skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey nso, thanks! I'm the maker of collective.energy - as you identified, it was originally based on NodeBB but has been highly customized to the needs of our community. Over time, we're moving more and more to our own tools & stack. What specifically are you enjoying about it?
You are going to have to put up with people asking about the keyboard for a while. They've been blowing smoke up our asses for two years about how they 'fixed' the old one. 4 revisions in it's... better, but still reminiscent of the sorts of keyboards that nobody would buy after trying.

The reaction is going to be, "Yeah, I know they said they fixed the keyboard, but really, did they fix the keyboard?" from quite a lot of people.
After 40 years, you’d think we’d have better evidence:

http://news.mit.edu/2019/mit-jpal-what-126-studies-tell-us-a...
I do not understand how you cannot see that this logic is suicidal. We can show solidarity with developing countries in other ways but we can't irreparably damage the planet's life support system.
Compared to Linux on a laptop: the over-tweaked Mazda RX7 rolling down the road, loud as hell, where the slightest wrong bump may give you hours of fun/hell in fixing parts. You're also missing seats because you put a roll-cage in for whatever reason.;P
So it would be pretty much similar to all these dime a dozen VPN companies shilling "Ultimate anonymity! Safe from hackers! Screw the fed!" but it's just in a physical form.

Interesting!
There was also a Black Mirror episode.
Syncthing and DecSync have helped me a lot in this regard.
What's illegal about what you described?

In community property states, only assets acquired after the marriage are divided in half upon divorce.

Maybe making a fake receipt is illegal? But if it's for a fictitious jeweler, it would not be.
During the Jobs era Apple had:

4 different types of iPods - Shuffle, Nano, Classic, Touch

3 iPhones: gen, gen-1, gen-2

3 laptops: Air, MacBook, Macbook Pro,

4 desktops: Mini, iMac, Mac Pro, XServe.

It was only the "Jobs way" when they were about to go bankrupt.
Apple open sources ServiceTalk, a JVM network application framework
When I ordered a max spec MBP there was a 2 week lead time before it was shipped overnight directly from Shenzhen to our office in California.

My interpretation was that Apple does not build and hold inventory of every SKU, certain configurations are built at the time of purchase and it took 2 weeks for the factory to process our order.
You mean Lxc and kernel namespaces is the best thing to happen to software in the last 20 years?
I found the old link from 2012 with their original release: https://github.blog/2012-07-09-github-android-app-released/
You are correct about the distribution of certain crimes, but you've entirely missed the point.*

Problems like violence have multiple causes, but are widely understood to be linked to problems of poverty, inequality, and marginalization. Violence is also self-perpetuating through social networks. When an incautious user of statistical tools fails to investigate the causal story behind such findings, they're going to get the wrong answer. When a policymaker acts on incomplete or misleading findings, they're going to make the problem worse.

*Unless you're arguing that it's the fact of being non-white which makes people more violent, in which case I have nothing to say to you.
Both countries invaded, both English and French speaking people built it into what it is today. Arguing about which imperialist culture was there first (especially when the difference is so small historically) to justify attempts to exclude one of those cultures is VERY different than arguing that imperialized regions have a right to independence. There is a vast difference between spreading discrimination/hate and advocating self-determination.

In general, I am in favor of the rights of regions to self determination as it is generally better when people are ruled by a government they consent to.

I support the right of Hong Kong, Catalonia, Quebec, Scottland and others to succeed if the majority of their inhabitants have a strong and consistent desire to leave.

I do not support discriminatory policies or attitudes that are intended to drive certain groups of people away.
Well, it's not just channel deletion anymore, soon they'll be able to deny thought criminals access to their money (in other words, steal their money).

It'll eventually come to the point where thought criminals won't be able to get police protection or get healthcare.

We live in a society, I guess.
Is there an opening here for some enterprising persons to try to develop systems to try to determine the biases present in training data?
Change for the sake of change isn't innovation, it's a waste of time.

Spending hours fiddling with a dysfunctional keyboard that breaks after a week of normal use or has a gimmicky non-standard layout is not how I want to spend my finite time and mental energy.
I'm not going to be surprised if FPGAs of the future start building in on-chip non-blocking CLOS-networks to more efficiently route messages across the chip.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clos_network

Dedicated-hardware that serves a purpose. Sure, you can build a CLOS-network out of LUTs, but it'd be more efficient if you made dedicated hardware for it instead.
The long game may trend towards USB-C, but in the meantime Apple made the Macbook Pro less usable for people who want to do actual work. How is it better to have to manage a bag full of dongles when Apple easily could've included the ports that people frequently use like SD and USB-A?

It was a bad decision 2 years ago when they introduced this generation of Macbook Pros, and it's still a bad decision.
Show HN: Branch – office furniture that grows with you
What if there was a browser extension that randomly selected, say, about 1% of requests to be routed through tor? Everybody using it would help make Tor safer, while being just minimally annoyed by the latency and the CAPTCHAs. Plus it might incentivize hosts to be less annoying to Tor users, if they saw a bigger fraction of legitimate traffic. I think I'd chip in and use it...

Anything wrong with that idea?
Great ideas!

Progress bar would definately be useful even if subtle.

The pairing is not a bad idea, let me give that one some thought
This sounds like a brilliant idea, and I'm almost wanting to build it myself. If we can tack on a visual head and sync up the lips to the words, it'd be amazing and would likely go viral.
The Tor FAQ addresses this at

https://2019.www.torproject.org/docs/faq.html.en#EverybodyAR...

Some other problems:

* Possibly Sybil attacks get worse or harder to detect, because attackers can convincing simulate being a bunch of regular users with a browser

* Possibly mitigating malicious nodes gets harder, because people can create lots of super-ephemeral nodes that fail to forward traffic, but there's no way to notice this in time to protect other users

* Users could be very angry about relaying exit traffic without expecting it, especially if they got in legal trouble as a result (when EFF ran a campaign to encourage people to run Tor nodes, we discouraged people from running exit nodes in their homes)
Timestamps across distributed systems don't work well as correlation tools as time tends not to be accurate enough to order application retries particularly but also fan out type requests. You really want parent / child or follows from relationships to collect and represent the graph correctly.

Source: Working on distributed tracing at Twilio and Stitch Fix
Why Are Some People So Good at Falling Asleep?
Well, the thing about the internet is that it's completely open: implementers work off of specifications. If you're curious what sort of back doors might be in the specifications, you can read them all at ietf.org (although there are a lot of them). How they're implemented varies from one implementation to the next, but they _have_ to follow the specification, or else they won't be compatible with other implementations, leaving little room for "secret" back doors in the specifications themselves.
Docker CLI is open-source - https://github.com/docker/cli
Docker Engine is open-sourced in its community edition - https://github.com/docker/docker-ce
I've used Fasthub for Android before which was great. There is also a fully libre / FLOSS version that has the paid features added in (which you can do since the entire app is GPL). I remember a Github issue where the creator was mad about it, but well, if you pick GPL you should know what you're getting into.

https://github.com/k0shk0sh/FastHub
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.fastaccess.github.libre/
Whether or not the differences in society are the product of bias is it's own can of worms. But what you're writing is demonstrative of what I'm saying. People, unlike machines, tend to regard differences between groups with suspicion and are biased against acknowledging these differences. Machines, on the other hand, do not harbor these biases and build a model that reflects the reality we live in.

As I wrote in my original comment, there are potential justifications as to why we might want to introduce bias in our machine learning models to prevent the from identifying things we don't want. But the point remains: building a model that, for example, associates technology with men and women at equal rates despite the disparity that exists in the reality is not the elimination of bias. It's the deliberate introduction of bias to make the model produce a result that is in line with what we consider a more ideal worldview.
Did you know that there's an entire field called Computer Science - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_science
But it's pretty unergonomic.
Unless that is a recent change, I don't think it's true. I connected Venmo to my bank with just routing and account numbers
How would "overloading the user" be quantified when buying the ads, though? Sure maybe you could calculate ROI from the ads like you mentioned, or track some other engagement metric, but by then you've already paid for the ads.
It's always been true, but there is a difference in scale due to the reach of modern media.
COmpanies buy "security" "turnkey" solutions all the time, why would this be anything different?

All that networking hardware terminating SSL between external and internal traffic can also read all a company's traffic, but I guess Cisco or some chinese manufacturer is more trustworthy...right?

... not affliated with the OP at all.

Some of the security groups at major fort-500 companies I've worked at were run by people that could powerpoint well, graduated from surfing suitcase schools, and showed no awareness of even mass media security failings (heartbleed).

You'd think these divisions would have extremely smart PhD level security folks that could follow the basics of what the attacks used, but they were all just people that did vendor RFPs, made dumb policies (8 char max password, only use approved versions of software that were already out of date and had known vulnerabilities, internal password change site wouldn't show in Chrome because the cipher suite was hopelessly compromised)
Yeah, the core reason to use Helm is for the ecosystem. The value that comes from being able to quickly set up and compose packages on https://github.com/helm/charts/ is larger than the (very) annoying YAML templating and chart reliability issues.

Lots of Helm charts have bugs, but lots of PyPI/NPM/Maven packages have bugs as well.

Jsonnet, Cue, and operators are nice, but unless someone can create an ecosystem that is as valuable as the Helm ecosystem, I don't see Helm disappearing.
The oodaloop article is a summary of the NYtimes (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/11/technology/artificial-int...) article which is more detailed. Also pleasantly surprised in the NYTimes accurate description of what BERT was trained to do (masked word prediction and next sentence prediction) and the implications of that.

I have worked closely with BERT and other language models for our startup. There is a disconnect between the capabilities and the state of AI research today and the public's expectations and imagination. There's also fundamental confusion between scale and intelligence. That is the public largely believes the efficacy of many "AI" models on large scale problems is equivalent to intelligence. That assumption is problematic in both overestimating the capabilities of these models and misdirecting the focus of critical inquiry.

Hopefully, there is more education around the limitations and capabilities of these technologies. We should be more cautious in apply them to usecases where there is high potential of negative consequences.
It doesn't really mean anything except: we have more money. You might read it as a signal that they didn't want to give details for whatever reason.
And leading to wide swaths of users being banned from tons of sites that use one of the many publicly-available tor banlists for some reason they have zero understanding of.
You know tides are not caused by climate, right?
This really puts the work in perspective. Thank you for the summary!
I'm wondering if I should start talking about bad cops and calling them "bad oranges". But I don't think people will get it.
Maybe just don't get married if that's how you are planning to start your marriage.
This is exactly what they are designed to do.

The scary part is, they can do so on a different level than your average human. Pouring over larger sets of data quickly, than you or I have time to consume in our entire lives.

The largest issue, however, is that an AI can find and shed light on dislikable realities of the world.

Racism, sexism, culturism, opposing political opinions... Perspectives that are not "PC" still exist and permeate the digital world along with the physical one. Creating unbiased data is, imo, impossible, as I am also biased, and so are you. I don't know what unbiased data is.

I can certainly say that I have held racist, sexist, religious, and political views at various stages of my life - based on small sample set data, and biased trainers. I have grown a better understanding and no longer hold many of the naive beliefs that I held when I was younger, and will continue to realize how ignorant I am as I live.

The same process will probably happen for any AI.
I think the good thing about your statement - is it tells me it's simply a product iteration or user experience modification. Those can be simple
It inflates the value of land that is truly worth little because anything you build there would be destroyed and nobody in their right mind would insure you for any reasonable sum.

Reasonable insurance is expected cost * probability + enough margin for a small profit + cover bad bets.

The gap between a reasonable rate and the rate paid is a gift paid to homeowners with above average wealth and builders with below average sense.

Since builders can earn more building a home that will be flooded out in 7 years with a higher selling price by virtue of beings water front property but only if the government subsidizes insurance they are directly incentivized to do so.
...which is exactly the kind of "treating culturally- and situationally-contextual results like inherent facts" bias the article is talking about.
Interactive website tours are an indication that the thing being toured isn't intuitive. The solution is to an unintuitive interface is to redesign the interface, not create a modal unskippable tutorial.

I acknowledge that some interfaces may be needfully complex, in which case this tool might be useful. However, I suspect more often than not, this tool will enable frustrating, disorienting, and confusing tutorials to a degree where they become even more pervasive.
The word 'woman' isn't found once on this page. This title seems strangely inflammatory.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21523736

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21526058 has few comments but points to a long interview with Phil Schiller that has some interesting things but (brace yourself) says basically nothing about the touch bar.
What are they checking for?
The title of the blog is "We’re Rewarding the Question Askers" and a quick ctrl+f "women" turned up empty. Was the headline altered? Is this editorialized?

We can do better than this, HN.
If anyone wants to clone or contribute to the written version of this guide, it is on GitHub: https://github.com/soygul/QuanticDev/blob/master/articles/ma...
And you have the freedom to block/skip ads from your TV, too.
Error Monitoring with PySpark Using Sentry
Luckily now people don't ever believe photographs as sole evidence in the court of public opinion, and always corroborate that evidence.

Wait. No. I had that backward.

How long has photo manipulation been around? And people still fall for it every minute of every day.

I have zero faith these tech developments will lead to anything good, or that we'll even learn how to deal with them effectively.
There are billion of vectors that are still fingerprintable. Best examples are fonts and window decorations. And these cannot be fixed by Brave without increasing entropy. And brave should know this.
I must admit I am perplexed by the last line in the story:
"Donate today, and Mozilla will match every dollar of your donation."

I personally do not think that Mozilla is doing enough to protect its users and is partially to blame for where we are.
They seem to be piling more and more features on that users don't want.
I like the solidity of openbsd, but I'll defend linux here in two ways. First, the gpl2 license. There was a time when linux was way way ahead in terms of functionality, and in my estimation it was due to the copyleft licensing. It opened a floodgate of pent up demand to establish an open platform on which companies could standardize. Some have said that linux's success was an accident of timing, as the bsd's were hampered by lawsuits at the time, but to my mind the lawsuits made copyleft that much more attractive.

Second, the incredible flexibility of linux allows it to work in so many wildly different applications. It's a monolithic design, but it's so flexible you don't need to worry about it; it can be as narrow or as broad as you want it to be.
Is that true? It appears as though one task will be unlocked for $9.99.
Funny article. Surprisingly useful (as someone who is not part of VC Twitter)
Interfaces change, but making the switch too early makes it needlessly painful. I mean, how does it make sense that Apple's own iPhone and iPad don't plug directly into Macbooks without a dongle?

I mean, why stop there? Apple could just go to zero ports and force everyone to use Wi-Fi peripherals. They could sell a wi-fi peripheral hub for backwards compatibility. Then they could get rid of the power port and use inductive charging. That would make for an insanely sleek machine, even if it were insanely painful to use.
Anything MS is about driving traffic to Azure and avoid leaking traffic to AWS/GCP.

In this context, I am not sure how acquiring docker will do that?
>I know this is becoming repetitive, but seriously still no optional touchbar? I mean for gods sake, why?

Because Apple doesn't do optional, except very rarely.

>Doesn't pretty much all professionals from programmers to editors to musicians _still_ use function keys as part of their workflow when touch-typing?

I do programming, music (DAWs) and videos (NLEs) and hardly ever use the function keys...

>To all the people saying they don't use F keys. I simply don't believe you. You also control brightness, volume and playback with these buttons and i have never seen anyone NOT using these keys without looking.

Not sure what you mean with the double negative, but whether you "believe us" or not, it's neither here nor there.

"brightness, volume and playback" I control so rarely with the buttons (like 2 times a day or so, 5 if it's some special circumstance) that I absolutely don't care if I use the buttons or the touch strip, and never used them "without looking".

For one, as a musician and video editor, I have an external audio card, so the volume is not controllable from the function keys anyway (needs the special audio card manufacturer's control app which talks to their driver), except if I'm at some remote location with just the laptop.
This reads like one of those articles where they list established services and casually include an unknown one. It's best to disclose your affiliation.
But mentality is local and very different between for example Schwaben and Uckermark.
>This is an outright fabrication. Nowhere did Damore write that women should be paid less, or that they were genetically inferior at tech.

Oh no, he simply stated that women get paid less not because of sexism, but because it's natural, since they genetically lack assertiveness and are worse at leadership positions and negotiating:

>Extraversion expressed as gregariousness rather than assertiveness. Also, higher agreeableness. This leads to women generally having a harder time negotiating salary, asking for raises, speaking up, and leading.

And certainly he didn't say that women were genetically inferior in high-powered tech jobs! He simply said that they're genetically predisposed to dislike jobs that involve systematizing (such as...tech jobs), and that they're genetically inferior when it comes to handling stressful jobs (which, by pure chance, he happens to exemplify with Googlegeist, a...tech job), since they can't handle stress as well as men do because they're genetically predisposed to anxiety and neuroticism:

>Women generally also have a stronger interest in people rather than things, relative to men (also interpreted as empathizing vs. systemizing). (...) More men may like coding because it requires systemizing.
>Neuroticism (higher anxiety, lower stress tolerance). This may contribute to the higher levels of anxiety women report on Googlegeist

I don't even know why I bother. I regret getting into this argument. Believe what you like; as long as you see movements for social improvement as some kind of personal accusation, it's what you'll do anyway. Yes, women in tech are not discriminated against, or if they are, it's either exaggerated or there's a reasonable explanation for it. Whatever, downvote away.
I wouldn't be surprised if they already know most of those things. They can be gleaned from things who I get email from in Gmail, things I Google, etc.
Which current gen CPUs can you get >20% performance increase on by overclocking? Assuming that baseline performance is stock settings with turbo enabled (usually default) as well as MCE/PBO (default on some motherboards).
That is one of the very important points a lot of people are missing here, and a key argument of the article: a fast rendering engine was a requirement for quake to be as popular as it was and it was a product of a brilliant engineer doing something innovative.

More often then not, innovation comes from a reduced number of people doing things differently, and it's very hard to assemble a team of engineers which is willing or even capable of doing this sort of work.

This also comes back to the "decision shielding" from working different hours: it's very common for managers or people averse to risks to try to stick to solutions they know, even if they are suboptimal or do not fit the problem very nicely.

Anyone capable of doing more will soon realize they are spending most of their time solving mismatches between what solution was used/implemented and the problem they were trying to solve. If they don't find an alternative or a way around these limitations, they will leave.
Ctrl-F woman turns up nothing. Where did you even get that?
I hate the full-size left and right arrow keys because it means I can't easily use my sense of touch to find the arrow keys. I mistype them all the time now, even after months of use. That was never a problem with the previous inverted-T design.