skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes but then earth's one second would become the standard. This method is supposed to synchronize events between stations. We can always use atomic clocks for local uses.
https://youtu.be/hTcfDX1NvMk?t=54 (i promise it's not jingle bell rock)
Is there an end to this sort of thinking? And if so, what kind of future does it result in? There's a reason why humanity has collectively agreed to ban chemical and bio weapons in warfare despite how effectively lethal they are.

A future of increasingly automated killing is not a pretty path. And if you believe there is no choice but to go along such a path, I can only say that it's easy to resign yourself to the "inevitable" and harder, much harder, to fight for a better path. I promise you though that brighter futures/timelines do exist and reaching them is very much possible and realistic. All it takes is not immediately giving into cynicism.
Gender-related articles inspire a lot of nasty HN threads, often bringing in politics and pseudoscience.

My opinion is that they’re within the scope of science and curiosity that HN encourages, but I wouldn’t be surprised if people on both sides of gender issues are flagging them because HN just hasn’t been a good forum for that discussion.

I personally have been so disgusted by some of the commentary on gender-related articles that I’ve considered quitting the site, and the only other topic that has made me feel that way is race/eugenics. Neither gender nor race seem to be topics that are tolerated for long here and, while I don’t flag them, I think that might be for the best.
> And they can quit if they disagree with the business path Microsoft ultimately chooses.

Or, they can collectively petition, negotiate, or even apply direct political pressure against their employer.

Is that what the real argument is about here? Lots of fear and anger that if engineers start to gain experience with the power of collective action, they might start to have notions about creating a union?
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I managed to do this on a 2016 HP laptop, replacing the screen assembly. The laptop base worked great, plugged into a TV via HDMI, but a few days later, after the replacement top half had arrived, plugging it in and there was a pop sound... and a dead laptop.

Battery had been disconnected, also the CMOS battery. I usually remember to hold down the power button for a few seconds. Dang.

Didn't chase this further, as I am clumsy with board-level repairs, and my friend didn't want to throw more money at the project.
I understand the desire to not participate in defense technology. But at the same time people need to be realistic about the world we live in.

Peace is a matter of good diplomacy backed by military force. You can be a peaceful nation without having a strong military until a country with a stronger military decides they don't want peace with you. At that point, your sovereignty and safety is at the whim of that other country's might.

The United States is the world's only superpower and as such is a major deterrent against military action from countries like China and Russia. But those countries are actively pursuing technologies that will change the balance of power in their favor. The moment an adversary gains a capability you are unable to counter, that decreases your power of deterrence. If China attained enough capability to be sure they could prevail against the United States in a conflict over Taiwan, they might take the opportunity to mount a first strike. If Russia thought they could forcibly take back their former Soviet satellite states with no pushback they would.

The United States (and it's allies) for all its sins and flaws still stands as a deterrent against the ambitions of several illiberal regimes. It is better to maintain the power of that deterrent by staying ahead of the military technology curve than to ignore nee technologies and get surprised when an adversary develops and uses it against you. We've already sort of seen that with Russia's offensive cyber warfare and social media active measures offensives.
Well. This is my first post, and I will save the hope for the church. I was in your boat for a while. The most important thing to do is to find your guiding voice inside of all of that despair. You posted here, so the flame is not dead but may be dying. I understand. There are no platitudes, like for every door that closes, etc. Keep you head up, etc. Hang in there, etc. I believe what you need is a combination of things. Negative energy attracts negative energy for sure. If you are religious, pray to God, pray hard, and pray for those you love and your country and others before asking for a favor. If you are spiritual or new age, then get some crystals, get some lapis lazuli and ponder while holding it, get a protective bracelet or something. Just be yourself. You will make it through this pain, and this sorrow, and you will not end your life. There is something left to give. As a matter of practicality, you can cut out the costs that you don't care about like taking our your loved ones to fancy dinners, new clothes, etc. Keep it simple. Find strength in minimalism. Become a simple entity that moves through life without thought. Do not make a big deal about this - life will go on. The longer you wait, the better your skills become. Use this as a time to sharpen those skills and people will see the results. Keep yourself busy with love and remember those you lost. I also lost my parents, and very early in life in fact. There are two kinds of us out there - those that make it through and those that don't.
OK thanks, basic question, but.. What is TLS?
still has. I use it for every subtitle, gets rid of most common errors too.
I pay 10€/sqm and need 30 minutes by bike to Brandenburg Gate. That's for a four year old contract. People who have been living in their apartments for decades, that is, the people who are too old to easily move and fear rising rents, usually pay less.
Social Credit Kill List [1]

> In 2014, former CIA and NSA director Michael Hayden said in a public debate, “We kill people based on metadata.”

> According to multiple reports and leaks, death-by-metadata could be triggered, without even knowing the target’s name, if too many derogatory checks appear on their profile. “Armed military aged males” exhibiting suspicious behavior in the wrong place can become targets, as can someone “seen to be giving out orders.” Such mathematics-based assassinations have come to be known as “signature strikes.”

1. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/how-...
They needn't be risky, just yielding more than 2% like government bonds. If the government goes under their bonds are no good, but neither would your dollars be. Literally anything other than stuffing them under your mattress. Nothing's stopping you from buying precious metals either (physical, ETF or mining company shares). If you want your own wealth to be "gold backed" ... just buy gold. Then you can even borrow against it to make other purchases. Hey, it's basically "be your own bank" but with real assets.
Thanks for this! I just happen to need it. I have the first season of my favourite US series, but dubbed in Spanish, because I want to train my ear. Unfortunately the subtitle files slowly drift apart from the audio by 10 seconds during each episode.

I used to have a script to “stretch” subtitles manually, but it’s quite fiddly: https://gist.github.com/jgthms/7dfc20db3478a938069a0191c4e30...
A basic question about TCP
No.
Next question!
Perhaps I'm missing something, but it seems they artificially selected for single-celled organisms that are sticky and clump together (thus making them -- as a group -- too large to be eaten.)

As the 'stickiness' doesn't really pose a disadvantage to the single-celled organism, the trait persists even after the predator is removed.

In short, can a collection of 'stickier-than-normal' single-celled organisms truly be referred to as a multicellular organism? Aren't they stretching the definition of multicellular? Each of the units, after all, reproduces on its own and there is no differentiation.
I found a mute button behind the screens. I got so mad, I muted every TV thing in the gas station.

Visuals you can look away from. Audio is a form of torture.

I really appreciate Costco gas stations for their no bullshit, pay money, fill gas strategy.
The S in HTTPS. The technology that is securing your HTTP connections, but also used by other protocols.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Layer_Security
Same here. Don't game on it, or watch video, so it is a great machine for most of my programming needs.
“It inflates away debts, too, in that the principal always decreases in value in constant dollars.”

Need I mention that the US Govt is the biggest debtor in the world? They have a massive incentive to inflate away their debt — they’re not doing something noble by inflating the monetary supply, it’s self-serving.
That's what I think is great. That everyone can chose what they want. I'd never need a storage extension before I'd want other things extended: GPU, CPU, RAM. Sadly those aren't extendable, so I'll buy new devices anyway and can reevaluate my storage needs
I really hope you've seen the How I Met Your Mother scene with that song.

https://youtu.be/QYpSniiZhpg
Ah thank you, that always bugged me.
Oh ok.. thank you! (Somehow I'd never heard of that.)
Thankfully are jobs will be getting easier as speech recognition continues to improve. Some people start from scratch, some people find existing hard subs and translate them to soft subs, some people just translate subs, etc... some people are prolific but the reason it seems most media has a sub is that there are millions of interested and capable people out there, so if a movie is only meaningful enough to only one person out of say 40 million, that's still one person who will make subs for that movie. We have the countless masses to thank, even when sometimes the quality isn't perfect.
Sure, but so what? If you just use the money you get to invest in anything yielding more than 2%, or even gold, what difference does it make to you? If you can take advantage of this information, all the better.

For instance if you're a well-paid tech worker in the 35% federal income tax rate bin in California (11% more there) in a world with 2% inflation, a 30-year fixed 4% APR mortgage is 'free' money (4.0 becomes 2.4% after tax deduction, and 0.4% after inflation). You don't have to be mad about the situation, you can take advantage of it.
Hyperloop is not an exception. The technology is not the actual problem. The problem is right-of-way. Hyperloop, light rail, monorail, pneumatic tube, whatever, you need someplace to run the line.
my understanding is that china doesn't like that the US thinks china needs American permission to do trade through the Pacific ocean, and America doesn't like that china doesn't buy their weapons.
the only thing the Americans don't like about China's system is that it's not controlled by the American government/companies. Dictatorships over non-americans aren't exactly a problem with Americans
Yep - also looks bad for DoS amplification.

What’s the better solution ?
I use Audacity for this.

I load both files, look for a peak or end of silence in both. The difference I remux with Mkvtoolnix. I do this with 2-3 spots.

Loading the file is usually the longest waiting period.
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This would not work as what you have then is not a fixed unit, but something that keeps forever changing. And that is useless in metrology.
You’re defining risky from your perspective, just because YOU don’t perceive an asset designed to keep pace with inflation as risky doesn’t mean it’s not and it also doesn’t mean those investors wouldn’t prefer to keep it in cash.

If being your own bank weren’t threatening to govts, why don’t they just let gold backed currencies circulate and compete (eg see the Liberty Dollar — https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_dollar_(private_curr...)
No worries. Been meaning to investigate VxWorks at some point, mostly from an interest in embedded devices (for specific wearables concepts). This will be another thing to add for that list. :)
I'm sorry, but why is no one commenting on the fact that 100 employees signed? A quick search shows that Microsoft has 134k employees (not sure if that includes contractors). but less than .1% of employees signed. All these media headlines say "employees" like its a significant fraction, but its 100 employees according to the article. To me it seems like media grabbing at a headline that would generate clicks.
We had one for each of our two kids at the ranch for a while. The Wifi range in those things was insane.
ToRPEDO attack allows intercepting calls and track locations on 4G/5G
Summary: Eyewitness accounts only, no photos, no verification in any way.

Unfortunately, most likely the ”eyewitnesses” are mistaken, as in nearly all cases like these.
It would be unwise to stop the arms race when your adversaries are proceeding apace in it. There are only two times it makes sense to withdraw from an arms race.

One is when you sign an enforceable treaty with your rivals. That would be something like START.

Two would be when you know that the arms race is very unlikely to bear fruit. For example, it didn't make sense to keep throwing money at the Star Wars (ballistic missile defense) program because it was very unlikely to succeed.

Military applications for AI could change the global balance of power in a fundamental way. If you care about peace and human rights you don't want the repressive regimes to gain an advantage in that sphere. Because that makes conflict more likely, not less.
I blame English for this :D
Thanks slap_shot for reaching out to someone. Depression is no joke and the suicide that follows it. I too am depressed since past 10 years and everyday is a struggle. I too get super nervous during interviews. Pain in stomach, laboured breathing, excessive sweating and whatnot. Rejections hit me hard as they make me question the entire premise of my professional life. The only reason I have not killed myself is that I education loan to clear(blessing in disguise ?). It makes me happy when people unknown to each other help each other out.
Yes. But that article never worked for me.
I really appreciated the "drawbacks" link on the sidebar at migadu.com. If you know there are use cases that don't fit your goals, admit them up front.
Should have been 'have'. Oxygene, FPC (freepascal) and Delphi are 3 different Pascal compilers which all have solved most/all of these problems.
No mention of Ada in 1996? How rude!
I wish a solid HTTP client and JSON library was a part of the std lib. I feel like all of my apps have HTTPotion, HTTPoison, Poison, and Jason as dependencies.
> In its general syntax, Java is very much like C++. But it does introduce some changes that (depending on your perspective) correct some flaws of C++ or botch up some features.

Are you sure about that? Was java really like C++ during it's earlier years?
My mom bought a shadow box filled with coffee beans a tiny grinder, miniature mugs and other scaled down coffee accessories. The word "Coffee" was written prominently in 3 dimensional letters.

She doesn't even particularly like coffee. She just bought it to cover up her old landline phone jack on the kitchen wall, but I keep telling her it looks like she built a coffee shrine.

I'm certain that if archeologists found it 5,000 years in the future, they'd construct elaborate stories about our daily devotions to the deity we called Coffee.
4-7 of these aren't so much "myths" are "ideas that one or two recent papers has cast some doubt upon." Not to say that these won't turn out to be more thoroughly debunked in the future, but it hasn't happened yet.

Browsing through papers from a few years ago some of these myths in 2011 might have been:

1. You need to pre-train large networks so that they converge

2. You need GPUs to train deep networks efficiently

#1 did indeed turn out to be false; pre-training has pretty convincingly been debunked. But if anything #2 turned out very right; there's no serious training happening today on CPUs.

A bit of conjecture here but I suspect word embeddings are going to turn to be the next big thing that turns out not to be all that useful.
Usually one of the unlabeled buttons on either side of the screen will also mute it. Just press them all until the sound stops.
Over Antarctica, yes. But in some conditions (right winds? I forget) thinner patches of ozone do blow over the south coast of Australia, and does increase UV exposure.
Grassroots Cybersecurity
Pretty hard to do in a dense city and doesn't help very much. Unless kill Berlin's character and transform the city center into a collection of skyscrapers, demand for the city center will always far outstrip supply. Berlin is not San Francisco, where large parts of the city center are single family homes with two stories or less.
And exactly what do you think will happen if one of the countries that doesn't care about slavery overtakes the collective "west" in military might? Do you think China bats an eye at slavery in Africa? Do you think they bat an eye at slavery in North Korea?

Just because it's universally accepted as wrong in the West doesn't mean the rest of the world agrees.
Why not use good ol 'x' for multiplication? :-)
100 ms A/V is already quite noticeable, with some training one might spot 50 ms too.
> just have to figure out how to make it opt-in per http.Handler instead of opt-out

Hrmm, I can think of a few ways (assuming I'm understanding the problem). One is a ZeroRTTHandler iface w/ a single ServeHTTPZeroRTT function and if Server.Handler impls that iface in addition to Handler, then that function is called instead. Another way is just to have a ZeroRTTAllowed property in the Server struct of type "func(Request) bool" w/ nil as an assumption of false. If it has to be on the handler instead of on the server, do something similar to the context package and have a "func WithZeroRTT(h Handler, allowed func(Request) bool) Handler" that returns the new handler w/ the internal check. Just spitballing, I may not understand the problem (can't escape asterisks here, but Request is meant to be a ptr).

> for clients I have no idea how to fit resending in io.Writer

This is tougher (assuming I understand the problem). Maybe a TLS config or http.Request option that the entire byte slice of first write can be resent as a whole. The other option being a tls.Conn.ZeroRTTFirstWrite method that the http req's Write can use if a setting is present before falling back to regular write, I dunno.
They did patch the reported vulnerabilities in updates. What chipsec reports as warnings are not necessarily exploitable. i.e., They didn't patch them to the extent of getting all green ticks in chipsec, but it does not automatically imply exploitable.
Work on a side project to demonstrate your skills over other candidates. If you have 9 years of experience, you should be schooling them in terms of knowledge, and the best way to do this is a side project. When companies reject you, its nothing personal, you need to find a way to stand out from the rest of the pack.

Side projects are a great way to reaffirm your self worth. People that only climb the career ladder can't build a project from ground up. Its only those that hone their skills that do. As an added benefit, it might even become a real business. Keep yourself busy.
Based on a cursory skim of the wikipedia article you linked the liberty dollar was taken down because it was a haven for "...money laundering, mail fraud, wire fraud, counterfeiting, and conspiracy."

You still haven't explained how you're any worse off by buying literal gold, or if you don't want to carry it around yourself, shares in a gold ETF like GLD. In what way is a share certificate of GLD any different than a gold-backed currency? It's even government-regulated (albeit by the SEC instead of the department of the treasury). Salaries track inflation, so you're always getting the same in real dollar terms. Inflation is irrelevant if you don't hold money. If you want a gold-backed dollar, you can achieve the same result buy using your money as quick as you get it to buy gold or in lieu, shares of GLD. You can even buy precious metal currency minted by governments like the platinum, gold and silver coins from the Royal Canadian Mint [1] -- not that they're a good value. This isn't a problem. AFIAK you can even put any of the above into an IRA.

[1] https://www.mint.ca/store/buy/gold-and-platinum_coins-cat120...
That's one thing I miss about record stores like Tower. The music was chosen by workers on shift, a full album side at a time. I discovered some great music that way, including "popular" artists before they were popular.
Cool, that means that browser developers and web server developers are doing their jobs halfway right :)
WhatsApp recall messages (delete for everyone) – a BUG OR a feature?
I'm curious, what's wrong with size_t loop indices? I always thought that was the most correct type for the job
You can agree to collectively end something... it doesn't mean all players will play fair. Classification is a thing. Assuming others classify things is a thing. Back to the arms race. It used to be unjust to drop grenades from a plane.
500px Security Issue February 2019
Glad to see syscall/js is still seeing updates. This seems like a excellent chance to share server and client code by being able to cross compile to wasm.

Go team: please reduce the binary size of wasm files!
you are still being a cunt I see
There is power in not caring about your life. The only path to true freedom is a willingness to die.

If you're ok with death, there is nothing anyone can throw at you or hoops they can make you jump through that can be any worse.

Fuck everyone. You're alive and capable.
That's the term magila used in the comment you originally replied to near the start of this thread before you started the whole semantic debate about "trust anchors". Ultimately, trust is something you place in people and organizations, not inanimate cryptographic primitives.
Stop being a cunt dang. Stop raping!
Almost every Panera I've been in was poorly run. Poor service and bad, old coffee more often than not.

SF at 4th and King was the lone exception.
Also how did you came to know that you have méniscal tears?
Not only dwellings but fuel as well. I mean, if you don't have trees how are you going to invent fire...

Some people consider cooking a critical step in our evolution (cooking enables harvesting more calories from food).

With no good fuel available cooking could also be ... off the menu.
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I'm 44 with fewer years of experience as a developer than yourself. I've been through the job hunting meat grinder a couple times in the last year myself. I've been homeless in the past, too. Here's what I have to say:

- therapy is for people who can afford it; don't get hung up on the fact that you can't afford it, and do what you gotta do to keep going

- leave your personal drama out of the interview, no matter what, because ain't nobody going to want to hire a depressed mopey anybody

- if you suck at interviews, practice interviewing; in my most recent job search, I got a few friends to do mock interviews with me, including explaining why they were asking what they asked

- feel free to reach out to me via email; I was a tech recruiter for several years, and now I'm a senior dev at a company that doesn't suck
Sometimes I wonder whether AWS makes more money than GCP because average GCP users develop better optimized systems.