skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are posting hyperbole, millions of years is a bad measure to tell people that human influence is affecting. There is no equilibrium either, nature changes a lot. Look at temperature history, big changes happened again and again. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_temperature_record#/med...
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Not quite true - there are permissions around other operations.
In the US, an orthodontist removed my impacted tooth (whole visit took less than 5 minutes) prescribed hydrocodone or oxycodone and some other pain killer. I didn't choose to pick up the prescription, but it was way overkill for the extremely mild discomfort I felt for the next 16 hours or so. I didn't take a single medicine other than the antibiotics prescribed, but I would have had access to tons of pain killers for no reason.
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Galileo only needed basic tools (like feathers, balls, an inclined plane, and a handheld telescope) to pursue science.

If he'd needed access to impossibly expensive equipment available only in a few palaces around Europe, politics might have stopped him before he ever got started.
Half this article is about SQL injection attacks.
Modulus is middle school math; surely, you would expect a developer to be familiar with at least high school math as theory base?
Not sure how you're doing the conversion but 3.3l/100km is only 71mpg according to Google. 94mpg would be 2.5l/100km or 1l per 40km.
I don't know Lisboa, but I can tell you this is not the case in Madrid. Neither it is in Barcelona, Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam, Berlin, ...

There can be very particular routes for which 30km can take very long (although I do not see how a 30km trip is relevant when we're talking about the centre of the cities), but this is not common. And 8pm is not late at all, it is quite easy to move at that time. Again, I do not know Lisboa, but your generalization does not fit with my experience at all.
They count trees as biomass (which is correct, but it's not really the fun part). If you only count the animals, the marine and deep subsurface surely is way more abundant than the terrestrial life.
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What are the other arrangements?

Couldn't we simply have tax breaks per children and be done with it?
The best time of year to make a life decision?
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The article already assumes you don't have direct access to the database server. Just a backend that legitimately uses the database but creates queries by simply concatenating strings (with some strings being user-supplied, which makes this in practice as good as direct database access once you have guessed how the query is quoted)
There's an idea that someone would never accuse another of sexual misconduct because there is nothing to gain. Victims are unfortunately still stigmatized. At the same time, there are those who would lie about sexual misconduct for various reasons including attention, revenge and notoriety. The chance of this happening to a public figure increases exponentially.
That's the problem of black markets after all. So safe to assume it's 100% active, and if the effects are not there, take a 1.25 times larger dose from the same dilution batch, and so on. The important thing is always start with assuming that the powder is pure, because the powder can be inhomogeneous.
> Phabricator is basically cancer.

I think you need a lessen in sensible writing. You don't like Phabricator, fine. It's not cancer. Not "basically" either.
Same thing in London.

From April 2019, diesel cars older than ~2014 and petrol cars older than ~2005 will have to pay 12.50GBP a day to drive in the centre.

A few years later, the zone will be expanded to cover an area with a radius of approximately 5-10 miles around the centre (so basically everywhere apart from far-flung suburbs).

12.50 a day is pretty much as good as a ban (for most it'd make driving into and out of London cost more than 5x more for example).
Umberto Eco's "The Search for the Perfect Language" comes to mind

https://www.wiley.com/en-us/The+Search+for+the+Perfect+Langu...
> Q: Is Python call-by-value or call-by-reference?

The most dangerous interview question. First you have to establish that the interviewer uses those terms correctly or at least that both of you agree... There's lots of people who know the answer in practice, but never accepted that passing values which are references is not "pass-by-reference".

I've talked to someone who said "this must be just a typo/mistake"... when I pointed out Java is pass by value - in Java spec :-(
That's why they say, "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder".
“Global warming may or may not make life shitty in some future scenario.”

I think you’re trying to rationalize the position of the protesters, but this is a dangerous rationalization.

Arguing that it “may or may not” lead to catastrophic consequences leaves the door open for doubt.

I understand if poor people or nations are frustrated, and I agree that the rich have a responsibility to show leadership, but there should be no doubt that climate change will most negatively affect the poor.
Depends on the size of the shop. At a certain level, a CTO's job is not to be a programming expert but be the outward facing representative of IT for an organisation. Understanding tech is paramount but knowing programming minutiae like this is not necessary.
Yes, but an attacker is more likely to try SLEEP(10) than DROP DATABASES, because the attacker usually wants your data (and your server, but the data is a bonus). So if disabling sleep makes a few bots miss an actual vulnerability, it's a good step for defense in depth.
Board games can help address social isolation and loneliness
Yes, it's a typo, will change
Hey, to clear things up we weren't looking for money as we have no stats or anything. We were only looking to feature decent products, and it's nice to work with people we are featuring. Thanks for the feedback though!

Now we are crowdsourced and anybody can submit resources.
Because not all of the brain is 'compute'. Lots of it seens to be allocated to map 1:1 with body areas (or probably the number of nerves in those body areas). I guess you could see this as IO.
> Most of these don't actually use UTF16 but UCS2 with surrogates

Most of these actually use UTF16.

.NET has System.Globalization.StringInfo class, Java has string methods like String.codePointCount. Operator [] returns 2-byte code points in these languages because backward compatibility. Newer languages don’t need to be backward compatible see e.g. https://docs.swift.org/swift-book/LanguageGuide/StringsAndCh... but their internal format is still UTF-16. If you need to interop with any of these languages, your life will be much easier if your C++ code uses UTF-16 as well.
The sensible way to go about this would be making new cars with ICE progressively more expensive, starting some time twenty years ago or so, so that people naturally switch over to clean alternatives. What we get instead of incessant lobbying by car manufactures until perfectly fine, new, cars need to be banned from city centers because the air quality is too bad. Now it is too late for a painless switch to less polluting transportation and the poorest suffer most.
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I would say the motion blur and the rolling shutter effect would overpower the subtle vibrations due to audio.
That won't help you, because the author assumes an SQL injection is at play. Which is quite a stretch. Who is dumping direct POST/GET data straight into SQL without sanitation these days? Maybe some noobs, but then you have a bigger problem.
Ask HN: US Banks supporting hardware token 2FA?
A decade ago, I spent some time living in Europe and every bank I had an account with offered a hardware token for online banking. When I returned to the states I asked my bank USAA if they would consider offering such an option. To my surprise, they said they already did.

Fast forward to today. Overall, I am quite happy with USAA, but I know they aren't an option for everyone. Also, USAA just doesn't offer savings accounts with the yields that many banks are offering today. But every bank with a high yield savings offering I've contacted thought using a hardware token was quite the novelty. Most tried to assure me that using SMS for 2FA was really very secure.

While I've done my best to secure my cell number from porting attacks, by the nature of things I'm carrying my phone just about everywhere, versus my hardware tokens kept in a fireproof safe.

They've always said they'd refer the idea up the management chain, but so far I am not aware of any actually following through. It seems like they'd love anything to lower their risk, but who knows.

So rather than continuing to contact banks in vain, I figured I'd ask around on HN as I know this is fairly security conscious crowd.

(Yes, I know Vanguard does support YubiKey which is awesome of them, but their money market fund yield still seems to lag behind high yield savings accounts, not to mention the 0.1% expense ratio)
On the other hand - the big publishers need Valve less, so from a purely business perspective it makes a ton of sense to keep them on the platform, which is the biggest storefront for purchasing games.

Yes, smaller developers have to pay more, but they're getting a heck of a lot of exposure for that take, without having to spend big on traditional advertising like the large publishers have to.
Because, unless you want to build your applications statically (which I've done), it requires a large client runtime installation?
That's part of it, but there's also the fact that bigger brains qhoch lead to being smarter have downsides in terms of resource usage (needing to eat more, or reduce physical movement), which might not pay off for the smarter gazelles as it might make them slower and thus more likely to be eaten...
Even a tiny bit of intelligence is useful if your competitors are all dumb. It starts from there.
Everything that increases the cost of doing _anything_ is a "tax on the poor"; that's just a particularly emotional way of describing exactly what it is that poor people don't have (money/power).

In a city like London there is actually no reason to drive around a diesel car in the centre. It's done for convenience only. Non-diesel vehicles exist, electric vehicles exist, very soon there'll be enough to fill the roads (Central London is really quite small), done.

I don't think it should be banned - I think a tax is far more appropriate (that's actually what we're doing) - but ultimately, yes, poor people will be hit harder.

We don't allow burning rubbish to heat homes either. That's a "poor tax" too.
Isn't there a way to make the database very slow by a complicated but generic query. Thinking about e.g. oracle's connect by + dual

If this is the case, removing sleep doesnt help you. Just run a slow query
That will be sad since most of the games I buy are from indie developers. They put good amount of work in their games and don't charge much too. If Valve keeps doing this kind of stuff and forces them to move to other marketplaces, I will move too.
If that's a serious suggestion then...

* Dart/Flutter {iOS, Android} [0]

* (Scheme|Lua|C)/IUP {Linux, Windows, macOS} [1]

* (QML with JS)/QtQuick {Windows, Linux, macOS, UWP, Android, iOS...} [2]

* (C++|Rust|Go|Python...)/Qt {Windows, Linux, macOS, UWP, Android, iOS...} [3]

* (TCL|Ada|Haskell|Python...)/Tk {Windows, Linux, macOS} [4]

* (TCL)/Hecl {Windows, Linux, macOS, Android} [5]

* (Scheme|C|JS|Haskell...)/GTK+ {Windows, Linux, macOS, Android^} [6]

* (C++|Python|Ruby|...)/WxWidgets {Windows, Linux, macOS, {Anywhere GTK or Qt run...}} [7]

(^ May not be stable or officially supported)

... All the platforms listed are cross-platform.

Some look native, some don't, but no Electron app does anyway.

Most package to single binary, some need proper packaging.

All are very simple to get started.

Tk has the least features, but TCL is just a shell language, so getting started is ridiculously easy. However, Tk can do things like inject its frames into any running process's window.

QT and GTK+ are the most powerful, which can confuse newcomers. But they're still simple to do simple things with.

I've used all but Flutter in a professional environment (but evaluated it), sometimes as maintainer, sometimes building something new. They're all solid. Different drawbacks with all of them, but there's always tradeoffs in programming.

For a beginner, I'd probably recommend QtQuick or WxWidgets.

[0] https://flutter.io/

[1] http://webserver2.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/iup/

[2] http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtquick-index.html

[3] https://wiki.qt.io/Language_Bindings

[4] https://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.5/TkCmd/tk.htm

[5] https://www.hecl.org/

[6] https://www.gtk.org/

[7] https://www.wxwidgets.org/
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"add weights to plastic items"

sigh
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Of course it is, I think developer's paths are different and these questions are for MY expectations from the candidate. I know that they are not easy, and of course, I do not expect from candidate to answer all of them. But I'm sure if you don't know your tools(Python just a tool, favorite tool, but tool anyway) then you can't call yourself a senior
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Perhaps the individual who has been granted the right to violence will finally change their abusive and, for any normal person, illegal behaviour if they are finally outed.
I bought a huge course about this topic once.

I found the whole thing really interesting.

The troubles with Amazon accounts.

Designing your own products based on white label products.

etc.

I really wanted to do this, but I then learned that I had to send the products to my home first, so I can check if it's okay and then send them to Amazon for fulfillment.

It sounded like a virtual business, I'd think about markets, design products, find factories in China who create stuff for me and then let them deliver to Amazon so they would sell it for me.

But suddenly I would have to sit with hundreds of products at home, checking them, putting new barcodes on them and driving them to the post office.
A friend of mine is making many thousands of dollars profit per month from FBA. It's real.
If that was true, they would stay as subsistence farmers. If they are not doing that, they must have their reasons (probably that you're wrong and they're making more money).
You should try contracting. When my son was in high school I switched from full time employment to contracting. The pay was about the same and I took every summer off.
>There's just so many more men out there dedicated to climbing hard than women.

There's a study that looked into this for chess and found that for the amount of people who actually stick at it, 96% of the the split in chess can be accounted for by it being what you would expect for the amount of men and women playing.

>Why are (the best) women so good at chess? Participation rates and gender differences in intellectual domains

>A popular explanation for the small number of women at the top level of intellectually demanding activities from chess to science appeals to biological differences in the intellectual abilities of men and women. An alternative explanation is that the extreme values in a large sample are likely to be greater than those in a small one. Although the performance of the 100 best German male chess players is better than that of the 100 best German women, we show that 96 per cent of the observed difference would be expected given the much greater number of men who play chess. There is little left for biological or cultural explanations to account for. In science, where there are many more male than female participants, this statistical sampling explanation, rather than differences in intellectual ability, may also be the main reason why women are under-represented at the top end.

http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/276/1659/1161
> Knights could have been thugs or even warlords but they weren't. Not because they would have been stopped by the state, which were fairly small and weak at the time, but because they largely chose not to.

> And many crusaders went further than that. They chose a risky expedition often at a great expense of their families for no discernible earthly benefit.

You mean invading a foreign country because they worship the same god in a different way, and perhaps killing everyone there that oppose the invasion?

Also, I don't remember about this particular case, but it was usual to distribute some of the conquered land/money/slaves between the soldiers.
The best I ever really hear about are ~4L/100km, from small VW sedans as you say.

I'm curious what can get better!
Interesting. If you don't mind me asking, how do you plan to do this? Grants? Investors? Trust fund?

If you can sustain yourself longer than 6 months, have you considered just starting your own lab/business?
Well, they often have white-label stuff.

Depending on the factory you buy at, they will let you customize more than just the logo and box.

Using different materials, adding tools etc.

Sometimes you get an edge over others because your product is just made of different plastic and comes with a nice bag.
That is unfortunately not correct. A large amount of advertising and PR is very necessary to receive any attention for a launch on Steam.

Unfortunately a mere 'launch' on Steam has been devalued, by Valve allowing anyone with $100 to launch on the platform (and the majority of the launches on Steam are very low quality as a result).

If you want to make a middle class income from launching games on Steam, you will need to become very familiar with online advertising. Have a look at the Positech blog for details.

Indie devs are now realising why the big studios spend 30% of their budgets on marketing...

Of course, it all gets a bit easier once you have an existing profile, an existing fan base, etc.
Mozilla hit with takedown request for anti-paywall addons
Yeah, low-emissions diesel branding is a criminal oxymoron.

It’s 100% the particulate and NoX emissions that are the major problems for those of us living in urban populations.
There’s really no need to pass -O9 to GCC. Anything over -O3 should become -O3 anyways.
Yeah, MySQL has recursive queries.

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/with.html#common-tab...

Though one can set a limit on query run time via max_execution_time.
C++ is harder to use, so developers are more expensive to hire.

QT is either GPL which is viral i.e. you have to open source your software under the same license, or quite expensive. Even if you’re working on open source GPL software, free QT edition has less features, esp. on embedded.
I still see it today, in code being written in 2018. One call say "noob", but... every year there's new people coming in to the field. "Noobs" is an evergreen problem.
After hearing about people successfully traveling on Principality of Sealand passports, I did wonder how far you could get round the world possessing documentation from a completely fictional country.

>This is not the first time that passports from Sealand have found their way into the news. One was found on the killer of Gianni Versace, Andrew Cunanan, and he was said to have a car with Sealand diplomatic plates. In 1997 forged Sealand passports were used to launder drug money in Slovenia, and there were reports that 4,000 forged passports were sold at £1,000 a head before China's takeover of Hong Kong. People involved in an illegal pyramid-selling scheme in eastern Europe had Sealand papers; one had border stamps from Libya, Iraq and Iran.

https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2000/mar/28/features...
For starters, you could get the lens out of an optical drive and place it on top of a smartphone's camera and you'll get ~50x magnification, although with a tiny depth of focus.

There are hobbyists claiming up to 300x (at this level you can clearly see bacteria), by stacking two lenses.

In any case, there are extremely cheap DIY solutions out there, but it may not be worth it for you.

Some ideas: https://www.wired.com/2011/03/diy-cellphone-microscope/

https://hackteria.org/wiki/DIY_microscopy
>I didn't ride a bike for about 10 years. When I started riding again, I definitely felt unsteady for the first few days or weeks compared to my previous riding ability. I was unsteady enough that I thought at the time, "People that say you don't forget how to ride a bike are full of shit."

Err, "feeling unsteady" while still riding is not the same as forgetting how to ride and falling like a kid who tries to ride for their first time.
You don't like my casual use of the word cancer? Fine. Personally I feel like cancer was a relatively good approximation for the cancerous like changes you need to make to established industry workflows once you begin to use phabricator.

Would you have preferred I used the word infection? Virus? Aids?

Which one of those metaphors crosses the "sense writing" line for you?

Why does cancer?
Is it because there might be another Python process running, that was started after this one started, that has mapped the same executable or shared libraries?
> QT is either GPL which is viral i.e. you have to open source your software under the same license,

it is not.
Let's say that's all true - why would anyone ever acquire a company if its for certain, by virtue of being on sale, flailing?

I think it's often the case that the product dies, but I honestly believe that's more often than not down to the new parent company having no idea how to run and manage the product and team.
Well, you still have a pretty large run-time with Qt. If you want something slim, you can use neither Electron nor Qt.
Both absolute size and relative size are poor approximations, but relative size gets closer.

Large animals aren't just scaled up versions of smaller animals. Large animals use the space for more complicated digestive tracts. Their larger appendices allow them to have more joints with more degrees of freedom, and longer appendices and higher speeds require a higher resolution from their eyes to perceive sufficient detail. Skin with more surface area also means many more cells for sensing heat, pressure, damage, etc across the entire skin.

All of this means the brain of a larger creature needs more "IO ports", more neurons to compute sensible outputs for them even for routine tasks, and more neurons to break the wealth of data into a form usable by a cognitive process or an instincutal reaction (mapping to area of body, computing averages over time and over multiple inputs, correlating different types of senses, etc).

All of these differences have different scaling factors. The amount of neurons to count to 5 stays the same, the amount of neurons to process skin sensations scales approximately with skin area, or the square of animal diameter, but the amount of neurons to control motor functions or the digestive tract can grow much faster. Overall, putting brain size in relation to animal size or mass is a decent first approximation and works in practice.
"Forgetting to ride a bike" is not about fluency. Of course you'll lose the fluency if you were advanced biker at some point.

It's about forgetting HOW TO RIDE, the very basic trick of balancing the bike.