skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not whataboutism to state that Amazon is the only one actually trying to fix things.
I just want to find out who at Dell is responsible for perpetuating the use of black markings on a dark-grey background.
At a $2400, other users want high quality video. The computer should have the option for both audiences. Don't want high quality, fine just turn the setting down.
Their Android app has never seemed slow or crappy to me.
One of the nuances is thinking about all the advances in other parts of life that have been unlocked thanks to tech.

+ FEA/FEM would make the airplanes you use to travel much safer.

+ The drugs that might not have been developed as quickly might prolong that retirement dramatically.

It's hard to disentangle all the ways tech has improved our life!

FWIW, I'd take a 50% pay cut to stay in the modern era...
It's also hard to imagine needing 8TB on-the-go capacity. That's certainly a niche use. I can imagine more cases where being tethered to a desk in order to get to the data would be not a big deal.

And there are always networked storage servers.
I personally miss the slide-out keyboard of my old G1 phone (that, and the trackball).

While technically still a "thumb keyboard" - which you probably wouldn't like - it was still wide enough to not make my thumbs cramp while composing emails and text messages, which I find anything narrower to do to me.

Plus - it was easy to access when you needed it - then slide it back, and there's your phone again.
That documentary is in fact how I originally learned about Baron-Cohen's research. It's good.
Odds are there was no deepfaking involved here, nonsense clickbait title.
I think by now everyone is aware that you cannot defend hardware that you put in the hands of attackers.

If this were a remote (ie. Via WiFi) attack, then we'd be talking...
Ugh. I have been a happy paying customer for many years now. I went all in on 1p specifically because they didn't do shit like this. When a CEO says things like "we need to grow aggressively" I hear "we need to find ways to foist new trash features no one asked for upon our users and then ignore them to get the big enterprise bucks". Time after time I see great products get ruined by that mindset. See Dropbox. See Evernote.

There are open source solutions that are nearly as good as 1p. I guess its time to start evaluating. Man I _just_ got my partner to starting using 1p too...
> The police aren't going to come around forcing you to give up your current shower.

I mean, they did do that? Federal law from 1992 mandates the gpm flow of shower heads. The law says:

> "all faucet fixtures manufactured in the United States restrict maximum water flow at or below 2.5 gallons per minute (gpm) at 80 pounds per square inch (psi) of water pressure or 2.2 gpm at 60 psi."

In 2005 the feds had to pay a visit to a shower head manufacturer last decade to force them to stop producing non-conforming shower heads: https://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Seattle-says-shower-...

Literally the police aren't going to come around forcing you to give up your current shower, they're just forcing all companies to produce and sell only certain kinds of showers.

Why wouldn't a reasonable person who cares about something like this feel personally attacked? They already were attacked! There seems to be no reason to assume that federal law that already exists around this issue won't tighten more. In their eyes you're basically saying: "Why are people worried the government will interfere with [things they've been interfering with for decades]?"

(note I personally don't care about this issue, but it seems like there's already a history of forcing XYZ on people here, so it seems natural that people would resist further intrusion or whatever. "What if that's good" is a separate argument.)
This is an article from 2013. I suggest reflecting this in HN title, cause it's not immediately obvious.
As obligate carnivores they don't only eat meat; they have to eat meat.
Are you using gcc 5.5? This is the oldest version on my machine.
Why? They're not cheap as it is. What's the extra cash for?

Edit: they have 174 staff!
Run your Cypress.io tests in multiple browsers
Postgres is not best in class in many things it does well but it suits the needs most people will actually encounter in the wild while being built on a rock solid foundation. It truly is a fantastic hammer for every nail involving data integrity or synchronization.

It's well designed so that when you do venture into territory where you need a specialized solution it's not difficult to replace. But you'll definitely miss ACID and relational data if you're leveraging them.

There is a great operational economy to making Postgres your default solution for these sorts of problems.
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And this is right way to use it
I was also wondering about the "safe and consistent" part. Doesn't Redis Streams with persistence solve those pretty well?

Edit: oh, someone mentioned this being from 2013. No Redis Streams back then.
Agreed. It's so nice updating/creating a password on desktop, and being able to use it immediately and seamlessly on my phone or other machines.

This seamlessness is also critical for my less-technical family members on my plan. They want the better security, and recognize that a password manager is necessary. But if it was a pain to use they wouldn't put up with it.
This is ridiculous nonsense.

Eg the entire European concept of "social democracy" came about through unions doing non-violent strikes in the early 20th century. Sure, there was some violence here and there but no armed insurgency. They tried it armed in Eastern Europe and look where that got them.

I know less about American history but it is my understanding that equal rights for people of colour, various sexual preferences etc all came about through non-violent protest (not the abolishment of slavery, obviously, but I mean after that).

Comments like yours share the shit out of me. "oh, well, many thousands will have to die ¯\_(ツ)_/¯"
Until someone shows up and claims that a bunch of developers could start a “functioning news organization” overnight. Comments like that are so eye-rollingly naive that they make all of HN look bad.
And if the decision isn't based on race, but on things that happen to correlate with it? Whether your father was present, for instance - since that's a major predictive factor for all sorts of life outcomes even when controlling for race. Should that not be used just because certain groups are more likely to come from single-parent households than others?

Because in the end, the choices are "accept that there will be a correlation between the outputs and race", "use no system that produces estimates or imperfect outputs", or "explicitly discriminate based on race to remove the race-result correlation". That's it.
Still incredibly pessimistic that Hong Kongers could somehow win a war for independence... or that anything short of that could win a future of safety for these "protestors"

Just last night I felt guilty for buying something made in China but still did it again... and there certainly wasn't an alternative made anywhere else on the shelf
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Yeah this POV is totally backwards. HKPF attempted to arrest students in university dorms, and HK protestors stopped them. HKPF fired over 2500 rounds of tear gas, enough to kill birds flying overhead. Disappointing to see such a CCP-friendly skew from a venerable American journalism outfit (maybe that's being too generous these days though).
If your requirements don’t necessitate such scale, I can see Postgres being a viable alternative. I’d rather not introduce another dependency unless it’s absolutely needed.
I bought a thick, heavy duty case for my phone to make up for the lack of thickness/durability. Few if any mobile phones will stand up to average day to day knocks, drops and bumps.

Unsure why phone manufacturers insist on trying to make their phones thinner and more fragile when everyone wraps them in a case of some description.
And how many of those encrypt their firmware just because the non-techy CEO thinks the firmware is worth $billions whereas a coder could reproduce firmware for an IoT widget in a few hours.
> They aren't just doing this because they feel like it, they are doing it because it is immensely profitable

Capitalism is an economic order, not a business model.

> It is a feature of capitalism that where there exists demand for something....

If we live in the age of surveillance capitalism because some companies spy on users for profit, then we also live in the age of strawberry-harvesting capitalism, because some companies harvest strawberries for profit.
Bread isn't particularly sweet compared to other foods. Orange juice has a strange and very strong flavor compared to other juices and has a significant bitter component to its taste due to crushing the peels.

Never tried chocolate after brushing my teeth but I don't find 99% / unsweetened dark chocolate particularly offensive.
In mathematics the word used for these kinds of problems is "inaccessible", e.g. Reimann Hypothesis or (previously) Fermat'a Last Theorem. I don't know if Carmack's chances are as good as Wiles' were but certainly better than the average joe. It's also the case that AI is a substantially younger field (arguably it was only possible to correctly evaluate ideas since powerful GPUs were released this decade) and so the difficulty of open problems including AGI is not yet known.
Yes, finally. And they’re putting the cost on the manufacturers, even though it’s a problem they created. In effect, manufacturers are now paying for commingling and Amazon is reaping the benefits.
That's true, I'm not looking to buy a Tesla. I'd include touchscreens as another problem but that's separate from the article's subject.
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And Apple will support it for years to come!

(still bitter about Motorola's "support" of Z2 Force)
Reminds me of the book "Build Your Own AngularJS" from a couple of years ago. - https://teropa.info/build-your-own-angular/

Old now, but still worth reading IMHO as you learn a lot.
The article says each SKU gets its own codes (and my understanding is that Amazon maintains SKU metadata internally and all resellers sell against it). My guess would be a variation of skuUUID:itemUUID:sha1(skuUUID+itemUUID+skuSecret), encoded as a QR code. UUID could be a smaller int ID, hash could be a base64 encode if you need to save space.
Do you grow cat grass for them? Ours loves it. https://www.hillspet.com/cat-care/nutrition-feeding/cat-gras...
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As long as it's not just building a world to use their language with…

Although both Cityspeak and the Creole seem more in line with Burgess' Nadsat than Tolkien's Quenya/Sindarin/Khuzdul. More cant than conlang.
You may be right in terms of performance (I've no idea) but article states:

> many developers have started going straight to Redis-backed queues (Resque, Sidekiq) or dedicated queues (beanstalkd, ZeroMQ...), but I see these as suboptimal solutions - they're each another moving part that can fail, and the jobs that you queue with them aren't protected by the same transactions and atomic backups that are keeping your precious relational data safe and consistent
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If the cost of operation is minimized and transferred to at the time of purchase, it will just make people buy MORE hardware, not less. Instead of realizing that money in operations, it will be shifted to purchase of increasingly more amounts of hardware as the primary mode of competition.

Building the hardware could maybe be optimized, but is unlikely to be energy efficient or environmentally friendly. At least with energy you can optimize the point source of pollution at the source, and as such use sources of energy that are renewable or environmentally friendly.

This scheme seems to be robbing Peter to pay Paul.
My brother and father in law bought a bunch cheap WiFi security cameras off of amazon. People online were complaining they phone home all kinds of stuff to Chinese IPs. My father in laws other cameras are Nest which phone to Google but it’s a selling point.

I was going to put the Chinese cameras on a subnet but I don’t want to complicate his network. My father in law has 3 routers with 3 WiFi networks competing with each other; office, living room and outside but that’s a story for another day...at least I got him to replace it with a UniFi AP.

I like UniFi protect because all the data stays at my house and their cameras are strictly no subscriptions.
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lscpu contains a pretty good summary of vulnerabilities and seems to be installed on all of the Linux systems I have. Not quite as extensive as the linked script, though.
Some info:

https://www.wikitribune.com/wt/news/article/101868/

https://www.ft.com/content/9956ff9c-0622-11ea-a984-fbbacad9e...
When executed as /bin/sh, Bash enables POSIX mode automatically. /bin/bash isn't POSIX compliant by default, but /bin/sh symlinked to /bin/bash is, so you can be sure that #!/bin/sh will be POSIX-like even when implemented by Bash.
Exactly this. There was a video released yesterday on the HK subreddit showing what seemed to be a special unit of "police" who bore no badges or any identification past riot shields emblazoned with "police" at the university. These dudes looked huge compared to everyone else there.
What it indicates, rather, is that at the time of divergence from other Carnivora there was a lack of evolutionary pressure for conserving the taste of sweetness.

An example in primates is the loss of Vitamin C synthesis, which would have been a handy adaptation during the Age of Sail, but the gene was lost at a time when our common ancestor at a fruit-heavy diet.
Yup this is my thinking as well.
Also this opens up for smaller niche communities to entirely setup whatever they want. I.e, their own social media, their own youtube, etc. Small rural communities can setup their own email server, chat, without dependencies on Slack or Google.
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> Bafflingly, though, Dessa said that its team created the Rogan replica voice with a text-to-speech deep learning system they developed called RealTalk, which generates life-like speech using only text inputs.

I'm missing something here. How could they replicate the sound of his voice using only text inputs[emphasis theirs]?
I think it probably will, it is just a matter of time before political actors use this kind of thing to invent dirt on someone. We are probably going to get into an era where everyone deepfakes every politicians voice saying all sorts of wacky stuff and passes it off as real.

"Oh why is the quality bad? I was recording it secretly on my phone in my pocket that's why it is muffled and sounds off" Will be the explanation for all of these, it will come to such a head that politicians will be able to say anything they want to people, racist, sexist, genocidal, whatever, and continuously claim that it was merely deepfake, and thus not their opinion.

People will invent world events out of thin air with deepfake footage and audio. If the CIA cut off the internet access of a small island nation, and create a bunch of deepfakes of a politician stepping down, whilst covertly doing operations on them how would anyone in the west ever know it wasn't real?
I have also found the lack of transactional guarantees in typical job queues to be very problematic.

One problem with using PostgreSQL in this way (using either advisory locks or LOCK FOR UPDATE) is that it requires you to keep an open connection to the database whilst the job is being worked on.

For a MySQL database, this would be just fine, but PostgreSQL uses a process-per-connection model which caps the number of active connections to the database to a relatively low number (on the order of 1000x fewer connections than a similarly sized MySQL instance) and tools like PgBouncer do nothing to help with this.

As a result, if your jobs take more than a few milliseconds to execute (let's say you make external HTTP requests as part of your job) this is not a good approach to take.

I use a similar approach which avoids this problem, but it only works because I have relatively low throughput requirements. I essentially implement in-database advisory locks using a separate table - before taking a job, workers create a row in the table, and the primary key of this table is used as a worker ID. Jobs are "taken" by assigning them a worker ID. Each row in the worker table has an expiry date, so if workers die, the corresponding row will be deleted and any linked jobs released back into the queue.

As well as transactional guarantees, using a database as a job queue gives you a lot of power over how jobs are executed: for example, our service for delivering webhooks has a separate queue per customer, and we can ensure that within a single queue jobs are processed strictly in order. Meanwhile, our service for search indexing supports different priority levels, so that newly created records are indexed with a higher priority.
>unions doing non-violent strikes in the early 20th century

My aunt's father (in the US) had the duty of keeping the stockpile of firearms hidden to quickly hand back out to all the union members if the Pinkertons tried to start killing people. In the mid 1900s.
> "Analysts told the WSJ that they believe that artificial intelligence- (AI)-based software was used to create a convincing imitation of the German CEO’s voice…"

> "If this turns out to indeed be a deepfake audio scam…"

It didn't literally happen, they _think_ that's what happened. I'm sceptical personally, I didn't realise deep fake audio could be done in realtime now? And who is this CEO that must have hundreds of hours of publicly available audio that the voice could be trained on?
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Doesn't this depend on the engine in the SpaceX rocket? Their new engines are methane based, and don't use kerosene.
LEDs on RAM: for when you absolutely positively must have the most fabulous rig at the LAN party. I guess.
I don't have the same magnitude of issues on eBay as I have had on Amazon. Much of the problem is exacerbated their commingled inventory and consolidated product pages.

On eBay it is two clicks to see the negative feedback for the seller who is shipping me the item, and I have the confidence that I am going to get the item from that seller.

On Amazon, users post much of the negative feedback on the consolidated product page which doesn't give any indication about the seller, and might not even be for the right product. And in the end, fungible FBA inventory is a roll of the dice. This is a problem that never existed on eBay.
I suspect the reason is you want hot water stored at ~60C. If you pump water through it slowly enough / enough times to attain that temperature then you are actually increasing the temperature of the panels (assuming air temperature is less than that).

You'd need to use a heat pump to get actual hot water from a small delta T in the coolant.
I never knew if this was a cynic's answer or truthful, but I was told by my manager at one point that RedHat's OS is superglued to python2 and spends a lot of money to keep python2 in good working order. I highly expect it's a cynic's response and please read it as such until someone in-the-know can retort my post.
as http://www.hkix.net/hkix/whatishkix.htm indicates, CUHK hosts Hong Kong Internet exchange (HKiX).
Python, unlike a C executable, could hypothetically stop working tomorrow. Researchers who have code that works/businesses don't give a shit about the esoteric differences between py2 and py3, they just want their stuff to keep working. This is similar to the banks still running Cobal backends, I don't know why everyone cares, I guarantee multiple servers out there are running executables that couldn't be rebuilt, but those don't curse you out on terminal every time I turn one on
There is a French psychologist called Françoise Dolto who agrees with you, she even write a book about it. She says a great deal of the problems with adolescents today (where today is in the past century, this is not a recent book) is that they are not needed. So, exactly like adults who are not needed and left to their own devices, they develop para-social hierarchies, and/or turn to crime and develop mood problems.

Your teen can probably balance a checkbook and pay bills. Teens also eventually come to a point where they're really interested in driving and, in America, you can use that to make them run errands, take younger siblings to school, and so on. Even a scooter works fine for a lot of that.

Also, to use an example from my real life, as a teen I just... stayed with the other women and talked about their lives and offered emotional support, helped smooth over relationships, that sort of thing. Yeah I wouldn't have been able to negotiate someone's salary or something but most teens can tell Aunt Marie that Aunt Alice wants her coffee machine back while eliding the "and thinks you're ungrateful and live in a hovel" part. And I helped them with math too.
It seems the alternative is to potentially reduce school work then.
It's only obvious in retrospect. Every step along the way, there has been thousands of people saying "this is impossible" or "this is theoretically possible, but it can't be engineered" or "this is possible in principle, but it will be so costly to develop that it doesn't make sense".

When AGI is developed, it will seem obvious in retrospect. Participating engineers will receive middle-brow dismissals saying that this was obviously practically possible, since after all the human brain operates according to the laws of physics.
Bad idea to use that because if the worker crash the event is lost, don't use PG for that.
This headline is completely misleading. Those who "took over" the universities are the students who actually LIVE there. And those who "took over" the financial district are people who work there: they just protest downstairs during their lunch time.

You don't take over your home or office because you f*king own it.
What's trolly is to derail a conversation, repeatedly trying to get on your soapbox to parrot word association rants about a company that you agree did nothing wrong in this specific situation.
I thought that "write text" was the easiest part of journalism. Most people capable of getting through college (usually required for both software and journalism jobs) are capable of writing at a high enough standard for any journalism outlet.

Doing research, then understanding and distilling it, developing contacts, networks, and sources - these seem like the hard parts of journalism.

If "display text on a screen at scale" wasn't hard it was it wouldn't be a multi-billion dollar industry with crazy high salaries. Not to mention, it's not just displaying the text but everything that goes into it - figuring out product market fit, getting hundreds or thousands of engineers organized and productive, logistics of data centers and hardware.

If writing good news and good software both come easily to you, you just might be an outlier. Or you're taking a very superficial view of both kinds of work.
I've been a customer for 10 years (coincidentally, I checked email and I downloaded it from the iOS app store 10 years today) and very happy. The two things I'd love for them to fix are:

1/ Make the Windows version feel more like the macOS one. I switch between the two OS's all the time and it always feels jarring to open the Windows one after using the other.

2/ Add an option to cache everything locally. My phone has plenty of storage and there have been a few times where I have been with cell service or wifi and unable to pull down a document or credential I have stored there.

Mostly though I love it and can't imagine what life must have been like before password managers.
Thank you. Docker image is on the roadmap but you may beat us to it :) Contributions very welcome!