skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is really interesting and I'm glad The Atlantic is covering it. I've heard about this before.

This guy is an a actual engineer and he seems to be going about this in a scientific manor. Still, I find it interesting he couldn't trace back or triangulate the vibrations to their source. Their obviously real, as seen by the bodies of water moving like pools and such.

Is the difficulty in triangulating frequencies this low is because it's difficult to get an emission direction?

The gas pipeline is a good theory, but then he goes on about all kinds of symptoms, mental health, schizophrenia, school shootings ... that's where it turns to the entire "mercury teeth filling" issue. The guy who was convinced mercury fillings lead to all kinds of issues said he had links to MS, neurological disorders, etc. etc. ... basically every possible ill .. You might as well say The Devil + Snake Oil at that point.

It's sad he spent so many years of his life researching this. I would have just moved. He lived way out and probably had a commute anyway (or maybe he worked from home or was retired)? Sure it's work and you might loose some money selling/buying, but moving costs for a house that size wouldn't be more than $2k~$5k and you could just move to a new area.
Isn't this what happened to MH17?
in a sane OS? Nothing until you run out of ram.

In a Microsoft OS? Depends on the app -- some are dependent (many games) on having swap available (and may err silently or under false pretenses without one).

I've found that a lot of MMO style games include cheat detection systems (see : rootkit) that rely on swap, and fail without it. As to why they do that, i'm unsure.
I'd also like to see downward trends, not just growing trend. From the last page or two, I see some downward trend, like "blog", "facebook", and "gmail". I don't know if it means the decline of popularity, but it is definitely interesting to see the declining graph.
lol, you had me until "dockerizing".
Re: "results in honking (because slow speed)"

Too bad. Cowboy Driving is obsolete.
Reason Why the West Is Determined to Ignore China’s Success
That's for organizations. I am talking IntelliJ Ultimate (no Resharper included) for individuals.
UbiquitiLink Wants to Turn Every Cellphone into a Satellite Phone
Regarding the Atlantic article, which puts an important emphasis on DNA proof in case of sexual assault, it was ironic to see a article linked on that page, which critiqued the reliance on DNA proof in case of sexual assault (https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/06/a-reaso...)
Preferred original title when submitting links: "Show HN: OmniNet - A unified architecture for multi-modal multi-task learning"

HN is a bit strict. I'd say "X is all you need" gets less attention from users than a very technical headline. The most popular submission recently had MITM in the title (https://news.ycombinator.com/best)
> but if you want to tinfoil hat it, just do what every modern system does and use Curve25519.

What is your take on the NIST curves being "officially" blessed for government data via Suite B (or whatever they're calling it)?

If it's good enough for government work, would it be good enough for us in the private sector? What are the chances the the NSA know weaknesses in Curve25519 or ChaCha like they knew about differential cryptanalysis attacks DES ahead of everyone else?
"Median house price"

1. Does that actually mean median 'house' price, or does it mean median 'home' price?

2. Is that price to buy, or rent, or what?

So, I think there's a few factors here. One is that recent booming usually leads to higher home prices, as the amount of building going on usually trails the number of jobs and income increases. It catches up eventually, but not until the boom stops.

The other is that it's true that sprawling out can decrease home prices. However, that tends to also increase transportation prices, since you're further out now. Americans spend a LOT on transportation because of the car dependency. Quick googling and math indicate annual household transportation spending of 9.7k for the US, 6.3k for Germany, 5k for Japan.
Also because built-in cards had shitty Realtek chips. I remember fetching a Sound Blaster on my third PC just so that I could use custom drivers to bypass the Realtek chip and use a proper card with advanced DSP support.
There may be some people for whom Dropbox will always remain the best solution, to be sure, but it feels like Dropbox is going out of their way to reduce that set of people in favor of extracting more money from those that remain.

For many companies, that is the terminal phase of their existence: They are driven to extract more and more revenue from a set of shrinking customers, many of whom are hostage to the company's product and have insanely high switching costs.

The end-game for such companies is when they stop as they almost entirely cease selling the product and transform into a company with licensing and service revenues.

It isn't always terminal, but it requires an almost superhuman effort to jolt such a company out of its trajectory. Apple was in that phase in the 1990s under Gil Amelio: They focused on margins at the expense of product quality and market share.

IBM bragged about becoming a service company in the 1990s, a tacit admission that they had relinquished any claim to being a participant, much less a leader, in personal computers.

Neither company is dead today, but they illustrate the two paths. Apple turned things around with a combination of luck and a maverick CEO.

IBM isn't technically dead, but it is dead in a sense that pg once described: Nobody fears them, and they don't influence anyone's choices.
We use Solr/Lucene heavily, ingesting about 3TB a day. We had to build our own clustering since we started before the Solr cloud project. We have been very happy with the results.
This is bad advice when the swap is backed by spinning disk rather than SSD, in large part because paging in once the problem is solved is not aggressive enough.

Let me make it concrete: say 1 GiB of your application's RAM gets swapped out then is later paged in only as needed (4 KiB pages) with no readahead. Now the application's VM space is a minefield: there are up to 262,144 times it can stall for a ~10 ms disk seek (for a total of ~40 minutes). Sequentially reading in 1 GiB of RAM from disk would take only ~5 seconds.

Hopefully OSs use some readahead, but I'm sure Linux and macOS don't use enough. I find a system that has ever swapped to be totally unusable until I do "sudo swapoff -a" (on Linux) to force everything to be paged in, or just reboot (on macOS, I haven't found any other way).

Some of this can happen even without swap: the OS will still drop clean file-backed pages, so unless you mlock() your executables after startup (my production binary at work does this), you can still have major page fault-induced latency spikes.

Swap backed by SSD (or compressed RAM) should be more reasonable, but I've had enough bad experiences with swap on spinning disk that authoritative-sounding articles that encourage swap without mentioning this problem piss me off.

In contrast, if you don't have swap and run out of RAM, something will die and get restarted. In many cases this is a much better failure mode than continuing to run slowly.
> Also, you can't change any of the UI colours. The major feature of the last release was that you could change the UI from grey to black. So, now 2 colours to choose from.

None of this is true.

How is the current state of GUI customization in Windows? Last time I checked, you couldn't even set a custom wallpaper without paying money.
Neither you nor Tavis are taking into account non-technical people. Nobody forces you to use AV -- if you feel you have the skill to defend yourself, do yourself a favor (and us), and remove AV from your boxes. But leave non-technical people alone.
Does this work offline at all? That would be a killer feature.
I found this quote especially pertinent to the story overall.

> They worried that such a bill would direct government funding to less-established Asian groups.

They were not worried about the privacy aspects, but that others could get aid. Essentially, a lot of what I'm seeing is an attempt to entrench their own base at the cost of the other less fortunate minority groups. Which, well, crabs-in-a-pot mentality never really ends up working out that well.
I doubt they keep customer data after you're not a customer anymore. Sure, they could be lying but we don't have information pointing to that, do we?

They are subject (or have subjected themselves) to various security standards: https://slack.com/intl/en-ie/security

And their security whitepaper [0] mentions:

Customer data is removed immediately upon deletion by the end user or upon expiration of message retention as configured by the customer administrator

It would be a stretch to say a message is deleted permanently but a workspace is kept forever, for unknown reasons. Occam's razor and stuff.

0 - https://a.slack-edge.com/78b2/marketing/downloads/security/S...
Value is a very nebulous concept. But laws consistently affect the prices of everything from food to real estate to medical care to weapons to labour.

The changes aren't usually zero -> something, but that's a footnote to the general principle.
Same issue here, on mobile - firefoxpreview for Android - if that helps
Possibly, but keep in mind not everyone living in suburbs or exurbs has their job in the city.
Updates. When you pay, you get a perpetual fallback license to that version

https://sales.jetbrains.com/hc/en-gb/articles/207240845-What...
This is huge and I have high hopes for zygote,jl.

Observation/request: For higher-order derivatives (Hessian, Laplacian, etc), AD libraries typically provide API shortcuts. I have found it difficult to control or predict the memory footprint and the time complexity of these API shortcuts.

Laplacian is case in point: it is sometimes computed by first computing the Hessian by forward-over-reverse and then taking the trace. In most libraries you would have to dig deep in the documentation or the code itself to understand how intermediary values are accumulated in memory for instance.

I would love to have a summary table of the complexity of all these API shortcuts, similar to https://wiki.python.org/moin/TimeComplexity for data-structures, but for these AD shortcuts (laplacian, divergence, hessian, etc). The table would show memory and time complexity in terms of the number of the input/intermediary/output dimensions and the complexity of evaluating the original function.
That must be a while ago since LuCI has been around for years now:

https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/luci/start
I'm a big fan of cricket flour, and I look forward to seeing more options like it on the market. It looks like they are on their way to producing some, I wonder what the barrier to doing so is if they are committed to getting over the 'ick' factor.
Fascinating. Maybe just as a part of the fingerprinting mechanism?
I mean, there's no way to turn off Windows 10 update either. The motivation is presumably the same in both cases, i.e. to reduce need for tech support
It can also go the other way in that your shipping in the face of adversity can be taken as evidence that the adversity isn't actually that bad. And... that's kinda legitimate, although weighting it too heavily is bad.
Wouldn't that only make sense with the percentages reversed (61% are users, 60% say it's their most used)? Otherwise, there are more companies where it's "most used" then there are that use it at all.
How did you implement ZK-proofs verification on Fluence? Looks like a unnecessarily time consuming thing
He claims the fingerprint library's techniques aren't used for the check though, so surely there must be an observable difference between the POST request from headless and non-headless

Edit: According to other commenters there are checks in the included version of the library which are not in the release version.
Not sure how pure devops should look like? You need one form of project management or another.

How do you prioritize order, plan or coordinate stuuf if you are not using waterfall, scrum, kanban or whatever?

I always had one combination or another..
React, Meet Compose
This website is a nightmare, there is almost no information and the page is almost entirely ads
The problem here is that the biggest value of that product is that there is one of it. We have three major desktop OSes and two major phone OSes, people have multiple devices - usually at least one running a desktop OS and one running a mobile OS. File syncing as an OS feature has significantly less utility, because OS vendors can't get their shit together and agree on a standard, cross-platform solution.

This is very much a "we're all dead in the end" observation. Any good enough product is gonna get killed by turning it into multiple instances of mutually incompatible features, in a war for market share that claims user's time and patience as collateral damage.
Saying a generation has a "fear of sauce" seems a little exaggerated, given that the article quoted one college student who came home because she "didn't like food with sauce", which was clearly an outlier given that her parents went way overboard throughout her childhood helping her avoid sauced foods.
It's not using competitors misfortune if they didn't reasonably disclose the breach
If you pay for 1 year you get to keep the minor version from the start of the year. Eg. if you start a 1 year subscription now you will get to keep version 2019.1
Africa is difficult, because it's a continent, and there is a lot of variety, but India and China, I'd imagine extremely high, like the 80% figure mentioned, or more.
Good! So what are the solutions? What file transfer approach

(1) Doesn't require an active connection between sender and receiver over the internet for the duration of the transfer
(2) Doesn't require a shared secret

What group chat secure messenger

(1) Doesn't rely on a central server operated by someone else
(2) Doesn't use PII as the basis of a user's identity

These are what I regard as the most basic of requirements for each need. PGP provides them (in broken, hard to use ways); others have struggled. If you actually do have solutions here, rather than just complaints about PGP, I do want to hear them. But you've taken this thread down a rabbit hole rather than respond to my original point, which was about the limitations of the suggested alternatives.
It's not that 95% of frontend designers don't care about accessibility...

It's that 95% of project managers just won't place accessibility concerns on the top of their Jira backlogs.

It took me six years of full-time and freelancing work to finally end up a company that does this. It's a rare thing in the industry to find a company that cares about, what is essentially, this usually untapped source of potential revenue.
> Making this situation worse, the matched phone number was not listed on the account’s profile, nor in the “Download Your Information” archive obtained from Facebook [5];

Huh, that sounds like a GDPR violation?
'this is our language, not yours'
"10x developers" are about as well defined as the word "startup". Similarly they are often used by VCs (or similar stakeholders) to attribute causation to a highly complex system, which is basically a fool's errand. The description the original VC uses for a 10x developer (where the tweetstorm originated) is akin to a supply chain that just spits out masses of widgets to a nascent widget market. VCs love this because it means a quicker ROI on their investment.
Do Keybase folks use Keybase for literally all their communications, document sharing? That's a bit hard to imagine. I'd wager that some of those important comms were on email and pretty much all the scary arguments about server/account hacking would apply to the involved email accounts too?

And a naive interpretation of the posting also raises the question of what secret deals, etc could Keybase be doing that would be disastrous if it were to come out later, that, as a Keybase user, I should be concerned about? A secret backdoor in the keys embedded for the NSA?

(Keybase user here)
Autograd: Automatic differentiation of Python and numpy code
4chan has got a lot of stuff done. Consider the HWNDU saga:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw9zyxm860Q

Obviously this is trolling, but it damn impressive they found it.

They've done quite a lot of other stuff including finding ISIS targets and getting them killed, using nothing bit a sheet of paper and an innocuous message to make the media look silly, they've even caught animal abusers.

Plenty of people stick their nose up to them but they are probably one of the more effective online communities. It just depends whether you happen to like what they are effective at.
> Well then, then that sounds like a pretty valuable skill that should be given greater focus during performance reviews, doesn't it?

Rather, being a very rational person instead of being pissed off by arguments, is a skill that should be given greater focus during performance reviews for programmers.
Hi, I'm the developer of Argdown. Thank you for all your feedback. As some of you already mentioned, so far Argdown has been mainly used by philosophers in an academic context, so it is great to hear what people with other backgrounds think about it.
This looks neat . In python is this also a project that does the same thing ? https://github.com/HIPS/autograd
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I would have paid for something which worked properly on linux but back when I tried it it didn't. Now I just use google drive or gitlab depending on whether or not I care if anyone else can see it. It's not really worth a lot of my time, money or effort. I'm pretty sure that for many people just doing the same (giving people access by sending them a link via whatsapp/email) is enough.
Undeclared permanent war.
OneDrive is an abomination. We use it at work and I have to manage it for everyone on top of my other duties (medium non-profit). It's not the panacea everyone thought it would be. I inherited it upon coming here. I've tried to see this as more or less a devops experiment. I try to control as much as I can with PowerShell, but some things don't lend themselves well to that method. Oddly enough, the lion's share of all end users are on Macs that are on a Windows domain. It proved interesting to get everything working.

What I've done is tell people to create documents from the "cloud" and edit them there within the Office365 ecosystem. Documentation needs where I work are fairly simple, with very few people needing much beyond the basic functionality. No one is doing amortization tables or complicated formulas. Word use is also fairly basic.

It seems that every week almost Microsoft changes the admin page for Office365 and adds or removes a feature or changes the way things look. Because of our basic Office needs, I'm seeing growing success with getting people to start and stay in the cloud. Prevents nonsense to a great degree. SharePoint to share between departments.

Oddly enough, I've had great success in "rescuing" Office files using LibreOffice running on Linux. Office files just add so much crufty proprietary stuff.
This is a minor variation on a long-standing problem. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airliner_shootdown_i...
You can still send text messages (including to Signal contacts by long-pressing the send button). Obviously it is harder than just sending an encrypted message.
Sounds great, I'll ping you an email sometime next week!
Benchmarking: Do it right or don't do it at all
Fallback in crypto is wrong. Either succeed or fail. I don't need to sit there guessing how secure my secure messenger is.
Your coworkers aren't too smart
You were never forced to migrate to Windows. In fact, the last major customers on ESP were using Linux to the end.
only way to do it these days... although the payload is not hashed or obfuscated in any way so it would be extremely easy to fake if it's even being stored in a db or memory somewhere, else you can just copy the request exactly as is
>directed graph [...] containing cycles

Can you clarify what you mean with cycles? As written it sounds like you think sound arguments contain circular reasoning...

I can see a branching opening and closing in a unidirected graph being the result of a sound argument^, but since you cannot move freely in both directions I don't know if it would count as a cycle.

^ The argument being: some process has a positive an negative effect (one thing happens, another thing never happens), the positive and negative effects are observed in nature, supporting the conclusion that the process in fact is the cause of the two effects.
Missing 4 character comparison. I find 4 chars easier to read personally.
I've been using htop for a while now, it is pretty great: https://hisham.hm/htop/
We're working on a more public roadmap, but the move to Typescript also allowed us to switch out Apollo on the client side with Relay as well as some other pretty significant improvements to the software as a whole (as you said, TS is pretty great :) )
What type of "nasty stuff" did it stop? Are you talking servers or workstations here? How did that nasty stuff get far enough in that it had to be "stopped" by AV?

(I don't mean this to sound snarky, I'm genuinely interested in what type of real-world infections are happening and being detected. My experience is limited to internet-facing endpoints that have no security or are horribly outdated -- which is typically a bigger failure of IT to begin with -- and non-technical end-users running random executables from e-mails or shady websites)
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Teen sexting is an overblown moral panic, according to a new study
I have personally witnessed 10x developers. The trick is making everyone else look like 0.1x developers.
Headless CMS Is Killing the Buy vs. Build Decision
Ramsey Orta filmed the killing of Eric Garner–so the police punished him
That's a nice example of why "voting with your wallet" doesn't work.

I've been a paying Dropbox customers for years now, and not on the lowest tier either. How much more money and to whom can you or me give, for Dropbox to stop doing the shit they're doing, and forever just remain a folder that syncs on every platform?
Not even Bear Grylls wants to eat something called a "maggot". They're going to need some serious rebranding upfront.
There are additional tests included in https://arh.antoinevastel.com/javascripts/fpCollect.min.js that do not exist in the GitHub repository over at https://github.com/antoinevastel/fp-collect.

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