skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I bet you six meters of kiełbasa that you did not get that pronunciation 100% correct.
I would love to hear specifics if you can share them.

Personally, I've used articles obtained through Sci-Hub to guide my approach to managing my own rare health condition. I wouldn't say it saved my life, but I've found the information very useful in figuring out the relative merits of new treatment options.

In particular, there is one specialty journal that's only available by institutional subscription at a cost of more than $2,000 per year. The publisher was particularly unhelpful in trying to find a way to enable access for patients. So despite trying to do the right thing, I just go to Sci-Hub to get this info.
On Android I think Google has Google Trips app, which gets data from GMail emails you receive & google search you do.
> Let's add the US Congress and the EU to the long list of parties to blame for the DRM situation. "Reverse engineering" software for the purposes of "circumventing" copyright is illegal.

That does depend on the countries, at least on my case in France there's an accessibility exception which makes it okay in his case to break the DRM legally because he does not have any other choice.
If you consider interaction a core component of a game, affecting all other aspects of the "experience", then reducing that interaction, and level of awareness, time, practice, etc that builds into the experience clearly alters the experience.

Consider the extreme -- play through any given game with a mario super star.. it's difficult to imagine the game experience isn't radically changed.

These kinds of defenses for "easy" modes (that is, easier than the game was designed for) seem to be fundamentally based on the idea that an optimal game is simply a movie with some (perhaps optional) QTE's to keep you from getting bored. But they're not. Clearly not all games get any benefit out of increasing difficulty (most game's difficulty increase amounts to turning everything into bullet sponges -- this rarely alters the experience in any notable fashion), but that hardly means difficulty has no purpose or place.

An easy mode might not ruin the game.. but it may be a worthless mode to have, and one that ruins the player's experience. The souls series would be generally uninteresting if you weren't pushed towards playing careful and meticulously. The DMC series would be generally uninteresting if you weren't pushed towards better and faster (and more stylish) combo'ing. Shadow of the Colossus, BioShock would have absolutely no impact/weight (incidentally, an easy mode has been added I guess to latest remasters). Super Meat Boy wouldn't even be a game anymore.

Imagine never experiencing 100 to 0 pikmin loss! Without that threat, is it even the same class of game?

If you couldn't play them properly, it would probably be a waste of time. Their stories aren't that interesting. They ain't books.

Of course, for many games it doesn't matter. Uncharted series really is just a movie with some QTE events (and QTE events in the fashion of a cover shooter), and difficulty isn't a factor. CRPGs/JRPGs generally have such uninteresting encounters that you could rip out most of the non-roleplaying combat mechanics and still have much the same thing (but you lose that sweet, sweet timesink).

Mass Effect 1 and Star Control 2 barely justify the existence of combat in the first place (reduce the fuel needs in SC2 and you'll radically change its early game however, probably much worse). They can be made easy... but it hardly applies generally. And these are all examples where they can be made easier, because they failed to make any use of their difficulty in the first place.
>Mathworks

I used Simulink and Speedgoat (and LabView!) for many years. Oh how I long to create a startup that would improve on all of these dinosaur-like tools. Seriously if anyone wants to disrupt these entrenched, inertial companies, look me up. There are sooo many places to improve and you're right there's almost no competition. Trust me, I looked for it every few months when I ran into the limitations of these packages. I accept them for what they are, but they could be so much better!
I will try that with a backup of my backup to see if I can get my data back up
React Native Deep Link – url scheme and universal link
I'm not sure how much you can or would push to restore functionality via this added layer, but even this is a great boon.

For both this, and your recently deceased, thank you.
Ok, so the title is misleading.

There’s no new crypto here, so it’s susceptible to the same attacks as rsa,ecc, etc.

The claim appears to be a formal proof of no side channel leaks. I’d need much more time and interest to try and understand the mechanisms they use to prevent such leaks :)
The emerging 737 Max scandal, explained
Massa, Raikkonen, Montoya, Alonso ... those were the days.
Vladimir Nabokov, Literary Refugee
I’d assume 25k credits might cost then $250 in hosting costs. Segment ain’t cheap.
I have no idea. But saying that you feel like you need a project is not a counterargument to the thesis: most teams don’t need it, even if some do. Maybe that’s right, or maybe it’s wrong, but your original comment was not a rebuttal.

You questioned why we keep seeing these arguments. Perhaps it’s because nobody on the other side cares to listen?
Online-Maps Sources for OsmAnd
When I lived in the DC area, the Metro would indeed skip stops after delays sometimes.

Here's an article talking about it: https://ggwash.org/view/38198/expressing-trains-helps-metro-...

The NY subway will also sometimes have trains switch from local to express or vice versa to help recover during delays.
I wish that these critiques grappled with the ways that so many of the services that we now resent were truly embraced by many because they seemed magical when they appeared.
They fixed other stuff as well which needed the new board.

I appreciate the extra fixes, but was not informed of this specifically until the machine was handed back

They did confirm it was backed up when they took it though, so they assumed I could recover my data
Hi. I've done (software engineering) contract work for Google. Sure they can replace me; and I can replace them. I like this situation just fine. I don't want to be an employee.
Ask HN: Looking for a series on implementing classic Unix tools from scratch
This can be blogs, books, or YouTube. I'm working on upping my C skills and have started to reimplement some tools like wc, cat, etc. I'm wondering if there are good walkthroughs out there for some of the more complex tools like sort, xargs, etc.

Any further advice on C for the 20 teens is also welcome.
The Android Pebble App Has Been Pulled from the Play Store
https://www.seat61.com/thello-train-from-paris-to-italy.htm
Yeah, many developers are exhausted with their work. This is a good outlet.
Because we do known that men and women are neurologically different. There's a wealth of evidence suggesting so. And considering what we know about sexual dimorphism, this is completely unsurprising.
Interesting that they picked Colombia. Medellin is actually a booming city. They have free wifi in most of the parks.

I was also in Bogota in 2007 and again 2 years ago. The country has many more tourists now. It could pass for a city in the US. Medellin is the city of eternal spring. I believe lots of Americans are retiring there.

Central America is the place that really needs the help.
I apologize for being so cynical, but based on our track record, it'll take a high-profile conviction that is so obviously and blatantly unjust and contrary to the public interest, that the mass media outrage machine tunes in. Sadly, if she gets extradited, this might just be that case.
I looked at a few of the torrents, and they're very roughly 150 GB each. So that's about 50 TB overall.
But who is going to say that? The web developer is going to go to the CEO and say "look how slow the site I just made is!"?
The first sentence in the wikipedia article says:
"A blacklight [...] emits long-wave (UV-A) ultraviolet light [...]."

Why does it say "long-wave" when UV is short-wavelength ?
MIT Expert Highlights 'Divergent Condition' Caused by 737 Max Engine Placement
The same phenomenon has affected macOS itself. It's sad, and frustrating. I'm not even someone who's upset about the USB-C or the Touch Bar. I'm happy paying Apple's prices for truly quality tools, but my faith in the quality of their laptop line has been shaken lately.
There are all the obvious corruption problems with post-Presidential activities, and obviously it's a huge source of corrupting influence. The Clintons became obscenely wealthy -- but that had nothing to do with their Foundation (speaking as an expert in nonprofit finance).

My only animosity is toward public corruption. The Bushes visiting Kennebunkport was obviously different because other people couldn't pay to access the president at Kennebunkport. The Saudis bought 500 rooms at a hotel that the President personally owns immediately after the inauguration. That's completely different in scale, kind, and timing in terms of the 'normal' corruption and I'm flabbergasted that it doesn't register as such.

Phrased another way:

What's the method to illicitly influence the Bushes at Kennebunkport? How about the method to influence the Obamas after they've left office? You could absolutely make a case about influencing the Clintons since Hillary obviously wanted to run for President. The story to illicitly influence the current President is very straightforward and keeps happening in the open. Regardless of what happened in the past, shouldn't we try to stop it when it's happening now?
We still have a few Pebbles which we run using the great Rebble initiative - and there's the option of sideloading APKs, however it's going to be interesting to see if this Play store issue can be resolved. Thread says the dead @pebble.com email was the trigger for the take down.

Presently dead:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.getpebble....
For future travelers, these are the best resources I've seen so far:
https://learnto.computer
https://viewsourcecode.org/snaptoken/kilo/
https://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/spr09/cos333/be...
In most EU states, there are VAT exemptions for the fuel used in domestic and intra-EU flights, while no similar exemptions exist for the fuel used in trains (and cars). Likewise, there exist VAT exemptions for plane tickets.

At least in Portugal, querosene is also exempt from the ISP (tax on the petroleum products). VAT and ISP make up more than half of the retail price of diesel and is almost 2/3 of the price of gasoline. Interestingly, the VAT rate of 23% is applied to the price with ISP included. So you effectively pay a tax on the tax. Finally, there's the fact that we're emitting free 2009/29/EC directive carbon allowances for aviation.
> The Right to Read

As interesting to read as the first twelve times.
Its just am updated version of Xamarin Studio with a a few extra features.
This report is garbage.

You can obviously use a pool without swimming, this is also more common in Asian culture where the ability to swim is less.

Maleware on a USB, WTF, she was going to what?? Hack the Planet? They found it straight up, so no zero days either.

Asians often have multiple phones for different providers and businesses, 4 is maybe usual, but when overseas perhaps not. I have many friends who travel with multiple passports and some don't like leaving them in the hotel.

The event was real and organised by a Charles and she had an invite!

We've all snuck into resorts before and without thinking twice, is it because she did it while Asian? - (but had an invite)

What exactly is the smoking gun here?
YouTube reportedly discouraged employees from reporting toxic content
Buy any android phone and uninstall the browser/everything else. Put custom software on it without GAPPS. Moto e⁴ plus has a 2 day battery life, probably longer if you're not using a browser. LG still makes flip feature phones but they have a primitive browser which you don't have to use by not signing up to any data plan.

No internet is too extreme though, library genesis and sci-hub I'd be lost without them as I can't afford $100+ texts or journal subscriptions. Youtube videos by mathematicians I also wish I had when I was in highschool.
I agree, that's why, despite understanding the investment thesis, as I point out in my last sentence, I am skeptical.
So this aircraft is more prone to stall and crash compared to other aircrafts after this update?
> menial tasks being farmed out to people desperate for any kind of cash, leading to them having to work inordinate number of hours to make a living wage

Your point of view is that people who are willing to work for less are being exploited, but you fail entirely to see how real legally legitimate paid work would actually help underprivileged populations obtain success, as opposed to their current $0/hr wage.

> now you're having minimum wage workers compete with no income workers

You've said it yourself, dropping minimum wage would allow underprivileged workers the ability to compete for jobs. Maybe minimum-wage workers are scared that they'll lose their job to someone who's actually desperate for work.
I thought it was 18m (60ft) for PADI open water.
Spoken like someone who hasn't had a vendor disappear and have your entire implementation on their platform vanish.
If Trumps administration is judged by how much he profits then he’s a resounding success.

By any other standard it’s debatable.

Mar A Lago bookings must be way up along with the daily rate.
> I run a few mirrors and other mirrors are run independently, //and Sci-Hub also uses accounts to access library resources provided by others.//

The last part is the one that makes it different in my opinion.

It’s not just people uploading material to share. Seems the platform accesses these systems and downloads from them what’s missing (not sure if metadata or if actual publications).
That is the Do What the F*ck You Want to license: http://www.wtfpl.net/
I have done this exact journey about a decade ago. It was a really good experience - made all the more memorable as I was not expecting the train to roll on to the ferry! The daytime ferry transit provided good views and I second the recommendation to try it.
> The youngest 5100s are a bit over 40 at time of writing, and some accounts online suggest that the ROS devices are no longer dependable.

That must be why John Titor needed to go back to 2000 to retrieve one.
Bommit – Standardize Your Git Commits
“Software Tools” by Kernighan & Plauger
I have absolutely nothing bad to say about public school teachers, it's just the system they're placed into.
I'm not sure how specific you are being, but "izba" would be a good starting search term.

This page has an overview: https://www.rbth.com/arts/2014/01/30/the_wonders_of_the_russ...

And this one lists terms for some architectural features:
https://www.slavorum.org/russian-wooden-house-izba-construct...
You're right that some decisions put things on a trajectory that can have massive ramifications for decades. I am still a bit skeptical of anyone's ability to project very far out.

Even a decision to go to war is full of uncertainty. Iraq I was days, Iraq II was decades. A general can never promise you it will come out one of those ways or the other.

Maybe I'm wrong though. It'd at least be nice to imagine someone has a plan and that it's not all just organic chaos.

"The Thick of It" does a good job explaining my side though -- it almost feels like a documentary for policy circles. The environment at that level is unbelievably frenetic. Getting anything done with intention is a near miracle.

But you're probably right that sometimes, at least on rare occasions, important people are able to clear off enough space to make important things happen that are long lasting with intention. I just think it's the exception, not the rule.
Still using Inbox. Will keep doing so until the servers actually go down. Somehow, it feels intimately sad to have to let go. But when the time comes, Firefox extension please!
To be fair, even if there wasn't a DRM-standard, he still wouldn't be able to build his application, because there would still be DRM.
They need triple temperature sensors on those sensors to sense when they freeze...
Wait Chromecast audio is discontinued? dammit!
Ok, we'll s/demanding/asking for/ above.
Platform liquidity is more powerful than you are giving it credit for. Any two sided marketplace has network effects by definition because the value to buyers increases with the number of sellers as does the opposite.

Airlines are not a two sided marketplace; they own the fleet. I agree Uber is more a commodity than facebook, but almost no product ever has been as sticky as facebook.
I agree that there should be three AoA sensors, as Airbus already has, if you're going to connect the AoA sensors to a control surface.

But Hansman's comment seems (very surprisingly) inaccurate, because my understanding is that the MAX is not actually aerodynamically unstable: the lift from the nacelles results in a non-monotonic backpressure on the yoke as AoA increases, and that violates airworthiness regulations on yoke handling. But the plane isn't going to fly itself into a stall. The pilot has to do that by pulling back on the yoke at high AoA (and with less backpressure than a 737 pilot would expect).

That's not an unstable plane, in the sense that the B-2 bomber is unstable. It's just a plane that handles differently to pilots who originally trained on different but related planes.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19559617
That is generally more of a recommendation. The recreational diving limit is generally considered to be 130ft, as that's the depth you can't spend more than a few minutes at without incurring mandatory decompression (breathing air).

You can take a deep diving course if you like, but not everyone bothers. Going below 130 though becomes a technical and very complex endeavour quickly.
Going for a swim without a swimsuit?
Yes, that could happen. Replacing the dead tree with a seedling will re-capture that carbon and return to a net-zero atmospheric carbon balance.

Also, there are many situations where a net-negative amount of carbon could be released into the atmosphere: the tree could be used as lumber to build something, thus not decomposing. Or it could be partially or fully buried, sequestering some or most of the carbon in the soil.
I've done Krakow to Prague and Prague to Zurich and both of those were fantastic experiences. I've also done Verona to Paris which I would rate less highly - the Thello is significantly more expensive for a less comfortable train, additionally we were stopped and all passengers checked on the French border, which hadn't happened entering either the Czech Republic or Switzerland.
The influencers who code our world
Former Mozilla CTO detained at US border and denied a lawyer
Yes, or one click to disagree. What's wrong with that approach?
For his logical combination problem, I think the solution is to use enums:

State nextState(bool a, bool b, bool c, bool d)
{
enum A { A_NO = 0, A_YES = 1 } As[] = { A_NO, A_YES };
enum B { B_NO = 0, B_YES = 2 } Bs[] = { B_NO, B_YES };
enum C { C_NO = 0, C_YES = 4 } Cs[] = { C_NO, C_YES };
enum D { D_NO = 0, D_YES = 8 } Ds[] = { D_NO, D_YES };
switch (As[a]) + Bs[b] + Cs[c] + Ds[d])
{
case A_NO + B_NO + C_NO + D_NO : return X; // 0
case A_NO + B_NO + C_NO + D_YES: return X; // 1
case A_NO + B_NO + C_YES + D_NO : return X; // 2
case A_NO + B_NO + C_YES + D_YES: return X; // 3
case A_NO + B_YES + C_NO + D_NO : return X; // 4
case A_NO + B_YES + C_NO + D_YES: return X; // 5
case A_NO + B_YES + C_YES + D_NO : return X; // 6
case A_NO + B_YES + C_YES + D_YES: return X; // 7
case A_YES + B_NO + C_NO + D_NO : return X; // 8
case A_YES + B_NO + C_NO + D_YES: return X; // 9
case A_YES + B_NO + C_YES + D_NO : return X; // 10
case A_YES + B_NO + C_YES + D_YES: return X; // 11
case A_YES + B_YES + C_NO + D_NO : return X; // 12
case A_YES + B_YES + C_NO + D_YES: return X; // 13
case A_YES + B_YES + C_YES + D_NO : return X; // 14
case A_YES + B_YES + C_YES + D_YES: return X; // 15
}
}

Let the compiler reorgonise the switch for efficiency. Do not: skip combination. Do not: reorder. Do not: remove the number that help see we got all cases. The compiler will error out if a case is duplicated. I wish we could make it detect missing cases too!
He's good, but I personally prefer Authur c Clarke. I really like the hammer of God, and the whole 2001 saga. The ending to that series gives me hope for the future.
Loyalty comes from a large pool of drivers. How many times would you jump between random apps, and wait 20 min for an available driver before you just decide to stick with one? I have a lot of friends that travel internationally; they strongly prefer Lyft but have to use Uber because it is available more widely. They all talk about how they could look for a local app...but say 'who cares, Uber is evil, but whatever'.
The momentum and concern over climate change in the last decade has caused many humans to lose sight of the fact that preservation of remaining natural habitat is the immediate and absolutely critical concern. Too many people nowadays equate conservation with more abstract schemes to control climate over longer time-scales and impersonal spatial scales. If we lose good quality remaining natural habitat we will have lost all of what is most important to conserve.
Yeah I know...I was refering to the 2020 one. In less than a year you won't be able to read your own profile's media or info. It's going to make lots of things difficult I imagine.
> the high reliability of the system is mainly attributed to the requirement that systems be designed as statecharts first, which forces the designs to remain simple and analyzable.

This can also be due to the fact that statecharts inherently require every transition and event to be mapped, which is more up-front work than most programmers do on their state machines. Need a feature that requires a new state? Instead of glomming it onto the code (and, in a complex codebase, probably missing one transition or another), you have to do the work of putting it into the state diagram and handling every transition into and out of that state (from every one of the connecting states in the graph). From there, you have a much more completely accounted list of the changes that have to be made to other states, in addition to a more complete list for testing the resulting code.

> dealing with a complex system as a statechart is potentially harder than dealing with code.

Yes, but it strikes me as harder in the same way that it's more difficult to get code to build when you have a strict linter and a strict static analysis tool in the pipeline; when reliability is worth a bit of developer-convenience-cost, we add procedures such that making changes takes more work at the beginning.
Please don't stoop to personal attack no matter how strongly you disagree with another commenter here. Doing so only makes this place worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I would argue the increased customer satisfaction from being able to stream 1080p/4K quality in more browsers with less esoteric hardware would be worth the extra implementation complexity (currently higher resolutions are disabled on browsers with weaker DRM or hardware without a pure HDCP path)