skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have two radio controlled clocks. One checks each night at 2 o'clock with the radio time, and then sees it is probably 0.1 second ahead. Apparently this analogue clock can only adjust time forward, so each night it has to do a 12 hour cycle (minus 0.1 second). This means 50% extra battery use. Plus it's annoying when you're up at that time. All is quiet and then you hear this strange squeeking sound.

The other clock is digital, so adjusting time is easier, except that it forgets to do this when changing to and from summertime. The only solution is to unplug the power cable. Why this clock doesn't know this is a mystery. It only has to check once a week. I don't know how this radio signal works, but can't they send info about winter- or summertime along with the time?
> -march=native and -mtune=broadwell tell the compiler to optimize for your architecture. One would think given the compiler documentation that march implies mtune, but this is apparently not the case.

That sounds like a bug to me which should be reported.
Just keep building them until people stop buying them. Most of the problems you mention are self-correcting; if conditions become unfavorable, demand will be reduced.
You live in Chicago and you don't know UChicago is more prestigious than even NW? Damn son, you haven't been here very long have you?

ARENT DOWNTOWN??? UChicago is in the heart of Chicago! You know Chicago doesn't end at Roosevelt, right?? Let me guess, you grew up in the suburbs and moved to Lincoln Park 10 years ago?
The stock Android alarm clock app has Spotify support built into it. I honest can't see a use for this in the slightest.
Some weird people out there
Journalists and humanitarian organizations do have revenues.

I doubt a mil contractor would add Russia and China but not embargoed places like Iran.

And yes, I think this is a misguided attempt at security. Companies that handled crucial data that need to stay private really should spend the resources on managing these data themselves.
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Personally, I sleep a lot better when my phone is not next to my bed.
Same here. Did confirmation and sent emails to all the other services linked. Will post here when and if they reach out.
I don't like those buildings either but real estate prices are telling me that Seattle is still a plenty desirable place to live.
I actually thought the post was going to be a metaphor at first.
Especially the part about the barely-functional clusterfuck of a UX.
I don't know, but maybe discussing it will bring some light to this subject? Maybe a system/method to determine who is a professional troll?

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Pro-Troll Filter: (first draft)

1. Is the commenter able to rationally discuss the downsides of their position?

NO? Possibly a pro-troll or an irrational comment.

2. Is the commenter willing to admit past errors in implementing of their ideal solution, and also consider the same errors could occur again? (ie, no true Scotsman logical fallacy)

NO? Possibly a pro-troll or an irrational comment.

3. Is the commenter willing to look at and/or discuss real data, even if it contradicts their position?

NO? Possibly a pro-troll or an irrational comment.

4. Does the commenter devolve into ad hominem attacks?

YES? Possibly a pro-troll or an irrational comment.

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Irrationality note:

People have bad days and can act irrationally at any time. But I have found that when someone is unable/unwilling to admit error tries to support an idea based on limited information will devolve into irrational comments when challenged with counter arguments/questions. Not sure how this will help with pro-troll filtering, but it's more data to consider.
I daily drive a VW Mk7 Golf R, (~$43k new) and I've driven a ~2017 Model S (~$88k new) many times over the past few years. If I were to compare those two vehicles on everything except the engine, its an extremely tough sell for the Model S. I'm a huge fan of what Tesla is doing, but the fit and finish, build quality, and overall product at the end of the line felt seriously unrefined at its price point.

It seems the mid-range of the EV market will get very crowded in the near future, and unless Tesla (or for that matter BMW) find some serious advantages I don't see how they'll compete with established automakers who are already pumping out 30x the volume.
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Great question! PhotoDNA is the most well-known and supported hash function for this use case. And we do support hashing and matching with PhotoDNA in the Safer product. However, the PhotoDNA hash function is non-public so we cannot include it in an open source package. We support pHash as an open source alternative so that companies without PhotoDNA licenses can get started with hashing.
Yes, they do.

I have a Casio clock on my nightstand, it must be from before 2000, if not from before 1995. The display segments are failing, but apart from that: No button broke yet, calendar is still working, so is the alarm.
While I agree on the utility that other posts have mentioned, I also must say it also has room for kids in a smaller form factor.

With three kids in car seats, I found the F-150 4-door cab to be a great option. They are designed with enough room for 3 large adults to ride in the back so fitting the car seats is no problem. It's really tough to fit three proper car seats in the back seat of a sedan.

While I could get a large SUV, I don't want to banish one of the kids to two rows deep in the back of a large SUV. We are all together in the cab. Comfortable.
In all countries? Here, we don't have that, the cost is fixed and so are the loans.
Tesla has one operational factory. After copy pasta like they've already done in Shanghai, they will start closing in on the largest car manufacturers. Not only will they catch up, but each new factory will have increased efficiency and thus profit margin gains.
The US is traditionally against socialist ideas.
They remind me of pictures taken of the Panamint mountains from Dante's View on the eastern side of Death Valley.
Good luck with that. You just made college out of reach for everyone that isn't already wealthy, exacerbating inequality and further entrenching class boundaries.

To be clear, I agree with you, rip out the loan guarantees and let the private market deal. But progressives would never allow this.
That’s at the assembly plant though where the powertrain resolves to a few part numbers. In terms of R&D, warranty, service and overall longevity it represents a lot more than that.
This sounds like a program that needs to be justified at a federal level.
Uhm, I would expect a reply to provide that clarification.

I expect to find useless and inappropriate comments downvoted, but there is no official policy that I remember, so those are only my ideas of how downvoting would help moderate a discussion.
> Maybe it's cause they aren't downtown or something?

I nearly spit out my drink when I read this. This guy doesn't seem to be aware of the existence of half the city, and he's lived here for 10 years!
When Lenin pushed the motto вся власть Советамъ it was as I outlined above. In neither sense it means a person/official.
Maybe German-made Teslas will be nice too if that is where their next factory winds up? Instead of killing German cars they will become (partially) German cars.
It would be cool if restaurants could take a picture of the food as it goes out and send it to the consumer. "Hey your food just went out. Look how good it is!" Then when the delivery driver crushes it with something they can take the heat.
> I don’t see a reason for people to buy ICU cars really...

Yeah, who wants to put up with converting to and from UTF-16 all the time when you're just trying to get to work in the morning?
Yea I purposefully didn't include ROS-Bridge because thats another can of worms.
The "pulsing" is just a transition between the facebook, instagram, and whatsapp versions of the logo. It's normally a single one of those colors (or gradients, in the case of instagram)
I think you are heavily underestimating the size of VW. For example Audi (a VW brand) is the direct competitor to BMW and Mercedes, while Porsche (and Bentley, Lamborghini) are aiming even higher.

The only problematic brands are the ones like Skoda that try to build much cheaper versions of VW cars (so for them EV might double the end price).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Group
Tesla/Pano have been having a lot of issues - a lot of it being on the Tesla side. Pano is no longer making those batteries just for cars because TSLA can't meet the volume needs
Cars are already banned on sidewalks.

But seriously, I think modern car culture is deeply flawed on multiple dimensions. I would personally love to live in a car-free city with dedicated lanes for bikes, scooters and pedestrians along with their commensurate safety rules and regulations.

Currently, we're rapidly adding motorized vehicles where pedestrians have a historical expectation of safety. There are no lanes on a sidewalk. There are no passing zones. There are no turn signals. You can back up and reverse and will. You can cluster. You can linger. You can photograph buildings. You can walk briskly. You can stop suddenly realizing you left your phone at home, do a 180 and walk-run home. It would be impossible to enumerate all the ways sidewalks are used.

It is fundamentally impossible to resolve the safety expectations of pedestrians with scooters. Pedestrians were there first and will always be there.
SmartOS: Converged Container and Virtual Machine Hypervisor
All my work ( my own ventures and consulting ) was remote since 2000. Sure there were some real meetings with subcontractors and customers but I think it was less the 3% time wise in total.
This link explains it quite well: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58141/why-is-it-consider...
Here's a scissor's congruence app on github

https://dmsm.github.io/scissors-congruence/
not likely. for example a big screen without tactile feedback is bad, stupid, and dangerous in a car. its those sorts of things the germans got right that dont even seem to be on teslas radar. it would drive me insane to drive a tesla in a canadian winter, as much as i want to never visit a gas station again!
Meh, the germans have been coming for a long time and have made zero dent. At some point it will happen but it's easier for Tesla to improve their fit and finish than for the germans to find a winning strategy in the ev market.
Based on his blog I get the impression that he probably totally agrees with you, this post could be one diplomatic way of saying it.
This link explains it well

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58141/why-is-it-consider...
Really it comes down to a middle ground and not overdoing too much of a good thing.
My understanding is that it's because Pano doesn't like Tesla's management style of the relationship (Pano prefers a loose feedback loop and team autonomy, Tesla wants it tight with rapid iteration and constant feedback up the chain), and that Tesla is about to scale up their own cell manufacturing. Feel free to throw citations in if you have solid evidence it's a demand issue, because Tesla sales figures and their last earnings call don't indicate that (their Model 3 backlog actually increased while deliveries also increased).
They used to do this in the UK probably until the 90s but then they'd start charging "tuition fees" although to be fair I think they were standardised, so the same fees for any university, and fairly small, with support for poorer families. I think having so many people go to university is a big burden to pay for. Part of the solution is not so many people going to university.
Every successful or even sane team I’ve worked on had discipline first and Agile second.
> I wrote a parser for this command

Were you able to effectively collect requirements for that tool while working remotely or collecting requirements required on-site interaction?
That’s a good idea. I found confluence’s UI to be almost unusable. I was constantly fighting style changes, like spending 5 minutes trying to un-bold something when I should have been getting my brain dumped.
Even if you accept your argument, as you pointed out, a pipeline (Line 9) helped the situation.
So, I don't know about setting rules beforehand that work very well universally, but what I personally think is the better method is to just slowly build up your ruleset as you use it every day. I don't think lots of people know how to do this so here it is:

1) Upon using a website you frequent, enable one root at a time until it functions properly. (or you can do the more granular per grid block enable) 2) Click umatrix, then click at the top where it says "uMatrix $ver" which will take you to the dashboard. 3) In the dashboard click on "my rules" 4) on the right click the "commit" button.

What this does is commit your changes to the permanent ruleset and websites you frequent will start to "just work". A word of warning, if you blindly commit after browsing for a while when you may have done some temporary allows on random websites, those will be commited too. So I suggest either reviewing the commits first (always a good idea) and deselecting the ones you don't want, or having a new session for each of your frequented websites that you then commit from.

I have been planning to write up a tutorial on things like this for family and friends, maybe I'll post it to show hn.
OmniOS, one of the illumos distributions also had a release today: https://github.com/omniosorg/omnios-build/blob/r151032/doc/R...
I have made some changes after your feedback. namely bullets changes, usage of enter in textboxes, and auto restart on death. Linux build is done. Will try to build for windows tomorrow.
> you know that even if the tech is inferior (coughbtrfscoughsystemtapcoughsystemdcoughepoll*cough) many other people are in the same boat and in theory hordes of developers will -- might? -- make patches to fix the problem.

Bit of a bad cough you have there! Need a lozenge?

With regard to technology, Solaris/Illumos went through the same init system battle with their next-gen init system SMF as GNU/Linux did with systemd. They had their share of hard-nosed refuseniks who vowed to remain on Solaris 9 forever rather than embrace the new. Lennart Poettering said that systemd was inspired in part by SMF[1].

[1] https://coreos.com/blog/qa-with-lennart-systemd.html
Economic Incentives for Inflating Cryptocurrency
That's probably some of it, but the underwater basket weaving meme predates the internet and has embedded wisdom.

Essentially a cautionary tale about taking on debt for something unlikely to be able to pay off that debt.
I guess I was still in university back then. I'm late Gen X. I imagine early Gen X has a very different story. (I bet the same is true for every generation.)
‘Silicon Valley,’ S6E2 – a billion dollars to violate your principles
More likely, the basket weaving program would entirely go away. Wealthy parents generally aren't idiots and don't encourage their children to waste away in pointless degrees. Well, the ultra-wealthy might not care, but there aren't too many of those.

In any event, congrats, you just made a whole set of degrees inaccessible to anyone except the wealthy. The progressives are really going to love you for that.
Its already happening to hundreds of business owners who sell their own products on Amazon. Anyone who had a successful FBA business is now diversifying away from Amazon as it seems almost impossible to resolve mistakes caused by their algos.
Maybe the most important feature is related to Tether's uses as a criminal money laundering vehicle? Maybe Tether's sketchiness is a feature, not a bug, at least to its users.
Polish turd, get shit everywhere
Well, enjoy it while it lasts because the GNU toolchain is in the process of deprecating & removing support for solaris 10.
> I'm saying this is a complex issue and the "LETS REGULATE IT" feels premature given how complex and subtle the issue is, and how hard laws are to change once they're on the books.

There is a difference between "This specific regulation fails to take X into account" or even "This is a complex issue which requires carefully crafted regulation" and your stance which seems to be that regulation is impossible or undesirable due to the complexity of the issue or because it might be annoying to change later. That very much suggests your problem is with regulation itself.

Just out of curiosity, if you think regulating this is a bad idea, what do you propose to fix the problem? Appealing to the good will of companies who would gladly exploit us to make money?
VW has $44b in cash and $160b in debt.
I'm Bitflate developer. I think crypto needs to explore inflation. I think limited and eventually zero supply hinders crypto adoption. I would love to hear everyone's thought about possible economic incentives for inflating cryptocurrency.
The generic architecture retort is a boogeyman. Most cities are “rows and rows of generic housing”. San Francisco is littered with cookie cutter townhomes that were built cheaply and are almost architecturally identical.
Is There a 12-Step Program for Science Fiction Addicts?
No, GPS trackers on cars have in some cases been ruled a search.
The overcollaterized approach is by makerdao is surely interesting in comparison to tether

And in spite, it is not widely accepted in most major exchanges
https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/dai

But tether strength sound to be due to recognition and deep order which is what makes a currency getting value from "nothing"
It's a job you do once though. Or very, very rarely.

It's surely not annoying enough to buy an alarm clock you can only set via and app on your phone which also requires you sign up for an online account. That, to me, sounds far more annoying. I'll stick with my £5 digital alarm clock.
Some of the recordings are on the tribe's website [1].

[1] https://passamaquoddypeople.com/collection/1890-passamaquodd...
You don't understand it because, like myself and most people on this site, you're probably a hyper-rational engineering type. We gravitated towards working in this field for a reason.

The rest of the world has very strong negative reactions when confronted with a product branded like this:
https://www.vim.org

...and they have very positive reactions to a product branded like this:
https://slack.com

How could the reaction be so different when we're just talking about a few lines, curves, colors and aesthetics?

It turns out, most humans are emotionally stimulated by visual associations and stories. This is the definition of branding. Empathy would be understanding that most people are not like us.
It’s easy to see when a new email account tries to send thousands of emails to people they don’t know.

But how do you tell the difference between a political activist who just joined Twitter and a troll account? You seem to think this is a trivial problem so I am curious to see your answer.
> You can withdraw the Bitcoin from Binance to your own wallet, so you aren't really "exchanging one IOU for another"

Until it's in your wallet, it's an IOU. And Binance has had issues with Bitcoin withdrawals, too. (Not to mention, they seem to lose their cash and coins to hackers [1] and fraudsters once a quarter.)

There is no independent, trusted marketplace where USDT trades in material volumes. And we now know that Tether previously lied about its dollar reserves. Continuing to trust them is delusional at best.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-08/crypto-ex...
Of course they won't. Some city politician will get a kickback and give up the infrastructure for free . Exhibit A: City of San Francisco
It’s been a long time since I had to implement PhotoDNA (helped write a PHP native version of the PhotoDNA hash function at Tumblr), can you indicate if pHash creates compatible hashes to PhotoDNA’s output?
But as the article says, low income students are scared away by high tuition. My fiancee was raised poor and I kind of understand the mentality -- when the tuition is a multiple of what both your parents make in a year, you say "this place isn't for me" and move on. You've been told in various ways throughout your life which places aren't for you (there are a lot of them), and a $100k sticker price is a pretty damn good signal.

And besides, no one wants to rely on the generosity of paternalistic college administrators. That's not safe. You don't want to wake up and suddenly find due to some technicality you again owe more money than both of your parents make in a year. And you don't want to feel like a charity case.

(If you think that's a remote possibility, think of the people who went into teaching with the promise of debt forgiveness, and found it revoked. They don't have any choice in the matter -- they're totally screwed.)

Better to go to the local city college. Your cousin went there and a few other people from your school go there, too. It's a safe choice, and there are people like you there.
In my view this IPO is akin to selling the crown jewels and thus says something about the state of Saudi Arabia finances and/or about their outlook on the oil industry.
That's not true. 1.3 billion out of the 2.5 billion is to increase supply:

> $1 billion affordable housing investment fund: The $1 billion commitment to the state of California is a first-of-its-kind affordable housing fund that will provide the state and others with an open line of credit to develop and build additional new, very low- to moderate-income housing faster and at a lower cost.

> $300 million Apple-owned land will be available for affordable housing: Apple intends to make available land it owns in San Jose worth approximately $300 million for the development of new affordable housing.
Being honest, some of the most egregious handling of PII is by small companies who don't have the resources to understand that it is PII, or how to store it, or how to be in compliance. I don't think it's failing in that case. A small company wouldn't google how to build a bridge then DIY it, but that's what's happening with storing PII. If I had a dollar for every article I read where a doctor's office had records on an un-restricted FTP server...
Clear as mud. I know the author is a known person, but that style of writing is pretty bad for this topic.
The prices in USA look exorbitant. If a worker works full year for minimum wage, they earn $7.25 * 8 * 253 = $14674. Such worker will have to work for 6 years and 9 months to pay tuition costs for 1 year, if we assume that they don't have to pay taxes, buy food, visit a doctor and pay the rent.

A house may cost several hundred thousands dollars or higher. If that worker has paid for a university, no way they will be able to buy a house in their remaining lifespan.

Who is going to study in this university? Billionaires' kids?
Everyone will benefit when the sickening automobile life cycle of "new model every X years" dies out for good. For that to happen it needs to die in Germany just like it's dying in the US.
The label is "UNDERREPRESENTED" so I assume any minorities represented as founders at or above their level in the general population are excluded?
Agreed, attacking degree programs is a red herring. Also, what kind of society would we be if the only subjects available to pursue were a select list of STEM programs?