skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The nostelgia is strong with this one.

Every 6ish or so months I see a link like this and spend a lazy Sunday trying to get CDE (or another equally retro package or system, my last hit was Desqview)

It usually ends up either me aborting because of some dependency hell trying to get all the old versions in sync, or I get the system up, take a pleasant trip down memory lane, then 10 minutes later get annoyed by the impracticalities of it, and go back to my current system with renewed appreciation

I don’t know where I’m going with this, I’m not complaining I love doing it, and I can’t imagine I’m the only one, anyone wanna share some stories?
I worked at a WeWork facility for 2 months in Bangalore. Thoroughly enjoyed it. I wouldn't think of renting a place again. It's a fucking nightmare here to deal with landlords, house keeping staff, electricity connection, internet connection and what not.

I just wish they had a better system for printing. It's a goddamn nightmare with the codes and printing queues. Just cut the crap out of printing administration and just make it free already.
Speaking of musl, I ran Void Linux with musl for a few weeks on my laptop but found that a lot of the software packages were prone to crash and many of them wouldn't even run correctly at all. What has the experience of using Alpine with musl on servers been like for those of you that do?
Worth a try.

Please, Frau Merkel, come to America and bore us.

Please.
Clicks have a 200ms (IIRC) delay on Android to give a chance to recognize other gestures. There are hacks to get ride of it, though. It may have to do with that.
Thanks, that's a cool tool I've begun playing with it and it seems to simplify a lot of the difficult parts of creating good looking UI on mobile.
Secret Bitcoin billionaires to renounce their US citizenship before cashing in?
Can you compare that to other PC manufacturers? Otherwise it's a meaningless number-we know desktop sales, esp at the super high end, are down overall.
Tens of millions of vehicles all at once?
Show HN: JavaScript font made of pie charts
The way they've stylized CDE as (|)E makes it look like an ASCII vagina to me. I can't be the only one.
This isn't about the MacBook Pro. Marco bought a 10 core iMac Pro and raves about it on both ATP and Under the Radar.
I don't think its necessary for said third party solution to be a service. Most frameworks have builtin support or well written libraries that do the password management/login stuff for you.
any idea how to unsubscribe from their mail list? this week I got at least three spasms from this shady company, yet I font remember providing them with my email address and they are missing unsubscribe link in e-mail, so my whole impression of this company summed to two keywords - shady spammers
Someday maybe the web will catch up with: “Memorized secrets SHALL be at least 8 characters in length if chosen by the subscriber. Memorized secrets chosen randomly by the CSP or verifier SHALL be at least 6 characters in length and MAY be entirely numeric. […] No other complexity requirements for memorized secrets SHOULD be imposed.” — 5.1.1.1 Memorized Secret Authenticators, NIST Special Publication 800-63B: Digital Identity Guidelines
Authentication and Lifecycle Management https://pages.nist.gov/sp800-63b.html
> In a randomized clinical study involving adults age 56 to 71, researchers found that after cognitive training, participants' brains were more energy efficient, meaning their brain did not have to work as hard to perform a task.

So if you play a game over and over, you don't have to actively think as hard to play it? A bit far from a "younger working brain"
http://jamesdeagle.blogspot.com/2017/12/openbsd-62-cde.html
It isn't a fallacy. Opium can potentially be one of the most beneficial medicine that one can introduce in this diet. Those who misuse it seem to draw most of the attention, so outsiders are often unaware of the overwhelming benefits. I know people who buy opium and are extremely grateful to their suppliers, who are providing them with a plant that has in some case rescued them from their incapacity to sleep well or feel joy or, or has regulated their pulse to prevent heart attacks, or has allowed them to survive poisoning, or has liberated them from unstable digestion problems.
I am fine with this, at least less work for of ad blocker

shame I don't use chrome
Every time people tell me they like MacOS shortcuts I look at them with a bit of stink eye. They're about as anti-muscle memory and as "shortcuts that shouldn't be next to each other" as key combinations can get.

Great, they're very easy to learn, but not so great to retain and use. I'm going to be spending the rest of my career looking up on SO the bottom 75% of the shortcuts I need to use. Thanks guys. Thanks Steve.
The company has a lot of work and testing to do to get VASIMR to a point where it has better efficiency than existing operational electric thrusters. Also, even Ad Astra admits that solar electric power will never generate the thrust needed for some of their pie-in-the-sky goals, and that nuclear reactor technology that doesn't exist yet would be needed.
I can't say what or whatnot Google does. Ask customer support on that.

But do know that GDPR will require this for the EU. https://gdpr-info.eu/art-17-gdpr/
> But this mind could not have been created in the first place were it not for some intrinsic order

The mind was created by self replication and competition over multiple generations (evolution). Self replication requires ability to adapt to environment, to collect energy and materials, to protect from predators. This was the playground where minds evolved. We're using similar techniques in AlphaGo, for example, where a sequence of players are pitted against each other.

Randomness is essential for exploration, which is a step without which we couldn't be intelligent. In reinforcement learning, the so called epsilon-greedy strategy of exploration says to select a random action with probability epsilon. It is a simple strategy that leads to intelligence. Of course, humans have smarter exploration strategies which nonetheless rely on randomness.
You may have been using CDE, but the default on IRIX in the 1990s was Indigo Magic Desktop (later called IRIX Interactive Desktop), with SGI’s own port of Motif. This used the 4Dwm window manager, which had window decorations like those of mwm, but with window title bar labels in bold, italic type.
An Updated Analysis for the “Giving Up on Julia” Blog Post
I think the point is that if there's no randomness, people's actions must be completely predictable, and if they're predictable it's impossible for people to do other than what's been predicted and so there's no free will.

On the other hand, having randomness opens up the possibility to act in ways that are not completely predictable and that's where the potential for freedom of the will comes in. But randomness alone isn't enough for free will, for the reason you allude to (that one might be "forced" to follow some sort of cosmic "dice roll", as unpredictable as it might be). It just seems to be one pre-requisite, in a certain way of viewing the problem.
Really the Apple /// a computer that came out in 1980? Is that what you are going to base your doubts on the thermal design of the iMac?
Again, you're projecting things nonsensically into non-programming fields. There are plenty of wannabe programmers out there who simply like computers or like the idea of money in the field, who regardless of age cannot muster the required abstract thinking as applied to programming to be a developer that can put out minimum-acceptable-quality code.

Regarding your last sentence, that's why I've been careful to call it a "skill", because it can be exercised, apprenticed, and gleaned. But for some people it just never gels.

This isn't the distinction between "10x programmer" and "regular programmer", it's the distinction of "has programmer skills" and "does not have programmer skills". And as much as the pointy-haired inclined hate it, software development heavily involves creativity and bespoke research, for which there's no reasonable objective skill measure besides simply doing the work.
This is so cool. Is there any information on e.g. transponder frequencies, if available?
Computer Day 1 Defination of Computer in Hindi || Learning Time
The title is not very useful; this quote gives some context: “It's the highest amount of borrowing in six years, and a big jump from the $519 billion the federal government borrowed last year.”
If you don't see the issue with Google enabling putting up paywalls, but only on sites that are showing ads that belong to them or to companies that made a deal with them, while blocking ads on sites that don't do Google's bidding, I'm not sure what to tell you.

Note that they are not being public with their list of sites that they will block ads on and reason why; nothing prevents them from putting sites on that list for any arbitrary reason they want.
OP is probably talking about Target, Kroger/QFC/Smiths, literally any other retailer.

I stopped shopping at Wal-Market around 2009 (I think). I realize Target, Bi-lo and others have adopted a lot of the same practices WM used in order to simply stay competitive and especially with stores like Target, they know customers may pay a premium just not to shop at the mega store.

So it might be symbolic at this point, you can't really vote with your dollars, but I have the money and save plenty, so I might as well try and do what I can.

I rarely shoped at Amazon and quit shopping there entirely after moving back to the US in 2016, to Seattle, and seeing Amazon as nothing more but the new Wal-Mart, not just for retail, but for server hosting as well.
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> Memorized secrets chosen randomly by the CSP or verifier SHALL be at least 6 characters in length and MAY be entirely numeric.

Is that really secure? I mean, 6 numbers is not exactly a very strong secret.
The Republican motto: "fiscal conservatism, except when it's us in charge".
>> “Our valuation and size today are much more based on our energy and spirituality than it is on a multiple of revenue.”

This is their CEO being quoted. If this isn’t Silicon Valley pixie dust I don’t know what is.
A long passphrase can be easier to remember than a 5h0rt 5tr1ng. On the mental side, it can take more internal *pointers to remember the latter than the former.
Tesla Model 3 Teardown by Engineering Firm Reveals Flaws Like 'A Kia in the 90s'
Bulgaria in the cold as European Union freezes its funding
What is the physical effect on virii inside your body? How can you believe it works? It can't be magic.
Paired with Spotlight/Alfred that's pretty much everything. That said, Launchpad kind of looks like just another app, as opposed to the centralized launcher that the Start button is
>not a deep-rooted moral practice.

How do you think the Freedom of Information Act got there? It may be going out of fashion, but many of us do believe that the workings of public institutions should be transparent because we value transparency itself. The public record would be much smaller if pragmatism were the only reason to make something public record.

ICANN (or whatever supplants it, like Namecoin) is the Register of Deeds of the internet.
What's Wrong with the Internet and How to Fix It (2015)
This is also one of the main reasons why I prefer mac over Linux even for serverside development and operations. MacOS Terminal is just exactly what I want from a terminal. It’s curious that no linux desktop seems to have achieved that yet.

The other main reason for me is PDF support, but that gets buggier on mac with every release sadly. It seems to have reached its peak around 10.4 where OSX finally got really good.
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This happens to me and I'm already pissed off. It's a lot of emails from people who miss something in the address. Worse, these same people try several times to retrieve the password of an email that they do not have. Or put my email as a password recovery from their addresses. I get invoices from card accounts, personal emails, work emails.

I've tried to search information in google forums to prevent them from putting my email as a recovery without the confirmation and apparently it is not possible.

They create account in instagram, twitter, uber using my email and I need to go to the service to cancel the use of this address. Many times I have account with this address in certain service, but they sign up using a dot between the names and it ends up redirected to my email.

I try to warn them but just ignore them. Since December I received this gigantic amount of requests to change my password, in none of them did I request it.

https://i.imgur.com/Vh44YXd.png
Yes - for instance it makes the Correct Horse Battery Stapler passphrase strategy[1] difficult to apply, because now you can only pick words up to ~4 letters long.

[1]: https://xkcd.com/936/
Write the namespace outline out by hand on a whiteboard or a sheet of paper.

Use a static analyzer to build a graph of the codebase.

Build an adjacency list and a graph of the imports; and topologically + (…) sort.
I've never really understood why people consider aging to be a problem. I'm not sure if we as a civilization have been able to deal with overpopulation, at least looking at currently-overpopulated areas.

Personally, I would rather have an optimal life - one where I don't have any diseases or ailments, so I can live life to the fullest, all the way up until death. So IMO, currently incurable or intractable things like cancer, Alzheimers, Parkinson's, dementia, are more important.

If fixing 'aging' can fix these issues, or if an aging fix is a side-effect of these issues (please enlighten me since I know nothing about aging research) then I would be fine with that - but would still be worried about overpopulation, whether it's the rich or both the rich and poor.
Lao Tzu says that in preparing a defense you welcome an enemy. If we create from our thought and intent, why would we take steps? This thinking instantly puts most people into fear mode, but when you live it and nothing happens fear totally loses any gravity, these discussions are tiresome. People ramdomly go crazy and target people on the internet probably less often than home invasions on houses with unlocked doors. But again quantitative analysis brings us back into the fearful analysis mode and out of abundant loving mode. Hard idea to explain, and my analytical brain comprehends the woowoo, but woowoo is critically important in that thought.
> Many times I see programmers try to come up with a general solutions which becomes a much more difficult sort of problem.

Ouch, are you looking at me? I just chopped out a fragile "general case" implementation of something today and replaced it with something that robustly gets the job done for the small number of cases we have. I was the writer of that fragle cruft a couple of months ago.
Good kid, that Vitalik. Why can't you be more like him, Johnny?
I will bet you that once this rolls out Chrome is going to make it pretty hard to use something like uBO effectively...
Just want to add that biological neurons are stochastic and that artificial neural nets rely on noise injection, random connection dropout, random initialisation and random mini-batch reshuffling to work well. GANs start from a random number in generating images or other types of data. Alternative optimisation strategies to gradient descent - such as evolutionary strategies, use randomness in combining genes for the next generation of agents.

Without randomness we would have no intelligent artificial agents. It's like intelligence can only happen at the demarcation line between chaos and order.
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It's fine if you can invalidate the secret after some finite number of tries and block a particular actor from attacking many accounts. And there's no leaking cross sites if someone obtains and breaks the salted hash db.
Leave it as Hunter2 and call it a day
Unfortunately, Safari itself is closed source, only WebKit is open. :(

Googling the filename of course returns no results.

I am VERY curious how 1Password were confident they'd be able to get anywhere with getting a copy of this. I have no info suggesting they'd have a problem with it, of course, and time will tell if it works out.
Yes, someone created a twitter account in 2013 using my secondary gmail address. Used it for few weeks and posted crap. Got blocked.

I found out only in Dec 2017 when I tried creating a new twitter account. I could reset the password, because I have control over my gmail address. I thought, ban was because email was unverified. So I verified. Even provided a mobile number. Even though, It wouldn't undo the account suspension. I sent support ticket 5+ time, and every time got "Account permanently suspended because of repeated violation of twitter rules".

So unforutnate, ultimately I just created a new gmail/twitter pair.
Ask HN: Any tips on getting into teaching at private schools?
I am in my mid 30s; reasonably successful software career, complete with failed startup.

I recently quit a job that just brought me so much stress and no joy. I like hacking on stuff but "working" has largely killed any ability to enjoy the process.

I have often thought about teaching, I've done some tech based summer programs in the past; and I think it might be a way for me to actually enjoy going to work (at least, most days). I know I'd be taking a huge paycut.

I don't have a degree; I'd love to work in an open environment; at some weird hippy school or something.

Really appreciate any tips or insights.
It sounds to me like this piece indicates that the science is new and unproven, not that it is poisoned by ulterior motives of some sort.

I have two sons who see the world through a very different mental framework from me. We often have lively discussions that give both sides. It keeps us aware that life is multidimensional.

The debate about nature vs nurture often loses sight of the fact that, ultimately, the answer is both. Trying to follow a thread and understand it doesn't mean that one thread is the entirety of the fabric of life. But ignoring that thread doesn't work either.
> It usually ends up either me aborting because of some dependency hell trying to get all the old versions in sync, or I get the system up, take a pleasant trip down memory lane, then 10 minutes later get annoyed by the impracticalities of it, and go back to my current system with renewed appreciation

Hah. I go a bit overboard with windows managers/desktop environments from icewm to fluxbox to KDE to GNOME. I've settled on XFCE but I have a VM solely to muck around with desktop environments and get my fix.

The worst for me is VIm color schemes. Can't seem to choose one I can stick with.
yet they keep raising prices of flagship to see where is the limit

or maybe it actually doesn't matter that shipments are failing since prices are going up and market it's already saturated outside third world countries like India and lower
Words of Wisdom from Hiten Shah, Nir Eyal, Justin Kan on Startup Business
FBox – Kit de Ferramentas Para Facebook Marketing
It wasn't just the price of the software - video ram was still expensive, the idea of wasting a whole bit on each pixel was still something you had to decide you could afford, plus you needed to be able to afford hardware that was fast enough to make a GUI work fast enough to be usable

The hardware behind the Mac arrived at prices where this was doable (at $2400 1984 $$ still really high), the Lisa bombed largely because of its much higher price
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Yet their supporters cannot see the blatant hypocrisy.
They are trying increase the optimal years let’s say 20-40 years now to 20-100 years.
overpopulation isn't a problem, if energy and resource extraction can continue via stella means (rather than tax the planet's environment). For example, dyson swarms for energy, and there's plenty of space on mars/titan/spaceships.

If people are able to live 'forever', may be there's more incentive to invest in these technologies.
Or suddenly the volume jumps.
Sure. But the man-hours required to build an app without the gems you would get for free on Rails is substantial; you would only want to do this if the app in question really calls for speed.

From time to time I get seduced by the romantic idea of building a simple JSON-spitting Go/C#/Java backend for an app, but then I realize that I would have to hand-code an enormous amount of functionality that I would get for free with Rails.
This article takes up Democratic party talking points by framing the government's massive borrowing jump from $519 to $955 billion as caused by the tax cuts. Yet the "blunt" CBO report the WaPo cites actually says just $136 billion in revenue loss is from the tax cut. So there's $300 billion in new borrowing that's simply from runaway spending. So for the entire $955 billion projected deficit next year, just 14% will be from the recent changes in tax law.
> The worst for me is VIm color schemes. Can't seem to choose one I can stick with.

http://vimcolors.com/290/CandyPaper/dark

Been using for years at this point. Very pleased.
An alternative theory is that we read more science fiction, from a younger age, than previous generations of bubble winners.
Awesome guide, I think very spot on and helpful!
It's 31% of the "big jump from the $519 billion the federal government borrowed last year". That's not insignificant.
How Facebook stole the news business
It's not only about some trolls targeting the content creators. It's also about government, government officials and large (ethically challenged) corporations and "organized crime" that one needs to be on guard against. Even if you host with a provider in another jurisdiction who will resist revealing your information, the WHOIS data is a sitting duck. I don't think this piece of advice from Lao Tzu applies to our post-Snowden world. Definitely not for people who are against the powers that be (and on whom healthy democracies depend on).
Executing machine code still can be more performant than interpreting cached execution plan.
Python in Visual Studio Code – Jan 2018 Release
The shell theorem holds true for spherically symmetric distributions and inverse-square laws. The electrostatic force within a spherically-symmetric charged object is exactly 0.

(cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_theorem for some proofs)
An arrest in Moscow leads to a Norwegian espionage mystery
Alchemy Aether Goddess
A male backlash against #MeToo is brewing
From a literary standpoint, I loved this article. It seemed like the sequel to Chinatown. The writing reminded me of a Michael Lewis story. Really enjoyed this.
Yea, that is true. But it’s not something you will be happy assuming about other people.

Fwiw I mostly don’t get alone with people that look like me; this mostly ends up with me being quietly alone so i don’t offend anyone.
Having a physical address for a domain gets even worse because there are country TLDs that mandate providing a real address as a condition for buying and holding a domain with those ccTLDs.
As you speculate, some lines of research address aging by keeping you young. Your DNA is kept young, and as a side effect your muscles are kept young and the ability to quickly recover from injury is restored, like a 20 year old, instead of a 60 year old. I assume this strategy would also protect you from a number of diseases related to DNA aging. Of course, I also assume it wouldn't be a cure all, and we'd still need to address wear and tear in multiple ways.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/03/170323141340.h...