skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's all too easy to say 'what do you do?'

Interestingly, not everyone answers "tell me about yourself" with "what do you do." How someone parses the former can actually be more interesting than the answer itself. For example, some people answer with their family, their country of origin, their company (versus profession), their title (versus company), a description of their role, or–quite plainly–discomfort. (Crudely, I've noticed peoples' enjoyment with this question roughly correlates with their social competence, perceive social status and general curiosity about people. New Yorkers answer with a profession. Europeans, more frequently, with a town of origin. The oddest pattern I picked up on was in Montreal, where I kept getting a detailed description of what the person did or ate that day.)

It's also fun watching yourself answer the question, particularly when your parsing varies given the company you're with or context you're in.
Although you're correct that there was a drafting process for MSCHAPv2, the actual protocol it describes had already shipped in Windows. As a result "But this is a bad idea" would not have been a useful contribution to the drafting process, the zero draft describes the exact same protocol, just with different words.

Edited to add:

The drafting process wasn't worthless, it fixed typographical errors, unclear descriptions, and so on. For example the zero draft insists Windows usernames are "Unicode" (UCS-2) but actually they're just ASCII, the examples show ASCII encoded hexadecimal but the text in the zero draft specifically calls it Unicode. And originally the document repeatedly says something is a 16-bit value in the text while showing a 24-bit value in structures, the final RFC has corrected this to split out an 8-bit "reserved" all zero field in the structure when this happens. In at least one place the RFC seems to "extend" the protocol compared to the zero draft, but again this isn't a response to Working Group feedback, it's documenting a patch Microsoft shipped in later Windows versions after the zero draft.

I don't know how much a WG chair could have usefully interfered here. As I say it's documenting something that already existed, so "fixing" it to document a more secure protocol nobody was using wouldn't help. The IETF's role here was to help people interoperate with Microsoft's solution, your non-Windows OS that can sign-in to a corporate WiFi system with Windows domain servers is enabled by this documentation.
How about just thinking about the problem blew for just one second. Were putting you in charge of arresting children pot shooting trains in the Midwest along about a hundred thousand miles of rural train track.

You need to come up with a system for reliably detecting hits on any part of any train (or they will aim for areas hard to detect), anywhere on a journey and immediately notifying nearby law enforcers to converge on the location before the miscreants can get away from the area. Oh, and the system has to be simple (a criterion you set for yourself), and has to be able to distinguish hits from gravel kicked up by other passing trans or the train itself.

I’m sure you worked all that out before posting and you think it’s obvious, but please enlighten those of us not as bright.
Learning a language in two weeks is easy. Every language has its own paradigms and way of doing things - you can write Cobol in any language.

I came in as a dev lead with “database developers” who were just learning C#. They wrote C# just like they wrote SQL - one long program in the main method.

Learning a language is not difficult. Learning that you don’t have to write your JSON yourself and you should use a library, learning the difference between structured logging and non structured logging and the libraries that are out there for each. Learning any framework is going to take longer than “two weeks”. Just because you know the syntax doesn’t mean you can write maintainable software. Get in front of C compiler and just “learn the syntax” and see how that works out.

Anyone who comes out of computer science thinking they can hit the ground running as a developer for any company, says a lot about the current state of “computer science” degrees and why so many “developers” can’t do FizzBuzz.
A carbon tax is specifically imposed to force markets to consider externalities. That is a free market solution. The opposite would be quotas and bans.

I actually favor quotas and bans to deal with carbon dioxide emissions.
This is whataboutism.
Why does London's Moorgate tube station have a mix of logo signage?
Indeed the number of deep/transitive citations would perhaps be an even more interesting measure
Every time I see interesting file managers it makes me want to try and like them but I always end up abandoning them after either a few minutes or a few hours. I don't know why. I'm quite sure I could be more productive using a file manager, even a graphical one. But it's been more than ten years that the only file manager I actually use is Bash and the GNU coreutils.
A huge source of inefficiency is time to market. Fashion moves quickly and boats are not quick. Air freight is expensive, diving up unit prices.
This is a problem with the local politics of your country, nothing to do with the "A.I. community".

This conference is not going elsewhere to "help poor people", but because it is too difficult for international researchers to go to the U.S.A., and many do not bother at all, resulting in a worse conference. I for one would not even consider going to the states for a conference, but often go to other countries.
Aircraft wings?
Yeah, I was making an extreme case. Not applicable to third world countries BUT established demos should pay millions to top leaders. Would USA feel a $200 million budget hit if they paid their top 500 leaders more? NOPE. It's nothing, and probably costs less since a US Senator that gets a subsidized apartment slips something in a bill favoring his benefactor.

(US should also build dorms for US Congress /Senate people and charge them for maintenance, say $300 a month. Pretty sure people /foundations would donate so the building would be built for free and the govt has land)
"Credit where credit is due"

How many people die of cancer in the US due to massive pollution brought on by "policies"? 10k, 100k, 1M?

And how long will it take the US courts to find the CO2 producers guilty, same as they did with tobacco?

All big oil producers are on ultra shaky ground due to future settlements and fines.
If we're talking about single-celled organisms, it's quite possible that there are hundreds of "kingdoms" living among us. The trend to abandon the Linnaean classificaton is quite prominent among those analyzing macroscopic organisms. But among those working with microscopic organisms, I've come across some of them abandoning the tree of life itself. My mind was blown when I watched the discussion between Dawkins and Venter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_(biology)#Summary

https://evolutionnews.org/2011/03/venter_vs_dawkins_on_the_t...
You're right. It does, unfortunately without citing any sources of its own.

In Europe, freight rail is less than a quarter that of the US, while passenger rail is much higher than in the US. Where tracks are shared, passenger rail generally takes priority in EU, and vice versa in the US. When reading about European railcar crash standards, I found no evidence that modern design standards include any requirements on crashing into freight trains. Just generic crumple zone requirements.
I find they do a pretty sound job on topics I know, even when I happen to disagree with them. Gell-Mann applies less frequently there than much of the rest of the media.

"partisan when it suits them"

They spell out their worldview, far more plainly and thoroughly than most, and explicitly non-partisan on their about us page. So is their ownership. They're consistent enough that I generally know on what topics we will differ. They've never supported a particular party but come election time and big issues they endorse one way or the other, with reasoning. Beats the single party (whichever party) come what may stance of most titles. What more could you want?

Like the FT, I find them far less partisan than younger-me once expected.
You might have misunderstood what the Gell-Mann effect is.

1. you find an article published on a topic that you know well.

2. You find that the publication is egregiously wrong about it.

3. You laugh about it, turn the page and believe everything they write about other topics.

I know technology reasonably well, and I’ve noticed every single publication I’ve read, the NYT onwards, make mistakes. In 12 years of reading the Economist (especially their fantastically informative Technology Quarterly issues) I have yet to notice them making mistakes. For this, and other reasons, I trust them.

The way you’ve phrased your comment “... in written form” makes me think you don’t know what you’re talking about. But who knows, I could probably read another comment by you and think “wow that’s insightful”.
Or in a more civil way, since it seems we have entered the era of tariffs wars, perhaps countries with carbon taxes should be slapping tariffs on imports from countries with none. Tie the tariff to some metric derived from a country's estimated CO2 emissions, subtracting some amount for % land mass in forests, reforestation efforts, carbon tax rates, deployment of renewables, etc.

It would have negative economic consequences in the short term, I'm sure. But put in place by large importers it would directly motivate emission offenders to not play the game of lowest-common-denominator.
There is a neat way of doing this style of indexing using barycentric coordinates: https://www.shadertoy.com/view/MlVfzG
There's Internet, I hope that everyone in US have access. If you want to learn programming, just do it.
Whimsy – a project to make writing compilers and source analysis tools easier
Wow, what sort of person dismisses an opinion just for being the “consensus” and appreciates an opinion for being “surprising” rather than correct.
And 90% of developers will never use the “theory”. They will be writing bespoked internal apps and yet another software as a service web app.

Even if you are on the opposite end of complexity and writing drivers (few people will), embedded software, operating systems etc., you’re more than likely not going to be using a lot of the theory. Yes I have a CS degree, I was a hobbyist assembly language programmer before going to college, and I spent well over a decade as a low level C bit twiddler.

I’ll take someone any day that can hit the ground running and knows how to develop over someone who knows “theory” and can’t write FizzBuzz in the language that we are using.
> or them auctioning off to the highest bidder when they're being liquidated.

The GDPR does, actually. The data can only be transferred to a GDPR-compliant company, and the user must agree to the transfer.
Most people on HN are software engineers. We are lucky that given our skills we can make it anywhere (some of the hackers around here are very brilliant and can basically live and work anywhere they fancy). But there’s a lot of professions outside of software bubble (more traditional jobs) that are not providing opportunities they once did and with AI and automation it’s going to get worse.
Vestidos de Alta Costura para famosas
That's the sort of change I had in mind. To start a move off fossil and onto electric utilising community heat pump schemes for new estates and apartments etc. Far better as a community thing than individuals so the costs are reduced to each. That or electric for those houses with solar.
So a new greenhouse-gas fuel is touted in a BBC headline as potentially “the future of energy”. Someone add 1988 to the headline.
Great explanation and article. Discussion (2015) here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10143700
Yeah, the cloud is managed by someone else who does all the hard work.

Of course, security, safety, protection are the biggest challenges against this kind of service. Trust can be built gradually. What I imagine is, it will still use the existing cloud companies like AWS, GCP, with added layers of encryption, and security protocols. Down the line, the biggest challenge will be to establish trust. One way to do it is to partner with existing clouds, and interoperability (in the future). Problem isnt that data isnt safe but more like if its on someone else's cloud, policies could change anyday.

This is more of an individual problem rather than a corporate problem. Right now, I am just putting it out there to see the response. Just an idea, have not written a single line of code for it.
> a pointer (which (void* )0 is)

In C: the macro NULL is an implementation-defined null pointer constant, which may be

> an integer constant expression with the value ​0​

> an integer constant expression with the value 0 cast to the type void*

In C++: the macro NULL is an implementation-defined null pointer constant, which may be

> an integral constant expression rvalue of integer type that evaluates to zero (until C++11)

> an integer literal with value zero, or a prvalue of type std::nullptr_t (since C++11)
How will that help them with their CS education exactly?
Nope, the real money is with %. States, even poorer one have billion dollar budgets. But even the favorite contractors, after dividing the money as per instructions, have to spend money on reelecting Dear Leader. They established autocracies get complacent and sloppy and don't care to launder the money. Who's gonna check? A smart way would be to bill for consulting /subcontracting work and pay taxes on that
It’s hard to enumerate but I meet tons of young professionals in Asia who studied in UK/Australia/US/Canada and came back for better jobs and prospects. It would be interesting to make some study to get some numbers on how many stay overseas and how many come back, and what are their careers like 10 years down the line.
Reminder: Don’t buy crap with palm oil in it, at least not things with oils not clearly marked as sustainably/ethically produced.
Motorcycle aren't as safe as cars.
“A 120-meter (nearly 400-foot) tall, six-armed crane stands in the middle. In the discharged state, concrete cylinders weighing 35 metric tons each…”

120 m * 35,000 kg * 9.8 m/s/s = 41.2 MJ = 11.4 kWh.

LiIon: 250–693 W·h/L, 100–265 W·h/kg, 250~300 USD/kWh in 2018

-> 11.4 kWh = 45.7-16.5 litres, 114-43 kg, $2850-$3420.

Concrete is much harder for me to find number for, seems to be $92/cubic yard, 2.4 tons/cubic meter.

35 tons -> 14.5 cubic meters -> ~19 cubic yards -> $1748 plus whatever the cost of a crane that can lift 35 tons is.

My knowledge of cranes is whatever came up first on Google:

“””A Comadil CTT 361-20 is a good size crane able to do concrete panels, max jib length is 75 meters and they have a max lift capacity of 20 tonnes. These cranes can go up pretty high without needing to be tied into the building. This crane will cost around $1 million”””

Article later talks about renting smaller 4-5 ton capacity cranes for $1500-$2000 per week.

The problem is neither LiIon nor concrete with cranes nor hydrogen are cheap enough. Not yet.
Ask HN: What should I do to protect my playstore account from being terminated
I welcome the choice of moving the conference to a place where there are no logistic problems.

As a scientist, however, I abhor organizations such as BlacksInAI: in science there’s no place for identity politics.
AirBnB Is the Least of Your Problems
Alaska is a counterexample
Three diodes in series should take care of that, and if you find you need to step up the output voltage it should be possible to either put some fast buffers in between or, alternatively, to replace whatever buffers there are already on the board with ones that are more tolerant to voltage differences on their inputs. It remains to be seen how mcuh the MRAM will like the 5V inputs, that is something the datasheet should be able to clear up.
I'm not sure I entirely agree. I think it's a bit like saying "steak is not the same as a hamburger" - they're not, but they're both beef and both a good meal.

I think if you define interviewing in the strictest sense, then sure. But personally I find this all pretty applicable. I do far better in conversation (with strangers) when I apply most of this. One of the best pieces of advice I was ever given was "nobody cares about you, but everyone loves speaking about themselves". If you can get someone to open up and _start_ talking, and you are genuinely curious without seemingly like you're looking for an opportunity to talk about yourself, in my experience that person goes away with a generally positive opinion of you.

I suppose you could also argue that any conversation with someone new IS an interview - be it date, work, new friend. Ultimately you're checking as to whether you want a second encounter with that person, right?
There are a lot of problems with twitter, but it's great for people who want to share a short thing like this.

From this thread I particularly enjoyed the video of a steam train in an underground station.

I don't know why I enjoy twitter threads like this so much. I hate "factoids" (eg snapple bottle cap real facts), but these twitter threads feel a bit more truthy.

Here's another thread about a woman who ran across Westminster Bridge in less than the time it takes for Big Ben to chime midday. https://twitter.com/meandmybigmouth/status/10584361322062684...

That's at least 250 metres (I guess, I don't know where they measure the start and stop of the bridge) in about 55 seconds.

And here's another about the shape of historical cows: "A serious query: were cows in nineteenth century Britain as rectangular shaped as painters envisioned them?" https://twitter.com/zeenastarbuck/status/1046563793701163010
In C and C++, 0 is an allowed definition of NULL. Before C++11, 0 was the only allowed definition of NULL.
Wii does not do RAM encryption (which is somewhat understandable given the fact that the RAM is mostly embedded 1T-SRAM that is not directly accessible anyway).

As far as I know the only two systems that use cryptographically meaningful memory encryption are Xbox 360 and zArchitecture mainframes.

Various secure crypto processors usually have some support for external "encrypted" SRAM, but as this typically involves microcontroller platforms and byte/word-wide accesses to said memory the implementation in the best case boils down to CTR mode (usually of some secret semi-proprietary algorithm of questionable cryptographic qualities) without IV or any authentication.
Here's a follow-up on why Mandacena could be wrong, and his work is not the only one:

"The problem here is that of what is an “interesting region of theory space”. At this point the failures of string theory unification strongly indicate that it’s not such an interesting region. It seems likely that we’d be better off if most theorists focusing on phenomenology of this failed program were to pick something else to work on."

And as far as I could follow his work and attempts to explain symmetry with economics analogies, I think my concerns are valid.
https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=9375
This mirrors my experience working with Xamarin. You had to know both everything going on at the native level and the c# .net and Xamarin levels as well.
Out of curiosity, have you actually opened with "tell me about yourself"? I imagine most of us converse by trying to learn about the other person, but specifically that phrase?
Why the rewrite from React to vanilla JS?
German, unfortunately I couldn't convince my Prof to accept it in English. In case you're interested and not under time pressure I can translate it or part of it. Always happy to share stuff like that. Just shoot me a mail. hef19898 (at) gmail.com
My friends have been using it for a few days and they seemed quite happy with it. The only thing that stops me from using it is that I need thumbnails, so I am stuck with spacefm for now.
It does happen here and there that city only zones land that it owns, and does forced eminent domain land purchases with a low-ish predetermined "raw land" price. It's obviously hugely unpopular among land owners, and is prone to lead to court cases.

But frankly, I fully support it and hope it'd be more widespread. Keeps a level playing ground and city finances healthy (after zoning, city can resell for a hefty premium). After all, city will have to pay for all the municipal infrastructure that brings a windfall for the owner. If it's used consistently without exceptions, it should be clear for all parties that urban development isn't open to private speculation.
Johnny-Five 1.0 is here: Programming robots with JavaScript – FrontNet Blog
Very nice! I often end up running MidnightCommander but this would be enough in most cases. I really like the idea!
whatever it is would have to be bidirectional, since the same pins are used for input and output. They probably make a level converter designed specifically for sram, but I haven't had time to look for one.
Impossible to read on mobile. Try this link instead:

https://thestempedia.com/blog/things-every-learner-needs-to-...
Bayesian Inference Lectures [video]
I came across this series of YouTube videos by Aubrey Clayton on Bayesian Inference (based on Ed Jaynes' book, 'Probability Theory: The Logic of Science') that I thought explained the fundamental ideas extraordinarly well but judging by the viewing figures, are not widely known.
Yes, Terry Gross is giving advice to be uncomfortably familiar if you try this on someone you've never seen before. She gets to do that because interviewing her is a pretense; the interviewee knows her by reputation, and she knows them by their public persona.

If you don't know the person, then yes, you have to ante up with small talk, let them warm up to you, and all the usual stuff. The point is that open-ended questions let other people drive the conversation, and it usually works better that way. Plus, you can't accidentally bring up an awkward topic if you don't choose one.
Part 2, for those who are looking https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/carmencr/2005/09/01/smis-ar...

Unfortunately, Part 2 also mainly consists of throat-clearing and the promised third article doesn't appear to exist.

Not a very fulfilling series of articles
Moving or copying files a single time might be a bit faster using a GUI (or TUI). But when you factor in starting the file manager and navigating to the right place, it's not a big difference.

And when you need to do a more complicated operation you're looking at a shell oneliner vs. multiple (possibly repetitive) manual steps in the UI.

If simple copying of files made up a great deal of my daily work, I'd certainly use a file manager (if I couldn't write a script to do it).
Maybe Amazon should let users opt in to “amazon labs” UX experiments around the core shopping experience. I’d love to be part of a trial which merged kindle store, physical books, a scanning service, a concierge “shop for hard to find books”, periodicals, and bespoke reports (and maybe my own business documents), all behind something like a next generation Goodreads. Similarly a vertical-focused camera or drone store, travel/services, etc.
on the other hand looking to buy an ipad I have a choice between 6 "iPad" models, 4 "iPad mini", 2 "iPad Air" models and 4 "iPad Pro" models. Confusing and difficult to research anything.
Safari’s reading mode does a pretty good job as well, if you don’t want to use AMP.
Technical Innovation vs. Process Innovation
Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13209452

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14526344
My impression of India isn't a population that prioritizes safety. Just look up footage of trains in India, there are as many people clinging from the outside as there are inside.