jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Sounds a really interesting idea.

They say "Software-based analyzers are available, but only useful in certain limited applications.", could someone explain this in more detail?

Wouldn't examining the USB packets on a computer, give you the same information?

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Slightly off-topic, but if you want to analyse signals like RS232, SPI etc.
this is really nice:

http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/open-workbench-logic-sniffe...
It sounds more like you're a shy extrovert rather than an introvert.
Agree 100%, I want to test your service to see if I want do buy it != I want you to contact me about said service forever and how you knocked 20 cents off If I buy it for the year.

And don't give me that nonsense that I can enable my spam filter either. By the same argument you can implement DDOS protection so don't worry about the botnet.
It doesn't serve the main purpose of the bet which is to find someone with a strong enough conviction about the specific terms to risk $100k.
That's my new pet peeve -- using "page down" on an article only to have some of the content I want to read hide under an idiotic header floating over the content.
Somehow I interpret the bet as #1 being the most risky to win.

It seems like there are still chance that Pinterest, Dropbox and SpaceX still might ... fold, isn't it?
No, it doesn't mean that.

It means that you lose the additional license to use any of Facebook's patents that may cover React. These may or may not exist.
The guarantee that Facebook won't sue you if they have patents that apply to React.js.

To put it simple, without the patent grant you'd be worse off. But with the Apache 2.0 version you'd be better off.
I hate to say this, but she will just have to get over it. People have biases, and are not entirely rational (in fact, if anything, we are machines built to rationalize to other people what we deserve).

The article goes to the ridiculous area, which is trending in the U.S.: Taking on the impossible task to train people to avoid these "unconscious" biases. It will a be a lot wasted effort, for ultimately impossible goal.

Let's assume there is a surgical procedure that lets you get of your biases. Would you do it? Are you going to require people to undergo the procedure? At some point, we just have to accept the biases, because the cost to get rid of them is too high.

And even if I would accept her solution, one of the big biases is that we judge similar faces to our own more positively. How are we ever going to get rid of that bias? For a given minority, you can perhaps consciously think, "Am I here biased?". But for person which looks differently than you? How can you even know you are biased?

Finally, I would like to warn, attempts to correct bias may create more bias, overshadowing any bias that was originally there. For instance, if you have positive discrimination, people may think that minorities have a leg up thanks to it, and may judge them more harshly.

I don't think any amount of anti-bias training will change people's biases. What does change them is role-models, and yes, in biased environment, these require hard work, on part of people who don't want to be perceived in biased fashion. Tough cookie.
Not MP3. AAC. They managed to wait out mp3 entirely.
Why not even make it opt in?

Ticket price plus a 38 dollar "treat me like a human being" tax.

I'd pay it.
Despite the overwhelming possibility of being downvoted it needs mention that the Israeli model as practiced may not be that good an example for US to follow. It has been documented by several respected human rights organizations and UN that Israel's security measures are often used as a proxy for punishment and harassment for disagreeing with the official govt line.

In spite of some erosion of liberties in US in the last decade or so, the American society continues to be orders of magnitude more open and free. I can confidently say that the way I will be treated by the American authorities does not depend on whether I or any of my family members were critical of American policy, neither is it dependent on places in US that are on my itinerary. Mention anything that remotely leans towards the UN view of the occupation to the Israeli security, or that you intend to visit any place in the occupied territories your experience will diverge dramatically (in its defense, personal anecdotal indicates that this may be regardless of whether you are Jewish or not).

It still would have been acceptable had that selective part of the treatment made the airport, the flight or Israel any safer. But it is not clear to me that the specialization based on the views of a traveller does. I am wary of copying a model that has a tendency for abuse unless I see convincing counterweights in place. All depends on the implementation details and the operational processes.
Be persistent, and hang on to your vision. And at the same time, be flexible.

- Reid Hoffman (@quixotic)

http://startupquote.com/post/1587675210
Does this really matter? Has anyone waited 7 years to listen to the Beatles and not, you know, used a CD to add it to iTunes?
Half the people at the airport are working and the other half are buying things that are overpriced. If you think the economy isn't wringing the full value out of idle airport time, I have a Delta credit card application and a rental DVD player for you.
Does Sparrow still force "Sent with Sparrow" to the end of signatures on outgoing mail?

Edit-- I just confirmed for myself that it does at least in Sparrow Lite
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7400069/sparrow_lite_signature.png
Dozens of times, I would guess, because dozens of startups we've funded have given up, and usually they consult me first.
Babson What!
I stopped donating on the grounds that they were taking divisive positions on things that had nothing to do with the internet or browsers. Even being in agreement with those positions, I wished they'd stay specific and inclusive rather than going general and divisive.
Completely deleting the photos of houses people requested to be blurred was one of the requirements of the government. (It’s not a law but a voluntary agreement. The government did, however, threaten to regulate services like Street View. That’s probably not going to happen now.)
I can't get over how professional, thorough and measured Pine64's updates are (compared to the typical overblown/stretched promises).
I am not teetering on the edge of poverty so I would rather increase my volatility a tiny bit and stay EV neutral (or, more realistically, positive, since we’re talking about BTC) than incur a guaranteed substantial EV loss.

My suspicion is that your mental model for comparing volatility and loss is incomplete, given that you didn’t mention anything about the size of the transfer compared to your wealth, or anything else about local risk-aversion/utility convexity.
https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2020/12/evasive...

You are vastly underestimating the lengths that this attack when to avoid detection. They didn't just hijack Solarwinds updates and inject malware. They did things like concealing the commands of malware in legitimate looking Solarwinds packets. When they infiltrated a place, they had the malware sleep for months. They carefully avoid standard malware detection techniques and you can only do that if you have very sophisticated engineers. This isn't just some scripts someone pulled from the internet.
Yeah, that's what I used. It comes with some providers out of the box, but they strike me as toys. For example, it gives you support for node-local volumes, but I don't really want to have to rely on my pods being scheduled on specific nodes (the nodes with the data). Even if you're okay with this, you still have to solve for data redundancy and/or backup yourself. The Rancher folks have a solution for this in the form of LongHorn, so maybe we can expect that to be integrated into k3s in the future. There's also no external DNS support at all, and IIRC the default load-balancer provider (Klipper LB, which itself seems to be not very well documented) assigns node IPs to services (at random, as far as I can tell) so it's difficult to bind a DNS name to a service without something dynamically updating the records whenever k8s changes the service's external IP address (and even then, this is not a recipe for "high availability" since the DNS caches will be out of date for some period of time). Basically k8s is still immature for bare metal; distributions will catch up in time, but for now a lot of the hype outpaces reality.
I'm glad to see someone else on HN saying this and strongly agree; OWASP can be useful but is usually not the best resource. I generally find it more valuable as a communication tool than as a reference.
I love GPars for Groovy, but unfortunately it isn't CompileStatic compatible or Groovy 3.0 compatible.
And do what? Force people and businesses to have clients they don't want (outside of protected characteristics)?

I don't get why people think that the government here can actually do anything without severely impinging on personal freedoms. As a government contractor, I see first hand how f'ing useless our cronyist, bureaucratic government is. Anything they try to do will backfire and make things worse for the average citizen.

The only real solution is to get people to stop treating facebook like the one and only place for messaging people or posting things. They're only "overlords" so long as people only use facebook or twitter.
Seems that a lot of these attacks (except for this one) are just simple social engineering: an employee is phished to get into the company VPN, and from there, it's maybe a couple more simple exploits on systems that were never meant to be exposed and then it's over. You can compartmentalize employees but it's harder to do than compartmentalizing software I think.
The prevailing sentiment on HN has been wrong about cryptocurrency from Day 1.

Source: Day 1 HN post -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=599852

If you have a truly revolutionary idea, expect the conventional wisdom on this website to be extremely negative.
My student has started training GANs based on satellite imagery to model changing landscapes.

I think they are mesmerizing to look at.
https://youtube.com/shorts/sdlx8yxdLPo
Additionally, due to the way that the allergic sensitization process happens - many people only develop a reaction after frequent, long-term exposure. So it's very possible to use a metal laptop without experiencing an issue for a long period of time, and then to develop problems down the road. This, along with the allergens sometimes being from contaminants in the metals (so not listed and somewhat variable) - makes it very hard to predict and to identify afterward.

So while I'm "rare", in that I know I've got an allergy with a very noticeable reaction that can be triggered by laptops - many people don't know that they are at risk of developing it, even though they are. Or maybe they know they have a nickel sensitivity (this issue is very common with people who wear cheap jewelry) - but they don't know a laptop can trigger it.

Unless there's a big push to do some sort of widespread contaminant testing on laptops, I imagine this issue will grow if metal-body laptops continue to be the norm.
This is what finally pushed me off of Twitter. I just wish I had the ability to filter posts based on whether the user is qualified to have an opinion on the topic. I don't want opinions on technology from members of congress, and I don't want political rants from tech experts.
You bet :)

And FYI, per its website, Fraidycat says it does support Instagram, although I can't vouch for the experience as it's not a platform I use.
Many doctors believe participating in executions is a violation of the Hippocratic Oath. I suspect that you're right.

> Even if they believe in the death penalty the risk to their careers seems not worth the non-existent reward.

I would presume they pay fairly handsomely, if there are few doctors willing to participate. Even if they payed them $10,000 to do it, there aren't enough executions a year for it to dent the budget. I wonder if that info is public.
I am also worried about the Pro features being locked into their Cloud offering. I invested quite a bit of my infrastructure in Hasura, but very vital new features are being placed behind a cloud-only paywall and the enterprise offering seems to be exorbitantly expensive for myself as an indie solo dev. Meanwhile I consult for a large company using Hasura internally that gets a ton of value from the product, but doesn't pay a dime because they don't need the Pro features (it's only used for internal tooling). The cloud offering seems decent enough for getting off the ground, but I have very real concerns about running my consumer products on it with respect to privacy, reliability, and pricing. I'd be happy to pay a few hundred dollars per year to run my own Hasura infra with the full feature set.

If anyone from Hasura wants to reach out I'd be happy to chat and explain my frustrations further. I sent an email and a few discord messages months ago about this that went largely ignored.

I really believe that Hasura is a great product, but I've been feeling lately like I may have made the wrong decision building my products on top of it as I may no longer be the target market. Frankly, I'm not really sure who is the target market at the moment.
I am reminded of this short story by Neil Gaiman https://kartoweb.itc.nl/kobben/files/The%20Mapmaker-Neil%20G...
This sort of analogy, just like its popular variants (e.g. 'how come we can build bridges that don't collapse but windows crashes', etc) falls apart under very superficial scrutiny. For one thing, the failure semantics and modes of physical things are vastly simpler. It's not really a fruitful approach to this discussion.
Thoroughly Clean every surface that raw meat touches. Including your hands.
As much transparency as possible, especially if it's an ugly situation.

Otherwise, you're likely gonna get the wrong people for the job or even worse you can turn an excellent hire into a resentful demoralised employee who feels cheated.

I've seen this exact thing playing out with a client I'm working with and they got double f*ked.. They hired the wrong person for the job and the person left the project worse off.
OP. Agree, the article was light, but I liked the many examples, which did show a range of styles and approaches. I thought the question would make for an interesting discussion. I haven’t had a chance to read all the way through the comments, but I hope people veered off into other fields — music, literature, etc.
There is a micro symfony build just for this purpose, as barebones as possible, pull in only what you need.
Basically, you don't want to use UTF-8 to encode UTF-16 surrogate code points

The awful truth is that there is such a beast. UTF-8 wrapper with UTF-16 surrogate pairs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CESU-8
I haven't been on the other side, and I think I mentioned that I feel silly complaining about this life. But my version of life also feels like "a life of quiet desperation." I suppose it's better with a partner than it would be without, just as it's better with money than without, but that feels like splitting hairs in the face of existential meaninglessness.
Someone was saying they could have moved to South America and laundered $1000 at a time, but you'd think that the US government could've easily tracked that down as well.. "Hmm, it appears someone is living off this stolen 3 billion dollars in South America"
Yes, they're an environmental disaster.
One of the nice things about Laravel, is that in a lot of ways it extends the functionality of Symfony and uses many of it's packages under the hood.
What is a "true crypto believer" anyways? As a matter of practicality, everyone that interacts with financial assets of any sort are bound to laws imposed by some government. Equating "whoever has the keys" to ownership feels more or less equivalent to saying "finders keepers" is a valid justification for taking possession of a physical leather wallet. Or "We broke up, but I fed the dog, so it's mine". Or whatever.

A person can believe whatever they want, but when push comes to shove, it's a country's court of law that ultimately determines who legally owns what.
Wow, I had no idea you could get power from the hook ports on the Kindle. I have a separate light that uses batteries.

I may have to do some hardware hacking in the near future!
While we sit here thinking about this though much worse waste is going on it the world unseen. My uni gets big dumpsters and throws out 100's of computers each year. Granted they are usually getting old though.
"... They need to have certain powers if they're gonna do their job properly, which includes the power to apprehend people who try to run away from them. So reasonable force from a ticket inspector is perfectly justified. ..."

PTAO's (Public Transport Authorised Officers) are pretty much the lowest end of sworn enforcement officer I can think of, certainly not to the level of VicPolice standards ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_officer

For the public this is a problem. The ticketing system the privitised transport system introduced is plauged with trouble ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myki#Criticism The transport company MTR Corp ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTR_Corporation (nee http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connex_Melbourne) solution is to questionably enforce ticket policing and the (repeated) result can be read in the papers: "Angry commuters hit out at ticket inspectors" (Mex Cooper, TheAge 2009MAY06) ~ http://www.theage.com.au/national/angry-commuters-hit-out-at...

Easier to squeeze patrons than fix the real problem.
I was really surprised to see the parent voted down. I thought it made some interesting points quite articulately and added to the conversation not matter whether or not you agree.
I gave only a quick read, and I'm completely unfamiliar with Scrabble... but: why not use a Markov chain? I would start looking at the two step case, using only the most probable letter. In this case you have to remember a 26x26 matrix, if this doesn't work you can extend it to the top-n letters.
Yes, but this one was related to the effects of glucose combined with caffeine.
To address this, check out this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2024011
This article gets so many things wrong I dont know where to start. The argument that "our bodies are useless after reproduction therefore aging makes us die when we are done" is so flawed in itself. If that was even remotely true, women would die much earlier than men since their bodies' reproductive age stops way earlier. So what is in nature's interest to have women live in their 80s versus men die in their 70s ? There is just no good "purpose" to justify those difference which are anyway way beyond the best times for reproductive ages for both genders.
There is only thermodynamic truth, but it rapidly decays with entropy. Most things people assume are less true than they believe
Sincere question - why is JavaScript required to sign up for Fastmail? Is it for browser fingerprinting? If so, what data is collected, how is it used and how long is it retained? No specific mention of it in the privacy policy. If I sign up in a virtual machine, can I later use Fastmail without running scripts?
Yes, it's good as I know. What features are most important/useful for you in YNAB?

And thanks for your comment :)
...but you could experiment with "disposable computing" (ie: similar to original google datacenter racks: never replace a node, only replace a rack at a time if 51% is failing).
I went looking for site the somehow analyzed "every website," thinking this implausibility would be interesting. Took me a second to get it as well.
I did not have that problem, but I'm sure others do. I think the long-term solution is to make it clear that that is a gdpr violation, there is no reason that an unrelated third-party should get that information. Once people start getting serious fines, the bad behavior is more likely to stop.
I've seen molecule mentioned a lot, but I've never used it. My understanding is that it will spin up a container, vm or cloud image for you, run your playbooks, validate the result and tear down for you. Seems like a lot of trouble. Red Hat maintains it, I believe.

https://github.com/ansible-community/molecule
That question is up for debate, but I personally believe SoftBank was naive (and incompetent) but legit. The concept of blitzscaling is not entirely absurd. If you've identified a market with strong network effects, there will likely be a single winner. If you can pick one competitor early in the process, and give them all the money they need to crush the opposition in exchange for a hefty equity stake, and you don't, say, get confused and accidentally fund a bunch of their competitors, then you can probably ensure your chosen firm "wins", and the returns could be very positive. It's not clear that SoftBank managed to ever execute that strategy correctly, but it's not obviously crazy!
I want to thank you for making a Firefox extension. As a fellow WebExtension developer, I'm shocked to see how many extension "product" teams just skip adding a version for Firefox, when most of the code is the same (due to the shared standard.)

Thank you for doing what's right!
> There are no good cross platform UI kits

Qt is one.
Yet. It is only a matter of time.
Doesn't wx just use GTK under the hood?
Everybody is in the risk group. (Nobody has any immunity.) Everybody is a carrier/spreader.

Many deaths have been people in the under-65 age groups.

Your system would lead to many thousands of sick people very quickly. That would 'heighten the curve' and overload the health system.

On the other hand, it would lead to a rapid spread of the virus, most people would get it very quickly. Some people would die, yes. The rest would recover and the wave of 'plague' would be over quickly also. It would pretty much be a copy of the progress of the Spanish-Flu pandemic of 1918-1920.
Part of the calculus for the cost is losing the immediate utility of git blame once every file has been reformatted.
> I think that the tech companies doing WFH two weeks ago and locking down a week ago are starting to show their great wisdom.

It wasn't just tech companies.
Yes, the second half of that comment was lazily repurposed from another thread.

The UK constitutional equivalent is the Human Rights Act. The ECJ already ruled the data retention directive unlawful: https://edri.org/ecj-data-retention-directive-contravenes-eu...

But there are two problems. Article 8 has a massive disclaimer: "There shall be no interference by a public authority with the exercise of this right except such as is in accordance with the law and is necessary in a democratic society in the interests of national security, public safety or the economic well-being of the country, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals, or for the protection of the rights and freedoms of others"

And ECHR is not popular in the UK due to an aggressive propaganda campaign in the tabloid press.
I'm curious what problems came up in your conversation?
Yep, that'd be the issue.
Not a coincidence. Nephew of and son of, respectively.
People also overestimate other people's ability to live car free.

I have 40 kilometers to work and bus density here is never more than once an hour. If I want to be at work on time I have to leave on the last bus the day before work, or I'd have to be late every morning. Even in that case of leaving the same day and accepting being late to work I'd be away from home for 14 hours at minimum.

I have 10 kilometres to the nearest grocery store, and like I said bus density is not great. Even if I planned to do all my shopping on days of I'd be away from home for three hours at minimum, instead of a round-trip time of around an hour by car.

That's just for easily planned daily things. Doctor, dentist, bank, etc? Forget about it.

Not everyone lives in a place where being car-free is an easy choice.