jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
running the risk of turning our children's children into walking bags of cancerous mutation.

But here's the thing: we have already had two "nuclear accidents of any significance": Three Mile Island and Chernobyl. Neither of those came even remotely close to "turning our children's children into walking bags of cancerous mutation". Nor will Fukushima. Yes, it's very bad for people near the plant, and for fishermen in the surrounding waters. But on a global scale, it's just not that big.

what would it take to have a culture of safety as serious as the threat of nuclear disaster?

Wrong question; the answer to it ask you ask it is that we already have a culture of safety at least that serious, with regard to nuclear power, because we treat nuclear power far more strictly than we treat other sources of power (like coal) that pose greater overall risk to humans. If we're going to effectively ban nuclear reactors because we're worried about radiation, we should also ban coal because we're worried about deaths from mining. And we should ban oil because of the risk of something like the Deepwater Horizon spill.

There isn't a simple solution to any of this; but a good start would be to be open and realistic about all the risks of all power sources.
Just when I thought medium couldn't get any mediumer.
Yeah, this is a tragedy and a failure of the VA as well.

I’m sure there is a program (or several) to help our vets adjust to civilian life but it needs to be updated to help build community so they aren’t as likely to get sucked into Qanon or similar cults like she did.

Separately, we need to continue to raise our expectations of police ability to de-escalate situations. This is one of many, many unarmed civilians killed by police in recent years. Normally they aren’t storming the capitol, but it should still be possible for police / secret service to de-escalate a situation like this. It won’t happen until our DAs and various state attorneys start charging cops that kill.
I full agree. With version number you can have a good sense whether a package update breaks your code or not (as long the package authors following semantic versioning).

I think in julia this problem is solved quite nicely with the Project.toml (list of package that you directly dependent) and Manifest.toml file (the version numbers of the complete dependency tree which is automatically generated).

It seems that in groundhog you declare only direct dependencies. Is there a way to store the full dependency tree in R ?
> "Whatsapp chats are end to end encrypted so how can my data be shared with FB?"

I would stress to them the difference between the encrypted contents of a chat the metadata ("it's data about data!") of that chat.

Hopefully they will get it if you give an example of how just sending a message lets them profile you based on metadata like the exact time, geographic location, and recipient of the message, all without needing to see the contents. Encrypted messages sent from Truist Park at 2PM on a Sunday? Probably about baseball, etc etc.

Probably too high-level and wordy to share with a non-tech crowd but this is one of my favorite blog posts on this topic, from the immediately-post-Snowden era: https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2013/06/09/using-metad...
>Only in this case the President is using Twitter to talk directly to supporters and try to calm down people.

The very same people he was winding up a few hours earlier.
It's really hard to define what a regular user is. You're your own commandeer and it's recommended that you try running benchmarks or using it under those two cases to determine if it's worth having mitigations or not. Considering all, the performance impact for your average Linux desktop user is likely not going to be unacceptable.
So companies had security flaws in their design, the fix makes their CPUs a lot slower so you need to buy a new one from them earlier.
I was barely awake, and saw the popup this morning (I'm in EU) and with my sticky eyes, I couldn't see how I could send a message without accepting the popup

So does anyone know if there's a way to revert the agreement?
Its not like there was enlightened discourse going on in the first place.

When The_donald was busy tea bagging the front page to get the submissions titles just right and spelling out something like "own the libs", no great bi-partisan agreement was being reached.

I think it just became clear to the democrat and "left" that the right had stopped caring for years.

This idea that there was a conversation is simply revisionist, and blaming the left is to blame the laggard for imitating the front runner.
Location: George Town, MY (flexible with adjusting to different timezones)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Maybe

Core Technologies: Native iOS Development (Swift, Obj-C) [MVVM, UIKit, ARKit, RxSwift, Moya, ReSwift, etc. ...]

Non core Tech: Python, C++, Java, Android, OpenCV

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Software Developer with 9 years of experience. The last 6 years focusing mostly on native mobile app development. I'm a fast learner and often to working with other related technologies/stacks.

Email: in the resume

In my free time I work on mobile app projects around computer vision, image processing, sensor processing and augmented reality.
He pretty much played by the rulebook outlined by this article:

- " Be flagrant in your pursuit of the powerful and the soon-to-be-powerful, and when you have their attention, praise them to the skies"

- " Discover similar interests or experiences." he did that

- "you need to work hard at networking" he did that, he put an incredible amount of effort at networking after hours, managing events, organizing dinners and barbecues, etc...

He was a bit of a douche, mostly by shirking low-visibility projects and getting disproportionate amounts of credit - he didn't shirk "hard" projects per se, but he'd only take them if they were very high visibility, and he'd priorize small but visible over obscure but necessary work.

He was also very good at getting credit without being obvious about getting other people's credit.

However, he did put in the hours, and he is a very good motivator and very charismatic. He was just very good at playing the game.
Well, we really don't know any of that though. We know that spending money on experiences create lasting happiness for a statistically significant portion of the population which is a larger number of people than those that derive more lasting joy from spending on purchases. And even that is self reported.
Especially in a friendly context (and of course depending on your relationship) you can rag on them when they say something way out of line. It’s partially friendly banter, but also social pressure to consider infowars entertainment and not something to be taken as a serious news source.
Even on the 16 GB model, the system very aggressively swaps. During my normal workflow, RAM usage is typically at 12 GB, with 4 GB free and 4 GB+ swapped to the SSD. I have no clue why it prefers to swap to the SSD, rather than taking advantage of the 4 GB of unutilized RAM.
Heh fun: this was inspired by Rustlings, which in turn was inspired by NodeSchool.

Mozilla Berlin used to host NodeSchool and the Rust Hack & Learn evenings. It became a bit of a hang spot, and at some point we had a pretty consistent group of folks who'd go to both. Marisa realized Rust could use something similar to NodeSchool, and started hacking on Rustlings during these evenings — which now a few years later has really taken off!

It's really cool to now see other languages in turn be inspired and follow from Rustlings ^^
I joined a couple of years back, but came away disappointed. All the groups I followed 20 years back are pale shadows of their former selves, filled with spam. And most of those were big in the day and included the comp.lang.c|c++ and a few of the comp.os groups.

There's still a need for usenet, and I'd love to participate if there was anyone worth talking to. But it needs fixing first.
Spam is effective, something else I would never do.

Agree! Note this from the bottom of the page:

cloudsponge – Your users have friends. cloudsponge gives you their address books. (Now get 3 free months by using this discount code: MIXERGY)
BTW, what the heck is it with all the misplaced hyphens? It's kind of annoying.
Why do people feel the need to 'attack' products? Either those products will fail by themselves, or they're worth it.
My summary. New class of theories with lots of tunable parameters can explain existing observation through choosing the right parameters to tune.

The idea is worth exploring, but don't expect it to overturn the existing orthodoxy overnight. Particularly given that we don't actually have a physical model for how parameters can be tuned, and previous attempts to find evidence of variation in fundamental physical parameters over time have so far failed to find such variation. (See http://thefutureofthings.com/news/1254/proton-electron-mass-... for an example.)
The FBI's level of security sophistication appears to end (normally) at EnCase.
I've been doing development with Rails on personal projects and while Netbeans isn't Visual Studio, it's still a pretty solid development tool.

I also dig how the local Rails environment shows you every call that's being made, plenty of solid logging integration, etc. Also the gems and other libraries being open source and freely available is great, and Ruby crushes C# with regards to Metaprogramming if you're going to go deep (which you probably will).

The debugging style is different but it's definitely several thousand leaps above ASP/VBScript. You'll be more than fine.
http://www.schneier.com/essay-198.html
Once a friend of mine who happens to know someone working for the CIA said (and I quote) "this friend guy at the CIA tells me they see Brazil as 'the country of the future' and they are doing their best to keep it that way". I guess he was (partly) joking but, truth is, Brazil only started to recover when it stopped following the 'advice' coming from the IMF and started running the show on its own.

I hear the right-wing free-marketeers crying "regulation! socialism! welfare state! high interest!" and the rest. Yet, what works best for the US might not be what works best for Brazil. Just saying.
I'm not sure what you mean by "staff." There are about 6,000 people on an aircraft carrier when the full airwing is embarked. A handfull of them are civilians, but they usually fill senior administrative positions or provide technical expertise in support of maintenance; they're not there to perform menial tasks like loading vending machines.

There are a relatively small number of enlisted personnel who specialize in "domestic" tasks: cooking, cleaning, etc. They are augmented by larger numbers of very junior enlisted personnel (E-3 and below) who are trained for other jobs but each serve a short stint working in service jobs. For example, a brand new seaman apprentice (E-2) electrician's mate finishes all of his training and reports to a carrier. For his first six months, he doesn't work as an electrician--instead, he gets sent to work in the ship's laundry; in the mess or wardroom; at the post office; cleaning and taking out trash; cutting hair; or serviung as a clerk in one of the convenience stores. When his time is up, he gets to go join his division and do the job he actually trained for.

The job of restocknig the vending machines probably would reduce to about one or two people if that was all they did. In reality the job is spread out among quite a few more people, who also do other things. Typically it's the convenience store staff who do this.
I'm still very wary of this new browser. Microsoft keeps saying since IE9 that they finally delivered, but it's not the case yet. IE still lags behind and still has quirks.

I actually downloaded the IE11 VM from http://modern.ie the other day to give it another chance. A not very pleasant experience. After boot, I was greeted with a desktop background with some instructions, presented as a badly compressed JPEG. I'll be honest, and vote me down if you must, but I'd be ashamed to have delivered this kind of work. Make it a PNG or a BMP even, it's not going to inflate the 4GB download size noticeably.

As for IE itself, I cannot really judge its rendering because VirtualBox doesn't seem to run Windows 10 accelerated, and I think the font rendering in particular suffers from this. I can't say though.

It still has some quirks that need to be worked around. I noticed this particular JavaScript problem.

var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest;
xhr.timeout = 1000;
xhr.ontimeout = function() {console.log('Error')};
xhr.open('GET', '/');
xhr.send();

This throws an exception in IE11. IE only allows timeout to be set between open() and send(). It's allowed to be set at any point per specs, even after send().

https://xhr.spec.whatwg.org/#the-timeout-attribute

Microsoft has documentation, from the time of IE8, which clarifies this. Apparently nobody at Microsoft cared to fix this since.

> The timeout property may be set only in the time interval between a call to the open method and the first call to the send method.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ie/cc304105.aspx

So I tried to report this as a bug. IE doesn't have a public bug tracker, only what appears to be a way to send "suggestions" to the IE team. I read a few of them. There is little activity. You basically only get a formal PR-like response.

Microsoft still has much work to do.
I'm not an expert in timing attacks, but isn't this if we were doing equality on something like the secret? Not the TOTP value (which changes every interval)?
Long polls would be great for something like this. From the client's perspective, it's not really any more complicated than normal polling.
Quotes are content, or at least a specific aggregation of them. The article's title is context.

What I found as a dangerous idea was pointing out things you notice when you are not sure why you notice them. Which is how the subconscious operates. Not everything that makes you pause should initially have an explanation. The majority of people's decisions occur without their awareness.

One thing I learned from this exercise was something I hadn't consciously noticed before. That I feel pressured on HN to comment. I don't like that. I want to do something about that.
App Academy SF grad here, I am making over $100,000 for a company in SF.
You have choices:

Do what makes your boss happy with you, for security.

Do what will help you get the next job you want.

Find a niche where they pay you and forget about you, and do what is fun.
Also, I am wondering is this different from say, Apple iPhone Locator (apart from the fact that this is relevant to Android)? I think with the latest OS, unless you choose a weak password, your device pretty much could be made a brick if stolen?
I think this is unrelated to AdBlock. It seems to be only about how many users click the "skip" button on YouTube ads.
Same for me, however you can be sure I do my research before buying to make sure it will be compatible. You can't just blindly buy a Windows laptop and expect it to work flawlessly on Linux.
Having your watch become a paper weight if you switch phone platforms is not "be more appealing in some ways". Having your router become unmanageable if you switch phone platforms is not "be more appealing in some ways". Having to buy entirely new cables and dongles that do exactly the same thing essentially as your current cables and dongles is not "be more appealing in some ways". Having to find and possibly buy (or subscribe) either the same or similar software/services again to what you need is not "be more appealing in some ways".

Mobile platforms specifically iOS and Android have moved beyond luxury goods. Way too much shit relies on an iOS or Android app. They are even talking about making vaccine "passports" digital only.
I'd encourage anyone worried about the ethics of animal experiments in research like this to come up with prioritisation metrics over a number of animal welfare cause areas as an exercise. Surely a small number of well-cared for animals in high-upside experiments are lower on the list than say, pigs for pork sausages, which have worse welfare, smaller upsides and are more cost efficient to campaign against.
Yeah, I am honestly not looking at disrupting the industry. If I can sell this to a bunch of guys and make $200k/yr, that'd be totally fine for me...
"This worked for me, but might not work for you, because of our specific circumstances," followed by a detailed description, would suffice, and in turn be much less useless and condescending.

Please, discuss specifics (as I have).
Sounds decent to me.
Considering the number of comments, yes.

Seems more relevant than the homeless grant article tbh.

For the record I don't mind either article and clicked on both.
I think given how fast the actor concurrency stuff is progressing it should be fairly good platform for web apps in a few years.
This sounds like plausible deniability to me. "We sell your details to companies whose products you're using - which would be really useful marketing information; but they say they don't use it for that, so we did what we need to."?

Microsoft being lily-white (/s) would ensure they had GDPR-like positive consent from customers that they could pass on those customers info to specific third parties...

The idea that companies keep some sort of information wall between their support and marketing departments is pretty ridiculous. MS have to be fully aware of this, surely.

So, the story is Canonical taking part in the same crap as the more overtly crap companies, and just this one agent not being clever enough to keep their leads under wraps.

GDPR obliges companies to provide information on all this parties PII has been passed to. Given cookie lists (or UBlock blocked files) are hundreds of companies long I'm surprised we're not getting reports of who is buying up all this info.
I have to wonder if the author is not understanding the hidden complexity of rendering graphics. They make the claim that svg would take over a month to implement which sounds accurate, but then they claim that it could be replaced with a new format which could be implemented in a few days.

Surely SVG does not include months of work which is entirely useless. What features are we giving up for this simplicity?
On a per-file basis? Afaik it works with package granularity, so if you change one line of a package, you're SOL.
I used to use hot water + scrub. Was told it's terrible for your skin by my dermatologist, you start developing eczema in some cases in the long run. Warm water, white unscented mild soap and no scrub was his recommendation.
I hate taxes just like everybody else. But when the economy moves from physical to virtual, lawmakers are forced to do silly things like this. It’s quite possible that 5 years from now, this will seem prescient.
It would certainly be a first in the last 20 years to board a flight and feel like I still had privacy, but overall I'm just really surprised that airliners don't include weight sensors that are used for this. It's a big enough deal that I can't check my 51 lb bag without paying huge fees. It's a big enough deal that when a double-digit number of females were mistaken for children, the Air Accidents Investigation Branch in the UK wrote it up as a serious incident. So in the end I'm just blown away that we're using heuristics based on broad age groups and gender, and not weighing people's carry-ons.

I thought that given the complexity of trim in modern airliners with massive fuel-tanks on long hauls, etc. that aircraft would include integrated weight / balance sensors.
Not much is published that makes sense unfortunately. The EM universe hypothesis has its flaws because it’s not United on first principles connecting the aether and primitive constructs like the torus and hyperboloid. It’s dangerous for many easy to reason about considerations. Most people’s lives are reputation based and confined to incentives of pay that prevent such topics being published or discussed. Hard problem.
I can see some useful cases. For example, in a computer science book, you could update a caption space that gets its data from the web. This would allow you to display an "obsolete sample code" warning below the examples. When the user is not connected to the internet, you could display "Get online to know code snippet status". And so on.
Even in that case you should consider that your readers might have a diverse range of devices, and configuring a 1000:1 contrast ratio isn't exactly the greatest solution.

Keep colors and contrast restricted to the range possible by reflective materials (i.e. what can be printed on paper or ever be encountered in nature) and all the issues are immediately gone. You don't have to use grey-on-grey (which is super annoying). Just keep to the range of colors a newspaper will have, or a zebra will have.
Wow that's very helpful. I'll give it a shot next time I'm at work
My preferred classless css framework is Marx. https://mblode.github.io/marx/
This looks great, good to learn that something like this is out there.

I work at Auth0 and we are building a Zanzibar inspired SaaS as well (you can read here if interested https://twitter.com/auth0lab) and it is positive to see that there's interest in services like this, it's validating :)

One of the things we found is that learning Zanzibar concepts can be a bit daunting, so we put together this playground: https://sandman-86.herokuapp.com/, that has samples and tutorials, etc.

Hopefully that's useful for others getting started with Zanzibar. We are likely going to be adding the ability to write to the playground (it is read-only today) in the next few months.
I've noticed an increasing number of sites that seem to break in weird ways, until I temporarily disable my ad blocker to agree/reject cookies, then it works again.

Frustrating really because they're supposed to be opt-in, so no response at all should == reject
People love it. The amazing shift in online rhetoric that praises authoritarianism is scary.

Imagine this being rolled out for the flu.
- Covid-19 projects looking for volunteers. https://helpwithcovid.com

- Crowdsourced list of tech projects relating to Coronavirus. https://coronavirustechhandbook.com/home

- US Digital Response for Covid-19. https://www.usdigitalresponse.org/

- Seven open hardware projects working to solve Covid-19. https://opensource.com/article/20/3/open-hardware-covid19
Like other people are saying, there's definitely ways around this. The only reason why Taiwan has been so successful in battling Coronavirus is that there is national pride in acting as a whole and doing what's best for society. There is huge shame to the family for people who defy. Taiwanese people generally know what helps society and when to listen. It is the cultural influence/mix of Chinese and Japanese governments which are deeply ingrained. Source, I am Taiwanese.
No, the worst thing is that this was avoidable and the rest of the world pleaded with the a UKGOV to abandon its criminally insane herd immunity plan, take its head out of the sand and take evasive action.

This is nothing less than a complete failure of leadership.

Apologies for being strong worded and political, but it really boils my blood.
I would watch highly entertaining political propaganda. I think most people do this regularly.
Need folks on-site to manage the on-premises machines in case of outage.
>I have to move flat in two weeks

Not anymore you don't :D
> Interleaved practice feels much harder (e.g., “you feel confused”), and it feels discouraging because progress appears to be slow. However, this confusion you feel… that is your brain learning.

I'm sorry to be a grouch, but is this based on any scientific evidence or just the OP's opinion?