skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only post here so far, commenting about the paywall, was downvoted until dead.

It was a reasonable comment though because the article itself says:

> This research was funded by the USGS Climate and Land Use Research and Development Program, a National Science Foundation Archaeology research grant (no. 1322775) and a University of Alabama Research Grant Committee Level 1 Grant (no. RGC-2018-14). Additional funding for fieldwork was provided by Fundación PACUNAM, the National Geographic Society and the Alphawood Foundation.

It's immoral and unreasonable to put publicly funded research behind paywalls controlled by private organizations. And it is a psychopathic abomination that any and all thoughtful serious discussion board dealing with academic and scientific issues would so dramatically and brutally censor all discussion of this highly important and serious issue.
I feel like the opposite thing is true about us, in that our process (effectively, somewhat notoriously) avoids people with substantial prior experience in our field.
Another big user of Qt for their desktop products is Tableau, since it provides the same experience across Windows and OS X.
> But how many companies are never going to have scaling issues, and also have the resources to hire a good in-house sysadmin to manage their servers?

The ones that know how hire good people. If a company can’t hold on to talent then they’ll probably fail eventually. Cloud won’t fix bad management.
Doesn't Microsoft already own Android, sorry that should be Microsoft Android, that's how zdnet refers to it. Seriously though, what a way of doing “business”. Extract revenue out of Samsung through vague patent-licensing royalty claims, $1 billion in 2013, then offer to ‘partner’ with them.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-and-samsung-step-up-...
> Only drivers have to be signed on Windows

This is half-true.

Windows and macOS both make it difficult to install self-signed (or unsigned) software. For example, I made http://www.lofi.rocks (an open source Electron-based music player) and I'm not going to spend like a few hundred bucks a year to have a non-self-signed cert. This makes both macOS and Windows complain when users install the app. More draconian practices (that "protect users from themselves") will make it even harder for independent open source devs like me to share cool projects with a wide audience.
There's a reported annual returns benchmark they need to hit.
I think maybe the person you're talking to knows more about this than, say, the average HN commenter.
Why Does the U.S. Army Own So Many Fossils?
The article hardly attempts to say structuring our societies to maximize its ability to crush rebellions is a good thing. It does say that solely maximizing individual spheres of rights and opportunity of commercial profit may actually not be a great idea.

I think this is hardly a controversial opinion.

Like I agree that more context about helots would have shored up this article nicely, but I also think that all the chatter about its absence misses the point of the article.
Could they not put a collar on their Uber shares? Or is the options market for Uber relatively small?
He checks every comment and submission to ensure no one is making a political statement against his leftist agenda that he disagrees with so he knows who needs to be silenced. Kind of like a digital Stalin, whom I’m sure he looks up to.
>Just because some things really were plots doesn't mean everything is.

No, but it does make one "Once bitten twice shy" so to speak!
Same here. Find nearest Micro Center, see wonderful deal, spend more than you came in looking to spend, repeat. Unless you don’t have any kind of physical computer store near you, I don’t see why buying it on eBay would be useful.
I'm hoping those have an 8 core chiplet and a GPU chiplet.
We just need a way to hold carriers accountable. Once they start having to pay fines for unsolicited calls on their network, they find ways to fix the caller id issue pretty quickly.
"We" will run out of everything, eventually, as long as we live on only one planet.
The best time to buy an EPYC Rome server was 10 years ago. The next best time is today.

Edit: Okay, since some people are downvoting my joke, a more serious answer -- if your server farm is running out of space, and you're currently looking at renting additional space to accommodate your growth, EPYC Rome will take up substantially less space for a given level of performance. This is one case where it may make sense to instantly replace.

Another is to test EPYC Rome on a limited basis, to evaluate potential for a larger scale replacement in the future -- I think many companies in the space are going to fall into this camp.

Hence in the near future, there will be a modest increase EPYC Rome uptake, followed by a massive increase in the medium-term future.
To corroborate that, I once helped a family friend clean banks in the middle of the night. That was her job. Far as I can tell, she was just the lowest bidder on it with a consistent work ethic. We had access to almost everything. Could've gotten to most of the computers. I told her as much with her laughing that it was ridiculous.
> I lost interest after that and it was rekindled by watching Japanese baseball.

I would recommend hitting up the local minor league baseball team, then.
That book is 6 years old.
Facebook Ad Turned 'Dads with Daughters' Groups into a Toxic Hell
study after study has been conducted on this. the answer is a clear 'no'
Firefox Focus on iPhone / iPad. Ublock Origin on Mac.
A volleyball female player once told me that she watched only female pro games, because it was much more dramatic than men's, you just as you described. More strategy involved, more "wow" moments, whereas men games were just endless "serve - smash - point".
I don't know if that's true but I have heard the same argument made over football (soccer) when some friends watched the Women's World Cup.
Who ever said "vast majority"?
Major cinema chains in Australia went one step further and would actively block your payment from going through if they detected you were using a moviepass like product.

After becoming frustrated with my payments being rejected I reached out to one of the cinemas. I explained to the likely overworked support worker that they were essentially both turning down free money and being hostile to me personally as a customer by refusing my payment method. As I should've known the support was powerless to do anything but repeat "we are not associated with product x".

Suffice to say I no longer offer unsolicited advice to theatre chains.
Take the OSCP course, that would get you some good practical exposure and a well-recognized cert. Having a software engineering background you'd be well positioned to do code auditing too, if that was your bag. If you really want to make bank, get into smart contract auditing. Going to events like DefCon and Blackhat is great for networking too. Check out capturetheether.com and hackthebox.eu for some practice!
No, other than some apartment complexes now have their own automated lockers.
PMS7003, and most probably all other low-cost PM sensors with the same working principle, is not made to be used outdoors. Although used in many DIY projects for outdoor air quality monitoring, researches show that high humidity badly affects the PM measurements. Some have tried to heat the air before entering the sensor or to derive a correction factor, but mostly unsuccessfully.

These sensors are not as accurate as more expensive professional devices but are good enough to give an idea of the pollution in the air.

From my experience so far, PMS7003 measurements are comparable to official government air quality measurements available for my neighborhood.
There's been a lot of linguistic research into color naming across languages in general, specifically the claim that languages acquire more colors as they evolve, but it remains a controversial topic. Here's a primer:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity_and_the_...
Grassroots efforts everywhere, massive media pushes on the issue of privacy, monopolisation (still debatable imo) and ethics (Read: Amazon warehouse worker treatment), content creators shifting away from the ad model to donations (this could seriously damage YouTube in the long run), increasing use of adblockers, et al - these are just a few small things that really will set the wheels in motion against FAANG, though Apple and Microsoft are fairly safe because of their hardware business.

I don't think FAANG is going away anytime soon but the seeds are there. I'd rather these companies sort out their bad side than throw away all the work they've done.
Not a high bar. Their profile says they work at Google, hence my comment. They’re wrong about what Google HR is doing, apparently.
Bug bounties are a great way to get your feet wet. I've seen many devs (especially web devs) have a lot of success hacking on websites that are built with frameworks they are familiar with. I would recommend checking out Bugcrowd or Hackerone to get started.

Besides that, there are a ton of great online courses such as PWK/OSCP, and labs (HacktheBox).
That's always been the case since the beginning of Moore's law.
Packers open the preseason against the Texans
https://medium.com/@etvstream_nfl/live-free-packers-vs-texans-live-stream-nfl-preseason-2019-642a0f3be938

https://medium.com/@etvstream_nfl/live-free-packers-vs-texans-live-stream-nfl-preseason-2019-642a0f3be938

https://medium.com/@etvstream_nfl/nfl-free-packers-vs-texans-live-stream-nfl-preseason-1cc7f54a741e

https://medium.com/@etvstream_nfl/free-packers-vs-texans-live-stream-nfl-preseason-2019-3fc8c5fb0c6d

https://medium.com/@etvstream_nfl/free-tv-packers-vs-texans-live-stream-nfl-preseason-2019-780e1207a1cb

https://medium.com/@etvstream_nfl/game-free-packers-vs-texans-live-stream-nfl-preseason-2019-e79ce61eb139

https://medium.com/@etvstream_nfl/online-packers-vs-texans-live-stream-nfl-preseason-2019-64f81112bd9e

https://medium.com/@etvstream_nfl/tv-free-packers-vs-texans-live-stream-nfl-preseason-2019-7e4f4cdd673e

https://medium.com/@etvstream_nfl/free-packers-vs-texans-live-stream-nfl-preseason-2019-159ce1ac571b

https://medium.com/@etvstream_nfl/free-stream-packers-vs-texans-live-stream-nfl-preseason-2019-cbbd3c837954

https://medium.com/@etvstream_nfl/free-live-packers-vs-texans-live-stream-nfl-preseason-2019-5365088eea1c
WhatsApp Flaws Could Allow Hackers to Alter Messages: Cyber Firm
Oh I don't know, Japan did it a few times with the Fuso and her sisters. Even the Italians did it with a line of battleships.

The debate back in the 30s was if diesel could take the place of steam turbines but they ended up weight prohibitive and some maintenance would be similar to the work required to just swap engine types
> I lost interest after that and it was rekindled by watching Japanese baseball.

Try to find your local minor league team. It has many of the same elements.
You should really look how horribly it's implemented there, and you won't go back. The idea is great, but the idea should be based on some clever scalable implementation idea. There was none.
This is different than the Opteron days. Today, AMD's offering is substantially cheaper than Intel, both on an absolute and performance-adjusted basis. AMD is now ascending at a time when Intel is plagued by a never-ending stream of embarrassing security flaws, and the market has grown sick of its monopolistic exploitation of its customers. Furthermore, AMD has already designed the next generation chip!

AMD could have clearly charged more for these EPYC Rome chips, but they priced low for a reason -- to grab as much market share as humanly possible as quickly as possible, and I believe they will do so.
Nectar+Sleep+Free+Pillows
Damn, I have been desperately trying to get one since launch. Think the USA is getting them all, and the rest of the world is getting screwed. I paid on launch day, my store is getting 2 3900x's this month, they have 78 people who have paid in full and are waiting.
Their point (in my interpretation) is with bare metal you can get more capacity than you need, for cheaper.

With some cloudflare-ing you could quite easily get away with a single origin server in Germany, too. The latency from a rails app is probably higher anyway.

My anecdata with hetzner - 1.5 decades of lightly used servers for hobby project. One power supply failure resolved in a day. They have some quirks, but.

If you truly have to scale out, sure, cloud is great (sort of). But you can engineer your solution to take the benefit of both, you win.
Tesla Subpoenas May Presage Formal Probe, Former Official Says
> The Air Force recently broke the record for the highest thrust producing air-breathing hypersonic engine the service has ever tested in its history, at least that we know about.

Nuclear scramjets achieved 3 times this thrust "record" under similar test conditions more than half a century ago.
There are at least three debt markets that will cause problems.

1. Student Debt - It is non-renounceable. Bankruptcy does not clear it.

2. Oil and gas companies - the entire "fracking revolution " has been funded by loses from bondholders.

3. All Private Equity debt - the basic business model is broken.
Options contracts are exactly this.
No manual transmission = dealbreaker. And I mean a stick, not paddles.
No, actually you are incorrect.

What I wrote is in quotes and directly taken from the NHTSA site. Those are not my words. Try taking a look at the site first.
Can we ever get rid of webpack? First it was grunt, then gulp, now webpack. Will we ever be able to just write vanilla js again?
> which isn't guaranteed to be stable across OCaml versions

Oh, so OCaml is a toy language from academics. I've read so many good things about it over the years, but no one mentioned that aspect of it. There should be a law about putting a warning in Big Red Letters on the box so someone doesn't make the mistake of using it in a large, long lived project.
Maybe you’re joking, but really, why not? They’re unmanned, and so a catastrophic failure is much less of a concern. If helium scarcity is a serious enough problem, then by all means, full those blooms with H2 and launch them from a safe zone.
Cyber security is so wild west right now. change your linkedin. Do some public speaking. Read some blogs and you'll get your foot in the door. Where you go from there is about how well you sell your self.
> How do you know what everyone was paid?

We talked pretty openly about salary. Also, managers, or anyone involved in setting pay, had a spreadsheet of all the engineers salaries for level setting purposes.
A combo of in house tools for creating findings from "non-standard" tools, (standard tools being nessus, app scan, etc.) Such as pen tests, responsible disclosure, red teamings, etc. We partner with Kenna Security pretty heavily in terms of tracking and consolidating our vulnerabilities, along with remediation prioritization and strategy
What's the difference between functions and methods in JavaScript?
Both of your points are likely true. Slack probably could become profitable on a near-term basis, but that is not what investors are paying for. I believe Slack is trading around 30x revenue, so the market is expecting continued growth. At the same time, I believe it also has an eight year burn rate at current operating losses and cash on hand so it has a lot of time before it needs to cut expenses. I don't really like how this article fixating on quarterly operating earnings as a proxy for how the Vision Fund is performing while ignoring the investment cost basis.
SoftBank is not the loser but the various Middle East Wealth funds especially the Saudi Wealth Fund.
>it’s really impossible to go anywhere and enjoy it in peace

This is only true for a very limited definition of "anywhere". You can go to Yosemite in the peak season and easily find places where you can't even see another person.
The Implications of Full Self-Driving on Insurance
Sounds like fishing
College baseball has that character. While the student-athletes are good, maybe AAA-league good, they are not as perfect as the pros. You never know when a pitcher will suddenly lose the zone, or a routine double-play will turn into a two-base run-scoring error. Also the tickets are far cheaper and the parks are small and comfy (Stanford Sunken Diamond for the win!)
Completely agree. We're working on an idea to handle the boring stuff as part of YC's Startup School 2019. GDPR, HIPAA, CCPA, PCI, etc. compliance + penetration testing and risk assessments.

We'll be building it at: https://secquity.com or if anyone has any specific questions, feel free to reach out at info@secquity.com
Ugh. You've basically made the case for me doing my next project in c++ 17 instead of using it as an excuse to learn Rust. Im morally opposed to c++....
Author here. Happy to answer questions!
“The department seems to be assigning some blame to the victims rather than assessing its own inability to bring the violence under control.”

How do you do any kind of fair analysis without just presenting data? If the cops used inflammatory language, then shame on them. But if it was just numbers, it's hard to argue against clean data.
Eliminate Safe Harbor Laws for Social Media Platforms
Boring is in the eye of the beholder. Sports like soccer and the longer forms of cricket are the opposite of boring to those who value suspense more than constant "action" (where I use "action" to mean the scoring mechanism moving). Ctrl-F this Freakonomics episode for "soccer" to read it put better than I can:

http://freakonomics.com/2015/07/29/how-to-create-suspense-fu...
Yung doesn't belong on the calendar.
With enough AI the software can build itself, and we can start blaming the computers.
Beer doesn't have sperm count
Who charges for VVM?
Let's Not Emphasize Behavioral Economics
Is it just me or is the author confusing the concepts of ci/cd and microservices?
Despite having spent the last two years working specifically on addressing the operational issues caused by a monolith, I couldn't find anything apart from the title and the implied pro-microservice premise in this post that I agree with.

A monolith's tests need not take all day to run. Features don't need to take weeks or months to ship—one can practice agile even inside a monolith. A monolith does not preclude the use of modern tooling—we adopted CI/CD and distributed tracing despite having a monolith, and use them to great effect.

In some cases scaling a monolithic codebase may be _more_ instructive about how to scale, because it's not as simple as "pay AWS more money and use more instances." Instead, you're forced to understand bottlenecks and consider how to solve them with algorithmic changes. Circuit-breaking is a critical feature in a monolith, even more so since one bad type of request could otherwise ruin the day for everyone.

The inability to "rewrite your business" has more to do with how well-architected your platform is than whether you have microservices. Both monolithic and microservices can be built well and built badly; a clean monolith is straightforward to rewrite the same way that cleanly-designed microservices are.

My personal opinion aligns with that of the author and greatly favors microservice architectures. But the usual hatred of monoliths strikes me as more dogmatic than well-reasoned, and I find this post to ultimately fail in defending its claim by falling victim to that.
As far as you’re aware, does the same hold true for security engineers at netflix who don’t check in any code?
Interview with the Alabama teenager who won the PowerPoint championship
The depends on what you mean by "engine." Big diesels are relatively new in the maritime world.

On a steam ship, which had a much less monolithic power plant, replacing an engine or a boiler was feasible. Replacing reduction gears usually was not.
For those that believe rating agencies are garbage: what bonds do you keep in your portfolio?
I still think ratings agencies, if their ratings are to be required, should have money where their mouth is.

There are a number of ways this could work; one is they issue a contract redeemable for the difference between their predicted performance of a given company and the actual performance.

If they're as good at this as they think, they get another revenue stream. If not, the victims of their conflicts of interest have some insurance.
Who cares how the role is classified in the payroll system? That’s now how anyone serious determines what an individual’s compensation is.
Ok let's agree to disagree with the idea that ICF never had a legitimate energy purpose. Goodbye
Weight of batteries is a big issue with ships. Vaclav Smil calculated diesel is 20x dense, turning 5000t diesel fuel for Asia-Europe trip to 100000t battery which is not economical.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/transportation/marine/electric-con...
My $0.02: I came across Boeing's documentation for their "Boeing Update" solution. (think Windows Update, but for 787s).

It described in detail how the planes are updated with new firmware for the avionics, entertainment system, and the engines. I was shocked to learn that the 787 uses a lot of COTS kit internally, such as standard WiFi and Ethernet connections. There's an RJ-45 jack at the front landing gear accessible from the outside of the plane at any time!

It was by far the best technical document I have ever read, of any type, ever by at least a factor of ten. It was so good I read it like a novel. Twice. The security design was amazing. The PKI was amazing. The patch management was amazing. The network design was amazing. The documentation was amazing. My estimate was the the document alone would have cost multiple millions of dollars to write, not including any of the engineering work that went into the solution itself.

Boeing's engineers thought of everything. EVERYTHING. This scenario was catered for:

- The plane is rented, not owned.
- The IT department is outsourced.
- Aircraft maintenance is outsourced.
- The plane is currently on the ground in a country that is hostile.
- A critical update has been released, without which the plane is unsafe to fly.

This is one of the scenarios that is literally spelled out, in plain English, and you're left completely certain that the update will be safe and secure despite all of that.

The security is just nuts. Everything uses explicit, hardcoded whitelists. TLS is bidirectional (clients are verified by the servers too). Patches must be quadruple signed by Boing, the parts manufacturer, the FAA, and the airline at a minimum to be acceptable. There are physical connection breakers and PIN codes on top of that. There are two nested VPNs on top of the already encrypted WiFi. It just goes on and on.

No part of it left me thinking they could have done better. I've used that document as a template for my own work, and it's the better for it.

Since then, I've insisted on flying 787s whenever possible, because I'm certain that the engineering effort that has gone into those things is about as good as humanly possible.
Tape still medium of choice for high capacity storage
1. Economically speaking, this is actually a really good thing in terms of stability. We would be much more concerned if these borrowers could default. Instead, they have to work, which is good for our economy and good for this specific debt market's health as a whole.
Might want to fix the Lorem Ipsum on the homepage for mobile towards the bottom :) for example

HIPPA Compliance
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PCI Compliance
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