skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
don't worry we're fixing it.
A friend of mine who was having a hard time was doing a mix of squatting, camping outside, crashing with friends and staying in a cheap hotel when she had the money.

The hotel itself charged refundable deposits that were 20% of nightly rent, and looked for ways not to refund them (checking out two minutes late, letting another guest come in your room). Meanwhile, prostitutes and drug dealers more or less only visit rooms in the high end hotels less than a mile away with nobody batting an eye.
They ought to blame the murderer/rapist since people using an app to connect individual consumers aren't employees or customers of said business. They will probably try to blame whomever has the deepest pockets but that doesn't mean that we ought to or that the law will.
Ask HN: What are the Applications of Blockchain in public sector?
I am looking for: Ideas, Hurdles, Political Implications etc.
Doesn't happen. Where are all these business people in the jail?
You're right, of course. I considered mentioning the possibility that this was meant more as a test PR style or tongue-in-cheek "Haha this is obviously super important"-style post, since these are definitely viable explanations, but I felt the rant was already long enough and I couldn't find an easy way to work it in.

One of the most dangerous things about sharing stuff with others, especially isolated items from unknown authors with a worldwide audience, is that you never really know how much of their own context the recipient will read in, or how much of the assumed / pre-requisite context they'll fail to infer (or infer differently than intended).

You only get better at this through repeated practice, but you can't ever be perfect at it. Especially in a world of complex social interactions where people don't always mean what they say or say what they mean, and the lack of body language and facial expression in written language silently corrupts the signal.

All readers should always remember, it is easy to criticize. It is much harder to do. Critics especially need to remember this, because it's very easy, automatic in fact, to fall into a pattern of judgment and criticism when we're regularly exposed to so much stuff from so many sources. But it's good to get out there and try, because it's often much harder than it looks, and especially if you've been on the sidelines judging for a long time, it can be jarring how much harder it is to do than to say (or, particularly, deride).

A great way to test this: if there's some radio program you listen to regularly where callers can share a brief anecdote or story, call in. As a regular listener, you've been silently evaluating callers on a daily basis for years. You likely have some opinion about the practices of good callers and bad callers. Call in and you'll be surprised how nerve-wracking it can be, even for someone as "experienced" as yourself, and I think you'll be disappointed in your overall performance (unless you've thoroughly rehearsed ahead of time).

This is just a tiny, irrelevant thing that most people wouldn't give any thought to, a quick ~60 second phone call. You certainly don't give much thought to it every day when you dismiss anecdotes or stories told by amateurs. But try it yourself and you'll get a great deal on some perspective for the difficulty gap between doing v. criticizing.

The peanut gallery can, and will, always find something to nitpick. Don't take it personally. Use that data to hone your interactions and get a better-tuned result next time.
sell your company into the heart of the devil, but excruciatingly, in fact, absurdly, ... slowly. ... j ust insanely, plaidly, patently in fucking believeable khandian levels of batshit absurdly, and then pull out and fong them from behind. hah!
Maybe naive, but is Caddy collecting and reporting info to Censys?

I have a Caddy server which showed up on Censys after searching by subnet.
It does not “solve” it though. It’s not even an approximation (which is also NP-hard in the general case, not sure about the Euclidean case).
The Hard Limits for Deep Learning in HPC
Holy crap what a stupid article.
We have proven (mathematically at least) that quantum encryption is unbreakable.
Who cares?

There are tons of games in the App Store with custom user interfaces that don’t match anything from Apple.
I searched by subnet and had some false positives and false negatives, and out of date data. Still, it was a bit unnerving to see the right IPs show up with the right web servers.
No, that's not true. This is exactly the same as shodan.

It's just a frontend for their public datasets:
https://censys.io/data
Depending on your needs it's possible to leverage Robinhoods API for trades. Might be against their tos tho
In this case, I see no big paradigm shift that would presuppose me that any of the big global auto manufacturers would go away.

Building good cars, is a game of logistics and supply chain, something Tesla is largely still learning - the thing about building a good electric car is, it only changes one aspect of an otherwise concept, and you can buy the technology you need for that.

RIM, Nortel and Nokia, are not good example cases, because they didnt loose on their ability to manufacture shit - and Tesla likely will.
During the elections there were a bunch of different US citizens and companies that tried to influence the election, such as the released audio tape by NBCUniversal and the accusation of crimes levied against both candidates. From the outside looking in, the US election seems to primarily about different groups trying to do influence the election through scandals and barely anything about politics.

Even the bright line of "Foreign electoral intervention" seems more like a guideline than a rule. If >50% of the shareholders of NBCUniversal is owned outside of the US, does that make the tape an illegal attempt to influence US politics, while if its 49% then its perfectly legal influence of politics? Can we apply the same rule to the public listed owner of NBCUniversal, ie Comcast?
Show HN: Outcast for Apple Watch
Plug wars: the battle for electric car supremacy
I wouldn't say "mastering C" should imply "never have any security issues". And many vulnerabilities are conceptual and don't have anything to do with the use of C.

Use your tools wisely. Architect programs for clear data flow. Validate inputs as soon as possible. Don't do (de)serialization by hand.

By all means use a managed "memory safe" language if you have many data accesses that are not behind a validation gateway. But for large amounts of data or complex software, that's still not an option. C is still the only language in which I can write software of advanced complexity - because it does not get in my way.
As somebody else pointed out, it was a browser vs. device thing. Tried watching on my tablet a little later, did not work.
As a caveat, I only watched the first ~25 minutes of this video in detail. After that I skimmed every few minutes of the rest. As far as I can tell, the majority of the time is random panel members talking about stuff and very little is truly devoted to the subject alluded to in the title in any meaningful way. I found the video fairly worthless (or at least far too unfocused to be worthy of anyone's time).

At best, the little that focused on the title seemed to define "computers" and "programming language" in a fairly rigid way in order to make the claim in the title true, but everyone already knows that. There are clearly many complexities (known and many more unknown) in how all the different processes surrounding DNA work and many of those processes don't really have simple counterparts in our common implementations of computers and programming languages, but at an abstract level the analogies certainly are there.
> There was a substantially greater increase in bicycle commuting in the bike-share cities, yet the total number of injuries decreased in bike-share (but not control) cities, again showing that more cycling means safer cycling [7].

... or that the cities built bike lanes next to the bike share stations.

> Individuals with documented helmet use had 2.2 times the odds of non–helmet users of being involved in an injury-related accident

... perhaps because cyclists are more likely to wear helmets in areas with unsafe biking conditions.
> Starting from a stop causes a lot of stress on electric motors and commercial electric motors operating hours are usually guaranteed when the number of starts per hour are below some threshold.

Do you have a source for this that would apply to AC or PMDC motors with variable frequency drives as are applied to vehicles? I think your claim might only apply to old-school designs with starting/running capacitors.
> The reason amateur transmissions are not encrypted isn't technical, it's that the laws regulating amateur radio service forbid it explicitly.

It shouldn't be encrypted. The only (and the most important) thing which needs to be transmitted globally is the hashes of the several last blocks. It is not possible to "decrypt", so from my understanding, it's not "encrypted" information.

> I'll believe it when I see it.

Bitshares, NXT, Reddcoin, to name a few.
Thank you for your swift assessment, you just saved me several minute of my life.
> Of all the slightly creepy aspects to this trend, the strangest is the least noticed: The people publicly championing life extension are mainly men.

You have to be kidding me...
That’s just bad leadership. Leadership is about taking responsibility. “Here’s what happened, here’s what we learned, and here’s what we’re doing to make sure it doesn’t happen again.” It’s doesn’t have to end badly for anyone.
Genome of a Man Born in 1784 Recreated from the DNA of His Descendants
First, let me say that I'm not panicking about the probability of this actually happening, but: "I'm more likely to get killed by a fall in the tub than by a terrorist" is only true of an _arbitrary_ attack at an _arbitrary_ venue and time (and an _arbitrary_ bathtub :)). Events that use Yondr announce it ahead of time, waving a big flag that says "no one here will be able to call for help." The probability of an attack at such an event would be much higher compared to an arbitrary one (although, definitely still small, which is why I'm not exactly panicking...)
Because software development is dry as hell. Cars can go fast and take you places. Variety is nice and sometimes it's okay to be cheerful.
I think only recently has a language been invented which has a good chance of replacing C and that's Swift. It's like C++ done right, it's user friendly, pragmatic, backed by a huge company and doesn't use GC.
Redis streams are just another data type and follow the same persistence settings that have been available to Redis: https://redis.io/topics/persistence

You can use either RDB: snapshots of the entire dataset at some interval and/or AOF: logging of all changes fsync on every write, every second or leaving it to the OS.
This is why JavaScript is the biggest joke of web development. And error handling.

Can we please stop using it
Android Application Development for Dummies
Immediate eye-roll when I ran into that
Maybe you buy from bad merchants selling stuff via amazon? Its possible your choices are leading you on average to have a bad experience.

Its likely that your experience isn't even remotely typical
The irony of seeing this pop up in The Guardian.
So I tried "web cam" and pretty much every result was from live adult cam shows. I though this works like Shodan but apparently that's not the case.
Researchers Warn of Physics-Based Attacks on Sensors
The Futile Quest to Make Trumpism Intellectually Respectable
Google Chrome now lets you permanently mute websites that autoplay videos
Remarks Delivered at the World Economic Forum
I vaguely remember that astronomers sometimes use the Julian calendar for that very reason.
I don't think so. How would you collect the list of addresses to scan? Maybe if you run popular CDNs or repositories, you could get a good chunk.
Chances are, the field of view is so wide there isn’t much of your GF to be seen in the recording, even in HD.
Now imagine what this type of attack would do to self driving cars...
These look really solid!

For anyone else who was confused by the minimal explanation of the "sideEffects: false" feature, apparently this targets cases where (1) module A exports some code, (2) module B imports from A and exports end points, some of which depend on A, and (3) module C imports code from B that doesn't reference code from A.

In this situation by default webpack assumes that the code from A might have side effects inside B, but if A declares "sideEffects: false" in its package.json, the tree-shaker will assume it's safe to omit module A from the final bundle.

Incidentally the end user can also declare in their config that module B should use sideEffects:false, even if the module doesn't declare it. Details here: https://github.com/webpack/webpack/issues/6065
I guess the article was OK in the beginning, until it became clear that it was nothing but another witch hunt by a feminist. To be clear, I’m not saying there is something wrong about equal rights for everyone, but rather that this article is moronic.
That's a problem with AWS RDS PostgreSQL, not with Citus and TimescaleDB.
Path of Exile on Xbox – A Successful Port
What, no. It would take the lifetime of the universe to scan just a single ISP's IPv6 space. Every end user gets at least a 64 bits, 4 billion times larger than the current internet.
This article is for "Genome Of A Man Born In 1784"
What percentage of googles US customers spend any significant portion of their time traveling in Europe? Hint I'm pretty sure its less than 1%.
> some slight lack of maturity

I don't want to live in whatever grey world you folks are imagining where everything is done professionally with no personality.
We can keep on arguing back and forth on this but in the end I wont bet against Elon.

If you are sure what the future holds perhaps you should short Tesla.
Research into full-body tracking at Facebook hints at broader AR/VR ambitions
Microsof is building a new Window 10, codenamed Polaris
Also seems very application specific, not generally useful as the title implies.
He should change his name to Fiddybit.
High volume, low latency, of privacy focused applications.

There's a difference between Stellar's network being able to support high throughput and you wanting to do high-throughput on the network.

Base fee is 1e-5 XLM. If you want to do a million transactions, it's still going to cost you 10 lumens. Why pay 10 XLM when you could pay 1e-5 XLM instead?
As a web dev I am extremely happy Webpack team changed their stance from "webpack config is the way it is because everyone's needs are different and also because that's just how Javascript works" to "yes, we can provide sane defaults out of the box".

Aaand that their communication has improved a thousand-fold.
Well, I think YouTube for stage acts is just like Streaming is to musicians. Most of them make the majority of their income by live performances, but the streaming is where its at otherwise.
The answer to that is to use Redshift which is a proper distributed column-oriented data warehouse. Partion on time and let the database do the rest.

Using standard Postgres with sharding for OLTP workloads is great but there are better options for OLAP, especially if you’re using managed services. Also there is the Citus cloud offering if you want to stay with Postgres.
This is a pretty absolutist approach.

>What's the need?

How about plain old abuse? People using services to break the law, particularly crimes with victims? Safety risks?

- An uber passenger sees their driver has a gun in the cup holder; they report it to uber.

- A Square merchant is using Square to launder serious money and Square catches it.

- A Dropbox user is uploading child pornography that indicates active child abuse.

In these situations, you think the company should consult the user first before they take a look at PII? Or ask a senior manager? The former is laughable, and the latter is not scalable. Senior manager clearance might work at a small or even midsize company, but for a large tech company abuse happens thousands of times a day. Review must be operationalized.

I would love to see a law that could strike the right balance, but I don't see how it's possible. Accommodating both small and large companies would be very challenging If you mandate the kind of structure that big companies would need, it could cripple smaller companies operational budgets. If you mandate the rules suited for small companies, it fetters large companies at scale. And then how would you enforce it? Another regulatory agency with audit authority?

This kind of regulation is better served by the market, imo, and we've seen that with Uber. In regions where Lyft is a viable option, it has seen significant business increase in the wake of Uber's many scandals. The key is sunlight, which is usually cast by 1. journalists 2. whistleblowers 3. EFF and other watchdogs.
The Citus Cloud service is similar to RDS, but for Citus clusters. Every cluster runs on AWS in its own VPC and it lets you peer with the VPC. It also provides auto-failover, PITR, forking, read-only followers and scaling out without any downtime.
Only a masochist updates webpack once they get it working.
The Gitaly server has a Ruby component, but also a Go component. The Ruby server uses Rugged[1] and Gollum-lib[2] which both use libgit2.

The Go component doesn't have libgit2 binding yet, although we're looking into adding that later. That or maybe go-git[3]. But for now Gitaly is mainly focussed at migrating all git calls from the Rails monolith. Not introducing a new component now reduces the risks this project has.

[1]: https://github.com/libgit2/rugged/
[2]: https://gitlab.slack.com/archives/C027N716H/p151695430400026...
[3]: https://github.com/src-d/go-git/
I suspect that the Webpack team thinks that developers' favourite job is to upgrade tool configurations. I mean, it's great that improvements are being made, but breaking changes are not.

Remember that the Webpack team has shown to be actively hostile to people who just want to keep their 2-year-old codebases work without doing needless upgrade work. They removed the webpack 1 docs [1], so if you have a few-years-old codebase that you want to get up and running, and somehow you get a webpack error, the message from Webpack is "screw you, upgrade to webpack 3 first and only then we'll allow you to read the docs".

I have no reason to not expect the same to happen with Webpack 4, and the inevitable Webpack 5, 7 months from now. Webpack 2/3 docs will be subtly removed, retired and forgotten. We're all forced to keep doing work to make something work that already worked perfectly fine.

Now, I'm well aware that an angry rant on the internet about the voluntary work from open source contributors is not particularly constructive. I've singled out the Webpack team here, but the reality is that a big part of the web dev ecosystem, across languages, does not care much about backward compatibility. I'd love for that attitude to change.

In semver, every major version is a tragedy.

[1] https://webpack.github.io/docs/using-plugins
The venue is not yours. The owner (and thus the performer) sets the rules. If they want you to come in pink clothes, they have every right to not let you in if you're not entirely clothed in pink.

On the other hand, you have every right to not go to the event.

I also don't like these phone pouches for many reasons. As I said earlier under this post, Eddie Vedder also forbids phones. He'll just stop doing whatever is he doing and wait until everyone puts it away. And that's his right, your statement that he can't do it because the phone is yours is wrong.
From the speech transcript [ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16237684 ]:

“Social media companies deceive their users by manipulating their attention and directing it towards their own commercial purposes. They deliberately engineer addiction to the services they provide. This can be very harmful, particularly for adolescents. There is a similarity between internet platforms and gambling companies.”

Good points to raise, but as a former Googler, I’m a bit surprised how he does not distinguish between Google and FB at all. Are we all Google addicted then? Remember Google’s main business, Search, is still about getting you away from Google as quick as possible.
Scalable Web architecture and design
Addicted people will always look for excuses and fight with stupid arguments for them. In the '70s and '80s people somehow found themselves at concerts, they were not afraid of security, they did not have to check what "important loved ones" were and any of that shit and they lived happily.

It's hard to even comment on the fact that if the phone is locked, you can't safely leave the building during the alam because you are afraid that something will happen to him... or your contacts in cloud. :)

Now the majority will not survive 5 days without a telephone because someone will surely die, someone will get lost, a terrorist attack will happen, or world will be hit by the meteorite...

Yes, I have a phone, but I do not take it with me, and I do not use it when I do not have to... and it's not a smartphone. :)
I would suggest https://zenkit.com. It offers many different data views like a mind-map, spreadsheet, list and calendar. You can attach files, keep track of deadlines and see the overall progress in your kanban-board. Disclaimer: I am the co-founder of Zenkit.