skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two related books that say much the same:

"The Depression Cure: The 6-Step Program to Beat Depression without Drugs"
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6446928-the-depression-c...
"Most Americans work long hours, eat on the fly, and lead increasingly sedentary, isolated lives. Alongside this lifestyle, depression rates have skyrocketed: approximately 1 in 4 Americans will suffer from major depression at some point in their lives. Where have we gone wrong? Dr. Stephen Ilardi sheds light on our current predicament and reminds us: our bodies were never designed for the sleep-deprived, poorly nourished, frenzied pace of twenty-first century life. In fact, our genes have changed very little since the days of our hunter-gatherer ancestors and are still building, in effect, Stone Age bodies. Herein lies the key to breaking the cycle of depression. Inspired by the extraordinary resilience of aboriginal groups like the Kaluli of Papua New Guinea (who rarely suffer from depression), Dr. Ilardi prescribes an easy-to-follow, clinically proven program that harks back to what our bodies were originally made for-and need. Here you can find the road back to lasting health by integrating the following 6 elements into your life: an omega-3 rich diet; exercise; plenty of natural sunlight; ample sleep; social connections; and participation in meaningful tasks that leave little time for negative thoughts-all things that our ancestors had in abundance.Already, The Depression Cure program has delivered dramatic results, helping even those who have failed to respond to traditional medications. Interweaving the stories of many who have fought-and won-the battle against this debilitating illness, this groundbreaking book can illuminate the path to lifting the fog once and for all for you or a loved one."

"The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest"
https://www.bluezones.com/2016/11/power-9/
"To answer the question [of why some people live longer than others], we teamed up with National Geographic to find the world’s longest-lived people and study them. We knew most of the answers lied within their lifestyle and environment. (The Danish Twin Study established that only about 20% of how long the average person lives is determined by genes.) Then we worked with a team of demographers to find pockets of people around the world with the highest life expectancy, or with the highest proportions of people who reach age 100. ... We then assembled a team of medical researchers, anthropologists, demographers, and epidemiologists to search for evidence-based common denominators among all places. We found nine:

Move Naturally ...
Purpose ...
Down Shift ...
80% Rule ...
Plant Slant ...
Wine @ 5 ...
Belong ...
Loved Ones First ...
Right Tribe ..."
Apparently the SSL cert for this got revoked... I wonder if anyone at nasa knows...
Another statist submission.

Excessive in whose opinion?

If the place wasn't an over-regulated, highly taxed, competition reducing hellhole, goods and services wouldn't be as costly.

We already know what will happen next: other banking services will become more expensive or less profitable services will be cancelled.
It is not illegal to ask about citizenship. It is illegal to discriminate on it where it is not a bona fide qualification, which it is not outside of jobs with legal requirements around it.

It is legally ill-advised to ask about it when it is not legal to discriminate based on it, because you have no lawful use of the information and asking about it is an action from which discrimination can be inferred.

There is a persistent myth that it is unconditionally illegal to ask about things that are usually illegal to discriminate on, but this mistakes both what is illegal and when.
Probably satellite ADS-B receivers like from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aireon
Why don't you replace it system-wide?
You got my point right. Thanks for sharing your experience
The Flashman series by George MacDonald Fraser
Of course, by the time you are senior, your software dev abilities should be a smaller piece of what you do. Making the business succeed is your job now. Sometimes that is coding. Sometimes that is making sure you don't code the wrong thing. Sometimes it is mentoring others, or training the other teams on details of the product. Could be gathering requirements from stakeholders, or interviewing customers. Could be sales support, team leadership, or other organizational needs.

Sure, every senior dev can code. But 'Senior' isn't about being the best coder... it is about being helpful with the bigger picture.
i hope in 2095 we have more targeted ways to do that.
Free tools to help you bootstrap your startup
From the paper:

"All models still underfit WebText and held-out perplexity has as of yet improved given more training time."
Perfect timing. I'm just in the process of building my own shortwave listening station in Lahore, Pakistan — which is definitely a low coverage area on both services. I was using a RTL-SDR + Pi and a homebrew antenna to cover the 2m band, so I guess I could run this in parallel. I was looking at volunteer run air quality monitoring services just this morning!

Just filled their forms. Slightly concerned about running a blackbox on my network so I'll have to do some isolation, but this'll be a fun contribution.
I don't think so. They published a paper describing their methods. I've implemented techniques from papers like these before, it's not that hard. What they're doing doesn't seem especially complicated to me.
My first exposure to Bolaño was the short story “Last evenings on earth”, which is about a father vacationing with his son. This story has a strange sense of urgency that puts you on the edge of your seat, and even if in the end not much happens, somehow it’s not anticlimactic.

I got this same feel in the first half of Savage Detectives and in multiple parts of 2666. It’s been many years, but I remember particularly enjoying the part about the boxing fighter.

I strongly suggest you start with his short stories to get a feel of his work. The book with the same title as the story I mentioned above is great.

Yes, the stories are quite bleak, and probably not for everyone, but for some reason they resonate strongly with me.

Here’s a favorite quote:

Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.

A lot of his writing is very “meta” in the sense that it’s about literature itself. Somehow Bolaño manages to make this interesting even for people like me who would otherwise find such meta discussions incredibly boring :)
Both http/2 and http/3 made TLS mandatory.

The DNS part was already handled by someone else.

As for the MITM https you are at the mercy of the browser, they are depreciating the API they might restrict this as well if it will become the way to do filtering.
Show HN: On the fly color scheme selection for rxvt-unicode
My layman's understanding of the two is that /dev/urandom will happily output more bits than it has been seeded with, and so is unsuitable for use in cryptography, as it can output correlated values. Is my understanding here incorrect?
Working full time in finance but want to create an app. Searching advice
Excuse me for this is my first time posting here.

I’m currently in my mid 20’s and have a few years of experience working on the finance side of real estate. I love the industry and will likely be transitioning into a private equity type role soon, but I have always loved the startup industry. One day I hope I can leverage my knowledge in real estate with prop tech.

But over the last year or so I’ve had this idea burning in the back of my mind that revolves around using social media and apps to get people to reconnect, in person, rather than online. It’s basically an idea that stems from the fact that social media is taking interactions online and reducing the quality of friendships. I want to leverage a technology platform where its easier and less burdensome to meet people face-to-face.

I don’t have a background in UX or CS, but have tried to self teach myself Python and Swift. I realized I will never be an expert soon, so I stopped. However, I’ve begun outlining a business plan for this app idea and begun drawing out sketches of what it may look like. I believe this could become something that’s not only highly profitable but also helps reverse the trend of human-to-human interactions going online, and deteriorating friendships.

I live in LA and I’m looking for advice on how I can take this idea and go running with it. I’m willing to spend a significant chunk of money but want to make sure I do it right. This is also considering I work 50-60 hours a week with my day job.

I would like to have a technical co founder or hire someone like a student local to LA who believes in the premise of the app as well. I’ve heard nightmare stories of people who go off and hire software engineers from Asia/East Europe that turn out to be utterly worthless. I’d rather take my time with this and have someone that I can work/hire directly with to develop.

Any suggestions or insight would be amazing. Thank you
I once used LD_PRELOAD to utilize an OpenGL "shim" driver (for an automated test suite). The driver itself was generated automatically from the gl.h header file.
I don't think they are far up their ass. They don't give two shits on a popsicle what tech users think. They have an absolute monopoly on almost everything on the internet. Apps, ads, search, phones, browser. Where we gonna go if they kick us out?
Sort of, but the amount of correlation attached to a shit load of metrics attached to "staying healthy" (white blood cell count, eating fruifs/vegetables, waistline circumference, survey results) is pretty impreessive, especially after they project "spending time" to a single "worthwhile" metric.
But this claim is simply wrong in a large percentage of cases (at least among the “web application” projects I have seen firsthand).
Last time I looked closely it was similar in North America and Europe. Asia, Africa, and over the oceans had some pretty big gaps.

There's also no delay on the data, although I think Flightradar and Flightaware dropped the 5 minute delay they used to have. Flightradar censors a lot of corporate jets and military/law enforcement aircraft but I don't think Opensky does. In fact one of either Opensky or adsbexchange even has a special flag in their REST API for "interesting" aircraft
Open a Fidelity Cash Management account - they do exactly that, deny the charge with absolutely no fee. I accidentally chose to pay with my bank account instead of my credit card on PayPal, the charge was denied with no fees. On top of that the account has no account fees, no minimum balance, free checks, and ATM reimbursements.
(edit: I see my parent post is being downvoted. How can this be? The commenter is just asking a question...)

It is incorrect. Both /dev/urandom and /dev/random are connected to a CSPRNG. Once a CSPRNG is initialized by SUFFICIENT unpredictable inputs, it's forever unpredictable for (practically) unlimited output (something 2^128). If the CSPRNG algorithm is cryptographically-secure, and the implementation doesn't leak its internal state, it would be safe to use it for almost all cryptographic purposes.

However, the original design in the Linux kernel was paranoid enough, it blocks /dev/random (even if a CSPRNG can output unlimited random bytes) if the kernel thinks the the output has exceeded the estimated uncertainty from all the random events. Most cryptographers believe if a broken CSPRNG is something you need to protect yourself from, you already have a bigger trouble, and it's unnecessary from a cryptographic point-of-view to be paranoid about a properly-initialized CSPRNG. /dev/random found on other BSDs is (almost) equivalent to Linux's /dev/urandom.

However, /dev/urandom has its own issues on Linux. Unlike BSD's implementation, it doesn't block even if the CSPRNG is NOT initialized during early boot. If you automatically generate a key for, e.g. SSH, at this point, you'll have serious troubles - predictable keys, so reading from /dev/random still has a point, although not for 90% of the programs. I think it's a prefect example of being overly-paranoid about unlikely dangers, while overlooking straightforward problems that are likely to occur.

The current recommended practice is to call getrandom() system call (and arc4random()* on BSDs) when it's available, instead of reading from raw /dev/random or /dev/urandom. It blocks, until the CSPRNG is initialized, otherwise it always outputs something.

*and no, it's not RC4-based, but ChaCha20-based on new systems.
Some banks in the US have this, some charge a fee to use it. It's a niche product though.
Another thing to remember is how this is a fact detached from reality.
It seems to imply that if you manage to train hard enough, you will have lower chances of dying.

But in reality if you are in the "high chances of heart attack" group, the training might be the thing that kills you, which is why being able to do the push-ups is a good indicator of having low chances of heart attack...

This type of studies is just useless
I am curious. How do you know if this is secure or not? Is there any publication or article available for this slightly time-saving but potentially dangerous choice?
Features I'd like to build into it:
Bubble like app from spreadsheets.
Hosted and oss version.
Extra types: json, md, xml, etc.
Time tracker.
It seems like none of the AIS providers store historic ship positions, you probably have to do it yourself if you want that information
A lot of progress was slowed by 50 years of mind-warfare.
The amount of money and eyeballs testing out an http stack far exceed that of a proprietary protocol.

The real question is why don't more rpc style protocols just use http?
Overall I loved this article, in particular the anecdote about construction materials. One sentence jumped out for me.

> These facts should prompt some reflection about the exercise of power in a technological society: Amid concerns about the excesses of market power and government regulation, nobody seems to worry much about the private groups of experts who created 80 percent of the laptop’s standards.

While I think this is overlooked, sure, I don't think this holds very true. I and other engineers I know do worry about which private companies and interests are controlling standards, and what perverse incentives are associated with them.

Recently, there was a big scandal and worry around the NSA creating subvertible weaknesses in technologies deployed worldwide by working on standards committees (a reason academics and the open source community has worked hard to produce alternatives).

Another example that comes to mind are the stardards around Javascript/ECMAScript. During the first few "rounds", there was an anticompetitive effort being waged against browser giants like Microsoft, who were thought to have been pursuing standards choices that favored their market positions.

I'd say there's lower public visibility into these processes, but it isn't like these conversations aren't happening.
Networks of major Australian political parties affected by cyber attack
This is elegantly implemented by [1]. I love this concept and use it in all my projects.

[1] https://intercoolerjs.org/
Here you go - https://www.xkcd.com/927/
The problem is that at some point you'll become the bottleneck and projects will be delayed as a result. Or you'll get sick, a loved on gets sick, etc, etc. Either way productivity will suffer and things generally start to spiral downwards then (people get bored, leave the company, putting more work on you, etc.).

In many places there is always something urgent and there will never be a good time to slow down. Then you end up in my first point eventually. So part of your job is to create that breathing room, push back on projects, get people trained, etc. Think long term and not just moment to moment.

edit: And if you think training people now is painful, doing so when you're actually past the breaking point will be be a lot harder and cause a lot more disruption.
Make 2007 an Internet Explorer FREE Year
I live in a rural part of Thailand and there are lots of snakes. I see them a couple times a month. There are both venomous and non-venomous. Around my home I most often see pythons, golden tree snakes, and rat snakes. There is also the ocaissonal monocled cobra, krait and there was a green pit viper once. They are all beautiful. I usually capture and release them far away from any homes.

I like seeing them, but the presence of venomous snakes are a cause for concern for pets and kids. So when we walk in the garden we try to be noisy and alert.
Yes and no. Much of cryptography is based on psuedorandom number generators, which output more bits than they are seeded with. If these PRNGs are not secure, then almost any piece of cryptography you actually use would be insecure independent of your choice to use random or urandom.

Unless all of your cryptography is information-theoretically secure, there is no problem using a PRNG.

If you happen to be using a an information-theoretically secure algorithm than you are theoretically weaker using a limited entropy PRNG; but there is no practical implications of this.
I followed a youtube to take out an lcd panel from a laptop to replace. The panel is cracked in the corner and the whole picture if fuzzy. It was easy enough and that then gave me the confidence to order a new one, which is in the mail as I speak. Cost is circa 15% of the new laptop price.
CSS Still Life – Water and Lemons
Liberties must be taken in order for the series to not be subject to censorship.
You have a point. Our local council requests that fridges left for collection have their doors taken off.
I'm sure the happiness of people decreased over the last 10 years, but I believe that it's because of the bigger division between rich and poor people.

Personally I'm not a fan of Facebook, as I saw my home city (Budapest) becoming from a nice livable city to a tourist destination / loud party / get drunk fast city between 2008 and 2010 (and it hasn't gone back), and I believe Facebook took part in that (of course later AirBnB helped, but AirBnB was much smaller in that point).

As for other effects, like making people less connected in real life, and more through computers, it has good and bad side effects, I'm torn whether things got better or worse. (Also I don't post too often to Facebook, so I'm not a good person to judge it).
I am not a lawyer. Lawyers tell me that I cannot ask this. Citizenship is not a requirement for the job, having export license is. Obtaining it is correlated with being a national of certain countries and not being a national of other countries. Having a US citizenship, however, is a very high probability of success.
We don't cook, clean, grow our food, educate our children or walk our fat butts to the store either.

Our whole life is optimized for maximum working. Everything else is flensed away.
Uh. I have an old iPad1 that can’t run iOS10 but runs Netflix fine. Have you tried updating the app?
"statistical modelling:" <- 1 discipline "Two cultures" Maybe re-read it? Or read Geoff Hinton, or Wasserman, or Judea Pearl or Hastie & Tibrishani or Murphy on the subject..?

AI in a pitch is exactly as much BS as interstellar travel. Definitely go ahead and study all the failed attempts. Norvig wrote the most popular text nearly a quarter of a century ago. It didn't exist then either. There is no going to alpha centuri there is no Hal9000. There is no intelligence that is artificial.

Machine Learning exists and is real and is statistical inference done by computer. There is no point where you can look at it and say "Here is the boundary between statistics and ML." Try it. Glorified curve fitting has some fantastic applications and killer demos. Along comes the hype train exactly as you'd expect. Put it on the blockchain or has the hype for that died now?

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612437/what-is-machine-le...

Shallow BS detection, worth doing if only for one's own sanity.
Yes, it looks like it does just estimate the great circle route. The lines are all dashed for the planes over the ocean, starting a few hundred miles offshore.

This may change soon -- at least for the North Atlantic -- now that Aireon is using satellites to pick up ADS-B data. It's just a question of whether or not this info gets included in the FAA's ASDI feed.
Thanks for the text.

My rough eyeballing of this seems to hint more of an extension to dcma: but instead of a takedown, the owner/author can do a money grab instead?
Isn't this already the mess that YouTube has, with copyright claims taking a good chunk of a video's revenue?
urxvt is my favorite terminal emulator, but one thing I've always missed is the lack of some profile/theme selector functionality, so I created this Perl extension that implements this using dynamic colors and good old X resources :)
From Wikipedia's description of muscle memory:

> When a movement is repeated over time, a long-term muscle memory is created for that task, eventually allowing it to be performed without conscious effort.

But this article is about enhanced muscle recovery and volume, not about motor learning. I wonder if that's an abuse of the term "muscle memory" or just a different sense. I'm not finding that sense used in a quick search. But the term is also used in the review paper that this article is about, so apparently it has a specialized sense in that discipline.

According to Wikipedia muscle memory as retained skills isn't about muscle fibers, but neurons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_memory
just like RSS. text feeds weren't the problem - advertisers declaring it "stealing content" and trying to force advertisements everywhere are the problem.

usenet was also great until spam went nuts.
But ... it's not novel.

I work in this field, and yes, this is very novel (at least in terms of the quality).

It's the biggest improvement in quality I've ever seen. The long term coherence is so much better than anything else that has ever been built.
In addition to the comments about mens rea being an intention to do an act, not knowledge of the law, sometimes your knowledge (or lack thereof) is part of assessing your conduct. For instance, the Englad and Wales Theft Act:

> A person’s appropriation of property belonging to another is not to be regarded as dishonest if he appropriates the property in the belief that he has in law the right to deprive the other of it

An honest mistake as to the law would not be considered theft.
> "It drives me crazy to think that some exec came up with SPA-ing everything as a sales pitch to clients"
In other companies, I wonder if this is just as often due to: (a) developers getting tired of what works reasonably well and wanting to move to a different technology and/or (b) the voices in the tech evangelist community whose own jobs seems to hinge on pitching new and shiny, latest and greatest library/framework/whatever, instilling FOMO and insecurity in the developers who listen to them about not getting on board with the latest and greatest?
You can equally do the thing named statistics without rigour. In fact that describes most of it. Sadly. See replication crisis, p-hacking, garden of forking data etc. etc. etc. I'd say the overwhelming majority of university stats courses have no rigour at all and that may not be a bad thing in and of itself?
keybase.io is a really solid approach for trusting that a given key is owned by a certain person. Basically, it's a centralized registry to list your keys, and you can publish proof of key-ownership on any website/social media that you own. So anyone can look up my public key from my twitter or github, and know that they're both me.

Some people object to it because it lets you store your keys with them (encrypted with a passphrase), but that's always been optional.