skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Paper can be found at [1]

[1] "Energy and time optimal trajectories in exploratory jumps of the spider Phidippus regius" [ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-25227-9 ]
> With the emulator broken

Except it's not? Not even remotely true anymore. Starts up instantly now even, they just showed that off. And if you're opposed to Intel HAXM you can now use Hyper-V https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visualstudio/2018/05/08/hyp...
I've just realised I wasn't very clear about the way they complement each other - uMatrix is a lot more more configurable and a lot more fine-grained, but at the cost of taking some time to master. I believe the investment of time was worth it. I use uBlock for set-and-forget coarse control and for the excellent filter lists, then use uMatrix for customisations.
We haven't given up on walking or cycling but what about horseback riding? A tiny fraction of the population even interact with horses on an annual basis, let alone use them for anything but entertainment.

In this case, walking and cycling are like the basic functions of self discipline that almost everyone does like eating and going to the restroom. However, there are a significant number of people who need technological and human assistance with both of those things - whether it be because of age or genetics or poor life choices. All of those people are massively helped by technology.

Just because most people can walk on their own doesn't mean that we should force paraplegic to do so.
Notepad is literally just the Windows EDIT control with some trivial code to transfer the data in it to/from files, and a menu to change some of the edit control's options.

I don't think it needs much improvement, really. Anything besides fixing bugs in its own code (i.e. this "extended line endings support" is in the edit control) would go against its core principle. There's Notepad++ and all the other "heavier" editors if you want more features.
Investing implies no such time horizon.

Investing is spending money with an expectation of a return.

For contrast, expenses have no expected return.

Neither have a time horizon. And further, what would “long term” be anyway? Not sure how you could ever define it.
You could write almost the exact same post for Knights of the Old Republic II. Great game, but it's clear where they ran out of money.

Obduction seems like it ran out of money at the end as well. It's really well designed and polished, with logical Myst-style puzzles and Dark Souls-style shortcuts. And then the last "level" is 30 seconds long and followed up by an awful looking cutscene. I still recommend it if you like Myst, but it is incomplete.
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Yeah, I think it's safe to say most Linux and macOS systems don't have an editor as basic as Notepad (even ed has regex support!) The closest equivalent I can think of is Mousepad from Xfce. I don't really see the need for it either. If your distro comes with something like nano, gedit or KWrite out of the box, why would you need something like Notepad?
When I first used firefox I was just some kid in high school. Me and many of my peers used firefox for years free of charge. We shared it with out parents and grandparents.

I would consider this as contribution to this wider community beyond just Mozilla's bottom line.
If you were wondering whether to upgrade to Windows 10 I think this settles it.

As long as the telemetry/phoning home is still pervasive and difficult to disable completely, no. Ever since ~2K/XP or so it's always been one step forward, many steps back.
Again. There is no evidence that has been presented to date that indicates that hardware keys were given to the Chinese government.

We suspect it may have happened. But nobody actually knows.
While it's mostly bots trying to attack Wordpress, it's also blocked a few people spidering us aggressively (probably competitors) and other people trying attacks. Once it's scripted through a Chef cookbook, it's applied to all of our infrastructure with almost no effort, including any new boxes we launch. The biggest effort is running a script every few months to clear out the CloudFlare firewall, and I could probably stick that in a cron job, really.

Our technical team is very small and the company entirely dependent on our website and our reputation, so we take multiple approaches to securing the site and servers. Each little thing we add helps my boss sleep better, and that alone is probably worth the initial effort.

I definitely wouldn't do what some people are suggesting, manually reviewing logs/fail2ban matches and blocking IP addresses by hand. That's a waste of effort - and would probably be a full time job, too.
also an over-hyped narrative. It's effective tho. People want some explanation for why they're dissatisfied.
Totally off-topic, but I found "baby formula powder" to be endearingly amusing. ️
Modern MacBooks have absolutely terrible keyboards. So unless you use it like an iPad, you'd be better off with a ThinkPad.
You would disagree that American politics has become more polarized in the last two decades?
The original article appears here with the much less click-baity headline:

"Peering into the meditating mind"

https://www.knowablemagazine.org/article/mind/2018/peering-m...
If you enable location just once (e.g. to check in to a location) it has that permission until you laboriously find the control in per app settings, and apps can use your location any time from then on, including in the background.
A couple people internally have looked at Vulkan, it seems like it should work really well but we're not actively working on it. You can get an idea of how Vulkan support would look by looking at the existing HALs:

https://github.com/plaidml/plaidml/tree/master/tile/hal

It's kind of cool to look anyway because it's a lot of value in less code than you might expect (complexity is in the layers above HAL).

If someone wanted to add support for Vulkan or something more ambitious like Qualcomm Hexagon or the RPi with QPU that would be pretty cool though.
I trust Wikileaks about as far as Assange ventures outside of the Ecuadorian embassy.
Not true these days. If you want to use location, the app has to use Google Location Services. No matter what the final app is.
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Seems him and Jan were at odds about how to integrate Messenger with WhatsApp.

Jan leaves with some bombastic statement seeming to indicate he’s gonna go start a new messaging venture.

Now the head of Facebook’s other messaging property leaves less than a month a later for a crypto startup.
Steve, I'm no kind of expert on how to deliver web pages.

But you're being a bit obtuse. Several people here have complained about the typeface being huge and they're right. On my browser (Firefox Windows desktop), it's huge, like 45 or 50 points. And I couldn't reduce it by changing the zoom using the control-scroll wheel.

It was so annoying that I just closed the window. If you are interested in getting your message across to me personally, you're going to have to do it without forcing me to read it in fifty-point type.
When the robo callers get this hell will be unleashed. The only remedy is we all have Duplex-like service answering the phone for us, and let them duke it out.

Does Google say anywhere these were all real calls? Or did they call back to cancel the appointments? Because it would be really easy, and tempting, to just fire off 10,000 of these calls to businesses around the country, just to harvest data on how well it does. And leave a massive trail of fake bookings. Even if Google wouldn't do this, the next company attempting this will.
Have you read much history?
A filter matches lines in the nginx log using regular expressions. If the line matches, it uses another regexp to extract the IP address, and then calls out to scripts to block that IP address.

I'm not going to post the exact configuration files I use, but the GitHub repo for fail2ban contains examples.

https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban/blob/0.11/config/filter...

That's a filter that protects Apache against the 'shellshock' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shellshock_(software_bug)) vulnerability, for example.
> We abolished slavery a few centuries ago.

Slavery has never been abolished. It was simply made illegal in most places under most circumstances. By any definition of slavery there are more people in bondage today than at any time in the past.

Even taking your claim of abolition at face value, the only reason chattel slavery was "abolished" in the US was because its abolition became a way of ending a particularly bloody war by taking away one sides motive for fighting. Before that (i.e. before a majority of the citizenry saw abolition as benefitting themselves) there was not enough popular support for abolition.
A start of what? Those same alcohol purveyors still make a majority of income from a minority who drink irresponsibly. It’s like the army having, “killing is wrong” as a slogan, it’s just mouth noises and a start to nothing.
It's an extroverts world. What are the best channels for introverts? How many potential start ups have never been funded because the founder(s) didn't have the networking skills that are natural to extroverts?
Nice! I'm 26 and thinking about doing the same thing soon. So you just took off for a year or did more things? I agree about the vividness. Once you get in flow, doing things you generally enjoy, and you have a few days/weeks of solid sleep and enjoyment, everything just makes sense. The path is clear.
I mean we are all just emotional processing silos that trade information and process it right :) ?
What is "bugsmithing" - did you just make this word up?

(I googled "define bugsmithing" without quotes, and this HN thread I'm typing in was the top result behind only an unrelated site called the bugsmith, an exterminator. I didn't see any relevant hits.)
Do you have any plans to release server code (I'm mainly concerned about PHP) for CTAP2/WebAuthn support? I really appreciated having access to a reference implementation to handle the data from the client for U2F. CTAP2 looks significantly more complex, and I'm somewhat worried about complexity of implementing it correctly based on the spec.
No, you blame the employees for not suffering their own product and raising ideas and tickets for how to fix it. It would be like John Carmack using the Vive instead of the Oculus Rift at home because its better. When you create the product there's no excuse to not be eating your own dogfood.
No, you can't reduce lag by adding new layers on top of an existing system.

You could use it to reduce the bandwidth required, which would certainly make video calls better. This was even a plot point in Vernor Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep.
I very, very definitely had my identity stolen very shortly after this breach. Somebody attempted to use my credit card (I 'froze' my credit - prior to this); and must approve the use of my CC on my phone. One Monday, I had 13 transactions at home depot for $1000 on my CC. Go figure. I don't have perfect security by any stretch of the imagination; however I do goto lengths that most people feel are very overkill until you have this kind of irresponsibility. One thing I can guarantee - although my information is out there; it most definitely wasn't lost due to my negligence at this juncture. I can't even opt out or change my identifying information thanks to surveillance capitalism, but I vehemently disagree with it.
It's been a while since I've used it but yum used to tie up my machine pretty badly on significant upgrades. After reboot it could take hours to finish applying the upgrade, during which time the machine was usable. Apt has never given me that sort of trouble.
Great book, but George Orwell is absolutely not impartial. While yeah, he did almost get purged, he still fought quite a bit. If nothing else, his glowing praise of the Republican Militias is, despite his couching, incredibly biased.
No, but you should quit if you've created a product that you wouldn't even use and have no interest in fixing it.
Fill up a terabyte? Doubt it, especially since logs are compressed nightly.
Correct, unless you enable adb in developer mode.
Correction: There is no NECESSARY evolutionary pressure for the triplets to be the same.
Interesting slide on Twitter showing some more detail: https://twitter.com/tuxology/status/988886194355298304
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Correct for Android unless you went out of your way to enable adb in developer mode.
I saw this for a product highlighted as a daily deal on Amazon this morning. The listing was for a USB cable but the reviews and customer pics were for a birthday candle.
What does “compatible with Lisp” mean? Compatible with the Lisp 1.5 meta interpreter? Compatible with Emacs Lisp? Compatible with Common Lisp?

People generally refer to “Lisp”, unqualified, as referring to the family of languages inclusive of all of the above.
Yes , you are right. The interjection wasn't exactly aimed at the minor mix-up, but the whole comment. The mix-up just made me enthusiastic enough to display my overbearing sense of superior knowledge with glee. That's the same problem the GP had, so it evens out?!
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Not suggesting you do or don't do it yourself, but you might read the book "Patent it yourself: your step-by-step guide to filing at the U.S. patent office" by David Pressman from Nolo Press. That has a lot of experience in those pages. He has done four other books on the same topic that you might also read.
you mean like "Hey Alexa, order me this book ?"
Zapier is one tool people use.
I recently switched to iOS for this reason. Yes there are permissions - but Android still periodically activated location services despite my settings.

Googles insistence on capturing as much data as possible about me is just creepy. I disabled voice search, location history, and everything else I could. Switching to DuckDuckGo made a big difference, but still the data gets swallowed up.

I know that Apple is only slightly better - but I’ll take whatever privacy I can get.
No matter what you answer to this question, you viewing FB ads is worth more to FB than what you're willing to pay.
I'd argue that the broken society narrative is a subjective opinion and not objectively quantfiable. One man's broken society is another man's utopia, it's all dependent on your personal beliefs.
I'm convinced that one or more of these advancements could revolutionize air travel:

* Back to the hub and spoke model, but without preplanned routes. You show up at the airport and they have a Just-in-time routing where you get one leg closer as soon as the plane fills to capacity. Pro: airplane almost always full. Con: you (or low fare passengers wait longer)

* (continued from above) : you dont even know which layover you will have until routing needs and weather are known. I.e. you want to go from NYC to Albuquerque. There happen to be about the same number who need to go from Tulsa to ABQ as who need to go to Tulsa from NYC. So 2 hr before your flight you find out it will stop in Tulsa so 8 people can get off/on.

* modular boarding on a mobile trolley. So instead of loitering in the jetway, everyone gets on a railcar size vehicle and gets ready to board the flight. This will allow them to queue up before they travel to the plane queue.

* planes queue up before a platform. Some mobile trolleys allow boarding from the rear while some board from the front. This theoretically halves the boarding time. Once the trolleys are vacated the plane doors close and the plane can slowly and safely taxi while the remaining passengers get seated. This would be safe so long as the brakes didn't jolt and knock an elderly person over.

* mixed cargo and passenger flights. I know this is already done to some extent. But what if there were a luxury branded airline that was first class only? And the other half of the plane were air cargo containers such that the flight were still profitable even without passengers.

* an options market for tickets. Allow traders to buy options on routes on particular dates. This may increase prices for passengers, but it would also allow airlines to insulate themselves from volatility. Let "the market" do the hard work of price calculation.
This is really horrifying to me. My heart goes out to the working-class retail people who are going to have to spend their days chatting with the AI assistants of upper middle class people too busy to call themselves.

If the shop owner gets a duplex system to field the calls, then the two robots can subtly signal to the other they aren't actually human, and then start shrieking like a 9600 baud modem to finish the dialog.
Got super excited about this - I mean what’s not to like?!

Then, decided to check my other big usecase for when on the road - Netflix and other entertainment... total flop:

Resolution:

- Up to 1080p on Google Chrome

- Up to 480p on the Netflix app from the Google Play Store
https://help.netflix.com/en/node/296

So if you want to save a movie for the flight, 480p is all you get...

Really wish we could get this functionality on iOS. iPad Pro is definitely big enough to code on. All it’s really missing is being able to run commandline tools.
> I don't think that juries decide what's true and what's not.

In a legal sense, that's exactly what they do. Juries are, by definition, deciders of fact, i.e. they decided what is legally true based on the evidence presented to them.

Whether legal "truth," epistemological "truth," and physical "truth" coincide is an entirely separate (and largely pointless) issue.
What a fantastic post. Thank you Mitchell.

Would you be able to share the actual countries in question? In which country was it required to open a bank account in the local currency? Which one has taken 10 months to complete opening an entity in?
I'll take misguided socialists and communists over fascists and Nazis any day.
And then there's the Convair B-36 Peacemaker, with 230ft (~70m) wingspan.
The last major piston-engind heavy bomber, design was started in 1941, put in service in 1949, and retired in 1959.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convair_B-36_Peacemaker

The plane's also notable for having been one of very few operational flying aircraft carrier types - able to carry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_XF-85_Goblin
I think the entire benefit of this (assuming there is any) is in setting aside a few minutes per day to fully relax. I’m also pretty sure a power nap would be better, but it’s generally less socially acceptable, especially in a work environment.
You mention 'bribing politicians' a few times. There's no need to bribe politicians when you _become_ the politicians.
> you mean something like ios keychain? what does this do that can't be achieved using disk encryption + sandbox?

Because once the phone is booted and unlocked by the user there is no further protection. Do you keep your phone turned off?

Also the lack of device pairing means it is usually easy to dump the encrypted image and crack the pass code quite quickly.

https://blog.elcomsoft.com/2017/10/ios-vs-android-physical-d...

> firefox for android

I find it quite slow, slower than chrome downloading all the ads. But it is an option I guess. It won't get wider uptake though, the default platform browser is the main game.
Is the problem with anarchists that they cannot stay together?
> the control chars still appeared in the file (at least on some Unix version)

That's a good point. My whole reply is a bit GNU-centric: the "col -bx" solution should work with everything except groff in ANSI mode (looks like the flag to go back to the standard troff behaviour is GROFF_NO_SGR [1][2], in case anybody is interested).

[1] See: https://linux.die.net/man/1/grotty
[2] SGR is "Select Graphics Rendition", apparently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code#SGR_(Select_G...
Part of that would be treating this as an opportunity to learn rather than punish. Imagine how much better PayPal would be if they’d asked why their own employees preferred not to use it?
Not sure about the first example, but the second one can be done through automation apps like tasker: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.dinglisch....
This doesn’t actually help on android as google can still determine location by scanning local WiFi network info.
I don't think there are equivalent channels for introverts. Rather than fitting square pegs into round holes, introverts would to better to play to their strengths.
You can use Trezor or Ledger hardware wallets for U2F with recoverable seed words. Even if you go with a Yubikey, which has a better form factor, one of these is a pretty good backup device since they can be further backed up to paper.
Sure, do you disagree with any of my statements on a timescale of the past 2 decades? My point is, there are some aspects of North American society that have gotten notably worse. To be sure, other aspects have gotten notably better in the same time period. But the fact that a lot of the craziness I mentioned is now mainstream I personally find to be troublesome.
The incredibly frustrating reason there’s no Lyme disease vaccine
Snopes is very quick to claim things as "False" if it goes against their left leaning lens of the world.

As an example arguments used by pro-gun advocates are marked as false. Here's a specific example:

They falsify a claim that doctors kill more people than guns
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/doctors-kill-more-people-t...

Yet this article linked on hacker news article states that medical error is the third biggest cause of death in the USA.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11627213

I used to have many more examples, but the reality is that the facts that they "objectively" check aren't necessarily unbiased.
Is it unreasonable to hope that the default configuration used by 99% of users won't shout your personal data all over the internet?
I find mind-wandering exhausting whether or not I'm aware of it. The difference is that I can now choose not to fall into the same old cycles for the n-thousandth time, because I'm aware that I'm doing it.
The Brazilian Portuguese voice is not that great.
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> Ordinary legislation only requires a 50% + 1 majority.

That's not really true of any non-budgetary legislation (for now).
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That's like saying that Windows Explorer is emulating a filing cabinet with folders and files in it.
Wow this affected me more than I'd like to admit. As an avid veggie gardener, I highly recommend growing your own veggies and baking your own bread (there are cheap bread loaf machines).
In the case of the Spanish civil war, the problem was that the communists and the fascists both wanted them killed, and so with some effort they succeeded.
'web apps' can be even further restricted by using browser plugins (e.g. privacy badger, noscript, ublock origin, etc). You don't get that kind of control with native mobile apps unless you have access to the source code and can modify/build it.
`brew install bash`

Software is trivial to upgrade and that's a very silly comparison to make.
I was gonna suggest the Dell until I read the end of your message. I have one and haven't regretted the purchase. Pretty much everything works out of the box except for the fingerprint scanner.
In case anyone forgot, the other five states in New England don't exist because MA was a welcoming place where the powers that be kept it's nose out of the business of the people. MA has always been the kind of place where you need to watch what you say about the people/groups in charge. It doesn't surprise me at all that speaking out in a provably false way was on the books as a crime in colonial MA.
Some ppl work hard for getting a pointless job so they can get money by doing nothing. Don't break their dreams
I fail to see what that has to do with marketing.

In fact, a lot of marketing dollars are spent advertising the things you seem to cherish. Organic food, healthy food, fitness, health — they're multi-billion dollar industries, with multi-billion dollar advertising budgets.