skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you ever actually used an SDR? Like an RTL-SDR or similar? Go buy one for $20, plug in it and tell me how much spectrum you actually see being used across the board. Below the frequencies used for high speed communications (>800MHz, LTE, WiFi2/5 etc) you'll find a whole lot of dark blue waterfall, even with an appropriate antenna.
Microsoft did not have such a policy, but we also had huge development resources already based in China.
Alien, really? Looks like its coming from their roots. To me it looks like a modern retro design of a z600 from the early 70s. Definitely not alien though.
Sure, never assume malice when it could be just ignorance/stupidity. But at the end of the day, this is a major product and service ($33M in VC funding so far [0]). Even though the author tweets (and includes the screencap) "Superhuman is a surveillance tool that intentionally violates privacy...", my impression overall was that his main complaint was about a company's culture and ethical decision-making process:

> Second, I want to talk about why this particular issue is so important. Not why privacy is important; we are all already learning that the hard way. Rather, why making ethical decisions at the earliest stages of your company is important.

> When a company first forms, there are no norms or principles guiding how its people should make decisions. It’s basically just what’s in the founders’ heads. With each decision a company makes, its “decision genome” is established and subsequently hardened...

In other words, if this is a decision Superhuman made early on and embedded into its main product, then, the author argues, we should be very wary of its culture, and how it will weigh-in on privacy issues going forward. It's from this claim that the author seems to have built his anger on.

Read receipts have been a feature of email and messaging clients for at least more than a decade now. Among the tech-literate, the tradeoffs and potential problems/controversies are well-known, such that opting-in (or out) of read receipts is a near-ubiquitous option in every service's account settings. I'm sorry, but it really stretches plausibility to think that Superhuman put in as little thought about it as you propose.

[0] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/superhuman#section-o...
I love that this Lisp version from a comment at lobste.rs (https://lobste.rs/s/xz5l8t/one_program_written_python_go_rus...) runs in less than half the time of Rust, and is more readable to boot:

(declaim (ftype (function (string string) double-float) img-diff))

(defun img-diff (first-file-name second-file-name)
(declare (optimize (speed 3) (safety 0) (debug 0) (space 0)))
(let ((im1 (png:decode-file first-file-name))
(im2 (png:decode-file second-file-name)))
(declare ((SIMPLE-ARRAY (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) (* * *)) im1 im2))
(/ (loop
for i fixnum below (array-total-size im1)
summing (abs (- (row-major-aref im1 i)
(row-major-aref im2 i))) fixnum)
(* (ash 1 (png:image-bit-depth im1)) (array-total-size im1))
1.0))) ; Convert rational to float

(img-diff "file1.png" "file2.png")
Original publication in Nature Communications: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-10366-y
Actually I hate doing frontends way prefer to work with serverside code than play with the DOM, but I recognize that a good frontend is super important to the app to allow people to reason about how it works and to help them through the process, but for my 2c I would way prefer to tinker with backend code all day :)
Isn't hindsight great? I suspect the people who designed Chernobyl thought they were being smart and careful at the time.

You can be as smart and careful as you like, and still get bitten by something you had no idea was a possibility. If you're building a wind turbine, there's likely to be a reasonable limit to how catastrophic that totally unanticipated problem might be. If you're building a nuclear plant, the stakes are a lot higher.
Not really. Efficiency doesn't change much based on torque. See here for Leaf: https://farm5.static.flickr.com/4106/4844105739_3795e703f2_b...

There is very little downside to putting a bigger motor than needed in an EV, other than a bit of extra weight to move around. As long as you don't use that power, (fast acceleration), you won't pay for it.

That said, 221 lb-ft of torque isn't very much. They don't say at what rpm that is. Most EVs are electronically torque limited at low rpm. Assuming the peak torque is around 2000 rpm, that's only 84 hp.

(My biggest pet peeve is torque without rpm -- it's meaningless!)
AZW3 is basically EPUB, you just need to run your EPUB files through Calibre. (Not that this excuses the lack of EPUB support.)
Tagsistant: A Semantic Filesystem for Linux
I hate tracking pixels, read receipts, and all similar stuff. The only thing worse than lack of privacy, though, is privacy theater, and that's what we've had. It's a good thing for more people to realize that this stuff happens all the time, so they can take action about it if they want to.
TBP is probably the worst sci-fi book I've ever read. It's hard to say how much one should blame Cixin vs. the translator regarding the inept, wooden dialogue, but we can certainly blame Cixin for terrible character development and absurd plot points.
> Is there a market for low hundred mile (two hundred KM or less) vehicles?

I hope so, and I trust that Honda did due dil on potential market size.

My wife and I are in the market for a small electric car - commute is less than 25km so this would be perfect for us. And looks cooler than Nissan's Leaf.

For when we need range / space we have a (decently efficient) CI car that we know we can rely on.
Who is funding the border crisis?
According to the CBP website there were 144,278 border apprehensions/inadmissables in May of 2019. In May of 2018 there were only 51,862. That's an increase of 278% year over year. Is there any data behind an orchestrated campaign to exacerbate illegal arrivals at the southern US border? The plausible culprits are numerous. What do you think?

https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/sw-border-migration
This is the form for ESTA, the travel authorization one must obtain if entering the US under the visa waiver program by air or sea. On the visa application forms, the social media questions are not optional, though still limited to a particular list of social media sites. The visa form is used people from countries who are not in the visa waiver program as well as who are not entering under the VWP (for example workers, students, journalists, tourists/business travelers staying longer than 90 days, and immigrants).
Android needs an incognito mode or some way to set up a secondary user that looks as if it's the only user on the device. Maybe this mode/user can be triggered with a different passcode or finger.
1. I do not expect emails from my friends and family to include tracking pixels. So yes, this is not just "weird," but also social-engineering: It exploits people who are not Superhuman users, who do not opt into being tracked, and do not expect to be tracked by emails from friends and family.

2. If there is a tracker, the second thing I expect is that it tells people whether I read the email. I do not expect it to also track location. Well, being an HN user I do. But the typical email recipient (who I repeat is NOT a Superhuman user) does not expect to be geotagged when they open an email from friends/family.

3. If I do figure out that I'm being geotagged, I am going to think it's like Google, some sort of thing that goes into the cloud and is sold to optimize my advertising or what-not. Nobody opens an email and thinks that the person who sent it to them will be told where they were when they opened the email.

In my opinion, "weird" is not the word for any of the three things I've listed. It is not nearly strong enough to describe taking advantage of people's (possibly flawed) model for how email and tracking works.
> And since hams are very likely to narc, snitch, or grass

You forgot rats and stool pigeons. It really detracted from the extremely important point you were making.
Even being someone who uses the CLI, now that I have this app I will probably rarely use the CLI, it's just nicer to see things visually as to be able to reason about them. Also selecting the directory etc is something way more easily done via a GUI than the command line. There's a reason why operating system manufacturers created a GUI and we all use them today, they fit with our brains much more than just using a terminal.
It’s fast on Safari mobile but very slow on Firefox desktop. Goes to show many things.
I guess it's still hard to live in a city that has half of its streets flooded by a mass of people and many of its shops and cafes converted into tourist traps. It's a serious problem caused by globalization, higher standards of living and cheaper transport: there are places that are becoming unlivable due to the sheer mass of tourism.

And it's a problem that is very hard to solve, because a city must, almost by definition, be open; and because curbing tourism- even if it were feasible- means saying no to a huge amount of cash.
Too bad we're not getting it in North America. I would buy this in a heart beat, though I'd prefer a slightly larger battery pack. In the winter here my Volt gets down to 50-60km range and I can't make it to work without using the ICE; round trip on days when I can't charge at work would be dicey with this Honda.
I wish I could find it now, but I saw a survey/study a while back that showed that the weird looks of EVs are actually a selling point. Apparently one of the benefits of driving an electric vehicle is having everyone know that you drive an electric vehicle.
I think Tibet still very much has Western imagination captured whereas Uyghar Muslims... do not. Even more cynical analysis, Xinjiang is fundamentally an exercise in reducing the real problem of Islamic radicalization and the non response from many countries (including Muslim ones) is that they are quietly observing to see if the experiment pays off. The danger of Xinjiang is that surveillance state + "vocational" reintegration camps might actually be a productive model that can be exported elsewhere.
BeakerX: Collection of kernels and extensions to the Jupyter notebook
For the Japanese domestic market (and China, to a great extent) 124 miles is plenty for a large proportion of consumers. The Honda E appears to qualify as a Kei car, making it uniquely appealing in Japan.
> Doesn’t that encourage using sudo in interactive mode rather than elevating for just the required commands?

It might, but policy could specify not allowing interactive mode for situations that dictate a two-man rule. Violation of said policy would necessitate a review and possible HR-related action depending on how serious the company wants to treat things.
I wanted to disagree with this article, but it's all perfectly reasonable. It makes a lot of sense and it's well written. It's also not an absolutist viewpoint, which makes it even more reasonable.

The danger I see here is that when the places I worked in chose "boring, well-tested" technologies they picked COBOL or ColdFusion. It's not true that I would be happy to ship software that worked if done using these tools. If I had to work with them again I'd shoot myself in the... face. I don't think I ever learned anything valuable from them, except maybe "sometimes the tasks you're given will be boring, and that's how life goes".
Are other people doing it? -- So that is a reasonable test for ethical behavior? Wow. Other platforms similarly unethical behavior is NOT justification for lack of ethics. That might be a financial argument, but it is absolutely not a reasonable approach to ethics.

Legal vs. illegal is also not an appropriate basis for proper behavior. I think if we all used that standard for our personal interactions society would rapidly descend into chaos.
> This is correct: https://gmail.googleblog.com/2013/12/images-now-showing.html

No, it's wrong. The first time you open the email, the image is retrieved. It's only subsequent views that are cached. So the sender can still see when you read the email; they just can't see how many times you read it afterwards.
That's an unusually unhelpful and unfriendly comment for HN.
Yes! It's subthread "marked as read" or "hide".
It does look great. I’m concerned though, few years ago I used to use rivets [1] for two-way data binding in html. It worked very well. Unfortunately, it’s abandoned. Same fate as coffeescript, backbonejs, etc.

Now I primarily use react. Vue looks great, but I don’t want to introduce yet another framework.

I could use some insights/view points from hn. I don’t feel using/learning the now-abandoned frameworks is useless though — the things I built are still working. But good luck to anyone who’d want to maintain that codebase (unlikely in my case).

[1]: http://rivetsjs.com/
I don't think it is about higher torque. It is more about instant torque, which a characteristic of electric motors. AFAIK, they did not design the motor to behave that way, it just the natural behavior of the electric motor.
I would imagine the energy used to push air in from the surface is significantly less then the impact that massive AC units have.
Producing meat consumes a lot of resources. Especially if its beef.

https://i.imgur.com/JAMsYHk.gif
Doesn't look like it. Considering that's the main reason I fire up the desktop version of Earth, it's an unfortunate omission
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I have a budget moto and HN comments section is completely unusable on Chrome but perfectly smooth on Firefox. Haven't explored why.

On Chrome any comment section with more than about 100 comments grinds to a halt. If I try to type in a comment there's a three second delay waiting for every letter to appear.
It's a little surprising that the article itself calls out creeping thyme as one of the bee-friendly candidate plants for MN, then, as does the article it ultimately sources from:

https://www.startribune.com/program-pays-minnesota-homeowner...

Perhaps there is a hardier variety? Or maybe they're expecting people to just plant fresh each spring?
Maybe use cloudflare only for the landing page and docs but serve your bidding app frontend and backend directly? Since users are already there it will only affect first load :)
Does using cameras rather than sideview mirrors have any benefits? Surely they add more modes of failure compared to mirrors.
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The city is mostly dead. At least, that's how it used to be 20 years ago.
Metrics are that enough companies have moved to Windows 10 that it is increasingly unlikely that Microsoft will over-extend security support for 7 like they did with XP, and the market costs are likely going to be a lot higher for support contracts.
What Trump’s Huawei Reversal Means for the Future of 5G
I don’t think you would have much problems in Urumqi these days, the problems only start when you leave the big city.

Is Urumqi really an international hub? I can’t imagine anyone flying through that city for any trip that didn’t originate or terminate in China. Chengdu is much more of the hub these days.
> Why not create a closed government only internet or intranet where all grids connect to each other but none have access to the main internet.

An air gap didn't help Iran against Stuxnet, or the US DoD against agent.btz:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_cyberattack_on_United_Sta...

It wouldn't hurt, and it's probably worth doing anyway as a risk mitigation, but keeping it completely sanitary would be impossible.
That’s my guess as well. They’re probably only looking at “bigger” sites: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Reddit, Instagram, Snapchat, WhatsApp, WeChat, and maybe YouTube.

But, it’s the broadness of the definition that’s of concern. That forum you registered at a year ago to ask a random question, never to return? Covered. Dating sites? Yep. Stack Overflow, Quora, etc. definitely. Yelp? For sure.

Then there are sites you can probably twist the definition to cover. Amazon might make this list, since you have the ability to post a public “wish list.” Things like Rover would count, because you have a “pet profile” and can post reviews of sitters, even though nobody says Rover is a social networking app.

Then there’s the class of “sites an adversary with unlimited resources for lawyers” might press to include. You posted a comment on a random blog? We consider your comment history to be your “public profile,” etc. The potential for overreach is huge, even if we don’t get to absurd levels such as this.
I don't think it's alien, in fact it's more nostalgic/retro, brings to my mind the Renault 4.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renault_4
At the end it shows a mass of kids being lead in chants like:

"Are you Chinese?"

"Do you love China?"

"Do you want China to be strong?"

Not sure we can debate this without someone getting upset about some race or religion issue. In the past (in the US anyways) this is the kind of thing wars were fought over to prevent happening across the world.
"Gross mismanagement" is an easy diagnosis after the fact. During the time in which the decisions were being made they probably made perfect sense, at least given the knowledge and constraints the decision makers were working with.

With some notable high profile exceptions people don't go into things with the intention of completely screwing them up.
China has been secretly installing spyware on some tourists’ Android phones
If you're concerned about this behavior (and you should be, it's creepy as f) you might be interested in this EFF article:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/01/stop-tracking-my-email...
Five months ago the question was "Ask HN: What are the steps to launch a online store?" where two users suggested shopify. Have you setup a test store or is the project still in the idea stage?
Mosquitos are dangerous, painful and a huge nuisance for a lot of people.
The 'logout' button is also a GET request.
Houston, we have a problem. And that problem is the children.

And as Whitney Houston used to say, "pass me the coke"^W^W^W^W "I believe the children are our future"

I love bees to death, but white clover in lawns is a good way to introduce children to the business end of honey bees. Trying to get my own family to stop and watch a bush full of honey and bumblebees working has taken years of desensitization both for myself and then for them.

If you don't want bees to be in crisis again in 30 years when those kids are in charge, you need a better plan than this. Or at least a reworded one. What you want is flower beds in yards, (And you need to break the iron fist of the HOA to get more of those), not flowers in lawns.
We live in a time when it's more difficult to switch off than ever before. I was burned out for a couple of years for sure until a major life threatening illness forced me to take stock.

I've made some important and very useful changes:

- I've started saying "no" to others including clients, business partners, friends, family etc. Every time I do this, it is saying "yes" to myself

- I've blocked all social media and news websites from my phone (both apps and via Safari)

- I've gotten rid of all work emails from my phone too

- I have an alarm clock by my bed instead of my phone which sleeps in another room

- I start every day using the 5 minute journal method

- I journal (almost) every day before I start my work

- I no longer work weekends and evenings

- I've made peace with the fact that my business isn't going to grow as quickly as I want it to.

We do have choices at the end of the day. Check out the 5 balls for life speech by Bryan Dyson, former CEO of Coca Cola; work is a rubber ball that you can drop and it will bounce back, the rest of the balls that we juggle (health, friendships, family etc) are all glass balls which may shatter if we drop them.
Programming languages alone aren't the only things you have to know in order to be a professional developer. It's also important to keep up with the ecosystem around that language, and industry-wide trends in application design, testing and deployment/ops.

Good luck getting a Javascript job if all you know is jQuery, and you've never touched Webpack/React/whatever else JS devs need these days. Maybe JS is an extreme case, but some version of that same phenomenon exists for all the languages you mentioned.
Not quite, the sender still doesn't get location and your browser fingerprint. The receipt of email is still received though.
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> It's pretty easy for people who care to "turn off read receipts" by disabling images or blocking it through proxy/vpn/whatever.

Setting aside the difficulty, being pressured to disable a generic feature (image loading) for a degenerate use case of that feature (user tracking) is annoying.
Out of curiosity, could you tell us a little more about your log analysis workflow? Once they are in Clickhouse, how do you visualise/search/analyse your logs? What is your equivalent of Kibana?
I don't buy that at all. There are far more important problems than those that arise from voicing an opinion and having to field defenses from those who'd suffer under the unpopular policy regime you espouse.