skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is cool as hell! I have had quite a few situations where I wanted to automate someone else's workflow, but asking them to open terminal was probably too much of an ask.
Never attribute to GPT-3 that which can be easily explained by mental illness.

Seriously though, that sentence contains a lot of relevant context and understanding that would rival LaMDA. :)
My first thought is that I can only see a handful of HN topics at a time, versus 30 via the standard web interface.

So, to me... in its current state this app would be a large downgrade.

It's "nicer" looking than the web interface, but the web interface is fine for me. I don't need it to be pretty.

For an HN app to be useful to me it would have to offer more information or features than the web interface.
Look into PAM configuration. In particular I think you'd probably want some combination of pam_faillock and pam_exec. pam_exec can be used to call some arbitrary script to wipe your disks and possibly be extra evil and call flashrom to even wipe the firmware beforehand.
Most anyone who is in a position to reliably MITM an HTTP site would also be in a position to install a certificate source (either as part of a “install this to access the web” program or similar).

It’s a necessary level of defense but it is NOT sufficient- especially if you never check certificates.
Nope just the readme.
They're not hurting for devs, they're hurting for engineers.
OP is probably not an American. In the US it's quite normal to eat alone, in Europe (with a few exceptions) it's extremely odd to eat or drink alone at a bar or restaurant. Germany is particularly bad at this, and as someone who's had to travel across Europe for years for work, it took a lot of time to get over the odd stares in most places.

It's one of my favorite things about the US, being solo is way more accepted than in most of the rest of the West.
Even if selection of information released is determined 100% by bias, I still think it's dangerous and bad for society to label accurate information releases as "disinfo"

I think the

>containing intentionally false and misleading material

portion of the definition is crucial.

By all means, call it foreign election interference or a foreign propaganda campaign. But in my opinion, accurate information can never be 'disinfo'. I think this is a slippery slope towards discrediting all information that embarrasses or threatens the state: whistleblowers, investigative reporting on war crimes and corruption, etc.
Works fine for me, but https://archive.fo/kMceI is a possible alternative if you're having trouble with the JS.
This might be an interesting read: https://www.wired.com/story/they-hacked-mcdonalds-ice-cream-...
My turn to accuse you of dishonesty - intellectual, this time. All the vaccine developers have promised about the vaccines is that they will reduce symptoms, as I'm sure you are fully aware. Unless some later study is done that provides some more concrete data on exactly how the vaccine is achieving what it is, at the moment all we can say is that the benefits we see (reduced hospitalisations and deaths, as well as some amount of reduced transmission) are a secondary effect of that primary benefit.

In case you missed it - I am not denying that the vaccines have done good - I am just very carefully sticking to what the vaccine developers themselves have said about the vaccine, which does not include anything about reducing transmission.
Deleting probably wouldn't be the best approach, because (a) the drive could just be duplicated before-hand, (b) they'd know you'd done it.

Better just to buy a bunch of USB sticks, wipe 'em all with random noise, use a couple for mundane files, and use a couple for sensitive files — deniably encrypted so as to look like random noise. Then, you can plausibly deny that they contain any sensitive files.

The real issue here is that we shouldn't need to use these sorts of measures. No one will do this unless they're a software professional with something to hide, and "having nothing to hide" doesn't mean you're not still entitled to privacy.
Am I the only one horrified looking at those graphs explode in the last couple of years ?
The only novel I’ve read (didn’t finish) by Neal was Anathem and besides being a 1000 page drag it used the literary fiction tool I hate the most taking (English) words and changing a letter or two or creating onomatopoeic twins with different spelling e.g. avout (devout) and sæcular (secular) it just super lazy and disrespectful to the reader if you want to have a society of monks that took a vow of some sort just call them that.

I care about the plot and the setting not the names of things, I really fucking hate authors who try to be original by bastardizing words for no reason. If this was some post apocalyptic society and how the spelling and pronunciation and even the meaning of the words evolved over time is part of the story then sure go a head but when it’s completely detached from the setting it’s just just is lazy writing.
> In general, if lots of people feel a certain way, and your conclusion is completely contradictory, you should assume you’re wrong until strong evidence says otherwise.

This is a useful heuristic for becoming popular but not for making moral decisions. It is the worst possible approach to forming one's conscience.

> You’re essentially assuming you know better than everyone.

You're assuming everyone else formed a reasoned opinion rather than following the loudest existing herd.
FWIW there are waaaay cheaper and yet decent options.
Never mind, published the code repo and created a link to it in the GitHub repo
> Transfer Your Content is only available to authorized G Suite for Education Accounts. Please contact your administrator, or sign in with another Google Account.
In all genuineness, I have no clue what they're doing. I won't touch this shit with my personal Gmail account because I just know it has some one-way door built-in. Something like "You signed up for Workspace and now you can't use your Google Home! Hurray! Oh, you want to downgrade? Okay, you lost all your email! Hurray!"

I'm just glad I make enough money that I can keep my GSuite and my personal separate. The one mistake I made is paying for this Google One shit which I don't know what it is but I'm too afraid to let it go in case they delete all my photos and email.

Literally the most half-assed platform of all time. But the features are so good I'm pretty sure I'm paying three times for them and not upset. It's the risk of losing the data that scares me.
> it’s about differing moral judgments

I submit that it's less about moral judgements--no one comes out in favor of, say, chattel slavery--than it is about controlling people via cognitive dissonance[1].

After a life-altering act, e.g. aborting a pregnancy, or having a gender reassignment surgery, it is cheaper for the mind to fall in with a re-enforcement group than to realize the decision was wrong.

Not to judge these wrong calls as worse than my own wrong calls. Merely being descriptive.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance
> We’ve all been hearing the hype lately about low-code and no-code platforms.

This is the first sentence of one of these "articles". It's a classic buzzword, just another brand of enterprise software marketing gimmicks.

Anything to keep people from using, say, 3x5 index cards in an innovative way or applying the concepts like RACI matrix outside a computing context, to the organizational structure itself.

This entire ecosystem is fascinating; I highly recommend working in enterprise software for at least 18 months, which is how long I made it before my brain short circuited.
Yeah not seeing it in my world. Moving jobs has never been easier - just change Zoom meetings.
Kafka limits are customizable. 10MB is quite small. Kafka easily handles 100MB messages. If you need some temporal storage that works like a log then there's nothing better than kafka in terms of speed and scalability. But it's more about relatively long term storage. If you need to persist data for very short amount of time, why don't you use in-memory store? Do you have strict requirements around data loss? Something like Redis much just do the trick for out. With Redis cluster it even scales.
That's great to hear Marcio. I've emailed you. Cheers.
I have inserted the link to the source code in the readme, I need to clean things up a bit right now
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I have long questioned what actually is "wealth"...
When we speak of centrism in terms of political parties, the implicit false assumption in some of this discussion is that Trumpism is a legitimate political position. These days when we talk about "the right" we largely mean Trumpism -- the GOP's new political stance (including Mitch McConnell, btw).

The idea of "centrism" makes no sense with Trumpism on one side. "Yes I am pro-democratic republic and I also want to be ruled by a dictator who hollows out and weaponizes public institutions and muzzles his enemies."

The center means there is common ground but Trump scorched the GOP's half of it. The only way I can envision a center is if the GOP figures out how to move beyond Trumpism and rebuild themselves into a conservative party. Currently the only people offering a shred of hope, by for example cooperating with the Democratic center, are the likes of Romney, who got booed offstage by GOP supporters.
Excel is certainly superior for analysis etc, but there are plenty of use cases where Google sheets is superior to excel, for instance http api to interact with your sheet. Depends what you're trying to achieve really.
I don't think a lot of centrists claim to be "doing good" just for being in the middle.

You can't read from this position the intent. It could be indifference about a topic, caring about it yet rejecting both extreme views, or somebody that did deeply study the topic and found the center to be just right.

Both rejecting centrism or glorifying it, makes no sense in any case.
Linux Privilege Escalation – Exploiting Capabilities
I've used all types of electric hob (that I'm aware of) hotplates, ceramic and induction, and they are all awful. Honestly I think the only people who can deal with them do nothing more than heat up tins of soup on them.
Vultr? 8 cores for $160/mo.
Open sourced now since it seems highly requested, link in the readme!
That presumes a) that hiring good developers is a driver for that success b) the valley offers more money relatively c) there is actual proof that those firms are producing outsized returns.

I for one have made more money in finance than valley style tech. That may change one day but there _also_ was no correlation in the finance firms for quality.
The real effect he's trying to cause is to move the bytes for main from a R/W memory segment (like .data) to an eXecutable one (like .text).

The const keyword tells C that a certain variable should never be modified by code. Doing so would be undefined behaviour. GCC is free to implement whatever guarantees for memory meant for const variables. On some versions and under certain criteria, it would place const variables into .text so any access would cause a SIGSEGV. It can also achieve the same by putting it into other write protected memory, like .rodata (which is what the newest version of gcc prefers for the code in this article, making it no longer work). Why GCC chooses one over the other and why it would change over time are hard questions.

A more effective way would be to use __attribute__s (on gcc) or #pragma directives to specify that the bytes need to be in the .text segment. However, that ruins the magic a bit.
Nor is it in France.
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JPMorgan is sitting on about $500M in cash, waiting to invest in higher rates
That would be nice, and maybe brand-new places are doing that, but across 10+ apartments with gas stoves I've rented in the past 15-odd years, none of them have done that.
> it makes all the pot handles burning hot

Never had that problem with gas. Not once.
They certainly look like NSIS installers.
What the hell does this announcement actually say? Is this just Gsuite? Are they introducing a lower price tier? What is the pricing? How do existing customers transition?

The rebranding from "Google hangouts" and "Gsuite" to "Google Workspace" and everything inbetween I have to say has been a tremendously terrible marketing job, given the talent of the people at that company.
No, check out the study I linked.

They controlled for race, gender, etc.

And human guessing was just 55 percent accurate versus 72 percent for the ML model.
https://www.quora.com/What-programming-languages-does-Stripe...
It's not exactly to skip you. It's to get into another place, that you can not access if you don't pay.

It's basically "You have those basic needs filled here under those conditions. If you don't want that, there's a free market up there where you can bargain something better." Of course, how "basic" are the needs filled and what conditions vary a lot from country to country.
The best language that no one uses
I’m using a 2020 MacBook Pro 16” with 32GB of RAM. I’m WFH, but don’t notice any slowdowns on any other task.
That sounds superb and I wish you good luck and lots of trail magic. The AT looks beautiful (I've only seen pictures of it in blogs).

Forests are wonderful. I grew up around forests, playing in them as a child. A few years ago while day hiking in a forest I came to a Sun-warmed opening in pine barrens from amidst taller pines. That specific scent of the ground and the pines etc., the heat and the wind -- all these, but mostly the strong scent, took me vividly back to my childhood. I remembered so many things as if I were there again, I saw these memories just flowing at me. For a moment, I was transported back to my grandparents place at a summer when I was 6-8 years old. I felt how much they loved me and what a good and carefree place I had been in.

For some time, I stood there in awe with my mouth open, trying to process what just happened. It was such a powerful influx of memories.

I don't know if you've experienced something like this, but I hope you will! Maybe some years from now your hike will come back to you.
1 and 2 are ok, i'd also ad a bit about nutrition which is around 50% of the work

3: oh come on... if your actual limitation is entering the name of the exercice in the google bar literally ONCE IN YOUR LIFE, then your ACTUAL limitation is a base level of motivation and you should rather find another activity.

4: warmups are WAY overrated for fitness. Just don't push too much with max weight and that's all, and listen to your body. I've injured myself way more in my youth where I was doing warmups but egolifting instead that now where I do 0 warmup but work at 90% max.
> We should be thankful that Konqueror/KHTML was released under a Free Software license, rather than a permissive open source license

Your wording suggests that permissive licenses are not “Free Software” licenses, which is incorrect. Even the FSF acknowledges that permissive licenses like BSD, ISC, MIT, and Apache are free.
I think a presence in the same legal system is also a barrier. If you open a branch office and hire and manage them seriously, you can find a sharp team, but this isn’t all that cheap. If you try to write a small check to some contracting company with no reputation, they will deliver “tested” tarballs that are littered with syntax errors because they know suing them isn’t really feasible.
>Study participants completed a four-word forced-choice test and identified the correct word in 34.8% of trials. The participants' recognition, defined by the ability to choose the same word twice, whether right or wrong, was 53.6%.

Is this a good result?
From scanning the list it seems like none of the 6 were started in the last 15+ years. That should be alarming to EU policy makers.

As this divide grows, I worry that Europe may resort to protection mechanisms as a way to shield local companies and give them a chance to "grow".

The future is more protectionism and less free trade. And that's not good for anyone.
Indeed, AFAIK, companies like IKEA and Bosch are privately owned.
Pure unsubstantiated FUD.

The national grid in the UK has done tons of preparation - read about their Dynamic Containment program for example - but it’s much easier to just wave your hands and claim “we aren’t ready, it’s too hard”.

This is such a typical FUD article from the climate change denying WSJ. Boring and predictable
It's not close to a gas stove. Not by a long shot. It's just slightly better than normal electric because it doesn't have as much residual heat in the ring. The best thing induction hobs do is boil water, but it's still about half as quick as my kettle.
I can understand why you think the way you do and the way you construct your arguments, unlike some others in this thread, makes me believe you're genuine.

But I hope you can see that there are a large number of people who see a physical assault on the peaceful transition of power as a threat to the continuance of our government. An existential threat.

We are never going to change our minds on this and you have no right to ask us to overlook it because that's sort of like asking us to ignore an arsonist who we know set a fire, who has proclaimed the desire to set fires.

Violence was used to disrupt the peaceful transition of power. Violence was used to disrupt the peaceful transition of power. Violence was used to disrupt the peaceful transition of power.

How can you possibly ask people to look past this? With a straight face?

You're one of those people, I suspect, who gets tripped up on literal definitions of things. It doesn't matter what, specifically, is an attempted coup and what isn't. People will use imprecise terminology and if you want to talk politics you may just have to grow up about that fact.

Violence was used to disrupt the peaceful transition of power.
Looking forward to seeing where you go with this!

As some feedback: you only get one shot at Show HN, really. Or at least you should only get one shot at it, you can work around this by submitting a different URL but that kind of thing is discouraged.

You would have been better off waiting until you were ready to show the source code, and had at least a rough sketch of the features you were going to provide. It's going to be difficult to get useful feedback at this stage in the process.

I hope you don't take this as discouragement, I like the idea of having a dedicated HN mac app, and look forward to seeing it again down the road.
More evidence that there is more competition in Europe?
> Personally I don't even remember when I connected to an open wifi, I believe some systems will prevent you from doing so.

If that's the case, you are absolutely not the average internet user. Plenty of people, most of them non-technical, will connect to the wifi of their local cafe, and spend many tens of minutes doing things on the internet while connected to it.
I think they mean the "past" link at the top of the page. It takes you to https://news.ycombinator.com/front
Which Seattle transit of 22 miles? The Line T took 3 years to construct, Line 1 is 22 miles but it's already built, it took 6 years of construction. Indeed it took longer to plan, but we're talking building in a major metropolitan area, not empty land.

> All the grading, track laying, and bridge construction was done by muscle.

It's both an argument to applaud efforts of the past, as well as criticise the nature of the past. I certainly wouldn't want to be a labourer in 1865, when life expectancy in the US was less than half (37) of today's 78 or so. It's not all labour standards of course, but it certainly must have played a role.
And that's what we call "strawmanning".
Assigning a person a label of right or left or center is too simplistic. People are more complex. Their preferences are tied to issues. For each issue, every person might have a tilt/preference and they may not always tilt in one direction on all issues.
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I mean, I agree, but the argument here was specifically about whether you're "wasting" a powerful CPU by putting it in the role of an embedded microcontroller, if the powerful CPU is only 'needed' because of software bloat, and you could theoretically get away with a much-less-powerful microcontroller if you wrote lower-level, tighter code.

And my point was that, by every measure, there's no point to worrying about this particular distinction: the more-powerful CPU + the more-bloated code has the same BOM cost, the same wattage, the same latency, etc. as the microcontroller + less-bloated code. (Plus, the platform SDK for the more-powerful CPU is likely a more modern/high-level one, and so has lower CapEx in developer-time required to build it.) So who cares?

Apps running on multitasking OSes should indeed be more optimized — if nothing else, for the sake of being able to run more apps at once. But keep in mind that "embedded software engineer" and "application software engineer" are different disciplines. Being cross that application software engineers should be doing something but aren't, shouldn't translate to a whole-industry condemnation of bloat, when other verticals don't have those same concerns/requirements. It's like demanding the same change of both civil and automotive engineers — there's almost nothing in common between their requirements.
Lots of the wattage gains in tests are often only noticeable when the speed approaches 40km/h. Wonder about the effect at pro levels, if 32mm is viable there.

My longest is 300km with 35km/h avg (185 miles, ~22mph) running 25mm. No problems with comfort.
Never tested other wheels on this bike. But I do have a gravel in same price range with wider tires. That I can follow easily in a group, but alone my speed is slower for the same wattage. Might be the more upright position though.
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You can always find incendiary articles from both sides at RealClearPolitics, too.

I regularly read it, Fox news, CNN, NBC, and Breitbart to get ideas about what my colleagues might be thinking.
> I'd liken this to rape, actually.

I'm really astonished with this comparison.
More data concentration makes for a more worthwhile target, thus wiping out at least some of the potential upside. The net effect may very well be negative.

Given the regular stream of extremely large data leaks even from providers who should have size, motivation and competency to protect that data, I find it incredibly hard to believe anyone who tries to assure me, that they won't be breached.
This makes me miss Google Wave... Are they iframing in spreadsheets with a slack clone?
> Doing something that's by definition incorrect and having it maybe do something somewhere sometimes, or maybe not, is not really all that impressive when you think about it.

See I would have called this hacking, which here on Hacker News is its own special kind of impressive.
You know you don't actually have to give your SSN to healthcare providers, right?

I leave it blank and tell them (in vaguely more polite terms) to fuck off if they probe me about not providing it.
One of the Hillebergs I have is four-season and weighs 3 lbs., including the poles. I can have it up in ten minutes, tops. The tent in the article might weigh 3 lbs., but that doesn't include the tree branches one is going to have to scrounge for to make tent poles. So if, as you mention, one is at 15K feet then snow accumulation is the least of one's worries if you can't find any tent poles above the tree line. :-)

I mean, it could be a cool design to play with but it has a somewhat limited range of usefulness.
Me to that is the one thing I hate NO Microsoft I do not want to open an office document in some bastardized web version.