skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One example from my line of work that could conceivably translate to web-land would be parsing numbers. I wrote a version of double.Parse() with less features for an order of magnitude speedup. The program was doing data analysis on a bunch of CSV files, and just parsing the files was way slower than EBS I/O.
Similarly, I was guessing "QW4HD DQCRG"

I've seen the above but for some reason mine was more prevalent in my region. Common enough that even my friends could recite it.
Pollution problem is being solved at incredible pace. Probably in 5 more years the environment will be better than US. Consider for example, how much new trees being planted across the country and in big cities.
I see this same explanation on the Twitter thread, which is great.

However, I am concerned at how the OP got the string in the first place, that he compared to HaveIBeenPwned? Is he storing his user's passwords in plain text in his back end database, and decided to run them all against the service?? That in and of itself is a security red flag.
One of the great stories of using "Non-Linear Junction" devices occurred circa 1985, during the Cold War between the US and the Soviet Union.

The US was building a new embassy in Moscow. Naively, they allowed the Soviets to do most of the work. The result was a building impossible to secure. Eventually the top 4 stories needed to be completely replaced.[1]

The relevant part to this discussion is that the Soviets mixed thousands of discrete diodes[2] into the precast concrete. What is a diode? A nonlinear junction. What does it cost? A few pennies. What does it do? It creates false positives, so it keeps you from using a device such as the one discussed in this article to detect actual bugs.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embassy_of_the_United_States,_...
[2]https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1990/06/18/u...
Pragmatism vs. Kubernetes
It'd be interesting to include things like how expensive it is to open a factory consuming a couple megawatts, rather than whether power lines are visible or not.
If the BFR/Starship works as well as Musk envisions, it will be near 3 orders of magnitude better than current launch system.

For example, it will carry substantially larger payloads than the SLS, at less than 100th the cost per launch ($15M vs $3B), and launch almost daily, vs twice a year. The Shuttle flew every couple months, at a payload cost of over $30,000/lb, vs under $100/lb for the BFR.

Now I don’t think the first versions of the BFR will achieve those goals, but the crazy part is they are achievable. Reusability drives costs rapidly down towards to the cost of fuel, which is under $1M per launch.

The problem Elon faces is refurbishment costs. It seems premature to think that the BFR and Starship can fly ten flights with only minor refurbishment, and fly one hundred times before replacement. But the benefits of reuse are so huge that even if they fly only ten times each launch costs can be less than a Falcon 9.
Thanks. I always see SPARK the Ada dialect and tooling all caps, and Spark the JVM distributed computing framework with just the first letter capitalized, and I figure there are probably a lot of readers interested in one and not the other.
Violence still happens but the magnitude would be reduced.

It's a lot harder to kill people with things that aren't guns. If it was as easy then soldiers would primarily equipped with "knife, or acid, or poison, or fists". The army chooses guns as the primary weapon are they are clearly much more effective at killing.
As usual, highly inefficient governments trying to expand into every wallet in their sight, in order to keep funding their inefficiency with no accountability.

We need market de-regulation. End of government-sponsored monopolies. Accountability on budget spending. Enablement of profit-oriented policies that generate surpluses. Enabling equal opportunities to people of all social classes, and performance reviews to keep everybody accountable.

Then, and only then, equal and fair taxation that promotes social wellness and stability.
I believe he means that he switched to GTK because Qt is moving away from traditional desktop widgets (in favour of QML / QtQuick) and he didn’t want to go that way.
Vehicles should be banned in cities because they are a huge health and safety risk when used as intended. They have an endless list of downsides.
Isn't that kind of irrelevant? How many people have died from mass shootings vs other violent crime? Yes, it's a problem that we should address, but it's also not a significant contributor to death, so the average person isn't really at a significant risk of being involved in a mass shooting, much less being killed by one. The media and politicians just like to make a big deal about it because it draws eyeballs.

Instead of focusing on mass shootings, we should be looking at violent crime in general and the causes for it. This would lead us toward more general solutions (e.g. improve schooling for inner city students instead of just taking away their guns), which would solve a far bigger problem than some media headlines, and those solutions would be far easier to implement than attacking one of the core parts of American culture.
Amazing when you consider the confidence espoused in the tone of the original post and the dismissiveness of a major safety matter. And it's still the top comment here two days later. This is on HN, what hope do the commons have?
> Money the government is taking out of the corporation is money that could potentially be added to your paycheck if the corporation prospers and you play your role.

And ultimately be taxed _anyway_, as the country needs a certain revenue. Taking a percentage out of profits that _might_ be passed down to employees, rather than from people where it definitely has, seems to make sense (especially if those profits are moving out of country so aren't providing any local benefit anyway).
What do you think about the fact that the person who coined the Blub Paradox was an advocate and creator of dynamic languages?
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It’s always a circle of competency issue. Someone whose entire job is looking for good investments is going to find far more than someone running a business full time.
The book is so good it deserves to be listed twice. :)
What do mean by giving up entropy? Password reuse? You can use a password manager to generate a secure pass for every site, there's no excuse for weak passwords.

Here's a few I made with `pwgen`, get it while it's hot:

aiPh9toh_ti{XeS(a=a9ohCheeV`o8pu8woh3Epu
ahth6AiT6xahaiw:ie1li`xeeF0ohf!ikeih4Joh
zah6cusohNei6feithain4aeH5uul5coh/nap0ea
uet7ed"ohhooquoosh3ooh8ZeeY+iepeg0eewena
UuNg'aes:i!Quohp0eiGh1ibieghe&o9eiSh7ac9
aexu0Vio3eitheiV=aiweo$ng@u3Seidoo-phoV1
I preferred the rm233 2prqq ... one myself :)
> Does Indian have such a corrupt, unhelpful government?

Yes.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ronakdesai/2018/03/07/india-con...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desire_path
Same reaction but different type of project and language. Immutable data with persistent data structures was a game changer for me. There is place for OO but it does feel like the last 20 years our profession has been suffering from collective insanity.
The middle class is shrinking and in Chicago it’s almost gone
Which package manager do you feel gets it right?
What would you say is an example of a country that -- more or less -- follows these principles?
Very little electricity comes from burning oil. Most oil is used for transportation.
"Operations" like the ones listed here [1] were one of the reasons thousands of illegal guns flooded Mexico while the cartels were at their worst. It was as if destabilization was a goal, just as George Bush Junior insistently called Mexico a failed state, while pressuring our government to buy American weapons or be outgunned. Everyone knows the huge mess that did, I'm surprised we didn't end with guerrillas like Colombia, but it was likely because the next president wasn't Republican.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATF_gunwalking_scandal
Anyone know why chrome does not have an option to turn off the Referer header globally?
Perl was my first love. If you take the time to really grok it Perl is a beautifully designed language.
I don't know Qt, but I have a cursory understanding of the DOM, to the point that I can make fully featured "SPA" applications from scratch. Most of my background has been in systems programming. Would learning QT enable me to make applications faster? I have only been exposed to UI programming and through React via Clojurescript and ReasonML and Angular 6/AngularJS
At the time, Nokia had even ported Qt to Symbian, which is a much more limited platform than iOs or Android. I don’t think there is any real impediment to using QtWidgets on mobile platforms.

Edit: to clarify, I mean the original Qt C++ toolkit, not the Python bindings (pyqt/pyside); the bindings only ever worked on Maemo, if i remember correctly.
are they used in non academic contexts ?
I'm assuming there is no source for this?
Not in the latest Chrome (Windows). Right-click, open in new window:

> Your source is news.ycombinator.com

Though it is noted in the usage:

> When a visitor come from https web-site to http, a request doesn’t have a referer.
You're talking about the difference between the percentages of applicants of each sex that were admitted. I tabulate:

Men Women % Difference
Department Applied Admitted Applied Admitted Men Women
A [825] 62% 108 [82%] +20%
B [560] 63% 25 [68%] +5%
C 325 [37%] [593] 34% +3%
D [417] 33% 375 [35%] +2%
E 191 [28%] [393] 24% +4%
F [373] 6% 341 [7%] +1%

So, there's a 20% difference for one department that is a clear outlier and then everything is within a couple of percentiles of difference. In fact, the average difference is higher for men (3.5) than for women (2.666) ignoring the outlier, since it's an outlier.

However, I'm really not sure that taking the difference between proportions of different wholes is meaningful. The numbers don't add up to 100, so what does the difference mean, exactly?

I don't know what "a stats 95 confidence style" is, or how it is related to a margin of error, so please do that calculation and post your results.
The Right and Wrong Way to Do ‘CEO Activism’
The dishonesty of virtue signaling is less about lying through one's teeth, and more about empathetic sensitivity being a social facade by default.

Empathy is almost universally a lie crafted to the comfort and benefit of a brittle externality.

If you find the concept tedious, encourage other people to be less sensitive.

When we tap dance on egg shells, to benefit a prude's ears, the whiniest assholes win.
One worker HAS already died from radiation exposure: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-45423575 , and many more face increased cancer risk. And that's not to mention the cost of disaster response and cleanup in terms of money, manpower and opportunity costs. The cleanup cost will be more than US$187bn by an official estimate a few years back.

Furthermore, with Fukushima we got lucky! Had it not been for the rapid response nuclear pollution could have affected one of the biggest metropolitan areas and economic engines in the world, and vital fish stocks. The tail risk was real, and the consequences would have been earth-shattering for Japan. In any calculation like this, it's not only the odds of an event occurring that needs to be taken into account, it's the impact of that low-odds event too
No, the US is vastly better on this sort of issue.
What is the meaning of OTP in this context? One time pad crypto?
Closing the gender gap in the tech industry
I enjoyed reading it and agree on many points. One thing that does not seem right is the claim that introduction of formal specification will increase the number of programmers. Yes, it takes a special kind of a person to be interested in fiddling with the code, but I believe the threshold for enjoying creation of formal specifications is even higher.
The ISS Calls Nasa: Houston, We Have a Dragon
From what I've read, that's what the Mongols did. It's also what happened for many indigenous groups in eastern North America. Except that the males were escaped African-American slaves. I'm guessing that it was standard procedure for thousands of years.
Even if you've provided information which narrows your password down to ~5,000 possible values, you've effectively handed out your password to one of 5,000 internet strangers whom you will never meet in real life.

Then consider that this is Hacker News, and how many of those 5,000 have both the skills and motivation to exploit the information you've provided.

Never give out "hints" about your password. Not its contents, not its exact length, the physical location in which you store a copy, nothing.
The next President of the US should be dedicated to open source
Hand guns are not banned in Canada. One cannot carry, but there are plenty of legal handguns at homes. Owner can take hand gun to range and back, but not drive around with it.
Agreed. As part of the transition process from Python 2 to 3, I pushed for typing on all of the critical components. I had to fight the management a little on the commitment, but in the long run it's saved us a ton of time identifying and preventing bugs and its made the entire codebase much more cohesive.
Tell me if whites are over or under represented on this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_shootings_in_the_United_S...

For the best three decades (at least), blacks have committed the majority of murders (~50-52%) most years in the United States despite never comprising more than 13% of the population. Are blacks over or under represented?
How exactly would someone like, for example, Jared Lee Laughner have wounded and killed so many without a gun? How many would the Vegas shooter have killed? It’s interesting that harm reduction is fine for some things, but when we’re talking about guns suddenly the concept is discarded or evaded. I’ve talked to people who make the specious argument that if people didn’t have access to guns they’d just make bombs, as if making a bomb to kill dozens or even hundreds of people is trivial.

Imagine if that psychopath who attacked Glasgow airport in ‘07 had access firearms instead of a home brew “bomb” that only succeeds in lighting him on fire? Bombs are hard, knives require strength and skill, an AR-15 in a crowd is too easy.
My favorite tools for this sort of thing have been TiddlyWiki as well as Scribble (Racket language). An essential feature present in both is that they both are incredibly hackable and customizeable since most products don't support enough organization for me.

However, my main complaint with these tools is that while they are customizeable, it is sometimes nice to have a WYSIWIG since some notes I take will only every be looked at as I am writing them so having instant feedback is nice, even if the resulting document is imperfect.
Maybe we have a disconnect in our definitions of "testing".

How do you define the meaning of it, and could you illustrate how it could, on average over a code base, increase the number of bugs in the product code under test?
OCaml since it has functors.
Facebook pressured Canada to ease up on data rules, U.K. reports say
You just dishonestly edited your previous responses up the thread before declaring this, to make me look like I was missing your point.

Thae second half of you previous reply would have helped to clarify what you meant. Had it been there when I replied. But it wasn’t. You added three paragraphs after seeing my response.

I still wouldn’t have agreed, but we could have left it there as two different viewpoints.

As it was, you edited your previous reply to make it look as though we were taking past each other.

I question your integrity and I’m glad I don’t have anything to do with your company.
I'm sure one cause is that QtWebEngine is a steaming garbage fire, with a far more limited API than the old WebKit based system, and many more bugs (not that the Qt4 WebKit support was a shining example) -- especially if you attempt to "deploy" (package) an app using it on MacOS.
I'm surprised my burner password I use for throwaway sites hasn't been compromised.
IOW, they see some loot to grab.
Expectations when launching an ecommerce store
Unfortunately, it (often) _isn't_. I'd love to live in that world, but it doesn't seem realistic.
> I don't know of a single car that you can buy that takes 350kW.

Volkswagen knows. They'll sell you a Porsche Taycan. Then they'll sell you an Audi e-tron GT:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMEdiq2xTbQ

And then they'll sell you a Porsche Macan:

https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/porsche-macan-electric-on...

Better planning, bigger scale.

Meanwhile Tesla is still losing money. They were down $1 billion in 2018:

https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1121240_tesla-turned-pr...

When will Tesla's technology be profitable? The closure of the retail stores doesn't inspire confidence.
If you just want an archive, you can simply download a copy of the blockchain and store it. You only need a network for updating a chain.
I didn't think of the case of a missing clause. Thanks for the explanation :)
qlalqjsgh is my password.
10k criminals won’t commit 10k crimes. It will likely be hundreds of thousands of crimes. Not insignificant. Most criminals aren’t one-time offenders.
Climate rewind: RMIT Scientists turn carbon dioxide back into coal
I dont enough skill in codding data like that ..

But for those who have that skill may interesting ..

https://www.tolongtangtugas.web.id/2019/02/belajar-asyik-sim...
National Geographic channel aired it today (March 3rd). But if you have the opportunity to see it on an IMAX size screen, I would wait until that.
Yeah, the title ought to be something like "DNA reveals many of us are descendants of genocide and rape".

Edit: So I clearly have some Mongol heritage. And so does my wife, who's Ukrainian. One of her grandmothers could have easily passed as a native in Mongolia.
Searching for that password for pages on or before Feb 27, 2019 does the trick:
https://www.google.com/search?q=ji32k7au4a83&client=firefox-...
Tags can work very well, but only if you have a very customizeable query system for them. In fact, as TiddlyWiki demonstrates you can basically implement a hierarchical system based on tags.
lol, when i was 9 or 10 i memorized 'the big cheat' for turok 64, which i can also recite today -- nthgthdgdcrtdtrk

turns out 204 other people can too! (though apparently not in all caps)

never used it as a password but i can see why one would
That's relying on distribution package management to save you. Here is what happens when you add libraries in any other context:

The library has a dependency on another library, and when you go look at the dependency, it tells you that it needs to use a specific build system. So you have to build the library and its dependency, and then you might be able to link it.

But then, turns out, the dependency also has dependencies. And you have to build them too. Each dependency comes with its own unique fussiness about the build environment, leading to extensive time spent on configuration.

Hours to days later, you have wrangled a way of making it work. But you have another library to add, and then the same thing happens.

In comparison, dependencies in most any language with a notion of modules are a matter of "installation and import" - once the compiler is aware of where the module is, it can do the rest. When the dependencies require C code, as they often do, you may still have to build or borrow binaries, but the promise of Rust, D, Zig et al. is that this is only going to become less troublesome.
Mexico has mass-killings every single day. To give you an idea, a clandestine mass-grave with 500 bodies was found not long ago. If Mexicans had guns, their gagster politicians would think twice before fucking the economy on behalf of other countries.
I’m not the OP but Nix/NixOS is the closest I’ve ever seen to a “Platonic ideal” package manager
Nice try, NSA
> I would challenge that, and say that it is quite abnormal, historically, for entertainers to get paid this much.

Take a look at the salaries (certain) movie stars made in the 1930s
A gun is a tool. Anybody can use a tool correctly and anybody can use a tool incorrectly. Any tool can be bought legally and illegally. People who do not follow laws will have an advantage against those who do in terms of available tools.

A gun is a tool, but it is a tool with one use; wounding and killing organisms. A gun when used correctly, as designed and intended, is a ranged lethal weapon. A knife or a hammer, a car, or even a flamethrower have uses which don’t involve hurting or killing anything, and your point stands for them. If you’re killing someone with a car, you’ve misused your tool, but if you kill with a gun you’ve used it correctly.
Its even in Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volume_licensing#Leaked_keys
Who else was reminded of that pinball essay in Foucault's Pendulum in Chapter 34 in relation to Lorenza Pellegrini?

You don’t play pinball with just your hands, you play it with the
groin too. The pinball problem is not to stop the ball before it’s
swallowed by the mouth at the bottom, or to kick it back to
midfield like a halfback. The problem is to make it stay up where
the lighted targets are more numerous and have it bounce from one
to another, wandering, confused, delirious, but still a free agent.
And you achieve this not by jolting the ball but by transmitting
vibrations to the case, the frame, but gently, so the machine won’t
catch on and say Tilt. You can only do it with the groin, or with a
play of the hips that makes the groin not so much bump, as slither,
keeping you on this side of an orgasm. And if the hips move
according to nature, it’s the buttocks that supply the forward
thrust, but gracefully, so that when the thrust reaches the pelvic
area, it is softened, as in homeopathy, where the more you shake a
solution and the more the drug dissolves in the water added
gradually, until the drug has almost entirely disappeared, the more
medically effective and potent it is. Thus from the groin an
infinitesimal pulse is transmitted to the case, and the machine
obeys, the ball moves against nature, against inertia, against
gravity, against the laws of dynamics, and against the cleverness
of its constructor, who wanted it disobedient. The ball is
intoxicated with vis movendi, remaining in play for memorable and
immemorial lengths of time. But a female groin is required, one
that interposes no spongy body between the ileum and the machine,
and there must be no erectile matter in between, only skin, nerves,
padded bone sheathed in a pair of jeans, and a sublimated erotic
fury, a sly frigidity, a disinterested adaptability to the
partner’s response, a taste for arousing desire without suffering
the excess of one’s own: the Amazon must drive the pinball crazy
and savor the thought that she will then abandon it.

I enjoy me some retro gaming, and I've noticed sometimes I also grip cabinets or controllers in odd ways. I notice it because sometimes my hands are sore.

Also, I wonder if I should go re-read that book. I think I have better faded memories of it than my actual enjoyment at the time when I read it. It seemed dense and I don't think I understood much of anything. But everyone remembers this passage I quoted above.
Tried "e04su3su;6", and there are 71 ones!

This is a rude phrase that probably most Taiwanese understand.
Did you read the parent? He was asking about wget
Types, because of testing.

Python code is really hard to maintain once you grow over a few thousand lines of code and a few developers.

I used to believe that a good culture and seasoned developers can delivered testable code, but it rarely happens in practice. Even if, deadlines kill testing budget.

Types make refactorings sane, they are you contracts. Ended up in Haskell.
Afterburner Linux Personality in L4 with OSFree
what is amazing about it?