are... you guessed it, motorcycle cops. Cops in cruisers don't do shit in my area.
Not really. I get emails occasionally from people looking for PostgreSQL staff.

Generally I try and steer them to either the PostgreSQL jobs mailing list (https://www.postgresql.org/list/pgsql-jobs/), or if they have specific needs then I'll steer them to appropriate people (if known).

Of the people that contact me... some are Weird (not in any positive way). When I ask them how much they're looking to pay (even roughly), they either avoid answering that point, go silent completely, or just do other strange stuff.

Those ones don't get put in contact with anyone. Not sure what they think they're doing, but wasting people's time isn't on.
Yeah. There were a few NASA projects attempting to do this that got cancelled circa 2010 (programs called TPF-I and SIM).

Something that has been done for a while is using a single telescope in space in conjunction with some on Earth. Russia has a radio telescope in orbit called Spektr-R. I think it died recently, but Spektr-R did interferometry with other telescopes on Earth. When it was operational, I believe it was the widest VLBI array— its orbit was higher than GEO (and even intersected the moon's!), so it got pretty good distance from the ground.
Kitlang: Cross-Compiling with Kit
It's an interesting discussion. Liverpool was a huge trading port and a powerful city for a long time, mostly built from the slave trade. No local slaves, but plenty of people who became rich from slavery.

"Overall, Liverpool ships transported half of the 3 million Africans carried across the Atlantic by British slavers."

http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/ism/slavery/europe/liverp...
> Amsterdam to Kitzbuhel for a skiing road trip

That's a 10 hour drive! You're genuinely choosing a personal vehicle on its ability to drive literally all day?

I mean, sure. Everyone has their own preferences. But this is a wildly beyond median data point. Most people will take a trip like this once every few years at most. The vast majority are going to look at that trip and fly/train and rent a car in Austria.

Buy the car you want. But arguing on the internet that "I can't use an EV because it doesn't do this one incredibly rare weird thing I want" seems like poor form.
Ask HN: Almost) Serverless Bank Possible?
What do you guys think?

Most software needs to scale down / up fast, has billing days or other external / internal events. And doesn't rely so much on permanent compute. What do you guys think?
I used to at least have some minor visuals in my dreams, but not for about a decade. Now it's more like being aware of concepts and people and places but without actually seeing anything. When I awake I will sometimes retain a shopping-list like accounting of the dream, which is also how most of my memories are stored. "There was a schoolbus. Conor was there. I felt unease." When I remember something that happened to me it is often displayed in third person, built up incrementally from those lists of facts.
Transcript of my talk at the Ethereum community conference discussing Mattereum, a set of commercial infrastructure which binds smart contracts to legal title of physical property.

It's not a well understood problem space, but it is possible. We think the impact will be a bit like HTTPS certificates had on the original Web.

It's the missing piece to get trade bootstrapped.
> But Something as usual as 2nd Thursday of every month requires me to write a diary-float sexp, which is not intuitive to edit.

I agree that it could be better, but I'd be surprised if it was something that was typically expressible in other programs. So the fact that it's doable at all seems great, and does indicate that it's flexible.

Since you said it lacked flexibility, I was wondering if you had an example of something that was not expressible in Emacs org-mode but that was expressible elsewhere.

> Moreover, diary-float sexp expressions are most definitely not helping the argument of usability outside emacs.

Well, it's not elisp, is it? It's just sexps. It may as well be JSON, but more concise.
That is exactly what bittorrent does, files are split into chunks and each one is hashed separately.
I understand that. My point is given equivalent pieces of writing (say the https://www.gutenberg.org version of "Pride and Prejudice" compared to a physical version) what is the difference in terms of value (in this case, using the author's value-system)? And, if there is a difference, are they worth the numerous advantages of the online version, such as its cost and its accessibility? "Technology" has not just given us Twitter, and to reduce "technology" to Twitter or World of Warcraft is naive at best (which, I agree, is one of the primary failings of this piece).
Given the small scope and some of the ideal use cases for this, it would be really great to have some objectives like being 100% asan, msan, ubsan-clean and passing valgrind. People will eventually ship stuff like this in IoT and that'll make it unlikely that security and bug patches will get deployed.
He is in Canada---that's not one of those countries.
Ultra-Time-Efficient Exercise Lowers Blood Pressure, Boosts Brain Function
Jupiter level quality would mean that we are so close that we would be instantly torn apart.
> Kip’s description of black holes here is also fascinating: https://youtu.be/oj1AfkPQa6M — first time I learnt what “warped” space-time means :)

In this video he makes a comment which I struggle to fully understand:

He says that ALL of the matter which belonged to the cooled-off star is DESTROYED in the process of creating a black hole.

That concept of complete destruction eludes me. I assume what he means is, the matter was converted entirely to energy. Right?

But if that's true - where is all of that energy? Is it stored (somehow?) in the Black Hole? Is it dispersed throughout the galaxy? What HAPPENED to the mass (energy)?
Yep, I have seen it.

"Stage3D - The Demo of Porting Epics Unreal Engine to Flash"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EBxd2tFEvU
I think this is unhelpful parroting of comments on actual cutting edge physics experiments like the LHC. The degree matters substantially - there, we have good guesses of what we might see, but there's uncertainty and new data is immensely valuable for narrowing hypotheses. It's the research frontier.

Reasoning about an image of a black hole is very much within the realm of standard science. Veritasium was able to explain the prediction using essentially ideas that are so basic they're at the high school level. If our basic understanding of physics down to the high school level was wrong (e.g., very far from the research frontier), there would be very very serious issues.
It takes a degree of self reflection to be aware of that. I know a couple of "self made men" who are anything but, but they aren't aware of their own advantages to realize that not everyone shares in them.
I just want people to be less 'secretive' about receiving parental support; in my peer group it seems almost shameful to have help, yet I can guarantee all of us have received some sort of financial help from family. It seems disingenuous to not acknowledge this fact especially when talking about government financial assistance.
Technical DNS question: Can "amazon" be resolved without the "www"?
Ask HN: Roll-Up Notifications as a Service?
Hi HN, does anyone know of a service that allows me to push notifications to a central place then manages the users' roll-up preferences for me?

It seems like most services are focused on event-based or marketing notifications but I haven't seen something that will help with a daily/weekly digest format?
Because most offers are "subject to favorable financing" and if the person doesnt get favorable financing, the offer falls thru and the seller ends up holding the housing longer w/o a seller and paying the carry. People will often sell at a lower absolute price (slightly lower) for all-cash offers without the issues of financing.

Also, financing can fall thru for silly reasons (eg the bank found some crazy lien from the 1940s) and want it cleared before they offer financing.
I'm more that comfortable with my stance. You're invoking the slippery slope.
An alternative to Google Plus? It's not like anyone was using the platform in the first place.
Not saying setting itself as the default browser is a good thing or anything, but Firefox also pins to taskbar automatically. Chrome does too IIRC.
The conversation was about using AP in very heavy traffic, which has killed nobody.

> I'm pretty convinced most stress caused by driving is just people driving way too aggressively.

In my experience it is much more stressful to be on the lookout for drivers that just aren't paying attention. They exhibit no bad behavior until the poorly timed lane change, missed light, etc.
This reminds me of the Twitter [0]/HN [1] thread by someone trying to argue that the Boeing 787 MAX couldn't be blamed on software engineers, because it was the aerodynamic/mechanical/systems engineers and business executives who demanded too much (and also, the pilots for just not being better trained). Yes, that's all technically true. We could even put more blame on the human desire for convenient speedy travel as more of a direct factor. But software engineering is part of systems engineering for any modern project. We should want and expect software engineers to have the agency and bigger-picture thinking to do more than just design for inadequate inputs.

[0] https://twitter.com/trevorsumner/status/1106934369158078470

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19414775
The main problem is that why just doesn't exist. There is no why.

I can choose an arbitrary answer to a why question every single time.

We are mostly satisfied with a how answer to a why question. And most why questions are in fact how questions or just used for something else (like defiance from a kid asking why they have to go to bed).

Also we stop asking why when we are subjectively satisfied with the answer, not when we've found "the cause". And we've been conditioned since we were kids to feel it's rude to ask why more than once or twice.
Microsoft’s Brad Smith on How to Responsibly Deploy AI
While I generally agree with this article, and turned down the transmit power on my AP in my apartment to be neighborly, coordinating this across the many APs present in a residential area is tricky. In my experience, many of your neighbors are going to be running either the stock AP provided by the ISP, or some "gaming class" thing that advertises very optimistic speeds. In either case, you're going to be fighting with stock firmware. And it seems to me that the stock firmware of most consumer-grade APs doesn't expose options like channel assignment or Tx power, not even behind a secret advanced settings page with a big scary "You will void your warranty" header. To compare the stock firmware on most consumer-grade APs to a dumpster fire is to commit a gross and unjustifiable insult to dumpster fires.

When I tried to coordinate better channel assignment and transmit power with my neighbors in my apartment complex, the effort very quickly died for the reasons above. Most neighbors didn't know or care about the settings on the magic box that made their Netflix or Xbox work, and even if they did, the config options simply weren't there.

I wish there were more I could do to change this situation. As it is, all I can do is vote with my wallet and buy less horrible brands like Ubquiti, where advanced options like channel assignment and Tx power are available to me if I want them.
Isn't at least part of the problem the exorbitant high cost of college education?

This will cause the price of college to spiral higher and higher, since students can just sign away a larger portion of their future earnings.

I've heard that higher education is free in Germany, even for foreign students. Couldn't we implement a similar model here in USA?
Things don't simply form a halo around a black hole. Instead you get a relatively flat accretion disk of things that orbit around the black hole.
The fact is that the government taxes estates and not gifts. It's better to give money to your adult children, even if they don't need it, to avoid probate and estate taxes. This is just the basic mentality of "I don't want someone else to take my money."
Additional information about the companies use of slaves.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_East_India_Company#Slave...
Public Letter to Jeff Bezos and the Amazon Board of Directors
I think what you're touching on is the crux of the article too. Depending on the "why" that gets delivered, you end up with very different conclusions.
Electronic 'Brain' Teaches Itself (1958)
The second part is the plumbing is different these days. The split has gone on for a long time.
This is just three technology abrevations randomly thrown together that have nothing to do with one another. How incompetent are the politicians and people believing in this deal to buy this?

It's literaly a random word soup of tech terms. It sounds so bad that it looks like someone is just f-ing with them.
Just like Flash.

http://adobe-flash.github.io/crossbridge/
Team two promised us this service would never fail, so we didn't check for errors...
Thank you! That was great. Thanks for putting in the effort.
What is the default?
If your child is supervised on the internet and doesn't have a tablet, and mine isn't and does, and my child showed your child stuff you disapproved of while in school, would you complain to the school?

Because some parents would.
Typically implement this as using cron - you have some logic around which users should be sent a message, tracking this in the db, then send the notification when the cron job runs every day or week or whatever.
I was using the numbers here: https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/loans/total-cost-owning-car/ but you could certainly get it down a bit if you don't mind driving an older car.
'Dismantling cancer' reveals weak spots
>> Once a startup raises a series A is there actually any reason to pay below-market?

Yes, because there is a greater fool competing with you who seems to thinking the theoretical value of their illiquid options is worth a trade-off for equivalent actual cash.
I'm surprised Microsoft-owned GitHub hasn't started censoring yet. I suspect it's only a matter of time.
I'm not sure what point you're trying to make? Russia has only a single "MiG-laden warship" and it's a worthless pile of rusty junk which probably couldn't even travel to Cuba and back under it's own power. The US considers it to be a laughing stock, not a serious threat.
If you can make do without health insurance from or tax breaks for your parents, the solution to this is to not apply for financial aid as a dependent. They will always consider your parents' ability to contribute, even if they hate the idea of higher education and refuse to spend a dime on it.

The amount of student aid I became eligible for once I applied as independent was insane.