skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hope you'll forgive me if I suggest that one might have hoped that security wouldn't be an item on your "endless to-do list of improvements" after you've released the product. I mean, what with that whole "good engineering" thing.
> I wonder whether some older western imports got their names in Cantonese, is this a thing?

Yes, it is the norm for older loanwords. Compare Mandarin jia-na-da [Canada] from Cantonese ga-la-da, or Mandarin mo-xi-ge [Mexico] from Cantonese mak-sai-go.

EDIT: it's worth observing that the Chinese themselves are generally not aware that the older loanwords came through Cantonese.
Not a book, but fundamental nonetheless: https://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/papers/propositions-as...
I like duluthtrading.com, their whole brand is centered on clothes that last. Stitchfix.com is good if you want help with picking clothes in your style.
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Switch from cotton to (Merino) wool, at least for shirts. It doesn't absorb sweat and then start to smell, so you can wear it many more days before washing (and you can just hand wash in the sink, easy). They also breathe well, work great as a base layer, and feel extremely soft. It'll cost you $80-100 for a t-shirt, but I've found it worth the investment. I've gone from rotating through like 15 Uniqlo tees to only wearing a couple shirts. And you can do the same with pants and even socks.
Too bad, it was a good idea to allow “one device for everything.”

I sometimes plug my iPad Pro into a USB-C interfaced large monitor and it is nice having lots of working space but this is not laptop or desktop replacement.
> In every email, they remind me of two-step authentication. They act as if I am going to continue to use Nest cameras.

Well, isn't that's exactly what the customer support team is suppose to do? They'd be a terrible customer support representative if they didn't encourage good security practices and didn't try to maintain customer relationships.

Not having 2FA is unacceptable in 2019. The best form of security is a combination of these 3 things:

- "Something you know — Password, security questions, personal information, etc.

- "Something you have" — Security key (Yubikey, Smartcard, Ledger Nano, etc.), software key (HOTP/TOTP), ̶S̶M̶S̶, email, etc.

- "Something you are" — Biometrics (Touch ID, Face ID, etc.)
This sounds suspiciously like the Supermicro BMC bug reported here a while back[1], and while it actually can be hard to make sure the IPMI stuff doesn't take over a NIC you don't want it to[2], there are things you can do to prevent that, such as explicitly setting IPMI interface and address information so it won't use "smart" behavior to negate all your security.

As to whether "no-one could know", well, I knew after I read that HN submission, and at work we made sure to double check all our configs. This ended up being mostly a known problem, but the extra context helped us find another edge case I believe.

It's not great that you have to be aware of the latest security problems and how they may interact in obscure ways with system configs, but that's the nature of security and state of the industry right. Not much to do except buckle down and pay attention. To everything.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20870686

2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20872084
The shipping numbers are correct. Shipping is incredibly carbon-efficient at moving large amounts of freight.

The pollution problem from shipping is not in the form of carbon emissions. It's in the form of oil spills, NO2, SO2, etc pollution, and it is difficult to accurately estimate. [1]

On the other hand, estimating ship carbon emissions is easy - count how much bunker oil gets produced, world-wide, and assume all of it gets burnt in the engines of cargo ships.

[1] This is why occasionally, you see anti-environment publications push nonesense like 'Gas taxes are stupid, because one cruise ship produces more pollution then every single car in this city combined.'

Yes, in NO2 and SO2. [2] No, not even remotely in terms of CO2. And carbon taxes are intended to... Reduce emissions of CO2, not NO2 or SO2.

[2] Those gases are pollutants, they cause health and environmental problems, but they aren't very important in the context of climate change... Which is what carbon taxes try to address.
Cold potato is not necessarily better, actually its often times worse than hot potato and usually used to lower costs so you don't have to pay other people for transit.

For example, a cold potato network may have a link from Dallas to Chicago to New York, while a hot potato network could have a direct link from Dallas to New York.

Cogent uses cold potato and is frequently worse than other transit providers.
Why? Hedging is fine. I think it's important to accurately communicate how certain you are of a thing. Constant hedging is annoying, but so is stating everything as if it's a fact, despite how sure you really are.

Communicating confidence is useful.
According to Title 9, that's not entirely accurate.

https://codes.findlaw.com/in/title-9-motor-vehicles/in-code-...

A yellow light only indicates that the light is changing to red, and that the right of way is ending (as marked by a red light). There is nothing that states what a driver must/supposed-to do when facing a yellow light.

Assuming a driver is obeying all other traffic laws, a driver is lawfully allowed to enter an intersection on a yellow light, regardless of whether they have the time to stop or not.

In most (all?) US jurisdictions, drivers are taught that if the light is yellow, you should stop if you can do so safely.
>> Like it or not, the closed ecosystem of iOS provides more value to end users

Am I correct to assume that you mean direct updates, and/or security (from hackers, states, and, in a sense, hardware vendors themselves)?
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Good question. First off, the idea is you would only do this with people you trust. To connect and tab share with someone, you would need to send and/or accept an email invitation. It’s not an IT product. It’s intended for friends and family.

The mirrored page has a full copy of the DOM. So yes, if that includes input fields with sensitive information, the mirrored user could see that in Dev tools. But there is no easy way them to submit a form. Pointer events are disabled on the mirror and the Javascript of the original page is not loaded.
You wanna know what reduces red-light related accidents more than cameras? Increasing the duration of the yellow light.

https://saferstreetsla.org/679/case-studies-longer-yellow-li...

Also increasing yellow light duration is significantly cheaper than contracting out a network of cameras to a vendor who takes over half the revenue from each ticket.
Well then youre an idiot
That's a very good point. We constantly try to improve the data accuracy of our API. We currently support the following company types: "education", "isp", "hosting", "government", "business". We also expose the domain assigned to the ASN of the IP currently looked up, this would probably give you enough info to implement the logic you are suggesting.
You can not reduce your 40 hour week? I know of at least two companies in Berlin, one of it is the one i work in, that are pretty flexible regarding the 40 hour week.
From the first piece:

The oft-printed statement that early automobiles were ‘playthings of the rich’ until Henry Ford’s super-cheap Model T started rolling off the assembly line in October 1908, is easily proven by scanning the makes of high-priced chariots and their wealthy owners who participated in the Amsterdam Evening Recorder’s Saturday, July 10, 1909 “Sociability Run” from Amsterdam to Lake Luzerne.

Everything I've ever seen indicates cars were considered to be "toys" for the rich when they first came out. Roads were not really designed for them. They were insanely expensive. They were not generally considered to be serious new tech that would eventually compete as transportation.

That changed when Henry Ford made cars affordable for the masses.

Old laws often said things like "You must have someone walk in front of your car ringing a bell so you don't spook the horses." This implicitly tells you that early cars were also extremely slow and horses were the form of serious transportation that the culture revolved around.
I guess this way it would be easier for Lyft to claim these are not real employees but just contractors?

IANAL so correct me if I'm wrong.
In Austria the green light blinks four tones before our goes to yellow and then after two seconds or goes to red.
And if a city needs more money for infrastructure/schools/parks/whatever the citizens value, then that is what taxes are for. At least with taxes you aren't fleeced by private corporation along with way.
Could you share the winner?
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At this point, I just assume that any password I have somewhere is public in some way, if something doesn't have 2FA, it might as well be compromised.

Case in point: I just checked an e-mail account I haven't used in close to 20 years, even that thing has now a somewhat lengthy haveibeenpwned profile.
I don’t know, in the Bay Area 150k is entry level and big companies pay 250k or much higher to senior engineers. Whenever I hear about pay in Europe it’s a fraction of that. It may be worth it for a different lifestyle, I’m not making that argument. Regardless, from the company POV it must lead to different choices about buy vs. build.
Exactly. This coupled with the fact that they are trying to use the ducts to only cool the places people are and not anything else doesn't seem like such a bad idea.
Fun to see that a decade ago, people were convinced that AR was going to be the next big thing. I could see that exact same argument being made today, nearly ten years later!
Sources:
Google Gaia: https://www.itnews.com.au/news/insider-reveals-details-of-go...

LinkedIn: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_LinkedIn_hack

Facebook: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/sep/28/facebook-... (fun fact, it happened TWICE)

Dropbox: https://www.troyhunt.com/the-dropbox-hack-is-real/

Another Dropbox: https://techcrunch.com/2011/06/20/dropbox-security-bug-made-...
Sure, if the engine has to guess whether you mean A or B, then whenever two engines make different calls, one of them is wrong.

Even being right 99.9% of billions of queries means being wrong many times.

This calls for statistical analysis, not cherry picking examples or asymmetric sample like "given a bad result from X, Y does better."
There will never be a time when everything is automated.
This title is incomplete. The article title reads "Apple CEO Tim Cook Named Board Chairman of Tsinghua University's School of Economics and Management".
Apple has an obsesssion with killing off anything slightly inconvenient to them, users be damned.
> Smart phones sold in unit volumes that dwarfed PC unit volumes.

Popcorn sold in unit volumes even higher than that, but so what? These aren't comparable things.
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The thing is a hobby isn't too different from a business. They can even be hard to distinguish: https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/hobby-or-business-irs-offers-ti...

The next big thing will start out looking like a business! Wahey!
That's not a very generous interpretation of what I wrote, and honestly hints at an immature understanding of good engineering and security.

Dropcam v1 was one of the most secure internet products in existence at its inception, by design, full stop.

Making things more secure is a never-ending charge, and we never stopped. Google/Nest continue to try to improve things as well, but they've been slower and more inefficient at doing so than we were in our heyday. That's why these stories never seem to stop coming. The attackers are outpacing the defenders.
I would happily wear a wool suit every day! I have two pairs of Falke hiking socks that are made from double-layered silver-infused wool. They don't smell even after multiple days of wear and the two layers slide over each another to prevent friction so you don't get blisters. They were pricey at the time, but now I wish I could replace my entire closet with silver-infused wool shirts, trousers, socks and underwear.
Well not everyone is a techie.

Most people don't mind having a lite DE as long as it's not too ugly (or feeling like win98), has a familiar GUI and is not hard to configure.

OpenBox (beside being feature complete - no new features allowed and locked with x11) does not have that "familiar" GUI.

But for more techie people, openbox is a solution, or the new sway or even the terminal!
SPY has a dividend yield of 1.85%, for a total return of 6.5+1.85 = 8.35%. 11 years of that compounded turns $50,000 into $120,805.

Pretty darn decent for doing literally nothing but being an owner.
> if I was to explore finding a personal style that I could wear as my day to day work/life “uniform”, where to look, where to source from. Are there any companies focussed around this?

Isn't this just clothes? Just buy multiple of what sparks joy, right? Is there something I'm missing that makes an outfit a "uniform"?
I couldn’t tell from the article if the author had actually tried Catalina. I have been running the beta since day one of the beta release and the only issue is that applications have to be signed or built locally.

Apple wants macOS to be a safe walled garden like iOS and Chromebooks. I am fine with this, but I also have a very nice Linux laptop to play with.

I expect organized crime and most governments to continue hacking activities so it makes sense having my Apple devices locked down as much as possible. I avoid arbitrary web browsing on my Linux laptop and just use it for coding.
They are definitely separate organizations.
To me men (not all 100%, the majority) are stoic: few garments, the necessary. How many of you are the opposite to this? My GF is a machine of buying clothes. Her friends too. I don't see my friends buying that much each month. When I go to a shopping center the majority of stores are women oriented, the entire fashion industry is run for them to ludicrous levels.
Each person has their own OneNote. No one shares on the company OneNote, as it is not documented how to do so and IT seems to be clueless about it.

Beyond that we have MediaWiki which is a tar pit of ancient and current information that has horrendous search/filtering.

No one is maintaining it from an archival standpoint and there is a mixture of old commentary on obsolete alpha/beta engineering releases from decades ago, along with all sorts of old material that may or may not be relevant.

It is excruciating. I've created new content, that I can't find through the search box, so thankfully I bookmark it in the browser or look to see what items I've edited.
Huh. I remember researching it a couple of years ago, but clearly my memory is not to be trusted, or there’s another part of the code that supplements that (but I’m skeptical there is).
cloud providers charge a lot more for bandwidth yes, but in reality bandwidth is much, much cheaper than storage for them to provide.
They're not marketplace, are they?. I can't shop different drivers and pick the one I want.
I don't like suits. They're not very practical and can be quite unconfortable. The best piece of clothing I had was a modern Bundeswehr moleskin field shirt.
This is not a hard-and-fast rule. There's hardly agreement in style guides on this note. Don't be a jerk and nitpick style on the internet; it does not add to the conversation.
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/13631/is-an-apos...
Only? ~33% is a high number that is also not reasonably close to being correct (as your supposedly is correctly suspicious of). I saw that figure on the Russia Beyond site, it's heavily misleading. Russia is rather notorious for having a very low percentage of English speakers.

By contrast, 33% is nearly as high as in France and Italy and is far higher than in Spain. Obviously it's false.

Only 3% of Russians are fluent in English. Only 5% spoke English as of the 2010 census. Even that is probably a stretch, as it's just a result of listing languages people claimed to know (which says nothing of the true capability). If we were generous to the last decade of English adoption, it's likely still well under 10% that speak it at all. You can also see this in action in Eastern Ukraine and Belarus, where English adoption is extremely low compared to most of Europe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_English-s...
> I like using the app since Premium allows for playing stuff in the background

I remember vividly the day (sometime in 2013?) when they removed that feature from the base app. I had been streaming music or casts from YouTube in the background since day 1 of my iPhone 4, and suddenly it became a paid feature.

"Bastards", I thought with a smile, "but hey, fair enough! Ok, now where do I pay?..."

Except that outside of the US, premium wasn't available. So they had removed background play but offered no alternative. It lasted until 2017!! Took them 4 years to bring the premium offer to Europe... what a shame. That fueled some resentment, as a wannabe customer. Any gave more than enough time to find better alternatives (Spotify, youtube-dl...) and never look back.

When they finally introduced premium in my country, I took the free 3 months offer and cancelled immediately thereafter. They don't want my money, 4 years made that emphatically clear.

I may reconsider after 2021, on the condition that management has changed at YouTube and Google. Right now, I'm just not feeling it.

Google is just awful at marketing stuff and customer service. They plain and simple don't care. That's monopoly for us: customers lose, always. So I find it both logical and "the right thing to do" to spend my money to directly support creators and alternative platforms whenever I can.
I understand what you mean, but when Vancouver locals say "asian", they really mean "east asian" (Chinese/Japanese/Korea). I live in Surrey, a Vancouver suburb, where ethnic Indian is about 30%-40% of population. The local newspaper often refers them as "South Asian community".

But I'm surprised that BBC use "Asian" to refer "East Asian". I'm under the impression that in UK, they use "Asian" to refer "South Asian".
If by "fundamental" you mean "original research" then yes - a lot of Knuth's content is re-distillations on original research.

On the other hand, Knuth has an incredible capacity to read, interpret, understand, and especially apply and expand the contents of research papers -- far beyond the capacity of nearly anyone else.

So if you want to spend a lot of time reading through ACM and IEEE journals, have fun. But you'll understand the research and be able to apply it far better when helped by Knuth.
And ddg can improve its results by slurping in Google's #1 result for every !g query, like Bing got caught doing.
It sounds like standard head patting assurances to me, I'd there anything in there beyond claims that all is well, which was the same story prior to the email leak?

Is all of the data and calculations now open sourced so the matter is permanently put to rest?
while I don't disagree with you, I am wondering why you would think that? I don't understand what "way too on the nose" means. Are you saying that because they are big makes them a bigger target?

If anything, I would think the larger the provider the more resources they would have to provide a stable and secure service.
> plus taxi drivers kind of gave themselves a bad reputation.

I think it is usually "people who can afford to go into a taxi do not like mingling with people who are only worth a taxi driver's salary".

I don't think most would say many positive things about a person that is only worth $x/hr on the economic market (where $x/hr is a taxi driver's average wages). Whether it is due to lack of education / opportunity, I do not know.
To the degree that BofA has needs that are unique just to itself, and do not overlap other large business's use cases, this is true. But that seems like an awfully small degree.

A billion dollars sounds like a ton of money on HN, but that's a thousand person tech team for 3 or 4 years. It's enough to do some good tech, but it's very, very easy to spend that much engineering capacity.
Dell Ramps Up HPC Testing of AMD Rome Processors
I'll bite. And the first?
Before smart homes are more than just a toy, they need to have functionality that is actually time saving.

I've messed with smart home stuff and so far the only thing that has been useful beyond being a toy is our robot vacuum, which I'm not sure is really classified as a smart home thing.

As someone that lives in California, something that could be an actual $$ and time saver rather than just a toy is if I could have a system that would open windows rather than turning on the AC when the outside temperature is low enough.
Well, it obviously doesn't describe PageRank, and all the subsequent techniques that are being used by search engines, including techniques from natural language processing.

Retrieving data is a lot different now than what it was back in the 70s and 80s.
Selling a computer with spinning rust as main drive in 2017 is extremely shameful.
Unions - at least under US law - are not required to impose seniority rules. Unions which have done so have those rules because at some point, the union’s membership wanted it.
I'll try when I get a moment. I think it might actually be better and easier to open-source SW and HW modules that do the right things.
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I think it makes no sense comparing SO ranking to Reddit karma (unless maybe you're applying to a social coordinator position). SO rankings generally imply tangible useful knowledge in the technical space.
I speak Finnish, and if I'm 'google cancelled my main account'-level pissed, I just might pick a username very much like that for a site I don't really want to be on in the first place. Maybe a cultural thing. So that argument is moot.

Agree with ryanlol's comment here next to mine on the rest. I'd really want more clarifications before I touch third party Youtube clients while logged in (which I want to be, for recommendations etc).
While true, this dilutes the value of the statement. At that rate every price point “is the market”, and nothing of further interest can ever be said about counter intuitive pricing.

Sure, it’s the market. Why? Is it a Giffen good? Is it a case of very poor visibility of services to consumers? ...? There is something interesting going on, let’s figure it out.
>Aren't they confident that the union isn't going to come in and say, "Yeah, actually you guys are pretty good, carry on?" If not, why not?

Because the point of a union isn't to do what's fair but to extract maximum benefits for the union. What do they have to lose by NOT pushing for every single possible benefit?

>But I'm not convinced that's the real worry.

Why? What incentive does a union member have to not vote in union leadership that promises to give them more?

That's all fine except unions push for these benefits for existing members equally and only existing members. That leads to pushes for things like seniority based pay, indifference to those who are better at their jobs, certifications, pointless bureaucracy to prevent moving jobs away from the union, etc. Personally, I don't like those things.
Wow, this sounds awful. Thanks for warning me not to upgrade to Android 10.