skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For some reason this reminds me of trump obsessively defending that hurricane tweet-- really a bad look for Apple.
Ah, thanks for the link, that's super neat! I was looking for making changes that would persist across page loads or browser restarts, and this is exactly that. It's a shame that it's not a feature in Firefox's dev tools (not yet anyways)
They certainly do not get mad when you give them jobs.
If you put a manual gearbox in it, I bet a single bad shift would tear it apart with all that torque at low RPM. Also would probably kill the clutch unless you are a really good driver, and it is hard to shift when you can't hear the engine RPM.

And I don't think manual gearboxes are any stronger than a well built automatic but I have nothing to back that up except intuition.
>Meanwhile Apple's counter-claims sound like pure damage control with no supporting evidence.

I guess Apple could go back and look at their crash report telemetries to determine when the exploits were active. Google doesn't have that type of historical data for iOS devices. Of course there were no mentions of that as evidence.
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Well, it's not nothing...but making the ridiculously poor slightly less poor isn't something I'd call an "amazing achievement" since it's stupid easy to make them not poor.
Where did this go on the front page? It was holding the #2 position and 30 seconds later it's #32. Is it because people are spam flagging the story? I don't understand how the gravity of this story can increase so quickly. The lack of transparency around things like this is my least favorite part of HN.
I give tons of companies jobs, it doesn't change anything.
The domain name RefreshSale.com is for sale. Can be used similarly or different ecom biz.
What's it like to be connected to Jeffrey Epstein?
Their treatment of this guy is what made me lose respect.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz
Stellarium is the reason I passed my astronomy classes in college. Mad props.
Some storage appliances have special hardware to accelerate NFS operations. Those may be able to come close to the same performance as a block storage device.

The other option with NFS is running it in software such as a NFS server on Linux configured with /etc/exports and backing the data to a block storage device. This is CPU intensive and would be much slower under load.
You're not wrong, but LocalBitcoins will also require KYC now.
I don't think it's a transparency issue. It's the conflicting goals that come from different investing timeframes.

I'm buy-and-holding for retirement. I want my shares to peak in 2040. The next guy churns his portfolio every few months and wants prices to peak in November.

Even if you communicate your vision and goals well, any type of long-term vision is saying to the short-term investors "we're going to give you smaller dividends and lower numbers for future promise." So the short-term investor can either hope that the communication is solid and long-term buyers are engaged by that messaging enough to keep the price high, or they can lean on boards to prioritize stuff like dividends and buybacks that provide a more direct boost. We can definitely see the latter approach in play.

I worry that in pursuit of pricing efficiency, we've started underprice the future value of some business structures. The decline of conglomerates fits that sort of fear. You can shard a company like Honeywell/GE/Hyundai/Sony/Hitachi into 200 individually priced and tracked units, but then you lose the difficult-to-quantify magic of "predictable money-making businesses that can provide the financial resources and stability to support long-term bets and moon-shot R&D". I would be unsurprised to see this attitude in more monolithic firms too-- being open with your figures to investors will lead to pressures against anything that's not identifiable as a very low risk play with obvious payout.
Unsubstantiated opinion: “gathering data” is a bad mindset to be in during an interview. That may contribute to the adoption of pathological questions like, “Why don’t people like you?"
But can everyone else?
I apologize, it occurs to me that English isn't your first language. A job isn't something that you give to to others, it's something that you need that others fulfill.
Who gives a shit about having to reboot their phone?
No, Epstein should have been in prison for what at his age would amount to a life sentence, and his fortune should have gone to victim restitution. That's what typically happens in cases of this magnitude when the justice system functions properly.
I've always kept a paper clip on my key chain. Handy for resetting things!
> Forgive me for sounding cynical but I'm going to play Devil's Advocate and ask: Are they well run, or opportunistic?

If they helped you during a disaster would it matter?
Spacecraft definitely do not move "very, very fast" in the terminal stages of landing, especially not on a low gravity object like the Moon. Apollo 11, for instance, spent several minutes below 2.1km altitude prior to touchdown. Soft landings on the Moon are slow events, and given that telemetry is essentially continuous, something must have gone wrong at around 2.1km.

Although the something going wrong could be as innocuous as losing antenna alignment, which happens often during landings even when nothing is really wrong, because the spacecraft is changing pitch to effect the landing.

So my best guess would be loss of telemetry due to loss of antenna alignment, followed by a bad trajectory for some reason, followed by unintentional lithobraking.
Scientists couple magnetization to superconductivity for quantum discoveries
Would like more info about what law enforcement is doing. It's analogous to old style piracy, and if US ships were being commandeered, the US Navy would be deployed pretty darn quick. What are we doing about this?
I don't care what he spent his money on. His crimes were so severe there is no way for him to repay his debt.

I'm not sure any founders of America come close to his systematic, deliberate exploitation of minors.
What Bitbucket learned from migrating its unit testing tool
It's also unclear to me why a gearbox alone would give you longer sustained maximum power.
Ultimately, the lobster sandwich is a luxury good. People wanting to save can make their own sandwiches and bring them in a lunch box.

So a lot of it comes down to local positioning and some to marketing.
Some to labor costs.
Wow... Please elaborate how exactly to make these people not poor? And please let us know what you are doing to help these people?
This is an amazing achievement and people like you better start understanding it: we have no idea, literally no idea, how it feels like to live with $2 a day... Watching those videos does not do it justice. I myself have no idea what it's like, I try to imagine it but my brain can't. If you want to educate yourself, hopefully you do, I suggest reading "Factfullness": it talks about the same problem, among other things.
Good personal story for a great go-to source of well-referenced analysis of highly controversial topics in what can only called pop meta-science. For example, her analysis of glyposate research is excellent, in line with mainstream science, but out of line with pop media.

https://thoughtscapism.com/2016/09/07/17-questions-about-gly...
I think this number is marginally misleading, because a huge amount of that is China:

> According to the World Bank, more than 850 million people have lifted themselves out of extreme poverty as China's poverty rate fell from 88 percent in 1981 to 0.7 percent in 2015

China was not historically poor, and this is a reversion to the mean once minimal free trade was allowed.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exim:

Exim is a mail transfer agent (MTA) used on Unix-like operating systems. [...] In August 2019 [...] approximately 57% of the publicly reachable mail-servers on the Internet ran Exim.

Yikes.

edit: This might be a better summary of the vulnerability: https://www.tenable.com/blog/cve-2019-15846-unauthenticated-...
I've mentioned this book here before, but I can't stress enough how good it is.

$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America:

https://www.amazon.com/2-00-Day-Living-Nothing-America/dp/05...
Jesus. I do have to wonder why exactly Harvard is not getting lashed by the press too? They were even more entangled with Epstein from the sounds of it.
Using a scanning tunneling microscope to make origami structures out of graphene
So ... MCAS again?
That's not true at scale. We're not talking share-shifting of dollars, but making a more anti-fragile system overall that lifts everyone.
Zomato’s New Sushi Design System
Give it time, for the past 40 or 50 years we've been working towards that goal by getting rid of workers and consumer rights, you might be able to experience it yourself before you die. It's really amazing what income disparity can do for a country.
I once got called while on vacation for a bug in a library I owned. Pressure was coming down all the way from CEO and CIO to meet the "non-negotiable" deadline in 6 weeks. I just laughed at first. We were already 6 months late (my work, minus the bug) had been ready for 12 months at this point.

My boss was insistent that I return to the office immediately to fix the bug in development. Thing is, I'd driven over 2000 miles and was about 30 minutes from leaving the country (US into Canada).

Told my boss if he wanted me back in the office immediately, I'd hop on a flight in Vancouver with just my passport and laptop, the company was going to pay for my flight and I was flying first class. Also, I wanted all of my vacation time back, they'd have to reimburse me for my chartered fishing trip, then fly me back to my parents' so I could retrieve my car (I met up with my Dad and he was driving when I received the call). This all went down on a Thursday afternoon. Gave him an option: do all that I just laid out, or wait until Tuesday when I'm back online, and I'll fix the bug remotely, then return once it's fixed and ive exhausted the remaining scheduled vacation time.

He decided the 10s of thousands to get me back immediately wasn't worth it amd it could wait a few days. Ended up extending my vacation by a week. So, non-negotiable, my ass.

In the end, my big didnt hold up the release, and we slipped another 3 months. I was just a convenient scape goat as a back office developer by the front office devs at a hedge fund.
> it's stupid easy to make them not poor

Really? How so?
Also presumably these are exploits to burn - lower value exploits for whatever reason.

E.g. once an exploit is detected by Apple, you might as well use it. Or an exploit that only relevant to an iOS version with low install base - just use it.
Google’s Android Suffers Sustained Attacks by Anti-Uighur Hackers
oh god. The difficult part of the interview is not rolling your eyes when the guy asks you “teach me something”.
Please, could you suggest an alternative to capitalism? How would you implement it? Are you also likening people in extreme poverty to cows? Is that not extremely vile? I would like to have a discussion with you, but I fear I can't really hear you from your moral high ground: could you please come down to my basic level and try to explain? English is also not my first language, so lets keep the phraseology simple.
If you have carbon based machines replicating on your teeth, isn’t that just more plaque?
It's still a true story...nothing diminishes the significance of this.
I used to find Amazon was good, the people who bought this also bought..., now though there are too many people not like me there I guess. It used to be book people as a guess, now it seems pretty random.

I have found a new method - going to a bookshop :-). There's a specialist book shop near me that really is into the same books as me, it works a treat. The unfortunate part is I have to buy paper books again, but oh well, thats still nice, particularly since the prices on kindle don't seem to be very different any more either.
I work in a Wework and I don't understand why it should by valued higher than any other office real estate company. They offer exactly the same as the other coworking spaces in my city, but are a bit more expensive.
The achievement is ... Mao died?
>But he never made a dollar illegally.

Blackmail is illegal, by the way.
potentially a method of fabrication.
I'm not even sure they do political coverage too well. From the outside it appears the editors live in an insular world that doesn't feel anything like the one outside. They do cover a lot of things, I feel they'd do better if they focused on fewer things but more depth.
pay them, boost their economy, etc...there are exceptions for countries that are screwed politically but if the government is decent and willing to work with you it's pretty simple.
cPanel I believe still utilizes Exim which I suspect drives that number up.
> I work at FB and this feature is managed by my team.

How do you feel working at Facebook? Do you feel pressure from your peers on the outside about the moral compass of the company?

Maybe you can't answer these things if you aren't using a throwaway account, but I'm very interested in hearing how Facebook employees perceive the company themselves, as well as how they're treated by company outsiders.

My impression is that a lot of engineers are opposed to how Facebook operates and that this reputation must make recruiting and retention difficult.
Please take a look at my CV. I'm a fullstack developer (Elixir, Node, PHP, React, Vue, Flutter...)

https://www.dropbox.com/s/kqkm467cb9ay65f/Lam%20Huynh.pdf?dl...
You did not answer my question but answered your own. What are you talking about?
But he never made a dollar illegally.

At this point it's pretty clear that he made most of his money through blackmail of underage sex acts arranged by him. He pretended to be some kind of hedge fund genius, but really most of the money that his targets gave him to keep the pictures out of the press just went into index funds etc. IANAL, but that doesn't seem legal to me...
The people who leave their devices vulnerable instead of rebooting. Why not require a reboot for updating any app then?

Look, I get it. You spent hundreds of dollars on something, and want to feel good about it. On the particular issue of security updates though, it is a poor choice.
I can’t tell if you’re trolling, but some people do believe this.

Society benefits from people having (a reasonable number of) children. Without them, humanity is done. Perhaps you think that’s for the best anyway, in which case I wonder why you’re doing anything at all.
Imagine what we could all do with the extra time and money we get from automated checkouts?

And you would trade that so the store can have people standing around waiting for you to decide to pay for groceries?
I believe they are making an allusion to Grey Goo [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_goo
What did your meals consist of?
Its ironic that to describe book Requires amazon
My apologies, you're correct. I've heard that there exists a field of study called economics in which we know how all of that works, if that's actually true then we know how to cure poverty.
And probably Deng Xiaoping's re-architecture of China.

Still, what caused the advance does not diminish the success of humanity. Progress is progress.
The irony: that site does not work in Microsoft Edge browser...
Tim Ferriss, the Man Who Put His Money Behind Psychedelic Medicine
Sad you have such a narrow view.
"The police are stopping everyone who 'looks like they are here for a game of hide and seek.'"

Amazing.
I deleted my FB account a few days ago, and reactivated it today (within the 30-day permanent deletion cancel period) to see if I could delete FB's record of my face data. Like some others in this thread, I couldn't see any option to do so.

Do I need to wait for this option to be rolled out to my account (and how long will that take)? Can I delete my account anyway without this option having shown up? (While ensuring FB doesn't have records of my face?)
economic systems aren't binary, I don't need an alternative to criticize a system.
My Prison Reading
Very cool, but Apple seems to come after these types of services, no?
Japan was the only place I've been where one could buy a 4 liter jug of whiskey. At a convenience store.
at that point there is no housing there is "where can i sleep hidden away so as not to be found", and health care is whatever first aid skills you have until you maybe find a clinic.
How do people find the time to create free software of this caliber?
Did you not like that truth?...did you not want to admit that we choose to let poverty continue?
Fake news: BBC and tech firms join forces to fight disinformation
wild fruits and small game, garden vegetables from purchased and scavenged seeds, high fat items bought with change.
I think the metformin was part of a shotgun approach used by the docs at UCSD. My friend's brothers were aggressively pushing treatment when it was clearly inoperable so that may have had something to do with it. My friend lasted a single, horrible year and passed away a few years ago.
Believe it or not, you can grow food, hunt squirrels and build a nice lean-to for zero dollars a day. People forget that.
I like to vape. I like to drink coffee. I like potato chips. All are addictive. If potato chips and coffee were released in 2019, would they be banned in San Francisco because they are addictive and dangerous for public health?
Design limit load is for an aircraft at max allowable weight, with the max authorized g loading (often -1 to +2.5g) or the worst anticipated gusts (about 50 ft/sec depending on altitude). You then need to tack on 50% to get the required ultimate load.

50% is indeed not a huge safety margin like you'd get with a bridge or something, which is why you need trained professionals flying it and regular inspections. If you fly into a big enough thunderstorm, the wings can definitely come off. Of course a bigger safety margin would be nice, but every pound of wing spar is a pound less payload. If the FAA required 200% of design limit, flying would be significantly more expensive.
What does China have to do with anything? I suspect if you had 7 kids in ANY country you can't really try to have a slow... anything?
I agree, but most folks aren't ready for the share-shifting of privilege that that would entail.
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In the 'Numberphile' video mentioned above (about 3 minutes in), it says the initial problem about illumination was asked in the 1950s. This leads me to suspect that it has something to do with building weapons. (Brit physicist Roger Penrose found a solution where some spots were dark.)
Uber is a good example in that the $54B+ valuation by Wall Street is in spite of the company's enormous short term losses.

Whether or not Wall St is right about Uber's future prospects, I think it's a pretty clear (non-Amazon) example of them ignoring the short-term and looking at the long-term potential. Frankly, they're probably overestimating the future opportunity of Uber, at least in my opinion.

Wall St is not the only-focused-on-the-short-term boogie man that some people would make you think. It's a very convenient excuse for some (typically poorly performing) CEO's, but it really isn't the case.
The point is that it's a negative thing to talk about, and frankly sometimes you can't just turn it into a positive story of what you value and how you deal with conflict.

Sometimes a person sees bad shit and just runs, and that's a valid approach. Psychoanalyzing every decision they make is the trap of interviewing.
Having lived in London and San Francisco I can say that from my perspective there is a real problem with getting affordable, convenient and descent sandwiches in the US. They’re ubiquitous in England, every shop has pre packaged sandwiches and few are inedible. Most people who work in the city can grab something cheapish from pret that’s pre made and tastes good. I’m yet to find anything remotely equivalent here, prepackaged food is often just made really badly, from low grade ingredients so much so it’s not worth taking a punt on half the time. So you wind up paying more for something that just got made in front of you because the alternative will make you regret buying it. It’s a waste because most of the working week all you really want is something that will get you through till clocking off time that you can buy and eat quickly so you’re not wasting too much of your time out of the office.
> Microsoft also allowed various carrier changes to Windows Phones but they could still offer upgrades across devices.

They definitely didn't update phones quickly when exploits were found for IE and Windows would got a security update.

We had some test Windows Phone/Mobile devices at work, and the cheaper models didn't really get upgrades. I would also guess if you had 7.5/7.8 devices, they stopped getting updates? I'm sure some devices kept getting regular updates.

We also had a cheap 32GB Toshiba tablet, which couldn't upgrade Windows 10 because it lacked drive space (even though it had nothing apart from Windows installed on it - it was for testing touch on Windows browsers).
Not really, in the end it comes down to the person who decides what price to put on the sammich.
> it is hard to shift when you can't hear the engine RPM.

A third-rate hardware tinkerer could come up with a circuit that makes a motorboating sound from a speaker at the engine RPM. That could be heard just during shifting activity, like when the clutch is out.

> Also would probably kill the clutch.

It would require a special clutch design. The clutch is not needed when starting, of course, because since the motor can generate torque right from zero RPM, the transmission can be engaged. A clutch mechanism needed when changing gears due to the mismatch in speeds that needs to be bridged. The existing two-speeder must have something serving as a clutch, just not a manually operated one.

Speaking at torque at zero RPM; can't that be modulated down somehow? Surely there must be some way of managing the motor to bring in torque gently. This must be happening already, right? I mean, electric cars don't burn rubber each time they get moving.

> I don't think manual gearboxes are any stronger than a well built automatic

That's easy; just define the requirements for "well built" so that it is so, and don't care about weight, size, and other things. The automatic transmission from a bus is probably stronger than the manual in an econobox car.
"..households surviving on virtually no cash income..."

This is talking about people living on less than $2/day cash income. Which is still quite different from trying to get all needs with $2 cash each day, something that is more or less impossible in the US today. Those without cash live on hand-outs, soup kitchens and government assistance.

Certainly, US poverty has gotten worse over the last twenty years and is a serious problem, of course. But it seems like the focus on $2/day in particular fails to see poverty in any holistic sense.

Counter point from the Guardian on the whole Gates approach: "Bill Gates says poverty is decreasing. He couldn’t be more wrong"

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jan/29/bill-g...
That would explain why the sammiches were cheaper. American companies despise competition.
Take money from rich people

Give money to poor people.

Only reason that's hard is rich people wanting to keep their money. Not some grand natural equilibrium.
The Gates angle is weird. Surely MIT has people in his orbit to go ask for donations without having to rely on a convicted sex-offender that they're too embarrassed to even take money from directly.
What next, micro-robots that breaks apart cells? Scary stuff.
> There is absolutely no way anyone could have been worse than Google in first 4-5 years of Android.

Are you kidding? Google was a dream. Try blackberry. Or try J2ME. (which wasn't too bad, but nowhere near as good as Goodle or Apple in the early days).
To be fair Old Chub is north of 8% abv I do believe.
This also works and is pretty much what Murrica did until shortly after WWII.