skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember this trick was used years ago on 4Chan /b/

It was known how a thumbnail looked when it was generated by 4chan, so knowing that could be used to generate the appropriate compressed image with a 'bait' thumbnail.

It was common to show sexy females in the thumbnail image, and then when opened, you'd be greeted by goatse (guy naked, with his hands pulling apart his buttocks).

Nobody knew what it was called, but someone created an informal script, attached it to a zip file, and appended the zip to the end of an image. Then said image was uploaded to 4chan /b/.. And the jokes commenced.

I still have a few of them, but they're at home and I'm at work. And lets say they're nsfw/nsfl.
That is not true in several ways. Iframes and cdns work. There are security measures that prevent https connections from embedding http and other content restrictions, but those are for security reasons. People hotlink images, it's a wild web out there
That's only possible in cases of very limited braindead. "Mostly" a braindead person will have a slowly lowering heartbeat, and once it hits 20 or so, they die. This usually takes hours, not days.

Now, there's a gazillion different ways to be braindead. It can be that the spine is disconnected somewhere (in fact this is the most common reason, thank you traffic), and on the other end there is no sharp cutoff between braindead and in coma, where we see no damage whatsoever and can even be brought on by a normally unrelated disease (but often some form of poisoning is suspected). Therefore there can be very weird phenomena in a significant number of cases. Also the symptoms depend on the exact point the disconnection occurs. If it's deep in your back (10th vertebra or lower), you're dead in minutes, unless it's very, very deep (18+).

But mostly, you don't survive braindead for very long. Even an artifical "braindead" state (which is what barbiturate overdose patients die from) normally doesn't last more than 3-4 hours before death occurs, including the period where activity slows (so starting from the point the overdose was administered).
Heh. I recall that ShowHN actually... and while I have no need for it, when it was posted I thought "Neat. Someone will want that"

--

So, I guess it would be a good-faith action to simply encourage others who are ShowingHN something and tell them what you think, regardless of that product being something you want/need.

I try to do this frequently, actually, I try things out and then give feedback.

On several I've noticed simple typos that can be fixed, and in those cases it is typically where you just need fresh eyes to see something to have it stand-out - because the creators stare at it constantly and thus small things can blind them.
Right. In the optimistic case, people will still be learning about this art project while living in another galaxy. In terms of scale, there is the potential for MZ to end up as much more important, rather than on the same scale as, other patron of the arts. It is far too soon to tell.
I agree, but how should that person generate a token? A hardware device? What if they lose that device? Try and think of it from the perspective of someone who only uses their computer for facebook/banking/candy crush.
#2 Work in long stretches.

This is wrong or at least worded incorrectly IMHO. I believe the author knew it wasn't quite right when they wrote it, since the second paragraph is an attempt to qualify it away.

The rule would perhaps be better stated as "Think in a distraction free environment".

Plenty of productive programming is done at rest, and long stretches of "work" produce subpar code.
The ridiculousness of your social contract idea, is that a contract cannot be binding if it was made on your behalf, before your birth, without your consent. Implied consent is lunacy especially when there's lots of people saying "I do not consent", to which you must reply, "Oh you're just too stupid to know what's good for you".

Before you get upset and too emotionally invested, I will say I am not against government or the state. This is like accusing irreligious people of being against Christianity. I'm not against government, but I cannot in good faith use government's own language to describe the actual, material function of government.

Words like "public good", "social contract", these are propaganda words with more of a religious and spiritual connotation than any truth grounded in reality. They are lofty ideas invented by men trying to justify the French revolution. There's definitely value in their ideas and worldview, but mistaking an ideology or worldview for actual reality, is childish.

Government does not exist to serve society, it exists to preserve the state.

Public services -- healthcare, schools, roads -- all those things are great and helpful to society but the government does not give them to us to "serve the public".

Public services exist for one reason, and for the same reason a birdfeeder exists. A birdfeeder exists to keep the birds all in one place (to study them). Similarly, public services exist to keep us all in one place, to make us more easily accessible, so we can be more easily taxed, and more easily controlled. By giving us public services and a good quality of life, we are willing to give up even our own lives in the preservation of our state, and to kill other humans living under a different state, like the Vietcong, who were doing nothing more than trying to defend their own system against invaders.

The public services government provides, almost always come to us through granting lucrative and over-priced government contracts to their own powerful donors and wealthy associates.
Notice how after leaving office, politicians always go work for a big corporation that donated to their campaign and was recipient of government contracts, grants or tax-breaks.

The alternative to government is government. There's no way around it. Anarchy creates a void which is filled by another government. I'm fully aware of that.

But making government more fair means acknowledging the ACTUAL functions and purpose of government. Being naive about those functions doesn't help anyone but the people who seek to exploit and take advantage of us under the guise of "serving the public">

People who believe government exists to serve us will inevitably cede unreasonable, arbitrary, and vaguely defined (unlimited) power to the government under the false assumption that government intends to use these powers for our benefit.

You see this all the time where a party expands the role of govt, then complains when the next party gets elected and uses this same power for something they don't like. It practically happens every election cycle.
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Note that the proposal for a pipeline operator is still in its early day. In fact, there are two proposals (https://babeljs.io/blog/2018/07/19/whats-happening-with-the-...) and so far there's no clear winner. Seems like there's still a long way to go.

Anyway, which style do you prefer?
DHS S&T Awards $200K to Sunnyvale Startup for Lidar Technology
Link?

It depends what is meant by "commodity" I guess.

The largest server AWS offers is only 64 physical cores (128 logical) and less than 4 TB RAM.
Should we rely on the Inquisition's records as reference to judge Giordano Bruno, or on his works and public discourse before he was imprisoned for 7 years then murdered?

His arguments for the Copernican model were better than the ones made by Copernicus. He offered several lines of reasoning that Galileo later also resorted to -- you know, the very similar arguments for which Galileo was persecuted by the Inquisition during 20 years. More importantly than all of that, Bruno relentlessly argued that thinkers should be free to inquire, reason, and speak regardless of what the Bible and Church said -- all the way to the day of his public murder.
Emails demanding deletion of the memo contained “pixel trackers” that notified human resource managers when their messages had been read, recipients determined.

Not very nice being tracked is it? I hope that will be a wake-up call for everyone at Google.
> Common languages like node.js, Python, R, OCaml, etc. do NOT let you use all your cores "by default"

If the code is written in a distributed fashion from the start then it can be designed so it's one python/node/R process per core. And that makes the transition to distributed servers simpler anyway.
Thank you for this. Shows how toxic large organizations can get and how much (but also how little) influence a manager can have.

Corporations are by design inhumane but humans can change this, often resulting in better performance.

So, being inhumane is lazy and bad roi :)
If you were the right gender and race, sure.
Do you have kids? If so - do you freeze theirs too? (I'm considering doing so myself)
Good point. The difference between science, occult, and alchemy was not as clear at it is today. Science did not necessarily have any better methodology. Many great men spent their life studying stuff that didn't lead to anything in both science and other stuff.

Galileo 1632:

>Among the great men who have philosophized about the action of the tides, the one who surprised me most is Kepler. He was a person of independent genius, but he became interested in the action of the moon on the water, and in other occult phenomena, and similar childishness.
This is user space – hopefully a kernel level one will come out as a result of this.

Or does it matter, performance-wise? People that know more can chime in.
Who's more of a "producer," the person who owns the land or the person who works the land?
I particularly like reading code from Upspin (upspin.io). Its probably partially because I think the project design is interesting and write go. Regardless, its a great ground up Go project by some of the original Go authors and contributors.

Very well organized code and it feels like they got the project off the ground, fixed bugs for a few months, and now have largely trailed off from maintaining it largely because it just works (I use it) which lends some credibility to their coding style. Of course, I'd like to see the project evolve conceptually, but, right now it does what it says it does reliably for a project that hasn't even cut a single release.
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In past, I implemented HFS+ on an embedded rtos platform,. Technical Note TN1150 [1] proved to be extremely useful asset. From a cursory look, I feel TN1150 was much more detailed, and perhaps can be treated as a pre-req to this document. At least it should have been mentioned in this document.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/technotes/tn/tn1...
>Emails demanding deletion of the memo contained “pixel trackers” that notified human resource managers when their messages had been read, recipients determined.

This seems like the worst part (not that the rest is not bad), anyone has an idea of what this "pixel trackers" are and how they actually work?
> a numeric score that is computed on the device itself

Does that mean Differential Privacy [1]? In that case it's even less than a single score.

[1]: https://www.apple.com/privacy/docs/Differential_Privacy_Over...
Oh god this hurts to read as a Madison, WI resident. People still talk about the cancellation of the high speed rail between Mn, Wi, and Il.
Hey pal, probably you are in the tipping point. Everytime that I restart a cycle, I wait up to 10-15 days to start feeling the difference. Keep trying two more weeks and tell us if it changed :)
That... is not a phone? It's a pocket computer, isn't it? I could absolutely see a value for such a device, although I don't see why "no WiFi".
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Freezing my credit still allows it to improve based on my existing lines of credit, correct?
I wish there was a way to send this to my programmer coworker without seeming like a jerk. He insists we "work" together, meaning, we're in the same physical space, working on two different projects, and he interrupts my train of thought every 2 minutes with an arbitrary question about the thing he's working on. I'm close to a snapping point and don't know how to address it tactfully. What I want to say: "us working together may enhance your productivity by 50% but slows mine down by 80%."
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Looking outside of my window, I've seen the haze/fog/smog, but can't make out if it's because of polluted air or if it's just condensation- the kind you'd expect to see in high altitudes.
It's disingenuous firstly because we're treating market share as the only measure of success for a browser.

Obviously if that's the case, it matters little what niche browsers do anyway - because they lost the battle to Chrome years ago.
There's a browser extension that does something similar for github too. At least for Chrome, anyways. I imagine it works for other browsers though.
I do think working in long stretches is effective, but I'm not talking about a single "butt-in-seat" marathon coding session. I think of it more as a focus on solely one project for a number of days, without multi-tasking on 3+ projects at once giving each one only a couple hours per day.

The processing that you do when not sitting at a desk, and those eureka moments that come along with it happen more often when you are working one thing at a time. Or, at least they do for me.
And going back and recycling every piece of plastic bottle isn't a huge energy sink taking more than all the green energy there is, isn't going to produce more waste and require new raw materials?
Do you mean 'approaches infinity'? Because at n=0 the expression is maximal :-)

But the point is not to drop small terms at the extremes - it is still an infinite sum. The point is to approximate sections of the function by rectangles, and those rectangles are a bad approximation around 0 too.
It would not hurt to do so.
How does it compare to other AutoML like H20, TPOT and DataRobot?
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Watch the Big Short.

And given the times, really make sure you watch all the Russian/Putin/Trump documentaries - specifically "Active Measures"
It's a small transparent pixel loaded from a website (assuming the email client loads HTML). I'd make a unique image called mywebsite.com/jaclaz_read.png and when that image was loaded I'd know you read my email.
I think that's a bit cynical of the current round of bio-based funding. It's not wrong, but it's also not the whole picture.

It's only just started, but there is now a light at the end of the genetic/gene-therapy tunnel. With the approval of the first CAR last year (and it's success at curing children of leukemia), there's now a very real environment to produce valuable inventive biological products that are not just chemicals or antibodies.

Kite and Juno sales for ~$10B each earlier this year has done quite a bit for the field. Vapor always follows the good money, but it's not just that the money is cheap.
This is pretty much how you should write programs regardless of the programming language. Otherwise the program would become virtually impossible to understand and maintain as it grows.
The below article describes how it's done in Canada, the UK, and the EU.

https://www.cnbc.com/id/41498097
"This entire concept needs to go away, replaced by a solution that isn't invented yet"

And no, current 2FA doesn't count.
I did. Multiple times. I do not want to relive the experience of trying to get my money back. I also don't want to support the growing tendencies of companies to not care about customer complaints until they hit social media.
Why not just link tfa? https://sci-hub.tw/10.1126/scirobotics.aat1853
They already had a warm deep water port there before Sevastopol.

Any other "exposures"?
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Yeah,

(Or perhaps an instance of one or more memes? But that would probably a definition and inconvenient to say, so I will say yes,)

that image is a meme.
There is a difference between the "evidence" invoked by the Inquisition, and the actual reasons they felt they needed to torture and murder a loud defender of free thought, free inquiry, free speech, and the Copernican model.
That's fine, but surely these other fields have made some discoveries that would be relevant to their work.
It should be supported by a citizen ID with cryptographic signature support (similar to what Estonia provides its citizens with).

https://e-estonia.com/solutions/e-identity/id-card/
Just post the whitepaper or don't. The whole "request access" thing doesn't work on HN.
Probably something like <img src="http://google.com/pixel.gif?mailid=23949129"> in a mail. When you download the image, Google knows you have read the mail.
yeah my goal is to live a long and happy life of hacking and coding. My health is more important than being able to type a search into bob's computer without looking at the keyboard. But I was having a LOT of wrist pain.
Pixel trackers are just small embedded images in the email that when they are fetched from a server, the server logs it. Pretty simple way to track whether or not someone has opened an email. It's my understanding that gmail however downloads all images and then serves them from Google servers to avoid this issue entirely.

Traditional email clients like Outlook/Thunderbird are susceptible to this kind of attack. That's why they often ask you before loading images.

https://smallbusiness.chron.com/set-email-tracking-pixel-493...
> there's folks who seem really angry they need to contribute to the community's well-being

I don't think many people are trying to negatively impact the community. They just don't think it is a good investment considering how expensive rail is at being almost a billion dollars a mile and it will take up to 20 years to finish if it all goes according to schedule.

One guy I talked to made the argument that in 20 years, we should have self driving busses and if each one costs a million (current busses are like 300,000-600,000 from a quick google search), we could buy 53,800 busses with that money which would service a lot more people in a lot more unique routes which I thought was a pretty decent argument if you believe we will get self driving busses that soon.

I would rather have an oversupply of transportation so I say let's do both, but I can see their arguments for balancing taxes to pay for transportation with how much supply is needed.
> A 1 microsecond error is 300 meters.

While the speed-of-light propagation is about 300 meters in a microsecond, isn't the final position error possibly much greater? For calculating position on Earth, you can think about a sphere expanding at the speed of light from each satellite. The 1 microsecond error here corresponds to a radius 300m bigger or smaller, which only corresponds to 300m horizontal distance on the ground if the satellite is on the horizon (assuming that Earth is locally a flat plane for simplicity here). For a satellite directly overhead, the 300m error is a vertical distance. Calculating the difference in horizontal position from this error is then finding the length of a leg of a right triangle with other leg length D and hypotenuse length D+300m, where D is the orbital distance from the satellite (according to Wikipedia, 20180km). The final horizontal distance error is then sqrt((D+300)^2 - D^2), or about 110km.

Of course, this is just the effect of a 1us error in a single satellite, I'm sure there's ways to detect and compensate for these errors.
Pixel trackers are invisible images which are the size of a single pixel hidden within a given email (Not visible in most mail clients). These images are sourced from a unique url (unique per email address) which when accessed are tracked by the web service as a view of a given email from a given individual. These are usually used in marketing emails to see how effective their campaigns are.

more info @ https://en.ryte.com/wiki/Tracking_Pixel
Many google engineers already knew that a great deal of information was being collected on them.
I might be ignorant here, but wouldn't it suffice to prove that digits of Pi are random? Just check whether the distribution is uniform, the same way you would validate pseudorandom sequence generator for a programming language. Once you proved that Pi digits are random the normality hypotesis becomes trivial: as number of known Pi digits approaches infinity the probablity of any finite sequence to appear approaches 1.
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I have mine frozen and my credit scores on Credit Karma are still visible and change monthly. Credit Karma lists Equifax and TransUnion scores.
No computer needed: when you freeze your credit, the agency mails you a sheet of one-time-use codes. When you apply for credit, you give the bank or whoever one of the codes, and then cross it off of your sheet.

If you lose the paper, you have to go through a manual process to get a new one, the same as you would if you lost the PIN they give you now.
Thanks!

That seems worthy of its own "Work on one thing at a time" rule to me. Task switching is the bane of agile.
If true that would make it pretty much alone along long-running competitive games.
> Despite the flawed data set, there were no impacts to GPS
positioning and navigation. Furthermore, GPS time (tGPS)
was unaffected. Only a subset of the functions that make
use of the GPS-UTC offset were affected.

https://www.gps.gov/systems/gps/performance/2016-UTC-offset-...
Sounds like you founds books sponsored by the TLC :)
> Oddly enough, scheduled distractions may be worse than unscheduled ones. If you know you have a meeting in an hour, you don't even start working on something hard.

This hit a little too close to home, since I'm procrastinating working on something right now because lunch is scheduled to be in ten minutes and won't be able to start anything meaningful…
Depending on what you're trying to do, Cython might be a slightly easier option as well.
Livescript (which was supposed to replace CoffeeScript) also has it.
But this will bring home the reality of how it can be used against them. Just as they have helped to gather information that could be turned against ordinary people very easily.
And San Francisco Mono for the monospaced font.
Yours is a good use case.

Doing everything in JS is so common now that I didn't even think about hiding the source code. I haven't considered it as a factor in a long time, but I do remember it being considered somewhat of a disadvantage for Javascript around 2010.
Even if you maintain your infrastructure properly you run on x86 servers with disks and CPUs that need cooling, using network devices that have fascinating failure scenarios. I guess assuming that your infra is not reliable is a must for any database nowadays.
>>This is local propaganda by ...

I promise you I am not a Russian bot. My neighbors aren't either. We sincerely don't trust these groups.

Why escalate to claiming an opinion you disagree with is propaganda?
While I think this is a risky move, I had the impression that the ratification of new features was mainly based on the implementations.

So, first the runtimes/compilers implement it and then it gets into the spec.

TypeScript sees itself as a superset of ECMAScript, so its ECMAScript parts are just another implementation of the spec, like Node, Babel and the browser engines.
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A neat perk of iOS/watchOS 12 is that it now supports Air Quality in the Weather app/Siri, which has been very useful over the past few days!
It's nice to see that this is finally up; I know a lot of people have been clamoring for a more detailed reference for a while and this should hopefully make it easier for them to interact with APFS.
Yep claiming to be a force for good when behaving like an amoral organization only concerned with profit optimization is what irks people.

pretending to be something you aren't is whats frustrating