jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
“DeleteMe experts find and remove your personal information.”

Blargh, let the data broker figure out if I’m in their DB or not.

Trying to determine that myself seems risky. Better to send the request to every broker in existence.
KnC Neptune does 1.8 GHash/J: https://www.kncminer.com/pages/neptune-setup-info

> I find it unconvincing that everybody is already using the newest hardware.

Only a third or at most half of the network is mining with the Neptune at 1.8 Ghash/J. The rest is mostly the 1½ year old Bitfury at 1.2 GHash/J. Then there is a bunch of Monarch at 1.4 GHash/J, some Antminer at 1.3 GHash/J, and so on. So yeah a 1.5 Ghash/J average is very likely. You have to remember mining is extremely competitive. If you are not on the latest generation hardware, you are making less money than the competition.

> I estimated that gaining 50 % of the processing power would cost you 100 million in hardware

These days the estimate is closer to half a billion dollars. (There was a nice article about that - can't remember the link, sorry)
There is absolutely no reason for the NSA to give a flying fuck about what you or I think.

There just isn't, and it'd be a waste of resources to even attempt something like this.

People do exist (I am one of them) who think the NSA is doing a nasty job that isn't very appealing, but is absolutely necessary for me to be able to sleep in my bed at night safely. They may not have the best guidance from the government, but there are people who do believe they're doing the best they can.

Why must there be a conspiratorial astroturfing campaign taking place? Why can't there just be people who actually agree with some/most of what the NSA has done, based on the laws that govern it?
Attacking the economic infrastructure in preparation of War has been the US' m.o. since at least the 50's. Economic Hitmen, and what-not.
That's optimistic. I think we learned with PRISM that Silicon Valley companies are more than willing (whether through legal compulsion or otherwise) to cooperate with the administration.
Definitely. My (indirect) point was that scientific computing is a much less competitive area than Go and Rust are targeting. And I can imagine a world where NumPy, R, and Julia are all strong projects.

Arguably, lack of commercial support is a bigger problem for mature projects than young projects. Whether or not Julia pulls away users from R probably has more to do with how much R adapts to new directions in statistics than with anything Julia does (assuming that julia passes a minimum threshold of credibility, which it probably doesn't yet for most statisticians.) A lot of my interest in julia comes from a specific simulation that I need to run to prototype a new estimator that would be infeasible in straight R. If R were faster, I wouldn't bother.... (To preempt the obvious reply, I could always write the slow part in C. But if I need to introduce a different language anyway, why not look at other options?)
One thing to be said about the offence vs defence side of this story is that the adage the best defence is a good offence definitively applies here. It's so much easier to attack another system than defend your own. It's inherent to the way systems are set up:

A computer system has many services, programs and tasks running on it. Only one of these needs to contain a flaw for a system to be vulnerable, obviously this means that on a secure system everything must be perfect, for 1 flaw compromises everything.

Therefore I don't find it strange that the NSA allocates the resources it does to research and expand it's offensive capabilities, since trying to defend the systems of the US is probably a lost cause. The question remains if this is ethical and/or legitimate. Being a non us-citizen I'm certainly opposed to the practises of weakening standards and harvesting/exploiting services on the internet.

I also find the double-speak of the US government deplorable, on the one hand we have the government declaring that in many ways a cyber-attack will, and can, be reacted upon as if it were a conventional attack. And on the other hand we have the US government attacking and targeting civilians (Belgacom Sysadmins). I fail to see how attacks against the US can be labelled as a conventional attack, but that attacks from the US against civilians are apparently OK.
Nim Lang (previously Nimrod) can do that, if I understand correctly.
and Windows Script Host (wscript/cscript).
> My father tried to interest me in programming somewhat before high school; it didn't work, and I didn't continue then.

I suspect, that it almost never works that way. Learning programming or hacking as a child is all about figuring it out on your own, doing something, what your parents or your teachers can not understand, defining your own identity.

That is why I doubt that all the programs in the US, which try to teach children programming, will work. They might teach some concepts, but in the end i fear, that they will hinder the children to aspire a career in the field. I see a bad parallel to beauty contests, were parents try to live their dreams through their children.

Of course it is never black and white, but I think you have to be ultra careful with stuff like this. I think naturally interesting, open platforms are a better way to get children to dig deeper. Minecraft is a perfect example.
How does 0mq stand against something like AMQP?
I'm unlikely to give it a serious try because I find the complexity of the Scala language to be pretty scary. Still, I'm curious: how fast is the compiler? Does it generate compact code? Clear error messages?
Only a 2.2 second in increase in TTP[1] on the roller coaster sim, is that really statistically significant? And why don't you get sick when you are flying in your dreams? I find the area of research pretty interesting and the stories told of the development in AR goggles at Valve really humourous (in a gross sort of way) but it reading things like this it always feel like we're missing something fundamental here.

[1] Time to puke
Would you really have been happy with a monoculture based around a very similar but slightly different and less mature language if it had gone the other way?
>All of these features were pioneered in Asia. They're either trying to bring the innovations westward in the hopes that they can build a similar platform, or they're defending against the possibility that foreign apps like this will expand and take over their marketshare.

There's likely a third aspect: Fb (& Snapchat, et al) framing/reframing their services to be more familiar/comfortable for East Asian users as the business case makes competing in those markets increasingly appealing/unavoidable.

As others have noted, the truth is probably some combination of all of the above (and then some).

I doubt anyone has any idea how these concepts will play outside Asia. Snapchat has been crowing for some time now about their intentions to become Tencent West, but their success to date hinges entirely on the core offering. Is anyone—aside from strippers[0]—using Snapcash, for instance?

There's definitely something fascinating about this sort of nested bundling (social recommendations within a ridesharing service within a maps app, etc.) but I don't know if there are strong indications that American/Western users want that. It seems to me that the logic is "500 million Chinese can't be wrong!"—maybe? But the West hasn't even seen one messaging platform to rule them all since AIM, lately there have been far more web/mobile unbundling success stories, and I'm not sure what would turn that tide.

[0] http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/26/style/strippers-go-underco...
node.js has been used heavily inside Microsoft for quite some time so even if they created this for internal use only it wouldn't be a waste of time. Microsoft employee here.

And I think you vastly underestimate how popular Visual Studio is among enterprise developers - they're doing web development as well.
Eat less of the dessert; savor each bite. People who inhale a whole pint of ice cream in less than 10 minutes are the problem, and no amount of lo-cal will help them; they'll just eat more. For a large number of obese, it's not about being full, it's about eating to distraction, or eating unconsciously, or to fill an emotional need.
The students were creating their own problem. A tourist visa doesn't require an itinerary. Hacker School isn't eligible to sponsor student visas. So, I wonder, what was the problem?
The right to bodily autonomy feels even more important to liberty than the right to capital, at least to me.
Microsoft has a pretty good relationship with AMD from the Xbox. AMD already made an Arm Opteron. Windows has been multiplatform since NT 3.1 (Alpha, MIPS) and then in 3.51 adding in PowerPC. You can download Windows for Arm for free and run in on a Raspberry Pi.

Microsoft has at least one homegrown processor that it has ported Windows and Linux to with the confusingly named 'Edge'.

https://www.theregister.com/2018/06/18/microsoft_e2_edge_win...

Microsoft doesn't even _need_ to target Arm, they could easily team up with AMD or go the whole thing solo and target anything from RISC-V, Arm to an in-house ISA.
Yea, and alſo þe þorn! More seriously; it’s a text from 1788 – I’d think I was allowed to keep its spelling and not translate or transliterate when I’m actually quoting it verbatim.
> 4-5 years ago there was a reasonable strong enthusiasm for Scala and functional programmers in general. No, I've been looking to change jobs for the past year and absolutely nothing has popped up.

I think businesses have weighted the power/capability of scala against the relative lack of easily hireable programmer for them.

If a business makes themself dependent on one (or a few) key scala programmers, they are more prone to be held hostage (e.g., the power dynamic is more towards the scala programmer). They will have to pay more salary or face the risk of the programmer leaving (which affects business continuity). The scala stack doesn't automatically give a more competitive edge against the competition, however (tho i would say it does, but only if the entire org buys into it).

Therefore, it makes more business sense, esp. for a middle manager responsible for hiring, to hire a java programmer (which is basically a dime a dozen at this point). The business will face no risk of the programmer holding the business hostage (because they are easily replaceable). So that's why you see businesses start to not adopt scala.
Yeah, this article is really not convincing. I've used both gradle and maven and IMO gradle is better in practically every way.
"They hated him because he told the truth."

I can't stand the subway. LIRR on the other hand is quite nice.
"[Wood composted with urine could generate temperatures] high enough to be useful for heating buildings and, with a bit of a boost, perhaps for providing hot water as well. To commercialise the idea would mean designing a suitable reactor and heat exchanger, but the waste-wood fuel would be cheap. How you would go about gathering the necessary urine in bulk, given the expense of installing a network of suitably dedicated collection points, is not clear."
Iceland, where it's called hákarl (/'howkartl/, sort of).

I don't know how it's prepared now, but the traditional method is to dig a shallow pit, put the shark in there, and then cover it with rocks. The rocks press out the toxic stuff. Then the meat is hung up to dry in an open-air shack. Each step takes 2-3 months.

I imagine there's a more industrial process now but I don't know for sure.
Prolog is great and kind of weird in a good way. One other benefit is that you can pick up erlang really quickly if you know prolog. Erlang was first prototyped in prolog and that prototype’s host language heavily influenced erlang’s syntax. Why learn erlang? Check out the high scalability of WhatsApp.
> I think people are usually pretty happy with living in those areas. They like being able to drive and park at things easily.

yeah people probably are pretty happy with their situation. it probably works pretty well for them. they probably respond extremely negatively to any other possibilities. they'd tell you they wouldn't want to use public transit or bikes or whatever else. they couldn't imagine how inconvenient that would be. that sounds terrible to them.

but like, people across broad parts of Europe don't think of biking as inconvenient. people with good public transit don't think of it as inconvenient. i far prefer getting on the bus to taking my car, negotiating traffic & parking. at my last job, it took a couple months of trying it, but eventually i started to far prefer a bike commute to the bus, even though it was pretty long & hilly.

so much of our preferences is comfortability with the known, familiarity. the expressed preference of society, often, it turns out, matter for very little, reflect primarily bias, not intelligence or wisdom or what makes us (individually or collectively) happiest. and all too often these things we imagine serve us, they hold back society. they feed our id, they feed our ego, and the deny a greater super-ego, a better way, that we could better enjoy.
I updated the comment to be more clear that the guest said it.
Enjoy the progress of making something.
The analogy to writing holds here; a lot of "literate" people produce barely comprehensible writing.
No, I am simply trying to understand your argument.

It seemed to me that your argument was "There are details of how an atom works that we currently don't know how to simulate. A brain's behaviour is a result of the behaviour of the atoms it consists of. Therefore, it's impossible to simulate a brain to any degree of accuracy at all."

Using the same logic, and given that most everything we interact with is made of atoms, one could deduce that it's impossible to simulate anything at all, except for electron beams, maybe. That seems to me to be obviously in contradiction to how well we can navigate and manipulate the world in our day-to-day lives (let alone in engineering), which depends on us simulating the world all the time, at least to some degree.

Now, I'd be interested in understanding how you reconcile that.
> they have rigid processes (Scrum Master! everyone use this big board of tasks!)

There's something wrong with scrum?
You see provincialism all over NYC, but it is usually not from the folks living in brownstones in Brooklyn, but rather the folks who were raised in NY by parents also raised in NY. But, you won't encounter these people in a meaningful sense if you move to NY as an adult white collar professional unless. I'm sure the same thing is true in London.
It's like a teenage driver. You have to keep an eye out for developing situations you know it's too stupid to handle elegantly.
You’re right. If we were not listening right when it passed us we would miss it. Any bouncing around would be so weak it probably could never be detected above background even with absurdly huge antennas.
I recently migrated some services to uasyncio with Python. I was most impressed by how much code I was able to delete compared to my old implementation. I am yet to try the same approach with Deno (the next generation Node.JS).
ARM is the best definition of the western's collapse

exciting times ahead of us
You'll be fine if you keep your head. I'm 41 years old. When I was 23 years old in 2004, my first full time job was as a software quality assurance engineer, and with that salary I bought a 2 bedroom house in an "undesirable" suburb right outside of a major population center. During the 2008-2010 recession I kicked myself everyday for not waiting to buy when I watched my equity go inverse by at least 33%. Today, a decade later, I have 3 kids, and this suburb has become a haven for young families with professional incomes. During all this time I very slowly built a 3rd bedroom and 2nd bathroom myself with nothing but 19.2v Craftsman tools. The building inspector was impressed. There's less than 5 years left on my mortgage.
After watching that animation for a bit I can't help contemplating some combination of Core War and Minecraft.... :-)
I had to write one too, and feel exactly the same way.

The common argument for OAuth2 seems to be, "Well, Google and Facebook are doing it, so it must be worth something." Of course Google and Facebook are doing it; it lets them play the role of the official identity keepers of the internet.

Those companies are known to pick the best and the brightest engineers, yet exploits were found in even their versions of OAuth2. If they couldn't produce a secure implementation, then can anyone?
(2008)

Massive discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3353593

Discussion there is closed, of course, being so long ago, so if there's anything new to add, this would be a good place.
Hell no we shouldn't kill people for this. I can hardly think of a more damaging and terrible way to combat these crazies.
With the tiny percentage of Firefox market share, and iDevices worldwide market share, the Web is effectively a synonym for ChromeOS, regardless of how Apple and Mozilla might think about it.
That’s a terribly generalized advice. At least in the EU companies are obliged to delete your data (I don’t know about the US). Of course whether they delete it is another matter but that would be a violation of GDPR.
People are just salty.
Down for me, Archive.today has a copy:

https://archive.vn/029SN
Do Snapchat, Whatsapp, whatever else have scheduling features? I have friends that use FB to schedule events and send invites out. And various groups I'm in use the scheduling feature to set event times, etc.

One group I'm in, entirely devoted to online games, has switched to Discord. But there is a 0% chance Discord will be adopted by the rest of the groups/friends that use FB event scheduling and messaging.
Don't know why Reuters was posted over this.
You can also try therapy.
> And even for credit, I am not sure interest is needed. That leads to the world devouring growth that we have.

Exactly. It's not needed. It causes a growth at all cost situation we see today (and one cost is debt slavery for a large portion of the population, increasing the wealth gap).
Taiwan is not a country in China's eyes. Technically Taiwan is really not a country but works like one since 1949. If you follow Winnie the Poh closely enough, he has claimed "Taiwan problem will not be passed onto next generation". My personal estimate is that Taiwan will be taken by force within 20 years.
Okay I looked into it and apparently it is not entirely hot air.

KFC has a deditcated 'KFC gaming' account that tweets memes that appeal to gamers [0]. It jokingly tweeted a video featuring a rendering of this console back in June as a joke to play on the new gen console wars [1]. Apparently the reception was so good that it found a wing man in Cooler Master. This case modder / engineer in particular [2] spent a couple of months designing and fitting working hardware plus a chicken drawer into a hot new case design as close to the original tweet as possible.

As the result turned out to a not entirely half baked pc build, KFC has stated that it plans on release the console. We'll have to see wether that will turn out true or not, but as the harware probably consists of of-the-shelf components I have no doubts that there will be at least a couple be built.

source: https://www.tomshardware.com/uk/news/kfcs-kfconsole-is-real-...

[0] https://twitter.com/kfcgaming

[1] https://twitter.com/kfcgaming/status/1341428570388901891

[2] https://timpelay.se https://www.instagram.com/p/CJbBVdzAPR8/
Harder for whom? The attack vector here isn't "hackers compromised everyone and can correlate your data", it's "Visa knows everything about you".

I agree with the GP, this is a huge privacy blind spot.
I've been programming PHP since around 2003 and although I don't find Laravel to be perfect, I find it to be a very solid framework to build general web solutions with. I have successfully launched everything from complex OAUTH solutions handling insane amounts of traffic, to dumb startup ideas, to just simple CRUD apps I use in my own personal life.

I find it to be fully featured, incredibly well documented, and easy to use/learn. I find it to be my favorite "RAD" tool for generic API development. Also, the community is pretty solid too - specifically the IRC channel. I'll go far enough to say that Laravel has positively motivated my development as a software engineer - it's opinionated but I find it to be opinionated in a good way. Example: Laravel is heavy on testing/tooling which I think is outstanding.

I am really curious as to what specifically you're finding problematic?
"Because of its rarity, the locations of the orchids are a secret."

I always have mixed feelings when reading things like that. Specially for such a beautiful flower! Let's hope they find a way to reproduce them in the lab and end with the secrecy.
(Same for not owning the iPhone and not trying the app — hope the website version's coming) A histogram (on some separate screen/page) would be nice too.
Full disclosure, I bought and ran a Golf TDI on biodiesel for quite a few years.

On algae sourced biodiesel: let's talk when it is actually in production.

They have been talking about algae sourced biodiesel for more than a decade. There was work done by the DOE way back when showing it /should/ be possible at scale.

But nobody seems to be able to make the final leap, and that's the rub. So this is nothing new.. people have been making expensive algae fuel for years, and everybody says that the prices will come down with 'just a bit more research'. But no dice yet.

Once they really do reach the $80/barrel level then we'll have a revolution at hand, and I'll be first in line to buy another diesel.
About two years ago two close friends of mine went on a heliboarding trip in eastern Russia. Before the boarding, they went out and got weird looks when they ordered vodka tonics. They asked what the problem was, and were told "everyone" there drinks it straight.

Any russians in the audience care to clear things up?
Attention and time is a limited resource, especially with HN having no comment folding.
That's different discussion.

Acknowledging that people can have high morale, and deep sense of purpose and fun when doing stuff that is net negative for the society is important if you want to improve society.

When people associate causing harm with low morale, it distorts what people think is acceptable. "But my work is meaningful to me and we have a greatest team in the world".
Thanks, this will always be a concern for these types of services. I will be keeping this service running indefinitely as I use it myself everyday along with friends and family. I originally created the service to solve my own problem.

The best way to mitigate against the risk of a service shutting down is to use your own domain name. That way, by simply changing your MX records to another email provider, you can continue to receive emails as normal.
nitpicking like this is a waste of time
Regulation change doesn't benefit only Uber though. It benefits all current riding sharing companies, as well as any future ones that might join the fray. In that sense, regulation change doesn't increase Uber's intrinsic value at all. If Google, for example, joins the ride sharing game then Uber will be in serious trouble.
Clickable link: http://goo.gl/NVvhX4
According to Wikipedia, the first sale doctrine applies to digital goods first sold in the EU, but not (yet?) to those sold in the US.
Some of my friend groups have moved to Signal, it's ok in a "good enough" sort of way but it's not a perfect replacement.

I'll have a hard time persuading family groups to move though, WhatsApp and Facebook are cultural touchstones for them they won't see any point in moving
The Up! Series is well worth watching. If you want to see how British people think about class, or if you are just curious about how people's lives evolved, how they interacted with events in history.
Tolerance is not a terribly subjective concept.