skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live in a fairly typical middle class suburb in NJ, and the library here is a hive of activity. I go there a couple times a month to print or fax something, because it's cheap and easy and the only print shop in town closed last year.

The township has a population of about 30,000, and at any given time, about 25-50 people are at the library. They've got a full schedule of events almost every day of the year, for children and adults.

The books are really a secondary aspect of the library. Sure, plenty of people are checking books out, some are sitting there and reading, but it's more of a community center. Most people are there for one of the childrens' workshops, or an adult learning workshop, various craft groups, or to use computers. It's a great resource.
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I have little experience is functioning modern society so I suppose taciturn skepticism is my best posture.
There's also a bunch of stuff at oldlinux.org though (obviously) all Linux-related. "A Heavily Commented Linux Kernel Source Code" is also available in English now (scroll down to the top of the change log).
So the writing is really ornate but one thing that stood out to me

> 1px wide gradient edge

wtf is a 1 pixel gradient?
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I'm not sure how random this is...

CN (110.249.212.46) attacks AU (172.X.X.X) (Port PING)

... (x20)

CN (110.249.212.46) attacks AU (172.X.X.X) (Port PING)
I used Haskell on Emacs a few weeks ago and there still seems to be some issues with regards indentation.
Somehow I think Google would manage to outsmart them at their own game.
> it is likely that simply by observing their pricing over time a sophisticated Google algorithm has "learned" the airline's less sophisticated ones

Simple systems acting in concert are devilishly complex. (Former algorithmic trader.)

Counterparties' systems fail. They misfire. They get confused by the weather and interns punching in parameters wrong. Internal dynamics, like someone stretching to hit a goal or getting lucky on a hedging contract, are material and unpredictable.

And that's the least of it. The limits on the sorts of adversarial behaviors that manifest when counterparties know you have an algorithm watching are profound. It incentivises betting against the watchman. Google may have the data. But the airlines control the book.
I guess if they don't find out how to turn a profit in time, this will probably end in tears for the investors.

In alight with the disappointing Q2 even after Q1 due to their IPO cost, soon the most hyped IPO of the year is now turning into a nightmare for everyone else.

It sounds like the IPO party was over before it had even started.
I could claim that "repeatable experiment" comes pretty close to "objective truth" for at least physics and chemistry.
Please don't dump your solvent down the drain like every Silicon Valley fab did back in the day, poisoning the entire region for decades to come. Just look up how many EPA Superfund sites are in the South Bay due to trichloroethylene, TCE contamination. Dispose of it properly and safely.
Lynchings frequently happened because white people wanted to steal land from black or native people.
Control

Companies push their own apps for control. They are very limited on the types of metrics and tracking that can be done through the browser. By pushing their own apps they become limited only by the operating system itself.
I give it 3 months before someone with a mask on shows up and shoots it 8 times in the "head". Same result with a drone. That's why the ones in the movie robocop worked, because it had guns, and a mind of its own (usually a brain from a convict too). This is more like a roomba with a camera.

I don't think anyone will steal it for fear of GPS tracking.
Some benchmarks would go a long way to make a compelling case for this new bundler. I'm not the biggest fan of webpack, but I'd like to have some numbers to make sure I'm not regressing in some way.
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Those attacks would not work if they did not enable JavaScript on every website by default.
Sounds like Texas got it right. Normally the law expects you to go to the police if the threat isn't imminent--but that assumes the police can do something about it. Generally they can't.
In my country (Oz) we had a referendum a few decades back about a national ID card, which failed to pass. I for one am against any form of centralised ID system. The basic premise (of the time) was, "if you want to know me, here I am". The government department of Birth, Deaths and Marriages goes to some lengths to ensure that these 3 things are not tied to any one number. Ironically, the government got what it wanted when it introduced a Tax File Number and has bled into some other systems like banking, but thankfully it's not as bad as the U.S's SSN.

I seem to recall reading here on HN a few weeks back how surnames came into existence: it was because the (? Italian) government wanted to track taxes. Before that everyone had several ways of naming themselves: John, John son of Joe, John of someplace, John the carpenter, etc. Personally, I really like that because I'm not just "one thing", but am a person who has different aspects.
I think the trick to using the NodeJS/webdev ecosystem is to ignore most of what goes on and to keep one ear barely listening in case something truly useful comes along.

...and update packages with caution. SemVer doesn't always save you and neither will static analysis (because there really isn't any).
Spot on. Even if you allow the string to be considered a (rather simple) data “structure”, when we talk about homoiconicity we (explicitly or implicitly) exclude strings from the set of data structures under consideration.
No need to even vandalize the thing. Just shove it over.
> There’s nothing in the documentation to indicate what criteria the the HPPD would use, or is currently using, to add a face, license plate, or smartphones to a “blacklist,”

Regulation can't come soon enough for this industry.

About 20 years ago one of the youngest cops ever to be promoted to detective in the City of Chicago told me this after a long night of drinking...

"If I see a car with more than two black people, I just followed it. Sooner or later they'll make a mistake and I can pull them over. Very often one of them will have an outstanding warrant.". When my face turned to horror he asked me the jaw-dropping question "you are Italian, right ?"

Honestly, if ML is statistically driven, how long before it determines that African Americans and Latinos are over represented in the criminal database and should have a higher blacklist score as a rule and the whole cycle repeats. Meanwhile innocent looking white kids can keep selling meth in the park.
Why not? Nawa's ultracapacitors are based on carbon nanotubes and they're going in to production:

https://newatlas.com/nawa-nanotube-ultracapacitor-production...

Vantablack is based on carbon nanotubes and you can buy it now:

https://www.surreynanosystems.com/vantablack/science-of-vant...
Ah, you did. Sorry about that, you’ve caught me running my mouth off before I finish reading.
That would be such a rookie mistake.
Airlines don't do that, because
1) it creates bad habits with passengers
2) that's when the ticket has the highest value for customer who need to travel NOW
3) if they have remaining economy seats, a price drop 33 minutes before departure has little effect in stimulating demand for most destinations.
There's a third alternative where they seek consistency or a kind of flat equality rather than a better place. They don't seem a more wholesome place they seek the past.
why would you want to discuss politics at work?
> Is this specific to photography at this scale?

Yes. A smaller scale makes it worse, a larger scale makes it better.

If you reduce things enough, everything will become so blurred that you won't be able to see anything (that's why we can't photograph atoms using visible light), and if you make things large enough your camera will become the bottleneck so a very small amount of blur is added to any object, whatever the size.
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I am talking about the kind of fuel cells which can be used by wind and solar to store energy and distributed economically feasible.

I don't know of anything like that either. Small fuel cells rely on expensive precious metal catalysts and large ones have too much capacity to be a good match for the distributed generation sector.

A technology that is commercially available but too expensive at present for large scale adoption, like fuel cells, is more mature than a technology that hasn't been demonstrated even in a cost-is-no-object context. That's why it's strange to hear fuel cells described as even further out than fusion power.
All the investors are already counting their winnings. They've been out for months, years. Seems like they are now just burning through a billion a month in stock option compensation before it all comes crashing down.

It's bizarre to see such a blatant scam being run out in the open. People used to have shame.
It stems from a fundamental faith that there is a good solution. Therefore, any non-good action is due to a failure to look hard enough for the good solution.
I'm actually reading Stars in My Pocket right now and really enjoying it. And I loved all his early works and Triton was great too. But I can totally relate to someone not wanting to read straight up pornography which is what he described Hogg as being (and I'm sure he's right). All novelists need an editor, or someone to tell them when they're being so self-indulgent that the only person that writing will appeal to is themselves (which is fine, I just don't have to read it).

Dhalgren was really great and a true post-modern classic. When I'm done reading some more classic fantasy I'll give Neveryon #1 a try.
Star Wars is a little closer IMO.

The Tahei and Matashichi sequences towards the beginning when they split up are basically exactly the same and R2D2 and C3PO in the desert. Even the musical score is very close. Ditto on the space scenes and Midway.

Personally, I didn't have a problem with it -- many of the themes are universal and influence is fine... if anything adding the SFX and different storyline really honors the influencing films. I did get a little jaded when I saw a George Lucas interview on one of the DVD releases where he downplayed the similarities in what was in my opinion a disingenuous way.
Yes that is true. Any time anytime crosses a border they are at risk if the other country has an extradition treaty.
I was in the same boat as you around 5 years ago, when I finally bit the bullet and started down the "modern" path.

My recommendation is to just start on your project, and see how far you can get using your 15 year old skills. Once you hit a road block to something you want to accomplish, start looking at some "modern" solutions to the problem, and pick one up that feels best for you.

You may find you need almost none of the tools listed above, and the ones you do pickup, you will understand why they exist in the first place.

That said, I recommend trying out a JetBrains IDE, as it will give you lots of sane defaults out of the box, including auto-completion which is kinda great for dynamically typed languages. VIM plugins are available as well.
This is a bit clearer:

def getSocketAPIPort(defaultport):
return int(os.getenv('socketPort', defaultport))
I investigated this a year or so ago for a hobby project. The best cheap option I found for non-trivial amounts of data in the US was T-Mobile's $10/month plan, which comes with 2GB/mo of high-speed data, and throttles down to roughly 64kbit/sec after that.
"Light" here is a misnomer. What they're doing is taking the wide array of infrared wavelengths and channeling them into a single wavelength. It's easier to build a solar cell that's tuned to that wavelength.

I don't know why they're calling that "light". It's not clear to me if it means visible light. The paper seems to imply that it peaks in the near-infrared. They appear to be using "light" in the general sense of "photons"... but it's all photons.

They're talking about very high temperatures, the kind that emit significant visible light as well.
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My personal experience is that no discipline is better at pointing out my weak spots than trying to write instructions or otherwise document something.
how anyone could look at this contraption, and think "yep, this is fine" is beyond me. but so many things going on across the pond are. this is just one more.
Agreed. Requiring consent for such a basic feeling feels like data extortion to me, there's stuff about that in various GDPR implementations.
> We, in fact, know that Ashley Madison wasn't actually used for cheating because there were no (zero) real women on the site.

There were numerous bots and fake accounts to attempt to make it seem as though there were more women on it, and I'm sure the gender ratio was absurd, but I seriously doubt the number was 0.

Wikipedia discussion of the bots :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashley_Madison#Fake_female_bot...
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Those attacks would not work if everyone stopped using computers.
More like, predictably bad in a wisdom-of-the-crowd way that could actually result in a good prediction: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-07-19/recess...
The only people that call the field "cybersecurity" are the feds, and people trying to make money from the feds.
Is it reasonable to say that it is a hostile environment? I don't it takes too many vocally hostile people to create an environment that is hostile.
I've never really understood why that's significant other than perhaps degree of motivation. Even for someone who doesn't believe in climate change or the man made aspect of it I'd have thought, say, cleaner air, cars with instant torque and cheaper energy would be broadly desirable.
On the swap aspect:

I absolutely hate Linux's behavior with swap enabled, as described in a previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20479622

It makes sense that it can also be broken with swap disabled: paging out too many file-backed pages can also lead to an unresponsive system.

> Earlier this week, a post to the linux-kernel mailing list talking about what happens when Linux is low on memory and doesn't have swap started making the rounds. ... Now, here we are in 2019, and we have a fresh set of people still fighting over it, like it's some kind of brand new dilemma. It's not.

The problem isn't new, but the approach I saw them discussing (use the new PSI stuff to OOM kill early) is new—PSI was only added ~a year ago, iirc. So I think this comment is unnecessarily dismissive.

I've seen the systems behave badly without swap. I don't see the bad swapless behavior as often personally, but I believe it exists. (In particular, I haven't tried the reproduction instructions in the lkml thread.) I don't know how the "tinyswap" approach is supposed to help—I'd love details. Swapless with the PSI-based OOM killing is an approach that actually makes sense to me in theory.
This point to an actual use of the cryptocurrency - exploiting a 0 day against someone who might have a crypto wallet means you can actually directly make money off exploits.
Prior to crypto, having a 0 day wasn't equal with ability to make blackhat money with it...
So adversarial they spend tons of money on advertising and pay Google to use ITA's software to sell tickets to their own customers.
> The top executive also claimed that HarmonyOS’ microkernel has “one-thousandth the amount of code in the Linux kernel.”

Wow, really? A microkernel with a lot less code then a macrokernel? I'm amazed!

Seriously, though, this is the writing of a clueless reporter with no editing. Obviously, that executive was simply _explanining_ that the microkernel is small.

Other than that - it would be nice if HarmonyOS were to become a properly FOSS OS which can be relatively easily installed on phones with Android (Huawey or otherwise).
I want to see a full on security by obscurity run. Get something just new enough to be able to talk to public Wi-Fi, but alien enough to not be Windows or Unix of any kind.
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It's not clear if you are referring to jury nullification here (which is not particular to Texas), to the reduction of murder to voluntary manslaughter by heat of passion (which is not particular to Texas), or to some actual special aspect of Texas law (perhaps some part of the operation of the imperfect self-defense rule under Texas law). Could you provide more detail?
You are conflating legalization of drugs with he decriminalizing of drugs by people

it is still illegal to manufacture and sell fetanyl to the public, just as the OP is suggesting regulating the addictive nature of social media/technology.

No one is saying let’s criminalize using smart phones.
To follow through on that though, what makes you think that would be anything noticeable? Suddenly a coinbase employee buys a cool car or other new toy... So what? Nobody would think that was exceptional.
The whole aggression towards women who wear revealing clothing while streaming concerns me. There seems to be an element of puritanical anti sexuality in it.
> there is research being done into carbon nanotube rectennas. Theoretical efficiency is in the upper 90's

I googled optical rectenna.

"An optical rectenna—a device that directly converts free-propagating electromagnetic waves at optical frequencies to direct current" [1]

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/nnano.2015.220
Exceptions don't prove the rule. I support lawsuits over facial recognition. Obvious that many are overstepping their authority.
It also seems that this is a little bit different from usual "lynch mobs" or vigilante justice because it was an act of self-defense. This man was going around shooting people and was actively making threats (though not at the exact moment he was shot).

This makes it a little more morally justified than shooting someone who committed some real or perceived wrong, but isn't a current threat to others.

They stopped him because he was dangerous.
But that hasn't been the case. Here's a good example:

https://www.npr.org/2015/03/30/395069137/open-cases-why-one-...
How do you blacklist someone from a city?
>The UK grid is actually pretty well maintained and resilient

Also prefixed by not an expert here; but know a few in the industry and somewhat keep up with it.

The push away from coal to other sources of power (combined with the closure of gigawatts of nuclear power) has put the network under more stress than it's been in the past few decades [1]. I'd expect more of this in the future in cases of multi generator failures; there just isn't that much in the way of generation to take up the slack.

Luckily we're in summer where demand is much lower, if this was to happen in winter the outcomes could have been much worse.

//edit - Just to be clear though, this does seem to be totally benign and could have happened to any other well equipped grid. A gigawatt of power dropping out in such a short space is going to result in some kind of load shedding. Denorwig spins up fast; but not that fast.

1. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-33527967
> Dispose of it properly and safely.

I see a lot of people say this, but I rarely see any actionable advice.

How does your average residential person find and dispose of chemicals like this? Seems like most people end up pouring them down the drain simply because they don't know how to actually find a better means of disposing them.
Blackhat is mega expensive, the only people that can afford to attend are those employed by large corporations or government entities.
That would be a good feature request. At the same time, I have found WSJ to be a really valuable source of lightweight tech news as well as a few in-depth tech articles, and they regularly run promos where you get three months for a couple dollars.
Looks like a no: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaving_Neverland#Criticisms_o...

> "[Robson and Safechuck] have previously testified under oath, under intense cross-examination, [have] maintained for twenty years a consistent story about Michael Jackson being innocent, and they come forward and completely change their story. That in itself is discrediting."

Looks more like they realized they could make a bunch of money on a controversial "documentary" without getting hit with a defamation lawsuit, since MJ is dead.
We're caught in a circular trap here. Money doesn't come from nowhere (let's put aside actual fiat currencies for a moment) and the payouts aren't in tokens as far as I'm aware.

1. Who is putting the money into the system? An outside investor? Miners?

2. Blockstack is putting out significant amounts of cash and are a private company. How do they intend to profit off of this in the future? Selling user data? Injecting ads?
What is the accurate model of infrared light vs. heat?
Perhaps you can argue with examples or statistical analysis why a conference like BlackHat has a lower quality of attendance than CCC/DC/Hope. Without that, it seems like some kind of wild theory with no merit. Or: "what's in a name?"
> how to balance between maintaining the "fail fast" of swap-off and the ability to swap out never used paged with swap-some

A monitoring process, like earlyoom, can do this for you. Also features like cgroups, setrlimit(), prlimit() can help. Last one can even be used to dynamically adjust memory limits per each process and avoid kernel's weird OOM behavior. This is all in accordance with fail fast, which requires monitoring processes that actually deal with all the failings.
AWS Trusted Advisor has warned of this since 2017:

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/06/aws-trust...
That's easy to fix if we can just put a price on carbon, as proposed in HR 763 (mentioned further up in this thread).
I'm surprised there are still any corals left. They were deemed to be on the brink of extinction 30 years ago, possibly even earlier.
This... doesn't have to be the case. Some markets already have way higher renewable penetration. Solar and wind represented about 20% of all generation in California in 2018 (https://ww2.energy.ca.gov/almanac/electricity_data/total_sys...). In the UK this year, solar and wind are almost 25% of generated electricity (https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...)

Incremental improvement and economic forces do matter. Solar is now cheaper than coal in many climates, and we are seeing the effects.

Of course, there are still many problems to be solved. But we're also working on incrementally on solutions to those. For example, battery cost is falling precipitously. "grid scale battery" was not a thing a decade ago, now you see installations popping up regularly.

I'd like to see cold fusion as much as the next guy, but dismissing incremental progress is foolish.
Google owns ITA software which many airlines themselves for ticketing, as such they know more than the airline itself does about what's a good deal.
You probably want to look into M2M(machine to machine) plans if you don't plan on using standard telephone features with your device and just want data.

A lot of companies offer this service these days. For example(random googling first result): https://hologram.io/pricing/

is offering M2M sims for $1 per SIM per month + 40 cents per mb.