skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dude. You’d break crypto for payment in.... crypto?

Why not just create transfers quietly from others and bleed out wallets from around the world, then convert to cash, then publish? You’d be rich, crypto would crash, and you’d be able to buy a lifetime supply of popcorn for the ensuing collapse.
I'm fine with that as long as it's clearly explained. The issue was that the program would nudge the user to upload personal information without making it clear what was happening and that it was unnecessary for Riot to function.

However there's a broader point that it doesn't make sense to imitate the competition when the thing you're copying is precisely the reason why one would want to leave the competition to your solution.
> There's plenty of ways to allow device owners to unlock their own devices, without also letting others do so.

Such as?
and also has a lot of unexpected behaviour in certain cases
So sad. Boeing software, and its software engineers, used to be the shit. Now Boeing doesn't even want its own software engineers.

> A Boeing statement in May, explaining why the company didn't inform regulators at the time, said engineers had determined it wasn't a safety issue.

> "Senior company leadership," the statement added, "was not involved in the review."

So Boeing is no longer special, just another rat-fucking consultancy?
I think we're just figuring out different problems are solved using different paradigms.

I find complex business logic tends to be best modelled using algebraic data types and functional programming.
Does this suffice? https://github.com/waymonad/waymonad
Generating Beatles' Lyrics with Machine Learning
Depending on the formulation of the burrito, I may produce undesirable hydrocarbon emissions.
Flare Free/Libre Action Roleplaying Engine
Maybe just let people dial in a few modulation variables to a default growl sound. A limited synth. You could tweak it till your dog recognizes it.

Sell some warm sounding effects as vehicle add-ons like a delay or reverb unit.
There was also a Science Magazine news story

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/06/nih-probe-foreign-ti...
Right, I understand that, but my point is that how it actually gets used is in largely a private-stackoverflow-substitute capacity, even though that's not really its intended use case. That's where the 'desire lines' go.
This is such an important lesson. Also, you're worth more than "what you've done lately". I personally struggle with tying my self worth to my productivity.
Is it just me or are these restaurant adjacent businesses involved in some really bad practices. Between Yelp and Seamless, it seems to me that a mutually beneficial symbiotic relationship will not form organically. (I'm referring to how Yelp can be predatorial to businesses to make them pay yelp or have Yelp negatively affect that business' yelp rating. There are plenty of articles showing this but data is hard to come by)
Xfce 4.14pre2 Released
I sympathise with this view, but I'm not sure it's that simple. If you're Chinese or Bangladeshi or from anywhere else that's a poster child of globalisation, you can still compete with the US labour force from your own country. If you're allowed to immigrate, you get access to infrastructure, cultural knowledge, a somewhat functional legal system, and other force multipliers which might allow you to compete with more efficiency... but you'd still be competing even if you were back home.
Deploying Security Onion on AWS Using VPC Mirroring
> Isn't lower case more legible?

No, it isn't.
It’s a PoC, the endgame could be running it directly in the browser with WASM.
People say hi on HN all the time, esp when they see someone they know comment on a thread.
Nah. I’ll stick with Flutter
Nice summary of the (suboptimal) tradeoffs. Perhaps AWS is waiting for some customer push to offer better options.
Interestingly the beginning of the document you linked is all about reducing noise levels and the deleterious effects of car noise on human health and well-being.

> Traffic noise harms health in numerous ways. Protracted noise-related stress can exhaust human physical reserves, disrupt the regulatory capacity of organ functions and hence limit their effectiveness. Traffic noise is a potential risk factor for the development of medical conditions and incidents such as high blood pressure and heart attacks.

But you are looking at an old draft. The updated Annex VIII references another document which does indeed specify a minimum noise level.

https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regdoc/rep/3/2017/EN/C-201...
If you just assume that the sample mean = the population mean, then you get the right answer, at least for this example. I don't see why the article fools around with the maximum at all - isn't the maximum a much more noisy statistic than the mean?
> And I don't think it's the case that nobody knew capitals were hard on the eyes. The whole reason why lower case letters exist is because roman allcapswithnospaces are horrible.

As I responded to you elsewhere, the idea that capitals are hard on the eyes is just a myth. All caps with no spaces is bad, but that's because of the missing spaces.
Having spent a while camping and using solar there are a lot of things that can go. Heating costs can go to zero by using insulation. Macbook Air type computers and LED lamps are low enough power to run on solar etc. We still tended to use gas for cooking.
It's not set in stone until the network is live. Everything at this point is still in the hands of Facebook. And I doubt that will change.
It'd be really helpful if they could come up with some sort of packet of information for renters to give their building owners.
20 D2 FF for JSR $FFD2, which was the C-64 subroutine to output a character to the screen. Or use 4C, to JMP instead for tail-call optimization.

I have a laminated copy, wallet-sized 6520 opcode page from an Apple II programming manual, just in case I need it.
Not to disagree with your point, but Plan9 is not really a Unix kernel, despite being written by some of the same group at Bell Labs.
Ask HN: What do you do on an Android phone that cannot be done on an iPhone?
Not trying to start a flame war. I am finally switching away from my trusty Nokia Lumia 920 because the browser wouldn't load m.uber.com and WhatsApp says app will be gone at the end of the year. I like the snappiness of Windows Phone and iPhone UI. Haven't checked Android phones recently but years ago the UI was laggy and no one except I seem to notice.

Also know that sideloading apps, blocking ads in apps etc. is much easier on Android so I am hard pressed to decide between the two.
This newspaper is oppressively Jewish.
Ah yes, mustn't let "the economy" suffer - who cares about the actual workers within that economy.
http://naturalwireless.com/ has a grid all over NYC
Have you used monkeybrains before? I'm trying to find a good ISP in SF and would appreciate any advice!
I can thoroughly recommended the book "The Mind Illuminated: A Complete Meditation Guide Integrating Buddhist Wisdom and Brain Science for Greater Mindfulness", by John Yates.
I’m sure there’s some, but tiny. There’s risk from the symptoms too, so it’s not clear which is worse.
Consider an individual John from Texas with a total population of N.

Initially John's chances of getting a job: 1/N

Now, with the arrival of new immigrant, John's chances: 1/(N+1) i.e. he's worse off.

Sure it turned out better for the new immigrant and he can earn way more than his original country and thus this is better for humanity and the globe but it is of little relief to John who is worse off now.

My assumptions in this:

- John is a low skilled worker who will not be easily able to switch to another line of work like a software developer

- John does not have significant savings to fall back on.

Another fun fact:

- The will to let the low skilled immigrant in, in today's environment does not stem necessarily from a position of goodwill, rather it is a calculated position to keep the numbers of a voting bloc which consistently votes for a given party, constant. This can be easily explained by seeing where the opposition to limiting immigration comes from.

So keeping in mind the above 2 points, it becomes readily apparent that what politics has gotten good at is winning elections and not betterment of people. One of the parties has discovered that one of the easiest "hacks" or "optimizations" is to keep importing poor people and that way you will have a steady stream of voters, otherwise you might actually have to start improving the stock of existing population.

This is somewhat analogous to how simply being good at a written test for a position does not necessarily mean you're a good fit for that position but you've simply optimized for the selection process.

All of this to say that as far as a hypothetical John is concerned, it is of no merit to him that the world is a bit more efficient because a person from Bangladesh is able to work with a little more efficiency, indeed whatever small gains from that are outright eclipse by an increased competition in the local pool of jobs and resources.
Why plants don’t die from cancer
Flat rate means that the user ends up paying an average 25c/gb in the United States.

5c/gb doesn't sound very bad in that context.

Flat rate is also the biggest contributor to a lot of poor internet service. Providers (cable,dsl) will start selling service at a given speed then oversell it until it's crap. The incentives are all out of whack.

For the 93% of the country without fiber to the door the 2018 FCC report shows that nearly 70% don't see their advertised speed during peak hours.
>often rooted in the lack of emotional tools us men are given to process anger. We are raised to be "strong" and talking about your feelings is seen as weak

Mental/emotional repression and the evolutionary need to appear strong and act on anger with physical violence is influential in many/most types of violence: domestic violence, school yard bullying, common assault, gang violence, police violence, and military violence.

Could it be that the root cause(s) of most types of violence -- whether on a micro scale (domestic assault) or a macro scale (war) -- are interrelated?
I have been thinking of one for a while now. But I love OS X over windows so I am not sure how I would go. It’s been a while since I have been on a windows machine.
Is there anything equivalent in SF?! I love the idea of this and would love to get something similar!
"people on HN react like some grand conspiracy theory was unveiled while it takes 15 seconds on google" is garden-variety internet snark

Such a factual situation is often the subject of such snark. In this age of search bubbles and personalized (read algorithm distorted) views of information the observation is often true. Such reactions are exhibited by one group even to factual information. This results in frustration on both sides of the statement, creating the state of "War," which, "is not a place from which people find it easy to climb down." This is particularly bad because such information is particularly valuable. It's precisely such mental model breaking information which is the most valuable.

It's very easy to see how a group like, the Flat Earthers, or Anti-vaxxers have such model-breaking information blindness. Throughout history, we've seen that it's particularly hard for privileged knowledge workers -- who have been validated by society through high pay and social status -- to see the model-breaking information. (Witness the struggle to get germ theory recognized by gentleman doctors.) In short, we tech folks need to acknowledge that there are factors acting to make us the most blind.

In 2019, we all have it. We've always all had it. The question is how do we communicate this without being in the mental state of "war."
If something is going to be ad free, it had better also be tracking free.
Microsoft love Open Source.

User freedom, not so much.
I was a student in Google Summer of Code for the GNUnet project. I just want to say that Christian Grothoff (one of GNUNet leader) is a wonderful mentor. I own so much to him for many aspects of my technical and academic life.
I highly recommend to anyone who have an interest in distributed systems/security to participate in this project.
And that extra ticket costs what, €3.50?

For a single trip ticket, that sounds about right. If you're going to take any other trips that day a day ticket makes more sense and I think the difference is a bit larger.

The Airport Express can get you from Alexanderplatz to Schönefeld in 20 mins, it takes almost twice that to get to Tegel.

The TXL bus takes about twenty minutes from the Hauptbahnhof, and Alexanderplatz is three stops away on the S-Bahn (saving about ten minutes). Transiting to/from the Hbf gives you some extra transit connections as well. And as an added bonus, the TXL bus pretty much drops you at the gate.
Cheap radios and also the most easily accessible band in the US license wise.
It is common in US trading firms to enforce non-competes also frequently via payed ‘garden leaves’.
Not SF technically but check out People's Open Network in Oakland: https://peoplesopen.net/
You are correct. I was thinking of Object.observe which was preached as the next big thing in JS only to finally be pulled from Chrome (around version 50 IIRC).

That said, does a native observable actually buy that much performance-wise? If not, then perhaps an addon library is better. Once a library makes it into JS, it is there forever. That's a big risk when decent libraries already exist.
It’s the Dutch. Bicyclists (and those scooter riders) are huge assholes to pedestrians here in DC.
Compared to my location in oz, it's blazingly fast. I'm limited to a max of 1.5mbps (due to long line distance to the nearest adsl exchange). Thankfully, I get 1 bar of 4g, so I use phone tethering to get about 4 times that.

(For context, we have a national ponzi scheme called the nbn which was supposed to bring the internet to rural areas - even more remote than me, but rural still gets nothing, but city areas have had moderate fibre improvements)
Agree.

What I meant to write but didn't was "not profit-seeking."
It won't get you there quicker. A hypothetical non-stop direct bus route from most places in Manhattan to JFK would take around an hour under ideal conditions, about the same as the train already does. And in non-ideal conditions (around rush hour) and with multiple stops along the route, you would be looking at something like 2 hours, and worse on bad days.

There's a big caveat though: from Midtown. Getting to JFK from elsewhere in Queens (or e.g. Brooklyn) is a pretty circuitous route on the train. A bus could easily do that in less than two hours. On a good day a subway ride into Manhattan might take you half an hour. On a bad day…

I mean, look, I prefer rail, but not by so much that I'd ding Tegel (or Oakland) for not having rail connections. In Oakland the rail connector cost about half a billion dollars and required undoing a bunch of landscaping and road improvements. In the context of Berlin where you're talking about the Brandenberg airport being over budget and oft delayed, I simply don't see Tegel's transit connections as being shameful (or particularly bad).
I've pondered this numerous times, and will gladly contribute what i can. Will check out the sub-Reddit ASAP
I use a uBlock Origin rule to hide the upper-left button.
What Does It Mean That Quantum Gravity Has No Symmetry?
Crazy to think the people who wrote this shady script probably reads HackerNews. This is all kinds of immoral.
Programming as an English speaker in code mainly written by foreigners is strange too. Misspelling words doesn't matter to them. Having several classes using the same name template ("GhostFactory" / "GhoulFactory" / "ZombieFactory") is fine... and it's also fine if one of them happens to be spelled differently ("PumpkinFatcory"). They're just arbitrary letter sequences that you type via autocomplete.
For a linguist, he made a horrifically unreadable language.
It would suck for heavy use 'whales' like me, but most consumers would save money since they'd no longer be subsidizing my behavior. The selfish part of me is pretty comfortable with this status quo.
Booster raises $56M to deliver fuel directly to cars
> > Year after year, America is now generally using less total steel

Might reduced investments in public infrastructure (such as rail transport) also contribute to that?
but composition is much, much easier to understand and work with.

The article you linked mentions IMHO the biggest disadvantage:

One common drawback of using composition instead of inheritance is that methods being provided by individual components may have to be implemented in the derived type, even if they are only forwarding methods

Code whose only purpose is to "appease the design" and otherwise does absolutely nothing of value is a strong-enough negative reason. It's pure bloat, overhead that gets in the way of both programmers trying to understand/debug and machines trying to execute.

Too much inheritance can lead to a "where is the method" problem, but I think that's still better than the alternative of dozens upon dozens of lines of otherwise useless code, because the former at least does not increase the amount of code that needs to be written/debugged/maintained.
I'm of the same mind, that the statement is factual. It's even more valuable, because it's information which has the potential to alter mental models.

I think dang's point in this thread should be interpreted as: "Such mental model breaking information around delicate subjects needs to be treated with the most care, precisely because it's the most valuable while it's the most likely to be lost to emotional jamming of the discourse."
My heartburn with "people who want to come to this country to study advanced topics" is a bit more parochial. They're generally good people trying to improve themselves. Good for them.

My parochial issue is that people perform better in an environment they perceive as nurturing. When international applicants have a higher admissions rate than in-state applicants and non-California domestic applicants, it sends the signal to citizens of this country, and this state that our own universities, and thus our government, are deeply ambivalent about our success, or in my case, the success of my children. I understand this borders on a call for paternalism, but, ah, I'm a concerned parent.

Something dramatic happened in 2009 which caused in-state admission rates to drop by over 20 points while foreign admissions increased by 20 points. Ostensibly, the Academic Senate reduced the "guaranteed admission rate" for in-state high schools from the top 12.5% to the top 9%, and "widened the applicant pool". The observed effect on the campus population mix has been stunning. I can provide the graphs (I'll note the downvoters haven't asked for the data), or you can get the data yourself here (2) with a bit of querying (look all the way back to 1994 so you can see that we're not talking about recency bias spikes).

Interestingly, the reported "ethnicity" numbers omit the ethnicity of international students, just lumping them all into "international". Even more interesting is the counterfactual of who isn't crying foul about that. Generally, repressed minorities try to break out their numbers and the CCCP cries foul wherever they aren't winning (this is an observation about foreign policy behavior that dates back to the Korean War, not a comment on the Chinese people). But they aren't making much ruckus about the UC system. Nevertheless, it takes a hot second on campus to see that this international segment is primarily ethnic Chinese.

I'd be interested to see the financial portfolios of the folks who voted for this. One has to wonder what the UC Academic Senate's incentives are in supporting a de facto pro-China, anti-US agenda when you have reports like (3-10).

(1) https://www.sfgate.com/education/article/Regents-panel-OKs-b...

(2) https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/infocenter/admissions...

(3) https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/30/political-pres...

(4) https://techcrunch.com/2010/01/12/google-china-attacks/

(5) https://www.nbcnews.com/news/china/education-or-espionage-ch...

(6) https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/03/07/chinas-long-arm-reaches...

(7) https://edition.cnn.com/2019/01/11/asia/university-californi...

(8) https://www.wired.com/story/china-spy-recruitment-us/

(9) https://edition.cnn.com/2019/02/01/politics/us-intelligence-...

(10) https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/apr/25/china-uses-...
Do you think saying "fuck" is harassment?

Fram's edit you linked is on point criticism of the Arbitration Committee and I think it may have been good for the community. It would have been better, more efficient in transmitting its intended message, more influential if it were written in a better style (the kind exhibited on HN).

I concur that there is danger of Fram's edits promoting bad style in other Wikipedia editors; but there is a tradeoff here that must be made, because good style takes effort and time (both for practice and execution), more so when one lacks relevant education; and some things need to be said (often saying something sooner is more effective than saying it later, too).

I guess some people place most blame on the use of the word "fuck", but using it was warranted. Think about what such profanity can accomplish, it has the power to give a certain tone to one's message. Those who wield language with great command and effectiveness might think of ways to accomplish the same or better tone without using profanities, but for the rest of us profanities are a sometimes necessary shortcut through all the time and exertion needed for better style.

Anyways, let us suppose you want to make Wikimedia projects more "civil", how long of a ban/block do you think profanities should warrant? Two days? A week? Certainly not a year, at least not the first time such a sanction is used.

All the scrutiny Fram has been given during this scandal really ought to have found some more serious violations by Fram to warrant a year long ban.

But let us not forget that nobody outside the WMF employ even knows why Fram was actually banned, nor what should they do not to be banned themselves. The T&S is a complete unknown. They refuse to fix some huge issues (like with the Croatian Wikipedia), but hand out apparently unwarranted unexplained unappealable bans across some Wikipedias (like what happened to Fram). The fact is that Foundation employees mysteriously attacked the community that produces value for the Foundation, of course it is going to raise big questions, which the Foundation is not even bothering to answer!??

The thing is, the community volunteers to produce valuable content for the Foundation, thus trust in the good intentions of the Foundation employees and governance is needed. Ironically the Trust and Safety team made that trust implode and a shroud of fear rise by issuing unexplained bans that well may be malicious or misguided or corrupted, but the community just can not judge the T&S team's actions, because they are unexplained, not supported by any evidence. Even as rulemakers the T&S team does not work, because their actions are totally unexplained, they give no guidance as to how one should act in the aim of not being banned.

It might turn out in the end that Fram was rightfully banned (maybe the issue is something like child pornography), but that will not matter, because the issue is not Fram, the issue is that Foundation employee (or contractor, which is what most of T&S are [0]) actions are not accountable to the community.

[0] https://wikimediafoundation.org/role/trust-and-safety/
Wars and sanctions are a drag on the economy. If you could get rid of them everyone including Koch could be better off.
They can solve the adblocker problem by serving developer-relevant ads directly from their domain instead of third-party cancer. Read The Docs do this and I’ve never ever minded their ads. It also helps that the ads RTD serve are for trustworthy products (that I already had good experiences with) so it helps me in trusting them when they advertise something I don’t yet know about.