skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author really isn't doing any favors to the article's argument with that writing style. It is really insulting and puts the person reading it in a mood that is not only suspicious, but actively hostile towards the author.

Plus if you are going to have points like: Which gets us to today. Nine million trail runners and counting, yet a widely held belief—if an unproven one, as most trail crews don’t ask too many questions—that they have the lowest turnout among the core user groups when it comes to trail maintenance., you really need to be a lot less hostile with your writing.
It looks cool, I was at Funomena when Crankin was being developed and helped Akira Thompson with some Lua code, didn't realize it would end up on a new handheld 3 years later :).
India Launches New Radar Satellite as It Prepares for Lunar Mission
Openvpn allows you to connect to and have a routable IP on the network. SSH tunnels are great for some things but being logically on a network is another thing.
Having read through this post and the previous comments[1] I have to say that RedHat did the right thing in the completely worst possible way.

Stealing the project name was a mistake. The authors are right to be upset by the fact that people used to get their project when they did "yum install dstat" but now are getting a completely different (and not completely compatible) project. I think a lot of the friction could have gone away if they had just named it "pcp-dstat" or something similar, but instead they essentially took this person's namespace without discussion, and really for no good reason that I can tell.

The other issue is that forking a project without even talking with the people running it is a very touchy subject. Ultimately it does look like the project was dead- even to the point where people were asking to contribute but not getting responded to, and the fact that python2 is EOL and python3 support wasn't added until after this drama started shows that the project wasn't really "active". So while I do think they should have reached out, I totally understand why that slipped their mind.

So at this point I think RedHat should apologize and fix the package name.

[1] https://github.com/dagwieers/dstat/issues/156
Isn't it just being removed from the standard library? It can still exist on pypi especially if it is as important as you suggest, someone will definitely host it on pypi.
No surprises there. I don't understand why it took so long to uncover the truth. Even today, they are just playing the long game using the same tactics that the tobacco industry used and deny, deny and deny some more.

Hopefully this company one day will be prosecuted.
Wondering if these changes will finally make the data service more robust for users.

The main issue seems to be that it's so hit and miss about correctly recognising you, failing with messages about being logged in in too many other locations, so you get blocked from about half the stations as you travel across the network on a typical commute
The awkward elephant in the room here is that China appears to be much more able than the US, at least right now, to rapidly pivot and turn a near-term weakness into a strength. There's plenty of evidence of this (their rapid transition to nuclear, rapid deployment of high speed rail, how they've generally been able to modernize their economy on a short timeline). Your questions are good ones, but I don't think we're asking the most important one: is the age of "free market" capitalism coming to a close with the rise of China (broadly defined as the more free and democratic your country is the more rapid your growth will be), and is the real competition we're entering into a conflict between a "free" and "quasi-authoritarian" vision of capitalism?
Sure, and Red Hat being paid for RHEL shipping Dstat for a decade could have helped out. But instead they decided to replace it.

And as a result I don't see a point continuing a project with the same name.
All of the high power lasers I've seen are fully capable of blinding people off tertiary or quaternary reflections from even relatively low albedo surfaces.

Even closing your eyes is not sufficient for some of them. They can light up your eyelids brightly enough to cause damage even reflected twice.

So even a glancing contact will give you a full dazzle, blinding you for at least a few minutes, and possibly permanent damage if you're unlucky.
I know what you mean. but I'm also not sure what innovation can be expected from something as utilitarian as an OS. Do you have any ideas of what you'd want to see?
Which lib?
You've probably read 'The Vital Question'? [0] I thoroughly enjoyed it and the theory presented that life originated on alkaline marine vents where there were natural energy gradients that could be exploited.

> Its an interesting aside that pretty much imminently after the earths surface solidified and cooled after the impact even, life began.

So when I read this, it makes me want to read more about how these conditions could have been set up. Can you point me towards a good read(s) on this pre-life stage of Earth?

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26530386-the-vital-quest...
Open-Channel SSD
Huawei that doesn't even allow users to unlock it's bootloader is working on their own OS?
I think I will pass.

The charm of Huawei, Xiaomi and their likes is their amazing hardware not their spyware riddled softwares.

I bought a Xiaomi mi 9 and the first things I did was erase the Mi ROM and installed AOSP rom.
Is there a resource where we can check the current state of tariffs between the US and China? Which tariffs are currently in effect? Which tariffs are on their way? Whats their status? etc.
Comcast is developing a smart speaker that would track bathroom habits
I would not trust a pair of free goggles to protect my eyes from a 50 W laser.
What language ? It is being quite factual really.
Which PRs are you talking about? PRs I see there are either all from the last 4 hours or from 2016 and earlier that were merged.
Close enough to the same that the individual behavior of the rider/runner is the dominating factor.
I do not think that we should operate our world as if it were a James Bond movie.

It shows a fundamental moral deficiency that effectively makes civilization into a myth. And regardless of morals, it's an inherently insecure paradigm.
I'm all for a wide range of content on HN but ... what is this whiny rant about trail building doing on the front page?

It's based on no evidence and presents nothing interesting. Plus the headline is clickbait.
>Absolutely the government can regulate corporate America. It's a matter of the will of the people.

The issue (or rather, one issue among many) is that that isn't so straightforward. There is an inherent assymetry: a trillion dollar corporation can influence the government at a scale so staggeringly huge and pervasive there isn't even a comparison that can be made with the power and influence of a regular Joe. They can lobby government, bribe politicians, run ads, put on massive campaigns, all of which distort government into their hands.

>Edit: 20 bucks on OP (andrepd) having an Amazon Prime account.

Cute of you, but no. I've bought things from amazon 4 times since 2015 (I just checked).
I'm OK with five devices that do five things well instead of one device that does a poor job at five things.
+1 on Pulumi.

It's a bit disconcerting when one of the BIG aspects of the Terraform 0.12 release is some support for preliminary types.

Pulumi just uses Typescript.

I'm not entirely sure why Terraform is going in the direction of reinventing the wheel when it can leverage stuff out there.
The server-side tracking you describe would instantly be corrupted by massive site fraud, as removing the intermediary of the browser from the measurement of “views” would compel people to fake up Apache logs to prove the views they want to be paid for.

The goal is to stop the tracking of individuals by advertisers, without stopping the tracking of ad views by advertisers.
It's more uniform, we use other forms of punctuation in writing.

Spoken programming languages is a different can of worms.
IMHO, tariffs is meaningless when it comes to trading with China. China govt should simply stop requiring foreign firms to partner up with local firms and/or placing arbitrary restrictions on imported products. Sure many nations do it, but China is an extreme case.

Edit: I got downvoted but what part of my statement about China incorrect?
But as a 401k or Roth mutual fund, the citizen could be in our out of the particular stock at any given moment, without their say.
Quite literally a killer app, at that. As were many of the other earliest uses of computers -- wartime cryptanalysis and numerical computations for nuclear weapon development.
I don't think it is a new problem, there have been people offering Apache servers as a service for a long time. Same for PHP, Wordpress and myriad other open source projects.
John, Paul, George and Ringo were mostly conceived in the early 40’s
OS X Server 1.0, which I agree is an amazing OS, came out in 1999.

It was based on NeXTSTEP, first released in 1988 and developed up to 2000.
You can hide them or mark them deprecated in such a way that new scripts don't see them, but old scripts still function.
What do we expect? If your purpose in life was found to be a total lie. Do you bury the truth and deny it to yourself and the world? Or do you commit suicide?

Every fossil fuel company is going to lie their pants off because that's what you and all other humans would do if they got into the same situation.
You depend on the standard library anyway.
This is really cool. I might buy one if I am feeling impulsive. I love purpose-built hardware like this!

Would feel more comfortable if I knew they'd allow people to build and sideload games though.

Aside: this website is very choppy in Chrome on Ubuntu.
>Who doesn't want an acreage in the hills just outside of town?

People who want to farm their land or build structures to conduct commerce.
I love the aesthetic of 90's/00's desktop interfaces and use bb4win and openbox to recreate the look. It's too bad everything is so much flatter and antialiased in most recent operating systems. I purposely got myself a lower resolution monitor (in 4:3) so the bitmapped fonts I use are easier to see. I wonder if there's a WM that can mimic the look of old versions of GNOME/KDE more closely.
I used to work at a factory after I got out of high school and found the repetitive tedium maddening. The only way I was able to continue working there after a while was to make a game of it. I competed against myself on quantity and quality and found other ways to challenge myself. I lasted 9 months but I would have quit after a week had it not been a game in my mind.

I learned that life is all about how you frame things in your mind. If you are creative you can use your mind to fight through anything.
Women's brains work better in warmer offices, study finds
That is why cable modems hold special status via FCC rules and thus federal law (in the US).
I look at some of these questions from a game theory oint of view though, and China has shown itself something of a very regular 'defector'. In these recent moves the US has embraced more of a tit-for-tat strategy. And we're not the only players. Some other countries are to some degree going to follow suit with the US, making this a multiplayer game, in which tit-for-net has a larger upside for the cooperators than the sole defector. Of course this over simplifies things, but it's incorrect to say China's power will significantly rise relative to the US if the US and other countries begin treating with them as an "always defect" actor in this game.
> 'I think we need to be careful to define what we mean by "efficient".'

yes, efficiency has multiple definitions (e.g., productive, allocative, etc.), but i think the problems you raise (overwork, anti-competitiveness) are primarily regulatory. communities (governments) set the rules, and capital has to be allocated within the confines of thsoe rules, like 40-hour work weeks and antitrust laws (akin to out-of-bounds rules in sports). similarly, the costs of pollution should be internalized, as logically, it's a form of stealing (taking enjoyment, health and even lives from others).

> "Isn't this one of the classical critiques of capitalis[m]..."

i suppose marx made a similar argument about the tension between capital and labor, which could be further extended to the consumer-citizen as another economic stakeholder. we invented the fictional personhood of the corporation to resolve a legal conundrum (how to interact legally with businesses, separate from owners) and even gave them special privileges to foster innovation (e.g., the corporate veil). it's only fair to maintain equivalency in negotiations in exchange for those privileges.
Seconded. Very friendly too :)
Then you do you. But you don’t have to be a buzzkill about it.
Surely, as far as the planet's concerned, the total numbers matter more than per capita. If, say, Andorra hypothetically had the largest per-capita numbers by an order of magnitude, that still wouldn't make them the biggest threat to the planet, nor would it Andorra the most effective place to target activism.

Also, if you look at the trendlines, the US's per capita numbers are going down, while the China's and India's are going up with no signs of slowing. So is their population growth. The US is currently "taking care of itself" more or less, but China and India (already # 1 and #3 in total carbon numbers) are getting worse at a frightening pace. If we spend all of our energy focusing on the US, even if we're extraordinarily successful there, we'll look around in 20 years and see we lost progress globally. As though we didn't heed Amdahl's law and spent all of our time optimizing the wrong function. The most important thing we can do is find some way for China and (especially) India to grow their economies and pull their citizens out of poverty in a way that doesn't destroy the planet.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10028057/what-programmin...
Do you have a link handy?
openbox + fbpanel can approximate early gnome pretty closely with a tiny bit of work.
I don't understand this comment. Being critical of the implications of facial recognition technology doesn't map cleanly along the political spectrum, but the most vocal criticism has come from the left. Amazon shareholders largely consist of institutional investors whose interests (and politics) tend to the more conservative.

In what sense are progressives being hypocritical here? As far as I can tell progressive (leaning) employees and other minority shareholders proposed an initiative that was rejected by the majority, more conservative shareholders.
@theredbox is saying that China can ship its tech to the world, but the world can't currently ship its tech to it (great firewall). That seems unfair.
I just checked TE's web site, and it's good to see so many products marked "sold out." I hope it means that people are starting to realize that technology doesn't have to be boring.
Good points, as long as you consider that ability to pivot is more a matter of political will than technical capability.
FYI, that's not even slightly normal for eating out in the UK. In my entire life, I have never been required to produce ID when eating out (other than perhaps a few times when I was younger and ordering alcohol, to prove that I was of legal age).

In fact, such a policy would probably be catastrophic, because there was a big fight over whether we would all be required to carry compulsory ID cards here a few years ago, and for once the civil liberties side won after a big campaign.
Oxbridge can force old professors to retire in order to boost diversity
MIPS gets used a lot in routers, it only went open relatively recently though.
> I would not trust a pair of free goggles to protect my eyes from a 50 W laser.

FTFY: I would not trust a 50 W laser.

I wouldn't trust it not to blind me, not to blind someone else, not to make burn marks on my walls, not to catch fire randomly, and not to actually output 50W.

This article [0] is a 'fun' look at the laser regulatory environment. Unfortunately, that environment doesn't seem to have teeth yet.

0: http://www.funraniumlabs.com/2017/08/laser-products-hate/
I've been googling a bit and come up with Whonix, Tails and Qubes.

Can anyone advise their opinion on which one would be best to run in a VM? I'm prepared to accept the security compromise of running in a VM, but I do want the ability to store passwords in the browser and save small files in the VM.

Edit: Just signed up for this account over Tor for shits and giggles. Literally my first post and it's dead immediately.

I get that Tor has spammers but I did have to do the captcha to create an account so this seems heavy handed. Seems like there's no way to legitimately post to hn over Tor.
What Austen Allred from Lambda School Did to Survive in Silicon Valley
It's terrible to think that maybe if Exxon and others didn't invest in lobbying and disinformation campaigns against climate change maybe humanity would have started acting 30 years earlier.

It's 2019 and humanity is barely starting to think about acting. Global CO2 emissions keep growing as if we were in "business as usual". Humanity needs to realize the magnitude of the problem. Climate change is, by far, the biggest threat it has ever encountered and probably will ever encounter.

The solution will require us to make radical changes to our lifestyle and our culture. For example, we can't keep having irrational leaders that ignore basic scientific facts.
I’m not sure I follow. Services are exempt from sales tax

https://www.alvarezandmarsal.com/insights/sales-taxation-sof...

The law is murky at best. Doesn’t feel like something a startup should devote much energy to.
Show HN: Newsletter Roulette
Yes, and the plan to do this was conceived before June 2018.
Good stuff. It looks like they've addressed a few of the ergonomic issues in their language with this release. The old way of doing iteration and having to use string interpolations just to reference variables were annoying.
Maybe my choice of words were strong but I do have strong opinions supported with arguments and many years of experience
this strongly reminds me of the hn post from five days back in which the main thread talked at some length about a very similar scenario

> "He missed a big one: you have no way to stop Linux distributions from hacking up your software, and you'll suffer the consequences of whatever they do."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19935648
We have been supporting this feature on our web app for many years:
https://www.jotform.com/encrypted-forms/

Knowing only you have access to tha data is a good thing. For example, we are able to host our internal employee feedbacks and reviews on our own forms without worrying about a sysadmin or database admin having access to it.

I understand the concerns about client side manipulation but that is hard to do without leaving a trail on our code commit history. Both system and product changes can only be done by code commits.

You cannot protect systems with a single perfect security solution. You have to be paranoid and have many layers in your security model. This may not be the silver bullet, but this greatly enhances the security.
In Munich, I lived near the "Old Northern Cemetery", where the last person was buried in 1944, but I only recall seeing graves there that are far older than that. It is now officially considered a park, and people use it for jogging or just lying there to relax:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/Alter_No...

It's quite a weird feeling, looking at those gravestones (sometimes quite beautiful and impressive, to be honest), and knowing that, for almost all of them, no one is alive anymore that could have actually known them.
Japan Begins Experiment of Opening to Immigration
I get what you are saying, but this gets really tricky really fast.

The power you are talking about is the power to use what you own (in this example, that thing is money). If we believe in private ownership of things, we will never be able to eliminate this power completely. Where do we draw the lines? How do we let people have the freedom to choose how to use the things they own without letting them have too much power over others?

I think we can come up with good answers, but I do fear an over simplification of what it means to restrict how you can exercise your ownership of something.
What is a ‘responsible’ wattage for an adult that would like to responsibly play with one?

Not anything illegal.

Also, where is a legit source for goggles?
We got as far as S, then it took a step backwards to R. Now back to E? It seems like language Z is perpetually ten years away, and always will be.
"In the traditional advertising world, they can see the ad on TV or printed somewhere and know they aren't getting ripped off. There is absolutely no assurance on the internet that anyone is seeing your ad."

If this is true, it sounds like the internet really isn't well-suited for advertising.1

How have certain companies become so enriched by selling something that has such a high risk of not delivering value? If what you say is true, it stands to reason that many clients are getting ripped off.

1 I still find it interesting that the web/mobile ad industry almost always relies on web browsers/apps to make ads workable. These programs must process what is returned from a request for content, auto-load resources from third party hosts, and often interpret and execute Javascript code to make additional resource requests. A user can successfully request the content from a web page with a single domain name, DNS lookup and HTTP request, the basic functionality of the internet and web, without using a web browser, but that alone does not suffice to deliver ads.
Right, which is exactly what I'm getting at. In that sense, the Chinese model is much more able, in my humble opinion, to do a massive pivot. They may be starting far behind the US, but ours is a much larger and slower moving ship.
I’m glad I’m not the only one thinking that! All of the paradoxes and stuff just strike me as hubris, at best.
Security cameras are already everywhere. So, um, should there be a law that only human retinas can look at them? Why allow recording of the feeds, for that matter?
Yeah, I added python 3 support after I learned that was the main reason for replacing it. It took me less than an hour to make it work on Python 3, including all (but 2) of the plugins.

And given that PCP is using most of the original code, they must have made the same changes to get Python 3 support.
You can have both though, you can have a plaque of remembrance which doesn't involve harsh chemicals and waste.

If composting isn't a good option then there's natural funerals where unembalmed people are buried in lightweight and compostable caskets and have trees planted over their grave.
It would make Andorra and countries similar to Andorra the most effective place to target activism, assuming the total population of those countries was large enough to be meaningful.

According to Wikipedia, there are 41 countries with more emissions per capita than China, including some with large populations like the US, Japan, Germany, Australia, South Korea, Russia...

Really, my point is that it's wrong to think in terms of "countries" because country boundaries are arbitrary. Like, if there were one small town with 1000x the per capita emissions as the US, it wouldn't matter. What matters is the number of people multiplied by the amount they emit.
BO, ULA and Northrop Grumman Weigh in on Multibillion-Dollar SpaceX Lawsuit
It's marginally free if you've already bought a monthly pass for other reasons
I use Terraform to create EKS, works pretty well. I have it setup to use Spot instances with a standard compute node as well as GPU nodes when needed.

https://github.com/JasonCarter80/contoso_aws_k8s/tree/master...