skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're writing a ledger for your own personal record keeping, and not for some third party to be able to audit you wouldn't it be helpful to be able to keep history tidy and clean up mistakes without having to add extra entries?
They did, and I replied

"We don't know because we've never done this before, and we can only compare to the most similar work we've done, and any existing data."

Before I could say more, they I interrupted: "You have to know, it's your job, or you don't know what your doing," or something along those lines. It was the most heated I've felt. I know what I'd reply with today, but I was younger and more naive then.
A little "factoid" I like is that Aristotle believed men had more teeth than women, and even gave a reasoned argument for why. But he never felt the need to count teeth, because his reasoning was just so good.

Did Aristotle really do this? I've never looked it up, but it does match his reliance on reasoned arguments to arrive at objective truths. :-P
> The key thing people (not just the elderly) need to understand is that NOBODY LEGITIMATE will make initial contact with you over the phone

My experience has been very different from yours. I've absolutely had financial institutions make unexpected phone calls to me and asking me security questions. In just the last year:

- Someone claiming to be Mastercard phoned me and asked to first verify my name and address. I was 99% sure it was a scam, but I had just enough doubt and curiosity that I called Mastercard back at a known number and it turns out that they were indeed trying to decide whether or not to block a large purchase I had made.

- Someone from the bowels of the check-clearing department of my business bank account called to verify whether or not to pay a large check I'd written to an individual.

- My regular bank called me out of the blue to check on an incoming wire transfer that had my middle initial although my bank account was set up without a middle initial, and they wanted to verify this before accepting the transfer.

In each case above, the call was from a phone number that I didn't recognize (and were un-googleable because they were internal numbers), from a person I didn't know, and the conversation started by them asking me personal or security-related questions! But they were all legitimate calls, and in fact would have caused me grief had I ignored or refused the call.

Financial institutions contribute to the mess by having poor telephone security practices themselves. They also send emails with links they want you to click on to sign in and they invent all sorts of domain names for various services/surveys/emails that bear no relation to their main domain name.
It's definitely wrong. But it is blasphemous to even believe that there can be right or wrong in such matters.
Sadly I see only one killer feature in all 5G phones: foldable screens.
Also, if you want a fair comparison, compare fragmentation between iPhone's and Pixel phones.

Yes, I realize that as a developer, fragmentation can be more of a pain on Android, but comparing it directly to iOS is comparing Apples to oranges.
Turns out none, thanks for the reminder :-)
As opposed to not owning their data?
Killer whales redistribute white shark foraging pressure on seals
It feels like this is now being reported more often. There are reportedly 40K airports in the world. That’s a pretty good TAM for an effective anti-have solution. What companies are working on this?
Because email if fundamentally an inconsiderate medium: you are essentially pushing tasks on to someone else without asking for their permission. This is considerably different than face-to-face communication, where things usually start of with a "Do you have a moment?" or something similar.
I'm, maybe, unreasonably angry about that headline. I sort of knew phys.org was not a top quality science publication, but holy shit.
The entire project seems such that you're buying it more as a piece of art than a functional computer. It certainly would explain the price.
Yeah. It's exciting when you don't find plasma on the sun like in the chromosphere. Between the photosphere and corona there's a shift from thermal energy driving plasma motions to a domain where magnetic energy defines plasma motions. The chromosphere sits smack in the middle of it, a high energy gradient but sometimes there are actual molecules of gas found in the spectral lines. Like, not fully ionized, held together, relatively cool molecules.

That's some exotic matter.
As someone who has personally seen a couple of these things, I'm convinced that either extraterrestrial anthropologists are observing our planet, or human governments are operating highly advanced, top-secret craft. (I tend to think it's probably both.)

Think of it this way: if a group of violent, power-hungry monkeys on a nearby planet invented ICBMs and nuclear weapons, you'd want to keep an eye on them... wouldn't you?
Electronics Demand Unlikely to Slow
I guess part of my skill as a professional is knowing how to work with my team, communicate as needed, understand whay they need to deliver business results and get them to understand what I need to deliver business results, prioritize as needed, and make sure I'm not inflicting pain on everyone else.

If you don't have that level of trust in your team members, sure, formal process makes sense. And I'm all for it if that's what's needed to deliver business results successfully. But you're then valuing processes and tools over individuals and interactions, following a plan of when and how you may respond to change over letting individuals figure it out, etc. Again, it's perfectly okay if it's not agile if it's what the business needs. But my assertion is it's not agile.
Setup and installation is simple: a quick sign up with GitHub OAuth was all that was required, along with a grant to read and write code in our repositories.

Why does it need permissions to read and write code? If it's a public repository, anyone can read. It shouldn't be modifying code. At best it should be submitting patch requests.

Giving Microsoft write permission on open source code is dangerous. They might decide that they need to inject "telemetry". As they've done to non-Microsoft applications on Windows.
Before Netscape: Web browsers of the early 1990s
This is the opposite of how reality works for a big chunk of the population, people reading the same lies multiple times (read "tweets" or any constant influx of information) is how we got anti-vaxxers, flat-earthers, and is the reason politicians many times spend money on ads with their names only (0 promises, 0 slogans, just their name, but it works)
Their decision to move here is probably a function of the (perceived) available housing stock.
FYI, even according to the protocol it is back doored. Search for lawful intercept.
Chicago has lots of them: https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-downtown-coyotes-met-...
People getting letters / emails about verifying their identity with a company would be a perfect outcome depending on your goal.
> ... plasma remains a mystery, mainly due to its scarcity in natural conditions on Earth ...

I guess a candle flame isn't strictly natural, but a forest fire is. I don't encounter forest fires every day, but I daresay more than one is burning somewhere right now.

Tornadoes also tend to plasma, although you won't find a meteorologist who will discuss it.

But, yes, we generally try to stay clear of plasma events. They tend, inherently, to unpredictability.
Choose Your Perks?
Hello Everyone,

I am doing a survey to evaluate market readiness and need for a certain product. Please help me with your inputs.

Most often companies offer a standard set of benefits to their employees. What if company gives you a fixed budget and let you decide of the available benefits pool, which ones do you want to enroll for. Would you like to use such product ? Please reply as -
a)Employer
b)Employee

Benefits for Employers - Keeps you away from your operational/management overhead of managing different perks/reimbursement process etc.

Benefits for Employees - You are not bounded by fixed set of benefits employers provide, and choose whichever ones suits your lifestyle and personal preferences better.

Please add your country as part of your reply.

Thank you for participating and any valuable inputs. Please reply me at nishant1286+hn@gmail.com. Highly appreciate it.

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People do wanna own their data but are too lazy to manage it.
And if you want to compare "updating to the latest version", we should be comparing Pixel phones to iPhones. I'm sure Pixel's have a very similar rate of conversion, if not better.
People are using your benchmarks to decide what computer to buy. If they're that out of date, what should I tell them?
The article mention non-probiotic methods are more effective. I could not find what these were beyond "diet". Anyone have an idea?
AMD Ryzen 3000 announced
If the area is attracting immigrants from other counties/states, then it means demand is increased. It doesn't change the fact that building an expensive condo will only decrease demand (even if it's the high-end demand).

Unless the thesis is that high end condos themselves attract immigrants. I don't believe that to be the case.
There is a little bit of a problem with that.

I used to work at a company that did review aggregation and analytics. Car dealerships were among our most important customers.

One dealership decided that they would set up a kiosk and ask customers to write reviews on the spot. A lot of them did. These reviews all came from the same IP address because they were written at the dealership's kiosk, and a few review sites decided they were all fake and deleted them.

It was difficult explaining to those customers that their reviews looked fake, even though they were not. At the same time, there were probably some other dealerships where the salespeople were writing reviews and pretending to be customers.
I want to believe... But Occam's razors makes me think it's birds, meteorological phenomena, and other things you can misconstrue for more in a high stress situation (or through IR cameras).
amd isn’t immune to side channel attacks either. the most recent one we think amd is immune to but i wouldn’t assume in the long run that amd will generally prove to be more resistant to them than intel.
I reckon CAN would be a great alternative. It has inbuilt support for message prioritization, so important stuff like timing sync messages could have higher priority. Also it's differential so long cable runs are not a problem and it has good noise immunity. Oh, and it's a bus so virtually unlimited devices on the same bus, in any topology.

Oh, and also I've always wanted to use my synths in the car!

It would be nice if the protocol of the future was wireless and could support the actual audio as well though, but all that adds extra complexity of course.
At least some people are willing to use the word, now. Until recently you would be ostracized by other astronomers for mentioning it. (Thus, "hot gas".)
Only in countries like the US that need millimetre wave for 5G
Not really speaking to your point, but: It seems to me that the one minute offset contribution was well intentioned and impressive BUT at the same time quite misguided. I can't see that this addition could possibly ever do anyone any tangible good, but it's obvious how it could cause incredibly destructive, easily missed, hard to track down failure modes for unsuspecting victims, potentially forever.
“e.g. camera apps are an exception”

This is a huge exception that suppresses third party innovation.
Exactly, the mind is the most unstable part of them all, specially given the high levels of ignorance (mostly lack of skepticism) prevalent in the US and the world, pretending reading a text can't change it because its origin its "Twitter" is very naive.
AMD Ryzen 9 3900X: 12C/24T chip will cost $499
Planes to land, takeoff on freeway Tuesday in Taiwan's military drill
> but the bigger problem is that the audience that most “enjoys” and retweets this stuff honestly doesn’t care that it is false. [...] The point is, they believe what they want to believe, and no amount of proof to the contrary will change their mind

All people are like that, just everyone for different topics. I heard so many people say "There are not enough resources on earth so that everyone can have a mobile phone" or the like, which obviously is false. Don't get me started on all the beliefs of lefts and rights in the refugee crisis in Germany. Or take "the free market solves it all" from many liberals, "capitalism is evil" from young contrarians and whatever conservative thoughts from older folks.

My point is, the problem of blind belief is not specific to the audience of those tweets, it seems human nature.
The author has a point to suggest that 5G is overhyped.

Increasing data vastly will be nice, but it won't change anything fundamentally. I suspect usage will go up, caps will go up - but I don't suspect any new lines of business to come out of this.

A 'quicker 5G rollout' will not make any economy more competitive, or given them an advantage.

5G will require different tower configs and will be a pain for carriers.

I'm buying a new device right now and for the first time I'm looking to downgrade. I hardly use my data, and I could care less about all these stupid apps bothering me. I want a cheaper, simpler option.

5G will probably make 'dongles for your laptop' more in consumer range for prices, in which we may see people shift away from cable, that will be nice. And using that or pumping Netflix from my mobile to the screen might be nice.
wouldn't a password manager be better then having them write down/re enter long/complicated passwords?
There's another possibility. These reports seem to be coming from a very specific class of pilot. Not just military pilots, but those flying the fastest aircraft. Not from commercial pilots or people just in general watching the sky. (Plane spotting is something many people do). I see one obvious possibility: Accelerating like that is a huge physiological strain, and may very well cause artifacts in vision.

For something like the FLIR footage I'm similarly skeptical. Artifacts can appear there as well, and frankly if some unknown research group or ET is able to mask their presence in the visual spectrum, heat signatures ought to be easy, it's tech that already exists.
got it. also i am sensing when you say 1:2 you mean 1 unit milk with 2 units of water, not the other way around as I thought before.
We use verdaccio on cloudron. Thanks for this great project. All our private npms are there
I personally wonder if taxing carbon producing machines makes more sense than taxing fuel? The taxes could directly subsidize cleaner alternatives.

Then, once a lot of carbon producing machines are out of use, introduce a carbon tax to help push the remaining ones out?
With Microsoft's use of ALLCAPS and using an "Ex" prefix, this was all but guaranteed…
Hledger is pretty good for basic accounting. I recently had to do some tracking of stocks and lots and forex and the developers decided not to implement lot-based tracking. Which made it impossible to accurately track money.

So back to plain ledger. If I was starting over I'd probably consider beancount. But there's only so much I can do a day.
and similarly in the US Wimax was Sprint's disastrous entry into 4G

https://www.rcrwireless.com/20160401/opinion/worst-week-bold...
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I'm a bit late in my reply as I don't have notifications setup for HN but it appears you may, so here goes.

I think that it's clear that brainpower is at the very least an important metric for determining get-stuff-down power as the vast majority of human beings to ever accomplish anything of note (financial, scientific, or military success) all possessed above average intelligence in way or another. I suppose the case might be made for different kinds of intelligence, but presumably something considered worthy of the title of ASI would be competent in any conceivable dimension of intelligence.

And if it is true that brainpower is at least an important component in whatever might make up get-stuff-done power, and assuming that the level of brainpower under a hypothetical ASI's command was effectively (in relation to a human being anyway) unbounded, then whichever other (external?) metrics potentially attributable to get-stuff-done power could presumably be compensated for by the overwhelming weight of the brainpower.

I'm curious what other metrics for get-stuff-done power you might have in mind?
"Huawei will mostly be fine"

"All this is a tragedy for the 200 thousand Huawei employees and their families, to see the company they built with hard work getting ruined"

Are they ruined or fine?
Anandtech was sold (or maybe Anand left, I don’t recall exactly) about 5-6 years ago. The depth of their technical writing isn’t what it used to be.
Also, the the overall available bandwidth of the system is one of the key factors behind the data cap, so we can expect the cap to increase in general when 5G rolls out. That means this line of"current data cap makes 5G useless" thinking is short-sighted.
Is fire plasma?
It creates branches in your repository that are used to make pull requests. Totally normal.

The part of your post about telemetry is FUD and probably why you are being downvoted. These are pull requests you can review before merging.
> but that's obviously not happening many places

Is it happening in ANY places at all? As the carriers add more and more users to their 4G network, and they are not in place to raise the price for their plans, the 4G is just getting worse and worse.
> Nowadays people use higher level libs such as pendulum

I don't think Django pulls in "pendulum" (someone please correct me if I'm wrong).

If Django isn't using it, I have to question how relevant "pendulum" actually is.
When it creates a PR it creates a branch which requires write. Maybe it could offer the option to create a fork instead, but that would add awkwardness and friction just to satisfy a very small set of overly paranoid users. If you don't trust GitHub not to modify your code why are you using GitHub as a host in the first place.
To wit, there seems to be an intelligent phenomenon going on, and it appears throughout history. He doesn't say anything about what it could be, simply is describing the phenomenon.

Also, I've read his books. Wikipedia quotes don't really give the same impression as his writing.
Both times I had surgery, I only remember counting down to maybe 7 while laying down, then waking up somewhere else entirely in a wheelchair, with no idea of how much time had passed in between. I wasn't told about things I might have said, embarrassing or not, either at the beginning or at the end. I hope I'll never get to ask for staff to make a mental note next time.

My ex, waking up from anesthesia, heard the surgeon chat to others about $chain (local supermarket), to which she yelled out of the blue, to their surprise and amusement, just "$chain sucks!". She had no recollection of that and only knows about it because they told her later. [The place is ridiculously expensive, worse than Whole Foods was before the Amazon acquisition.]
Sandworm is responding to the statement that:

> People (for the most part) don't just sit around writing fake reviews for companies they have no dealings with.

And

> If fake reviews about an organization exist, they were commissioned by the organization or its associates.

That is, to a proposed standard where the mere existence of the reviews causes you legal problems as the solicitation part is presumed.
That sounds about right.

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

"As Secretary of State Powell summarized in his February 5, 2003 presentation to the U.N. Security Council, "the facts and Iraq's behavior show that Saddam Hussein and his regime are concealing their efforts to produce more weapons of mass destruction."[34] On February 11, 2003, FBI Director Robert Mueller testified to Congress that "Iraq has moved to the top of my list. As we previously briefed this Committee, Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program poses a clear threat to our national security, a threat that will certainly increase in the event of future military action against Iraq. Baghdad has the capability and, we presume, the will to use biological, chemical, or radiological weapons against US domestic targets in the event of a US invasion."[35][36] On April 10, 2003, White House press secretary Ari Fleischer reiterated that, "But make no mistake—as I said earlier—we have high confidence that they have weapons of mass destruction. That is what this war was about and it is about. And we have high confidence it will be found."[37] Despite the Bush Administration's consistent assertion that Iraqi weapons programs justified an invasion, former Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz later cast doubt on the Administration's conviction behind this rationale by saying in a May 2003 interview: "For bureaucratic reasons, we settled on one issue—weapons of mass destruction—because it was the one reason everyone could agree on."[38]"

"After the invasion, despite an exhaustive search led by the Iraq Survey Group involving a more than 1,400 member team, no evidence of Iraqi weapons programs was found. On the contrary, the investigation concluded that Iraq had destroyed all major stockpiles of weapons of mass destructions and ceased production in 1991 when sanctions were imposed.[39][40][41] The failure to find evidence of Iraqi weapons programs following the invasion led to considerable controversy in the United States and worldwide, including claims by critics of the war that the Bush and Blair Administrations deliberately manipulated and misused intelligence to push for an invasion. "

I wonder what kind of mischief these fellows are up to these days, or have they all retired?
"5G, however, is not bullshit for IoT"

I humbly disagree because IoT itself is BS.

We've been talking about it for a decade, and I don't have any use for it, nor do most folks. The ideas are nice, but practicalities are not there.

There's a lack of standards, no consistent 'home hub', not enough use cases for expensive gear, security problems galore.

The 'beachhead' for IOT has thus been Google/Alexa, which are really Cloud services and don't integrate very well locally.

Theoretically, I can see my fridge telling me what to order, my microwave knowing how long to cook etc. etc. but I'm wary that any of it will come to fruition for a long time. But I'm not that concerned because I don't care.

I think IoT needs a 'killer app' that everyone 'needs' which paves the way for everything else.

Nobody was building anything for the data networks when BlackBerry came along with an addictive product. It was not until BlackBerry was printing money that Apple and Google took notice and thus justified massive investment in their mobile offers.
Good question.

Because methane is trapped in ice, and it's believed that the ice will melt, releasing more methane.
Why would I want to keep an eye on them when "nearby" is an interstellar distance that they have no practical possibility of crossing any time soon, when I have technology that massively outclasses theirs, and when I know where they are but they don't even know I exist?

Wouldn't I have better and more interesting things to do with my time?
I email my mom several times a month with info about the different scams going around. I hear about them all week because I help manage email servers, so we are always changing passwords for people that tell us they were scammed by X, Y, or Z.

The worst right now are the ones offering some kind of rebate or refund, and then a really tricky one where they overpay and have you send money to another "vendor" in the amount of the over-payment.

Elderly people where my wife works are constantly scammed by people telling them they are due for their free cancer screening, or their "grandchild" is asking them for bail money.