skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Then hack this: from now on, saying good things about a product or a brand in exchange of a retribution will be classified as corruption.
The same one in which Uber keeps getting away with pretending its employees aren't employees.
Dyalog launches multiple threads for certain operations if the arrays are large enough to justify the overhead.
True but it's easy to identify and avoid the Walmart marketplace, for now.
I used to work at Walmart. It wasn't uncommon for someone to go in with a crowbar at an unused register and take something. It just doesn't make the news. That's why they are always emptied on a regular schedule.
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A Sovereign Internet Will Not Combat Cybercrime
Neuroscientists show what a memory looks like
>machine vision based transformation of the rendered output

This would be awesome!
Ah, 2009... where it was understood that bans and canceling were infeasible. The good old times and yes, it seems I am afraid of change now.
And I thought this was a place to hire people to hack together a prototype, not hack an instagram account.
How to Configure a VLAN in Linux
This is what I always enjoyed about Fox Kids Spiderman series. It focused so much on Peter Parker's life troubles, and what he was going through.
>Maybe they did both things, and the weld still failed. The rocket's being engineered, which means they make it as weak as possible without it blowing up. Those welds might be perfect in the x-rays, they might've done all sorts of destructive analysis, and still the thing might fail in staging.

Yes, that is also a possibility. I'm not sure how likely is it that a pressure vessel would fail along a weld if that weld was without faults and as strong as other surfaces. Perhaps it matters that there is also a sharp corner there?

>Of course, they might also be on a deadline, and just went ahead and built it to spec and test it. But I don't think you can just say there's routine testing procedures that ensure rockets never blow up.

I agree if they are trying to make it as light as possible and pushing the boundaries a bit while experimenting. One can't innovate without risk.

It would be good if they released more info about this incident.
That's exactly right - this is the problem that we have with every online "social" network (I would include Amazon reviews in this label for the purposes of this comment).

It's clear from the article that she retains two separate and unequal ratings of each product: one that she provides to her "online" persona, and one that she would provide to her "authentic" persona. It's clear that she would not purchase these products herself or recommend them to friends, yet rates them 5 stars on Amazon. As many will point out, the ability to do this is not new; the ability to do it at scale and with zero consequences (where consequences would be to your own personal reputation, for example) is the innovation.

What's truly sad is that we're missing out on such a crucial piece of information that is available to her: namely, her boyfriend's expertise in chemistry. They could blow the lid off shoddy and downright dangerous products on Amazon and provide a valuable public service to boot, but hey, it's easier to run the grift, right?
Maybe some sort of an open access via satellites that cover the entire surface of the Earth. In which case just having a device that can tune into the signal would be enough to get outbound access.

But then someone has to control that satellite access too... The "good guys" no doubt.
I am an old-time IRC user, but IRC is missing tons of features I use literally every single day in Slack. It does not have well-functioning and reliable file transfers. It does not keep history of discussions. It does not have media embedding.

It is very far from a solution in 2019.
The most important and informative website on the internet, Wikipedia, is free of advertisements.

Before Youtube, we were sharing files directly. There was far more content online!
Snow Leopard was one of the best releases I remember. I'm hoping for a Snow Leopard-ish update for iOS 13 so it has a fair shot at getting the attention and praise it deserves.
You forgot: stop producing meat as a daily commodity.

While I have personally found not eating meat to be an easy lifestyle change, I'm sure many people will disagree.
It is unfathomable to me how the iOS ecosystem has so many features that don't work well eve after years of being in the wild and being available on millions of devices. Things like handoff, continuity, personal hotspot, etc. still do not "just work". I honestly wish they would remove the features if they have no intention or ability to make it work 100% of the time.
I hate that Rich Hickey quote.

Sprints are just the classic computer science "divide and conquer" strategy applied to development.
It is completely ludicrous to not offer a way to cancel your subscription online in 2019.
Charles Schwab Buying TD Ameritrade for $26B
There is a lot of talk about renewable energy. But I believe this is distracting us from the real issue: we are using too many resourses.

Our family uses around 2000kWh electricity per year. This is half of what most people in my country use. And ~16% of the avarage US usage.

Ofcourse there are a lot of reasons for the differences but the biggest reason is being consumption aware.

We don't own an AC, use LED lights everywhere, and always check the power consumption of appliances we buy.

Being aware of your consumptions really helps.

Paving your roof with solar panels will only help the producer of the panels, not your carbon footprint.
I can't reproduce the example given in this blog post -- when I type out the same thing in the new Slack input box, it renders correctly. Can others reproduce the problem?
I had no difficulty cancelling my subscription online with a 30 second email. It was a much smoother experience than most other subscriptions which require you to recall some login you set years ago.
Java and Maven Docker Images Using Parallelized Jenkins Pipeline and Sdkman
This is the content I come here for. True hacker news.
Open protocols without OSS tend not to be particularly robust. In this instance, we have both: open protocols like Matrix.org, XMPP & IRC - and open source servers & clients (like synapse & Riot.im on the Matrix side), which are no longer an opensource curiousity but ready for primetime as Slack/Discord replacements. Just as Apache is ready for primetime as an IIS replacement.
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Is adding a credit card the only way to subscribe? I avoid companies who offer only CC payments specifically for that reason.
100%. Walmart has always been cutthroat but they don't let their vendors get away with anything.
Yes! Even if only for my personal tasks, yes!

Subtasks with intelligent dependencies, durations, and maybe top level item prioritization... I'd give up my hand rolled Google sheets idea in a heartbeat.
I'd love to see a large e-commerce site that runs like Costco. Want a printer? Here's one, and it's probably top ranked by Consumer Reports. Want snow pants? Here are the available sizes and colors for the single set on offer.

Pay professionals to pick and vet reputable, high-quality vendors.
License file (GPLv3) has been added:

https://github.com/UnfinishedBusiness/JetCAD3D/blob/master/L...
They should really make it obvious if it's commingled or not. I've read that some brands can block third parties and some 3rd party sellers can pay Amazon extra to stop their inventory from mixing, which seems like a scam on Amazon's part.
I also used no ad blocker since it was a test browser (vanilla Chrome). Grave mistake.
People remember fondly of Snow Leopard 10.6.8, but the introduction of Snow Leopard 10.6.0 was very rough, certainly not bug free. Snow Leopard did change a lot of things under the hood (64-bit mostly, maybe Grand Central Dispatch).

At the time I was depending on macports to install a lot of dev dependencies: mono was broken, and a bunch of other libraries were also not compiling anymore. It is to this day the only macOS (then Mac OS X) release that I had to downgrade from. But I'm more cautious now... still running Mojave.

That said on principle I agree: I want an OS that works better and faster, not more features.
There have been glaring bugs/issues lasting ages in both MacOS and iOS.

For years apple mail on iOS would always show 1 unread message in "all mail" for gmail.

On my iPhone 11 pro (and the 6S i had before it) the camera app will sometimes only show a black screen and a freaking reboot is needed to get it working again. I've missed out on many moments with my toddler because of that.

Multi-monitor support was so good on MacOS up until maybe 5 years ago. You could easily PIN apps to certain monitors and virtual desktops on specific monitors. If you started an app on a laptop and then connected to external monitors apps would automagically go where they were supposed to. Now it's a complete mess.

MacOS's UI seems more jerky in the last two major releases.

Time machine's performance has slowly gotten worse and worse, leaving me having to cancel backups just so I can go home.

I could go on. The worst part? These have all been ignored open issues that other people have submitted and for years they just sit there...open.
Ghostery extension tells me that there are 105 (ONE HUNDRED AND FIVE) trackers loaded by the article page.

Wow. I'm not even mad, I'm impressed.
It's not a binary choice. The less we do to combat it, the warmer it gets. We're not going to get 0, but it'd be nice to avoid 8 degrees of warming...
heck I am beginning to wonder if Ive is the reason the current iMac chassis has been around so long. as in all proposed designs were either too expensive or even more compromised in form.

the new Mac Pro, is whose fault? it seems more celebration of Apple than designing for the user base that made the most noise. it certainly is more for image than functionality, the costs could have been reigned in a bit
I'm interested as to why junior developers even need to learn Docker. I'd say learning Docker would be a "nice-to-have," but you can go years, or even forever, without having to deal with it, or even having a need for it. I'm not saying learning Docker is fruitless, just that Junior Developers might not get enough out of learning Docker to put it in good use.

As for NoSQL. I'd say that definitely should be on the roadmap. I've assumed that they've already learned RDBMS, but knowing when to use the two is essential. Most companies now are working with data lakes and unstructured data (e.g. user and session data). Knowing how to get around that flexibility, how to structure your business logic and models, and what tool to pick (i.e. Redis for caching), etc. goes alongside NoSQL knowledge.
And yet people poorer and more destitute than her avoid turning to crime. Read the article. She's not hungry, she likes getting stuff and having it be like Christmas everyday. It's simple greed.
Angular/React/Vue are unlikely to dissappear they've existed for a long time now.

Angular: 3* years *9 if you count AngularJS
React: 6 years
Vue: 5 year

That's a long time by web standards, they also keep up and push native javascript forward.

So yes, learn native JS. Definitely learn a framework though, as those skills are ultimately what you need to work on anything more complex than a simple website.
Don't excuse her behavior with a made-up "stomach is empty" sob story.

This is far from a "stealing bread to eat" situation. Jessica isn't scamming people for basic needs, she's conning people for luxury items.

If it were about simply putting food on the table, she'd be reselling everything after she reviewed them, instead of leaving them in a pile in some corner.
Yea, having about ~2K employees for chat app company also helps in getting human response
Look at her picture and tell me that her stomach is empty
I suspect that would have been something they both agreed on. Ives being Ives and Jobs being the type of person who refused to sell a mouse with two buttons until the second "button" could be hidden away behind a touch interface.

Though to be fair any of the displays I've used with USB ports also have them situated around the back. I guess it's a bit different when you're talking about the only ports on the computer vs. ports added for convenience.
I am glad that Vonnegut gets honoured, he changed the way of how i look at things.
Then provide an option. There's no need to cripple some of your users for the sake of others.
> "...the iPhones that distract us from our environment also distract us from how strangely old and unchanging our environment is, how you're riding a subway that's 100 years old."

We need a smartphone-age/post-TV update to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panem_et_circenses and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amusing_Ourselves_to_Death
Biometrics can't be trusted for remote access
Doesn't work for me, just opens the channel info window.
No, that's not pedantic, its a fair point.

acq/rel remains efficient on a platform that doesn't need barriers to implement it (ie, x86).

consume remains efficient on a platform that doesn't need barriers to enforce a dataflow dependency (ie, ARMv7).
That’s quite the leaky metaphor. If you split a list in half to sort it, the computer doesn’t inherit the backlog of punted features/bugs/stress/frustration/etc from the previous half.
You make it seem as if one rules out the other.
Hope he enjoyed the hamberders
It doesn't matter. It's part of the Microsoft enterprise offerings. If you don't want to get replaced by one of their products, which the CIO will do just to make his/her own life easier, then you better make a product everyone wants.
Their anti cheat system is of course automated and can easily detect the ones that only give 5-star reviews or follow other irregular patterns.
HTML would also be a pretty verbose way to format text I'm typing out to coworkers, etc.
True, but sometimes I go to the manufacturer's website and order there.
Couldn't Amazon start reviewing things themselves - like actually curating the products they sell.

The problem isn't fake reviews per se, the problem is products not matching the reviews. You can check a sample of products then stop people who are responsible for "fake" products from being involved in Amazon selling in any way.

Basically do "Which" style consumer reviews on products being sold.
Fantastic! Bluebeard is the book that inspired me to make the switch from poetry to novels. Vonnegut holds a special place in my heart.
What Do You Own?
When I want to buy something, especially low cost items, I don't want to spend time figuring out if something is commingled or not.

Whichever vendor offers me time savings in exchange for good quality products will get my business. Amazon no longer qualifies for that.
> Between these “authentic” fake reviews, the usual fake reviews and counterfeit products, Amazon seems open to serious competition.

To me, this implied you thought that competition could do better
I always go into accessibility settings and enable three-finger click and drag. It seems by far the most easily usable way to do that on a trackpad.
They're not even luxury items. From the article it sounds like a lot of them are really poor quality garbage. She sounds like a hoarder, honestly.
To be clear this is not an ad hominem attack on the author.

She is not doing this because she's starving. Anyone who can front-load $2800 (as she gets paid several weeks, to months, afterward from the sellers) can certainly afford to feed herself. Besides, you can't eat an outdoor plastic bird bath.

To her this is most likely a game... I get it, it's fun, and you get a bunch of random stuff that you don't pay for! As mentioned in the article, "it's Christmas every day". Who doesn't like getting packages?
Sometimes people just want to talk, they want to be heard; occasionally bouncing ideas or thoughts on somebody can help come to a realization, or even a solution to a particular problem.
There are plenty of Bluetooth headphones that support Multipoint

https://phiaton.com/blogs/audio/bluetooth-multipoint-pairing...
Apple parrots their OS update metrics as a leading indicator of customer engagement / satisfaction with the platform & how sympathetic they are to the difficulty for developers of putting out software for new hardware every year. I'm interested to know the rationale for them putting out weekly releases vs. fortnightly or monthly. It seems like they could burn a lot of goodwill with casual users.
China Set for Coal Expansion in Threat to Climate Goals
I've been struggling with the new editor for the past week or so. I finally sent this feedback to Slack today:

Hi there, when the WYSIWYG editor rolled out, I was pleased to see it could be disabled with the "Aa" button in the bottom right. I quickly realized it's not disabled, the toolbar is just hidden.

Here are the problems I run into:

1. Typing ``` and then pasting and typing it again (force of habit from *every other service that uses Markdown* including Slack up until this point), leaving me with an extra ``` inside my code block.
2. Typing >, pasting, and hitting enter too quickly that it doesn't seem to register. Or it registers for one line, but not the rest. Then I have to fix the rest. I'd prefer the old method of simply typing > in front of each line, consistently. But even when I try this, sometimes > doesn't get converted to quotes.
3. Typing :emoji_name: often times results in me typing the name too quickly, and, similar to the bad auto-selection of @-names, it chooses an emoji whose name I didn't type (even though I typed an emoji name exactly). Please just don't touch it until the full thing is parsed on send.
4. *foo*, _foo_, etc. -- again, I type very quickly (~158wpm when going my fastest) and these aren't getting converted. I'd expect if they don't get converted when I type it, they'd at least get converted on send. They don't.

Please give me a way to opt out of this or drastically improve it. Thank you.

I was disheartened to hear that Slack is adamant they will not allow this to be disabled:

Thank you for taking the time to write in and provide this feedback. I apologize for the disruption to your existing workflows. Our aim is to build an editor that works for all Slack users to better format their messages and clearly communicate in channels, regardless of their technical expertise. While we are taking all feedback on board, disabling the new formatting tool isn't an option that we will be offering.

We are committed to doing what we can to improve the new experience for you, and will continue to make improvements to the new editor. Thank you for sharing these specific examples as we're carefully reviewing all feedback and passing it over to our product team.
But you don’t want to go full ducking SaaS with things as well, where you don’t know what is coming until the ‘improvement’ is foisted upon you. Software gone mad. Spoken as a SaaS vendor
Teams has some UI issues (please make the chat more compact) but they have a pretty powerful tool for normal users who are already in the Office landscape.

The fact that you can create a group with some channels, add your files there and edit them together, have a wiki, have a (not very good) kanban board etc. makes it a pretty complete experience. Some of the tools they release needs more polish and some tools are by themselves much worse than stand alone competitors but having everything in one is pretty nice.
Just ban them completely or don't bother, I don't want Google to be the judge of the validity of claims as it's perfectly possible to make an add which is 100% made up of technically correct statements but presents a misleading narrative.

Then it comes to the question is there is such thing as a true narrative to begin with as narratives are subjective in nature, this is a can of worms that Google shouldn't open.

So yeah a full ban sure but not this, if they want some sort of a partial ban they should probably have an interface that allows local electoral commissions to vet advertisement and the most important thing I think Google must do is to disable targeted political ads if they continue to allow them in any shape or form.
describing this further in a clearer and simpler manner (or with examples) could be very helpful.
I don't know. It's really not that bad. No one is forcing you to click on these new buttons. The old markdown(ish) syntax still works, and even formats live as you type it, which for me is awesome.
if you drop me an email (my address is in my profile), I can let you know when I have something to share :)
Heavier to the point that I experience pain handling it for long periods of times especially if I have to use one hand only. Shortly said the weight makes it uncomfortable to use. A clear example where "syle"/fashion is valued more than usuability.
Shipping container can start powering a small renewable grid in less than a day
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Swift Package Manager: What Is It, and Why Use It?
The article points out subsidies are one of the main contributors to growth in production of fossil fuels. So forget regulation, just take the government thumb off the scale in favor of fossil fuels.

This is somewhat disingenuous on my part as I am for using the government thumb if necessary to achieve goals that allow society to continue like a clean energy mix. However, maybe this could still be done in a light touch way like massive grants into basic research which I do think the US government has had success with in the past.

Fossil fuel could take part in this as well but from my perspective, they have never been interested in pursuing goals like efficiency and sustainability though innovation. They are driven by finding ways to create more demand for energy use and scaling up existing technology that is good enough for that purpose.
Hi Dustfinger,

On a somewhat tangential subject, I'm familiar with both Canada and US. My general assessment is that authoritarian tyranny (censorship, taxes, conformism etc. ) is probably significantly higher in Canada than in US . It just does not make headlines because Canadians are a relatively docile lot.
A significantly higher proportion of the American population cares about free speech etc. and are vocal about it, so it makes it to the headlines (Snowden, RMS etc.). Case in point ( details are sketchy because I read it in the news several years back, it could even be inaccurate news): the Canadian govt was tapping Skype way before the US govt. It was doing it as far back as in 2008.

Canadians are also more likely to be self-censoring kind of people so this blocking of text message could be some zealous ethics department in a telecom provider also, not necessarily the govt.

( side note: looking at your past posts I was pleasantly noticed that you are probably interested in life extension and related topics. For example:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20640480

and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19515169 - I assume that was a reference to the website by David Pearce that I read almost a decade back)

Read my very unpopular posts and get in touch with me if you wish.
Sadly, they probably will with the audio rec too. If I ever use Uber, I now have to remember to just shut up and not give them more datapoints...
Similar problem with quotes.