skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sadly google/facebook/amazon only cares to increase speed and loading pages fast. many new standards are being developed for this. but not about user security as ads is their primary business.
Or you could open the windows.
Keeping the peace is about keeping the status quo not keeping the peace.
Moderation will always need the human touch, but it seems to be ripe for some sort of ai or graphing tool to help identify where it's likely to be needed.

All thanks to dang and sctb anyway. :)
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So basically, milk powder is the EU's equivalent of the US's problem with corn syrup? That's rather interesting. I wouldn't even know how to use it as an ingredient, although that's true of at least half the stuff in most packaged foods.
You're right.
But Japan is an example of an Asian country that forced itself to assimilate the technology and habits of the West. They ended up invading China before WW2, last of a long list of countries.
What do you mean by “the start-stop nonsense” as opposed to using pedals? I don’t have a newer car.
Have you considered just stop using these shitty "websites" ?
>he claims microwaves alter food's chemistry

To be fair, doesn't all cooking alter food's chemistry? In fact, isn't that the whole point of cooking? Look at potatoes for example: humans can't digest raw potato, so we learned to cook it eons ago because that changes it into a form we can digest.

So unless I'm missing something related to terminology, he's right about microwaves altering food chemistry, but it's just scare-mongering because you frequently want to alter food chemistry.

The rest of those things you cite are, of course, total BS.
Good search is a huge engineering challenge and nowhere-near solved. Google's continued dominance is what makes their ad space valuable.

If I were google, I would keep investing in improving search, and that would obviously include hiring machine learning and AI experts.
And in general, stock-based compensation significantly skews the numbers, such that they are rarely reflective of what people get in their pay-packets each month.
I frequently bite into olives only to find pits that did not get machined out.
IDK about EPYC, but my 3700x was blazing through startgame with those settings on Linux Civ 6.

Where standard/8 AI was unplayable on my FX8350.
Because I don't want to run windows as my main OS?
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16145208-slingshot is a good book that covers Intel/AMD history
A faraday car key bag costs about €20. And they work, I use one. But one has to be consistent and always put the key in the bag. Not a problem, really.
The article is capitalized only when it is the beginning of a sentence, or for the elementary school of the same name. The article behaves "normally" (eg switches to aux Olympiades when needed) while the English article stick to Les Olympiades with a capitalized "Les".

Interestingly, both articles first words are "Les Olympiades", but:

* "Les" is in bold in the English one, as if it was part of the name, while only "Olympiades" is in bold in French

* The French article says "the Olympiades are" while the English one say "the Olympiades is".
Perhaps it make sense to place all your key fobs in a small Faraday cage while not in use.
The heavy startup focus of hackernews (like, it's an incubator's news agitator) + lots of successful tech-types, like FAANG employees with 200K+ salaries.

Lots of other commentators I've seen on here are experience pilots, engineers, etc. Maybe not Bill Gates money but certainly on the higher end of the bell-curve when it comes to education and pay.

I don't disagree that there is a lot of aspirational talk on here too -- they wanna get rich -- but again, it's the news site that's part of a startup incubator. What did you expect?
I've found the opposite, that for the most part people just want to be able to do their job and sometimes they need administrator rights for that, and it is incredibly annoying and frictionful if they need to contact IT every time. Since workstations are almost always 1:1, we don't consider whatever advantages local admin might provide an attacker to be worth the extra friction caused by disallowing it.
What would be the reasons I'd want to use Elixir over Erlang?
> It doesn't take money to join protests.

Travel expenses, taking time off work, food and drink, accommodations...

> It doesn't take money to volunteer, even if it's just maintaining a newsletter or occasionally seeking donations for your local org.

Many activists do those things, though. They're still dragged through the mud for "not doing enough" or "just talking."

> It's very easy to throw stones from afar when you've never been in the trenches.

I've never flown a helicopter, but when someone puts one in a tree I can still say "dude fucked it up." and be correct.

> Those who don't do often make unreasonable demands because they have no connection to the reality of the situation of actually getting a thing done.

"Reasonable," "civil," "practical," are all examples of words used by those empowered by a status quo to resist changes to it. "We're happy to discuss issues, but the discussion should be ciiiiviiil" which I mean, yeah, I generally prefer civil discussions, but when the topic at hand is decidedly uncivil, for example taking people's children and imprisoning them at the border, then I believe an uncivil response is warranted.
I can't speak to the VW but the Tacoma was absolutely trendy when new. From 2000 or so to present it has been the official pickup of "I don't 'need' a pickup but I make good money, I like nice things and I want a pickup" (I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that reasoning). They've always (even back to the 80s and 90s) been more expensive than the alternatives when new so only people who are dead set on them tend to get them.

They're comparable to the Jeep JK and the WRX STI or a performance trim Mustang/Camaro but for different demographics. Anyone could tell you that they would hold value better than average when new.

Losing less value than average is not all that remarkable. Gaining or failing to lose value is exceptional and subject to the whims of consumer culture (see my tangent about diesel pickups). Jeep Wranglers used to be like that but as the 4dr JKs hit the used market it calmed down a lot. Old full size Broncos are probably about to stop losing value if the rumors of a new fullsize are to be believed.

Also I toned down the language in the original a little.
It's nice of the government to check to see if the government is defrauding the taxpayer.
What's the rationale for double-paying?
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I have a bunch of Xiaomi zigbee sensors (door/window, temperature, and water leak) connected to my SmartThings hub -- You just need to install a device handler and they will work fine (though from what I've heard Xiaomi devices don't work well with most repeaters -- these are pretty much my only Zigbee devices so they are connected directly to my hub and work great).

I don't trust Xiaomi for anything connected directly to my network, but zigbee devices connected through something that I (kind of) trust works for me.
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> But as this article shows, abdicating the responsibility by keeping the topics sterile is similarly suspect, in the sense of fiddling while Rome burns. I believe a willingness to confront the ugly sides of technology with some courage of conviction would eventually be recognised, even if it may occasionally involve a bit of a mess.

Absolutely true. The failure of mods (and even pg?) to recognize this is the single disheartening and cynical thing about HN.

PG gets it half right in his advice to "keep your identity small" when he observes that people cannot argue rationally about something that touches on their identity.

But the other half (which PG and the mods get spectacularly wrong) is that what we think of as "political" beliefs, characterized by groupthink and lack of scrutiny/falsifiability, are typically held about every topic other than an individual's area of expertise.

A mature HN reader skilled in technology, is least likely to undergo an emotional/identity-driven flight of fancy about political issues pertaining to technology. An immature HN reader will either be naively apolitical ("Oh, I just build AI tech, it isn't my concern that it's being used to round up refugees for execution") or will turn off the technical insight in favor of loyalty to some political group (repeating talking points, etc.)

Of any community I've been a part of, HN offers the best hope for grounded, rational discussion of important political topics surrounding technology.

Just as someone who stands by and does not try to stop a lynching is guilty of doing nothing, the HN mods ban on politics and punishment of those who try to discuss political topics are in fact making a very strong statement of their political preference, which is that controversial or troubling aspects/implications of technology or tech firms simply be ignored.

With the advent of Palantir (which has had lots of stage time at Startup School), defense technology became cool. Google under Schmidt became a major lobbying force and defense contractor. Facebook is not far behind, etc. HN mods are constantly surrounded by stories of "successful" firms in the defense contractor space, and just as it is viewed as cynical to be dismissive of the worth of "another startup doing social picture sharing", it is similarly viewed as cynical to question the good citizenship and motives of a firm in the defense/surveillance space.

HN (and HN mods) are a product of the surrounding culture. As a share of GDP, surveillance and defense spending has never been higher during peacetime. In other words, it's a bull market and HN is ultimately a beneficiary of the growth of surveillance and defense tech. Hence its interests are overwhelmingly right wing when it comes to suppressing criticism and threats of that tech.

There are other politically relevant areas for discussion besides the ones I've focused on in this comment. I chose them simply because I think they are top of mind for a lot of people even though the difficult philosophical and political issues relating to them are under active suppression by HN mods.
you may have missed this thought-provoking passage on the intractability of avoiding the political:

> Down the page, another user expressed disdain for the experiment. “The idea that we can carve out a space that exists outside of politics and ideology is delusional,” the user wrote. “Squelching political discussion won’t cause us all to transcend ideology, it’ll just make it impossible to discuss or critique a dominant ideology whenever one shows up in someone’s unstated assumptions.”

> “Of course it’s delusional,” Gackle replied. “And still we have to moderate this site.” Three days later, he announced that Political Detox Week would be coming to an end. They’d learned, among other things, that “it’s impossible to define ‘politics’ with any consensus because that question is itself highly political.”
I only know of iOS, but here's what I try to do

- Reduce the use of dependencies to the minimum (I'm bad at this)
- set version compatibility in my Cartfile / Podfile
- when new breaking versions of Swift came out, suggest to my client a 2 / 3 mission solely focused on upgrading their app and it's dependencies (otherwise it will probably make their next last minute super-urgent-right-now feature needlessly long and complex to develop)

But I'd also willingly take any advice on this

Edit: also, semi-solved this for my JS work using automated dependency update services, like dependabot, coupled with unit / integration tests, but still haven't found a similar service for Swift
How Oracle ERP Cloud More Impactful Than Other ERP Solutions?
The title giveth, the body takes away. Articles like these have been making the rounds for maybe 6 ears now, and I cannot see how this brings even a moderately non-stale perspective to the fray .I checked the date, it's from today. Must be a slow week at SciAm.
The USATF age group races were the best thing that happened this weekend (2018)
Massive Ip Rights infringement
Do you want Ghost In the Shell?

Because this is how you end up with Ghost In the Shell.
Stock-based compensation for a public company with a good track record of growth and stability is not much different than cash, it's just on a different timer than 2x/month. It should skew the numbers.
Eh, not as much as you'd think. I've written keyloggers. In the XP days running a keylogger under local admin ensured you'd get everything, but that stopped working around the time of Vista. So now what you have to do is launch your keylogger process in the user session context anyway. Admin access would just get you the ability to do it to more than just the initially compromised account, but in my experience workstations are 1:1 so that doesn't really get you anything.
For starters, why did you choose this username? From your comments it seems like you've been here for a while. Why a new account?
> Most of the ideas in use today have been discovered decades ago. The big reason for churn is that people don't bother learning about what's been done before, and keep reinventing the wheel.

But on the other side of the coin, do you really want to be locked into a decades-old solution to a "solved problem" forever? Or are there still improvements that can be made to reduce friction and human error?

"Machine/human readable data exchange format? Yeah, that's a solved problem - we use XML for that. What's that? You want to reinvent the wheel? JavaScript Object Notation, are you insane? Didn't you bother seeing which exchange formats are already out there? XML can already do everything JSON can do and more! Plus, JavaScript is the exact opposite of what we value here, get that crap out of my face; like I said, XML is the one true solution to data exchange and forever will be."
I play a fair bit of Magic, primarily at work. For years, I've used Magic Online for cheaply testing decks before deciding which cards to buy in paper.

I was very excited by Arena. It looks modern, feels a lot less clunky and allows one to just play a few games with very little hassle. It's all the good parts of the Hearthstone or Elder Scrolls Legends clients, but it's a fully-fledged Magic implementation!

However, I've found myself barely playing any Magic Arena.

- As mentioned in the article, as much as I love paper Magic, it's not the best computer game. If I'm by a PC, there are other things I usually want to play.

-It's been great to test ideas for some Standard decks, but I usually prefer Modern.

-It's free, but I don't spend too much on Magic, anyway.

-It's quick, but it lacks all the interpersonal communication

That last point is probably one of the biggest things, for me. I love reading opponents, playing the mind games and chatting a bit while playing. You can't see each other and you don't even have a chat in Arena.

There's also the physical collectible aspect of it. I love picking up my folders with cards and flipping through them. Scrolling through them on a screen doesn't feel as satisfying.
Until your CI pipeline causes churn because something doesn’t work anymore....
No. not really, However the solution here is to account for that time upfront saying "oh it's gonna take me some time to get back up to speed with your project". That's the reasonable thing to do anyways
Compared to e.g. twitter it may feel this way but there is definitely some discussion going on despite the efforts to keep it to the minimum. And even without directly engaging with "the other side" it is nice to know that they are still here and can provide their perspective on the other matters.
Which one of the examples you have listed can exist without SOTA search?
You also need to know that it will take a couple years (at least) to really get good enough in the FULL stack to be productive in all areas of the stack... by which time the technology stack will have had parts swapped out. Being a modern developer means embracing that you have to constantly learn just to keep up with your profession. If this isn't appealing then may I recommend RPG or COBOL as language a language to consider? Billions of lines of it are in production and need maintenance and new features, it's being used by financially solid companies, and you only need to read a magazine once a year to see if anything relevant has changed rather than hitting Hacker News every 20 minutes to see what's new in JavaScript frameworks.
The book is open-source! All the book's chapters and exercises are open to anybody to see and edit. E.g. First chapter is here: https://github.com/amejiarosario/dsa.js-data-structures-algo.... The offline formats (PDF, ePub, Mobi) are there for convenience (and to solve the limited support Github has for asciidoc's `include` directives) but all the text/code is open.
Rake, the Ruby version of Make, is rock-solid, dependable, and crazy-powerful. Don't want a Turing-complete language in your build automation? Don't use it, the rule syntax works just fine. But it's there if you want it, and oh god is it great.
>It's because we fixed lead pollution.

No, that's just a theory about why violent crime has gone down. No one really knows for sure. Someone noticed that crime rates have gone down, and that this correlates with reduced usage of leaded gasoline in North America.

Remember also that global warming has been going up over the past few centuries, and this has an inverse correlation with the number of pirates on the high seas. Back in the days of Blackbeard, we didn't have problems with global warming. Does this mean that greatly reducing piracy has caused global warming? Of course not. Correlation does not prove causation.

The banning of leaded gasoline might in fact have caused a reduction in violent crime, but it's not proven at this point.
Doesn't that make it a replication of previous articles? Authenticity doesn't oblige originality

You otoh offer nothing of substance
Maps, at least, I've completely replaced with Citymapper. Due to its goal it doesn't work everywhere, but in a supported area I've found it to be completely superior to Google Maps. So there is competition.
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What do you use instead?

In London, cabs are so expensive, even just looking at one is more expensive than 30mins Uber trip... In addition, unless you're in a very touristy area, your wait time for a black cab will be inversely proportional to how urgently you need it; in contrast, I can just magically summon an Uber with the magic wand in my pocket.
Show HN: ortFolio, a minimal website template for image-based portfolios
Related discussion: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.security... (from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20638838#20639494)
Show HN: “List Scheduling” in TypeScript
If you see cookie count, it is horrible. Don't know how much information is being collected by them. And nobody bothers to talk about them.
>So the only option is to get Titan RTX rebranded as a Quadro RTX 6000 with a blower style fan for $2,000 markup. $2000 for a fan

for $2000, surely you can install an aftermarket cooler or watercooling loop?
Intel has such a poor track record in recent years of expanding into new markets and hasn’t had to compete in their core market for so long that it’s questionable if they can.
“Unfortunately doing this tends to lead to being unemployable because too many people associate being immersed in churn as "productivity." This spreads philosophically and suddenly people doing the hiring want these kinds of people who can "solve" these kinds of "problems."”

Totally agree. Sticking to things that work can hurt your job prospects seriously. You are quickly an “outdated dinosaur”.
Finally some sanity coming to good old Europe. Instead of making (rather big) part of the population automatically criminals, state 1) gets revenue (directly taxing plus new jobs); 2) can monitor usage, set maximum potency, strains, etc (good enough for most users); 3) takes significant revenue from proper criminals, local and worldwide; 4) makes various medical products more available.

Everybody, apart from organized and local crime, wins.
exactly, if you're going to spend $1200 on a GPU, why would you care about saving $30 on a processor?
I'd rather see a Mel Brooks anything than a reboot of any other thing. Where has all the creativity gone?

In fairness, though, iirc Mr Brooks is in his nineties now, and is probably a bit tired of biz.
> That’s a bold claim.

No, I think this is the consensus scholarly view.
But... you shouldn't have to do this! It's an extra step, an inconvenience.
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Are the moderators interested in automating their jobs at all? I really don't understand why the site continues to have no means to help people communicate better, other than a couple dudes that manually respond to people over and over all day. From a technologist perspective it seems archaic.
It seems that your answer to my question "What is the mechanism by which "the market" balances out the desire by the megarich to live in tall towers in NYC, with the desire by those who use Central Park to not be in shadows more?" is that the megarich should build as many towers as they want until the megarich themselves no longer want to live with Central Park in shade.

That is, if the megarich enjoy the 50 mile views and don't care about Central Park at all, then it can smother in shadow, yes?

And the only mechanism for the people who want to have sunlight in the Park is to make the megarich either socially or physically uncomfortable enough (perhaps by threats of violence?) that they decide it's time to move away ... or buy more security?

If so, your mechanism seems rather prone to encourage social unrest.
Well, considering all the article talks about is ML, but calls it an "artificial brain", I think the government is par for the course with your average ML company marketer.

Nobody is close to creating actual artificial intelligence and we're probably getting close to the top of the hype cycle on the term.
https://www.fobguard.com/

They make them just for that purpose.
When microseconds/frame rates/audio buffers count, you're only one garbage collection away from a complete thread lockup. Those gigabytes of heap aren't going to clean up themselves!
I don't mind this sort of moderation on community sites like Hacker News.

Still, as the error keeps coming up, I will repeat myself (I apologize to people trying to read the whole thread, but this is the main point): For the big platforms (Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, etc.) and backbone providers (ISPs, Cloudfront), we need the right to appeal, public auditing, bright line rules, and due process rights.
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Interesting. What counts as dynamic memory allocation in MISRA? Can you ship your own malloc serving memory from a global static char buffer? What about statically sized free lists? Or stdio functions (fopen/printf/etc) that use malloc internally?
Overview of Server-Side Programming in PostgreSQL
Looks like it's using Prism.js: https://prismjs.com
The alcohol industry might also lose.
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I totally agree. But how do you balance this with the need for looking good on the job market? If you want to stay employable you are almost forced to participate in this craziness.
Pretty much all of them. I started with C and never liked OO programming. Even when kind of optional in the language, for your own code, you still have to deal with an OO library ecosystem because everyone writes the libraries that way when the language supports it.

It kind of depends on what you mean by popular. I don’t have much interest in Rust. It has a lot of hype right now. It doesn’t seem like a bad language, just too low level for what everyone wants to use it for (due to hype and most people not writing OSes).
there are 90 million party members among 1.4 billion people. I don't know how to count indirect party members. But I don't think that is near 1/4, that's too exagerating