skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Huh, such different perspectives indeed. The concept of a VR workshop is a dream for me. It may have nowhere near the same fidelity as reality, but it solves one important problem: tools and material.

There's plenty of stuff I'd love to tinker with that's just way too expensive and/or take too much time to acquire. For instance, there are some 3D constructions I'd play with, but I don't have a 3D printer (it's a PITA to operate, and I gave pieces of my last one to a hackerspace anyway). I have some ideas for a hardware product I'd like to test out, but no SMD soldering skills, no space for it, none of the more expensive electronics debugging tools, and one or two components in the initial design that are expensive and would take a month to ship. I could afford it, but I can't justify it. I couldn't afford it when I first came up with an idea. I can't imagine your average teenage tinkerer affording it either.

Now imagine that in a half-decent VR environment with real physics, a circuit designer and a basic circuit simulator, I could build a simulacrum of my project in hours, and then iterate on it even faster. I could build and throw away 100s of prototypes, for free and without waiting for parts. In the end, I'd have some idea whether the project is worth making real, and I'd have circuit designs and firmware to test out in the real world.

Speaking of environments, I've been in love with Bret Victor's "Seeing Spaces" idea for a while[0]. I thought long and hard about what it would take to build one in our hackerspace, and realized that this idea needs a lot of prototyping beforehand. Given a set of measurements on the thing you're doing (and the imprecision of the way they're collected), will it be helpful? Will the way it's displayed be annoying? Does it let you explore the project space faster? What kind of affordances can be provided? It dawned to me that it doesn't make sense to start shopping for actual hardware to test it all out - VR could be used to quickly test concepts and gain a good idea of which solutions would work instead.

Now I'm slowly saving up for VR hardware that will work well with my (rather strong) correction glasses...

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[0] - http://worrydream.com/SeeingSpaces/
Really?

I figure the following: at a certain point the negative utility of getting a disease is greater than the negative utility of an allergic or worse reaction.

This has already happened to smallpox, as we assume the only two remaining places that have them won't release theirs.

At some point the same was likely the case for measles in the US, and is the case for polio and malaria in the US.
They have wrongly written "Microsoft Visual Studio available as a snap". It should be "Microsoft Visual Studio Code available as a snap"
It's really hard for the human brain to comprehend what these type of long odds mean practically speaking. This is a great project that illustrates it rather well.
Not really free and there are strings attached. But a great deal if you qualify and really want to live there.

https://www.rethinktokyo.com/free-houses-japan-countryside
I know it's not the same but for those that won't do this (for such a long period) at least activate/install some kind of night mode. It automatically adjusts the warmth of your screen color depending on time/daylight.

In the evening (or early morning) it will transition the colors to a warmer (red) tone. This helped me a lot. I really tire easier while sitting in front of the screen.

E.g. Gnome has this out of the box. It's called "night light".
If that's really your marker, nothing but another war or the other horsemen will meet it. We can probably repeal all the laws on the books without hitting it.

The issue is not seeing something someone else may not - that's but a symptom that allows the burying of much illegal and discriminatory activity. There's been plenty of examples of both in recent years - Cambridge Analytica is just one.
Seems like nobody has, yeah. Otherwise developers would only laugh about things like AMP and we would have great websites. One can only dream this might happen in the future.
I’m sorry but this feels like an ignorant view. Brain relies on sensory information coming from inside the body - hunger, bodily awareness, skin temperature, etc.

Without these signals, we have no clue whether you’ll be in immense confusion, anxiety, sadness or bliss. It could very well be much worse than death,

Are you ok with that gamble?
Or her data collecting menstrual calendar isa sending back info (yes this actually exists).

Not only do such services exist, they are already selling the data and for exactly the purpose you describe iirc:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18988289
In The Newtonian Casino (Might be called something else in the US) students who built computers in their shoes (in the 1970s!) to predict the outcome of roulette wheels discovered that lots of wheels had pretty severe tilts (which affected outcome) and that skilled croupiers had a "signature" -- they knew that particular wheel very well, and had practiced many times, and could increase their chance of hitting a particular number. (This is described in the chapter titled "Lady Luck").

It's a good book!

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Newtonian-Penguin-Science-29-Aug-19...
Does Tesla Can Maintain Its Progress Speed
Many companies like Nissan, BMW and more are working on the same technology. Will It go tough for Tesla to be the leader in the upcoming years!!
lol. That is equal parts awful, and marvellous. :)
... And in 1942, the US had the 1940 census that enabled sending citizens of Japanese ancestry to camps.

Today they'd use 23andme, and only your relatives have to sign up for them to get you.
Zero because QA :)
> and I'm generally on board with limiting my own use of antibiotics (e.g. not asking a physician for an antibiotic prescription for a minor illness that is most likely viral).

I, on the other hand, have an illegal supply of powerful antibiotics and antifungals sitting in my medicine cabinet. They're technically for fish, but do the math: there are only a handful of factories making these pills in the world, and the pills are indistinguishable. I don't feel guilty about it in the slightest.

There has been a fundamental change in the role of doctors and healthcare professionals in the past 30 years, and I don't like it. You can go to a doctor, and you can both agree that you have a certain infection, and the doctor will refuse to prescribe a drug which all parties know will cure the infection. I think that's a new development in medical practice.

So that's why I have fish medicine. Because when I'm sick for 3 weeks and still getting worse, fuck the greater good, I'm getting mine. And that's why you should take fish medicine, too: because as long as there are people like me, you're fighting a lost cause.
I have read "quantum computing for the very curious" and I found it impressive, its a great article and a great way to teach. For your records, here are the few downsides I found :

- Some questions seem to be of little relevance (I am not interested in memorizing an Einstein quote for life but I have no way of signaling it).

- The order of the questions is deterministic within a session (I always get some related questions on after the other).

- I received no email notification when "How the quantum search algorithm works" went out.
Why climb Everest? Because it was there!

Pursue your passions, whether it is climbing a huge mountain or finding identical packs of skittles. It is what makes the world great and interesting.
Killing a fly with an RPG is all the rage these days..
You can achieve that with simple computer vision techniques that have been here for decades
What are you talking about? If you know anything about the history of Facebook as an entity, you'll recognize her contributions to the business. Facebook wouldn't be the juggernaut it is today without her. She is extremely effective and perhaps one of the best technology executives in recent history.
But in the end the software running on our phones is mostly crap.

I doubt user data being protected by these mechanisms helped people to guard their data.
<< I think the low probability dystopian possibilities are severe enough to outweigh the casual benefits. >>

I agree, although perhaps I am hypocritical, because I use gmail and google maps. I have jettisoned FB though.

<<Things have already been leaked, and what has the material damage been?>>

I think you're probably right, that this was their main point. To address it, I'll just briefly point to

(Edit: I may not have directly addressed their point here, but I dont think personally that I need to actually see something bad happen on US soil to assume it can't or won't happen if there is no principle to prevent it)

- the myriad oppressive regimes and violent drug cartels that use even publicly-available information to target political opponents.

- the ability of even casual users to create advertisements targeting (or excluding) ever-smaller circles of identifiable traits

- vast and secret subpoena powers by the US government and her allies

- severe political polarization centered on the US, in which the government and its powers flip poles every few years: what is okay for "our guy" to do (e.g. secret assassination lists, secret trials, rendition) will be available for "their guy" in a short while.

- AI being to identify ever-accurate and surprising correlations between lifestyle choices and political views.

Hopefully, nothing bad will happen.
Sailors worked out a ship's position...

No, that could give them only latitude.

Accurate longitude measurements at sea are a different problem, ultimately solved only by the invention of a precision timepiece that was immune to motion.

There's a great TV miniseries on how this came about:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longitude_%28TV_series%29
Utah Bans Police from Searching Digital Data Without a Warrant, Closes Loophole
You lost me at Electron.

Good luck, but I'm not your target market.
Do you run in the mornings?
A society with no privacy. Not just at the Facebook, no privacy anywhere at all.
Recursion scale closer to 1 and ‘flexible angle’ result in much crazier pasta, for me.
This is actually something that I'm working on, if not the thing I'm working on. :)
Everything Knuth has written for TAOCP after Volume 3 (over the last dozen years or so), amounting to all of Volume 4A (published as a ~900-page book) and about two-thirds of Volume 4B (yet to be published), is basically available online in draft form (very close to the final published version though of course Knuth being Knuth there may be many very minor changes), from his website, or more conveniently collected here: http://www.cs.utsa.edu/~wagner/knuth/
Ask HN: How do you guys avoid duplication of code?
As the organisation grows even past 10 people, we see that people create modules which are already present and duplicate the code. What is the most effective way to control this? A partial solution would be Sonar code scan. But then it can catch the syntactical duplication if I am not wrong. What about logical duplication like to read release version we can have 2 classes - ReleaseVersionReader and ReleaseVersionInfo.

It looks almost impossible to achieve in larger organisation with 100s of employees.

Thoughts?
That's why I hope snap or flatpack will gain more momentum. While I assume they still are far from perfect at the moment, they seem to me a step in the right direction for desktops and servers.
If everyone's information is leaked, and it's obvious that everyone is a pervert in some way, maybe we won't need to pretend and lie about that anymore?
Samsung's folding phone breaks for reviewers
One things I always wonder - Why do IT folks, people who are supposedly expert in computers, fall for phishing emails etc? You'd think they'd know better.

Couple of years ago I was working at the offshore office of a large internet company. They claimed that their platform touched nearly 15-30% of internet users. They had a large Security Operations Center to ensure every threat was monitored and mitigated.

Our software and systems were frequently flagged for security issues. Any suggestions to alleviate the issue fell on deaf ears.

The onshore US IT team always complained about how security changes will make life difficult for them. The biggest critic was someone who had once opened a phishing mail and got his password stolen (using memory dumps in Windows).

While the offshore team was afraid that pushing US onshore team too hard might put their jobs in danger.

And as if getting hacked wasn't enough, these guys exchanged plain text files containing everyone's salary via email. No amount of training or meeting helped.

Finally, a roundabout solution was put in place. Give US folks two laptops - one with heavy encryption for work and second, for checking mails.

But they wouldn't budge on spending salaries in plain text. They said, it was easier for them to manage this way.
Either cases it is irrelevant if the parent country of that person supports that individual. Like how it happens with a lot of Chinese citizens that US routinely tries to entrap.
Nice! When you're a black man it's difficult to make white folks feel comfortable. All they see is your Blackness* :/
Likely not. There are so many modern Parker 51 inspired pens already.

The vintage P51s are priced all over the place from $60-7500 depending on the features of that pen....$7500 was a pen that Cartier commisioned to sell in their stores.

Their past popularity makes supplies of low to mid ranged models pretty plentiful.

P51 is "out of print." I find reliable P51-inspired writers for $2-4 a pen so I have no desire to try and buy a vintage one that might not work.
Start by keeping the primary copy of the user's data on the user's own device so that the developers never have access to it to begin with. Then, if you ever have to hold a copy of the user's data, make sure it's encrypted by the client and your servers are never in possession of the plaintext.

To access the user's data, your developers should have to intentionally crack the user's password. And if they attempt to do that they should be fired.

Obviously this is not how Facebook works, but ideally it's how the thing that replaces Facebook will work.
Little Snitch [1], 1Password [2], macOS Filevault, {BlockBlock, RansomWhere, OverSight, ReiKey} by Objective-See [3]

Few years back I was a big fan of Little Flocker, which now is part of F-Secure as XFENCE [4]. But haven't used it since its rebranding, anyone using it anymore?

[1] https://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/ [2] https://1password.com/ [3] https://objective-see.com/products.html [4] https://campaigns.f-secure.com/xfence/
Yes, the description right now is equivalent to "does magic with photographs".
It's a lost opportunity for introducing the uninitiated reader, thereby reducing the chance of them watching the video.
Adding a design element is completely different from adding an item to a checklist.

The asymmetry with checklists is that it's completely risk-free to add a new check, but it's risky to remove one. For example, someone might say "we're not totally sure that our system won't fail when we do X, so let's check that in QA, or at runtime, or at takeoff, or whatever." Now that the check is there, it protects you from failures when you do X. And now you're in a situation where you can't safely remove that from the checklist unless you can prove that your system won't fail when you do X. Adding requires only a suspicion, removing requires rigorous proof.

The case you describe with the 737 Max isn't the same at all. There's an actual risk when adding a new component to the system, but no risk when adding additional verification. That's not to say that there aren't other costs, but it can't directly make your system less reliable.
Web Components: Seamlessly Interoperable
Ditto Nakameguro, a tony neighborhood with both lots of tourists and a dense residential population. The local store is, by casual observation, mostly people from the neighborhood buying shampoo, coffee, liquor, and sundries.
Neat. I read once about someone who had their photo booth folder set with a folder action to automatically post photos to Instagram (or something). When their Macbook was nicked their feed got spammed with photos of the thief and their friends.
Visualizing stock trading agents using Matplotlib and Gym
?? Not talking about the Kings George I-VI, but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism
In my experience, without this, there would have been a ton of "yeah, why bother?" comments on HN.
Sure: most social activities are arranged on either Facebook or WhatsApp. I tried going without but it's quite inconvenient.
This is brilliant. Takes a theory, iid colors, it turns out to be wrong, but still gets a hell of a lot of conclusions out of it.

Since this is a nerd site, the next step is to use this:

https://www.planet-gbc.com/

Build a Lego contraption to push some skittles through a sensor that counts them.
https://github.com/tlrobinson/skittles.py

It's definitely not perfect but could probably be improved a bit.

There are a few where strawberry and grape or strawberry and lemon are swapped. I think better lighting would help.
A lot of these stockholders are institutional investors or people investing through them in index funds, mutual funds, ETFs and such, so for them it probably wouldn't matter - if another company had taken place of Facebook, they'd invest in that instead, with the same result.
hmm, I'd disagree.

There is no formal definition of "a potato chip bag". Hence it's possible to "just" create "a single potato chip bag"...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15490760

It links to an ifs report

> Those early formative years influence attitudes and expectations about success, academically and socially, and that can possibly stay with an individual.

Maybe there’s no measurable difference by adulthood, but I wouldn’t be surprised if there was.
The app is called L-System Studio (Lindenmayer Fractals)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.playposse....
But you in your home are unlikely to be able to diagnose whether an illness is bacterial or viral, and so sometimes you will be exposing yourself to anti-biotics for no reason. That's not a risk-free option. You might be happy with the amount of risk, but I doubt you know what the level of risk actually is.

> doctor will refuse to prescribe a drug which all parties know will cure the infection

Mostly it's doctors saying "we don't know if this is viral or bacterial, and by the time the tests come back it will have cleared up", or they're saying "this is a self limiting condition with no long lasting effects and taking antibiotics will shorten the duration by only half a day".
Pony Cheat Sheet [pdf]
You can go to a doctor, and you can both agree that you have a certain infection, and the doctor will refuse to prescribe a drug which all parties know will cure the infection

That’s really not a thing that’s happening. You might find a doctor reticent to throw antibiotics at minor infections, but that’s because of their side effects rather than anything to do with antibiotic resistance.

In any case, even if there are a small number of people misusing antibiotics, it’s likely that the effect of their use in farming is far more harmful in the whole.
their profile picture is also Neal Stephenson.
Samsung’s $2k foldable phone is already breaking
In case you didn't notice yet, it seems like the certificate of your website is expired (2019-04-10).
The Don Quijote I go to sometimes in Asakusa plays only the first 26 seconds of that on a continuous loop.

It's maddening.
The web pioneer taking on Google with a private browser and a loyalty club
I don’t. I keep my super sensitive data in my head. I never believed in computer security and never will. But the I never believed in security in general. Why on earth you would need an antivirus for a Mac ? I don’t even remember the last time avast gave me a virus warning on Windoom 10. Nowadays it’s mostly worms, ransomeware and spyware , rarely a Trojan horse. The age of virus has long gone after the start of the age of not slow internet.The only thing I do is to backup my data via Dropbox and megasync.

If you really need security, get a computer , disconnect it from the internet. The end.
Question - I used to use Prey and loved it, but stopped about 5 or 6 years ago because (IIRC) it didn't work with full disk encryption or something like that. Instead I ended up setting up a separate user and find my Mac (or whatever the apple one is called). Has this changed? If you have a couple of minutes could you tell me how you have it set up?! Thanks!
I wouldn't consider it a scam unless the puzzle is determined to be unsolvable or they fail to pay out the winner. Websites run contests all the time, and there are multiple ways to monetize a contest like this. For example, this will generate traffic and links to the domain which should increase resale value.
Checkout snaps, where packages are preferred sand boxed and locked down, and require explicit permission from store operator and the user to install with unrestricted rights https://snapcraft.io/
Amazing demo video buried in those comments: http://vimeo.com/41822151

Very simple and expressive, indeed!
This bringing back control theory for me. Thanks.
let's suppose I care about slowing the development of drug-resistant fungi. As an individual, what can I do?

Grow some of your own food so you can control what goes on it.

Reduce your use of harsh chemicals generally in life/at home.

Skip particle board furnishings. Stick to glass, metal, hard plastic and real wood.

Eat right and exercise as your first line of defense for your own health.

/2 cents
Tesla's Long-Range M3 Has a Heavier CO2 Footprint Than Toyota's Hybrid
Even without an image recognition library, it should be possible to simply count the pixels and how close to red, green, blue, etc. they are to know how many skittles there are in the picture.
I use Prey with FileVault 2. I also have Find My Mac enabled.
Geofencing is just conditionally acting depending on a location. All you need for it is a location.
>Candidates who meet individual voters on market squares and public places obviously try to find out which of the voter's wires are hot and try to deliberately connect on those levels that are meaningful to the potential voter.

That's becuase, in terms of consent, you're consenting to such actions by going out to the public square. You're not knowingly consenting to your life's history being sold and traded on a black market that's then used to target you for such speeches when browsing on the internet.

For your analogy to be comparative to what's going on, you should, instead, think of it in terms of a politician showing up to solely your house because you're the sole democrat in a republican city in, say, Texas. (This demonstration based on the fact that this is an American board.) This could be easily inferred from your social media, browsing history, metadata collected by the government, etc.
You forget "...to last 5 days longer than the warranty."
You're a little quick to call things ethical -- in this article's case, the patient's doctors established that she had a fungal infection that was resistant to the treatments they had tried, then told her she would die soon and to prepare for it.

What would be unethical about instead offering an experimental antifungal treatment that had not been clinically tested or verified? When you have a fast-acting terminal disease and are capable of participating in informed consent, seriously, what's the worst that can happen?
Your comment reminded me of this:

DEF CON 18 - Zoz - Pwned By The Owner: What Happens When You Steal A Hacker's Computer: https://youtu.be/Jwpg-AwJ0Jc
Every situation is an opportunity to grow, especially negative ones
108 surely, because of the tax?

Daiso is a step up from Donki. I have a holder of Daiso pens and other stationary in front of me now which is decent quality and has lasted me a few years (including the holder!)