skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It showed Stanford as one of the cities, but clicking the link displayed the message "The Meetup Group you're looking for doesn't exist."

It would be a shame if we had to rely on Meetup.com to organize these things. I've heard complaints from attendees and organizers about the platform/fees. Ideas for alternative ways to organize?
> I just run my own VPN from a $5/month DigitalOcean droplet... I feel like all the public VPNs are like big honeypots I'd rather stay away from.

I guess that depends on your threat vector. I mainly want copyright hounds and data miners (including my ISP) to stay out of my way. For this a public VPN is perfect. Hell, in a weird way, if PIA somehow turned out be a NSA honeypot they would be even better for that purpose since they'd essentially be untouchable by copyright holders.
In general, I guess a personal VPN is more private on a micro level (no VPN provider that can spy on you) but less private on a macro level (any determined actor can trace your DO VPN back to you since you are the only user)

> Does that mean ProtonMail also is no longer trustworthy?

That is, again, for yourself to decide.
Personally I think the Proton company isn't malicious and just really bungled up the launch of ProtonVPN by going at it together with / through TesoNet, and their VPN efforts will forever be tainted by that.
But, that has very little to do with their mail branch, which preceded ProtonVPN and which so far seems a pretty good offering to me if you want your mail to be encrypted-at-rest.
You can be cautious around something without being afraid of it.
> What you're missing is that I wasn't looking for entertainment, I was looking for knowledge.

These are the exact words that I was looking for. Thank you.
But that makes no sense. You're spending resources protecting against a scenario that is effectively impossible. The term for that is paranoia.

Plus, it doesn't even make sense to try to "protect" yourself because their first move if they even thought like this would be to nuke everything flat with no warning. There's no defense against it. You can't hide either, the signals are already out there, they know where you are.
Did they delete the 1x2 mode? If not, the answer to "Does this cable support SuperSpeed USB 10Gbps?" becomes significantly more complicated than it should be.

But fine, if we actually see everything branded as "SuperSpeed USB XXGbps" then it's overly long but it's understandable.

I am not convinced we won't see a hideous hodgepodge of different branding guides, though. Some saying "SuperSpeed USB __Gbps", some saying "USB 3.2", some saying "gen __", some saying "SuperSpeed+"
You can also water many of your houseplants with it. Not JUST whey, mind, but you can give them whey.
Thank you for commenting.
Windows 10 updates are SUPER fun when you are running the N version and have the media pack installed. Usually the updates fail, so you get 6 reboots every few nights until you uninstall the media packs.

Finding the new media pack that's compatible is another exercise in insanity. They ALL install without error, but only one actually works. People who think Windows is simpler or easier than Linux are wrong.
But will it be ready for rising water levels? This may sound like whataboutism but I’m genuinely curious about how real estate investors who usually do think long term, are preparing for the inevitable drastic change in landscape coming in the next 10-30 years.
This stuff has been on the front pages of mainstream media for long enough. Ask your non-tech acquaintances what they think about Google, Facebook etc - you might be surprised.
Here are a few quotes that are, hopefully, explanatory of why it's bad:

> One Ontario social worker, who participates in a Situation Table and spoke to Motherboard on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media, expressed worry about the high number of minors being evaluated for intervention, and having their information added to the RTD, because of “how often [interventions] are done without consent.”

And:

> According to Israel, there is a risk that if authorities don’t refine the data in the RTD over time to determine if a specific risk factor actually leads to increased crime or harm, flawed predictions could influence policing decisions.

Finally:

> “We can’t have processes that are based on using exceptions to privacy law, with no transparency or accountability as to how [Hubs] are interpreting those exceptions,” she said. “Privacy is a human right. It can’t be eroded just to make someone’s job easier.”

So it boils down to:

- no consent
- flawed data that influences predictive algorithms (which are not transparent and not audited)
- privacy is a human right, this tracking program violates that right (at least as it is currently implemented)

If you live in a democracy, you can expect certain rights (and of course the responsibilities that come with those rights). If you're a taxpayer, you can also expect certain things of your government.

Essentially this boils down to "Canada is a democracy, not an authoritarian regime that monitors and tracks people".
To be honest I think we are vastly more likely to be destroyed by ourselves than by aliens. Maybe we'd be better off enslaved by aliens; we could be the green mans burden.
>So hear me out. Although Metropolis is a milestone in technical cinematic terms, the actual story is silly, the moral at the end is patronising, and the sci-fi content is weak, even for its time. So the modern equivalent would be something with a huge budget, flashy production and amazing special effects but with a rubbish story.

So like 99% of the Marvel and DC movies? (Startship Troppers have no "rubbish story". It's based on a classic book, and the additional humor in the movie elevates it even more).

>When you watch it and it seems a bit hokey, don't make excuses for it. It most probably seemed equally hokey to people at the time.

On the other hand Roger Ebert and many modern critics beg to differ.
Didn't they get rid of XUL entirely several releases ago?
Useful articles for the organization of personal productive work
Social democracy -- that is, almost every government in the west today.
Does anyone know what happened to HNLondon? Or know of other similar sort of events in London or the wider UK?
I agree with you in principle. But it should be noted that any software that interacts with the world outside of itself can't be considered to be in good working order if it hasn't been audited and updated to resist security vulnerabilities.

I'd argue that medical software shouldn't be connected to networks because security is hard, and most people get it so wrong. If that's part of the design, then the goal you're talking about is attainable. But in many cases, software isn't useful for its purpose if it can't access a network, and so the idea of just leaving it alone for decades at a time is an actively bad goal.
> I absolutely 100% do not want web workers (service workers?) enabled in any way shape or form. Any website which uses one is, in my opinion, not only extremely poorly designed but uses anti-patterns.

that's kind of an unfair statement. web workers are extremely useful for moving computation away from the (single) gui thread, allowing the page to load and process large amounts of data without locking the main browser thread. what you're saying is equivalent to saying "any program that uses threads is poorly designed and uses anti-patterns".

while, like threads, there can be bad uses for them, they can be used extremely effectively for good.
https://linux.die.net/man/2/openat solves that specific issue.
I have to ask, why are the maps labeled using the Latin alphabet?
You are correct that there is a social aspect to making julia packages work well. That's part of the reason so many julia packages are organized under various GitHub organizations to make sure that these kinds of discussions have a place to take place. However, I don't really see that as a negative thing. It gets package developers to talk to each other and delineate the abstractions for their packages more clearly. And in the end, I don't see it all that different from package development in any other language. Your users will always do things that you didn't intend and then you have to decide whether their use case is in scope for your project or not and act accordingly.

Aside: this is not TensorFlow, but XLA, which are two very different things. It's also possible to try this kind of thing and generate a TF graph, but TF is a much less nice compilation target.
I don't see Amsterdam. If anyone is interested in co-organizing a meeting with me there (or attending it), my email is in my profile.
Windows has 1+ billion users. If it happens to 1 user in 1 million, there's still going to be 1000 angry users...
css hack for hn:

p, span{
max-width: 60ch !important;
display:inline-block;
}

(probably breaks other sites)
> Everyone on here seems to be very bitter and salty about this stuff and I'm not sure why they're not seeing the bigger picture. This is probably the same group that would have laughed at predictions that there would be personal computers.

That first sentence is a great way to start an argument. And having been there for the rise of the PC, I do not agree with your analogy. Just like with the Internet analogy that usually comes up, the problem with PCs was more getting one. PCs were very expensive, cryptocurrencies are plenty available to anyone who wants them. There were skeptics with PCs, but still people jumped readily at every use case opportunity that presented itself and constantly came up with new ones. The blockchain is trying to find them for years and years now.

As for the abstraction: Well, yeah, you abstract the whole "cryptocurrency" aspect away to make it work, until you may as well just use the proven, regular banking system. And then to allow for such regular processes as litigation or the simple undoing of human mistakes, you abolish the "immutable ledger" concept entirely.

Am I bitter and salty about it? Given that cryptocurrencies are now consuming more energy than all solar panels combined, singlehandedly erasing the progresses we made there: Yes, definitely.
Why not both!? It increases electric output by cooling PV panel and makes you some hot water!
If it was either, why wasn't it a patch set against firefox, rather than IP owned by google?
I'm pretty sure that a very old version of IE (maybe IE4?) was released with multiprocess before Microsoft killed that project.
Gender issues are a convenient way to double productive output and, apparently, double forced military enrolment. Mindless work for everyone; the right to live and die for someone else's interests.
I know "politics" is not something we generally do here, but this is not partisan. This is about money in our politics and that is an issue that tech could do more to address.

OpenSecrets.org has done more than any other organization I know. Technology is being applied to this process in many ways, yet funding and outreach and accountability are all still lacking if the goal is to level the playing field.

This site is working on it though, and doing a great job of it.
"The atmosphere point is even more compelling. Earth has been broadcasting with quite non-trivial power "I HAVE LIFE" for about two and a half billion years. Most of the "hostile alien" hypothesis work out to the hostile aliens needing to exterminate all life, not just life that already seems to be intelligent, because you don't know how fast something might become intelligent when you're not looking, so if Earth was going to be wiped out, it should have been a very, very long time ago."

Even if they're out to destroy all life, they might prioritize killing intelligent life first, as it could be a threat (or for some other reason).
Those forces an automatic restart while I'm working and have windows open... it closes all the windows and loses all my work. This is such a wonderful feature.
To stop cross border terrorism state sponsored by Pakistan and proxy war.

We Indian's are fed up of these!

Paki's don't let us live in peace.
And we have done it! Solutions for the solutions!
Similarly, I find it invaluable when studying Hungarian and German.
John DeFrancis was an amazing thoughtful and insightful linguist and was, as you can see from this example, very happy to look into what he considered bizarre claims (which he sometimes discovered were true). I'm a huge fan of his work.
Some people use Protobufs to solve this, but when I work with C++, I use a class that takes a (data, size) as an input (to its constructor), and implements an overridable Get<T> method.

So you can do: auto s = datasource.Get<std::string>();

For each type I need I override Get<T> for that type. If the data source class is out of data, I throw a specific exception, that I catch at the global level. This works like a breeze and the advantage over protobufs is that it's faster (no Protobuf parsing overhead, errors) and you never consume more than you need.
Indeed, no more different than the company Google having the search engine also called Google. (yes, I know it's technically called Google Search, but no, for all practical uses, it isn't)
From Faces to Kitties to Apartments: GAN Fakes the World
All I can think is who the hell even uses a closed source cryptocurrency wallet? I'm not completely an open source purist in all places, but if there's ever a place to be one, it's in cryptocurrency. You'd think people that wanted to hold money that they didn't trust to banks wouldn't then trust that money to a random unreviewed app.

It frustrates me that unfamiliar people are going to see this article (or ones about random fly-by-night exchanges running away with deposits) and just come away thinking this type of problem is an unavoidable part of cryptocurrency, which it's not. Maybe it is for people who don't do their research, but I'm not telling them to use cryptocurrency. I hate that whenever there's talk about cryptocurrency, these amateur cases dominate the conversation. It'd be like if every time the act of camping was brought up, people were aghast and talked about how unsafe camping is and how it's a horrible thing because of how some family died camping recently (after they went camping in the middle of the desert without supplies).
Really interesting to see the desire for ruby support in this thread! It's definitely on our roadmap.

Shoot me an email at everest@fuzzbuzz.io and I'll let you know when we launch ruby fuzzing.
the point of using a nop is that the patch can be done atomically. otherwise you run into race conditions if a thread's currently executing the instruction(s) you're patching.
This is kind of like worrying that God might just decide to kill everyone some day. There's nothing you can do about it, so it's best to just forget about it and hope that by the time a civilization is advanced enough to build such technology they also have advanced ethics enough to not use it.

This used to be a common SciFi staple, that a civilization advanced enough to travel the stars must have solved their social issues first or they would have destroyed themselves with their own technology. Basically as the cost of ending all life on the planet drops you need to advance your ethics fast enough to prevent it from happening. Eventually everybody is carrying around pocket antimatter batteries and either everybody is well adjusted or everybody is dead.
As a user (non-developer), I never trusted Chrome and never installed it onto my computer. Half of that was laziness, but the other half was understanding that Chrome is driven by ad-revenue and so privacy options would be severely sub-optimal, at least compared to Firefox.
Everything! It's total revamp. Different dimensions, different style, weighs twice as much. Best place to start reading is here:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Dragon
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_2
>Google's primary objective for Chrome and Android was simply to get people to use the internet more, on the (entirely reasonable) assumption that they'd probably use Google and they would see a lot of AdSense units.

Google paid Apple 12 billion dollars last year to be the default search engine in Safari and another half billion to Firefox for the same. Google's primary objectives with Chrome was to lower that amount and to guard their monopoly on search.
"You might be interested in Pilot Wave Theory. It tries to reconcile wave/particle duality by claiming there is a real physical particle at all times in an attempt to get around the strange idea of everything being a probablistic wavefunction (the Copenhagen interpretation)."

I don't understand much of anything, but based on what I read, I strongly prefer the idea that everything is a field and particles don't exist, rather than vice versa. It just feels right. We don't experience particles any more than waves in our daily lives anyway.
Is NYT actually just saying India/Pakistan and not other South Asian countries? Sri Lanka comes to mind.
It seems like we need better education and publicity campaigns. It should always be easy to look up the local rules. People should feel like it's more important to keep the recycling stream clean than it is to recycle at all, which is the opposite of what they do today where putting more stuff in the recycling bin is somehow thought to be better even if it doesn't follow the rules.

Unfortunately, garbage companies are not necessarily very good at publicity or education. (My local company's website is badly designed and it's annoyingly difficult to even find the page with the rules.)
Thanks so much for pointing this out. I thought the letter's interpretation was beautiful, and I'm tremendously disappointed now, but I'm glad that I know.
> Obviously yes. It's absolutely evident that the large majority of the economy of China is based on export towards rich countries. Without US investments China would be extremely poor.

You say obviously, yet fail to link why making China poorer would significantly affect military investment and which type. How much money does it take to throw people at software? And people are something China has a LOT of.

Depending on how you measure it, China's economy is between the 1st and 3rd largest in the world (I think first largest is a stretch, but there's apparently some metrics which rank it that way based on purchasing power).

The United states is not the only country that China exports to. It's a large chunk, and it would hurt, but as we're seeing, China is not willing to let the United States dictate everything in the relationship. Why would they let the United States use economics to tell them they can't research what they would describe as technologies used to protect themselves when they aren't willing to do so for lesser reasons, as evidenced by the current tariffs?

At most, we'll cause them to hide their activity. Why would they stop in light of the aggressive stance by other countries to dictate their future? North Korea certainly doesn't seem to like it, and China is in a position of much more power.

> Yet, the US decided to embargo communist Cuba (and Vietnam) and invest heavily in "communist" China. The latter being very capitalistic.

Well, yeah. Because doing otherwise hurts us economically, and economics drives a huge amount of decision making. And barring a concerted world effort to to China to stop investing in any military tech, while the rest of the world would undoubtedly continue, I doubt China would be willing to stop. It's not all that different than if some nations came to the United States and told us to stop researching and building up our military. We'd tell them it's none of their business and they have no say in what we do. Why would we expect China to act any differently?
My next plan is to start making labne. It's expensive here relative to yogurt. :)
If only that were true. :) I only know cross multiplication and basic arithmetic, excepting long division.
Our users are almost exclusively professionals working on Windows desktops. Probably a fairly unique situation but the point is standards are relative.
Sounds like the same aisle!
The Brilliant Uncertainty of the Grateful Dead’s ‘Dark Star’
It's terrible that nobody got punished for it, I hope Bitcoin will solve all of our problems soon.
>to hardware wallets being compromised

The only hardware wallet compromises I've heard of still required someone to have physical access to the device. If you can keep the device in your possession, it's still much safer than any of the alternatives.
The problem with that is that targeting may be much more difficult. A passive weapon could be thrown off target over long distances due to gravitational perturbations or survey inaccuracies, and would likely have been mistargeted in the first place due to civilizational changes at the target (kinda like the problem with aiming flak, your target can move unpredictably between when you fire your gun and when your shell arrives, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRJC2mkrZks).

An active weapon could be targeted at a solar system too far away for an accurate preparatory survey, then identify and target rocky planets and large artificial structures once it arrives. It could also perform course-corrections in transit, and remain substantially dormant for much of the trip for stealth and surprise.
"5 year cancer survival" is unfortunately a very weak metric. Consider this easy way to boost 5 year cancer survival rates - do prostate screening tests for everyone in the country every year. You will undoubtedly detect more cancers and thus increase 5 year survival rates, but this is also undoubtedly a net negative for society.
> Your datastructure is never going to be more than 10-100 deep. Don't worry about it. Just write the most legible recursive algorithm, not the most performant.

What? Try computing the 1000th fibonacci number.
Zebpay crypto exchange announces zero-fee trading
The biggest difference is BEAM is Erlang which imo is what's done wrong, Kubernetes is language neutral, it's a platform not a language runtime.

Similar to what Envoy is when you do service mesh, you don't need to integrate libraries into your code to get service mesh features using Envoy as side car proxy.

I have that conversation with Erlang users on every k8s topics, they seem to miss the point that decoupling features outside of the language / runtime is the way to go.
As anybody who's been using Windows since the 1990s knows, you have to save your work to a floppy every 5 minutes if you don't want to risk losing it.
Living Systems – James Grier Miller – 1978
Further commentary on the song:
https://amp.reddit.com/r/gratefuldead/comments/7mrwdb/what_i...

And the lengthy Dark Star document : http://www.deadlists.com/dlsite/dark_star.txt
Hope this lessens the appetite for war.
IBM Threat Intelligence Index 2019: Criminals Ditching Malware for Cryptojacking
Fixing Cron Jobs in Mojave
> People who think Windows is simpler or easier than Linux are wrong.

Or they don't do anything crazy.
Debian Developer here.. I wonder how much of our core infrastructure this could cover given the Python support.
Then please do list those free market countries who are poorer than Cuba. I'm really curious.
Google Advertising Acronyms Explained (2017)
I think there needs to be a delicate discussion about who gets to have an opinion on these things. How much can an employee expect their companies to listen to their opinion? Who should be listened to? Should everyone get a vote? What if some of the objecting employees are from a country that is an adversary of the US, does that bar them from having an opinion on military contracts?
Worked fine for me.

- macOS 10.14.3 (18D109)

- MacBook Pro 15-inch 2017 (Intel HD Graphics 630 1536 MB + Radeon Pro 555 2048 MB)

- Chrome 72.0.3626.96 (Official Build) (64-bit)

The page definitely got more choppy with Texture Mode enabled (guessing the perf delta is higher, so they run a more intensive test to get significant results. I'd test on Firefox, but currently at work, so I don't want to risk it haha.

FireFox 65 seems to be the common denominator I see for these crashes.