skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That was just one example of the many new requirements that make houses more expensive. Solar panels will now be required on all new homes. Also fire sprinkler systems are required, adding somewhere between $5k-$10k in costs. Each new regulation might seem okay on its own, but all of these things add up.
Productionizing Distributed XGBoost to Train Deep Tree Models
AMD never had one as boneheaded as Meltdown. Intel keeps having more and more uncovered, and according to researchers who went on the record in the NYT, they are not handling reported vulnerabilities quickly or thoroughly. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/12/technology/intel-chip-fix...
They should pay me reparations for reading some of the nonsense they publish.
>Ubuntu (and probably other Debian-based Linux systems - and maybe all of them - so many distros I haven't tried or haven't played with in a long while - sigh) does it right - if you say to try again later, it will pop up the same dialog later.

Debian yes. But Ubuntu has adopted a Windows 10-style approach with its new snap packaging format. See https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/disabling-automatic-refresh-for...
I'd like the pain-point parties (Apple, Microsoft) to just ship open-source linkable libraries of somekind in their app stores.

If OSX, Windows, and the mobile stores carried a common framework developers could target it would become a defacto UI standard since you could finally develop a cross-platform app that used 'native widgets' (at least a library that might already be installed) for every given platform, and which could have an OS prompt that asks to install it from a trusted source if they don't happen to have it.
Interesting! Two questions:

1) Could you maybe simplify the computational effort by defining "divide by 2" instead of general division, since you only ever divide by 2 for Collatz?

2) The author concludes by explicitly checking each integer. Given the power of types, isn't there a single statement you can make that would prompt it to check all integers, i.e. seeing if it can prove that all integers type-check?
I'm under the impression that you don't. I did install the security updates, and I think this thing went away, but I'm not 100% sure.
Blegh, now they remove the flags to show the full URL in the address bar. Took them a year [0] Whatever. I'm looking forward to what option they remove in the next release.

Interestingly, there's still this extension by Google that makes the address bar show the full URL [1]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17927972

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/suspicious-site-re...
> I understand you are not a fan.

Pun intended? :)
Please don't post unsubstantive comments to Hacker News. Or shallow dismissals. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

On HN, what matters is article quality, not site quality: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu.... Buzzfeed News sometimes puts out high-quality articles that make good HN submissions: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que.... Same as any other major media site.

This has been a settled issue for 5 years at least:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7657710

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10584911
Business Books of 2019
I think a lot of what you need to know about (a swathe of) the Hacker News community is that I get voted down for pointing out that you're stealing content.
Much of SF is build this way. Homes have maybe a 1” gap between them.

Good question on how you’d repair the exterior wall. Usually if it’s that bad, it’s almost a complete rebuild and the wall comes down.
>I love my family, thanks, and am a competent father. I don't love, and am not good at, taking care of small children all day every day, and my children would suffer if I had to do that for an extended period of time.

I don't think that's uncommon for men, and I'm sure it happens for some women too. If both of you are that way, and you are convinced your children will suffer from being taken care of by you, and you can afford to pay people that will do a better job than you, then by all means.

>And if you were to make that remark about my wife to my face, I'd politely ask you to step outside.

Just to make it clear, I am not insinuating your wife is inadequate in any way, just that I would feel bad for her if you felt that love was something you could get from professionals. I am sure she's a wonderful woman and I hope you have a great relationship with her.

My point is that these daycare workers don't love your children anywhere near the amount that you and your wife do (I assume, I don't know you personally), and they aren't going to be able to fool your children.
Show HN: Kong – Physical Cryptocurrency
The whole "sharing a wall" vs. "two walls abutting" seems somewhat academic to me from a homeowner perspective. I'm not sure why it makes such a difference.

The drawback of having no setbacks is that your pedestrians have to mingle with the car traffic? The example in the article didn't make it look very desirable to me.
I remember how great Gmane used to be with several incredible web-based views of mailing list archives. Too bad it sounds like the source code was lost and never open sourced. Another on the list of services that died without passing on enough of the torch.
Yes. Diceware is one such, the EFF has some improved variants. With 7776 words you can roll 5 dice and get a number, which becomes a word. log(7776)/log(2) = ~13, so 13 bits of entropy per word chosen. 7 words for 91 bits of entropy (over the 80-bit absolute minimum for decent security of a key), 10 for 130 bits of entropy (better than 128-bits that lots of people use for AES), 20 for 260 bits (better than 256, enough to resist even batch attacks by enormously powerful actors).

Of course a 20 random word string is less a "password" or "passphrase" and more a "passpoem". You only want one or two of those, as master passwords for a password manager.
> Rowhouses are de facto banned almost everywhere in US?

No. It's an invention by the author, who provided zero support to their repeated claims of everything being commonly banned. Check out how they phrased each tweet, it's because they can't support what they said at all. When called out about the lying, for example re Texas (the second most populated state), the author promptly evades.
> A few years ago, shortly after the birth of our first child, our financial advisor recommended $350k.

Amazing. Land of the free seems to be quite keen to come up with innovative ways to enslave its citizens...
It's an invalid folk belief perpetuated by employers.

In CA, soliciting your fellow employees is perfectly permissible. As of 2019, this is a blanket rule for all employees, including executives, because courts have determined that non-solicit clauses violates multiple CA labor laws (including the prohibition on non-competes).

However, executives may be subject to non-compete clauses in their employment contract. Executives, as highly-compensated employees, are exempt from CA prohibitions on non-compete clauses. Solicitation activity might violate the non-compete if the executive is going into a new business that directly competes with the actual activities of the old employer, but as a practical matter this can't really occur since the executive couldn't take the new job until after the non-compete period ends.
I'm sorry for your indentured servitude.
TL;DR: in 2014 Julian Assange wrote a book accusing Google and especially Eric Schmidt of being in cahoots with the US Government.

Kinda fun to read except for the parts where he starts whining. This guy should write a spy novel! Is "analyticity" a word?
To be far this is every news agency since the 1970's. It's just been scaled and personalized.
The cost is a drop in the bucket, but there are enough other drops to overflow the bucket. When we take offense at substandard living conditions and then regulate them away, we price out the poor. We often even excuse it as some benefit to the poor, saying that they deserve good things too, but of course the totality of the regulations ends up pricing them out of the market.
Bob Bane hangs out here regularly!

By far the most important feature of ZMOB was that each board had four differently colored software blinkable LEDs, all arrayed behind the smoked plexiglass cover of the rack they were all plugged into. It looked really cool and was great for hypnotizing and mesmerizing people, which was how we got a big NFS grant (which we spent on Vaxen and Suns and Xerox workstations).

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bane

Here's a photo of some UMD people in front of ZMOB in the Department of Research Simulation, with some white Xerox file servers and black Sun server in the background:

https://i.imgur.com/zLjYTS3.jpg
The new casual labor is the gig economy, slowly being chipped away for the gig economy laborer's 'own good'.

Roomates in a SFH / Apartment are the new SROs, but they definitely have higher barriers.
Definitely, although they're using basically none of the logic resources. You could probably get the bulk of the result with an Artix 7 and a memory controller (instead of using all those large BRAMs). Or just an Artix 7 and not allocating 64kB of BRAM for each core.

$129 for an Artix 7 development board is a steal [1].

[1] https://store.digilentinc.com/arty-a7-artix-7-fpga-developme...
I had never heard about this until about 10 years ago, now it seems like they're going up everywhere. Most of the new construction here is listed as mixed use commercial/residential.
For $4k, as it happens. As I did a few weeks ago.
I followed a tiled based approach, as explained here: https://openlayers.org/en/latest/examples/localized-openstre...

Although the image is not a map at all, I tiled it and served it as a custom map layer. You can view it at https://finance.alisio-computing.eu
Most people would benefit from the distroless base image: https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/distroless

It's a base image with binaries from Debian deb package, and with necessary stuff like ca-certificates, and absolutely nothing else, while still glibc-based (unlike Alpine base images).

Example images I built with the base image
- C binary, <10MB https://hub.docker.com/r/yegle/stubby-dns

- Python binary, <50MB https://hub.docker.com/r/yegle/fava

- Go binary, 5MB https://hub.docker.com/r/yegle/dns-over-https

Another trick I use is to use https://github.com/wagoodman/dive to find the deltas between layers and manually remove it in my Dockerfile.
This is the idea of tile trackers, except they also emit noise so you can use that once you get pretty close.

I'd imagine intentionally directional antennas would be helpful here, much like is used for ham radio foxhunts.
Paywalled ... and also this is an op-ed by the WSJ Editorial Board (https://twitter.com/BGrueskin/status/924810328747204608)
I bought a NEW Leaf for $16K (after tax credit) in 2017 when they were liquidating the 1st generation models. It has 30 kWh of battery and a range of about 120 miles.

Right now, you can buy a USED Leaf under $5K, but it probably has a worn out battery with 60-70 miles of range usable:

https://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/sss?query=nissan+leaf&so...
Qt is massive, I doubt small communities would rush to integrate it and make it their job to maintain it all...

I doubt anyone in OSS communities is seriously deterred from using Qt because of the LGPL. It’s just a very big and very complex project that requires a lot of manpower to “tame”.
They are common in new suburbs and common enough in cities even if new one's are not allowed there.
Who is Uncle Ted?
What I do is to click on the alert but not at either of the alternatives at the right end! Then System Preferences will open up, and I just quit it. This way, many days pass before I get a new alert.
You are similarly "allowed" to search for another job while working for a company, which is 1:1 comparable to your idea of the company looking for your replacement while you are still there.

What the company isn't doing is billing you for the time they spend doing it, or having you spend your free time doing it while you are at home.

What someone does in their own free time with their own resources is their business. What they do while they are at work, getting paid is "company" business and should be treated as such.
The parent you replied to was about a total ban. It's not cherry picking to try to match apples to apples.
but cute = Qt
One reason that a minor might seek out E2EE is that they have been prosecuted in that past for sharing photos of themselves with other minors.
Bluetooth hosts aren't entirely passive as I understand it.
All of them?

"Man Lands on Moon; Other Celestial Bodies Still Lonely"

"Mass Causalities in D-Day Invasion, But Remaining Soldiers Will Get to See Paris"
The $100M ARR Club
Originalism as defined by the Federalist Society, you mean.
Like the next refresh of the Accord.
> Oh, and his company filed for bankruptcy last month.

Again?!?
I'm guessing you don't raise yours inside a cleanroom.
That is undoubtedly true, but at least you will have more engineers that are able to dig into them to identify the root cause of these behaviours and fix it.

If you are badly impacted by a bug and no one else is, you are the only one with an incentive to find and fix it. You might pay the CPU manufacturer to share the incentive with them, but you'd need quite deep pockets for this.

I wouldn't be surprised if widespread open source CPUs also had better debugging tools at their disposal.
Yes, you still get this UI.
Hi folks, I’m one of the contributors at Kong — https://kong.cash/. Kong is a physical cryptocurrency that looks, feels and works like traditional cash. You can think of it as an ultra-secure, time locked cryptocurrency wallet with a fixed face value — no one can access the token except for the holder of the note after a period of several years. It consists of a secure element and NFC chips mounted on a flexible PCB with a full color print. There are several gold elements that also serve as direct i2c interfaces to challenge the secure element’s authenticity by signing information with its private key.

Kong is based on two primary observations; (1) it’s really difficult to use and secure cryptocurrency for most people and (2) cryptocurrency has been useful as a means of speculation, but poor for actually buying goods and services. It’s our hypothesis that by making cryptocurrency more like cash it may be possible that people ultimately use it as a means of exchange.

Our background is in secure embedded hardware (Lockitron, YC S09); over the past year we did a deep dive to really consider how cryptocurrency key material is handled today. We found that cryptocurrency has a unique challenge and corresponding opportunity; unlike IoT products where the cost of a breach might be difficult to quantify, breaking a hardware wallet can yield clear rewards to the hacker.

We developed Kong around the notion that security should be isolated to the smallest possible footprint — in the case of Kong, to an individual single purpose secure element chip. Doing so removes additional layers of firmware and software in order to limit the attack surface (it also broadly questions how good are our existing secure chips today).

To date we’ve handed out close to 2,500 Kong notes; we’re now exploring more ways to distribute physical crypto. Take a look at https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmRNRCocj4PwKMXrd1jeUGw7ASQSuEk7BDJu5Ks... for an in-depth technical overview.
Is your preference related to these CVE's in a way that I don't understand?
US support for Brexit seems to generally follow party lines in the US. Almost all Americans I know (I am American) thinks it's a terrible idea promoted by conmen. The few who do support Brexit have some other beliefs I find very questionable.
> Real policymaking is much messier than any of this, of course.

Thanks for your posts which I find interesting. Can you point me to any good sources on crafting better policies?

For context, I'm most interested in better policy choices that generally prioritize 'equal opportunity for all' as opposed to trying to engineer 'equal outcomes for all'.
And how are these digital dragnets not a form of harassment? General searches like the ones facebook is obfuscating are the same thing -- deputies showing up and tossing things around, the only difference is that the person being searched is unaware of it, and there is no mess being made. If you are unjustly caught up in the dragnet then that harassment manifests physically.
You literally can't; advertising is a core requirement of capitalism. If you can't tell people about your product, you can't charge more for it.
*Addendum: Nobody should be forced to have a garage on their house and the government has no business requiring that.
I keep a list of shit like this:

- [ ] Fix FaceTime audio ducking BS

- [ ] Add screen sharing to FaceTime

- [ ] VP9 decoder in Safari

- [ ] Make Puck.app part of macOS

- [ ] Make iMessage search actually useful

- [ ] Tree style tabs (like that FF extension)

- [ ] Safari profiles

- [ ] A protocol to link profiles (tab A in iTerm opens links in profile A, emails from email account B opens links in profile B)

- [ ] Improve Preview reliability

- [ ] Make screenshots save faster

- [ ] Something to announce that my charger is plugged but not charging (happens once a week - you realise you've got 2% battery left when everything slows down massively)

- [ ] Something to stop Mail opening main window when there's some letters already open (aka behave like every other mac app)

- [ ] Zoom on email when composing

- [ ] Solve Mail app performance (3k of emails shouldn't take 5 seconds to render on i9)

- [ ] Spell checker is pretty bad

- [ ] Reliable way to disable dedicated GPU (and a 15" MBP model without it - most devs don't need it, but I understand devs aren't target market anyway)

- [ ] This checklist was made with Notes app, which I starting to love, but pasting this list back doesn't parse as a checklist

- [ ] Unsure if it's macOS or iOS bug, but it's been like that for years - storing Mom or Dad in contacts get's converted into Mom Lastname or Dad Lastname. Trying to use Siri "Call Dad" results in "I can't find a number for 'Dad Lastname' in your contacts, would you like to search instead?".

- [ ] Contacts adds invisible characters when copy/pasting phone numbers

- [ ] Can't change audio input without disconnecting bluetooth speaker (while on FaceTime)

- [ ] Siri Announce can't tell apart english messages from non-english so it just reads out this madness

- [ ] 2 letters missing from keyboard in my language (confirmed "working as intended" by Apple)

- [ ] Can't share iCloud data with family who lives in different country
That's simple and clever, knowing for sure what cars are worth breaking into. I imagine based on the BD_ADDR you can even surmise what type of device it is.
I don't think anyone is saying anyone NEEDS to do anything. These people with a bunch of money simply decide that they WANT to.

Are you proposing they not be allowed? That after you hit some arbitrary number of accumulated wealth that you are forced to watch paint dry and disallowed from engaging with the rest of the world? How would that even work?

Your personal sense of morals may label this as undesirable but it's very hard to think of any consistent legal framework for enforcing it past maybe "take their money if you think they have too much money (ie more taxes). Even in that scenario they are allowed to invest what they've got though.
Most people don't care about this scenario because it's so easy to amend a commit. If you're doing a "git commit" with no -m, you can just leave the commit message in a draft state, finish the commit, stage more changes, do "git commit --amend", and then continue editing the commit message.

The commit itself holds the draft of the commit message.

It becomes permanent when you stop tweaking the commit and publish it.
The author linked the development board, either $4,495 or $5,995, but he did say he got it second hand I think:

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/programmable/product...
So what's next? Tracking the Prevention of Tracking Prevention?

Honestly, this shit gets confusing, can someone please ML us out of it? Or maybe we just design a sane and understandable First-Party only policy?
Getting harder to do that with all the Infinite scroll going around, #NotAFan
What makes you believe that this part of the constitution cannot be amended? Article V only says that it requires consent of the affected states - which would be all of them, so it's a high bar, but it's not outright prohibited.
At least with an open source one more than a handful of engineers at a single company could work on the problem.
Is the app both signed (and notarized)? - if not you will have to CTRL + Right click -> open to run the unsigned code.
The Art of City Walking
Yeah, if you just replaced the 64KB of RAM with a 4KB cache backed by DRAM, you could probably fit 64 cores in one of those no problem, but 1) the performance wouldn't be quite as good, and 2) this project was mostly an exercise in excess since I was trying to find something to do with my giant FPGA board.
Bait cars are not manufacturing crimes. Those are natural and organic crimes.

Unless undercover officers actively entice somebody to steal them or something? That would be entrapment it is already not allowed I think.
Dumb to you, not to them.
"Security" is not a valid argument. I can easily firewall my machines or even unplug ethernet cables. What I CANNOT do is rewrite a huge chunk of software that my business depends on overnight.

So keep downvoting. It doesn't change anything in the real world.
That was probably me, I posted a link in the Hackaday comment section. Don, I forgot about the colored LEDs. I need to find a picture!
Replicant needs your help to liberate Android in 2020
Have you ever been to an area that doesn't have regulations on housing? No, thank you. There will be some crappy ones, but overall it's a win.
My Manjaro install always ends up in a weird state after software updates. The issues don't clear up until a reboot.
Hardly a balanced diet. I don't think a lot of schedules that fly in the face of healthy eating.
For those who want a daily concise version of the New York Times, check out https://timesdigest.com/.

It's not free, but I've found it to be a great way to read the NYTimes.

Example of the 10-page daily PDF:
https://timesdigest.com/samples/timesdigest
Thank you so much for all the work you put into creating and maintaining Leaflet. It’s pretty remarkable how much time and energy you (and others, of course) put into making something so complex so intuitive.
I recall that OSX used to let me select which updates, and I was always happy to explicitly allow security updates while skipping the latest versions of all the things i don't use, and also skipping unwanted OS upgrades. IMO the worst thing they did for security was making it impossible to distinguish between security patches, Garage Band releases, and UX changes.
There are so many huge UI fails in Apple products nowadays ...

My most recent encounter is pretty much anything to do with Apple Pay (especially on the mac). I couldn't get any transactions to complete. Ended up being that my address didn't validate (apparently) because it was 'too long' -- good luck figuring that out via the (horrific) Apple Pay address form edit UI ...
I feel like, if PewDiePie can make 1 Million a month in youtube ad-revenue and 8 million total. A Newssite like NYT ought to be able to support their staff, thanks to a global reach and 240Million views per month.
A Life of Pliny
This is hardly as bad as Windows 10 where I was quite literally given a prompt (full screen modal, couldn't close) for a system update that said:

"Restart Now" and "Ok"

Guess what "Ok" did? Restarted the fucking machine, but _not_ right away... no, it waited about ten minutes before randomly performing the update during a game I was playing.
Not sure if you're going to read this, but I've emailed you and never got an answer...
Very cool. Thank you!
A Great Wave of Hokusai