skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except when you look at Hollywood production, U.S TV news etc. that's exactly what you get. The Red Scare was a real thing, so was Russiagate. The anti-Chinese sentiment is very much real in the U.S. too, if the campaign rhetoric, current trade policies & the constant stream of accusations from newspapers of record are to be any indication.

Maybe I could have worded it better, but I am referring to American culture and the mindset that when you think 'anti-hero', it's going to be a Russian/Chinese most of the time.
> I'd have thought phones had swallowed up alarm clocks along with maps, calculators, walkmen, etc by now.

Nah. If we define "walkmen" as meaning "dedicated portable music players", then people are still using all those things. I see everything in your list being used regularly (except for paper maps -- although I used one of those last week). Not nearly as much as before smartphones, but still.
I'm primary talking about methanol, ethanol is not really as good a fuel and producing it by using biomass is not very efficient. So generally I would be against it but cars should still be able to use it.
Could the same be said about computer science or most engineering degrees? You walk out of your CS program ready to be a frontend web developer or a device driver developer? I think all degrees are pretty general and then you specialize in the job.
TRIM has been available in FreeBSD for mounted ZFS filesystems for quite a while, since ~Sep 2012 in 10-CURRENT[1]. I believe this is just a user space command for manually TRIM'ing in cases where it doesn't have explicit filesystem support.

[1]: https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/all-ab...
How One Employer Stuck a New Mom with a $898,984 Bill for Her Premature Baby
I'm a "casual" user - I do various hobbyist activities (Python and machine learning projects, 3d modeling, photo editing, et al) as well as basic stuff like email and browsing Hacker News. I don't intend to do much "low-level hacking" or application development.

Is Illumos interesting for someone like me? Or should I stick with GNU/Linux?
This drives me crazy with Slack. In 2019 I can't have two chats open at once? Madness.
It's easy to say that, but the competition that exists IS slave labor and is from countries that don't care about people dying, organ harvesting, etc. I won't name them out of fear of censorship but if you've been around you know who they are.
> I keep some money in my bank account so that if I need to buy food for a month with no source of income I can.

Well, that thing in your bank account is not money, but a complex derivative of it, with different risk and depreciation profiles.

Anyway, some money that you can easily receive from the other side of the world, immediate convert into local currency, and move away without seeing any of it again would be very useful, provide a lot of value, and wouldn't require any value stability if it was created at the moment your peer started the transaction and destroyed as you finished it. Ditto for something you could send very small amounts over the net.
> Most organizations are dysfunctional in some ways.

> communication is your main tool

I think at its heart, remote work will amplify any existing communication issues in an organization. Being in the same office can smooth over some of these issues, but they are still issues. This is why it is hard for a company to transition to remote work. The inertia of dealing with communication issues by being co-located is hard to overcome.

This is also why companies that started remote are still the best at remote. They simply would not have survived without proper communication from the get go.
The difference is that if management of the average publicly traded stock shopped it around, they could probably find a buyer for 50% or more of current market cap. Maybe not for the biggest companies like Amazon and Apple. If a substantial fraction of BTC owners tried to exit, they'd have more trouble getting close to nominal value.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21443038
Pushing computation back into the database has been a major trend in the last few years. Tools like DBT have made that transition easy in terms of clean code and testable SQL.
Yeah, I agree. Having access to Twitter is basically the same things as going to Harvard.
I'd pay double for a self-hosted version, that isn't phone-home dependent.
This removes a huge risk that the service will one day disappear. (If your sites go down you may not be able to release a self-hosted version)
> Up to 16GB of LPDDR3 memory at 2133MHz

You mean, starting at 16GB of memory, right?
Make sure your employees are all white Americans, or else they might be spies from other countries. Esp those Asian faces, they are untrustworthy. You should fire all of them.
Must the cuts be straight?
If we allow curved cuts, it becomes possible despite your counterexample, doesn't it?
You can totally use Windows without an online account. I do it.
The pumper and the dumper are generally the same entity in any pump and dump. Which mode that entity is in is a matter of timing.
Consumer Reports seems to back this up, but they cite an added rollover risk:

> "In car vs. SUV head-on crashes, the study found that the odds of death were 7.6 times higher for the car driver than the SUV driver. In crashes where the car had a better front crash-test rating than the SUV did, the car's driver fared a bit better but was still four and a half times more likely to die than the SUV driver. "

> "Choosing an SUV for safety isn't an automatic win, as their higher center of gravity makes them more prone to rollover, an often fatal event. "

[1] - https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2013/05/suvs-are-sa...
What do you mean by "compliance" issues? If you meant that the sum of money you send cannot trigger someone, somewhere to check to make sure the transaction is legit, and we're assuming a transfer from a "normal" bank to another, then I would guess on the order of $10,000. But companies and organizations routinely transfer millions and billions between normal banks. Yes, the transactions may cause someone or many someones to investigate, but the transfers still succeed.
Chestnut – Free wildfire risk analysis for any address in California
Has Cron been dethroned as the king of scheduled jobs? Try systemd timer units
I built a clock from a vfd display and an esp8266 WiFi module just for fun. Since the esp8266 does not have a rtc module and no battery backup it gets it's time from ntp at boot and then every couple hours.
Yeah. And the original statement was ”vastly different”... Definitely disagreeing on that first point
Great question.
No study is going to answer this sufficiently.
But, remember history. The generation that goes through war remembers that hell and appreciates the following peace because they know the contrast. The following generations generally don't have this anchor. It makes intuitive sense when it's framed in basic mammal psychology, which is how we tend to act, despite attempts to ascribe higher meaning.

There's no reason to rely on imperfectly controlled-for studies when we can generally predict a compounding chain of essentially true things.

Furthermore, less work is more freedom and is preferable, whatever the rationalization of the era is.

We'll probably all be better off when we see tenacious belief in "work ethic" as Stockholm Syndrome's cousin, and realize we're still getting things done because we want to be creative and useful.
Even for $30 and out of curiosity I can’t buy Home Mini smart speaker
More customers means more businesses, a wider tax base.
> Cloudflare killed "ANY?" because it was a significant vector in DNS amplification attacks.

No, they explicitly say it was “too expensive”. The traffic amplification excuse is why they got away with doing it – they, themselves, do not benefit from that aspect. Note that most other DNS vendors in the world has kept ANY queries. Cloudflare removed ANY queries because it does not fit their data model of what DNS is, and faking the correct reply to ANY queries as the standard DNS data model would require would be hard for them, since they don’t operate that way, and they don’t see DNS like that.
Open source is dead when the open source community is run with American laws.
> What is more important is having a deep market on Binance

It sounds like you are arguing that being popular is what matters more to being popular
uMatrix is not a "set and forget" thing like uBlock is. Using uMatrix really requires that you understand the (admittedly overwhelming) UI and make decisions for yourself about what you want to allow/block. Personally, I deny nearly everything third-party and make individual exceptions on a per-site basis, which I save for sites I visit regularly.
42 years on, Voyager 2 charts interstellar space
PC and Android on same hotel wifi didnt find each other. Understandable, scanning QR code paired devices nicely.

Did speedtest.net

on PC: 14/10 Mbit down/up with 8ms ping.
on AN: 35/ 7 Mbit down/up with 13ms ping.

Transfering AN -> PC at 3 Mbit/s

When refreshed site on PC to try another direction my PC is stuck on "loading". After restarting browser it went trough, but now my Android is stucked at loading. After completely closing firefox in Android I was finally able to pair again to do speedcheck in other direction:

Transfering PC -> AN at.... 20 MB file transferred, by eye, 20% and got stuck.

Well, the search continues...
> A majority of Cat@Net’s employees are understood to be disabled, allowing the company to derive substantial public subsidies from Poland’s National Disabled Rehabilitation Fund. According to the Reporters Foundation, the company has received about 1.5 million zloty (£300,000) from the fund since November 2015.

I thought this was the worst part.
Knowing my own frustrations with CSS, I cannot imagine any project more maddening than this.
Do you use powerquery? for that?
I don't like taking offence, but I do find it quite offensive you've reduced mine and many others' opinions on nuclear energy to trolling. Most discussions online actually tend to have similar themes, topics and tropes.

Even here on HN, there's occasionally jokes like "cool, how long before they shut it down" on Google's products as an example. There's nothing wrong with this comment but it has the patterns you also ascribed to trolls.
Does that then make the cert a high value target? How do you get people to protect it and use it properly? If it is stolen, does it actually make it HARDER to prove you didn't open the credit line?
Tether claimed to be backed 100% by USD (this claim was walked back in successive stages, but at the time of the 2017 bubble, it was still the claim). To have that, you need $100M - $1B of USD currency sitting in a bank. At that scale, any bank needs to be asking where that money came from to comply with regulations. The goal of Tether, quite literally, is to park money without having to answer those pesky questions, which means no reputable bank is going to take them as a client. Evidently, the "banks" Tether found who could work with them ended up being money launderers who were busy skimming off actual assets Tether was accumulating.

More generally, cryptocurrency carries with it a whiff of KYC/AML regulatory evasion. With the purpose of stablecoins is generally stated as pretending you're trading in USD without actually doing so (and the financial regulations implied by actually doing so kicking in), it is not hard to infer that many, if not most, users are interested solely in evading this rules, which is going to cause banks' compliance officers to look at it very skeptically.
That's a real reach. People are talking about breaking up Google also, and Google already calls all its stuff Google, and that's no defense.

"People know we are one company" isn't a defense against monopoly power.
The people at YC would agree. They put a lot of hard work into this, not all of which is public; they aren't neglecting the issue. It's also, of course, not primarily technical.
I've also read that Steve admired how the Beatles were willing to experiment and change styles to keep up or even stay ahead of the competition. They refused to settle. Despite rocketing on the charts via "hold-hands" teenage dating tunes, they were also early experimenters in psychedelic rock, perhaps even helping to shape it to what it became. They also pivoted to a more heavy blues-ish style later in the decade as the bass-driven "heavy metal" sound grew in strength.

And I do agree with Job's statement that the Beatles "kept each other in check". Paul was a bit to sun-shiney at times, and John too sarcastic or wondering. When they intermixed and made sure they each glued or included these together in the right amount, their music was better. It was a yin-and-yang balance.

Jobs also admired Bob Dylan's bravery for moving from acoustic to electric guitar despite many fans grumbling, calling him a "sellout". Job's allegedly had a recording of fans booing Dylan's new electric guitar during a performance, and responding to the angry fans by yelling at a stage worker to "turn it up!" on the amplifier. Intentionally ticking off fans is a big risk in a music career. (Jobs didn't attend the concert, but collected bootleg tapes as a hobby.)

That definitely sounds like a Job's-style move, being he was known to remove features on devices that he felt would soon be obsolete despite market ubiquity. Whether those music artist incidences influenced Jobs or merely cemented his tendencies is hard to say. It seems he made an effort to learn from the masters, though. The fast-changing music industry mirrors many aspects of rapid technology change.
My alarm clock has the most brilliant feature - a two position slider for activating and deactivating DST. Took me less than a second to make the change this weekend.
I've complained about this before [1], but I once bought a $70 (USD) Microsoft Arc Mouse that required you to both register an MS account and download an app just to be able to turn off the obnoxious synthetic clicking sound that was enabled by default.

I made a second trip to the store that day just to return the the thing.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11390494
> So the moon was melted by earthshine.

Do you have any links with more info on this?
Where does Tether admit this?
That was pretty cool! althought it freaked me out a bit at first...
bought a brand new kit-out macbook the other day. the right arrow key gets stuck already. wtf? and then forgot my dongle at work, no watching hockey on my tv :( seriously, this thing is a shell of the beautiful machine i bought in 2015. but i am pretty excited that my next laptop could be linux! system76 please learn aluminum! ;)
Logistics and refinery technology. It can be easier to move a cargo of crude via ocean than build a pipeline. And refineries are not all identical, western canada has tar sands that produce very heavy oil which require a much more complex refinery with more capital expense, the existing refineries in eastern canada have lower complexity refineries that are well suited to refining Saudi Arabian oil.
I’ve also used bitcoin as a faster and cheaper than banks/western union means of transferring funds between my brother in Australia and myself in Europe.
Update: Will consider opportunities in Berlin, as we're moving there soon (my wife will be studying for PhD at FS Uni).
Hello Hacker News!

I am one of the makers of Chestnut. Chestnut is our response to the wildfire crisis in California.

Five years ago, my co-founder (@nilgundag) and I started a company called UrbanStat. UrbanStat helps insurance companies to understand catastrophic or human-made events better using location intelligence, visualization, and machine learning algorithms. Companies like Sompo Japan, Ageas, Allianz, Safety Insurance, and many more are using our platform today to manage their portfolios, underwrite their customers, and design better products for people and businesses.

Summer of 2018, we have decided to build a better wildfire risk map for California as we realized the current maps are doing a terrible job of explaining the wildfires California has been experiencing in recent years. Our initial plan was to provide this map to the insurance companies so they can understand the wildfire risk better. We quickly realized that the insurance companies are taking a different path. Instead of understanding the problem and mitigate the risk better, they are actually exiting the market by canceling out policies, increasing the premiums 2-10x, and not accepting customers. Another problem consumers are facing in the California market is even if you had insurance when the wildfire hit your property in 2018, there is a 50% chance you have still not received your payments.

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- Damages to your house, personal property, vehicles, landscaping, and other structures
- $100/day you are away from home due to forced evacuations up to 20 days a year
- $100/day you spend in a hospital up to 20 days a year
- $50/day your home is out of power up to 10 days a year

We are working relentlessly to make Chestnut available before the next wildfire season. Until then, we wanted to open our wildfire risk analysis tool to the public.

I am happy to answer your questions and any feedback is welcome!

Thank you,
Anil
What's sad is that either (a) the brouhaha is a either a lie ot justify an overpaid designer's pay, or (b) it's not a lie, and Facebook is openly bragging about covertly manipulating its users via branding.
With a small float and Saudi state owning the other 98% it means that high price can be maintained with little inflow, but global passive equity investors are mandated (I think?) to hold a big chunk of this overpriced equity due to the huge market cap. Anyone know if that is correct?
> Many people were saying this, Paul Krugman (one of the leading economists) went as far as comparing the internet to the fax machine:

And he caught a bunch of shit for it, even at the time. You keep trying to conflate critics of Bitcoin, many of whom have technical & finance backgrounds, with the largely non-technical crowd that didn't understand the web back in the 90s.

> I'm too young to live through it, but luckily I studied it in university :-)

What's the name of this "history of the internet" course(s) you took? The most historical context I ever got consisted of maybe a few intro paragraphs on Arpanet in my networking 101 class.
Given how poor the management sounds, that person could have worked a second job without too much trouble while in the office. I've seen it done in multiple companies.
Driver safety 'arms race' fuelling boom in gas-guzzling SUVs, says journalist
>There's an old adage that headquarters is wherever the CEO works.

Is that an adage or it is the literal meaning of the word "headquarters"? The head's quarters - and the premier definition of headquarters if you look it up in Merriam.
Note that the 50% figure is marginal tax rate. In California, it’s basically what you pay in your 500,000-th dollar. Which is higher than the 45% you’d pay in the UK. (Though the tax burden is higher in the U.K. unless you make millions because the brackets kick in earlier.)

The figure I cited above is from a tax calculator that I’ve found to be pretty accurate. Note that the various deductions are much less valuable for high income earners under Trump’s new tax plan due to the limit on SALT deductions. Finally, while the calculator I used excludes US credits for healthcare, children, etc., the calculator I used for the U.K. also does that. The hypothetical is basically a single Google programmer who rents and has no kids.
Agreed – and fwiw if this line resonates:

"you are interested in having a more flexible career, and not just writing code, but also getting more into the "business" side of things"

I'd also recommend that engineers look into career switching to product management.
Some must frown upon it. I am on good terms with quite a few women--some from work, some from the neighborhood, some from other circles, and it doesn't appear to bother my wife. She has male college friends in the area, not that she sees them much, and that certainly doesn't bother me.

But it strikes me that being in a committed relationship, married or not, removes a portion of one's life from conversation. It strikes me as awkward to speak in a much more than neutral tone about one's spouse. This really goes for conversations with the same sex as much as for conversations with the opposite sex.
The purpose is to position products in a way that avoids a negative impression, in a manner that might impact sales. I would not be surprised to hear that OEMs view this quirk product positioning in a positive light. It doesn't take much to imagine a customer thinking to themselves "Why are the laptop CPUs only in the 2000's when the desktop CPUs are in the 3000's? I'll wait and buy later."

So AMD wants to position the current-best available products in each market segment as the current generation numerically, branding-wise, without respect to manufacturing process details. Most consumers don't know what a "process" or "architecture" is anyway. Then the nerds who track these things, such as ourselves, will complain, but we won't be fooled by it.

If that seems to you like taking advantage of people, then yes, that is exactly what they are doing.

Intel dodges this problem (at least for the last 4-5 years) by shipping their mobile SKUs on a new march or process first, and the nerds waiting on DIY Desktop parts their "8th Gen" or "9th Gen" or whatever later.
Retail tricks: they make you psychological splurge this holiday season
The TV series Rome (set around Julius Caesar's era) shows a guy orating/reading the daily news which was generally propaganda for whomever was in power, in the making of the accompanying the series, a consultant claims this was historically accurate. Several details in the series seem fantastical to modern viewers but have some historical basis.
He works for MicroSoft. Of course he can't "name & shame" companies that do stupid things.
From the article:
> Companies are required to transmit real-time data on all trips made within the city, including the start point, end point and travel time.

From your comment:
> real time data on customer behavior

If the article is to be trusted (I have no other sources) then this analogy is inaccurate. The city, by this reporting is not asking for customer behavior, its asking for scooter location, and for that matter, not even the route of the ride.

It's worth noting that each of your examples are of industries or professions that have large bureaucracies and are heavily regulated. I'm sure pharmacies share data about what's being bought and sold with regulatory agencies, and I don't think any of us would want that to not be the case. Otherwise how and why would you trust any drug to be what the label says it is.

How could the CDC identify causes of outbreaks if doctors didn't share health information with them? Of course privacy is a huge issue which is pervasive in all of this, but to consider a regulation of shady rideshare companies preposterous is missing a lot of the reality of government.

I'm not for any side in this story, but I am especially uncomfortable with the fierce defense of the rideshare companies in this thread.
Post-Quantum TLS Now Supported in AWS KMS
I always say this in the vain hope that someone at Dell listens/hears, and I admit I haven't checked since buying my last one.

But please, PLEASE, make them for sale in Australia! I want xps laptops! I don't want windows!
There is a lot of value on your alarm clock not receiving messages and phone calls, and not having any other interface that isn't related to reading the time or waking you up at the correct instant.