skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The message said that Sessions should publicly announce that, notwithstanding his recusal from the Russia investigation, the investigation was "very unfair " to the President, the President had done nothing wrong, and Sessions planned to meet with the Special Counsel and "let [him] move forward with investigating election meddling for future elections." Lewandowski said he understood what the President wanted Sessions to do." -- Page 217 on the OCR version that is going around.
I don't have much knowledge in the domain, but ... pickling also adds probiotics to foods, I believe.

>Although I have a bit more tolerance for "multithreaded" topic presentation than most so I may be in the minority when it comes to interweaving.

The interwoven-tapestry-that-presents-a-greater-picture-but-is-hard-to-see-all-at-once is one of my favorite styles of writing! When the writing is both focused, but also somewhat vague, and leaves a feeling at the end of a piece...that can feel more powerful to me than a very directed and clear diatribe. The style seems to draw out more of an empathetic, irrational side that feels like 'faith', almost. Annie Dillard and Eliot Weinberger are a couple of authors that put me in this state.

You may or may not enjoy this: https://harpers.org/archive/2015/02/in-the-beginning/
Which size nib are you using? If it is Extra Fine (EF) or Fine (F), then it can be scratchy. Moreover, Japanese EF and F are generally smaller than other EF and F.

I have a Lamy Safari F, which is super smooth and glides. My Pilot Metropolitan also has F, but not only is it thinner/smaller but it is not as smooth. I won't call it scratchy but it could be construed as such.

Also, paper matters. Fountain pens generally prefer a smoother paper, especially one that doesn't absorb much ink.

You will also need to see how you are holding the pen and the angle the nib strikes the paper. You may want to search online for some advises on that since that can make a world of difference.

Edit: Almost forgot, the more you write the better a fountain pen gets since the nib adjusts to your writing habit. I had an old Waterman when I was in high-school, which I don't have anymore, and so far no pen has come close to it in smoothness.
Smartphones, Electric Cars and Child Labour
Actually, yes :-)

Fixed the grammar, thanks.
I wonder how many of those colleagues were women?
It's little UI things like this that keep me on Mac OSX. Everything just works, doesn't crash or freak out, and always looks great.

I still get my bash shell and unix experience and tooling easily as well so there is very little context switching when I jump into a linux container or remote host. There's tiny differences in some of the commands but largely a consistent experience.
I remember purposefully hiding in the hollow center of the circular racks of clothing at the department store as a small child.
>Why should they offer a free maps service?

Have you heard of a "loss leader"[1]?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_leader

Users are unlikely to use Google for maps and say, Bing for their searches. Maps drives traffic to search. Conversely, making maps overly commercial will drive traffic away from search.
Google says https://www.pri.org/stories/2019-04-17/secrecy-subjective-wh...
I don't think the sort of article is supposed to be taken at face value.

The average reader for such a piece, would be the already hardworking folk looking for advice on on how to further succeed at work.

Every academic institution and test we give, preselect for those with technical expertise. This makes it so, that the average reader already clears the high technical bar, but is sorely lacking in other areas.

I've always taken these articles to mean, that the extra online course or learning one extra language isn't going to make the difference. Rather, it will be going from being sub-par to above average in other soft skills that will make the difference.

Taken in isolation, these articles do seem to be misguided. Especially when some HR people on LinkedIn keep incessantly sharing such pieces across the internet.
Losing your kids in IKEA... is not a big deal.

Somebody else losing their kids in an IKEA is no big deal. To the parent of the lost kid, for the duration the kid is missing, it's probaby a big fucking deal.
I'd say at the current stage 8base is closer to Graph.cool than Prisma. But that's more of a function of our development timeline rather than the ultimate goal. Our ultimate goal is to become a tool for businesses to build externally-facing applications on top of data in business systems, such as Salesforce, SAP and other, as well as data in 8base. We'll be releasing Salesforce integration in the next month or so.

With 8base front-end developers will be able to access data across legacy business systems through a unified GraphQL API. They can build business apps quicker and without developing custom server-side middlewares. Unlike a traditional BaaS, we have heavier focus on front-end tools (e.g. we have a UI kit for React) and enterprise features (identity, role-based permissions, document management, etc). We're not trying to be a BaaS for everything like Firebase or AppSync.

If you're interested in seeing more on Salesforce integration, there's video on our ProductHunt upcoming page: https://www.producthunt.com/upcoming/8base-bolt .
Envoy vulnerabilities CVE-2019-9900 and CVE-2019-9901 and their impact on Istio
Take some ideas from this posts:

"There is No Steady State Economy (except at a very basic level)"
http://ourfiniteworld.com/2011/02/21/there-is-no-steady-stat...

Limits to Growth–At our doorstep, but not recognized
http://www.resilience.org/stories/2014-02-12/limits-to-growt...

Wealth And Energy Consumption Are Inseparable
http://www.declineoftheempire.com/2012/01/wealth-and-energy-...

Galactic-Scale Energy
http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2011/07/galactic-scale-e...
Cisco warns over critical router flaw
Some things are too important to be left to completely ineffective quasi-governmental organizations.
Sounds like a sound strategy.
Or roughly 5.2E20, if you're just looking for the order of magnitude.

Or ~520 exapositions, if you want to say it in a way that upsets people.
I really hope this is a sign of a generally more grown-up attitude at some of the media/tech companies.

All this dick-swinging just inconveniences users and pisses people off.

I'm hoping that Amazon and Now TV (Sky) eventually pull their heads out of their arses and release an app for the FireTV.
There's next to no media oversight in the EU though. I probably see more news about the EU reading US news websites than I do reading European ones.
- Better battery life (if you disable background app refresh).

- Unified and consistent UI (subjective but I like it).

- No ads or privacy threats in general unless you try really hard to make them work on your iDevice.

- Guaranteed OS updates for 5+ years.

I'm probably forgetting some more.

An "iPhone experience" on an Android won't be even close to an iPhone. It could be used as a tease to prompt people to switch to an iPhone, though.
I was just sitting at an intersection last night. A fire truck came by with sirens and two vehicles had to move slightly into the lane to get out of the way.

The camera flashed for both of their cars. Nice way to get punished for helping.
Feels to me like this is required of any 'lattice'
(partial ordered set with a unique supremum and infinum for every sub-set).

Notably, given any 'cross-section' of a lattice (a set A such that given an x in A, and any x > y then y in A) has a 'surface' (the set of all points x in z such that for all y in A we NOT z > x). That cross section needs to start (1 element) at the cross section containing only the 'infinum' of the entire lattice.
Similarly, the surface needs to end small (1 element again) at the cross-section that is the entire lattice.

In between, it will generally by larger. I think there might be some 'convexity' results that can be proven about the surfaces of increasing sequences of cross-sections. Given specific kinds of lattices.

It feels to me like a cartesian-lattice would always have this convexity porperty. (By convexity I mean that the surface starts of increasing, might be constant for a while, and then must continue decreasing.)

Cool subject, makes me wish I was doing a PhD in mathematics.
I have a strong feeling that you were well past the age where social media could have had a strong influence on your psychological development when you had encountered social media for the first time. I am not saying there are no good things to social media, but knowing people, the dark patterns emerge much stronger than the positive ones.
There are 4 categories of redactions in this report.

1. Grand Jury -- Everyone's 5th Amendment Right states that you CANNOT be accused of a crime without a Grand Jury okaying the indictment. Ex: Muller suspected "John Doe" was involved. They looked into the matter, and then "John Doe" wasn't involved. Although a bunch of information on "John Doe" was collected, they need to be kept secret because he's innocent (as per 5th Amendment Rights). Otherwise, the internet hate-machine will hound an innocent man just for being named in the report.

2. Personal Privacy -- 4th Amendment Rights to all citizens. More or less an extension of the concept from #1.

3. Sources and Methods -- Basically, some information could have gotten only through top-secret methodologies. By revealing the information, the opponent (ie: Russia) would learn how we spied on them. So the information would have to be kept secret if we wanna keep our spy-game vs Russia up.

4. Ongoing investigations -- There are cases that have spawned from this report. Those cases are still ongoing, so releasing any information early would harm those cases. This is likely Wikileaks / Julian Assange issues, maybe Roger Stone. We'll get that information later for sure, but releasing it now would be harmful.
Ah, OK. I remember the tapes.
I agree. When people are using this in the car, I sure hope the audio prompts are left alone.

"You are passing a rare gem, take exit 20..."

Well, it was a rare gem, until exploited for a buck. No way I want to go now. All sorts of ugly can happen here.
The Mueller Report OCR-Version [pdf] (From @ScottGreenfield)
You don't need to buy a new phone. I have an older model iPhone. It still gets security updates. I had to pay to replace the battery after a few years, but otherwise it works fine.

In fact, arguably better, since it has a headphone port ;)
Innocent until proven guilty is a good standard. They couldn't prove any guilt, therefore he is considered innocent.
Yup. These days the law doesn't really factor in the consequences of code/programming as it's almost impossible to legislate that.

For example, you could run NPM update that installs a malicious package that is somehow able to connect to your MySQLD and access all the tables (that contain geolocation information on children) and execute a cronjob to perform a query to backup the .sql data and upload it to a remote server.

There would be 0 consequences legally for such an action (or development would cease to function entirely).

Besides, how is knowingly storing GPS information on children acceptable? They can't consent, so maybe it's time to apply that to things like geolocation as well.

Code has no consequences, because law makers likely don't "get" what that means. You may think it's just $GPSOfALLChildrenInTheDatabase but that variable can cause actual, real harm to humans.

There's totally a disconnect.
Yeah the other classic problem with "Orthogonal Persistence" is that it becomes nearly impossible to upgrade your software. All your existing data is locked to the old version forever (or until some sort of "migration" can be performed -- which requires a way to dump the data, which you may or may not have).
Drip lines are cool and helpful when you aren't there all the time. But getting your hands dirty and watering yourself is some kinds of meditation. I feel so relaxing and refreshing when holding garden hose pouring water for all the plants in the weekend.
The project https://www.fairphone.com/en/ looks like is trying to tackle the issue of sustainability of materials at least in regards of the mobile industry
There's nothing stopping governments from offering their own maps and search products.
The difference is the expectation of fallibility with human docs. Which is why checks are built into the system.

I have zero trust in IBM to market their ML products correctly so that proper checks are maintained.

Especially since technically, explainability is still an active area of ML research.
More importantly, is it possible to get the responsiveness of 60 fps with current network latency.
Wall St only cares about growth. If you make $100B profit two quarters in a row, that’s 0% growth and you’re dead to them. The approach makes sense with smaller companies, but it seems to kill those who reach global dominance.
To be honest, it is really hard to know if social media did in fact improved your life.

One could argue that opiates improve their life, in the short term at least. Therefore, in my opinion parent comment claimed that we will not know the effect of FB for another 10-20 years, and I agree. There is a lot more to us, than what we feel right now, our minds are very complicated. What if in 20 years you starting feeling depressed for no obvious reasons?

FB and social media will definitely have a major impact on the human mind. I am not sure if I find value in being friends with people from high school as my mindset has shifted so much I cannot stand people that used to be my friends. Seeing their children and vacation pictures adds no value to my life, it serves as a distraction and makes me want to "keep up with the Joneses"
Selected Twitter responses:

- Why Planes Don't Fly Faster, https://youtu.be/n1QEj09Pe6k

- Akira Kurosawa - Composing Movement, https://youtu.be/doaQC-S8de8

- Richard Hamming: "Learning to Learn", https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2FF649D0C4407B30

- Rise and fall of Third Reich, https://t.co/dSiTukyeAD

- The men who built America, https://t.co/GagcgO6TwT

-History of the World, https://t.co/GpOC9f906P
I use English, German and French every day and in my head they feel almost like a blend, with the three languages forming the vertices of a triangle. They share so much common history thanks to propinquity and invasion.

You can see that directly in English where we use Germanic words for animals in the field (Cow/Kuh, Swine/Schweine usw), while on the table we use the romance words (Beef/Boef, Mutton/Mouton etc). This is commonly believed to reflect that after the Norman invasion the aristocracy used French words in their homes while the conquered peasants retained their old language among themselves. And indeed in both German and French (and pretty much everywhere else) the same word is used in both contexts.

You can see how this can lead to the higher level words (law, religion etc) being in the non-peasant's language, even as the peasant language leaks into the creole (e.g. earl/carl vs compte).

Finally different languages use different approaches (at various times) to clone new words, hence the German Fernsehe ("distance see") in English is a Frankenmelange of greek and latin television (gk "far" + lt "see")

Don't forget that Spanish also had a strong admixture of arabic, hence words like algodon (lost the article to become 'cotton' in English).
> There's something about planning, planting, and then caring for a garden that appeals to my engineer brain

Agreed, and it's also not a stressful task in itself for some reason. I'm somebody that's over analytical and tends to succumb to analysis paralysis, but when it comes to garden work I never experience that. (possibly because I know plants are resilient and it's hard to mess up?)
I'd prefer real markdown, but iirc 4 spaces of indentation does it?

Foo*bar
The screen protector is an integral part of the screen. It's not that if fails later on without it, trying to remove it destroys the screen. It's like pulling the contacts out of a port and complaining that the phone won't charge.
There are things that can't be bootstrapped. They tend to involve the upfront purchase of millions of dollars of scientific equipment or a decade of R&D. Things like drug candidates and commercial airplanes. That's where venture capital originally developed.

I am unaware of and have not been able to think of a software business that requires comparable investment for technical reasons. When you see a software company that must be backed by venture capital, it's to fund anticompetitive practices.
Static E-Commerce with Hugo and Snipcart
Why do you want your phone charge to last more than a day? Can't you just charge it while you sleep?
Modern Clowning in Los Angeles
If Thailand's navy attacks a vessel in international waters, does that count as piracy or an act of war?
That's what I like about gardening. You can approach it as an exercise in automation, or not. Both are available and widely supported. Whatever works for you!
Yes, how will know which one has the best meatballs, I'm a fan of number #37, but #43 is a close second.
No I was and am completely serious. This is how I go through life.
(Author) I am aware of the problem. For me it works on desktop but not on mobile browsers – apparently the Unicode box drawing characters are not really fixed-width on all systems?

One day I'll write a Pandoc filter that pipes these diagrams through a Shaky or Ditaa type tool first…
Hmmm, code without rules eh?
Will AI kill developing world growth?
Well... yes, they should. But they don't have many places where they can have an actual, rational, fact-and-evidence-based discussion. HN is a place where that kind of conversation can happen.

And yet, HN too often fails to be such a place when politics comes up. Ideally, we should be able to handle it here. If and when we can't, dumping the toxicity rather than wallowing in it is probably the correct response.
In the Beginning (2015)
A physics master’s degree opens doors to myriad careers
I'm with you, I think phones like these that replace multiple devices are the future for mobile computing because it's pocketable and will be there when you need it and least expect to need it, unlike a laptop.
How does he know his ratio of browser usage 15 years ago? I couldn’t even provide that figure for last year let alone more than a decade in the past
The only thing that stresses me is when my plants fail and I don't know why.
I didn't follow that particular story, but in all other cases I've seen, discussing those stories has just generated more shit posts. It's unreasonable to assume the next one will suddenly generate a calm and constructive discussion.
> I remember getting lost in a department store as a child.

I do too; except I remember being so scared of being lost that I kept better track of my parent
I think the single most interesting result from this whole thing is that there is near equal representation of both men and women in the law profession.

I wonder why that is? What was counted as a person in a "Law profession"? Where support staff and secretaries included? If it was just lawyers, what are they doing right to get equal representation that everyone else does wrong?
> Including me, because I do not advocate for harming, killing, or stripping the civil rights from others, unlike the folks who are being banned. :-)

You’re stripping the civil rights from people you disagree with...
Yes exactly. Not to mention (pun intended) they don't mention in their TOS that they will be abusing their power and doing whatever they want with your data.

They never say that. They just do it.
> They can't consent

The parents consented and the majority of states in the United States consider children property of the parents before they turn 18. It's sad, but normal.
Probably same reason Dell's high end XPS laptops use low end absolute crap stock parts on the inside (no name Wifi/SSD cards) - to maximize margins as much as possible?
Which isn't surprising as Google is blocked in China.

Also, by being blocked, they can't use the Chinese government's service to "correct" the errors that China introduces in the maps:

https://geoawesomeness.com/china-messing-gps-coordinates/
Can we get a regulation on non-experts making laws about things that do not understand in the slightest.
Then honestly, that's a shitty parent.
I intended "large swathes" to mean "a significant enough plurality to potentially carry influence" not necessarily "overwhelmingly large majority". Maybe I'm overly optimistic.
> introduce them to the community

There's your problem right there. Community is way eroded these days. Kids have activities scheduled every waking minute, or sit inside on networked games, and neighborhoods are revolving doors.

I found one that's not like that but it was hard. It's not the default state of things like it used to be.
No way - do you know which?
This might be an interesting case with GDPR now in effect.
Yup, people are cheap. Just go on Amazon and look at the cheap Smartwatches. I actually tore down an APK of one "WearHealth_v1.0.55_apkpure.com_source_from_JADX" and it contained some really dodgy URLs to Chinese servers.

Nothing you can do really, the platform (Android) should be responsible for protecting the individual to be honest.
Zoom shares soar, and so do Zoom shares
You're right, and that's why I firewall off all apps by default so that they can't communicate out. I had granted an exception for Google Maps, accepting that I'll be supplying data to Google.

The revelation was that Google Maps was no longer just being used to collect data, but was being used to actively push ads outside of Maps itself. That was a bridge too far for me.

In the time since, I have rid my device of all Google applications, as Google's overall model is not something I can tolerate any more.
there are large amounts of interesting things in watson but it was still overmarketed for what it can do.
I'm sure you've realized your dream phone will never exist, it sounds more like an older ultrabook than a phone. What's the reason for a USB port, much less two of them? Every new vehicle the past few years has bluetooth, so why a loud speaker?
We are, despite our pretenses, also products of the natural world, and do well to reside amongst our kind.
The Saltiest Users on HN
For a second I worried that someone had managed to post that TimeCube lunatic to HN.
I only have Google Maps on my phone because I am location sharing with my family. Is there an alternative? I will gladly uninstall it then.
Agreed. It turns out storm system movements are easier to predict than local precipitation. Aggregates of a system are easier to predict than localized/point values.

https://www.precisionag.com/systems-management/data/betting-... - this is about how effective and useful forecasts are (the are useful, because we have calibrated forecasts, so we can use them for objective decision support for agriculture)

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/problem-solving/ken-th... - this is about how relatively dry places (like the US or UK) usually get a lot of misprediction, even if the accuracy is 90%. (But it's not, it's more like 80-85%.)
Can I ask what the dual USB is used for? Charge + USB OTG device?
We were literally just discussing the law that makes hacking a criminal offense. The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act makes it a federal offense; most if not all states also make it a state crime; most if not all other countries also make it a crime in their jurisdictions.

And yes, tricking someone into giving up their password is hacking (as any hacker will tell you), and it is a crime to use that password to swipe someone's contact database.

I'm not sure I can continue this thread with you because it seems you are very confused. I have also not edited any comments here.
Nah, make it required like FCC certification, and make the uncertified mark be a poison sign.
The Astronomer Who’d Rather Build Space Cameras