skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You tell me. Just saying there are 400,000 doesn't speak to their quality or reliability.
When you don't hold the encryption key, you can only assume that something is not encrypted. Assuming the opposite is against good opsec.
I think systems have become increasingly unpragmatic, but not necessarily people's behaviour. In 2010, which the article refers to, youth unemployment in Sweden was ~25%, the housing market had become a mess already and various rules for student loans and unemployment had changed. So it isn't like they had a fantastic future just waiting for them.
luckily I had a subscription to Scientific American so when I read that article I immediately wrote it up in the language at hand - turbo pascal - which would take overnight to generate a full screen Mandelbrot image - that was about 1987 or so - excellent motivation for young brash explorers who loved the unknown - the algorithm was just easy enough to get working without too much frustration yet capable of generating infinitely beautifully complex views into reality
That feeling when you spend hours reducing a problem to its simplest form and then the experts pile in to your IRC / mailing list / ticket system / stack overflow post to explain that you must be suffering from the XY problem because your ultimate goal couldn't possibly be to do what the minimized program does.

Naturally, they didn't read the part at the top where you explain your ultimate goal.

Two days later you make a new post favoring contextual detail over brevity and the same experts pile in to complain that you didn't minimize your example.
Running profit centers requires comparatively rarer leadership resources while running cost centers only requires easy-to-hire management resources. You don't want your best leaders whipping your support center into shape letting the company's competitive edge fritter away.
>We don't need these devices, and even non engineers aren't exactly clamoring for them.

Even "smart" thermostats can be really crap. My mother got one and it couldn't connect to her wifi network because it doesn't support some characters in the password. She just leaves it offline since she doesn't want to change the password and deal with updating all her devices.
The whole world went from leaded to unleaded fuel around the same time. During that time in Poland, where I live, crime, if anything, went up. Someone should do a study across all countries where the data is obtainable to confirm/refute the lead hypothesis.
Benefits can be given at less than 40 hours per week. The policy of many companies is a 30 hour per week threshold for that.
> What does this mean for engineers who are independent contractors in California?

The state’s Chamber of Commerce and dozens of industry groups have been lobbying for exemptions, and a long list of professions were excluded from the bill: doctors, dentists, lawyers, architects, insurance agents, accountants, engineers, financial advisers, real estate agents, and hairstylists who rent booths at salons.
The metals might not be rare (I am absolutely certain some of them are) but getting a permit to mine them here will be. I would guess that industry and government will get it done with some excercise of emergency powers.
In an environment of rapid technological change, a long lifespan has little value. Would you buy a PC because it was promised to last for 75 years?
Please stop linking economist here. It's paid, and its reporting has little to do with facts.
> OTOH there's Unity, who never developed a large game themselves, only demos and samples.

Possibly to the engine's detriment (though a cottage industry of add-ons in the assert store has helped bridge the most serious gaps)
> “Designed by Apple in California. Assembled in China”.

More accurately: "Designed by Apple in California. Components from Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, USA and China. Assembled in China."

If you count the value added in China, only $8.50 of the cost of iPhone comes from China. Chinese import components to assemble iPhone.

Slapping $160 tariff to iPhone assembled in China is indirect tariff to the US allies in the region and even to the US itself. Foxconn can move their iPhone assembly to Vietnam but it takes time.

http://theconversation.com/we-estimate-china-only-makes-8-46...
Something that Linux distributions should not do when packaging things
Killing one attempt to make a simpler wireless charger doesn’t mean killing the idea of universal wireless charging.
Wouldn't surprise me in the least. This whistling language puts me in mind of the various African drum languages, of which the West African talking drums are possibly most well known. They can send complex messages across many miles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talking_drum
I disagree. The economist is one of the best publication there is.

I strongly object to your attempts to discredit without good reasoning.
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Neither is bandwidth.
As an owner of an ecobee, I’d say it falls into the category of “ok” overall. The remote sensors feature is neat, but the home IQ calculator is clearly meaningless. They even managed to mess up weather forecasting. It’s functionally reliable, but definitely some disappointments. In short, it does not really benefit from internet access at all. In fact, I may just disconnect it and see if it still serves me well enough.
> The patent claims don’t mention matrices

What? That’s the entire idea of the patent: using repeated matrix multiplication to compute the relative “importance” of various nodes in a directed graph.

> you can implement the patent without matrices

How?
Unfortunately, it does connect to the cloud, but as far as I know, it's not under the control of any big-tech yet (although, I could, admittedly, be naive in that regard). I have the 3, which isn't alexa-enabled, but the 4 is. It's a nice UI that's easy to program, and has a lot of options like room sensors that detect temp and whether the room is occupied (some may not like that, but the sensors are an add-on). I suppose I'd rate it a 3 or 4 on an intrusiveness scale of 10.
Thanks for the link. Indeed this might be a tariff on Apple indirectly. When US Companies were moving everything to China, hopefully they had a plan on how to react if China goes south? Perhaps someone at Apple management knows?
Researchers strapped video cameras on cats and let them do their thing
You've been posting a whole lot of unsubstantive comments. Could you please review the guidelines and work on telling us more?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The link is the same but with ?mod=rsswn added. Adding that also appears to work for other WSJ articles for me. No idea how OP found out about it though.
What led to quitting and how did you accomplish it?
the main advantage for me is that Cloudflare's free tier has no bandwidth limit. Netlify's free tier has a 100GB/month limit (https://www.netlify.com/blog/2019/02/26/netlify-and-bandwidt...). I put Cloudflare in front of my Netlify site because of that.
I've only met happy Windows Phone users
Apple didn't make the first magnetic connector. It was already common for fondue sets. The patent is about Apple's particular implementation.

I suppose it wouldn't be that hard to work around if people really wanted to.
Thanks for the comment. I have read economist articles where they keep writing sentences without any proof of things that actually happened. Subscribe to the economist for a year, read it, and see for yourself?
From the perspective of a DO user or a Viasat user?

As more the latter than the former, I simply am prepared to use a VPN for any/all traffic at any time when using Viasat.

I have seen their transparent http proxies break when accessing kernel.org, and have also seen those proxies mess up gzipped data (https://bugs.debian.org/874321)

(They also blatently violated network neutrality before it got its teeth pulled.)
Amazon has been working very hard to make this seem normal. Their ads make the device seem super innocuous, the industrial design makes it so you'll probably forget it's there most of the time, the website pushes them really hard right at the top, and now this. They try to make sure that the conversations people have about these devices start on a topic other than privacy, and they mostly succeed.
> Yes, but capitalism is the system that says "human greed is good" and that basing everything self-interest turns out for "the best".

> From Adam Smith: "“It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest."

Smith wasn't saying greed is "good". He was saying that self-interest is unavoidable, so the economic system must accept that inevitability.

I don't think you'll find anything in the work of Smith, celebrating greed the way that Gordon Gecko quote does, or that Ayn Rand and her acolytes did.

Smith talks just as much about the near-universal human need to be both "loved" and "lovely"; i.e., to be thought well of both by one's self and by others:

Man naturally desires, not only to be loved, but to be lovely; or to be that thing which is the natural and proper object of love. He naturally dreads, not only to be hated, but to be hateful; or to be that thing which is the natural and proper object of hatred. He desires, not only praise, but praiseworthiness; or to be that thing which, though it should be praised by nobody, is, however, the natural and proper object of praise. He dreads, not only blame, but blameworthiness; or to be that thing which, though, it should be blamed by nobody, is, however, the natural and proper object of blame. [1]

There doesn't seem to be anything consistent with "greed is good" in that, or in anything I've seen attributed to Smith.

[1] http://motivatedmastery.com/adam-smith-on-human-nature-and-o...
Do you you know if persistent disk support has improved? I'd love to migrate over from minikube / microk8s, but that was the largest blocker for me last time I looked.
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HiddenWall is a Linux kernel module generator for custom rules with netfilter
Append

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at the end
OTOH, wanting to do y for other reasons, finding an xy SO post on Google, and not being able to get the answer because it went off topic about rather or not y is the solution to X is frustrating.

Bonus points, ask y again because the other question answered z only and get it closed as a dupe of the other question.
Only if the parties agree and continued use of the service argument isn’t fair.
I'm mapping volumes to host folders that are shared via both NFS and SMB, which works well enough for testing/dev.
The world is a simple place, when this is your way of thinking.
The amount of work they do to bury it is a good sign for the movement against authoritarianism. It means that the government is still scared of the event and what it signifies. As long as they're scared of Tiananmen and actively fight it, it still has power and the fight isn't over. When the government stops trying to suppress it is when the Tiananmen movement truly fails.
So it's some kind of breakthrough that you can make a walking toy with motors and an offset crank? And I guess you need an Arduino for this too. The whole Strandbeest worship is mystifying.
You're making a category error. Human brains aren't computers. They do not "compute" at all.
"And yet the past, though of its nature alterable, never had been altered. Whatever was true now was true from everlasting to everlasting..."

(Obviously from 1984)
Shows nicely how 'developed society' makes it very hard for the homeless to help themselves - as soon as you're 'out' of the system, you're not allowed to do anything. Just building a house is illegal.
What is a good way to get analytics and comments in such a set up ?
Why was Rosalind Franklin not awarded the Nobel Prize?
You said:

> Wait for the new CSS version over which our team had a watch. Wont require JS after it comes out. ;D

So how does that work considering what I said above?
Dear god, this is so true.

Even the latest versions are like that. That's why multicore and io are so bad on Pi despite receiving lots of attention from kernel and distro people.
The budget for medical care shows the opposite. Women receive a larger share of money for treatments (https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/health-...) and a larger share of money goes into women research in Medical Research (https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2018/08/go...).

Women has a significantly higher mean number of visits to their primary care clinic and diagnostic services than men (https://www.mdedge.com/familymedicine/article/60747/womens-h...). The National Center for Health Statistics found that women made 30% more visits to physicians’ offices than men between 1995 and 20112.

If we then look at specific outcomes, lets compared cancer, stroke and hearth attacks. Cancer survival rate is higher for women then men when accounting for age. Men also has a higher risk for cancer, which remain when accounting for age group.

In regard to stroke the risk increases by age group as does mortality. Men are at higher risk of stroke for most age groups below age 85 years, and over 85 the incidence reverses dramatically. Outcomes is slightly worse for women but is mainly attributed to the higher age group, and there does not seem to be any difference in outcome when accounting for age.

Last hearth attack, where survival rate is higher for men then women when accounting for age. Men however is at higher risk for hearth attack and at younger age groups.

If anything, the majority of time medical care is female-oriented which negative affects male outcomes. The money, the research and the utilization of medical facilities goes more to women then men. Hearth attack outcomes is an exception and a lot of work is being done to address it, and hearth attack is go to argument when people want to argue that the health care system is discriminating against women.
I have exactly the opposite problem. I ask, very honestly, for X, and then people incorrectly assume that what I really want is Y.

Just give me X or shut up!
I guess the answer is no? Can’t tell outside the paywall.
In related news, Twitter is alleged to have suspended accounts that have been critical of the Chinese regime on the eve of the anniversary.

The suspended accounts include Western residents.

https://twitter.com/YaxueCao/status/1134607732718407680
That's an interesting angle I didn't think of. As someone who lives in California and has gotten to where they are now through various forms of contract work, I feel like this bill is potentially a bad idea, but I can see how it can also shift the "balance of power", if you will, away from California, which would probably be a good thing for the rest of world.

Still, I'm not a fan of losing more freedom, which is what my state government is seemingly doing. If I couldn't work as a contractor this last year, I don't know if I could have made ends meet in one of the country's most expensive cities and have the time to get hired making 6 figures as a software engineer. Maybe, but I imagine it would have been more difficult.

When I was driving for GrubHub, I was making about $17.50 per hour after tax, and the faster I was, the more I would make in cash tips. Not having the freedom to work when I want and only take the delivery orders I wanted probably would have meant flipping burgers for $11 an hour(minimum wage) pre-tax and having to work the hours dictated to me. That's if I could even get said minimum wage job, given that even when I was a college student employers would refuse me because I was "overqualified".

Either I would have had to stick to a job I didn't care for and not take a shot at starting a business, or I would have spent months or years trying to get on my feet on minimum wage without having as much time to do interviews and coding challenges.
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You might as well say stop linking to any media here.
The creator of whatsapp cared a lot about privacy. So even after selling the company to facebook he warranted that facebook could not read the messages. That was because fb promised him that they had spent a fortune on the company but they didn't wanted to change anything(yeah, if you can believe that I have a tower in the center of Paris to sell you).

Of course, this made Facebook people extremely angry, and they had lots of arguing about it. In the end the man left (losing a lot of money in the process)and of course they can read your messages now.

They had specifically been working on that for something like a year or so. A team inside facebook was created just for that.

Messages are not encrypted by users, they are encrypted by a closed source application that facebook controls 100%. They just modify the software and force an update. It is not magic.

If you can write the source code you can do anything you want.
Your work is funded by ads. Ads are effectively making life worse.
Ah, you know for some reason I was thinking Cloudflare was also doing some hosting, and now I realize I shouldn't make comments on things without having consumed a coffee to start the day.

I also have Cloudflare in front of my site, but that was there before I made the switch, and it's great!
What are your odds of hitting 100GB/month

Assuming you're just hosting your personal blog?
Not all jobs offer benefits, and not all benefits are worth much.
Sorry dang, I respect your moderation a lot but I have to disagree here that my comment is a shallow dismissal that can’t teach anyone anything.

PageRank really is a very simple idea based on elementary linear algebra, a fact many people might not have known. Thus my comment could inspire a curious person to go read more about how PageRank works instead of fearing that there is a Ph.D worth of prerequisites.

Furthermore, it is a relevant comment on the US patent system.

By the way, I think PageRank is an incredibly important development in the history of technology, and took a fair bit of ingenuity to think up. I’m not dismissive of it at all. But it is also very simple, which doesn’t contradict any of the above. And I don’t think it should be patentable, just like I don’t think other simple and intuitive applications of matrix multiplication (like the chain rule from calculus, for example) should be patentable either.
I wonder how many "3 million dollar drops in the ocean there were".I bet if we totaled them all up service men could have gotten a very nice pay raise.
The brain doesn’t even do visual recognition though. It does vision-directed action.
I got asked this question by someone at work just yesterday. In the end, it is as simple as do you trust Apple, Google and Amazon? Do you trust that there are enough good people working on these projects to prevent abuse?

I have an Alexa in my bathroom. It is convenient to use to listen to music and check the weather while I get ready. If someone at Amazon (or the NSA) wants to listen in on the things that happen in my bathroom, go right ahead. Very little of my life happens within listening of my bathroom.

More importantly, I carry a mobile device with listening capabilities and internet connection in my pocket basically at all times. I can turn off Siri or Hey Google but again I have to trust that it really is off. I have to trust that apps like FB or Twitter aren't recording while I use their apps. Additionally, I can't stop all the people around me from having Siri or Hey Google turned on. This doesn't even cover the ability for a 0-day to be exploitable on all handsets and used by a state level actor.

I unfortunately think the ship has sailed on complete privacy in today's online world. Everyone is being tracked, today to sell ads but a dystopian future is largely inevitable. Our mobile phones are tracked but also our digital payments and our cars as we go through tolls (or completely if you have on-star or wi-fi cars) and our movements as we use ride-share and even our walking as traffic cameras are extended with facial recognition. The only way out is to be completely off grid in a self-sustaining farm.
Europe doesn't have software patents
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Simple does not necessarily imply obvious. The chain rule is another simple application of matrix multiplication that most people couldn’t have come up with independently.
Or instead spend some time to optimize your website a little (like not hosting yourself standard stuff like jquery, Bootstrap and such, compress images, etc). So you can serve 10s of 1000s visitors without hitting a 100 GB free tier ;-)
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I'd be interested in knowing whether any of us would be considered "engineers" under the law, given that many of us don't have engineering degrees or certifications of any kind.

My job title at my current employer is "software engineer", but I don't have a formal education in engineering, and who knows if the California legislature sees that as engineering or a glorification of "what my nephew does on his computer with a thing called Word Press." Perhaps I'm too cynical.
Real conversation I've had:

"Does Django's query builder use prepared statements by default?"

"What are you really trying to do?"

"I'm trying to find out if Django's query builder uses prepared statements by default..."

Not everything is an XY problem. If somebody found that question on SO via Google, they would be pretty annoyed to see it XY'd instead of answered.
Does Uber not already require drivers to start their own company? I can definitely understand all the outrage if Uber is trying to classify workers as independent contractors and those contractors aren't even registered businesses (and thus effectively being paid money under the table and avoiding taxes).
My guess is that the account suspensions are an automated monitoring process and not someone sitting in a NOC monitoring activity.

Think of that automated monitoring like a circuit breaker in an electrical panel. If you plug an air compressor into a 15 amp circuit and it pops the breaker, once you flip the breaker back on would you run the compressor again? No? Then why would you think it ok perform the same activity that tripped up the automated system?

The OP seemed to be aware that spooling up 10 VMs to do whatever he did was what got him booted, so... why didn't he reach out to DO to find out exactly what alarms he tripped and then take action to either get his account whitelisted or modify his process to ensure it didn't trip the automated alarms again?

He just got his account unbanned (flipped the circuit breaker) and fired his job back up (turned the compressor back on).
I feel the worker expertise is overblown by Cook to justify his business decisions, Samsung basically doesn't produce any cellphone in China now, do Samsung phones require little expertise to make?

Since Apple production employs cities of people, and the unempolment rates in China likely are at alarming levels, to further lock in Apple and Foxconn should be the reasonable move for Chinese govs, while angling for more cooperation from Apple.
I often have the problem that I want exactly X and thousands of Internet know-it-alls tell me that I want Y.

Sometimes they are right. Often they are wrong.

Stop making assumptions, people!
Kind of related, but Turkey just as much tries to bury/deny the Armenian-Greek-Syriac genocide over 100 years later. I sincerely hope that any resolution that would admit Turkey into the EU would involve admitting and paying the price for those atrocities.
That isn't a meaningful question for anti-trust cases. The rules are simply different for big companies.
I have a friend who has around 20 of these scattered around his house, on the side porch, etc. He uses them as speakers to play music in different sections of the house and likes the added feature of having the Google assistant.

If you only get one or a couple I suppose it isn't too expensive. My parents aren't tech savvy and are quite old and they have 3 themselves in a very small house.
HN is Google agent. Two times my comment on Google racketeering was removed. It seems Google besides buying politicians owns HN and Silicon Valley. Pathetic and disgraceful.