skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With all due respect, the "tool" seem like being a couple simple batches and a powershell script.

Suggesting to install chocolatey in order to "install" the above appears to me a little excessive, when the install process amounts roughly to "copy these three little files somewhere on your PC".
The article says February 14th 2019.
Catfishing
If the account is that important to your life, then there are probably other identifying information associated with it, credit card numbers, addresses, etc. Do what you do today when identities are stolen: contact the company, prove you are who you say you are, and the'll let you assign a new key to your profile.

Otherwise, who cares? Gen a new key and get on with life.
Why? It was published yesterday, and mentions previous events having occurred in 2017...
Use a modern engine like Unreal or Unity, watch a few videos and I'm sure you can get something basic running fairly quickly.
The Chinese government sees housing construction as a jobs program for underemployed farmers. As a result, the workers are very unskilled compared to westerners, meaning they have to overbuild a bit more with concrete and rebar to get something that won’t fall over. Walls and floors are really thick compared to western contructions, and therefore deteriorate more quickly even with proper maintenance.

The main thing expensive about housing in China is the land. The labor is cheap (but inefficient), the concrete is cheap (if overused).
pretty fun actually - my best 15945
At least the junk in my mailbox doesn't yank me out of a good programming flow.
'Pokemon Go' Creator Agrees to Tighter Leash on Creatures to End Class Action
I agree with your first point. I wrestled in high school and college. We all got on each others nerves, had cultural clashes, and were on edge due to lack of food.

Once in a while things would come to a head between two people and a punch or five would get thrown but the vast majority of the time one would walk up to the person they were pissed off at and wrestle with them for a round. 2-7 minutes of all out exertion against the person you are upset with will really settling things quickly. We had a lot less infighting on our teams than the other sports I played. I always felt it was because we had a way to get that anger out without hurting each other and without letting it stew for months/years.

Sometimes I wish I could use that method of conflict resolution in the workplace haha
Have my upvote. I did not intend it to be inflammatory, in fact I rewrote it once before posting to make sure it wasn't.

I posted something I was sure most HN-ers could agree on, - but as someone who frequently disagrees with many of you I probably should have known better.
As I said in the other comment, the Aztecs do not figure into this, they were not hunter-gatherers. An Aztec slave empire is obviously not a hunter-gatherer band. Having a slave empire de facto means you're not a hunter gatherer any more.

There are no modern uncontacted hunter-gatherer bands to observe. The Sentinelese have everyone from local fishermen to American Christian fundamentalists invading their island. The bands in the Amazon are being murdered by miners. Modern people attacking and threatening the Sentilenese and getting a hostile response says little - if they were invading other islands, that would be a different story.
I wonder if 8.8.8.8 still has a per-IP rate limit, and what the consequences for people behind a CGNAT would be.

Still 2 years ago that rate limit was pretty easy to hit by accident with a Selenium browser farm accessing through single public IP.
I think I've spotted iOS clearing the clipboard if you task-switch after pasting the contents into a password input field. Which is presumably precisely to defend against this kind of data theft.
This was my experience as well. I had a deep link to AltaVista's "advanced" search page which loaded plenty fast.

Between AV and InfoSeek (which I used the Netscape plugin to get a browser search bar for) I was seeing better results than Google until sometime in the mid-00's.

Sure if you wanted to skim the surface of what was available on a given topic or just wanted the most popular links, Google was fine in the 90's and early 00's; But if you were deep diving or wanted something more obscure you needed other search engines.
LastPass did this wrong, they had a bug in their url parser that let you trick it into selecting the wrong site data to form-fill with.

With the c+p workflow, you can completely cut out any attack vectors (because the website doesn't interact with your password manager in any way).
how a WiFi hacker performs credential theft on your network
It doesn't? Am I confused about something? When I do it I always have to enter the login, then click again and enter the password.
Idea for more occupant centric designs of residential developments
Came here to ask this
It involves syscalls and data copying. How could it not be less efficient?
A strong statement was made. Don't come to New York and expect any tax incentives. I am sure that the message was received in corporate boardrooms all over the world.

Enjoy the deafening silence of no major companies moving to New York
Amazon did it to themselves by turning this HQ2 search into a circus. It's pretty clear that they knew where they wanted to go from the start and tried to use this as leverage to squeeze out as much out of NYC and DC as possible.

It's also obvious that they're using HQ2 to build up political leverage in Seattle.

As a software engineer who lives and grew up in Queens it would have been nice to have amazon in new york but we don't really need them. LIC is growing fast and we'll have no problem getting someone else to come in and take the space that amazon would have occupied.
Notion uses magic links only for their login and it's aggravating. It may be nice for some users, but using my password manager's autofill is much faster than going to my inbox and clicking a link.
Yes it's a problem. My 85 year old grandmother was redirected to a strange website and was prompted for a series of chrome permissions, including to her computer's audio system. Conditioned to accept internet prompts from legitimate companies, she accepted and was then threatened and harassed verbally until in a panicked frenzy she gave the "voice" her banking and other personal information.

Google, Facebook, and many other technology companies, have conditioned users to click 'Yes' and 'Accept All' and 'Share' such that we can no longer use such prompts to block malicious actors from our computer systems.

I do not trust software engineers to make the correct choice between "ooh a cool feature" and the general well being and privacy of their users. There has been too much precedent and incentivization for the former, including massive profit and promotional tracks.
Checking for naughty numbers is completely useless, when the incoming caller ID is spoofed every time.
He could fire off 10 shots because he was ambidextrous. Revolvers are carried with the hammer down on an empty chamber lest they go off accidentally and put a big hole in your leg
Also, people just fundamentally don't think of themselves as web pages. Browserid/persona got it right with an email-esque identifier.
I'm a little late to this, but it's called seasoning (or reseasoning) and you can either try to take it down all the way to bare metal or just work on building up additional layers. Plenty of articles available for either, I'm sure I'm leaving things out. Don't get too distracted by fancy processes, remember this is something people have been doing for hundreds of years.

If you want to go bare-metal and have an oven with a self-cleaning cycle, that's probably the simplest way to go - put the cast iron in there open-side down and run that cycle. I'm not sure just how much smoke this will release, but you might not want to do it on a day when you can't open windows. I've also seen notes that this can sometimes cause warping, so buyer beware.

To build up the seasoning, it's basically going to be multiple repetitions of putting on a thin layer of a high-smoke-point food-safe oil, heating and repeating. Darker color generally just indicates more layers.

In some ways it's almost like you're varnishing the cookware with an oil-based varnish, but without some of the other components of varnish. A lot of guides will recommend flaxseed oil for seasoning, it's also known as linseed oil and used to be pretty common in varnishes and wood finishes. For a contrary (and easier and cheaper) view, see https://www.reddit.com/r/castiron/comments/5owtnm/why_i_dont...

(see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drying_oil about oil-based varnishes)
Indeed. But there's necessarily some judgement in these things, and it's very very hard to judge the 60's concrete blocks as superior to the best works of 1906.
this is good that they are there.
It means that the radioactive material can be sequestered.
It means that the radioactive material can be inventoried, and escapee content determined.
Hey, you might want to consider bert-as-service[0] for deep feature extraction from a BERT model. It will give you a 768 dimensional representation of the description, then you can embed that in the 512-dim latent space? I've been thinking of something similar.

It's not that hard to do it yourself, but it's a really clean package, and it gives you nice CLI flags for most things like pooling strategy, and what layer you want to get the activations from.

[0] https://github.com/hanxiao/bert-as-service
Clicked into to the article because I was curious how the training set was created. Using the acapella version is an amazing idea! Wished the article went more in-depth about this section.
Dropbox does an AJAX request when you enter your username, and it's fast enough that when you get to the password field it's already greyed out if you use SSO.
I think the order of operations here is important. Take, for example, the case of operation == "/" and b == 0. You might find it valuable to log that you're doing a division, before it catches fire due to the divide by zero. Obviously a contrived example, but that was my thinking with the inner function. Either way, pretty straightforward.
> You just receive the email, open it, click the link and then you could be potentially logged in for months

One caveat is that your ios gmail app opens an internal browser, that has distinct cookies from main one. So there needs to be some clever websocket listener on the "main" browser that would receive a signal that a person signed in.

That said, the product I'm building needs users to log in rarely and painlessly, I decided to do:

1. use simple magic code (no magic link, also "please fill your full account info" once logged in, eliminates separate registration)

2. use "sign-in via ..."
Amazon Cancels NYC HQ2
What are you basing this unearned confidence on? We've seen this same pattern repeat thousands of times:

1. This might be a vulnerability in theory but there's no POC
2. Well it's just a POC, no one has actually weaponized this.
3. Sure someone weaponized this but it is very difficult to pull off.
4. Oh the script-kiddie toolkits can build exploits for this automatically. Who could have seen it coming?!?

(Step #2 is probably where the various governmental spying agencies start deploying the exploit in targeted ways)

Perhaps this time things are different but it seems unlikely.
This kind of engine is great as a starting place for programmers, I think, but Unity is probably what you want for the kind of thing you're doing. There's also Godot if you want to stay in Open Source land, but it probably isn't as good and certainly doesn't have the same level of coverage in tutorials and documentation.

Or there's the time-tested path to gamedev: modding existing games.
In the US? Oh man, it's even worse than that. ISPs can probably legally choose to block whatever, including editorially blocking content they find offensive. Your ISP could legally choose to just start blocking port 443 because they want to make sure you're not looking at anything inappropriate. Comcast will straight up mutate HTML content sometimes to insert their own JavaScript: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15890551
OpenAI’s new language system writes great fake news
How long can an apartment/building sit un/under utilized before it's value decreases significantly? Does the future of China's economy depend on the countries ability to help people earn a living that allows them to move into those apartments?
The latest Instagram influencer frontier? Medical promotions
I don't get your arguments about not existing people, matter, and space. I try hard though.
How Widespread Is the Modern Cobol Job Market?
Dropbox manages to provide both fields, but instantly switch the password to be a “sign in with blah blah” when you’ve typed your email and it recognizes it as using a different provider.
I thought basic products like S3 provided cross-region replication, which gives georedundancy?

But anyway why should I have to build it on top of the provider's offering - why wouldn't they provide georedundancy for me? It seems like a truly basic thing to expect for a backup solution?

But I'm not an expert in this area.
Consider instruction cache locality as well. That system will run sequentially running the same code for all entities that need it, and is likely to all stay cached.

Whereas if you tick each entity separately and run all the logic, each new entity tick is following on to so much unique code having run that it is probably starting all over on uncached instruction fetches.
Personally I like consistency. I've actually moved away from GUI apps in general because the terminal is more consistent, so I feel like there's less to learn with each new tool.
1Password has gotten confused a few times for me. (No way I'd ever use Chrome's. Or Apple's, for that matter.) Although now that I think about it, I think not in a while.

Still annoys me - a classic example of offloading the costs of technical decisions on the user, even if those costs are "just" mental energy and a page load. At the very least, if you feel you need to do this, make the login pages very, very lightweight. One I log in to daily has huge background images that are utterly, stupidly useless, wasteful, annoying and for some reason uncacheable.
Are all the rainbow colored pixels in the picture caused by radiation hitting the camera sensor?
Yeah, i'll be posting it to the blog in the next week or so. You can subscribe to the blog to get notified when it gets posted.

Also happy to talk one on one about my experience. My direct email is in my profile.
AI-based visual tech to be applied to CCTV cameras
This may be fair for "free" service like search. It gets way more complicated when the consumer is (a) paying for the device, (b) paying for the content they consume and (c) paying for the bandwidth it uses.

All I have to do now is explain to my mother-in-law that she hasn't paid "enough". I'm sure she'll totally understand.
Question: Currently building earphones with great active-noise-cancellation is a secret kept within few companies.

This means they're expensive($300 headphones from Bose etc).

Do neural network make this simpler ?

And do you think they can be applied cheaply enough,say for $99 headphones ?

I assume this will sell really well, and justify creating a dedicated chip, with time.
Well yea you can get an FPS game made in Unity in about an hour or two. But it won't really tell you much about what is happening in the background.
No doubt. But given the context here of “connoisseur” it’s odd you’d bring up Italian coffee because Starbucks’ Milano Roastery is learning that most Italians aren’t used to and aren’t willing to pay more than a euro or two for coffee which means it’s not the best beans or roast. So very average coffee in fancy cups. As I said, taste is very regional and is subjective. Compare what Russians, Turks or Greeks think good coffee is.
Yes it is. How the hell is it not?

If I give you $27 and you give me $3 back, then yes, technically you've handed me $3. Taking that out of context ignores the end result, which is that I've given you a net $24. You wouldn't be $3 richer if the transaction had never taken place, so acting all indignant that you paid me $3 when you came out way ahead seems pretty disingenuous to me.
Coming from another field, 23 years as a post-doc seems insane to me. Is this common in some fields? I never thought of post-docs as (semi-) permanent positions or something one would spend a major chunk of a career doing. I always thought of it as a transitional position, something people did while they worked on getting their own funding or transition to industry. Am I wrong or are there different standards in different fields, or is this person just an extreme outlier?
AI Whose Performance Increases If They Let It Sleep and Dream
There is a South African bank (absa.co.za) that not only uses the online keyboard thing, but requires you to type in a randomized subset of your password. For example. if your password is "Password" it would display something like 257 and you are need to type "awr" (the 2nd, 5th and 7th letters of the password) to log in.
You're wrong. Magic Wormhole is fine, and so is XSalsa. XChacha is barely even a thing; Bernstein formalized extended-nonce Salsa20, but not Chacha20.
There is literally no good answer on the market yet.
Not a lot of talk about CRISPR-CAS9 here. Though we don't really know enough about what it will entail yet (it's still very new), I think that it's potential power should cause raised eyebrows. Things like bio-terrorism are a 'first pass' at CRISPR's power, but there are much deeper implications. For instance, the concept of 'family' may be threatened with enough gene editing, a concept that goes back about a billion years.
> That's probably because for daily tasks we have much better tooling in Windows

ssh, docker, ansible, kubernetes, grafana, prometheus, etc... All coming from Linux/unix. This statement is clueless. Most of the cloud is not running microsoft, and for a good reason.

To automate, we have python, which has a much better syntax. It's pointless to use powershell.

And it takes a microsoft head, without knowledge of programming language's history to say that powershell's ideas actually come from powershell. Method chaining/fluent interface with a pipe instead of a dot does not look that new.

Also, some attempts have been to implement posh clones on unix. Being redundant with either perl/python or bash/zsh, none succeeded.
AI is reinventing the way we invent
Sounds interesting. Do you have a write up about creating such a setup?
"Watching Big G's actions over the last few years, I've sometimes wondered if it's laying the groundwork to fork the internet."

Wonder no more as that is the end goal.

Nothing less than becoming the new Ma Bell can be considered success.
OS X's mail handles PGP just fine with the GPG Mail plugin from the GPG Suite.
LogDNA Raised $25M and Is Hiring Software Engineers in Mountain View,CA
Show HN: Narwhal – Computational finance platform
Don't forget, nuclear energy is extremely safe and we should build more of it. What happened at Fukushima literally can't happen due to how safe this technology is.
Very, very few people have no capability for violence. Guns are a thing and even people that normally wouldn't be a treat can poke a knife on your kidney from behind.

Why bother using that separation when very few are on the side of no capability?
Depends what you class as people. Is a sentient robot a person? Many philosophers have made the case it could be, and the definition there for person in that field is often not 'human' as much as 'anything with sentience/sapience/whatever'.

So may it'd depend how smart the killer robot is and how capable they are of holding a conversation as well as attacking things.
https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/statement-governor-andrew-m...
Castle Wolfenstein was a noteworthy and revolutionary game in its own right: https://www.filfre.net/2012/04/castle-wolfenstein/
Ask HN: Choosing Between Electron and QT for a Cross Platform Desktop App
Hey, I'm a novice developer gunning to make a cross platform (Windows/Mac) commercial desktop application. I am deliberating on which GUI framework to use, and it seems the only modern frameworks available that could meet the bar for documentation, reliability, and ease of use are:
- Electron
- Qt with C++
- WPF for Windows + Cocoa for Mac :(

My application would be relatively simple: The brunt of the application would involve an offline multi-user password login system, some basic longform writing functionality that includes simple version control and save file obfuscation, as well as the capacity to convert to pdf. An aesthetically pleasing GUI is a priority (I currently have little experience in GUI development). The password system and save file obfuscation do not have to be perfectly secure.

I have read the scorn and criticism directed towards Electron. I'm unconcerned about the RAM characteristics as my app would not be a background application, but I am concerned about the potential battery and speed performance drawbacks. On the plus side, it seems Electron allows for beautiful GUI development, and I might be able to leverage Markdown to simplify development.

On the other hand, many developers who dislike Electron suggest I use Qt, but it seems this has its own set of drawbacks. The commercial cost is prohibitive and the open source LGPL licensing requirements make me nervous. I am struggling to find Qt showcases that don't look kind of ugly. While I would much(!) prefer to learn and develop in C++ then a web stack, from my understanding Qt forces non-idiomatic C++ and would likely be less valuable on a resume in the future.

Hacker News, what do you suggest? I'm reluctantly leaning towards electron, but I would prefer to make a performant app and to use a lower level language that is more aligned with my long term passion of game development.
I don't have an answer for this. However, since they do have effective blur reduction/elimination techniques for visual images, I imagine that with enough resources we are not far from reverb/echo reduction in audio.
I imagine 99% of keyloggers are the 'put this on as many machines as possible and look for worthwhile logins' type, which are well-thwarted by this approach.

Anything more bespoke than that is probably much rarer.
I’ve thrown parties at many public venues, schools, bars, restaurants and want to put up a slide show. Etc. so many use cases.
I'm not sure what your point is here. My point was it was easy in 2008 I'm sure it is as easy or easier now so a first person game isn't that impressive. I have massive respect for the people who do it from scratch. Especially the ones who were pioneers in the 90's and earlier.

Programming a game from scratch, even a simple looking one without the aid or modern APIs is certainly much more difficult. Which is why I was saying this posting is amiss by excluding the fact this Github project uses older techniques from the title.
An AI that writes convincing prose risks mass-producing fake news
What Did the Earth Look Like Millions of Years Ago?
This is extremely annoying. The VPN will switch DNS servers and macOS and Safari work fine, but Chrome will not find internal servers. I assumed it was just a cache, but this makes sense.
This is an artificial dependency. There is no good reason why this device should require a specific nameserver. Here are some reasons I can think of that this would be required:

* Getting device metrics for Google's internal use

* DNS lookups that are only available from querying google directly - in other words, recursion is disabled for some records needed by the device

The first case should be entirely optional, the second case is deliberate subversion of internet standards.
Ah ok, it doesn't mention FireDAC, fair enough. At least you can save data in a database.

Thanks for the correction.
I think it's as simple as - twenty years ago, there was no CSP/CSR, Amex was just a different experience. People's views/frame gets ingrained deeply. Younger people go Chase, in my experience.