skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For online attacks, an attacker can't even try the top 1000 passwords on for an account in any major website in reasonable time without triggering the alarm, as they all(?) have rate limiting (usually in the form of account lockdown after single-digit failed attempts).

This is empirically a practical attack: attackers successfully executed a common password brute force attack against GitHub in late 2013 by using a botnet with 40,000 distinct remote addresses:

https://github.blog/2013-11-20-weak-passwords-brute-forced/
> not really an OS, just a super-fast way of dealing with I/O streams

Saying this without any animosity, but you would probably be interested in reading about the history of operating systems. Desktop OSes are a (very visible) minority, and it's the opposite way in my opinion: a desktop OS is an OS + a large suite of tools + a shell.

It's literally something that operates the system so that every program written doesn't have to handle all the low level IO, that enables task management, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_operating_systems
I think you are really on to something here. It would be amazing to see some of the retro Sega classic arcade games such as Space Harrier and Turbo Out Run in 4K!

Q2VKPT seems like a rich area of research. If the entire pipeline could be automated. Using efficient subdivision surfaces and deep learning to intelligently predict light-transport simulation. Then we would merely have to input the game assets of a classic game title. And the output would look like Bioware's Anthem ;)
Interesting. But it's far from being a well known denomination (layman-wise).
> I was scrolling through the whole article raging for an ethics paragraph, but I guess they handled that pretty well.

What good is an "ethics paragraph" anyway? Isn't it like prefacing an offensive statement with "no offense, but"? It's one thing if you have a disclaimer to protect the user, since the user is making the decision. It's another thing to make a disclaimer that just lectures the user about privacy, but does nothing to protect the doxxed. That just seems like a lame attempt to make the site less liable, like when people post copyright content with the disclaimer "I do not own this."
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LXC container in a vm. https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/docs/+/master/c...
M.U.L.E is actually the first game EA published ( 1983 )
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Most midi controllers support 14 but resolution using msb and lsb transmission - iirc this is part of the general midi specification, not a hack.

I agree that there are plenty of things to improve on the old midi spec, but I think for a lot of people the issues are irrelevant - while physical midi is 31k, most people I encounter now use multiple soft synths in their DAWs, and aren't even aware of the original spec and speed of midi (unlike back in the day with multiple synths chained off a single midi output on an atari ST where it was definitely an issue).

I remember zipi, which promised similar useful changes and came to nothing - I think for the vast majority of people midi doesn't get in the way of their work.

Did mlan also promise similar improvements?
Thanks for the heads up, hadn't heard of that project before. I just took a look into it and well, I guess there's no problem with the name since mine is actually Monocle Reader (Monocle for short) and I've got the monoclereader.com domain. Might consider a rename down the line if this results in any conflict of course.

About your question, what do I offer that other established players don't have? It's a couple of things actually that I believe will make my reader unique:

1) Modern design

2) Simpler use and minimalistic interface

3) Cheaper paid subscriptions

4) Wide feature availability in the free tier

5) Pocket-like browser extensions for saving urls to a Read Later section

6) Aim at the regular internet user so it's really seamless to get up and running (not like aaronpk's Monocle for which you need to setup your own Microsub server and stuff)

7) Highly customizable: shortcuts, colors, layouts and other options

8) Add a tool to make a feed out of any website (like an integrated http://fetchrss.com/)

9) Save articles as PDF for offline reading or sharing

10) Probably offering an in-app reader but I also want to emphasis the importance of reading content on the actual website to show support and 'live the real experience' just how the creator intended to (and not just my parsed content, stealing traffic from his site)

It's possible that maybe Innoreader already has all this features? But still, I could still make a difference on how I present content, the general feeling you get when using the app and so on.

I'm really looking forward to your response since I'm trying to gather feedback and improve my reader as much as possible. Thanks!

PD: It's also my intention to lately approach and market this reader without making too much emphasis on the RSS thing, since people who don't know what that is instantly turn away, and just focus on the productivity and saving time benefits of using a reader like this (independent of how the tool technically gets the information)
>The hacking of artificial intelligence is an emerging security crisis.

They stress that it could happen but that it hasn't really been found to be purvasive in the wild but also call it a "security crisis". Sensationalisation much?
We still can't migrate to the metric system. Let's work on that first!
He’s referencing an old old copypasta.
I did well over 200k last year building, fixing and maintaining WordPress websites

Does this involve making themes? Plugins? Is it only client billing or are you selling anything else like, reselling themes, affiliate etc?

My clients are a mix of agencies

I've heard this mentioned many times. How does one get agencies as clients?
To me it means _nothing_ when the end-class you use is very ambiguous. A classifier should be as specific/differentiated as possible or else, it's useless.
Yeah, I feel genuinely self-conscious when I take my son to the local park. Especially in the moments he is briefly out of sight and there I am just a lone male at a park with a phone in his hand.

The "all men are rapists" sexism is really getting to us too. I don't think I'm the only one.

I've come to the conclusion that life sucks in some way to some degree for everyone, everywhere and this is necessarily the case.

When you bend something into a shape that suits you it is bent out of shape for someone else. She even states it when she says now men are sometimes avoiding being alone with Women because it represents a risk they don't want to take.

It's the hard problem of delineation. We all need to take a little bit of crap in our lives but it's close to impossible to delineate what the parameters for yourself and others are such that everyone is taking the minimum amount of crap possible and the system is also stable.
There are many reasons to be cautious when drawing any conclusions from the three studies you quote.

The first is a neuroimaging study that is rather inconclusive and even poitns out that some cognitive abilities are thought to deteriorate with age, while others are thought to improve. The second is a discussion of various assumptions and results and asserts that the decline of cognitive abilities can be averted by engaging in certain activities. The last concludes that changes in cognitive abilities in the same individual over time do not necessarily reflect the results of aging ("maturation").

In other words, those studies do not support your assertion that "age related congitive decline is a fact". None of the studies discusses "productivity" (or "outlook" as per your earlier comment).
Sorry for the title, I preferred keeping the original one. Mike's blog has quite interesting stuff!

As for your other point, yes, with all the negativity that StackOverflow sometimes exhibits, I really feel that the pressure/urge for users to create a "Minimal, Complete, Verifiable" example [0] is part of the site's appeal, and part of the reason of the high quality of responses you sometimes find there.

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/help/mcve
That's been been there for a while. The only thing they've added is the fixed width column on the right side - which can't be gotten rid of - listing "suggested repos".

Personally, if I was looking for extra stuff, I'd damn well go find it. Taking away screen real estate I actually use, for this crap... not in any way positive (for me). :( :( :(
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The last time period is somewhat misleading, because it is 6 years instead of 10, like the other 3.

Looking at a glance, one could mistakenly assume the ice loss slowed down (as I did initially)
Yes, it's just safer. We do this _all the time_ in the Web PKI.

Remember the "Debian weak keys"? What's weak about those particular keys?

Nothing. Nothing whatsoever. Those keys aren't special in any way. Except, Debian shipped releases that always picked one of these key pairs. So anyone with a mind to can go find the list of private keys that corresponds to these particular public keys and thus we don't let you use those public keys any more.

(You can go try this if you don't believe me, submit a CSR to your preferred public CA asking for a certificate for one of the Debian Weak Keys, it will be rejected and there may or may not be an explanation attached saying your keys are crap and to get new ones)

Whole swathes of keys are blacklisted. ROCA is another example, somebody took one mathematical short-cut too many in their optimised design for RSA key generation, and so the resulting keys all have this very obvious structure that's exploitable (not easily, but enough that a sovereign entity could definitely break them). So we just blacklisted all those keys.

If you pick truly random keys you'll never notice this in a lifetime because of statistics, it's just some code on the issuer's systems that you never need to care about.
None of those devices are being thrown away and many of them will be re-surfaced and cycled as 'classics' within a few years and used in mainstream music again.

You can't say that about our computers or mobile phones, except among the hoarding/collectors scene.
Leap seconds are a lot worse for software development, because Unix time does not include DST adjustments, but does include leap second adjustments. This means that if you use unix time in an application, you can just use a library at the input/output edge and not worry about it, but leap seconds can screw up anywhere that you use a timestamp.
Here's the thread if you are interested:

https://rpgcodex.net/forums/index.php?threads/himeko-sutori-...
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RTOS literally means "OS with real-time capabilities", you can't say in general that an RTOS is not really an OS. QNX is very clearly an OS. Linux with real-time modifications is clearly an OS. And even with really small variants, like ThreadX in this case, they have many markers of an OS: It provides threads, with scheduling, synchronization and memory isolation (if the hardware supports that). It has a networking stack and file system abstractions. What exactly is it missing that makes it clearly "not an OS"?
Ah thanks. I'm terrible at navigating twitter.
Reading other replies to your original post is alternately enlightening and incredibly frustrating. So much armchair crap from people who have clearly never encountered anything outside of established science and so refuse to believe that anything outside of established science can exist! As if established science were somehow virgin birthed into existence, and not built upon centuries of painstaking observation and analysis.

Especially considering your form of CF is atypical, you'd think researchers would be tremendously interested in identifying a possibly conflated disease that presents with the same symptoms.
And the pedestrians and cyclists who dont have to fight drivers downtown, the children not getting asthma all benefit. Do people visit car dominated spaces by choice?
That's the point. Weather patterns are changing, not everything shifting to one specific weather. Not everything is getting hotter. Eg Europe for now is getting warmer, but at least the west and north of Europe can actually expect more cold, rather than more heat, as the gulf stream (bringing hot water north) is slowly getting weaker and will, following current trends, at some point reverse itself. The equatorial areas can in return expect much more heat (and no relief by patterns such as the gulf stream) and will increasingly desertify over the next decades.
Yeah. They seem to have taken the feedback ("Don't do this") from people in the beta (like me), piped it to /dev/null, then rolled it out anyway.

I guess someone had to show something for the time they'd spent on it or something. "What've you been working on for the last month?" -> "Adding an extra column to everyones dashboard, even though it takes up useful screen real estate, and many people don't want it". -> "Yeah, that's obviously a win, roll that out!"

Not impressed.
The strongest effect on confidence should come from the prevalence of hookers in the general population. Indeed, the normalising effect of women sitting alone at bars can be omitted.
There are studies that show that the hard helmets in American football are actually less protective than the old leather helmets. The hard plastic transmits the forces better in a fast impulse, the exact opposite of what you want. They have been designed to prevent a skull getting crushed but that isn’t a problem in football. Bad engineering and bad science perpetuated and now the hard helmet is such a macho symbol of the nfl they will never change it.
DMT is real.
Maybe they are projecting what they now think they really thought?

Unfortunately we’re findung out news organizations yesterday and today are not about disseminating news but about narrative. This article is meta narrative.
In a society where most of the people are barely able to read, an advanced degree isn't worth that much compared to a highly industrialized society.
Can you elaborate on how it kills people??
The Stradivarius' fame is not based on any technical superiority. Like all old things, it starts to be appreciated purely because it's old (and we like to collect old stuff, nothing bad about that itself).
Where I trained, this is why we don’t diagnose someone as hypertensive unless there are three separate elevated blood pressure measurements on three different clinic visits.

We would schedule people for Nurse only BP checks to help establish the pattern.

This statistical anbiguity is why the medical community as a whole is often sceptical of the Direct to consumer DNA testing and SNP analysis. They report data in a convincing way which is statistically misleading and in no way plainly reveals what is within measurement error.
I’ve always wondered why Swift and Kotlin, which are two very similar languages of approximately the same age, have such widely different compiler stability. Kotlin feels quite solid and mature, while Swift sometimes just feels like one big hack. Considering the enormous resources Apple has compared to JetBrains, I find it strange their trajectories have been so very different.
Sorry the first sentence should read:

That's the point. As the earth overall is heating up weather patterns...
What really flummoxes me is how my Yamaha SY99, which is a digital FM synth from 1991 with 512kb of memory and, by modern standards, a tiny, tiny CPU, manages to do things that are really CPU intensive on a normal OS (like large plate reverb, tons of polyphony, on 12 tracks at a time) without ever lagging. The only real limit I've hit on it is loading in proper samples, versus waveforms, though this[1] insane project seems to have hacked memory expansion boards for the old SY/TG random. This is a piece of purely digital equipment that is now 27 years old, and yet my phone doesn't last for more than 2 years without feeling obsolete.

Why is this? I've always wondered if these golden-age hardware FM synths provide any benefits over software (people talk about the super HQ DACs, etc., but I'm not sure if I buy that these components are better than modern commodity equipment?). The thing is, to my ear, the SY99/SY77 etc. do sound a lot better than e.g. Dexed or FM8, but is that just because Yamaha patented a bunch of the FM algos and architectures, and, with a retail price of £3,000 in 1991, they put more care into a complete end product than a VST FM developer realistically would? Or, can really low memory, low CPU, super purpose-built hardware somehow win against a modern OS?

[1] https://www.sector101.co.uk/waveblade.html
I felt immediately sympathetic to this article. The tale of everyday injustice is something that speaks to me, makes me want to change things. However when I see #MeToo, I feel much less sympathetic. Why ? Because it paints a single enemy : men, and as a man who does not feel at all like he behaves in the way often described next to this hashtag, I feel an injustice. The MeToo campaign is creating too camps, and a such it can create entrenched or retaliatory positions like this restaurant owner. A war is not something anyone should want.
Is there any reason for this apart from disliking GPLv3? The open part seems rather slanderous considering that rsync, from what I gather, is also open.
Ask HN: Options for distributed peer-to-peer image datasets?
I want to start an image dataset that has wide uses and can solve some unsolved problems.

Requirements:

#1 I need others to contribute personal photos and videos.

#2 Since the number and file sizes of relevant photos and videos is likely to be quite high, I think an architecture where photos/videos and their annotations are all stored in their own local machines is better than expecting people to upload GBs of data to some central location.

#3 I'd like contributors to always retain access control of their photos and videos - they can revoke subsets of their files from the dataset at any point.

#4 It'll probably also require creating an annotation solution that can distribute annotation tasks to volunteers, but the photos and videos still remain on local machines and only temporary copies with limited access may get uploaded centrally until annotated and then get deleted.

Questions:

Does some software to do all this - or some of it - already exist?
If not, is something like IPFS a good enough storage solution for these requirements? Any other suggestions?

I'm not concerned about issues with distributed learning/compute for now. If the dataset is good enough, eventually some solution will probably emerge.
Ask HN: Reading materials on simulating world/populations for game
My question comes from pure curiosity and I do not intend to make an actual game, so I am not asking for engine suggestions.

I am thinking on how could I do a simple world simulation(like a town/village) where each character would be simulated but it would not be coded with imperative code but maybe something like prolog rules making it simple to add new rules to improve the fidelity.

Any book or similar material is appreciated.
Responsible or sustainable animal agriculture is a pipe dream at this point. With 7+ billion people on a planet facing environmental destruction it’s irresponsible to advocate for the consumption of meat.
We're talking about programmers in their 40's here, not retired drivers with dementia. Please cite the study where these workers are less productive. I'll wait.

You're just taking on faith that these employers are making completely rational judgements that just "accidentally" affect a disadvantaged group. First, that's shockingly naive: what they're really doing is preferentially terminating these people because they are paid more (i.e. punishing them for being part of the system that gave them those raises in the first place).

Second, it's directly refuted by the linked article! IBM didn't accidentally fire a bunch of older workers. They fired a bunch of old workers, knew what they had done, and tried to hide it.
It's worth a wider appreciation of how much GNU tools define the "Linux" experience we seek -- such that we're happier with WSL than with Android.

Taking nothing away from Linux or it's developers, I'm massively grateful to RMS and GNU.
Those microcontroller mini consoles are so cool! Having an in editor sprite animation creator that instantly inlines to js array is nice. Quality tooling even for the more advanced student ;)
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Make it illegal, which the U.S. has done, and prosecute companies which do it.

There is a very long history of exploiting labor in the U.S. This country was built on it (slavery, railroads, etc...). If this behavior is not curtailed, history tells us that it will be exploited more than it is engaged in innocently.
I think it's more unlikely that it would be irregular sleep patterns but you're right, it could've been mentioned.
Came here to blah blah blah but you beat me to it, thanks!

The thing I’d add is to not sell undifferentiated web design but rather find the business problem that web design is one approach to solving (e.g. “Your insurance agency doesn’t get enough leads”) and then sell yourself as the expert on fixing that business problem.
Half of Europe is suffocating under snow right now, are you serious?

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/01/15/thousands-cut-ho...

The alleged disappearance of snow in Europe has been an alarmist claim since at least 20 years ago and the only major change was that every heavy snowfall is now also an effect of global warming, according to alarmists.
https://github.com/hundredrabbits/Orca
https://hundredrabbits.itch.io/orca

https://100r.co/
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Taking on a known extreme risk isn't the same as taking on an unknown risk that exists due to the negligence of others.
Technically any project showcasing a specific technology could be considered advertising though.
I feel that what we describe as "soft skills" and that many people discredit, like being professional, being able to clearly communicate problems, solutions, ideas or being always willing-to learn could be better labelled as "Professional Skills".

While they're not a substitute for technical adequacy, at the end of the day, we have real people as co-workers, clients, bosses, and we provide services to them, and those skills are of utmost importance, and should be part of the interviewing process.

Also, thanks for the resources, I'll be checking them out. ;)
Confusing title. Fossilized life is what Opal is. When you have fossilization processes add different minerals in distinct, microscopically thin layers (because the skin/shell/tissue is thin), the resulting fossil has brilliant colors in the visible light, just like a streak of oil on water or an insect's wing reflects and refracts sunlight. Opal mines are basically underground fossil hunts, and it's no coincidence that the major Opal producing sites are also in paleontological areas.

What seems to have happened here is that an insect got trapped in amber, and then that amber got fossilized, which resulted in much more structure being visible than is normally the case.
Experience is not a biological aspect, it is "knowledge or practical wisdom gained from what one has observed, encountered, or undergone".

More importantly, I am yet to get my hands on any research that shows there is conclusive correlation between age and wisdom or experience. I would be keen to read up some!
Yeah, I think you're describing a very common experience for developers hoping to work with MIDI. "Hey, a standardized format! How hard can it be? Oh . . ."

Even without achieving all the things outlined above, just clearing away ambiguity in the spec would be a huge leap forward.