skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe they mean that the switches themselves are hardware, but the deactivation is implemented in software, only triggered by the (harware) switch.
You need lots of blue-collar-with-a-doctorate engineers. Batteries are closer to a chemical plant than car manufacturing.
A designer’s primer to behavioural design (but useful for engineers too)
AWS, Google Cloud and Azure were all having problems yesterday in Europe. Maybe that was the reason.
I wasn't actually going to point to the surveillance question, and I didn't say that Google itself was fascist, but the parent poster seemed to think that antifa might have some opposition to google and did not offer their own reason.
Think it through. How would you "no" that?

Step 1. Obtain bigger stick.
They did that to some extent. I've had Disney+ for about a month now. But going from a few people in a small country to a billion people all at once is still a massive change.
JAWZAAT and tagdeed are sad ad banks
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I've had issues getting it to Chromecast. Fortunately they released the app for Samsung TVs last week. That helps a lot. Now there's only the issue that that app was suddenly logged out for no clear reason. Let's hope that doesn't happen again.
So now everyone's pet project gets a language extension in Swift? Apple extended the language with @_functionBuilder for SwiftUI. Now Google wants to extend it with this differentiable stuff for TensorFlow.

Why won't they implement proper metaprogramming support instead of proliferating the core language?
That saying is meant for a leisure trip, 200km is close by for almost any kind of industry these days.
Fairbnb.coop launches, offering help for social projects
These are two pretty complex manpages for setting up network interfaces:

http://man.openbsd.org/ifconfig.8

https://linux.die.net/man/8/ip

The Linux one doesn't have an example anywhere of how to assign an IP address to an interface. Which is probably the most basic thing that you would be looking for.
Linstor: Manage large pools of Linux storage
So ironic. Exercises his right to privacy/anonymity but questions those that lament the loss of theirs.
US could end up running on gasoline forever, leaving electrics to China/Europe
That means the GDP per capita is lower than the country average, not that the GDP contribution is negative and not that getting rid of Berlin would be good for the German economy.
A love letter to Java (2014)
Tesla Factory Built in Berlin as Musk Blames Brexit
Common Pitfalls of Adwords Campaigns and How to Avoid Them
FYI, you can do the same thing with drop-in config files and avoid the annoying dpkg-conffile prompt whenever you upgrade grub2-common:

$ cat /etc/default/grub.d/mitigations.cfg
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="$GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT mitigations=auto,nosmt"
Wow. I just found out about legacy admissions. To me that seems insane. This is not how it is supposed to be! I wouldn't want to apply there now. If I have to work really hard and other people get in by association ...
The employee disrupt Google itself, not the society.

History is history. Comparing Google to murderers are just false. They are not. In fact Google got where it is today, is mainly due to the fact they previously intentionally obfuscated the ownership between management/employees. Apparently, it no longer works for it now. Time to move on. Learn to act like MSFT/IBM or maybe even Amazon.
Why open source matters.
He has recently written about something similar:
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-10-24/we-had...

I personally don't see the crime here though. What does it mean to place orders you don't intend to execute? (It is not like they have some way of reneging on the transaction if their bid/offer gets hit.) And in the manipulation of prices, why would simply flashing new non-executing orders on the screen cause market makers to change their prices? Don't the market makers have some responsibility / agency around deciding what to price something at?
Ask HN: Custom data pipelines with minimal engineering effort
I am a one-man-shop in BI (Series B - enterprise SaaS) and our current stack includes Fivetran, Snowflake, DBT (+Cloud), and Looker. I am not an engineer by hard and our goal is to minimize engineering resources required (buy over build). What is a good approach to hosting and scheduling custom ETL pipelines for data sources not supported by Fivetran/Stitch?
We already considered the following options:

1. Run airflow on an EC2 instance. Cons: we didn't manage to install Airflow on EC2; others warned it's hard to maintain
2. Use Fivetran to schedule Lambda functions. Cons: Lambda is limited to a 15 minutes execution time and it wouldn't be the easiest to set up either
3. Cron jobs: this is limited in its ability to sequence different jobs and it doesn't really have any alerting in place

I don't think this is an uncommon problem - curious to know how you solve the issue!
Exactly. Almost three years ago, I wrote this:

[…]

What do I mean with “the threat of Facebook”? In the old days, before today’s large “social media” sites, people made their own web pages on places like GeoCities or on simpler social-media-like sites like LiveJournal, etc. Those sites all had content and linked to each other. This is the web which the Google search engine and its algorithm was meant to find things in, and it worked very nicely, as it took advantage of the links other people had made to your site as a proxy for relevance in search results for your site. People making small web pages about their favorite topics (with lots of links to other people’s pages, since information was hard to find) could slowly and easily transition into making larger and larger reference web sites with lots of information, thereby attracting lots of incoming links from others, which in turn enabled people to find the information using Google’s search engine.

Compare this to now. Firstly, people having a Facebook account have no place to simply place information, no incentive to simply make a web page about, say, tacos or model trains, because that’s not what Facebook is about. Facebook is about the here-and-now, and whatever is yesterday is forgotten. As I understand it, there is no real way, in Facebook, to make a continuously updated page with a fixed address for people to go to as a reference point about some subject, or at least people are not directed towards doing this as part of their online activity (as opposed to in the past, when it was basically the only thing which people could do). Secondly, this makes it so that people have no natural path going from using Facebook to creating a larger web site with information, and there are no smaller model train or taco Facebook “pages” which could have links to your larger site and thereby validate its relevance. Thirdly, even if this second point was false, Google could not use these Facebook pages, because Google cannot crawl them. These pages are all internal to Facebook, and Facebook has every incentive to not allow Google to crawl and search this information. Facebook would much rather people used their own site to search, and thereby gaining all of Google’s sources of income: User monitoring and advertising.

— https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13295456
Walmart wasn't the first company to do this, many of the big grocers are in housing milk production, or so I heard from someone who works at Walmart HQ.
I’ve long suspected this as the Facebook app in particular causes the phone to get hot around where the main camera module ic is located. It is also a battery drain. They appear to be doing this in collaboration with Apple as the battery usage for the camera does not increase despite the camera constantly being initiated while using the Facebook app.

I’ve also noticed that when certain ad platforms inject their code into Safari taboola/outbrain the same heating occurs. This would make sense as taboola and outbrain appear to be linked to Israeli intelligence.

I guess they not only don’t care about our privacy they also don’t care about our battery life / health of our devices either.

It sort of reminds me of how windows would spin up your HDD In the middle of the night and scan through your entire hard drive causing it to prematurely fail. All under the guise of windows update or whatever the cover was for what I consider criminal damage.
I use jquery ui "highlight" effect as visual confirmation for action completion. It's a background easing animation, basically it "flashes" before fading out.

It might not be fancy but it's simple and helps.
See also: https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/tesla/108395/tesla-gigafactory...
I think it’s just bug.
I agree that it's probably on the verge of Sci-fi, but one can dream :)

I'm not sure we should care about costs now. It sounds really lame on the long run to say to past generations that "we could have changed things, but it wasn't cost effective, anyways good luck rebooting the Golf stream and stuff"
Wages at the higher levels of education are not significantly lower in Berlin than anywhere else in Germany. Berlin (and Brandenburg) still has a somewhat higher levels of unemployment (at 7.x and 5.x%, respectively), but that doesn't really do much for such a project. Land is relatively cheap, but I doubt that makes much of a difference.

If I had to speculate, Tesla is concerned about finding people willing to relocate, and Berlin is a rather attractive destination even for people not speaking German.
Color me unsurprised.
Looks like the standard workaround works. In FF you can open the page in 'reader view' and reload.

Or read the original article here:
https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/what-is-a-billionaire
Anecdotally, the performance hit from the security mitigations since the Spectre/Meltdown publication has been very noticeable.
I didn't just walk into some random lab and find someone, I went to several places and spoke with some administrators who asked around for me before I found one which wanted an assistant. It wasn't any cutting edge or sexy research, maybe that was why they don't have enough interns. I don't remember it being particularly difficult to find, though.

@koolba, I don't recall how many months I worked there, somewhere around 3~4 months, maybe?

It was Mount Sinai Hospital in New York in the 90s, maybe things are different now.
That was my first though :)

Can't imagine trying to pump my data into someone elses pipeline and crossing my fingers for results!
git is GPL, which BSD people tend not to like.

I think they're writing a git replacement under the BSD License, though I don't know how progress is going on that.
https://gameoftrees.org/
OpenSwiftUI – An Open Source Re-Implementation of SwiftUI
Funding aside, the Manhattan & Apollo projects were (by comparison) simple, with clear objectives, and a compelling rationalisation.

Manhattan needed to build a vialbe, air-transportable, nuclear bomb. It arrived at two independent designs, both effective to task, and succeeded in assimilating materials for at least several more weapons (on the order of 6 IIRC), over the course of WWII. The rationalisation was both defeating, and not losing military supremacy over, an enemy. (Germany was also working on a nuclear weapon.)

Apollo needed to land a man on the Moon and return him, alive, to Earth. Rationales varied, but one compelling argument was as a proof-of-capability of US technological capacity as regards missile design, reliability, control, targeting, with the additional constraints of solving life-support systems challenges capable of keeping meat-puppets alive for a week in space. Drag-racing and Lunar golf were bonus stretch targets.

Each project was relatively independent of other complex technological systems, and wasn't concerned with a tightly-coupled, long-term, widespread integration. Manhattan's gadgets needed to fit in Bock's Car's bomb bay. Apollo's designs, once the fundamental mission was completed, were largely abandoned. Several technologies survived, but the project as a whole did not.

Both projects saw numerous exceedingly close approaches with disaster. Manhattan's tail-tickling proved unwise, the US are still cleaning up Hanford (and as yet have no final management plan), and there were several near-catastrophic handling mishaps at Oak Ridge. (Though in total the project was remarkably smooth.)

Apollo's record was, to my knowledge, far worse. An entire crew were lost in ground testing, one very nearly in space (13), and missions 8, 11, 12, and probably others, saw one or more potentially fatal / mission-loss incidents and events. Margins for safety were extraordinarily slim.

(Subsequent history with the Space Shuttle and two total vehicle losses shows that risks persisted decades later.)

The Global Energy Sustainability Project is far more complex.

It is building not a simple tool or one-shot mission, but a total system. That system needs to be tighly integrated, as an integral component, of the worldwide technical economic system. It needs to function from now until doomsday, or at least until some replacement regime is established. It challenges what's arguably been the most lucrative and critical as well as geopolitically salient sector of the global economy, which is to say it upsets a vast set of economic, financial, political, military, and national interests. Pains are localised, benefits are diffuse.

Success depends on global coordination and cooperation, or barring that, sacrifice and effectiveness on local scales which counters the actions of any defectors.

This is almost certainly the Biggest of the Big Problems.
Wait why is Walmart a bad guy here? Walmart isn't obligated to keep these folks in business, relying on one customer is risky.
I'd say meeting with the whistleblower is well within the job description for the leader of the committee.

As for being skeptical of every politician, Schiff has so far been pretty clean in all this as opposed to the counterparty, who seem to have made a bonfire of all the rulebooks and are running the United States over a cliff at a speed that I would have considered impossible a decade ago. Suddenly all those questions about how Germany could have slid off as fast as it did from being a reasonable country to a totalitarian state make good sense. All it takes is a small bag of money, a couple of Stephen Millers and you're good to go.

The good news if you can call it good news is that they are going about it in the most stupid way possible and that just maybe there is an outside chance that the United States constitution was drawn up in such a way that this travesty can be brought to a halt. I fear it may be too late though, with the recent stacking of the Supreme Court and the way in which all these puppets are in various pockets we may very well be in the endgame for that country and what it stood for.

It's not paranoia if they really are out to get you, but that doesn't mean they're out to get you for the wrong reasons. You may simply deserve being 'got' and put in jail. In the case of the Trump family and their grifting hangers on that's a slam dunk, that they just might end up being censored (at worst) or pushed out (at best) because some people come to their senses and put their country over their party is about equal to getting Al Capone on tax evasion. Works for me though.

> Regardless, you don't need to necessarily change a transcript if you told (coached) the witness what to say (or how to say it) in the first place.

Not sure if you are aware of it but the 'transcript' of the call was published by Trump and the transcripts of the various depositions appear to have been made without any coaching whatsoever, if you sincerely believe that witnesses have been coached then you have crossed a line somewhere that you probably should not have crossed.
FSFE's “Public Money? Public Code ” in City Parliament of Kassel, Germany
"Coding" by Jonathan Locke, on software development in general. Short and surprizing.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12625166-coding---on-sof...
If you look closely, these alternatives are all labeled "almondmilk", "oatmilk" and "soymilk" for specifically this regulatory hurdle.
$ strace /bin/ls 2>&1 | grep brk
brk(NULL) = 0x55fb032b3000
brk(NULL) = 0x55fb032b3000
brk(0x55fb032d4000) = 0x55fb032d4000
You seem to misunderstand some basics: using political power to dictate the course of investigations for personal gain is what the problem is, not the use of political power to dictate the course of investigations as such.
There used to be a time when people thought relying on if statements for security was enough and proposing an OS [1] where everything is in a single process was plausible. Same for JS JITs. Now we know better.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singularity_(operating_system)
No, Federal Republic is the correct term (and the literal translation of Bundesrepublik).
My argument is that the time for dreaming is past.

We need to do. Or plan / prepare for the alternatives.

Sustaining a modest research program on potential long bets is probably defensible. But don't hinge all hopes on this.
Good point. Disney is primarily a content creation company, not a technical infrastructure company. According to other subthreads in this discussion, they treat engineers as second-class employees, requiring insane work hours for little pay. If they actually want to compete with Netflix, they have to run Disney+ as a real tech company, not as something they do on the side.

Disney+ can be a fantastic success if Disney gets it right, because they do have lots of excellent content. But if they don't take the engineering side seriously, it's going to fail.

If Disney just wanted to focus on making good movies and TV shows, which clearly is what they're best at, dealing with Netflix would have been perfect for them. If they want to be a tech company instead, they really need to follow through and commit to that.
Show HN: Poor man's time series functionality for PostgreSQL
I don't think it actually has anything to do with upvotes, but is just an indirect effect since highly upvoted pages are generally more trafficked, and it's the high traffic that really matters.
> I said he cherry picked bits of the transcripts to release to support his narrative.

And what would that narrative be? The only narrative I'm aware of has been confirmed by Trump himself - and in writing no less.

> But he did claim Trump said things in the call that he did not, in a statement he made to Congress.

Are you serious? Did you actually believe for one second that a paraphrasing should be taken as a literal quote?

> Why would an American congressman make statements on a news outlet controlled by the Russian government?

Are you seriously suggesting that Adam Schiff is in the pocket of Putin? If you believe that about Schiff then you should have serious problems with the current occupant of the White House, who it seems can't wait to do Russia's bidding at every possible turn.
All forms of “Writer's Block” are either an Inspiration problem or Input problem
The BER airport was originally meant to be a HUB airport even though no airline wanted to place a hub operation there. AirBerlin was thought of as a good candidate, but that airline no longer exists.
why don't phones implement a "charge-only mode"
> iOS compilers that make use of hardware memory tagging

No iOS devices ship with ARMv8.5, so while I think compilers are implementing this today I am not sure if Xcode ships with this or if it's functional.

> So ironically something like Android does have a better sandboxing model as WebAssembly.

…you're not understanding what sandboxing means.
Sure. A database whose history ostensibly cannot be altered fits perfectly into a vision of keeping perfect records on people.

Imagine that data about everything you've ever done is recorded into a single, "immutable", and persistent database. Every school grade, police record, purchase, or transgression, no matter how small. All of it.

And then imagine building and controlling a society around that information, based on the assumption that the data cannot be altered.

...but then learn that it can (because incidentally, the government controls the majority of it). But good luck explaining that, because the "immutable" ledger says otherwise.
Dude, ur going to Twitter jail (updated)
First approval of a vaccine against Ebola
> Very conveniently it is very easy to make little children believe all that

My counter-intuitive opinion is that children are quite skeptical of religion. They may enjoy the make-believe part of it. Pretending, after all, is child play, but they will never take it for granted just because an adult tells them so. On the contrary, kids will know when something is made up. An adult seriously resorting to magic to answer a child's question will raise doubts. That kid is likely to question authority and religion ever after.
They do. Kids-wise, we'd be fine without Disney+ and Netflix. My youngest is a big fan of Thomas the Tank Engine, but even on Youtube, he doesn't want to see the actual Thomas shows, but videos of people playing with Thomas toys. No idea why this is such a popular thing, but my oldest watched people play Mario at that age. And now he watches people play Minecraft.

I don't get it. Go play these things yourself, but apparently kids love to watch others play, and there's tons and tons of that on Youtube.
The author of the BSD version, Game of Trees (got), recently did a presentation at EuroBSDCon, and that video is online[1]. It focuses on security and has quite a bit of functionality, including some new things like having multiple working directories from the same repository and even checking out subdirectories from the repository. Looks like progress is going well. It doesn't do network/remote actions, but you can use the normal git binary for pushing and pulling.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRIgeouw7-4
It could be useful for origami.

"You will get a better Gorilla effect if you use as big a piece of paper as possible." -Kunihiko Kasahara, Creative Origami.
I think the ACT largely exists because the SAT is not handled by the federal government.
They have been doing it for as long as I can recall. Its common practice. From my perspective, the problem is that they arent acknowedging they do that - they are instead saying its a bug that they have fixed - but you can be sure they are still preinitializing the camera...