skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not exactly, but that certainly matters.

The problem is that to maintain total control, you have to have players available nearly 24 hours a day who are willing to put in the legwork to find every wormhole in and out of the system as the game auto-generates them. This is tedious work, and so it's basically impractical to have that level of control.

The attackers utilized small gaps in the otherwise extensive hand-monitoring of wormholes that HK undertook to move freighters full of ships through wormholes. Then the player controlling that freighter logged out of their account, and when a player logs out, the ship they're controlling warps off "to infinity" automatically and is completely safe.

For HK to protect against this attack completely, they'd have to have ships on patrol at all times AND those ships would have to be sufficiently equipped to catch and kill a freighter before its player can get logged off and the freighter auto-escapes. It's a tall order.

... and it's worth noting that even given those constraints, this attack was basically thought to be impossible. The Initiative took a year to make this work with enough freighters to shift the balance of power.
Boing Boing should crowdfund some money to convert a bunch of scooters and give them away outside Bird HQ.
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The simplest DIY audio oscillator – one transistor reverse avalanche [video]
I Can No Longer Recommend Google Fi
Absent from this list: Laser guided bombs, thermal imaging systems, the F-15 Eagle, the Tomahawk cruise missile, the M1A1 Abrams tank, etc. etc. Examples of high tech solutions to military problems that produced extremely favorable lopsided outcomes when they reached the field.

Any military that places inordinate faith in low tech solutions is liable to lose most of their armor and infantry to an aggressor that they can't even see, much less fight. That seems like the much greater hazard.
Last year I tried to do something similar w/ just printing out a dymaxion map into a single sheet of paper, as an art/STEM project for the kids.

It turned out that cutting flaps needed some planning - we ended up with several edges that had overlapping flaps, and flaps of irregular sizes (due to the edges of the paper sheet).

Another problem was that it was very flimsy and it was hard to fix the assembled globe if it got dented (because we were gluing the globe together, and because small kids).

This one looks much sturdier and it seems like it might be able to hold itself together without gluing the entire thing shut. Pretty nice!
Wow. Sir Michael Atiyah claimed he solved Riemann hypothesis just short four months ago.[1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18062092
> for one thing, it's a little odd that you can make a freighter un-attackable by logging out with its pilot, squirreling those assets away in-game indefinitely; maybe the balance of power needs to be changed on how freighters warp out at logoff?)

It's actually pretty hard to seed such a big ship in a wormhole, which is why they had to time it for when HK had a small presence. People that live in wormholes tend to obsessively dscan (kind of like a medium-distance radar that lets you see when ships are somewhere nearby you) and rapidly scan down new signatures (which can be PVE sites or new wormholes that people could be bringing things through). On top of that, big ships like freighters are slow to warp and hence quite susceptible to being caught on the way in.

In the freighter example, in order to safe logoff as you describe one has to be uncloaked and relatively stationary (ie: not warping around) for 60s (longer if they've attacked or been attacked recently). This is quite a vulnerable time for such a large (and hence easily scannable) ship. A well skilled player in a well specced ship (like most higher-level wormhole players will be and have) can scan down, warp to, and attack (giving a 15 min logoff timer) such a big ship well within that 60s if they are paying attention.

Removing the option for people to safe logoff in dangerous space would heavily discourage exploration of basically anywhere outside of high-sec which, imo, is where the majority of interesting content in the game is.
Options are often not worth the paper they’re printed on. For pre-IPO, pre-acquisition, companies there’s no real market for those options. You may well be able to get better tax rates on them, but only if you can actually sell them. Compare that to RSUs which you can exchange the day they vest for actual cash, with a minimum of fuss.

For perspective here I, and everyone I know who have worked for startups as an employee, have never seen a single penny from stock options. Maybe one day I will, but I consider them to be nothing more than a potential pleasant surprise down the line.
In my neighborhood, while I do see the occasional scooter or bike share bike parked across the sidewalk, far more annoying are the cars parked in their "driveway" that block part or all of the sidewalk
Ask HN: Why did you become a manager?
Why did you move from being an individual contributor to an engineering manager?

I am considering the move myself, what I enjoy about my job now is working with stakeholders and mentoring junior devs (as well as the coding). I’m trying to decide if this a good reason to move into management, or should I stick to what I am doing with added focus on these areas.
Try Sandstorm.

Home servers are a very difficult sell (see $500 Helm) compared to VMs running in a data center and IMO the privacy difference is mostly illusory.
The main problem with issue trackers is similar to the problem of programming forums before Stack Overflow. Issue trackers become a chronological pile-up of crap. Stack Overflow is an incredible leap from earlier programming forums because it isolated what was valuable (questions, answers) and moved the chaff out of the way (comments, revising the question).

JIRA is basically the most sophisticated programming forum, for issue tracking. What we need is the Stack Overflow of issue tracking, that figures out what the real entities and actions are and eliminates the chronological pile-up.
Cool. This will be fine as long as 2 self driving cars never go near each other.
It's time-consuming and tedious to monitor every wormhole that is created and destroyed. In practicality, player teams (corporations and alliances) monitor their local wormholes while players are logged in, but most teams don't have enough people in enough timezones for anything like total situational awareness.
What about the performance? Not that it's going to be huge on some modern hardware, but thinking a 4-5yo tablet or raspberry pi 2-3 level support.

Not that WebGL is all that much to write home about vs. native...
That's exactly what it is. Freelancers working for relative pennies. Tim Ferriss started the bad habit of calling this 'automation' in the 4hr work week book.
I've been reading HN semi-regularly for over half a decade, but only created an account ~1.5 years ago and my first comment was last month. This is my second comment as well, and probably my 10th across all social media in the last year.

The topics on HN generally align with my interests and the quality of discourse here is fairly high, but I'm rarely willing to make the additional mental effort of participating. I prefer to research any points I make and back them up with data, and it's not worth my time to do so only to end up arguing with trolls or people who refuse to reconsider their position when presented with new information.
> This case looks like it involves master-slave/sub-dom sexual deviancy, which seems aesthetically opposed to prevailing social mores at Google, which place a high moral value on consensuality.

Pretty much every description of the cultural mores of BDSM center around consent. There are basically two formulations:

SSC = Safe, Sane, Consensual

RACK = Risk-Aware Consensual Kink

(the difference here is in just how okay people are with edgeplay, but in both cases consent is paramount)
The article actually has the answer:

> Other lidar makers use lasers with a wavelength of 1550nm. This tends to be more expensive because sensors have to be made out of exotic materials like indium-gallium arsenide rather than silicon. But it also has a big advantage: the fluid in the human eye is opaque to 1550nm light, so the light can't reach the retina at the back of the eye. This means lasers can operate at much higher power levels without posing an eye safety risk.
Punishment doesn't fit the crime?
They address in the article that the frequency they're using can't damage the retina because the fluid in the eye is opaque to light at this frequency.
The US are many things, but certainly not a model on the subject of personal-data protection.
On the other hand, there's value for those in the position to do so doing the shock-and-awe thing now and then. Pour encourager les autres in its proper ironical sense.
This seems different because Bird was actually making a legal threat and knew what they were doing. That's why the EFF stepped up.

What ESR did was play with a clueless HR person.
> I know plenty of people who have been taught by the big shiny box that they don’t need to feel the pain of a loved ones death, or a bad breakup.

I was with you up until there. If only antidepressants were effective for those situations. They're not. But I suspect we'd both agree that TV ads for chemotherapies are over some kind of line.
Could ellaborate why is illusory?
Unfortunately, I didn't really know I wanted one for myself and also for family until right now, especially at the $15 price point.

It seems like these are selling out in a lot of stores, but I wonder if it's smart to buy one when they'll probably no longer receive updates.
I learned this term from a 2012 blog post, which summarized a (now deleted) Stack Overflow question:

https://blog.codinghorror.com/new-programming-jargon/

My other favorite from that list is "baklava code" -- code that has too many layers.
I'd love to see some independent results from someone who doesn't have skin in the game. Whilst damage might be more obvious in a camera CCD, even small amounts of cumulative damage over time could be doing serious harm without it being immediately obvious.

I've seen f/1.6 lenses, where as the eyes are apparently f/8.3 - f/2.2, so yes the eyes take in less light, but it's substantially harder than an EF-S mount to swapout.

edit: also, what about animals with good night vision? they are more sensitive and take in more light - are they at danger?
It is. Most of the places where people live and work are higher tax places.

The lowest tax places are usually places dominated the lowest value-add businesses -- like resource extraction. They don't really care about people because they don't need them.
> Most systems programming jobs these days is C/C++ on Linux and will be for the foreseeable future.

I don't disagree, but at least anecdotally a lot of the shops I've been involved with/worked with are really excited about Rust and Go. A previous employer that used C++ exclusively has even shipped a few Golang based tools, and is planning to introduce it into the main product soon. No new projects are being started in C++ either.

Definitely recommend learning C, but having Rust (or Golang) exposure will likely be helpful in the near future.

Great post btw.
Terrence Tao also stutters.
This world is wonderful.
Maybe https://forums.swift.org/t/new-lsp-language-service-supporti...

> We are also going to make the necessary changes for Xcode to use this new LSP-based language service. Similar to how you can load an OSS toolchain 397 in Xcode to try it out now, in the future you will be able to load a build of the OSS LSP service in your installed Xcode and test any fixes or enhancements you make.
The central issue time and time again is infected documents sent via email to vulnerable operating systems (95%+ windows probably), a little mac, android, ios maybe. So let's block that please. If all these places used chromeos and google docs they would block all these attacks. Add another layer by requring 2 phase auth like yubikeys (not text messages please, too easily hacked).
A native desktop client would be nice. It's really the only thing I miss about Apple's issue tracker, Radar.

The main thing a native client can do well that a web client cannot without extraordinary wizardry, is handle click and drag, list views, and multiple windows properly instead of highlighting a bunch of random text.

Radar was based around 2 kinds of windows, a list of issues, and a particular issue's details. It could do stuff like "shift select many issues, drag the whole block to another project or parent issue", "ctrl-click multiple unrelated issues, right click, open selected issues in new window, select all, change priority, add parent issue", "drag issue from list view and drop in duplicate issues pane of current window".

Despite being ugly and filled with a million textboxes, using Radar was a breeze compared to JIRA or Github.
1550nm anti-paparazzi devices coming in 3... 2... 1...

(Or maybe not, owing to the potential liability.)
Remember that bias is just as much about how they filter what facts to report as it is about how they distort the facts they do report.

Just because what they report is factual, doesn't mean they're unbiased. A newspaper that reports every crime by black people while only reporting serious crimes by white people might be factual, but it displays clear bias. A newspaper that reports every truth told by President Trump (but conveniently neglects the lies, rants and tantrums) might be factual but it is clearly biased.
This is literally what pimping is. Andy was acting as a pimp.
If you're confused as to why, this article was illuminating: https://scotthelme.co.uk/using-security-features-to-do-bad-t...
I tried to learn Fourth when I was a kid of about 14. There was an implementation for the TI-99/4A, which I had. But I never grokked it. I am guessing the manuals and other examples assumed knowledge I didn't have. Haven't gone back to it since.
DNSSEC has the unique advantage of permitting offline signing. If you go this route, even somebody controlling your authoritative servers wouldn't be able to modify your records.
This is a BS statement that doesn't actually say anything beyond expressing this trite idea that government is always bad.

"The government" is not a singular entity, it's a collection of tens of thousands of smaller entities, all of which operate mostly independent of one another and whose relative "efficiency" is based almost entirely on the people working there. One town may have a school or fire department which operates extremely well under a very tight budget, while the town over might poor money into a corrupt and expensive institution which fails to provide more than basic services.

In this respect, it's no different than any other business. Some Walmarts are clean, tidy, and well run, others are a mess. But you wouldn't go around claiming that "The retail" is inefficient because of this fact.

Also, not every government department should be efficient. The military is often held up as the hallmark of an inefficient bureaucracy, but the fact is, we don't want a military that's cost-effective, we want a military that's combat-effective, no matter the cost. But we also have a post office that can mail a letter to the middle of Alaska for less than a dollar.

Your comment about the market working better at "this" (whatever this is, anyway) is equally as lazy.
I look at new quite a bit but that's probably because I typically consume HN via a script which opens a text file containing: front page, ask, new, show. The entries are formatted as:

Entry #. Title
<link to article>
<link to discussion>

So for example for this page it showed up as:

18. Ask HN: How much time do you spend on the New page?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18876390

This makes it easy for me to quickly consume.
Good followup; thank you for the detail. That 60s warp spin-up is definitely a challenge, but I can certainly see The Initiative being able to pull it off if they brought some scouts alongside the freighters to confirm how much activity HK was demonstrating in-hole.

Still, it's a hair-raising 60 seconds. ;)
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The part you removed with ellipses undermines this point:

"These patterns are called "testable implications" because they can be used for testing the model. These are statements like "There is no path connecting D and L," which translates to a statistical statement, "D and L are independent," that is, finding D does not change the likelihood of L."

This says nothing about testing causality, or the direction of causality. If two things are uncorrelated, then there is probably not a causal relationship between them, granted. But this is not a very novel or useful observation.

However if D and L are correlated, the test above says nothing about how to validate whether D caused L, L caused D, both were caused by a third thing (or set of things), or the correlation is just coincidence.

For a book whose entire thesis is "causality is rigorous," I expect a much more rigorous treatment of how to validate causality using more than mere correlation.
Somebody needs to put one of those on a train ferry.
Ask HN: When Is YC19 Summer Deadline?
Does anyone have any info on YC Summer 2019? The website still has the info for Winter 2019 (ongoing right now).

"If you want to apply, please submit your application online by 8 pm PT on October 2."

This is October 2, 2018 right?

https://www.ycombinator.com/apply/
How are you working 2 jobs but cant afford rent...? Even at minimum wage you should easily be able to cover it. Unless your trying to support a whole family on that wage, in which case its a whole different discussion about the irresponsibility of starting a family before being ready.
>Unfortunately, that's pretty common as people get older

Are there other examples of this in Mathematicians? Nash and Godel come to mind, but both of them had non-math-related issues.
Ask HN: A nested Todo list that auto creates event
Is there a nested todo list/project management tool that creates an event in google calendar not as a task, as an event using default settings.
Better a script that creates an event in current day each time a google task is submitted.
Just imagine in a few years there will be thousands of devices using lidar in a city. Will that be enough to knock out endless surveillance cameras?
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> the fluid in the human eye is opaque to 1550nm light

sure, but does this hold true for most land-based animals and birds? How much range does this give us? reflections can shift by half a wavelength - is that still opaque too?

I'm not saying this isn't safe, but suddenly having a tonne of high power laser sources pointing everywhere at all times might actually have some consequences still...
So we have an economy that produces a lot of wealth but if most of it goes to the top it's not really helpful for the rest. In my opinion it's much healthier for an economy if gains are more widely distributed so relative wealth is very important in the long run. Otherwise we are building up a new aristocracy.
/me goes to sandstorm.io, click install, skip past the paid version on to self-host, see it only works on Linux, close tab

^ That is your expected reaction by normal desktop users. I mean literally download an exe and up pops up your feed ready to add your friends, or favorite businesses, news sites, link aggregators, etc given their onion ID (yes, onion ID is annoyingly large, especially v3, but discovery/identity comes later, don't let it hold up the system).

I'm not convinced you need a "home server" in the traditional sense. Just accept what you lose, uptime, if you use your laptop or phone to do the hosting. You can share between them too given a synced private key which is the software's job, not the user's. Still, an ephemeral self-hosted-on-desktop social network can go a long way (and again, people will let the need for uptime drive their always-on desktop decision). This stuff requires such little resources to start, a cheap Raspi w/ a install/reach-from-other-device would work just fine if they don't have a home computer and want one just for this. Large storage can come later.

I do agree the privacy difference is minimal.
Values mean nothing when the behaviour is the same.
Data centers and (paid) cloud vendors don't look at your data and the police can get into your home as easily as your VM.
Also, it probably doesn't sell many comic books.~

It is woo. My translator says it means, "to invite me to do a TED talk, send a DM".
not a book, but a processor array by Chuck Moore:

GA144

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tb0_V7Tc5MU

more here https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=greenarray
Also if you don't want to sail your boat across an ocean you can sail it into a big boat with a load of other boats and just collect it at the other side!

https://www.cnbc.com/id/100758754
I find it very hard to believe any recruiter/interviewer would be turned off that my top 6 repos featured a mix of popular and unpopular, personal and forked repos.

Limiting exposure of my open-source contributions to organizations adds not only another layer of search, but the opportunity for me to get passed up because my contributions to ___ weren’t immediately apparent.
looks like this article answers both questions:

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/d3bnyv/google-dem...

MVNOs can't really provide any protection. Google is "demanding" that their tier-one carriers don't sell their MVNO customers' data, but just by throwing their weight around. i doubt they'll continue after this blows over, and other MVNOs don't have that kind of weight.

which means every single mobile customer in the US has to choose the least shady infrastructure owner -- between ATT, Sprint, TMobile, or Verizon. those are literally the only four options in terms of which company you want to trust with a never-ending stream of your personal location data. and if you use an MVNO, chances are good that _more than one_ of these companies has access to your data.
Well written and easy to read- hugely valuable resource! Can't wait to see more.
I think it should be. It is the people’s body and their choices. I’m surprised these puritanical laws are still on the books. It leads to weird edge cases, like that of filming being legal.
> Turns out, every function in NetHack seems to find a way to call random(), causing the RNG state to drift.

I recently stumbled across the concept of splittable RNGs, which works around this very problem.

Once seeded, you can either "hand in" the generator to get a random number, or you can split it into two (or more) new generators that themselves can be handed in or split.

From a single seed generator, you would split off multiple generators for things like map generation and monster behavior, which then split their generators in turn to generate the level or move monsters.

As a consequence, if you change some monster behavior that uses the RNG, that does not cause the level generation to change, because that was split off earlier and is thus on an independent chain of random numbers.