skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Question--could a directional wifi antenna be used (plus amplification) to AirDrop things from HK across the border into Shenzhen?

On that note, I stayed at an international hotel chain on the Shenzhen side's border that had terribly slow but unfiltered internet. Google.com auto-redirected to Google.hk. I always wondered if they used a VPN or maintained a covert internet beam from across the river...

EDIT: Derp--another comment already posted this question.
dual core versus quad core...
Yes it does strip the oils, but a proper bar of soap deposits glycerin which acts as a humectant in the same way that those oils do. I've made my own bar soap for many years now and the only dry skin problems I get is the skin on my shins drying out during winter months -- an area that I don't actively wash with soap.

Homemade or clasical bar soap contains glycerin naturally. Commercially made bar soap usually has the glycerin stipped out because they can resell it at a much higher price in cosmetics and skin care products.
Right. Physically, potentiometers are semicircular sliders.

But another advantage of knobs is the ability to turn them, quickly and yet accurately, with thumb and first finger. Some even have push-pull gear reduction, to go between fast and accurate.

So you'd think that a GUI knob would use some analogous two-finger twisting gesture. With thumb and first finger.
I really enjoyed mine, keyboard included. I rocked it until it died and rarely needed more power for web dev.

I miss it! I don't think anything else competes with that form factor. I carried it in a little sling bag _just big enough for it_, and was content to keep it with me always. Like nothing. I tried maintaining that habit with my new Pixelbook and a backpack, but alas; that shit is too bulky for me now. Thanks, Apple. You ruined me there.

RIP 12" Macbook <3
Portgual is an example of why this is a bad idea. The timber industry introduced and mass planted eucalyptus trees in that country many years ago, and those invasive, rapidly growing, highly flammable trees have become a huge problem.

Huge forest fires are common and deadly to humans (60 killed in one fire in 2017). Had these been native and diverse trees, the fires would not spread as far and as rapidly as they do now.
Or more likely that IBM has been screwing the pooch every which way for the last ~~20~~ 30 years.
that's the macbook air 2019...
Two space missions are launching next week
Python on WebAssembly
Warning: Reading Books Leads to Detainment
Virtual servers are like $5 a month these days and come with free redundancy and all that. Most groups don't host anything that needs to handle large numbers of requests.

What situations are you foreseeing that would require multiple people to pool their money (I'm intentionally ignoring 3rd world countries where $5 a month is actually a lot for this discussion).
I had to weld up tooling for the RV-8 and am currently working on a 100% custom CB-550 ECU. The CB has so far been an easier project...

I think you need to check your attitude. Unless you also built a plane in high school, that is?
Which is an exploit, not an attack.
Well, that's just not true. It can be, but most stores I know just focus on limiting your pricing based on geographical location, while making it harder to spoof your address. DRM just isn't a factor here.
There are many who would argue that the willingness of a 18 year old to shoulder enormous financial responsibility to gain benefits largely denied to them by the way modern American society is constructed is not a real defense of the reasonableness of student loans.
Have you ever felt professors need to grow a backbone?
Does federation play nicely with serverless architectures?

Seems like a small group or club wouldn't rack up enough traffic to really justify dedicated hardware and upgraded connection. The pay-as-you-go serverless setups seem well suited for this. Or does it defeat the purpose to centralize the hosting? ..at least AWS doesn't claim ownership of the hosted data.
Ronald Reagan’s Reel Life
Gas prices in most countries in Europe have a higher fraction than this, same for cigarettes.
As a Brit I found your article's tone and this video a little patronizing Austin given the gravity of the situation. It's really worrying how people just care about financial value of things to steal with apparently no thought about what has been created and what it means to people. I'd quite like to see the people that stole these found injured 'in a ditch somewhere' as well as the trains https://youtu.be/MWCUXoNZYio?t=306
Agree with your math choices.
Professor Leonard is an underrated workhorse - every few months I refresh my knowledge on his channel.
Show HN: iOS and Android App for Software Engineering Managers
It is annual review time, and I have had to start writing performance reviews with team members on my team. Which means I pull up all my notes from email, text files and post it notes and try to write a clear concise report on each associate. I have been experimenting with different organizational tools like Apple Notes, One Note and Confluence but it just felt unorganized.

So I created a mobile app to track one on ones, progress on key skills and my notes on what I thought their performance review should be.

I call it Team Lead, I made it in Flutter so its available on both iOS and Android. Here are the links, its the first version and I think I got all the kinks out and have it ready for others to use.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/team-lead/id1466421445?mt=8

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.jmoses.manus.play

I would really appreciate if you took a look and left any feedback you felt worth sharing. Thanks!
Target Announces New Streaming Service from Security Camera Feeds
U.S. has its wettest 12 months on record again
> and at almost $80hr (Texas), he's making better coin than most programmers here.

Not sure about all programmers but I'm at $200 and I'm underpaid compared to my coworkers. Big telco.
Intention Revealing Interfaces [with Examples] – DDD and TypeScript
A momentary flicker would not be perceptible in a lit room.
International Moneyman of Mystery (2002)
Fenix a.k.a Firefox Preview will not be Fennec 69. There are a lot of decisions the project hasn't made yet, but that one's official. It's an easy decision, too, given that Fenix won't have full feature-parity in three months and maintaining backwards compatibility to super old app versions is not worth it. The expectation is that users will want to migrate to the new store entry in the coming year or two.

As Ricky would say, "It doesn't take rocket appliances."
Well, yeah. There's a reason why built-in webcam covers / physical switches are much more prevalent on laptops oriented towards business/government users (cf Thinkpads).
I put in some malware in kext directly targeting anyone named yumraj. /evilgrin
I don't know much about home schooling (I assume that's what you mean by free schooling). It seems to me that it could work well for some cases. But most parents couldn't survive economically with one parent not working (and what about single parents). Also most parents don't know enough academically to be able to do it well, and most students are not as smart as I am guessing your daughter is. So if your goal is to have a well-educated society, free schooling is not the answer.
And there's the problem, data types shouldn't interact. Verbs are a much better place to put your interactions.

I think the simplification of OOP as "noums first" loses too much. That "first" there isn't chronological, but mere visual weight.

There are patterns of OOP design that put data first, but there are also way too many that put behaviors first, but that behavior is owned by some data. At the other way around, people doing "verbs first" programing are even more likely to start with their data design than the OOP ones, because they lack of some boilerplate structure and need to get something to fundament their design.
Well, maybe just price the game 5$ for everyone and let ALL poor people pirate it as they please...
Thanks, I'm taking a look now!
Hertfordshire police - absolutely pathetic...
I’d love to know a metric of trust and its relation to customer data. How many trust points for how much PII? I’m assuming it’s a logarithmic scale? And a Debian stable package gets , what, double the points of an npm package? Or I guess it depends on the weekly downloads? What about pip, gems, vim plugins, emacs packages (I’m looking at you melpa) , quicklisp, ...

Then we can play an honest thought experiment: how many people satisfy that metric? Don’t forget to correct for actually how much PII points one is handling.

If you don’t at least have some consideration of those factors, claiming malpractice seems fatuous.
there are moderation tool's and avoiding things like that has been a major concern of its creator lately. He's definitely aware of and working to help mitigate problems like that. HOWEVER no tool is perfect and if you have ANY site that allows people to upload things that is going to be a concern. On the other hand, that's why their are laws to protect owners of servers that can't reasonably be expected to look at everything that's uploaded. Without those laws youtube, dropbox, and other similar services could not exist. They'd be litigated into oblivion.
Hashcash+or+“Proof+of+Work”
This reminds me a little bit of the ideas behind Reiser4[1] -- the idea being that we could unify different namespaces of data (files, metadata of files, databases, anything) into a unified namespace which you could then use Unix tools on. It is a bit of a shame that the ideas behind Reiser4 have been lost with Hans Reiser's murder conviction, and nobody has really picked them back up since then.

One of the neat ideas more directly related to this talk is that Reiser4 had the ability for users to define their own data layout (I think they were called "modules") which would allow you to optimise the filesystem layout for databases while still allowing non-database software to read the contents.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIrMVPnxa04
The number of pages don't tell you anything though.

I'd assume there are a bunch of reference designs, probably provided by the USB consortium itself, which should make it unnecessary to know anything about the spec to produce a USB C port.
No good evidence supplements protect against heart disease and early death
I'm sure people who fought in WW2 said that about the boomers, who in turn said it about the gen Xers. In 20 years time we'll be reminiscing about emoji and snap chat and hipsters and whatever the kids are doing now.
Steve Wozniak's floating point routines for the 6502
In Firefox 73, they'll require consent!
It was developed from something that was based on Mach. However, it is also based on BSD, as your second link states.

> The BSD code present in XNU came from the FreeBSD kernel. Although much of it has been significantly modified, code sharing still occurs between Apple and the FreeBSD Project.
I've asked a lot of non-programmers about the Touch Bar. Musicians, graphic designers, teachers, writers, managers, architects. If I describe the Touch Bar, they are able to confirm that their laptop has one but are not conscious of it as a significant change in design. It's just a different way to change the volume. They are neither aware that it's supposed to be more useful than that, nor aware of why anybody would be bothered by it. To them, having the Touch Bar or not is about as meaningful as whether their gas cap is on the left side of the car or the right.
OOP is not data first. Or noun first. Objects are different from data in the sense that objects are a combination of data and methods.

In OOP the line between data and verbs blur into a combination of the two called an object. The object is a primitive and if your primitive is a combination of data and function you cannot program things in a way that has data first. At least you can't do it without making the code awkward.

FP is not, despite the name, a verb first language. It separates verb and noun allowing you to choose to build a program in a way that is noun or data oriented while OOP does not.

Data is a noun that cannot do anything except exist. Functions are verbs that cannot do anything but change things. Objects are a combination that are neither and thus hard to do data oriented programming if objects in your code exist as primitive building blocks.

All this article is saying is make the data a primitive building block.
In-game voice chat has always been hot garbage on nearly every game that I have tried in comparison to 3rd party, Expecting the standard to rise for games when there is very little incentive to do so (you are not going to get sizably more players on good voice chat) and at the same time expect it for not just one game, but all of them?

Also why would one want to readjust voice settings for friends on each and every platform? I don't want X amount of configs that I have to adjust for my laptop/desktop and/or when the games inevitably undergo a major patch and decide to hard reset all the settings for no discernible reason.

That isn't even touching the fact that discord is not only dominate in voice base services, but it is aggressively expanding simply as a messaging service as well. Channels of permanence, aggregation of content and communities, high powered bot services, Discord isn't just games anymore. Server personalization with Nitro features is definitely a great play and imo this take severely underestimates the importance of communities outside the gaming sphere.

edit: Check out a bunch of major subreddits and they will have Discords, people are already cutting out FB and a combination of pseudo-anonymity and personal community feel and you have Discord taking a slice of FB groups, hell I recently pivoted my music chat-groups to Discord, I don't even see why they won't eventually pivot to take bites out of Slack (I would assume they already are even without doing anything serious), hell for more certain tech-oriented groups it serves as the official platform of communication due to ease of accessibility and moderation tools.
FWIW the “Great Firewall of China” is indeed the technical implementation of itself, but he also become synonymous with government censorship in China in general.

Just because mainland citizens leave the country does not mean that they leave behind the lasting influence of that censorship, especially since the most-used apps from China, like WeChat remain filtered and censored, so I think the title is quite a fair summary and not just click bait.
The Senate of Canada Examines Open Banking
That's actually the one I was thinking of as being awkward to activate :) I love the picker itself but the activation method is pretty clunky in my opinion.

I wish I could just hit one key instead of having to simultaneously press three. I've been using Rocket for awhile now (https://matthewpalmer.net/rocket/) which kind of takes the Slack style ":emoji_name" format to the whole computer, but it's still kind of awkward to activate and has a lot of false positive triggers. (It really makes you realize how often you type colons in everyday computer usage.)
That maxim only works out when you’ve got such a solid CI/CD setup that you can roll out to a tiny percentage of users and automatically roll back and notify if they error out.

Move fast and break things all you want if you have such an amazing safety net. But at that point you’re not breaking anything, you’re just letting the real world fill in the gaps in your test suite with an insignificant impact.

Still, not good enough if you’re dealing with money, medical stuff, vehicles, etc. You’re getting into life or death territory there.
Can my smartphone see anything from inside my pocket?
There are some very bad lightning connectors too.

In fact, you can buy lightning connectors that will destroy your iphone.

Poor quality implementations in order to save costs have nothing to do with USB-C vs Lightning.

In fact, because Apple charges so much to be able to build official lightning devices, people are more likely to go with unofficial cables from unknown brands. At least USB-C cables and chargers are a lot cheaper for reputed brands to manufacture officially.
Most of these “taxes” aren’t really taxes in the sense of the tax on petrol or alcohol. They’re charges to cover the direct cost of flying, a bit like a toll road
Shampoo is a detergent, not a soap. Detergents and soaps have different properties. Soaps lose effectiveness and produce soap scum in hard water. Detergents don't. Many body cleansers also cause less skin irritation than your common soaps do because they control alkalinity and add moisturizers.
making it trivial to spin up your own instance is a stated goal of Pixelfed. I'm not sure how close it is but last time I checked it wasn't bad. Just a series of simple commands to follow.

so, to answer your question. Yes, Pixelfed is something that looks simple like that and you can host yourself. You don't have to open accounts up to random people.
Holy shit! Thought police are officially realized! (Ironic, right?)
I find it incredible that presumably no one tried using a MacBook charger before this shipped. If they did and didn't document the shortcoming that's arguably just as bad.

Surely a not insignificant number of customers have MacBooks? If I was writing some test specs this use case would almost certainly feature, given the MacBook Pro's USB C adapter must be one of the most widespread high power USB C charger designs in existence. Especially when the stock device does not ship with a power supply, not like it was unforeseeable some customers would just use the chargers they already have.
Well sure if it's for a airconditioned-hottub-phone, but I'm pretty sure a small 600 watt cable would be more cost effective here.
That way lies "objects".
If you've marked every network as metered, then Windows is doing exactly what you told it and NOT upgrading over those networks. Even a manual update request should fail, because you've already told it not to upgrade over a metered network. It's not Microsoft's fault you're an idiot...
Hey, it worked(?) for the web!
There are different portions to a FS that actually need to be treated indivudually:

- Bricks / Blocks / Blob data.

- Metadata / Tags / Xactional data.

The deal is that any DB <-> FS has to support both of these separately. The Bricks/Blocks are optimized for raw performance/seek/access pattern with very low overhead; The Metadata are optimized for fancy querying / fast lookup semantics.

Any DB/Key Value store for large data could be modeled on top of a volume layer, like LVM / ZVOL; This could absolutely become the foundation of a FS as well.

The deal is that extensible / flexible storage space used to be something filesystems used to provide, but those functions have been moved to a volume manager in regular systems. The reliability and metadata part can be moved to the database layer, so that leaves the filesystem doing a No-Op.
Yeah, in my opinion actually Asus has gone in better direction with placing touch screens inside the touch bar. That makes more sense imho and doesn't reduce keyboard capabilities/make it weird to use.
If you don't read books then how are you qualified to label them as overrated?
UX Is Every Dev's Job
"Pixelfed is open-sourced software licensed under the AGPL license."

or did you mean some other definition of "licenses"
If it was purely about saving costs why even use USB-C, though? They could have just said that a 3A micro-usb supply is now required for USB power. The Pi4 isn't actually using any of the increased power delivery provided by USB-C PD, which is in the higher voltage range, after all. It just wants 5V 3A, which micro-usb can certainly handle as well (there are a variety of such power supplies for previous Pi's in fact).

Seems like a really questionable cost-savings maneuver to switch to a way more complicated & expensive connector for nearly no reason, and then penny pitch on one resistor.
I wish I’d realized this much earlier. But perhaps the journey to independently arriving at this idea was worth the delay.

Along similar lines, there’s so much noise about new frameworks and languages on HN that it may inspire a sort of cargo cult in less experienced developers (it took me a while to see through that fog).

Anyone have more suggestions for useful aphorisms?
Which is handy but not relevant to my question of "why can't an extension do this" with the implied "so I don't have to fiddle with copy-pasting text off the internet into configuration files I'm not entirely familiar with using." Not to mention that by default Firefox 69 disables loading of userchrome.css and you can bet your britches they're doing that in future anticipation of removing the feature entirely just like they did with everything else they've stripped out.
4. HDFS is slow.
”had very simple specs”

The specs weren’t that simple (why would a serial port connector need 25 wires?).

It’s more the implementations that were simple, going down to 5, 3 or even 2 wires (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RS-232#3-wire_and_5-wire_RS-...)
What project are you referring to that gets better performance?
> The question was about the validity of the term “homebuilt,”.

Ok, and that's fine. But the headline mentions "homemade", not "homebuilt", which in my mind changes the meaning significantly.
1. You make a valid point there

2. Any half decent teacher will know if that were the case because teachers (at least in the UK) have to set different levels of work for their class anyway to compensate for the natural discrepancy in children’s ability. They know which kids are stronger in what subjects and who struggle. I’m not saying it’s something that every teacher is great at picking up on but there are plenty of telltale signs that help you spot this - even without going as far as testing the kids.

Eg when creating lesson plans my wife will often say out loud to herself things like “I need a 4th challenge for this topic because Charlie and Alice are clever and will do the other tasks quickly” (highly paraphrased and names made up).
> Well, a good teacher could (and can) indeed see, what methods he use are effective or not.

Any evidence?

Doctors could figure out that not washing hands was killing patients, but didn't.

> As he gets new data with new "fresh" kids who are individuals, but usual still average. So you could experiment.

There will always be multiple things a teacher does differently so it will be, in practice, impossible to attribute success or failure to any particular practices. That's aside from random noise (which might be more systematic - what if some random good / bad kid happens to have a large influence on the whole class?).

Remember how Skinner proved pigeons could develop superstitions? Or look at any other profession that deals with a little bit of randomness (human factors / biology) and see the stupid stuff they used to believe.
I also had a lot of trouble with my work-supplied 2017 MBP. I found the touchbar completely useless and never got used to it. It would randomly experience crashes or lags, a problem I never had with the old function keys when I changed the brightness, altered the keyboard backlight, or modified the volume.
Even worse, the keys seemed to be laid out in a way that my touch typing couldn't adapt to -- every time I worked off of that keyboard, I would make constant typos and type significantly slower than on any other keyboard I've ever used.
Switched back to a 2015 and I couldn't be happier. Battery life is better, too.
Honestly, after 2 years on Ubuntu following a decade on OSX...all I want is to be able to run OmniGraffle on Ubuntu.

Literally the only thing I miss.
A centralized, commercial service, like Facebook or Instagram or Medium has ways to mitigate this. At the very least a staff of moderators and a legal department. But in this case, considering the distributed nature of this project, if I am running a node, I might not be aware that there is illegal content being stored on my system. And yet under the current legal system, I am pretty sure I could be liable. I am not sure what the recourse for something like this would be.