skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why can't products have a "declaration of security", like they have for EMI compatibility, safety standards and other such things?

Because its a moving target. A light switch that isn't going to burn my house down when I buy it will still be safe in 10 or 20 years. A "secure" piece of software of even minimal complexity almost certainly has many severe bugs yet to be discovered.

I worry that the effect of legislation like this would mean you could no longer buy a $25 router to hack around with or put OpenWRT on - the legal liability would make such products non-viable, leaving only expensive enterprise grade stuff for purchase. Maybe that's for the greater good in the long run, but it would still be something of a loss.
They are so many things that I would have removed out of macOS over this, Oh well.
Have you experienced having a woman you loved and who genuinely seemed to be in love with you get pregnant by another man and try to convince you that you that you are father?

There is nothing "false" about the hopelessness that you feel when this happens to you.
Not everyone in the US benefits equally by going down the paths the academics, politicians, business leaders, and pundits set out for us. The larger this group of the disaffected becomes (and it is becoming quite large), the more these people will rebel against what their betters instruct them to think and do.
> (females) have been genetically programmed by evolution to desire the highest status males.

You do know that this is not a good reason to declare most males to be beyond hope, I assume? Status signals and impressions are highly pliable. And the more self-aware "females" (...Why not just say 'women', I wonder?) are about what drives their attraction from that POV, the more you can actively play with and subvert that dynamic. It's loads of fun, actually!
How valid is it to make a sound measurement in direct flow of air? I am not surprised that blowing air directly in to sound measurement device causes high reading, but is the tool designed for that. Isn't it the same as saying that pressure washer causes x decibels of noise when directed in to ear? Both will probably be damaging or unpleasant.
The author writes,

>Paul Samuelson once famously claimed that the “ergodic hypothesis” is essential for advancing economics from the realm of history to the realm of science.

It's curious that science and history are pitted against each other; not only is science notoriously difficult to define, but there are several historical approaches to scientific objects (e.g archaeology for the object of human history). This also seems to involve a logical model in which the concepts stay static, but some popular models outside of mainstream economics are used because the authors argue that an approach divorced from real development leads to results that don't apply to real situations (e.g. the dialectical logical method, which is both syntactic and semantic.

Unfortunately the sort of logic Samuelson applies has been misapplied (in neo-Ricardian lenses) to thinkers which seem to hold strictly temporal (rather than equilibrium) interpretations of economy.
I'm seriously thinking a dedicated Docker container just for reading email is a pretty good idea.
Tiny, Living Stones of the Sea
Microservices, Apache Kafka, and Domain-Driven Design
> Doubleclick also radically changed Google

And on the other side of ads, Google Analytics started as Urchin.
Maybe the word "need" is bad here. People always buy some things for reasons other than pressing needs. However there's a difference between latent desires and what advertising does to people. There's a reason why my old boss kept saying that the key to marketing is "creating dissatisfaction". Or, in other words, essentially making them miserable so that they seek respite in purchases. This isn't healthy.
That was a very well written and researched article. As a Florida produce consumer, thank you for linking that.
> Also, "Hey monitor, here's a frame in a new resolution" "Right away, ma'am, I just need to wait 30ms for the next refresh and your content will be visible"

I think FreeSync somewhat alleviates that. But of course Nvidia doesn't agree to do it the same way. I do agree that video latency is atrocious. It takes longer to do a screen refresh than to send an ethernet packet across the country!
The definition of expectation is what it is :-)

I agree that expectation may not be the most meaningful number here, in the long run is almost sure that we lose everything but there is a zero probability of infinite gains that makes up for it!
Had the same thing happen with Priceline just a few weeks ago, except instead of $20, the price was double the advertised price and only changed when I entered my payment info and tried to pay. I finally called and booked over the phone after having three different rooms double in price when I hit the confirmation button. The person on the other end must have really wanted to make the sale at that price, because they booked me for a month later than my request as the advertised price for my days seems to have just straight up not existed.

It was a pretty hellish experience trying to get them to change the dates, but in the end, they knew that I had a confirmation with my dates and I had paid, so it really would be fraud to not give me the room. Priceline: only once.
That's a good point. Not sure why we haven't already did it. Just pushed a fix. Demoing 404s are not day to day business though. :)
Now that you have a second monitor, might as well use Synergy for keyboard and mouse sharing!

https://symless.com/synergy
How do avoid the incentive of sites who pad their content in ways to make you spend longer on the site? Ideally the market would take care of this, where people would be more likely to visit articles which were more concise because they were more useful, but longer content also is generally a positive metric for search results and I feel like we often fall into this local sub-optimum.
This comment made me realise why this thread gave me an uneasy feeling. It's not being upset about people travelling, it's being upset about the wrong people travelling for the wrong reasons. I don't see why your long-dreamed of trip is more virtuous than one someone chose because they saw a nice picture on social media.
Yes, the 2/3/4 are all 64 bit. The Zero/Zero W are the same old 32 bit ARM11 hardware as the original Pi. Raspbian is still armhf but there are several aarch64 distros available (Arch, Fedora, Debian) for the recent Pi models.
An event bus of Kafka internal events. Like „consumer group rebalanced“, „topic created“...
You're right, but I think this is mostly a chicken-and-egg problem; the displays are expensive because there isn't much demand for them, and demand is low partly because of the high cost. Once we reach a turning point (which hopefully will be accelerated by the release of the new Mac Pro monitor), high-resolution panel prices will drop pretty quickly.

For comparison, people said the same thing about IPS panels (and it was true for a long time), but these days you can get a decent IPS panel for barely more than the equivalent TN.
Sort of a tangent, I was visiting a friend with a young daughter. After seeing how she acts when watching a movie, and how she reacted when it was time to stop, I wouldn't let my (hypothetical) children be exposed to video, or really the Internet at all, until they were at least teenagers.

I know, I would have to go live with the Amish or something, but daaaaamn... TV and Saturday morning cartoons were bad enough ~30-40 years ago. We're warping kids' minds.
I would find somewhere else to work if I had ethical concerns over what they were asking me to do. For example, the UK’s department of work and pensions was a contract the company I work for had at the time when there was a huge furore over IDS (a politician)’s policies.

If i had been assigned to work on that project I would have resigned.
I'm not temporal, but haven't had many bad experiences that I chased up. I didn't request some data from Revolut that they didn't provide, but I didn't email their compliance officer to request it. I think they would have provided it if I had.

Still, even just the fact that companies are now thinking about this and providing ways to download/delete your data makes me love the GDPR.
I think it would be helpful to remember to distinguish two separate search engine concepts here: indexing and ranking.

Indexing isn't the source of problems. You can index in an objective manner. A new architecture for the web doesn't need to eliminate indexing.

Ranking is where it gets controversial. When you rank, you pick winners and losers. Hopefully based on some useful metric, but the devil is in the details on that.

The thing is, I don't think you can eliminate ranking. Whatever kind of site(s) you're seeking, you are starting with some information that identifies the set of sites that might be what you're looking for. That set might contain 10,000 sites, so you need a way to push the "best" ones to the top of the list.

Even if you go with a different model than keywords, you still need ranking. Suppose you create a browsable hierarchy of categories instead. Within each category, there are still going to be multiple sites.

So it seems to me the key issue isn't ranking and indexing, it's who controls the ranking and how it's defined. Any improved system is going to need an answer for how to do it.
Agreed. This is where folks must risk-rank their traffic contents and determine if HTTPS alone is enough, or if in some cases, encrypted payloads using other forms of encryption and trust are useful. i.e. gpg, psk, etc... Secure email is the first thing that comes to mind.
The dictionary is not a reliable place to look up technical terms. (Actually, it's not a reliable place to look up most anything.)
The US won't enter first amongst equals til it's GDP per capita equals that of other developed western nations, their high GDP with a large population means they already punch way above their weight economically and militarily.

The British Empire was different, we owned a lot of territory but we didn't have a military build up like the US (adjusting for time period).
Just want to point out that you're on a site that successfully uses crowd sourcing combined with moderation to curate a list of websites, news, and articles that people find interesting and valuable. Why not a new internet built around communities like this where the users actively participate in finding, ranking, and moderating the content they consume? It's not a stretch to add a decent search index and categories to a news aggregator, most do it already. If these tools could be built into the structure of the web we'd be half way there.
The author is right, but this comes off very much as "old man yells at cloud" to me. Sorry.
It's often a legal or contractual requirement when selling software to public bodies in many countries, so I've seen it used a lot. Mileage may vary in other markets.

The important point is that fundamentally using a <div> in place of <button> can still be made to work easily with these accessibility tools - many comments here imply it can't be done at all and only a button will work. Does it semantically make sense? Likely no, but it isn't a hard blocker on accessibility.
Not a lie, still an estimate, estimates are not contracts.
> A minute ago you were just an angry citizen, now you're a big shot editor-in-chief running a real news site.

That statement is incredibly condescending.
The “backfire effect” is mostly a myth, a broad look at the research suggests
You don't have to go all the way back into Yahoo-era when it comes to manually curated directories: DMOZ was actively maintained until quite recently, but ultimately given up for what seems like good reasons.
> There is a certain number of seats available at each price point, so they only way price can go down is if cancellations happen.

Airline price algorithms (industyy name is Yield Management) can be very complicated and counterintuitive, and differ greatly from airline from airline - your summary is way too simplistic. I have personally observed prices dropping many times - to the extent where I don't think there is all that much value in booking weeks or months in advance, especially on short, high density routes.

A huge number of factors go into pricing regimes, and they evolve over time. Getting paid earlier is always better, so prices start low, and based on historical demand. But if the algorithm notices a bump in sales to some specific city on some specific dates - maybe a concert or convention - it will experiment with raising all price buckets, lowering it again if it notices too rapid a falloff. "Common sense" means that a great deal of people try to book their flights maybe 4-6 in advance, so the algorithm will try to ensure a healthy profit during that period, but if demand is unaccountably low for some reason it will often ease off and lower them. I've seen prices drop just in the last few days when evidently they've decided all prudent people have already bought their tickets and are trying to fill the last seats with impulse purchases or bargain hunters. I once had to rebook a flight at the airport after missing it by a few minutes - and the price I paid was less than for the one I missed!

Anyway, it's nowhere near as simple as a series of buckets with price tags on them, and hasn't been for 20 years. Hotels, by the way, use comparable systems.
The article says the kid wants to add SSH later and suggests that it uses telnet today.
DIY Hourglass
I love the Toyota books, read almost any book that is somehow connected to TPS, Toyota, Lean and such.

There is a really fun to read a trilogy by Michael Ballé, the first book is called "The Gold Mine".

And from Goldratt, all of his books and videos and related material is also a favorite. Specifically, about Toyota, Eli Goldratt wrote an article that provides the historical context and what problems Toyota solved, and then continue to improve upon that solution to invent a new solution that is even more amazing. Highly recommended 10m read for free here https://www.goldrattconsulting.com/webfiles/fck/files/Standi...
It's not (at least most modern languages have it). I was just saying that `say` isn't the interesting thing in the examples given.
Seems like a waste of redis' capabilities, when localStorage is much easier to implement for something like this.
Lovers of Kafka may be interested to know that thanks to Mingmin Xu, Apache Calcite's latest release adds an adapter for Apache Kafka. Calcite allows you to write optimized SQL queries against a variety of data sources and is used by Apache Hive, Apache Drill, and others.

https://calcite.apache.org/apidocs/org/apache/calcite/adapte...
Yes I'm planning to do that. But I think that doesn't work on bootup so the USB switch is still useful (its pretty compact and simple anyway)
This is all nice and dandy but there is not even a DP 1.3 MST hub on the market ...

Of course, that might be because Intel IGP is still stuck on DP 1.2 and so an overwhelming majority of laptops are DP 1.2 only as well. But for video cards, we have been there for three years now: nVidia went full DP 1.4 with Pascal in 2016 AMD has been DisplayPort 1.4 since Polaris at least in 2016 as well.

As an aside, I am unclear whether https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4674/~/g... enabled them on most Maxwell cards as well? https://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gtx-95... still says DP 1.2.
how do you know i'm chinese?
As I've gotten older, I started watching the local news before I go to bed.
I held a workshop once where people implemented this (and other image algorithms). The end result can be seen here [0], and the tasks here [1] (but in Norwegian). Can click the "run seam carving" button to watch it unfold step by step.

[0]: https://matsemann.github.io/image-workshop/
[1]: https://github.com/Matsemann/image-workshop
fair point, no income => depression
Or read Bucky Fuller and "Permaculture Designer's Manual" and cheer up.
Thank you. Indeed I was missing that - your last sentence in particular.
Which companies?

Most shares in most companies I've seen have been owned or controlled by executives or by institutional investors (mutual funds, insurance cos., pensions) that tend to vote with executives' recommendations. Without high-level executive support, shareholders are free to do whatever they want, but the important ones typically don't want.
It's a real shit show I tell you.
This story about NUMMI (where Tesla factory resides) shows that it is not just Japanese who can enjoy improvement, same goes for Americans whose managers are a bit more open minded. https://www.thisamericanlife.org/561/nummi-2015
>I heard culturally Japan and to an extent other Asian manufacturing nations would never actually press the button. Can anyone confirm this?

Its a cord, not a button, and the cord gets pulled all the time. It is a bit brave of Toyota to admit this fact when today's "journalists" are always looking for an angle to take a quote out of context and clickbait the headline. "Toyota admits they have constant flaws in their manufacturing process"

https://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/04/toyota-quality-c...

https://www.leanblog.org/2012/11/andon-cords-at-the-toyota-t...

"In our introductory discussions about Japanese culture, Brad talked about the importance of harmony (“Big Harmony”) in Japanese culture. Because of the overwhelming need for harmony, people often wouldn't naturally speak up. They might be more willing to cover up a problem than to really fix it. So, the andon cord is a mechanism that makes it easier for people to speak up."
This is not quite accurate. The same seat can have different prices depending on a number of factors such as booking classes, availability rules, fare components, time of booking, OTA mark-downs etc http://www.ai.mit.edu/courses/6.034f/psets/ps1/airtravel.pdf gives a good overview what goes into pricing, although said being said it's from 2003 so things have evolved since then.
Even more, I suspect the reading as “nyan” was actually accidental, the onomatopoeia is usually just “nya” if I recall correctly.

Which is easy to understand. The music in the background of the “Nyancat” video is actually produced with UTAU, a sort of offshoot of Vocaloid, the voice synthesis software, using an “UTAUloid” called Momo, with the song being entitled “Nyanyanyanyanyanyanya!”. It seems that “Nyan” resulted from parsing it out of the sequential “nya”s.

It’s kind of fascinating how the “poptart cat” gif and the UTAU song somehow ended up merged into this bizarre internet phenomena.
"Expect this feature to get worse with increased share of index funds."

How so? Index funds buy when the shares are high and sell when they're low.
The "best" fake news these days is the stuff that doesn't register even to people are read-in on the usual anti-patterns.

Subtle framing, selective quotation, anonymous sources, "repeat the lie" techniques, and so on, are the ones that I see happening today that are hard to immunize yourself from. Ironically, the people who fall for these are more likely to self-identify as being aware and clued in on how to avoid fake news.
I think it's simpler and more general to consider that "life" simply refers to any member of a lineage of self-replicating cellular phenomena on Earth. Anything else is just a description of said phenomena.

Alive/dead seems to me to be a generic descriptor for any dynamic phenomena that has a limited time span. Stars that are actively maintaining hydrostatic equilibrium could be called "alive", planets with plate tectonics and atmosphere could be considered "alive", which is to say that they are a dynamic process that is still active. It just so happens that _life_ is also a dynamic process and therefore goes through a period of "alive" time followed by a state change where we become inactive and "die".
We used to have those everywhere in Vancouver. Unfortunately they got rid of them because teenagers were daring each other to strangle themselves unconscious using those things, and several people were badly injured or died.

Humans...
Ya, this isn't a dark pattern. IIRC - They did this because they got customer service complaints from customers saying they didn't believe the results because they were used to older systems "sitting there and churning though numbers".
Just signing with a private key isn't a guarantor of anything other than that if you trust that the person with the key is who they say they are, then the actual content is from them. But that would require a massively large web of trust in itself: that all the private keys would be trusted. And if you only let in private keys that you explicitly trusted, then it's very likely you could end up with an echo chamber
Wish I knew. For my part I actively suggested at every turn how to handle call flow and queuing much better, business partners had their minds made up and effectively wanted us to just "shutup and implement".
>Well there is a pretty fundamental tension between programs written in a Turing-complete language and a program written in one that is not.

Maybe, but you still can't consider anything running javascript an "app" and anything not a "document," since interactivity and state isn't bound to running javascript, and most javascript is just used to render documents.

My point is that the distinction people draw between the two is more emotional than technical.

>Resorting to too much power too early is dangerous and messy.

To be fair, notwithstanding exploits in the underlying browser or hardware which lead to things like Spectre, at least javascript is sandboxed. No one is going to be able to sneak "rm -rf /*" into a script and have it work the way they could a native application.
Actually thats exactly what that means, but sure, 'life' should probably be redefined (or rather ACTUALLY defined).
Yes, we need search engines, but they don't need to be monolithic. Imagine that indexing the text of your average web page takes up 10k. Then you get 100.000 pages per Gig. It means that you if you spend ~270USD on a consumer 10 tera drive you can index a billion webpages. Google no longer says how many pages they index, but its estimated to be with in one order of magnitude of that.

This means that in terms of hardware, you can build your own google, then you get to decide how it rates things and you don't have to worry about ads and SEO becomes much harder because there is no longer one target to SEO. Google obviously don't want you to do this (and in fairness google indexes a lot of stuff that isn't keywords form web pages), but it would be very possible to build an open source configurable search engine that anyone could install, run, and get good results out of.

(Example: The piratebay database, that arguably indexes the vast majority of avilable music / tv / film / software was / is small enough to be downloaded and cloned by users)
A lot of Shopify (or other similar) sites use a nudge where a little toaster pops up and says "so and so from Canmore, Ontario just purchased widget xyz"

I never really thought much about it until someone (I think on here or Reddit) pointed out how it was annoying and a blatant sales tactic.

I suppose I never really assumed the worst, it's really a matter of how you define "just purchased". If you're talking to a flesh and blood salesman, he or she will also say things like "I just sold a pair of knives to your neighbour". Maybe it was 10 minutes ago, maybe it was last week, but the statement itself is true, I suppose? In my neck of the woods, I get lots of driveway sealant salespeople saying they're "doing a house down the street". Are they lying? I never really thought so, but maybe they are.

If they had done zero sales and were saying otherwise, then that'd be lying.