skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are these surfaces basically just level sets of some volumetric density data?
Yeah, it's insane. In my opinion, every state should void these clauses as being against the public policy.
I had quite a similar experience. The looking at the official site method is not an easy way to learn react.

In addition to that, one needs to keep reading the release notes because it is constantly evolving.
I just had this yesterday. Tried to log in, password forgotten, so went through password reset.

Logged in with new password ‘suspicious activity’ (my failed logins before reset) ‘you now must reset your password.’ WTF, I just did minutes ago!
Did you put the merge in a transaction to resolve the issue?
I can understand that as reason to doubt her findings, and have further investigation, but the empirical evidence is increasingly agreeing with her...
«If you're a small business, this matters a LOT.»

With a CC it takes 1-3 business day for the merchant to receive spendable funds. With a crypto tx it takes minutes (the time for 1 confirmation). This is a huge advantage for cryptocurrencies.

«What service, exactly, is more expensive than a 7% fee?»

It's the worldwide average of all remittance companies. See http://remittanceprices.worldbank.org/en which claim 7.13%.

«Major cryptocurrencies currently don't do it, so we shouldn't talk about them as if they do.»

You spoke as if the problem was unfixable. I am clarifying it can be fixed. The reason most cryptocurrencies do not implement UTXO commitment sets is simply that having to store all txs is not (yet) an intolerable pain point.
What pendulum do you see? From here, architectural patterns are clearly converging on a "distributed mainframe" model between containerization and lambda/kappa architectures...

I think Joyent's Manta was ahead of its time in colocating compute and storage and I suspect we'll see more along this vein with the recent open sourcing of FoundationDB.
I wish email clients would ignore font and font size, but maybe not bold & italics of content pasted into the middle of an existing paragraph.

But keep almost all formatting (except font size) if pasted into a new empty paragraph.

But under no circumstances have the formatting under the cursor after the operation changed.

I know that breaks all convention and would probably cause more problems, but boy would I be happy.
One problem with putting developers in direct contact with customers is that we developers tend to be more terse, more concrete, more exact, than the average Joe(lla). And that leads us to occasionally use the word "no". And that word infuriates and terrifies average Joe(lla)'s bosses.

I completely agree that good software requires this direct contact, but you have to find the right people.
They couldn't offer an answer at all, or they offered an answer that didn't involve bitwise AND?
Huh... I guess we'll have to stop putting the keys to sensitive data into the hands of technologically incompetent people. We'll have to raise the bar of expectations for average people in the 21st century to have some basic understanding of computer operations and how to safely utilize the Internet without being taken advantage of by every street hustler they happen across.

Mr. Mitnick is my hero.
FWIW, setting privacy.firstparty.isolate to 'true' in Firefox prevents this from working.
Their version of fp16 (bfloat as they call it) is very interesting. 7 bits of mantissa is only about 2 decimals of precision!
Vigilante Hacks [Iranian] Government-Linked Cyberespionage Group [ZooPark]
I'm interested in what work they're doing on UI, rather than hardware design. Devices like these often lack polish, so I'm curious what solutions they've come up with.
I feel like if I ever have some spare time I have to write code in a new language to keep up with the treadmill. Is it possible to have a family and a hobby? Seems like the only way to get stuff done you like it to get the family to like it too, then it becomes an outing.
Jeff Bezos doesn't need to work a single day for the rest of his life. So people "take it cynically", because it is very easy to give advice from a position where you don't have to take it.

Some of us have bills to pay and families to raise. Even if I am miserable because I have to spend my 8 hours of sunlight making CEO Von Richenstein wealthier, I can't just walk away and take the risk that my next job will be different. It's just stressful.

So work-life balance means... valuing your time as your own. It's pretty rich for someone who only works because they want to to suggest that the rest of us should do the same without any of the same security.
Former Marine Corps NCO checking in. I'm about to start at Stripe in a few weeks. You're not wrong, but we do show up now and again.
I had all but given up on our banks. They are really herding us into the arms of crypto. Now I just need a Monero hardware wallet.
> and the only warning you get is a post card at the original address telling you the mail is being forwarded

Uh, I didn't get one of those a few years ago when I moved. After the move I mailed something to my old address to make sure it worked.
Making a Laptop from Scratch
Rikka Takanashi – Billiard Bunny – (小鳥遊 六花)
"San Francisco hands out millions of syringes a year to drug users but has little control over how they are discarded..."

That's a crock. They could go back to needle exchange programs, where used syringes have to be turned in to obtain new syringes without prescription.
Yes it is. My goodness, this is one of the best things about HN.
What I'm left wondering is why it took the employees at that UPS branch three months to notice that they weren't receiving any mail?
>The EU has mostly banned them and it doesn't look to be suffering any damage.

It's also the region of the world least susceptible to food shortages.
It means that the only people that can cut your connectivity off are in a completely different jurisdiction. Useful if you have a lot of sketchy traffic.
I am not a lawyer but I went to law school and know a few things. Talk to a lawyer and take my comments with a grain of salt. Also this only applied within the United States.

The legal definition of disparagement is closely related to a freedom of speech. In order to disparage, legally, you must make a statement that is false, injurious, and derogatory. That’s actually illegal in perpetuity with or without signing that statement. You can’t make a false, injurious, derogatory statement about an organization.

On the other hand some companies have attempted to change the definition of disparagement to mean something else. For example “you can’t say anything bad about your experience at the company.” Nope, sorry, that doesn’t fit the legal definition of disparagement. If you say something bad about your time at the company, which is true, it’s not disparagement. It’s a right according to your freedom of speech. And you can’t sign away that right. However, even this gets misunderstood.

A corporation does not have to allow you to say anything you want without repercussions. They just can only hand down repercussions that they have access too. For example, if you were to say bad things about the company you work for that are true, they do not have to continue to employ you. Or ever employ you again. That is their right. But they can’t say that you can’t say those things. They also have the right to attempt a civil action against you for disparagement. They may win or lose.

So anyway, are you over reacting? Maybe. I doubt that any paper about disparagement would actually change any of your rights in any way at all.
https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/compliance-enfor...

"Affinity Health Plan, Inc. will settle potential violations of the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules for $1,215,780. OCR’s investigation indicated that Affinity impermissibly disclosed the protected health information of up to 344,579 individuals when it returned multiple photocopiers to a leasing agent without erasing the data contained on the copier hard drives."
It seems to me that any sufficiently equipped lab can run these tests. How about Consumer Reports? Well Consumer Reports sucks these days so maybe somebody else...
Anyone else too trusting in clicking the buttons? Brilliant idea to demonstrate the issue with a like to his own blog post!
How would you reconcile "substantial price increase due to bee requirements" to "sub-inflationary increases in pollination prices"? Again, you don't have to guess about this: pollination prices are tracked and published. We don't need the axiomatic method to figure this out; Google does just fine.
There's no way I would buy a mac for iMessage, but I would be inclined to use iMessage on my windows PC. This seems like a net positive for Apple
Service Meant to Monitor Inmates’ Calls Could Track You, Too
You have a point. I think "not organic" in this context is shorthand for "not allowed in organic agriculture." Scanning the reg, the USDA's list is titled "Prohibited Natural Substances."
Great link.

The revelation for me: On-premise gear specific to upstream sources -- Netflix, Google -- turns out to be a business requirement. So NG are more effectively natural monopolies than we might have guessed. Unhappy implications for small WISPs, and for smaller video sites -- Vimeo.
I strongly prefer reading on an eInk display. I work on a screen all day, but I'd definitely choose "Not reading a book" over "Reading it on a computer display" (a paper copy is still the best reading experience, though -- just less convenient for storage and other such things)

The other pro for the Kindle is that if I put it in flight mode, I need to charge it once a month or so.
Why do people buy premium cable and content? To skip the Ads
Strangely, clang (but not gcc 7.2) with -O0 generates different code for the two.

https://godbolt.org/g/N8mTL6
Thanks. I hadn't thought it through so clearly.

But wait, how does traffic get to that remote peer?
Most versions of Lync/Skype for Business allow you to keep conversation history locally in Outlook. It's under Skype for Business> tools> options> Personal> check whether you have ticked “save IM conversations in my email Conversation History folder”. It can be disabled by the SfB admins though.

Newer versions do support server side logging to your Outlook mailbox too but it must be configured by the SfB and Exchange admins.
Contentder All Set to Participate in CeBIT Australia
Total aside, but where did her "baggy-eyed programmer in a dark cave with Red Bull or a unintelligible savant who can’t get a date" picture come from? Know Your Meme just says "unknown".

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/9L-mUL4tDVCe322V-fYpUHbQxP...

Was it a staged stock photo, or was it just some guy? If the latter, I wonder how he'd feel about his role in her article?
R3 Corda: Deep dive and technical review
That's a really good point. Are there independent tests corroborating this? If so, why hasn't the alarm been sounded before now? Or was it and nobody paid attention after the next news cycle?
Well, you could use it while competing in the IOCCC:

https://www.ioccc.org/
Worth noting that NIST has published a brief report[1] providing risk management guidance on this security concern.

[1] http://dx.doi.org/10.6028/NIST.IR.8023
Even the executable is still named lync
There is essentially none. You could write a check out to "Mickey Mouse" and deposit it into your bank account and I doubt anyone would notice.

If there is any verification, it occurs after the fact when someone complains that a payment got lost. Then the banks start looking to see what happened.
Reddit is a fantastic place for astroturf to sprout. It's almost designed explicitly for it. I don't know why people trust that place or mimic their awful system (such as this forum for instance)
Much more interesting than production of hydrogen (which has been achieved elsewhere: https://phys.org/news/2011-09-artificial-leaf-fuel-sunlight-...) is integrated production of stuff more useful than hydrogen.

https://phys.org/news/2016-05-bacterium-inhales-carbon-dioxi...

You can grow bacteria in the same water, and given CO2, they produce and excrete hydrocarbons. Daniel Nocera uses Ralston eutropha bacteria, and a different catalyst.
And if you want to make chiptunes on the go, check out the Pocket Operator synthesizers that he designed [0]. They're a ton of fun, and people on the bus will ask you why you have headphones plugged into your calculator.

[0] http://www.linusakesson.net/music/po-2x/index.php
If you are depositing into your own account you could even take it to a human teller and likely get it deposited without so much as a raised eyebrow.

Of course, depositing it into your own account creates a "paper trail" that will eventually lead to some law enforcement officer discussing your activities with you at some time in the future.
I am completely unable to view my message history. And worse I have a missed message notification that refuses to go away. Somewhere along the line I missed a message but there's nothing there to see....

What a piece of garbage.
Lets not put all vaccines into a sigle category. There are many different types of vaccines, from how they work to how they are actually manufactured, and they all carry different levels of risks. Blanket statements are not helpful.
This isn't "script all your resources in Terraform so you can move to Google Cloud, hypothetically". We're talking about a database system here. By now, we've learned many times over that an open-source platform is a huge benefit; if we're at the point where Microsoft is being forced to admit it via things like SQL Server and .NET Core, I'd say that the closed-source platform ship has more or less sailed at this point. Aurora moves you off an open platform and onto a closed one. This is a bigger concern than "Amazon probably won't shut it down tomorrow".

And on top of that, in the realm of database engineering, Amazon is absolutely a newcomer, they've got another good 15 years before they can even start to be in contention for "reliable and trustworthy database vendor". Goes doubly when you consider that Aurora is essentially just a bunch of performance hacks to (old versions of) InnoDB and Postgres. Presumably, upstreams like MariaDB and PostgreSQL have forgone similar enhancements for a better reason than "only Amazon employees are smart enough to figure it out".
A taxi driver who speaks good English is pretty rare here too but plenty speak a little. Definitely a minority but they exist.

English is common in the professional world, absolutely, but it’s not necessary for a high level professional career like it would be in most of Western Europe.
But isn't there always some intermediary with a local presence?
> Shortly after thie article was published, Google silently prevented my domain from using the API:
> The client origin is not permitted to use this API.
> Welp.

So some buttons stoped working, and now you have to believe that everything was as the blog said. Well, it was.

And a "mitigation" from google being just avoiding the access to the API just makes things more interesting.
> Now, I'm presenting you another button. It doesn't have much to say except "harmless", and I challenge you to click it.

In an article like this I can't help but think that the "[ ] Behind the scene" button is the real bait.
I thought the

>It’s very striking to me how Warren and Charlie at Berkshire and how the
folks at Koch Industries are so into a kind of epistemology, and structuring of
doubt, and accounting for biases, and mechanisms for a clarity of thinking,
to a very striking degree.

bit was interesting
But as pointed out in the article, JS method of detecting if your page was embbeded is a bit unreliable.
AI-is-the-new-Java edition: http://joelgrus.com/2016/05/23/fizz-buzz-in-tensorflow/
Your summary is pretty good. Here's the full report (PDF): http://s3.amazonaws.com/CHINFO/USS+Fitzgerald+and+USS+John+S...
Linux: A Portable Operation System by Linus Torvalds [pdf] (1997)
What sort of maintenance is actually needed though?

Rust promises that existing versions of crates will build and run in the future, assuming the crate is well-behaved and doesn't do anything illegal with unsafe code. That's part of Rust's general stability guarantee.

Maybe "blessed to be maintained" means crates get ongoing critical security fixes? Thanks to Rust, for most crates that's a very low-probability concern. (Obvious exceptions for features like HTTP and TLS that contain their own security decisions.)

Maybe you mean that all kinds of bugs will continue to be fixed and the quality of the crate will keep increasing? I don't think any languages really give you that; they all have standard library features that are effectively end-of-life. A lot of application developers don't even WANT such fixes since there's always a risk of breaking previously-working applications.

So I think it would make sense for the Rust community to commit to a subset of crates for ongoing maintenance, but for probably the majority of crates you could just keep using the exact same version for the next five years with no worries.
Oh and whoever decided that Win+F4 is an appropriate shortcut key for Mute Microphone can go fly a freaking kite.

Seriously. On what planet is this ever acceptable. It seems like a sophomore joke.
This is what you would see if it still worked:

https://twitter.com/LiveOverflow/status/994560352149999616
Medium cancels the membership programs of its subscription publisher partners
"up to snuff on the HTTP front"

I think this is a pretty major piece as well. Go was introduced many years earlier, backed by Google marketing and had strong HTTP services as a day one feature; it was designed for probably the most popular use case by perhaps the most influential fount of new tech. Given all that has Go really done all that well? Has it gone much beyond network services and a couple other niches (Docker/K8s etc?) It's not really displacing C/C++ in 'systems' use cases. It's not a go-to language for Machine Learning. The runtime+GC obviates most embedded work. You don't see any meaningful uptake of Go among Google's peers; Apple, Microsoft, Oracle, etc. I wonder just how important Go really is.
experimenting with sentiments ... err Connecting People at All Costs®
These are really interesting examples. In Python, the HTTP client in the standard lib is pretty crappy compared to requests, which is the defacto standard. Likewise, the CSV library in the Python stdlib is not very good, but can't improve much for compatibility reasons.

Developers have different needs. Some value stability, some value bleeding edge features. Trying to put libraries in the standard library and freezing their interface is really tricky to balance.

Though the ecosystem is still young, the long term story for "batteries included" in Rust is going to be a rich ecosystem in Cargo, not a rich standard library.
1) This is true. Though, AdNauseam was originally a Firefox extension and is still available on Firefox. You can still install it on Chrome from source. Maybe I was too strong saying it was 'shut down' -- I was more referring to the fact that action has already been taken against AdNauseam when it was still small. I'm curious for when Pi-Hole gets the same kind of treatment.

2) If the goal (of PiHole and other ad/tracking blockers) is to encourage a subscription model over an advertising model for publishers, I'd argue that making ads ineffective for publishers is much more important than directly attacking advertisers' profits. Without publishers willing to host ads, advertisers will lose anyways.
REITs will be terrible investments in a rising interest rate environment. Right now its survivable but as interest rates keep going up, they will get hammered in value.
Thanks! I don't know a thing about military justice, so I was wondering about the significance of this plea/the punishment.
oes Zoom support linux?
Sploshing for Beginners
>Blended entrepreneurial programs (BEPs) are attempting to answer this need by merging university-level entrepreneurial education with discipline-focused degrees in STEAM fields.

I was involved in some business education from the engineering department and it was pretty bad. Mostly academics talking about so and so's theory of the firm and no real business experience whatsoever.
This is fascinating. I've never seen an obituary published so long after someone's death before.
SuperBroomAndKicks
Besides being a crime, it doesn't work anymore (you weren't the only one to think of that).

Now, if the return address on unstamped mail isn't within the local delivery area, it just goes to the dead letter pile.
I need the best damn air purifier you've got
>>At least optional typing and macros are not considered to be universal benefits for programming.

They are, if they use them enough.

Some body mentioned in this post that number of programmers from the 1980s has gone up from probably a million to 20 million or so.

What happened is that we had to lower the bar to entry, such that we now have many novices and a few experts. Most people want to just come in coast 9 - 5 and go home, so you have very few people who want to push the limits of their tools.
"You have a house that doesnt require to build more solar panels? Great I did not want to pay and maintain that".
News Corp. Calls for Algorithm Review Board to Monitor for Potential Abuse
It's been open to everyone 13 and up since 2006. I would know, I was a teenager at the time. And I looked it up before commenting. And age restrictions online are, well, easily ignored.
Sorry, you're actually very right. I think I misread this in the case of a default argument example (which at least for codebases I work with are diligent about doing None tests for ) but if you know that the value is set to a sequence then the boolean test is common
Essentially yes. You'll need something like Firefox Sync or providers will have to implement a way of adding devices.

However the WebAuthn API also leaves options for password managers and other endpoints managing the actual secrets.
> Entrepreneurs are known for their creativity and risk tolerance; engineers, mathematicians, and health care workers typically aren’t.

Lost me in the first line:

1) The moment an engineer takes a risk and starts a company we stop calling them an engineer and start calling them an entrepreneur. If your job title is "engineer" then you by definition haven't taken that risk, but that doesn't mean that a lot of entrepreneurs don't come from an engineering background. (I believe the term hereabouts is 'technical co-founder'.)

2) Creativity is vital to engineering if you're building anything remotely new or different. Just because the product of that creativity is useful doesn't mean it isn't creative.
What are some reliable, fairly priced alternatives to GoDaddy for registrar/webhosting?
Pretty sure GP was being sarcastic.