skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really have to apologize if this is not a HN-quality comment, but I initially read this as a startup rebrand announcement.

Ebola is now Curable (YC 17)
Hexonic Concept Tire – The Future of Tire
I remember back in the early 2000's when everybody was complaining about Java. That it was “slow”, and “used a lot of memory”, and that its UI “is not native”.

Now it's all JS and Electron and every single complaint people used against Java is an order of magnitude worse and everybody seems to be happy about it.

Progress have definitely been going backwards.
> the traditional things that most in a society strive for - material wealth, social status, conformity to social structures, etc. - aren't really the keys to happiness

> Thoughts?

Happiness isn't the point of life. Keep digging.
Google to Bury Indicator for Extended Validation Certs in Chrome
My apologies for the plethora of smartphone typos in the parent comment.
I like the pledge model. If one's assumptions are wrong, the program fails.

https://man.openbsd.org/pledge.2
Vertx Spring Boot Rest
https://github.com/zhengfc/vertx-spring.git

vertx + spring-boot:

spring ioc/di,
spring boot fatjar,
spring rest(RequestMapping),
vertx router,
vertx eventbus,
vertx ayncMysql
We bred bananas to be like they are, and then used clones thereafter. They never looked like Cavendish in nature. There is nothing stopping banana breeders from doing it again. And now we're stuck with a mono culture.

Why? Because there is something stopping the production of varietals.

Patents are stopping advancements from happening. Just like with corn, except things are worse with bananas.

That's the real problem. Not GMO or whatever other straw man. Mono-species fail in the end, and then we create new technologies to cover for it, instead of simply breeding new variants within the species - because patents and profitable monocultures.
I'm not sure what you mean by 'equivalent', it's not something I said. I'm also not sure you've interpreted the contexts very accurately but if you happen to be unfamiliar with them, you can easily google up brief histories of Detroit and Zimbabwe and the central role race has played in both.
I use both daily.

I think the biggest problem with Teams can't be discovered by feature comparisons and performance metrics.

Teams enables a company to "secure" the application in the same way other MS products can be. That makes the product easy to sell, but in practice, it prevents Teams from being an effective collaboration tool.

If I want to create a new channel, I need to get approval from IT. If I want to invite a vendor to participate, I need to convince IT that the benefit of adding this particular vendor to Teams outweighs a raft of vague "security" concerns. In the end, it's not worth the trouble of asking and I end up setting up Slack channels instead.

By creating a product that can satisfy the IT policies of their enterprise customers, Microsoft has unwittingly created a platform completely unsuited to flexible and open collaboration.
So how many people ebola ever killed? Compared to, for instance, cancer or traffic accidents?
While Trump's undoubtably been helping Palantir, I'm not entirely sure how much can be attributed to Trump vs. ongoing procurement issues. E.g., the military's previous analysis software was arguably vaporware [1] and should have been replaced anyway. If the government doesn't have access to decent analytical software, it runs around like a headless chicken (e.g. the wars in the middle east).

When it comes to ICE, it looks like Palantir's just integrating data from different sources. Surveillance is an issue, so the question seems to be whether the government should be able to tap into that data in the first place.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/palantir-is-the-killer-produ...
Arrived – a new model of home ownership
$636B was actually loaned out, and so far $740B has come back to the Treasury in interest and principle. The US government made money on TARP.

https://projects.propublica.org/bailout/
It forces logging of the malware, globally. That's worse than maybe getting caught.
I want to believe that the future is decentralized but I'm convinced of the opposite when it comes to online media, primarily because spam, abuse and content moderation are expensive functions to perform in which there are strong scale effects, and they are critical not just to ad-based monetization but perhaps also to broad societal acceptance of technology.
> They "loaned" out $700B to a select few companies, many who were former employers of cabinet and treasury members. Only $4 out of $700 billion ended up going to help home owners directly, the other $696B went to Wall St

This is false. As of Feb 2019, the government earned $107 billion in profit on TARP. Your source is 6 years old and out of date.

Additionally, funds were not loaned exclusively to financial companies. Automobile companies received ~$60B in TARP, which has netted a loss of approximately $12B for taxpayers.

[0] https://projects.propublica.org/bailout

[1] https://projects.propublica.org/bailout/list/index
So I just have to ask because I've experienced tons of panic attacks but also have very strong family history of death by cardiac arrest -- Is there a subjective, experiential way to differentiate between the two? I always assume it's a panic attack "and if it's not just die in bed" but...
Sure, men can't breast feed. But they can bottle feed (including with pumped breast milk); they can change diapers; they can wash and hold and play with babies; and they can attend to myriad other domestic chores while babies are being breast fed.

Breast feeding is absolutely important, but if you think that's the only thing you need to do in order to take care of a newborn, you might be in for a shock.
I tried to understand what is tlon’s product (urbit), and failed. What is it?
Long-range wireless communication necessarily limits you to shortwave bands, exclusively if you don't have satellites. Earhart most certainly had a shortwave transceiver onboard. It is totally plausible and unsurprising that hams in the United States would have been able to hear Earhart's distress calls. Additionally, this was in the age before vacuum tubes opened up frequencies higher than HF for widespread commercial use -- for example UHF (used for television broadcasts) was still largely experimental around the time Earhart disappeared. So consumer wireless devices were still mostly clustered in and around the shortwave bands.
The problem comes when you design a UI and then someone else goes to use it and the font in the selects is a different size and ends up cut off. Also windows users regularly complain at me that the ui looks ugly but its just the windows default ui elements they find ugly
Uh, no - templates are scoped to the function or method in which they are called. They are only global if you include the template globally.

class MyTemplate {
function displayTemplate() {
include 'mytemplate.php'; // mytemplate.php has access to only class properties.
// Anything declared within mytemplate.php is scoped to the displayTemplate function.
}
}
Competition is as innate to animal life as is breathing. It's naive to think we can simply ignore our drive to compete with one another, as naive as thinking we can ignore hunger thirst or sexual desire.
I'm no economist, but that 5 million saved will be spent on other job creating activities. Perhaps it won't be a 1:1 replacement, but it's certainly not the elimination of 50 jobs.
Jobs aren't downtown in the Bay area... Traffic is awful and if you change jobs you might need to move.
The worst thing about this is that realizing it isn't necessarily the first step to improving your condition. On the contrary, it can lead to cultivating your own anxiety, because it gives you opportunities you wouldn't get with a more healthy work life...
Jehiah and Matt (the original creators of NSQ) are really talented engineers, I'm glad their work is getting some love.
I found that when you first bite into the outside, it was good, but as you got into the center, it had a very bad taste that ruined the experience of the outside. It was a weird and totally unexpected thing for me since I normally love bananas. I tried stopping at several different vendors (stands) on the roadside to make sure it wasn't just one. I was mostly north of Vientiane, so maybe the southern ones are better.
> Patents are stopping variety from happening. Just like with corn, except things are worse with bananas.

How can the patents not have already expired? Bananas have been the same roughly all of my life, unless I'm wildly misremembering. Surely there is no way the Cavendish is still protected by patents.
> The point is not realizing what one should do but internally valuing it on an emotional level so you do it every day - not because you have to but because you want to. "Realization" is only the first step - the Buddhists would say this is "right thought" but also there needs to be "right action" etc etc.

Agreed.

> This describes me well as I've gone through having that realization due to some extreme peak experiences. It makes life harder as well as more interesting, although I'm not sure if I'm better or worse off. I care more about things that are broken in society which I cannot fix, although I try where I can.

Okay, but caring more doesn't matter. So basically you're saying you have the right thought, but aren't taking the right action because most of the time you feel you can't. Yep, that's the problem: right action is hard, right thought without right action is pretty pointless, and even right action doesn't always produce right results.

> I think you may believe it is "self-congratulatory" because in typical society someone only acts different from another in order to advance oneself in the hierarchy.

No, I believe it's self-congratulatory because nlh (like most people) likely doesn't act different from anyone else.

I know I'm criticizing you and nlh here, but I don't mean it unkindly. The same criticism is true of me.
Pour the money saved into other public works = jobs
I flagged this because the report [1] directly contradicts the headline.

Heck, the article itself contradicts the headline.

The vast majority of the 1.5B is going to the DOD, not ICE.

According to the report, ICE is getting just 44m of that 1.5b.
For comparison, the IRS gets 31m and the SEC gets 56m.

It really looks like the article was willfully misrepresenting the numbers in order to get a hot-button social issue into the headline.

[1] https://mijente.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Mijente-The-W...
A British Airways 787 with the Trent 1000 engines had to make an emergency landing in Istanbul on June 15 while en route to London:

http://avherald.com/h?article=4c9549b4
Spring-Boot and Vertx
Yes, 50 bus driver jobs, which require maybe a high school education, was replaced with teacher jobs, which require an education beyond bachelors. Those aren't equivalent jobs. Those bus drivers are SOL because most of them aren't interested in retraining.
This is not true. Here, I took these screenshots for you where I copied an unsigned binary to a random location and forced a UAC prompt:

https://i.imgur.com/BSJlSAf.png

https://i.imgur.com/4ZVNsPN.png

I also did the same with a signed binary:

https://i.imgur.com/xpSiMMY.png

https://i.imgur.com/ACLydv0.png
Your submission was [dead] for more than 3 hours until I vouched it.
P.S. I'm not associated with Examine.com in any way except for using the site regularly.
Palantir wasn't "given" $1.5 billion either. What's your point?

The TARP article explains how they ended up being almost entirely loans directly to banks and others - which wasn't the original plan when sold to congress, only part it was supposed to be loaned.

The article also mentioned how much they are making off of it as a result of the banks doing a whole bunch of stuff that had little to do with "toxic mortgages" or helping the "little guy" (small business loans and home ownership), again as it was sold to Congress, where it was rushed through with little scrutiny and then administered by a man called a "stooge" for the banks.

The fact they made their money back and a few banks got richer, while the market only got further reduced to a smaller group of bigger banks, wasn't the point. It's the disconnect between why they got the money and how it was sold to congress and the public, and how it went to a well connected select few.

It's funny how everyone thinks all the dirty details are insignificant now that the mega banks paid it back with interest. Which was always the plan for the actual loans part - that were supposed to have strings attached so it was used for mortgages and small business loans. The original plan also involved buying up a whole bunch of the toxic debt directly... but that of course was quickly dropped and it all went to no-strings-attached loans. Which I highly doubt congress or the public would agree to, even with $100B ROI.

Nothing to see here, I guess?
Yankee Doodle went to town

A-riding on a pony,

Stuck a feather in his cap

And called it macaroni.
> And random OOM-killing is plain crazy. Just reboot and start anew.

Are you arguing that killing 100% of the running programs and losing all the data is superior to kill <100% of the programs?

> Because what are you going to OOM-kill, some non-important process? Why would you run non-important processes in the first place.

Because I misclicked my mouse. It's very common to create a disaster by mistakes, for example, accidentally open a 10 GiB file in a web browser or a text editor. In this case, the OOM algorithm will always kill Firefox without affecting others, and it's preciously what I need. Killing Firefox (due to a webpage with runaway JavaScript) while keeping my unsaved text editor running is desirable, even if it's not guaranteed, but statistically much better than killing the computer.

I often use Alt + Sysrq to manually activate the OOM killer, in case the kernel doesn't automatically detect memory exhaustion fast enough. And it works pretty nice for me. I found that, at the worst case scenario, nearly the entire desktop will be killed (rarely occurs, often it simply kills the offending process), but I can still restart my desktop in a minute, instead of spending five minutes to reboot the hardware.
I've lived on the non-conforming side of society. It can be very difficult to live with the cruelty that brings.
It is getting simpler in terms of melody and rhythm.

However, it is getting far more complex in terms of orchestration. There are far more kinds of sounds and textures in an average song today than there were 40 years ago.

Whether you like this or not, of course, is another matter.
Because the financial crisis wasn't caused by mortgages, it was caused by highly leveraged derivatives packaging those mortgages. But for the derivatives, all we would have seen was a humdrum correction in the mortgage market, possibly without any recession at all.

TARP was principally used to buy those derivatives to shore up the financial system. If it was used to buy mortgages directly it would have required orders of magnitude more money (you couldn't just buy out subprime because the entire market had seized up), and it couldn't have been executed quickly enough to forestall further collapse of the system.

The reason only a handful of entities saw substantial TARP money is precisely because those were the entities at the most critical positions in the system. And the fact that they were so critical and important would have obvious correlations (both nefarious and benign) with their political and bureaucratic ties.

Yes, it was unfair, but the unfairness wasn't with TARP but with the financial system TARP was shoring up. If all we cared about was some superficial notion of fairness we could have simply allowed the entire CDO mortgage market to collapse, taking the rest of the financial system down with it. Indeed, many people at the time argued for precisely that.

If people want to be indignant, be indignant at the limited scope of the subsequent reforms, and be especially indignant at the silent deconstruction of those reforms.
Seems like myth dressed up as pop science.

But we basically live in an insane world, and navigate it only by denialism, tunnel vision, ignorance, or distraction.

If we were to actualize knowledge of the massive destruction of the natural world and the insanity of the path of capitalism, it would make someone crazy by the definition of the masses.

Imagine someone screaming at the top of their lungs about the forthcoming destruction of the world and the evils of our economic structure, like some stark raving mad lunatic man of religion pounding a book.

Well, sensible people will turn their head and start talking about football, traffic, money, or a tv show.

Huxley was right, in the end.
This is 23rd Century Technology.

Let me explain.

See, the general pattern here is transducer + miniaturization. Maybe that makes for a microphone if you apply it to sound, but what I would like to see is the ability to fabricate ultra-small transducers for every known wavelength / electromagnetic spectrum phenomena.

Then for Act II... put those suckers in an array...

Can anybody say Star Trek Tricorder?

Actually, even a would-be Tricorder is a limited application... the real applications range from everything from electron microscopes to radiotelescopes, and everything in between.

Reversed, you could possibly get different types of field modulation out of such an array... need an electromagnetic field of whatever frequency and form for whatever purpose? That is, a universal field generator?

First step, right here.

Not just brilliant, but utterly, utterly, utterly brilliant!

This is my new #1 favorite EVER, on HN!
To me, it demonstrates the fines aren't an adequate remedy: Google still turned it into a profit model. The EC needed to split up Google, and force Google to divest Android if they wanted to remain in business there. (Note that if you ask Google why they created Android, it reads something like "out of the goodness of our heart", but it's bull. It's about ensuring everyone's on a platform that defaults to Google services for everything.)

Note that the EC can yet still tell Google that it's solution isn't adequate and not compliant.
I am going to have to use Microsoft Teams next semester at my college for project management class. Not looking forward to it. Especially since there is no Linux version, and Linux is the only OS I enjoy using.
More Common Ground Than Conflict in Video Game Data
Someone who doesn't believe in the hierarchy wouldn't be asking it for validation. That's why it sounds self-congratulatory.

I'd also say that trying to make yourself "want" things that are inherently unpleasant can be a fool's errand, depending on your definition of "want". Cold, detached action is often needed to bridge the gaps between waves of fickle motivation.
And yet we can reject our nature.
My opinion is that the OS should not be responsible for providing native elements to the application. If this is true then the application is tightly coupled to the OS implementing these components.

In a perfect world, every application would have minimal dependencies required by the OS, and completely encapsulate their runtime and UI components, making them very portable... which is basically web apps, hence Electron's popularity...
I'm pretty up to date on the science myself, and I still consider myself anti-GMO for a host of reasons, little to do with the science. My objections are more philosophical.

two primary reasons: hubris and greed.

The hubris to think we know which varietals are the best and will continue to be the best. We may go all in on one species or variant and then turns out an unknown bacteria we have previously no clue about wipes out all of them. You never know, you need variety. Bacteria outnumber us all.

number two: greed. You worried about tech being consolidated into the big 5? how about this scientific research? you want our food, something we actually depend on, to be consolidated into 2-3 chemical companies? I don't.

Smaller reasons include: the power of being able to still survive on pure nature's means, and the freedom to do so. We don't realize it, but these things we do out here in the more advanced nations greatly impact the developing world, where a large portion of the world's population exists.
> if I could pay to have the spying/data gathering turned off, like the Kindles offer with ads/no ads

What makes you think that paying to disable ads also disables data gathering? Does Amazon say this?
Fair enough. Teams sucks for the case where you have a limited topic that you want adynamically changing user list to be able to access for an extended period of time.

I’ll take that in return for it not trying to replace email, which, at the very least has folders, and rules, and starring (nearly every implementation has some version of this), multiple clients, the ability to access from non GUI clients, etc.

I really don’t understand at what point we decided that email sucked and really what we needed was a proprietary solution that are up a ton of RAM and hardly had any ability to customise or optimize in ways thateven non technical people have successfully managed wth email.

For all the non email like features, I.e. instant chatting with an individual, or a group of people, Teams works great.
Mostly the damage is already done. But at least there are new cultivars coming out sooner or later. Here's one: https://patents.justia.com/patent/PP28625

But how new is it? As I've alluded (it would take a full article to really get into this), even this new cultivar is... Cavendish. And it's patented. Just like all the other Cavendish bananas that comprise the only bananas you can ever find unless you happen to live in Southeast Asia and can find them in the wild.

BTW: Bananas you remember are not the bananas your grandparents would remember. There's a long history. The monoculture of bananas is fairly recent in terms of history, but for you and I, we've only ever known Cavendish.
Many, probably most, people don't want to live in density as high as that. They value greenery or simply the space to not have a neighbor breathing down their neck. What you consider preposterous is a tradeoff with other goals in mind.
Looks like it will be impossible to play with someone else in the same room, right?
Bad Language: a Lisp-looking language with interpreter, compiles to JavaScript
At the beginning of your video, the presenter says, "It's not a replacement for HTML." This is obvious because HTML5 supports far more than what is exposed in AMP. He later says they want it to be a natural choice for "web development for everything content related." Again, this is not a "replacement for HTML" any more than RSS is a replacement for XML.

I take it you've admitted the rest of your mistakes as you have left them unanswered?
It would be the same as having a single 8, but I guess it's not a problem or plate readers wouldn't be in use.
Wow, I’m pretty sure Hipchat is built on Electron and has had all these features for years! Microsoft must really be struggling
Of the 11 people who've been treated for Ebola in the US, only 2 have died.

That's a small sample, but only an 18% mortality rate with the best available treatment, before this cure.
Non-citizen labor is cheap. Milton Friedman explained this decades ago. "Illegal Immigration only helps when its Illegal" [1]

[1] https://youtu.be/C52TlPCVDio
Since these things don't come installed by default in big distros, I can't help but think they need to introduce some big trade-offs. I don't know if doing this without understanding this trade-off is a good idea. (not saying it's not, but I don't know)
Yet React projects mix view and business logic by design and aren't usually that confusing to make changes to. That's not the reason the WP codebase is bad.
What is Urbit? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M04AKTCDavc

Don't know if I'd call it a product per se.
Is the worry that they will just go away overnight all at once, but it just hasn't happened yet? Because the current price of bananas sure doesn't indicate a shortage.