skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the long response.

I was wondering about mobile usage too, and agree that having a server somewhere available for queries is the best solution.
Since this deals with such private data, having a possibility for self-hosting is the correct solution.
Well, I prefer games that abstract the programming behind a nice visual. SpaceChem is still a favorite and while I haven't actually played it, Magnum Opus is my next in the list.
> physics is itself inherently inductive

No, it isn't. It is explanatory. You need to read Deutsch and/or Popper. The argument is too long to reproduce in an HN comment.
There is a disconnect here: I've read so many technical articles from cloudflare about neat problems they solve while at the same time they just boldly say fuck you to net neutrality and aggressively try to get people on board with the tracking internet that their corporate partners desire so strongly. I get the sense these aren't the same groups of people at the company itself.

I've been browsing anonymously with tor and other services for about five years now and the web just gets more and more hostile every day. So many pages, apps, services, etc just flat out don't work anymore even if you solely have a VPN running.

Not to throw cloudflare under the bus, Google and Apple have have created way more issues for me with their hostility to anyone who evades tracking.
I fully get the pain of a "bothersome captcha" but as a website operator (who's sites are behind cloudflare), there is a balancing operation. How much of the traffic out of Tor is legitimate, and how much is spammers, attackers and other script kiddies? For me, the answer is "very little legitimate".

A better request for Cloudflare websites would be to put the CAPTCHA's just on actions that need protection. Reading a blog entry? Don't need to test. Writing a comment? CAPTCHA them to the break of dawn.
I don't see why paper makes different systems more difficult. Paper is more about how votes are registered and counted, voting systems are more about how they are aggregated and decided.

Re: your comment on social engineering, etc. There has been a ton of effort in arenas in the US electoral system(s), but the goals have not been security or access - sometimes quite the opposite.
Please forgive me if this is a stupid question - but is heavily investing in solar electricity a good idea in Europe considering the variation in climate throughout the year?

Energy demand is highest in the Winter, when mean monthly sunshine hours are at the lowest.

Even in Nice (the very south of France) where I assume this difference would be smaller, there's still a big gap between 347.5 mean hours in July and 139.3 mean hours in December (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nice#Climate).

Surely we'd need to heavily invest in backup generation capacity that would be dormant for the vast majority of the summer then heavily in use over the winter?

Admittedly I have a very limited amount of knowledge in this area - but wouldn't wind or tidal power generation be a better bet here (well, Europe anyway)?
I am a computer systems scientist and have participated in several peer-review processes.

I have never seen a case where an author who does not have researcher credentials is marginalized.

However, papers with bad science are rejected and in the worst-case, the authors are blacklisted. It does not matter if the authors have stellar credentials or none to start with. So aim to write papers with good science and forever stop worrying about getting marginalized.

There are several books that explain bad science. I recommend "Craft of Research", "They Say I Say", and "Demon Haunted World" to start with.

The most effective method to get your paper accepted is to make the experimental methods explicit and the data public. This will make your paper much more scientific than those published in conferences with poor-reproducibility checks.

Professors are hungry to write good papers. Conaact a professor who works in the same community to review your paper in return for co-authorship. They will gladly agree if your paper is aligned with their interests.

All the best!
Invisibility aside, metamaterials are making waves
Seconding the recommendation for arXiv.

The thing that surprised me the most was that people watch what gets posted on arXiv, so they someone will probably read your paper if its an active research area, you may even find people discussing your paper on Twitter without ever promoting it.

If you have any institutional affiliation (eg even big tech companies qualify), you can post to arXiv. And it should be pretty easy to get someone to endorse your posting if you don't, it's basically to stop total nonsense getting submitted.
Why do you think people worth looking at are exclusively found in journals?
Criminal justice code could send you to jail and there’s nothing you can do
interesting note: these photos are legit, except the starry background has been added afterwards to make a composite shot.

you can see that they are all identical star fields, and you can see the slight egg shaped stars at an angle, which happens when a shutter is opened for ~30 seconds or so (because stars move across the sky.)
the photographer would have to have a relatively quick shutter to capture the fine details of the ash cloud burst, but at that speed it would not pick up the stars at all.
Another major benefit of this is that the things that makes it trustable are very easy to understand.

If someone asks "why should I trust this count is correct" you can say "well these are the people that counted the votes - these are the people who watched (selected by parties A, B and C) and here's some video of it all happening".

That's a lot more comprehensible than "well, do you know what a blockchain is?".

Being trustable is great - but it also needs to be trusted!
You can do that with pagreules
I thought that as well, I would like to hear if its true in practice for arxiv
Help us test 3D Secure in Monzo Labs
The reality of systems like Tor is that they're going to be heavily abused by bad actors. Part of the whole point of using Cloudflare is to reduce your vulnerability to attacks from those bad actors, so I don't see how it's a good idea to whitelist that traffic indiscriminately.

I feel for the legitimate users of Tor who are annoyed by captchas all day, but unless someone has a foolproof way to filter out good Tor users from malicious Tor users, I think that's just the price you pay.

Also found this interesting for more context: https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/203306930-D...
> Perfection is when there is nothing left to take away.
The Sam Harris article referenced, for anyone else who was unfamiliar with the controversy: https://samharris.org/in-defense-of-profiling/
> I heard that Alcubierre somewhat regrets having his name on this spacetime as he gets contacted by all kinds of Star Trek fans and other people who believe they can produce the drive. He has done all kinds of other quality research in General Relativity, but this is what he will be famous for.

This is untrue, it's really offensive to a person that's dedicated years of his life to this research, and it set a terrible tone for the rest of the comments. He gives talks all the time to groups that are interested in developing a "warp drive". He puts up photos of Star Trek in his talks! He even refers to his own work as potentially developing a "warp drive".

Look at one of his recent talks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5q_z8BjiYng
and please stop spreading negative rumors about scientists.
https://myaccount.google.com/privacy is the place to go to double-check your own settings.
Controlling electric signals in the body could help it heal
Perhaps my explanation isn't perfect, but... Maybe in part because it is unthinkable for any "grown-up", "responsible", "engaged" estimator in charge of the project to put in 10x churn into the estimation of resources they request from their management? If you claim you would do that, imagine yourself justifying it to your manager, and then to senior management to which your manager drags you afterwards.
What are the biggest differences you've noticed as an owner between the Model S and the Model 3? Obviously they're different cars in terms of expense, but are there any things in the Model 3 that you wish your Model S had? Just curious to hear the opinions of someone who owns both.
From the popular answers to this thread, I think the next relevant question that arises is: How non-scholars can find opportunities to collaborate with scholars? We need some kind of "Who is open to collaborating?" threads similar to that of "Who is hiring?" threads.
> it would do extra stuff like adding it to the Windows cert store if you're there, adding it to Firefox if you use it, etc

This is what mkcert does (FF on Windows not done yet, but FF everywhere else and OS root store is).

> And being package it's better to collaborate on than everyone making their own process (and possibly screwing it up)

Not sure the difference between it being an npm package or a Go project on GitHub is that large. Or are you saying "go build" is easier to screw up than "npm install"?

EDIT: My mistake, misunderstood the context of the comment.
Ask HN: What are the best video tutorials on Python?
Okay, let's start with the idea that it isn't ridiculous. For the sake of argument, let's say a blockchain-based voting system could be as verifiable as paper.

So what problem does it solve? What does the blockchain accomplish that a paper ballot does not? And what are the costs in terms of user interface and voter education, relative to paper?
Same here. I found learning vim to be easier than getting used to the nib. Would love for the nib to be effective for me. I think the nib requires to much force to push around.
Our cities house-price index suggests the property market is slowing
This Week in Programming: Lazy Programmers and Long Load Times – The New Stack
The Tor Project is invaluable in countries like Russia, where the gov. can block literally millions of IPs just to get rid of one pesky messaging app.

Now that I think about it, people using it should probably donate more to the project. Although this very same gov. can always see it as "supporting the terrorists".
To go even further on that point - the chart itself seems overly optimistic. +-40% of estimate after product design? +-10% of estimate after design spec?! Countless number of times I have seen detailed design specs completely thrown out of whack by new engineering, process or business revelations/insights. Human thought is iterative - most people can imagine at most 80% of the future/product/design possibilities.
EU wants to tackle planned obsolescence
How are paper ballots at all an obstacle here? RCV is just a different format for the ballot. You can still input the votes and calculate the runoffs digitally to save time, you just have the benefit of verifiable paper records for the raw data.
The only substance that can transport more energy than water that I know of is ammonia. But it's quite corrosive and it has to be pressurized at 50-100 bar to make a difference.
Putting "pollution" in quotes was to substitute it for "waste", or byproducts, or side effects, that may or may not be undesirable for some species somewhere and somewhen.
Hi there,

It takes a fair bit of courage to open up about such issues and seek help. I want to start by saying that I respect you for doing that and that it's a step in the right direction :)

I think the first thing is to speak to your local doctor or GP about how you’re feeling. If you’re currently feeling absolutely overwhelmed, they are the people who are best equipped/trained to help and provide short term solutions. May I ask if you’ve considered or already tried this approach?

Cheers
You want to buy video games cheap and almost free
I don't know about where you publish, but all the venues where I publish use double blind review. Therefore I'd say all this talk about how many authors and so on is a red herring.

Assuming double blind review, the barriers are going to be with respect to the contribution itself, or the writing. For a paper to get accepted in my field (CS, HPC, PL, compilers), first of all it needs to present a novel and interesting contribution. I occasionally see papers that are pretty obviously coming from industry where it's pretty apparent that the authors just have no idea what a contribution entails.

This is the sort of thing that you grow to just have a gut sense of by doing a PhD. Short of that, you could get some of this sense yourself by reading papers, though it would be far easier to collaborate with someone experienced in the field you can find a person who is willing.
Paper voting means that you can hold very few elections and the like. This means choosing between representatives who nobody likes, and only discussing major questions. With electronic voting (not the black box kind of course) there's hope that democracy becomes more direct.
Not a paradox, but the 80% is the reason that potato chips are made close to the farm. Frito-Lay doesn't want to ship water.

http://www.econtalk.org/odonohoe-on-potato-chips-and-salty-s...

Fascinating podcast about the economics of the (potato) chip industry.
Pollution, by definition, is something that causes harm:

"the presence in or introduction into the environment of a substance or thing that has harmful or poisonous effects."

I have no idea why you have this idea that polluting is some politicized term.
Project Flogo: A Lightweight Runtime for Edge Computing – The New Stack
The article says the images are 8 second exposures, no mention about composites. Are you sure?
Because the examples of self-hosted PDFs in my field that I have seen over many years now, are so horribly crackpot that even if there is a magical 1% of tenable self-published work out there somewhere, it is not worth people’s time looking for it when journals offer a better signal-to-noise ratio.

And while it may not be true of cutting-edge STEM fields, most of the must-cite literature in my own field is not available digitally and is in fact held at only a few libraries worldwide. People are unlikely to have access to it unless they are already closely involved in academia, and in that case they will be keen on journal publication for career advancement. Consequently, self-publication strongly correlates with not having an awareness of the standard literature.
At times I also use the charger that came with my X1 Yoga to charge my Samsung S9. It works great!
Convert File Systems with Fstransform – Fedora Magazine
Background on tor problems: https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-trouble-with-tor/
Improving the Quality of Sleep with AI and Machine Learning – IEEE Transmitter
Basically in every job you share your time and "head" in exchange for money.
I would love to see Democrats pick up a blanket ban on paperless electronic voting as an issue. The GOP won't, for, um, reasons. This is a marvelous partisan opportunity, if the Democrats are wise enough to pick it up.
Adding to the GP, you just need to have a thick skin, and not take rejection personally. It's a fact of life in this environment.

Regarding the venue and costs, in CS, some conferences are better venues than most journals (impact wise, at least), and attending one might be a good way to know the people in the field. In any case, you'll be expected to pay for the registration and present your paper, too.
Is this about caching map tiles or something else?
I always find it interesting that domesticated foxes basically behave like large pups.
Improving the Ethereum Developer Ecosystem with Libraries
Jack up the sensitivity to maximum and it works pretty well. I don't need to carry a mouse with me when I'm traveling because the nub is so much better.
A cursory glance and you notice some companies listed are not really startups and some long since gone -- Enron for instance.
> Path tracing integrals are fairly expensive because states and actions are continuous and each bounce requires ray-intersecting a geometric data structure. What if we do light transport simulations on a point cloud with a precomputed visibility matrix between all points, and use that as an approximation for irradiance caching / final-gather?

A crude variation on this is often used in games, known as "light probes". You precompute the light transport simulation on a subset of points in the scene (manually placed by artists), and lighting for dynamic objects simply lerps between the nearest light probes.
How to take cryptocurrency mainstream with stablecoins and payment processors?
If you're interested in this, I recommended reading about Patrick Walton's work on Pathfinder: https://pcwalton.github.io/2017/02/14/pathfinder.html
I've got enough problems on my sites from Tor that I simply block T1 (Cloudflare's "country" code for Tor users) on their settings. Blocking whole countries used to be a Enterprise only feature, but now it's available to Pro users.
Eh, I really doubt that it's designed to punish people who aren't tracking. Tracking makes users much more valuable, but the average legitimate user who isn't being tracked is still probably net positive value, so it wouldn't make sense to just block them outright.

I think the problem is that a very high percentage of malicious behavior online comes from Tor, certain IP ranges, VPNs, scrapers that don't run Javascript, etc, etc. You can't get rid of all of those malicious actors, but you can probably block the vast majority of them by taking the actions you're complaining about here, and I suspect that it doesn't actually cost you that much. You get some cranky nerds and some legit users who are using Tor and VPNs who won't be able to use your site, but they're a tiny minority.
Perhaps there is disproportionate negative attention placed on the tech industry these days, but it is still reasonable to write an in-depth article like this that only focuses on one specific offending industry.
Why would a company that values their users' privacy have Cloudflare man-in-the-middle their traffic in the first place?

Cloudflare decrypts the traffic, which in many cases includes personally identifiable information like names, email addresses, transactions, etc. It's hard to imagine something more anti-privacy than allowing a third-party access to all of your users' data.

Tor users should take those CAPTCHAs as a sign that they're visiting a web site that they can't use while maintaining their privacy.
Sonatype botches Maven search
He still executed a tremendous amount in five months.
The other way to think about it is that the model of selling software is dying and the thing to do now is free admission and in-app purchases.
Dojo Version 3.0
Minneapolis has done instant runoff voting for a couple of elections now, on paper ballots, with no problems. I don't think it's making as much of a difference as proponents hoped, but at least we know it's not hard.
It still says protected file and won't open
No problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5q_z8BjiYng

This is one example of many. The original poster was just spreading FUD and saying nasty things about Alcubierre as a researcher. He gives talks like this all the time, he refers to his own work as a warp drive, he quotes and shows off Star Trek, etc. This isn't an issue of crazies trying to steal someone's research.
It's not really an "excuse"; a normal CA is not — cannot — going to sign a certificate for "localhost"; it wouldn't make any sense, and the verification methods that prevent any random joe from getting a cert for "google.com" wouldn't even work against localhost, or when you're pretending to be a domain you aren't (obviously!). (E.g., "example.com" in the article.)

The only way to use a real CA such as Let's Encrypt here would be to actually have a domain name. While I do have my own, I'm not going to us that at work. While my work has a domain, of course, we manage it with Route53, and AWS doesn't support delegating control over a subtree in DNS via IAM — that is, it's not possible to restrict permissions on a domain s.t. I could have a subtree to myself. (I've complained/feature requested this to AWS, but their responses have been less than enthusiastic.) Aside from not having a domain, I don't have an IP at work, as we're on an IPv4-only network and connection.

While none of this makes it impossible to use LE, it requires effort from people that aren't me. Tools like the one in the link fill a real need.
No, it would not require a large conspiracy to pull off. With electronic voting, a single highly skilled engineer could rig an election without needing any accomplices at all. That is why it's terrifying.
As a developer I don't estimate work based on number of lines I expect to write, so while this metric is interesting I do not think it explains why we miss deadlines. It does indeed show that things usually are more complicated than we think. But with that knowledge, I'm pretty sure I'll keep missing deadlines.
From the article, about the shelf-life of UI code:

"Does the amount of churn depend on the type of software? For example, Bill Scott found that at Netflix, only about 10% of the UI code lasted more than a year, and the other 90% had to be thrown away. What are the rates of churn in backend code, databases, CLI tools, and so on?"

I used to do a lot UI. This jives with my experience.

At the time, I resolved to divine concise ways to prototype and implement UIs.

20 years ago. I didn't get very far. But I am now making another run up that hill, so we'll see.
There are a few bars within two blocks of me and the site didn't find any of them. I like the minimalistic look but isn't the database the whole point of it?
Hi! Author here.

I was backdating, but I realized a correct notBefore helps identifying when and why you made the certificate. I removed the backdating at the same time as I added the host name in the OU. Nobody has complained so far, so probably not a real problem on dev environments.

I would kind of hope that for client auth you’d have support for a custom root instead of the system pool, hence not needing mkcert (in its current form). But if someone actually finds themselves needing that I’d accept a PR.

Key Usage has been screwed up so much than nearly no one checks them, but in any case I don’t feel like this is the place to fight the RSA key exchange.
I was part of a now-tabled push for RCV in a red state a few years back. While it offered a solution to several issues and had some multiparty support, the big problem arose when the state legislators realized that the current machines used to aid in tabulating and reporting results couldn't do RCV tabulation. This meant either new machines would need to be bought or it would all have to be done by hand. The clerks ran the numbers and the number of volunteers required or increased cost was not viable. The decision was made to table considering RCV use statewide until the machines were scheduled to be replaced in half a decade.

The problem is that an individual ballot in RCV if counted manually, needs to be counted several times if the vote ends up switching to the 2nd, 3rd, or fourth choice etc. As the number of total votes increases from the thousands to hundreds of thousands (or even millions), this can cause a pseudo-exponential growth in the amount of counting labor performed. Large municipalities that have trialed RCV have forged ahead with manual counts and succeeded despite the increased effort, but it has sometimes taken days to report results. That's only after massive amounts of labor from volunteers.

Going statewide with manual-only counts of paper ballots (no optical scanning or other machine-assisted counting) makes RCV or other methods of determining winner much more difficult because of the labor or cost involved.

It should be clear that I quite like RCV, but this is a factor to consider.