skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I noticed some time ago that I do not learn more about a topic the more frequently I check on it (i.e., multiple times a day).

So, I make it a point to only visit websites that update daily (e.g., https://www.nytimes.com/section/todayspaper) or weekly (https://asia.nikkei.com/Print-Edition). I also started to read news in the morning for 15-30 mins from a paper subscription (Financial Times).

I hope this kind of news consumption catches back on.
I agree - being a pilot and a programmer is neither a necessary nor sufficient condition for being able to diagnose and solve an issue in a system as complex as a modern airliner. In fact I don't think any individual is capable of doing so on their own; maybe the sole exception being someone like the engineering lead of avionics for the 737 Max, who is probably not a pilot, and probably only a programmer in so far as it was a component of their engineering education.
How come it so happens we are looking at the black part while the sides are bright? Does it look like a O from any angle of the sphere?
Nah, the generator is so full of garbage code that I keep it as a private repo. The generator handles both new posts (org-exported to HTML) and old posts (Wordpress exports I dumped to org mode).

A partial snippet of the code that handles new posts:

https://gist.github.com/TeMPOraL/c401f12d50d4e1d4f94492e3d0f...

What's happening is that I take the HTML generated by Emacs Org Mode exporter, deserialize it to DOM, select a block corresponding to contents (to cut out superfluous stuff I don't need), and then run a bunch of tree-walkers that massages the DOM until it becomes something I can wrap with my site's scaffolding and dump into a file. It's really ugly, but gets the job done.
Politicians do not care about the ramifications of this. They only care about granting themselves power over who sees what when through the guise of combating hate speech, terrorism, child porn, etc. Posting a blog about this will change nothing.
>Treat startup options as wastepaper. You might get lucky, but it's really, really unlikely.

I have a similar story. I've been a part of three startups (two exited, one still going) and the options in all were only worth an eventual capital loss. For my last company, I owned nearly a percent of shares, but they were still worth zero. The only money I got was a cash bonus and stock from the acquiring company as a retention mechanism (I was an executive of the company, rank and file got much smaller amounts). Startups are good for experience, being a big fish in a small pond, etc. but it's marginally better than a lottery ticket if you're looking for a big financial reward.
It boggles my mind how a client side proper and user friendly implementation of PGP has has always been dismissed as some silliness.
Having full town halls leaked to Breitbart definitely didn't help.
The airgap question comes up every time an industrial system is attacked. The thing is that these days all systems are connected via several layers to the outside world. Because a modern oil refinery is of no use if you cannot track what product is being made at that moment. And the people tracking the data are often in completely different locations or even different countries.

The main line of defense is these days is "layers of an onion" network with (physical) controls such that data easily can get out to a higher layer but that it is very difficult to get in from a higher layer back down into a deeper layer.

A completely airgapped network is not practical anymore because the alternative is even worse: nobody wants to have dozens or 100ths of operators, maintenance engineers and 3rd party contractors running around the facility with usb sticks because there is no network to move stuff around. If you have a network then you can control where the data comes into your network, who copies the data to where and what data is visible for which user.
obligatory

https://github.com/dominictarr/your-web-app-is-bloated
We also have (I believe) the largest arcade in North America, at Galloping Ghost, which includes a bunch of pinball tables and also that terrible hologram time travel game from the early 1990s.
To add another anecdote: The lead developer of bitcoin accidentally sent me a donation of 10 BTC instead of 10 USD (when it was about 300 USD/BTC). (I refunded it.)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14720192#14720921
A RealWorld Comparison of Front-End Frameworks with Benchmarks (2019 Update
Why do the Republicans hate Net neutrality so much?
Hot People Are Stressful
I don't think that reading or not reading the news is engaging with the plight of "my fellow countrymen". We all ignore the plight of millions/billions of people every day. That is the way life has always been.
"And last year it tried to persuade the countries by promising them $5m (£3.8m) worth of free Kindle e-readers and hosting services."

That's hilarious. Imagine if they just gave up the fight in exchange for like 100,000 Kindles and some AWS credits.
What helps you overcome setbacks and disappointments?
Especially those outside of your control. What works for you? Sleeping, eating well, exercising, meditating, romantic and social relationships, therapy, work, hobbies, something else?
According to Captain Chesley Sullenberger (the former air force pilot who saved US 1549, dubbed the Miracle on the Hudson) that the existing avionics are not designed to take our best advantages[1]

Humans are much better suited for the doers role with
technologies monitoring us, instead of what we are
currently assigning the human component as exactly the
opposite.

[1] https://www.fastcompany.com/video/the-future-of-aviation-acc...
Maybe the out of Arica theory should be revisited? Post the Zanclean flood when the Mediterranean basin was subtropical it appears there were hominids "all over creation." That is to say Australia, Kenya, Philippines and even a Homo Erectus version in India. Due to the subtropical climate and the below sea Mediterranean basin who is to say that no proto-human in that basin did not run north-south, and east?
Very true regarding the advertising industry but I feel like this is easily extended to encompass almost all product driven commercial businessess.

On the one hand we're killing the earth, polluting and creating a nightmare existence for our children. On the other hand, buy more stuff! I don't understand how anyone can justify this to themselves and I believe the resultant self doubt is a key factor in burnout.

P.s. never mention this at work... It's the elephant in every meeting room.
Very cool! Thanks for making this - every week I hear someone mention that they want to stop using Facebook or Google products. (Too invasive.) How do you see this being different than Eventbrite?
> Sunlight is the best disinfectant, after all.

So, I had never heard this phrase until maybe a year or so ago. Now it seems like (on this site particularly) someone parrots this exact sentence in any thread at all related to news and/or social media.

Where is this coming from? Especially since it is... Emphatically untrue. It's just another one of those turns of phrase that asks you to believe it purely because it's so pithy.

People have studied this. A lot. It's just not true.
Why is there no love for DNSSEC and DANE?
...and then spend time and money building a company to near acquisition only to clutch defeat out of the jaws of victory.
1) Being an account of X isn't a high enough bar. 100% of what I see on "the news" is an account of something. The problem is, the line between TMZ and Fox or CNN is less defined.

2) " but few are willing to hold themselves to the standards of accountability good journalism demands."

Well yeah. But it's because the dentition of journalism has become "anything done by self-proclaimed journalists." It's entirely self-serving. There is no higher standard. Mainly because the pot is afraid of calling the kettle black.

3) We might call them op-eds but plenty of "news" orgs are all too comfortable presenting their op-eds as news and/or journalism.
> SMTP is therefore vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks. Man-in-the-middle is an attack where communication between two servers is intercepted and possibly changed without detection.

While it's true that MTA-STS can protect email in transit from downgrade attacks, it is not intended to prevent changes to email content. In fact, even with perfect MTA-STS adoption it still won't prevent the MTA itself from changing the message contents (the message passes through every MTA unencrypted).

If you want to protect the authenticity of your email, use DKIM. If you want to prevent MTA's from stripping the DKIM header, use DMARC.

Google also uses ARC to sign messages, but that's not end-to-end like DKIM is.
Correct. And it has _both_ terrible holographic Sega games. Galloping Ghost Pinball just opened up the other week down the block a bit.

Can't wait to see the new Stern tables at the Midwest Gaming Classic in Milwaukee this weekend.
I don't know about you, but in the reality in which I live, privacy of the domain names I visit is a much bigger concern than being able to do access control with a technology that's not even made for access control.
Mozilla Removes Gab.com's Dissenter Plugin from addons.mozilla.org
GADTs and Superpositions in Perl 6
also, self reply to observe: not saying this means you should or should not work at a startup. just that the idea that you can't live a decent lifestyle at startups is not true.
The experiment where they change the color of the submit button? What should cause me to care about that?

And what does opt-in even look like? No matter whether you want to "participate in the experiment" the submit button still needs to be some color for you, which is the only part of the "experiment" with any direct effect on you.

The concern with psychological experiments isn't that they're collecting data. That's a different bailiwick. The major issue with psychological experiments is that they may have significant direct psychological consequences. If you show people only news stories about mass shootings and conflict it may cause them to become violent or suicidal -- which has nothing to do with whether you collect data on it or what you do with it afterwards. The experiment itself is the harm.

Which means we would need some kind of principled and efficient way of distinguishing those kinds of "real" experiments from just measuring what happens when you make a subtle adjustment to a context menu.
This document may have been written in 2015 but it was not published publicly until this week. I think the (2015) label is misleading.
You are right, my mistake.
Maybe .bavaria vs .bayern would have been a better illustration.
Yes and No. They buy at Costco, which is cheaper than the liquor stores in their town. In BC only liquor stores can sell, whereas in AB grocery stores can as well. This can lead to grocery stores being cheaper than liquor stores.
At the risk of sounding glib, your presence on this site would seem to imply that you've not, in fact, stopped reading the news.
I like the idea of "slow news." I imagine my ideal state would be a combination of slow news and rapid fire updates. You get depth on the things that deserve depth, as well as a shallow horizontal understanding of the most current happenings across the board.

From the reader side, the challenge would come in making the time for the slow news part when the rapid fire updates never stop, and in resisting the urge to equate seeing the rapid fire updates with actually being informed on the issues (i.e. "I don't need to read this in-depth look at the border situation; I've already seen a bunch of small updates on that"). From the publisher side, monetization is the ever-present issue
>Also, all water meters are being replaced so they can be read remotely without a human physically using an electronic meter reader.

Those are extremely widespread already. And they're pretty open. I wouldn't personally be too worried about any potential exploits since they're simply broadcast only systems and the worst that could probably happen is your'd get a jacked up water bill.
Chicago was always the center. Stern is the successor to Chicago Coin and Williams, having bought up the assets of those companies in bankruptcy.
So for me, automl means machine learning without writing a single line of python code or any code. I.e. data and schema IN, deployed models OUT.

With sagemaker you still need to provide the python code for training.
This article is a disingenuous description of a lot of bad work. A more honest headline would be "Google making email more complex by introducing more protocols." Instead of just registering an SMTP-over-TLS port, now EVERY message requires an HTTPS lookup and a reconnection. That's not the intent, but the specification was so poorly written that it is the most common interpretation.

All of the input during the IETF draft phase was completely disregarded unless it came from a sponsoring corporation (all of whom are either Google or residential ISPs). This whole process is a shameful illustration of IETF process failure and I hope Google terminates it as readily as they do business units.
Of course they do. This is the “embrace” phase.
From 2015 to 2019 is four years, and they kept showing up for three years.
Developers love Python and TS, get paid for Clojure, and aren’t using blockchain
Related:
https://fermatslibrary.com/
Fundamentally, it's about the fear of not getting re-elected.

And I would dare say that it's probably one of the biggest contributors to all legislation.
IT Security and the Normalization of Deviance (2016)
FWIW that is a really old spec. The FIDO 2.0 Bluetooth transport is described at: https://fidoalliance.org/specs/fido-v2.0-rd-20180702/fido-cl...

But an article from VentureBeat[0] mentioned it's a new transport called 'cloud assisted Bluetooth Low Energy' or caBLE, which they've submitted to FIDO for standardization.

[0]: https://venturebeat.com/2019/04/10/you-can-now-use-your-andr...
I recently came across this!

https://www.californiarailroad.museum/

(no affiliation with them, but was pleasantly surprised to see it in the wild)
Not really. There is no evidence that this homo sp. has any living decendants. It has been known for a long time that homo spp. left Africa millions of years ago.

The only unexpected finding here is that this homo sp. got to an island that is surrounded by water. I have a feeling that this species is a Denosovian, but unless they can get some DNA out we won't know. We do know that the Denosovian knew how to travel over open ocean as they made it to Australia and PNG.
And here I was, beginning to think I had imagined that (incredibly cool looking) thing into which I sank far too many tokens trying to understand what the hell I was supposed to even do.
The headline is a bit deceiving. I thought there is a new human species currently in existence in the Philippines.
Show HN: Vy) A humble vim-like implementation in Python
"However, I worry that we are fighting against human nature."

I mean, trying to stop people from getting addicted to opioids is fighting against human nature, too.
What if we inversed the land and the sea?
I dont like what they do over at gab, but I believe people should be able to install whatever they wish on their phones/computers/browsers

I was expecting better from Mozilla
I think that’s a feature not a bug.
Hasn't it? I'm all for public education, but at least in Poland, it seems that almost any half-decent job expects you to have education past high-school level.
It's not that either.
Thanks! That's exactly our motivation.

Eventbrite is good for ticketed corporate events. We're building a great product for consumers—events like book clubs and dinner parties.
Just because there were hominins outside of africa millions of years ago doesn't mean modern humans descended from them. For example, we have long known that Homo Erectus left Africa millions of years ago. What we do not have evidence of are direct ancestors of anatomically modern humans originating outside of Africa.
I think it depends. If you use NYT or WaPo or WSJ as your primary news source I don't believe you'll see duplicates (if you only pick one of those 3, obviously each of those papers will publish their own version of the same story), excluding editorials. To a lesser extent this is true with the CNN news site, if you exclude their opinion pieces and "Analysis" articles (which tend to just link to their actual news article and add the potential political ramifications. Not true journalism, but not really an editorial either). Though the same can not be said of the actual CNN TV channel, which I find nearly unwatchable because they rehash essentially the same information over and over. I can't comment much about other sources.

As for failing to bring new events to our attention, I totally agree. The 4 outlets I mentioned above don't give enough attention to international news, stuff that really is important. Even in domains that are heavily covered bits get left behind. Like a Trump-appointed federal judge for the Federal Court of Appeals who had never been a judge of any kind before (The BAR recommends at least 12 years of judge experience for that position, the nominee didn't even have their law degree for 12 years) and was an active member of a SPLC-recognized hate group (who was confirmed by the Senate, btw). I don't have a single news article about that one, which is an absolute shame.

I'm just not entirely sure what stories should be cut. Maybe it will come down to just having a better aggregation system and UI to discover and keep track of these stories.
Yes "fossils" somewhere in the headline might clarify that.

I was expected a secret tribe of Neanderthals to have turned up.
The out of Africa theory has been overblown for a long time. See as just one example, https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-the-out-of-afr...
If an encryption scheme is easy to learn in the sense that if f is learnable, then so is g, then it is also easy to break.

Proof: You can easily train an RNN to return the n-th letter of its input and ignore everything else. Take that function to be f_n. Then g_n is the function that takes the encrypted input and returns the n-th letter, encrypted. If the encryption scheme is learnable in the above sense, then you can also train an RNN to perform that task. You can use multiple of those RNNs to extract an encryption of each individual letter in the input, which is equivalent to having the input encrypted with a substitution cipher. Substitution ciphers are so easy to break with frequency analysis that people have been doing it by hand for more than a thousand years.

Conversely, if you have a secure encryption scheme, then all statistical regularities in the input should be obfuscated so that they cannot be exploited by an RNN.
Visual Desktop Automation (RPA) as Chrome Extension
> They're much more laissez-faire

They retain their supervoting shares. They choose not to use that authority and choose not to attend these meetings. That choice is fair to criticise.
Just noticed your username. Are you the YouTuber?
Again, predicting the future is difficult. The fear with going to a no-name college was that you're throwing money down the drain to have the same opportunities as those who don't attend college at all.
As a socialist, the constant stream of Russiagate news and imperialist rhetoric about Venezuela was a reminder that the mainstream media has learned nothing from the past few years.

In fact, they seem to have doubled down
Matt Taibbi pointed out how the "us-vs-them" angle drove a lot of the mistakes made in the coverage of the Mueller investigation:

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/iraq...
These days, you can usually start a process without forking through posix_spawn/vfork. Although, I gather some servers still do it so they can set the current working directory more easily.
IoT Security It's Complicated
I am unaware of such a person.
Reliable novelty: New should not trump true
> know that you can't just throw up a GPO to fiddle with chrome settings

I thought we were talking about how hard it is to fix Firefox. This can be done on a budget - part of an afternoon - since it can be very easily managed with a plain old config file copied to all machines (at least until a couple of versions ago). With this gone you're left with Chrome. How would you make sure no user can use any one of the multiple options to abuse a non-managed Chrome and bypass this? Remember that your target isn't to have a browser that doesn't mess up filtering, it's to prevent students from using any (creative) means to access restricted material. And with Chrome there's one sure way to prevent those creative means. So don't answer, it will be GPOs.

And since your fix for DOH and DNS filtering is to uninstall the browser (!) when Chrome eventually implements it will make for an interesting conversation ;).
Look at the post history of tptacek. The guy really, really dislikes DNSSEC and uses every opportunity to rant about it.

I have to agree that DNSSEC has its flaws, but tptacek can be a bit extreme about it.
The use of "less" for countable objects never used to bother me. At all. I'm pretty sure I didn't even notice.

Then one day, a couple years ago, it started grating on my nerves. I have no idea what caused me to suddenly start caring! I just do now.

I guess as I get older, less things get past me?
I too support development of an alternative to the ad economy, but I don't support using the threat of income blocking to force a website to use a particular solution. This is in effect what Brave is doing.

Brave deprives the website owner of income by blocking or replacing ads while at the same time pushing the website owner to sign up to Brave's rewards program, which Brave generates income from, instead of ads for funding.
Edit after trying: It is a little disappointing that it is Chrome only.
Nobody i know agrees on homosexual people being of less value than others.

My wife is a developer from a eastern european country. She is very intelligent and i learn as much from her as she from me.

A colleague of mine is from france. His wife is from russia.

Another friend of mine earns (way!) less than his wife.

I could go on. Nobody thinks females are of less value in my circle of friends and acquaintances. Same for homosexuals.

I don't get this attitude of "you're opposed to sharia -> you're opposed to islams -> you're basically a nazi -> you oppose female rights" etc. This is factually not right and it is hard to defend against.

I don't support people oppressing other people based on their religion, sexual orientation. Still i hate people being killed based on their sexual orientation. This does not sound as a contradiction to me.
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Next month in Lodi California

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San Jose
I cant disagree with you there :)
Definitely, I'm not normally one to criticize headlines but this one is missing some pretty important context.
It's not impossible for private companies to allow employees to sell stock in funding rounds. Tanium basically follows the recommendations in the article - employees get RSUs, and have been allowed to sell in every recent funding round.
> go and skim the Wikipedia article on "rolling coal" to appreciate the magnitude of the issue

The article just describes what it is. It has no information on how prevalent the practice is.
They were waiting for a "tumultuous time".
Depends on where you are. As a Dutchman that moved to Germany, in NL it's somewhere between geeky and annoying for the recipient when you use PGP, whereas when communicating with potential employers in Germany, it's not even talked about. It's just the standard thing to use.

Since I've moved, every time I see PGP being dismissed as too hard to use, I feel like I'm back in some echo chamber where people just keep repeating that and start to believe it.