skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've heard about lots of people having issues with the new Killer WiFi chipsets (on both Windows and Linux). I have a Dell XPS 13 (9350) which had the Broadcom chipset in it. Eventually, I also started having issues with it under Linux (see: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201853).

It wasn't until I bought an Intel AC 8265 on ebay and replaced it myself that the WiFI actually started working perfectly.

I can't understand why they don't just ship it with Intel WiFi chips instead of these flaky Broadcom and Killer ones. Is it because they have some sort of OEM agreement with Broadcom or Killer? I don't get it. It's a fantastic machine in every other way, but if the wireless is flaky then it's a showstopper.

Also with regard to this new machine, I would rather have good battery life and decent performance than a really fast CPU that drains my battery quickly and heats up my machine.
The problem is not that you can defend or detect against fake news but if someone is at the point that they are already reading it and then convinced then you already have lost.

Using this as a filter to flag fake news and or add a disclaimer when it is an automated system would have false positives as discussed in the paper. You would also have tertiary effects when performing this blocking.
> I didn’t say readers should take anything as unbiased.

Nor did I say you did, speaking of strawmen.

> So what’s the point you’re making?

I guess that creating an implicit/casual mainstream narrative that is objectively false may contribute to second order unintended negative consequences (as in: "hmmm, if they're being untrue about <subject A>, maybe they're doing the same on <subjects B,C,D> as <authoritarian leader> claims"), and that it is doubly silly to do when you mostly have the truth on your side.

It's only a theory, measuring such things is notoriously difficult, but I think it jives extremely well with human behavior on both political extremes.
Wrong movie. Logan’s run would be more appropriate; Carousel.
It's not ok to vandalize HN with political flamebait. You've been breaking the site guidelines repeatedly. If you keep doing this, we're going to have to ban you. Would you mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and following the rules when posting here?
That’s not what a monopoly is. It isn’t a misuse of market power to have a lot of customers.

It’s ok to not like Apple or any company that doesn’t match your values, but it’s important to argue using the right terms and definitions, otherwise you sell yourself and your argue short.

There are alternatives to offering an app for iOS. Web apps are an example. Releasing only for Android is also a valid choice.

I don’t like paying for using a toll road, but if I want the benefit of a nice road, and a shorter travel time, I have to pay. If these benefits aren’t worth the price, I can use an alternative.
American Airlines Mechanics Intentionally Delayed My Flight
Just copy the idea of Apple “Find my” as they had for e-wall, wechat .... and reprogram to enhance this.

As Leo or is it Smith would say ... “upgrade”.

The matrix totally own you.
The links are fine, they lead to words.
Vandalizing HN by starting flamewars like this will get you banned here, regardless of what the flames are about. No more of this, please.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Oh come on. Pollution is highly localised. Yeah, there's a few bad cities but it's a big place and 99% of it is fine. And no clean water, really? That will be news to the billion plus inhabitants who haven't realised they're dead yet from lack of clean water, sixth sense style.

Nit picking aside - that surveillance state is maybe 5 years ahead of the west. I'm continually amazed that western governments have allowed strongly encrypted private communications to become a thing, even an expectation - this is totally unprecedented and a radical upset to the balance of power between the state and its citizens. I expect it's only a matter of time before strong end to end encryption is totally banned in the west, too.
It's hilarious to me how many people from San Francisco think America revolves around their overpriced 47 square mile peninsula.
Interesting. So in short, even if Dyatlov did make some shortcut and violated safe practices, this was probably mainly due to corrupt system that forced people to violate the rules to maintain their jobs. This helped the higher ups to easily exploit the workers and easily find a scapegoat when necessary. The soviet system was real sick.
Same age here. Mid-thirties career switch into tech. Landed my first tech job at 37 (consulting), first startup at 40 (data engineering) and just started a new startup at 41 (data engineering/devops). I'm probably the oldest at my company by a decade. I don't think I look particularly young, but maybe? I'm not saying age discrimination doesn't exist, just that I've been lucky / fortunate enough not to have experienced it.
I just learned the other day that the last college station I DJ'd at was sold to Public Radio, long ago.

Commercial radio? Given the facility, equipment, antenna, license, electricity, that's just the start. A one-person operation is almost impossible, even if you're independently wealthy and have the technical chops. But if all you've got is automation? the 'community' part is hopeless ... might as well be 'iHeart' (hah!)

'People' radio is unavoidably a people-intensive operation. How do you fill 16 hours a day with sound? That's 4 four-hour shifts. Every. Day. Assume you've somehow found 3 volunteers, each with a personal record collection. How many people will you find to interview in a town of 3000-10000? Who's going to sell quality advertising? Who's going to produce it? Who's going to manage the business side? Climb the tower?

Sad it is, but that model is over. Mr. Lucke is the one fanatic in a town of 3000 - I salute him, Behringer console and all.

But community radio has headed in a different direction, and across the US is finding ways. For anyone interested in what is still working, across the US, check out the Radio Survivor podcasts. (These guys know their stuff.) http://www.radiosurvivor.com/category/podcast/
Perhaps this will be used in live sports in the future. Giving real time feedback to players for optimum positioning. Would be a cool test but I still prefer to watch sports played the ‘traditional’ way.
Why do “we” all have to work less? If you want to work less you can, you don’t need the whole world to join you to get started. If you’re a developer, the field pays well enough that you could make a subsistence level wage by doing part time contract work. So why haven’t you done it yet?
if you're dealing with money, you shouldn't install any dependency unless you run a security check.

you should never update a dependency unless you run a security check.

this isn't npm's fault.
It’s time to let the develop branch go
I pretty much disagree with every point here, but we don't need to get into it. You do you.
"Bureaucrats file paperwork! On other news..."
I see advertising as a bug in capitalism. One of many critical flaws.

You’re not creating wealth, but you can manipulate people into believing you are by making them want what you make.
Not sure how I feel about adopting a countries name for a project.

Or more to the point I'm not sure how I would feel if every time I searched my countries name on the web this Google project appears rather than my actual country.

i.e Zanzibar is a national identity not just a "spice" island
Which institutions do you think have a grip on American democracy?
This paper explains how the limit values were arrive at. In short, the rule is to assume that the contaminated food is the only source of food for the most sensitive ones (children). That's why the limits seem to be very strict.

http://www.fao.org/3/U5900T/U5900T08.htm
You’re very wrong and if you think Politico doesn’t lean very far left you live in a bubble.
Here’s a direct refute showing them about the same polarization:

https://guides.lib.umich.edu/c.php?g=637508&p=4462444
There’s a certain catch-22 to monetizing a community of DIY enthusiasts. Large events are very expensive and hard to do right and require deep-pocketed sponsors. But it’s hard to sell DIY enthusiasts mainstream products because they would rather make it themselves or use the open source alternative. So sponsors may have correctly deduced the spend was not moving the needle.

And in the case of Maker Faire / Make Magazine the vast, vast majority of the things the community members made were not products at all and therefore helping them monetize their own work was really a dead end as well. For a short while Make ran an e-commerce marketplace and I think they overestimated the supply of and the demand for products from their community. Etsy bought a similar hardware marketplace and shut it down when it didn’t perform.

In hindsight I believe the real opportunity for revenue in the maker space is education. I like what LittleBits is doing. I may not pay for an elaborate electronics kit but I will gladly pay a subscription fee to anyone that elps my kids think math and science are fun and cool and keeps them engaged when others kids are tuning out.
Ask HN: Other than Google, is anyone using Deep Networks commercially?
I recently listened to this talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jnunp-EymJQ&amp=&feature=youtu.be

and I've been thinking a lot about large scale, modular neural networks recently and their applicability in many real world settings.

Other than Google, and maybe other FAANG Cos to a lesser extent, it seems like no company is really leveraging massive distributed systems and massive modular, mixture of expert models.

Isn't there a huge opportunity to help Fortune 500 Cos build these systems out?
Ask HN: How do you focus on one project and not get distracted?
I have a successful side business which I continue to build and grow, however I have so many urges to work on smaller projects. With such little time in the day, how do you resist those urges and do what's important?
Extensive discussion of original source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20120059
This same thing is done anywhere semver is used or any other version range system. This includes python, rust, go, and many more.
Although Renault have joint ventures and plenty of operations around the globe they are part owned by the French government and that government are keen to hold on to their auto sector. Their sector is different to what the German marques chase on the international stage, however, French cars are very popular in France. Whatever government is in Paris they are obligated to defend the French auto sector, they would be very unpopular if they did not.

Meanwhile, what does FIAT make in Italy these days?

FIAT get cars made in the former Eastern Europe, slap an Italian flag on and pass off the product as having Italian design. That is what motorists buy into, the Italian style and not the Italian workmanship. They don't care if the tin box is made in Timbuktu, so long as it expresses their personality in some way then they will buy it.

Italy has gone the way of the British auto sector, they have lost the ability to have Italian companies making mass market cars in actual Italy. Sure there are few thousand Ferraris and other lifestyle accessories churned out but those FIAT 500 cars for the ladies are not made in Italy. Those days are over.

Aside from the poor communication between Renault and Nissan, the proposed deal strikes me as over pushed by the FCA management. It went down with the French establishment as well as the post-Brexit British idea of outsourcing the NHS to American private healthcare providers. A complete non-starter because the management was not a cultural fit. Having Renault thrown in with some brash American led FCA was not on the table. The publicity for the merger was over-eager, as if that would make it happen by making it appear the deal was as good as done.

It is important to understand how the 'captains of industry' work. They are capitalists, not Marxist social workers. They don't care about making jobs or even delivering a product for the regular working/middle class person. They are not cast from the same stuff as Henry Ford. They get their bonuses for merger and acquisition activity and move on to the next deal.
This one uses https://ant.design/. Figured that out with https://www.wappalyzer.com/.
We need more automated traffic enforcement. This is my dream for automated HOV lane enforcement: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4lseF6UClbE. The trap belt would go to a re-education camp.
Thank you. I have in fact erexperienced this political slur, delivered in this accent, in the context of a very similar argument, with regularity.

Regardless of the intended outcome, this will be the actual outcome for at least ~1/3 of viewers, although given the history of Sinclair broadcast group I don't think it is a very large leap at all to speculate about it also being the intent.
Honestly, who flies in class A airspace? Can you even fly IFR in that airspace? Class E ends at FL600. (I just do bug smashers, so not sure what the majors do up in the pressurized space)
Not in this case, as Grover/GPT-2 are pure max likelihood/predictive loss training; they don't use anything like use one Grover to finetune another. So no adversarial dynamics... yet.
A Slave loves his/her/its master. Blessed and behold, you are totally owned.

A totally connected world is hell on earth. Just in case you do not know.
Ask HN: What will be an interesting topics for you to read on a science blog?
I am planning to start a science blog series.
I would like to what kind of niche topics you can suggest.
I’m not trying to be a dick, I’m genuinely interested. Why would you make a product for a platform you don’t support? Feels like a vegan owning a hamburger shop.

Is it the market size that keeps you in the iOS space? Are you on other platforms? What are the revenue/cost/effort ratios for each? Does it make sense to focus on non-iOS options?
I am not keen on oled screens for laptops. Screen burn in would be a massive annoyance. I suspect manufacturers will push in this direction though to give people yet another reason to have to throw away a device and upgrade...
People job hop and use competing offers as leverage for pay raises all the time. It’s not as rare an occurrence as you seem to think it is.
The mac addresses are randomized to prevent tracking.
Well it's partially a marketing issue, to answer your question of why interviews. It's recruiters who find me, and they present me as a contractor (when I signal I'm searching for this). The people I used to work with tend to ping me for full-time roles only, unfortunately, and word-of-mouth seems to be a common contractor route.

Finding clients outside of that requires what I expect is a social media presence, possibly publications and talks. None of which I've undertaken.

No one trusts the "resume/CV" track record, not in contracting and not in full-time roles. It's either word-of-mouth or some other method of trust, if it isn't a set of interviews.

I've picked up a decent full-time role to refurnish my image, as running an infrastructure with staff, you'd expect, should be impressive.

I'm skeptical of the contract market.

And to go back to the original thread, I found myself getting spurned due to age for any role which wasn't technical/managerial in the world of full-time work once I went back to it.
What is this weird notion of "respecting sensitive issues"?

Is that just a polite way of saying, "I don't discuss human and civil rights violations." Why should I respect a person's desire to not hear about their own government's crimes?
The article uses it as an example, but I don't quite see how a search engine's web crawler user agent string (or whatever Doctorow is talking about) is an example of adversarial interoperability.
I grew up in Australia with red light cameras and super high penalties for running red lights. Seeing drivers run red lights there is quite rare. I didn’t think much of it until I moved to the Bay Area where I seem to see someone run a red, sometimes seconds into it on what seems like a weekly basis. It’s so common that now when I’m at the front of traffic and the light turns green I inch forward and look both ways, something I never used to do. As a cyclist it terrifies me as getting hit by a driver running a red would most likely be fatal.

It’s probably an unpopular opinion here in the US but I’d like to see more red light cameras and higher penalties for what is a really dangerous traffic violation that is easily preventable with a change of drivers’ attitudes.
Show HN: Privacy – tools for protecting your privacy
We should all aim for 4 days as the ideal instead of 5, but we should also drop the M-F work, S-S weekend ideal too. For large chunks of the workforce they're already working something other than M-F anyway because we want 7 day coverage of our retail and service sectors. More professionals - dentists and veterinarians and insurance offices and you name it - should be open on the "weekend" or should not all dentists need to share the same "weekend", especially if we're dropping down to a 4-on, 3-off standard.

If for no other reason, we build a lot of infrastructure for "peak" usage, like rush hour traffic. If we all have the same 3 day weekend that means we have lower "weekend" traffic one more day but the peaks stay the same, but if we better distributed our weekends, overall peak would go down a bit.

It's a whole new set of coordination problems, of course, but we don't all go to church on Sundays anymore, we don't all need to be off the same day.
Ah, your comment came in while I was typing. First I've heard of wappalyzer though, I just checked the inspector for interesting tag patterns. Neat!
I think you might be misinterpreting parent. He's just talking etymology, and he has a point. The eu- prefix means good/pleasant/easy, the rest of the word means death. So euthanasia, as a category of killing, implies that it's giving a good death, where otherwise there would be a bad death. A synonym would be mercy-killing. So you can argue that if the animal is not yet ill, it can't be euthanasia. Of course you could imagine non-standard scenarios where killing someone healthy might be considered euthanasia, like intentionally inhaling fire (thus rendering self unconscious) when you expect to burn to death. We're just talking semantics, not debating choices.
Isn't this essentially https://owncloud.org ?
Elliptic-curve Diffie–Hellman.

Used by some cetptocurrencies (like monero) to implement stealth addresses. Allows the sender to derive a new public key for each message sent and the receiver to derive the corresponding private key.
Let me turn that around for you. Would you like it if people who turned or changed lanes without indicating were reliably and automatically fined? Because I sure would.

The law is the law. If it's a good law, then its efficient, universal, automatic enforcement should be a good thing. If not - then it's the law that needs to be changed. You're complaining about the enforcement - but what you actually don't like is the law itself.

Hell, maybe efficient and automatic enforcement will force us to confront bad laws, rather than relying on discretion at the enforcement stage to water them down tolerably. Better they not be on the books at all.
I was recently at a workshop about Marine Permaculture Arrays (MPA).

Picture square-kilometer kelp farms in the open ocean, using ocean current eddy shear levels to move MPA to different locations in a region (different vertical layer current speeds enable a kind of underwater sailing).

MPA need new kinds of sensors to enable this marine autonomous navigation.

I asked what tech was available off-the-shelf, wondering if sensors from ocean gliders could be used for the MPA autonomous navigation capability. Brian von Herzen said they were too expensive now.

He followed up by writing that current sensing is something they are working on. Cost effective nutrient sensors are needed also...

Getting the sensor cost down will help develop multiple new industries providing a range of ecosystem services
that would supply food, fuel, fertilizer, fiber, farmaceuticals (nutraceuticals). And carbon sequestration.
When kelp sinks in deep waters, it stays there. On the ocean floor.
Excuse me, but at $200k you're making $100k net so about $8k per month. With rent at $2.3k, you should be able to save enough to buy something at some point, no? Or at least you could rent something more expensive, closer to work?
Somewhat an aside, but Raines Law Room in the Flatiron in NYC is a great little speakeasy/cocktail bar and brings back this vibe a bit.
You mean it goes to 10.9999999998
>That will be news to the billion plus inhabitants who haven't realised they're dead yet from lack of clean water, sixth sense style

People in places like Flint aren't dead either.
There’s no such thing as no bias, but there’s more than just left and right, and certainly sources that are upfront about their bias are more reputable than ones that try and act non-partisan.

There is “a difference”. Quality still exists outside bias, and that matters very much.

But yes, read far and wide these days so you can yourself understand the various world views and not be fooled into thinking the NYTimes or Politico are “centrist”.
Capitalism requires informed customers. Without that, there is no sense in competing on quality. Advertising (in the broadest sense) is essentially the only way for a new player with a superior product to get the word out.

That is far from the only way advertising is used, but it is a rather important role.
iOS 13 now shows you a map of where apps have been tracking you
http://www.paulgraham.com/startupideas.html
The Lenovo Thinkpad P52 looks like a pretty decent machine (but like you said, you'd need to carry around a charger everywhere)

https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpad-p/Thi...
>we can quarantine people; we can restrict travel; etc. All of those are strategies we use and are effective _for_humans_ to prevent the spread of disaster diseases.

>But none of that is applicable to livestock.

Yes, they are.
Pretend i am an AI that got access to internet and don't know much about your feelings. "Suffering is suffering" doesn't help me to understand your values and think like you. I have learned to assign positive value to getting more people to agree with me. Is the negative feedback i get from my comments getting downvoted "suffering"? Should i simply flip the weights in my neural net to interpret downvotes as good? Can biological brains be taught to interpret the signal they interpreted as suffering before as pleasure (seems like some animals do)? Can someone suffer if his or anyone's life is in no danger?

"Be humane" is not a useful advice since we do not know what exactly it means. A better advice is "Be curious".
The flip side of that is drivers who make a right turn on red w/out stopping - slowing down only enough to maintain control of their vehicle. Some also ignore the signs that stipulate no right turn on red when pedestrians are present, even if there are pedestrians in the crosswalk. I've been nearly run over a couple times in that situation. They're looking for approaching traffic and not where they're going.

As far as simply running red lights, some percentage of drivers - perhaps 1-5% do that at any given intersection. That's often enough that I have to look both ways before proceeding on green to avoid getting hit. That in spite of the 2 second delay between red and green lights. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

This is in the Chicago suburbs, not sure of other areas. Chicago did have a reputation for shortening the yellow when cameras were installed. I didn't notice that where I live.
Yeah, the whole affair was about Barcelona getting a cut of the money from Sagrada Familia.

> Barcelona officials said the city will be paid 4.6 million euros ($5.2 million) in fees under an agreement negotiated with a foundation devoted to completing and preserving La Sagrada Familia.