skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Also important to remember is that GPS is not the same as location services. Even if GPS and cellular data are unavailable, a mobile device calculates location using Wi-Fi and/or BT. Apps and websites can also use other sensor data (that does not require user permission) and web browser information to obtain or infer location information.

Wondering what kind of sensory data they meant here, I had a look at the citation[0]. If anyone else is curious:

>We describe PinMe, a novel user-location mechanism that exploits non-sensory/sensory data stored on the smartphone, e.g., the environment’s air pressure and device’s timezone, along with publicly-available auxiliary information, e.g., elevation maps, to estimate the user’s location when all location services, e.g., GPS, are turned off. Unlike previously- proposed attacks, PinMe neither requires any prior knowledge about the user nor a training dataset on specific routes. We demonstrate that PinMe can accurately estimate the user’s location during four activities (walking, traveling on a train, driving, and traveling on a plane).

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.01468
Welcome to 2005, you're gonna like it! /s

To be fair, this has been the norm here for decades and it baffles most of us that some shady companies like venmo are used so much in the USA. The same with 'numbered accounts' or no-factor authentication where people can steal your money by knowing a single number.
> When things get big, people start behaving badly

Good point. As the sense of belonging is also important. I commented about it in another post:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23414793

> "Humans are tribal and their survival depends on teamwork of about ~100 people or so. This is natural on intimate scale."

Readers suggested a couple of ideas on this. Maybe the scale is solved by having a network of small groups connected, where each group has a "representative" that is also a member in group of "representatives". And maybe members can also intentionally exchange groups periodically to build natural connections across groups.
Maybe the doctor analogy is flawed, but isn’t there ethics of a licensed (capital P) Professional Engineer more apt?

They are responsible to their bosses as well as the public who are the end users of their designs/products
Of course. Long gone are the days you could tinker with your machines and appliances, fix your problems, replace oartd, hack together improvements, or simply take it apart to show your kid how it works. Okay maybe not long gone but certainly on the way out. Appliances and computers and even cars are getting ever more encumbered in terms of being able to fiddle with them, both physically but above all in terms of software.
> the potential for a future, prolongued military battle

It wasn't "potential", it was already happening. People fixate on the atom bombs but completely ignore the carpet bombing campaigns that had been going on long before. Dozens of Japanese cities were flattened to the same extent of destruction as Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The only difference is that with those two cities, it was accomplished with a single plane, dropping a single atomic bomb, whereas with other Japanese cities, it was accomplished with hundreds of planes dropping thousands of napalm filled warheads.
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F@#$ Bill Gate
Ouch. I read droplets and thought 'virus'. That said, my point about the speaker not being representative is still correct. We have no idea if the speaker's speech is typical. It could be their flow is lower than the average.
Tune your push notifications for need-to-know information. This directly influences how many times I pick up my phone (usually needlessly) and get distracted. You can disable push on most apps that just use it for marketing or to get your attention into their app daily. Ecom and news apps are the worst offenders.
Ooo nice, never seen this before.
A few thoughts:

1) Great information!

2) It seems like the world could use a book like Joe Celko's "SQL For Smarties", but for search engines. Yes, there are such books already, most notably O'Reilly's "Google Hacks" by Rael Dornfest, Paul Bausch, Tara Calishain -- but I think the world could still use a book covering more search engines and search techniques. The above web page would be a great starting point to an endeavor like that.

3) "Dorking" (love that term!) -- is going into my 2020 vocabulary lexicon! <g>
> There is no need to modify existing implementations when extending an interface using multiple dispatch.

Sure there is. If I have a function that takes a Foo and a Bar, and it calls a generic method on them, the generic method must have methods that cover the real subtypes of Foo and Bar. If someone had created subtypes of Foo and Bar and defined methods on all the generic methods that they knew about, and now you create a new generic method, you have absolutely broken the interface just as much as adding a new method to Iterable in Java.
If it had taken me 12 months of working that job to get me by while I found a new permanent one, I would have done it for 12 months, and been quite grateful to have it. I should be the person who has the greatest say in whether I’m a contract worker or not, and exactly what you are talking about is prohibiting me from doing that.
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Math education Prof: 2 and 2 = 5
Abandoned mall department stores may become Amazon’s next fulfillment centers
The parliament in Beijing is full of top industrialists. Not sure about the Central Committee, does anyone know?
Add? They used to have one and actively removed it.
I think that’s just the technical term. It fits the dichotomy.
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Just finished “Atomic” by Tim Baggot. A history of the development of the bomb. From my reading, lots of the physicists knew. They pushed forward as they didn’t know the extent of the german project (who had stalled due to lack of resources and a belief that while possible, a bomb wasn’t practical due to a need for a large amount of material). The safe-cracking was for amusement.
All this is missing is an executive summary!
> nowadays very few people have a house with a basement like that anymore

It depends on where you live, and the type of ground underneath you. Where I live, everyone has a basement.
A Spaceport in Cornwall, England
I'm not saying the users upvoting are shills, just that the claim appears amplified and disseminated through through CCP's official propaganda outlet (China Daily is "owned by the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China")
I'm sorry, I'm not following. The declaration of Cairo clearly stated that the US will accept unconditional surrender. There was no need to inform Japan of that by that point, they were fully aware that the US would have accepted an unconditional surrender. There were no terms to inform the Japanese of. Keep in mind they were dropping leaflets warning the target cities' population of imminent doom for days before the bombings.

And why not? If you had a weapon you knew could end the war and lead to much, much less casualties on your side why not use it? What leader would prefer the death of hundreds of thousands of his own soldiers (and millions of civilian casualties) in a total war because nuclear somehow makes it less ethical?
You're so confident about this.

> There are 5 genres of men’s clothes - business (pressed shirts, suits), casual, workout, skater, and comfort (hoodie).

Only 5 of them and one of them includes "skater"? I mention confidence because you name them off with some authority when it looks like it should be "There are 5 categories of men's clothing for me".

You leave off streetwear [1] which is a gigantic category in men's clothing and reinforces the personal / arbitrary nature of the list.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streetwear
My impression was two things: (1) he had a mission; (2) he had strict and unusual ethical rules for himself, which precluded most other work.

RMS wasn't the only one with ethics that was a barrier to getting rich, however. One odd thing was that, at the start of the dotcom boom, I had the impression (perhaps mistaken) that the programmers with the most experience with Internet and such were also disproportionately more inclined to see themselves as bringing some altruistic vision to everyone, and nurturing it. Things like privacy violation would not fly, I don't think. The privacy violations were snuck in, initially, and the original visionaries either weren't in a position to stop it, somehow didn't realize it was happening, or simply took the money.
I was also surprised they picked "Programming Rust" over "The Rust Programming Language" book.
LoRaWAN is protocol build for LoRa physical layer, and it is opportunistic. Because of the fact that you can't have every message ACKed makes it unreliable in my opinion (workout minimum standards).

However I've seen that there is proprietary protocol symphonylink from LinkLabs, that uses LoRa.
They claim that it allows for having every frame ACKed, even bulk data uplink (OTA firmware upgrades).
If so, I would tend to pick such technology for pond water telemetry.
Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya.

14.3 million people in UK in poverty [1] and a government determined to increase the wealth gap.

The sins of our fathers, yea right.

[1] https://socialmetricscommission.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/20...
My Berlin tailor is Vianko Mode[1]. Don't be fooled by the chaotic look of the place. :)

The owner is a bit all over the place but the work he does is outstanding. Also for ladies. If you need a tailored evening dress or costume: this is the guy.

Make sure he writes down any instructions and after agreeing for some pieces, you confirm them again yourself with him, written, by WhatsApp.

My Bangkok tailor is Dino Suits[2].

Dino is one of the few real tailors in Bangkok. Most 'tailors' there are just fronts for tourists that sell fabric with a suit pattern that gets adjusted to your body. That's a pattern of /their/ choice "made to measure" which is not the same as a pattern of /your/ choice "tailored".

Usually it's a sweatshop in the countryside doing the labor. In that place you have a 1-2 dozen half-trained people doing the grunt work and 1-2 real tailors checking on them/doing the occasional difficult section. That's why they can only do the one pattern.

Dino is known in Bangkok because if one of these other 'tailors' fucks up the last resort to fixing/saving a piece is often Dino. ;)

This is always a good litmus test for a new 'tailor'. Ask if you can bring your own fabric and ask if you can bring your own pattern. If either is a no look for another, real tailor.

In Asia/India in general: if you want a jacket w/o padding in the shoulders (Napoletanean style/pagoda shoulders) be sure to bring a well fitting (better: fitted/tailored) sample jacket from home for them to copy from.

[1] https://goo.gl/maps/cGaepP3FWYGdMWE37

[2] https://goo.gl/maps/oSuJi8KhtNM5snU36
I bought a batch of other stuff besides it, but the BOM goes @60 EUR for a board, I think, but my memory might be playing tricks on me.

And the PCB's I ordered off JLCPCB for @25-30 EUR for 10 pieces.

Also, the Lattice iCE40 FPGA's you _have_ to get off of Digikey, since they're the only ones that stock them and sell them in reasonably low numbers.
Where I live (in Estonia) all bank transfers are instant payments, and they are free. I don't have to pay a transaction fee for them.

Must be a problem with your bank, or the other banks. They must implement the instant payments in their systems.

Here in Estonia the SEPA payments were a step back, because we already had a quite fast transaction system between banks, transactions happened about every hour or so. Then came SEPA and transactions became slower, and now we have instant transactions, even better.
Can this be used to overcome the delay in fiber, which has moved high frequency trading to microwave and HF?
> 2) It was a warning shot from some Western agency meaning "tighten up your security".

That's an interesting theory that'd certainly make for a powerful message. Has anything like that been done before or is there any precedence for Western agencies to do these sorts of things covertly?
This combines Beeminder’s akrasia and self-binding (“If I don’t do X every Y days, I’ll donate $100 to a political candidate I hate” [1]) with monitoring/reporting from a neutral third party. The combo really is a boss for hire, complete with real-world consequences.

[1]: https://blog.beeminder.com/akrasia/
Again, it is not just shared words.

The earliest references to the orange version of marmalade, was marmalade made for Queen Catherine of Braganza (A portuguese noblewoman in the british court). It's innacurate to claim they are just phonetically related.
Software engineers do what pays the bills.

The people in charge who run the business need a Hippocratic oath.
USDA says to throw away everything after 4 hours.

Good ol government!
The inclusion of Anathem and A Canticle for Leibowitz in a library intended to survive through a societal collapse does seem appropriate.
Wenger and Victorinox have a sweet racket on army knives. The one the army buys for each recruit doesn't have a corkscrew, so they know they'll always sell a second one (bought with private funds) which does.

The corkscrew is important because, being the army, Kirsch is of course streng verboten:
https://www.srf.ch/play/tv/archivperlen/video/fondue-in-der-...

Edit: Caucasians had been doing "ballet for little boys" years before John Woo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-df9ujMa54
Best known is indeed meant as "most widely known" (although that may be true for only my little bubble). I think it's taught in most type theory / formal methods courses though. If anybody has facts for/against this claim I'd be happy to update the page.
The Algebra of Algebraic Data Types
Makes a pretty good reading list though
If memory serves me right the CVS bug was originally discovered and exploited by a member of an infamous file sharing site. After descriptions(?) of that bug were leaked in underground circles, an east European hacker wrote up his own exploit for it. This second exploit was eventually traded for hatorihanzo.c, a kernel exploit, which was also a 0-day at the time.

The recipient of the hatorihanzo.c then tried to backdoor the kernel after first owning the CVS server and subsequently getting root on it.

The hatorihanzo exploit was left on the kernel.org server, but encrypted with an (at the time) popular ELF encrypting tool. Ironically the author of that same tool was on the forensic team and managed to crack the password, which turned out to be a really lame throwaway password.

And that's the story of how two fine 0-days were killed in the blink of an eye.
Eventually it would have to be told to a CTO, president or Vice President it some technological product, software architect, etc. Software Engineers generally need to understand the use case of a product to be able to develop something effective. It would be exceptionally difficult to convince someone to code something that creates fake profiles of people who don’t use your site and no one have any idea that that’s what’s happening.
Thanks for the feedback! I’m aware that checks (and “instant” payments like PayPal, Venmo, Zelle) are settled via ACH; as other commenters have pointed out for me, the claim was that individuals can’t make “raw” ACH transactions.

As for sending money via routing and account number: I’ve received conflicting information from different banks on how acceptable this is. The university I went to allowed it as a way to pay tuition (you could give them your account number and they would debit you), but every bank that I’ve privately banked with has told me that I need to own or be responsible for both accounts in order to do a “direct” (i.e. non-cheque) transfer. But I don’t know whether that’s just a policy thing among financial institutions.
>actually not much that can be done on the software side.

This isn’t exactly true. There are mitigations (both software and non-software) that are expected to be done depending on hazard analysis. One of the items discovered is Boeing mischaracterized the MCAS hazard (it should have had a “catastrophic” hazard class). In addition, they didn’t appear to follow their own process for dual inputs required even for the lower severity class assigned. The “optional” part of MCAS was the secondary sensor reading into the software
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Ask HN: What large tech companies have become remote-friendly during Covid 19?
Urusei Yatsura, Maison Ikkoku, and Ranma ½, were all massive successes at the time. Even her minor story Honoo Torippā, once polished into Inuyasha, went on to be pretty big.

I really struggle to look at Tsurita's work and see how she "shaped" manga history in any way, beyond being one of the first published females.
I would be very interested to hear about important omissions due to that bias.
Do you have evidence to the contrary?

Logic dictates that any wealth or resource that staysin the community is more likely to benefit that community as opposed to if it is shipped to a different continent and never seen again.
Those are all valid points.

As another commenter says, the freezer isn't the only device that could be powered in an outage.

Also, in Canada, when you run a generator in a power outage, after awhile you have neighbours who appear with long extension cables. Which is fair, because the generator is noisy, and there are periods of excess capacity.

Also some neighbors will appear with gasoline because, during a power outage, you can't buy gas.
Effective Google-foo is one of the first things I teach my first year students. Few greater life skills exist.
I condescend about his manner because when he slipped up, he slipped up big-time. Not just a single-word blunder, but entire paragraphs. (He does this less nowadays, from what I can tell.)

He was charming and convincing within the environments in which he needed to charm and convince people. I reckon those were largely informal settings, in what I've heard referred to as "tech-bro" cultures. Those skills don't generalise.

The easiest way for eccentric people to gain social acceptance is to fit in. That was never an option for Richard Stallman, so he must've been charming and convincing. I couldn't have done what he's done. That doesn't automatically mean he's good at every kind of social interaction – and he most certainly wasn't, in the early 2000s. He made enough public slip-ups that I might need two hands to count them!

He's a political activist. One slip-up is enough for your enemies to discredit you. He can't afford as many as he's made, and certainly not any more. That's why I say he needs to focus on social skills; there's still work to do, and he's still one of the few people doing it, and he needs social credibility to be able to do so.

(I suppose his biggest mistake was spreading himself across so many causes, and hence making himself a lot of enemies… But I'm not going to criticise him for that; it's better than I've ever done.)
Slack - https://mashable.com/article/slack-remote-work-permanent-cor...

Shopify - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-21/shopify-i...

Twitter - https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alexkantrowitz/twitter-...

Facebook - https://www.forbes.com/sites/krisholt/2020/05/21/facebook-re...

Open Text - https://www.fastcompany.com/90502606/covid-19-showed-my-comp...
Semi-related question.

Do you think that:

(a) It is self-evident that Uber and Walmart workers are reasonably compensated, because they agreed to their wages in a market transaction; or

(b) There are structural forces that compel Uber and Walmart workers to capture as income an unreasonably low fraction of the benefit they provide the market; or

(c) Something else
If you have resources for dart I'd be happy to include it :)
I am a hohol too ;)
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Opening the freezer would have substantially decreased the frozen time, with each opening. Specifically as OP seemed to specify an upright freezer.

Chest freezer would have had less of an impact, but still noticeable.
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> until one realizes that the atomic bomb murdered more civilians that a conventional attack would have killed.

Says who? The firebombing of Tokyo killed just as many civilians as the atom bomb over Hiroshima did (100k+), and is still considered the single most destructive air raid in human history[0]. And that was just Tokyo. Dozens of similar air raids were conducted throughout Japan, to say nothing of the European/Russian fronts.

It is not those defending the atom bombs that are removing "any human consideration from the discussion". It is people like yourself who, presumably because you don't know the relevant history, are removing the human consideration by ignoring the hundreds of thousands of civilians who were already being slaughtered. But for some reason killing someone with a napalm filled "conventional" bomb is more acceptable than killing them with an atomic bomb.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Tokyo
A Hippocratic oath has never stopped doctors from screwing us all out of all our money . . . like many professions, it's called "conflict of interest".
Here's an URL to search for computer-related stuff:

https://www.shopgoodwill.com/Listings?st=&sg=&c=30&s=&lp=0&h...
20% success rate there.

https://geotargit.com/called.php?qcity=Baghdad
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Last time I checked, it was possible to run a full Linux environment on Android (ie https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cuntubuntu...). What exactly do you want to do?
Ah, we'll add a link for people that don't want to sign on. Thanks for the suggestion.
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Please don't misunderstand me, I don't believe he said anything wrong. Nor do I think he doesn't have the right to have a say or to have an opinion on the matter.

My point is more along the fact that he is predominantly a business man who has done a lot of good around the world with his philanthropic foundations. He is a well informed individual with deep pockets and political connections, who is well placed to enact change in what ever forum he would decide to use those resources in.

He is neither an elected representitive nor someone who has to answer for his opinions or actions to any authority within a regulated professional occupation (doctor, professor, publishing researcher etc).

The way that U.S society works, and the level of trust and respect that the general population places on the 'famous' and 'rich' just doesn't resonate with the reality of life where I am.

That is why he, or his like, would never be turned to as authority figures on this matter in my country of residence as they aren't looked at as experts on these matters nor trusted to not have an alterior motive (however small).
fwiw this is basically what happened to "media" or "the news". facebook middle manned the distribution chain and then peeled off most of the value/ad-revenue. moving on to consumer-goods/e-commerce is just "whats next" after news.
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This assumes all of the vast majority of engineers are easily replaceable. Given that several tech companies prefer the chance of not hiring a good fit over the chance of needing to fire someone, I think the cost to a company if a significant subset of its engineers declined unethical work (especially engineers who at this point are high enough to have a good idea of the broad scope of the software) would make it difficult to perform what you suggest.
Software engineers: We Need a Hippocratic Oath for Tech C-Suits.
In Estonia all the large banks have implemented it, and they don't charge for sending the payments either. All payments are by default instant.