skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a reason that almost none of the largest, best-funded security teams in the world bother DNSSEC-signing; it's because DNSSEC has, at best, marginal security value. It's a failing protocol. I don't know that building a business around it is a great plan.
Robots are more fiscally responsible when manufacturing in a place with high labor cost. But it would create jobs in robot techs and programmers.
Pretty much all of BFT consensus protocols (like Paxos or Honey Badger) are like this, except SCP (Stellar). They are used e.g. in aviation, so they are very practical.
I understand your general comparison to toxic waste. The problem is not the comparison, it's the level of specificity. If someone is dumping an amount of say Parathion on my lawn, it is well within our ability to accurately determine the nature and amount of damage to me and my property given the amount and frequency of the dumping. And given that, it's a short step to monetizing the damage. In terms of accuracy, can we say the same for carbon? I don't believe we can. So while there may be a valid comparison at a high level, when it gets to actually determining damages to individuals or society, we just aren't there imo.
Qubits can sync if they have more than two possible values
I've never seen it mentioned, but I'd be ecstatic if someone who knew what the PC RPG series Geneforge is, and made a reference to this modern day dna/gene editing technology.
That's a good question, does it? I know that there was a time when not a single doctor in the world believed there was such a thing as latex allergy.

My family is in the chemical business and my father (chemist) won't put chlorine in his pool, he uses a bromide of some kind.

But, if something is popular (asbestos was at one point) it must be just fine.
Why Microservices Fail
As far as I understand, precheck is not a rubber stamp - it is a shakedown.
Something is odd with the phone or reader because all contactless payment readers in the UK activate Apple Pay on mine.
As in I don’t need to double click I even have that option disabled it will prompt the wallet auth even if the phone is locked.
Check out Rust’s wasm-bindgen - https://github.com/rustwasm/wasm-bindgen if ya haven’t already.

Right now it you call into JS to interact with the DOM but when the host bindings proposal sees fruit it’ll replace the JS shims with direct DOM manipulation!
The very last version of the Symbolics machine wasn't hardware but instead was a virtual machine running on the Alpha processor. So I would say it was a road that was taken, though it was not a success (probably bad timing since I agree it was a good idea).

http://pt.withy.org/publications/VLM.html
I wonder this too. As a relatively young professional, I regularly have folks add me who are my age or younger (mid 20's), and have a portfolio of experience that reads as if they are a Fortune 500 CEO. Combine that with having 5000+ "connections", a slew of unverified and uncorroborated skills, and LinkedIn continues to feel frivolous.

Yet most jobs listing these days require a link to your profile, so it's clear there's some value in having a "complete" profile.
> "a leader in ML"

not /the/ (only) leader in ML.

Google, FB and several of the chinese tech conglomerates are leaders within ML.
Thanks! To be explicit though: that money all goes to the project and not to individuals. I've never made a cent from working on Homebrew.
Microsoft didn't have a plausible argument on their end; that EU action could be easily spun as pro-consumer. I don't think the EU spin would work so well here.

Windows might be more "strategic" than iPhone, but unlike Windows the iPhone is a product consumers actually want. It won't fly to tell their citizens they can't have it because it uses a plug everyone already has ten spare cables for.
Well, you can repeat it many times but it will not become true. I gave you link to the list of Rust types. Pointers are pointers, not types. Traits can have any name, their names mean nothing.
> if the two alternatives are global catastrophe, or aggressive geoengineering, do you really think geoengineering won't happen?

Why hasn't it happened already, then? In case you haven't noticed, we're already staring down the barrel of global catastrophe. The problem is that it's happening on a scope that our human systems aren't set up to address.

It's interesting how much faith supposedly hard-nosed engineers are willing to put into imaginary future technology that doesn't exist, but which will supposedly be invented and deployed at a planetary scale in the next 10 to 20 years.
Ranting doesn’t help, unless you get extraordinarily lucky and your rant makes it to the front page.
I'm sure there will be exploits, as the attack surface will become bigger.

But isn't wasm designed from the ground up to be sandboxed in a certain memory space? And won't that prevent buffer overruns from gaining access to other parts of the browser?
Ask them why you were rejected and how you can improve.
Nope, sorry anon, that's not it. Interesting theory tho. But it conflicts with how I think about things. Useful to know you don't get it, tho.
Also reminds me of Richard Lindzen's Iris hypothesis, which suggest that temperature increases in the tropics will reduce cirrus clouds and thus let more heat escape from the atmosphere.

Lindzen and his theories are controversial, but I do think there may not have been enough focus on possible negative feedback mechanisms like this.
If your statement is correct then a workaround would be to perform scraping in a non-covered country such as CA and, once extracted, proprietary barriers are thus removed returning ownership to the individual.
Is it corrected? I'm still seeing it up $25.
>> The passengers on Flight 1549 were only saved because the pilots were so skilled.

Of course the engineering and planning that went into the aircraft's construction had nothing to do with it, nor did the countless government regulations dictating safety equipment and training.

These sorts of "miracles" happen rather regularly. A plane crashes near a runway totaling the aircraft, but everyone walks away. Piloting is part of the equation, but pilots stand atop an enormous pyramid of other people each contributing to flight safety. See that flight in Canada that crashed but did not catch fire. A couple decades ago that would have ended very differently.
Exactly. Garbage in, garbage out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpWrsEpWgrc
Which group would that be?
kill tony is another good comedy podcast that gets into the details of stand up sometimes
What’s worse - sucking in a bird into a jet engine or a bird-scaring drone?
And that's the problem. By picking these languages you're committing to building a lot of stuff yourself. Sure, I'd rather be writing anything other than JavaScript but you can't deny the Node ecosystem has solved a lot of problems.
No, that's just wrong.

It becomes your responsibility to ensure your syscalls match and are available on the kernel you're actually running on which you may be confusing with "not allowed to use".

And very nearly all of the time this is a complete waste of everyone's time since the syscalls are a direct mirror of what's in libc anyway just with libc doing the compatibility for you.

But just to really prove that you can absolutely syscall on Android, one of the largest, most widely deployed & shipped NDK/SDK apps does it to workaround a missing futimes in bionic: https://cs.chromium.org/chromium/src/base/os_compat_android....
The towers were brought down ("pull=it!") precisely because they were filled with asbestos and because of that it would have been prohibitively expensive to demolish them while staying in the regulations of the time, so they were rigged with explosives and dropped, under the guise of militarizing the oil fields of Iraq.
The other thing everyone seems to be missing in this discussion is the fact that asbestos is a stone, a rock, made up of very sharp crystals ("fibers") that don't dissolve in the human body. Ever.
Chlorine is broken down and disposed of by the human body, asbestos can not be removed from the lungs. Ever.
Once the are there the fibers continually stab and irritate the surrounding cells.
Even uranium has a half-life, but asbestos does not.
It needs to be eliminated completely from the environment.
It is not safe at any level.
How has the open source nature of Dart helped so far?

Open source is not a panacea for a project that’s not popular and doesn’t have an active vibrant community around it.
I'll happily state publicly that I voted for this proposal but in this case the issue is that Homebrew/homebrew-core does not follow a GitHub Flow process but pulls binary packages in with a custom tool (`brew pull`) and generally relies on a rebase workflow which GitHub does not sign (understandably as it's modifying the original commit and would have GitHub signing non-merge-commits). I'm still optimistic we can figure out a way to do this in future.
Instapaper back available in the EU with updated privacy policy
For any other company "$420" would be a pretty good indication of of this being a hack. But with Elon, it's hard to tell.
The initial pop was related to a report that the Saudi fund built a position in Tesla.

The stock is now right about where it was when Musk tweeted.
Maybe its my warped understanding of how multi-billion dollar boardrooms are ran.

To me, its not necessarily how well are our projects doing. Its more, squeeze out the most we can get from every asset and then squeeze for more.

I understand that Facebook will run just fine with or without the 20%, but I can imagine hearing this news and then looking around the room to find what acquisitions haven't performed well. Almost like a "What have you done for me lately?" vibe. Yes, its a bit warped to think that way (but fun too).
This is dependent on airport and timing. As initially developed in the US everyone at some airports where going through those scanners. But, various policies and types of scanners have been developed.

Under the current system few people are going to get cancer. But, in the past people where calling systems that where dangerous safe.
Any data / reporting on that?
Taking Photos Without Consent Is Like Unwanted Touching
Costs are the threat and the last mile problem. If rail could deliver close or at the last mile, we wouldn't be having this conversation. Rail is way more efficient, except for that last bit.
Oh wow you were serious... Social cues dude. If you can't spot light-hearted humor idk how you make it through day-to-day life.
Am I correct that the attack your describing is what's commonly called an Evil Twin Attack?
Possible additional point: going into the 80s/90s (the last gasps of "alternative" personal computing architecture), there were not many widely-adopted standards across computing. This is why we all bitched about file incompatibility across systems etc. But now we have all of this great stuff: format standards, APIs, hell, even TCP/IP is a universal standard that allows all manner of exotic hardware to speak to the rest of the world.

I think something like Lisp/Smalltalk/SomethingNewOS machines might have another shot here soon, especially with the loss of gains from Moore's law
My phone and tablet connect via openvpn to a server running pi-hole.
> Signing each commit is totally stupid. It just means that you automate it, and you make the signature worth less.
Apple changing the plug on their iPhone again? After they've told everyone to invest in lightning cables and accessories? It creates a stir when they change voluntarily; it would be an utter scandal if it was foisted upon Apple by a foreign government.

Did you not read about Macbooks and USB-C?

Scandal.
There’s always people complaining how backwards it is that we don’t have electronic voting, how it suppresses the youth vote, etc.
I totally agree that predatory publishers are a huge part of the problem:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predatory_open-access_publishi...

https://jefferson.libguides.com/predatorypublishing

https://beallslist.weebly.com/

And now predatory conferences:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predatory_conference

https://libguides.caltech.edu/c.php?g=512665&p=3503029

However, the storm actually started with the failure of reproducible of research in high impact journals:

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2018.0003...

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/02/if-you-fail-reproduce...

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/features/reproducing-re...

This is not an chicken-egg problem, it is an ethic problem, motivated by remuneration and funding.
> Some of us believe federal regulatory agencies are unconstitutional due to their ability to interpret laws (isn't that the Legislative branch's job?).

No, interpreting laws is the judicial branches role (as the ultimate decision point), but it's also essential to executive functioning (as you get apply or execute a law without first interpreting it.)

> EPA, FCC, and their ilk have no obligation to represent the opinion of the people.

Neither does Congress or the President.

> Federal agencies are given a blank check to interpret (write) laws without any real checks and balances.

“Interpret” does not mean “write”, and both the adjudicative/interpretive and regulation-writing functions of agencies are constrained by judicial review (of both) and both advance and responsive (Congressional Review Act) constraint by Congress (for the regulatory function.)
I'd never heard of radium girls and found this interesting:

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/radium-girls-radioactive-p...

I'm slightly confused why the public at large was ignorant of the danger of radium (and even thought it was healthy), but the radium girl managers knew the danger...?
Still wouldn't work probably -- think of how many times the average person misplaces their car keys in a given year. Now give them a piece of hardware, that they're only going to use every 2 years (which is a stretch given Americans' voting patterns, so realistically it's every 4 years if ever), and tell them to (1) keep it safe and (2) remember where they put it.
Today's peak TSLA price was $371.07 (through my provider) so it's yet to be seen whether it will reach that again or close lower.
Before they used drones they used hawks to hunt other birds. Never really heard of this being a problem even then.
How is this legal to just say anything to pump up the stock price?
This story was part of a news report sourced by the daughter of a general on NBC. I saw it between 1987ish (I may be off by a year).

> The project never recovered from this ignominious retreat, and it was canceled in 1944.

It was "cancelled" after a shockingly effective test because the first A-bomb was going to be ready. Multiple projects were going on in parallel. Because bat-instigated fire was still an uncontrollable and unpredictable force to unleash on a population, it was wisely cancelled (the research kept, which is all that mattered) in favor of a more pointed and well-understood system. A big targeted explosion.
Now would be an excellent time to remake it as a compact electric sports coupé.
I use these "LightDims" stickers to either black out or dim LEDs: http://a.co/7gGzOL8

They come in various colors, shapes, and opacity. They look much better than my previous method of using electrical tape.
Look, I don't much care for Facebook as a company or as a product. FAIR is a bit separate and does a lot of pure research. FAIR has put out a lot of good work, tools (it supports PyTorch), and has a lot of good people working there with good intentions.

Not everyone that works for a company that a given person dislikes is "evil" or acting malevolently. No company is homogeneous.
> As a side note it also shows that Jenkins tends to be a tempting target for attackers as it often has access to a wide range of systems to carry out it's functions.

This. I'd really love to stop us using Jenkins but none of the hosted macOS CI services scale to meet our needs (i.e. having jobs that run for multiple hours on better hardware). The ideal solution for me would be for us to have some sort of modified Travis or Circle CI setup. We can even pay for it now we've got Patreon money coming in.
Genetic Tests Can Hurt Your Chances of Getting Some Types of Insurance
Agreed. But these decisions are being made by (and I must admit here I know nothing about the subject matter at hand, this is just speculation) almost certainly tens of thousands of municipalities across the country, independently. From small towns to big cities. From huge, organized departments that attend traffic signaling conferences, to folks who treat this component of their job as almost an afterthought. And we're only noticing the towns that screwed up, not the one that wisely chose NOT to implement LEDs for these reasons. Or the ones that made the calculated choice that, based on snowfall patters in their region, energy savings, savings on maintenance costs, vs the higher purchase price of the LEDs, that the LEDs were probably the right choice.
Microstates: Composable State Primitives for JavaScript
I bet it's just what the guy wanted to find out he had to deal with while on paternity leave!
If my gaming PC has an UWQHD display and I want to stream to a standard MacBook 15" display, do you have any advice to avoid extreme letterboxing/super-small UI?
Except that Google is actually part of the OpenJDK contributors.

They only have themselves to blame for Android Java.

If they actually bothered to buy Sun instead of hoping it would sink in silence, the situation would be quite different and most likely cheaper than what they already spent in lawyer wages and court expenses.
Anyone has a link to a non-paywall version?
Finally broke down, got out an old Pi I had in storage and set up a Pi-Hole last week. So far the experience has been pretty positive.
Thank god for naps.
Saying things that impact the stock price is a normal part of being the CEO. EX: Drug X failed/passed clinical trials.

The limitation is on manipulation of the stock price more so than simply releasing information.
I don't believe it exists, but in theory someone could write a Flutter plugin to evaluate JavaScript on V8 (Android) or JavaScriptCore (iOS).
The Birth of Hawai‘i's Native-Language Newspaper Archive
If you have a well-thought out argument, and not a quippy one-liner, I'd earnestly like to hear it.

Dart's developers think otherwise[1]:

> Q. Is Dart a statically typed language?

> Yes, Dart 2 is statically typed. For more information, see Dart’s Type System.

> With its combination of static and runtime checks, Dart has a sound type system, which guarantees that an expression of one type cannot produce a value of another type. No surprises!

> Even with type-safe Dart, you can annotate any variable with dynamic if you need the flexibility of a dynamic language. The dynamic type itself is static, but can contain any type at runtime. Of course, that removes many of the benefits of a type-safe language for that variable.

[1] https://www.dartlang.org/faq#q-is-dart-a-statically-typed-la...
There was an article on HN a few weeks ago about a guy making a game out of LinkedIn. In that he made a fake account, filled it with buzzword skills, degrees, and colleges. Started adding every notable person he could. Then it became a domino affect. Once he had some influential people as connections, other people started adding him, thinking he was then a big shot. Then once he got a ton of influential connections, recruiters from major companies started reaching out to him with job offers and interview requests.

Ultimately LinkedIn does have a good business use, but it can also be gamed pretty hard.

EDIT: Found the link. It didn't originate on HN, but I saw it from a post about it on HN.

https://theoutline.com/post/5495/how-to-beat-linked-in-the-g...
Don't forget Roscosmos, who is going to be in a world of hurt when NASA and other customers stop using their services and instead use SpaceX.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/06/russia-may-lack-the-... sums it up nicely.
Younger Australians consider private health cover to be costly, poor value
Strangely the author complains about bad comparisons but spends little time on how to make a good comparison. Here's a take on how to properly compare a company's financial flows to a country's (GDP):

https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2011/06/28/gdp-for-...

tl;dl - the closest approximation to GDP that you can pull from a public company's financial statements is gdp = profit + wages paid.
There's always a certain amount of affinity between languages and frameworks. Few languages succeed with a compelling framework or "killer app", and few frameworks succeed without really taking full advantage of the language.

In this case, we've been talking about removing "new" for ages, well before Flutter existed. It honestly never really made much sense in Dart. Flutter wanting it helped tip the scale and get consensus on the team, and now that we have it, it really does benefit all Dart code, even non-Flutter stuff.
Internet without ad and tracking blocker is unwatchable and unusable at this point. Occasionally I get taste of it while browsing on the iphone (unable to edit the hosts file) and it is a nightmare. Advertisers and tracking providers hijacked the web.
https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/first-edition/raw-pointers.ht...

*const u32

(for example) is a clearly a Rust type -- a const pointer to an unsigned 32-bit integer, analogous to

const uint32_t *p

in C/C++.

I'm not sure what you mean about trait names. The purpose of the Any trait is to make it possible to pass around values of any type and dynamically downcast them, as the documentation indicates. That is a safe analogue of casting a void pointer to another type.
It's awesome that the curriculum is newly created for this term AND that the old curriculum is logged in the library page.
What's a non-Jewish New York Bagel?

I've never heard of "Jewish bagel".

Montreal bagels are "Jewish", and are the opposite of New York bagels.
Elon Musk considers taking Tesla private at over $70B, says he has the money
That is a 1980 pamphlet, not a scientific paper.

OP is right -- there is a lower limit of acceptable asbestos exposure that is not well known. All the asbestos-related mesothelioma cases were from workplace exposure for an extended period (more than two months).

Furthermore, there are two major forms of asbestos that have widely varying effects. Chrysotile has been shown to not be harmful in small doses. (That's the stuff that you'll find in popcorn ceilings installed prior to 1974.)

"Inhalation toxicity studies of chrysotile at non-lung overload conditions demonstrate that the long (>20 µm) fibers are rapidly cleared from the lung, are not translocated to the pleural cavity and do not initiate fibrogenic response."
Reference: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3581056/