skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If all of them refuse to help implement your new internet censorship regime

Then you fire all of them and hire new ones with different values.

The reason it's a problem if your police force stops following orders is the same as if the military stops taking orders: there's a command and control structure that can operate autonomously and topple your government.

It's a little bit unrealistic to think of all the network engineers in HK somehow overturning government policy by refusing to act. They have no collective power because they have no collective structure outside of the companies they work for. The most they can do is sabotage or blow the whistle, and ultimately if there is no political will to go against the status quo then all this will eventually prove futile anyway.

I hope you teach them also that there's no avoiding politics, and there's no avoiding ethical responsibility for doing nothing even when nothing you can do seems to have a chance.
Skype for Business has been replaced by teams which is not much better and pretty much still an awful chat application.
I suspect the British learned from the Irish’s position on the partition of Ireland. A population with an incompatible culture will lead to indefinite struggle.
One idea could be to take a page out of phys/chem/bio departments by introducing “lab” courses that have no lectured instructional component (usually you take both lecture and related lab in the same semester).

These labs tend to organize students into pairs or small groups who proceed through a sequence of onsite exercises that attempt to closely emulate more complex scenarios; thus synthesizing the application of multiple book/lecture-learned skills in an environment that naturally elucidates and facilitates the practical systems engineering and communication skills that are only otherwise learned in the workplace.

Student performance in a lab is typically evaluated from structured record keeping of methodology and analysis (testing & documentation). There is also often a presentation component that helps students learn how to effectively communicate results to an audience.

One can imagine lab teams collaborating on all aspects of software engineering including requirements gathering, systems design, infrastructure provisioning, deployment automation, CI/CB/CT, integration testing, release management, diagnostics/troubleshooting, etc. Experienced graduate students can be recruited to play the various roles of chaos monkeys, users and business stakeholders.

Students would get a healthy dose of teamwork experience, and have some tangible software deliverables to seed their technical portfolios.

It even sounds pretty fun!
There’s a bunch of helmet technology in mountain biking in the recent years. MIPS is one, 6D ODS is another (I have helmets with both). I wish I could see them compared.
This is what Britain should have done back in 97. Instead, they spent the time trying to stop Portugal from offering citizenship to the people of Macau so that Hongkongers wouldn’t try to ask for it.
This was also a huge problem for Android. At some point Android started using MTP instead of appearing as a mass storage device, which made for several technical wins. Most importantly, internal memory could be one contiguous block formatted as ext3. But this happened well before MTP was properly supported in Windows, which predictably made things difficult for a lot of users. (This was back when Android had competition, so that was important).

If I was a betting type, I'd wager that Microsoft's FAT patents (and various legal settlements where they got to say "Linux infringes on hundreds of patents" without ever needing to specify the patents) had a lot to do with that change, since, with the exception of a few manufacturers who continued to ship devices with external SD slots, and USB-OTG which is kind of a bonus feature, Android finally didn't need FAT for interoperability.
Sometimes I regret getting involved in a heated thread, but then a link to a source like the one you provided makes it all worth it, as I come away a little more informed. :)
Blend is hiring senior software engineers
Real engineering is not the same as software engineering. There is no engineering in software as no designer signs their name to their code and is legally responsible for when it crashes and goes wrong. Real engineers are.
Yeah it's a RAM1500 with V8 hemi engine, tbh, it almost never hit 20 mpg.. It occasionally hits 19mpg if I'm driving interstate
I also work on Azure, hi!

I have mixed feelings about closed-source blobs tainting my kernel. AMD did a terrific job open-sourcing their driver stack. I use Nvidia for deep learning out of necessity but I resent it, as I'm completely locked into X11 because they can't be assed to implement GBM. Nvidia has also gotten a stranglehold over the DL and HPC markets with CUDA, causing a chicken-and-egg problem where OpenCL isn't well supported because none of the cards that require it have serious power, and it's not worth AMD putting lots of money into the HPC market because it's locked into CUDA.

NVidia needs Linux more than Linux needs NVidia (imagine competing on HPC while running Windows-only!) And yet, they contribute nothing to the kernel and stymie efforts towards unified standards like GBM.

it's shades of DirectX all over again. that's the problem with tainting.
I don’t buy their case. A good hash table outperforms it in speed and memory [0].

[0] https://dawn.cs.stanford.edu/2018/01/11/index-baselines/
>...I plan to install a solar PV system that will make the house a net-zero energy consumer (everything is electric, no fossil fuels).

Few people are able to afford that because the battery backup needed for daily/seasonal solar variations is just too expensive. You are able to remove yourself from the grid with an estimated 10 year payback?
Ironically, it’s good the Hong Kong curriculum started to teach Mandarin, as it will be needed in Taiwan.
The article certainly reads like an ad.
Look again:

"World Oil Consumption measures the number of barrels that are consumed worldwide on an annual basis. It is an indicator released by BP. This metric tends to trend upwards except for a small dip in the 1980s and 2010. Interestingly enough, 2010 was also the time that Crude Oil prices plummeted because of supply and demand concerns."

15000 years. GLUT.
> I find it interesting how disrespectfully nose up folks talk about humble people like the Cedar Choppers

They denigrate them because their lifestyle makes them uncomfortable.

It makes them uncomfortable because they are free in many ways that middle class people are not.

They are free of our social norms and they could earn a weeks income in a day selling wood.

It probably made them question their life choices and the fairness of the system.
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LOL, it sounds like you're driving a semi to work.
“Virtually worthless [to thieves but not the rightful owner.]”
The ES is/was the FWD platform that is said to be related to the Camry. Although I seem to remember that these days the ES is more related to the Avalon, a larger, but also FWD car. The GS is a different, RWD platform.

Also, in many cases, Japanese luxury models under their own nameplate were sold under the parent company name overseas, like in Japan. For instance, the original Acura NSX was the Honda NSX elsewhere.
I've mentioned a couple others in other subthreads of this comment.
> I thought it was for optical media only.

Nope, although it is most commonly used on optical media it is not restricted to only optical media.

From the wikipedia article:

Specifications

The UDF standard defines three file system variations, called "builds". These are:

Plain (Random Read/Write Access). This is the original format supported in all UDF revisions
...
Plain build

Introduced in the first version of the standard, this format can be used on any type of disk that allows random read/write access, such as hard disks, DVD+RW and DVD-RAM media. Metadata (up to v2.50) and file data is addressed more or less directly. In writing to such a disk in this format, any physical block on the disk may be chosen for allocation of new or updated files.

Since this is the basic format, practically any operating system or file system driver claiming support for UDF should be able to read this format.
Given the frequency of articles from citylab and similar i tend to assume HN has a lot of cyclists. And given that it's HN, a lot of people who pin a large part of their lives, earning potential, and identity on their smarts, and thus who fear traumatic head injury.

I'll agree with you though -- I too tend to assume that everything on the internet is an advertisement.
> users will be able to opt in

Would you help make Siri better? Yes|No
The issue is that if it was written down it would be well defined. There would be legal cases for clarification rather than loosely defined precedents. It's too fluffy and malleable, which can work well in good times, and very badly under oppressive regimes.
Australia plans to tackle foreign influence at nation’s universities
Also very useful are http://www.hnreplies.com for emailing when someone replies to your comment and hnrss.org which can seach for any keywords when used with your RSS reader. I recommend Inoreader.
Not quite on that level (Cherry mx), but I have to concur. If you're not always on the go a proper keyboard is worth the investment.
They give it away because it's reasonable to not charge for it (it has no value).

I still don't want a PowerPC system. Even if it was free.
I wonder how many people like me are staying on their MBP from <2014 til this design issue is resolved?
Speeding kills your pocketbook.
WOWS IS MOM.

(WOWS IS MOM standing on her head is a statement, not a question)
Superconductivity in an Infinite-Layer Nickelate
A snapshot of what /newest looks like at the moment: https://imgur.com/hZkYX9h

That's the kind of organic upvote rate you'd expect from something like "Alien spaceship lands in Times Square (nytimes.com)"

For this post I'd expect not more than 3 points in 10 minutes. Probably bots?
Does hnreplies stop working randomly for other folks too? For me I sometimes don't get any notifications for replies.
What do they speak in Hong Kong?
There is some controversy about this: https://www.outsideonline.com/2392896/trek-wavecel-helmet-co...

Also, some people argue that MIPS is probably not as effective in real life as in tests because people simply don't fasten helmets tight enough for it to matter (and the same may apply to these helmets with respect to shear forces), but I don't know if this has been scientifically tested.
What do you find lacking in Finder for browsing the filesystem? Also, Spotlight tends to work great for me whereas Windows search almost never finds what I want.

You also have the terminal, so you're free to `cd`, `find`, `locate`, etc...
Like a wall across the US/Mexico border?
Library partnership awarded $2.2M to improve scholarly publishing infrastructure
I agree all the countries who support the HK protestors and their cause, especially UK, should grant asylum to all HK protestors and permanent residents wants to move. Since if UK treated them similar to UK citizens and granted them similar status in 1997, this situation will not arise. Given brexit, if UK allow asylum for HK permanent resident, it might help them ride out the economic fallout.

This is really put the hands where the mouth is, instead of words and criticism show support by action.

In 1997 Singapore allowed HK permanent resident to get permanent residence in SG, follow the same. Also there was a large exodus of people to Canada, some to USA. But many returned back.
Per the article, the conclusion that the new product performs so well is based solely on a study performed by "Legacy Research Institute":

WaveCel inventors, Dr. Steve Madey and Dr. Michael Bottlang, are authors of the study, as well as founders and co-directors of the Legacy Research Institute.
While true, I believe the whole intent is to use machine learning on real text to improve the customer's experience. For the customer, this is a feature rather than the bug. It is not how I would prefer to interface with grammar checking, mind you, but I think they have been transparent.
The malignant genius of the diamond industry is not that they invented signaling or game theory, but that they convinced the public that the "proper" way to signal was to give the diamond industry money for an overpriced rock.

There are an almost infinite number of healthier ways that we could signal commitment. There's no need for a middleperson, and there's no real value that the diamond industry is providing in exchange for their 'cut' of the money. Diamonds have always been relatively easily faked, and no one other than the recipient will likely be able to tell a fake diamond from a real one -- so they're not even particularly good public signifiers. A private gesture would work just as well.

Honestly, if the engagement process involved dropping a bundle of cash on a public sidewalk and lighting it on fire, even that would be a better system than diamonds.

If the whole benefit of this is that we're making it costly to get married, and thus costly to blithely propose to someone, then I dunno. Getting rid of money is not hard; it's very, very easy. We don't need a complicated, ethically challenged system for that.
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I work daily with 2015 MBPs, and I agree the keyboards are good. But every day I also miss the keyboard of my burnt out 2011 MBP. In my 20 years of using macs, that one and the 2012 generation had the best combination of crisp resistance + travel.
I didn’t say it would be easy. I said there’s probably a market for it.

As with any real world problem, there are lots of obstacles. Sure, your AI will need to figure out if the gun is being pointed at someone, etc.
Nice helmet, however they rarely if ever protect the chin, why is that?

In my many years of riding I've fallen on the back of my head zero times and on my chin twice, as a kid.
Cantonese
Good timing for you to switch, assuming you can hold out a little longer. The next Microsoft hardware event is in October [1].

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/27/20834766/microsoft-surfac...
Many of the youtube comments were people asking if he turned off location tracking... does anyone here know if that would be an effective countermeasure?
>How does this make 2nd place after 9 minutes?

12 points in ~10 minutes with only two comments yields a high position.
How great would it be if you did redo it every other day, though?

You'd automate the video publish pipeline, of course, and then it would be like a cross between a high-level UX test and a rehearsal for your pitch. You'd get really good at the workflows you demo, which would probably make the demo more impressive, and you'd be more likely to clean up any rough edges or annoyances that you come across repeatedly.
that's good to hear. I've been wanting to upgrade from my 2013 model, but the keyboards are so shit that I decided to wait.

Might still not buy one if they still have a Touch Bar though (and omg, touch bar was automatically made uppercase...)

Apple, I love you, but I hate you too.
When they are in the middle of trade negotiations I don’t think the Chinese would appreciate a thorn in their side. They wouldn’t take it kindly —I don’t think. In other words mr Xi isn’t Castro. He’s not going to allow a Mariel type exodus.
Out of interest, what keyboard has a Print-Screen key next to ctrl?
I didn’t take it seriously, but mainly because that was written like these are things that a large enterprise does not care about...
only for the cloud version.

S4B server edition is still in active dev
The absence of two PEPs that haven't shipped yet cause me great annoyance on a daily basis: 0544 [1] and 0589 [2].

On the implementation side, I've found TypeScript's type inference to be far more capable. I've encountered several mypy bugs around type narrowing. The issues I've filed have greeted by a "yeah, this is a problem, but low priority since you can restructure your code to make it more explicit." I understand staffing is an issue for community projects, and the PSF is trying to do a lot with very little, but that doesn't change the fact that it's a deficiency when compared to other systems.

1: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0544/

2: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0589/
I would not describe any situation that results in perpetual bribery to stave off war ideal. That's extremely unfair to the American taxpayer. I would much rather spend that money on our own military so that we can have peace through strength. What you propose makes the American worker a slave to the rest of the world in an aims to appease them into not competing. That is ridiculous in my opinion as companies like Huawei prove that the competition is already here. Second, how are we ever going to compete when we keep sending them the designs for our latest gadgets? We're giving away the IP in exchange for cheap labor again at the expense of the American worker. China is going to be a major player in the next century and we had best prepare.
Not if you have to pay them a 150k starting salary!
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Another stunt by crooked Musk.

Thy probably need to beef up their cash flows in order to pay lower interest rate on their debt. While not making any money in the process.
I guess I knew GPS was passive but I would have guessed - naively, it turns out - that "airplane mode" turns off all interfaces to the outside world.

Is there a way to toggle off the GPS on an android phone?
For tracing, Zipkin is a good place to end up.

But before you get there, you can standardize on a "request ID" header that gets passed through your call stack and logged by whatever services receive it. You can search for it in your log aggregator (SumoLogic, Splunk, etc.) and get a good idea of which services your request went to, what time they got it, how long it took, etc.
Towards parallel kernel test runs
During the day you can let light in through a window.

In the night solar power will not be available and the night lasts two weeks...

Might not be such a problem if you can prevent heat loss and schedule growth around the natural day. Perhaps you grow a crop that takes two weeks, perhaps you grow something that can go dormant for two weeks and burst to active growth quickly.
> if you get even a minor concussion, that means you can't look at any electronic device for 3+ months

I had a concussion recently and my doctor said nothing of that nature. I would love to have had a helmet which was better able to handle the impact though! Definitely the least fun altered state of consciousness that I have experienced.
And this is why most corporate communication is so bland and stereotyped.
thank you for your feedback, could you send me what error you got for the playstore to philipp@pocketcoach.co ? that would be great!
Monitoring is a tool to help you know when something is already broken, it does nothing to prevent problems, unlike a type system. If your error rates are spiking in production then real customers are getting a bad experience with your product, i.e. hurting sales, your brand image, and generating more work for your colleagues in the form of customer-support tickets that a human still needs to resolve even though you "instantaneously" rolled back the changes.

It's also common to encounter errors in production that are difficult to reproduce in the development environment, this is especially true of data-type errors in dynamic languages where some unusual edge case creates a strange data structure that would simply be impossible with static types.

There's also a chance that the developer fixing the code didn't actually fix it and instead only introduced enough guard logic to handle that one specific case based on their best guess regarding the shape of data that can come through, thus redeploying with a 30% error rate instead of a 60% one, repeating the cycle of attrition testing against the production environment until the error rate is "noise" but maybe not completely fixed.
I hear you about Finder. Windows File explorer seems a lot easier and more feature rich compared to Finder. The single most annoying thing is that there is no easy/ obvious way to grab the path to a file/folder in Finder, which seems like the most basic of features. I did figure out a keyboard shortcut at some point, but Finder feels so dated as a file manager.
So they are basically addressing rumors? It doesn’t seem like the HK government actually did anything.

There has been so much incomplete news spreading that it’s hard to tell what is real.

Just two weeks ago, there were videos of APCs “going into Hong Kong,” and people were saying a takeover was imminent. Instead it turned out to be some regular drill in Shenzhen.

Just a few days ago, there were posts of HK police shooting at a kneeling bystander. Turns out if you watch the full video, the “bystander” was throwing bricks at the cops and a huge mob was attacking the cops with spears.

Edit: To the people downvoting me, can you explain why? Am I mistaken about the events that happened? If so, please let me know. I’m just trying to weed out all the rumors get posted.

Edit 2: If it’s because of my green status, I usually use throwaways when posting on sensitive topics. So I can understand if my interpretation of events upsets some people. Just to be clear, I do support the people of Hong Kong and hope they succeed. I just think it’s important to have a true accounting of the facts.
Deadline driven development is leading cause of 90% of my professional stress. I would understand if deadline was due to some external factors like customer demands or security vulnerability. But I hate when I ask why such a tight deadline and the answer is well higher ups fault.
A university website linked to in the article suggests that a helmet that costs half as much as the one advertised in the article performs slightly better: https://www.helmet.beam.vt.edu/bicycle-helmet-ratings.html

Look for "Lazer Cyclone MIPS".

Edit: Unfortunately it appears that this particular helmet has been discontinued: https://www.bikeforums.net/general-cycling-discussion/117473...

But there are others that perform about as well that are similarly priced.
Maybe make them work on open source projects?

Or even the college's own toy systems?
It's unlimited in scope so it's pretty broad. There could have been any number of people passing through that area of space/time. A good standard for such warrants is when the police suspect a particular person and want to search for evidence of their whereabouts. A fishing expedition where the police have no suspects and just want to grind all available data is almost the definition of "vague and broad", if not that of "over-broad". In this case it seems that the police did not even have a concrete reason to believe that the perpetrator carried phones or used Google services.
The printscreen button also loads the current screen into the clipboard.

You can find all keyboard shortcuts here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/12445/windows-keybo...
The study cited is questionable. The best independent source for helmet testing IMHO is virginia tech's, which show that these are about as effective as MIPS, not 98% better as the headline suggests:

https://www.helmet.beam.vt.edu/bicycle-helmet-ratings.html

Here's their methodology:

http://hdl.handle.net/10919/83760
The skilled and wealthy will be the first ones out. They have made and financed detailed plans many years ago, and will head for the US, Canada, Australia, UK.