skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This topic is a very good example of the risks inherent in trying to do science by consensus. The study [1] this article references had a huge sample size (19,957) and is also probably very replicable. It's also complete trash. The methodology was to call and survey parents of 2-5 year olds asking questions such as on a (1/never to 5/always) 'How would you rate your child's interest and curiosity in learning new things' or 'How would your child's laughing and smiling tendencies'?

They then proceed to massage the data in a bunch of different ways, in no small part because they acknowledge that their variables ended up providing no decent mapping of reliability - in the study's words, "these variables were not combined into a composite well‐being measure because the reliability of these items was relatively low." And after this massaging and subjective "normalizing" they conclude that TV and video games are just awesome for 2-5 year olds.

Ultimately on complex topics that cannot be objectively and meaningfully tested you can generally prove whatever you want to prove. To actually have something vaguely resembling meaning here you'd need to take a random sampling of children and then require that one group provide no access to digitech, another provide 1-2 hours of digitech, and the final group 5+ hours or whatever. Do this for years and then compare the children using objective measurements determined by a blind third party or examination. The random factor there is also required. If you just survey households that chose to allow their children e.g. 0 or 5+ hours of digitech per day, then you're going to get some severe environmental and perhaps genetic confounding variables in your results. In any case no study like this is ever going to happen in modern times.

And granted even that sort of study would have a million possible flaws, but studies such as the one this article are just jokes. And they are very much the rule rather than the exception. We tend to attribute quality to something with a doctorate or two behind it, but publish or perish alongside let's say 'motivated' research is increasingly distorting science.

[1] - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/cdev.13007
Absolutely definitely learn Linux!!1
I'm using Eternal Terminal which also supports scrollback.

https://mistertea.github.io/EternalTerminal/
you could just use greasemonkey or whatever the chrome equivalent is instead
I think this topic is an interesting one and I'd love to read about from someone who could speak authoritatively about industry trends. But trying to do the same by reading Google Trends tea leaves is just awful.
Same. React passed the, "this is obvious and it's clear where it fits into the real world" test for me years ago with class based components.

But these new features aren't passing that test at all. I struggle to grok what hooks do that I was missing before.

It gets me wondering if the React team is in a position to know when React is good enough and needs to be left alone for the most part.

The good news is that I seem to be able to just ignore hooks and remain very productive. I even started ignoring advice on when to use an SFC instead of a class and found myself happier and more productive with better code.
Let's see if this validates. It's a first salvo against the Haidt et al hypothesis
I use an extension called "onetab"[0] that saves (and closes) all my tabs in one click.

[0] https://www.one-tab.com/
Is this site only for Americans?
The lack of housing may in fact be a 'cause'.

Once you have a 'safe space' of stability, you might be able to start to work on those other problems.

'No home' is an impossible place from which to make any progress at all.

There is definitely an issue with 'tragedy of the commons' etc. but there's also no doubt in my mind the 'home first' thing works.

That said - here in Canada, means tested welfare is enough to pay for rent, food - and basically nothing more. But a considerable number of people in my neighbourhood in Montreal chose 'crack + sleeping rough' over 'flat + food'.

Even in the winter. There is 2 feet of snow outside and 1 guy sleeping rough less than 100m from where I write this, outside the clinic. Less than 2 blocks away, there are flats for $450/month $CDN, and they are not bad at all. (It's a very mixed neighbourhood).

I suggest it's a tricky problem and that UBI-ish solutions might not work here, and that it probably needs to be a 'programme' i.e. combined with social workers, monitoring etc..
I like it. Added to playbook.
Fair enough. I'm not aware of any studies on the UX success or failure of uBlock, I just know that it's (at least kind of) popular.
Did I miss something? What is this simple and obvious cause?
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If attacker gets info you are out of office for 2 weeks it most likely also means you are traveling and out of home for 2 weeks. Perfect opportunity for burglary.

This is not a hypothetical scenario, almost every year there is some idiot saying they going for vacation in those mini-interviews in the local newspaper and then they get their house broken into.

However the probability that someone does email you and is a burglar at the same time is extremely small.
I made a contact form that sends the data URL encoded if JS is disabled, or JSON if JS is enabled. If the back end gets url-encoded data, it's spam.

I also use the hidden field trick, but I label it phone number and fill it with zeros. Then I hide it with an external stylesheet. I don't actually want a phone field, its a decoy. If it is changed from zeros, it is spam. Most spam bots don't seem to parse external stylesheets.

I've had zero contact form spam with this method. Mind you it is a very low volume site.

I was just having fun with it, making a php-style contact form backend but using node.js. I read lots of those old blog posts you mention.
I think it’s hard for someone who isn’t homeless to appreciate how important it is to have a home you can rely on. I can’t imagine how much harder it would be to kick an addiction if you have the extra stress of knowing that if you fail to live up to X standard, not only will you have failed to have quit, but you’ll get kicked out to the street as well.

I believe most people want to be contributing members of society. In the short run, maybe some people have no interest, but that gets old fast. And I would much rather that one person who wants to turn their life around is able to, even if it means that 10 people who are content to wallow in addiction live in a clean, safe place where they don’t have to piss on the subway stairs off of my tax dollars.
>This is the reality of knowledge work that none of these conceptualizations address: it’s hard (in very specific ways), some of it we don’t want to do, and the work we don’t want to do piles up and becomes dominant simply because it remains undone.

Let me rephrase this for you. A lot of so-called "knowledge work" is just tedious, mind-numbing bullshit. Not only that, but you have to plow through it while fighting information overflow and your own overly complex tools, while acting completely alone. There are no librarians on the Internet.

No wonder everyone craves distractions.

>In the context of the browser, how do we contextualize pages and interactions inside some abstract task?

This train has sailed off its tracks long time ago.

Browsers aren't real tools. They are designed to make for smooth information consumption so that Google and co can harvest your money and attention as efficiently as possible.

I can list several hundred things a web browser should do if it aims at being "knowledge worker's tool". Let me just give some categories:

1. Features for pausing and restarting work in different mental contexts.
2. Local personalization. Shit like Timelines should be local and user-controller. "This is too complicated, so let's let Facebook/Twitter/Microsoft do it" is a lame excuse.
3. Did you notice that browsers still don't have any good authoring tools? Every websites reinvents their own WYSIWYG. "Developer tools" have everything for debugging, but almost nothing for creations of stuff.
4. User-driven integration between pages. (For example, something as simple as "when I open this page, go to that other page, find all the entries with word X and paste it here".)

Bah, that's enough. I can continue, but I think the point was made, unless the reader doesn't want to see it on purpose.
Filipino here. I blame carriers here for making Facebook free-of-charge. Yes, good thing that Messenger let's us send messages for free. But the thing is, we can't see images nor visit links unless you get a data pack/promo or connect to a Wi-Fi.

Especially news, people can't see thumbnails or click links so they directly jump to wrong assumptions based on what they see and hear from the comments. Some people just lost the time to click articles as time goes by.

I wish they made the plan's cheaper but this is the Philippines where internet sucks and PLDT (PH's largest internet provider) and Smart (PLDT's carrier) are the worst.
Europe has a similar system in place.

https://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=325&intPageId=358...
Sometimes I blame this on Government. They are by far the worst Government in any developed cities. They want more tourist and yet they don't build any more infrastructure. Frustration mounted and some blame are then being pointed to Chinese Tourist.
"Rough sleepers have been almost eradicated in the Midwest"
I found this very difficult to read. The content might have been great but I couldn't stand the style.
My view isn't that the kids these days are asking for more than their fair share. What they want is what their parents had; a wife and family, a home and a decent job. But the hoops they have to jump through to get there are much higher than there were for us in the old generation. So they give up and spend their time on video games and porn. They aren't chasing the billionaires of the world - they are chasing Al Bundy!
I'm an American and clicked on it in hopes I'd figure out what that meant.

In the end, I had to come to the HN comments because I wasn't 100% sure they meant the homeless; since this is the BBC, and I've seen enough British TV, I know the British themselves use the word homeless.

Maybe this is one of those weird misplaced PC-ification of the language things?
If evolution is concerned by culture, which it is, there must be metric of ‘survival of the fittest religion’...

Religion has evolved, and servived, and not necessarily because it is weak. There is plenty room for bias here, and I am not a religious person myself, but I most fear the secular religious who speak like you, like an all-knowing, all-seeing eye.

There is no all-seeing-eye. Dimensipns of time, space, and perspective inherently limit any one person from understanding the ways of our world. It is that gapt that myth and religion fills. By way of evolved cultural formations, religion is an instinct among men. All societies will have a religion, whether they adhere to the traditions or not.
"Ethics dumping" is a weasel word and I sincerely doubt is actually happening to any extent, if at all.

The examples in the article were stopped/got in trouble due to ethics or were not dumps.

But I wish it was common, the millions who die each year due to overly convoluted delays in testing and high prices it creates is a travesty.

People creating fake issues like "Ethics dumping" are the real villains in this world.
I highly doubt if it's only 5%. A mainlander goes to HK, buys Rolex and new iPhone. Wears the Rolex and switches to the new iPhone. Goes back to mainland without declaring anything. How do these numbers end up in official statistics for tourism? Or it could be the other way round: HK resident buys Rolex and iPhone, sells in mainland thus making money.
I appreciate your efforts in providing this content for the backend folks but its better if you add more production ready or deployable code in the lines of vue-cli. When the novice developer gets introduced to the vue-cli after this tutorial, they will be at the same point as before reading this tutorial.
Or sell the wheat to someone else for less than market value because you don’t have to own land, equipment, hire people, learn to grow it, plant the seeds, look after the crop, deal with insects and other issues, manage regulatory requirements, pay property taxes, provide health insurance, carry liability and property insurance, deal with the losses during a bad season or failed experiments, have a financial buffer to deal with market fluctuations...and more.

Yeah, aside from that stealing something from someone who created it takes the same effort as that expended by the rightful owner.
I have no idea how anyone could look at homeless people and think, “what they really need is a bit more suffering to finally get their act together”.

As an actual attempt to convince you of the value of even poor people’s lives, I invite you to consider if homelessness could possibly seen as a disease more than any personal lack of virtue. The view has somewhat changed wrt drug dependency (thanks white people on opioids), and there is ample evidence that schizophrenia is widespread among the homeless.

There have also been some recent studies that a rather large fraction of homeless people had experienced head trauma before becoming homeless. The rate was something like 30% (vs. 3% among the general population).

Finally, the “tough love, minus actual love” approach is obviously the status quo. To insist on a failed strategy just to satisfy some moral standard/sadistic instinct seems indefensible. The worst part is that people are obviously willing to incur far larger costs in the criminal justice system, through crimes themselves, and the inconvenience to actually see these people they thoroughly despise/fear: they are willing to pay extra, as long as they are assured the money does not possibly help anyone.

Consider any other scenario where you’re trying to get people to behave in certain ways: parenting, dog training, employment reviews, etc: if you’re beating the crap out of your child twice weekly for being difficult, would you expect their behavior to improve?
Maybe the reddit popup just pick a ‚standardish‘ browser depending on the OS. I only have Safari on my phone...
Initiative constitutional amendments require a much higher threshold of signatures to get on the ballot.
I doubt that most people are able to lead exceedingly satisfying lives. And I don't know about celebrity but wealth is something that has always been fixated on. Not just today, but since a long long time ago. In fact, I think it's a natural human instinct to gather as much resources as possible.
I think I got the conversation wrong... But it's definitely revealed at some point. My memory has gotten fuzzy! Definitely time to give it another play through.
A prime feature of the developing world is how full of bs a regular day is and how much time one has to waste just doing regular stuff.

Browsing FB would be a godsend.
Ditto, I’m from Longton and it’s the first I’ve heard.
>It's probably full of stuff no advertiser cares about, like your love of old British railway cars

As a railway enthusiast myself, I would say that's actually an opportunity for very effective targeted marketing:

* There are loads of specialized reference and historic books and video on the subject.

* The crossover interest to model railways, a hobby involving many high-margin purchases, is very high.

* Many enthusiasts literally plan their vacations around preservation railways and museums. Everyone from the tourist-railpass sellers to full-fledged package tour operators should be targeting them.

If that interest is not well advertised to, it's either because they're doing a poor job identifying the interest and routing it to advertisers, or they've done a terrible job of fostering ad buyers in those verticals.
This particular woman is in Helsinki.
I understand where you’re coming from. Let me, too, be more clear.

The Senate report is crap. Yes, Reg T and FINRA rules limit the loans B-Ds can provide clients. But leverage, for Reg T’s purposes, is constrained to lending. I can buy a 3x leveraged ETF [1] as a retail trader without violating Reg T. (With options, I could easily increase that leverage without borrowing.) All of this is not only permitted, but common.

Reg T does not exist to protect investors. It exists to keep broker-dealers from going bust from dud margin loans. (And thereby prompting a systemic crisis.)

The leverage RenTech took is in the non-lending and non-systemic (legal) category. The exposure that most closely puts RenTech in the lending bucket is the exposure Deutsche Bank carried on its balance sheet for tax purposes. (This tax avoidance was the core of the scandal.)

Long story short, unless you’re a politician, it doesn’t make sense to talk about RenTech’s illegal leverage. Lots of other market participants, by regular practice, are levered far more.

[1] https://etfdb.com/etf/TQQQ/
and Wikipedia has an article on this VIA "Alternate Instruction Set", too:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternate_Instruction_Set

It's still great hacking and fuzzing to find the privilege escalation instruction.
Yes you can. If people support anti-homeless spikes these people will tolerate cops dealing with the homeless by giving them a free ride to the nearest forest in winter. Out of sight, out of mind.
My issue with hooks is the learning curve for novices. Previously, it was always easy to have answers to "how does this work?" questions.

Now, hooks give a lot of powerful ui l magic which lets programmers be super productive from day one, but we have a need for articles like this to describe things. It is not trivial anymore. A bit like rails-vs-sinatra story. React arrived to the magical stage and we already had ember for that. React was nice because there was no important magic.

Ah… who cares? I still gonna use it. It just means I will have to hire more senior devs instead of juniors.
Only under a bizarre set of assumptions. We could not give them free housing while also not giving them free medical care.

We could also measure cost by "this is what the hospital spent on the homeless" as opposed to "this is what the hospital would have billed had the homeless had any money". Your source doesn't specify how costs were measured.
> Ignoring ethical standards compromises the validity of any evidence and resulting claims...

Unfortunately this logic is flawed. Ethical standards are a moving target not the same as scientific standards (also a moving target). For the validity of research I would be only interested in how far scientific standards are met.

To give a current example: a good chunk of scientists think that science should be open access - an ethical standard. They still have no general doubt in the validity of payed journals.
And apparently a big problem if someone fat fingers your SSN and kills you by accident. Most systems aren’t design to unkill you to correct the mistake.
I see someone found this. kudos op.
The most important takeaway from this is the practice of instruction set walking. The method has wide utility. All digital devices on the mobo can be probed with similar methods, this includes but is not limited to memory controllers bus controllers harddrive controllers, basically any embedded or integrated device. This is all about showing you how to get your foot in the door for a wild ride into low level hardware reversing. my favorite sport.
A brilliant précis that is actually better than the original article (sorry Mr Bicking)
Public Chat Web Application Source Code on GitHub
Imagine how much would have to be missing for you to get into that position. No money, no address, no phone, no bathroom, no place to stay, no regular meals, living outdoors and exposed, carrying everything you own around.

What asylum could possibly give you a chance to rebuild?

And here it turns out that what home-less people need most is a home.
I honestly hope HN would ban this website. With all respect to the writers the content is never on par with the rest of the content published on here.
Mystery Twister C3 – The Crypto Challenge Contest
I've seen the sentiment expressed before and I think it will only get worse in the future. React now is very popular with smaller/medium companies, large enterprises like banks will surely jump to it after some delay. It's usually when the main talent moves off to something more exciting (what happened with rails -> node for example).

Even now it's hard to find someone good at idiomatic React, imagine the same situation when it's perhaps not as popular as it once was and internal projects are mature.

Codebases using declarative style are very hard for majority of programmers to grok in my experience, mostly because it's such a big paradigm shift and requires truly abstract thinking, also not generally something you learn at CS programs. It will either all be a big mess or require some senior high salaried people do the maintenance. That will be a good time to do frontend contracting for the enterprises and it's coming soon.
> The trick WebAuthn/U2F do is equivalent to if somehow, magically, the device could have an effectively infinite number of private keys, not just one, or one per site, but one for every enrollment on a site.

Ledger Nano S (a hw crypto wallet) has a virtually infinite number of public/private key pairs. In fact, all hardware wallets that implement "hierarchical deterministic wallets" have them. All the wallet needs to determine a private key for one of its public keys is the "derivation path" of that pair. Even more interesting, if one site knows one of your public keys, it can't determine the rest of them without knowing your "master public key".
States like Nevada expect access to Great Lakes water.

They're on opposite sides of the Continental divide.
A lot of financial related phishing emails use info gathered from social networks. The attackers use it to see who does what in the company and to come up with a nice email to someone in the finance department.

Sure there is a lot of security theater but I think its important to understand that for attackers its definitely worth to spend a couple of hours on research. A successful email can quickly reach a 5 figures reward.

Source: I work in email security
There is such a thing as a functional heroin addict https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/27/health/functioning-heroin-add...

For the ones that can no longer function, they can't get to or around the suburbs without a car so they become the urban homeless.
I dunno. I think we’re a bit further along than that. Baked bricks at least.
Samcodes said it above. How do transformers build a shared representation of two input sentences with different lengths? If you convolve them with the same filter, you get two different sized convolution outputs - the embedding dimensions don't align.
Brazil Turns to Facial Recognition to Curb Crime During Carnival