skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is beautiful and heart-warming. Thank you.

I use for terminal the classic IBM mainframe 3270 font [1], but I can replace that in a heartbeat with Unscii, which is more uniform and less OCR-y.

[1] https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font
Interestingly, the article later admitted the club made it easier for the autio thieves so it was a positive externality after all.
Is it really possible to say none of these could/don't exist in New York city already? Can you truly say that with a straight face? Same with D.C. for that matter. I didn't want this in Boston because Boston proper doesn't have the infrastructure to support an influx of people this size and I don't want my tax dollars supporting yet another company that will be big on promises light on results, see nearly every other time a company has been given money while promising jobs, and oh look they split the HQ cutting that perceived tax base in half. This is sporting arenas all over again.
I would agree that there is more to a business than a product

but what actually qualifies as a launch?
I tend not to trust ProtonMail that much after seeing this thread: https://old.reddit.com/r/ProtonVPN/comments/8ww4h2/protonvpn...
This is a reddit thread that criticizes ProtonVPN (same company as ProtonMain). The mod in charge of the sub offers a rebuttal to a criticism against them. Afterwards, the mod in charge of that sub locks it thereby preventing the accuser the ability to reply to that claim.

Now it is possible that nothing wrong happened, but every time a business tries to censor a criticism against them, I tend not to give the business the benefit of the doubt.
thats depressing.. no one really feels like they have any power over what their government does anymore. the governments and bigcos do whatever they want.

we can only be careful not to get arrested, be careful not to fight too hard at work or risk getting replaced for 99.9% of people. even for all the hype about programmers, there are millions of people banging on the doors trying to break into tech and most of us are replaceable.
If it is exam about computer programming, then I might say, that is very good and I will not disqualify you for cheating in that way that you have managed that (although still the answers must be given correctly, like any exam).
Mozilla seems to have integrity. It’s great to see.

They should take the momentum of these values and launch an alternative to gmail.
Personally for theses kind of things I used to use one earphone in my left hand, wearing a long sleeve shirt and laying my head over my left hand, covering the whole operation :)
You can indeed do a proper clinical trial. Effect size matters. Something that provides a complete cure will have a commensurately big effect size, especially since in this case, you have pretty clear markers of cure.

An RCT comparing fecal transplant vs. vancomycin for recurrent C. difficile infection, for example, was halted after recruiting only 43 patients because it was judged no longer ethical to keep people in the vancomycin arm.
I extended somebody elses programming language recently, then wrote a BASIC. Mostly to make sure that I understood lexing, parsing, and AST stuff.

While you're right this is reinventing the wheel it can make sense to reimplement old tools to improve safety, security, and to allow them to be embedded in new environments.

Have you ever run a fuzz-tester against (GNU) awk? I have. Even now you can segfault awk with bogus programs, for example:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=816277

No doubt this new implementation won't be perfect, but segfaults should be ruled out via rust/go/ML implementations..
I would allow it (if these kind of skills to design all of this system is the skills that is useful for this job). You are honest to admit it, and if you can make such thing, it is good. Of course that was cheating, but that does not mean that such thing is only to make fraud; you might do similar thing with other thing too.
No, that was the point of the parent - that it would be nicer if we did have some object-layer, rather than processing (unstructured) text in pipelines. Losing meta-data at each step.
It's a little confusing, but my read is that this is a generalized set of old font characters that were used for graphics (like code 437) plus a bunch of unicode symbols that are also useful for graphics. With the idea being you could make much more intricate art from this font set. I think the more interesting idea would be to use it to encode movies similar to how ASCII animations work - I wonder how compressed and good looking a movie might be using this font?
There is a premium version available. It costs only $30.

As you can see at https://aeropressinc.com/use-it-now/evolution-of-aeropress/ , they’ve continued to re-evaluate materials, including testing for contamination while brewing coffee.

You can boil an aeropress at pH 5 for an hour without detecting any leaching. The interesting bit is how it ages—how cracks form, where bacteria might find a home, that sort of thing.
Maybe I'm misreading something, but they appear to cost 4 Euro a month. How is that "prohibitively expensive"?
Government is also supposed to create jobs. It's a double edged sword. While it's been relatively lax on the oversight, everyone loves jobs. Unfortunately not enough regulation can lead to the same outcome as too much regulation as when there are too many monopolies like there are right now, it crowds out small businesses which actually create most of the jobs.
a 4chan larp ends up as a denial on hackernews? is this notable?
I think GP was referring to a hardware keylogger - antivirus wouldn't help.
Why are those right wing conspiracy theories? Sorry I don’t really understand the context. They just don’t seem to have any political content to me but that is probably just ignorance on my part.
All of us are products of evolution. Either you are sophisticated or convoluted. Choose.
Aren’t they free for limited use?
Yes, you're right. The highest spec engine in those cars is indeed the B16!
True, thank you for your correction.

Limited liability isn't a "natural" right.
What I learned (and re-learned) while from working at Yelp for 3 years
Although the extortion is almost certainly false, this is a good moment for protonmail users to review their opsec procedures. Relying on a central authority for anything is risky, and the more valuable a central point becomes the bigger a target it gets...
How much does it cost to manufacture the drug, and in such relatively low quantities? The article did not say but it pointed to this as part of their decision.
Was it the CEO who locked the thread, some developer, or some PR person? There's a difference though between an emotional reaction by an employee and a company's policy.

edit - I read the thread, it appears to be one of the original researchers from the project and a deliberate choice.

I thought PIA was fairly reputable - does anybody know any actual facts around the incident?
Can someone explain the fakes problem? I think J have literally never run into this on Amazon despite actively buying thousands of dollars of various items for years.

AmazonBasics also seems to be really solid stuff every time. I was assuming it was just a recommendation but the manufacturer and brand is someone else.
That’s where Erlang’s supervision model comes to the rescue. Restart until it becomes obvious something more serious is wrong and then raise a flag.

The nice thing about Erlang is that practically every line of code is an assertion and they’re all live in production. Such a huge advantage over development assertions that get thrown away for prod.
Former Amazon seller - A quantity issue like that is most likely from a listing page being changed at some point. Certain sellers somehow earn the ability to change product details, and Amazon doesn't bother to inform everyone else that sells that product. So, that listing for a dozen mouse traps could've originally been for a single one, or vice versa.

What compounds this is that complaining about other sellers misdeeds typically goes nowhere. The only way to avoid such things on the seller side is to have your own brand in the brand registry so you have complete control over product details.
Fragile generally means something like you drop a glass on the floor from 30cm and it completely shatters. If you drop a mug on the floor from 2 meters and the handle breaks off but it still works, it's not fragile. If you hit it with a meteor and it breaks, it's not fragile.

Whenever the forces of nature hit us our tool wielding seems to matter very little.

55,000 people were displaced or evacuated in California just now, with a current death toll of <100. They didn't just move all at the same time by luck and on foot; vehicles, radio, TV, fire tracking helicopters and satellites all helped keep 50,000+ people alive in the face of a natural force. We reinforce buildings against earthquakes, we build tornado shelters, the Svalbard Global Seed vault, Dutch land reclamation dykes and countless flood defences around the world, earthquake and tsunami early warning systems, storm tracking weather satellites, and every building with lightning conductors since the 1700s.

With the spread of humans around the world, even huge events like the "imminent" Pacific North West USA Cascadia zone earthquake wouldn't affect most people. Something would have to kill 50% of humans just to take the world population down to 1972 levels. 75% of people is still higher world population than it was in 1900.

What's left? Anything which affects the globe. Climate change, which is currently being talked about in a "2C in 100 years" way which is a lot more than 20 years, and ... supervolcano emissions or massive solar flares or meteor impact. And a handwavy "if some feedback loop kicks in and the oceans acidify".

The romantic notion of 50 people in a bunker surviving and continuing the human race while the oceans turn into acid .. not gonna happen.

What about whole countries putting acid rain covers over their crops and water purifiers? One project in Israel desalinates 150,000,000 cubic meters of seawater every year, providing for 1.5 million people.

If we can plan for a colony on Mars, anything that happens to Earth it will still be hundreds of times more habitable than Mars, even if that means everyone who remains living inside some kind of habitats.
It’s not as bad as your hysteria wants it to be.
A geek trying to get more bandwidth is the best worker.
If a particular exam has more to it than memorization, then even open book you shouldn't be able to ace it without knowing the material!
Delighted for you. I feel we're truly on the cusp of a revolution in medical understanding. We've been stabbing in the dark with destructive systemic treatments until now.
Well, you need criminals to outsmart criminals.

I'm not sure why you need that trait in software. You're (usually) not trying to beat other programmers. So I suppose the parent comment should have added "except in adversarial situations".

Which means it does apply to cyber security. You need hackers to outsmart hackers. If that's the kind of industry you're applying for, it probably is a good idea to mention this actually.
This was 15 years ago. I signed up to a correspondence course to study company law after my under graduation(not CS). Was bored so wanted to pick a hobby and was fascinated by robotics/automation. Self thought 8051 by reading Kenneth J. Ajala and this hobby soon turned lucrative.

I signed up with an institute which was helping college students with their final year projects. I had a college junior(Amazing guy who is still a buddy) to help me with the pcb fabrication and i would handle the software side. All was well until a project which required a heat sensor and i couldn't source it. My mode of sourcing the chip is via a friend who was in Chennai and i would send the list of items and he would go into Ritchie street and get it for me and mail it. Good old days. Sorry forgot the name of the chip. All i could get was an alternative one with single pin instead of double and it uses a different protocol. I had the alternative chip delivered one day before the girl student's viva voce. Got it working and the examiner took the pain to visit the lab in the institute to examine and conduct the viva voce. Phew.

Another incident happened with a company where i was the second technical hire and there was just me and the CTO on tech team. The CTO had a working POC and it was quite a complex product. Even before i could start writing a single line of code the CTO left the company after a spat and without proper hand-off. I wouldn't wish this scenario even upon my worst enemy. It was quite a significant challenge to even get it running. One simple example - In the initial days after he left, i found out Opennebula Virtualbox driver is not attaching the context disk on windows. I had to write a patch in ruby and submit a pull request. I didn't knew ruby and haven't even wrote a single line of ruby code before that. But after quite a struggle - got the code base to start making significant money.
I said it's a matter of how reality is, and that our likes have no bearing on how that reality is. You replied "What we know about how reality is or isn't has a very big impact on what we like or dislike.", and does not relate to what I said. They're completely separate points.

(Also, the point of yours that I was originally replying to was "Because we (well, some of us) don't really like breathtaking complexity that's reducible to some simple rules." which is clearly referring to what is out there in reality not our view of it, and whether we like or dislike that characteristic of reality out there.).
> We have unfortunately had to lock the thread because there are some troll accounts continuing to push the misinformation being put out by Private Internet Access (a rival US-based VPN provider).

You don't trust the company because of that single post on reddit?
Based on this: https://old.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/9j35ry/i_am_dr_andy_y...
It appears to be Andy Yen, the founder of ProtonMail.
All I know is it works well on our projects.

I'm not the one doing any dirty work though...
Sounds like you will like PowerShell.
FastMail tiers are US$3/5/9 per user per month, so €4 doesn't seem wildly unreasonable.
Show HN: Australian Startup Jobs
it might help amazonbasics, but it hurts everything else;

I am generally okay paying extra for the convenience of amazon, so I think I'm their target customer? but I have been burned a few times by fake products sold as the real thing. I mean, not so often that it's still less convenient, for me, at least, (and I'm usually able to return the thing) but it does vastly diminish the power of an 'everything store' if sometimes I buy a brand name thing and get a knock-off instead.

The whole point here is that you are paying extra for convenience. If I wanted to deal with sometimes getting the knock off version, I'd use ebay or aliexpress or whatever and save a few bucks.
How do companies find criminals to request help from?
Washington man who raped, took lewd photos of dying woman gets less than 3 years
I think demonizing CNN is a favorite on the right and I know "Rampant pedophilia among high ranking government officials" is big among QAnon folk.
The parking lot and back driveway of the metal shop next door is on Google as a street, with a name - 50th Street. And nobody knows why. I've deleted it from Waze ages ago, but Google has yet to catch up, if they even pull map data from Waze.
Nobody likes PowerShell. It manages to be the worst of both worlds.
would this http://espro.ca/espro-press/
work for you ?
I have used it for a while .. I have never owned an aeropress so I don't know how it compares.
I'm sure the plastic is fine, I'd just prefer a metal or glass version.

On every discussion of the Aeropress, I've seen the ask for a non-plastic version pop up. Every time I've then seen essentially your reply above. I'd just prefer a metal or glass version.
PowerShell is an extremely nice, cross-platform option. Most people are discouraged by the overly long command names (get-childitem and the like), but there are 3 letter aliases (e.g gci) for a lot of the common ones and its really nice.
It might be a good test of a company to see if they were impressed and amused enough by this story to hire you because of it, rather than rejecting because of it.
I used to use protonmail. I think the reason I switched to fastmail was the calendar support and the ability to use thunderbird easily on linux. Possibly to sync contacts easier too.

When protonmail introduces those I'll be taking another look at them, but they're taking a while.

It was a nice service while I used it.
List of largest banks
Not everybody is like this.
Ah thanks the QAnon link makes sense. That was the bit I was missing.
Actually not if one reads carefully.
Downside is if they try and fail, and cost you more $$ and headache than if they'd just stolen the thing.
As an outsider to american politics, CNN seems a bit silly in how they present information. Just my opinion though, they give off a weird vibe compared to the boring news I prefer
This is a serious problem. We cannot let health be dominated by cost
if only if it was that easy to just not take class
I wouldn't trust any service that claims to respect their users privacy until there are multiple independent, highly respected organizations doing continuous vetting and verification of their claims.

That said, I'd still rather use those services than the likes of Facebook, Google, and Microsoft -- who flaunt their contempt for the privacy of their users, or whose business depends on spying on their users and the people their users associate with, and who've demonstrated time and time again that they can't be trusted.
Convictions are public record, so it presumably wouldn't be too hard to reach out to people when they're released from prison.
Killing the Best Burger Place in America
At one time in America, keys from one car would unlock, if not start, many thousands of similar cars because of similar or same key bitting. It's interesting that German cars of the same era were harder to break into because of worse economics for lower classes, more car thefts and therefore more secure vehicles... meanwhile American cars weren't really locked that much because post-WW2 boom times were so good, and so, less theft, especially in small towns where everyone knew each other and theft would risk becoming a shunned criminal outlaw.
Not only Mozilla, but also most other web browser software is terrible. I currently use an old version of Firefox (with many hacks, including configuration changes in about:config, CSS and JavaScript codes, hex editing binaries, changing SQL schemas, changes to file permissions, and more), but wrote about many idea how to make better software than all of the existing ones. I design by the principles such as:

* Assume the user knows what they are doing, and really mean to override anything. Do not try to outguess the user.

* By default, assume that the remote server (and the data received from the remote server) is hostile (even if it is HTTPS).

* You have enough ropes to hang yourself, and also a few more just in case.

* Make every program a filter.
In the UK you need to buy a pink car, they are the least likely to be stolen.
Weird, married a Texan and have a Texan teacher as a mother in law. They both know about Texas dancing around the slavery issue defining it entirely as a states rights issue, while also glossing over the fact that the South started the war by firing on Fort Sumter. Seems rather inconsistent in Texas.
It was just over ten years ago, but I had the experience of having an allergic reaction to a medication prescribed to me, and a pharmacist that was knowledgeable enough to warn me not to take the obvious OTC remedy for my symptoms because it would likely make things worse.
I think you picked the only nice example of powershell in the entire universe (yuck!). Also -- guess which script is shorter....
This is perhaps too simplistic. I ran across it on a magnet from a company that specializes in graphic presentations of quotes. Quotable Quotes, I think that company may be called.

Anyway, this one has stuck with me, as I consider and try to move forward with my own circumstances. The magnet attributes it to the Cherokee.

"Don't let yesterday use up too much of today."

It doesn't solve all my problems. But it's a useful reminder; one that is also simple enough to recall at will.

It also reads as a useful compromise, to me. Not an admonition to forget yesterday or to "just move on". But a caution not to dwell there, at the expense of the present -- and the future.
> "the arguments and social criticism he wanted to assert...could live and breathe on their own...didn’t have to Trojan-horse them into his novels’ characters or plot points..."

The best stories do not stealth-educate—they focus on using empathy in interesting ways.

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> "He was directed to some online reading about avoiding road rage, and he found a simple solution: Leave earlier."
... "That’s how you handle anger. You avoid the triggers. You know your terrain.

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> On the one hand, to function well, you have to believe in yourself and your abilities and summon enormous confidence from somewhere.

> On the other hand, to write well, or just to be a good person, you need to be able to doubt yourself — to entertain the possibility that you’re wrong about everything, that you don’t know everything, and to have sympathy with people whose lives and beliefs and perspectives are very different from yours.”

> The internet was supposed to do this for people, but it didn’t.

> “This balancing act” — the confidence that you know everything plus the ability to believe that you don’t — “only works, or works best, if you reserve a private space for it.”
So simple yet so perfectly executed. Curious but did you have anything else planned in case that didn't make your case? :)
The real story of Laurel Canyon was written by Dave McGowan and it goes into great detail of how the hippie counter culture and music scene was completely created by the MIC. Anything saying anything else is just propaganda.
For any reasonably complex example its not at all clear that this is so. Being more english like is actually a hardship not a benefit because naturally language is famously ambiguous and difficult to decode.

Either your language is incredibly complex or it understands a very stilted subset of actual normal language that only happens to look like natural language and you have to remember to use that stilted subset in which case what is the benefit of this vs foo = bar.

Regarding complex language we seem remarkably bad at simple things.
> The most exciting thing, we already have the language exactly like this! What do you think it is?

He then proceeds to list 8 OOP mutable languages and one functional immutable language (Haskell). FFS.

I hate to relay the news to the OOP zealots but (having spent decades in OOP/procedural and about 3 years in Elixir) the future of reliable software is in functional languages with immutable data and, ideally, process supervision and massive concurrency (due to the breakdown of Moore's Law). The only language that does all this handily is the BEAM VM (via Erlang and Elixir) and possibly Haskell.
10kloc is not a large code base for Lisp. There are much larger codebases for Lisp - some which have been maintained for decades.
I believe in many places the problem is that locals don’t want to live in a city built for tourists.

Huge number of visitors for example affect the local stores and services. Places catering for locals getting replaced by tourist attractions.
As a public speaker and author mostly. He doesn't get access to state secrets and hasn't been employed by any other company. He wouldn't get a call back from McDonalds if he applied.
Scouter v2.5 released: A free, open-source APM(Application perf.monitoring)