skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a lot of unions a major component is safety.

Though it may not seem like safety is a big concern in tech right now, there are areas where it will be of concern. For example, Unions may be a good method to force safety concerns in self-driving cars and in IoT devices. Unions may help with health-care data and privacy. Unions may help with other forms of sensitive information like in judicial work and military work.

I'm not saying that unions are the only way to force safety, but they have been an effective force for safety in other areas in the past. Their effectiveness should not be discounted out of hand.
Buildkit has some interesting things around storing build cache information in an image.
>I will TAKE the protocols and the KYC procedures and everything else Libra offers, and I will USE all of that to further the social justice goals that I maintain.

No, you won't. If your goals really are opposed to the current crop of political elites, then they won't let you use Libra to replace them.

When your opponents make up unfair rules to stop you, dont play by their rules.
The fact that it’s the longest economic expansion in history is obvious to anyone who knows how to read a calendar. I don’t see why that would be expected to get any traction.
>how do we get rid of the rest?

It's simple, you just refuse to produce anything with an alternative standard, perhaps even banning the export of other standards citing safety concerns, then as more countries find themselves using largely your products with adapters they will eventually realise it's easier to adopt it and use adapters for their native legacy standard.
UA is a decent University System, but not more than that.

In fact, a few months ago, the University of Alaska Anchorage lost accreditation for their teacher program. Yes, you read that correctly. The largest University in Alaska lost their accreditation for a program that is one of the most needed in the state.

Getting people to teach in Alaska is a major issue for obvious reasons, and the largest university in the state did such a poor job that they lost their ability to graduate licensed teachers.
Louvre's own particle accelerator
There must be a better way of dealing with murderous dictators. Though it's politically incorrect these days there might be something to said for something like the old British colonialism in those cases where you go in and take over the country under foreign governance for a while. Maybe governance by some UN body rather than Brits and for a limited time, say 10 years, followed by elections.
Jobs that will pop into existence if we train people for them, I'm sure.
Many of those are because one way to write the code is slower than another way to write it.

So it is more about the speed not being evenly distributed.
Boredom or better opportunities.
Why should some content be illegal?
The Industrial Internet of Things and the Global Power Industry
I just passed my two year anniversary with no FB, Twitter, Instagram, or Snapchat and I've never been happier. I convinced my wife to cut the cord about a year ago and she completely agrees. For me it was an addiction. I was compulsively checking FB many times an hour to stay caught up with people. This was after culling my friends list multiple times. Turns out, life goes on just fine without a constant water hose of relationship/political drama.

Ultimately, it is no more difficult to stay in touch with my real friends than it was with FB. I rely on text, phone calls, and emails. Occasionally, I will use LinkedIn to touch base with people, but primarily, I just text/call. And honestly, it's great.

I highly recommend cutting the cord.
Yes, maybe. But it is at least unclear whether is inherently CNN or not (many people would vote for no). ImageNet training data is heavily texture dependent, therefore, the trained model leaning towards texture information more. Some recent papers did style transfer to randomize textures in order to train the model to focus more on the shape, the reported results seem good.
There are no hard and fast rules and they will take a risk based approach. I went through this process recently having bought a house a few months ago. My conveyancer told me for example that if any part of the money is a gift, the relatives would have to write a supporting letter explaining the purpose and source of the gift money. I’m sure similar evidence would be needed for inheritance too.

This seems to be some dated but relevant law society advice https://www.lawsociety.org.uk/support-services/advice/practi...
I dunno what Rivest and Adleman have been up to, but Adi Shamir still shows up regularly on papers relating to side channel attacks.
Show HN: Milkman: An Extensible Alternative to Postman in JavaFX
You probably don't need a single page app
Sure, but recognize that the line is entirely arbitrary. The only difference between child pornography, libel, white supremacist content and being mean is that people got together and said "you know what, this seems like just a bit too far".

This doesn't mean that we shouldn't draw lines between speech we're okay with and speech we're not. Literally every human being on the planet does it! This is why I don't like "marketplace of ideas" arguments: the person making them always always always still thinks some speech should be somehow punished in the market.
There's no drift. If you look at the submissions by pg himself (the creator of the site), who stopped years ago, more often than not they weren't "tech news": https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=pg
https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/about/faq#BecauseFuckNazisT...
Borrowing against art is growing at a stunning rate
The gig economy isn't causing companies to be unprofitable.

Investors have made it clear that they care more about growth than immediate returns. As a result companies delay making money. This is unrelated to the gig economy.
Using tabs or spaces has nothing at all to do with "pressing tab". You can press the tab key and get spaces, or obtain tabs without pressing the tab key. They are completely orthogonal issues.
I used to be much more of a free-speech absolutist. It wasn't til I started reading about how genocides start that that started to change for me.

There is a pretty direct line drawn between speech and violence against out-groups; anyone who says otherwise would do well to read about the Rwandan genocide and their 200 days of public radio broadcasting demonizing the Tutsis prior to the genocide itself.

After all, if there wasn't power in speech, none of this would matter; there would be no restrictions on speech anywhere if it didn't threaten someone.

Even in free-speech absolutists, there's often agreement that direct incitements to violence should be off-limits, and why? Because speech moves people to act.

I haven't often seen the position that incitements to violence should also be protected speech, though I'm sure those people are there -- the question to them for me would be, what are you trying to advance or protect against with that position?

The question I'd also ask is: if you want to say that speech such as calls to genocide should also be protected, how is that advancing society, especially for the targets of that? The marketplace of ideas doesn't seem to do a good job protecting them, so...what's the solution there?
We've known how to refute genocidal racism for ages. The ideas aren't new and the reasons why they are garbage aren't new. Yet these ideas still exist and still spread. Why has the market of ideas not destroyed these ideas? If the market cannot destroy even the most terrible ideas that humans have ever devised, what does that really say about the market?
I'd say the main complaints were the cloying text and the infantilizing title. Many HN readers find these things more than a little annoying, and this was a particularly strong case.

Your quotes don't mention anything about office noise, cubicles, or coworkers. Why would they add those in? Presumably to make the content more sensational, since that's the effect it has.
How about representation proportional to economic activity instead of the quantity of state-ness being one or zero? With guaranteed representation of at least one seat, so the representation turns out to be slightly skewed against the powerhouses. Also note that Puerto Rico and Washington DC earn their seat by virtue of having enough economic activity, rather than by default.

"Seats" is senate seats per state; "rep" is proportion of total representation; "econ" is proportion of total economic activity.

I picked 150 for the total number of seats to make the rep vs. econ gap narrower, but not so much as to make the poorest 25 completely irrelevant.

state seats rep econ
---------------------------------
California 20 13.3% 14.5%
Texas 12 8.0% 8.7%
New York 11 7.3% 8.2%
Florida 7 4.7% 5.1%
Illinois 6 4.0% 4.2%

PA OH }- 5 6.7% 7.1%

NJ GA WA MA NC }- 4 18.7% 19.5%
VA MI }

MD CO MN TN IN }- 3 10.0% 9.2%

AZ WI MI CT LA }- 2 10.7% 10.7%
OR SC AL }

KY OK IA UT KS }
NV DC AK NE MS }
PR NM HI NH WV }- 1 16.7% 12.5%
ID DE ME RI ND }
AK SD MO WY VT }

island terr. }- 0 0.0% 0.1%
---------------------------------
Total 150
There are numerous alternatives that could (and hopeful should) replace FB - through what is referred to as the FediVerse - specifically via Pleroma, Mastodon, GnuSocial, etc. While admittedly mastodon is the platform that gets the most mindshare (and most users access the fediverse through it), it is not the only one...And much like email, users employing mastodon as "their tool" can communicate with other users who might employ other tools like pleroma, etc. Users have a choice! And, this federated universe is all aligning on open federated standards like ActivityPub [1]. So, yeah, there are options already in existence...and, the challenge is less technical, and more: "how do you get YOUR network of friends/family onto the fediverse?" Well, the migration has already begun, so it should only be a matter of time...

[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/
To be fair, it's more "AMD reached parity" while on smaller node (big advantage that presumably will be matched soon-ish). The thread superiority is due to intel locking SMT for market segmentation reasons. In terms of raw core performance AMD has some IPC advantage but lower clocks and higher latency leading to very mixed results. The big question is if Intel can finally transition to lower node for their larger chips. If the answer is yes, AMD will have to work hard to maintain parity, if the answer is no, AMD might actually develop a meaningful lead.
The "offended" are playing that card to limit speech because they want to control you. That wars have been fought over issues like this in the not too distant past goes right over their heads. It is playing with fire.
Male labor force participation has been steadily dropping since 1950. This was masked by the entry of women into the labor force between 1950 and 1990. But that process has been saturated for thirty years, whereas male participation keeps failing. That means that absent a major shift, the overall participation rate will continue to decline.

The point is this is a half century trend, much too long to have anything to do with the business cycle. Yes labor force participation today is much lower than the expansions of yesteryear, but that doesn't tell us anything particular about this cycle. Almost assuredly 10-20 years from today labor force participation will be even lower than it is today, even at the peak of the next expansion.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS11300001
[2] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS11300002
What? No Apple cannot decrypt messages so cannot check the content.

Messages are not encrypted to
Apples keys they’re only encrypted to recipient device keys - there is no way for Apple to filter any content without removing the end to end encryption of iMessage, which Apple does not want to do - every bit of user content that Apple can decrypt increases the value in compromising Apple’s service infrastructure.
Engagement on Facebook's App Is Down Sharply
The level of the Black Sea is determined by the water flowing in from the Mediterranean through the Dardanelles and the Bosporus which replaces the evaporated water. A few rivers do not make much of a difference.
WebDriver Is Coming to Safari in iOS 13
This. I've been made to feel like the asshole in situations like this for "not helping" them figure out how to do their own job. Some people are beyond help (within the context of project) because they do not possess the requisite knowledge to qualify themselves for the position and we don't have the time to bring them up to competency. They were probably interviewed by an overseer of their craft rather than a practitioner or perhaps concessions were made in order to "save" money. I've seen this worsening throughout my career, but I believe that it's largely growing pains. When demand is high and supply is low, quality suffers.
I'm thinking of the specific type.
Yes, and to lots of us we believe that certain ideas are simply harmful with no benefit. We don't disagree on the principles. We disagree on where the lines are drawn.
Why the Jaguar I-Pace Won the World Car of the Year Award
And given the spate of sexual harassment and similar employee abuse stories from the past few years, it's not as if there aren't employee safety concerns in tech.
> People don't have privilege.

I don't know. If you have the power to shut down a whole product line for a trans-national corporation with a single complaint, isn't that a kind of privilege? I certainly can't do it, you probably neither. But some people can. If you have a power to decide what is allowed to be spoken and what gets you removed from the platform, who is allowed to speak and who should be met with violence if only they dare to show up - isn't that a kind of privilege? If you can riot, destroy property, assault people and send them to the hospital - with full impunity and vocal support of major parts of the press and community, that would loudly denounce this conduct in everybody else - isn't that a kind of privilege? Some people seem to enjoy it.
Institutional sclerosis is an ever present threat in any large organization that lives long enough. Occasionally you can see organizations manage a certain amount of remission, see IBM, but very few corporations manage to last longer than a century and this is part of it. Feelings of threat seem to help teams pull together for the good of the company rather than their careers and the most careerist people will avoid underdog companies anyways. But if AMD succeeds enough that'll probably lead to future failure.
I think you're not the only one that mentioned this omission, I'll throw in since it seems to be pretty poorly highlighted and has some surprising failure modes:

When you use the USER directive to set up a working user in Dockerfile, be explicit about UID and use the numeric UID.

What works 99% of the time is to use alpha username in the "USER" directive. You can get some surprising artifacts if the container runtime hits this rare bug[1]. There are likely several other great ways this can go wrong, as well.
Somewhere deep in the manual, it is suggested that you should only use a numeric UID, even though USER accepts an alphanumeric username most of the time, but if you look at container images built by OpenShift and other pro docker-ers, you will see they always do this with a numeric UID.

[1]: https://forums.docker.com/t/unable-to-find-user-root-no-matc...
Professors find evidence of wartime brothels on South Korean island
Because the fix shipped in May. I assume they held off on publishing for a month or so to provide a decent upgrade window, which was nice of them.
A medical doctor prescribing a treatment plan and drugs would be akin to a trusted coworker crypto expert telling me to "do x with libsodium" without further explanation.

On the other hand, getting crypto advice from random bloggers and HN commenters is akin to getting a medical treatment plan and drugs from random bloggers and HN commenters.
Ham radio’s community is open. Part of the joy is being able to communicate with anyone on a Ham radio. Encrypting Ham radio doesn’t make any sense.

While I agree with your overall sentiment of privacy, I think Ham radio shouldn’t be encrypted.

When we talk about national security and Ham radio “secure” communication is not what we mean as a risk factor.
> This presupposes that you'll have a list of companies to join that have all the benefits that you want.

Does anyone, anywhere, have a list of companies that checks literally all their boxes?

> I believe that it's worthwhile, sometimes, for me to spend some of my income to help others reach a better station.

Again, I don't think that software engineering is in a position that needs unionizing. This argument is nil to me. You're asking me to spend my income for something I don't see as a net gain.

> Do you not? Also, there are plenty of workers in tech who aren't software developers. We should be helping them get benefits as well.

You've suddenly moved the goalposts to be about something other than software engineers, which is not what we were talking about. If another profession wants to go unionize, more power to them. I don't see my profession as benefiting, hence I'm arguing against it.
Yeah there's not really a hard line between "improved version of old architecture" and "new architecture". Zen 2 seems to be about as big a change from Zen+ as Haswell was from Ivy Bridge. Ultimately what matters is how much they improved from the old versions. Supposedly Ice Lake is going to have 18% higher IPC than Skylake which seems like it will involve some pretty radical changes. Will certainly be interesting to see how that and Zen 3 turn out.
And it would be unthinkable to say that hobbyists learning Linux cannot use SSH or HTTPS. Why is ham radio different?

("Limited spectrum" is definitely a potential distinction. "National security," I think, makes no sense in either case—it was tried for Internet hobbyists and failed.)
> The privilege is a result of a system. You cannot say x people have privilege

This is a distinction without a difference. The Principle of Charity applies and we can easily understand that "You have privilege X" is being used to mean "You are accorded privilege X by the dominant social system in which we both exist".
Support for images is spotty and inconsistent, whereas ‘display unicode characters in a given font’ is the central thing that terminals do these days.
The 3000 series that shipped yesterday is Zen 2
Speech leads to violence, and even a somewhat limited reading of the history of genocides in the 20th century ought to make it difficult to dispute that.

If the Hutus hadn't been broadcasting anti-Tutsi sentiment for a few hundred days before the violence, it's tough to say that the Hutus would've suddenly risen up to kill about 70% of the Tutsi population there all of a sudden.
And yet we're all talking on this community over encrypted connections.
You still need to have a city council meeting etc... my guess is that FB just helps get the conversation going. My problem with FB townhalls is that it just degenerates into politics, gun rights and trolls. You also get out of towners weighing in usually as trolls. I think the local newspaper is better forum.
Sure, done now.
> I want to use my arc welder in my garage that has only 120v circuits, as opposed to my cluttered shop that has a 240v circuit available.

I hear you on this; I'm in the situation where neither my small shop nor my garage has 220-240V available. Also, I don't know if my current service will allow for another such circuit - in any case, I'd have to likely add an auxiliary panel to accommodate the extra breaker(s) needed, as my main panel is full.

But I do have one possibility - and maybe you do, too?

From the door to my garage that leads into the house, the laundry room is just around the corner. In that room, I have both the dryer and water heater, on separate circuits. So in theory, I have the voltage needed.

Now, the water heater is hard-wired, so nothing I can really do there (well, I could - but I won't). The dryer, on the other hand, is plugged into a 220V outlet (as they usually are).

So - what I have considered doing is making an extension cord; one with a plug for the dryer, and on the other end a socket for the welder. In case you aren't aware, the plug on a welder for 220VAC is different than the plug on a dryer. And technically, you're not supposed to use a welder on such a socket (there's something in the code that forbids it).

But people have been making and using such extension cords for almost the entire time such welders have been available, and I have not heard of any reasons against them. You can even purchase such cords thru some places, so they're even legal to sell, purchase, and own. It may be something having to do with the strain a welder puts on the plug and extension; that the extra connection can heat up too much?

Anyhow, maybe you could do something like this; get an IR thermometer and monitor the temperature of parts as you weld and use the circuit; see if there is any issues in that regard.

Another thing I've thought about doing, since the wall where the socket for the dryer is shared with the garage, is mounting a junction box, bringing in the 220, then tapping off it inside the junction box to a new socket and the old dryer socket. Then I could plug right into the socket in the garage without needing a custom "extension cord", so long as I unplug the dryer (maybe add a cover to both as well that can be locked to prevent both being used at the same time).

Something tells me, though, that such a setup would not be up to code - but I don't know for certain.
Or just that one contains more information than the other. That the US economy is doing fine is not exactly news.
Congratulations! It's soon to be my first anniversary sans FaBIGWA.

(only exception was the Go I recently sold and the Quest I might get in near future)
Perhaps fixing degradation will prove to be a less difficult task than increasing memory, as the growth of new neurons is still a very newly-studied phenomenon compared to treatment into neurodegenerative processes, and soon medical science will benefit the learning of all demographics.
> My apartment building was built in the 1970s

Yeah, but in the 70s you'd probably be living in an apartment built in the 1930s. The ones actually built in the 70s were a small minority back then, just like the ones built in the 2010s are a minority today.