skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Part of the problem is a confusion between raw poll results—where 59-41 means almost certain victory to one side—and statistical likelihood.

On election night, Fivethirtyeight gave Trump a 29 percent chance of winning the electoral college. Not a 71-29 poll result, a nearly three-in-ten chance of winning. Let that sink in for a second, and reevaluate the media narrative that the pollsters got it wrong.
You can grow food however you like, for the most part. If you want to participate in certification, then that's what you have to do.

Furthermore, many modern 'organic' methods are anything but centuries old. Heavy use of Bacillus thuringiensis toxin, copper compounds, compost tea, etc. etc. are all quite new. That's not to say they aren't safe; there are a few practices which warrant more scrutiny, but for the most part they're alright. But the point is that many people are terribly mischaracterizing actual farming practices.
Recode Decode- Interviews with leaders in tech (sometimes politics and entertainment) to talk about modern issues revolving the tech industry.
Mastodon is the closest thing I've seen but I've never tried setting it up.
And they said I was crazy when I was warning about ransomware for self-driving cars (especially given carmakers mostly continue to ignore the software security issues). Their time will come.
Prosthetic memory system successful in humans
A Figure of Merit: Measuring the Accuracy of the Enfield Muzzleloader
Each step in the transaction flow appends a new step - digitally signed - into a JSON document that acts as a ledger. So the seller puts out the listing and the buyers signs it and sends the funds. The seller won't proceed with the order until the payment is made in full, so the ledger doesn't get any new information until then. The final step (the review) is the last addition to the ledger.

It's based on the concept of the Ricardian Contract by Ian Grigg, adapted to become a ledger. This allows trade to continue asynchronously.
I think it's absolutely OK to lie until you get to the in-person interviews where there's less emphasis on buzz keywords and more focus on your actual skills.
Every purchase goes to a unique address. Multiple payments can be made to that address but they constitute a single purchase.
Show HN: jack-cli – “git log” with actions
No, the window and tab were focused. It would be that the scrollable element wasn't focused.
Sure, but that's not as helpful as if you could compare two powerbanks directly, or comparing it to your phone.
It's not the solar wind I'm worried about re: uranus.
The wind I'm concerned with portends very large payload rockets immanent arrival trajectories.
It's definitely stinkier than any hazard any interplanetary crewed mission has had to deal with, hitherto.
Certainly, but I don't think that's the first interpretation of the word people think of when it's associated with the President.
BIG MILLION!!!
That’s still N95 with respect to particulate filtration. P95, to split hairs, but equivalent with respect to the topic at hand.
You can create custom audiences by Facebook id (or email, phone number, etc)

https://www.facebook.com/business/help/606443329504150?helpr...
.NET doesn't have heap interior pointers (today), but that doesn't matter for this argument. You still need to be able to mark objects as live even if they're only referenced by interior pointers.
How do you go after the network as a whole?

The nice thing about decentralization is that it forces government to be more surgical in their enforcement. State actors have all the tools necessary to identify and target individual bad actors. You have to be a real champion not to leak data or make a mistake over time. Bitcoin, for example, is much harder to hide than cash. In centralized systems it's just easier to be lazy and implement mass surveillance and absolute control - which a lot of people in the community disagree with.

Terrorism for example barely exists, and barely ever existed, but massive apparatuses that infringe on the liberties of billions of people have been implemented in the name of it.

Child porn, chemical/radioactive weapons trading, and assassination requests are the big 3 often cited - but really these too barely exist, and nations have more than enough resources to counter them with precision.
What makes you think that the current process isn't good? That regulatory experts, say like the FDA/USDA/EPA haven't given it any rigorous thought?

Hybridization of plants swaps thousands of genes at random, in an uncontrolled manner. We've been doing that for a thousand years, and just breeding stuff out in fields to see what sticks.

Geneticaly modifying rice to produce more vitamin A required changing only 2 genes, instead of thousands, but somehow people find that scarier because it seems "new".
I believe a bunch of legislation has language regarding being "aware" and "knowingly facilitating." Safe harbor goes out the window if you know things are going on and do nothing. How being p2p factors in is beyond my armchair.
I think they just described IntelliJ + Contexts and Tasks feature.
Drupal fixes highly critical flaw, but offers no details
Aren't all data brokers basically all like Cambridge Analytica? Aside from the electoral influence thing. But do we even know data from data brokers wasn't used in similar fashion? Seems like a small chance that wouldn't happen.
That is fair.

But I suspect your training and experience with car fires is substantial compared to EV fires. I suppose I didn't meant to say they are simple but rather well understood.

I wonder when there are literally hundreds of unique popular models of EV on the road, whether there will be issues arising from having innumerable unique designs for battery packs, first responder lines etc.
Facebook Will Cut Off Access to Third Party Data for Ad Targeting
I used to go outside and talk to people.
What if super powers do exist? Yes,They do
It's important to note there are plans for the development company behind OpenBazaar to launch a token[0].

[0]https://www.coindesk.com/token-summit-surprise-openbazaar-la...
SF Will Regulate Electric Scooter Sharing
> the only target audience for that consists of Radar techs walking around in front of hugeass antennas

And perhaps US diplomats in Cuba.
>Dark matter is a theory that fits the observations.

You are mistaking "theory" and "hypothesis". Dark matter is a hypothesis. It is unproven, it has not been observed. Describing this as a "galaxy devoid of dark matter" rather than "a galaxy where the dark matter hypothesis does not add up" is absurd. There is a difference between speculation about potential causes for observed phenomena and observed phenomena themselves.
Ask HN: Dell Win10 laptop preconfigured to allow unwanted games through firewall
While installing and configuring a new database server on my new Dell Windows 10 laptop, I found the Windows Defender Firewall to be preconfigured to allow a number of King games (Candy Crush, Bubble Witch, March of Empires) plus some Xbox-named items through both Private and Public firewall elements.

I have never installed, used, or considered any King game on any device I have, nor do I have any Xbox usage.

Is this normal? Is there no risk here?

These are all under the "Allow an app or feature through Windows Defender Firewall".

I see no reference to this on Stackoverflow, either.
I sincerely can't remember the last time I saw a hollywood movie where a single bullet could cause a car to fireball.
> strictly Copyright (C) Mother Nature

What would be the point of it? In both cases we're seeking genetic modifications. In one case, it is targeted and precise, in another - random and probabilistic, i.e. we don't know whether the modification we want (sweeter apple, nicer carrot, etc.) didn't also bring along something we don't. Or at least we don't without analyzing the genome and selecting only those with genome we want - in which case it's just a very convoluted way of producing GMO.

It's like typing code by throwing rock at the keyboard until they hit necessary character and calling it "natural Organic coding" - surely, you could do that, but what exactly is the point?

If you say "but those genetic modifications have been tested by centuries of time" - also not really, many cultivars we're eating today are relatively recent, late 19th to 20th century. E.g. Fuji apples one sees everywhere were introduced to US marked in 1980s. And for many cultivars, there was no serious studies about their safety. Of course, if people start dropping dead in place from eating certain kind of apple, it would be noticed. But otherwise - we have little data, and nobody is too worried about it.
Mastodon is federated, yes? I think Diaspora is distributed. But I haven't used either in a while.
I'm fairly sure there are multiple downvote bots operating on HN. Frequently, certain comments to topics considered by some as "political" on HN will get an immediate 2 or 3 downvotes in the first 30 seconds, and then over the course of the next 2 or 3 hours, be upvoted back up to black.

Although it's possible that there's some confounding happening here, such as the handful of people who hit refresh on HN hundreds of times a day are also ones who can't stand certain political viewpoints. But it seems unlikely. Far more likely is that there are a handful of downvote bots in operation on a keyword basis.

It's not a huge deal to me, but it does seem kind of obvious.
Well, risks are always about probability of occurrence and impact. So while it is unlikely that some GM plant causes some catastrophic scenario, but when it does it is likely to spread so the impact would be big.

I know that unknown threats are everywhere and there are a lots of other things I am concerned of too, but in the end I am used to live with that and it doesn't change my view on the topic.
It's interesting to note that the submitted blog post has no mention of the plans to launch a token[0].

[0]https://www.coindesk.com/token-summit-surprise-openbazaar-la...
Beware interpreting interoperability as a form of fair use. I wish we could make that assumption, but I don't think it's warranted.
What’s the name for the fallacy whereby some casually informed third party is challenged by a rando to explain a complicated concept in detail, whereupon failing to do so the rando’s whacko theory becomes truth?
How do you mean? How do you think the risks (which are expected given the very high stakes here) should change the parent's perspective?
This is cool, I guess. Personally coding in a terminal like window for me would be awful - I like using my mouse to navigate among folders and save stuff etc in Atom/VSCode like environments. Plus, how often are people switching branches of code that the number of key strokes for git becomes a problem? Seems like an overengineered solution for a very niche audience - if it works for them great though.
Where can I read about this that is written by a physicist, but isn't written by Stoyan Sarge (the original author).

The reason for the second requirement is I don't know enough physics to call bullshit on bullshit. So I'd prefer to read a third party who does know enough discussing the results than the original author.

My google foo isn't finding anything.
The supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies really can't have anything to do with dark matter or any possible alternatives. A few light years away from the SMBH the black hole behaves like any other ordinary astrophysical object. Moreover, at least in our galaxy, the stars in the central bulge outweigh the SMBH by a factor of about 10,000.
This is neat to hear about. I've had episodic and reference memory issues since my youth so it'll be nice if that's actually a thing that'll benefit others in the same shoes. I can tell you quite assuredly that it sucks.
Russia has been doing this for a long time, for example Trotsky was assassinated in 1940 [1]. The goal is to remind the "traitors" that the punishment can come at any time and make them live in fear.

It reminds me how some religious communities go after the people who don't follow their rules even after they flee to other country [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Trotsky#Assassination

[2] https://meduza.io/en/feature/2017/05/25/we-will-set-them-str...
Do white boys ever enter the query "white boys" into a search engine? I assume some HN users could speak to this...
Update: Should be fixed now!
Ideologically I like where you’re coming from, but legally speaking I think you’re going to prison.
> As a computer scientist it feels to me like someone is patching the binaries of 'grep' and 'cp' together and hopes to use the resulting binaries to build autonomous drones.

No, it's like applying a patch to a code base, compiling it, testing it and expecting it to work. Which is literally what millions of software engineers do every day.

> So don't get me wrong, I am completely pro research, but also completely against usage outside of laboratories.

What's the point in that research than? Idle curiosity?

> but for me it ends where you could not achieve the same result with a handful of normal breeding cycles.

That's like saying it's ok to run binaries, but only if we compile them by hand on paper without using a compiler. If the result is the same, as even you admit, what's the point of taking the hard route?
That would solve the TSA search issue. Just carry two microsd cards.
Do you have a reference on G1 read barriers? I believe you, but I can't find any information about that from a Google search.

I don't immediately see why you'd need a read barrier for snapshot-at-the-beginning. You only need to trace references from gray objects to white objects that were deleted, which is a write.
Bill Gates tells Nigerian leaders to 'face facts'
criticism follows understanding, so the only honest answer is “quite a lot”

i realize this isn’t widely appreciated or accepted in the age of critical theory, when social desirability leads people to complain about everything in the guise of “fighting oppression,” but it’s a simple real-world fact that no one solves problems from a position of ignorance
Anyone that has or is close to having something like that would probably do good to get the voice out there just about now.. Marketing vice, and for anyone that is sitting on the fence to bail other "solutions".
This is very true. I suppose a mirror isn't quite the right analogy for Google, either. It's like film, a snapshot of what it thinks life is like. And for film, there are lots of technical problems for filming black actors, the likes of which had been solved 60 years prior for white actors[0]. It's very possible that the algorithm, captures a version of reality that doesn't show people of color in a good light.

And yes, these problems should be solved, and Google should use its editorial control to do the right thing. I believe it has done so, though perhaps not proactively enough. But these are hard problems, ones that are still not solved in other industries. Web search is still a young industry.

[0]: https://mic.com/articles/184244/keeping-insecure-lit-hbo-cin...
Of course there is a limit, but I feel like many shoppers do not seriously compare very many cars and sometimes brand loyalty trumps even the most negative experiences.

Either way, it means that Ford's position is pretty secure for a while.
Wonder what the effects of the great plastic islands in the oceans are.
Well the submitted blog post is old and predates our curation token plans so it's not really weird. A token will never be required to use the protocol. Even if we tried to make it work that way we'd be forked because it's fundamentally unnecessary for the base protocol.
I think there are two sides of equation. You can be passionate about the literal problem (search, AI, whatever) or the underlying problem with tech (I could imagine finding interesting problems around new indexing techniques, rapid access, etc if you wanted to really get into the nitty gritty)
This is really absurd, most HR people in this field would go out of their way to hire the demographics you mention.

Plus, those years of experience requirements are dumb and nobody, not even large corporations, even enforces them in my experience. The closest thing you'll get to having this kind of requirement be enforced is people that are sticklers for college degrees.
It's really easy to start working on and switch between several different branches at the same time. O&M fixes may be handled by a different team and regularly need to be moved into development. Now add in some experimental branches used for various things etc.
The Selectric has nice scroll wheels.
Yes it is but I've not seen anyone using Diaspora. If I'm wrong that'd be great but I've not seen anything better than Mastodon with any kind of traction.
The idea is this:

given the complete graph and add some external data, you can identify those users you should advertise to, i. e. jane@test.com.

BUT: what is still possible, and what Cambridge Analytica was actually building, is slightly different: with a statistical sample of maybe a few ten thousand complete profiles, you can build a statistical model that targets your advertisement not to a user, but a set of criteria: "Males between the ages of 35 and 40 living in a mid-sized town in Texas who liked curling and Star Wars Episode I, but has never traveled to Australia". This is still perfectly possible.

It's likely the latter model performs at least 90% as well as the former, with an upward trajectory as methods are improved. Note that CA probably didn't get this working terribly well. But someone else definitely will.

Intuitively, I am far more uncomfortable with the first. But practically, I can't really think of a reason why.
This only applies to people that have installed your Facebook app (not to their friends). In the CA case, that means they would have been able to specifically target a few hundred thousand people, but they didn’t do that because the app had long been deleted before the 2016 election.

Facebook actually cares about this issue. The bug bounty I was awarded arose from the fact that you could build a custom audience email list using user_nickname@facebook.com without knowing their actual email address. So you could simply write a bot that visited Facebook.com/profile.php?id=4 and see that it redirected to Facebook.com/zuck, and now knowing that “zuck” is the user nickname corresponding to user ID 4, you could then put him in your custom audience list using zuck@facebook.com. That worked for all 2 billion people on the platform, because at one point Facebook gave everyone an @facebook.com email address that mapped to their account. However, that issue has been fixed and was fixed before the election.
Facebook Funds Campaign to Block a California Data-Privacy Measure
It turns out concrete and brick have completely different, almost polar opposite, seismic properties. Here in CA, concrete is what you want a foundation to be made from. We learned the hard way that brick foundations are prone to crumbling.

Brick is certainly strong up to a point, but when it fails, it fails spectacularly.
This is a good point, but I also think that any search engine is inherently an amplifier, so it's simplistic to say they should just fix it somehow.
The Absence of Strong Women
Show HN: A site creating automated Spotify playlists of the music about to play
The recent SESTA/FOSTA debacle is just one example of why such decentralized networks are needed.
The smugness in each of the interviews I've watched is pretty hard to ignore.
I view it similarly to the creation of BitTorrent. Yes, it was used to facilitate illegal activity, but the creators of the technology themselves didn't host the infrastructure or break the law. We shouldn't be afraid to build new things just because they can be abused.

Also we monitor the network and the overwhelming majority is legal trade. If that changed at some point then it might be a different question.
For me what killed MSN Messenger was Microsoft. I would have not had a need to ever use FB Messenger were it not for the merge of Skype and Messenger. Both Skype and Messenger were good back then by themselves, but the result of the merge wasn't so convincing for me. I literally only use Skype to talk with my parents - noone else even uses it anymore...
In my experience it's been more like:

61% of Entry-Level Jobs "Require" 3+ Years of Experience.
(They almost never do in practice)
> That makes me feel even more weird about going Slashdot, HN, sometimes-Reddit-but-mostly-HN.

Same, except I started with CompuServe, then MSN before /. I visit a few reddits now, but I still don't really like the feel for some reason.
The f, l, and r hurt my eyes in a way I didn't know I could be hurt until now! There's something diabolical about that right angle and unnatural narrowing.
I think its a mix of different perspectives. Theres people like you and myself who hear all this about applying to hundreds of jobs and it sounds absurd. For you it sounds like this is because you got lucky enough to not even need to look. Then theres those who apply to hundreds of jobs and then wonder why they don't get many responses.

Something to note there is, how much attention is being paid to each listing. For the jobs you've applied and gotten, you probably were a really great fit.

Having reached a point of being on the other side, looking for people to hire, I think there are really warped perceptions all around. If your hiring, you aren't swamped with great candidates but with resumes. Basically, most resumes go in the trash, but because most of them are hollow, there was nothing there to start. If you're actually skilled and can demonstrate it in any way then its far easier to find a job. I think most of the people who apply to 200+ jobs to get one either are not skilled or don't know how to demonstrate that they are.
It's too bad but this is unfortunately how things work. You may start the company and as you get more and more people on the board that are not on your team your voice gets quieter.

Until the people on the board vote to replace you and the silence is deafening.

Brutal what business has come to
Yeah. I miss Messenger, it could have become what FB Messenger is now, but Microsoft decided otherwise.
> I think what killed AIM, MSN, etc. was SMS.

The United States got SMS a lot later in the piece than other countries, didn't they? From my experience the opposite of what you said appeared to be true - what started to kill SMS here was services like MSN messenger and eventually facebook etc afterwards
If you use computer/phone-based VPN, try https://www.dnsleaktest.com/ or http://dnsleak.com/

I have VPN on my home router with Tomato firmware. All of my devices pass this flawlessly.
At this point I'd wish HN would take a month off of new typefaces similar to the break from politics ;)

Really though, this is sort of a silly trend. Why does every tech company need to create their own typeface? Do they actually think anyone is going to care, or even notice?
It's also important to note that distribution plans are not final so there's no reason to believe money will be made from it.
and it didnt even matter what network others were on, you just installed adium/pidgin/etc which could connect to all of the networks and abstract it away. today everything is completely walled off
The essential element of the solution for Meltdown is the same in every x86-64 OS: unmapping the kernel when in usermode. This is widely hated because it makes kernel entries and exits much slower, and blows away the TLB if your hardware doesn't have PCID support.
I've been writing C for 20 years and I have no idea what I am reading.
Yes but you have to be able to fake it for at least the duration of an interview.
It also includes your youtube videos (you have uploaded).

So maybe "the file is 5.5GB BIG, which is roughly 1 movie" would also be a fair comparison to make.