skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I once had a warrant issued for my arrest because I forgot to take care of a “fix-it” ticket. I got the letter in the mail and even the stress of driving a car was incredible. All it takes is going just a touch too fast and your life would change in an instant. Any whirling lights created intense anxiety.

I only lasted about a week after I got the letter before I went to the station on my own time. Technically they were supposed to book me and then process the “fix it” paperwork (burned out headlight!) but in their words “the booking room is full and you’d just be released any way; but maybe next time take care of this faster?”

I did send my mom a copy of the letter informing me the warrant for my arrest had been rescinded...
Digging into Extendible Hashing
And mean, there's no public source for the videocore processor. You can't get it even with a wink and a nod like you could with Lion's commentary.
Anecdata follows:

After LASIK my wife complained for months about seeing a halo around street lights at night time, until I convinced her, that with my then nearly perfect vision I also see them depending on how tired I am.

Before that she believed they were caused by the surgery, so might have responded "slightly dissatisfied" on the survey.

She probably never saw the halos before it, because her vision would simply blur them out together with everything else. Or simply never paid attention.
I would make sure to use Google Cloud Print, and restrict all local access to your printer (e.g. can only print via Chrome via Google Cloud Print).

Typically printers will expose more security settings via SNMPv3 and you should take advantage of these (absolutely amazing learning opportunity for up and coming sysadmins/cloud engineers too).

I think HP is highly underrated for their printer security currently. Yes, it’s probably hackable in 5 mins like everything else in that space, but it has signed firmware! And they are the first printer company to be participating in a big bounty saas platform! Good things all around.

Also go with a monochrome black and white printer laser toner to really get costs down. You don’t need color as much as is thought...
Is it possible that the sites that outrank yours are preferred by search users?
One data point. I had Lasik done about 15 years ago. No problem so far except for the occasional dryness after waking up in the morning. After all the years, still have 20/20 on one eye and the other deteriorated to 20/30. I would consider a success.
If two PHP developer and a community person launches a social network, can we actually call it a Facebook rival? It's lightyears away from feature parity.
Levitating Strings
Interesting. Because resting my left hand on the keyboard my pinky is on shift, ring on a, middle on e, index on f.

I also use tmux. I do a remapping to ctrl-s because I use ctrl-a (and ctrl-e) all the time to go to the beginning and end of lines. And let's be real, the normal behavior of ctrl-s (suspending) is not something I'm ever going to use on purpose.

But also I'm not using a mac.

> I hate having to press both keys with one hand for Ctrl key combos (ctrl-a being the only exception).

Do you not use panes? In vim? Because I use those quite a lot.
Cool WSL tips and tricks you (or I) didn't know were possible
>Kubernetes allows us to run workloads (Flink, Cassandra, Spark, and Kafka, among others) that were once difficult to manage under Mesos (due to local state requirements).

Just wanted to clarify that running Cassandra & Kafka on Mesos is much easier now with the DC/OS Commons SDK.[1]
Spark has always been supported on Mesos.[2]

[1]https://github.com/mesosphere/dcos-commons

Cassandra:https://docs.d2iq.com/mesosphere/dcos/services/cassandra/2.7...

Kafka:https://docs.d2iq.com/mesosphere/dcos/services/kafka/2.8.0-2...

[2]https://docs.d2iq.com/mesosphere/dcos/services/spark/2.9.0-2...
Oh wow! I co-lead these efforts at Pulumi. I don't think we expected this to hit HN! :) Happy to answer questions about any of this.

Parenthetical, one thing that didn't make it into this post that I'm particularly optimistic about is the `watch` command, which will continuously watch your code and deploy it to (say) Kubernetes. It looks like this[1]. This is very handy when you're trying to build a thing that has to integrate with a bunch of other services, but there are too many to develop locally on minikube. It basically lets you see instantly if something crashes, or whatever. In general I'm very optimistic about that sort of experience—another product in that space is Tilt[4] which I am personally a big fan of.

Another thing that gets kind of a passing mention that is cooler than it looks here is our streaming `query` stuff. By exposing Kubernetes `watch`es as streaming queries, it becomes very easy to write very cool apps like this one[2] , which helps you debug services. You can actually see a bug in the Deployment controller there—we create two `Deployment`s with the same labels, and deleting one causes the controller to delete _all_ the pods. This would generate a transient 500 for any request hitting that service. I think there are probably lots of bugs in Kubernetes like this, but people don't notice them because this level of visibility previously was quite hard. :) To get an idea of how hard that sort of app is to write, you can see the code we wrote for the prototype of this SDK here[3].

[1]: https://twitter.com/funcofjoe/status/1195411343966236677?s=2...

[2]: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Q2f8CZhswMvTliaLlHZK4vItdM...

[3]: https://github.com/carbonql/carbon-ts/blob/master/examples/u...

[4]: https://tilt.dev/
This is terribly sad. It's also a good lesson in why not to tie your well-being to your identity (or anything else that's impermanent -- which, actually, includes everything). It's a lesson I'm still learning.
I don't mind the meaning of words changing, I just don't like words being thrown around to the point they are meaningless. Words like "fascism" and "nazi" have lost meaning, particularly on the internet, as they are frequently used by political ideologues to describe anything to the right of Justin Trudeau.

Abusing terms in politics isn't new of course but it's not something we should be encouraging or ignoring because there are some legitimate consequences. The obvious one is the disinterest/dismissal it generates when people legitimately do need to raise the alarm because people have been crying wolf incessantly. It also helps the legitimately bad guys to dismiss the attacks and pretend they are just like the moderates facing exaggerated attacks from an hysterical foe.
Nothing Digital Can Be Secret from the Authorities
You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time ... but in general, while people may be fooled by The Onion a few times, they tend to learn and do better in the future.
- Abraham Lincoln
- Michael Scott
I think this is this is a great habit to get into early in life.

I will however recommend one thing.

Find out what internal representation of information works for you. I am an extremely visual thinker to whom things click the second they are put into context or situated in a flow chart / graph of concepts.

Since I have started started fitting every new thing into that mental model, I have started found memorizing significantly easier.

IMO, good studying and work structuring habits are among the most valuable long term skills a person can learn.
Show HN: An anonymous bulletin board that allows anyone to post
I edited the submitted title, which erroneously claimed 1 PetaFlop/s. It's delivers 1 PetaOp/s (presumably 8-bit SIMD operations), 250 TeraFlop/s.
I'd occasionally notice taking the wrong used glass by the smell and even know who used it if it was someone close. Lots of pheromones and stuff, nothing unusual about it. I wouldn't say it's a bad smell, I just don't like using cups after my relatives, close friends, or well, other people. Drinking after single attractive ladies being mostly non-weird.

The sense does depend heavily on state of mind, and body, so sometimes I'd only notice when already drinking. Works better on people I know well.
Ask HN: Should you find funding for your startup if you're freelancing to live?
Hi,
I'm a 20 yo developer, I'm currently working on an MVP that I plan on launching soon.
I worked on another project before, I left before launch because of personal problems(which are solved now).
I'm currently freelancing part-time to pay for my expenses while working on my project(I have a long term contract with one client).

Should I spend time and resources on trying to get funding to be able to work full time on the project? I want to apply to a program extremely similar to YC(in another country), I don't know if this is the best use of my time and resources.

I'm fairly confident in my ability to build a good product and to market it decently, I'm not so confident about my ability to convince investors, pitching and powerpoints aren't part of my strengths for now, also I don't think I look really good on paper, I'm pretty sure I'm good at what I'm doing, but convincing investors of this could to be hard.

My goal isn't really to launch a huge company, so I don't know if this could cause a lot of issues when dealing with investors, I don't know if I should try to hide or minimize this when looking for funding, or maybe try other forms of funding(crowdfunding, loans etc...)

I agree with Paul Graham who said on Lecture 3 of "How to create a startup", that launching a startup(especially a would-be unicorn) at my age is probably a bad idea, that it's too soon to potentially dedicate a decade of your life to your project if it gain traction, and that you should probably "live" a bit first(travel, trying different things..).

So my goal is mostly to be able to work on an interesting project that I chose while being "relatively free" in how I work, and maybe if I'm lucky reach "financial freedom" in a few years, but I don't think that aiming to build a unicorn would be an optimal choice.

What would you do if you were in my position?
Plenty of people upvote and comment without ever reading the article.

Actual URL appears to be https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/express-js-security-tips/

(I think submitter mistakenly pasted title into URL field)
Ha! I co-lead these efforts, and what I will say is that we try not to "lead the witness" here. :) So customers choose Kubernetes, and then we help them, but we don't help them to choose Kubernetes, so to speak.
Have you been on Twitter in the last three years? Have you heard of 4Chan?

That statement is disturbingly incorrect.
Express.js Security Tips: How You Can Save and Secure Your App
I would hope. In my experience, sometimes government offices can be specific about payments.

For example, my sister had to pay a speeding ticket and the courthouse only accepted cash and money orders, iirc.

It all depends on where you get arrested/whatever.
I don't understand why authors frequently use the term "quietly" in article titles. ZDNet is a fairly significant site, there is nothing 'quiet' about this at all. And if you wanted to actually compete with Facebook, you'd want to get this message everywhere possible. Network effects are real for a platform like Facebook.
The DeskMini has a full blown AM4 socket, meaning you can drop in any of their desktop processors (mostly limited to their apu's, though, if you want to use those video outputs). These nucs use low power version of ryzen chips more akin to intels xeon-d lineup. The chip and IO choices make it clear these aren't intended for the desktop market for the most part, but for a small dev/home cluster could be drop in replacement for NUCs, especially given the dual NICs. I'm considering replacing an intel bassed homelab with them currently.
I haven't used WSL in a couple months, andbhavent pulled out a Windkws box in a while, but recall trying it and just typing `clear` completely broke scrolling.

Anyone else experience this? Was it fixed? Hopefully it will be at least in WSL2
LAPD Investigating After Woman Heard Screaming in Chilling Doorbell Video
Tesla, sure, but SpaceX was all Elon Musk, unless I am living in an alternative universe. His friends all tried to convince him he was crazy to start a rocket company. One even put together a montage of rocket explosions to try to keep him from doing it.
I thought ceph had a reputation of easy to run, at least compared to it's rivals in the distributed storage space. (gluster, lustre, et al)
Well, some people may just throw the term around, but if you read the definition, it’s easy to see why some people might think that we are on the brink of Fascism taking root in America:

“Fascism (/ˈfæʃɪzəm/) is a form of far-right, authoritarian ultranationalism characterized by dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition, and strong regimentation of society and of the economy.”

I mean, we have supporters of the US President chanting “lock her up,” and propaganda outlets accusing US Democrats of being “treasonous” and “enacting an illegal coup,” which sounds like preparing the way for “forced suppression of opposition.”

We may disagree with them, but surely we can understand that some of the people using this word are sincerely attempting to use it in good faith.

Wikipedia goes on to discuss the relationship between Fascism and economic policy:

“Fascists advocate a mixed economy, with the principal goal of achieving autarky (national economic self-sufficiency) through protectionist and interventionist economic policies.”

That sounds like the current US administration. The most interesting bit to me is this quote:

“Fascists believe that liberal democracy is obsolete and regard the complete mobilization of society under a totalitarian one-party state as necessary to prepare a nation for armed conflict and to respond effectively to economic difficulties.”

Does the US administration believe that liberal democracy is obsolete? As a citizen of a country where we bend over backwards to help people vote, I look at the voter suppression in the US and can’t help but think that America is more interested in “democracy theatre” than democracy, but that’s just an opinion, and I am aware that most Americans vigorously disagree.

Likewise, when the people of America elected Mr. Obama, and there was a vacant supreme court seat plus a hundred other vacant judgeships, I would have thought that the GOP-controlled senate refusing to hear any of the President’s nominations was a sign of their disinterest in democracy, especially in the will of the people who elected and then re-elected Mr. Obama.

But again... I imagine most Americans disagree. That being said, if someone does hold the view that the current administration, or various far-right groups out there have turned away from democracy, even if we disagree with them, can we not accept that they are using the word “Fascist” in good faith?
Fair question. That's not how these demotion work.

More details follow. But whether my metaphor is apt or not doesn't eliminate the fact that a Google employee informed me about the demotion.

The following is a FAQ taken from the page on my website about the demotion. It's written for a general audience.

Q: I just did a Google search and your site appeared in the first few results. Does that mean that the penalty has been removed?

A: No.

"Google Juice" is an informal term for how favorably Google views a website and pages on that website. There are a lot of factors that go into how much juice websites and pages earn.

Every time you do a search, Google's algorithms evaluate every page on the web to decide how relevant each page is to your query - how much Google Juice each of the pages has for your query. Then they show the search results, which are ordered by the amount of Google Juice each page has.

What the penalty does is subtract an amount of Google Juice from every page on this site. But whether that means we appear 1st, 2nd, or 307th in the search results depends on how much juice each of the other pages on the web have for your query.

You could think of it as a foot race. The penalty doesn't work as in: however you finish in the race, Google will drop you down by 9 places. It works as in: Google attaches a 20 pound weight to your foot, and whether that means you finish 1st or 307th depends on how good the other runners are.

So sometimes pages from this site appear towards the top of search results. That just means that those specific pages have enough Google Juice - and other pages on the web have so little Google Juice - that even with the penalty, we can appear towards the top. But overall, the penalty drags our pages down far enough that we would get about three times as many visitors if the penalty weren't in place.
> There is always a victim even if it is yourself.

That's simply nonsense, and incredibly authoritarian.

In any free society the state simply shouldn't be probing into the private lives and bodies of citizens. If an adult makes the informed decision to do something to their own body, they are not a victim. Thinking otherwise strips people of their agency.
There are different price-comparison sites in Europe, so I usually go directly to idealo.de and there are so many choices! Amazon is not even the cheapest place.
It would be pretty neat if we launched Voyager 3 & 4 around 2150, following the same 175 year cycle "Grand Tour" of the original Voyagers. I also wonder if the power source in 2150 would still need to be a RTG or if we will have an alternative by then.
If we're conducting an arms race against someone who wants to deliberately obscure the source of disinformation, we're going to lose that by attrition, flat out, following the same basic argument I made originally.

Snopes, and anyone else actively trying to combat disinformation, absolutely have to use their resources wisely, the enemy has a lot more money and time.
Larry's been here a few times! https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=lsanger

Just mentioning for curiosity's sake.
I'll concede that a small closet can get pretty warm from even lower power devices. However, as long as the CPU isn't overheating and the space is clean and dry, it doesn't matter.
Did you make this account just to make this post?
So in your opinion if someome works on the infrastructure for surveillance capitalism that doesn't amount to tacit approval of the model?
What? The Freedom Box project seems to still be going strong. The associated, pluggable hardware has "disappeared" mostly because it doesn't seem to do much over what a plain old single-board computer (SBC) or mini-PC can do already.
I suspect the halo thing is not an objective problem. People just get alert and start noticing it, or could not see it before due to blurriness. That was my impression after having several conversations with my wife who had LASIK and complained about halos.

It finally convinced her, when several consecutive days I had what she described as "halos" because I was tired and could not properly focus at late night.

Myself having a nearly perfect vision at the time never paid attention to them before she expressed her concert about that effect after surgery.
The author of the article is already well known among AnandTech readers for this type of copy/pasta articles with glaring errors and little to no proof reading and fact checking. Take this article for example where a month and a half later the table still states stuff like 3x32GB=128GB, 4x32GB=256GB [0].

[0] https://www.anandtech.com/show/14964/gskill-launches-32-gb-d...
>When I spoke with Limelight several years ago, they had a reasonably nice model for fanning out streams hierarchically so a single feed could be fanned out very widely late at the last mile.

So... multicast?
It could, by saying that the category for a product in the store is immutable and that if you want to change it, you must create a new item. If that doesn't work, extend it to the item's title and removing any of the pictures of the product (you can add more, but it's append only). Should work fine to prevent this.
New Horizons is heading out of the solar system too. But it's moving about half as fast as the Voyagers and won't hit the heliopause until after 2050. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_artificial_objects_lea...
> I spent 9 years there drifting to 300+ credits

This sounds expensive
I love Wikipedia. I know almost nothing about Jimmy Wales bar hearing one radio interview with him the content of which I do not recall. And yet somehow his name is a negative for me. How does that happen?
U.S. Supreme Court to hear Google bid to end Oracle copyright suit
Why on earth does it feel sketchy to you. As far as I can tell this service will be devoid of adverts and tracking, which means that it will be entirely funded by subscribers. You can't really expect him to buy all the servers and bandwidth and provide it all to you for nothing out of his own pocket. That's just stupid. It seems to me the idea is that early access subscribers pay for the initial equipment. They then release an initial block of free accounts. As they get more paying subscribers they can invest in more infrastructure and release more free accounts.

If they were just to give accounts out free immediately they would be inundated and the servers might not be able to cope.

This allows them to grow the service organically with paying subscribers supporting the "freeloaders".

Hope that clears it up.
Do you mean interstellar probes? The Voyager missions were primarily planetary exploration missions, which NASA and other space agencies continue to run with new probes every few years. The interstellar exploration piece was kind of a secondary feature of the missions taking advantage of high speeds from all the gravity assists along the way.

I don't think we'll see a dedicated interstellar probe for a long time. It just takes too much energy to get out that far in a reasonable amount of time without radical designs or a big leap in propulsion technology.
I know this will probably get downvoted. It's impossible to predict how your app will fail ahead of time. So test driven development (for the most part) is a waste of time. Every test you write will either continue to pass forever not providing useful information to you or will need to be updated when new features are added to the software, making them costly to have in place. Meanwhile they reveal very few defects that wouldn't easily be caught with a basic smoke test you need to do anyway.

Of course, there are always exceptions. if you have software that is highly complex but the outputs are very simple and easy to measure then it might actually be a good idea.
What Disney content are you referring to? In my mind Disney has Star Wars and movies for children. The only great thing that comes to mind is Pixar, but I am not going to pay monthly for two handfuls of movies. But seeing as you are so enthusiastic about their content, it must be my ignorance.

So, again and from a place of interest, what content are you referring to?
Oh hey, that's me in the article :-)

After getting a fraudulent bag from Amazon, it was frustrating to have to fight for a refund. While my credit card would have easily processes a chargeback, I'm afraid do that. If you don't play by the rules of a marketplace, then you risk getting banned.
<queue donation-time-of-the-year-puppy-dog-eyes photo>
>> "Here's how I think of it: I have no doubt that anyone could take a room full of software engineers and start a functioning news organization the next day."

Go ahead. Let's see it.
I think faking growth until you achieve actual growth is the time-honored tradition of social media websites, and can flip a failure into a success by getting people to feel that, "Am I missing out?" feeling again.

I don't think WT:Social is doing that right now though, so not sure what their plan is to combat what you're talking about.
NYC Will Spend $249M on New Cops to Save $200M on Fare Evasion
Because who knows what kind of private company information might possibly be leaked otherwise in commit messages. From a legal point of view, it's a lot easier to start with a clean slate.
What team did those people work for?