skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting. I'll chime in.

I'm also right-dominant: right-handed writing, right-handed batting—but I'm left-handed hockey (though somewhat ambidextrous), and I am very comfortable steering with my left, but can really do either. Though I'm more comfortable steering with my left with my hand at the side of the wheel (9 o'clock) or at the bottom, under-handed (~7 o'clock). And I wear my watch on my left. I always thought that was common, but maybe more dogma than anything.
And is that worse than getting polio?
> Diachenko believes the trove of data is most likely the result of an illegal scraping operation or Facebook API abuse by criminals in Vietnam, according to the evidence.

The only ones capable of preventing either the scraping operation or the API abuse would be Facebook. Scraping is an arms race, but I certainly don't trust Facebook to care about protecting my data, except where it would infringe on their ability to sell it. If it's "API abuse," that's definitely on Facebook to prevent.
I get that, I'm 32, a millenial as well. I tried the urban lifestyle because... well, I guess I was supposed to. It was fun at first, and then I hated it. Three different cities and, just not for me. I like having a backyard (I like to garden) but I also don't like having to pay two to three times the price for living.

I don't need to hit downtown everyday. I'd rather invite friends over to grill/drink. While owning a car might be "more expensive" than using just public transit, the general lifestyle of not living urban is far cheaper. That and if we all pass out on the floor, it's not frowned upon when at someone's house. It is when you're at a bar. It's sort of like when people in some of the big Cali cities complain it's impossible to own a home or save enough money. No, where you live is terrible. There was an NPR story a year or so ago about a couple selling their home in san fran, then buying a bigger home in cash in Michigan (I think), paying off some debt and still had a savings left over, which they never could do before. They took "pay cuts" compared to their old jobs, but they were living far easier, with a savings in comparison to cost of living.

Personally, it took me way too long to realize salaries are not created equal depending on location. 60k in a place like San Fran or Seattle, does not equal 60k in let's say Tampa, FL. You can live far better in Tampa on 60k than you ever could in Seattle. That's something I think a lot of people aren't quite picking up on. There's a cost/benefit to location. You want to live urban? There are things you have to sacrifice (like a savings account unless you work finance or make a shit ton of cash). Don't want to sacrifice that? Then you can't live there. Simple as that. There are other places to live... with trees. I like trees.

Also, it's quiet away from the city. I get far better sleep these days.
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I trust iMessage a hell of a lot more than naked SMS.

Also emergency alerts in the US are now fairly well secured with a PKI (iirc). Doesn’t stop a dumb or rogue operator, but it does provide some authenticity regarding if the alert came from a legitimate authority or not.
> when's the last time (outside Christmas and Turkey Day) most families hosted a large gathering?

Very very often. Maybe every month? And large neighborhood get togethers at least every week. Perhaps you are overly generalizing from your experiences. Large families/neighborhoods that meet regularly are not a foreign concept in the US. Although HN probably caters to the sort of people who do not go to these things.
A man-rated launch vehicle failing to reach orbit seems like very good reason.
> I feel the need to loudly state that "I support the actions of the Chinese government" on a regular basis, just to be safe.

Have you noticed that the battery was going up when you do that?
It’s only mightier when they compete, not in an open confrontation.
This is just amazing. I wonder how much work and how many brilliant people it took to develop this. Congratulations to everyone involved. I'm sure a lot of cool stuff will come from this tool.
This reminds me of the left hand buttons on the accordion (which play chords). They're arranged in the order of the circle of fifths, so you can instantly transpose to any key just by shifting your starting note and playing the same physical pattern - at least, until you run out of buttons at one edge or the other. It makes it much easier to play chords by ear compared to the piano (at least, for me).
> Huawei always passed those tests with flying colours.

Those tests have usually identified several issues, and Huawei has been slow to address them. For example, one of the conclusions of the 2019 report [1] was that "No material progress has been made on the issues raised in the previous 2018 report" Some of these issues are known vulnerabilities in old versions of dependencies like OpenSSL that Huawei has forked and then neglected to update.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/huawei-cyber-secu...
When I was close to graduating high school, I faced a similar situation. So many people were going into CS or software engineering, mostly for the cash, and adults in my life advises me that CS was a saturated field and there was not much growth potential.

That was in 2004. Looking back, these concerns were ridiculous and had I not listened to these people, I would probably have had a much quicker career progression (I ended up learning to code, not that well, on the job as an important skill set for my work as an actuary).

Personally, I think there is a lot more work to be done in the computer software field. Although there is competition, if you have strong knowledge and work ethic this field would put you in a great position to succeed in a wide range of industries.

Best of luck.
I remember this. Was running an Athlon box at the time. The RDRAM kerfuffle, and the privacy implications of each part being given a queryable unique ID, scared me off getting a Pentium III system.

Remember that time Rambus tried to get a hammerlock on the RAM industry by claiming patent rights over DDR, the industry's alternative to RDRAM?
> It's not going to bounce around like that, it will converge on a center value.

There's no reason for temperature preference to form a normal distribution. In fact I'd think that sexual dimorphism would generate a bimodal distribution at a minimum. Women tend to prefer it warmer than men. That's an incentive for two parties at least.

Any form of syndication will fracture the normal distribution, and we are political animals. We frequently vote at odds with our own interests in politics. I would expect the same behavior when voting to set the thermostat.
Because the site is US-centric. And 4 meals a day is not that common and it's definitely unnecessary for most people.

If that's their goal, I hope people eating 4 meals a day realize they would lose weight by eating only 2 meals a day (without having to change what they eat).
Nobody offended enough by a santa hat to open a bug report would use the name Christian on that bug report. Obvious troll.
You have incorrect understanding of what whataboutism is.

Whataboutism attempts to discredit position by charging them with hypocrisy.
As a non-mathematician, I found the Numberphile video on YouTube very helpful for breaking down the basics of Navier-Stokes equations in a very easy to comprehend way:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERBVFcutl3M
You can build good PKI using your own private CA just as well as using any publicly trusted root. Esp. in the realm of on-prem infra, that's not uncommon.
If it were me, I would want to a) support the existing players in the ecosystem and b) do the migration piecemeal if possible.

Working with a third party lets them start standing up rooms immediately, and get their people using the new standard without being blocked on a long process of setting up their own infra. It’s federated. They can easily migrate onto their own hardware at a later date.

It also injects money into the community they are trying to support. Even if they did start running all of their own instances, I would hope they keep a support contract with Modular for that reason.

Paying Modular + using Matrix widely immediately + beginning work on their own infrastructure is a strictly bigger shot in the arm for Matrix than just putting a couple devs on pre-planning and prototyping infra would be.
Citing whataboutism is often used as an intellectually soft way to avoid responding to claims of hypocrisy. It's pretty much always used like you are using it nabla, to sidestep a challenge of hypocritical behavior.

On balance I think "whataboutism" as a defense waters down discourse and encourages tribal side taking. It's possible for two adversarial entities to actually both be wrong, or right, or engage in parallel behavior, so as a criticism it seems to me like a slight of hand trick to immunize one side against claims of hypocritical behavior.
A major factor is government usurping the traditional functions of community. You don't need help from your local church or a fraternal society if you are getting aid from the government. And people are less likely to participate in the community if they feel that the government is handling and taxing them to do so.
Because you're better informed than the NASA Administrator, or because it's easy to be cynical on the internet?
Would you expect any developing country to not take advantage advantage in the same situation? At a state level, it would be stupid to attract manufacturing with cheap labor, materials, lax ambient laws and low taxes and not copy the technology.

Only an inept government would willingly stall the development of its own country to honorably respect those trade secrets. Everybody doing business with China knew, but the economical incentive was too great to pass.
> If they weren't, the US would turn protectionist and require specific favors from them to let them operate in the USA pronto...

This is already the case. They're not called favors, they're called federal laws.

However, there are no federal laws requiring the installation of software on almost anything (maybe military applications?) There is no need. The government can just go through ISPs & carriers & companies for surveillance purposes. Russia's government can do the same thing.

This move is an attempt to energize the Russian software market and not much else.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y50i1bI2uN4&feature=youtu.be fun explanation.
but to be fair, those companies are subject to political whims as well, as they are mostly paid with public money. https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/18/18683455/nasa-space-angel...

The only difference is that public money now is financing private companies...
Compare the available mobile bandwidth and cost today with what we had just 5 years ago. We're talking about regular web pages here. Sure, you don't want to put full resolution images straight into your page. That makes no sense. But if you have a regular page with a couple of images, its size up to a certain size won't matter in most places in a few more years, just as it doesn't matter today if you live in a more densely populated area. I have a mobile phone contract where I get 10GB of traffic (which seems a lot to me but which is laughable if you compare it to other markets such as Kuwait where contracts with 1TB/month are normal) for less than 20€ per month and I only manage to use 3GB per month or so most of the time.
Yes, routinely. You can find plenty of articles which had much less support in sources when they were created here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:AfC_submissions_by_da... That Wikipedians rejected the article is a moot point because the argument is that the rules are not applied consistently.
No Java 11 support? I was interested in giving it a try after the holidays, since it look like it would be a good tool for the type of bugs we have.

I think it could be a big barrier to adoption, considering how Java 8 is EOL.
That 2018 is a really unfortunate typo, but I feel hesitant to deploy fix now as the traffic is heavy.

I agree on all points, and have no excuses; the landing page wasn't ready for being surprise featured in HN.

Many thanks for your feedback & apologies that I provided such a crap experience.
> flight automation software runs on some sort of "timer"

Interesting, this might explain the failure to land the rover (vikram) on the dark side of the moon by India's recent moon mission.

For example, what if the altitude assumed by the timer is off by a few kilometers, and it starts operating in a manner which is for landing within few meters.
This just changes the winning strategy to “have bots post in favor of the position you oppose, then out your human opponents as shills or having been duped by shills”.
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thank you, but this doesnt solve the speed issues in my case. i could use sylius or any other ecom that i could host myself and use custom speedup on code instead of just on cdn:) shop i mean is in uk and has only uk customers, no need for cdn as customers arent spread globally or even on the continent.. as for static wouldnt that work for every solution? in that case theres no need for shopify at all... but as you say i could even keep static code generated and served from redis instead of s/hdd, that would be even faster
I'm not saying that nuts aren't healthy. You have to take the combination of the 3 points.

I am saying that unrestricted over-consumption of any food type is bad. Now make extreme over-consumption easy/feasible by selecting high energy density foods presented in a slow but steady consumption pattern that will defy any form of natural satiety limit and you end up with a very unhealthy accumulation of energy extracted from otherwise healthy foods.

I am not making these stories up. I see people consuming 2 bags of nuts, that is 3400 kcal, outside and on top of 3 heavy meals of cheeses and meats per day, and they truly wonder what it is they are doing wrong and why they aren't losing weight as they are completely following 'low carb' diets.
>Not sure I agree with that, you don't have to be like other people to get along with them.

I can't think of a single example of a heterogeneous society that has lasted a comparably long time. Would you care to point to one, or cite some studies to show their effectiveness vs those that are homogeneous in nature?

I'd argue that a strong sense of shared identity, such as that provided previously by religion in the West, and which still currently holds strength elsewhere, is crucial to the success of a given society. The War state, and then post-War state, of the West also had a strong sense of shared identity and bound together as a result. Evidence points towards it.

The current state of the West is a testament to the disarray caused in a heterogeneous society with no sense of shared identity and the mutual obligations that result from it. The divisions and gaps are only widening, the issues around it are only becoming worse, and those who stand to benefit from it are using it to its full advantage.
Sounds like what Yik Yak tried to do.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yik_Yak
Makes sense when the tariffs will cost the average household $2,031 per year. Less to spend on cheap products or imports from China but also less for everything else.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2019/09/09/trump...
If it’s not satire, it’s at least sad. That video made me feel sorry for the mother.
I don't see how that's fundamentally different from a Wikipedia article, which is basically

(1) a single, self-contained page, (2) that is just the "tip", and (3) linked within it is all the stuff mentioned

That site has various opinions about the "tip" being uncluttered of links, etc, but that's just an opinion (and one I disagree with).
SSH keys and certificates are different authentication mechanisms (I learnt this from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20955465)
He references the Byte magazine Smalltalk issue. There was another issue much later that looked at why objects failed but actually they didn't. They succeeded but they weren't called objects. They were called Visual Basic controls/components. These were a runaway success. VB despite it's limitations enabled a massive amount of software to be written quickly and easily mainly through re-using commercial components.

But the components were completely encapsulated. Black box, no source code, no inheritance. You could argue the same for services today. Services are software ICs, you can call them objects it whatever you like but they achieve Brad Cox's objective, which is all that matters. (It's just a pity that people think that a service/component has to run in a separate process always, unlike VB)
>The opposite of alienation and social atomization is basically conformity and homogeneity, and that's bad for business; and especially bad for the oligarch types who engender this kind of alienation.

I'd say the opposite: the individuality in alienation is faux individuality. The individual today is "individual" by their clothing choices, consumption patterns, etc, where everything is if not mass produced, still mediated by money in a market ("underground" and "alternative" consumption is still consumption, not some original expression of self).

Add to that the widespread lack of social safety nets, non-support from community, friends, and even family, and individuals become obedient cogs to get their next meal.

It's in the non-alienated societies where the individual can be truly non-conformant and more unique, because the uniqueness there can be an actual personal expression (e.g. the old eccentrics), and because community support means the individual is stronger against the state, market forces, etc.

There are concessions to be made to get that community support, but few as heavy as the modern state/society/market/boss imposes on the individual (and they are based on historical prejudices which could be overcome within the same community - e.g against being gay - not in the inherent way the system functions - by making people consume as much as they can, nickel and dime them, treat them as redundant if they don't have money, etc- as are the modern concessions).
That's right. Apple and Android firmware is already written by US companies complying with US laws and US court orders. They will do everything court orders so there is no need for an additional law.

And, by coincidence, companies that sell equipment with non-US firmware, are not very welcome in the country.
Locking the costs at a fixed amount for a fixed amount of time. This certainty allows retailers to plan promotions, discounts levels, special offers without impacting profitability. It also simplifies accounting and budgeting. Making a profit from the hedge is not really a priority (it is difficult enough for professional trading firms with full research departments at their disposal). Also, retailers (and other producers, like coffee roasters) MUST buy their raw materials quite regularly, so the profit potential of hedging tends to average out.
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Interesting experience. I also wonder if the comparison is made from the perspective of someone working in non-academia who might get a few days at Christmas, or undergrad students who get plenty of time off?
How come there are no information on your site about the founders, team, investors, etc.

It’s hard to take you seriously as the arbitrators of transparency when there is no disclosure about your own company.
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As a contractor, I always prefer hours
Oh my shit, they don't claim to have an answer. They have a direction. Not an answer. There's a very large difference. The entire language in this is extremely aware and careful that they don't have a cure. Quit acting like this is a CNN article saying "Scientists cured all disease because of a 2 person study". They have some survey based evidence that it happens in humans too. With a potential replication in mice, they feel confident it's an avenue worth pursuing. No one is holding their breath. It's an interesting study, with interesting line of evidence thought that they think is worth seeing if completely true. That's it, don't make it out to more than that. They share this information so other people can be enlightened to the idea and with professionals who are actually apart of the field help poke actual holes in the issues or offer other ideas to help guide it further. Not just "Ugh, you used mice, like, it's totally not gonna work man because it's like this one programming bug I once had."
Hi, I'm interested in program execution state and the different ways it can be represented/modelled. The "relational model" you describe sounds very interesting. Do you have a technical whitepaper on this topic, or perhaps some third-party literature that has guided you?
If you care about this, my advice is to not rail against words taking on new meanings. That's how language works, and it's a losing battle to fight against it.

Just take what you believe is the better definition of OOP and rebrand it.
I like SparkPost as a second option. We also use Sendgrid but I don't like the fact that sendgrid logs do not show the actual email body. So troubleshooting is a problem with them.
Good spam follows best-practices for email deliverability.
You never realize how similar characters are until you start an OCR project.

ec

ij

tf

Il|1

hb

OQ

etc.

Even the tiniest addition or subtraction of printed ink can transform one character in one of the above rows to any other character in the row. Throw in page tilt/warp/etc. and OCR can frequently confuse them unless you train it specifically on your text. The pipeline I've found that works best is:

image -> upscale -> dewarp -> OCR -> spellcheck -> grammar check
We all know that so far nobody has ever created an unassailable operating system.

A key tool Apple uses to mitigate the risk is the ability to remove those binary blobs from distribution and to prevent them from running.
I think it is worth mentioning that those fears are largely unfounded. The US is a much safer country today than it was 20-30 years ago. Especially the situation and social standing for many black Americans have improved tremendously. The US is not unique in that -- crime has fallen in most of the Western world -- yet people are more afraid than ever!
>Fiddling with the internet in a futile attempt to decrease social alienation is like buying a tank top to increase your physical fitness.

Disagree. For the innovators out there, please keep fiddling.

Funny how I can interact with strangers in the real-world and sometimes walk away refreshed but I am not sure there's a single time I have ever read a stream of tweets from strangers and felt anything but anger and nausea?

Reading unrefined emotive sentences has the damning effect of "this is a proclamation, this must be true!"

Where-as if you had the conversation with a stranger, you would realize there are dramatic pauses, "umms" where they aren't so certain of their statement, trailing inflections in their voice where they're actually asking a question instead of making a statement.

Most people are not sophisticated enough to write in a way that accurately conveys their emotions.

So the tweets all read as grand proclamations.

And it sucks. Participating in these "social" sites cause stress.

Keep iterating. How can we experience online, the emotion of in-person chats? Video chats are from perfect and come off stale and more akin to the experience of a CB Radio.

Async video group chat - all participants record video clips/responses? Along with fairly accurate transcriptions of the video, so that the content can be searched?
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