skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This makes, and implies, no claims about “probable cause”, and isn't about criminal process where “probable cause” would even be relevant, it's about security policy where personal rights are not involved, only private discretionary benefits. It is often entirely appropriate in such a content to apply heuristics which are effective because they minimize false negatives even when they might have a high false positive rate.
Facebook buys startup using AI vision to find your location (updated)
While the gender ratio for a particular age gets increasingly skewed. Past a certain age, it's mostly old women. Since, on average, men tend to marry women a few years younger than them, older women face a rather tough dating market and it gets worse with every passing year that they fail to die.
I’m not trying to take away from streaming gaming, but I find a sub 1000 dollar gaming laptop can let you play a LOT of pc games (laptop being your smallest form factor and all-in-one package with a display, etc). Budget gaming laptop really helped me get away from my MacBook which basically killed the gamer in me for years (can’t play shit on it).

Last time I tried GeForce Now in beta, there was a very perceptible delay in input. Not sure if that’s still the case now.
Setting up a CloudWatch alert to email you when the bill goes over $10 in 6 hours is a good measure (of course you probably won't get the alert for 24 hours because of Amazon's billing update delay).
"Quantity has a quality all its own."

- Someone (I heard it attributed to Napoleon, but have seen it attributed to others)

In this case, it's very true -- workloads are really difficult to properly test with respect to production load. A code path that works well in one test can easily buckle under the pressure of a production workload. Stress testing is hard.
When you're designing for that known console configuration you probably make use of the extra cores if you need it. And the really cpu intensive genres (strategy games mostly) don't tend to get console releases.

As 4 core/8 thread machines become basically the minimum you can assume most pc gamers will have we'll probably see devs making more use of multithreading everywhere.
I'm sure there's a screening process that could be employed. After all talent agencies, movie studios, and other fame adjacent companies must do something to prevent stalkers from getting jobs there. I also suspect that stalkers don't usually have the qualifications and experience that make them attractive candidates.
Single shot movies are the definition of high tech editing since there is so much compositing to make the shots blend together to look like a single shot.
Just like every moderately serious athlete does.
Disgusting that the America govt does nothing while every other major power is able to get prescription drug prices under control.
1) The issue isn't limited to the existence of the reactor. It is linked to the public perception of anything nuclear being launched into the air. A commercial/proven pebble-bed reactor doesn't even exist yet, and last I heard they only started the first design in 2018.

Digging underground is reasonable if your only requirement is "block radiation". Its less reasonable when requirements also include 'get the digging machines into space', 'have it survive landing', and 'learn all the new fun techniques required to dig into lunar regolith in a low g environment with never before tested or used techniques and equipment'
The 'someone' in question probably wasn't the engineer.

I'd bet the engineer was listening to the 'someone' saying things like 'why don't you just' or 'it just needs to do this', or other things including the word 'just'.

I'd bet the engineer tried to explain the realities of how this stuff works, to 'someone' who's job didn't involve understanding what they were asking for, and reacted by demanding with the word 'just' instead of pretending to ask.
Here's the view I subscribe to: "Being a billionaire must be insane. You can buy new teeth, new skin. All your chairs cost 20,000 dollars and weigh 2,000 pounds. Your life is just a series of your own preferences. In terms of cognitive impairment it's probably like being kicked in the head by a horse every day."

(https://twitter.com/Merman_Melville/status/10885276937573498...)
You honestly come across as the female version of an MRA (Mens Rights Activist). I'll explain what I mean in the hopes that you might gain some perspective.

An anecdote.

Years ago I read about book talking about how a lot of men have simply checked out due to so many legal unfairness with respect to men (both genders have their shit to deal with). I remember reading through this book, reading the anecdotes of just severe injustices done by people and the justice system, and then at one point realizing I was angry with my gf of 2+ years. When I realized I had this general anger towards her I had to stop and ask myself why because she had never treated me in any way that ever indicated she would be onboard with some of the injustices I had been reading about.

I became a lot more careful about what I consume after that. It's important to be informed, but it's important to avoid going down a well of negativity that skews your perception. The vast majority of men love women, and the vast majority of women love men, and it's the shitty people on both sides that are the real problem. When you lose that perspective, it engenders bitterness and hatred.

MRA has some very real, valid observations. But the problem is that many of the young men who discover these observations don't have the perspective to truly understand them. So you get these older men talking about these injustices (that are real), and these younger men who have limited life experience (no perspective) starts to see women and the legal justice system as against them in a very real way. This engenders hatred on their part, and this is where the MRA movement gets their reputation.
NFS has had caching modes since the beginning. Or at least as long as I have been using it. It's behavior can be controlled by using async or sync options.

NFSv4 is actually quite nice. Anything earlier should be avoided.
The pendulum is about to be snatched for good. We are in the midst of a fascist coup. It was tried before (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot), and it's happening again.

I recognize that politics is a third rail topic and frowned upon in HN (understandably), but these are facts. Check out William Barr's speech to the Federalist Society -- he's on record for unlimited powers for the president and to make America a Christian Nation (a theocracy).

With apologies to @dang....
Dealing with heterosexual couplings only, the "50/50 balance = no excess singles" theory assumes men and women pair up equally, but if, say, a percentage of women go for a significantly smaller percentage of men - and share them - this would lead to an excess of single men.

As this seems to be a touchy subject with some, I'm not trying to make a point, just relating how this could statistically work - and of course, it would work the other way round and leave an excess of women.

This reversal may be indicated at the 50+ age ranges in some of the links where single women are in the excess in that demographic.
> Would you say that he was justified in his tone prior to his apology for his tone?

I'll take my downvotes here, but personally I think Linus with that apology crossed the threshold into old age. Quoting Tomasi di Lampedusa:

> The Prince who had found the town unchanged, was found much changed himself, whom never before would have used such accommodating words; and since then, invisible, began the decline of his prestige.
About PREEMPT_RT merge prep: are we talking about the patchset that leads to ultra-low-latency audio-friendly kernels tagged -rt, like https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/linux-rt/ or https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/linux-rt-bfq/ ? If so, I use these for pro audio (for live dsp / effects under 5ms), and have a few questions:

- Will these kernels become obsolete/unnecessary with the merge?

- What about BFQ, is it going to be merged at the same time too?

- This patchset has been existing for a long time. What prevented an earlier merge?

- Is the merge already scheduled to happen for a specific kernel release, or "when it's ready"?
How the Brain Reacts to Difficult Moral Issues (2017)
Also known as a honeypot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeypot_(computing).
> It's interesting that men are more open minded than women and will gladly marry a woman who makes less money that he does.

Men are not more open-minded, they just on average place less importance on womens’s earning potential, largely due to both men and women being influenced by traditional gender roles in which the male is expected to be the sole or primary earner while earning income is a secondary-or-less-significant role for women, and indeed seeing it as an important selection criteria can be seen as an indication that a man is unable or unwilling to perform his expected role.
What card?
Sure, the kernel caches everything in RAM by default (as with any other file system, not just NFS).

If you also want to cache on local disk, there's "cachefilesd", which does exactly that. You can specify a certain percentage of the disk that should be kept empty, and cachefilesd will use the rest of the available space for caching.

(It works very well, but is broken on kernel 5.x for me (it just doesn't read from the local cache, even though everything looks fine). But I just mention it off-hand, I don't have time to diagnose this in more detail, I just remain on 4.15 for the time being.)
A good chunk of Apollo knowledge isn't very useful for various reasons.

1) The tribal knowledge to even implement Apollo era technology is pretty much gone

2) Apollo flight hardware doesn't exist, probably couldn't even be manufactured without extremely expensive tooling and build up to recreate outdated hardware.

3) Lots of Apollo era designs don't exist on paper. The F1 engine doesn't really even have a standard design, since every iteration was changed to be "better" by throwing shit against the wall and seeing what sticked.
If you settle, the complaint and other docket records are public record. There are sites that now publish lots of court records, so just googling a name may bring up lawsuits filed by that person. You don’t need to google specifically for court records.
Yikes, that feels like a mistake. 5.4 has awful issues with intel integrated graphics crashing.
BTW, the night crew pulling a stunt is how the Chernobyl Disaster happened.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster
I appreciate your dedication to throwing pearls before swine.

Those intelligent and unbiased enough to learn something useful will do so. I agree with and/or have learned from almost everything you've posted. Some of those things mirror my own experiences.

I also didn't see any problem with tone, you were polite and helpful. It seems quite obvious the only problem with your "tone" is your gender. Not that you didn't know this already.

Thanks for your contributions. At least some of us appreciate them and find them valuable.
YMMV I suppose - I emailed him a correction (for "anime") years and years ago, which seemed pretty uncontroversial (4-5 reputable sources that all agreed), but he never replied or updated the entry. :(
A good introduction:

https://www.av8n.com/physics/clifford-intro.htm

Previous discussion on this topic:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22200260
Really? Do you have a source for that? (I'm not doubting you, I just haven't heard anything about that, and would be very happy if this is true).
Published my first novel, Blue Screen, how a young Linux hacker saves the world
Don’t forget that <blink> (And maybe <marquee>?) is no longer supported by modern browsers, so you’re definitely missing some major elements of the experience.
That sounds pretty much exactly as high maintenance as I was picturing.
American government does more than anyone else. They provide the system with fuel by providing a sufficiently large base of price-insensitive customers that reasonable numbers don't have to be used for drug prices.
> 8. Today I figured out the problem. The granola company and the coaster company buy THEIR boxes from the same people I'm trying to by mine from. And the barcode scanners at @amazonca are picking up the old sticker - from the box company!

So the granola company, coaster company, etc. forgot to remove the old bar codes from the outermost box before packing it full of their own product and sending it out. One could tell them this, but there will probably always be more small companies making this mistake.

Probably what should happen is for Amazon to mark this item (the box of boxes) as requiring special handling when scanning on entry into the warehouse, verifying that it actually is a box of boxes (right weight, no other barcode, etc), and explaining why. And audit all the ones currently in the warehouse.

I have no idea how to convince Amazon to do this. Like the author, I'd give up and start buying my boxes elsewhere.
it's trivial to set this up yourself by echoing expanded commands into a log file as your program runs
The timing is a little unfortunate. 5.6 will be too late to make it in for 20.04, but 5.5 isn't an LTS kernel and 20.04 is an LTS distribution, so I understand not wanting to use 5.5.
Hilariously, there's no way anymore to get help from any "real" person over at Amazon anymore, even for Prime members. I've gotten all kinds of weird stuff shipped to me, including a $12,000 server motherboard once, which Amazon told me I was free to keep as they would ship out the $124 SSD I ordered. I insisted that I return it, and after much hassle over several weeks, I was finally able get ahold of a non-chatbot, non-foreign service rep that finally took the time to listen and sent me a return label. Since I finally got ahold of someone real, I remarked this is the last time I go through such a hassle to return their property because of the way they treated me when I was trying to do them a favor.
But feeling you will be remembered can be important to people while alive.
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> Dual-licensed under Apache License 2.0 and MIT License.

How does this work? Isn't the Apache license somewhat more restrictive than the MIT license? Why bother with both?
The eBook is free from another day or so, paperback is $9.95 but I am happy to share a link the to epub/pdf if anyone is interested.

Blurb is: A young computer hacker is in a battle of wits against the greatest AI ever created with the fate of the world in the balance.
Deploying stuff over the week-end is standard practice for trading systems, because that's when markets are closed.
But obviously those deployments are discussed and planned during the week.

In fact most trading platforms have this huge advantage of not being 24/7 operations.
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kernel-team/2020-February/...
I wish I could find my old geocities site - it had some early (win3.1) apps I wrote.

IIRC they were not good.
Drooling over that picture of a dozen AMD EPYCs. Those processors are seriously awesome. The newest sr.ht server, tenshi.sr.ht, was provisioned to run git.sr.ht and has an EPYC 7402 24-core @ 3.35 GHz at its heart. It can compile the Linux kernel x86_64 defconfig from scratch on an NVMe in under 30 seconds. Our main build server is also EPYC, a 7281.
> half of an RPM

Well, I'm stumped... I wonder if he just needed one tool out of suite?
Strangely, the people that say this don't tend to hold out California as a model of government that the federal government should emulate, despite California actually having an enforced single subject rule.

In fact, they tend to accuse California of being worse than the federal government, but also at the specific things that they attribute to the lack of a single subject rule.
Lunar Programming Language
Reddit in particular has https://i.reddit.com. I don't know that it's quite light enough for a situation where even Google.com is too much, but it's pretty darn lean.
Coming back to this after a few days. I also can't help but take a double take at 20 vulnerabilities in 10 years being a serious criticism. Is the implicit claim that this is a bad record compared to other software legit? (Honest question.)
Thanks for your comments. Humans are imperfect, a work in progress. I'm not perfect, I will keep trying. God is perfect. I have learned He lives. I'm glad He is patient, while knowing everything.
Yes, but analogous 80% of the entire Artemis cost are also already spent and the results are there. Engines, launchers, spacecrafts (Apollo analog maiden LEO flight is expected this spring), electronics, power, communications...
After ubuntu 20.10 is released 20.04 will probably get a later version of the kernel in the linux-hwe package
Would you mind elaborating on that first point?
Scheduling tasks as calendar events with duration is indeed critical to actually getting them done for many people (including those with ADHD)

That (and scheduling suggestions) used to be the main feature of Timeful, an app started by behavioral psychologist Dan Ariely. It actually got acquired by Google and shut down. Sadly, Google Tasks still pales in comparison.

The only todo app I’ve found which allows you to do this and has desktop/mobile versions is TickTick. I used to be a fan of Things which is nearly perfect, but the authors stubbornly refuse to implement this, so I’m gradually migrating away from it.
I was describing how HyperCard was used as an authoring and runtime tool to implement one of the earliest interactive and graphical web applications.

It took a screen snapshot of the HyperCard stack, and showed you an image of it in the web browser. And you could click on the image, which would map back to a simulated click on the stack, run whatever handlers and make whatever changes to the card or stack that HyperCard was programmed to do (draw something, switch to the next page, etc), and then it would download the next screen snapshot showing the change. Also it rendered any user interface widgets (text input fields, checkboxes, dropdown menus, etc) as html form fields below the image, that you could fill out in the browser and submit, whose values were then stuffed back into the actual HyperCard control fields. So you could use HyperCard stacks over the web that created, updated, and queried HyperCard databases,
flipped between different cards and backgrounds, drew dynamic graphics, or did any arbitrarily programmed stuff like that.
I've had good luck calling the main Amazon customer support number (USA) and simply asking to speak to someone in the United States of America. I don't know how Amazon's systems work, but they seem to have more options available to them than the foreign call center reps.
The solar explorer built with dead animal bones (2014)
Read "Myth of the Rule of Law" by John Hasnas, who is a professor of law at Georgetown.

https://archive.org/stream/THEMYTHOFTHERULEOFLAWByJohnHasnas...

It is the nature of law to be a negotiation among parties, with all of the properties of negotation that this implies – personal interests, wavering agreement. Believing that law can carry an objective authority disguises this reality and leaving the nature of law unacknowledged makes regulation of that system more difficult.

You might argue that making law more formal or explicit can help here, but laws are already very formal and explicit, and being formal and explicit doesn't guarantee total consistency, maybe paraconsistency at best unless you're dealing with logics much less rich than those we can embed in natural language.
Apps are selling your location data. The U.S. government is buying
I’m writing a master thesis in the humanities right now after having worked many years as a software engineer.

After some false starts, I have come up with a system of designing my thesis very closely to what the author is describing here. I call sketching “free writing,” and while I often design down to the topic sentence, I don’t do this for every single paragraph. But other than that my method is uncannily similar to what is described here.

I also tend to think of paragraphs as “functions.” What are the parameters? I.e, what does the reader need to know for this paragraph to make sense, and how do I trigger those concepts. And secondly, what is the output? I.e., what is the one thing I want the reader to take from this paragraph? (...well some of my paragraphs return tuples, but that’s not ideal)
This is nothing, one time I flew from Midland to Dallas in a Cessna 172 in an hour and 20 minutes. My ground speed exceeded 180 knots at times!
I've observed that pattern with developers who are relatively senior, and have been in the same, smallish place since they graduated. Basically they had no technical feedback ever in their career.

Some developers put their crazy ideas and experiments on github; some developers put those in production.
safety first doesn't mean no risks can be taken, but rather that concerns like publicity or money don't become a primary concern for NASA the way it <sort> of was with the challenger disaster
Reading this was lovely. I strive for the majority of these goals. Unless it's an incredibly simple "one-task" sorta deal I avoid the SPA approach like the plague.
> Further, you can not even watch higer resolution than 720p Netflix on Chrome

Which is rather a DRM measure on Netflix' side.
The amount of academic capture by Esri is crazy. Though to their credit my profs forced us to use QGIS a lot and learn enough Python to write our own workflows both in QGIS and model builder. I'd say most students still just became GIS button pushers but some definitely broke out of that capture and began making their own tools.
I am sure Michael "Big Mike" DeSantis and the like would be interested in your proposal...
Don’t sell my data We finally have a law for that
SMB was first. CIFS is a rebranding that happened when Microsoft was forced to release documentation for the protocol.
I need blogs like this to remind myself that there in fact are actually sane organisations in the world. It's a glimmering ray of hope against my own experiences, which more and more would suggest the writers pushback in that chat room would just get them considered a problem employee.
The people who did it are dead or dying, the tribal knowledge wasn't written down.
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It's because discussing downvotes is against the HN Guidelines[1]:

> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

Folks downvote comments about downvoting because it's boring to read, and to discourage others from doing it.

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> I've spent more time cleaning up issues introduced by experienced people for whom time had just reinforced bad habits

In my last job there was this guy who had more than 10 years of dev experience and:

- He tried to convince me it was better to write our own encryption algo instead of using https.

- His mySQL tables used no foreign keys, only int fields.

- He mixed all sorts of naming conventions in his code and databases: English, Spanish, camel case, snake case, kebab, etc.

- He spent 1-3 hours every day getting into the bank web apps, downloading some pdfs, copying and pasting stuff around, and finally producing a report by hand. Every single fucking day. So I developed a small service for extracting financial data from those pdfs into JSON. He only needed to read those JSONs and automate the reporting part. No, he kept making those reports by hand.

The guy was a friend and long time collaborator of the IT manager which was a complete ignorant in terms of dev.
On that note, it seems that the amount of turbulence has been increasing over the last few decades as a consequence of global warming?
This is HN. They'll upvote anything.
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