skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ...re-igniting competition for web browsers, moving the web platform forward

I fondly remember when the selling point of Firebird/Firefox was that it isn't a bloated, sluggish piece of crap unlike all other major browsers (including Netscape) at the time.

Back then, it was still possible to develop a web browser without hundreds of millions of dollars in budget. Fast forward to how the web platform has "progressed" and browsers are again sluggish, bloated pieces of crap, but now that horrible technology also powers far more applications. We've dug ourselves into a hole that we can't get out of anymore.
I think the broader point I'm making is that these time traveling debuggers can't work in the general case due to externalities.
Explain how me saying "he should walk away without archiving the project" equates to he should continue to work for free?
We did a high level comparison of all the binary lifters out there and posted it in the mcsema readme: https://github.com/trailofbits/mcsema#comparison-with-other-...

tl;dr the lifters you should consider using are mcsema and retdec. Most others are abandoned or seriously limited in what they can do.
I wish people would remember that LinkedIn is an evil platform created entirely by dark patterns whenever they idolize Reid Hoffman as some sort of business genius.
Not emails, these were public.
It was not too much CG, but rather the wrong approach to it. If you stick an actor into a green screen you need to do your damnest as a director to make clear to them what the invisible part of the setting is. As far as I know Lucas failed to handle that correctly.

Newer productions with actually capable directors got this right. There was a reason why Lord of the Rings employed previs animations before filming to figure out what the sequence will be. Weta Dgitial gave James Cameron a tracked virtual camera inside the motion capture rig with a real time preview of the Navi so that he could direct the camera while his actors where playing out the movie in a nonexistent jungle in a really drab gray studio with no props. There are tons of examples how the industry has learned to take CG as a tool and tame its abstract nature to make it useable.
Pathetic doesn't begin to describe your waxing poetic about standards I live up to, you don't know the first thing about me so get off your self. The worst part is you probably think it's pithy too.

He spent 7 years maintaining a project and couldn't spend negative one hours to not type up a moan and archive the project, and instead just give literally anyone else who he credits in that exact post for helping write permission.

You forget that we're on a site with programmers who also know what it is to deal with vitriolic users of our free efforts, you and him aren't unique.

When you get burnt out, leave. You don't owe anyone more free work, but you don't owe a tamper tantrum either.

The best part is the people who showed vitriol towards him literally couldn't care less.

You think the kind of person who would insult a library maintainer on Twitter is going to read his Github issue?

"Oh it stopped getting updates" "Good, now my code won't break anymore!"

He's literally only spiting the very people who make projects like this worthwhile, the kinds of people who would want to submit PRs, make useful issues, and people with a genuine interest in the project, exactly what he's saying he lost.
I've run into the opposite problem. Most grocery store baguettes I've found have been too soft, almost like hot dog buns.
Given that they have been owned by Microsoft for quite some time, how much of their current practice is learned vs inherited? If the latter, why would Microsoft allow this practice to go on?
Likely the reason why a lot of VPN apps are Chinese is because there is an actual demand for VPN usage in China.
You then multiply that with the population size (19% of the world is Chinese or roughly 1 in 5 people in this world) and you will have a massive market to grow for local Chinese VPN developers and for them to prosper.

The article author sounds surprised but it is quite logical if you think about it.
It seems we are still on schedule and that civilization will collapse as predicted.
and maybe "settle" with them "without accepting that they've done anything wrong or admitting the fault."
Tech companies and pot producers becoming fast friends (Canada)
Now I know why I was getting messages from these pricks. I tried to login and had no account. Scum.
Yes, I was describing a world without insurance. I'm saying a world with insurance and without any of what you call charity is strictly speaking impossible. And therefore the separation between insurance and what you call charity is spurious.

Insurance cannot exist and solve any problem if insurers are able to discriminate perfectly, so it cannot be a matter of principle that they should be able to discriminate to any arbitrary degree.

The idea that insurers are inherently justified in discriminating against poor risks is a nihilistic attack on the idea of insurance.

Total information awareness would lead to perfect discrimination and the annihilation of insurance, so you cannot justify by a principled argument discrimination against those you don't like purely on the basis that insuring them is charity.
Reminds me of that mobile popup I always get that tells me to download their mobile app when I'm viewing Linkedin on a mobile phone and I can't move on unless I press something.
Much of it certainly inherited, though I haven't used to in years (not because MS bought it) so can't say if it's got worse. When I used it earlier, I'd get so many spam type emails.
Looks like the opposite? Thread ends with saying someone new is taking the reins, that person is part of the FileUploader organization, there's even a commit to formally end the search made that same day...
> "Two months later, the Nazis occupied Hungary: his mother took him to the doctor because he wouldn’t stop crying. “Right now,” the doctor replied, “all the Jewish babies are crying.” This is because, explains Maté, what happens to the parent happens to the child: the mothers were terrified, the babies were suffering, but unlike their mothers they couldn’t understand what the suffering was about.

> Later, Maté’s mother, fearing for his survival, left him for a month in the care of a stranger. All this, he explains, gave him a lifelong sense of abandonment and loss which had an impact on his psychological health. It affected his marriage and his own parenting experience. To compensate for his buried trauma, he had buried himself in work and neglected his family."

Because of what happened to him at two months old explains his problems in life?

This is witchcraft at this level.

Given the lack of understanding of young children, stress in parents hunted by Nazi's would be hard to tell from mortgage stress or even the stress of a new child in the house.

Come off it.

There's nothing cutting edge about saying (real) trauma can cause or exacerbate addiction. The science is knowing how much and how it affects treatment.

Statements like this are just dangerous and wrong -

"At the heart of Maté’s philosophy is the belief that there’s no such thing as an “addictive personality”. And nor is addiction a “disease”. Instead, it originates in a person’s need to solve a problem: a deep-seated problem, often from our earliest years that was to do with trauma or loss."
Can you direct me to the facility you are familiar with?
I took them until I finally found and went to therapist that could help. That part was significantly more difficult, many people stumble there and stick to the medication for years.
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This isn’t mature technology. It shouldn’t be opterating at this scale.

Following novelty can lead to many disasters.

I imagine that suicide and such self destructive behavior will skyrocket.
If they dealt with that fake memory and left better, I still don't see why it mattered. Though, those sound more like hallucinations or delusions than a false memory.
> Has anybody written a guide on how to survive having a successful open source project?

No need for a guide. Close the issue tracker. Only accept pull requests, problem solved.
Wilhelm G. Spruth's "The Design of a Microprocessor" has some interesting material on the entire lifecycle of a design to ship of a chip including failure analysis. I have some newer books in my library on this kind of thing as well that I'd have to go re-familiarize myself with but that one is striking in that it is first hand knowledge of a crown jewels kind of project and not academic or the accounts of an outsider.
On a tangent to this, I do 6-8 hours a week "volunteer" work with a friend of mine who is an audio engineer. (It's actually paid work, but I've never raised my price over the past 14 years from when I was 18, so it's essentially just minimum wage/spending money and keeps the relationship professional.)

He uses Windows, Window Eyes and NVDA, Cubase and Mixbus and an absolute shitload of custom-written AutoHotkey macros and C# applications which I've written over the past 10 years.

He's amazingly effective (and for certain workflows, with the help of the macros, far more effective than sighted people) and has recorded, mix and produced a broad range of music.

My point is, it sucks, but there are some incredible people, doing incredible things, who are completely blind.

Good luck!
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The article implies that they weren't widely known until recently. How did you run across them?
100 year old houses are relatively new by UK standards. A large proportion of the urban housing stock is Victorian terraces (i.e. pre-1900). Rural houses are usually older. The suburbs/urban sprawl are the main exceptions. [1]

Partly this is because we don't build enough new houses, but it does mean there are lots of lovely old buildings. My house is 250 years old. It's nothing remarkable. Next door is about twice that age.

[1] https://maps.cdrc.ac.uk/#/metrics/dwellingage/
I had the exact same feeling, but felt too fashion-challenged to mention it. I guess 19th century convict clothes have made a comeback.

It's an illusion, because the other photos of him all have clear archaic markers. But what an illusion.
I am 99% sure LinkedIN used my IP address to match with my second floor neighbor, despite their claims that they would never use IP address as a connection data point.

I was sharing my wifi for a brief period with my neighbors on the second floor. My neighbor had a new room mate. The guy was from another country. He didn't work in the same industry I do. I didn't have any of his contact information anywhere on any of my devices, and afaik, vice versa. We had no formal contact in any fashion, monetary or electronic communication or any other kind of contact other than passing each other in the hall. I didn't even know his name. He's just one of millions of people who live in my region.

Yet they suggested him as a possible contact.

If they weren't using IP address, they were using black magic.

edit:
to clarify, i forgot to mention that i had no linkedin connection to my neighbor, afaik he didn't have a linkedin account, he definitely doesn't have one currently. He was sort of a luddite, barely used his computer, and i don't believe we ever emailed each other, or even had each other's email, I just searched my mail and have record of any.

And I very much doubt my neighbor had any obviously traceable connection with the roomate anyway, at most a phone number and received rent through cash or check.
You're right - that's what gets me about his facial expression. It's how models pose. By contrast, this one looks more like a mug shot: https://www.google.com/search?q=Lewis+Powell&source=lnms&tbm...:
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Thank you. I've got to get up early tomorrow for a flight, so I don't have time to properly respond at the moment, but this was by far the most thoughtful and useful response I've heard to this question, and I've read many books on the civil war, but most of what I've read is from the perspective of and about the educated elite (north or south) - most recently, I read Trudeau's "Like Men of War" and I think before that, Grant's memoirs. (come to think of it, I'm having a hard time remembering the last time I read a civil war book from a white southern perspective) - but while I was certainly aware of the fear of a slave revolution (a fear that seems rational, and was certainly universal among slave-owning societies, and that perhaps contributed to the fact that I only know of one long-term successful slave revolution, Hati)

I just bought 'masterless men' and I'll read it on my flight tomorrow. I'll evaluate the rest of the books you cite later.

But.. there needs to be something better than an upvote. Like an upvote you can give once a year or something. This was a really good, and really helpful comment.
Oh maybe. Dodge ended production in June 2002. From the 2015 model year on, Ford won't do a passenger configuration. I thought the Chevy one was the Astro, which is discontinued.

So yes, the 2019 Chevy Express 15 passenger van is at least theoretically available. The dealer locator can't find such a vehicle within 250 miles of me, which includes almost the entire state of Florida.

It's unsurprising, because that would be a $250,000 liability for the seller if any subsequent buyer were to use the van for transporting school or daycare children. Nobody is crazy enough to sell these vans new in Florida.

The liability can be avoided by leasing the van and then selling it used. Sure enough, used vans are available. They are white (or rarely black) with gasoline engines and cloth seats. They are all the 2017 model (coming off 2-year leases) with about 40,000 miles of usage.

I dislike Chevy/GMC/Dodge/Chrysler vehicle controls, particularly the parking brake and the windshield wiper controls. Ford engines seem to work fine, gasoline included. I consider the Ford transmissions to be consumable parts like brake rotors, although so far mine is doing fine. The Chevy Express diesel engine is weak compared to the better gasoline engine, even for torque.

Well, thank you for the info. So now: I'm thankful that these vehicles haven't gone entirely extinct.
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I didn't know you could self host these services with /e/

If they could support desktop devices, that would be great. It would one more step in the right direction.
> Amazon delivers things to your house. Google helps you find things online. Apple sells actual objects. Facebook … helps you get into fights? Delivers your old classmates’ political opinions to your brain?

Strawman. The article's writer can do better than view Facebook as a one trick pony. It is an internet behemoth. Instagram aside, there is so much media sharing on WhatsApp alone that it might blow away most of the other internet properties away. WhatsApp with VoIP now has the mobile network operators by their balls. No one is logging out of that, by far.

> Some empires fall because they’re invaded from the outside or rot from within. Zuckerberg’s could be the first in history to collapse simply because its citizens logged out.

Couldn't be further from the truth. People might get dis-interested in Facebook, over time... but existence of Facebook is more than folks just logging out.
> If you're saying "I'm passionate about delivering great products to users" or even "I'm passionate about making money" (I respect that) then technology becomes the tool you unfortunately have to wield to arrive at that goal.

I've had crooters say to me things like "I don't get the feeling that you're really passionate about these technologies". At which point I begin wondering what universe the crooter is from.
.net core 3.0 will be .net core only. Which may not be much of a problem if you were already running it in a non-windows environment, but it’ll make it useless for those of us who also have hundreds legacy systems, and those legacy systems are the main reason we still use .net at all.
Hydraulic integrator would be a better translation.
Could easily be that Six4three notified the UK ahead of time that Kramer would be in London. Provides a good opportunity to leak the data without being in contempt
I suspect that information can be obtained in ways other than IP addresses. Close enough to be the same thing, but enough distance to state, “we’re not tracking IP addresses”, and have their lawyers approve.
They have deliberately slowed the mobile website and then give notification to switch to app. So they can steal the contacts.
I thought US had discovered and was thinking, here come the "crippling 1.2 million fine" :) but maybe EU will make them think twice. 2%-4% of their revenue does send a message.
Wow, HN's dupe detector is terrible. It's literally the exact same url, 3 hours earlier, and with more upvotes and comments.
Its usual for an external watchdog to be added for industrial applications that cannot be disable ( or fail to be enabled) by firmware/software.
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This is not entirely true. Some, if not all, of these companies start outside of china, but end up getting bought by chinese capital. I do not have a source for this, i just know from my chat with friends.
Are you connected on LinkedIn with your neighbor? Because if your neighbor was connected with him, that could be how it happened. I think it will show if any of your connections know him (up to 3 hops away), but you might need to visit his profile to see that info (I don’t use LinkedIn often but noticed that feature before).
Reddit is almost unusable on mobile browsers because of this.
Almost all of the utility apps (battery cleaners, ram optimizers etc) are owned by chinese, and they are a bigger threat than vpn services. They have a huge footprint of devices outside of china, and have a lot of permissions granted
How do gigantic parking lots make most cash in the short term?
I figured all these guys/girl are probably a big deal now but I don't know anything about SV culture or history.
I appreciate the points you raise, and basically agree that the jury is still out on my question. I honestly don’t understand why there wouldn’t be enforcement actions on day one this past spring. We all had plenty of time to prepare.

As for the compliance effort: it’s mostly security theater in the enterprise, and benefits consultants and lawyers mainly. I take your point about retention, though.

We’ll see if any of it really makes any difference. I’m pretty jaded after doing this since the late 90’s.
I have a checklist for running one of our regression tests. It's pretty robust now that four people (including myself) have gone through it a few times.

I've thought about automating the test, but ultimately decided against it. Part of the checklist is just making sure the tester has the proper logins to the proper servers [1]. Second, if anything breaks in the automated portion, you need to know how it works in order to fix it.

[1] yes, multiple servers. And it takes five hours to run. We've gone to length to simulate as much as possible the production environment.
linkedIn was suggesting people that were using the same wifi network as I was. I thought this was spooky — I could see more info about my hotel guests than they probably realized.
I'm either spoiled by Tufte's work, or just not getting it. What dimensionality is the spiral capturing? I get that it looks neat, but in terms of helping me to understand what the data is telling me I just don't get it.

This isn't sarcasm, please explain what I'm missing.

Edit: This work is quite solid by the Tufte principles that I can see how to apply, such as using ink for data and not decoration.
That’s pretty much what I think. Sometimes it’s overwhelming how much emphasis is placed on trauma and addiction. It seems some people would be quick to label seeking any behavior that feels good (sex, having drinks with friends and being silly, etc.) as addiction and therefore the user must be burdened by past trauma. I have no doubts that trauma and it’s connection to addiction is real, but the distinction between addiction and “normal use” is blurry and often a meandering line.

What starts as normal use may evolve into unhealthy use and spiral out of control. Or it might just stay normal forever. Like everything, there’s a range. Sometimes the trauma is self-inflicted, in form of isolating and loneliness - and a self-destructive circle inwards. I have personal experience with this.
This was a really great response, thanks so much!
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Watching the great british bakeoff I am constantly amazed at the variety of baking recipes brits have.
Hey HN,

Creator here. Wanted to share my Scatterstocks project that I have worked on. It was inspired from a graph I had read in a Bloomberg article. It showed the differences in stock prices from various industries as soon as Amazon announced it was entering the market. (eg. Whole Foods, Health Care, Automotive). However, I wanted to see the same graph but for every company and any news event beyond Amazon.

The graph is powered using d3.js. The client-side uses a mix of Mustache templating and jQuery. I know, in the modern day and age of large frameworks, why jQuery? I actually wanted to learn it for a change.

Data is pulled from alphavantage and the NYT headlines API. I hope the "bombshell" graph is useful, and possibly something to periodically checkout to see how different stocks have done. It's hard to say there's always a strong correlation, but it does exist for certain events. Feature requests, PRs and feedback are all welcome.
We need to to be specific here though: they are compatible at low energies. They only become incompatible at very high energy states like those shortly after the big bang, and those we can't produce easily in particle accelerators.

Which is to say: they break under conditions very unlike the every-day universe, which is important but also indicative that they are not that broken.

The incompatibility is important though, because if there's any more card tricks we can do with physics so we can do interesting things, somewhere in that bit of incompatibility is where we must find it.
I think Facebook is wrong to blame the EU or the GDPR on its faltering status in Europe.

The GDPR is certainly making people more aware of what privacy means, and I think that’s a good thing, but it’s also came into existence because the people asked for it. It’s not really a new thing, in the public sector we’ve had stricter regulations for many years, but we’ve had them individually, and we’ve had the because people voted for them. The EU simply gathered all these things as a centralised ruleset, that also happens to apply to the private sector.

Slowly more and more people are waking up to find that they have and want the power to make demands on how their data flows. And I think a lot of American tech companies are having a hard time to adapt.

There is an old saying, that the US typically has good governments that are not trusted by its people and terrible companies which are trusted. Well, the EU is the exact opposite of that, and I think it’s hard to be Facebook in a world where people genuinely don’t want their photos used for facial recognition software that will eventually be used for evil, have their feeds flooded by probaganda or see their data used to overturn democracy itself.

Facebook isn’t really struggling yet though. But they’ve basically become like climate change, everyone knows they have to quit eating social media to save the planet, but knowing is easier than doing.

Facebook hasn’t done a single thing to help themselves though, so the comparison to Augustus, who did indeed build an empire and who was so popular that many historians consider him the root of the emperor cult, is a little ridiculous.