skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really like the idea of using something like as a U2F authenticator that allows me to define a additional local PIN. There are whole number of application this would be useful for.

I strongly recommend this talk by Andrew "Bunnie" Huang it gives a lot of background on his thinking about Open Hardware/Software:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXwy65d_tu8
Gm invented the skateboard design but never did anything with it. Tesla uses it but it's proprietary. Rivian's shtick is that they are willing to license it and build it for others. That's a big reason why Ford invested: they can immediately get access to a leading edge ev platform without spending any time on it.
Wow, I'm surprised their advertising revenue was so little ($6k/month), considering how aggressive it got near the end. A large part of the reason I pivoted away from 8tracks was the aggressive advertising. Sad to see it was all for naught.

Was a great platform though, still one of the best ways to discover great music from human-created playlists.
My pursuit of financial independence consequently led to my career becoming my identity. I've optimized for raising my income and savings to reduce "time to FI", that by the time I get there -- about 4 years, give or take -- that I've become the thing I explicitly set out to remove from my life. It's not that I don't like working, but I wish to do so on my own terms. Maybe that means short-term contracts a few months out of the year, and having that reduced income cover my living expenses, supplemented with investments. I've done the numbers many times, but I've spent little time considering what I'll do with all that extra time.
Elasticsearch is not an appropriate choice for an authoritative store of data.
> Yes, civil disobedience means you believe the specific law itself is wrong, but not the law-making process.

The US Civil Rights movement generally practiced civil disobedience because the views the laws, the law making process, and the process of selecting who could even participate in the law making process as unacceptable.

The key assumption was that enough of the people who could participate in that process were nevertheless moral enough to reform all of those aspecta given a vivid enough demonstration that they could not turn away from of the top-to-bottom injustice of the system.

I don't think Assange was engaging in civil disobedience, nor do I think he would have been justified if he were, but doing so does not and never has relied on faith in the justice of the existing law-making process any more than it does in the law being violated itself.
Anti Homeless Spikes
Agreed. The typical response seems to be “what’s the worst that someone could do with that info?”

The NYTimes article attempts to answer that question but I’m not sure how successful it is. The gist seems to be that your data affects others, and you may case later about data that you don’t care about now. Nothing about identity theft, answers to secret questions, etc.

Some people I talk to already get it, that it’s hard to foresee the abuses, but for most people, if it doesn’t end with a hacker raiding their bank account then it’s not really a problem .
Categories of deep recommendation systems
> but I’d still like you to answer my question.

It was implied in my answer. Smoking and vaping have nothing but negative outcomes. Driving to get somewhere on the other hand, has both a benefit and a risk. We're also constantly improving safety ratios with things like safer cars, automatic braking systems, and autonomous driving sometime down the line hopefully.

All the examples you listed are practically a necessity for modern life, again, a benefit-risk tradeoff, and there are always improvements in safety being developed. Smoking and vaping aren't a necessity, and zero good comes out of them.
The antenna will probably be inside the TV case and very difficult for the "average" user to try. They'd be too-scared to do so. Heck, I'd wager that a good chunk of electrical-minded individuals, even trained ones, would be scared of doing anything to their expensive device that requires them to open it.
This is correct, which is why I am a big fan of FIDO U2F software like https://Krypt.co . This requires your phone which is essentially a second workstation to authenticate. So now you need to exploit two workstations.
I have never used 8tracks but the concept and testimonials make it sound like something I would have loved. I noticed in the blog post that all playlist authors can export their playlist metadata. Would it be useful to collect and store all the playlist metadata in a shared public place? I hate to see all the work that has gone into creating these playlists disappear (and selfishly I would love to see a new service emerge to make them accessible).
This is not an answer to the question that malvosenior asked.
I bought 2 smart TVs recently and was able to turn all this BS off by simply not accepting the privacy policies during setup. Of course this means you can't use the built-in netflix apps or check for software updates or whatever but that's fine by me. I left both on my network for a period of time as well to check (via DPI) and indeed neither one was actually doing anything on the network other than pinging a software-update server every few days.
I was under the impression that "shoot the missile down with another missile" style ICBM defence doesnt work, and that everyone already knows this.

Doesn't Israel shoot down incoming missiles with other missiles all the time? Or are you speaking specifically of ICBM-only scenarios?
I thought it would be pretty obvious that I was referring to the part about him being poisoned to death with sedatives.
it was the first thing i turned off when i bought my LG tv.

funny thing: i did not know the name of it and i couldn't not understand why "Avengers: Infinity Wars" was so upsetting to watch.

took me literally 20min of poking around to find out the option and turn it off (it's called "TruMotion").
It got acquired for the trust people put in the brand, not the technology or the employees. Facebook needed a backdoor into people's contact lists and WhatsApp had a huge user base of people who authorised it to access contacts.
Where do you live that has open WiFi connections available from your home? Asking for a fiend.
The whole point of equity analysts is to impress clients (which is why they are made public), not for the banks themselves to take positions based on the research. Hedge funds who actually trade, don't release research or buy/hold/sell recommendations.
Concorde was a loss-making government-subsidized program, and you can always make things "advance" by burning money. Although on occasional years it was (barely) operationally profitable, it never made a profit once depreciation of assets was considered, much less the cost of the development program. Given the available technology and society's decision to ban sonic booms over populated areas, this (we know now) was inevitable.
Try: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qubEamdc4Ng
The reason they did that is to see if something in the local state of your client was causing the problem, not to get you to QA the bug.
I think most hype over EVs is a direct result of the Tesla stock price and people upset they missed their chance to buy it when it was $20. Probably nothing to do with Rivian or their tech - they just want "the next Tesla".
Interface looks nice!

From my perspective, though, the largest annoyance of PR reviewing is that diffs are alphabetical instead of conceptual.

For example, a large change ends up affecting 26 files named A, B, ... Z. The PR diff/review lists the changes starting with A and the last changes reviewed are in Z. But, conceptually, often it'll be that - if you made the PR - you'd rather the reviewer start with Z: the high level, this is why the PR was even needed, then jump to F: the data structure change enabling this, then off to B: initialization code that needed to account for the structure changes, etc, etc.

Currently, the only way around this - that I know of - is with the comments section and just noting for whoever reviews it what to look at in what order.

Having a tool that fixed that problem would be heaven to me.
It is, at least, a very much diminished issue in my experience going from 2.x to 7.x

Somewhere around 5 or 6 the tides turned. What was a big issue is how easy it was to overload the cluster and how data would be lost in that state.

To be safe you should have regular backups anyway. I wouldn't trust ES to handle very critical data which you wouldn't ever want to lose a bit of, but I have much less worry these days about the operational overhead of fixing an cluster because failure in experience is just much less likely.

It is still though, something which is less "set and forget" like many sql engines can be in less critical or intense workloads. You would want someone in your org to really know ES.
Huh, I was thinking that it was going to reveal porn or some-such... but nope

>During debate over his nomination, Bork's video rental history was leaked to the press. His video rental history was unremarkable, and included such harmless titles as A Day at the Races, Ruthless People, and The Man Who Knew Too Much. Writer Michael Dolan, who obtained a copy of the hand-written list of rentals, wrote about it for the Washington City Paper.[36] Dolan justified accessing the list on the ground that Bork himself had stated that Americans had only such privacy rights as afforded them by direct legislation. The incident led to the enactment of the 1988 Video Privacy Protection Act.[37][38]

>To pro-choice rights legal groups, Bork's originalist views and his belief that the Constitution did not contain a general "right to privacy" were viewed as a clear signal that, should he become a justice of the Supreme Court, he would vote to reverse the Court's 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade. Accordingly, a large number of groups mobilized to press for Bork's rejection, and the resulting 1987 Senate confirmation hearings became an intensely partisan battle.
"We remain committed to controlling our expenses," CEO James Gorman said at the time.

Morgan Stanley CEO James Gorman pay rises 7 percent to $29 million (2018)

Sure thing there, Jimmy. Remain committed to cutting your expenses. I feel bad you have to live on a measly $2 million dollars a month.
The Rivian is a truck you need, the Tesla is a truck you want.

And the Revian will be road legal in Europe.
It's never too late to re-expand them :)
Could you elaborate? I'm just started learning Elasticsearch so that sound quite interesting to me.
Pass the Hash Security
Feels a little like some assumptions are being made in the comments here. Apprenticeships are still a thing in the US. Example: https://does.dc.gov/service/apprenticeships

I have a friend who is in this program now to become an electrician. She has been working, for pay, on active construction sites for over a year, after completing introductory training/classroom work.

Accepting an apprentice means taking a preliminary dip in your own productivity, until such time as the apprentice can contribute a net gain to your unit. Someone has to take the brunt of that-- with electricians, for example, the introductory training helps them not to kill themselves.

Many subjects combine an academic component with an apprenticeship component. Physicians spend a lot of time in clinics as med students before they become full-fledged doctors. Teachers have to student-teach prior to becoming full-fledged teachers.

Cosmetology, hair styling, auto mechanics, the list goes on. All of these professions combine some academic study of principles with intense, prolonged hands-on training.

In the US if you look at the regulations for unpaid interns, the employing organization must provide experiences equivalent to the amount of learning the intern would recieve in a college course. There's some idea of treating unpaid interns as unskilled labor, but that as far as I know is against the intent of the "unpaid intern" concept and is, technically, illegal.
Still confused. The argument goes: we can only assess the truth of statements through computing, computing requires control over some resources (e.g., you can’t have somebody come in and flip some bits randomly, or else your computation might be flawed), thus any use of logic requires control of resources because they are finite, hence private property?

Doesn’t the first step conflate verification of truth with truth?
I wonder what the money equivalent is of the term "first world problems". Millions of Americans spend sixty hours a week at work and still worry about whether they need to give up their health insurance this year so they can afford to replace their fifteen year old car because they'll lose their job if it breaks down and makes them late again.
It might mean little for a flea circus or bags to pick up my dog's poop, but for something I'm using on or in my body, it gives me pause.
Curious; How to test and verify it is working?
FAA proposes nationwide Real-Time tracking system for all drones
Synapse is the best server for now, and works relatively well (resource usage has improved lots over the last year). Bridges plug into the server, and there’s typically at least one good one per protocol: matrix-appservice-irc, matrix-appservice-slack, mautrix-telegram, mautrix-whatsapp etc. We need to improve the UX for provisioning and managing bridges though; atm it’s mix of config files and bot commands.
> systemd looks like it was forced somehow on distros.

Distros adopted systemd because it solves a huge waste of time that distributors have to deal with: maintaining init scripts. systemd unit files are distro-agnostic and can thus be maintained upstream.

(There's also other useless idiosyncrasies that systemd plowed over, so there's even less work for distributors to do. Or rather, more time to do actually interesting work to differentiate their distribution.)
Not the ones I usually see on sale.
We're talking about buying extra memory, not defaults. And while an XPS 13 is trying to be a macbook, on an XPS 15 you just pop open the back cover and shove more memory into it.
When I said I was being gay I meant I was both giving and receiving homosexual acts while shopping in Saudi Arabia.

Oddly, being gay is a crime in Saudi Arabia, but only committing homosexual acts is a capital offense. I would make a joke about the type of kangaroo court that would convict me of being gay, but it’s sad because they exist and people are convicted.
It is possible to build a false narrative with nothing but true information.

Say I put up a website that every day posted a story about a Jewish person who had been convicted of a financial crime. Say I promoted this site and built up a fan base. If every story was 100% true, nothing but real convictions.

Would you say this is an honest, faultless website?
Well, the question is whether you were simultaneously prepared for the SAT and for college by 18 years of daily reinforcement of the value of education and practical subject matter drilling? I believe I was, far more than someone whose parents were equally loving and caring, but who worked in a factory or a trade.

If your upbringing was causal in preparation for both, it seems the college board might be correct in claiming that the SAT measures college readiness.
It's worse than that. In order to conserve fuel, most commercial jets fly slower than they used to.
I'm not sure how it forces less logic in the render. Looking at the Svelte docs you can do this:

```
{#if invokeFunction()}
<p>This function returned a truthy value!</p>
{/if}
```

And with React do this:

```
{ invokeFunction() && <p>This function returned a truthy value</p> }
```

and the result would be the same, a conditionally rendered string. I totally agree in the normalizing/formalizing how templates are build and the more verbose syntax in the Svelete example does make it super obvious. The in-line React example is obvious to me...but maybe that's because I've been writing js for so long.

Where I feel the cognitive overhead pain in looping. Svelete's docs say:

```
{#each collection as { vars }, i}
<p key={i}> {vars} </p>
{#/each}

```

For some reason, when I see this it rubs me the wrong way. I understand it...but my instinct is to just map over the collection like I would in a plain-old Node.js project.

```
{ collection.map((vars, i) => <p key={i}> {vars} </p> }
```

I guess that saving a handful of keystrokes in exchange for super clearly expressing the intent may be a good tradeoff, even if my inclination is towards more terse code.
Specifically Svelte is a lot shorter and concise without the Spring-style infamous enterprise software boilerplate that plagues angular.

https://dev.to/maurogarcia_19/angular-vs-svelte-card-compone...

In addition, its reactive variables is a lot easier to use.
No, I just want to read messages on my phone without installing the app.
The True Story of Mrs. Alford’s Nitroglycerin Factory
What happens? Your marriage suffers (if you have one). Your children suffer (if you have any). And you suffer.

And it's not just work. If your side project becomes your whole identity, the same is true.
"Does anyone know why Slack would have done this?"

"App installs" is a key metric driving valuations for SaaS/PaaS/etc. businesses.

Trading a useful product for dollars isn't that interesting. Collecting an open-ended, continuous stream of intel on a large population is fascinating - at least until it become generally accepted that this "intel", and the levers for manipulating people based on it, are really not that useful or effective (which is my own prediction).

Slack has the attention today, but the real poster child for this kind of behavior is Sonos - nowhere do you see such a stark juxtaposition between an actually useful product that people pay premium dollars for and pivoting the business model towards shady, sneaky, anti-customer patterns.
For now.

I suspect someone will hack together a WiFi-derived radar, combine it with a bunch of laser microphones, and point the result at the homes of politicians to get pose, heart rate, breathing rate, and room-by-room sound recordings.
Altered States of Consciousness
This author predicts that we'll drift towards languages like Agda or Idris, and also discusses how type systems came out of math.
I'm curious about two related questions:

1. Why is it that a minority of math is done with proof systems (i.e. yielding automatically checkable artifacts)? It's burdensome to formalize much of the math that we're interested, even when we're confident in that math. What's the nature of that burden, and how could tools improve to lessen it?

2. Are the difficulties which prevent a lot of math from being done with these systems the same as the difficulties which prevent programmers from using them? There are many invariants that we can easily know about a program, but representing the lot of them in types would be onerous. How do we make that easier/lighter?
I think this is why there is a decidedly specific marketing push talking about how 5G is going to really bring high speed to rural areas.

Its slightly subtle, but not so much, in the commercials - but you can see that its there - and I believe its a CYA thing.

Now imagine when 5G is mature, and coverage is blanketed AND the Drone ID legislation is passed.
Instant Pot raised 300K, $100M EBITDA, merged with Corelle for $1B
The average consumer won't be able (or even know) to disable built-in telemetry. As you can see from Facebook, invasive ads, DNA kits, and Alexa, most won't even care.

We've lost this battle. Our warnings weren't strong enough to win over those interested in convenience.
RosettaGit: Same projects in many programming languages
US mass killings hit new high in 2019, most were shootings
Bridge building in the 14th century (animation)
It's no secret that Assange is vain and an asshole.

That doesn't mean that there hasn't been a coordinated campaign of character attack and punishment for revealing uncomfortable truths against him. Nor does it mean that he is deserving of what has happened
When Walmart shows up, small stores that sell the same goods go out of business.

Apple is the Walmart of tech.

I liked and used 8tracks but for me, it's strong point was that it was free. It's really hard to ask people for money when you're competing with free or 10$/mo for many many things.

You've got to really have an outstanding product - 8tracks was a good online playlist player. It is now gone.
I was talking to a few people in a slack channel the other day about the potential market for a whole set of "dumb" appliances. At the end of the day, we came to the conclusion that it wouldn't be a able to reach mass market because the mass consumers seem to care more about price than security.
I think the problem is this: if you talk to any good software developer (or scientist for that matter), they're always going to speak in probabilities and hedge everything. And they're absolutely correct to do this, because it's the reality.

The problem is, the business people (generally) have no interest in this. They're interested in certainties. They aren't being irrational either -- they need to go out and sell, raise money, etc., and to do that they need to be able to say "we're shipping on december 5th" and "absolutely we can do that for you". Having the developers say "well, uh, maybe we can do that in three months but we don't really know" makes their lives 10x harder even if it's true.

So this is where project managers come into the picture. They don't promise the most efficient use of human resources. What they offer is a predictable use of human resources. In reality this drags everyone down into a very gloomy mediocrity and leads to ineffectual organizations. But to the business person, it seems great because they gain the illusion of control.

In that light, our current predicament makes perfect sense: project managers are the shamanic priests doing a rain dance, and developers are the weather. The weather stays unpredictable, but if it happens to rain the shaman can take the credit, and if the drought remains, it's because the ritual wasn't done correctly, you see. The illusion of control is the product they're selling. What the managers are buying is someone that says "yes, we can have it rain on the 19th" instead of talking to someone that says "we can predict the weather about a day out, maybe"

(God I hope no project manager I work with ends up reading this, heh).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_McKinnon

While there are certainly laws in UK that prohibit hacking (which should be abolished) they are clearly not enough to perform an extradition.
"Maybe we should call this the Twitter-Way"

No - I insist that we name this after Sonos, even though they were hardly the first (and certainly not the most widespread) abuser.

As I mentioned elsewhere in this thread:

"... nowhere do you see such a stark juxtaposition between an actually useful product that people pay premium dollars for and pivoting the business model towards shady, sneaky, anti-customer patterns."
A simpler example is what a blind programmer once posted on HN.

As I remember he wanted a job and wanted to hide the fact he is blind because most companies just turned him down immediately.
Ask HN: Best books you read in the past decade?
Now that the decade is coming to a close, what where the most (personally) influential books you read? Which impacted you the most either personally or professionally? The ones you learned the most from?
They don't have those in 70" sadly.
Manning's Collateral Murder video was a turning point in my political views.

To see the people responsible for getting that out - something that should never have been kept secret - imprisoned and hunted across the world has only confirmed those views.