skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I asked my workplace if I could switch from the new macbook pro with the touchbar I got when I joined to linux on thinkpad (this was after a month of using the macbook pro btw), they agreed and I got an x1 carbon with ubuntu on it.

So much better IMO, just the keyboard alone was worth the switch. I was a little worried I would miss the display but I really don't mind the smaller screen.
If it's any consolation, a US-China war will likely be naval in nature. Unlike WW2's land theaters in Russia or China, a naval conflict will have significantly fewer civilian casualties. This will be a fight where China tries to turn its surrounding seas into a no-go zone for the US navy and dominate oil supply lines through the Indian ocean that will secure its oil flow and allow it to pressure its East Asian neighbors. The US navy will try to maintain control of East Asia's oil shipping and degrade China's military capabilities enough to force China to the negotiating table where they can then impose formal limits on China's post-surrender military and set up a permanent military presence in Taiwan close enough to pre-emptively attack any future military buildup. Neither military is primarily concerned with seizing large tracts of civilian populated land and the bloody mess that would entail.
Link me Haraway's PhD thesis please, I can't find it on scihub.

Original assertion was "highly credentialed biologists", which is different than "highly credentialed in biology", and I would agree with your objection to the later statement, her credentials lie mostly outside biology.

She's highly credentialed by the nature of her PhD from Yale, teaching at Hopkins & UCSC. She's a biologist by training, achieving her PhD in the field.

I asked for a list of social scientists so I could pick one and attack their PhD's or credentials under the same premise you criticized Haraway's, to demonstrate the absurdity of that line of thinking.

Marx's PhD was in philosophy, thesis something about greek philosophy being superior to religion. Spent most of his life as a journalist, so he's not credentialed in the social/political science field he's most notable for.

^^^ makes me sound foolish

Marx's PhD thesis
https://archive.org/details/Marx_Karl_-_Doctoral_Thesis_-_Th...
There are simpler options:

"Employee used crisp packet as 'Faraday cage' to hide his whereabouts during work"

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/11/27/australian-sacke...
Veganism is an obvious one.
I wrote a series of Markov chat simulators as a teenager. Often I used a simpler algorithm which ignored the probability weight (all out-links, once learned, given equal probability). These version performed subjectively as well as, if not better, than the versions which tracked the weight of links. I'm not surprised therefore that weight agnostic neural networks can work, too.
Jack Ma and Elon Musk's AI Debate in Shanghai
I am really interested in learning how to validate that any gold I buy is legitimate. I didn't realize that was possible for "just a normal guy." Do you have more information about this? Like, is there a guide?

Obviously the first thing to do would be to get the equipment you mention to detect tungsten. But what about the "if the cladding isn't sufficiently think" issue? How do you deal with that possibility? Would you have to drill into the gold, or something?
Something else is even worse. Fire ant mounds hidden under thick grass. If the ground feels a little softer than it should, hop along extra quick!
Google is facing another EU antitrust probe over its jobs search tool
My tip, which seems to be working for me so far: I upgraded from a 2015 to a 2018 a few months ago, and _immediately_ added a silicone keyboard cover that I got on Amazon for $8 or so.

It's really thin and doesn't bother me, but the key thing is that it keeps everything out of the keyboard. So far, my keys continue to all work just fine. It could be luck, but it could also be that no dust or anything is getting trapped in the butterfly switches.

I will give the disclaimer that much of the time I'm typing on a bluetooth keyboard, but I still get quite a bit of use out of the built-in keyboard as well.
Google just deleted my nearly 10-year-old free and open-source Android app
Have you heard of AWG Gov tier?
Do these fix the kernel panic "BAD MAGIC" error that causes the machine to crash and restart? These are kernel panics caused by the BridgeOS, a mini-operating system that drives the TouchBar.

My problem isn't with the usability or usefulness of the TouchBar. My problem is that the mere presence of the TouchBar has created a point of failure that crashes the machine... when I'm not even using that feature!
Maybe an interesting idea: with a very granular understanding of crash types, Tesla could add active software features to reduce their occurrence rate and pocket the savings.
Last I checked Vue was not working correctly with certain, newer TypeScript versions. Not sure if they fixed it up but it was that way since late last year through at least a couple months ago. I also got the impression the Vue 3 work was helping issues like that to stagnate.
Amazing that Greece and India were essentially neighbors for some 250 years. The indo-Greek king Menander became Buddhist before it was adopted by Ashoka.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menander_I
Can't black holes also inhabit the gap by shrinking via Hawking radiation? Is that something we'd expect to occur given the current age of the universe or does it need longer timescales to occur?

Also, do we know if there were special conditions during the initial phases of the post-big-bang early universe which might change the conditions under which black holes may form? For instance, non-stellar material condensing into a black hole?
"static vs dynamic is down to personal preferences" was the running thesis of some of Steve Yegge's essays. His "Portrait of a N00b" is more/less one aspect of this.

For static-lovers, the idea of "just fix it if it breaks in production" is horrible.
For dynamic-lovers, the idea of "spend time on work which doesn't get you closer to solving the problem" is essentially wasted effort. (Static-types are 'meta' code; the equivalent program works just as well without the types declared).

I've heard a good strategy is that the first-iteration should be dynamic (this gets the problem solved quickly), and static typing is good for further iterations (static-typing is better at conserving what's there).
I've had old helmets develop cracks spontaneously so this is marketing that I tend to believe.
Little harm done, except to children in Sierra Leone forced to mine the diamonds at gunpoint to enrich warlords.
I've heard bad things about working at Microsoft. Perhaps from people masquerading as (ex)employees, though I suspect not.

I do use TS, and it's enabled me to have a bit more peace of mind than I might otherwise have. It's also totally wrecked projects before (Loopback + TS = "as any" * 1000).

In any case, the sun could shine out Microsofts ass and I'd still be skeptical of them. Windows has an abhorrent amount of code smell to it, and (as stated) I haven't heard good things about working there. Really would rather they weren't any more of a mega corp than they already are. Really don't trust them. But TS is nice.
In 1995, I convinced the program manager who was responsible for SIPRnet that they should not use HOSTS.TXT files and random IP addresses that they just pulled out of their ass.

Ultimately, the weapon that convinced them was that they wanted to ultimately connect it to the “real” Internet, once the work was completed on the multi-level secure gateway that the NSA was developing.

I convinced them that there would be no way for them to communicate with the real owners of those IP addresses, and that they would need to use the DNS to communicate with the hosts and domains on the other side of that gateway.

It was a major face-palm moment for me, but I was glad that I was the DISA.net Technical POC at the time, that my boss trusted me and he was the DISA.net Admin POC at the time, and I had built a good reputation by helping them get the first CERT inside of DOD up and running inside of a week on ASSIST.mil, back at a time when there was just the one NIC for the entire Internet and they did root zone updates only once a week.

Thank $DEITY for that MLS gateway that the NSA was developing, because otherwise SIPRnet would probably still be using HOST.TXT files and random IP addresses pulled out of their ass.

This was also the event that convinced me I needed to get out of DISA quick, because I couldn’t keep saving the entire agency from making seriously brain-damaged decisions like the one I saved them from.

Sigh....
Which GUI are you using which isn't annoying?
And also paying for storage while holding it.

And also, what is total notional value of all burgundy in the world? 1bn? That’s nothing in scale with other markets.

Dumb article.
There's almost certainly a free app for Windows that's even better than the Microsoft version. He said his dad doesn't want "some other app," for whatever reason, but he's not stuck if they are available.

Hell if push came to shove you could probably get GNOME's solitaire running which at least has the advantage of supporting something like 100 different solitaire games.

Lastly I was curious how much the Microsoft solitaire costs and OMG. They want you to pay an ongoing subscription for it. Wow.
Aren't concussions visible in MRI?
Ts-node is honestly pretty terrible. By-default you need to disable some errors that make sense in code but not in a repl. "You just imported this thing but didn't use it yet, ERROR", which means that nobody uses the thing. Granted, I'm pretty spoiled by how excellent ipython is, but clearly no one actually uses ts-node. It doesn't even remember history between sessions, and they have no interest in making that work, even deferring to rlwrap.
Employees Who Say vs. Employees Who Show
Former Google employee says MeToo behavior 'institutionalized' at search giant
I'm pretty sure this was posted a while back (maybe a month or two)?
The “OSI Model”: There's no such thing. What they taught you is a lie
DevOps by Dora and Google Cloud
Haha this wins pedantic cake of the month. Of course you know and everyone knows what they meant by incredible. Like how 99%+ people use the word.
These are:

type IntMap = Record<string, int>;

type StringMap = Record<string, string>;
The official guidance for life jackets is 10 years.

https://www.secumar.com/en/servicing/

For bike helmets, independent safety labs have actually done the science and found no measurable deterioration in impact testing nor material properties with helmets as much as 26 years old. (Link to journal paper at end of summary linked below.)

https://helmets.org/up1505a.htm
An impact above 60kph is beyond the design of even a motorcycle helmet. They are primarily meant to protect the head falling onto the road surface and then sliding, an impact that it similar no matter the speed. Even when standing still, a head freefalling from 2 meters (ie bicyclist/motorcyclist tipping over) strikes the ground at 22.5 kph. That single impact is the US/DOT standard for bicycle helms. They don't accommodate sliding or repeated impacts.
in reality consider other western countries which attempted to stop decolonization and protect their citizens in those lands. French Algeria, Portuguese Goa - they lost the military fights and had to give up.

The PRC fought the combined UN forces to a standstill in the Korean war in the 1950s, and the British empire had already fallen apart and was in no shape to fight China then in the context of the cold war.
Reminds me of the recent Patrick Byrne CEO of Overstock resigning after making comments he's involved with the deep state (which also crushed Overstock's stock price): https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/22/overstock-ceo-patrick-byrne-...
I've gone back to remapping caps lock as a control key recently, so the two hacks conflict. :) (I know there are ways to remap the caps lock key to be both, depending on whether you tap it or hold it down with another key.)
you can see the strange claim here:
http://web.archive.org/web/20110702084440/http://www.ambigra...

"The Ambigram deck itself seems impossible at first, and in fact, it would have been impossible just a few years ago. No human being could have designed it alone, even if they possessed several lifetimes to work on the problem."

which is exactly what Cerulean's page refutes - it's a hand-designed 7x7 grid where each word transforms into each of the other words.
Really glad to hear you're ok, and also thank you for this first hand experience.
I've been using this app for years and also telling other people to use it, so this sucks.

If anyone else is looking for a replacement there's a Microsoft app called "Office Lens" that seems to do a really nice job and is as safe a bet as anything.
These are closely related to the points I was trying to make in November of 1992, during what I would call Crypto Wars I, in my letter to the editors of the Communications of the ACM.

See http://www.shub-internet.org/brad/cacm92nov.html
The UK can’t even handle being a member of the EU, do you really think the UK is capable of handling that?
How virtual pets can help us to take care of our well-being in 2020?
Correct.

Problem is in this particular case it seems highly relevant today as well.
All great options but the company has moved on from us users who clamor for practical features it seems. I bet if I sharpen the lid of the next mbp I could shave with it at least.
> Candidly, I would say that college does not even provide the base skill.

Things may have changed in college, but when I have very young in their career people start with me, one of their first tasks is to book a 15-minute meeting with me.

Learning Outlook/GCal/? and how to find a book a meeting room is base-level skill.
Instincts are next to useless in the event of steering (stem, fork, handlebar) failure. It all happens so fast that you barely have time to react.
I used an Apple "ergo" keyboard in the early 90s. Had several of them, they all failed with dead keys and unintended multiple keystrokes within six months. The more things change . . .

The Microsoft Ergo Keyboard, the first one released in 1995 or so, was well nigh perfect (well, once you remapped capslock to something useful, which you could do in software, or in hardware with a little gumption and some conductive paint). Probably saved my career. Then the quality of Microsoft keyboards went to hell as they cost-reduced their way to mediocrity. The more things change . . .

I use a Kinesis Gaming Keyboard now, and I think it's one of the best ergo keyboards on the market. It's programmable to a reasonable degree, has decent key feel, and I've been pounding on a couple of them pretty hard since they were released 2+ years ago without experiencing any issues. I think Kinesis has a clue, but that doesn't mean they won't change . . .

The Keyboardio keyboard has an interesting design and great build quality, but I'm too damned old to retrain, and it requires significant effort to reach a decent typing rate. I'm not up to it. I'd be very interested in buying a more traditional split keyboard from the Keyboardio team if they ever decide to build one. There are probably 10 people at my smallish company who would buy them, too. Kaia and Jesse, if you're reading this, take my money :-)

The Ultimate Hacking Keyboard is just not quite there. The build quality is excellent and the team put an incredible amount of work into the thing, but the lack of an ESC key just kills me. "Hacking" keyboard . . . but no escape key. I just don't understand. Yes, you can remap keys, but you're going to lose something important to a shift sequence that your fingers are going to stumble on for weeks. (Yes control-[ is ESC but this is not the 1970s and I'm not typing on an ADM3A terminal any more).

One thing I'd love to see is an ergo keyboard that includes pressure and velocity information along with keystrokes. I'd like a warning from the system that I'm typing too hard, for one thing, and I'm sure the information would be useful for other purposes.
Ancestor context is the one in Pennsylvania (CMU <-> Carnegie Mellon University).
`unknown` is also a really convenient type too: https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/release-notes/t...

I think of it as "I don't care what the type is, but I also shouldn't be able to do anything with it"
My comment is going to cover some of the answers given by others but here is my view of the situation.

Management/HR:
1. They don't know programming (to them it's magic).
2. They are afraid of paying for people who are less than rockstar. If they can't keep up with the Googles and Facebooks then they can't succeed they hear.
3. Technology/market has been moving faster than developers can develop. Need it yesterday is the theme management dances to and they don't care about paying you 30 hours of overtime if they can get something to market this week instead 2 weeks later under a relaxed deadline.
4. All computers work like Star Trek because Siri can tell them the weather according to their logic.

Programmers:
1. Starting your own framework or library just to advertise/divide the mindshare of other programmers instead of collaborating.
2. Not knowing how to interview candidates correctly (talk about programming? nah, just come up with a programming whiteboard then nickpick them to death to find one good enough to play sidekick.).
3. Working for less/putting in too many hours. Working for less brings the profession down and putting in too many hours reinforces the idea that only good programmers put in loads of overtime.

Of course this isn't 100% spot on for every company, market and country but it is what I see most of the time.
I wrote an ACH generator in Thoroughbred Script-IV[1] as an intern. It was pretty funny when my malformed ACH file generated $1 out of thin air (the bank took the dollar back a few days later). Trying to do JSON in Script-IV would have been quite a challenge.

One thing I remember was I think there were 3 different places in the ACH file to insert company name, and they were fixed length, each with a different length. I had a list of companies to support, so for each company, I carefully created 3 different abbreviated names for it, one for each length, applying more extreme abbreviation strategies for the shorter lengths.

[1] http://www.thoroughbredsoftware.com/reference/DOCUMENTATION/...
> And as Talos has shown, even most of the microcode is open source or at least publicly verifiable.

All of the microcode and firmware is fully verifiable and owner buildable/modifiable. Even the secure boot root trust keys are publicly known and can be personalised with your own key with, of course, the well-known key distrusted. AFAIK, the only thing that isn't owner modifiable (or modifiable by anyone else really), besides the silicon, is the one-time programmable ROM which the processor bootstraps from on power-on is publicly verifiable w/ assembler source code. Datasheets and programming information is available for almost every single chip on the board - as are schematics (woohoo! I've already used them to make repairs a few times). As of right now, the only blob required, on the stock system, is related to the broadcom network chip firmware - and that's been fully reverse engineered and a beta version of the firmware which is clean room open source is now available (project ortega).

It's the most open and hacker-friendly system I've ever owned and I really wouldn't want to have to go back to something less.
That's maybe a significant "what if" too far, but I'll play.

HK independence in the 50s would have been difficult as most of the land area - 100x smaller than Taiwan - was leased. Not sure how ignoring that lease would play out internationally, but I suspect more provocation to CCP China than solution. HK island is just a few square miles, the rest - the leased portion - is part of the Chinese mainland. Taiwan is a few tens of thousands of square km of defensible island.

Giving to ROC? I heavily suspect had that been an option at the time the US would have damn near insisted on picking it up, just as had happened with a number of the tiny naval and air bases. So it would probably have stayed as British territory, leased to the US.

Actually passing to ROC would have to wait until after Chiang Kai Shek achieved some measure of stability. The US spent much of the 50s expecting Taiwan and Chiang Kai Shek to fall. By the 60s HK is developing in its own right, but Eisenhower had started to support Taiwan militarily. Now it's getting trickier.
I could also imagine Singapore as a destination.
> coming from Microsoft too!

I'm sincerely asking, why are you excited for Microsoft? It seems like you're cheering for them, and I'd like to understand where this excitement comes from.

Is it like a sports thing where you're rooting for team MS vs Mac or something? If MS gets bigger and dominates more, what's in it for you?
“EMC compliance isn’t really a concern”...

Unless you’re this guy

https://hackaday.com/2019/05/15/the-great-ohio-key-fob-myste...

But seriously, you’re totally right.
I disagree. I'm a daily bike rider and I'm all for safer helmets. However I do need to be able to breath and not overheat. It's the realities of my commute that sometimes it's over 100F, like it was last week here.

I think there's a market for safer helmets and I own a bike helmet made to SNELL standards (for bike helmets not road). I just checked, I have a Specialized helmet with a Snell sticker inside that says "B90A". I'd buy a safer helmet, but I'm not willing to buy a full face helmet to offset the rare case of falling on my chin. Nor am I willing to pay 3-6x the price for some marketing campaign which claims that peak rotational acceleration is a major menace for bicyclists.

Sure Snell motorcycle helmets are more durable than bike helmets, but they have similar styrofoam of a similar thickness for lowering the peak acceleration. Sure my bike helmet would likely shatter into a million pieces in a major accident at 100 mph, but I don't bike at 100 mph.
Alternate headline: "Startups lack the job training that new software engineering grads need"
Ripe Announcement: Getting Ready for IPv4 Run-Out
I believe that there are circuits within the baseband hardware that cannot be powered off, short of completely removing the battery. And even then, there are capacitors and other technology that will store power for those circuits for a period of time.

I believe that this has actually been pretty well established in the community, but I don’t have the evidential links immediately at hand.
I'd like to know what you think about this concept! I'm also looking for a gaming CTO so please don't hesitate to contact me if you're interested to learn more
There are four of us at work that use Linux--the other 30 or so all have MacBooks. There are no converts, either you started a Linux person, or you started a Mac person.

My little Linux enclave has some theories about the cognitive effect of all the polish that you find on Apple products, but we can't separate our biasses from good science, especially because there's nobody to ask that knows both worlds.

So I have a question for all of the converts out there: Does switching between MacOS and Linux have any effect on how you think?
I published about a "moonthread" idea in Wikipedia and elsewhere in forums more than a decade ago. This notes that such a thread could be used to get cargo from geostationary orbit much further out. Useful.

More lately, I've been advocating in Facebook forums that such a thread be used not as an elevator (there are better ways to move cargo from the moon in the absence of an atmosphere) but as a stable anchor for a moon Lagrange station.
They’re already capturing those benefits - they are among the reasons customers buy tickets and thus contribute to the price.

I’m sure positive externalities are a thing, but direct benefits to one party in a transaction aren’t externalities.