skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i've avoided nextdoor and the like by simply getting to know some of my co-tenants directly. we trade info in person and through texts. walking my dog helps me meet folks farther afield. through that little network, i hear about stuff in about a two/three block radius around where i live (not everything, but enough).

we have the usual low-level urban issues: traffic accidents, snoopers, taggers, petty theft, teenagers doing dumb things, and mentally ill folks being weird nearby, but nothing so serious to fear-monger or overly worry about (yes, be alert; no, don't suspect everyone).

it saddens me that a few nearby buildings have newly put up fences, as if that promotes anything but isolation. it doesn't keep bad people out but will keep good samaritans out in case of emergency.
Wow this is sad. To me, insulin is like food. If I don't get it I die. I will literally starve without it. It's also like food in that my fridge is stocked and it's just part of regular expenses.

When I was diagnosed I thought about how a hundred years ago it was a death sentence. And how far we'd come short of a cure. Then I read this and think how far we are spread along the path.
Some dialects allow you to hint to what index to use.
Hm, now I can't find the link. Probably was mistaken. Or I was looking at a severe discount on a reseller website. Can't remember.
I wish AMD would provide open source AGESA, GPU firmware and CPU microcode.
My comment tried to use the same words as its parent:

> Somebody at Boeing specified the software design to be "1 sensor and 2.5 degrees"

What is called a "software design" there, you would probably call a "requirement".

I agree with you. Your meaning of "design" has a notion of correctness.
I haven't kept up, but I remember having constrains that were accepted by the parser, but ignored by the engine (using InnoDB, I don't remember what specific constrain was concerned).

Is it still the case?
> "Google must meet the Walkout demands, already." The protesters have asked for action before, such as calling for the company to have Google's chief diversity officer report directly to CEO Sundar Pichai, but so far that has not happened.

Why do they feel entitled to rearrange the C level org chart? Having a "diversity officer" report the the CEO seems ridiculous.

> "We call on Google to unblock Meredith’s transfer, and allow her to continue her work as before, fully funded and supported, and to allow Claire to transfer to a new team without continued retaliation and interference." This demand refers to Meredith Whittaker, who leads Google’s Open Research. Whittaker, who was an organizer of last month's walkout, has said her role in the company was going to be changed after Google disbanded its external AI ethics council last month. Claire Stapleton was another walkout organizer, who had previously said she was going to be demoted.

Wish I had people go to bat for me when I didn't get promoted or my role was downsized. This is normal business stuff (and frankly it's not hard to believe that people who spend massive amounts of time and energy organizing politically don't have a lot left over for their actual role).
Author here: Can you clarify this?
Thanks for the info, that's good to know. I was speaking form ignorance on that point, obviously (since I was wrong). The point still stands though, Red Hat needs to make money, so we shouldn't expect them to eliminate all their options for monetizing something (which I assume you agree with given your other comments :) )
FYI that should read "we have developed" instead of "we are developing". Firefox 66.0.4 and later have the patch.

(Disclaimer: I work for Mozilla)
It’s a game theory situation in the context of not being acquainted with your neighbors.

If you go to them directly and they aren’t receptive, you lose goodwill (or stay at par, at best).

If you then call the cops, you lose at lot more goodwill, probably into the negative, possibly with more adverse consequences to you if someone decides you are discriminating against the partiers for some reason other than “I am disturbed by the noise”.

If you call the cops first, and they don’t know it was you, you win (if the cops shut it down).

The optimal solution is, of course, to get to know your neighbors and establish goodwill before any of this.

Absent that, I don’t think law enforcement ignoring complaints is a good solution, because many people aren’t going to be content with “there is literally nothing you can do if your neighbors are making your home unlivable.” Those people, if they can’t move, will resort to rash actions or non-state “settlers of questions”
I have friends that refuse to bike to work (even short distances) because they don't want to get sweaty.

It's a valid argument if you don't already bike to work, or have a tough commute, or sweat a lot. But if you bike frequently, you sweat less as you become more fit. You can also control your pace. And if your office has a place for you to change (or even shower), then it becomes even more appealing.

Although I disagree with scooting over biking for short distances, I'd imagine a lot of people have this fear of arriving to their office with any sweat.
I've noticed Firefox crashes more often than Chromium based browsers. Most likely a point in time thing as Firefox updates to the latest version of dav1d decoder
It seems like Apple and Google have a lot of opportunity here. My sense is that the subscription model would fit the "immersive" gamer far better.

If they can get, say, 5% of the existing US market to pay $10/month, that's still around 1 billion USD annually.

My guess is that they can probably get a lot more than that.
Slightly unrelated but I feel worth mentioning Is the documentary “Tim’s Vermeer”. The subject attempts to reverse engineer Vermeer’s painting techniques and it’s a fascinating and entertaining ride!
I use Schwab investor checking. I love the free ATMs and saving on international fees. BUT it does not give any meaningful interest on balance and it's hard to get cash.

I do LOVE the support. Compared to my other bank's Visa card it's completely different support and Schwab is hands down way better. It feels like 'wealthy important person' support lol

I also use Wealthfront and Robinhood and recently put a small amount of cash into Wealthfront's high interest cash account. The problem is there is no card or similar spending functionality, and Treasuries seem to pay slightly more and similar time to 'liquid usable cash'
I used Vagrant back when I deployed into VMs. I haven't used it since I switched to using Kubernetes, as I can just run my container against minikube or a dev cluster and pretty much get I want. Great tool.
The issue is that very often the "good enough" solution is what sticks. Gif are good enough and the world is not in a hurry to adopt a replacement.
Reversing firmware using radare2 [pdf]
Here's the VirusTotal page: https://www.virustotal.com/#/file/f422d8ceef1a2c3cd6cce10c83...
Ask HN: Favorite personal/resume/portfolio websites for developers?
Which developer websites do you really like and enjoy looking at? Sites the are friendly, clean, clear, whatever, just nice.
It's kind of sad. Reminds me of the (several) cartoons I saw as a kid where the bulldozers come and conquer the forest.
The VP9 and AV1 aren't loading in my browser, (latest Safari on Mojave 10.14.4).

I understand pushing for progress, but with this table, I'm not sure "it's time" just yet.

https://caniuse.com/#feat=av1
i'm not saying the guy has never done some shady shit (hello, wire tapping a senator?). But what was wrong with the ACORN videos. That seemed pretty cut and dry.
I dunno, man? I think their justification sounds pretty sensible: approx 100% of qualified C64 developers will have spent a good deal of time poring over the original code, so there's a very good chance that any supposedly clean room implementation will, legally speaking, be anything but. Hence all the extra palaver.

(The only questionaible thing in my view is why they aren't using 64tass.)
Isn’t this where persistence pays off? Don’t spend 100 hours writing a blog post: spend 100 hours writing 100 blog posts. Then keep going. People will notice, word will spread, and you’ll find yourself here (or wherever) organically.

If your stuff is any good, of course.
The last time I checked virtualbox and hyper v can't run at the sametime.
> This was not a study.

I don’t get it. Distributing something that was not a study as a study was what upset people last time. So they promised not to do it again. And they have just done it again.
`Electron apps are laughably slow on 2010’s hardware.`

VS Code is the exception to this rule... its solid.
Unlocking 100 years of scientific papers
A good course that comes close to this would be the Coursera Machine Learning course (what used to be known as "ML Class" by Andrew Ng).

It uses Octave - but you first do everything (in the section on NN) "by hand" - building and looping for the matrix operations. Only after you've gone that far, does he (Ng) introduce the fact that Octave has vector/matrix primitives...

I took the original ML Class in the Fall of 2011; it was a great class, and opened my eyes a great deal on the topic of machine learning and neural networks, which I had struggled with understanding in the past (mainly on what and how backprop worked).
Uber prices blockbuster IPO conservatively to raise $8.1B
Sold? Or manufactured?
I wonder what the real mission here is?

Unlike the entertaining but comical scene in Sicario, tunnels IRL are just very simple one way affairs.

Here's an ISIS tunnel - https://edition.cnn.com/videos/world/2016/10/19/iraq-mosul-i...

Not really different than lets say fighters in a bunch or trees our buildings really? Concussion explosions are more dangerous, but you can't be flanked. It's a little different sure, but no more worthy of flying mapping drones.

Maybe DARPA is just seeing what comes out of it as per their mission. A lot of respect for the way they work. But a little sus there's more to it.

I always suspected their sewing robots project was less about cheap uniforms and more about destabilizing economies of other countries. But I'm a cynic.
Seems we are in agreement.

I loved Samsung while I was using Androids but they were starting to lag at the 6-9 months mark, without an exception (I owned 5 of their devices over a course of 4 years). Eventually it pissed me off.

Only Android device I legitimately loved was the Xiaomi Mi 6 (the high-end version with 6GB RAM and 128GB storage). Truthfully a masterpiece!

In the end though, my need for full and easy integration between my mobile devices and laptop (soon a desktop as well) prevailed. I arrived at the conclusion that "tinker at all costs" is not for me. There are plenty of people who do only that, I am passing the torch to them.
It doesn't seem like it is much of a secret how they manage this. You just have to make sure it is part of your institution to force it upon the minds of your newborn children. You now have a possibly infinite self replicating virus.
It is unfortunate but it’s been happening forever.

And yet, things continue to work and continue to progress for the most part, so format wars aren’t necessarily as big a problem as we like to think.
How is laying out, in a technical fashion, what went wrong and the lessons learned insulting his colleagues? I'm very curious.

Just because someone made a mistake, and that mistake is acknowledged, doesn't mean they are insulting them.

Also, how come it can't be done in an internal memo, email, party, pay bonus, raises, etc.?
Medicine isn't like normal supply and demand. If Apple increases the price of an iphone well you can chose not to buy an iphone. If drug x is what is keeping you alive and they have a patent on it its not like you can't buy the drug. It has pretty inelastic demand. I understand that drug R+D is expensive. The US Government is by far the largest spender of drug R+D in this country.
How likely is fraud on your debit card, though? On credit cards, it's trivial, because the number you need to authorise a transaction is prominently displayed on the card and needs to be shared with the merchant, all of which is of course horribly insecure.

Bank transaction cards in Netherland, presumably all of Europe, and I would hope the rest of the world, authorise the transaction in a reasonably secure[0] way between you and your bank, and the merchant only gets the money.

[0] The main insecure part is that keys are short, because they need to be memorised. But with modern automatically-blocking chip cards, there's no way to brute-force that as far as I'm aware.
> It mainly leads to building high-end housing in desirable locations

Which is perfectly fine! It still works, because houses do not have intrinsic price tags. They have intrinsic ordering of values, but their price is determined by what people are willing to pay.

Line up every person in the city in order of how much they're willing to spend on a home. Do the same with the homes available. Face the two lines across from each other. Everyone will buy a home nearby to what is across from them right now. Building a whole bunch more houses on the top end of the house scale doesn't leave those mansions empty, it just drives the mid-range homes further down the scale.

Supply shorter causes those further up the scale of "willing to spend on a home" to have only modest homes as options (what's across from them). At the same time, it pushes less and less desirable homes (often ones 2 hours commute from work) in front of those less able to afford homes.

If you want to argue that the divide between rich and poor is growing, and it's a problem, oh heck yeah I'm on board for that argument. But conflating the housing shortage problems with that allows the landlords to keep getting richer.
Arguably it's much harder to get an elderly relative off Google than XP.
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Rings 1&2 are basically useless on x86_64 because they give you the same access to memory as the kernel, they just don't let you execute privileged instructions directly.

On 32-bit x86, ring 1 at least got used for hypervisors (VMWare, Virtual box, and Xen off the top of my head). I half remember that OS/2 used the middle rings too.

I think the protection model of four rings was just copied from VAX, being the closest thing to big iron that x86 protected mode was inspired from.
I see that some readers are mocking your analogy about NodeJs being the new Java but that has been case in my company. A few years ago we moved some backend projects from in house operated JavaEE application servers (Weblogic mostly) to cloud based micro services written in NodeJs and SpringBoot.

NodeJs has been used for rapidly evolving projects with moving API and Springboot for slower paced projects with legacy SOAP API and lot of crypto.

NodeJs apps are still very capable of communicating with message brokers, SQL/NoSQL databases, exposing REST, even SOAP API, doing some authentication, acting as message orchestrators, etc. Even though dealing with CPU bound tasks is not NodeJs forte.
That being said I don't believe that replacing Java with NodeJs is a general trend in the enterprise world (but more than Golang).
It's hacking of the human psyche with "dark patterns".
Or maybe they'll slowly replace it, while you lie dying in bed unaware as to the problem.
You can get on dell.com. Don't know about in store.
Random question about OnePlus since I'm seeing it in a Linux conversation... do you happen to use Termux? If so do you happen to know how to run a daemon (e.g. SSH) without getting choked by BgDetect every few minutes?
Perhaps people were upset last time because it was for commercial purposes, rather than as an emergency fix to help people to get their browser working.
> First, no company is ever “legally prohibited” from telling you what specific section of the TOS they allege that you violated

Again, misplaced assumption and personal opinion. With some circumstances, especially if regulating bodies become involved, a company can be ordered by government to not share any further information with the other party, as well as freeze their funds. And even in the circumstances where that does not occur, I don't think a company is obligated to spell out for you what you violated. Sure, I agree that doesn't always look the best and it can seem like it happened "for no reason", but personally my opinion is that if someone told me I have violated TOS, I can read the few paragraphs for myself and figure it out. And they have over 250 million users, 8300 complaints over 3 years doesn't seem bad, and it looks like most of them were resolved. I get it, money gets people upset, and it's always tempting to see the "big bad corporation" turning its back on the little guy, but I personally feel like it gets blown out of proportion a lot. There's always more to the story...
Being in the industry, it just frustrates me when people think these big companies can do whatever they want at will, when really their hands are often tied much more than you think.
My point of view as a long-time Firefox user that cares about privacy but also knows we live in an imperfect world: It obviously sucks that this happened but I think they handled it very well.

The bug was fixed so quickly that I wouldn't even have realized it had happened if it hadn't been for the thread here on HN. My extensions hadn't even been disabled yet by the time the patch came out. And pushing out the hotfix through studies followed by a new version probably ensured that a large fraction of the "average joe" userbase didn't even realize there was a problem.

So obviously there are some improvements to make for the future but I think some of the criticism over the last few days has been a bit harsh. Firefox is still my preferred browser by far.
I've been thinking about this article a lot in the last couple years. It felt slightly alarmist at the time but seems prescient now.
Wish I had your optimism. I used 8 languages in my life actively -- and 3 more as a quick hobby and evaluation of features -- and almost never seen a well-documented AND easy to use library or a framework. Almost every author falls in love with their own idea and convenient abstractions and even if they explain those to somebody else, it still doesn't make sense to a chunk of the programmer users.

Trust me, I'd like some of my ideas to be funded as well. But it doesn't seem to be the world we are living in. :(
Like everyone's complaints about Slack, it's the users and not Nextdoor that are the problem.
And color, can’t forget color..
This article kinda misses the point.

Even if your only goal is to produce more affordable/low income housing, and you do not believe that market rate housing helps, you still have to admit that upzoning helps with the problem.

This is because in major cities, like San Francisco, there are low income housing requirements for many new housing projects.

Or in other words, if a company builds an expensive apartment complex, they might be required to make 20% of those apartments as affordable housing stock.

Therefore, upzoning areas still definitely creates more affordable housing stock (because of that 20%), and should therefore be desirable for people who care about this issue.

I am sure that many developers would increase the percentage of affordable housing that they create, if they were offered height limit relaxations in return. Ie, they can build that 30 story apartment complex, that was disallowed previously, if they make ~30% affordable.

Housing upzoning efforts should be focused on these unilateral wins that help everyone.
This will kill one of the biggest reasons I use Android over iOS - apps like Pie Control.

I am very angry about this. Security is good. Removing options from users that understand the risks is not. The way it is now with explicit permissions is fine and doesn't need to be changed.
I think it's fine just to have people submit proposals, getting the proposal approved, and then creating the content and having the final post approved, rejected, or getting suggested edits. This could either be done by the mods or by some sort of rotating panel. Then the final content could be treated like the jobs postings, where there is a separate tab for preflighted content and it lives on the front page for at least some minimum amount of time, longer if there is engagement.

It could also be interesting to try something like Edge.org, where different people create content around a given question or theme.
> In theory, fixing a problem like this looks simple: make a new, valid certificate and republish every add-on with that certificate. Unfortunately, [..]

I'd expect addon usage to follow a pareto distribution. Thus resigning the most important ones would have helped a lot of users. Why didn't they start going this route anyway? Not enough manpower for this to not diverted resources from the other more important fixes?
Just curious-- what kind of car?
Same, my only complaint is that the java support isn't as good as intellij.

I use VSC for everything other than java without a hitch. The only issue I run into is sometimes the tslint plugin gets slow/refuses to clear certain errors - but a restart of VSC clears it up.

I'll agree with muscle memory for keybindings being an issue. I've re-mapped a bunch to be more consistent, but there are still some weird ones that throw me.
doesn't matter. zoning is the issue. if you don't have more density, you won't have ANY opportunity for housing access.
I believe many readers skip the OP and dive straight into comments which are usually/occasionally more thoughtful.
Why should it be? Indexing is an implementation detail for each RDBMS, so it doesn’t make sense to add it to the language spec.
It's not intuitively clear to me what the point of this article is. Is it challenging the premise that building more housing stops the growth (or reverses the growth) of housing in urban areas? It seems to be but then most of what is talked about is not that.

The evidence for "more housing = slower rising or shrinking housing costs" is so strong in places like Brooklyn and Seattle that it seems almost impossible to really to challenge it.
> SELECT (SELECT * FROM table), 1

What would you expect to returned for by this query?
Virtually every alarmist article from the past 50 years about mass surveillance, tech lockdown, etc. seems prescient now. Today's surveillance capitalism exceeds the wildest fever nightmares of 1990s shortwave radio conspiracy nuts.
I missed that. It makes sense.
Maybe this would incentive Apple into supporting these formats. For vp9, it seems to me there isn't any good excuse for not supporting it.
>doing so won’t magically solve economic and spatial inequality, because both are deeply rooted in the very nature of the geographically clustered and concentrated knowledge economy.

This is one of the great paradoxes to me. The knowledge economy would seem to the one sector that could entirely function on remote work. Instead, workers are concentrated in a few cities (SF, Silicon Valley, NYC, Seattle) and drive up the housing costs and prices in general exacerbating inequality. The average non-tech worker in these cities has trouble with housing and daycare due to these tech workers driving up the costs.

One of the best way tech companies could address inequality would be to foster a culture of remote work. This would ease up on the housing crisis. Well paid tech workers could go to other parts of the country/world where they would be a benefit to the local economy and culture instead of a harm because they would be spread out.
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This lacks data. We'd need to know the efficiency, life expectancy and energy production cost of the cells in order to know if this is really interesting.
If you need more energy to produce the cells than the amount they'll provide throughout their lifetime, it's not worth it.
Sure, it looks cool, but it's too soon to publicize.
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