skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sorry, who the frack is this CEO?

How are these anti-savvy CEOs getting this much money in the first place? What investor looked at this kind of model and went...oh hell ya, Imma dump money into that.

Massive real estate speculation you say? Shrinking capital gains you say? No downside risk of massive customer fallout or systemic risk of market downturns you say?

Oh...you're saying all those things are totally possible and very likely! Well in that case just take 75% of all my money for your little scheme.
C) don't guarantee support and let a community handle it

like spybot does it, but they are not opensource. ClamavNet is, but I never tried them.
> Who is going to Google each of the 89 components listed in the bill of materials to get a rough guess (since it doesn't list price info)?

This is an open source product, and not consumer-grade in the least, so I imagine hobbyists wouldn't be opposed to doing that legwork.
I have been using Windows Defender along with Malwarebytes free Windows Firewall Control and have never looked back.
Amazon's paid shill program is incredibly creepy and I have no idea how anyone thought it was a good idea, but it seems kind of mean to dunk on them like this.

Either (a) they actually like their job and you're being a jerk or (b) they actually agree with you that their job sucks but they have to pretend they don't and you're making them aggressively defend their shitty employer.
Look at the poster's name. Surely a touch of tradecraft there.
> that'll be a little awkward

For them, maybe, but I would relish reading each individual character to them in a slow deadpan monotone.
Usually group formation requires people to collectively forget something. Its not common to require creating false beliefs.
Which is great if your project treats warnings as errors. Not sure how common this is though since every time I compile a C program it’s just pages and pages of warnings.
They have addressed this at BUILD.

Xamarin for .NET devs, React Native for C++ devs (a bit like QML/Qt).

Office naturally fits the C++ devs way.
Pretending to be naive can be useful from time to time.

"I'm sorry, I have dietary restrictions that prevents me from enjoying the free lunch. It would be a great bonus if I was able. How about this you forgo the large cost of the free lunch and instead pay me the minor amount of overtime for the rare times I'm called out." (they always present that you will rarely be required to fix something off hours, call that bluff)

The only directions they can go is "Well that will cost more than the free lunch" or "we demand it" so either you win the argument by having them make your point for you or you will have a nice casus belli to find a new job.
> because it is only a very minor inconvenience.

Well for the rest of us its very huge inconvenience :)
These jobs will be automated. Amazon doesn't have human workers because they like people more than robots; they have human workers because some work today still needs human workers.
Fantastic bots, when is AWS opening access to their chat bot AI?
So you're saying the Fukashima incident is completely acceptable? Oh yeah, tons of irradiated ground water is fine because it's leaking into the ocean, what is this 1800s logic? Why do we care about plastic garbage, it's way out in the ocean!
Most anti-virus software is unnecessary, almost useless and can significantly decrease the performance of your machine. I worked at one company that provided its employees with really powerful desktop machines (Xeon CPU with 24 cores, 64GB of RAM, two SSDs in hardware RAID). Per my estimate the cost of such desktops had to be around $6K-$8K. But they installed a CA anti-virus software on them. And just like that the desktop turned from a performance beast to a snail. On most operations it was even slower than my middle of the road personal laptop. The anti-virus interfered with everything: disk, network, processes. The machine can be loaded at most at 3-4%, because the anti-virus service was consuming a single core up to 100% and didn't let anything else to run. Needless to say, it never found any viruses on my machine.
That's a clever use of the compute module. I'll buy one
Most online shill-bots are 1) bots, 2) outsourced to india/china/russia/rural US/etc.

They sound like real people who aren't PR execs because that's what they are. They're just hired by [3rd Party Marketing Firm] cuz they're stay at home moms or making use of Mechanical Turk for cash on the side.
Exercise for High Blood Pressure
That's a whole new spin for me!
Show HN: BrowserUp Proxy-Network Traffic Testing for Selenium WebDriver (FOSS)
The BrowserUp Proxy is a free tool for web application testing that lets you test and manipulate network traffic. It works well in conjunction with Selenium WebDriver, or with any other browser automation technologies like cypress.io.

For example, you can assert that a particular request happened and had a certain response code. Typically it is used to fill gaps in what Selenium WebDriver is able to see and test.
Quoting one of the ambassadors:

> Sure some dont like it here, but they may just dont like to work.

Ignoring the grammar..

How stupid or naive do you have to be to a) believe that and b) repeat it.

A not so subtle attempt at saying anyone who has a problem here is actually themselves the problem.
I think the biggest problem with smart TVs is that manufacturers abandon models after only a few years. You might only get updates for < 3 years and after that, well tough - your TV reached the end of its supported period. No more new functionality and crucially no more security updates.

Most people will still use the TV and keep it connected to their network without realising the security risks.

And the above is for mainstream TV brands, imagine how bad it is for weird off-brands and store own-brands where the original software is of unknown provenance and the chances of any updates is nill.
HDR and larger color gamut's nice. Deeper blacks are nice. Agree 4k's more useful for monitors than TVs, where it's bottom of the list of important modern upgrades to ordinary hi-def TV, IMO, unless you're rocking a legit home theater, as in projector and huge room and all. Semi-properly-set-up surround's way more important than 4k, though also expensive and very inconvenient in most people's TV spaces.
I agree in general, but it's not like there was any chance of having a meaningful conversation with people who are actual paid shills.
Upgrading the Blogcast Billing System: A SCA Tale
I have a dollar store "iPad fast charging plug" which is basically a USB condom with a dumb resistor divider to tell Apple devices that they're safe to pull 2.4A.
Not my experience at all.
"And then there’s the bizarre show of the raid on Epstein’s island. Was that displacement activity? If it was an important target, why after he was dead and not earlier?"

This was easily apparent to me. No objections to a search warrant.
So let's say I'm falling at terminal velocity and I'm falling to a point roughly at the shore of a deep body of water. I have just enough control to deviate so I'm landing completely on (hard, dry) land, or completely in water that is over 20 feet deep.

You're saying I shouldn't try to land in the water?

(Let's assume there is no beach of sand. This is at a dam or something)
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theregister.co.uk/AMP/2018/...
Anyone knows how Adobe create their cross platform apps?
No, I said The Fukushima disaster nicely demonstrated that there is lots of risk.

But people should analyze the risk as it exists, not shout about another Chernobyl. That a wealthy, stable nation failed to account for a situation with pretty strong historical evidence is not encouraging. And then there were multiple relatively inexpensive ways that Fukushima could have been better prepared.
If the conditions are so bad, why are there more complaints? I'm very distrustful of the media in general and feel like they're pushing an agenda more than anything.

I know people personally that work in distribution centres and they find it a perfectly fine job. It'd hard work, yes, but you see complaints like "boiling hot in summer and freezing in winter", and it's like.. yeah.. Which loading bay isn't like that?
According to this article, they're actual warehouse employees who tweet one day and work on the warehouse three other days:

https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/23/what-is-this-weird-twitter...
And what happens when you lose your phone and need to pair it with a new device?
To a point I agree. I have a 1080 and my friend picked up just a 2k screen. His it’s like getting an eye massage while watching tv the picture is just so crisp.

I do dislike smart TVs however. Very thankful my dumb Samsung has lasted about 10 years and still going strong. Are there any dumb TVs left to buy?
Metal and driver SDKs require C++.
There is a difference between open door as a matter of policy and open door as a matter of practice. I've dealt with both, and the latter actually works, the former does not. Most retail is the former.
I’d go with summarized, perhaps with a link. That’s what you are supposed to do if an article you want to link to has a horrible (but not link-bait) title. In this case it has horrible design, it’s no so different.
That is a good explanation... So then what is the password?
How you land in the water is key. In the Navy they teach us to point our toes, cross our arms, and basically make ourselves hit as little of the surface as possible when jumping from the top of a tall ship.
> Hmmm... Nope, I can't see a problem with getting people to stick a paperclip into holes around mains electricity! Sounds perfectly safe.

What say it needs to be in the socket? A battery or a capacitor is all you need to make sure it can still a bit outside its sockets (you don't need much to clear the memory either).

It could be a physical button too, no need for a pin.
It wasn't going to happen either way I suspect based on the medium and everyone's choices there.
Are they really easier to read though? A lot of the time which variable being tested is obvious, so it makes sense to put the important information - the value - first.
>you're either with them or against them.

well if you're dealing with a corporate entity the size of amazon and their weird bot/shill twitter army that's pretty much the only sane response.

Do you seriously think if you chat nicely with these PR people they're going to hook you up with someone who matters and amazon is going to have a nice chat about their anti-union practises with you over a cup of tea? Makes about as much sense as telling hong kongers to be friendly to the people's liberation army

Calling on workers to fight amazon is the only reasonable thing to do and if these combatative tweets bring attention to their PR campaigns than that's a plus
And this is why logistics companies aren't replacing humans with robots very quickly.

Simply put, robots today do not have the combination of speed, accuracy, gentleness, strength and 'hand-eye' coordination needed to do simple tasks that a 6 year old could learn in minutes.

You want a 4 ton pallet lifted from spot A to spot B? There's a robot arm that can do that same task over and over flawlessly. You move that pallet 12 inches to the left and rotate it 10 degrees? Best case, it realizes it can't do it and stops trying. Worst case, you have 4 tons of probably-broken goods thrown all over the place.

There's always examples of specific subsets being done well- a robot that can grab and align parts quickly (so long as they don't overlap and they're the expected parts); a robot that can carefully reach into a cluttered container and grab just one item (but only one item per minute vs a human's 20); a robot that can carefully lift an egg without damaging it (provided the egg is within acceptable size and weight bounds).

You want the whole package of skills? For now, you need a human.
Agreed. Particularly useful for for constructs like:

def do_stuff()
return unless stuff_enabled?

...
end
A Mini-Minecraft clone in just pure java
Perhaps a lot more people are genuinely ignorant about a "basic website" than you'd think.
I will agree that tasks like parsing sounds and forming words are low-level tasks, but my original post was about understanding the meaning of language, and it is not just in my own private lexicon that this is regarded as a higher cognitive process, as a brief search will reveal (e.g. [1].)

With regard to your ranking test, is it talking with someone or thinking about a math problem that gets ranked as low-level? It would seem to work either way, in which case, I guess it would be both.

[1] https://www.thefreedictionary.com/higher+cognitive+process
with regenerative braking the range could be even higher
Just beware the Falsehoods Programmers Believe about Names: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...
If all you want is to check for power outages, you could use a Raspberry Pi Zero that has a program that notifies you when it starts, and constantly logs a heartbeat to a file. If you run the program at startup, you'll be notified when the power comes back on.
Yes I wonder why they didn't use an industry-standard wireless protocol. Possibly one named after a Norse king and built into basically every phone made in the last decade or so.
I attended the ultimate go course last year. I loved the in-depth nature of the curriculum... oh and yes, Bill is simply the best :)
This would achieve the same but is far more readable:

while(status != SUCCESS) {
status = syscall(...);
// do something with status
}
In case anyone is looking for a similar project with a bit more definition, check out the PineTab[1]. It'll probably be pretty cheap (PineBook Pro will go for $200, PinePhone will go for $150), and I'm guessing it'll be available before this project is.

I really like all of these independent tablet/laptop/phone projects! I'm just a little worried that people will pick them up thinking they'll be just like an Android/iOS tablet and end up blaming the company making it.

[1] https://www.pine64.org/pinetab/
Gym membership or home dumbbell training
I feel like landing in water could be just as dangerous, because if you do survive the fall, you then have to make sure you don't drown.
Surprisingly often they do know what they want, even if they can’t articulate it they can demonstrate it.

The spec only becomes inane gobbledygook when filtered through a PM who doesn’t understand it but rewrites it in business-speak anyway, or an “architect” who also doesn’t understand it but thinks it needs to be a grand, generic solution.
Because then YouTube has no incentive (or ability, really) to prevent what it thinks of as “advertiser-unfriendly” content-creators from being monetized. As long as there are advertisers making deals with a content creator, that content creator is, by definition, advertiser friendly.
Independence Movement: 1947 India
I doubt fish, pigs or goats produce any methane in any significant amount. Meat can be produced without polluting, it doesnt have to be cows. The cost still has to be payed though, even if it is so low.

Even so, just because some pollution would be hard to stop doesnt mean we shouldnt strive to tax it and every polluter anyway.

Compare a country such as Albania producing all its electricity by hydropower and Netherlands which is still burning coal. Both are civilizations and nice place to live with welfare, yet one is polluting and the other is not.
We had a nearby case where two special forces dudes drowned in parachute training exercise because due to wind changes they landed on a major river. Water landing is not safe even if you're an experienced skydiver, you may have to swim quite far to get to the shore while not really prepared for long-distance swimming, with all your clothing, boots, parachute and all that.
Is it possible to buy higher-resolution display parts individually, or is there a minimum order size?

Also, most Android/Windows OEMs low-end tablets are 1280 x 800, so I'm guessing higher-res screens strain their batteries and GPU too much for them to be viable?
Thank you. Just a very horrid conversation from both sides.
The official Classic version actually uses an open-source library like this one for the rendering and most of the legwork.
That or the Cheat decides to throw a light-switch rave
I do very much like the Karla trilogy.

the BBC Alec Guinness adaptation is wonderful(as is the house of cards, but thats a different beast.) The unabridged audiobooks are read by the person who played Peter Guillam

For me, I think his best "novel" is his autobiography. The Pigeon Tunnels is a series of brilliantly engaging short stories, but with out the tenancy for an anticlimactic ending.

It also vividly illuminated the background for baader meinhof, and to a certain extent the 70/80s Palestinian conflict (and how its relevant to the UK now, thanks to the useful idiot that is corbyn.)
Ever have a parent call and need help troubleshooting a wifi router over the phone? Imagine trying to walk them through this.
If they were in a literal garage and I could have gotten another job paying 300k or more in a real office with free food then yes, I definitely would have avoided them.
Sure there are tradeoffs. Everyone in the thread implies I want to completely obsolete FP or whatnot :(

Have you thought through the small angles example? Because sin(x) is equal to x for small angles. Then, as x raises further, we are entering densest area of farey sequence, so the precision is fine there too.
The C-class and most of the smaller SUVs are developed and built to a budget at plants mostly outside Germany, including USA, South Africa, Brazil. The relative lack of experience from the workforce shows in early engine failures, squeaky interior fitment and so on.

The heart of the range is still the E-class, which is built almost exclusively in Germany with a development budget of a few billion euros. A 4-cylinder diesel E-class is the archetypal long-distance cruiser in Europe, with many cars easily reaching over 600k kilometers on regular maintenance, while maintaining a fuel consumption of 5 litres per 100 kilometres during highway driving.
Only if you believe that you can distinguish lucky founders from normal founders with sufficient precision to beat the odds. Personally I wouldn't trust myself to do that.
rather than your ears concentrating/funneling the sound into your ear canal, they would be muffling it since the direct sound wave direction would basically now point into your earlobe
The fact that this makes behavioural targeting even harder makes me very happy.

What makes me even more happy is that this helps to eliminate the argument stating that 3p cookies can be replaced with heuristics/non-deterministic targeting.
So, instead of assigning resources to just another way of targeting users (e.g. hacks, fingerprinting) a developer/PM can already say that these approaches will be prevented in the exact same way. Any further work in this direction would be pointless.

Ideally, we'd put more focus on contextual targeting, which is arguably more useful, significantly less creepy and less dubious from the ethical point of view.

I just wish Microsoft moved in the same direction with IE. So far they've been more quiet on that subject than Google. That's wishful thinking, I know.
Many businesses go with Xamarin because some guy in a management mandates it because he feels it will be a silver bullet that will let them get around having to hire skilled native mobile developers.

The reality is that to do Xamarin well you’ll have to wander outside out Xamarin Forms, and to do that well not only do you need native mobile developers but you need far higher caliber native mobile devs who are able to mentally translate swift/objc and android calls into their C# equivalent, and who have an idea of what’s going on the os when there’s a crash at a level lower than the .NET runtime caused by a native part that’s not apparent in the crappy Xamarin stack trace.

Xamarin really only makes sense if your company has a mountain of existing complicated .NET code with priceless business logic that you absolutely have to reuse.
Yes, yes, for videophiles it matters.

The vast majority of people buy the shit because it's pushed on them. My grandmother doesn't bloody need 4K.
I was on that core team and that's not quite what I recall regarding the core library.

We had some hard requirements on that library because of protocols used by the backend and other reasons. And when you mention features "mostly related to playback", well, it was 95% of the library from its conception (the rest being login and communication with backend).
Most of it is quite complex code and not anything you want to rewrite for each platform (mainly offline storage, remote control, playback).

The issues we had were caused by growing pain from having the library initially mixed in the desktop code (back when mobile wasn't a thing). It needed to be extracted, productified and a whole lot of tooling and testing written for it. Once we got there, the quality of the code was much nicer and the integration in the various clients easy and automated (which it couldn't be at first).
It certainly took sometime, but it wasn't a problem caused by it being cross platform, only that we needed a better infra. We were there when I left the company about the same time as you for quite a while already.

The integration with various clients got later easier once we removed the need to reach into that library for just fetching simple server side data. But that wasn't a cross-platform library issue, it was mainly a backend issue.
As always I'm divided on comments like this. The first half is entirely accurate - it's trying to keep individuals from cutting their own deal and undermining the value of the collective bargaining process. I just don't know if we should start using a framework of class conflict to go along with it.

I feel like the point could easily be made without mentioning the "capitalist class", which seems to weaken the argument. But I don't know if the particular word choice terminology has no value? Should a point be inflammatory for those who oppose it? For some people putting it like that, using the ideas of class conflict conflict has value, but it seems to further divide the conversation. Is it more important to tell it like you think it is, or to try and make a point that the most people will agree with? I don't know what the solution is.
> and if these combatative tweets bring attention to their PR campaigns than that's a plus

I'm not convinced that's a thing. I see a lot of twitter styled activism and I'm not sure what the impact is outside of maybe some anecdotal events.
Has she considered that the reason a different employee responds every time is that she’s being unnecessarily rude and nobody wants to talk to her, so they keep asking each other to take over? Because that’s what it looks like to me.
That doesn't get me to something that looks like the start of a conversation.
This is awesome! Hats off to the crew!
> lunatic

> Dumbest

Stay classy.
Because people are mostly some combination of honest and cowed by law enforcement.

I think it's harder these days than the other poster says, but there is still plenty of financial fraud.
TED Talks as Data
> Youtube already plays less well with Firefox.

In most other cases I could agree there may have been nefarious intent, but as someone who's followed web components for a while I think YouTube just made a bad technology bet -- that being rewriting their front-end in Polymer v1, which was based on Web Components v0. Jumping the gun on an unratified standard is risky, and this example shows why.
In Sweden, the password is BankId, a two-factor authentication app that everybody has on their phones. It’s used by all government agencies, banks and insurance companies etc to establish identity. You literally use your ssn as username to login, plus a pin, to generate a one-time passcode (which happens behind the scenes so you don’t have type it in).
Maybe it does happen all the time and you just don't hear about it. That's all I can guess.