skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kirtaner, the owner of 420chan, was infamously swatted by g0shawk some years ago. He lives in Canada (and g0shawk is in Australia).
Ask them? Biochemistry. Genetics. Proteinomics. Maybe they can design drugs?

They have the disadvantage that everybody will know they have been staring the solution to their central problem in the face for decades without seeing it. ("What, infection? Too conventional.")
Organ Harvesting from Falun Gong Practitioners in China
Very cool analogy about the beakers and equipment. Something I never considered.
While we learnt from Layer 1, all the setup was in software so we didn't get any hardware.

I think the idea is that we could examine Wireshark frames for the relevant layers.
I really like the Economist. It doesn't cover all of the news but does a good job providing analysis of what they do cover.
What I do on my netbook is use VLC to play Youtube videos since it supports hardware video decoding.
Ask HN: Does Scrum work?
I’ve read the Michael O. Church article and quite a bit of other stuff about how bad Scrum and the like are, and I’m trying to find some counterpoint info. Unfortunately, most of what I find when searchig for information on the other side of the coin is from firms trying to sell scrum certifications and training. Are there any devs out there working in a scurm shop who think their team is actually successful because of scrum? Does this actually work from the Devs/Engineer’s perspective or is it as much of a scam/fad that it seems?
> But I can't fucking stand defending and explaining perfectly normal and reasonable choices to engineers who just don't know and are curious,

Often times when I'm reviewing code, I'm learning as well. If I ask a question because I don't know and am curious, I'd think that's a good opportunity for knowledge transfer. Why can't you fucking stand it?

edit: it occurs to me that this comment is extremely meta, hah.
I don't know, you should have a look yourself. I know that you can intercept requests, and block, provide other payloads etc.

I'm interested in that even tho this is factually correct, it's ignored / downvoted because it goes against the prevailing narrative. Discourse here can be pretty 1 dimensional, it's more like a confirmation bias machine / echo chamber, than a discussion. Just like the rest of the net, no matter how 'smart' the people here are. The same behavior pattern occurs here as everywhere else.

It would be interesting if this can be solved in discussion forums of the future.
Wow some of these are insane. Sounds like quite the ride.
I have 'worked' both a 19 hour day and a 21 hour day on separate occasions. The latter coming shortly after joking about 'that time we worked 19 hours'.

I assume you're suggesting it is impossible to do it regularly, which I'd agree with. The definition of 'work' also broadens profoundly. You will also pay for it by sleeping away more of your free time than you already donated to your work for free.
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It’s a direct evolution from 4004, 8008, 8080, to 8086. There was no compatibility but you can see the inspiration. IIRC 8086 was assembly compatible with 8080 but not binary compatible.

At the time superscalar, register-renaming, vector-capable, and out-of-order were distant dreams and RAM was faster than the CPU. Everyone wrote assembly so the CPU designs accumulated instructions to make life easier on assembly programmers.

8086 was actually a stop-gap. The architecture astronauts at Intel that thought real hard about design were working on the iAPX 482, which was a stack machine that supported garbage collection in hardware(!)
No... It's not like I've seen it only once or never talked about it with other people. It's general common sense or a common belief, even if it turns out to be false.
Yup, perfectly fine experience online here as well. Good thing, too, because if my son's eyeglasses cost more than $35 to replace every time he broke them at school (ball, bike, wall, jerk, etc.) or outgrew the frames, I'd probably have let him go feral by now.
For a lot of people in Silicon Valley, the sacrifice was working one's ass off in school to become a competitive candidate. The BigCo job is the reward.

Or for people in startups, the sacrifice is mediocre cash compensation and long hours, with the reward being a higher-than-usual probability of striking it rich.

Those of us who grow up with an affinity for software development have won the game, so to speak: we don't really have to sacrifice just to make a living.
Most police calls that are not from a victim amount to an anonymous call. They cannot be ignored.

I hate to say, but it's a slippery slope. Right now, you can't distinguish between a legit line and a spoof, or a burner.

But a burner still has a traceable number. Perhaps burners could be placed in a "low trust" zone when dialling emergency services. Such a classification could give 1st responders the caution they need.
Not to mention your users ignoring your site because they don't think FB (or GitHub, or Google, or whoever) need to know about you logging in there. I refuse to use any site that doesn't let me create an account.
If you did really want a second kid, you would have moved. You would have a trivial commute, fuel would be half the cost, and housing would be a tenth the cost.

Clearly, there is something more important to you.
Here's a re-punctuation that fixes the "etail, a cultural treasure" problem, which is arguably worse than the exclamation marks.

> In the arms race for the most UNIQUE, most AUTHENTIC store currently underway — when only-in-person experience is what differentiates retail from e-tail — a cultural treasure surrounded by a puzzle straight out of a Dan Brown novel may be the ultimate accessory.
Since it's a university I'd assume lots of students applied from their home countries and migrated later. That makes the 4x argument pointless
I know. Just pointing out that it's not scientific. People use that to mean it's important, and hence will bring out your best. But the opposite is true scientifically.
Spot on. I believe the crux of the issue lies in the present bias toward officer safety, leading to an almost anything goes situation if the officer claims to have felt endangered. Which is quite ridiculous because the danger is always there. It's just not an acceptable reason to blast away.
There's going to be outliers, and there's also the fact that social media is gamed now.

For any of that commentary that is actually genuine, I'd be curious about the context. Intolerance of intolerance is different than intolerance itself. And aggression in what form?

The "far left" is a distinct minority, and tends to be focused on corruption and inequality, not about killing Christians or how white people are ruining this country (save for the topic of the genocide used to clear the way).

This divisiveness is intentionally cultivated both domestically and abroad -- it's been reported that Russia created opposing protests to encourage direct conflict: https://www.texastribune.org/2017/11/01/russian-facebook-pag...
I feel like occasions where the police react too slowly and hostages get killed would make it into the news.

Instead we have stories about swatting.

Any policy needs to weigh the harm to actual hostages against the harm to victims of swatting and right now it seems like swatting victims are bearing the brunt of police action.

It is just my hunch that Hollywood has made us believe that crazy dangerous hostage situations happen far more often than they actually do and in reality, pranks are much more common.
I see 1) quite a bit, and notice that I'm guilty of it as well. I think it applies copiously to both product and code decisions and I always wonder why that is.

I think it fundamentally boils down to insecurity - only by convincing yourself that your decisions are the correct ones, even if it's given the generous advantage of hindsight, can you be assured that you're as valuable as the people who made the initial ones.
Yup... agreed.

I just wish someone would come up with an associated easy-to-digest guide-for-dummies for a few different real world scenarios.
Let's get this straight....

For DECADES Canada.ca has been promoting the "Food Pyramid scam" which is in part responsible for woefully misleading children and adults into poor health, based on EXACTLY what the opposite of the science told us.

And now we are to believe they "finally got it right?"

BULLSHIT.

Maybe the government should focus on stealing less of our money and invading less countries instead of feeding us food propaganda?

I do not see a written apology on their website for the DECADES of what is effectively nutrition and scientific fraud.

Disgusting and shameful
Deputy Congresswoman suggests curfew for women to protect against violence
Palantir CEO rips Silicon Valley, accuses it of selling out America
Adobe Acquires Allegorithmic
Story time!

A caucasian friend got a ride home by his Chinese friend and dad to visit them.

Once the dad was out of sight, he asked his friend what he was arguing with his dad about.

Chinese friend was confused about the question and didn't understand why he was asking. Then he said: "Oh, we were just talking about how nice the wedding was that we went to".
I guess my point is that when Buzzfeed News publishes "Trump ordered Cohen to lie", a person consuming this article isn't going to be "oh this is Buzzfeed so it's just some joke".

They might expect the reporting to be done in a silly manner (see splinter news), but I don't think that the credibility hit would be more than if it were some other website. The credibility line is basically "newspaper" and "everything else".
>>I'm a little surprised you didn't mention anything about police being held accountable when responding with unreasonable force to anonymous tips.

Who says they aren't? They have rules, procedures etc., but when you tell police that x person killed his wife and is about to kill his two little children bad things are likely to happen.

Plus, both sides can be held accountable at the same time. The person that made the call can be responsible for everything that happens, even for the car accident cops get into while going there. More or less like this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felony_murder_rule
Thanks to cumulative windowing, it does have a dropped packet signal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_Control_Protocol#...
I like to combine The Economist and Jacobin for politics and economics.

Foreign Affairs + Mother Jones is another combination.

Same with The New Yorker + In These Times.
Saussure: The accidental father of structuralism
Filed in the "no shit" category.

The general public is at least 20 years behind in understanding of what the tech does.

And the general public is about 100+ years behind in understanding of physics
I spent a couple hours in the LBJ library/museum last year and Caro is certainly correct - it’s striking to see the boxes stacked for what feels like miles.
I don't work for them, nor do I have a financial interest in them. What I do have is a personal interest in the continued existence of the only journalism outfit that's actually managed to earn a recurring subscription¹ from me due to the quality of their articles.

> I mean just go to their website. Do you seriously call them a proper, trustworthy news source?

What's wrong with https://www.buzzfeednews.com/? It looks perfectly fine to me.

¹Also in their favor is the fact that BuzzFeed News doesn't have any sort of paywall. The only benefit I get from a subscription is knowing that I'm helping to support good journalism.
Just wait. ;-) Low barrier to entry tends to drive down profits until they're just above the opportunity cost of working anywhere else. FAANG salaries are inflated because those companies have monopolies in their industry, so they make massive profits and can push some small portion of that down to employees to ensure they get their pick of applicants. Economically, the returns to small SaaS businesses without barriers to entry should eventually trend toward the median for programmers in general once sufficient time has passed that they no longer hold a monopoly in their industry.
Angr/angr-management: A GUI for angr. Being developed *very* slowly
Retirees have lots of time to vote.
It works fine [1]. But if that was important what does the hardware matter?

Besides that, how does linux work on your macbook?

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/92unvp/my_guide_f...
But hindsight is 20/20. Hardly anyone was expecting Trump to win.
or we can just train our police force not to murder unarmed civilians
A JS engine is a high-risk, high-reward problem for Rust. High-reward because JS engines are, to your point, a major source of vulnerabilities; high-risk because JS-engine theory is rather outside of Rust's wheelhouse.

One class of vulnerabilities in JS engines is use-after-move. A raw pointer is extracted, an allocating function is called (triggering a GC), then the raw pointer is used, pointing into nowhere. It's awkward to express in Rust that a function may modify state inaccessible from its parameters.

A second class of vulnerabilities is type-confusion. A value is resolved to (a pointer to) some concrete type, but some later code mutates the value. Now the concrete type is wrong. Again this possibility is awkward to express in Rust.

The problem is complicated by the NaN-boxing and JIT aspects of JS engines, which interfere with Rust's tree-ownership dreams.

People smarter and way better at Rust than myself are working on it; I'm excited by the prospect of novel solutions that can defeat entire classes of problems.
Ok, thanks, that makes sense as I am a Mac and Linux user myself. I only use Windows as Mac and Linux is virtually non existent in the desktop corporate world in Europe
> the loading process into the tunnels can't be fast

True, but a loading/unloading time of 30-60 seconds only means the tunnels are less feasible for short trips.
Yes, I stand corrected, thanks
Great paper. Some good discussion from the author (and other interesting research links) here:

https://twitter.com/ASBeckKnudsen
I don't think you're taking into account how frequently these things get repeated. Anything so frequently repeated becomes tiresome.
In the old days it made a lot of sense to have the fastest computer available and multiple monitors. It was a huge boon to productivity and short-sighted to ignore.

However, computers these days are fast enough, have SSDs, and enough memory for 95%† of tasks, for at least a decade. For everything else there are beefy servers and the cloud. As the poster says, there are advantages to old hardware. Like useable laptop keyboards with key travel.

A second monitor would probably be a better investment if you don't have one already. I recommend portrait orientation to avoid scrolling.
when I was 18 I worked a 24 hour shift at a 24 hour diner - breakfast shift, lunch shift, dinner shift, and graveyard shift. I waited tables all four shifts. during graveyard I cooked too when the graveyard line cook would take his breaks. it wasn't that hard though obviously I was haggard by the end of it.
> I hate to say, but it's a slippery slope

The underlying problem is that police should not jump to lethal force and have proper training to contain dangerous situation, not kill people who are crawling on the floor under their orders.

The problem is not distinguishing between a legit line and a spoof, it is having a police force that is not trigger happy who cowardly justify every killing with "I was scared for my life".

Police who are so easy to be "scared for life" should not be in the force, in the same way someone with pyrophobia should not be a firefighter.
Oh please !! The conservative media posts and have posted thousands of explicitly racist articles about Obama. Trump was the biggest birther conspiracy theory, the root of which was unbridled racism [1] He even said that he has investigators in Hawaii finding things about his birth certificate. Trump also said Mexican judges are incompetent, white supramacists are same as counter protestors, immigrants are criminal and commit crimes, set-up a hotline for people to complain about crimes committed by immigrants, constantly retweets famous white supramacists, dog whistles on every speech, trashes death of black folks on the hands of police, should I go on ? Pardon me if I don’t feel the same amount of sympathy for teenagers wearing MAGA hats. If you align with explicit racists, be ready if the world thinks of you in that terms.

[1] https://youtu.be/OOA4ziGl5ZQ
Let's start with the fact that there's a fake news story in the upper left corner debunked by Special Counsel Mueller's staff a few days ago. :-)
On the Origin of Certain Quotable 'African Proverbs'
Wow, did this post blow up or what.
Much prefer it in its current form. Way more interesting content across so many subject areas. We still have plenty of interesting stuff for startup fans, too. If anything, it's strange and kind of amazing that it got here starting from a narrowly-focused beginning. I came in too late to see how that transition happened. Would've been interesting to watch.
I wonder why the top players in tennis (Federer, Nadal, Williams) are lasting longer than is traditionally the case?

- Better nutrition and recovery than previous generations?

- Unusually dominant top players, resulting in easier matches and less wear?

- Playing styles that result in less wear and tear?

- Upcoming generation not as good, so not challenging them?
People don’t buy glasses that often. A single pair can last a long time. So even tho gross margins can be rich, the annual volume may not cover the fixed cost of marketing, r&d, etc. and don’t forget the optician isn’t really making money from the checkups, it’s the glasses and contacts.
> Some of these tasks require specialized knowledge of the law and of the court system.

I hardly ever heard about attempts to solve those tasks by changing the "law system". Given that the law system is created entirely by people, one should wonder why we create so many problems to ourselves and then try hard to solve them.
Study: Uber and Lyft Caused U.S. Transit Decline
He was so tough that he dodged the Vietnam war because of bone spurs. He is weak sauce
True, and False.

You're projecting your own experience.

I have a pretty good idea what decent C looks like, as does anyone else who spent 30 years using it.
What are the pros and cons of elective government budget?(voters decide budget)
Aside from the basic federal and state budget, such as costs of running government operations, would it be possible to allow voters to choose where their tax dollars go?

If so, what are the pros and cons compared to the current system in the US?

Concept:
Once the essential government costs are budgeted, the remaining portion will be allocated by voters based on their share of tax contribution.
Why should people use government services without paying tax? If they don't want to pay property tax they can live somewhere with a homestead exemption.
What a relief to know I’m not the only one!
I've confronted these types of people many times in the past. They're usually quite childish. If anything, they probably thought it was humorous. Things like this happen all the time with content creators and it won't stop anytime soon. Many people contact authorities beforehand to whitelist their address but I'm unsure if it's effective.

I've also heard about pets that get murdered for having vicious tendencies in the victims household. How sad...
Meat substitutes are the best for infrequent cooking. Chick’n by Tofurkey for example tastes pretty similar to chicken except it pan fries in minutes and lasts in the fridge for months. I think burgers miss the mark because hamburger buns don’t keep but definitely excited by more innovation.
If they could understand a book on Queuing theory they wouldn’t be working there in the first place.
Talk about a back-handed compliment!

WinForms is the original and best... and I think the only widget kit from it's generation still around and maintained
Last Child in the Woods is also a landmark book on this subject, and highly worth a read
> The phone system needs to be updated to prevent apoofing of numbers. I know it jas its reasons for corporate exchanges and whatnot, but safety outweighs that. A Telco should be able to uniquely identify precisely who made a call.

I would never (unless I have a serious reason to believe this can save a life) report a crime non-anonymously as I neither want to become a suspect (for many kinds of crimes this is possible) nor to be forced to participate in a court or anything like that as a witness.
Think this is comparable to the oil companies being some of the biggest investors in renewable energy. It improves the diversification of their unsustainable business and gives them some Corporate Social Responsibility points as well
Show HN: ColorSpace - Comparing color distance to remove backgrounds
I worked at place where we did stack ranking, but added a formula that basically divided rank by salary. Anyone making more than about 1.2 times the average of their piers had to constantly justify it.
The .js file is not readable, I am interested in seeing the architecture that lead to the solution. It seems that much of the file is model weights.
... yes? We have specific legal terms for death caused by actions where prosecutors don't think they can prove murder, and there's a reason for that
Google GSuite raises prices for the first time in a decade
Again, that's a different issue and separate from calling the Swat teams. The cops are told that murder has happened and a person that had "killed" his family member has zero to lose, so yeah, cops are afraid. The person that sees 20 armed cops or has a grenade thrown through his window will freak out and not act rationally. Recipe for disaster, all because someone made that call.

19 years old going to jail for 20-25 years...
Twitter names @internetlord @defeat @tragic and @spared

Those seem like some pretty high value names. Although internetlord and tragic don't look like what I'd expect a swatter's account to look like. They don't appear very popular or active so saying they're "known by" those names seems a little strange.

Also strange how much more valuable those look compared to the mastermind's twitter names swautistic and goredtutor36 .
Cheap ($10): https://www.amazon.com/GMS-Optical-Comfortable-Silicone-Anti...

Expensive (several $100): This company does a 3D scan of your facial structure, then your local provider designs a frame according to your anatomy and style/material/color preference. The frame design is then custom made, not 3D printed, https://3dna-eyewear.org
A developer in the Bitcoin community got swatted. He wrote up an extremely detailed (and unrealistic IMO) guide on how to avoid it & stay private online as a public figure -

https://medium.com/s/story/a-modest-privacy-protection-propo...
In my experience, when one has an immediate answer to every problem, that is a sign that one does not understand the problem. Every non-trivial story needs some ugly code to account for a pathological edge case that the "just do X" developer isn't thinking about.
I think having a more disperse mix of generations would solve this. Not every family's kids need parents in the backyard, but some retirees could be there. Not necessarily to be actively engaging with the kids, but keeping an eye on them. Just to make sure they are safe.
Type A, Type B, Micro B, and C are all valid: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB#Receptacle_(socket)_identi...
TypeScript breaks referential transparency
Amazon Delivery Robot ‘Scout’ Begins Testing in Snohomish, Washington
Correct me if I am wrong, but the pictures seem to show a plane and not a flying car. Given the wing span, there is no way that would work as a car. So it is a small plane. A specialized plane for autonomous transport of small packages or one or two people. But still not a car!
And lots of women enjoy having a professional career.