skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's unnecessary to look at something on imgur, too, but that doesn't mean you should get reprimanded if that causes a hack somehow.
I was just talking to a coworker yesterday and at his previous job part of his security was to go out to the employee parking lot and dump thumbdrives, if they were plugged into the corporate network they would send a message to the security department on the terminal and user account. I actually said to him, no one would be stupid enough to do that, he told me they did this monthly and at least 2 to 3 people would get caught.

He said employees had training and still failed. No one got fired for it though.
Musk has said Mars is the backup plan for earth. What if one day there is a disease or meteor that wipes out the entire human population on Earth? (e.g., see the dinosaurs)

Even if the only appeal was the wild wild west and uncharted territory, what's wrong with that?

Look at what exploring the Moon has brought us, many unexpected innovations and inventions useful for life on earth.
I much prefer the EU stance on that. It assumes that monopolies harm the customers, no excuses.
I too can madlibs any noun in front of "blockchain" and try to start a pyramid scheme off of it, but the question is why?
> There's no argument. You are just wrong.

"You are just wrong" is not an argument.

> And 15% isn't that high. 15% is what Amazon charges for selling physical books on Amazon.com.

Physical books are not digital subscriptions. 15% is very high for long-term subscriptions because, as you point out, they don't have a high chargeback rate etc. By comparison, for example, Stripe charges 3.3% to process recurring subscriptions.
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All of the innovations that are cited on The Boring Company's FAQ are things that are already done (e.g., reusing TBMs, or continually operating TBMs), or related to the "new" transit system and the virtues of narrower tunnels (which are overstated--at the size of tunnels we're talking about, cost tends to scale linearly with diameter, not cross-sectional area).
Did Ignatius of Loyola have two kids and a wife to feed?
The link from CO2 to temperature is well discussed. But carbon does not randomly disappear from the atmosphere, so either the trigger must have been something on the ground/at sea or there's also a reverse causal link from temperature to CO2 (so it could be triggered by something sun activity), which would imply a terribly unstable system. A very interesting topic indeed. Could variations in the amount of living biomass (which temporarily binds carbon to be released after death unless buried into isolation) make that much of a dent in atmospheric carbon concentration? My gut feeling says atmospheric carbon far outweighs biologically bound (and is in turn dwarfed by geologically bound, until we have dug it all up), but that's really just a guess.
>Everyone always ignores the huge amount of land made unusable by hydro and increasingly solar.

Because it is easy to make it usable again. Break the dam and in a year people can move back. In a few years it will be populated with animals. After a century there might as well never have been a dam. With nuclear the timeslines are far longer. The worst possible disaster caused by a dam to some future civilization that has regressed would be if they built under one and it broke killing mass amounts. But once broken the danger is now gone.

Land lost to solar is similarly regained once you remove the panels and in a century entire forest can have returned with the land being safe for humans (civilization advanced or regressed).
Move over ROC Curve, There’s a Better Graph for Population Health
I just tried running curl on it now and it came back fine without redirecting me.

For a private repo you just need to set the correct options to curl.

curl -Lk --cookie "user_session=your_session_cookie_here" https://github.com/your_org/your_project/pull/123.patch
> Moreover, many cities are already blanketed in thousands of government cameras and facial recognition doesn’t seem like anymore an abridgement of our privacy than the cameras alone.

It sure does to me.
> How do you know I haven’t tried it for myself and come to my own conclusion?

I don't. I can only speak for myself.

> When talking about the rediscovery of religion, I included the word “known.” This fact can be asserted quite easily.

Really. How do you know Mohammed didn't restore God's true church? Or Joseph Smith? In those cases they claimed to be prophets who God revealed new scripture to. Or do they "not count" because their religions were similar to existing ones?

> You say you think this has happened. Doesn’t it strike you as suspicious that every time it happened it was in a place that was exposed to the corrupted version? Why wasn’t the pure church reborn in China or India? Why didn’t the Conquistadors encounter a thriving parallel church in the Americas?

Like I said, the church goes off the rails a lot. Even in the Bible, the church is constantly falling apart because the people are wicked. The pure church may have been reborn in China/India/Americas but went completely off the rails and thousands of years later it is unrecognizable. How do you know ancient indigenous diety legends aren't referring to the same God/Jesus that we refer to?

> Why didn’t the Conquistadors encounter a thriving parallel church in the Americas?

There very well may have been evidence of an ancient American judeo-christian church, but the conquistadors burned so many historical records in the 1500s because they were "of the devil" we have very little to go on.

> Everything is consistent with it all being made up

Well yeah, how can mortal life be an unbiased, faith-based experience if one could simply prove the existence of God empirically?

Consider a group of monkeys that act differently when they have evidence that they are being observed.

I believe one purpose of life is to prove to God and ourselves what kind of person we are. We will act differently if we know we are being observed vs. if there is uncertainty.
What you call "broken" others call "performance choices". Except SSD controllers, they are big fat phonies.

Look at how much slower CPUs are without those speculative execution tricks. I can buy gigabytes of RAM with a 20 I found in an old jacket. You can explore entire worlds consisting of gigabytes of high res textures and mesh data in near real-time, while downloading 4 new albums off the internet.

Broken?
Maybe it works like the Chinese Sesame credit system then. Who knows. You're probably trying too hard.
I don't have anything particular against them, really.
I understand the need for companies to make money, and I respect that they are trying to do so in a way that doesn't involve advertisements.

That said, even the ones with paywalls still seem to have many ads and even more trackers. When I come against a paywall, I try to see the article on outline.com or the wayback machine or whatever. If I cant, I skip it.
I'm not sure about why either. It did occur to me that it could be racism/nationalism, but I'm not used to see that here, so I dismissed it and kept wondering why.
> Without religion and people going unmarried/without kids, your career has become the thing that you pay more attention to.

Anecdotally, the young people I know treat employment as a transaction and recognize the lip-service to all the talk about how the company is like a family for what it is: lip-service. I associate this kind of emotional investment in employment with older workers, especially ones in union jobs where employment forms one's social and political community.
Given that taxi's were the only legitimate option for transport before this, were there regulations protecting riders from being banned?
That’s not true. My workplace has employee only entrances where even visitor/temporary badges don’t work. No one is standing guard and they tell everyone to not allow tailgating.
oof, that's completely unusable on Firefox for me -- it seems like the loading is blocking my keyboard input or something.

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:67.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/67.0
A nuclear catastrophe like the one at Fukushima is really bad, but it's only a factor of 10 worse than the normal operation of a coal plant generating as much electricity as Fukushima did. And that's for the coal plants we have in the West with our "clean coal" scrubbers and so forth. What we consider a disaster in nuclear power is closer to business as usual in coal power.

By all means replace nuclear plants with solar. But only after you've finished replacing all the coal plants.
Were the word "exagerrated" omitted from the title, I'd agree with you. But its presence suggests that the relation exists but is overestimated by people in higher social class.
The Turris does just fine. It's equivalent, mostly, to a mid-oughts desktop.

The flexibility of keeping the adblock processing self-contained, rather than processing this on another box and rigging an update mechanism, is appealing.

The 'huge" file is 6MB. That's not immense, but it taxes (overly constrained, IMO) typical SOH router resources.

The flexibility afforded, for pennies to a few dollars, of, say, > 1 GB storage and 500 MB RAM, is tremendous.

I'm not sure what Busybox's sort does, though on an earlier iteration on a mid-oughts Linksys WRT54g router running dd-wrt, sorting was infeasible. I hadn't tried the awk trick.

It did have a Busybox awk though, which proved useful.
Responsibility is a tricky thing in tragedies like this. In hindsight, yeah, Boeing undoubtedly should have made more noise about this possible failure condition, and/or tested the system better, and/or designed the stall-prevention system to deal with sensor failures more gracefully, and/or redesigned the wing, and/or spent more time on their simulators, and/or designed a whole new plane. But none of those options are risk-free in terms of safety. Making MCAS more complicated might have made it riskier and harder to test. A new airplane could have come with new problems (like the 787, which has nearly exploded in flight due to battery problems).

I said "pick on" the pilots, not "blame" them. There were a lot of bad things that added up. In the case of the Lion Air flight, the maintenance staff signed off on the plane even though they were aware the angle-of-attack sensors were completely broken, which had nearly caused a crash on the previous flight. The previous flights' pilots also either didn't report this incident, or their report was disregarded. Then when the emergency occurred, the pilots didn't know what to do. There are many reasons that that any plane's trim system could have malfunctioned, and the black box data suggests the pilots would have been unable to manage any of them. So the plane was taking off in an non-airworthy state with pilots who didn't know how to deal with a common system failure and weren't told that a system had just malfunctioned hours previously on this exact aircraft. The MCAS failure was a match thrown into a kindling box of bad circumstances.
You can get a sex change (if you're a man)!
> In many second or third tier metro areas in the US, Lyft and Uber have completely destroyed the local taxi industry, to the point where taxis simply aren't a resource that can be utilized without booking far in advance, and even then their success rate for pickups is questionable.

Anecdotally, In Midtown Atlanta, in 2008; It took a call and 30 minutes to get a taxi to come pick up < a mile away from major hotels. And on the ride back on a 3 mile trip, magically the taxi's credit card machine was broken.
TS can infer types in some cases (when the --allowJs option is on and the JS files are a part of the project, for instance), and it is on the roadmap to continue to make that stronger.

TS also doesn't need typedefs for every JS lib. It now defaults to assuming any module import is type `any` if it doesn't have typedefs and can't infer from the JS files for whatever reason.

In the case of the comment above the complication is using JS libs and also the compiler flag --noImplicitAny which causes an error on importing a module that defaults to type `any`. Making that an explicit `any` (with a `declare module "modulename";` in a .d.ts file) is all that is needed.
The Economist Emily Oster challenges the conventional wisdom on child rearing
In this case, that stability is a promise from a SAN, a commercial product that has a very good reliability track record. We're pretty confident that the data we write is going to be stable, unless there's a physical disaster like a fire . . . which is why we write to multiples of these, which are physically distributed, have staggered software update schedules, etc. etc.

You can still lose everything, you can't control all failure modes. But you can plan for and protect against common disasters.

The original discussion was about the lack of OS support for proper flushing and making data stable. I think the lack of decent support for this is a decades-long travesty; claims that the lack of this functionality doesn't matter because "there might be firmware bugs in the storage system, so why bother?" are specious and unhelpful.
This is a forum for hackers, who are likely to obsess over systems like this. I don’t think it’s indicative of a society-wide focus on Uber passenger ratings.
If you accept the great filter hypothesis to explain Fermi's paradox, wouldn't that make interplanetary exploration a bit pointless? Presumably many other civilisations would have been able to achieve the same thing, and they were still wiped out by the filter event.
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> I'm kinda ok with freedom fries as it is random restaurants doing whatever they want.

No, Freedom Fries was the US Congress' Chair of the Committee on House Administration directing three congressional cafeterias.
It's not a textbook example.

The textbook examples are Standard Oil, IBM, AT&T and Microsoft. It's closest to the Microsoft example, but when you actually READ the textbook you realize the Microsoft example really focuses on specific actions that Microsoft took to prevent companies from promoting Netscape. Much of the Microsoft example was about intent. Moreover, the case was settled and the government dropped the case.
The author of the tweet (and supposed ident system) or the author of the article?

I think if the latter - there was no "spin", just reporting.

But if the former - then I'd say it's because the author knows they are in the wrong, but likely doesn't care until it starts to look bad for them, thus the duplicitous pivot.
Personally I use and can recommend ungoogled-chromium https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium
Crash Ceres into it? You just have to... uhh... adjust the orbit of Ceres by quite a lot.
Do you have some reasons you prefer chrome dev tools to FF? I consider FF to have the more featureful devtools, for example the sheer amount of stuff under the styles tab, you can tweak fonts in browser.

I do remember back when I used chrome there would be new `console.x` features that were chrome only from time to time, but after I switched to FF I never really looked back
I don't take calls during rides, I'm almost never late for the pickup (and have never gone past the grace period), and I'm very precise at setting the pickup pin exactly. It's not any of these issues.

And no, I've never considered asking "how I can do better". They're providing the service, not me, and I'm paying them.
Your problem there seems to mostly be that you tried to directly port it without any modifications, and your code is actually incorrect in some places. For example, if you implemented Result<T, E> as a single class that had a `if(this.is_ok()) ...; else ...` it would work fine without any type assertions or any anywhere.

As it is, Ok only depends on T and Err only depends on E, so why do you have them depend on both?

One problem is that TS does not want to merge unionized function signatures like this:

map: (<U>(fn: (arg: "yep") => U) => Ok<U>) | (<U>(fn: (arg: any) => U) => Result<U, "nope">)

This can be mostly fixed by removing arguments that you don't need.

I couldn't figure out .map_or_else, but .map().or_else() works.

Admittedly, with this way you can get an output of Ok<a> | Ok<b> from some functions, but I don't know where that would be a problem (still fully type checked, you would just get the expected error further outside.

Here's a updated gist: https://gist.github.com/phiresky/621f8d8ed6eb00c9a0ddb47217e...
Thanks for this tool, I just added it to the docs:

https://github.com/pirate/wireguard-docs/commit/faaf447868a5...
Except that is part of the quid-pro-quo of letting them take 30% of your revenue, the idea that they will curate and market apps. Something they were doing for rooster8 and then inexplicably stopped. If we have to do our own marketing, then WTF is the point of the vig?
> Is Apple preventing anyone from buying a competing smartphone?

Apple prevents everyone from using a competing app store. No, the Play Store does not compete with Apple's store. You cannot substitute either for the other so they're in different markets.
So you are going to unilaterally hide an article that the readership here (IMHO) wants to read and likely will enjoy, due to your possibly politically motivated judgement against the headline?

How about simply ask a mod to rewrite the headline?
There's a 100% chance of all life on earth going extinct, eventually, unless we colonize other planets.
Pretty much none of these are things programmers believe about search.

Putting limited effort into creating a mediocre search feature doesn't mean that you believe these falsehoods; it just means that you're too resource constrained to put serious investment into creating and improving a high quality search feature.
You're welcome to go back to 486 class machines with 32 megs of RAM and IDE disks. I'll take the performance optimizations.
No, in general HN isn't a place for Reddit-style humor. Comments that aren't adding value the discussion should be voted down.
I think it makes a lot of sense for Uber Pool, at least, because shitty riders make the experience worse for other riders. The last time I took a Pool, we picked up someone who booked the ride for one person but had a friend with her. She tried to argue and say she would give the driver a tip at the end, etc., while the driver tried to explain that it doesn't work that way. Wasted about 5 to 10 minutes of my day because of that.
I was intrigued by how the author was able to make his/her hatred of Elon Musk so palpable that I could taste it while reading the article - so much so I think it detracted from the article itself.
A lot of people really really like to travel in their individual vechicles instead of public transport. They like it so much that they spend a lot of money (a proxy for their own time and life energy), and deal with other problems like parking etc.

So a tunnel system which moves public transport trains does not compare in utility with a system which can move personal cars. Did you just ignore this fact?
Cafeteria, it's petty for sure, but IMO still low enough / unimportant enough for me not to care as much.

For some reason this seems one step into the more wonky / serious thing.

It probabbly also matters that I feel like I've seen other "banana republic" like isms out there.
A little bug to ruin everything
It's not exactly the same thing. In the Boring underground car-train, each party of travelers takes up an entire car's or truck's worth of space. On a subway, each person takes up room for themselves and their belongings. Plus maybe a bicycle. You can move a lot more people at once in a subway.

Further, when the Boring underground car-train "stops", and parties leave the train, those cars still demand that same space, just on the surface. With mass transit carrying pedestrians and cyclists, you need much less room on "integrate" passengers coming out from the underground, with local traffic on the surface.

If Boring gives up on the personal vehicle folly, and can build a smaller, cheaper, but equally safe tunnel for mass transit, great. But they seem preoccupied with letting people keep their cars.
Anyone else thinking of George bringing the book into the bathroom at the book store, and getting flagged by every book store in New York? haha
Google is essentially saying that Chrome will still have the
capability to block unwanted content, but this will be
restricted to only paid, enterprise users of Chrome.

Never heard of a paid version of Chrome before! Can anyone elaborate on this?

I gotta say I'm kind of glad Google is doing this. It will force me to finally abandon Chrome, something I should have done awhile ago.
I think they have. For anything that wasn't 5* , you're asked to pick an aspect that sucked to justify it. I think that helps avoid 3* / 4* is "normal" problem. At least for me it did.
>I have no idea why anyone would care so much to stay in a specific place and work in a specific industry.

You're the unusual case here: the vast majority of folks in the US end up living within a stone's throw of wherever they were born. And you'd be crazy to deny that there are many legitimate reasons to do so: Deep local social networks and family ties? Long-term investments in housing or other local property? Rearing children in a stable environment? Niche subject-matter experience and expertise in a trade that isn't necessarily as portable as digital skills are? Belonging to a particular local subculture that doesn't necessarily exist elsewhere?
Links are broken :/
I don't think that contradicts any of what I said. If people have a principled objection to public school, good for them. They should have the right to secure an equivalent education any other way they choose ... but it has to be equivalent. If not, too bad. Parents aren't allowed to feed their children sawdust instead of food, and they're not allowed to fill their their children's heads with religious/libertarian dogma instead of an actual education, for the same reason. Either would be a violation of the child's rights, and that's unacceptable in a civilized society.
> Users expected the changes made in 1Password to apply and automatically sync to whatever service they were changing at the moment, which is of course not possible.

Of course it is possible, it's just not implemented. There have been proposals for standard URLs that would accomplish this, but none of these have taken off.

Just wasn't sure if you meant not possible "today" or not possible "at all".
Satire or black mirror?
> We picked Apple Music for this reason, even though it's a rather bad UI.

You "voted with your wallet" for anticompetetive behaviour.
Edit: I do not expect it can help resolve the issue much, but I went and left the app a rating as I have used it and find it quite good. I realized I had neglected to do so until now

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I do not understand the people agreeing with Apple that search results are not guaranteed. App Store search does not nearly exist to serve developers; it exists to help users. This app was number one for years and has good reviews. I’ve used it myself and like it.

And then it vanishes. Something went wrong in Apple systems: either they been making a mistake for years, or a glitch has occurred. This developers support ticket is basically a bug report and Apple is ignoring it. It is pedantically correct to point out that search rankings can end at any moment. But this is far from a good result and I am baffled that some people are siding with Apple here to justify what is clearly a bug.

To the developer: before pulling the plug I strongly suggest trying a subscription model. I would probably pay a few dollars a year just to keep the app, heavy users would be even more willing to pay. I don’t know if your numbers make that sustainable but there may be a way to do so.
Most research? What research? By research do you mean an opinion piece you read once? Most research says homeschoolers perform massively better on average then public school kids do. So what research addresses that, if kids perform not as well in public school.

https://www.dailyinfographic.com/homeschooling-by-the-number...