skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With a paywall, the news site gets you to log in, which gives them a first party cookie and a way to track you cross-device that breaks ITP — if you pay for news, you likely read it every day.

They're not going to overlook that additional source of income just because you pay them, just like print newspapers didn't keep ads out of subscribers' newspapers.
Microsoft's 'Meltdown' updates are reportedly bricking AMD PCs
Being careful is fine and understandable but over-protective "helicoptor" parenting is bad for the kids: it destroys their self confidence. I know a helicoptor family where their youngest daughter couldn't properly walk down stairs until she was 12. She's already broke more bones than all my kids combined.
Keeping nukes in orbit is not that beneficial. Its stuck on a single path orbit, and it takes only slightly less energy to de-orbit it than to put it there in the first place. ICBMs take what, half an hour, to hit a target around the world?
If you're developing a service architecture that runs in kube on production, you want to emulate that as close as possible locally.

I'm more of the opinion that devs should just have access to a kube "cluster" (maybe just one machine) in the cloud, possibly one per dev. Make a change to the service, build it, and deploy it. Give easy tools to re-image your cluster whenever you want. Primarily because you want your "local" environment to match production as closely as possible.
Consider the usage of a typical gas station parking space. People park, go buy their snacks, cigarettes, groceries, etc., and are gone in 3-6 minutes. Usually the spots are used by people who are not buying gas. Those people leave their car parked at the pump while they shop.

Now you want to dedicate one or two of those parking spaces to charge a car that will be there for 30-60 minutes.

The only way that will be profitable is if the fee to charge your car is at least 10x the average amount a customer spends. Otherwise, what happens is the parking spots fill up and prospective customers go elsewhere and offering car charging actually causes the station to lose money.

OTOH, restaurants offering charging spots could be a moneymaker because now there's a reason to keep customers there longer, and longer stays will generally mean they buy more.
I watched ´Centennial´ when I was a kid. The images still haunt me.
It really is sad. The only schizophrenic person I've interacted with was thankfully on medication and it seemed to help a lot. A very sweet elderly woman.
I have spent a decent amount of time watching https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaUOTQQBc3EO5sVjVusMn8A

She is a schizophrenic woman in Boston iirc. Watching her delusions and obsession with various objects is fascinating and heartbreaking. I really want to talk to her just to try to understand better. I think it is impossible simply because something is wrong inside her brain. I wouldn't be able to rationalize why traffic cones aren't some kind of grand conspiracy of the Patriarchy. I think she is homeless now, I hope she gets the help she desperately needs.
Yes,it's already implemented as a poc - just look at movfuscator
no hacking no improvement in technology so my hacking giant told me at first i had problem accepting this but with time it got done on me that this is 100% true...galvin has handled all my hack needs and they still do. it only takes a good reputation for such relationship to linger for ages....
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And he has stated several times that he was disappointed that it wasn't scheme he was going to implement.

JS is good at being JS, but it has never been close to being scheme.
Children's Hospital Los Angeles has been using VR and AR to train staff rather than using the old outdated and expensive mannequins. This tech will be used more and more in the operating room and healthcare practioners.
https://latechnews.org/childrens-hospital-la-vr-technology/
Show HN: Plait.py – a fake data modeler
Downvote Tuesday
I propose every Tuesday to be downvote Tuesday. Lose all your points by posting something with low information content, has no depth or meaning, or great contribution to the knowledge base of the human race. Make a post that is inane, irrelevant, combative, or otherwise reflective of people who would rather have an android than an iphone. Be like Hume and have some fun with those who can't make fun of themselves, or can only handle so much intellectual freedom. Challenge conformity and sterilized thought.

Allow me to get the ball rolling for this Tuesday: Anybody who can't program around generics and still create solid code is a wimp, and as always, Hail Satan.
The growing adoption of LEDs is having a tangible effect on carbon emissions
Many of these devices can run 3rd party code in user context (java script in browser). The big issue is they rarely have updates and many if not most are impossible to do a good security audit on.
Consider that she was detained for a little bit by the rookie police officer while they concluded their investigation. That seems all that was necessary since this was an accident. Believe it or not, it's not actually necessary to arrest and jail someone every time there is an accident like this.
Any job with legacy software involved highly values RE, in my experience. Either you have the source to the legacy application, in which case the reverse-engineering thought process is still present while debugging, or you don't, in which case you've got a real RE job on your hands. For example, I worked at a company with a giant set of business processes running inside a minicomputer emulator, with no clear path to migrate the data. By reversing the database file format we were able to extract the data and build additional tools in a gradual-migration fashion, without disruption, data-loss, or the classic "rewriting software" problems.
30 days is 720 hrs -> 1440 days which is 3.9 years.

I love it
That God created people with different prospects -- "paupers and princes" -- is explicit in the bible. The ninth chapter of Romans is quite clear about it. Jacob and Esau were twins, but God loved one and hated the other. Their destinies were set before their birth. The conclusion of the matter is that it is not of him who runs, nor of him who wills, but of God who shows mercy.

Romans 9 is rather controversial in Christianity these days. A lot of people will tell you it doesn't mean what it seems to be saying. But if you take it on face value, it explicitly acknowledges that the game is rigged. God makes different people to serve his different purposes, and that is the way it is meant to be.
Because it came with an awesome IDE/editor.
Great list! Two criticisms:

1. One mental model that I applied when reading this post on mental models (so meta!) is "audience". As I was reading I thought to myself, "Who is this guy? Why should I trust his mental models? Is he living a life that I want to duplicate?" I mean it with respect and with no malice towards him, he's probably awesome. It's also possible to pick up useful mental models from people that you may not necessarily want to emulate. All I'm pointing out is that it's been really useful for me to consider the motivations and track record of the person giving me advice, before I take that advice to heart.

2. It's a long list! I wonder if it'd be more fruitful to have a shorter list, but to apply each mental model rigorously, every time. Charlie Munger (the guy who popularized mental models, as far as I can tell) himself is a huge advocate of checklists. I remember him saying something along the lines of "you have to be disciplined about your mental models. You have to apply every one, every time. You can't pick and choose."
I think they must have auctioned it or something
How is it morally wrong?
Jamie Dimon regrets mocking Bitcoin
I'm hoping one day we'll look back on car driving as something as horrendous as gladiatorial entertainment in Rome.

In the UK we have 1 child killed and 37 seriously injured every week.
Apologizing for the source, but sometimes it does happen:

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2123200/man-arrested-after-thr...
Which might have also been there plan.
I live out this way. These aren't local streets like in a city or suburb. It's very rural with houses spaced far apart. Speed limits are 45-55 MPH (70-90 KPH) depending on the road. See for yourself on Street View:

https://www.google.com/maps/@39.5080693,-84.689404,3a,75y,28...
Is this about organizing side-effects in a way that compilers can optimize?
> He's horrified at the thought of a descendent making selling Targaryan cream buns or allowing shitty derivative novels. That isn't a money concern, but it is a property rights concern of sorts.

I get the desire to rule from beyond the grave, but do not believe it is a legitimate property right.
JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon Regrets Calling Bitcoin a Fraud
This assumes there isn't a flexible solution though. There is more than just the extremes here. If a company isn't innovative or flexible enough to think of a solution then it's their own fault if they go out of business.
I’m not sure I would trust Facebook with an always-on wide-angle lens and microphone in my house. I can’t imagine the next-level of creepy ads that will enable. It’s creepy enough when they start showing ads for physical stores I’ve visited.
Anyone that's ever been fortunate enough to visit Hawaii knows how wonderful a place with such regulations is. Even in areas far less dense than Sao Paolo, I got a sense of relaxation from simply driving on the highway that I don't get (even in lovely rural stretches) when my attention is beggared away 10 times per minute by fast food signs. I doubt that society can yet fully quantify what we are trading away to make a few billboard operators wealthy and satisfying a few advertisers.
I've never heard of cheddar - it is almost more interesting than facebook's portal. Looks like tech broadcast news that is not on tv but digital only.
Celebrities Who Looks 20 but They Are Actually Turning 50 in 2018
Even earlier than that, Plato had somethings to say about philosophers and kings.
That's why our priorities are so backwards. We deprive our kids of the simple adventurousness of childhood, but at the same time we structure our lives in ways where speeding auto traffic is functionally unavoidable. That's like locking the liquor cabinet but not the cabinet where you keep the rat poison. Or like filing down the sharp edges on a hand grenade.

Children need to live in an environment where they can have adventures make mistakes and get hurt. Even badly injured. But not killed.

Cars kill.
Human reaction time to unexpected events is at least 400 mS. Autonomous car reaction time can be as low as 40 mS. You can slow down a lot in those 360 mS (about 6 mph) which can turn a fatal accident into a moderate one.

The vast majority of accidents are due to sloppy, aggressive, or distracted driving, which autonomous vehicles will completely eliminate.
One crazy thing was when I got my mortgage and was transferring my down payment to the mortgage company, my bank didn't require me to even show my ID. There is probably a reason for it, as the documents all matched up on the name and I had to submit a lot of information to the mortgage company. I still found it very strange making that kind of transfer of tens of thousands of dollars that I didn't have to show any kind of proof of ID.
65 years ago is after the change happened. Part of the problem is I'm talking so long ago that everyone who only knew that reality. Maybe we could look at some place overall isolated from the rest of the world where child mortality throughout the society is similar to centuries ago, but with globalization I'm not sure that is possible because even in places where it is extremely high now, the local wealthy would have access to ways to lower it and in many places the child mortality rate hasn't been sustained at that level (if you look at the child mortality rates in Yemen, the levels is something new caused by the war).
When deciding on architecture, I always start with asking what are my key priorities with this project?

to minimize cost = run my own mail server

to maximize learning = write my own mail server

to maximize flexibility or do something truly unusual = one of the above

to minimize time = pay for a service

to maximize maintenance cost = cobble solution from pieces intended for other uses.

I have used Gmail for little tiny projects like a contact form that got used a dozen times per year, but that was before MG was an option. As for using Gmail or FastMail today, it will probably work for now, but will it continue doing so in the future? Maybe, but my own personal experience indicates that _all_ free services are not something one can count on persisting over the long haul. TANSTAAFL = you get what you pay for. At some point their funding will run out, or new management will decide to optimize their business expenses. If I were to plan on using a service like this (IANAL) the first thing I check is the Terms of Service. The second thing I check is the service providers intended use case. (When I read the terms of use for both Gmail and Fastmail I get the distinct impression they are intended for use by a human, not for volume transactional send). While these providers may not currently prevent their service being used for transactional mail send - there is a long history of service providers throttling, ejecting, or (if paid) increasing the billing for their highest volume users. When that inevitably (considering history) happens, a new solution will have to be found (probably with minimal notice and urgent deadlines). I don't know about you but I have enough on my plate maintaining the evolving decay of my projects (as libraries fall out of favor and security updates stop) without having to worry about monitoring changes in QOS for email deliver-ability for a cobbled together solution.

Among bulk send providers, Amazon SES is probably cheapest (I read their chart as $100 for 1 Million emails).

Finally, I got something very different out of my reading on running your own mail servers. HN search (https://hn.algolia.com/?query=mail%20server&prefix&dateRange...)
> It’s the journey that provides real fulfillment.

Sounds derivative of Tony Robbins.

Why Success Without Fulfillment Is the Ultimate Failure > https://www.inc.com/bill-carmody/tony-robbins-success-withou...
“Freedom” and “peace”, for some bastardized version of those words, presumably something along the lines of “we can go there and do as we wish” [0] and “they will never attempt to contest our dominance”, respectively - that I can believe.

“Prosperity”, nope. That has never been what Westerners wished for China.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraterritoriality
Sure thing, we've updated the link from https://web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/slp3/ed3book.pdf.
Alibaba.com allows company to peddle “sexy kids swimwear”
As a general rule, I'd think the harder part is figuring out that the vulnernability is possible in the first place and formulating an approximate algorithm to exploit it. Implementation is a lot easier when you have a blueprint for what to do.
Of course, we shouldn't dole out arbitrary power to scientists. The founding fathers did a great job several centuries ago at building a balanced system... but who is to say that there isn't something better, that has technology as a foundational layer.
Comical that they will charge $500. The data (revenue) they gain from me owning a portal I'd imagine would off set the cost to build and develop this product.
> So, what are the chances we have more than N nukes in orbit, where N > 0?

Your question is equivalent to "what are the chances we have more than 1 nuke in orbit." Is that what you meant?
While I don't think Coinbase is scamming users, and they are certainly highly regulated. They are definitively the most incompetent organisation this year.

Bitfinex does get lots of heat in the crypto space, but comparing it to the rest of exchanges they have been rather very professional and fast to fix issues.
That thread contains numerous people claiming their USD withdrawals were marked as completed, but the money failed to appear. Overloaded customer service reps from Coinbase appear to be looking into and handling them individually.

I think this is what it would look like if their systems had been hacked, and thieves were cleaning them out by changing the destinations of wire transfers. If that was happening, they wouldn't necessarily be insolvent - they were probably holding lots of Bitcoin during the massive rise in price, and the losses would be in USD - but it'd certainly mean they were in trouble.
This. The web host is likely going to try to spoof a low load time by sending a fake page to Google's web crawler. Then it'll be an endless cat and mouse. Also, there are more than a few websites on the internet. It sounds fairly unreasonable to keep fresh numbers on page load times.
What's a good language to try this out?

From the first few pages it seems to be really workable. I could see a good chunk of tailrecursive algorithms map neatly to constraints like nocopy and nodestroy

I'm no programming language nut, but it seems to me that in general if you have the language semantics to be able to explicitly narrow the capability of a structure it should lead to improvements when compiling (types in general do that as well). I remember playing around with ATS a little and it put a smile on my face that you could explicitly state that a function is tailrecursive, or mutually tailrecursive with another function. The other end of the spectrum is something like Scheme where it's not even clear from the semantics if you're capturing an environment or not! :) (which I still love and is really handy for writing stuff quick and simple, but I have no clue how a compiler has to work with that! No guarantees on mutability, stack size etc etc) ATS also is supposed to have linear types... so maybe I should revisit it some time
This rings true, but also, a "no response" from support is never acceptable.
I would put it differently, that any major technical innovation will change the balance of power between people and institutions, and so have political consequences. You have to deal with those the only way we know how—by engaging with the messy, frustrating, difficult human institutions that we all rely on.

Because people are involved, you can't anticipate the social effects of any technology. It's the problem Soros calls 'reflexivity'—systems with people in the feedback loop don't behave like dumb systems; they take your own motives into account and change their behavior!

So just deploying the stuff and hoping for some kind of complicated socio-technical bank shot that gets you the outcome you want is unlikely to work. You can say "I don't care what the consequences are", but you can't pretend there will be no consequences, or that you can predict them.

That whole concept of the 'inversion in political life' belongs to Zeynep Tufekci, to whom all credit is due for it. I agree that it is brilliant. She is a profound thinker about this stuff. If you're not already familiar with her work, you're in for a treat.

For your last question, this is what I am trying to figure out in organizing Tech Solidarity, and I wish I had any answers. It is very, very hard.
Didn't you just criticize other people for "pedantry taking precedence over humor"?

Please don't do tedious tit-for-tats on HN. As the guidelines say in another context, it never does any good and it makes boring reading.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Speed limits are not speed targets.

In the UK most b-roads are 'national' speed limit (i.e. 60mph or 70mph). It is expected that the driver selects the appropriate speed for the conditions, visibility, road etc etc.

Of course, we're humans, which means errors are made, people are impatient, we don't balance risk very well etc etc.
But still extremely common. SQL injection is my favorite one. We've had a good solution for it for ages. But look at CVEs and you will still see loads of SQL injection.
My hotel is a private company and I've found my guests and employees prefer not to interact with black people. Glad you support my right to refuse black guests.
Might that be just because it changed orbit and had to be reacquired? Might take a while since you have no clue what the parameters for the new orbit are or when the burn(s) took place. Some kind of new stealth tech would be pretty cool, though.
Meltdown is not that hard to exploit:

1. Just download the POC, its a C program which reads the kernel memory at a speed of ~2KB/sec.

2. Deploy it to as many AWS instances as possible.

3. save the results somewhere and search it for stuff like CC card numbers or passwords.

Luckily this is not possible because the tech companies were really careful about this issue and deployed a fix very quickly.
FaaSlang: Open specification for serverless functions
Dig into the thread I posted and you'll see a different attitude back then.

If it's changed, that's great. But you're still on their turf. And I'm getting downvoted for saying it. Draw your own conclusions.
What is it like living without heat? My heat went out in my apt for a week recently and although coming out from a hot shower was noticeably unpleasant the rest of my routine was unaffected since I'm normally wrapped up in cozy blankets on the couch anyways. I'd be very interested in the caloric impact of living without heat too.
Some day, I'm confident our current practices related to food and nutrition will be looked back upon with horror and dismay. The lack of decent regulation, the lack of understanding of basic nutrition, the desire to somehow improve upon the foods that nature intended, all will be seen as the disasters they likely are.

Our chemically created foods are likely killing us in a variety of ways we are only just now beginning to understand.
That Javascript would already be cached and have no impact on further page loads.

Clicking "star" and losing your half-typed message would be very impactful, though.
I don't know, and made no claim implying knowledge. The "what about" attempt (more formally tu quoque) fails.
> The Google console is quite helpful in tracking errors on your page.

Google could publish an open-source tool that you can run to check your page for errors.
What the hell? Did you read the story? This woman should be blamed for what was completely unpredictable? Do you realize she would be in prison for vehicular manslaughter?

How about not having a 40 or 50 mph speed limit on a residential street?
What, do capitalism and imperialism not exist? I think that the issue here is one of poor wording; spices weren't the first foods to be subjected to the processes of production and distribution, they were they first to be subjected to these processes in the context of capitalism and imperialism.
Indeed, it's nice. And yet I can't stop wondering why no one ever write articles about much larger group of autistic people whom fate is much worse, IMHO. I am talking about the kids, but most importantly about adults, who are almost normal, to the point that you wouldn't notice in most cases, unless they do something strange occasionally (HFA, mild Asperger's, mild autism.) About all these creeps, weirdos, nerds and morons without friends, very often in deep depression, sometimes suicidal. Bullied in childhood and very often having good job and being an experts in what they do. Lonely experts usually - creep once, creep forever, you know. These people require attention, too. Attention and social recognition. And so often you can read only about baby cases and savants.
The police are not supposed to be able to arrest a person they don't think are guilty. The police could probably lie about it and fake probable cause, but they aren't supposed to.
yes:
https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/fedramp/
Yep, this happens all the time in some parts of China as well.