skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And there I thought it might be possible to discover all the puppet accounts celebrities use to rouse interest in themselves and create “engagement”... sigh
I wonder if you donated the time spent writing your comment to a worthy cause what could have been achieved? /s

That line of reasoning is snarky, but not particularly useful.
Will you put it in Flatpak or Snap?
It is not a new thing. In Seneca's "On the Shortness of Life" there is about people praying to get a few more years of life, while wasting decades when they were younger.

For me it seems as some sort of artefact of human cognition. (Mercilessly used by "last minute" opportunities by salesmen... and journalist.)
AFAIK it's mostly in the US that using cards don't always require PINs. Here in Canada I have to enter my PIN whether it's my credit or debit card, for every purchase at a CC terminal. The only exception is if I'm using contactless payment. This was also true in Europe last I checked.
>Wind resistance increases with the square of the speed.
To be pedantic, wind resistance varies with the cube of the speed. That's my recollection and seems to be used in the formula used to calculate power required at https://www.exploratorium.edu/cycling/aerodynamics1.html.
That's a bit of reductio ad absurdum. The RSA algorithm is a "law of [mathematical] nature" as much as a log cabin is natural. The composition of natural building blocks into something that performs a function is a work of human ingenuity.

That said, RSA itself probably would not be patentable today. The Supreme Court's decision in Alice probably precludes pure algorithm patents. You need an algorithm in the context of a specific use case. For example, a cell phone that uses RSA to encrypt keys to protect data in flash memory.
Thailand cave rescue: Meet the 'A-Team' of heroic volunteer British divers
he is a genius polymath . what are you?? just a stupid shit

he is a doctor who has a great memory of information and shapes of diseases and he is a great logical person mathematician
Sketch is almost 8 years old, and was released before the AppStore Mania died out and before Electron/CEF became a de-facto app platform for desktops.

Windows has other market leading software that isn't on a Mac. 3ds Max comes to mind.
“To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.”

>That is, patents don't increase innovation or productivity -- that is by design.

Yes one part is to prevent trade secrets, but the idea is that by making trade secrets public, other people will have the ability to improve on the idea and make innovations that wouldn't have otherwise been possible had the knowledge been kept secret--not just that society gets to use that one invention.

The other purpose has nothing to do with trade secrets. There are many inventions that wouldn't be possible to protect with trade secrets. Patents are designed to make this kind of invention profitable to create--encouraging people to invent them.

Btw I'm not arguing that patents necessarily fulfill their purpose.
the costs of your system are probably way more than the value created for society via patents.
Firefox Lockbox
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
I like how this exact attack is used in the Splinter Cell games.
What a great book, just finished listening to it. Afterwards I heard a lot of people thought it had a pro military/war bent; I don't think they read the book
I do a lot of freelance working with small companies / non-profits. The people there typically need what are programmatically simple tasks done: converting fields of a CSV to some other format, adjusting the appearance of only certain Excel sheets in a folder of files, etc. But they are not what today we call "programmers," and there are no good tools anymore for them to easily build things that accomplish these theoretically simple tasks.

What's worse, it's even more difficult for me to build them a solution. If these systems came with something as powerful as Hypercard was on Macs in the early 90s, I could make them something they could maintain themselves, and it would have a GUI and everything. Today I have to go through an enormous build process and all kinds of hoops just to wrap simple tasks in a usable UI. This is NOT personal computing!

I think one part of the issue is that an entire generation or two of personal computing users has now grown up with only this "consumer" mentality and they have no idea what they're missing, what was abandoned more or less in the 90s. It's a very frustrating and sad state of affairs — but also one primed for a change.
> Any thoughts on whether something like this would work?

If it really works 100% of the time then probably. A lot sites though use multiple markup styles for seemingly no reason though. E.g. if you created an account before a certain date then your profile keeps the old HTML, even though the old pages look identical to the new pages.
All the time in the EU, except if the card has NFC, then without PIN up to 20€ (depending on the bank).
I strongly disagree about current events. The Merrick Garland wikipedia page was a mess immediately after he was nominated, and I've just checked and the word "unprecedented" appears 7 times, in spite of the fact that it is by-no-means unprecedented for the senate to not consider a nomination [1]. There are a lot of partisan editors that wish to astroturf for their own political convictions, and because Wikipedia articles are generally so nonpartisan after they've had some time to mature, I think it's especially problematic because readers don't realize that a fast-moving article is nowhere near up to standards.

[1]: "During the 1852 campaign between Democrat Franklin Pierce and Whig Winfield Scott, Justice John McKinley died in July. President Millard Fillmore, a Whig who was not running for reelection, nominated three candidates — one in August, one in January and one in February. The Democratic-controlled Senate took no action on two candidates and the third withdrew after the Senate postponed a vote until after inauguration. One of Fillmore’s nominations was never even considered by the Senate, while the other was simply tabled." from https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/03/...
> The amazing part to me is that it was 12 kids and one adult. Between the fear and the biological needs, I wonder what kept them alive for so long.

You can go a few weeks without food. The cave is likely at a consistent enough temperature that you're not going to freeze to death (sweating is more likely to be your real issue), so the only real constraint is potable water.

It's also been commented that the children had no idea they were trapped for as long as 9 days. Quite likely, without any source of natural light, they lost track of time, which certainly would help ease some of the panic.
The cars are hugely important. The demand for those is what is driving down the per unit cost of batteries. Without the cars, utility scale storage wouldn’t be financially feasible.
How Fracking Companies Use Facebook Surveillance to Ban Protest
He was asked to help.
https://twitter.com/MabzMagz/status/1014251869760249856
It'll probably change things so it'll never happen in the first place.

By that time even poor kids in rural Thailand will be carrying smartphones on them at all times.

Those, combined with location-based awareness will warn them just as they're about to enter the cave "uh, are you sure you want to do that? Look at the current weather forecast....".
I feel like we all really needed this story.

For once, there's nothing political or divisive. There's no one to be mad at. It's not "us or them".

The world's top experts came together, volunteered for a
dangerous mission, sacrificed, and pulled it off. Ra! Ra! Humanity! Feels like a brief moment of redemption.
It’s usually insanely obvious, really.
Counterpoint:

What if you could say "Yeah boss, Thermanator is complete and ready to be unleashed." and mean it?

I spent thirty years turning in shit like "PrimitiveSpoofAttackDHCP" and "TCPThreadPoolFlooder" but now I'm realizing I couldve been writing bond villain superweapons all this time.
It's not the best resource for learning but Wikipedia is an excellent reference for a lot of topics in mathematics.

Some topics have excellent coverage, others are barely touched so ymmv.
The point isn't that the west hasn't copied things. The point is that the west puts emphasis on originality and "innovation" and downplays the value of copying.

Learn to do it right (copy), then figure out how to do it better (innovate).
There's a special portal for current events: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events.
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/18/07/09/231252/how-fracking...
Unfair life. I am glad the children are out of the nightmare. I feel crushed because a young man (navy seal) with bravery focused on helping as much as possible without thinking twice. RIP our hero.

God, if those children were doing an initiation endangering themselves. Remember the newborns dying in Syria, Africa and other places.

I wish the 13 well.
Making something that can fit on a floppy disc is pretty cool restriction to give yourself imo.

Do you just cripple the bitrate to squeeze a 3+ minute song on, do you stick to super short songs or do you find alternate means of maximising the space (I'm thinking potentially a mixture of midi files with some guidelines, and super low encoded vocals)

Floppy discs are much more aesthetically pleasing than cassettes (although maybe not cassette boxes) as a decorative thing imo too.
Let's hope he keeps working on it now and delivers something viable for the next rescue.
yes researchers perceive this different than you stupid
Still, the question is: for a given amount of resources (time, money, people) how many quality-life-years can be added?

If this quality is order of magnitude lower than other less exciting solutions (e.g. access to medicine and education for kids from poor families), then we should be aware that what we pay for is not lives saved, but an emotional entertainment show.
Maybe Wired knows that and all they are doing is trying to create discord in order to have more engagement and drive more views.
It's hard to imagine leaving them in there AND living with the knowledge that they had been left in there. Attempting a rescue seems like a pretty human thing to do, and I found it hard to blame people for being people. I certainly do awesome & dumb things because I'm a person.
Don't bacteria grow more readily in the inside of food rather then the surface due to moisture and what not?
Sure. Tried a lot of others, still the best. Just avoid toxic communities.
I'm not saying that vandalism is a good or proper way to respond to something. I'm saying that their vandalism is directly correspondent with the fact that they are a nuisance rather than a boon. It doesn't matter if they are being appropriate about it, it's simply NOT a tragedy of the commons situation.
Typically the preservation copies are very large and unwieldy, as they are just a high resolution scan of every frame of the video. Whats on youtube is just a prevention copy. There are interesting software problems around how to store safely, work with, and preserve economically the many petabytes of data the preservation digitization projects like this create.
Horribly, the title is correct - for this ill-written article.

The researchers didn't find the users behind Twitter accounts, they stripped the usernames off the accounts and then reassociated them via usage patterns. So they did "unmask anonymous accounts" (because they anonymized the accounts). It's just a completely different result than the "find a real person" outcome the article implies.
Exactly. The obsession with "innovation" is how you get feature creep. You can improve something by copying it and figuring out how to do it easier/cheaper/quicker.
> Want to see a demo of Fathom? View our live stats here
(user: demo@demo.com, password: demo)

This is UX feedback from a lazy user. Why make me type in a login and password? Especially one that I have to remember from the previous screen?

It's trivial effort to just setup an auto login based on some query string parameter right? As in, url?demo=true results in either populating the login/password fields so all I have to do is hit the button, but then it's also trivial effort to just add in some JS that triggers the button for me, thus auto login.
And FWIW, I ride a motorcycle with a shaft drive. The fastest motorcycles all use chains. Many now use tooth belts, but I think they may be limited in the power they can transmit.
Thieves swipe $27K worth of gadgets in brazen Apple store heist
I agree with you taking care of people psycologically is probably the weak point of a robot task force. But in terms of pure technology advancement, I 'll just throw some random possibilities here for discussion.

Remember even as of today AI can compete on a high level of huge video games, face recognition, natural language processing, playing Go/Chess game, etc. Imagine in 30 years, all the robots, armed with AI and made of materials a few times stronger than whatever we have today, should be able to scan, learn, adapt and go. Another minor point, the robots can probably carry some heavy machines (or laser guns) and just pound hard on the cave's narrow sections to make the passage wider. Etc.
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In the meantime, there is Dead or Alive 5, which is built on the same engine and has a few VF characters in it (and more importantly, the ones I like to use).

IIRC, DOA6 has been announced too, and I would expect that to show up on PC.
Alexandria's versions are basically the same as the "multiple bindings" versions, about halfway through the post[1]. So they are explained/compared/discussed... I just didn't mention that those versions happen to be in Alexandria. I suppose I could add a note, though calling out a particular library for having a less than ideal implementation seems a little rude.

[1]: They do allow a single binding as a special case, true.
And yet it's a sub with 100,000 followers:

https://old.reddit.com/r/Vaporwave/

There's a sub-genre that dubs Vaporwave songs with Simpsons clips that has tens of millions of views on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=simpsonwave

It is indeed very real. Surreal, even.
I trust Wikipedia for basic historical information, biographies etc. I feel sad that encylopedias and their peer reviews have been obliterated as a definitive source of knowledge and replaced by something which has a questionable editorial model. I use Wikipedia a lot but don't see it as a 'gold standard' of verified information. It seems a lot people do...
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/7x47bb/wikipedia-...
The Insane Logistics of Formula 1 [video]
My lab was pretty well funded right from the start. A combination of early new investigator grants and generous startup packages made us worry little about money at the start. Mid career is thought to be the major crunch.
Add Angular 6 Material to Angular 6 and ASP.NET Core App
Yet who shows up for the 3.1 million children who die of malnutrition every year? Every 3 minutes we lose more children then were in the cave.

We can comprehend 13 people and the struggle against nature, while the scope of world hunger is far too complex and emotionally incomprehensible to mobilize enough people.
Serverless: It’s much much more than FaaS
Why everyone's switching to smart contracts
> Don't forget "solving world hunger" which means causing a human population boom

Solving world hunger means solving the distribution problems which allow hunger to exist, which means improving social safety nets around the world; stronger social safety nets are consistently associated with lower rates of natural population growth, so, no, solving world hunger doesn't mean causing a population boom, it means reducing global population growth.

It does mean a smaller share of the people who are born will live in misery and die young, but it also means fewer people will be born in the first place.
Thunderbolt 3 bottlenecks many GPUs. It's not fast enough yet. More here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7Zw-DlTn-M
Apple to deploy 1Password to all 100,000 employees, acquisition talks underway
Big Data and CRM – Helping Business Take Better Decisions
... No, they want you to find dates, that's why they're called dating apps.
It's very odd that this somehow made it to all the media headlines. Sure, a happy ending and so forth, but in a world of ~7.5B, including indescribable tragedies on a daily basis, it makes you wonder how they knew the daily drama would lead to such ad dollars.
Fantastic book. And I'm pretty sure it's a staunch anti-war critique.
Keeping code clean for stable velocity and maintainable products
In response to Question 2, here's the best I've got: At a previous job, we used MongoDB with a write concern of 0 to store logs in such a way that we could more easily search through them later on. The information we were logging was useful to us as developers but wasn't critical to the business, so we were willing to take some risks in order to achieve faster inserts.

It worked OK for us at the time, but if I had to do it over again today, I would probably look at ELK before rigging something up with Mongo.

In the larger sense -- at least for conventional web stuff -- I don't like Mongo. Usually, I'm building something that receives a web request, reads or writes to a database, then generates either a web page or a JSON object as a response. In theory, since you know what information you need to render the response, you should be able to include all of that into the structure of your Mongo document, then fetch everything you need with only one query. In practice, however, business and UX requirements tend to change quickly enough that it isn't feasible to do that. As your product evolves away from its initial design, it gets harder to bridge the gap without joins and transactions. At that point, at least for me, I just feel more comfortable using PostgreSQL.
Hindsight is 20/20. I guess nobody should ever do anything because it always has a tiny chance to go wrong?

The coach probably didn't even take a wrong decision based on the information available at the time (it isn't rain season yet).
I've read it multiple times (first when I was 16) and I still think it has a fundamental pro-military bent. Heinlein himself said so, I don't see any reason to doubt him.
> The problem of the cloud is that data is held captive by SaaS companies

Only if you want it that way. An NFS share can serve as a single source for your files (extra points if it's on a block-deduped, snapshotted volume). Since well before DropBox, I used a Subversion server to hold data I wanted to share across multiple laptops (back when git didn't exist, wifi was not ubiquitous, and phone data was expensive and only usable via USB). While there is nothing comparable to Google docs or Office 365 that I can host myself (that I know of), I am pretty happy with them (even though they may not be as capable as Office or LibreOffice or Python with Pandas, they do the job).

> We need something that lets you retain ownership

A small cloud server costs about $5/month. You can set up one at your house and use whatever broadband you have.

Carrying around a computer that's optimized for small size like my Celeron-based laptop, but smaller, like my phone, but also fast like my Xeon W desktop, with enough memory for me to work - 16 GB may be enough, with a capable mid-range GPU for number crunching, but also with a long battery life and a enough storage to hold my projects is not possible yet and, when it is, I doubt it'll be enough.
I knew I saw this somewhere!

I wonder what other security issues / lessons I internalized from that game...
If say South Africa has done away with nuclear weapons capabilities, then why can't UK? Besides countries like Germany, Italy, Spain, Japan do not have their own nuclear deterrent capabilities.
Maybe it was hard back in the days but nowadays good luck trying to keep it secret.
I was half making a joke... but I believe if you have a large external thermal source or sink the time for keys to renormalize would be dramatically shorter.
It didn't, though, so we must deal with the repercussions of those choices. I'm all for increasing the walkability of our cities, but I want a say in how that happens as a citizen, via my elected representatives. I'm not comfortable with Uber making those decisions for my city.
Erdogan names son-in-law head of Turkey’s finance ministry
As I mentioned on another thread, this would make for a great consumption device ala iPad which can in a pinch actually allow you to do work, albeit in a compromised form factor.

So you’d take it with you when you normally would not take anything or take the plunge and take your full laptop with you.

It’s like an accessory to your main laptop. There’s probably some use case for that situation, and this is their answer.
Those tricks will not necessarily compile right though. Forth is a compiled language, if implemented completely.
> Yes, feel free to point and laugh

Why would we do that? Text manipulation (translating from a simple markup format into HTML) is Perl's bread and butter! And make is pretty easy to set up to have new general-purpose rules (e.g. .md -> .html).
Well, in this case one of the Thai divers died from running out of oxygen... but 12 - 1 is still a win if you want to reduce it to arithmetic.
So the whole problem could have been avoided if you had chosen a more mature programming language at the time time? Perl, Python and PHP all had perfectly good SQL libraries at the time, as well as a lot of other languages that have been around a long time.
No it's not, but the movie was.

Just check the wiki page, he wrote it himself (under Major Themes, Militarism): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_Troopers
I keep coming back to this. How many lives could have been saved it improved with the expense we put into saving 12 people who went caving in monsoon season?

Don't get me wrong, I'm glad society found a way to save them, I just wish we took the every day threats to human life more seriously.
I was disappointed that the floppies didn't contain mods (tracker music).
WE are having bad experience with azure cloud service especially with disks. Vm goes down suddenly but we can always see some huge spike on the io and latency
Eating the Sun: Can Humans Be Hacked to Do Photosynthesis?
https://www.amazon.com/Fluke-FLK-LENS-4XTELE2-4X-Telephoto-T...

Basically double that of high end SLR lenses.
Not only similar, but exactly what the guy selling the floppies thinks:

> "And a lot of these people, I don’t even think a lot of ’em play the shit. They just kind of put it on their shelf."
>There's no one to be mad at.

Except at the soccer coach who thought it was a good idea to endanger 12 children by going into a cave during monsoon season which also led to the death of an innocent person?
In Canada we have a "good Samaritan law" preventing people from getting sued for trying to help people in distress and messing up.
> Hate to say it, but the ipad/ipencil ecosystem is too expensive for the average person

The $329 entry level 9.7 inch iPad now supports the Apple Pencil (as well as the new cheaper Logitech Crayon...), so not so sure this argument holds up. This $399 entry level Surface doesn't come with the stylus as standard either, with stylus the Microsoft tablet hits $499.
> I mean, should you really get a PhD without a serious passion for the subject?

I'm not sure why passion is particularly important. I would rate work ethic, diligence, attention to detail, and some character (i.e., not lying in studies) as more important than passion.

Generally, making people jump through hoops to get something done doesn't actually get you the best people. It gets you the people who are good at gaming such systems, and people who don't know what they are getting themselves into.
Thanks for mentioning this, it looks cool.

Link, for those curious: https://www.flatcar-linux.org/