skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because it's very easy to get turkeys to vote for Christmas. Turkeys have no idea why you like Christmas or what you're planning for Christmas, they just know what you're telling them. Tell them that turkeys are the most important things on Christmas and it would be entirely spoiled without them, and promise them a handful of feed right now as a reward for voting for it. You don't even have to lie.
This is called Joint Venture (JV) and is a common practice in Semicon. You can search Qualcomm and Intel, they also do this with china.
Gut microbes might help elite athletes boost physical performance
First 2 items are about their borders - not that I agree with the actions, but these are completely understandable.

The Africa still isn't a proper comparison - building few bases where you invest tons of money and extract crutial resources isn't the point here, bloody invasions that destroy whole region for generations and kill millions innocent are. And this is something specific to US, even Russia didn't do anything comparable.

Anything after WWII, maybe but just maybe including Korea is actively adding evil to this world. But I suspect not many americans are willing to accept truth here
The NSA outsourcing its work, be it by contract or by 'request' (given the power differences involved I wouldn't consider it a normal request) does not absolve that there is a a systematic problem with domestic spying going on here.

Taking into consideration how historical evidence has shown just how toothless proper channels are when improper behavior aligns with leadership goals and taking into account that the government has a long history of trying to use technicalities to outsource work that wouldn't be legal if done in house, I think we are beyond any benefit of the doubt.

I do agree we should be sure to inform people correctly. "NSA spying on Americans continues to function in a way that breaks legal limits while giving plausible deniability" does seem a bit better a title.

But the ACLU is a better spokesman than I:

>"These documents provide further evidence that the NSA has consistently been unable to operate the call detail record program within the bounds of the law," the ACLU said in a letter to Congress this week lobbying for an end to the program.
So Remind Me Again, Why Do We Need the NPM Registry?
Also, a list of the nuclear weapons which got lost

https://interestingengineering.com/broken-arrows-the-worlds-...

There is a drove of stories around nuclear weapons, I also enjoyed

"Missile doors left open while Air Force nuclear officer slept" with the explanation, that they left it open for the food delivery guy.

https://edition.cnn.com/2013/10/23/us/air-force-nuclear-silo...

John Olivers episode on it is also amazing.

https://youtu.be/1Y1ya-yF35g

For a weird one meet one of the masterminds responsible for them:

https://youtu.be/1Y1ya-yF35g?t=439
Use the data lifecycle manager for your EBS snapshots
How thin is the barrier between lawful collection and "accidentally" sucking up all the communication in the USA?

Seems like a major screwup like this is pretty normal for the NSA. Or at least they execute it with aplomb.
IPCC is a governmental lobby indeed that's why governmental reviewers have the final word on what appears in the report (Article 11 of IPCC legal statuses).
'Terrifying' app that can undress women taken offline
I started with an Arduino myself. It is a simple and accessible piece of electronics (basically just a microcontroller and a power supply) so it is simple to understand.

This is for digital design at least, there is a lot more to electronics!
Ask HN: Business analyst, to BI analyst, books
Hi HN, I'm a BA, working as a consultant, after a failed startup, self learned python, sql, a bit of html, and I want to pivot to business intelligence, and continue working as a freelance consultant in corps and gov agencies.
What do you recomend I should read ? I can learn on my own very fast and effientlty.
And if you can suggest me some books to become a better BA, that would be great too!
I'm based in Québec city.

thanks!
C# developer here, which has local variable type inference. It is appropriate in 95% of places. It hasn't caused an apocalypse yet. It has, in fact, been great!
I really hope they consider that Linux' graphic stack isn't an end in itself, but a driver for running the relative wealth of graphic apps (GIMP, Inkscape, Krita, Blender, Firefox, and more) many people spent the last 30 years or so developing. Those aren't going to be rewritten from scratch into Electron-based apps or whatever, and loosing them, as well as BSD and Mac OS compat, is no option IMHO.
Dealing with currency exchanges and split payments
It leads me to use "addict" as a transitive verb.

As in, "Purdue Pharma knowingly addicted millions of Americans to opioids."

(As an aside, in Spanish at least "suicide" is also a transitive verb in some cases, as in "The Roman emperor suicided the senator." This was because in Rome emperors would knowingly and deliberately create circumstances (credible threats for instance) that would leave the victim with effectively no choice but to do what many others in the same situation would do).
Amusing to see reddit's advertising system put an advertisement from Triplebyte on there and looks like almost any other post ;)
Meet The Havard's Autonomous Flying Microrobots (RoboBees)
sites don’t need to collect data. it’s a choice which comes with a cost
qualcomm also did this recently (search for qualcomm HXT). A lot of companies prolly do this to get access to china.
> Its the Wall Street Journal, not real news.

What exactly is real news to you, then? I think the WSJ / Bloomberg are pretty much as good as media gets.

Or if you think no media outlet is "real" and they're all motivated by profit, then that just means your definition of "real news" is entirely inaccurate.
Los Angelels about to sign record low priced solar power deal – 1.997¢/kWh
Texas doesn't have a teachers union and they still don't pay them all that well. Blaming unions for such things doesn't appear to be a well researched argument.
Also, I will launch into a philosophical discussion of existence from a purely materialistic point of view while ignoring the religious dimension that is almost completely universal to human experience throughout history. I can get away with that because it has become the dominant mode of thought in our materialistic age.
I've mentioned it around here before, but I think this is the oft-unseen problem with artificially created scarcities (especially housing scarcities from NIMBYs).

Say you've got 10 people. 5 of them want to do (noble but lower paying thing) and 5 and want to do (meh to possibly sketchy high-paying thing).

If there are 10 homes, that's fine. Maybe the noble ones have simpler, less fancy houses, but they're still basically OK. They still have the basics of life. "I can do something good for humanity and forego some luxury" is something a lot of people might think.

If there are 5 homes, then only the ones who do sketch work can have them. "I can do something good for humanity and be homeless" is something far fewer people think.

This applies to other things where a person might want to voluntarily take in less income (couple with one person doing childcare, taking a career break to learn a new thing, etc.) and it's why creating these fake shortages sucks so much out of the human experience - you have to justify your endeavors in terms of the lost income, and how they'll affect your competitiveness.
Back in the day I worked on a system built on NeWS. Hand coding PostScript was an adventure. At the time NeWS certainly looked like the future. Oh, and the server side application (written in C) had ad-hoc version of about 3/4 of Common Lisp. Every function call passed an array of void star star
Dragonfly: Drone helicopter to fly on Saturn's moon, Titan
russia solved their oil supply problem anexing a neighboring country and no sign of a world war. why do you think china anexing taiwan would start one (also, remember china already sent a column of tanks there one nigth and again, nothing happened with the world)

International apathy is at an all time high, thanks to most countries dealing with internal political issues (which in most cases involve rigth wing groups and fake news)
npm link almost feels like a troll attempt. Running 2 packages locally together is one of the most basic features I can think of, and it works so poorly.
First impressions:

1. It doesn't properly "Follow device theme" (as per Settings) - I had to switch it to Dark manually;

2. Zooming text doesn't work on some pages, and on others it doesn't make the text rewrap. That's a pet peeve of mine as far as mobile browsers go. Only a handful gets this right (Opera, Yandex).
FreeBSD works pretty nicely, though of course you're still subject to RedHat-induced breakage of Gnome etc.
I tend to think the opposite. When you think of design you think of Apple (which in turn means Jony Ive). Whether or not they cause some functional issues doesn't matter. The market has spoken and they love the sleek design that this man has come up with. If it weren't true people wouldn't be all out copying the designs of Apple. I think history will look favorably on him, and pretty much forget the functional issues (whether real or just perceived) his designs caused.
I felt the fear of abduction by China in Hong Kong
Yes, that. Modern cluster systems are designed on the premise that hardware and software fails.

Netflix's 'chaos monkey' software is an example of something that goes around randomly breaking things within clusters just to see if something fails to transparently recover without service interruption.
No we aren't aiming straight up because we need to get into orbit. We need to go sideways as fast as possible. As long as you're not aiming at the ground you will always aim "up" but not straight up.
But it's not that simple.

No other company can legally sell OS-X computers; some of the software on the platform is Mac only. So if you're in the Mac ecosystem then making a switch to Windows or Linux can be a major hurdle.

I'm saying that as a die-hard Windows fan (well, after Nadella took over) who's now currently enjoying Windows Terminal (beta), the Linux Subsystem, and some major improvements in the usability of the Win10 OS. Not to mention their new Edge Browser, Code, and .net Core - the list goes on.

Even though I believe the grass is much greener on this side, I can fully understand that a huge number of people don't want to or can't easily change. The new Macbook Pros are beautifully designed, if it just wasn't for that missing row of keys and total lack of travel in those that remain.
It's really in America's best interest to cripple the Chinese economy, as well as other big competitors coughEU which is where these policies are coming from.

No, it is not in America's best interest to cripple the economies of its trading partners. That's absolutely absurd.
Most Uber/Lyft drivers would be happy as independent contractors if the companies didn't keep reducing rates/incentives.

The mileage/time rates of pay have been slashed drastically and Lyft recently removed Primetime rate increases altogether, so drivers now get essentially no additional money for driving during the busiest times.
Your false dichotomy is unconvincing, because Apple were so inept in designing the iPad, they can't even repair it themselves.

The non-TouchID button of an iPad broke and my only option would have been to essentially buy a new iPad, because they send the broken one to HQ and give you a refurbished device in exchange.

They can't repair a broken button! That is incredibly lame.

Furthermore, their devices have become less repairable and more failure-prone for no good reason.
For example the MBP screen will die just from opening and closing the lid, because they used too short cables. Major fuck-up, but they will easily fix it by replacing the cable, right? No, they designed it in such a way that the entire screen must be replaced.

I'd like to see you try to explain away this idiocy please. Tell us how we couldn't have had MBPs and iPads if Apple would have been able to fix their own devices instead of force-recycling them.
That's why physicists talk about interaction rather than perception.
Apollo Pioneered TV Meals
Funnily enough, I was chatting to the guy who came to repair my 10yr old Siemens dishwasher a month or so back. His advice - next time you buy one, buy a Beko, as they have long understood how to build a good product to a price cap. The marque brands are now trying to save costs by doing the same internally, but they are not as good at it!
“Full Stop” is always a good argument. I have a USB-C card reader which I guarantee you is faster than the one you have.

Sure, internal card readers were nice. But they’re gone from Apple now. Really not sure why people keep talking about this.
You seem to be misunderstanding that I'm advocating that X-Windows be replaced by NeWS in 2019. That's not at all what I'm saying.

I guess you're one of those people who always uses the noscript extension in your browser, and drives to the bank, pays for a parking place, and waits in line instead of using online banking.

Have you ever used Google Maps? Are you arguing that everybody should turn off JavaScript and use online maps that you scroll by clicking and waiting for another page to load?

You must really hate it when WebGL shaders download code into your GPU!
I started out with a 300 in 1 electronics learning kit from RadioShack which had a breadboard and lots of projects you could assemble to learn all the basics, from resistors to diodes and transistors - and make fun projects like door alarms and synthesizers.

RadioShack obviously does not make them any more but the good news is that there are lots of other electronics kits out there now! Learning digital design with an Arduino is great but it is also important to learn the analog side of electronics too.
I bought a 4K Action cam last year and a dashcam this year that both used mini-USB. I've also seen a guy making some open hardware to adapt some retro something or other being proud of picking mini instead of micro since it's "less fragile"
I respect your opinion, because even if an application could handle 200k users at once was able to be run on a MBP without serious issue, it's still gauche to forcibly invite 200k people in your company to a chat.
Not sure I agree with you there: should it not fork a process to run a heavy task? Should it not fork a process for each end of a pipe, especially considering we're deep into the multicore era of processors?

The fact that the basic shell could use more builtins instead of delegating everything to external processes (like calculating a simple expression) is totally unrelated to the Unix Philosophy being bankrupt.

If fork and processes weren't so expensive, I still think multiple processes are the best way to parallelise on multicore CPUs. In fact, there's a resurgence in programming environments based on multiple communicating, yet isolated, processes, see Erlang/Elixir.

Though I definitely would like to see someone seriously exploring a different paradigm than UNIX.

EDIT: Unix philosophy also is "everything is a file", and what is a file exactly? A bag of bytes. Everything we deal with is a bag of bytes if you think about it, so I find it perfectly fitting to model our world that way.

But then again, the current construct to represent this idea such as labels organised in directories, might be a bit long in the tooth and we're due for some paradigm shift on this front as well, but I digress.
>Denied data recovery when it’s possible

This one hits close to home.

I brought in my phone for a warranty exchange when the charging port was damaged. Phone at 7% without the ability to charge, I was told emailing photos to myself was the only option and was prodded to use the cloud storage in the future.

It’s unfortunate I wasn’t in the position to leave without a new phone. Years of photos were lost that day due to this lack of option and my own failure to back up locally.
I'm sorry but I don't follow. That is no way answers my question.
Just thinking out loud but could IFTTT accomplish something like this without integration into Gmail?
Do you have a recommended server / client? The last time I tried to use IRC (joining an existing chat) I actually had quite a bit of trouble, and ended up just giving up.
No. The Linux stack is pretty much whatever Red Hat says it is. If Red Hat says X is moribund, that will prompt upstreams to drop X support from their toolkits and the other distros will fall in line and go full Wayland. Maybe Slackware will hang on for a couple releases more. No one's going to maintain that big chungus code base just to buck the direction the wind is very obviously blowing.
"consumer buys what the consumer wants"

And the supplier uses AI-guided targeted advertising to tell the public exactly what it wants.

The market decision loop has been broken for a long time.

You could go back to the US auto industry of the 1950s - early 70s, telling (and convincing) the buying public that it wanted huge, heavy, overpowered, inefficient, unsafe, poorly-handling, and tremendously fuel-inefficient cars. Until reality did what it does and imposed, and the buying public didn't, and Japan and Germany were more than happy to sell them what they discovered they did want: well-engineered, efficient, inexpensive (until 1980s import quota limits drove manufacturers up-market), better-handling, and safer cars.
"We focus on the case where we know what is normal and what is exceptional, but where the probabilistic meaning of these terms is unknown or irrelevant." Interesting stuff!
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What Startups Are Recklessly Missing
Well, you know what happens when you email @yourcompany.com? Is it a protocol problem? Implementation problem? User problem?
> No. His "sarcasm" was that he now supports "flooding" the

> country with what he called "violent low-iq brown".

Again: "I don't find it funny or condone it". But, how do you know he isn't sarcastically echoing the point of view of a far-right person, or what other people believe his opinion should be? I think that given the right context (and/or delivery) this could be a joke to mock people for example.

> I have zero interest in talking to them. I've tried. Any

> argument I've ever encountered has been made in bad faith.

Whether you've given up or not, they exist and will continue to exist. They lay the bricks, they hold political positions and they teach your kids. These people exist everywhere in society and somehow we need to work together for the betterment (and survival) of humanity. Given how important us working together is, I feel obliged to understand them.

> It's not what you called "right wing bias" that I have a

> problem with and don't want to engage with. I thought that

> was quite clear in my comment.

I didn't suggest you did, I'm just saying that you are able to neutralize the perceived political/ideological bias of the platform with your own thoughts and ideas.
This makes no sense to me. The article states that there is one frequency of radiation that will pass through the atmosphere, so the device radiates at that wavelength. But why would it make any difference? The atmosphere might reflect most radiation back to earth, but not back to the point it came from. So it shouldn't matter what frequency the device is radiating - its radiation will be reflected elsewhere, and radiation from elsewhere will be reflected to it.
Jony Ive Once Insisted on Apple Car Without a Steering Wheel
Personal Income increased 0.5% in May, Spending increased 0.4%
Crypto is coming: get ready to spend Facebook’s money
Not OP, but my understanding is that it's a common approach in Idris. Here's the creator of the language deriving the implementation of zipWith without writing any code: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X36ye-1x_HQ&t=1274

Some other examples include:

- Haskell: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/ghc-justdoit

- Scala: https://github.com/TypeChecked/alphabet-soup

- Agda: https://youtu.be/3U3lV5VPmOU?t=3159

I was under the impression that justDoIt comes from Scala, but I can't find a reference for that.
The family separation policy is, however, purely punitive.
Well its like the tyranny of the rocket equation. Yes the size increase isnt linear, but it isn't a free lunch either.

Don't forget, once you've added an extra tonne of batteries your suspension and chassis need upgrading (ie get heavier) to compensate, so you need to add more batteries to compensate....
https://www.failory.com/

http://startupgraveyard.io/
I've said this many times when I watch VCs invest in some damn fool thing: there should be a market for selling such investments short. Maybe I should ask a VC for backing for this idea.
On Technical Presentations – Grimoire
As independent contractors, they are free to not accept work at an unacceptable price.
Part of the point of objecting to big data surveillance is that we ultimately don't know how it's being used, despite what companies claim about its use.

Can I believe you? ...even if you're telling the truth, big corps can hide their most malicious practices from most of their own employees.

To me, it doesn't matter how e.g. Facebook actually uses my data today, because even if they're telling the truth they could change their policies tomorrow, or get hacked, or some third party (incl. the gov't) could get hacked, etc. It's better as a user to try and prevent such data from ever existing in the first place.
I wonder if the problem isn't how to measure productivity, but the fact that we bother to focus on individual contribution rather than how the organization operates with respect to organizational goals.

I work for a mid-sized university. We're a bit unique, for higher ed, in that we have centralized IT. Our projects support university 5-year plans. When projects do not complete successfully or are extraordinarily late people notice. If teams are hitting their goals - university goals - does it matter if every person on a team is hitting some averaged-out metric for productivity? If a team isn't hitting its goals, usually it's not due to individual contribution, it's due to poor communication, unrealistic goals, frequently shifting requirements/priorities, etc. Usually a sit down with the team to get feedback will tell more of why the team failed.

A hobby of mine is coaching youth basketball. To increase my ability, I joined a forum. Today the moderator posted a quote from NBA player Marc Gasol. Marc lamented the tracking of individual stats because the stats don't tell the story. He stated, correctly IMO, that many critical factors are not tracked and would be hard to measure the importance of. For instance, a player who doesn't score much but prevents his defensive assignment from being a play maker (play makers are more than just scorers). Or the player who sets up the plays that allow other people to score (for those familiar with basketball, think screens/picks). Or the guy who is on the bench but helps calm down players when their team is down.

I've come to feel the same way about IT teams. A win is a team win; a loss is a team loss. In both situations, many factors came into play in order for the outcome to occur. My experience is that individual productivity stats don't give you a clear idea why the outcome occurred. In the end, it's all about the success of the organization.
Why do you think those apps would need to be rewritten and what has electron to do with that? Most of these apps already run natively on top of Wayland, as they are written using a toolkit like GTK or QT and those toolkits support Wayland.

Also, there is XWayland, which implements the X protocol on top of Wayland, so any X application should continue to run. The only thing they talked about stopping development on is the standalone X server X.org.

I have been using Wayland on my desktop for a while and am quite happy about it.
Marc Newson is joining as well, this is unexpected for me, since new Mac Pro seems heavily influenced by his work. IMO.
And Wayland might get completely abandoned in the process.
Is there an NX type solution for Wayland?