skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hello HN! :D

I’m going to ask a controversial question. If it is too controversial, just downvote and I will keep it in mind. Feel free to reply with a throwaway with your IP spoofed and all that jazz.

Who of you have decided to hack cryptocurrencies in order to make some money? How was the journey like? How do you feel about it morally?

As for me, I obviously haven’t done it, otherwise I would ask this on a throwaway. I thought about doing it. But I don’t want to steal and a minor point is that I would find it boring.

Why am I asking this: a candid response would make for an interesting read. There was once an AMA on Reddit about a malware writer. It was fascinating!
A Citizens’ Guide to Regulating Big Tech
> 4. fraud in exchanges

Actually fraud and cons in general, aided by irreversability, is the point made in the article.

If you can't undo the fraud, that's a huge boon to fraudsters.
Tor Accepts Donations in Cryptocurrency
I sympathize with you. These things sounds trivial and should be trivial right?
If everyone could wrap their heads around these subjects these things wouldn't be university material. Maybe these things are really hard to grasp?

Humans are learning by repetition and forgetting things that aren't repeated commonly. We can do a lots of mistakes, creative thinking and also new ideas by mistakes.
Computers remembers everything forever and can do extremely precisely anything told but can't do batshit by itselfs.
Your frustration seems to be born from the fact that humans and computers are so incompatible. I have news for you - to be frustrated by this incompatibility is part of our job.

Oh and don't forget to compare yourself with your previous-self instead of your colleagues.
Evaluating probabilistic programming languages simulating quantum correlations
That depends if the certification of the tooling and spares allows them to be used interchangeably between the pre-MAX and the MAX.
At about that time frame, at university we were playing a similar clone of Maze Wars that ran over appletalk and allowed up to 30 players:

https://www.mobygames.com/game/macintosh/maze-wars_
The wings of the A320 have more ground clearing than the 737 NG. Airbus could easily fit the larger and more efficient engines. Boeing had to move the engines slightly before the wings (or face an expensive complete redesign). The resulting different flight behavior would have required a new type rating (which is expensive). Instead software (cheap!) was used to correct for the different behavior.

This is not an indication on other aspects of the A320 vs. the 737 MAX.
If your broken sink is connected to a broken pipe under the street in front of your house on your property, and you find that you need to hire a Master Plumber with a team of juniors to fix it, you may find that the same price/years of experience equation exists.

The hierarchy of the trade union is what sustains this service model in the marketplace.
Take a look at the graphs I linked to - they show this quite visibly. Both airspeed and altitude are taken from the pitot-static tubes, but these misread at extreme angles of attack, as the airflow isn't directly in the direction of the pitot tube. Thus the air data computer uses AoA information to correct the raw altitude and airspeed readings.

Edit: can't find the reference I was looking for, but try this thread: https://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=738067#p1063...
Gross. About time to replace facebook.
Modern Plugins and Protocols for Pidgin
Yes. Stick force curve certification compliance is a primary reason for MCAS to exist.
No, it's not. You eval the return value of the call. There is no loss of expressive power. Compile time macro expansion in this model is simply partial evaluation.
Why did you stop making io games? Where did you learn multiplayer game development?
These are so much less exciting...
This is a significant reason why subways exist even though tunneling is significantly more expensive than just clearing and laying rail tracks.
We assign them hostnames in DNS. We have a domain set aside for this purpose.
> The key word there is defined. Defined by gender means boxed in by the expectations that being a male or female thrusts on us.

Identity is by definition a set of expectations. To lose those expectations is to lose a facet of identity.

There's a group of people who want to remove that facet of their identity, cool, I support them. But I like that facet of my identity, and I like the fact that most people around me also express that facet of their identity. I don't want want to be genderless or to live in a genderless world. Do not marginalise me for being that way.
> Also, the UK wasn't a democracy in any meaningful sense in 1776.

One could argue that UK is still not a democracy now. House of lords, Queen's hard and soft power, traditions, no legally binding referendum that can be done without government or parliament.
Sooo i see 50M but it is probably just click bait as the are celebrating 50M payed out in general?

The writeup is okay thou.
It's possible to constantly change the function so that ASICs can't adapt to the the changes.
Pop OS
Regarding the first paragraph, I know, but that isn't under discussion. What is under discussion is censorship of speech due to ideology, perhaps because it leads to violence if although there are no direct calls for violence. White supremacy and radical Islamism both need not call for violence, but the ultimate conclusion of the ideology is violence. It sounds like you don't want to censor either, which I think is consistent.
How Indian engineers fare against those from China and the US
Please invest some time learning the concept of Mindfulness. Its widely available knowledge base and will help you out in a very short period of time.
Pytorch-NLP Documentation
My background is safety-critical and -- speaking from first-hand experience -- it was truly incredible how much push-back we'd get when raising safety issues.

System tick timer rolled over after 2^32 1ms clock ticks (a little over seven weeks) and the software mishandled it by rebooting and losing control of the process. It wasn't until QA got involved (it turned out they saw it on a long-term test) that we were cleared to actually fix it. It was a two-character change in an inline function!

In some places "cover it up, don't discuss it in email" is the natural response. It really depends on the management and the organisational culture. You can have management who support the engineering team, or you can have management who micromanage and overrule and end up turning a two-day hotfix cycle into ten months of "try soldering a resistor to every single pin on the PCB".
Not going to down-vote just because you’re wrong, since you bring up a cogent argument. But it’s still wrong nevertheless. I’ve skimmed the linked Wikipedia article. Could you quote from that article that MITM requires intercepting a certificate or key request?
What do you mean by F-bombs?

Do you mean fuck as a word?

Thats an issue? Or are the people the issue?
Yes. But how much you get depends on how much you paid in during your working years, as well as what age you retire at.
I understand your reasoning, but my point is precicely that it's the way we talk about this that is important.

This is the official story we had after tchernobyl:

https://www.bastamag.net/IMG/png/journal_televise_antenne2.p...

This is the reality we measured:

https://img.lemde.fr/2016/04/26/0/0/956/687/688/0/60/0/cb64c...

It is worst than this, of course, because some plants accumulate radioactivity and we ate them. No recommendation had been given to the general population at all.

The region with the most thyroid cancers in the 20 years following is the Isère, at the center east of this map.

Now let's say we end up calculating that the actual number of cancers is, let's say, 100 more in France because of the cloud. It would not be much, and would not be worth acting on it: the flu would be more dangerous.

That's not the problem.

The problem is the way we communicate on this.
It could be good for America, but I’m skeptical it’s going to happen. Certainly not within 24 months.
If you listen closely you can hear Frank Oz say a few lines though
How does this AoA sensor works? I'm guessing it has to sense the direction of the wind and then calculate the vector of the wings compared to that?

I've seen pictures of it ( https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/2317/how-does-a... ) and seems to be a simple mechanical component.

Why isn't this compounded with something that works by estimating the AoA from other factors? A few simple gravity based sensors would be able to tell the vector of the plane, and simply assuming that wind (airflow) is parallel to the ground would go a long way. Or is the vertical component of the local airflow so variable?
What type of social setup is a coffee shop? I mean whut? That feels super superficial.
Marx had a lot of ideas; some of them were probably good. Involving workers in the ownership of companies seems like a good idea even if Marx supported it.

Marxism as practiced in places like, eg, Russia fell down because they disrupted the ability of the market to send and receive accurate price signals and over time that led to catastrophically misallocated resources. Many of the people who want socialism seem to support disabling said price signals, because they are unfair, which is why socialism is so dangerous - those price signals are very important. However, as long as they face the same risk of bankruptcy as everyone else, workers co-ops with the ability for outsiders to invest are probably a superior model of ownership.
That's pretty awesome -- and chilling. His four seat Cessna's $20k avionics upgrade (which got automatic pitch regulation same as the Max) required more training and documentation than the multi-million 737 Max that killed 157 + 189 people.

The 737 MAX is a dodgy design which probably ought to be banned.
> … a very obvious gay male flight attendant

I’m not a fan of these kind of characterizations. I can think of two things that make someone obviously gay: (1) they tell you, or (2) you see that person engaging in homosexual conduct.

Nearly anything else is probably a prejudicial stereotype.
the EP website states that even if there are any "corrections" from the MPs, it will not change the outcome of the vote. So the MPs really do that only to "save their face" on twitter
Suspended mass inside container fixed to plane structure, measure angle of mass relative to container?

> AoA is about airflow directions anyway, so wind angle plays a role too, beyond just plane angle to the ground.

That doesn't sound desirable though, is it?
Search for : NDIR CO2 sensor module. The ones without auto-calibration go for under $20 in China.
Good question. I think nobody knows. Most likely what happens is:

* You make the change
* You report back that you made the change and it's now pending in code review
* Your change gets rejected in code review
* Australia tells you to make the change and circumvent code review
* You tell them you have no way to do that; every change goes through code review
* Australia wants to know who reviews your code, and if your code could be reviewed by an Australian
* Your boss asks you why you haven't delivered any changes recently and why are you constantly on the phone explaining the code review process
* Australia contacts a reviewer and tells them to accept your next change or else
* You get fired before you can submit the change again
The Rise and Fall of America’s Original Food Magazine
So how would a file manager work then? I have used several file managers over the years that allowed me to conveniently manage files locally and remotely. E.g. extract the downloaded zip file locally, edit ome of them, copy these 20 selected extracted files via SCP and delete these three folders.

Granted, I only do that on a phome in a pinch but having these features saved me more than once. I dom't want Android to become as restrictive and underpowered as iOS feels to me.
Interesting!

I'm a big fan of pg's essays. From my pov, it was the "golden age" of blogging^. Essays like "black swan farming," "high res-society" were fascinating, and tied abstract ideas aabout startups, investing and the world to the parcticalities of how YC works. I found it fascinating.

PG did address startup hubs, why "YC of _place_" was a problematice idea and other reasons why YC is centralized where it is.

But... PG wrote about a lot of ideas. Some might lead you to the opposite conclusion, maybe increasingly as the startup industry has grown.

Ramen profitable, for example, could be a totally different proposition in India. "High resolution" is an idea that I think at some scale needs to happen outside of SV.

Since those essays, YC has scaled. That could put new possibilities on the table. Many of the reasons startups hub are fixable with scale.

I realize this is just interviews, but I reckon that "just" is not just a just.

^Another great example was joel on software and the stack overflow podcast. You could watch Joel and Jeff's abstract ideas about (eg) "social user interface" and such be implmented in software.
There is a debate to be had, but this is a naked propeganda piece. The crux of the article is based on:

“Among Boeing’s critics is Gregory Travis, a veteran software engineer and experienced, instrument-rated pilot who has flown aircraft simulators as large as the Boeing 757.”

... someone who uses flight simulators. This is not credible journalism.
A computer is a masculine noun in two of the languages that I use.
VirtFS–A virtualization aware File System pass-through (2010) [pdf]
> B2 is dead cheap

B2 is 400% more expensive than Deep Archive. Whether the lower transfer costs result in savings depends on your use case. For B2 the cost of transfer is 5x a month of storage, for Deep Archive it’s 90x.

GCS is also cheaper than S3, with even higher transfer costs, but instant access irrespective of storage class.
A Trinary Functional Dataflow Programming Language Specification
Not anymore. Windows as a service is starting to break things now.
> The argument is that this trains people to think of women as subservient, or things to be ordered around.

Sounds like an extraordinary claim going unsubstantiated. Unlike that claim, the reason why voice assistants are overwhelmingly female is well known. It's because both users of both sexes overwhelmingly prefer a female voice in focus groups. That facet of Siri et al has been studied very thoroughly.
When in flight, accelerometers only tell you what forces are being exerted by the wings and the engines, not which way is down. Consider, for example, the way the drinks in a cup don't spill when a plane turns.
Out of interest, why wouldn’t Airbus get those sales?
JMU incorporates virtual reality across campus through X-Labs
The main point for me is not whether or not they can actually coerce me, but whether or not this is going to affect my employability. I have seen in various news articles reporting that, apparently, companies based in the USA and EU are currently wary of hiring Australian developers because of this law.

Regarding your point, my understanding (I'm not a lawyer so I may be wrong) is that, in general, the law of a country applies to residents only while they are residing in the country, and it ends being applicable after they leave the country. For citizens this is certainly not the case, e.g. even though I haven't been to Italy since 2013, as a citizen I still have some rights and obligations.
"hire a Master Plumber with a team of juniors to fix it"

In that situation I would consider the "Master Plumber" akin to a lead developer or project manager. Which goes back to my main point - in software development you eventually need to either move to a management/leadership role or specialise in domain specific fields like security, computer graphics, systems architecture etc.
Exactly, they are by far the less biased news outlet I read. For instance, they explicitly don't support Trump, but don't hesitate to say "Trump is right about X", or "Trump did well on Y". They also don't support the Chinese PC, but don't hesitate on giving recommendations that would help them fix their problems (knowing that the Chinese elite read The Economist)
Part of the problem was that MCAS was originally designed with very little control authority, and so wasn't considered safety-critical. However, during testing they realized they needed to up the gain, and made pretty major retuning without reexamining their safety assumptions.

Plus the bug with the resets on the limiter.
Imagine being triggered by your GPS devices voice

Grow up
McDonald’s AI Startup Acquisition Combines Big Data with Big Mac’s
If I had a deadline like that then I'd pick whichever one has a track record of delivering to tight deadlines - familiarity with a particular technology stack is going to help but isn't everything.
I'm one of the writers of learn.adacore.com and I disagree. This is a thought log from somebody who knows and loves Rust and is learning a new language.

Steve if you're around: there is an error I think in your post, you write

> Ranged integers are something people always say Rust is better at than Ada

And I think you meant the opposite ;)
Challenges hindering memristive neuromorphic hardware from going mainstream
I'm always amazed about how one person can have so many ideas to break a system from which you know nothing.
Low Cost Interconnected Architecture for the Hardware Spiking Neural Networks
so when you are swimming you hold one leg in the air or do you keep everything in the water so you can swim faster ?
Apple Store requirements are not applicable to Apple apps
... it’s written by a guy who uses flight simulators, this is crank stuff.
LOL

I guess there is nothing good.. what is wrong with people :(
I like the idea and I'm glad there is effort being put into this.

I imagine though if one of the big players would implement this we would see an insane amount of public debate and media coverage about whether the voice sounds like a man or a woman.

It seems like the typical "tech tries to solve social issues"
I actually just picked up 'The Wake' a couple of weeks ago. There is definitely a learning curve to Kingsnorth's "shadow tongue," but once you get the hang of it, it is very immersive and rewarding to read. It really gives you a sense of foreign place and time, as a story set in 1066 should. What surprised me is how effective it is at establishing a perspective from which you can really feel the relationship that these characters have with the world around them. I picked it up because the premise sounded interesting, and was totally blown away with how fun it is to read—I would definitely recommend checking it out.
I read through this article, plus the ones linked in it, but there's very little information regarding what is actually blocked.

It's says porn in the title, but there is frequent reference to blocking 'adult content'. In this regard 'adult content' can be a very wide net. Sometimes blocking things which are not 'adult content' at all...

The Guardian article contains quotes which[1][2] raise my suspicions about the validity of this issue. I'm not an expert, but surely for such a large amount of users (plus, what I'd imagine is an easily accessed guest WiFi) the amount of block access attempts isn't that high?

Aside from that, why should I care that someone looks at (shock! horror!) 'adult content' on their phone? I'm surprised that this puritan attitude to pornography still persists. I also thought we progressed beyond the whole sex lives of politicians nonsense too.

[1] "A parliamentary spokesman said of the figures: “All pornographic websites are blocked by parliament’s computer network. The vast majority of attempts to access them are not deliberate. The data shows requests to access websites, not visits to them."

[2] “There are 8,500 computers on the parliamentary network, which are used by MPs, peers, their staff and staff of both Houses. This data also covers personal devices used when logged on to parliament’s guest wifi.”
Amazon Aurora: Avoiding Distributed Consensus for I/Os, Commits, Membership
Related: https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/27/18284628/apple-news-plus-...
all those sales
I might be the only idiot but I don’t plan on flying Boeing 737 Max, no matter what kind of software fixes they put in place. Irrational? Maybe.
It’s disappointing to see you pull out such an easy, cheap, and tired stereotype.
Those appear to be a few percent off each other. I concede that’s “not ideal”, but I doubt the airspeed indication skew contributed to the accident.
Older than encryption? Encryption has existed since before the Roman empire.

> It refers to literally a person intercepting your message before (or instead of) it reaching the intended audience.

Every time somebody has pointed that out they have extracted that definition from the term opposed to referencing the term from a definition. It is similar to answering a question with only a restatement of the question.
Artificial Intelligence and Marketing
>Marx had a lot of ideas; some of them were probably good. Involving workers in the ownership of companies seems like a good idea even if Marx supported it.

I'm not saying otherwise. In fact, a lot of Marx ideas were good. He also famously said "I'm not a marxist".
Hacking CD/DVD/Blu-ray for Biosensing (2018) [pdf]
> There seem to be a large blind spot in these pilot accounts, some elephant in the room, but not being an expert I'm unable to pinpoint what it is.

I'm not an expert either. But I suspect it might be one of the following:

1. the F-22 has a higher thrust to weight ration than the F-35, meaning the F-22 is more manouvrable.

2. the F-22 has a lower wing loading than the F-35, again making the F-22 more manouvrable.

3. the stealth on the F-35, while good against the radars of 20 years ago, might be a lot less effective against the radars of the future, for example long-wavelength radars with lots of ground-based sensors all tied together with sensor fusion. This is a big deal since the F-35 is expected to stay in service until 2070 and I'm sure the Chinese and Russians are looking at ways to counter it.
Is rate of fire really a blocker for US artillery? Can't they just bring more guns?
Oh that's true, except a new airframe leads to new everything, including certifications and training for pilots. Those do not come free.
Please bitch "associate professional"
At the end, Pylint rated my code 10/10
News Inside: A print publication that will be distributed in prisons
Makes me want to write a retrocyberpunk setting featuring languages loaded off floppy disks.
"would have never..." it's not possible to make such an assertion unless you have access to at least one copy of this universe that doesn't include him. Maybe in all the other universes the exact same thing happened except someone else did it. Maybe in some of those universes, without him and his popularizing of this technique, some other better technique flourished. Who knows?

Stating "would never have" is nothing more than telling a story.
Contrary to popular believe we already had laws against hate-speech in the middle of the 19th century. The authoritarians used that regularly to underline their alleged prosecution. And it worked because they were right to a degree.

You can only remember the lessons of the past if you understood them in the first place. And frankly, arguing for more content controls by authorities is an insult to anyone actually having an understanding of those times.
JC and the mainstream media is crying about Huawei and Kasperky but this gets through uncontested?

Do as I say not as I do.
There is a huge difference of displaying angle of attack as input to educated pilots to feeding it into a system which has the authority to override the pilot with little warning.

The problem with the 737MAX airframe is that the pitch up seems to be so strong that nothing else than immediate MCAS feedback can reign it in.
Every time I see an examle of this I think "holy crap we're all going to die". The bus drivers are blind.
ZboxFS: Zero-details, privacy-focused embeddable file system