skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since I started learning languages in high school, I've always had great respect for those who teach language, especially their native one. It can't be easy listening to people butcher something that comes naturally to you, and for such low pay. It gets even more interesting and difficult if, like in this story, your class is composed of individuals with nothing else in common besides learning the language.

I used to think I could be an English teacher to speakers of other languages, but I don't think I have the patience. I'll stick to being a language learner for as long as I can afford it.
So, how secure is a network when the teenagers in the house give out the WiFi key to all their friends when they visit? How secure is it when said teenagers ask Dad to change the previous random-character password to a simple phrase to make it easier for their friends to type it in?

Asking for a friend. :)

In other words, about 99% of the WiFi passwords out there are vulnerable to a brute force attack. But we knew that already, didn't we? Was it not already possible to brute force WPA2 before this new attack?

How much easier/faster is this new attack? It would have been nice if the article itself said something like: "This new attack increases brute force attack rate by a factor of 10x". Or whatever the right value is.
Ally Bank savings accounts just went to 1.8%, and 2 year CDs are 2.5%, with no minimums.
> Right, so JzG clearly had it in for you. And yet somehow their actions ended up getting the exact result you were hoping for (as reported by you).

We never said JzG had it in for us. We highlighted problems with his conduct in relation to the case. And what we consider the double standards of the arbitration committee when it came to certain parts of their decision.

> In the mean time Kalholmann was your best friend ever... and somehow every time they tried something, they got themselves in more trouble and ultimately got sanctioned by the arbitration committee. (also as reported by you)

Your comment here suggests that you think the arbitration committee can do no wrong. We're highlighting what we think is unfair treatment in this case (with supporting evidence). The fact that the story got voted to the front page of Hacker News shows that many others find it convincing too. The many comments here also show that people have had their own experiences of unfair treatment participating in Wikipedia.

> ( Just because someone doesn't immediately prostrate themselves and profess their undying loyalty to your cause, that doesn't mean they can't effectively be your friend-du-jour. Vice versa, just because someone does say they support you doesn't mean they're automatically competent and able to help.)

You're stating the obvious here, but we don't need to talk about hypotheticals. We can examine the conduct of everyone involved. We've tried to support our position by showing evidence of what we consider is unfair treatment. I haven't been convinced otherwise by your contributions, but maybe others will be.
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Successful launch of Nexø II
>In every other area of society, if someone is very good at arranging things to achieve some widely valued goal, we think it's OK for them to get rich.

This isn't very true. I am OK with people getting rich providing non-essential but much liked X to those with the spare resources.

I am not OK with people getting rich by rent-seeking limited essential resources or perverse incentives.

The societal goal of imprisonment should be minimizing population and cost to society. The financial goal would be maximizing population and minimizing cost to imprison. The societal and financial goals are very much in conflict.
Alternate subtitle: "Complicated method of shutting down your bug bounty program"
Oh boy, I've been there with the Craiglist delusionals that you described. He didn't even bother to name the business that he was trying to get built. If he can't do that, he can't be that serious about starting. They state "passion" but no sir, if you don't know how to LLC or register a name, passion is not a substitute for having a clue on what you're doing.
Ask HN: What do you do with idling VPS?
That situation when you need a running VPS, but it idles most of the time.
I call BS on that

Regarding the 2019 Taiwan Independence referendum, the Foundation’s data shows that 20.7% of the population are incredibly in favor of the vote and 28.8% generally approve, indicating that over half of the population support the referendum.

https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3385076

Most Taiwanese consider Taiwan, China separate countries, poll suggests

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/20...

Nearly 70 percent of Taiwanese are willing to go to war if China were to attempt to annex Taiwan by force

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2018/04/20/20...
Back in the olden daze, people would take branded software, overwrite the copyright notice, and sell the result as their own "compatible" version.

On my game, it would check to see that the copyright notice was intact. If it wasn't, it would, at random times, overwrite a random byte in memory with a random value. The idea was for the "rebranded" game to appear to be uselessy buggy.

I have no idea if it was effective or not. Probably not.
> The wikipedia community disagreed with you there. The consensus was in favor of sending this to the arbitration committee, with the topic ban being a temporary first fix. And it did go to arbcom, and arbcom did take action.

You miss the point. You wrote "if Philip Cross's alleged conflict of interest were to be examined and dealt with, ultimately it would need to be looked at by the arbitration committee." I was pointing out that that is not in fact true. The Wikipedia community can make decisions without referring everything to the arbitration committee. I wasn't expressing an opinion about whether this case should or should not have gone to the committee.
Microsoft has been able to guide other aspects of PC hardware since at least 1995. I don’t need drivers for most other hardware. You can even get basic functionality from graphics cards without drivers.

When Apple convinced printer manufacturers to support AirPrint in 2010, iOS wasn’t nearly as ubiquitous. You can find a fair amount of printers that support Google Cloud Print natively.

EDIT:

After reading a little bit more. It really is the fault of the vendors. MS tried to simplify it.

https://blog.thinprint.com/the-new-microsoft-v4-printer-driv...

One advantage Apple had was that printers had to be compatible with AirPrint without drivers for them to work on iOS, the Mac was able to piggyback off of that.
I don’t think that’s the sort of value that’s relevant here.

Here’s a value judgment for you: rent-seeking is evil.
There is benefit in making a negative outcome less probable, like there's benefit in wearing a bullet-proof vest though you can still be shot in the face.
> I still haven't figured out what the universe would like but I am at its service.

If you're trying to figure out "what the universe would like", you're going to be searching until the heat death of the universe.

> However if there is a way to create continuity from discreteness, and we can simulate our universe, we may be able to run a child universe to completion before our own universe dies.

This is ontologically unworkable. The sooner you accept that nothing will last forever, the sooner you can get to living your life and enjoying the things that are here right now.
I agree with the first part, but I don't think it's the case that millions of people take astronaut-level risk in their work every day. 4% of everyone who has gone into orbit were killed in a mission or during training.

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-astronaut-fatality-rate

The most dangerous jobs in the US, logging, has only 60k workers and a mortality risk of about 2.7% over a 30-year career.

https://priceonomics.com/how-the-lumberjack-became-such-a-de...

The reason it's bad to spend so much on astronaut safety is because the cost is so enormous and because the people at risk are very well-informed and participate voluntarily.
Show HN: Full-text search with 16-bit vector space index and HTTP API
I once had a telephone interview with a journalist. I made some silly remark, followed with "don't print that".

Both the remark and the "don't print that" were printed in the article.
>> "I think you might be extrapolating from your experience with your own social class."

You don't know anything about my social class. I'm not HN typical. People without much think about health too, and receive plenty of conflicting advice.
Would love to hear someone's experience with using or preparing this kind of memory.
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It should've been clear to everyone when Mozilla acquired Pocket. They feel obligated to build that out with their zero vision. What they should be doing at this point, is retasking that team to finding new and creative ways to build upon RSS/Atom feeds and integrate them with the browser. I'm sure there's a lot of ideas that haven't been conceived.

How about just a simple feed that scrolls somewhere? Maybe even with transparency over a portion of your browser? Certainly would beat checking the Facebook feed. Those are just off the top of my head, if someone with half a spark of humanity within their mind sat down and worked on ways to advance free & open technologies, a lot could be done that hasn't been.

There's a lot to do, but Pocket should have nothing to do with it other than at most, being the name of possibly cloud storage for your RSS feeds that you want to read later. If they think they'll figure out a way to make Pocket some sort of killer feature and takeover Chrome's position in the market, I can't help but laugh.
> what do you expect these people to do when they get out?

Two possibilities:

1. They find some legal way to sustain themselves, in which case - because society is currently biased against excons - society can easily negotiate a good bargain.
(unless the excon is able to hide their past from prospective employers)

2. They do something bad again, and get caught again, and there's approximately 300-million-to-one odds that the victim of their nastiness-of-choice, isn't me. (Or more, because I don't live in downtown goddamn Chicago.)

A win-win to me, it seems.
Quantum computers really suck at being perpetual motion machines
Do you have some examples you can link to of something you have rendered in a few seconds?

Fusion has some sort of simpler preview, my guess is that its some closed form lighting solver and in certain contexts it can look ok but for photorealism of a scene, its nowhere close.

I see a decent number of suggestions that people have really fast renders but I'm suspicious that we are talking about very different things.

Here is what I am typically rendering:

-Full screen on a 15" retina MBP

-Ray Traced

-In additional to the product, whole rooms/scenes that contextualize including 3D textured woods, books with Decals that are wrapped, elements of various opacity/transmissiveness, objects with some luminance, etc.

- Some objects with very high numbers of points (there is a technical name I'm forgetting), but essentially, circles render with enough polygons to not appear as a collection of lots of small/slightly noticeable line segments
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I started to encode it as QR code and share it with guests. It is cross platform :)
I'm not sure when/how but all the newer wifi home systems I've seen prompt people's devices to share the password when someone tries to join. So you can have a complex password. Also a lot of those have guest networks so if you need a week network you can have them. Finally you can xkcd your password and make it something like "maytheforcebewithmyfriendmark" - doesn't have to be complex.
Are you the same person as the OP? Just checking since account names are similar, but different.

Your story hits close to me. I have never been homeless but I have been through excessive dry spells of no work (I think taking a remote job 5 years ago was a mistake in some ways because it killed my interviewing skills) and had to move back to living with one of my parents. At my mid-30s it feels like your life is a shit show. The jobs I get now have been via "non traditional" means, that is very informal chats instead of lengthy interview processes, and only for short gigs and not long term arrangements.

When I have been out of work for over a year, I too just stopped everything, shut myself in more, thinking that going into "silent mode" and avoiding most contact with friends was gonna help me concentrate more on the job hunt. But it doesn't.

I can tell you to continue what you're doing, building a network and finding ways that people can refer you.

You might think that referrals are a cheese way to short-list your way into an interview, but think of referrals as a trust metric- a quantity that convinces people that you're worth the words you speak.

Can you show us your portfolio site? Honestly I got some of my interviews just from things I had on Github that caught soemone's interest. But I believe they need some kind of novel quality to them- a rehashed tutorial app won't cut it.
That's pretty much exactly what another friend of mine said.

I was really excited about our future, and then they did this to me and it of course you can't really take this kind of action back.

Really regretting not asking before signing for that clause you mentioned. The other 2 co-founders were always closer, so I could of anticipated this better.

Unfortunately for trying to get one agreement - they 6+ months out until they raise and they want me out now.
Dead reckoning was also infamously the reason why Allied bombs accidentally hit Prague instead of Dresden in World Ward II.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945_Bombing_of_Prague
Because it's by design. It's not that it is difficult to add a aarch64/ios backed to your favourite compiler. Making the artefact provisionable to emulator (which you would get on macOS only anyway, because what's inside is copyrighted and thus non-distributable) or physical device is entirely another game.

Apple is locking you in and you reward them for that.
I'm concerned at what degree those collars annoy those wild animals
If your experience is python and php then you should look at how one of them has progressed and maybe consider a job that has some use for JavaScript for future marketability..

The idea that you should learn modern JS and then react to apply for react jobs with no real world experience is a bad one for someone with work history in 2 languages that are in the top 10.. Particularly if they are in a rather desperate situation.
It's a nice story and I enjoyed it quite a bit, but I can't really provide much insight into why this belongs here any more than any other arbitrary well-written short story. Maybe because he's studying computer science and his mom thinks languages are a waste of time?
One of my dreams for virtual reality in the future is a setup that would do justice to being put in an animal's perspective as it moved around.

A peregrine falcon's dive, a cheetah's sprint, and more would all be mind blowing if one were sufficiently immersed.
If I had unlimited time and resources that’s exactly what I’d do. Big companies often have both so that’s exactly what they do.
The Pacific is even more formidable.

There was a guy a few years ago flying a twin engine Cessna from California to Hawaii. He didn't make it. Lucky for him the Coast Guard fished him out of the water.

https://www.cnn.com/2011/10/08/us/hawaii-plane-emergency/ind...
What is it? My browser (firefox) sees nothing* even after enabling javascript.

*Except the sentence "The decentralized web is everywhere, but we have to find it." and a Name form that does nothing.
The caps were way, way excessive for the application, I was just having fun putting them in. And they didn't just smooth out the power, they were capable of running the amplifier for a few seconds. (It was a 125 watt Universal Tiger amp.)

I do know that caps decay over time, but have no idea how that compares with batteries. I expect, though, that long life caps could be built.

I also wonder about using inductors instead. They are, after all, just a coil of wire.
Diesels are still a thing. Inertia in the GA market is a bitch. '

Diesel does seem to be the way of the future though, since you can run them on jey fuel. Standard avgas is still leaded, which is a big problem.
Could they refer customers to proxy service(s) on neutral soil ?

If not, can/should someone post here?
If it is in third-party repo, it means that the distribution maintainers do not maintain/test it. A third party does.

When that third-party package replaces something that is a part of the system, you are going to have a difficult upgrade next time the new distro release is out, unless the third party ensures smooth transition. Do you have that trust in them?
This is a facile and offensive argument. Non-atheists are not the intellectual equivalent of Holocaust deniers or antivax advocates. All you're doing is inviting religious flamewar, which is not allowed on HN.
I'm curious about your backend - do you have private peering links with these providers? Isn't streaming to multiple providers really bandwidth intensive for you?

Good luck with your venture!
> your home wifi threat actor is your neighbors kid playing with aircrack.

When working for an ISP it came up quite a few times that customers had extensive questions about security because they were genuinely worried about their ex-spouse spying on them. Even if they were all just "paranoid" in their specific cases (I wouldn't know), I think it's a fair concern. If all it takes is some googling and a bit of money to rent cloud GPU's, well, scorned lovers have done way more expensive and less effective things to cause damage or violate privacy.
Ask HN: Leaving my startup as technical founder, what is the right approach?
I'm currently working on a startup as the technical founder. Majority is owned by two investors who invested mostly money and I'm in for 10% having invested mostly time. I get paid, and in return I also do consulting work for the investor. There are two more minority owners/founders who are working on the business side of things and also do unrelated consulting work.

We've been working on this for over a year and are close to launch date. I have a single, very junior, developer and we still have a lot of work to do before launch, which is supposed to happen within two months.

My biggest problem is that I never tend to agree with my fellow founders and that they promise potential customers and our investors unrealistic timelines and then tell me to make it happen. Also, the investors have from the beginning been unwilling to hire experienced developers. Combined with me being away for other work, this causes the application to be below my standards. Because nobody has spent any time testing the application either, our beta testers are finding some really nasty bugs that shouldn't have been there and that will be hard to fix before release.

Whenever I try to make this clear, I get a lot of resistance and am faced by people who are unwilling to hear the ugly truth. The stress is affecting me emotionally and physically and I feel that continuing like this, even if we become very profitable, won't make me happy in the long term.

I have therefore think that I should leave the company and am already shopping around. I don't want to leave before the release date, since I feel that I need to finish what I started, but I don't think I can keep it up much longer. I'm also not worried about my stake, since I feel that my happiness and health are more important to me.

What do you think of this situation? Is this the right thing to do, or should I, ethically and professionally, inform them so they can find a replacement, before actually accepting a new gig?
thanks! just taking a look, now.
Ask HN: Are there any replay tools for Java suitable for production?
We have a problem with the reproduction of bug reports where I work. Most of the times it's due to the report being badly written, so what we do then is to take the customers database and just develop the fix using that. I've been wondering if there are better ways to do this, besides improving the quality of the reports.

I found this article that describes replay tools that record an audit log which you can then use to reproduce exactly each case: https://dzone.com/articles/if-you-cant-reproduce-bug-you
The closest example I could find for Java was Chronon, but it doesn't seem to work like what is described in the article. I just need a log of what are the inputs that lead to a bug, a recorder of the whole JVM seems excessive.
The Holocaust deniers and antivaxers are, in fact, wrong. There's no "may" about it.
90% done. It means we are halfway there :p

My gut feeling is that we are not there yet, and that 4D toys is an attempt by the author to monetize his development tools in order to be able to complete the main project. I hope it turns out well, Miegakure is definitely in my watch list.
One way to make the Spaces animation tolerable is to enable "Reduce motion" in Accessibility preferences.

https://i.imgur.com/zg4gZA7.png
Please relabel this as: "The Joy programming language (2005)"
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Based on my napkin math using 2017 data, Russia makes up 0.45% of US exports, and 0.43% of imports. So I think there must be more to it than:

> Restricting US companies from doing any business with Russia hurts the US economy too much.

sources:

https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c4621.html

https://www.statista.com/statistics/218255/total-value-of-us...
You are right, to make this easier to understand, imagine replacing Monty Hall with a street peddler.

You are playing a game with a street peddler. There are 3 cards, two are duds and one is the prize. He lets you pick one card. When you picked a card he flips one of the other two revealing it as a dud, and gives you the option to switch. Do you switch?

A person who have heard the naive explanation to the Monty Hall problem would say yes. A smart person would say no. Why? Because it is not in the street peddlers interest to let you win, he has mouths to feed and need the money! So the only reason he reveals another card and asks you to switch is because you picked the right one from the beginning, so staying in this case means 100% chance of winning, and switching is 100% chance of losing.

For the naive Monty Hall interpretation to be correct we need two things to be true: Monty Hall always opens a door and the thing behind the door is always a goat. If any of those two are not true then the popular explanation is wrong, and if you look around most explanations of the problem leaves those facts out.

For example, in this article they forgot to say that the game host always opens a door and when he opens it it is always a goat. This shows that the author of the article (and almost everyone here at HN) doesn't understand Monty Hall. Instead they talk like non mathematicians like "Why would the game not open a door sometimes?" or "Why would he open a door with not a goat? It said he opened a door with a goat this one time!" etc. The problem with those things is that the explanation only says what happened this one time, so you can't possible write down the event tree without making a lot of extra assumptions about the game.