skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm curious about this idea of insomnia. I'm between jobs right now which means I don't have to get up. That means for whatever reason (my genes?) I find I'm not tired until 5am, 6am often. I sleep 7 hours just fine. So the only thing about it being "insomnia" as in "unable to sleep" would be some artificial reason I have to get up in the morning. Am I making any sense? It seems like it's only insomina because someone/something is forcing you out of the schedule your body wants. Well, I don't know your body. I'm talking about mine but just saying. I'm getting my sleep just not a the times other people claim I should be getting it.
If you'll decide to go with pre-2016 MacBook, find a Louis Rossmann video about what mac to buy. He repairs MacBooks for a long time and thus has a good idea about which model will serve you the longest. As I recall, his recommendation was to go with some 2014 model instead of 2015 because of some faults 2015s had. Of course, you'll need to weigh it against the performance differences between the two.
In the file "/etc/default/grub" there is a line that says GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="", where inside the "" is a possible list of parameters. Just add the parameter to this list with a space. Back in the terminal type "sudo update-grub" and restart your machine.
The effect of internet comments on my confidence
What natural monopoly? I have a choice of mobile phone service providers, so you can’t have meant that. If any of the phone companies had made themselves free, I’d ask if they really had a viable business or if they were instead trying to undermine any potential competitors in order to create a monopoly.
What to do before you sell, give away your iPhone, iPad
Hong Kong does not pay taxes to mainland China, and it’s GDP isn’t included in China’s GDP calculation.

What I find interesting is that Macau is in the same position as Hong Kong, former colony, 1 country 2 systems, but it’s GDP per capita is double that of HK, and there have been no protests in Macau.
The open source project coming first and getting popular is the equivalent of finding product-market fit. I'm not singling this out, it's a potential alternate source of credit that can be combined with traditional investments although it doesn't have to be.
Besides Amazon (maybe?), are these companies with high turnover for various reasons?

I would not work for any company in that top ten list.
Ask HN: JavaScript Security Analysis Tools
Hello, our company is trying to integrate security analysis tools for Javascript codebases and we are having trouble identifying one that works well. We have started with LGTM (https://lgtm.com/) but found that it's limited.

Do you or your company use any security analysis tools for Javascript codebases? If so, what tools are you using?
I think bumper to bumper is a but much, you still need enough distance between cars to compensate for unexpected events.
> especially since the impact doesn't concern me much at all.

Yes, it usually boils down to selfishness.
Willy-nilly is a bit of stretch. There's quite a bit happening in the space. It's just a hard problem.
Economics Nobel prize 2019 won by academics for tackling poverty
This is necessary for security.
Still you can trivially disable updates for a week or report them again and again.

What would be nice though is if they developed a live patching system like the modern Linux kernel allow which means:
Windows partial updates without rebooting.
Basically, remove the app: "Study the Great Nation" if you have it.
Agree with your point.

Both things can be true: 1) Many pilots are trained in assembly-ling training 2) Boing did not do adequate testing.

Often discorse seems to follow the lines of bracket tournaments: only one thing can be true.
2 years ago this week, I was laid off by HPE. It was my first job out of college. I was employed there for almost 2 years. I didn't particularly like the work or the environment, but I wanted to pad out my resume. When I got the news, via a phone call with the boss of my boss, I was not surprised but my thoughts about the future started to spiral.

Thankfully, being young, and very determined, I spent my final two weeks of employment at HPE looking for work. I had 3 interviews lined up within the first few days. I was technically unemployed for 3 weeks, and had 2 job offers and accepted one at the end of those 3 weeks.

I was extremely lucky to be offered a severance package, got my PTO paid out, and then landed a much better job so quickly. I had planned to leave HPE in the spring, but being laid off gave me the kick start I needed to find something that fit my needs better. I am forever thankful for being let go, and don't miss a minute of working for that mess of a company.
Then the focus should be on why aren't more women being hired for executive and engineering positions? I'm not putting all this on the hiring company; it starts much further back in the pipeline than that. So what is the company doing to get more women onto the track towards higher-paying executive and engineering positions, and keeping them on that track?
Write the software onto the controllers in Taiwan at least.
Like many people I accept that there are unavoidable deaths in the name of progress.

What I don't like is that I cannot opt out of this experiment. I believe many of these deaths are needless and due to cost savings and sloppiness.

Tesla to me seems less like a center of excellence and more like a group of people who can put up with Elon. Presumably made easier by telling him what he wants to hear.

While the average driver may be bad, the average hour driven is by good drivers.

Plus I don't like the idea of a Tesla can crashing into me. Seems like something that could be weaponized.
I assume we are talking about web technologies.
The barrier to entry is higher because people's expectations for what a website is is higher.

You can still make crappy HTML pages with very basic inline JS, but if you're a kid starting out, that's not enough. You should probably learn a JS framework and some graphic design if you don't want it to be laughed at.

Our field is just becoming more mature and advanced. Cars used to be easier to work on, too.
I think the biggest reason why none of Googles social products worked out is they did not port data. I was a fairly regular user of orkut. I used buzz for a little bit of time. I really liked Wave. But every time I had to start at the beginning. When google launched buzz, then wave, and then Google+ it did not bother moving my data from orkut to subsequent products. So every time they launched a new product, I was far less excited about using it. I used Google+ for just cross promoting my then startup. This is the same reason I dont use picasa or google photos anymore. It became google photos and all the old links broke. So photos that were shared with my, I dont have access to them anymore. Where as facebook, all the content I created on it over the years was available with out any issues. Though I deleted my account a year ago for privacy reasons, I admired the fact that facebook understood how to treat user and their content far better than most companies.
I had a similar experience. I learned ActionScript pretty early on (around age age 16 or so) because it was easier to get something visual built than any other thing I had used, while still feeling like "real" programming.

AS3 is actually quite a pleasant language to work in, and while I'm glad that I don't need to muck with Flash plugins anymore, I do miss how easy it was to get something built when I was just bored and wanted to make a new toy.

For me, nothing has really come along to replace Flash in regards to the "tangible" feelings you get. JS and WebGL and Canvas and whatnot are great, and definitely lead to better results in regards to the user experience, but I feel that they're a lot harder to "pick up and play".
Ask HN: Does earth need a way to allow populations to secede from countries?
Reflecting on the difficulties being face by the people of Kurdistan, Catalonia, Hong Kong and others I've wondered how they should go about independence.

- What if they are not being represented by the country they a part of?

- What if 90% of the population desires to secede?

- Should there be a peaceful way that we encourage as an alternative to escalation & violent revolt?

- Should this become some sort of right?
What does picking apples have to do with trading financial assets?

Analogies are useful to illustrate an idea, but they lack any value when establishing a chain of reasoning (i.e. providing proof that a statement is true).
My Summer Car! Vituun saatana!

For me, Funhaus' play of this game is more fun than playing it myself. (Look it up on YouTube, but is it safe to use NewPipe?)
>After all, it’s not in our interest that salaries are so closely guarded.

I think it's in my interest that salaries are closely guarded. Virtually every time in my private life someone has found out how much I make it's been a problem for me.
I'll make sure to listen, thanks
>Moreover, it would be highly probable the government would mandate a "real name" policy, or otherwise tie the email service to your offline identity.

Big email providers already do that.
There might not be that many that know about it?

Image-conversion is the library I've used the most, since you can target file-size || quality:

https://github.com/WangYuLue/image-conversion
> The things recruiters told you ("not sufficiently pragmatic" or that you belong in academia)... they didn't tell you this to talk down to you but to give you hints.

I would have loved to stay in academia.
The problem, why I left academia is the infamous Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz, which gives you an employment ban on temporary contracts in academia after 6+6 years. Since nearly every employment contract in science is temporary, this actually implies a nearly complete employment ban in science after at most 12 years.
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China is trying to replace those companies anyway. That's the shtick of their Made in China 2025 plan.
"Human based checks are easier to subvert than automated ones."

I disagree. They're easily subvertable, but in different ways.

"Which is exactly the problem that most banks and markets try to prevent"

But they haven't succeeded so far. Further, as the saying goes, history never repeats itself, but it rhymes. It's all well and good doing all these automated checks based on past issues, that's not going to help with the next issue that isn't enough like the one before.
I know! Because it is absurd to think that we can gerrymander who gets to decide what, which is what essentially what the regional government of Catalonia is scheming to do.

The issue isn't simple and I'm positive that this has nothing to do with "human rights" or "democracy" or else. It's much, much more complex than that.
I thought it was going to happen during the 2014 Hong Kong protests too, and was surprised when China didn’t do anything.
You don't need them to be networked to get large benefits from computer controlled, and doing so adds a lot of complexity.

At 60 mph the stopping distance including reaction time is typically referred to as around 80 meters[1], and that includes 20 meters of reaction time. In modern cars like Teslas it's more like 40 meters[2], but 20 meters of that 80 (or 40) is human reaction time.

If you can cut that down due to much faster computer reaction times you can get a lot more road throughput, of course a logical step after that is to consider networking the computer control, but talking about that from the get-go seems to me to be needlessly jumping several steps ahead.

1. https://www.brake.org.uk/facts-resources/15-facts/1255-speed

2. https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/30/17409782/consumer-reports...
>Apple quietly posted this last week

Quietly? They issued a support article and it was big news in most news outlets when it was released.
USA. That I have to call to follow up on my health care providers when they’re supposed to be communicating with each other. Lack of pricing transparency. Insurance system clearance procedures and denials.
Except the airline industry got there because of regulation and federal agencies investigating every single death (or even incidents, near crash without any deaths!)
Right now, there isn't any equivalent in the car world.
clubhouse. it's a tool built for software engineering teams.

not like others where it's one-size-fits-all. try it
I’ve posted this several times on HN but I’ll post it again.

I once had the opportunity to interview a renowned cancer doctor and researcher at MD Anderson hospital. He told me that we would never again see the kinds of advances we saw in the early days (70’s and 80’s) of cancer research because those days were the Wild West. He basically said they did many reckless things, but that’s how they stumbled upon treatments such as the protocol for using steroids with chemo for acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

Ok, so high risk experimentation lead to exaptation and innovation. Not sure I want to see that happen with self driving cars but the other part of me knows that’s how complex systems “evolve”.
Can you please explain what evidence you have that this is no co-mingling? You have a ton of people selling copies of your books - how do you know that the counterfeit copies you are receiving come from the Amazon supply chain and are not co-mingled inventory?
Brexit is already shaping facial recognition surveillance in the U.K
Seconded. Fastmail's support is great. I had some issue trying to sync emails with my laptop that messed up all the dates on my email (I don't remember the details) and fastmail support told me what I was doing wrong and wrote a script to correct all the dates on their server. I was blown away.
China's Study the Great Nation app 'enables spying via back door'
Well, maybe. We’ll likely never have cars zippering through intersections at high speed, but we could likely increase intersection throughout by mind boggling amounts while still allowing for multiple systems failures not killing anyone.

Say the power cuts in a car, or worse its location updates no longer match the surrounding cars’ sensors, the cars in its mesh could immediately alert all the cars around that it is no longer updating its location and might be anywhere, so all cars in the area should go into low speed safe mode. It should be a doable to some degree.
Is it me or does it seem like the first 1 or 2 days there was no sleep at all... That top margin looks quite a bit wider than the bottom margin.
These are the new standards, please send out a memo.
From the CoC
>"That's so easy my grandmother could do it.", which is prejudicial toward grandmothers

Cringe
Ideally, every self-driving car would have secondary insurance baked into its price. If someone dies, it's an insurance payout of a standardized amount.
"Ostensibly" doesn't mean what you think it means here.
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Principles don't depend on that, but house prices do and if you know the house market in Germany then you'd get it.
Samizdat: Decentralized, browser-based solution to Internet censorship
I think this kind of misses the point. Even if there's only an 8% gap, the question isn't just "what causes the gap". Assume you can rationalize it. Is rationalized inequity OK? Why or why not?

Women aren't the only group this applies to, of course. There's lots of inequity in our society. But I don't think anyone in modern-day times would agree that this is "the way it's supposed to be", as if women are supposed to make less. In the past, philosophers have justified slavery because it seemed to make sense, but now we realize it's immoral. Couldn't the same be true of all kinds of equity gaps in our society?

To reframe it a bit, men are the minority population, yet this pay gap still exists in their favor. If men were the ones making 8% less, I bet there'd be a lot more work to reach pay parity.
I am very skeptical of the place of the personal car in American life and the massive subsidies that automotive industry receives in terms of things like infrastructure and military defense of fossil fuels. But I also don't believe that autonomous cars are a good solution to these concerns relative to proven solutions like various forms of mass public transportation.
The biggest thing you're missing out on is Gmail's spam filtering.
I've learned this from that movie hackers. #hacktheplanet
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I think that’s why we don’t hear much about the protests in Kashmir, Ecuador, or Iraq.
This headline reads like the justifications for the rapid industrialization programs of the USSR and Communist China.
I hope you got full custody.
You only forgot to consider that there are still drivers in the cars, so each time the human intervene it could have prevented an accident , I am not sure what is the average victims per accident say 2 , you can multiply it with the number of time the drivers had to take over and you have an upper limit, if you don't like this upper limit then we need better numbers but this companies keep them secret or under report the problems.
If

* capitalistic automatic cars mean 2000 deaths per year, reducing linearly to zero after 10 years

* socialist automatic cars eventually mean 1200 deaths per year, reducing to zero after 30 years

* manual cars mean 1000 deaths per year, not reducing

Then after 11 years total deaths will be the same in all 3 cases (11,000), but after 30 years it will be 11k capital, 18k socialist, and 30k and growing with no changes.

However that's of no comfort to the families of who died in the start, especially the ones who didn't opt in (as was typical with flying when it was more dangerous).
> Big email providers already do that.

It's exception, not rule. Even if they want you to give name, it's not something available for others if they only have e-mail address (unless address contains name).
> Light arms vs a modern arms(tanks,planes,helicopters) is just suicide.

No, that's wrong. Conflicts like the one in Afghanistan show they can be effective against a well-equipped modern army, you just need to deploy them with the right (asymmetric) tactics.
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Lithium will fuel the clean energy boom. This company may have a breakthrough
As with the other comment saying "have you used X/Y command" it is funny, given the original article.

Someone should setup a list of all these "tricks" and non-standard "patches" that people have to use in Linux after installing it so that it works decently.

Nowadays my desktop PC is a Linux (Mint) one. I like it, and I use it for several things, including gaming. But I don't kid me, the usability is utter crap, and coming from a 25 year yourny with Linux, it is still playing catchup with regards to hardware control (audio, bluetooth, wifi, etc).
I'm explaining how it works in theory, not rationalizing the current situation as okay.

I do think it's unfair to say Amazon isn't attempting to fight this - someone linked a website in here that shows them as employing thousands of people and spending hundreds of millions of dollars in fighting it. It just seems like they're not currently winning the arms race.
> and you get that only if your driver is in the main kernel tree

And fuck the billions of people with CVEd kernels because of it; they're just collateral damage, right? /sigh/
Nice thanks for mentioning it. Just gave it a shot and it actually activates the screen correctly which the others I've tried weren't doing.
I’ve been using AppCleaner for a number of years.

https://freemacsoft.net/appcleaner/
Can anybody recommend good reading to catch up on the protests or history of Hong Kong vs. the mainland?
Database hugged to death :(

Oh wait. It's a redirect to StackOverflow?!

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23945494/use-html5-to-re...
Speaking of false dichotomies...

Google doesn’t “operate” email. Gmail one email service among many, that people can choose to use or not. Yahoo Mail is still an option.
So that you know, kiwi browser is a chromium + extensions for Android.
It allows to have uBlock on mobile AND to play YouTube on the background <3
“been solved”? What percentage of the overall fleet is equipped for automated frontal collision avoidance? Under 5%? Under 2%?
To fully appreciate today's Google doodle honouring Joseph Plateau
To echo the others, I had a similar problem though I was on a 2011 MBP. Didn't want the new MBP so I bought the most pimped out 2015 model you could get, the one with the 2.8Ghz i7 CPU, AMD GPU and 1TB SSD. Also had a low battery cycle count (<50).

Plan to use this one for at least another 5 years. It's still plenty fast.
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Yes, by definition they are. But Hong Kong has been first world by that same definition.
So he's a liar and committed fraud.... Maybe this is something law enforcement should know about?
This makes complete sense and makes you wonder why a company like this doesn’t already exist. Seems like this company could help startups and unicorns (need scale) that are stuck due to broken pricing and unlock serious value
What would it take? Too much work to make it a net-positive outcome. Plus, fewer people use email, and it will eventually become an anachronism.

Better would be a standardized, secure public service to store and retrieve data on top of which any protocol could be built.

Once people own and control their service data, lots of things will become decoupled.
While at Microsoft, I did a stint as an accessibility lead. No better way to find some accessibility bugs than to hide the mouse in a drawer for a few days. And you can do it, because if you can't, then you need file a bug. So I got pretty darned good at Windows keyboard shortcuts. As an aside, if you do public presentations, people will comment on the fact that you rarely touch the mouse. :-)

When I flipped to Mac, I tried the same thing: get those shortcuts down until the mouse isn't necessary. I've since given up, but IIRC, it can be done but it is a lot harder. For starters, it's broken out of the box because you have to set $SETTING to be able to Tab to some controls. The menu is accessed on Windows with the Alt key. On Mac, Cmd-Opt-F2. Screenshot? PrtScn versus Cmd-Opt-Shift...something, I never can remember.
Ironically, in those days I was at my OS happiest. I'd built a multi-core BeOS monster, and felt like I was a decade ahead of the rest of the world.

Two decades later, and I still can't find as performant or useable a system as that.
Ross Scott (the Freeman's Mind guy) made a video about his experience playing it https://youtu.be/abrKxAHJ7qU
MSM - even the BBC that are supposedly a bastion of good journalism - are generally terrible at covering science. My theory is that journalism now pays so poorly for most in the profession that all the decent graduates seek work elsewhere.
I'm confused by this sentiment as the technology was invented using this means to begin with:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-driving_car#History

Why does government research always seem to become a corrupt, inefficient bureaucracy the moment that private industry runs off with its solutions to profit from?
You can pay for it now? The narrative in this thread seems to be that people are being forced to use Gmail against their will, and paid options don’t exist, both of which are obviously false.
In the UK your employer when laying you off has to pay up to £250 to cover a lawyer looking over the severance agreement. Source: personal experience.
How the internet is changing language
PoW is arguably ecologically irresponsible, but PoS consensus should fix that issue. Have you read the ouroboros papers?

https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/378.pdf