skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are plenty of uses for a chip in your hand - and it can still be used when "locked" as you'll often just be reading the fixed ID on it.

I use mine to log into my PC using a custom NFC reader that emulates a keyboard to type my password.
https://0xfred.wordpress.com/2016/03/04/nfc-login-2-1/

Another (still in the works) is unlocking my van after I've been out kitesurfing. Modern keys don't like being taken out in the water. This one is waterproof and not easy to lose.

If you're thinking of typing anything about "the mark of the beast" or somebody chopping my hand off to gain access, please don't bother.
Tangentially related to the original project intent;

Is there a place where common things in the dev world like this are accumulated? For example, a list of all countries or list of the US states, for use with an HTML dropdown. I know there are various repos on Github that maintain these types of lists, such as English stop words, profanity word lists etc, but is there a service that accumulates these in a familiar, structured api?
Whataboutism [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism] is not really a good defence of Facebook I think.
Vacuum tubes can't be that hard to make.
BBC is the definition of fake news
I'm an ACM member, mostly for access to the ACM digital library to read papers.

Most computer science papers tend to be available in the ACM library, while the IEEE one leans more towards EE/hardware/networks.

As for other advantages conference tickets are cheaper for members, but usually your employer/group should be paying these anyways.
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Ask HN: Do you know what "i18n" and "a11y" stand for?
I was kinda surprised most frontend devs I've asked know what it is, but don't know what the abbreviation stands for.
> employees implicitly would rather have 300$ of free lunches paid by the company every month than +300$ on their salary.

I know I would. It'd take the burden of thinking about what to have for lunch every day off me. When I was working in an office I'd either bring my own lunch (most of the time), decide to order (which usually required to join a group ordering from some place, or create and manage a pool), or to go out - again, where, what time, and with whom? Each of those options was a waste of time, energy and context.
And ironically, similar populations. California is 1.1x Canada's population.

Not similar GDP though :( California is 2.2x Canada's GDP.
The only threat in the room that makes sense is the rogue, disgruntled amazon employee.

One might hypothesize government auditors and warrants compelling raw disk contents to be turned over for criminal prosecution, but that scenario supposes that a government entity would lack the creativity to imagine options like arresting the root login user, and jailing them until they enter the root account password to offer access to the encrypted data at rest.
I think your reply is knee-jerk and "lame". Why don't you enlighten us, instead of taking it so personally when somebody criticizes your field.

I thought the article was excellent and made good arguments.
If I were a NYT journalist, I would lament the decreasing demand for in-depth reporting. And the public’s desire for sensationalism.

Related: (low quality journalism) https://mobile.twitter.com/mikeokuda/status/1019964820618035...
In their sweatshops?
maybe im missing something here but why is it that such a devastating fire is being given a cutesy name? i keep seeing it being referred to as "the camp fire" which evokes thoughts of toasting marshmallows and singing songs rather than death and destruction
They can expect a lot of things but if you are going into a field that doesn’t pay above average wages, it really is not a great decision to go to a more expensive school.

But the popular refrain on HN - which I don’t agree with - is that the purpose of college is not to get a job.
Assuming that money is all you give a shit about. That seems like an empty life to me.
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So you've financially supported Facebook. I don't see how that's much different.
It looks like that the master file is blns.txt while the other files are generated from this text file (correct me if I'm wrong). So the strings are separated by newline characters and there is no way to escape in the strings. So a nasty string that trips up blns.txt and the tools around it would be "\n".

I think this is unfortunate since strings with newlines in them could certainly trip up some bash scripts. Filenames on Linux can contain newlines for example.
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I'd say its a little more involved than simply age. With a few exceptions I find most 90's console games boring or frustrating to play but i'm more likely to find a pc game from that era enjoyable to play. However when it comes to more modern games, I largely prefer portable console titles.
That quote is weird given that there is no criticism of Soros in anything quoted. The "casting Mr. Soros, the billionaire liberal donor, as the unacknowledged force behind what appeared to be a broad anti-Facebook movement." is not criticism of him, it simply assumes he is wrong man to sponsor things.
He said that the experimental research was useful, so shame on you. What kind of a silly strawman are you trying to build.

I can see from the responses here that the field is obviously quite volatile and full of big egos with practicioners taking criticisms so personally :)
Nicely said. This really summarizes how I feel when I use a lot of modern websites. I often feel manipulated. Instead of me driving the interaction the website tries to impose its opinion on what I need or want.
>you can work for a hi-tech big corp, enjoying autonomy and fun projects as well as a good work-life balance.

The big companies I have worked with have always had legacy software and slow moving projects. (Edit: 2 out of 3 of the big companies I have worked for. One was very cool, but the location was absolutely terrible).
> It would be nice to have an ISO-standard superset of C that catalogs such assumptions

But you can already make those assumptions, and safely ensure that they are satisfied by using compile-time asserts (i.e. static_assert), which are very powerful in C++.

Need to know that int is 32 bit? Not a problem. Need to know that long is strictly larger than int? Not a problem. And if you do break someone's build with these static_assert's, that's fine -- it wasn't intended to be a supported platform anyway.
This book literally changed my view point. I first listened to the audio TTS while commuting to school. Then i read in entirely before an math exam. I read it again this summer because I realized I didn't quite understood all chapters. The book was great and helped me become a better chess player , better learner shaping how I read (after hard reading and focus using the Darwanian I had a beautiful park to walk near the library where I studied and read), but as last chapter there is told a quote by Feynman "Don't fool yourself because and you are the easiest person to fool" or something like that , I did quite failed the exam and did average (7.6/100). Great read.
No. There is a difference between flying over and operating communication satilliets.
Wikileaks aims for the best possible exposure of a leak. This influences in what form the information is published and over what timeframe. They dont just dump the entire leak and hope some journalist can be bothered to read it before the next big headline takes the focus away again.

This takes a lot of work. Making sure your sources are protected takes a lot of work and sadly, there is only so much attention people spend on leaks.
https://search.wikileaks.org/ Search for Russia and Republican separately. Tons.
I tried that and it said you need to specify an output.
Given enough advancements in computer science we could simulate millions years of apes evolution within a span of days or hours and observe the results. Which is the basis of the argument for simulation hypothesis [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulation_hypothesis
I wrote the Mac/Linux driver for the Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Icon CPAP device. The principle of operation is very simple: just blowing air into your face while you're sleeping.

The trouble is, it's not pleasant to wake up with air blowing at you. So they have an algorithm to detect when you're sleeping peacefully or about to wake up, based on your breathing pattern. It turns off the pump when you're waking up.

The CPAP plugs in with USB-serial, but the connector is buried deep inside the device so it needs a special adaptor just to reach the pins. The protocol is obfuscated and checksummed, but not encrypted.

I'm looking for a job now, so if anybody would like someone with experience in this area, please reach out.
Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
I'm working on Sametab.com – A chrome extension to share company announcements in your coworkers' New Tab.

It's cool because it's a simple way to share instantly important knowledge with your team and maintain a goal-oriented mindset.
The pilots would have seen the nose down action as an uncommanded stabilizer trim movement. The solution is to shut off the power to the stab trim. This would work and would require no knowledge of the stall avoidance mechanism.
I've been a member of the ACM from 2009 to 2012 for the only reason that it was a prerequisite to get the printed version of the CACM (which you have to pay in addition to the membership fee).

I cancelled my membership the day I realized I had one year of unread issues sitting on my desk. I'd found for long that the quality of the publications in CACM was no better than what I was reading on specialized blogs. It only had additional prestige — or so I thought at the time.

After I had cancelled, I developed a growing uneasiness with how much effort (and money!) was spent in getting me renew my membership, with a lot of (international) mails on high-quality paper. No wonder the membership was so expensive.

I'm still wondering about the actual benefits of such associations.
In stand-up comedy format if anyone doesn't feel like reading:
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Nonetheless, he's still a journalist even when he does that. Media and free speech can be biased.

You might not want to follow and give credence to such outlets, but they still have freedom of speech, else the credibility of everybody is questioned.
They have grounded aircraft before, so we know they aren't inherently opposed to that.

I would tend to trust the FAA, given the rather impressive track record of aviation. The difference from "Oh, the humanity!" to today, where North America and Europe have entire years without fatalities is astonishing. It's even more impressive considering passenger-miles/p.a. increased by something like 3 or 4 orders of magnitude.

So it would seem that the FAA is doing a rather good job with these decisions. And "not considering airlines as stakeholders" may sound sensible, but is actually a phrase devoid of meaning: If you want to consider safety only, you or I or the Russians could come up with the trivial (and only correct) solution, which is to ban air travel.

Having flown with regional carriers in Russia during my (and their) wild times in the 90s also makes your praise of their processes suspicious of being parody. I personally saw a pilot take a sip from a suspiciously small bottle of clear liquid. But my seat neighbour reassured me: If you think it's dangerous to fly with a drunk pilot, you should see the way he flies when he's sober!
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Why's that cynical? If the client's work is causing the need for the transport then isn't it appropriate to charge it to the client?
Thanks for the link. Aside from provenance, can it be proven that the contents of the leaked emails is valid and untampered with? Like one would use hashes for file verification.

I have to admit I have no clue as to what is the format of "leaked emails".
Of course people entering the country from some places require more scrutiny than others. But, it's not like that hasn't always been done. People coming from the countries on Trump's travel ban list face extreme scrutiny to get US visas. What Trump decided to do was ban anyone coming from those countries altogether. Including people who had already gone through that vetting process and obtained visas. Even including permanent residents of the US, initially! Even people fleeing from countries like Iraq, because their lives were in danger due to helping the US. There was already a common sense policy in place; Trump employed a policy sledgehammer. (With little to no evidence that it would even achieve the stated goal of increasing security.)

I would debate your other points as well, but I don't want to get too far into the weeds here. My main point is that often what is sold as a "common sense" policy is in fact an overly simplistic one—the policy already in place may have had a great deal of sense behind it, but the world is complicated, and so, so are most sensible policies. Taking rash actions like barring all travel from a list of countries is more likely to do harm than good. (As would an extreme policy on the other side, like opening borders completely. Again, the world is complicated, and difficult problems require thoughtful solutions.)
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Time to bring up this educational video: https://youtu.be/JASUsVY5YJ8?t=280
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Most people who get maths degrees from Oxbridge don't go on to be professional mathematics though. Out of the 7 I know only one did. The others basically don't do complex maths anymore.
> Why hasn't the 737Max been grounded pending investigation?

Because jumping to conclusions is not helpful. Let the NTSB do their job and find out what went wrong.
A parser for orgmode. I’m tired of everyone else’s opinionated way of doing it. So now I’m going do it my own opinionated way.
I'm sure Arthur Conan Doyle drew from a number of influences to create Moriarty. Adam Worth and Jonathan Wild are considered inspirations for the character, for example:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/review-of-the-na...

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professor_Moriarty
Internationalization and accesibility, of course. What are some good resources on i18n (and l10n)?
> cuts [...] to stop the bleeding

The way the two metaphors combine into an oxymoron gave me a smile.

Are free snacks a usual perk in USA companies? Where I'm at I've never seen a company offer free snacks, it's always snacks at bulk prices paid for on the honour system. Water and coffee are free, sometimes even tea.
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Sophisticated is (also) a synonym of convulted.
So long as you cast it back to the correct type, there isn't any issue. Casting back to a different type is undefined behaviour anyway.
>he became highly selective with the material he releases

That’s a pretty big accusation! Do you have any evidence to support this claim?

Why have there never been any leaks with an attached note calling out WL for failure to release?
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> Someone that does not want to be tracked by facial or gait recognition, either because he's a criminal or a political activist, will always be able to do that.

But if the system is not able to assign a face to a specific identity, it might immediately mark them as "suspicious". You'd have to bypass the system by really putting on the appearance of a face within the database.
I think it's also worth noting that the maxims themselves are tongue-in-cheek. For example, "be brief" in the Maxim of Manner is given the unnecessarily prolix gloss "avoid unnecessary prolixity". I don't think Grice meant that particular list of maxims to be taken too seriously. They're just intended to illustrate how conversation is structured by the cooperative principle. In my view, this renders rather silly some of the earnest subsequent discussion of "which maxim" is violated by various example utterances.
Derivations of their work may be commercially valuable but to my knowledge CERN projects do not directly generate revenue.
I was discussing this point:

>"It's discriminatory [law] against the poor, not the homeless"

I think it's fair to express how my experience is evidence that this is not a universal truth and there is room to challenge it.

Threads naturally change topics as they grow.
The GPU does the downscaling, I think it's bicubic by default. Looks decent enough.

With the latest xrandr master, you can set nearest-neighbor using "--filter nearest", which should provide better results.
The article should have said "we just found that some orangutans can also talk about the past. We are excited to look for other animals that can do the same."

Whales should be able to do so. They have family links that transcend more that fifty years.
This is not sustainable. If you like the project and want it to continue, buy a license

Do you just nag or actually disable the product after a period? I was always surprised by the Sublime model, my experience indicates that if people can avoid paying then they will, even business customers.
That makes everything much harder.

You know that, I suppose. You'll have to crack it by using FireWire or a similar method that lets you read/alter memory, or by opening it up and connecting probes directly to main memory. I have no problem telling you that the latter would be harder.

I certainly would not be able to do either.
The way I got it explained was that it's the heart that can't handle the stress the lack of repeatedly not getting enough oxygen causes. The damage it has done to my heart before I got diagnosed is also not reversible, the goal is to not let it get worse, stay healthy, etc. I've been a patient for over 8 years, lost a lot of weight, didn't help, so for me it's imperative that I can see my own data and grasp what is going on. As to answer your question, yes and no, you don't really wake up but your deep sleep gets interrupted which causes you never to feel rested, especially if you have a severe case, like more than 30 AHI per hour (like me).
Russia tried just dumping data with DCleaks. Those were a complete failure because of the lack of WL-like media game.
Hopefully they do share though, we might be slightly worse off if they lure away scientists that otherwise would have working in a more open system. But it seems unlikely to be an issue, I'm sure the people working on the cutting edge would like to publish and get the results known everywhere.
Is it? What changed, exactly?

Singular "they" has been around for decades or more.

"People of color" as a general shorthand for non-whites is also not exactly new (though fairly recent).

The only thing I can think of that evolved rapidly over the past years is "transgender" and "nonbinary", mostly because our shared cultural understanding of those attributes has significantly improved.

If you think of these as "political correctness", you can just as well go ahead and use the "politically incorrect" language and at least be honest about your lack of empathy or interest.
I would love to believe that reducing the engineering supply because most people don't want to work there could have a significant impact on the amount of outcome that FB can produce. Thus, a net positive, yes.
IEEE member since 1995; joined because my company paid for it (also joined the IEEE Computer Society, ACM and even APS, American Physical Society, at that time for the same reason.) Continued my IEEE membership at my own expense after retiring because I didn't want to lose my @ieee.org alias that I had used for many years, also wanted to continue to have access to publications and articles of interest. With that said, I would not recommend starting an IEEE membership at your own expense unless you can afford it and want to establish yourself in that community. I think they still require a sponsor for membership.
You get that with any large company, unfortunately.
So you're idea is that lots of living things innately perform this sort of skill, and that choosing to look at from a certain perspective lends the impression that it's a hallmark of intellectual distinction, simply because they're choosing to look at things the wrong way?

I think the idea is that it takes a bit more abstract symbolic thought to look at rival predators, then look at peers of the same species, and make eye contact and include a gesture that expresses a suggestion to stay hidden and keep quiet.

If I hop a fence, hide from the cops, and then unexpectedly find you in the same place, also hiding, then for me to hold up my finger over my lips would represent my recognition of you as a fellow peer on the run also threatened with arrest and jail.

That's a certain sort of interesting cognitive leap that I would not expect to see in most apes. If orangutans can do it, it's notable.

I suspect you might see something like this in squid or octopoda.

In bees, signaling dances aren't precisely the same kind of symbolic thought, because they don't have capacity to select what they dance about. It's a somewhat inflexible, robotic gambit of flowers, nectar, hive, honey, and nothing that deviates from the program, as complex as the program may be in its own right.
Most missions ring closer to truth if you prepend them with "Make money and maybe ".
"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth."

I'm sure Boole approved of that.

Fascinating how these two contemporaries achieved immortal fame through completely different disciplines.

I wonder if in 100+ years people will rememeber prominent writers or scientists of this age?
Because, subexpression evaluation order is indeterminate in C. We really need -fprecedence-left-to-right and -fprecedence-right-to-left to specify evaluation strategies.
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One also has to consider that with regards to his objectionable decisions around 2016 - he had been innocently imprisoned for several years already back then. This takes a mental toll on somebody and will impair clearheadedness.
I don't think the NSA has actually ever made that argument. There is, after all, a lot of law governing privacy. And the NSA's capabilities and required procedures are also specified in minute detail.

Even though these rules are far from adequate, their mere existence already shows a shared assumption that privacy is a legitimate interest. Arguing against the very idea of privacy would mean trying to prove far more than they could ever want, and doing so against essentially everyone else.
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I'm almost certain that the solution in this case will be training. Almost exactly as you've said in another comment. The correct response to an commanded stabiliser movement is to set the stab trim switch to cutoff. Pilots will probably experience this failure mode in their next recurrent training.

The accident is more than likely to be attributed to a system being added without sufficient guidance being added to the PoH, some degree of maintenance failing on behalf of the airline and finally a failure of the pilots to identify an issue and take appropriate action.

It's unlikely that those particular holes in the cheese will line up again in the near term given the emergency AD. No reason to ground the fleet.