skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Human logs on ,sees suspension notice, goes through unsuspension process.

Bot dies.

Those humans are usually very bot-like retweet mills anyway, in my experience. Thou complain'st too much.
I was talking about their custom runtime system that provides them type information, as well as generic container types and other features.
Researchers find loophole that extends USB Restricted Mode's hour-long timer
I'd be happy to have a crack at the optimality part. The first few are obvious but it gets quite interesting. Email my username at protonmail.com if you're interested =]
Even assuming this is so, what's to prevent BotCo from hiring some humans to click through the process for each bot account?
If you get the marketing team response, determine what has actually been marketed. You can probably remove some things with noone being the wiser. Create a prioritised backlog. You'll be the only one knowing that feature X probably won't reach the release, but noone will care. I did this recently and everyone were excited about the release, despite pushing for some features that were labeled low pri.
Well, whether one is a rebel or not has few things to do with dropping f bombs or not.

So the irony is misplaced, it's not just "wannabe rebels" that can curse.

I know very true rebels, including people who actually got in prison for fighting a military dictatorship, that curse like it's going out of style. And others that are very well spoken and high society mannered.

That said, if you want to write about it, a sign of being more of a rebel than not, would be not to go with the prudishness of writing it as "f", as if it's some big deal.
India adopts 'world's strongest' net neutrality norms
We are definitely not part of any equilibrium right now.
Mars One is noted as being very short on funding, lacking critical concepts about hardware, life support, electrical power supply, and has been criticized as glossing over logistics, medical concerns, and protection against space radiation.
Totally agree. I'm not entirely sure the various spam RBLs have a much better process though, and some blacklisting seems arbitrary. Wouldn't each RBL have their own obscure process as well?

I'm dreading the day that I have to switch my personal mail server's IP address.

(important disclaimer: it's been a while since I had to deal with un-blacklisting, so maybe things have changed since?)
Some people just don't like parentheses. And they hate the Paamayim Nekudotayim (PHP PTSD?) And really like that the compiler helps them (types), so they are left with Scala.

https://markkarpov.com/post/lisp-and-haskell.html
Ok, as I screwed up anyways, here is one more "unsubstantial" comment:
ooops!
Start here [1] and see this [2] for a light introduction. Then proceed with cognitive dissonance, implicit belief systems and cognitive biases [3]. Have fun!

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychology_of_eating_meat

[2]: https://youtu.be/ao2GL3NAWQU

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases
Show HN: Notethis – Capture attention on your website
The genetic change I am referring to is since we split from our common ancestors the chimps and gorillas. Our ageing rate has more than halved since this split. This has been so rapid and so recent that it can't involve that many genes.
Yeah I tend to use Firefox and try to use DuckDuckGo - but it just doesn't seem to return results for software development that are as useful as Google does. I'm not really sure why, either.
Asking its publishers to pay? Like WordPress or Ghost does.
Banning the use of namespaces and templates for embedded programming seems arbitrary at best, since they are both completely compile-time features
Actually CSP can also block content modifications by extensions. I frequently get CSP reports from browsers using plugins that want to insert something on my site. Some time ago I also got CSP reports that indicated the AdBlocker couldn't touch the site too...
Weird how you and I get so different impressions from reading the same text :)

It's hard to learn English, Spanish, Chinese, Arabic and Hindi. At least for Chinese and Arabic there is a multitude of mutually unintelligible topolects that you'd also have to learn. Each of them takes at least ten years to master.

I'd strongly prefer it if we had one language that most people speak reasonably well. English gets you quite far (outside of Asia at least) but English is a lot harder than Esperanto. Esperanto has a number of flaws, most notably it's too Euro-centric making it harder to learn for people who don't speak a romance or germanic language. There are other conlangs that try to address that deficiency, but they are a lot less popular than even Esperanto.

I don't really mind which language wins, but I want to live in a world where I can interact with everybody without having to learn dozens of languages. I learned English reasonably well so I can interact with large parts of the "western" Internet, but that's just a tiny echo chamber compared to all content.
Ah. I see why that was unclear.

I make multiple SMT queries. SMT solvers work well in practice, but they are solving a problem which is between NP-Complete to Undecidable (when quantifiers are involved [1]).

Also, we are using a very hand-wavy word definition "complexity of code". This is not the complexity-theory complexity, but instead the types of operations used and the looping/control structure. (In hindsight, I should have used a different word.) So 40 lines of multiple nested loops with multiple hashes being taken and multiple dynamic dispatches over addresses, will take much much longer to analyze than 40 lines of straight line arithmetic.

My tool attempts to guess the estimated runtime midway through the analysis, but there is no real way to accurately estimate the cost upfront. That is why I was saying that if it cost ~$200 for 20-50 LoC then if you accept all caveats then under wildly simplifying assumptions the 500 LoC might take 10x-25x of that cost.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/a/10924475
Life feeds on life. No animal would hesitate for a second to eat you, if it could without risk. Even herbivores, have you seen cows/deer/horses eat little chicks?
Life then replicates without limits until all resources are consumed and it cannot be supported anymore.

We are in fact, (we can't know for sure but I think it's very reasonable to assume) the only species
capable of seeing this and MAYBE,hopefully control ourselves before we do the same thing.

We are pieces of shit, but at the same time we're the only animal with potential to escape the bad parts of our nature
Low level changes in the kernel will probably take a long time and effort before they are deployed. Many kernel devs probably don't do their work because they need some particular fix for themselves, but rather to advance the overall product.
I have to say, none of these are benefits for productive use. You may want long-term stability out of a release, which is IMHO where Debian shines more. They provide much longer support times than what a Ubuntu LTS offers.

The latest and greatest package is not so much beneficial in production, and e.g. with containers you do not even have to bother much about it since all you probably care for is kernel and container runtime updates.

What I still would be interested in though is if there is any technical benefit from Ubuntu server? Something which is not easily resolved by configuration management or a simple "apt-get install"?
it has never been free. In the past you paid with your data and with the fact you invoked user_id++ instead of hard currency. In the future you will pay with the fact that you can only unlock your google car with a valid gmail account or use the navigation with maps. That is the long run and goodwill those companies create. Each competitor will be bought because they could violate the long run
Parents can access dead daughter's Facebook, German court rules
I'm contributing to a linker written in ~OCaml [1], and now I understand writing systems code in OCaml is really a bad idea. It makes things more complicated when you really don't want them to be. As James Mickens says [2]:

>You can’t just place a LISP book on top of an x86 chip and hope that the hardware learns about lambda calculus by osmosis.

[1]: https://github.com/rems-project/linksem
[2]: http://scholar.harvard.edu/files/mickens/files/thenightwatch...
Ants also have wars:
https://www.quora.com/Do-ants-ever-go-to-war
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/01/160130-animals-i...
The grim meathook future
Correct me if any of the maths below are wrong.

Eagle Solar Mountain Solar Farm ( 300 MW ) will have an annual production capacity of over 900 million kilowatt hours (kWh) once completed. The Moapa Band of Paiutes has become a national clean energy leader and will host in excess of 600 MW of solar on the 72,000-acre reservation. [1]

For example, the Topaz Solar Farm [3] has an annual production capacity of 1200 million kWh on 25km2. Around ~6200 acre.

This seems an awful a lot of space for low capacity generation? I know it is reserved, but that is like 10x the size difference, why aren't they building more?

US annual electricity consumption is 4,015 billion kilowatt hours in 2017, 60% coming from fossil fuel [2].

For solar energy to replace that 60% energy consumption; 2409 billion kWh, it would require 2000 Topaz Solar Farm, or 50,000 km2, or slightly less the fifth of Nevada area.

The cost of the 300MW Eagle Solar Mountain Solar Farm is roughly $2B, assuming it would cost $3.6B to build the size of Topaz Solar Farm which is 550MW, it would take $7.2 trillion to build a 60% US needed solar farm, ignoring the benefits of Economy of scale, and any improved efficacy of solar panel.

Given all the benefits of Solar, being cheaper then Coal, I am surprise it is still only 1.6% of US electricity generation. Why is that?

[1]https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180531006155/en/8mi...

[2] https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=427&t=3

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topaz_Solar_Farm
Then the focus should be on how to secede the people who still care from those who apparently fucking don't. Peaceful or otherwise.
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Hola VPN Hack Compromises MyEtherWallet Users
Looking forward to Friday and dreading MONDAY is not a good framework for life
Every party involved there has to be careful and do their due diligence though; you can't just cut it off because there might be an actual legitimate business or a critical service in there.
What Microsoft's acquisition of GitHub means for the future of open source
You have whole chain of implications showed in presentation which all together makes a big mistake. If you made a small mistake thinking DOM is slow and you build whole technology on top of it making more small mistakes on your way and it affects the way everyone codes now, isn't it a big mistake after all?
yes, that covers the side-channel part of the picture.

the interesting aspect that spectre attacks bring to light, is that you can cause memory accesses which are explicitly forbidden because the code performs e.g. bounds checks.

speculative execution "bypasses" the checks, because that's the whole point of speculative execution: speed up the execution under the assumption that one (or the other) case is taken. If the CPU guesses that it's more likely that the bounds check will be successful, it will perform better when the input is well formed, but it let potentially malicious inputs to cause side effects detectable with side-channels leak sensitive information that the bounds check design to avoid in the first place!

As you can see, there is no easy way out here. This is a fundamental feature that makes modern CPU fast. Making sure that code can continue executing only when the results of the check is known, will affect performance of the happy path because the CPU will sit idle waiting instead of doing useful work.
1. Given the risk, cost and limited upside, the onus is on the refactor team to prove that it needs to be done. Where is the ROI, factor in the risk. Where is this in the stack of things to do? Are there better ROI things?

2. Consider 'what the point' is in the first place, because the entire world could be run on python/SQL and it would be 'hard'. I don't think anyone would consider 'Mongo' to be 'hard' usually people use it because it's fast and easy, not hard. Consider maybe only replacing one part at a time, i.e. Java-SQL.

3. Consider a simple clean up or refactor. No need to learn no languages and tools when maybe you just need a house clean.

4. People seem to be going back to SQL because of it's inherent standardization - so many reporting and analysis systems use SQL as an interface, to the point where even NoSQLs are starting to use SQL.
The article seems to make no mention at all of the possibility of collateral damage.

Were any honest actors harmed by this 'shunning'? Seems unlikely that this 'Bitcanal' web-hosting company was used exclusively by malicious parties.

Also, if this 'shunning' idea were to really catch on, couldn't it end up colliding with net-neutrality laws?
Dupe?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17508087
Ah, you beat me to it.
No, I believe you are naive. I strongly believe Twitter plays a love / hate game. Twitter loves to brag with the account numbers for marketing purposes but hates negative attention. The same with fake news. Do you really think they don't know? Sure they do know most of it but the more tweets the better. Everyone loves to receive attention, don't they?. IF you get retweeted or liked by an( allegedly) bot it boots your morale and the likelihood increases that you will come back/refresh to boost your feelings of being important. Although it was a bot you found out later. Doesn't care (anymore) because you are in.

Twitter runs over a thin, really thin line.

Same as Aliexppress or to a (far more) lesser extend some auction platforms with (allegedly) fake or cloned products or products which violates IP. Search for audio books, ip tv, car diagnostics etc. They know, for sure, but need to get attraction by offering goods good to be true. It's a game, Same as twitter ...
1Password works great on iOS and macOS but it's not open source... and there's the subscription they try to impose... and their servers...
So I was looking to replace it. Bitwarden could be the one in the near future as Keepass is a real pain on iOS and mac for a non-techie. The problem I still have with bitwarden is that the app won't work unless connected to the internet. If the connection is missing you can't add or edit anything, store on your device and sync later :-(
Visual-textual functional programming with Luna
This is really fantastic advice, and well said
Configuring UAA to Provide a Single Entry Point for Kubernetes and Cloud Foundry
> Well, your cat will also likely be very cruel if it ever caches a mouse or a bird, so I'll raise you that for harmony :)

We had a cat once who, we found out, liked to sit in the berry bushes in the garden, wait for a bird to land, and then kill them. She didn't didn't eat them - she much preferred the cat food she got. She just murdered bird after bird and left them to rot.

Cats certainly are not the best examples of harmony.
Running Microservices and APIs with Cloud Foundry
I can't state it better. If you don't understand the decisions made during the development of the old system you are unlikely to come up with something much better.
And without a reliable rocket to get them up there, those crew capsules are useless.
Your restaurant booking engine may be stealing your traffic to charge you more
(have an upvote)

IF I were that interested in a book,(THEN) I'd just learn the language of the original (Sanskrit for the BG) and read the original. Most translations miss many nuances.
At least someone has some common sense.
There has been global cancers before. With the difference that we may be able to restrain ourselves.

As an example see the great oxygenation event. Where bunch of selfish green algea pumped waste product into the atmosphere killing almost all anaerobic life.

Then there is the carboniferous period where trees grew so much that due to lack of lignin breaking fungi they basically sucked out all CO2 from atmosphere causing global glaciation and killing themselves in the process.

Life has been crapping itself since the very start. We are no worse than others, however we have the chance to be better.
I had the same thought. It would be good to adjust the headline accordingly.
Demystifying React's Virtual DOM
>The other animals introduced to the Mauritius also had a taste for the Dodo and its eggs in particular.

Which species introduced the other animals to the Mauritius?
Feature parity is the reason why some of the projects I've worked on caused #2 - can't get customers to switch if there's no parity yet. The MVP for some of those projects took a year to get to. Mind you it'd probably have been 6 months if they didn't opt to go for a microservices architecture.
You'll also want the CSP `sandbox` policy on the `src` page to guard against direct linking.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Co...
Yup; statistics are only part of the picture and value of a story. Compliancy is another one for example; sure, few people will use the 'download all my data' and 'delete my account' options, but they're mandatory for GDPR compliance and not offering them may cause a huge fine. There's a lot of these compliancy features.
If he really does the job and the price is fair (I have no idea how much BTC or ETH is worth right now) then does it really matter if the person is Venezuelan or not?
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Can you provide an example of the things, OCaml makes more complicated and explain which languages you compare it to? I guess it's quite different in comparison to C, C++ or maybe Rust than to other garbage-collected 'system programming' languages like Go?
i would imagine so
Small wind turbines are usually not terribly practical (noisy and highly visible), and also ineffective because of low hub height and wind shade in residential areas.

The multi MW giants that are erected these days on tall towers just make so much more sense.
> They could even naively block normal users from having a verified user's profile picture and this problem would virtually not exist.

I'm all for Twitter doing more, especially as they seemingly do nothing at all to combat fake accounts. However I'm sure these spammers could just adjust a few pixels on the profile image and a naive block wouldn't do anything.
Yeah, similar here. It really sucks.
> In the end you get healthcare, but in general the service is practically unusable and you end up having to pay for health insurance anyway.

Yeah this is just wrong. I have friends who have moved to the US, and said things like - "I wouldn't be as annoyed at how massively expensive health insurance here is, if you got any better service, but you don't"
open source here, open source there... Well maybe, but I think that the problem is not the source code anymore, the problem is the data...
Who said it was going to be done in 3 months? Where did that unrealistic number come from?
> The fact that the specs were changing weekly because “we’re agile” is a whole other issue.

The article touches on that too; simplified it's stating that if you're not live within 6 months, you're doing waterfall.
Put like that the fact they are a couple of months behind on an estimate is a massive win for spacex
"As a species we seem to be a cancer on the planet."

This platitude is actually interesting in this context. It connects multiple threads:

* One of the previous major extinctions was the Oxygen Holocaust [1], caused by photosynthesizing cyanobacteria. It killed pretty much everything alive back then. And turned our Earth into a snowball to boot.

* This oxygen is a major contributor to CANCER, via free radicals etc. It leads to a faster (and more ruthless, more side effects) metabolism, enabling evolution of highly reactive creatures such as us.

* And trees, the "speaking organisms" under discussion, are one of the major producers of this highly volatile, carcinogenic O2 substance.

Tongue in cheek? Maybe. But hopefully no worse than the naive "humans are a cancer to the planet".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxygenation_Event
By STEM I meant Tech/Medical sciences. Unemployment rate in these areas is virtually zero in my country.

As an anecdote, on average, a masonry assistant(!) earns more than an architect (buildings, not IT) where I live.
From the previous comment of OP, you can't.

> if someone adds your personal data to the blockchain, your options for removing it are very limited.

source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17511150
Did you hear him broke his TV on Mandzukic's goal?
Is this limited to Vue.js apps only?
Can I send emails with SPAs built using another framework (i.e. React)?
What music do you listen to while you work?
Problem is Elon should not see himself as "a guy who simply wants to help". He's the "a very public guy, with massive money and power, at the center of powerful interests who can help". I think he should behave as the later rather than the former and help the world on problems worth his might.
I don't know what their reasoning was, but it might have not been technical one.

Embedded development positions are not your typical developer positions, they require more intimate knowledge of system, of possible states and transitions, and of hardware internals. This results in less focus on actual coding skills.

Even if you are highly skilled, you won't be doing your company a favor if you're writing code that only 5% people can understand and contribute to. My understanding is that every team that writes C++ will restrict it to some subset to make the codebase more manageable.

OTOH I think namespaces can only lead to better and more modular architecture, I'm not sure where they should be avoided.
Aargh. Downvoting is so lazy. I'd be interested to hear both sides flesh this out. (Yes, I know the rule - don't complain about downvoting -- why do you think there has to be a rule about it‽)
Something like that, yeah. (I know you're being sarcastic)

I'm not sure I buy the idea that pay-to-win games are anywhere near as addictive as tobacco or alcohol or opioids or similar substances.
> This is one of the central questions of our age

Is it though? We've got a couple of hundred years of case history now and been proven time and time again they kind of depravity companies will do.

It seems we finally kind of got the balance right post world war 2 and it's all been backwards since.

I can usually see the other sides point of view but it's starting to feel like the other side are anti-vaxers where I understand their fears (the same corporatism fear I'm expressing here) but can't grasp how they reached their conclusion.
The trouble isn't getting the domain and setting up the email server behind it, the issue is maintaining the email server. I am sufficiently distractible (and I'm sure I'm not alone) that it's very important that my peripheral software/devices do not bother me. With an email server (or any other kind of server really, but email is especially bad), you need to pay attention to it constantly to make sure it is up, you are not on any blacklists (which you will get on by default for the simple fact that you are a new host), etc.

You can of course set up all sorts of monitoring, but then you have to check that that is working. These concerns never really go away. You cannot truly let your email slip from your mind, because if it stops working ever you will miss emails (unless you use a relay, which is either external or also needs monitoring, etc) and that means that potentially things get closed that should not be closed, you miss things from the doctor/dentist, etc.