skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that you could make the argument the opposite direction too, that the toothpaste is out of the tube when it comes to convenience. Maybe it's all about price sensitivity, but easily available taxis are such a part of American urban life now it's hard to imagine that it will totally go away if drivers are treated fairly.
Hammers. The Germans make better industrial hammers.

What ever happened to Japanese laptops anyway? I used to have a little bitty Fuji and I loved it, back then Sony also had super great industrial design, really offering an alternative to Apple that was at least as cool-looking. Is that just not a thing anymore?
Ahh, the places receiving so much in US, and to a lesser extent other Western imports, their own putative systems for dealing with the waste and recycling it break down completely. Leading to entire towns built on processing the West's waste meaning it's everywhere.

"Their fault, nothing to do with us"

This is blaming the recipient of the bullet for the shooting.
Even Telstra is offering 60GB / month for $49

https://www.telstra.com.au/mobile-phones/sim-only-plans

I’d be all over that but it says the plan is only available for new services and I’m rather fond of my mobile number.
This is what the comments above from HONEST_ANNIE and thrav mentioned as well. It's a promising territory to explore, but also going down the path of absorbing existentialists literature feels terrifying to me, based on my past experience of reading Nausea by Sartre.

What I liked in Emerson's Self-Reliance is the idea of trusting ourselves in finding or deciding on the meaning of our own life, cultivating this ultimate freedom to decide and take responsibilities on our own.
Long working hours 'linked to stroke risk'
> It's secure or its not.

Then there is no concept of "improves" security. Either it is now secure or it is not. Do they have proof that there are now no side channel attacks that can be made on their software?

EDIT: sigh This comment is not arguing that they need a proof for their change. It is arguing that you can improve security without making something completely secure, which undermines the idea that code is 'either secure or it is not'.
It is a tough problem to solve. Many middle schoolers' lives live on Instagram and snapchat, and getting COPPA to protect 13-15 would only introduce operational problems for the existing users. Twitter already has this problem for when you change your birthday to something that shows you signed up before you were 13, and just recently started getting those accounts un-locked (which means they didn't even immediately delete the data of those used-to-be-12 year olds)[0].

Perhaps the above would depend on the text of the bill, ie. existing 13-15 year olds can continue to use the services without interruption. That would be up to the lawmakers.

And, as per the article, lying about the child's age is a norm to get them on the internet as early as 10 or 11. I have a few friends who were fine telling their children to lie about their age to get them on instagram and snapchat. As a service there's not much you can do about this unless you require every sign-up to go through the COPPA parent verification process (where the most popular method is credit card verification), so COPPA being changed to "you can be penalized if they're under 13 even if they say they're over that age" wouldn't be a solution.

0: https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/14/after-year-long-lockout-tw...
If suffering is ultimately caused by this existential despair, it's unclear how making 'eliminate suffering' a life purpose eliminates existential despair.

For example, let's imagine we've turned the entire world into a utopia and no one suffers anymore from disease, famine, war, homelessness, etc. If everyone thinks life is still ultimately meaningless, then the elimination of suffering will allow them to look this reality full in its face. I remember in Joss Whedon's Serenity one of the characters talks about a planet of perfect utopia, which is also perfectly secular, and the planet ultimately succumbs to despair and suicide. In which case, people may miss their suffering, because their need to survive took their minds off the emptiness.

On the other hand, let's say we discover there is some kind of ultimate meaning, perhaps even some of the worse suffering becomes less significant if those suffering understand the meaning of it all.

So, the question of ultimate meaning appears more fundamental than 'eliminate suffering,' and we will be unable to eliminate suffering without tackling the more fundamental question.
More of a boarding house model?
Clang does have __builtin_unpredictable, but last I checked it doesn't actually seem to have an effect.
Ironically, the extra care such as banning plastic bags, straws, etc. in the West does lead to this very conversation becoming normal across lay people rather than just those who "really want to solve the problem," which probably does have significant value as well. Like a raising-awareness event.
I do use Wine (and Steam with it's various levels of Windows API calling), and I am happy about this.

Sure, it will create some issues during the first stages of this migration, but, more than once, I botched my system in the past with the needed i386 libraries (it didn't happen lately, can't tell if because I finally got my head around it of because they improved the tooling).

Still, in the end, we will all have a "cleaner" system. Either because they migrate parts of the Windows calling to 64bit or because they will keep everything neatly in containers, or, probably, due to a mix of both. But it's high time we improve the current state of these tools.

P.S.: Still trying to get WINASIO to work properly with Wine using one of the latest versions (I am trying to run Ableton in Wine, but the latency is just too high). If anyone has experience doing this, any tips would be apreciated.
This is why I wrote our shopping cart so that when a user adds something to the cart for the first time, it immediately asks their country and postal code and calculates shipping charges.

The frustrating thing is this is such an anti-pattern that we _still_ get emails from potential customers requesting the cost of shipping to their country.
Trump is a far right authoritarian. If he seems to be left of 80s Republicans, it’s only because Republicans have waged a fairly successful campaign to equate authoritarianism with leftism.
Facebook co-founder says Libra could shift monetary clout to private companies
I have no trouble. People who make bad financial decisions... not necessarily catastrophically bad, just bad... tend to make other ones, like trying to pay off their debts by becoming an Uber driver because they bought Uber's propaganda lock, stock, and barrel. Being unable to pay off the car could very well be merely an exemplar of a larger problem.

I've had a couple friends of the family I've been watching on similar paths. It's not like they're "handing their money over to scammers" or anything catastrophically stupid, but they make a kinda bad decision, then compound it with some other kinda bad decisions about what jobs to take, and then make some more kinda bad decisions, and before you know it, they're losing their house and declaring bankruptcy. The tears might not just be about this particular thing, but the increasingly undeniable recognition they're on a snowball's path down a slope they've done everything in their power to make avalanche-prone.

The people I know aren't screwing up by thinking they can make lots of money by being Uber drivers without running the math for themselves (that is, it may work for some people but you really have to run the math and be sure before doing it), but it's the sort of thing that would fit right in to their life story right now.
I think that is the fullered flat of a sword blade, so a couple inches or more across. The pattern exhibits at scales you'd need magnification to see all the way up to bands a mm across. I have a blade that was created using one of the reproduction processes. I have heard some say it is simply a very specific type of alloy banding.
The article is true, you just interpreted it incorrectly.

> Will be available this month

It doesn't say "right now"
Since now it’s a voluntary force I guess that obviates the reasoning. Although I don’t see that getting rolled back.

I think it makes sense to roll back driving age until autonomous driving becomes an actual option.

Some minor pols are calling for _lowering_ of the voting age, which seems out of place, although no serious pol is pushing for that.

One could argue that voting rights ought to coincide with emancipation and being self-sufficient.
So the irony is people started using plastic for its indestructibility, yet we make disposable stuff out of it?
Anyone remember AcidWarp? It was a DOS program from the early '90s, distributed through BBSes, that generated lovely flowing color patterns. It came zipped with a text file with instructions for building a Fresnel-based projector for your PC monitor.

Looks like it's still online: http://www.noah.org/acidwarp/
Gotta be honest here, Apple still makes the best computer hardware. Its what Sony aspires to, but can't really touch.
Here's Niels Provos (author of bcrypt) attempting to make Wootz: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9j9vUGi0QA
I'm surprized hydrogen fueled flight isn't looked into more. Hydrogen can be produced using electrolysis and it's packs significantly more energy per weight even than kerosene.

The main drawback is the low density which would require larger fuselages, but that should be offset by the significantly lower weight.
U.S. lawmaker says small tech firms fear retaliation if they aid antitrust probe
That's the point - they won't respond to the "Western society" common sense because they'll just ignore facts and move the goalpost. Which is pretty convenient when you want to win an argument!

In their eyes, they've won because I won't engage them further when in all reality no one wins because no one is willing to give up their stance.

You can't nail these folks down on anything - they argue in almost pure logical fallacy, and the last thing they want is to concede to how the world _actually_ works... That's why the "fake news" thing was so incredibly damaging - if anything it signal virtues to everyone to just make up their own narrative =(
Let's Build a Simple Interpreter. Part 15
I also have a 2013 MBP that I use all the time, and it's slowly starting to show its age. I want to upgrade it, but I'm honestly lost as to what model to update it with. I've heard all sorts of bad things about the new MBPs. Does anyone know what Mac laptop I should buy?
I'd like to believe that a simple fix to at least some of the ills afflicting both drivers and companies associated with "ride-share" is to simply double the prices. A few unprofitable customers drop off but the various professionals using these services to go to their jobs or when they travel grumble but keep on using the services.

However, I suspect a lot of the users of these services are pretty price sensitive, both encouraging a race to the bottom for pricing among the services and leading people to drop them entirely if pricing is too high. And once they're considered more of a luxury service, the supply/demand may well drop to the point where a lot of areas with sufficient density today no longer have.
RAM encryption is a feature in my password manager (java):

https://github.com/andy-goryachev/PasswordSafe/blob/master/s...

Curiously, RAM encryption, and its relative - clearing secrets from memory when not in use - cannot be added to the Bouncycastle library because they use java BigInteger (unless reflection is used of course).
My first thought when such claims are made is "how do they think brain development works?" The brain does not develop except in response to novel intense experience. If we were to shield children from exposure to language until age 5 when the language centers of the brain typically mature, the language centers of their brain would not mature. It is exactly the exposure to those things that they are "not ready for" that cause brains to develop at all. Without such exposure, the brain does not develop. And there are critical periods, as well, where the brain can lose the ability to ever develop certain facilities if not challenged. If you were to put an eyepatch on one eye of an infant at birth, for example, in order to protect them from the challenge of binocular vision until their visual cortex was 'mature' which usually happens 3-6 months after birth, you would guarantee that child would never be capable of mastering binocular vision.

The stress over the Internet in particular is doubly troublesome because of the profound and abundant safety of the Internet. Compare it to literally any other way of acquiring information and you'll see it's the only one that protects the viewer from having to directly and physically interact with other people, which removes almost all danger. Of course, 'almost all' is not 'all' and some people will reject even stupendous protection if it means there remains even a single sliver of risk. Those people I think can be dismissed out of hand because they are waiting for an impossible option to be presented to them.
“who was acquitted or had their case dismissed”
Show HN: Service that generates UI tests for you
You're not a felon if you got acquitted.
I will add that while it cuts well and has good abrasion resistance, it isn't anomalously better than modern tool steel.
I certainly wouldn't want scp to suddenly slow down compared to what I'm used to. I use scp and sftp rather heavily to transfer very large files and do backups, that might not be performance-critical but it's definitely performance-sensitive.

I haven't had to mess with that in a while but there was a time where you'd get a significant boost with scp on underpowered hosts if you used the arcfour cipher for instance (I believe that it's now fully deprecated, and for good reasons).
Interesting they called the list of internet things children can do "free-range" considering the growing kickback against helicopter parenting; I feel that they just lost a big group of potential allies framing the issue in that manner.
I tried to read Quicksilver but couldn't really get into it. However, I then tried the Audible audiobooks and became completely hooked by the whole saga to the point where I think Jack Shaftoe is probably my favourite fictional character.

Edit: On the other hand I've read Anathem so many times that my hardback copy fell apart!
Thanks for the comment, I think it massively depends on the specific panels and their makeup. You also add a lot of excellent context to the stories I found. There is a ton of cutting edge research going into solar panels and there are many different ways to achieve higher efficiency and/or longer lifespans.

My comment wasn't intended to say solar/wind is killing Coal because it isn't. Natural Gas is what is killing coal. I'm from Kentucky originally and the economy is feeling the squeeze from coal just not being really economically viable for some use cases compared to natgas. As the tech improves and mass production makes it cheaper, solar / wind will continue to make more economic sense. The currently "top of the line" most efficient solar panels as of 2019 come from SunPower and only are a paltry 22.2% efficient so there is a lot of room for improvement. Regarding renewables being a fraction of their "nameplate" capacity it really just depends on too many factors to generalize.
Could this be implemented at the OS level, i.e. whenever a proces launches, the OS generates a key that it will keep to itself and use to transparently encrypt all memory allocated by that process?
Minimum wage work is for high schoolers, and other lies we tell ourselves to justify the shitty treatment of our most vulnerable workers.
Why We Make Bad Decisions as Groups and How to Fix It
I guess implicit in this is that strife and warfare (in addition to new pasture/hunting grounds) led to expansion and exploration in pre history just as if did on later times. Some of it was just seeking avoidance.
They are good at making quality because they learned how and started doing it. In the 1960s "make in Japan" was synonymous with cheap junk - what China is today (perhaps worse?). There are complex reasons why most countries go through this, I can list some of the factors but I don't know them all (I doubt anyone does)
My sister created herself a Facebook account when she was 6.

And remembering my childhood self, there is nothing that would have stopped me from getting one.

Being a parent now myself also in fact would probably even assist my kids to get whatever accounts they want...better to have it happen under my supervision than in secret.

As always, lawmakers are a little out of touch with reality
Most of those issues are solved by carrying a pack of markers in your bag.

My biggest annoyance with dry erase is when people leave markings on for a really long time and board gets stained.
I believe all consumer AMD Ryzen CPUs support Secure Encrypted Memory (SEM), but for some reason it's not enabled by default on most Ryzen devices/motherboards. It's a shame.

I'd also love to see AMD bring an updated and patched version of Secure Encrypted Virtualization (there have been some attacks against it, although still fewer than against Intel's SGX) to consumer Ryzen in the near future. With so many cores available in consumer AMD CPUs (up to 16 now), people will start to use VMs more. Even Windows 10 has the easy-to-use Windows Sandbox now, as well as the App Guard sandbox for Edge.

Not to mention they could use this as yet another "killer app" of their many-core CPUs, because otherwise people will eventually start to wonder why even get CPUs with so many cores over CPUs with fewer cores but higher singlethread performance. No different than say Verizon promoting high-quality 4k streaming on its new 5G network.

I would've already preferred to see this in Zen 2, but at least Zen 3, which will otherwise bring few performance improvements and remain on the 7nm node, should come with these as some sort of "security-focused generation of Zen".
That recall is for a different model than OP’s.
Does the Microsoft Office executable file even come in a 64bit package? It's not Ubuntu's or Wine's fault
Designing an Declarative Alternative to JavaScript
Data Structures and Database Indexes
I use Ubuntu, but should I switch to Debian or something else? What do I get with Ubuntu that I don't get with Debian? The ability to run Windows binaries is important to me.
Suddenly a 12 year old stabbing someone is mature enough to stand trial when they can't even register on a forum without parental permission.

Understanding whether or not you should do something that could end someone's life is far simpler than understanding the potential, much less obvious risks of communicating on the internet. Also, the age limit for signing up to things on the web is as much to protect the business running the service as it is to protect children.

Whether someone is tried as an adult comes down to whether or not they could reasonably be expected to understand what they're doing is wrong, and in the case of stabbing someone that's really, really easy.
It's most definitely not, but I don't get the impression you're open to seeing things as nonbinary.
Bank of England moves to open its vaults to crypto firms
It would really still depend on the support libraries around the task you want to write, if you really need more performance for the parts that those support libraries don't cover (and beyond what you get with PyPy or Numba) and which language you have more experience with.

If you're really going down to the FFI, it's hard to think it wouldn't be more productive, but that's not what a true beginner like the target of this book would do. Though it's quite nice to quickly extend some tool for your purpose without compromising anything or to understand how something works thanks to being written in high level code.

Syntax-wise, Julia's Common Lisp-like feature set gives the language a lot of power, but normal use will probably be just on par with Python in terms of productivity.
I think the perceived issue is not that they disagree on the subject, but that they fundamentally don't trust them to be working with you in good faith.
I missed that qualifier. Seems a fair trade they get to vote in local elections.
I'm curious about Wine's usage and relevance at this point in the Linux desktop story. My assumption is that Linux users(myself included) that use Windows applications(not games), tend to just run a VM in seamless mode for Windows functionality.

I would be curious if others had any insight(anecdotal or otherwise) about Wine usage these days.
Ssh isn't just for interactive terminal sessions. It's not that uncommon for people to use ssh tunnels in situations where proper VPNs etc. are blocked. Others use sftp or tunnels plus a SOCKS proxy in one specific application. In those applications, performance regressions are a legitimate concern precisely because it's not expected to be all that great to begin with.
It's not because of the disagreement, though. That's a creative interpretation of the comment you're replying to. This is the crux:

> Republicans that sought to repeal it for years and then didn't actually have any real policy ideas to replace it when they took control in 2016, exemplifying their bad-faith approach to politics?
This particular change got a hacker news article. It seems to be inherently more noticeable than others.

Seems reasonable to ask about the performance (and memory) implications of the change. If they're minimal, than this solution can be easily added to other situations where encryption is being used. If it's heavy, then different solutions would need to be developed on a case by case basis.
Normal for companies to 'interview' to receive free consulting? (Facebook)
One of my good friends recently interviewed with Facebook. For background, he has massive amounts of experience in the audio/visual industry, and has worked for some of the top companies in the world setting up their AV systems.

So he goes through 3 rounds of video chat interviews, and each subsequent one resulted in them asking more and more direct questions about where he saw the industry going, what was going to be the new technology, what people were going to be moving away from and his thoughts on what the smart moves were.

Facebook did not end up hiring him. Instead they used him as a free consultant, under the guise of hiring him, and wasted hours of his time because Facebook could not be bothered to actually pay him for his consulting time. They took his advice and followed it to the T. We are certain this was an odd move for them, a move they would not have made without his input. We learned about this through the grapevine that is the small AV world.

We realize this is a bold claim, but a month or two after his interviews, Facebook was suddenly pivoting from one process to another. They were moving away from a tech he was sure was going to die soon, a tech that Facebook loved and was in bed with for years, to something else he saw that was going to be ubiquitously the future.

Sorry that I cannot be more specific, but it disgusted me to hear that a company like Facebook, with so much money, would do something so underhanded. Guess I’m naive.

Companies that do this need to be called out. Name and shame!
Shit Sandwich
Right, is the same here in Romania, a third party shop will try to help you fix any laptop,phone,tablet , I dislike the fact that Apple is attacking this shops with lawsuits, FUD campaigns, preventing others to buy parts etc.
Kathleen Hale Came for Her Goodreads Critic. Then the Internet Came for Her