skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hacks are fun if you're just playing around on one machine. If you're managing servers or need your workstation to always work after upgrades, they are a pain.

I've never modified the kernel, at most recompiled back-in-the-day before most things became dynamically loadable. There's a small number of settings that need tuning for various purposes (e.g. database server). The most challenging one was getting server motherboard BIOS/CMOS settings in sync with the kernel to get NUMA memory on multi-processor machines to behave consistently.
"we are already safe from privacy concerns because we've already regulated facial recognition! Why spend any more money on privacy, isn't it enough? We have more pressing issues to deal with!"
As a remote worker (and as someone who prefers remote work) I feel like this is attempting to recreate the feeling of stopping by someone's desk in an office. If that's what you want to recreate, I think this is an interesting approach, but I've always felt that remote workers do so specifically because they prefer not having in-office distractions. (Assuming those working remotely prefer to do so of course. I realize that's not always the case.)
Unless a recent Windows 10 update screws up the UEFI bootloader and points the loader to the second partition which is incidently used by OSX and prevents booting Windows (well, it fixed an issue on Dell laptops with Windows, which suprise suprise is where most Microsoft PC’s are supplied from). The silly recovery tool wont allow you to mount the eFI boot partition in R/W mode so you cannot fix it yourself (EFI boot requires correct partition UUID). Windows 10 update killed bootcamp option for me, now I triple boot with Linux and Haiku.
Considering MS past tactic was to Embrace, Extend, Extinguish, I can understand why people are careful about Microsoft embracing open-source.
The Mummy Speaks: Hear Sounds from the Voice of an Ancient Egyptian Priest
My coworker just referred to it as "a liquorice sh*t" and I don't believe he could've come up with a more accurate and instantly-recognizable descriptor.
People point that out as annoying now.
Ask HN: What are some things you wish Slack could do?
Disclosure: we're a small startup and we've developed a bunch of NLP tools that can "understand" conversations and extract certain kinds of data (Q&As, announcements, harassment, compliments, etc). We have some promising use-cases in mind but looking for more. I didn't want to limit the topic to the NLP only though, so any discussion is welcome :P
I can relate to this. I was diagnosed at 31, and my doctor at the time asked me "so, are you having issues at work? Is anyone pulling you up on your effort?"

The answer was "No". His response was "well, then what's the problem?"

The longer answer from me should have been "no, but keeping up appearances requires Herculian effort, and I pay a tremendous emotional and personal cost, I am distant from my wife and 2 kids, and at night time, the anxiety is enough to materialize a cold ball of steel in the pit of stomach".

I managed to get a diagnosis anyway, and my psychiatrist got me started on Ritalin, and then onto Concerta (I take Vyvanse now). The difference was like flipping a switch. My work output improved out of sight, I stopped being a zombie at night time because I didn't have to go through a cycle of wake up -> work -> burnout -> sleep -> recover every day, and I'm earning more than twice what I was at the time of my diagnosis, and I don't think any of that would have been possible if I'd remained in the same situation.

What I've learned over the years is that the problems associated with ADHD don't "go away" with medication, they just become more manageable, and knowing how my brain works both on and off medication has been TREMENDOUS tool for increasing self-awareness and understanding that the anxiety/procrastination/apathy etc is a function of neurochemistry, and not a harbinger of doom or destruction.
I think the approach from some remote companies, which involved dedicated display with a camera that was _usually_ on (but could be _switched off_, just like closing doors to your office!) would be better than this "walkie-talkie"
I remember this essay, the author’s main argument was: Wikipedia seemed fine 10 years ago with 5% of its current money, so the increased spending (and calls for donations to cover it) seems unjustified.

I side with the author in requesting more transparency about what exactly donations get spent on, but this strict argument in terms of how spending growth just “looks” unreasonable isn’t convincing. Namely, it’s pretty plausible to me that scaling big to very big is more costly than scaling medium to big, so this comparison of increasing costs to cancer makes me skeptical.

I don’t have any proof that Wikipedia uses donations judiciously, but the scale and quality of the service they offer relative to the annual revenue (about 100m) and expenses (about 80m) seems...pretty good.

At any rate, I mostly view this as “paying a little for a good service” rather than “donating efficiently”.

But thanks for the pointer.
It was close. And in person, I thought it looked pretty sharp.
Game companies! The majority of the Mac compatible games I have are 32 bit.

Also, Snow Leopard may have been the last version to support 32 bit processors, but I don't think support for 32 bit apps was deprecated that long ago? Certainly, Apple themselves was still releasing 32bit software back then—if you have a copy of iWork '09 (which got updated as late as 2012), it's 32 bit.
I don't want to live in a place where your hard, honest work is expropriated because others are butthurt about your success.
It’s definitely possible to concentrate in an open office, it’s just an acquired/cultivated skill. Besides that, if someone on your team interrupts you and they’re not just being inconsiderate, they are actually enabling you to concentrate on the thing you need to be, which is this other person’s question.
Rick Deckard feels your pain. Kinda makes you wonder about the usefulness of the Turing Test too, if humans can’t pass it anymore..
You can come up w/ an algebra for a specific problem domain by thinking about the data models and repurposing some simple abstract algebra.

E.g.:

new(state, &args) => mutation
apply(state, mutation) => state'

Applied to finance:

newPayment(balanceSheet, amount, date) => payment
apply(balanceSheet, payment) => balanceSheet'
newDiscount(balanceSheet', amount, date) => discount
apply(balanceSheet', discount) => balanceSheet''

Applied to chess:

newMovement(board, K, E2) => movement
apply(board, movement) => board'
newMovement(board', b, D6) => movement'
apply(board', movement') => board''

As a bonus, it's clear where to enforce invariants and fail early:

newMovement(board', K, E3) => Illegal Movement (Can't move to E3)
newMovement(board'', K, E2) => Illegal Movement (White King not available on board)
apply(board''', randomMovement) => Illegal Play
with a variable mortgage loan, a bank usually has a product called an offset account. When you pay back the principle, this offset account grows. It acts like a line of credit, and the max size is the value of the loan.

So essentially, it is a HELOC. But it's at the same rate as your home loan, which is usually quite a lot lower than the margin rate if you borrowed to buy shares. Of course, this offset loan cannot go higher than the equity you've already paid back, so unlike a margin loan (which can go up to 10x!?).
> Wikipedia's rules on notability and article length prevent it from growing infinitely (in theory).

That doesn't appear to be true. New people are born, new events occur, new things are discovered, and new entertainment is released every day, all of which increase the pool of eligible topics on Wikipedia. As long as history continues to be made, new articles will continue to be written.
Soviet Moon Images
The Play:5 does. (And their soundbars/soundbase have optical input.) They rest of the lineup should have aux ports.
I long for the day when search engines can filter out the auto-generated content-farm crap.
Has anyone considered that bot operators might be latching onto movements, anything will do, simply to grow their audiences and networks?

Simplest explanation is probably that they don't care about election outcome, they just want to leach off of whatever's hot at the moment.
> The [Federal Court of Australia] ruled that from at least December 2016, Trivago misled consumers by representing its website would quickly and easily help users identify the cheapest rates available for a given hotel.

> In fact, Trivago used an algorithm which placed significant weight on which online hotel booking site paid Trivago the highest cost-per-click fee in determining its website rankings and often did not highlight the cheapest rates for consumers.

https://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/trivago-misled-consume...
Oh, I sprinkled a few of those in there.
"Facial recognition doesn't discriminate people. People discriminate people."

This just reminded me of a typical gun control argument (which I don't disagree with). Banning one particular technology might be still worthwhile, but the argument is valid only after the actual damage is assessed. I think we're still missing the number. (Arguably it's very hard to measure though!)
Recent Yamahas are integrated into googles ecosystem too. To me the point is that the speakers are separable from whatever client you want to use. If it’s 5 years from now and you need new support for driving the speakers, you replace that component. You don’t have to throw the speakers away to stay current.
National Personification
I'm far more fearful of gait recognition than facial recognition. Gait recognition is more accurate and its much harder to fight against.
Linux and macOS game development in a nutshell - spend $200K to make a buggy mess that doesn't work, get surprised when paying customers are upset"
The ability to search these sites directly is also built in to most browsers. No need to send your query through any search engine.

Firefox setup:

- Go to the page with the search you want, e.g. wikipedia.com

- Right-click the search box

- "Add a Keyword for this search"

- Type your "keyword" e.g. w

Now any time you want to search wikipedia, go to the URL bar and type w plus a space first, then your search term.

Chrome setup:

I haven't used Chrome for a while but it also has this feature. You add "keywords" for your site searches somewhere in the settings instead of via right-clicking the search box, but the usage once it's set up is the same.
I don’t understand the fear of BPA. It’s issues is that it’s a xenoestrogen and mimics estrogen in the body. Soy has the exact same property. We removed BPA from infant bottles but still allow soy based formula.
Wuhan coronavirus prompts netizens to study World of Warcraft epidemic
I’m curious for the reasoning behind why selling the data to big pharma is a bad thing? I was thrilled to hear about that personally as I am very supportive of large pools of genetic data being harnessed for drug research. Big pharma has big money and lots of smart folks, if they can leverage 23&me’s data to create better drugs or find the root cause behind diseases, it seems like a win to me.

That said, I hope that we pass stronger laws protecting genetic data from being used for any type of insurance. Genetics =/= genetic expression, and the law should reflect that.
On an HDTV with "local contrast dimming", freeze frame at some point in a video where there's only a logo showing in the corner of the screen and the rest of the frame is black. (A screenshot of certain video game loading screens works, too.)

You will see that the area around the logo is glowing slightly, and that the area opposite the logo is completely lights out.

That is, essentially, the difference between "black" and "superblack". Both areas are displaying black, but one area is backlit and the other is not. Lit black is clearly different from Unlit black, because LCD pixels aren't perfectly opaque.

If you have an OLED TV (or an OLED phone, like a top-end iPhones), then every black pixel is superblack, which is why it looks so high contrast and gorgeous. If you have an LCD phone, you can see the "lit black" thing — but probably only if you set it next to an OLED phone.

Folks who know what "235" has to do with this, yes, I know, but I'm only addressing "what that might actually look like", not "deep dive into the RGB low/high problem". Feel free :)
Depends on what you do.

My first job out of college was a database ops team that was distributed across 6 locations across the country. We basically lived and died over Nextel direct connect voice channels and AOL IM. It was a superpower.
Sure, but you aren't getting 5x leverage in an index fund.
It may be that I'm not familiar with US English expressions, but it's not clear to me if "Uh huh" means yes or no. Based on context my guess is "yes", but I honestly don't know.

If I try to pronounce it to myself, I can do so with intonation that indicates either.

I really don't like to be the guy who is nitpicking, but in an international forum such as this it's helpful to be as clear as possible.
Thank you -- I genuinely appreciate the explanation. Even if it's not as thoroughly technical as it could have been, it's still enlightening. (and the fact that it's not dryly technical makes it more interesting in its own ways!)
> For many consumers, just seeing all of their finances is incredibly depressing.

Fuckin' ay. Consider me one of those consumers! ...I should probably stop consuming.
Nowadays is the baby isn't gaining weight
after the first week the standard is to hospitalize.
Varies based on country. Face masks are pretty normalised in some east asian countries after SARS. Coronavirus has resulted in affected areas being sold out of face masks entirely.

That said, Hong Kong tried to make face masks illegal during the extradition protests, which only resulted in even more protests.
I'm not sure this is much of a "counterpoint". Medication isn't the only solution to ADHD. In fact, it's often recommended that ADHD be treated with medication AND therapy, which often involves working on things like executive function. Also, there are different types of medication for ADHD. If you only tried Vyvanse, it's possible that a different type of medication would help without the negative side effects. You wouldn't say you're allergic to all antibiotics if you had a reaction to a single antibiotic.
Note that "duty of loyalty" here does not mean "love and cherish Apple until death us do part", but is a specifically defined legal term, essentially prohibiting self-dealing using company resources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duty_of_loyalty
Not to get too off topic, but it's clearly a self inflicted problem, where nobody would complain about spending money on space force uniforms if space force's existence made any sense.
I agree that the Web Components debacle represents bad behavior on the part of the Chrome team, but this title ("Chrome is the new IE") is extremely editorialized in a way that the guidelines explicitly ask you not to do.
We hope that statuses / our calendar integration provide the outlet for remote workers to have focus time. It's definitely a balance!
Maybe, but a fairer statement would be "even on Linux, Windows, without the Microsoft, is a better gaming platform."
Most things with a change light are based off a timer (or maybe a counter) and nothing more.

There's no mini-lab or sensor in your fridge actually testing if the water filter is working.

And even ones that claim to measure how much volume is dispensed are just counting how long the water valve is open and assuming a flow rate.

That said, the filters do go bad, and sometimes even provide media for stuff to grow on, once the contents become chemically and physically inert. If you don't want to change the filter, get a "blank" to plug in. Don't just leave an old filter in.
Honestly, the biggest value Mint and all the Intuit products have is the import from X-bank/investment account/etc. I'd pay for the ability to import into a spreadsheet from my money accounts.
This was discussed here just less than a month ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21894862
Tech’s Next Revolution Might Be Open Source Semiconductors
IIRC (usually) the "reasonable overtime" request is closely followed by a clause saying that, over the course of 4 months, you still must do an average of 38 hours/week or something to that effect.

How often it’s ‘enforced’ is, like you said, probably isn’t great
Who Declines to Declare China Virus Outbreak a Global Health Emergency
I think that everything except federal elections should be done by smartphone (or mail-in for those who don't have a smartphone).

There is minimal risk that Russia cares about who serves on your local school board.
>Are you sure? The motivation for this could be interpreted as pro-Islamic too, in the sense that old religious symbols (in this case Christian) are removed from public places as the proportion of muslims in the population grows.

Very sure.

Originally, the National Assembly was not going to remove the crucifix that had long been hanging in their chamber. Only after some uproar did they backpedal on this. More recently, the Premier of the province made the mistake of being caught suggesting that all French-Canadians are Catholic. This effectively exposes the lie that this was about secularism, rather than a bunch of white Catholics being afraid of a growing minority.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/catholic-quebec-cali...
The Linked Open Data Cloud
I'll never in my life purchase a Sonos product because of this line - absolutely shameless!
The same with Samsung printers division which is actually owned by HP. I think punishing a company for selling their trademark so that other companies can mislead their customers is a good thing.

In my eyes, GE is just as guilty as Haier & KKR.
I think the "everyone almost knows someone personally" thing _really_ depends on patterns of settlement. If the population is very segregated in terms of whether they live, work, etc (as was the case in Poland), that may well not work. Combined with visibly different modes of dress, different customs, different religion, and different language, the whole "the other" thing just wasn't a hard sell.

I agree with your point that mass murder by the millions requires something rather special, not least a combination of (1) feeling that you are not killing people and (2) industriousness that is fairly rare. Plenty of people in Europe in the 30s thought that Jews were worth killing if it wasn't too much work, but weren't quite going out of their way to do it the way the Nazis ended up doing.
> Are you saying there was another increase in 2019?

Data not yet out, but yes, I believe so. There is a prediction it would rise till 2022 though not yet reaching the peak of 2013.

https://www.greencarcongress.com/2019/03/20190306-coal.html

> I assume that coal plants become unprofitable once they need considerable maintenance because they're not being built any more

mmm... not sure this is true about coal plants not being build. China and India I believe still building them.

> Further, because the price of solar and wind power is dropping.

well, while they are dropping, coal production is gorwing three years in a row (and potentially another three years in making).

> hen in a few years, building a new solar plant becomes cheaper

and what people supposed to do by night?

You recognize, that even if you saturate your grid by solar electricity from, say, 11 to 5, there are still 18 hours left...
Editor wars, won.
I have worked remotely for 10 years and raised VC funding for an idea very similar to this in the past – we failed to build a sustainable business, although the product did have a couple of hundred teams that swore by the product.

In hindsight I believe it's because we were following the startup mythology of "building a solution for the problem that you have" a little too closely. We failed to realize that this is really a problem that only small startup teams (usually a group of founders) have, as they need to keep in constant sync. It doesn't really scale past that. As soon as you have any sort of mixture of roles, personalities, or start to grow the team this is a communication method that just inherently doesn't scale well.

I do believe there is something here for small groups of founders/friends though, good luck!
US has fine reasonably affordable public colleges. The student loan crisis is about people who shouldn't have attended those private schools in the first place.
It would be nice if any of the game stores would actually compete instead of paying for exclusives. Steam has 1000x the features of any of the other stores. Origin has had probably a decade to catch up and yet its just falling further behind.

All this fracturing means for end users is more rootkit launchers to install and less games for linux users.
We have and our software is better for it. Most of the stories about multiplatform being 'more expensive' or 'harder' are from corner-cutting devs and orgs.

It's nice to think that shipping a bunch of stacked hacks and making some money to then just get closed down/bought/retargeted is the 'happy flow' but unless you don't know any better you may want to diversify and find a job or project that has actual quality as a standard. I know that in late-stage capitalism with minmaxing in the mix that is hard to find in some countries, but it exists plenty if you go look for it.
Indeed, the surveillance state that exists online vastly exceeds the surveillance state that exists offline (in some countries) right now.

Schneider's point is that we're failing to regulate against surveillance in general, and by simply focusing on banning a single form of surveillance, we're ignoring the dozens of other mechanisms that can be used both online and offline to track every single thing we do.
I love the idea of taking well understood analog concepts and applying them to the digital remote workplace, but man, forced sync calls coming in on a whim without my control to ignore them sounds like my absolute worst nightmare.
> I've always felt that remote workers do so specifically because they prefer not having in-office distractions

Some, probably, but I miss that specific aspect about being in an office. I like that I can temperature and sound control my office, and be somewhere super sunny and cheap when the office is gloomy and expensive. I quite like this idea.
Functionally no different from ventrilo,discord,teamspeak
Probably because steamVR on linux is still pretty buggy and missing core features.
I would expect to find myself in empty space and prepare appropriately. A civilization that can produce a time machine could with less difficulty produce a space vessel with faster-than-or-near light speed travel.
EAC doesn't work in wine.
I can see both sides. The companies are clearly making money grabs with these kinds of things (don’t forget the current state of printer ink), but there’s also a huge market filled with counterfeit or shoddy products. Those filters on Amazon are cheap for a reason — they don’t actually filter anything. If the companies priced them reasonably, there wouldn’t be a need to go to these lengths to force people.
No hiring page yet, just dm @conaw on twitter for now
Distributed Management Task Force
It DID work for Anthony Levandowski, for a while: According to Wikipedia, Google bought two companies he started as side projects while working for Google.

It kind of boggles my mind that they would not anticipate this pattern eventually ending badly.
If you had a nutritional deficiency, would you avoid taking a supplement? Cause that's what the ADHD medication is doing; regulating dopamine and norepinephrine, which are usually deficient in ADHD brains.
Honestly the most interesting thing in the whole result to me was the "Number of Neanderthal markers" thing.

All in all, probably not hugely worth the expense. But I guess the novelty of it was fun.
Microsoft does some nice mouse with Bluetrack sensor, that's what I'm using now.