skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"This paper solely addresses the Fifth
Amendment framework for compelling acts of decryption by entering passwords without disclosing it to the government. Compelled use of biometrics and compelled disclosure of passwords raise different Fifth Amendment issues."

Are we to believe that typing it in the presence of officers of the court doesn't communicate the password to officers? This seems questionable. I'm sure judges love, technically we are violating your clients rights but as long as officer smith looks over that away we TECHNICALLY wont be.

Further one can argue both having forgotten a password AND the fifth amendment. You can argue that the act of trying to unlock it is testimonial AND that you don't know the password. Prove them wrong.

You could argue that the authorities have presented you with a device that has had the password changed. If they actually do this do they just get to lock you up for however long they feel like?

It's probably true in many cases that you can establish that a device was used by a person, bought by a person, that that person PROBABLY knows the password. This isn't enough for it to be a foregone conclusion.

This reads like complicated wishful thinking designed to relieve the prosecution of the burden of doing intelligent police work.
At those temperatures, it will disintegrate whatever it touches. It's just that, unlike fission, fusion is unstable[1] so it quickly fizzles out, and damage will be local.

[1] Unstable in the sense that it is hard to maintain fusion conditions, not in the Hollywood sense that it blows up if you look at it sideways.
It's somewhat unfortunate that the ruling merely reasons that it wouldn't be practically possible, rather than reasoning that such a copyright would be a burden on society without any real gain.
"Overthinking, over-analyzing separates my body from my mind" - Tool
As some others have said: programming and CS are only somewhat related.

I like to compare it to some kind of manual work.

Programming is the tool. There's a hammer, or a screwdriver, or a saw. A good manual worker is able to use most of them. She may not have experience with all of them, but with enough experience she will learn to use new tools faster.
The manual worker usually doesn't know much about creating those tools.

CS is like creating tools. You know what properties the tools should have, what materials they should use, etc. Most engineers are probably not as good in actually using them as the above mentioned worker.

So, being a good programmer does not mean being good at CS, and vice versa.
What I'm saying is that it's totally fine. You'll learn (using the comparison again) what's the best material for a given tool for your current project as soon as you need it.
Interesting, I was introduced to Hacker News by CGP Grey on the Hello Internet podcast, declaring he was taking a long break from Twitter, Reddit, and HN. About a year ago I decided to avoid all media as a sort of test. I later also deleted all of my social media accounts.

Media does seem to have significant psychological effects, comparable to drugs. I think reading books has to be the healthiest way to consume media, because unlike movies, shows, podcasts, surfing, and scrolling, it takes an active effort to do, and thus you get out of it everything you put in. Passive media consumption leads to spending more time with what has no value to you. I believe it should only be done with other people, to establish context and references between each other. I feel the same way about recreational drug use. In general it is good to choose activities that connect you to others, rather than separate.

My time spent away from the internet and media, really has broadened my view of the world. I've thought a lot about motivation, narrative, and relationships. I seem to be bent on figuring these things out, and trying to uncover the inner workings of life. This does me no good though, and the analysis and overthinking is crippling. My focus recently has been on not complicating life. It is not an optimization problem. Instead I'd like to let go of the need to understand, and simply experience and appreciate more.

As for Hacker News, I am quite pleased with the postings I've seen so far, and is inspiring and motivating to me. I will be wary of HN leading to a decrease in productivity and becoming a time sink.

Apologies for the slightly off topic rant, I just had some thoughts I wanted to get out.
I don't believe that for one second considering the hacks that Facebook has had to do around the limitations of PHP.
There was recently a vote in Parliament to require landlords to keep their rented properties fit for human habitation. It failed: https://fullfact.org/economy/did-mps-vote-against-homes-havi...
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Weavers begin by hand-drawing the design on a millimetre grid. Every half-millimetre of the grid represents a cardboard Jacquard card that is punched through with a hammer, and every punched hole in the cards corresponds to a thread. If a design has a repeat of 1.5m, it requires 3,000 cards. After weavers tie the cards together one by one and hoist them atop the loom, the real work begins.

Did any other industry use cards in this way prior to the punched card era of computers?
The "IMPLEMENTED IN EVERY MAJOR BROWSER" refers to SCTP-over-UDP (as used by WebRTC).
It reminds me of myself. This probably falls in the same basket, I used to game (online games) on a decent level, but I noticed that when I started becoming too concerned with winning a round that I'd start failing more.

Whereas when I played more 'happy go lucky' I could coordinate my actions much better.

There's probably other factors at play here, but overthinking really does have a downside on my ability to play well.

Another interesting datapoint is a friend of mine, who overthinks when gaming except when he was slightly intoxicated. Maybe like the Ballmer peak for gaming! :D
The easiest way is to have an office job and slowly switch to remote. Once you have remote experience, it's much easier to get a fully remote position from a job board or connections.
You did not downvote me. But you did contradict yourself.

On one hand you say the focus on NASA study is on the word "sealed". That would directly mean that you believe that plants as indoor purification would not be helpful if there was no sealed environment

And then you say that "the same thing would apply to air purifiers"

You clearly have a bias against plants, as do the few who downvoted me. I know you didn't downvote because HN doesn't allow you to do that!

The study which you have linked says that "more research needs to be done to check air purification" and guess what? They are going to do a study in a sealed environment because if a plant can remove Benzene, Formaldehyde and Toulene in a sealed environment then it can do the same when its not in a sealed environment. You cant5 shrug the results of NASA study saying "it was done in a n atypical environment", of course it was done in a sealed room.

The NASA study would have been refuted if no amount of Benzene was removed by plants. That'd mean that it is a waste of time and space for air purification, but they are not. Peace lily and Orchids removed Benzene. Period. Whether it was a sealed environment or not doesn't matter because results matter.

When a plant that costs less than 100$ has proven to remove harmful gases in a sealed room, I can't wrap my head around the logic of "debunking", the myth and going for a commercial air purifier that is costly af.

And why I say you contradicted yourself is that you criticized plants for being in a sealed room for being effective and then at the end you said "the same things apply to a regular sir purifer too"

This is exactly the fallacy Mr Trump had spoken to in a rally. He had said "I'll build a 100foot wall", the Mexicans will climb the wall, sure but they won't jump, unless of course they use ropes"

Yeah, they will use ropes and they will cross if they want to cross. That's not contradicting, it's a stupid logic.

Same issue with your case against house plants. "Keyword is sealed"

Which study has proven that air purifiers available in the market have done well in an aerated environment? The recommended way to use a commercial air purifier is to close doors and windows. Same issue as plants so if you recommend commercial purifiers over plants despite them both facing same shortcomings then you are biased against plants. End of story.
The phone is the physical evidence. Would you not consider a flash drive as physical evidence? Even at the most pedantic level, the data is still stored physically as the state of the logic gates.
As they say: "Looking for a job should be a full time job", or in other words: put your full time and effort in it. When not applying for job - study. When you are applying - do your research about every company you send your mail to. That way even with shittiest tools you can have success. Good luck!
// ^- change this to 5 or 6 to increase detail or to 7 or 8 to melt your computer
KDevelop 5.3 released
Tech Blurbs: Bezos' Hunger Games, Macron's Arms Deal, WannaCry and More
How do you know you are measuring bad particles, and not good particles (like salts if you live nearby the sea)?
I was given 5 minutes to ask questions after each round of interview. That part was ordinary too. That's what most of the other companies do (FAANG or otherwise).
Not only that, but for $10/serving I can usually find a good cut (filet or ribeye) of steak on sale and a fresh veggie like asparagus. If I want to save money, chicken breast are on a permanent sale of 1.99/pound at my local grocery.

I tried BA, and while it was convenient I never felt I was getting the best quality or enough food for the price. I do have a lot of recipe cards that I still use though.
Does Information Theory Support Design in Nature?
Gastropod has a great episode on Sourdough that's worth a listen if you like this article:

https://gastropod.com/secrets-of-sourdough/
I'm pretty happy with "green chef".
> This is one technology I won't be an early adopter of.

Oh, but you will.
Well, not if you're physically located in in the U.S. at the tome, but the GDPR effects non-EU businesses and governments as long as the person involved is an EU citizen.
The track record of the actual FDA is probably relevant here: http://www.fdareview.org/
There is no problem but it's more convenient to just tap one button and have the download happen directly on the listening device.
It being far less expensive, seems to be the standout reason. Normal people can't afford $700/month for food delivery services.
Maybe... but known to whom? Is it documented?
I've used Peapod delivery service for years now and this is the #1 thing I hear from older family members. The veggies, fruit and meat are fine - stop worrying! I've never gotten an apple, veggie or cut of meat that I was unhappy with - just cook the damn meal! Now, if cooking the damn meal is the only thing you have planned for the day, by all means, inspect your food like a scientist.
it sounds like a parallel with the paradigm of essential vs accidental complexity in software design. A good book is one that minimises accidental complexity, a good+hard book is one that also has high essential complexity.
One of the beautiful things about nuclear fusion reactors is that they are inherently unstable at STP. In the event of a catastrophic failure, they will simply stop working (potentially after some large bangs).

Nuclear fission reactions can continue on their own for quite a while. This is one of the reasons they can be so dangerous.
Huge amounts, you don't have a million users for failed projects.

I still maintain various code bases for multiple clients that are over 10 years old, at varying levels of TLOC (10k, 100k, million k).

The truth is bugs almost never come back like that. I know because of the thousands, maybe 10s of thousand, of bugs I've fixed over the years.
The Huxley Trap
Move over, Blockchain: There's a new DLT in town
Careful with unintended consequences. Convenient fruits may displace some greener inconvenient fruits, but may also displace some order-of-magnitude worse food items, such as cheeseburgers.
Well I am sorry but you are deluded.

In almost any industry. You normally have 3 properties you can choose.

1. Fast
2. Cheap
3. Quality

You can only pick two of those e.g. The Apollo Space program chose 1 & 3, however it was insanely expensive but the US beat the Russians.
Ask HN: What's your most reliable source for news?
I'm looking for websites, apps, blogs, newsletters anything that's reliable and interesting. HN is definitely a good source for some things. You can break it down by topic.
OS modifications are not strictly required for new L3 protocols, though some new APIs would be nice to handle it more ergonomically. You can receive/send any IP packets with standard socket APIs.

ref: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/WinSock/tcp... https://linux.die.net/man/7/raw
Netflix Is Testing a Mobile-Only, $3 Subscription to Win New Users
Cooking is hard, requires a lot of hardware to do, and is an acquired skill that takes a lot of blunt learning of a lot of minute details about how certain ingredients interact.

In the same way you don't ask everyone to learn to repair car engines or diagnose medical issues modern society puts a lot of pressure on specialization of hard work like cooking.

That being said the true optimization would be that most people be content to eat in cafeteria style settings where there are limited options and the chefs are using whatever is freshest and most affordable and availability is fixed (even if you just grab and go with the food). There is a trade off between menu diversity, the prices you pay for it, and how good it can actually be where 16+ hour open restaurants with several page menus (including fast food) are making concessions on freshness / shortcuts in preparation to provide their diversity and availability.

I think a lot of this relates to how we are in a transnational period for density. In the coming decades I am almost certain we will trend globally towards packing people into apartment / condo style living in city cores because the trends of sprawl and mcmansion single families that are going to be inherited by unmarried or childless descendants without the incomes to support them falls apart. Right now trying to build up a "local" kitchen you can go to three times a day for regular, good, healthy and diverse meals isn't feasible because the density isn't there to get them to walkable convenience, but I hope rising density makes them a possibility.

At those kinds of scales it becomes a technical probability we might just get short range delivery drones where the kitchens advertise via app or notification whats on the menu and you just select what you want and a lil bot brings it to you a la room service but optimized in the aforementioned ways to make it more sustainable.
We've completely changed the way that developers can build with DLT. Let us introduce ourselves.
Why is it so underfunded? The first country to build one will be taking a big step to reducing their dependence on other countries for energy. I can understand big oil exporters not wanting to push it too much (although it's unlikely to come into fruition for the current generation of politians), but for others isn't it a no brainer?
Intresting, I did not seen it, I am wondering why it did not stick on the first page, the book was interesting and learned some new things.
This is suprisingly good and even refreshing speech after reading tons of very opinionated pro- and contra-crypto articles.

Financial system design still have this chicken or the egg problem – we need to design fintech systems aligned with offline social interaction patterns as much as possible, but their (current) design changes our social interaction patterns in return as well.

It's still fascinating to see how the world reimagines and reconsiders the nature of money. And not only in cryptopunks community, but in such a huge powerhouses as IMF as well.
function isTrue(v) {
var result;
result = v;
if (!isFalse(result == true)) {
return result;
} else {
return isFalse(result);
}
}

function isFalse(v) {
var result;
result = v;
if (!isTrue(result == true)) {
return isFalse(result); // Tail recursion so this is fine.
} else {
return result;
}
}

if (isTrue(myBool) == true) { // TODO: Could this be refactored to isTrue(isTrue(myBool))?
return true;
} else if (isTrue(isFalse(myBool))) {
return false;
} else if (isFalse(isTrue(myBool))) {
return false;
} else {
return isFalse(isFalse(myBool));
}
Uh, did it? I mean, it talked about kids and YouTube in the last couple of paragraphs, which is an aspect to consider, but the rest of the article focused on the study, its limitations and the possible implications.
> Large problems happen when the human blindly trusts the computer and almost drive over cliffs.

I remember when car navigation systems were a new thing and there were frequent news reports of people who drove into rivers or lakes because the navigation system told them to cross the water, but not that the crossing happens by ferry (rather than via a bridge).
Haha that would be amazing!
But it continues

> The Texas Supreme Court reversed, ordering a new trial, stating that it was abuse of discretion by the trial court to issue a spoliation inference instruction in this case, that the court should have imposed a different corrective measure on Brookshire Brothers (a less severe sanction), and that a spoliation inference instruction to the jury is only warranted in egregious cases of destruction of relevant evidence.
Speaking of the Linux kernel related books, I'd probably mention, Understanding The Linux Kernel [0] and Linux Kernel Development [1]. The LDDv4 is not going to happen any time soon; it seems there are no plans for a new edition at all.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Linux-Kernel-Third-Daniel/dp/0596005652
[1] https://www.amazon.com/Linux-Kernel-Development-Robert-Love/dp/0672329468

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I’ve seen this referred to as the mind/no-mind state or ‘mu’

You can get there fairly simply by playing any extremely fast-paced video game, like Tetris or Tempest 2000.

When I was djing regularly, I could get to that state, too. Given how introverted I was, it would have been impossible for me to actually get up in the DJ booth in front of hundreds or thousands of people and think about what I was doing. I had to lose myself in the activity. I often walked out after two hours not really remembering anything I did.
Sure, but this can be reduced to "it's worth the risk if you have a financial safety net to fall back to if you fail or burn out". In other words "the high risk discourages people who are not already well-off and the high reward primarily benefits those who are".

Or more simply: if you have a few tens or hundres of thousands of dollars you can fall back to even if everything goes wrong, it's worth the chance to become a millionaire/billionaire. If you don't have that safety net, you'll most likely ruin your life unless you're extraordinarily lucky (i.e. lucky enough to win even without the advantages nearly all the other winners already had).

Meritocracy is biased towards affluent starting positions.
> You don't need to live in some company's digital ecosystem. I don't. I own my own photos, and Apple are not getting any facial recognition features out of them.

Workers, patients, and customers don't get this choice. I work on hospital systems that use "AI" and we wouldn't survive a proper code audit for what we claim saves lives. We get audited by the FDA, but they aren't combing through our code - just the documentation that we write.

Sure, we describe the algorithms put together by our researchers, but even the rank-and-file developers mostly just consume the algorithms that decide what to tell Doctors taking care of the patients.

For now, at least, Doctors and Nurses mostly use our software as a retrospective tool. I know we're not selling it that way and I worry about the day folks are using this system in place of their years of experience.

The statistics we put out say our software is x% better than the Doctor at making these decisions, is that true? Who knows, but an audit to make sure we're not selling snake oil might save lives.

> Everything that does anything is an algorithm. Will we have to get government authorisation before we can quicksort?

This just sounds like a strawman argument. If you say, 'our proprietary algorithm will save thousands of lives from malpractice,' you better be ready to back that up with an audit. It better not be a bridge that's going to fall apart when an eighteen wheeler travels across it for the first time.
More sensor tests: https://aqicn.org/sensor/
Some data about effectiveness of air purifiers when leaving windows open: https://smartairfilters.com/en/blog/purifiers-useless-window...
It literally gave me a sinking feeling. I’d quit that job on day 0.
Just consider every airbase in the US to act as a carrier in support of a US-Mexico altercation.
Google 'betrays patient trust' with DeepMind Health move
30% faster Windows builds with clang-cl and the new /Zc:dllexportInlines- flag
> Also, there's always just straight up meat + veggies to fall back on, for which there are many possible combinations and that's probably the easiest thing to make. Most nights I just bake some chicken or salmon and sautee some veggies.

I not even trying to be keto, but just generally healthy and this is my dinner most nights. Occasionally I'll add some rice or potatoes to the mix. You're right that there are many combinations of meat (chicken/steak/fish) and veggies. In the summer I grill, and in the winter I pan sear or bake.

Even expensive meats like fish or steak, still end up costing less per meal than BA.
There's nothing wrong with that.

That said, you should consider learning basic CS. It will help you do a better job, and also make your job more enjoyable. And it's fun!
It's probably a combination of #3 (I always do that now, use the feature I just made/improved/fixed) and that I always make sure I can reliably repro a bug before I try and fix the bug, so I always know it's fixed.

Also a significant majority of my code has been statically typed as you say and I'm moving even more over to static typing now I'm using TS over JS in all new code.
GMO Postpones Delivery of Its 7nm Bitcoin Equipment
What's great about Medium is the exposure it can quickly get you if you get to write something worth it for people to read. It's still powerful for that.
> Once we have such we’d have a near-limitless source of clean energy.

In some dystopian future, an AI figures out this is a most efficient use of matter and the entire Earth gets used as fuel for fusion reactions
Is the original programmer still at the company in any capacity?
Trino Is the First Social Trading Platform
Fascinating. Similarly, there is one available for the craft beer industry: https://www.themadfermentationist.com/p/store.html#!/Brewery...
Or, perhaps a foreign power would work with a political party to attempt to disarm Americans...
They’ve also kept several of my favorite podcasts afloat, though I haven’t heard them advertise as much since the IPO. Maybe their customer acquisition costs got ahead of them.
That's not obvious, as presumably you don't need much more effort to peel the skin off a mandarin orange than you'd need to peel off the plastic wrapper.
Memory Mapping Methods in the Super Nintendo
“This was the playground for the guy to create his own reality.”

Queue the Neil Gaiman sandman styled comic about his dark adventure