skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Rest and Spread operators are interesting, I think they're cool syntactic sugar and they've got reasonable use for some types of functional programming, but they feel like a ticking time bomb. It doesn't exactly promote resilience if objects are being passed around many different contexts. It seems like it promotes clunky boilerplate checks over more explicit logic
> Can I trust the simple “organic approved” stamp?

I was watching some Canadian CBC Marketplace videos where they show that some sellers just buy factory produced food and then label it as organic/farmer produced.
I'm in the UK.

My experiences have been vastly different than your own - the CRA helps, certainly - but I've found retailers don't really abide the law as much as like to be forced kicking and screaming into adhering to it.

Even retailers who boast having their reputation for support at the core of their business. I've had hellish experiences getting John Lewis to deal with failed electronics, even a DOA laptop. You have the right to take a retailer to court of course, but most know you won't bother with the hassle and give up. Again, only my experience. One I've never had with Amazon.
One of my sites has a whole fake interstitial page, people love it
Speedrunners Can Now Beat Super Mario World in Less Than a Minute
Beaver is a euphemistic way of referring to a vulva.

Searching for "cropped beaver images" is going to raise some interesting HR conversations somewhere along the line.
Cloudflare Is Liable for Pirate Sites and Has No Safe Harbor, Publisher Says
Yes, all those discussions dissolve once you use a precise definition, but there is no generally accepted one.

The definition must apply to humans. It must not apply to rocks. It should probably not apply to plants, fungi, bacteria, and worms. It will probably apply to dolphins, dogs, and pigs. Will it apply to companies, robots, cities, ant swarms, chicken, or fish?
Iris Automation Is Hiring Engineers – AI Collision Avoidance for Drones
Easy, cheap and affordable ways to mine Bitcoins in 2018
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16282936
Apple launches free repair program for 'No Service' iPhone 7 bug
BB is some The GIMP level naming.

Bison, Beetle, Badger, Baboon, ...
We are talking about WeChat, not "WeChat and QQ". Don't misleading others.

QQ vs (Whatsapp, Skype, MSN messager, etc)

WeChat vs (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc)
Rahul's Solution for Local Tutor Crisis
The story of Rahul who struggled to find a local tutor. Who would be competent enough to aid him recovering his old enthusiasm in academics. Belonging to the lower-middle-class family, Rahul's parents couldn't provide him with luxuries but still, they left no stone unturned when it came to his Education. Rahul understood the value of their sacrifices. He was always a diligent student. It was all picture perfect till he was in Middle school. He used to bring high scores and always won accolades from his teachers. Rahul’s parents couldn’t be happier. It was 8th standard when he realised he needed some extra help in his studies in the form of a Tutor.

Read Full Story here - https://tutstu.com/blogs/2017/07/Finding-A-Tutor-Locally-How-Rahul-Won-Over-The-Crisis
No need to imagine Formula E has been going on for a few seasons now. The engine sounds are gone and you can now hear tire and braking sounds. It's different and interesting in its own right.
I have not been treated in govt hospital if that is what you are asking but I have been to govt hospitals to check up friends and others who were treated there.
> If the law is broken, fix it? The whole "spirit of the law" thing is what leads us to political attacks being made with laws.

Reality doesn't work that way. In fact, the whole reason for the ballooning of regulations everywhere is an attempt to make things more about "the letter" than "the spirit".

Reality is fucking complicated, as every programmer who ever tried to model or simulate anything from real life should know (and if one didn't have that experience, I recommend reading [0], recently discussed on HN). "Letter of law" is like code - in attempt to capture all the relevant details, it gets fractal in handling corner cases to corner cases. But, the best thing about humans is that our intelligence allows us to comprehend the intent behind something even without understanding all the relevant details and corner cases. This is what "spirit of law" exploits, and why it's a great tool at reducing complexity.

Having everything run on "letter of law" is practically impossible today, and would definitely not be practically usable with laws in textual form.

(This is, incidentally, why "smart contracts as laws" are stupid - computers can't understand intent, so you're enshrining some hard rules that will always be buggy and full of loopholes.)

--

[0] - http://johnsalvatier.org/blog/2017/reality-has-a-surprising-...
Perfect Forward Secrecy: an Introduction (2014)
You can still go fully open; https://microg.org/ and https://f-droid.org/en/ I don't have Pay, and no cloud push notifications, and the GPS assist isn't quite as perfect, but the only real bugbare is no swyping keyboard.
I'm still doing that today with people I met in 1995 or so.
>It's interesting, and somewhat comforting, that the brain can have these intensely emotional and personally meaningful experiences in the moments before death.

Instead of our mind saying plainly, "we're soon to be fertilizer," its perspective on the world is one of obsessive self-importance--such an inconvenient reminder that we will recycle our carbon is manipulated into a motivational and awe-inspiring event to help us pass on our DNA in a time when we are clearly likely to die. Maybe it is both comforting, and absurd, in the same way as our other daily experiences? We're not the most important thing in the universe, but our mind can sometimes treat us as such, and it seems this leads to entirely strange experiences all the time, they just don't seem particularly absurd, compared to meeting Jesus, because they're so common.

Think about all of the injustice in the world. One's mind typically isn't going to get worked up about "I really should do something about getting off this planet, or what about that Gulf of Tonkin incident, if I don't do something that kind of awful thing could happen again in the universe (like maybe in Iraq)." But when your time comes, yes of course, the Universe and God have concern about You.
NoSQL database as query-able static JSON documents
Reading the code, that 18mb is likely from statically linking LLVM into python
This should be possible as long as the binary is compiled with its symbol table intact.
Fwiw maps used for autonomous vehicles are higher fidelity than consumer maps. Furthermore the cars are generally equipped with IMUs so that they don't get thrown off by urban canyons, clouds, etc. And more error correction (particle filters, visual cues + map data) is used to pinpoint your location on a map.

Adversarial attacks are concerning for any AI model, but autonomous vehicles aren't all AI. Lots of rules and heuristics and pre-knowledge are utilized. In the end if something is uncertain it generally amounts to "slam on the brakes" which is more a ux problem than a safety problem.
Thanks! We used to use Mixpanel, as you mentioned it is good for basic use cases - totally agree. Now I’m researching for some solutions to collect events data and put into SQL warehouse - either Redshift or Big Query.
If it’s not breaking backwards compatibility then what’s the problem with improvements?
But you know the password that has just been entered. Iterate over every hashed password. Hash the plaintext password you know, using the salt from the hashed password. If it's a match, record that the 2 users matched. Loop to next hashed password.

If they were plaintext it wouldn't need a linear search because the column could be indexed.
>> Great idea, surprised I haven't seen this as a street legal mod.

It was a homebrew hack by people in the Honda Civic / del Sol community decades ago, I recall it fondly.
But on the other hand electric vehicles can have phenomenal acceleration and braking capabilities, and that would perhaps make races more frenetic.
Scientists discover ancient Mayan city hidden under Guatemalan jungle
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One of our Group members on Facebook seeking for help to save her relationship, said as follow:
Hello people
I am going through a lot of emotional plight of late…
I met this amazing guy in campus and we got along really well. We never got to spend time together because the semester ended and I was off for holiday. We therefore opted to texting. Our conversations were really awkward because after greetings and stuff, they really struggled because we didn’t know what to talk about. Then one day, he referred to me as a ‘buddy’ and everything took a turnaround. I got ill advised by friends to tell him about my feelings. I don’t even know what came over me because I texted him irrelevant things. I texted him this “Hey I feel this connection missing in our chats. Like something is not right. Maybe i am the only one who feels this way. I have no idea. Then his reply was this,
“I apologize if that bothers you. I believe much of that comes with bonding and knowing you more. I am willing to be the friend you desire. Is there anything you think we could do about that?”. Then after that I snapped again and wrote..” The problem is that I fear you. When I talk to you I really tense up and don’t know what to say. I was hoping we could talk more… I mean less serious conversations. I don’t want to fear a good friend like you. ” Then he replied..” Its okay. I will make it my personal initiative to lessen any official tone. I also desire to be a good friend.
We have been conversing after that and I am afraid what I said will make him think less of me. I am afraid to lose him because our thing had been very promising.
Please help…
Thank you
You didn't go through the links yourself?
Entire arguments rests on the premise that second as a unit of time was not defined until recently.

I am no way supporting glorification of past but inventing arguments to discredit the past is equally distasteful to me.
This reminds me of the articles saying that germans like to use cash because of the inflation 100y ago. It's just not true and likely being written by someone who has never asked a single german/chinese.
It's not news to anyone that C/C++ puts the burden of security and safety onto the programmer. And it's getting harder all the time, see for example Spectre mitigation. C was designed alongside Unix in the 70's, a very different era. It is time for a next generation OS, but it needs to be built using next generation tooling.
No. There's still lots of ongoing work. There's a repo [0] with proposals and the different stages they're in.

Why would WASM mean slowing down JS changes?

[0] https://github.com/tc39/proposals
Aviation is a game of low margins but there's a _lot_ of training around how to handle those margins. Maximum wind speeds, maximum weight, distribution of weights, checklists for checking your engine and airframe and all that. Almost all aviation accidents are pilot error.
That's nothing new, my Jaguar XJ12 from '84 uses it's AC to cool down the fuel in the return line.
You probably couldn't use this definition even if you had a magical device which transforms you into a bat and then back again.

After you are yourself again you'll need to interpret the acquired memories. You remember echolocview of the room (bats have memory, it's testable), hunger, disorientation and some other sensations. Does it mean that bat is conscious? What will you remember differently if bat wasn't conscious? You'll remember nothing? But memories are there and you should have access to them. The lack of self-awareness? But you don't know how you would remember the presence of self-awareness in a bat.
> A GraphQL API is usually just another REST endpoint, e.g. POST /graphql

I would call it an HTTP endpoint, not necessarily REST endpoint. GraphQL reminds me SOAP in this regard (one URL that you POST your request to) but GraphQL is more structured/constrained (just a limited set of requests, queries, mutations, etc.).
Equifax multiple vulnerabilities on .au API site
For televised viewership, sounds and smells aren't really part of the experience even for conventional car racing.
Good return policies are expensive for everybody. That's why I stay away from Zalando after having seen neighbours returning half a dozen boxes.
The State of Go 1.10
Yeah, and one of the most important features of IRC being "lightweight native client, integrating seamlessly with my environment". Somehow, these "modern" chat systems just can't do that.
Are you willing to pay for more?

Robovacuums seem to have hit a sweet spot - they do just enough on their own to justify their costs by saving you time and effort. Solving the corner cases you mentioned is possible, but there is not a strong enough economic incentive for that.
> The West buys more from China than China buys from The West

because there are long list of high tech & military stuff that China is simply not allowed to buy. it is so bad to the extent that Chinese are not allowed to buy Intel Phi processors which many of your local computer shops allow you to make orders.

Surely Chinese are interesting in buying America's advanced jet fighters, missiles, submarines, aircraft carriers, satellites etc. On the non-military side, how about super computers, space techs, laser, semiconductor techs, optical fiber, high end composite materials. EU has very similar laws & policies, nothing really different from the US.
Is money being made? Seems to me that all trading does is just redistribute existing money, and no wealth is created.

What a waste to have all these computational resources engaging in a continual 'series of countermeasure/measure battles' instead of calculating something useful.
What this doesn't talk about enough is work impact -- mentioned yes but doesn't emphasize it. These are shitty years and it eats me I am working for an enterprise gardening their websites instead of literally making the world a better place. I mean, sure, it pays and challenging and whatnot but I miss NowPublic dearly because we made a god damn difference. We ran one of the biggest Katrina missing person boards. We were one of the first "citizen journalism" sites and had photos and reports from places where noone else had. It was amazing. I miss it so badly.

And you know what, I would be open to changing, I am still doing Drupal and I need the money but ... if you are doing something meaningful with Drupal, Elixir or Go and have some part time opening? Let's talk :) Click my username for email address.
WebAssembly doesn't really have anything to do with Javascript. As for being good enough now: not yet. It's getting closer, another iteration or two and I think it could settle down for a while. Also it's worth noting the rapid pace of change in the JS specs is a recent phenomenon. It was stagnated for years before that.
"Viva!", their first live album, is one of my all-time favourites - and also includes John Wetton (of King Crimson and Asia fame) on bass guitar.
Was preparing a talk called "Don't get Equifaxed" on immutable infrastructures. Thought, WTH let's have a looksy. These, 30 seconds later.

Method of discovery:

Google 'Equifax API'.

curl -I top results.

They do not care.
Show HN: Xautolock rewrite in Rust with a few extra features
I don’t see JavaScript ever reaching a point where everyone involved agrees that is good enough. There are still too many conflicting opinions of what the language should be. The ecosystem’s constantly evolving libraries and frameworks also drive the language design, and new language needs are always emerging from these
I'm not sure about this named capture group proposal. The idea behind the proposal is that regexp engines parse using the old grammar, but if a GroupName is found, re-parse using a different grammar:

If the result of parsing contains a GroupName, reparse with the goal symbol Pattern[~U, +N] and use this result instead.

But "the result of parsing" by definition cannot contain a GroupName because GroupName is not part of the initial grammar.

Furthermore it appears that the named capture group backreference syntax `\k<groupname>` is in fact valid under the "old" (no-named-capture-group) syntax. Thus the interpretation of `\k<groupname>` depends on the future parts of the expression, similarly to how `\3` can be an octal escape or a backreference depending on the rest of the expression.

JS regexp parsing is already underspecified [1] and requires two passes to disambiguate backreferences from octal escapes. Now it appears we potentially need a third pass to disambiguate named capture groups.

[1]: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ie/2010/08/25/chakra-intero...
Assuming your analogy has merit, I doubt very much this is true. Computer modelling, for example, has improved significantly over the years.

However, it is true that many high profile failures in aerospace have been due to software errors, so I would say that software tooling is certainly one area that they could also benefit from.
Then why don’t we make driving completely illegal?
If you make an error at 70 mph you die and you will kill other innocent people.
And it happens with a scarily high frequency today.
Self driving cars are supposed to bring drastically down the number of car deaths, and I think this is a much more important goal than having an automatic lawn mower or a robot that unloads your dishwasher (seriously??).
Autosploit- Mass Exploitation tool
Cape Town faces Day Zero: what happens when the city turns off the taps?
> In a sense, maybe the greatest gift to the Communist Party was the outbreak of WW2 that set the stage for the subsequent civil war. Instead of dozens of regional warlords, you had a “clean” battle between two sides. When the Communists won, they finally assumed more or less total control of the country.

I hadn't heard this before. From what I've heard, the Communists has to fight at least in two fronts: against the government as well as against Japan.
A related annoying thing is the spread of uncalibrated progress bars, that move front to back, then again loop around, giving no visual feed back of the quantum of time yet remaining.
> It is not news to anyone that C/C++ puts the burden of security and safety onto the programmer.

Okay, so neither.

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I wonder about recommending both remote work and spending quite some time mentoring. How well does remote mentoring actually work?

I was positively influenced by people giving me advice remotely (I don't know if I'd really call it mentoring), but my feeling is that face-to-face works much better.

Any experiences?
WD My Cloud flaws allows local attacker to gain root access to the devices
JS is the language of the Web. The web is in constant flux. It is no surprise that the JS language will involve too.
Phenomenal breaking? On a Tesla? Have you driven one on a track? The breaks that come with it are utter garbage compared to its weight class.
You can make your own sounds if you want :)
I was expecting this reply to be like "yes translation is not yet perfect but we have some ideas how to fix this, and the solution is different than what Hofstadter thinks". Instead it was more like "AlphaGo is different from humans, airplanes are different from birds, and deep translation is different(better?) from human translation."
Smells aren’t but sounds? It’s quite a big deal especially for sport events like racing.
Humans have a bit more elaborated internal representation of themselves than a Rumba (which doesn't have any. Early versions even had no representation for the room they operate in).
Because people would start developing in other languages that target WebAssembly and demand less of JS today.
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> Works for the sides, but how to do make a smooth transition to the top? Without cutting it equally short everywhere?

My technique is to keep the machine at the same angle (blades roughly vertical) while moving upwards: as it slides over the curvature at the top, the distance between the base of the hair and the cutter increases smoothly.
This is with the biggest comb clipped on.
I then remove the comb and use my fingers instead, sliding the blade on top of them, to get a longer cut than with the combs.
The machine I use is a Panasonic ER-1611 which is not cheap, but here you can see a picture including a side view for the angle:
http://tondeusebarbe.fr/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/test-pana...

I've also used before a cheaper Phillips that worked fine but wore out after some years, and the first one was a Solac that I still have in Spain and works as new.
The technique works similarly for all of them, but both the Solac and the Panasonic were sold as "for professional use" and they do work noticeably better.

I've been doing this since shortly before starting my military service in Spain long ago. You get better with practice.
Oh, and try to arrange a couple of parallel mirrors so that you can see the back of your head.
I had a number of very positive remote only mentors when I was younger and I give them all a large amount of credit for who and where I am now.

Mentorship is important,but I don't think face to face is particularly important. Although I wouldn't rule it out if it was convenient to both parties.
That's so brilliant because it was true. (Nailed it, pixel perfect)
1 day ago, 3 days ago... there is a serious problem with the short attention span of HN. No sensible forum should split threads like that. Some interesting discussions take longer than a day to execute, and there is no reason why a thread could not be alive for years, but HN actively discourages it - there is no interface for discovery besides the novelty firehose of frontpage+new, and voting is forbidden after a certain age (possibly replying? I've never tried).
What scale of "rocks" are we talking about?

I'm reminded of the xkcd comic about making a computer out of tons of rocks in the desert[1]. Sure, one rock is crystalline (enough) and has essentially no stimulus-processing power. But a pile of rocks, arranged just so, can be set up so as to respond to certain stimuli that, to an outside observer, seems like thought/consciousness. This is the Chinese room problem[2] recast.

By approaching it in this way, we are forced to reconsider: what's so special about humans that makes how you define consciousness more applicable to them than a rock or plant? Why exclude rocks at all?

I'm firmly in the camp that any attempt to quantify consciousness will necessarily be a matter of degree, with no system exhibiting zero consciousness except a perfect crystal (i.e., zero entropy).

[1] https://www.xkcd.com/505/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room
There is a new online translator, http://deepl.com, which relies on deep learning techniques and provides higher (semantic) quality and accuracy of translation. Previously I had quite positive experience with http://translate.yandex.com (but I had to manually compare and combine their results with google translate).
I have programmed C and C++ professionally on and off for over two decades, but I don't think that is relevant here. C++ shares many of the same security and safety problems as C, that is why they are often lumped together.
And self-driving cars may not get drunk but they'll kill you in different ways than humans do (think software errors, or hacking).

He may actually have a point there.
Being optimized for communication and being optimized for making money are mutually exclusive goals.