skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The problem lies in that Google Authenticator is tied to a device, so if you upgrade it or lose it, you’re f’d.

You can save the QR code that was used during setup to repeat the onboarding at any time. You can also use Authy, 1Password, or another service that lets you store the one-time password somewhere else. Or use U2F devices when possible.
I mean, I’m not a moron. If the sidewalk is crowded, I’ll hop off and walk my bike.

But it’s a false equivalency to compare the two: a bike vs pedestrian accident usually ends in bumps and scrapes with the cyclist getting the worse end of the bargain. A car vs bike accident can easily leave you permanently disabled or worse (with a very high frequency of hit-and-runs).
An alienation epidemic. Everyone wants a job that's at least one of: personally meaningful, or clearly helpful to others. Also it should pay the bills well enough to gain you housing somewhere with decent schools. Good friggin' luck.
Employing those unable to work is probably a serious crime it certainly is in the UK - Gordon Browns cleaner had used a forged passport and he got fined about £10k
The "obvious" problem is harder than it looks. Even searching in the navigation app gets confused by voice prompts from the same app...so you get things like "find closest gas speed station check ahead". And that's before you get various people involved, never mind any impediments.
> In theory you could build them to be safe, but often they aren't. I showered with a tank-based electric shower today: you fill the tank, plug it in until it's hot, unplug it, step underneath, and open the valve.

Do any homes have things set up like most homes in the United States - that is, a central water heater of 40 gallons or more that supplies all taps in the house?

Something else we have here, but aren't as common, are "instant on" heaters; they come in two fashions:

1) Tankless - basically similar to the "electric showerhead", except much higher wattage and installed usually below the sink for both sink and shower usage (if in a bathroom). Water flows in and thru a very tiny holding tank, is rapidly heated, then passed to the tap.

2) Recirculation - in this system, the hot water side of things is basically connected in a loop fashion to the main water heater, and is circulated with a pump. The main water heater, IIRC, can also be smaller. The lines are also all insulated. Hot water is circulated around, turn it on, there it is.

In the usual system, though, you turn on a tap and wait for it to "warm up"; our American wastefulness in action I guess (but technically, at least in most non-rural areas, that water goes down the drain and into the sewer system, where it is taken back to the water purification plant, and is essentially turned back into drinking water - while it doesn't all return, due to evaporation, leaks, etc - the majority I would surmise does, so while still wasteful, it isn't as terrible as you might imagine - but you do still have to pay for that extra water, which is where it does hit ya).
Buying new is basically a fools game now. Take note of vehicles with proven longevity and snatch them up when the depreciation makes them affordable.
Easy Introduction to GANs
We really don't know much about the display; we just go off of what Apple tells us until it's actually out.
Possibly. If the only thing you're used to and expect is a touchscreen, you will long for a touchscreen even when it is objectively a worse experience.

Seriously... I've seen people right here on HN claiming that "look, navigate to a touch menu, navigate to another menu, select an item, press and hold" is superior to "press one button on the door".
They did run the comparison between Carnival and their biggest competitor Royal Caribean (i'll call "RC"). RC was still a bad pollutant, producing 4x the pollution of all the cars in Europe, but by comparison, Carnival is pumping out over twice as much.

I actually think companies like Maersk are producing far less pollution than cruise ships because cruise ships are running engines mostly to produce electricity. Only a small portion of what they burn is for propulsion. Imagine the electricity it takes to run an entire city, it would be in the megawatts. For example, Carnival's mega-ships have the capacity for around 6,400 people. The ship is producing electricity for all those people, pools, waterslides, electric go-cart tracks, dance clubs, ~30 restaurants, hospital clinics, and the list goes on. Anything a city would have, the cruise ship has too.

The other big problem with cruise ships is that they produce just as much pollution while standing in port as they do on the ocean (because again they need to run engines to generate a city's worth of power). Some places like Alaska have recently passed laws that require cruise ships to modify their ships to plug into the city's power grid and not to run engines in port. This law is going into effect in 2020 I believe (only for Alaska). But most cruise ships have already complied and are capable of this. I have heard rumors that Italy is considering passing a similar law. The other benefit of this, aside from the environmental effects of it, is that money is now generated for the local city in the form of utility billing to the cruise ships. This stimulates local economies, which traditionally have been hurt by cruise ships more than benefiting from them.

Shipping companies really only run engines for propulsion. They have small crews and accommodations that aren't much different from a large fishing vessel. They can likely generate most their power from their propulsion engines, without the need to run auxiliary generators 24/7.

I am not saying that shipping companies are "clean", but I think they are dwarfed by the pollution created from cruise ships. So it makes sense to target the heavy hitters first.

Plus for an environmental group, it is easier to target a bad guy being an optional service like a cruise. Something people can easily choose not to partake in. It is a lot harder to boycott Maersk. Since almost everything sitting on your desk right now likely sat on a Maersk ship at one point in its existence.
My local convience store is called Tom's.. It has been around for many years. The current chinese owners never changed the name nor the owners before. Same sign, same products.. nothing unethical.

Kind of like when a big company buys a smaller company and keeps the brand name.
2016 Mazda 3, completely agree.

Also have a 2016 Model S, and the bluetooth works much better on the Mazda, as far connecting and using a cellphone quickly.
My good bank has no physical presence whatsoever. I mean, I presume they operate a call centre somewhere, maybe in Scotland, but I've never seen it.

They can reach out and cause things to happen at a distance, but I don't want that used to authenticate me. They used it when I had lost my cards, to cause me to receive a bundle of cash so I could get on with my day just paying cash everywhere.

I have a specialized OTP device with a chiclet keyboard, and a password used for normal stuff. When I do something serious, like the time I bought somewhere to live, I call them to set up the transaction, then a different random person gets assigned to call me back and verify the details - this way if one employee goes rogue they can't empty my account by claiming I called them. They have a password for me, and the second employee uses that password so that I know it's really the bank calling me.
Of course there are far more freight vessels than cruise vessels, but I can imagine several valid reasons for targeting cruise vessels:

- cruise ships are marketed as luxury, and also have much higher profit margins than the shipping industry, so the argument that they can afford to switch to cleaner technologies is easier to make.

- cruise ships also typically dock much closer to cities than other ships. You probably won't see a large oil tanker sailing up a Norwegian fjord or through Venice's Giudecca Canal.
Spatial Awareness: A Curated Maps and Spatial Newsletter
I've never thought of this, but wow it seems so true. Whenever a new batch of emojis come out, my friends start sending them which entices me to go update immediately.
Is this a Bernie ad?

I'd gladly burn off some of my portfolio if that would put Jim Cramer in the clink.

Couldn't happen to a nicer guy!
Ok perhaps I could change that to "every working button on the shuttle will do the same thing every time I press it".

Your mention of zero gravity has brought up another consideration for me. Assuming it's a capacitive touchscreen you need to ensure no conductive material ever floats into contact with it by mistake. Switches and buttons have covers and rails to prevent accidental pressing but how do you manage that with touchscreens? Apple manages it on your phone because a false negative is ok in that case, I don't think you can allow that on a spacecraft. How is a floating glove finger differentiated from a glove actually attached to hand?
Is this a new narrative pushed by old banks that do not innovate enough to keep up with Zuckerberg et al?
In some cases this is also slavery - for example some recent cases in the UK with gamemasters effectively holding homeless people in captivity.
There are things that are sad about how that growth affected southern NH.

I spent huge amounts of time bicycling & motorcycling through NH when I lived there.

Southwestern NH (everything pretty much west of Nashua) stayed pretty nice other than the stuff along Rt. 101, the big box nonsense expands further west along 101 every year and it expanded shockingly between 2000 (when I first moved there) to 2009 (when I left the 2nd time).

But Southeastern NH.. it feels like one continuous zoning disaster all the way from Nashua to Portsmouth... almost every main road just turned into a horrible procession of traffic and stop lights and big box stores and generic American chain businesses. It's happened lots of places in the US but it's really bad there.
How New York’s Skyline Is Changing to Give the Wealthy a Better View
Long time ago I failed to solve this conjecture. Nice to see it have been solved. I shared some email with S. Hetdetniemi about some special cases. Good old times.
The cone that transmits to every vehicle within listening range: "don't hit me"?
He commented (in the article) that he is delighted the resolution has been found and that "it can be explained in two sentences".
> For starters, H1Bs are cheaper to hire

Citation needed, because this is a sweepingly broad statement. To hire an H1B you need to pay the prevailing wage, usually at least $60k, which is more than an entry-level non-STEM college grad is going to be paid outside the Bay Area (it should still be increased to something like $90-95k IMO but that's a different issue).

In addition to that, there are thousands of dollars in legal fees. And of course the application has to win the lottery (which happens in April) and then be approved for the visa (which starts in October). Which means you have to wait at least 7 months after extending an offer for the employee to start.
I think the 600 was the only one that made economical sense back then, but the PC overtook it really quickly especially when SVGA became a thing for games :|
I have a 08 Yaris Hatchback...best controls ever. And yes those knobs make the clunk feel and noise....I love it.
But merely performing a song doesn't give you any kind of monopoly whatsoever on the lyrics. Even arranging a song wouldn't give you copyright on the lyrics unless you substantially changed them. It is simply false that Concord Music Publishing LLC has copyright on the lyrics to "The Star Spangled Banner," even if these public domain lyrics were used in an arrangement controlled by that company.

Edit: Getting into the weeds a bit here, but I don't think performances themselves can be copyrighted (in the US, that is). Recordings can be copyrighted, as can musical compositions, lyrics, and subsequent arrangements. It is my understanding that, in order for something to be eligible for copyright, it must be fixed in a "tangible medium of expression."

It's also worth mentioning that music publishing companies generally control compositions, not recordings. But even supposing Concord Music Publishing has copyright on the arrangement used on that particular occasion, that does not imply they have copyright on the lyrics.
Genius hid a Morse code message in song lyrics to prove Google was copying them
Some quick numbers here. Inflation over the last 20 years was about 54%, so I would expect an apples-to-apples vehicle to cost that much more today than it did in 1999. If you look at the CPI-based numbers for cars from 2000 to 2019, in real dollars it's barely gone up [1].

I think what you're seeing is that the cars getting advertised, and more specifically the cars that you want are more expensive than they used to be because auto makers are trying to boost margins in a shrinking market by pushing fancy features and higher-end models. But if you look at base-model sedans, they've stayed pretty close in price over the last two decades.

[1] http://www.in2013dollars.com/New-cars/price-inflation
Could this whole project be a tax play? Many jurisdictions don't tax cryptocurrency until sale where capital gains applies, some don't tax at all. It is very convenient for tax purposes for a corporation to have a currency that exists on a global network where you don't need to transfer anything between countries and all that matters is where you cash out.
SQL isn't hierarchical enough. Everyone who has tried to interpret a join result has experienced this: the DB is trying to pack a tree into a table and something is lost in translation.

It affects performance too -- SQL wants storage locality by table, but applications often want locality by user.

App-level permission / roles is something that everyone runs into with a DB-backed app of a certain size, and it has always felt to me like better hierarchy design could help -- not just foreign keys but 'settings table is under users table', you have to query it via users.
I actually had to read it twice to get the meaning. I read "use the best GPU on the planet (not by Nvidia)" first as "well we couldn't get Nvidia so we used the next best thing we could find that wasn't"

Gave me a chuckle at least.
Yep. I ran docker and Fusion at the same time and it works great.
Not sure about the MiSTer board, but for the MiST make sure you don't get the "newer" 1.4 since it lacks the serial port to make this work!
The SIM ICCID that I physically had in my hands upon return was different than the ICCID that ATT had on file for me. I also watched the dude do it right in front of me, but of course SIM cards are quite easy to palm. It was the "Tourist Services" kiosk and I bought a £20 Lebara card. He very kindly taped the ATT card down to the Lebara cardboard packaging, and I wasn't able to remove that tape without damaging it so I'm quite certain that it wasn't swapped elsewhere.

I did also report it to both my local police and the FTC and the FBI but never could gain traction as nobody thought it was their jurisdiction. I eventually gave up once my credit was repaired.
Summary of “Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction”
This is the only way I'm able to convince my family to upgrade sooner rather than later. Nothing quite like square-box-triggered FOMO to force an upgrade.
This is exactly right. My company gave me a Lenovo Thinkpad X1 carbon for work that originally had windows on it, and the IT dept slapped Ubuntu on there. I have a fingerprint scanner on this device that I don't bother to fiddle with to get working, so basically its this really expensive laptop with a non functional part on it staring me in the face. If you buy the thing from lenovo with linux preinstalled, you know that the parts you are getting are going to work with that machine, and if they don't you can actually complain to someone and they are forced to deal with you.
US military is terrified of climate change – but is the world's biggest polluter
Just a thought but I wonder if this whole touch UI craze was due in part to the legislation that require backup cameras in America and forced all cars to come with a lcd screen. I get this feeling companies then just all jumped on the touch UI bandwagon because now they were forced to have a screen for the backup camera.
Yes, they failed to credit her: https://pubmed.gov/13054692

In his own book, Watson admitted he had seen her work before publishing his result.
Everything old is new again. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Development_Corporatio...
WWDC in bullet points: https://github.com/Blackjacx/WWDC
_Illegal_ migrants, to be clear.
Very much agreed. Opacity is the larger issue for me. Especially considering the disproportionate investment I have to make as an interviewee. And it seems people readily admit the process yields marginally better than random results - so it's pretty puzzling to see people defend it like there's not much to complain about.
I was just about to set this up to automatically put everything in my organization's Box every six months, but:

> With access to your XXX@YYY.ZZZ Box account, Google Download Your Data can:

> Read and write all files and folders stored in Box

Nope. Download link it is.
I got a gift card for thinkgeek a few years ago. Couldn't find anything I wanted. Tried giving the code away to coworkers, family, even posted it on hn, reddit, and some chans. Literally nobody used it.

Thinkgeek died when they stopped being for geeky programmers and started to cater to disney nerds.
These excerpts would make an amazing coffee table or bathroom book.
>A thorough interview in physical engineering disciplines will often expect you to demonstrate/validate something about your technical skill in-person, unless you are being interviewed because people already have validated knowledge about your capabilities (e.g., hiring a known individual from a competitor that is well-respected among peers).

This to me is one of the worst things about the Tech industry. You could be a senior engineer at Google and to move to a new company you will have to do the same algorithm interviews that New Grads are doing. It's a bad look for the industry. Like oh I see on your resume that you have worked for Facebook, Google and Amazon, well we better put you though an algorithm interview because you could have just been a false positive at all 3 companies. It massively devalues SWEs in an industry that we already know colludes to depress wages.

>This probably has more to do with Aeronautics actually practicing engineering as compared to today's software development practices. Also software development as a field is far less mature than traditional engineering disciplines. That's not meant to be pejorative - it's just where humanity is.

Not disagreeing but my point was that they have a far better performance record despite not doing the bizarre interviews that the Tech industry favors.
I’m not sure. I think IBM will be selling systems compatible with the mainframes of the 70s until the heat death of the universe.
I can't use that site because I am under 90 years of age.
> China has problems and people talk about. In public. On the Internet.

I'm sorry - but isn't that in direct contradiction to the censorship? Doesn't the censorship prevent you from talking about things that Chinese leadership thinks would reflect badly on them or the country?
Hiring more people increases costs if everyone is on salary.

Making people work longer hours does not.
I actually use them a lot via FaceTime and it's definitely motivates me to update faster, so I'm all for it.
His cell provider was the problem, and that is a paid service. They never should have given someone else a SIM, they are absolutely liable.
Kudos to them! They just did their research and acted on it. (At least that's how it appears). That's how it should be.

At many companies, the people doing that kind of research would be people who no one really listens to. They would do the research. Then PHB-type characters would enter the scene. And if research yields recommendations that would steer the company away from the safety of the herd (of automakers, in that case), then the research would be cancelled and the recommendations ignored.
Uh, I think you are making an argument against safety and i'm not sure if you are being sarcastic?

It's one thing to theorize, discuss and build something dangerous, it's another to actually use it.

See Flamethrowers.
> As a User Experience Professional, I was never able to grasp the true user's need for touch screens in cars.

You are viewing the 'need' from the end user perspective. That is likely not the driving force that is causing touch screen proliferation.

The likely driving force that is causing it is the manufacturers BOM costs.

A single, rectangular, touch screen, that can swallow up a bunch of different knobs and buttons and basic displays, is likely cheaper from an overall BOM perspective than the set of knobs and buttons and basic displays (and supporting material (mechanical and wiring) for those knobs/buttons/displays).

And, if two (or more) different car models use the same size rectangular screen, then one single "screen" can be used for plural models (with only software differences) vs. the need for unique moldings/buttons/etc. when providing the physical knobs and buttons on different models.

The touch screen also enables different "accessory classes" even within the same model by a software change vs. a different piece of hardware. Think basic hot/cold/manual blower speed climate control vs. higher end climate control where you set a specific temp and the system picks heat/cool/blower speed. The same single touch screen can provide both the 'basic' and the 'luxury' interface via a software change vs. two different physical control units inserted into the dash.
I admire Atlassian's putative motivations here, but their sanctimoniousness is a bit rich: this term sheet would force key employees to agree to a non-compete (something that should be redlined immediately) and would reserve the right to force employees to waive the protections that they may have been granted in terms of accelerated vesting triggers and change-of-control provisions. These are the kinds of provisions which actually affect the rank-and-file in an acquisition (and, of course, the actual purchase price with respect to the preference stack); for Atlassian to pretend that they are coming up with a ludicrously seller-friendly term sheet because of the escrow and insurance terms is a little absurd. Or perhaps Atlassian would also share which of these terms became redlined in the deals that they've done?
This lack can be fixed by the amazing dau irssi plugin.
That's really cheap fuel cost for shipping a container ship's worth of iphones.
Space debris is largely an issue for low earth orbit, through will all space activity has to pass through and is a pretty tight orbit. GPS satellites are in geosynchronous orbit which is over 30,000km from the surface of the earth so there is much more volume of open space, making debris a much smaller risk (for the same amount of debris, since 600^3 << 30,000^3).
> ... after I spent over 2 years cobbling together an ancient machine out of scraps and garbage.

Lack of having makes one resourceful. Look at today's world where just about every child in the developed world has a smart phone. Do they care about computing and how computers work, or are they merely appliances to today's generation? Most kids today know as much about an HVAC system as they do about the internal workings of a PC: nothing.
The Libra name is only used in Australia and New Zealand [0], it's unlikely that two things carrying the same name will influence the brand of Facebook's currency a whole lot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libresse#International_brandin...
> Hyper-V is always running because the Windows "host" OS is actually running under it's control as well.

Wait really? That doesn't seem right, why would they have the host running under part of hyper v when hyper v is optional? This would mean the entire foundation shifts when you enable or disable hyper v