skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Verge3D 2.10 is available for download. Now with VR and FPS control modes
Roles in cybersecurity you need to know about
Agreed. You don't really need a testing framework in Python. It's nice, and I use one, but a script with asserts (potentially importing other scripts) goes a long way.
> humans can make acceptable quality inferences from far fewer examples than an A.I.

Perhaps the fact that we think we can do this isn't the greatest strength. While a lot can be said about the flaws of "Thinking Fast and Slow", one of the things that is certain is that many people reach an inference point and stop, but these inferences are often wrong.

The fact that an AI will be able to develop inferences with so much data in so little time is a real strength that we aren't going to be able to match.

I don't think that it's necessarily useful to compare the human brain with computers, because we have to apply distraction filtration to the system that a computer doesn't need to worry about much, and I'll bet that takes up tons of processing. I would argue that any computing system is an extension of your own mind, and with the data that it can compute and display it can be used to improve a broken decision making process.
Ask HN: How do you view Edgar Mitchell's claim of disinformation?
Mitchell claims[1] that there is a "clandestine group", affiliated with government, also quasi-private responsible for controlling information about possible "ET". He says that a craft was recovered and that "weather balloons" at Roswell was simply disinformation, i.e., falsehood deliberately released to confuse and conceal the truth.

How do you view his claims?

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOHv1twCOqQ
Scripting Engines inside Games? You Can Hack Them Too (AngelScript) – Niemand
Where Europe Would Be Hurt Most by a No-Deal Brexit
Me too. My guess is car companies bought or collected a large list of email addresses and distributed the whole list out to every dealership.
The RPi is for nerds, so long as we class engineers, scientists, makers and so on as nerds.

The non-nerdy masses aren’t interested, they’re happily consuming content on iOS or Android, or doing work on Windows/MacOS
There's an interesting sub-category here of works where the story's "future" is already behind the author's present - or even the story's present.

Tomorrow Town is one of the first sort; written in 2000, about a 1970s attempt to envision the world of 2000. (The visionaries, of course, get it utterly wrong.) Pattern Recognition counts too; it got labeled post-modern because it was felt like SF futurism but was set in the very recent past. Alternate-history carried through the present doesn't all count, but something like Fallout is very consciously about 'realizing' a 1950s view of the future.

The Gernsbeck Continuum is the best example I know of the second sort: it's the 1980 we imagined in the 1930s, experienced from the viewpoint of the real 1980. If I stretch the boundaries a bit, Time Out of Joint might count too; a 1950s world, 50s futurism included, recreated by a moon-colonizing future society. This has to be a pretty small list, though, and I'd love more examples.
To me, your example sounds more like a lifestyle choice, my friend.

My advice to the person in question would be to pull your head out of work and sample a little more of that big city while you're paying so much to be there.

There's no reason why every moment of time that isn't paid for by work to be spent on work, outside of that being a choice (given our current example, which sounds like a well-enough-to-do tech worker).

Personally, I couldn't live that way, and I'm probably filling out a few of your checkboxes above. I like the people I work with, but I value [and fear] time too much to give it all into my job—be it tasks, networking, socializing, whatever.

The example you extended sounds more like a problem of agency than one of [a lack of] leisure.
For what it’s worth, if you can optimize away the immutability (copying), I’d much prefer expressing myself this way, rather than using mutability.
> humans can make acceptable quality inferences from far fewer examples than an A.I.

Is this actually true? If I show you a bunch of shapes and ask you to make an inference, you're unavoidably drawing from an entire lifetime of experience.
> The "RPi is for nerds" shtick is specifically what they're probably trying to get rid of with that store.

Companies should be very careful not to alienate their core audience that made them big. In the past, lots of companies in their plans to widen their audiences made this mistake.
I was about to comment exactly the same thing.

The commentary that still resonates with me even now, is 'He can't be happy with that one!' and the crowd 'ooohs' and 'ahhhs'
Yeah, I'd rather not make security research any more taboo and frowned upon than it already is. Regulation should be put towards forcing companies to put bug bounty programs into place and forcing companies to put the necessary money into it, not disincentivizing the absolutely crucial and important work that researchers do. Apple can easily afford it.
Insane. Since the courts seem to agree that "gig" workers are contractors, it seems like we need a new labor movement to secure all the same benefits for contractors that employees get.
Kudos for such an impressive achievement (hrvach is the author of the featured PDP-1 FPGA Implementation.)

A quick question: Were the original PDP-1 manuals enough to implement the system from scratch? Were there details or hidden issues you had to "guess"?
Wells Fargo outage includes debit cards
This is super cool, but I always get nervous about people messing around with lasers. This person seems to be somewhat safety conscious, but I worry they get treated as toys.
The original argument was “The legislation in no way compromises the security of any Australians’ digital communications.”

This is approaching a pi = 3 level falsehood because of the “in no way compromises” clause. There are many schemes that are outright illegal (in my not a lawyer interpretation of this law), and it nakedly makes the other schemes harder with state actors as additional points of failure.
No, it is indeed a Federal court
It's not a demographics problem from the point of view of the workers.
I personally would, but those cars aren't, really.

I've driven highish end German cars at speed, and American muscle at speed, and there's NO question in my mind which is better engineered for that kind of behavior.
Making Games Better for Players with Cognitive Disabilities
> For me personaly the killer fature is: C/C++ to V translator

Yes, I'm super excited about it!
"An improperly handled human defecation resulted in a tomato plant taking root which was also destroyed."
A few on the top of my head:

- Clear best pratices provided with tools. Do you know how to code a react project ? The person next to you has a different answer.

- Reference implementations. We heard about the Flux pattern and the idea of stores for a long time before understanding concretly what it meant. And then pouf, 200 store and routing implementations differing in opinion, and no voice or advice about what to use and how.

- Integrations layers. Everything is a lib gets old really fast. And "look how redux is simple" as well. Assembly is simple but I don't code my website with it.

- Deprecation policies and clear migration path. Webpack was weird, quirky and badly documented. But the worst thing was that once you figured out something that works, a new version broke compat.

- Avoid dependancy creep. When a dependancy has more package metadata than code, there is a problem.

- Don't encourage a cowboy culture. It's great anybody can start coding in JS in an afternoon. It's not great that after a month the same person market his lib like it's the best thing ever and production ready.

- Documentation that makes sense. People explaining a new tool by showing you something webpack based or in in jsfiddle is not doing his job properly.

- Api best practices and design patterns have existed for a long time. Use them. KISS. DRY. Don't break user land. Principle of least surprise.

- Don't rename things that have had conventional names for decades. "Flux is a not MVC" is a lie. It's mono-directional, it encourages single instance immutable model. But it's still MVC. Most people looked for very complicated answer to what is flux because of that. And who name a lifecycle method "componentWillUpdate()" ? "onUpdate()" and "onPostUpdate()" are the legacy jargon. And then "UNSAFE_componentWillUpdate()" ? Really ? Like really ? Never heard of warnings ? Using the JS className instead of the HTML class in JSX is also still amazing me, not in a good way.

- Don't give the same name to 2 different products. Looking at you angular. Also SemVer is not a bad word, I and don't want your weird release name. That double the suff I potentially could google for.

- Conventions are nice. They should not replace configuration, but they complement it very well.

- There is such a thing as a "typical use case" for many tools. You should design for that, and if it's not possible for you, build a layer of top for that. Building facebook is not "a typical use case". Passing data from a children to a parent after a click and a preventDefault is. Why is the later so damn verbose ? Why did have I to google it ?

- Scaling down is as important as scaling up. Make simple things easy and complicated things possible, not the contrary.

- New is not always better, sorry barney stinson. Satisfying users with working software is. If you make or use something new, you should evaluate the cost for you and others before going "oh shiny !".

There are many others, but I don't feel happy writting this, so I'm going to stop.
I attended the DoH talk by Daniel Stenberg at FOSDEM. When talking about alternatives he didn't mention Dan Bernstein's DNScurve ( https://dnscurve.org/ ).

It has low adoption and is not on a standards track (as far as I know) but I think it's the best proposal for DNS privacy and security so far.
The celebgate phishing attacks involved more Google accounts than Apple accounts.

>According to court filings, Collins stole photos, videos and sometimes entire iPhone backups from at least 50 iCloud accounts and 72 Gmail accounts, “mostly belonging to celebrities,” between November 2012 and September 2014, when the photos were posted online.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/03...
But you actually can setup rules to prevent merges unless certain people/groups have approved. It sounds like you and your team are suffering more from bad code review habits than a bad tool. Devs should review what they are publishing to their peers at least once before actually hitting the publish button. It’s a courtesy to them and their time

I personally love the Crux tool and some of its add ons.
> I really wanted the dream of an affordable computer for kids to be a reality but at the end of the day when the $35 just isn't as performant as a budget tablet around the same price then kids are going to just end up with tablets and never have the opportunity to crack the machine open.

For the children that love to tinker, $€35 will probably not be an obstacle. Tablets and RPis appeal to quite different audiences.
Yeah same here! The daily mixes that Spotify makes and groups based on my different listening habits has been pretty great. I get a ton of value out of it.
Best Like a Boss/Amazing People of January 2019 #2
As I recall they all had positronic brains from the beginning, but the factory that created them used programming on paper tape to feed into whatever created the brain pattern. I vaguely remember a plot that was about some school class visiting the factory and a boy managing to fiddle with the paper tape and change the programming.
I assume I'm not the only one who thought of that explorer song from "Moana" when they read the headline.

It's incredible that this happens within the course of a human lifetime. It really puts the sense-of-wonder behind all those Polynesian myths and stories in perspective.
This is an anti-trust case. Google has no monopoly in most of their endeavors, for example there are thousands of email providers and ad networks.

On the other hand, they caught themselfes a fine last year over the inability to "un-Google" Android phones: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/18/technology/google-eu-andr...
> A human can learn to drive a car in 10's of hours, while AI's still require millions of hours of training, and they still end up inferior.

I think it's a bit unrealistic to compare these numbers. A human learning to drive has usually started with 16-18 years of learning how the world works before the 10 hours of transfer learning.
Be courted Amiga developers quite heavily. They would show up at events and declare loudly that the Amiga was a major inspiration and that Be was a modern Amiga in spirit. There was even a slogan floating around, something like "Amiga 1985 - Be 1995”.
Component API Flexibility in React
I also found Volt in that thread and have been reading about V ever since. Thanks for posting!
That’s right, I had forgotten. Interesting that two PkD-based movies (total recall and minority report pointed out in a sibling comment) have self-driving cars. It’s been too long since I’ve read the stories to remember if that was the case in the books or not.
What about the idea that the brain is analog?
No joke, I've been wanting an introductory book on this.
This is a great idea, honestly, for the economy at large. If more people start more companies, we're probably all better off even if they don't all survive.

If an American political party were TRULY pro-business and pro-entrepreneur, they'd get behind policies like this. They'd also support divorcing health care from employment, because holy COW how many folks would start a new venture IF ONLY they could afford private market insurance?
Th3Reverser (Reverse Shell Tool)
Th3Reverser is a reverse shell tool that will make you get reverse shell easier. It works with a module on python called nclib that will basically do the work instead of NetCat.
Payloads that it supports:
Python (Linux)
Perl (Windows/Linux)
Ruby (Windows/Linux)
Bash (Linux)
PowerShell (Windows)
PHP (Windows Server/Linux Server)
Hope you enjoy the tool and don't forget to give me a star on the project and follow me on instagram.
http://github.com/EL-Psyc0p4the/Th3Reverser
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A Structured RFC Process
The prices were very low -- if I remember correctly the zero was £4.50 and the zero W was £5.00. I went in looking for a motor so I didn't catch the price of the Pi B+ etc. Sorry!
“Git Tower” revokes licenses when discussing bugs/feedback on Reddit
The pool of respondents aged 30-39 was 31% and all 30+ was 49%. So 25% of all respondents having 11+ years in IT shouldn't be farfetched. I myself am in my late twenties and I'm not far from 11 years of professional experience.
Armory: External Pentesting Like a Boss
DJB has a long history of producing outstanding software that almost nobody uses because of weird licensing, poor documentation or his prickly personality. He would do really well to get a PR agent or something, because technical excellence is rarely enough to succeed in a market.
Isn't the primary users of RPi essentially nerds though? The average person isn't the type to hack one into a garage door to open via app or rig up a pi-hole to filter their smart TV, that's the domain of the stereotypical hacker nerd. I can see the appeal of widening the net to turn more potential nerds to the dark side, but if you just don't have any interest into this stuff to begin with than a shiny store isn't going to change that.
oh come on. 18000 responses.

This is the js survey results all over again: no. Unless you can statistically prove the results are biased, you don’t get to ignore the results because you dont like them.

Finding data points with no methodology that contract the survey result does not invalidate the survey results.

Thats. not. how statistics work.

A great deal of effort was put into this survey, and the stats you’re looking at are more likely biased than the ones in this survey.

The stats and the methodology here are clearly documented; if you want to argue with them, be specific and provide concrete statistical proof for your assertions.

Specifically, why do the stats you have prove anything, and what confidence do you have that they are representative?
I wanted to ask OP about this part specifically, so I’ll write my questions here.

a) how do you plan to do this?

b) will the optimization still kick in if you name the return value something else than “a”?

c) what if “a” is an argument passed to the function that calls “multiplyBy2”? Then doing an in-place update would modify the value of “a” for some other function that has also been passed “a” as an argument.
> “The decision by the cartel authority, known as the Bundeskartellamt in German, allows Facebook to continue collecting data from its services like WhatsApp and Instagram. But the company will not be permitted to link this information to Facebook user accounts unless a user has explicitly consented.”

Facebook will just get away with a dark pattern of showing some new consent agreement to “improve your user experience” and nag people until they accept out of frustration.

Can’t any regulators just say, “No, you can’t do this under any circumstances. Period.”? Or come up with laws that prohibit these practices, knowing fully well the size and influence of Facebook and its properties (applying it to similar companies/models as well)?
An Agile Guide to Being Less of an Introvert
It sounds like you are talking about NAT mode on virtualbox. In this case you can set up port forwarding in the network settings. Also, you can actually reach the host from the guest. In my case my guest has an IP of 10.0.2.15 by default, and I can reach the host on 10.0.2.2
Related submission from 11 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19011328
300W power consumption, and it still only caught up with Nvidia cards drawing less than 200W on gaming performance
I am not at all an expert in this field, and this kind of topic seems closer to things you've thought about for years.

But, I was under the impression that people who use payday loans and have bank accounts are considered "underbanked," while those who truly have no bank accounts are considered the "unbanked."

Maybe the distinction doesn't matter that much. In truth, I don't know enough to have a strong opinion.
> Redux, made for very large scale applications. Most companies shouldn't use redux at all, just as Dan Abramov said several times that you probably don't need it.

As per my own comments, I agree strongly.

> For unknown reasons most front-end developers don't wanna hear that and love to start with mega complexity and boilerplate where just a simple flux store or a library like 'unstated' would suffice.

Not unknown, no. Because FB promoted Flux like it was something magical and never seen before, talked about store without providing best practices or reference implementations, and so many store implementations came out at the same time. And most tutorials, not knowing exactly what to recommand to provide some state to your tiny app, started all to promote one store or another. So people though it was mandatory.

It's like with react tutorials.

When I teach react, I make sure people start by just dropping a script tag, and use createElement. No JSX. No webpack. Most of the page is even static HTML.

Only once they got the basics covered, I build on that up to abstractions, tooling, best practices, etc.

That's not what you read online. Online, people drop some magic lines and say "see how this todo list example is easy ?", then let you die here.
The fact neither political party is for divorcing healthcare from employment goes to show how corrupted they are by the industry. This is such a slam dunk no brainer for improving not on the health care industry, but the quality of everyone's lives, the only reasonable explanation is corruption.
Bitcoin Price at $3,100 a Key Level to Watch According to Fundstrat Strategist
Do you have any resources to start with Racket? I did it in first year but I haven't really seen (or searched too hard for!) materials that explain how I'd use it in production.
Yes, the stats update is per table. We only updated it for a few tables we really cared about.
I don't understand accusations of whataboutism. They oftentimes seem hypocritical: accusing someone of whataboutism is as relevant (and therefore, by its own logic, as rhetorically valid) as the thing it seeks to criticize.

Why is exposing double standards and hypocrisies via a relevant example not a valid form of argumentation?
This. Lasers do damage. Worse yet, that damage (blind spots) often goes unnoticed for years. Then one day you want to be a pilot, finally get a proper vision field test, and are rejected.
Agreed. Or vue.

All in all, reactive programming is easier, because it doesn't require you to make all the plumping to get running water.
Milton Friedman was also a staunch supporter of social safety nets as well as free markets. Anyone that supports free markets and Friedman’s ideas should try to understand why he supported them together ardently. I consider myself both a supporter of actually free markets along with very generous safety nets for the non-winners of such an aggressive business climate. Otherwise, we quickly approach a literal meat grinder of humans and loss of human potential is unfortunate no matter what the economic system.

https://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/23/business/23scene.html
And having now read the article I see it mentions RealSound, albeit not Mean Streets. The digitized speech was something else when I heard it. Game too, for that matter.
I've always wondered how much of the lack of wage growth can be explained by financial institutions investing in other countries. If the actual growth happens somewhere else, and some of the profits make it back to the US economy, also growing it, overall wages wouldn't really be affected, would they?
How is that creepy? It is normal to use someone's name to address them.
For those who may be unaware, it is possible to use Gmail to set up a "Final E-mail" to someone (or several) people in the event of your death.

This relies on there being no access to your account for a set period of 3, 6, or 9 months. A query e-mail is sent out, and if it is not responded to then your "final" e-mail is released.

I have set up such an e-mail for my wife. Others may want to consider doing the same.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/04/googl...
Understanding China's AI Strategy
I see. And what is the air speed velocity of an unladen African Sooty Tern?
Every time I see that case it irks me that it can't close with dupont cables attached to the GPIO pins, not just the lid, the whole case is useless. Other than that... Love the Pi, love the idea of a store.