jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I'm not a security expert at all, but what's the point of a public key supposed to be if all you want to do is authenticate yourself?

Why would you want to use (e.g.) an RSA key for authentication, forcing you to carry around a data fob or something from computer to computer, instead of using a password or passphrase that you can actually remember? Ordinary users would flip out if you asked them to do that. If you really want a super strong key, you can simply use passphrases that don't suck, or you can always use a password manager like KeePass that encrypts your weak passphrases with a strong master key.
The password is the simplest and most straightforward method of authenticating a user. Yes, you could go with a physical key (Near Field, USB, card, etc), thumbprint, eye-scan, or voice but all of those have their failings as well. How many stations have thumbprint scanners? My laptop does but I'm the only one I know and it is more a PITA. How many have cameras for facial recognition or eye scanning? Not mine. How would you access the site when you don't have your physical key on you? Couldn't your voice be just as easily hacked?

There is no better security for common use than the password... and it is just as effective as anything else with the added benefit of being universally applied if it is a decent one.
It's sickening that the media continues to give people like that any semblance of credibility.
If you're a developer in a big/mid company (or a consultant regardless of company size) your input to the product will be minimum to non-existant. And even if it wasn't, maybe the problem at the base is something you don't believe is worth solving or being solved properly.

I've worked on client projects where I think the project is an utter waste of time and money, and other times worked on promising projects but led by terrible people who'd never manage to make it work. At the end of the day, work is work…
What's your opinion on svelte?
Hey, at least you're honest.

Is the problem that your work has no meaning? There are plenty of nonprofits that are slugging away using inefficient processes that could benefit from a developer that makes them custom software. Maybe there's one out there that aligns with your hobbies?
People noticed. tptacek has mentioned it a few times on this forum.

I like Signal. I want to like Signal. But I find myself making an increasing number of excuses for behavior inconsistent with their roots.

I wonder if there is enough energy out there to propel a thin-client fork.
Tomorrow another group of people might decide something about your intent and you might have no way to make your case.

Anyway, you have to really stretch it beyond reason to see transphobia behind anything RMS has said, written, or done.

As for the impact of his works and actions, everyone has access to a full software stack to explore, learn from, and work on, without the need to be inside some university or company, i.e. to have the money or to pass admission processes that might be putting certain groups at a disadvantage, or outright excluding them. This was also his intent all along and he sacrificed a lot for it.
> During stand-ups when you have to explain what you did, you can say that you worked on your own thing, and that you helped the other person.

Also, pick a role where you're constantly blocked by other people. So, working in a big company, where every function (renting a VM, setting up a DB schema, adding an AD group etc.) is centralized in one team, possibly overloaded and not too competent, possibly outsourced for cheap to India. These folks can take months to complete simple tasks and you can always say you can't move forward until they deliver.

Also, working in integration-heavy project. If your codebase calls 8 different systems in your company, they will all fail, have incomplete documentation, unresponsive teams etc. and will result in a lot of waiting and lost time on your end (which is what you're after).
It would be nice to narrow your search to a specific country because some EU countries are not welcoming foreigners of specific nationalities. And some others countries are saturated of foreigners (specifically from one or two countries) and there are mixins. But it changes from city to city too.

So even if you get a job in EU, better to check what is your budget. You don't want to live in a neighborhood full of immigrants with their specific "traditions".
Why companies even care about what their shareholders think?

It's not like they gonna show up with their shares and ask for their money back.

Only things that I can think of is that members of the board might care because they can be sacked by shareholders, also company might want to pat shareholders on their heads because it is planning to sell more of its stock to gather some more free cash and wants it to be as much as possible.

I don't think you can sack google founders and I don't think google cares about money from selling shares anymore, so why anyone at google should care about what shareholders think?
From TFA: "For-profit schools now enroll 8 percent of students—but as Eisman’s report shows, they take in a full 24 percent of federal student aid. [...] Right now, colleges bear none of the risk of defaulted loans. It’s the same separation of risk and reward that Eisman saw in the subprime industry. The solution he’d advocate is simply making the colleges pay back the government a share—as much as 50 percent—of the loans that go back."

I would note that graduates of for-profit institutions have default rates significantly higher than those public and non-profit institutions [1], even when comparing for-profit institutions to community colleges. For-profit colleges have every incentive to maximize enrollment and encourage students to max out their loans while spending as little as possible on instruction. We agree that reigning in education spending is important, but the for-profit system, as currently incentivized, will keep costs to the public and the students the same as it ever was while redirecting money from teaching to shareholders.

> Unlike Rutgers or CUNY, Ashford is 100% dedicated to education (rather than partially education, partially research).

Research is an important part of education (perhaps not vocational education). Ashford is 100% dedicated to maximizing returns to shareholders; education is necessarily secondary. This is demonstrated by the fact they spend more on marketing than instruction. I'm not saying it's wrong for them to do this, but as a for-profit entity they have no incentive to behave otherwise.

[1] http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126075983194590097.html
If you scroll to the bottom of the very long Experts Exchange page, the question and answers are down there. While I realize your question was meant to be rhetorical, EE has answered my question a few times, and I want to say that they do provide some value, which I suppose is reflected in its page rank.
I'm trying to do the same thing with OpenBSD.

A lot of vendor lock in on the ol' MacBook Pro hardware. Broadcom wireless chipset, Nvidia chipset, etc. I've been hacking through my dmesg one by one trying to tackle everything.

Instead of reverse engineering the drivers, like a lot of the community has done (my hats off to you!), I broke down and got a USB wireless stick (rum(4)), and am running on Vesa drivers :) It's not "pretty", but lets me run my WM (xmonad) and everything is still pretty snappy.

It's not something you setup overnight, especially when you've lost your .muttrc and a ton of other crucial dotfiles after spending too much time in OSX land and using their native applications. That's my fault.

Eventually, I'd like to give back to the community, and that's what I'm going to do.
Generally, no. You could look at the incoming mail logs if you run your own server, and I've used that to verify someone was indeed mailing in but it was labelled as junk immediately (grepping through the junk mailbox was prohibitive). I watched as I had someone on the phone saying "I'm mailing" to make this happen.

I'd vote for the basecamp option, but not specifically basecamp (not my cup of tea - I'm using redmine right now). Having a central web service where email is ancillary to the process, not vital, helps keep everyone up to date and has the added bonus of creating a history log of what's happened on a project. This makes bringing in other people easier to do because they can see the history of the project at a glance and ask more intelligent questions when getting started.
I am in Sweden and I can access it successfully. Do you have a Google account?
I'm not sure if you are joking here or not -- but, if you've played with the Kinect on a 360, you'd note that it can recognize your hands, and only when you hold your hands out for a set period of time (2-3 seconds, cannot recall exactly) the Kinect wakes up and begins to allow you to input controls.
Sure Sir :) and I frecuently use Gdocs
Can anyone give a better explanation of "performance" as shown by those graphs. What situation corresponds to performance going down? If performance relates to "speed", why would you expect the speed to continue increasing, rather than staying the same?
There's nothing wrong with employing a maid or any personal assistant services.

The problem at hand is _only_ if those people are trafficked, and is not willingly being employed.
There is a difference though. From what we know of the big bang, there is a starting point of the universe. The universe being started from nothing violates physical laws. A spiritual entity wouldn't be bound by the same physical logistics. Even if someone argues that it is "unlikely" for God to exist, it is still atleast a logical possibility.
He's counting on the few sales made when people are willing to pay $50,000 for the app.
It's a good story but the title is wrong. He didn't keep the money, he was legally entitled to the money after the bank's mistake but returned it. Also, the story has 5+ pages. Great story though.
I love the notion of Wakemate and even had some conversations with them early on. Unfortunately, my current financial situation puts it about $30 out of my range.

Best of luck guys! As soon as the $30 in my wallet moves up to $60, I'll be on board.
I liked how the story started, but the whole talk show circuit and DVD angle left a bad taste in my mouth. But that's probably just because the story is so long.

Here's what bothers me the most. It was widely agreed that he was entitled to the $95,000 by a technicality. He decided to "do the right thing" and give it all back. A hundred grand of 1995 money. So why did the bank make him pay $175 to close his account?

What if he had refused?
Point 5 seems to apply to s3 as well. Source: my XPS laptop.
> ...“genocide” means killing a people

Killing a people doesn't necessarily mean killing individual people. Sterilization is killing a people.
> even the WHO has said this theoretically remains a possibility, while not thought the most likely

Try "extremely unlikely" instead. More like they can't rule it out with absolute certainty, but not a particularly reasonable hypothesis. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-55996728
They're aligning with the army/mob of people who own Bitcoin, who are part of the MLM scheme - that's trying to replace the financial transactional layer with one that rewards you in the future for adopting it, assuming you're not the last adopters left holding the bag.
Better late than never. How is ease of use? Does it work well?
Oh that's right, prop 19 makes this a lot better. Thank you for the precision.
Thanks for the references, but I didnt see anything about quotas for admissions and associates.

Setting hard quotas is pretty different than tracking diversity as a key performance metric
I work for the D language foundation, and they seem to trust me (god help them!)
I have always assumed this and the $500 toilet seats are just making room for black projects. There were no publicly visible budgets for the U2/F117 projects.
From the comments in this thread it sounds like Google doesn't have much internal communication or accountability going on?
I think there is substantial evidence that organs are being removed from Uighurs while they are alive or are being killed for organ harvest. Depending on how much business the media organization does in China, it gets reported or not. I don't think China should get a pass because they only kill of the very annoying people or those with blood type matches.

https://www.ibanet.org/Article/NewDetail.aspx?ArticleUid=0D8...

https://www.businessinsider.com/china-harvesting-organs-of-u...
How soon before billionaires invest in digital land?

I remember seeing people pay hundreds of dollars for space in Ultima online for their house.

I wonder if humanity will ever have a platform shared by the entire world that wouldn’t be discarded every 10 years where people would actually want to invest long-term.

Maybe bitcoin is a type of land in that sense, it is finite and verified, and you can build on top of it?

Fun to think about at least.
Indeed - throwing around the IoT buzzword is just an unnecessary (and irrelevant) distraction.
> Unlike electronic transactions today, the digital yuan is designed to move from A to B instantaneously, at least in theory removing away banks and financial apps that profit off fees and brief built-in delays in such handoffs. The only necessary middleman is the central bank.

Interesting. But won't replacing electronic bank transactions reduce money market activity as they banks get less money to invest than they otherwise could have? What's the rationale here?
People focusing on specifics about his particular workspace are very much missing the point. People calling him antisocial, as if he's somehow defective are very much missing the point.

Look, you might enjoy working in an office. That's fine, I don't think anybody's saying you're not allowed to return to an office. But for many people, probably most people, productivity is lower in an office, despite more time being spent "working." This has been demonstrated and reported on many, many, many times. To say that you don't care, you enjoy yourself more in an office is fine, but it doesn't mean an office is better for everyone, or even for you.

I have friends, I have family, I have activities in my neighborhood, and I would gladly never see any coworker in person ever again for the extra hour per day I can spend with my family and friends vs commuting. That doesn't make me anti-social any more than it does Mr Mercer. My office didn't suck, but I think the entire concept of a shared office kinda sucks. It's just so normalized that we don't realize how much it sucks until we step away for a year.

I mean, I was spending an hour a day to relocate to a place where I could be overall less productive for my company. Maybe some days I enjoyed myself more, sure, but that's an separate issue. If you want to spend time with coworkers, go ahead! Just don't pretend it's providing value for your company.
So you are ok with the low tps, the lack of programmability, the lack of anonymity, the high fees, the slow transactions, the centralized mining, the tainted community and the lack of development?
I actually found the opposite of you, that GNOME is less keyboard friendly. I guess each person is different...
The real pity is the lady in the article having the 1st world problem mindset of treating WIC like it's something she gets as punishment

I'm with you- as long as you make more than you spend and you can squirrel away 6 months of savings (to avoid situations where you need assistance), you're doing great.

But enjoyment does count for something, which is what I was getting at. On paper, vacations are a complete waste of money, there is no rationalizing them; they're purely for enjoyment and you have nothing tangible at the end.

The real mistake for these folks was not the $30k car purchase (that they paid off)... but the $200k of debt they introduced themselves to buy purchasing a house in a questionable market and being legally tied to it (unable to sell because it's underwater).
>In Germany, for example, where Google has over 95% market share, competing search engines don’t have access to adequate past search data to deliver search results that are as relevant as Google’s. And, because their search results aren’t as relevant as Google’s, it’s difficult for them to attract new users. You could call it a vicious circle.

This is interesting because of the browser choice enforced by the EU on Windows. IE whose default is Bing lost share to other browsers like Chrome, Firefox and Opera which all had Google as the default. So an attempt to fix the browser market totally distorted the Web Search market. I wonder why MS didn't request to the EU that the alternate browsers in the browser choice screen had to have Bing as the default search.

I wonder if the EU will mandate that search relevancy data must be shared by Google with rival search engines like DDG just like they mandated that SMB shares and Office formats must be documented by MS and released to developers.
There is a group of thought that believes that we should simply allow people to get sick as soon as possible so that the herd immunity forces the virus to burn out, and only quarantine those who are vulnerable (those over 65 and those with high-risk conditions such as diabetes, hypertension, and leukemia).
It's very good. Official page here:

https://bitshifters.github.io/posts/prods/bs-pop-beeb.html

Click the "Emulate" button at the bottom to play in your browser.
Most of the time I'm using Ansible to build containers or AMIs (or other images), which are then deployed, and overwritten for updates.

Other times, I write a secondary playbook to roll back some deployment if needed. (Though sometimes it's as simple as setting a `state=present` to `state=absent` for a few tasks and that's all that's required.
I'm a lil surprised at the speed!

also, a little cheap addition would be saying the "you're viewing this page: online/offline, last refresh: now/two days ago" or such, and possibly either a button, or automatic popup for the "add to home/desktop" pwa button...
One case where this is already eminently possible, is automatically keeping a codebase's dependencies up-to-date. We already have CI scripts that find out-of-date dependency specifications and notify the developer of them. It's not far from there to having said CI script generate a PR for an update to said dependency, hypothetically apply it, and then actually merge it in if all the tests still pass. (And, rather than just giving up if the absolute-newest dep version doesn't work, such a system could easily be extended to bisect the dep's version history to find the newest version it could update to without breaking the build, perhaps constrained by the dependency's version-constraint string.)
We are also working with the community to increase the conditions for other pollinators. Beekeeping is very local, they only fly 3km. But it is true, we don’t need more honey bees where we are so we have decreased the number of hives we have.
No, this isn't a misconception. Yes, a pixel is (theoretically) a point sample, but it matters where we site them.

> I prefer to treat pixel coordinates as being on the integer coordinates

If we have a continuous grid, defined by point samples, where everywhere outside of the point samples is undefined (classic sampling theorem), we need to choose the location of those points. Pixels themselves might not be boxes, but during the process of rasterization (sampling an abstract mathematical shape to define coverage), we treat pixels as little squares we compute the area over.

For a lot of good mathematical reasons, we often will choose to site these points at +0.5,+0.5 inside the box [0], and this is what all GPUs do. This is well-defined.

On top of this, we can define the rest of the grid -- usually through some form of interpolation, as the article suggests. When resampling, we need to be extra careful about the location of our pixel samples here.

Please don't think place pixel point sample centers on the "integer grid lines", that leads to a lot of trouble when doing all sorts of things.

[0] For a visual demonstration of why we do this, see https://magcius.github.io/xplain/article/rast1.html#sampling
Maybe, not convinced that market was quite as liquid as BTC. Either way, is it really a useful, interesting, or novel comparison this late in the game?
Well said. The HN crowd- normally critical and hyper-rational- is incredibly loyal to Apple, interestingly.
Writing can be tweaked and even faked. Vocal communication has other valuable traits. Also human work is often emotional.
Roger that, and I acknowledge and agree with you.
You're welcome.

In our initial requirement list, it was designed to be used in temporary hospitals (any public hall for example).

Screen convergence is not for now in hospitals. Behind one sensor, there is one company that sells its monitor with the sensor. Some old well known sensors now converge to one monitor (philips, edwards life science...), but there is a still one screen for every other functions.

Gathering data (when the constructor made it available) is a mess... look at HL7 specs! To build a medical datalogger, you sometimes must interface to an analog output (it is part of my job).

By the way, most monitors runs windows CE behind. Which is also a problem now: https://www.integrasources.com/blog/windows-ce-end-of-life-m...
I do not use Twitter, and yet I have been seeing screenshots of his half-formed sentences strewn across every news channel for the past 5 years.

At least that will come to an end.
I know this comes up every time there's a TV thread, so here's my tl;dr version...

You can get a commercial unit (commonly called digital signage) that will both faithfully display your input signal and last for frickin' ever (built for huge 24x7 workloads in poor environmental conditions), but you _will_ pay more and you _will_ give up some creature comforts and consumer focused features along with getting rid of spying crapware
I'm not in a position to drop GitHub, or 'Lab in our case, but I do consider them a failure of git.

Yes, an email and patch based workflow is possible, and that was what git was originally developed for.

But it should be flexible enough to support an issue/comment/(M|P)R based workflow that's all local, and, it isn't.

Microsoft owns the de facto home of open-source software as a result of this, so it's no minor oversight.
Ping.

Thank you.
Am I the only one who finds the whole situation bizarre?

Edit: I will be more blunt since some replies show they don't understand what I find weird:

Why do you need a private social media company to stop your president from planting terrorism in your own country because he thinks the election is fake instead of congress/government/whatever??!
Good grief. They've replaced a SQLite database with a text file that's loaded into an in-memory hash table because "adoption of HSTS is not very widespread yet" so "using any kind of off-the-shelf database to store this would be inefficient and overly complex." This required a patch that took over a year to review, during which time issues were raised with the text file parser they had to write from scratch. Loading the whole table into memory has clear DoS implications, so they're limiting the table to 1024 entries (making the use of a hash table rather silly), with an eviction strategy[1] that is going to favor older entries and effectively prevent newer entries from being added.

[1] https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-aurora/rev/b339d53f9...