skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He had found a Market-Matic machine which had provided him with a plastic cup filled with a liquid that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike a real comment. The way it functioned was very interesting. When the Reply button was pressed it made an instant but highly detailed examination of the subject's taste buds, a spectroscopic examination of the subject's metabolism and then sent tiny experimental signals down the neural pathways to the taste centers of the subject's brain to see what was likely to go down well. However, no one knew quite why it did this because it invariably delivered a cupful of liquid that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike a real comment.
The problem with your scheme is who gets to be the arbiter of what is misinformation, stupidity, lies, etc.

Remember what happened to Galileo? Or worse, Tyndale?
Not trying to just jump in an correct you, but there has actually been progress recently made in this area and we're starting to get a scientific understanding of what the Romans learned to do presumably through trial and error. Here's an article I found on the subject, https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jul/04/why-roman-co...
>A radical is someone who is willing to use extreme measures to achieve their political objectives.

The Quakers are political radicals. They are so extreme they utterly refuse to kill people, even when ordered.

edit - Given the article about it also on the front page, I thought I'd look it up in the original Mirriam Webster. The result is kind of interesting;

>2. (Politics)

>One who advocates radical changes in government or social institutions, especially such changes as are intended to level class inequalities; -- opposed to conservative. In politics they [the Independents] were, to use phrase of their own time. "Root-and-Branch men," or, to use the kindred phrase of our own, Radicals. Macaulay.

http://lexicon.x10host.com/?w=radical

And to contrast with my first port of call, in the Cambridge dictionary you get a politically neutral definition;

>believing or expressing the belief that there should be great or extreme social or political change

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/radical
Microsoft could have thrown their lot in with Apple, but I guess they're going to look more like the ad-tech giants than Apple and need to preserve the status quo.

Apple should assemble a separate coalition of businesses that would lean just as hard as the ad-tech coalition in favor of privacy in all these state legislatures. I'm pretty sure most enterprise SaaS companies that charge money for their product would have similar interests.
Or just spent more time taking to customers and less time innovating.
Stop Memsetting Structures
I've been dabbling with DuckDuckGo lately for this reason, whenever Google fails to find what I'm looking for. It found some C++ advise that Google failed miserably with. (Failing miserably on non-trendy programming topics is becoming an increasing issue.) Also, news overrides history all the time with Google. I hope you don't want to read up on Victor Hugo and his motivations for writing a certain book...because all you'll get it recent articles about Notre Dame burning.
Former PG&E CEO got pay increases, stock sale windfalls, during wildfire years
Margarine was healthier than butter. I sure regret following that "fact".
Never mind the suffragette movement of the 19th-c., democracy and women's rights were Enlightenment ideas and there are many quotes of the foremost Enlightenment thinkers (such as J.S. Mill) supporting them quite strongly. So, either the Enlightenment itself wasn't 'radical' at least in this sense, or the whole idea that "radicals anywhere and at any time have faulty metacognition" is, well, faulty.
Really? That’s the road you’re going down? Apple wants you to use your phone more to increase the likelihood that you will drop it?

And you still haven’t answered the other question. How are these third party apps better at controlling usage than Apple’s built in screen time and parental controls?
Correct. Sailing the Atlantic back then took over a month.

12 days was only achieved in 1905, and the official route is far shorter than a sail from Carthage.
Amazon must think that it's an alarm clock and a juicer in one.
Until you don't have any. Then it is.
Huawei P30 Pro allegedly fakes its touted moon shots
> How is gossiping about a neighbor's debt morally different than a credit reporting agency?

The problem with this example of gossip (and most gossip, IMO) isn't spreading information about creditworthiness. It's that gossip is unreliable, subject to inaccuracy, has a transmission medium that isn't content-neutral (ie lurid things get spread more often and content gets exaggerated), has no real recourse for the subjects of inaccuracies, doesn't have codified limits on content, etc etc etc. It's a very flawed method of information transmission, even when the transmission of that information is broadly good for society.

I think the credit reporting system as it stands is a huge mess, but there's value in knowing a potential debtor's creditworthiness, and more importantly, the reporting system substantially mitigates most of the issues described above by operationalizing the process. A random person can't easily "start a rumor" about someone's credit history, you can view your report and dispute it, the agencies don't randomly add to the size of your reported debt because it makes a better story, they don't randomly report on things outside of their narrow purview, etc.

> How is a mining company giving a bag of cash to a provincial governor morally different from campaign contributions from lobbyists?

No real disagreement here...
I have one more anecdata point to add in your favour, and mine's more recent (past 5 years), as well as in a different continent (Europe).

I'm a CS/Engineering grad that had some of those, and my colleagues in other STEM degrees had requirements that weren't dissimilar from what you describe. We were required to take classes in philosophy (with emphasis on ethics), history, as well as required to take some electives that could be in all sorts of areas, some in other scientific areas, others in arts, theatre, music. Effectively, it was required of us to at least be cognizant of the goings-on in other fields, even if just the conversational basics.

As for colleagues of mine in humanities degrees, most of them didn't see a single STEM class, and if they did, they were very superficial one-semester courses on Excel spreadsheeting, LaTeX, or very basic physics/probability mathematics, which were effectively a rehashing of high school, but with easier exams.

I echo your sentiment, maybe at some point in the distant past, STEM degrees were isolated in their own bubble and only had very theoretical classes, but I don't know anyone who experienced that, and that's most certainly not been a reality for the past couple of decades.
The Pierre Auger Observatory, which can be described as doing astronomy using particle physics, published in Science about an exciting anisotropy at very high energies at about 2.5 sigma. (It was a prescription, so it would have been published even as a negative result but likely not in Science.)
Alas, it turned out to be a statistical fluke as well. We had to publish a note to the effect later.

The particle physicists in the collaboration were by and large against calling it a discovery. The astronomers (by and large) shared your sentiment about the particle physicists being curious folk. :)

https://arxiv.org/abs/0712.2843
> Being pro-trade and pro-competition very often means not actually being for a free market.

"Free" in this context is an ambiguous word. The libertarian argument is that no regulations make a market free to access for everybody. The counter-argument is that, under no regulations, rich-get-richer dynamics inevitably lead to such wealth inequality that most actors are free in strictly legalistic terms, but prevented in practice from taking any actions but the ones that attend to their immediate survival needs.

It seems clear to me that unregulated markets inexorably condemn the majority of the population to wage-slavery and having most of their waking hours controlled by someone else.

In Europe, we are interested in freedom in practice. This is only possible by protecting the underdogs, so that they do not fall into poverty traps that are impossible to get out of, as is the case in the US -- people having to work all of their waking hours just to survive, no chance of savings that would allow them to take a break and learn new things, or try new things, or just take a deep breath and think about the big picture for a second.
> The fourth and final term is an integral which is zero for x < 2 because there are no primes smaller than 2.

This does not seem correct. Overall a good article though.
I would say having an observable state of running vs not could be considered output.

If you could start sleep, but not tell when it finished, it would be quite useless.

So I think requiring "output" for a programming language is fine. You just have to be very general about what "output" is.
I just purchased an OpenROV Trident. The idea of the world’s oceans now being closed up and tightly regulated just as deep exploration becomes viable for the masses has me sad.
And possibly even a net benefit to society as many of these degree programs have become little more than people believing they are highly educated because they have been trained to hold certain cultural and political opinions.
I wasn't aware it was released by the pentagon. I am under impression it was unauthorized release.
Phoenix channels don't really depend on MVC. It's common to make use of them in MVC apps, but they can be used standalone.

I'm using Phoenix channels as a PubSub implementation in production, entirely separate from any web framework or HTTP request handling.

As for the transport itself, Phoenix channels do have native support for both websockets and long polling, but I'm not sure offhand if it automatically falls back when websockets aren't available.
This really makes me wonder why controlling the understanding of anything older than 3000 years ago is such a big deal. Isn't there a statute of limitations on this kind of thing?

It might be tied to the ancient notions of lineage that have somehow persisted into the modern era and for bettet or fot worse link the ancient with the modern.
Please keep obvious political propaganda out of this side. You may not like the current government and neither do I but the previous one was not healthy at all for our country.
Huh? As a subscriber to Office 365, Microsoft has sensitive information about me, and so I am affected by Microsoft's handling of privacy and data security.

How does that make my voting power representative of their views?

I also question whether a company's views are represented through the voting power of its employees.
Did he have to stop at all ? Make any turns ? If he didn't, I'm not sure what point he was trying to prove as every car on the market can be driven with "one finger on the steering wheel".
> The other issue is the zero sum of credits and debits.

Let's say I've got 100USD. You've got a node and a pile of trusted friends. I spin up an account and pay you 100USD.

Initially it looks like this:

Me->Dollars: 100, Credits 0

You->Dollars: 0, Credits 0

What do I get in return? A line of credit that you extend to me. So now it looks something like this:

Me->Dollars: 0, Credits: 100

You->Dollars: 100, Credits: -100

It is up to you what you do with the cash, but there is now a debt on my account to you for what you provided to me. In this sense, a positive number of credits is "debt owed to another" and a negative number of credits is "debt that is owed to you".

Suppose I have a friend, CM, who I trust. If I want my 100USD, but you already spent your cash, I go to my friend and buy the cash with credits;

Before we trade

Me->Dollars:0, Credits: 100

CM->Dollars:???, Credits: 0

And after

Me->Dollars:100, Credits: 0

CM->Dollars:???-100, Credits: 100

Notice that you still have -100 credits. Essentially, I bought your trust. Because I gave you cash, you know that I'm good to pay you the money I've already given you. This debt owed to you will remain in the network until you are paid an equivalent amount in credit.

I can see now that lenders will be "debt sinks" that exchange cash for credit within the system. So, while the balance of the whole system is essentially 0, there will always be an imbalance because there will be those who take cash in exchange for "trust" and credit.

> Is the local restaurant going to have thousand of trust connections so a relay can be found?

No. The restaurant will trust a node that trusts many other people. I can see that as well as "debt sinks" on the network, there will also be nodes that specialize in taking on "trust" so that others don't have to. Like a bank. There will likely be a fee (in credits or cash, you choose) associated with assuming other's risks.
When I was younger I think I was depressed. It got to the stage where people would talk to me and I wouldn't talk back, I'd just stare; I'd lie in bed doing nothing; I let my hair grow long because I didn't want to go outside or talk to a barber.

I'm much better now, and I think exercise was one of the key things that improved my general mood. It was a constant sturggle though for a while.

YMMV, of course, and I was never diagnosed or anything.
The only reason minorities are protected in India is because of Hindus — also the only reason India is secular.

I do not know what satisfaction these people get by demonizing hinduism every where they go. People like Dravidian think it is okay to have Christian nations, Islamic nations, Buddhist & Jewish nations, but just calling India a "Hindu nation" puts their panties in a tight knot. Hinduism / Sanaatana Dharma (Eternal Dharma) is not just a religion, it is a full culture, philosophy to unite mankind (not divide) & it has given many things to the world, but such people wish to destroy it & make it like the violent middle east or the materialistic west.

India & Hindus have always been hurt & invaded & there is no evidence for Hindus to have invaded other lands or committing the types of harm on mankind. Even in war, victorious Hindus rulers never touched civilians & especially defeated women were treated with utmost respect. People like Dravidian are shameless, but I cannot blame these people entirely. India has been facing this onslaught from Muslim invaders, Christian (Portuguese, French, British etc) invaders for more than 1000 years & since independence we have had a government that forbade study of hinduism in schools, yet allows Christo-Islamic studies. The result is the emergence of ignorant people like Dravidian who wish to break India. Such people are also called Urban Naxals. Very unfortunate indeed.
Less ticking and more tocking?
GMail is placing email from other users in the same google suites domain into spam which makes 0 sense since google knows they all belong to the same gsuite account.
It has been quite obvioius for quite some time that the most fascistic tendencies are exhibited by those who talk the loudest about "fighting fascists" (not that they knew a fascist from a hole in the ground)...
Does google have legal obligation to receive mails from 3rd party smtp servers ?
I think the idea is if someone gets into his car and holds him at knife point or gunpoint he could grab their weapon and pull the gun to shoot them quickly. At some point he would be coerced into reaching for his “wallet”. It’s all situational though.
Second preimage mostly, which is harder than collision with most common algorithms (even MD5 might still be secure for this, not that anyone should use it for anything at this point). Collision resistance is only important if someone can create two versions at the same time that have the same hash and wants to quietly switch them later.

Using SHA-256 as you describe works well and is widely used by package systems to ensure that source code being built does not change. Signatures can be better for determining if the initial image is valid if the signing is done away from the distribution infrastructure since development machines might be more secure than distribution infrastructure (and if not you will have problems either way). You still need to get the correct public key to start with. However, if you do have a good image by luck or actually secure enough distribution infrastructure then SHA-256 will certainly let you know that you get the same one later. Signatures almost always sign a cryptographic hash of the message and not the message itself.
Pretty much just what you said - when offline, it's just a fancy typewriter that I can also run a simple shell script or two on.
>in data analysis/science, there's more than way to highlight/analyze a problem, and more than one way to solve it. In my experience, the best solutions are often the craziest.

I strongly disagree. I have hired, mentored, and/or managed 20+ data scientists and analysts over my career; in my experience the ones who come up with "crazy"/creative solutions are often the least effective in the long run. This is especially true on the product analytics side, where there are 5 ways to shoot yourself in the foot in non-obvious and subtle ways. The best analysts I've worked with follow fairly regimented best practices around the way they analyze problems and present solutions. By its very nature, non-standard solutions are more error-prone and harder to explain, which breaks institutional trust in the analyst.

That said, there is plenty of room for analysts to grow into more creative fields like machine learning or product management, but I don't think the person being interviewed falls in one of these categories.
Europeans Hit with Multi-Stage Malware Loader via Signed Malspam
As sb8244 explained, long-polling typically refers to the server waiting before responding, and then responding with a complete response in one shot.

What you're thinking of, an HTTP response that the server keeps appending to and the client is expected to read and process incrementally, is also a real thing though. This is typically referred to as HTTP streaming. Examples of this would be SSE (text events) or MP3 streaming (audio).

(Not to be confused with HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) which is typically not based on any long lived requests at all!)
Offer HN: Mock YC interviews
Hi, I'm David, the founder of Retool (https://tryretool.com). We went through YC almost two years ago. Since then, we've built a product (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17725966), become profitable, and learned how to do sales (as a technical founder, this wasn't easy).

We're still very far from being successful, but Retool wouldn't have gotten anywhere near this far without YC. I'm endlessly grateful to everyone there. If you're wondering whether or not to do YC, feel free to ping me anytime (email in profile). I think the answer is easily "yes" for most first-time founders.

When we first applied to YC, we were "outsiders". We had went to uni in the UK, where startups were much less popular. And I remember cold emailing every YC alum (I could find) from the UK to get them to do a mock interview with us. Many agreed (thank you, Tom, Joe, David, and Justin), and without them, we wouldn't have gotten in to YC.

It's a weekend here in SF, and I'm around for most of today and tomorrow. I know there are people with YC interviews coming up soon, and I'd love to help you prepare. Just email me (email in profile), and I'll send you a calendly link where you can book a time to chat. If you're in SF, I'm happy to buy you a coffee too.

Besides nostalgia (I remember preparing for my own YC interview!), a desire to help, and a fairly free weekend, I have no other motivations. I will be honest and upfront with my feedback.
>If you have two atoms in a box, you must wait approximately half of the time to have a 50% chance to see the decay. (It's not exactly one half, there are some technical details here, but one half is a good approximation.)

Really? As far as I know radioactive decay is mostly believed to be a Poisson process (or rather the time it takes for a single atom is believed to be exponentially distributed), in which case the time it will take is exactly one half, on average.
Plenty of Atari games from that era have standard (ep)roms in sockets.
I don't think moving things to AWS makes things more secure by default. It is actually easier to create services in AWS or GCP (never used azure) that are publicly open than implement proper security (I remember specifically RDS defaulting to public IP unless you set up private subnets, same with GCP SQL (although they blocked all access but default, though once again it is easier to unblock it for all than e.g. using their proxy), GCP VMs automatically get public address unless you explicitly disable it, don't remember EC2 but I think it was similar.. So the argument of not needing to have someone who knows about security is a good one. You need that person as much (if not more) with public cloud.
Most of that is due to industrial-level selective breeding though. (The first commercial GMO was only released in 1994.) So GP's point still stands.
Polynesians had and still have extremely sophisticated stellar and solar navigation techniques (as well as deep observational knowledge of oceans and marine life) that far exceeded recorded European techniques until the advent of tools like astrolabes and sextants in the 1700s, as far as the extent of travel distances. There has been growing evidence of Polynesian contact with South America, including the presence of sweet potatoes (South American origin) which may have just dispersed somehow westward over the Pacific as seeds. But chicken bones (a South Asian origin) have been radio carbon dated to the 1300s in Chile. And a Polynesian settlement in the Auckland islands in the sub-antarctic dating to the 13th century has been found.
Many countries already have laws against libel and slander. This isn't something new.
You don't need to be a good ship builder to cross the Atlantic. Thanks to the North Equatorial Current, you can launch almost any buoyant object off the West African coast and it'll wash up somewhere on the east coast of the American continent. You don't need sails, you don't need oars, you don't even need a tiller; you just need buoyancy, enough fresh water to survive the trip and the knowledge that the current exists. The Atlantic has been crossed on an array of utterly unsuitable craft including rafts, survival capsules and inflatable dinghies; an elderly French man is currently attempting to cross in a large wine barrel.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/frenchman-jean-jacques-sa...
Do you have sources or evidence for any of those claims?