skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was a cancer cluster at the CFA Fiskville training facility in Victoria, AUS.

My uncle was station chief there for many years and recently died of complications after surgery to remove tumors. He was suffering back pain for a while and was diagnosed with spinal cancer. No one in the family was aware there was a cluster reported.
Because that's the color of air.
I think there are other brands that allow openwrt, such as the linksys wrt ac series:

https://openwrt.org/toh/linksys/wrt_ac_series

Their support for the first models in the beginning was a little spotty, but I think they are great systems now
Yev here -> we're actually working on an EU version of that site as well so you'd be able to toggle!
My understanding is that in git-land, "porcelain" and "plumbing" usually refer to a specific dichotomy of high-level vs. low-level git commands, rather than further abstractions over the commands such as a GUI.
In a park it might seem that way because they've learned you're not a treat to them. Run into deer in woods where there's hunters and predators, a different story... you probably will not even see them ever, unless they accidentally run into you sitting super still and down the wind from them
You have a bit of a repetition here backwards. You can sort in O(n * k), where k is the maximal key width in bits. This ends up being O(n log(k)). Your formulation suggests radix sort running in O(n log(log(k))), which isn't quite true.
And the vast majority of Chinese people in China do support the government, for doing, among other things, bringing hundreds of millions out of poverty. The primary beneficiary of the Chinese government is the Chinese people there, and attacking the government is an indirect attack on the people there because The USA government, Australia, or any other non China government is not going to take after Chinese citizens.
Yev here -> the backup service is client-side encrypted before transmission.
Intention doesn’t matter.
/r/coontown was banned.
I will absolutely take this opportunity as others have to praise James Mickens. I'd encourage anyone to simply go type his name into YouTube and watch some talks if you haven't.
nit: runtime for radix sort is O(nk), since you sort the full list by each of the digits, sequentially.

I've always thought claiming radix sort on integers to be linear was a bit disingenuous, since k << log(n) only if your list has a lot of duplicate entries.

In fact, if your integers are all unique, then k >= log(n).

(for consistent choice of base for log)
A big difference is your bank (likely) has a physical branch where you could show up with your ID card, debit card, etc. the inconvenience can be addressed directly if there’s an emergency.

For online only businesses there’s no escape hatch.
Trump lending his name to “getting tough on a China” is probably a sure fire way that “getting tough on China” will be in the political wilderness for the next 10 years.
Another flagrantly false and misleading headline from the Grey Lady.
> Consider how many years the incandescent light bulb would have been delayed had Edison (or Swan or whoever you want to credit) had failed fast with the filaments.

But he did try a lot of different filament materials. It would've been really dumb to think he was going to somehow get cotton or whatever wrong material correct if he just stuck with it. Instead he had procedures and a framework to try a lot of candidates and iterate quickly.

I get this argument might not be exactly fair because I can twist it to nearly anything. But that's how maxims like "fail fast" or "haste makes waste" or "a stitch in time..." works. They still have value
Here's a thought:

What if, instead, Intel began keeping a single socket revision alive for longer than 1 release cycle of CPU?

This seems like the fundamental issue. I remember ~20 years ago when there were only 2 sockets for x86 to worry about: Intel P4 & AMD Athlon. Motherboards lasted at least a generation or two, it was nice.
AT&T didn't just come out and install a newer telephone because they had a newer model. If the equipment is fit for the service why replace it?
Do all of those lookup tables for powers of 31 work once integer overflow happens?
Yeah, this is basically the same thing that happened with social security numbers. Companies promised only to use it to verify they had the correct credit file, but +/- 90 years later it's a defacto ID that no longer has any security value.

Edit: I suppose phone numbers can at least be changed, but that doesn't really solve the problem for 2fa as it might for SS numbers.
China doesn't need the NBA nearly as much as the NBA wants China's money. Just as I would mildly like to be as good of bicyclist as my neighbor who has devoted time to that rather than a career, I see no reason why China couldn't easily frame the NBA in some sort of a similar manner while pouring a bit of cash into developing a "good enough" domestic league that has the added bonus of being Chinese. Even if the Chinese populace currently held high admiration for NBA players, I suspect this opinion if fairly malleable - particularly when you can point out a very clear and plausible path to de facto world economic and military supremacy as a consolation prize.
The point isn't that you forwarded the secret (indeed, that was on purpose).

The point is that you forwarded the secret in plaintext, because email is plaintext by default, and the forwarding person probably didn't realize that, because no email client (even with GPG plugins) posts a big red warning label saying "stop! this is plaintext" because that's 99% of all emails.
Is it really the telco's fault, though? It seems that telcos suddenly found themselves pushed in the business of identity management and proffing without haing any intention of doing that.

Telco's never made any claims about tieing your identity to your phone number - they just move information around.
Blaming telcos is like blaming a hammer for not being big enough when you're tring to drive a screw with it.
Catalina feels like a "Elves are Leaving Middle Earth" moment. There's just too much going wrong with Mac for me to try to remember why it's still worth it. Windows is uglier for sure, but at least it works.
For text, 8-bit indexed png or if your scans are high quality then black and white indexed png files will be hard to top.

After the downsample, run them through pngquant or advpng. The latter supports zopfli via insane mode and will likely take the longest to compress with the smallest result.
Valgrind's memcheck is still useful: it doesn't require recompiling, can handle external (binary-only) libraries, handles inline asm or jitted code, and provides uninitialized memory read instrumentation (yes, memsan does this, but it's tricky to set up). For me personally, I've required memcheck for applications using CUDA because CUDA and sanitizers don't play well together (for example, see https://github.com/google/sanitizers/issues/629). but indeed, the sanitizers are soooo much faster :)
> While some PM2.5 in the atmosphere is the result of natural processes, such as forest fires or windblown dust

No matter what we need to normalise cleaning the air when indoors.

With this and average people measuring PM2.5 it'll be a lot easier to deal with human based sources.

Other than the obvious filters for PM2.5 and PM10, Mother-in-law's tongue seems like one of the best plants for VOCs and seems to also change the CO2/Oxygen levels and is easy to grow. (But it is poisonous for animals and kids)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_Clean_Air_Study
> The benefit of billionaires existing is that they made extraordinarily valuable businesses.

Debatable depending which business, and also highly subjective. Amazon is valuable to Wall Street, yes most certainly. It also generates massive amounts of garbage, pollution, and human suffering. Are we including those in the value statement or are we going by the capitalist axiom that as long as the number went upward, the non-financial cost doesn't matter?

> If you create something (a company, a video game, other IP), and people value that thing at a billion dollars, then you’re a billionaire. Notch became a billionaire after selling Minecraft because almost 100 million people play it.

So the system works because the system is working? This is circular logic at it's finest. I don't care what Microsoft decided Minecraft was worth, they're an equally diseased part of a diseased system. It's like saying "this cancerous tumor isn't a problem, because the other cancerous tumor vouched for it." So what? I don't place value on the opinions of capitalists on the value of the capitalist system. Can you justify it without citing a capitalist?

> What do you expect should happen if someone creates a thing of value worth a billion dollars? Do you not want these things to be created? Do you not want them to be sold? (Ownership has to change hands eventually; people don’t live forever). How are you expecting society would work?

You're working all of this from the viewpoint that markets, capitalism, and competition are the only ways to generate stuff. Not only is that not the case, and I would cite the entire open source community as evidence to that fact, but I reject outright the assertions that:

1) The only things that have value are the ones where the value is expressed in currency

2) That the only arbiters of value are those who place values in the form of currency

There are tons of examples of things created with no monetization plan that are great. There are tons more things created with a monetization plan out of necessity, because without one they could not exist.

Again and again criticism of capitalism is met with this assertion that "well things have value and therefore we need to respect the market" and I flatly reject that. We're all locked in the same prison, every idea, every concept rung through this machine that decides whether or not something deserves to exist by it's ability to contribute to a market. A market built by people, allegedly for people, that is for some reason simply beyond reproach. Capitalism has ballooned to practically another religion, and you are a follower of it, so dedicated to it's holy texts you've entirely forgotten that human civilization existed for THOUSANDS of years before we had a bloody market.

Sod your market.
Dear stranger, I was/am having a pretty bad day and then I read your comment and laughed out loud for the first time since yesterday. Thanks!
Have to disagree. First, I was actually in the woods (it's a park with woods attached). Second, I see deer constantly, even when I'm not sitting still (I can't really tell if I'm upwind, I've never really paid close enough attention). They're not really that skittish around here (norcal) or where I grew up (suburban CT).

Even when I was deep in the woods (many places) I've come across deer over and over. They just don't seem to be really aware, like squirrels or birds, who seem to be on a constant hair-trigger.
JSON Transform Command
I thought PlayOnLinux/WINE is the linux gaming solution.
That is a great note, I really enjoy his humor.
I know. Problem with extensions is they tend to break with version upgrades.

The fundamental question is: why not implement this stupid feature in the first place?
I check in on it once a year, or so. It's not really enough, but the hardware's so limited, I don't think there are many changes getting made to it, anymore.
When less big construction happens, we lose the experience and skill to build things that we used to do without complaint, and this works its way up the value chain until we cannot build a complex machine without parts from far away.

Alternatively, we leapfrog a generation of manufacturing processes and go straight to high speed 3D printing and clothing made from recovered landfill materials by nanobots.

I don't know if what we need is more protection or faster innovation. The two tend to work in opposite directions. Certainly they require different training and expectations.
You asserted that people in the US can lose their pensions if the company goes out of business. This isn’t true. If it were true, that would be horrible.

There’s a government supported backstop for pension funds if the company goes out of business.
What's being conflated is that somehow the government there does not represent the people. They do, maybe not in the way Americans like, but Americans don't pay taxes to China, and Americans do not take care of the Chinese. The Chinese government takes care of the Chinese there. Whether they do it effectively is another matter, but one thing's for certain is that a Chinese person has more agency within the Chinese government than they do with the American government (or any foreign government/interests for that matter). So to impose the values of one culture on another without taking in their input is racism.

Yes there are other Chinese in countries like Malaysia, Singapore, and Taiwan, but that's not the point here. Just because the racism doesn't target those Chinese doesn't mean there is a sense of cultural and moral superiority being levied on a different culture here.

Keep in mind that Singapore is also very authoritarian, but does not get as much flak for whatever reason (probably because they are not rivaling the US).
Then you admit that twitter has a deficient mechanism for dealing with PII data? You can’t blame this on a single engineer. It’s the product manager, the technical lead, the engineer and the legal mechanisms for PII that led to this breach. An engineer working on ad tech should have never had access to the PII used for security. Just a shit show all around.

They should be deeply fined.
How do we know he wouldn't have developed diabetes anyway?
Yeah, this seems to come and go every 7 or 8 years. Always breaking with the previous attempt while still trying to achieve the same thing. Probably contributes to the reason some of the industrial modular stuff moves so slow.
Blizzard doesn't want to take ownership of their problem. If you're serving a country that doesn't have free speech, you need to limit what information is transmitted to that country. Just like any other tech company that has done major business in China...

Rather than just censoring information that's transmitted to China's citizens, they are moving the censorship worldwide. I personally cannot support a company who's goes this route rather than the former.
Far left organization, seems like a fair and unbiased source of information
I don't know any developer who is excited to work for less than $40k/yr on the absolute lowest, closer to $60k/yr.

Let me do the math..

Oh wow, I didn't realize that $60k/yr is $28/hr. I guess this does make sense after all...
"Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech"

The first amendment was written when it was much more difficult to abridge speech. You would have to trust hearsay and either remove someone from your property or have them face some consequence based on the word of somebody who heard you. Governments could punish you with crimes, but that was it.

Unless you were publishing work through somebody who owned a printing press, you were in complete control of the medium and delivery of your words and few people could restrict you and your words were soon forgotten.

Now most things that most people say go through a filter of several others infrastructure and they all can record what you say and limit what goes through.

We need active speech protections for platforms which act like the public square. The newspaper doesn't need to publish my whacky opinions, but Facebook needs to let me post as myself freely or change how it fundamentally operates from a space to talk to a publisher of selected material.
Internal Memo: ESPN Forbids Discussion of Chinese Politics
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21187542
Looks like a laptop squished into a GPU form factor
How to Make Passive Income with $0, Not Clickbait
I agree with you on all accounts. Perhaps I was just used to it but the old blog seemed more human somehow. This new styling is cold and looks more like a corporate announcement. I was very sad when I heard about the msdn blog migration, especially because all the old links stopped working. Even the announcement stopped working https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/iotdev/2018/10/22/blog-migr...

Anyone interested, some of Raymond's older posts are captured in https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/194791.The_Old_New_Thing
Since I was quite young I'd play pranks using a computer. I switched the Mac Classic bootup picture with a bomb, causing my father to freak out. I gave my grandparents a free cupholder out of their cd rom drive they used for years. A decade later they were still thanking me for the upgrade.

I then once pulled up winrg.swf and fullscreened it. I told my grandmother I had upgraded her computer for her. She took a look at it for about 15 seconds then started crying.

Since then I've been a bit more cautious. Windows Really Good edition is still pretty great though.
They’re asking for money at the top of the article, but they say “...plans to show off power...”. I’m all for paying for journalism but they need to pay for goddamned editors.
That's a good way to prioritize if you're desperately poor, if you have a chance of a quick life-changing payoff, or if you urgently need money for a family member’s medical treatment. Most of the rest of us will do better if we prioritize other things over getting money.

If you're old, you should probably prioritize making your time enjoyable, and finishing up whatever projects you want to finish before you die. Time is shorter than you think, and an unexpected heart attack can take productive years from you even if you don't die from it. Money is worthless to you if you don't spend it before you die. This doesn't align particularly, or sometimes at all, with employment.

If you're young, most of your earnings are in the future. To the extent that you can trade off $1000 now for $100 every year of your working life, you should. Your future earnings depend on your skills, on your reputation, and on your relationships with your coworkers, not on your manager, unless you're working at Google and don't plan to leave. Your workplace is much more valuable as a source of learning opportunities, mentorship, and connections, than as a source of money. It's worth putting up with bad working conditions in exchange for learning opportunities, but not for mere money.
Postmates’ new IPO delay indicates Wall Street is turning against Silicon Valley
No sign of aliens, but many other low probability high threat events. Asteroid strike, solar flare, super volcano eruption, interstellar object collision (including wandering brown dwarf stars).
Java 10 added the var keyword so it has some type inference finally.
This is an extremely naive view of freedom of speech. Freedom of speech is not unlimited. Your freedom of speech does not supercede my right to not have to constantly put up with your toxic bullshit on my platform.

Your freedom of speech also does not create in me an obligation to give you a megaphone. My freedom of speech, however, gives me the prerogative and the moral duty to take back my megaphone if I find you to be using it to hurt people.
This is a strawman. Morey did not tweet anything containing "liberate Hong Kong". (That was subsequent, different events, by different people).

China promised 50 years of "one country, two systems"-- people in Hong Kong want to cash that check.
I see your point but I overpay for the iPhone I’m typing this on partly for that upgrade service. It is also something I appreciate about the Tesla as opposed to every other car I’ve ever had.
In my specific case, I use an online-only bank. But I'm being petty with that objection, my bank still has enough information about me that I could verify my identity via a combination of a scanned ID card, proof of residence, etc... In general, point taken, that's a good distinction for most people.

However, substitute 'bank' out for any online-only service and the problem persists, because any reasonably smart attacker who SIM-swaps my account will still immediately change the phone number to point to themselves. If my Amazon account gets hacked, and the attacker goes into account recovery and changes the phone number, Amazon still needs a non-SMS based escape hatch for me to get the account back. The problem hasn't gone away.

So why not just use the non-SMS escape hatch all the time?

In Amazon's case, if they don't have your phone number they'll do account recovery over email. That's almost strictly safer, and just about as convenient as SMS.
I like how you threw in the whataboutism at the end, as if the West has no moral right to criticize China because of the long list of atrocities they’ve committed. Well played.

Here’s the deal - China is a totalitarian state bent on reclaiming what they see as their rightful place in the world. They will stomp on anyone they have to, friend or enemy, real or imagined, foreign or domestic, to make that happen.

At the same time, the rest of the world, including the West and its allies, have the ability to force China to abide by international norms and the right to defend themselves from China’s aggression.

You may think it hypocritical, but from where I’m sitting the US and its allies have the moral high ground in this instance and no amount of bleating about everyone’s historical crimes is going to distract everyone from the realities of China’s ongoing atrocities against its own people, it’s Nine Dash Line, it’s blatant political and economic attacks on the free world and its disrespect for and undermining of centuries of international laws and norms.
I've been looking forward to seeing Canonical's adoption in IoT getting better and better. Here's to hoping.
IME, if you haven't already then I'd suggest biting the bullet and learning GDB. It's not as nice to step through code but far more powerful than the features typically exposed by an IDE, or at best are only exposed by GDB's command line interface anyway. Reverse debugging and scriptability (the command interface is a DSL) are the big ones. Like vim, GDB is an incredibly powerful tools that deserves the time to learn well.

"Give me 15 minutes and I'll change your opinion on GDB" was one of the most life changing videos I've watched. It's on youtube or text version here: https://undo.io/resources/cppcon-2015-greg-law-give-me-15-mi...
Boeing to invest $20M in Virgin Galactic
> It is difficult for most to consistently ignore that big-ass box of krispy kreme donuts

Krispy Kreme donuts are easy to avoid ... Donuts from your local hole in the wall donut shop on the other hand.
But they patch stuff, and afaik everyone gets the update.
I still don't get it, I just signed up for a new Twitter account and didn't have to provide a phone number. Was there an official policy change from Twitter? Do you have a link?
My point is that I am not aware of any legislation (at least on the federal level) that is widely accepted to protect political speech even in the example you bring up.

Many people assume that gay and transgendered people are protected from employer discrimination but that is also currently being adjudicated.
And that's why you should flash your router with an open source firmware, such as https://dd-wrt.com/
> Most of the new "features" are things that I can't or won't use (e.g. desktop Siri).

That was launched alongside macOS Sierra.
Acceptance into the WTO in 2001 and the subsequent mass technology transfer from the West to China (corporate CEO's) combined with a decade of turning a blind eye to trade violations (Western politicians) and lack of monitoring (Western corporate media) is what really put the nail in the West's coffin though.
That is pretty perfect - the term usage is a bit unnatural but nobody will notice since developers use weird names for things all the time (thanks, General Regular Expression Parser!)
> ‘log’ originally denoted a thin quadrant of wood loaded to float upright in the water, whence ‘ship's journal’ in which information derived from this device was recorded.