skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who has watched Firefly quite a few times, I don't recall this episode. The only thing that comes close is "Ariel", where they steal medical supplies off a core world hospital, but that's straight up theft.

I don't recall all the details of the film Serenity, but the plot described does not ring a bell. Are you sure it was Firefly you were thinking of?

Note: I have not read the comics, if it is one of them the plot appears.
Currently our recurring expense feature only supports monthly and yearly expenses. We have thought about expanding this to also support "upcoming expenses" which is what your driver's license cost would fit under.

We have gotten feature requests for custom budgeting periods to align with payment schedules which sounds like it might fit your second use case.

Thanks for sharing your interesting and unique use cases. I hope you find a budgeting solution that works for you, whether that's Lunch Money or a homegrown spreadsheet!
Facebook and Neuralink are building brain-reading tech
If I remember correctly (which may be wrong as it has been quite a few years), veins in an eye are better than iris for many issues related to using eyes for identification, but they can also reveal health information and so there are more issues with storing and sharing the data needed to verify a person.

Now, one may point out that if both pieces of information were being kept entirely private and were being secured with industry standard security this different wouldn't matter. I'll leave the implications of this for the reader to ponder upon.
Much fridge food ‘goes there to die’
This comment is abhorrent on HN. Already flagged, but calling dang etc
I'd really love to listen to The New Yorker and The Atlantic long read articles, even the ones I've enjoyed before for their beauty or insightfulness.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/10/15/the-semplica-g...
I'm in the US and I almost never get spam/scam calls, yet people here say they get them multiple times a day. I don't know why some people have such an issue and some people just don't.
What if they are actually doing this for Google to pay them huge payout to keep quite?

It seems big companies are more like a kingdom than a democracy where powerful men have harem consisting of their own employees.
I will provide some examples I can think of that are happening to me right now and don't feel like edge cases.

"Hi, I would like to legally subdivide my house (so that I can rent out a portion and be able to afford a very overpriced mortgage)."

"Sorry, nope! We don't like that idea. Local boss says no way."

"Hi, I would like to modify my car's appearance such that it looks different from the original factory appearance."

"Sorry nope! You will confuse us and we will think you are breaking the law even though you are not."

"Hi, I would like to operate an online business that could conceivably facilitate foreign transactions and "bets" on certain outcomes."

"Ohhh wow no definitely not, that's really bad. We have jailed certain people for less, but not Sheldon Adelson because he knows us."
>She did notice, however, that the European kids would experience red eyes, irritated by the salt in the water, whereas the Moken children appeared to have no such problem.

There is a trick that can help reduce eye irritation by salt, which may explain this : Eyes must be closed when crossing the interface between air and sea (that's usually instinctive) and also closed when crossing from sea to air (usually counter intuitive).

The reason is the protective tear film get broken upon crossing when eye is open.
I'd imagine being a C-level executive at one of the world's biggest companies had something to do with it.

Interesting, he was also charged by the SEC in 2005 for failing to register $80M in employee stock options prior to Google's IPO[0]

0: https://www.sec.gov/news/press/2005-6.htm
Pod Hunt is awesome for podcast discovery, and only getting better!

Excited to see what the future holds.
None of our business.
In 2007 there was already an increased amount of search for recession going on on google, but less than now: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=Recessio...
Exactly. But many Rust proponents do not communicate that clearly. They often make it sound like unsafe blocks contain the undefined behavior and prevent it from spreading to the rest of the program, which they don't.
This looks simple but very useful. Could prove to be a major game changer down the line.
> I think freedom of speech and press helps to bring abuses to daylight and rule of law is essential in reining them in.

I agree that they can be important, but they don't always solve many problems. Sometimes they even create problems: for example all the "fake news" and entities abusing social media platforms to manipulate elections.
> A language that's "tailor-made" for the individual is fantastic when you only have to deal with your own code.

I think this is spot on.
Out of curiousity, how conversational does the content sound? Is it better that the quality from HTML5 text to speech or Amazon Polly?
Give it as an exercise to college grads
Men with power can no longer use their power to attractive woman in 2019 and on. It is against the new societal norm.

Stupid unless it's used with force and or the powerless clearly says or does things that says no I'm not interested and the one in power uses it to threaten to get fired(all flat out illegal and wrong). Im reading a lot of stories lately about clearly consensual relationships that end and the other party are mad so they jump on this bandwagon called revenge.
You can read about it from Project Zero here: https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2019/08/a-very-deep-d...

That page answers all your questions about which devices were vulnerable and for how long.

Note that this article is also currently in the #1 spot on HN.
I meant that you can die from the direct physical effects (as in just having it in your system will kill you) of drugs like heroin, cocaine, caffeine, alcohol, &c. but drugs like cannabis can't be consumed fast enough to kill you (or you'd have to do it on purpose by injecting thc extract straight to your veins or something like that). It's the same with lsd actually, the lethal dose is 0.2-1mg/kg, the usual dose is 100-200ug. So a 75kg adult would need to consume 15mg of lsd = 15000ug = 150 normal sized blotters, which would cost you at least 150*5$, no way to accidentally OD on that.

But yeah if you're unstable in the first place, one too many beer or one to many joint and you'll do stupid shit. Anyway, always research, buy from renown sources, test your drugs (kits are available on amazon, ebay, &c.), do it in a safe environment with people you trust, don't use drugs when depressed or suicidal.
> Is there any country where everyone lives comfortably working full time at any job?

Every developed country except one. I can't believe you don't know that.

Last time I was in Australia I met a guy and his wife - they both work stacking shelves at Safeway (the very definition of minimum wage job). Not only are they paying for a house and have three kids, he has enough money for a project car (V8 something Australian) AND they fly to Bali every year for a holiday.

Yes, when you work a minimum wage full time job in a developed country you can have a very good life.
yeah, but corporate policy is not real policy: google can fire him... but this really deserve media attention?

it's their private life.
We definitely recognize the aversion of using a service like Plaid, and we are working on more ways beyond that to import
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"much of Silicon Valley’s genesis can be traced to Fairchild Semiconductor, which was founded by a group of young engineers who came to be known as the Traitorous Eight after they left their previous employer, en masse, to set up a rival company."

and

"is that California makes it so easy to betray, cheat, and steal. The state’s founding commercial laws generally prohibit companies from constraining their employees with “non-compete clauses.” As a result, for most of the state’s history, workers could jump from company to company, carrying secrets in their heads,"

Is the author really so obtuse not to realize there's a difference between "changing employers and using your knowledge at the new employer" and "changing employers and bringing a treasure trove of confidential documents with you"?
I agree. I feel as though VoIP and phone system setup for small business isn't as popular as it should be. I for one am very interested in running a private SIP server for my home use on something like a Raspberry Pi.
Okay, drop a building on a Ford Ranger and clear the rubble away and try to drive it away after. That is, after you've drowned it in the ocean and set it on fire.

https://www.drivingline.com/articles/top-gear-tries-to-kill-...
It might interest you that Kraken recently started listing Brave's BAT as well:

https://blog.kraken.com/post/2664/bat-and-waves-trading-star...
a lot of people forget that the games are developed by people, and how good a game is depends very heavily on the creative vision (ala, the "soul") of the developer. The IP/brandinbg is merely marketing.
> I'm far better served to pay more to put my office near the transit hub

Coincidentally, my office is right next to the busiest tram stop in the city center, which is great because I don't have to change lines during my commute.
This was an instant click but it seems the site is being hugged down.
> Should we start looking into changes of control of similar institutions in other countries ?

Where can you think of where the President elected in an extremely close election with a questionably secure voting system tried to fire the senior law enforcement officials who were investigating him?
Sometimes boundaries need a little tighter than they should be for adults because sometimes people can’t handle the responsibility of behaving like an adult, and the employer has to clean up the mess. See, e.g. Google’s ban on political discussions. See also this lady.
Show HN: Titanoboa – distributed workflows for JVM (written in Clojure)
I think it just means they can run unsigned code. But yes, I would presume that Safari and the other default apps are present.
A paid network with some rules on content (only original content, no spam, no ads).
The one annoying thing about SQLite is that there is no easy way to change the table structure. Adding/Removing/Renaming columns is super complicated and afaik there is no good command line tool that does it for you.

That is the primary reason why I do not consider it for new projects. It's just to slow to iterate on.
Why are we even bothering to discuss this on this site?

Wouldn't it be better and less biased if we each wrote our own AI systems and had them discuss with each other instead?

(And we should publish our training data as well, of course)
This is a problem I have with a lot of human behavior. Instead of admitting you don’t have the resources to do something or aren’t willing to prioritize it, people come up with a bad version that’s not worth doing. Lots of things are worth doing poorly, but many of them I believe you just need to admit are not worth it unless a certain level of performance is met.

What’s even cheaper than AI? Tell the students to write some pages, have the teacher glance at the number of pages written, give full credit if the mark was met, and throw the papers out without reading them. It sounds like it would be similarly effective and less aggravating. Unfortunately, this would require humility on the part of the educators.
Note I don't disagree, but that source was on hn a few days ago and is a pretty poor propaganda site. The article:

* redefines poverty multiple times and then comes to the surprising conclusion that the results differ from the NY Times article

* uses consumption in USD as a measure, which is highly problematic, because a) different countries have different purchasing power, which is is the reason almost noone in poverty research compares international poverty using gross consumption b) consumption heavily reflects economic inefficency (e.g. health care costs: If a say Danish poor gets her broken arm fixed for free, she would consume 0$ according to this figure, while achieving the same quality of life out of it)

The usual threshold for poverty (for good reasons) is 50 or 60% of the median income in a country. Which the NY Times article used.
>There's still plenty of time to recover from that and still be in your 20s.

If you can recover then you have gained nothing from the bankruptcy but you have lost from the inflation of your debt.
I think both groups of people would benefit from less regulation in land use. Get rid of zoning and let the free market decide land use issues.
American puritanism with private affairs is really showing here. The article doesn't mention anything illegal or socially relevant. So, none of our business.

Google polices are private rules for internal arbitration, with no relevance outside of google. Why are we even talking about that?
The economy bleeding is the economy leading.

Even if it isn't, it's still a more exciting story than "everything's probably fine for now".

I believe there are plenty of people who would in a heartbeat spark a recession for millions of people as long as it let them get rid of Trump. In the spirit of "A single death is a tragedy, a million is a statistic", the cognitively-available benefit of getting rid of Trump would dominate the vague and diffuse "some people somewhere might get hurt" that would entail. (And that is granting them the benefit of the doubt that they'd even care about it if they could managed to grapple with it, a theory I don't particularly have a lot of evidence for.)

However, it's too early for that. If a recession hits now, there's time for the economy to recover before the election and the recession to just be a memory in our ever-increasingly news cycle driver news economy. "What recession? Oh, you mean the one from 150 news cycles ago? Who cares?" "They" would want it in full swing somewhere around the election, and would settle for the worst bits being a month or two before the election. I tend to think this is just the media echo chamber picking up an idea.
Your last paragraph, and particularly the last sentence, epitomizes what is wrong with your whole thesis: the ultimate goal of the testing (and education itself, for that matter) is not to find people who can "do well on essays"; it is to develop analytical thinking.
>Honda says it has received no reports of fires, crashes, or injuries related to this issue.

Got any evidence one of those has actually caught on fire in a car wash?
Oh my god, I remember now that this wasn't actually canon. I'm so sorry.

This was actually from a great crossover fanfiction, "Browncoat, Green Eyes" [0].

It was so vibrant in front of my mental eye, too.

[0] https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2857962/13/Browncoat-Green-Eyes
Because America is not the only market they are operating in.
Because ridehailing is not the only industry they are operting in.
I've once or twice considered leaving tech altogether, but then I remember that without any sort of post secondary education, I'm condemned to barely livable jobs. Even making it in tech has been more difficult than I imagined, and I hope any 2008-type even doesn't cripple me.
The title is inflammatory but the actual article is completely calm-headed. Which bit do you think isn't?
The question is not the relative price of the goods, but the extra cost incurred by the majority to accommodate the minority. This might be hard to discern from the anecdotal style of the book, but this is the third most important factor after the stubbornness and an even geographical distribution of the minority.
Did they not just spin off their R&D?
No big company is like a democracy.
The underlying problem is that reading essays with a careful critical eye is not scalable. But another issue this highlights is the complete misalignment of incentives of the people who greenlit the adoption of this technology. Because educational outcomes are much harder to evaluate over the course of a bureaucrat's tenure than budget sizes (longer time horizon and many exogenous variables), there is a natural inclination to make decisions that reduce costs as long as they don't have any obvious (to them or their superiors) adverse outcome for students. This is a pretty low bar, especially so given that most bureaucrats do not have the background necessary to evaluate technical solutions.
Do you have some evidence of that? Aside from iCloud hosting and App Store censorship, I haven’t heard of a case where they’ve weakened security for the Chinese government.
The failure modes of "can't get code to compile" and "something weird and possibly exploitable could happen at runtime" may both be frustrating to developers, but they're worlds apart in practice. Looking at it from the point of view of a kernel maintainer evaluating submissions, the former is not your problem --- in fact it keeps the bad code from ever coming to your attention --- but the latter creates ongoing problems for you.
The touch screen terminal in my Hiunday i40 is absolute crap. I wish the carmakers would open their APIs and leave a hole in the middle panel for whatever 3rd party table the user chooses.
There are companies that act as data brokers for other parties and there's also companies like Nielsen which buys media consumption data in bulk. It's not just about the ads.

It's also about the way in which to split the pie. (how much should go to this creator?)

Or consumer profiling. (It seems our product is enjoyed by men in their mid 40s who like sci-fi)

Or marketing research (it seems our product sells the most in winter).

There's plenty of ways to make use of this data. That's why it's so valuable. It's not uncommon to see 7 digit contracts for high profile news/gossip outlets, for example.
That assumes complete control of the network. Even one unknown link would break the flow optimisation.
It's worth noting that he's still at Google, which means that Google knows about this behavior and accept it from one of their top executives.

In the age of #MeToo, companies are getting called out for inconsistently handling these types of situations. No doubt Google would probably quickly terminate lower-level employees who transgressed in the same way.
I think the media attention is for the other detail after that. Such as withholding child care money and other treatment of women. The headline is only a part of the story.
To me the most important thing here is that we can finally make an educated guess regarding the circumstances in which something becomes a superconductor.
Which country was this?

For example in US the fare you pay and what the driver gets is completely different.
While you are technically right that it is not a monopoly, it is an oligopoly, a term which implies it is likely to have the same issues as a monopoly while still having an insufficient number of competitors.

The problem compounds when Google and apple are both horizontal and vertical oligopolies.

If I complain that adwords scammed me (in a court of law), they could retaliate by terminating my GCE instances and gmail accounts.
> To use [sic] the quoted text has to be clearly wrong

(1) You are responding to a quote about a proposed rewrite of the sentence which would be clearly wrong independent of whether the quoted text was (the “less correct” was chosen because the proposal asked if it would be “more correct”), and

(2) No, there's no such requirement for the use of “[sic]”; use for things which are not strictly incorrect but not comport to a stylistic preference of the author presenting the quote (or one that the author expects the audience to have) is common. For instance, Google's dictionary's usage example for it is “a story must hold a child's interest and “enrich his [sic] life.” What the “[sic]” flags is grammatically correct, though recently usually stylistically not-preferred.
Wow, Chrysler has made quite the turn-around, I just noticed from that chart. 10 years ago, I expected them to be out of business by now with their low reliability (which I believe is still one of the lowest). Chrysler has a pretty terrible reputation, but their minivans have a good reputation (I know, I own one with 90k miles, and it's an amazing value and has been very reliable). The Jeep brand is killing it, lots of die hard fans of the nameplate. They also made a good move rebranding Dodge Rams to just Ram.
Sure, the point is that - like with mechanics - you are not really-really assured that the official dealer personnel is actually "good", meaning that they follow an "official" book where there is written something like "if there is defect A, change whole sub-assembly B" (and they BTW know perefectly the procedure needed to replace sub-assembly B with a new one).

The issue is when "sub-assembly B" costs hundreds or thousands and the actual "defect A" is due to a loose connector or a cold solder (or whatever else easily repairable), the dealer will go by the book, an independent mechanic (if he/she is actually "good") will fix it for a few bucks.

Compare with the re-known cases of motherboards replaced because a connector pin was bent or similar, there are quite a few related videos by Louis Rossmann.
> Were that the case, we'd see a prevalence of people unable to afford cars.

Actually, I'd say that is precisely the case. The vast majority of cars in the US are bought on credit, which means people can't actually afford a car, they can only afford to borrow money to pay for a car for a few years, then get out of that one and move onto another one.

The massive, massive majority of vehicles are not owned by the person driving it, they're owned by banks.
It is a measure to limit personal freedom in exchange for protection against coercion at the workplace.

Does it work? Apparently not in this case. Do I agree? Who cares. Do I get the idea? Well, yes. Seems pretty straight forward.
Tesla is almost the exception that proves the rule though.
Low Power NB-IoT on STM32 Blue Pill with Apache Mynewt and Embedded Rust
While this seems... interesting... Isn't it actually safer and easier to cool something to 2°K than to pressurize to 36,000,000 psi
> Adding/Removing/Renaming columns is super complicated and afaik there is no good command line tool that does it for you.

sqlite supports ADD COLUMN and RENAME COLUMN DDLs.

Dropping columns is not supported, nor is adding some of the more complex column, that does require going through full table rewriting.
2019 tech IPOs: Some thoughts from the public company roller coaster
Pardon my ignorance, but besides being an open-source ISA what's the reason for the popularity for RISC-V? The buzz alone has piqued my interest, but I'm just trying to understand the "why".
The output of the US middle class can be accomplished for cheaper by others around the world (and thereby raising their wages). And with the scaling advantages that come with technology mean far fewer people can drive massive growth.

I don’t need a person at a hotel front desk to check me in, I don’t need a taxi dispatcher to call me a car, and I don’t need secretaries to handle my scheduling. Automated reports remove the need for many middle management positions, and it all manifests itself as stagnant wages for warehouse type work which isn’t yet automated.
Says he's the "top lawyer", followed by an example affair with...a Google lawyer.

A relationship with someone that ultimately reports up the chain to you has obvious issues.
This argument is flawed. "Men with power" have all sorts of ways to meet other women that they don't work with. Other comments in this thread cover the reasons why it is reasonable for google to have an hr policy for this.
MVCC was described in detail by David Reed in his 1978 thesis. Everyone "copied" him. Do you have cites for your assertion that Postgresql copied Interbase and not read published CS papers on the topic?

The term "MGA" also seems to be a rebranding private to the Interbase universe so I question that "MVCC aka MGA" bit as well.