skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you’re still on the fence about deploying this update, we would consider it Important since it could allow for attacker-controlled code to execute at the level of the logged on user.

What does that even mean? I download some c++ code from the internet, compile it, run it, and... it runs as my user?
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In addition to what other posters have said I noticed it hides timezone so messaging apps had timestamps which looked wrong because it thought I was somewhere else.
Haven't used it in a while though so this may have been changed.
I record and mix metal bands and have stuck with 48 kHz for years like many of the engineers I know. 96 kHz sounded better to my ears last time I checked in the studio (it's been years, maybe I wouldn't notice now that I'm older) but it's not worth the heavier storage and processing impact when nobody is actually going to use my stuff that way. I certainly don't feel limited by working at 48 kHz, either, but the hit to my workflow would be significant. Additionally, a lot of converters start imposing track limits when you go beyond 48 kHz, so that's one more reason to stay put.

More important than sample rate is AD/DA quality. I'll trust a new high-end converter at 48 kHz than an old prosumer device at 192 kHz.

Plenty of the albums we love as listeners were recorded at 44.1 or 48. Plenty were recorded with absolutely horrendous equipment but played and mixed by professionals who created magic. MANY modern vinyl releases where people brag about superior sound quality are just the CD master in all its 16/44.1 glory remastered for vinyl. Little of it matters when the end result is special.
That spec seems pretty nice (if rough) and I think I understand what you're trying to do. But, I must agree with @vkou; like I said earlier, it does not solve the keylogger problem.

If there's a keylogger on the system then it'd be trivial to log out the user a few times (and combine with manipulating what the user even sees such as which locations of the password to enter), or just simply be more patient.

Also, what about database backups? Given enough of them and the ever-increasing frequency they occur and time that backups live, you could recreate more of the user's password than intended.
not valid when the masters can also be live-in servants for the slaves (e.g. the uber driver can hire a freelancer to build a website for him, and the freelancer can hire the driver). Right now it s usually low-paying work that gets commoditized heavily, but over time it will happen to everyone.
20 choose 5 = 15504. You could enumerate them all in less than a second and store all the hashes in less than a megabyte.
How about PurpleRestore? :)

I binge-read all of luna and the "other" internal wiki back in the day. :)
The Beer Distribution Game
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I've been wondering for a while why Amazon has been letting (my impression of) trust in the listings on its retail site be eroded so much.

My best naive wild guess (as a techie, not an MBA) is that a solution is Amazon private brands. Amazon could exercise control over the supply chain, could keep other sellers from piggybacking on a listing, could keep the reviews generally positive (in various ways, including aggressive investigation of suspected fake negative reviews), and could even have customer service treat private brands more favorably than many others. Plus preferential listing and smarter targeting.

Meanwhile, most other brands would still have to be on Amazon, but suffer the current awful environment of counterfeits, reuse of listings for different products, fake reviews on their and competitor's listings, etc.
I sometimes think about Andrei and Pierre, such opposites and yet best friends. The way their fortunes seem to move in counterpoint. I've often preferred Andrei to the dreamy, idealistic Pierre, but on my most recent reading I think I finally saw why Pierre is the true hero, and not Andrei. I think it is this: Pierre was a seeker...always looking for the meaning in life. He was life-affirming, while Andrei was ironic and focused on what was artificial, life-denying. The scenes with Karataev are my favorite in the whole book. Such a joy to read. Tolstoy had such a good bead on psychology, what motivates individuals. It feels so honest.
It's certainly something to keep in mind.

But there are problems with a similar outcome that could arise by using a third party provider like Gmail. They could suspend your account for example which is far more unlikely to happen with a domain.

As long as you pay for both it and your server/email provider you should be good. I personally would rather risk what happened here than dealing with Google in case my account got suspended.
It looks like it is true in a technical sense; a bitcoin transaction record specifies a prior transaction as its input, rather than specifying a source address. So as a purely formal matter, your example records will look like this in relevant part:

T0885: 100 Satoshi from T0002 to address xxxxx0x # 1 wallet, 2 Satoshi
T1001: 1 Satoshi from T0885 to address xxxxx1x
T1104: 1 Satoshi from T0885 to address xxxxx2x # Each Satoshi moves to a separate new wallet
T1300: 1 Satoshi from T1104 to address xxxxx3x
T1400: 1 Satoshi from T1001 to address xxxxx3x # and then they recombine

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Transaction

From that record, it's clear that one Satoshi moved from address 0x to address 3x by way of transaction 1001, and the other one did the same by way of transaction 1104.

However, there is no instrumental difference between an address's balance from one transaction and its balance from another transaction, as the behavior of the address is controlled by the private key associated with that address, and two balances belonging to the same address necessarily share the associated private key. I'm not sure what this is supposed to accomplish.
Banks are interested primarily in liquid assets. There's not much less liquid than real estate.
The advise I give to all the YC companies is: prepare for the investor day as much as you prepare to the demo day.

The investor day can save you a lot of time fundraising later if you close few people on the spot, so make sure to be ready for a 20 minutes session with a longer coherent pitch and answers to the common questions.

In my batch (W17) the investor say was completely deemphasized for some reason, and many companies came unprepared, myself included
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I don't know if anyone's ever told you this, but you're being outwardly shitty when you have no reason to be. You're just throwing the word terrorism around disingenuously to get a rise out of people.
I'd say "forget it, move on, and delete any evidence that any of this ever took place." You stand to gain nothing from this whole exercise, while the downside risk is that you get weev'd[1].

Screw 'em, you don't owe them anything. And if they don't want to fix the issue, it's not your problem.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weev
"Closing since this is a duplicate of #113"

113 at https://github.com/Microsoft/calculator/issues/113 is closed with:

> Although I'd also like to see some of Calculator's features on my Linux box, Calculator's UI is highly customized for Windows and it extensively uses Windows APIs. It's not impossible to add support for other platforms to this project, but it would be a huge amount of work.
I know you joke, but in case someone has been unaware, there's Paint.NET[1], which is somewhere between MSPaint-on-steroids and Photoshop-lite.

In 7.5MB, it offers most of the features casual users need from a graphics program: layers, transparency, curves, etc. - all in a footprint (and startup time) comparable to that of MSPaint.

[1]https://www.getpaint.net/
You're right that it's a real footgun, the major issues that I'm aware of are in the native serializer, but yeah even the big libraries like Jackson have had issues.

I don't consider those on the same level as memory unsafety, personally, but it's not really a meaningful comparison because I'm not going to dig around for numbers and mitigation techniques.
Some would take enhanced privacy over properly-functioning sites. I wonder how broken sites would appear if the browser simply lied about such things.
It's also the only platform of any kind where I have clicked on ads... on purpose!
> The world changed, too. Facts used to matter; we read books and the newspaper, not 25 reasons to be an idiot on Buzzfeed.

https://iandanielstewart.com/2017/06/16/the-golden-age-falla...
What? It was just an example about how defaults affect behavior, not a sneaky attempt to blur the idea of right vs wrong.
> the biggest drop is in the very desirable 12- to 34-year-old group

i wonder if millenials and kids are a profitable or desireable demographic these days
If you truly care about costs, and not punishing the sick, single-payer systems are cheaper than private insurance by an average factor of 3[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_hea...
> The social network hasn't had any interesting feature added to it in the last couple of years.

It should remove features, it has become a bloated abomination with no focus.
I think you need a forum for lengthy discussions. It's common to try to use email or Slack like a forum, but it's better to just use a forum. Basecamp works great in this capacity, but something like MyBB works well too.
> Would s["one"] = 1 raise an exception?

Sets don't support indexing, so it would still raise an exception. Dicts do, which is an example of them supporting more operations than sets, which is an example of why (if there is to be any subclass relation) dicts are subclasses of sets.

Edit: I suppose there's some confusion about my language above. "then sets would be dicts whose values are all None" could more helpfully read "sets would be equivalent to dicts whose...".
Omidyar Network spins out its fintech investment arm as Flourish
Sexism and harassment is even more prevalent in the entertainment industry and there are plenty of women working in entertainment. Although I agree sexism/harassment exists in tech, I don't believe it's a valid argument for why there is a gender gap.
She is a lawyer too, apparently.

From the article: "With both of us being attorneys..."
True, and people are investigating new ideas about dietary fiber thinking that perhaps it's not just for "bulk" and helping keep things "regular":
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29902436

"In this review, we will focus on dietary fibers, which interact directly with gut microbes and lead to the production of key metabolites such as short-chain fatty acids, and discuss how dietary fiber impacts gut microbial ecology, host physiology, and health."
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>Melissa thinks you should keep tithing, because blessings can be bought.

To be fair, the Bible literally states that God will bless you if you tithe, and curse you if you don't.
Taxis aren't very different things at all. That's why in many countries, Uber has been banned. They're regarded as taxis circumventing taxi regulations.

> It really is a job platform designed to take advantage of people who need multiple jobs, and surprise surprise, there's a slew of 'em here.

Any job offer is taking advantage of the fact that people aren't magical self-sufficient entities. There's nothing wrong with offering a job, nobody is forcing anyone to take it.

> It simply wouldn't work in a country that did not have such huge wealth disparity.

Wealth disparity has nothing to do with it. Uber prices are set by supply and demand. In some countries, Uber may need to pay more to attract drivers - and raise prices as a result.
> What is the basis for saying that two single people can deduct the same interest paid?

They can't, but the maximum limit on both mortgage interest ($100K) and the indebtedness on which you can deduct interest paid ($1.1 million) apply per-taxpayer for unmarried co-owners. You still can only each deduct what you actually pay. This is a result of a 9th Circuit City decision IRS decided not to appeal that almost certainly want the intent of the law, and was not the way the law was applied prior to the decision.

I'm surprised Republicans haven't framed it as a new marriage penalty and jammed a “fix” that would increase the limit for married taxpayers to double the single-taxpayer limit into one of their tax bills, since it would let them champion marriage, rail against the perfidy of the Ninth Circuit, and cut taxes on the rich all at the same time.
Current Facebook employee. I'll try to keep this short.

Some of the things Facebook has done have made me sad, or angry. I do wish we could evolve toward that perfect balance of privacy, authenticity, connectedness, etc. more quickly. OTOH, I do see a lot of good people around me, many who share those concerns, and I do see progress being made, and I know none of us will make a damn bit of difference from the outside.
I've been in an internet argument among very serious digital audio experts (such as from Bell Labs) where the consensus reached was this: for properly done audio export as a final stage to be heard by the most critical listeners, and by properly done I mean the output is dithered and not simply truncated and everything else is done properly:

20, possibly 22 bit, and 60 to 80K.

Given that people screw that up by failing to dither to fixed point formats, you could push it to 24 bit, which is a generally supported word length. Since multipliers of common lower sample rates (44.1 and 48) give us 96K, that is also a good 'extra padding' to be certain of never encountering an issue.

I'm with Dan Lavry w.r.t 192K being unnecessary. Done properly, 96K gets everything, including extreme phenomena or artificial sound (for instance, I have a Farfisa organ that's capable of producing reedy thin sounds of extraordinary clarity, from simple electric tone generator circuits). I use 24/96 for my music stream recordings, while also streaming to YouTube at a much lower quality.
On the other hand, landlords are not friends. You create a situation where the owner is building equity and the friends are building the owner's equity.

I co bought a house with my wife and another couple. We spent about 18 months figuring out the legal agreement, including many permutations on failure to pay. Fwiw, our 'failure to pay' arrangement is in two steps. First step is the generation of interest bearing loans, secured against the non paying owner's equity. (Effectively auto sale of part of the non-paying owner's portion of the house.) Stage two is an actual sale process, which might be owner to owner, or might be dissolving entirely and selling the house. All of this is in our TiC contact.

On the flip side, we were able to pay 40% down on an awesome place that we couldn't have done individually, and even the lowest earner is getting significant equity because of the way we've structured our terms.

Rent is theft.
Women, including married women and mothers, have been in the (paid) workforce for millennia, doing all sorts of jobs. Common paid jobs outside the home included: housekeeping; laundry (which btw 150+ years ago was heavy manual labor); childcare; factory work; tending shops and market stalls; beauty services; entertainment; and more recently (since it's become more common for women to be educated), clerical work and teaching.

The only people to whom a single-earner household outside the upper and upper middle classes was ever considered a default were the inhabitants of certain developed countries for a few decades in the middle of the 20th century; and even then it was more of a norm than a universal fact.

The only things that changed recently are a) women now can also have "careers" and prestigious occupations instead of just jobs; and b) working outside the home has become normal for upper middle class women as well as working class women (and for some even a status symbol rather than a symbol of poverty).
We store nothing except your login info, the plan you're on and your room link. Everything is 1 way encrypted at 3 different layers.

We store no speech data at all! On Google Chrome, speech recog is done via Web Speech API. They claim not to store speech data in their privacy whitepaper: https://www.google.com/chrome/privacy/whitepaper.html#speech
In-Browser TypeScript REPL with VSCode Intellisense
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Unfortunately, the Sciences don’t pay very well.
It would be interesting to know what percentage of science majors or phds in science, work in there chosen profession.
Can someone explain why it launches so slowly?

It's 2019, I have a multi-gigahertz processor, it's a calculator app, and it takes a few seconds to launch!
They have ruined Whole Foods. Anecdata: the local store is now filthy, filled with unhappy employees, and no longer carries a broad selection of items. But hey, bananas are cheaper. The "customers" are mostly local delivery services now.
We have added support for integrating anything that communicates through HTTP into spark, so if you put it behind a service we can let you use it in spark. Also the mobius library, does a similar thing:

https://github.com/Microsoft/Mobius
No hard evidence of what exactly? His reply doesn’t make much sense. Other than maybe he doesn’t think it looks flattering when you’re abruptly let go from 2 jobs and your consulting venture doesn’t pan out.
Same here! Super jealous though because the closest one is a 20 min drive. I wish I had one closer because they're such a great shopping experience.
Well it must include your IP address too, and they know the time and date is was received. And then it gets bundled with the rest of the data they collected.

I don't even want them knowing when I'm using my computer.

“What gets measured gets managed.”
Resetting by fasting is nothing like taking antibiotics

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096098221...
Exactly.

Similarly, Google quality is in big part due to invaluable information of what URLs were clicked for what queries.

If duckduckgo had access to that information, their quality would've been way higher, and there's no reason I as a user shall not be able to give access to the information I generated for Google to another service.
I'm gonna try and coin the term: "The facebook parodox"

It's the problem where you have cross-generational social media infused with varying socio-economic levels you find that people online want to align with their tribe BUT ALSO want to be connected with you because of a physical connection.

Prior social networks were already "pre-aligned":

Myspace: Majority School Peers/Friends +-4 years
Twitter: Industry networking/interest based

Facebook is "everything". I've hit this moment where I don't want to add "2nd degree" or "loose" connections on facebook because I don't think it will enhance our relationship, if anything it could drive a wedge between us. I see these people 1-2 a year, and in person, it's great, but online, it's horrible.
Not really. There are plenty of areas of Australia that are thoroughly clogged with tourists, especially from Asia, which isn't so far to travel.
facebook shot themselves in the foot with their constant attempts to bring the news sites to their platform. It used to be about virtual sheep, and then it became a place where apparently people chatter endlessly about politics. One has to wonder if politics is the best way to keep your users engaged or the most profitable.
They optimise what they measure. When I'm on Facebook, I like some type of posts and they continued to show me similar posts, without realising that, I'm coming to the facebook and like those posts but I'm not coming to facebook to like that post. My frequency of visit reducing and I think they do not have any idea why, since all my visit shoes good portion of engagement.
Besides your skepticism of the concept of tithing, karma, or the reciprocal nature of giving, what in particular is the published "bad advice" in the article that you take issue with? Your comment suggests that it's not really her advice that offends (appalls) you, but rather her writing style. Is that fair to say?
Fraud reduction is largely irrelevant on non tangible products though, especially when licenses can be revoked online.
> the NSA and other white-hat organizations

First time I hear NSA grouped with white-hats. What definition would permit this categorization?
> You create a situation where the owner is building equity and the friends are building the owner's equity.

Conversely, if there's an earthquake/fire/mold problem, then the equity holder is on the hook and the renters can just move on.
No problem.

Bots will take up their place, and clueless companies will keep on wasting dollars by the millions.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucerogers/2019/01/18/will-it-...
The power of past major war to avert the inclination towards future major war doesn't lie just in the experiences of veterans, but in that of the people connected to them, and of the people who are informed of their experiences through media, as well as that of people who have to live through the socioeconomic fallout of past wars. There are plenty of us around.
1-2 hours of moderately intense exercise
If anyone used both rust and go, are there any big advantages of go over rust (besides simplicity)?
Can we remote into the machine with it?
Yup, crypto lesson in hard way
This says "for PhDs" but then I found that it's more geared at PhD students working in research groups. A different type of PhD is the tenured professor who has to deal with a large number of projects at the same time. There's research, but there's also teaching, service projects, reviewing/editing, students asking for letters, and dozens of other things. At that scale, it's tough, and I still haven't found a complete solution. I use Todoist, email, Basecamp, version control (Fossil) and a few open source apps/apps I've written myself. I spend about 60 minutes on project management each day - that's organizing projects, not working on them.
Very inadequately. There was a quadrophonic vinyl system that failed commercially, which played back surround speakers using modulation of a 30K carrier tone. You had to use a special (aka 'good') stylus, and it sort of worked. The resulting carrier tones would go from 18 kHz to 45 kHz and the fact that this worked at all is evidence that vinyl goes up that far if you let it: wear will tend to scrub off that information unless it's a high energy transient, in which case there's a big chunk of plastic refusing to be worn off (but you'll dull it).
I should specify I mean the ones they market to middle and high schools , TI-89, Nspire, and etc
EU's alternative to SWIFT has a name:INSTEX
It is expensive. Usually 45-60 dollars for a months supply.

I’ve used the American Shaman water soluble full-spectrum and Medterra isolate CBD oil. Both were effective for me with a slight preference towards the Medterra isolate.

It’s about the most “normal” feeling I’ve ever had. Definitely by far the most effective treatment I’ve had for anxiety, and that’s including the SSRI’s. Probably beats Lexapro because of the near non-existent side effects for me. But again, sample size 1.

The /r/cbd group is a good starting place.
In the US, there's a lot of administrative pressure to keep the time-to-degree somewhere in the neighborhood of five or six years, but there's not usually a fixed cut-off date for everyone there.

Instead, they just get increasingly insistent about you making "forward progress" and increasingly reluctant to keep your funding going.
You Get What You Tax For
> Rent is theft.

Wow that's strong. Do you really believe anyone who offers property for rent at market price is morally equivalent to a conventional thief?