skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stories like this remind me that trust is an indispensable aspect of civilization. Ultimately we have to trust our road workers to do good work, our bank tellers to be honest, and apparently our archivists not to steal what has been entrusted to their care.

Also, it reminds me that our justice system(s) are mostly about punishment, because we can't actually prevent crimes, just act once they are already committed.

We must trust because we cannot verify, except in Phillip K. Dick novels and Tom Cruise movies. (China's dystopian work in this area notwithstanding.)
no, because the original clause was talking about the number of people. the joke was that it was identical to the percentage. Extremely circuitous, but meaningful!
You don't need nanorobots.

You may just pick old soviet vaccines and resolve this particular problem (see my other post in this topic).

Also there are a lot of great antibiotics (see epimerox) which still aren't on the market because of many different reasons.
Fiction, but this might be a good place to start: https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/10/30/sort-by-controversial/
My gut reaction is that the article is nonsense but I think there's a very valuable point in it.

When you work mainly on enterprise code where you're unlikely to encounter any code you wrote, rather than another team member, on a daily basis you'll need a debugger or print statements.

But the reasonable point the article makes is a debugger makes it very easy to solve the problem localised to a function or a couple of lines of code rather than take the time to improve the whole area and/or add test coverage. But the other thing people who don't work on enterprise code won't necessarily understand is you don't usually have time to do that. So it's a good thing to keep in mind but it feels a little too Ivory Tower to be broadly applicable.
Absolutely related! The ciliary malfunction causes the situs inversus in embryonic development by swishing your chemical development signals the wrong direction
In the US, premeditation is the distinction between 1st and 2nd degree murder.

Manslaughter is a lesser offense, for when there was no intent of homicide but the perpetrator is nonetheless responsible: say someone decides to juggle axes on a balcony and drops one on someone’s head.
FYI: "Pragnaz" is not a word. You probably mean "Prägnanz".
The fastest one would probably be RedisGraph. https://oss.redislabs.com/redisgraph/
In the meantime DDG makes almost 100% of its money from tracking users via revenue sharing agreement with Yahoo/Microsoft and Amazon.
I used Boto3 as a large complex library that you aren’t going to inspect every line of code. But you mentioned web development, so you inspect every single line of every third party dependency? Every library?
For books with an ISBN. Some of these can scan the cover

https://www.collectorz.com/book/isbn_database.php

https://bookriot.com/2016/01/14/8-reasons-catalog-books/

https://www.goodreads.com/blog/show/913-goodreads-hack-scan-...
If you saw everything backwards your first assumption would be X-ray error without question. But assumptions...
It will accelerate the development of a fact checking AI, which means lying and manipulating people won't be so profitable any more, I guess.
Probably not exactly what you are looking for but the topic reminds me of the cookie expire date.

About 15 years ago I learned about cookies and their expiry date. At the time it was totally up to you as a developer if you wanted to have a login that lasted 10 minutes or three years. While relevant for security, it was just a number you had to define. So it didn't feel like a big thing.

When I learned about concepts like 'remember me' I was a bit surprised, as in my world it was just about increasing the number for the cookie lifetime. In most cases, that is not entirely true as the modern 'remember me' implementations are more complex (e.g. to support re-authentication for modification of data), but the core principle is still the same (using a long living cookie for authentication).

So what was just a simple number back then, became a complex topic with legal implications nowadays.
I find that learning "pure JS" is the key. The various frameworks are great for productivity but it is easy overlook the principles and learn the framework specific way of doing things. ES6 introduces features that were missing in earlier versions and needed polyfills, external tools and frameworks.

The two resources that I found to be most useful are:

http://eloquentjavascript.net

and

http://exploringjs.com/es6/
Perhaps, but having male genetics and some characteristics of both sexes makes her intersex[1]. She was assigned the female gender, but she still has genetics and hormone levels that are not cis female. Hormones strongly affect some forms of physical performance.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex?wprov=sfla1
My thought is that the entire point of an old fashioned second hand book shop is to be able to wander around and explore. IF everything is catalogued, his barn instantly turns into a very bleak version of Amazon.
Google is ready to become a major force in gaming
(We've detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19825584)
In The Beginning (tm) source code was very explicitly a 2D grid, with column numbers being lexically significant in both FORTRAN and COBOL because columns matter in punch card representation.

Of course, as every Lisp programmer knows, programs represented in almost any high-level language are actually trees, and to force them into a 2D grid of symbols is rather unnatural and awkward. Specifically, almost all 2D grids of symbols are lexically or syntactically invalid programs, and many natural source code transformations require either manual labor or special support from the editor.
I'm working with customers now that are running Kubernetes to host Java applications and microservices. I'm not a huge fan of Java or the ecosystem, or the fact you can build a Kubernetes cluster using maven, but to claim its dying is outright absurd.

As a consultant, I see Java widespread. Every organization is either writing Java or running an application dependent on Java that is also mission/business critical. Most of my work happens on the backend, but we see lots of Java upstream with mobile apps, big data, ETL, etc...
See, that's how different people are. For me, the clearest formatting is obviously

some_object.some_method((p, q) => {
do_things()
})

Your preferred version has way too much useless whitespace.
You stayed in Singapore?
Show HN: A sokoban clone game with "infinity" levels
No offense but they're not getting inhumane shock treament either if you're going to pull "our stress is holier than thou" and say it's magnitudes higher, I'll be waiting scientific backing on this or else it's just rude... plus they can always just not make me periodically re-install all my addons with no option to just bypass verification... except this time it doesn't work even with the fixes. (Actually, one time I just didn't see it was set to update automatically downgrading one of them. I'm no expert on these issues, really. They just could have asked first in my opinion.) Thanks, Mozillama.

Edit: I had to click "Restart with addons disabled (safe mode)" for those wondering.
> She chose the female gender,

She was assigned female at birth.
Thank for sharing this. Always wondered what happened to Bob Lazar and they did a good job re-telling the original story and interviewing his friends/wife. Took me a moment to realize that his ‘United Nuclear’ was the very company where I ordered some radioactive ore a few years ago to test my electronic kit Geiger counter that we put together with the kids as a science project.
Did you wake up to drink fluids during your four day sleep? Otherwise it sounds kind of fatal.
So you have forgotten about the threads that you responded to where I was advocating for native desktop apps over cross platform apps, where I spent years doing C++/MFC,
Like this quote:
But seeing that I like the optionality of working for any of the dozens of companies that have job openings continuously for JavaScript, C#, C, C++, and even Python, I think I’ll stick with those....
Maybe a dumb question - how does the model which is trained to predict the next words answer questions, as shown in the reading comprehension example? Do you just feed it the question and watch it generate the answer, or is something else going on?
I don’t think it’s fair to say there is a lack of awareness that bacteriophages-as-concept exist. Most curricula in medical school will touch on these. However, what is more of a realistic lack of awareness is the ability to request bacteriophage therapy for a specific patient. It’s not something that has been thoroughly vetted or solved as a scalable solution because there’s a lot of technical hurdles. The closest approved therapy that is somewhat similar to what phage therapy would involve is CAR-T cell creation, and this is wildly expensive and resource intensive.

To give a somewhat comparable example, it’s more like someone saying asking why the average programmer doesn’t know anything about quantum computers as a solution for critical cryptographic problems.
should be titled "eating cereal for breakfast" as it's specifically about cereal

other kinds of breakfast (full-English etc) are healthy
Interesting.
It's a great approach that creative companies with enough funds can think of.

Hubspot is also doing it with Hubspot for Startups
You only get a relatively small sign on north Queensland beaches warning of the presence of salt-water crocs and bluebottle jellyfish.
not sure I like this idea. These are rare untouched places which should remain untouched. What about local tribes ? Leave them alone.
right click, download to desktop. Drag it into your firefox window. It will install then.
For those who don't want to click on the link:

> There are two conflicting perspectives regarding the relationship between profanity and dishonesty. These two forms of norm-violating behavior share common causes, and are often considered to be positively related. On the other hand, however, profanity is often used to express one’s genuine feelings, and could therefore be negatively related to dishonesty. In three studies, we explored the relationship between profanity and honesty. We examined profanity and honesty first with profanity behavior and lying on a scale in the lab (Study 1; N = 276), then with a linguistic analysis of real-life social interactions on Facebook (Study 2; N = 73,789), and finally with profanity and integrity indexes for the aggregate level of U.S. states (Study 3; N = 50 states). We found a consistent positive relationship between profanity and honesty; profanity was associated with less lying and deception at the individual level, and with higher integrity at the society level.
The version on the link above is just the prototype, it has only 10 easy levels. The thing is, I wrote a sokoban level generator and I'm thinking about releasing it on itch.io or Android app store. Would you donate or pay a small amount of money to play it? I thought about giving away a bunch of levels and selling the solutions (if the computer can generate the level, it can solve it optimally). What do you think about that?
Thanks for the explanation. Can you provide me with a link to learn more about how google manages extension certs? I am interested in learning how their system differs from Firefox, if at all.
Mystery Frequency Disrupted Car Fobs in an Ohio City, and Now Residents Know Why
More healthy than skipping breakfast?
To take an optimistic view, it may eventually teach people to more critically evaluate anything they read.
For 2.5 years as an exchange student.
Ryan Petersen on Building Flexport
Why? For developing that library I'd be perfectly happy if he'd made a fund raiser then spend the money on hookers and blow.

God knows that happens enough in finance for much worse outcomes.
Indeed, no one talks about the privacy implications of referral links, although when it comes to the agreement with Bing, etc., I think everything is proxied. Not so much with the direct links to Amazon. Amazon knows when you are a DDG user.

Even though affiliate links are a low hanging fruit in regards to making money with search engines, it is not made transparent by DuckDuckGo.

They also use all the data they can get, they just tell us they get rid of the identifying information as fast as possible (IP address). I wouldn't be surprised if, from a privacy-standpoint, using Google and DDG as a non-logged in user is basically the same, especially if you use google with an ad blocker. The process of Google ads is basically to have a profile based on cookie data, which the user can easily control.
It's great to see a language named after a mythical city in Arthur C. Clarke's "Beyond the Fall of Night".
Nginx+Lua Distributed Throttling System
FYI, observations can be "incredible" but not "incredulous". "Incredulous" describes the emotion people feel when you tell them your incredible observations.
The Shortest Research Paper Ever Published
> Programs written in dynamically typed languages don’t have far higher defect rates than programs written in languages like C++ and Java.

They have done a study which found that strong/static type checks can reduce your number of bugs by 15%

https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/09/19/to-type-or-not-to-type-q...

I would consider that to be quite significant
I guess they were the regular sort of misers, then.
In my investigations, this isn't too common, but I guess it depends on where in the Netflix catalogue (14,000 titles) you are digging. When Original language of film === audio language === subtitle language, things generally match up, in my experience. The subtitle accuracy for some less popular or older material can vary a bit though.
From one of the article's sources on "1.7%":

> Specifically, Fausto-Sterling computes the incidence of intersexual births to be 1.7 per 100 live births, or 1.7%. To arrive at that figure, she defines as intersex any “individual who deviates from the Platonic ideal of physical dimorphism at the chromosomal, genital, gonadal, or hormonal levels”

So someone with elevated estrogen but normally functioning male genitalia and XY chromosomes would be part of this 1.7%, as might an effeminate looking man or a boyish female.

I rather suspect that is not what most people would assume when reading that number.
Ish. It would help with inventory anyway, by comparing data at point of scanning and point of sale - “we sold the last Stephen King, sorry”, “we do have a Twilight recorded, so it’s there, but you’ll have to find it...”
Thank for the info. Though not the case where I live (China) and where I often travelled (east Asia and ASEAN countries). However Huawei indeed put their best effort in marketing in Europe.
I don't have an answer to who should be the arbiter, but:

> Free Speech is the most powerful tool Minorities and oppressed people through out the world have to end their oppression,

So in order to protect the opressed, we should allow their opressors an equal platform to share their totalitarian views?

The other side(what we currently have) is equally as bad, if not worse. Right now you have a situation where the BBC in the name of "fairness" gives equal air time to a political party who only exist as a protest vote, and they allow for climate change denier to air their views against scientists. Public debate doesn't work based on facts, it works based on emotions, and it doesn't matter how nuanced or level headed your response is, "think of the children" or "the government is trying to suppress our rights" are emotional arguments that consistently Trump facts and reason. Free speech isn't a right for you to have a platform to voice your opinion, it's a right to not have your opinion be suppressed by the government.

I don't have a solution, but at some point you have to accept that tolerance of intolerance is intolerance, and when we're talking about a single incident of a platform that claims Marital Rape is ok [0],and that murdering 50 people because of their religion is "a prank" [1], they are objectively the opressors, not the opressed.

[0] https://dailystormer.name/some-states-want-to-prevent-husban...

[1] https://dailystormer.name/the-difference-between-a-mosque-sh...
Is Stellar as Secure as You Think?
David Sinclair, Ph.D. on Extending Human Lifespan & the Science Behind Aging – The Rich Roll Podcast (2019-04-23).

https://podcastnotes.org/2019/04/23/sinclair-2/

Quotes:

“If I could tell you to do one thing to live longer, it would be to eat less”

Sirtuin and mTOR pathways respond to how much we’re eating.

If we eat less, these pathways get kicked into action

“I try to eat smaller meals, I try not to overeat, and I try to skip meals”
Hands contain oils, mold spores, bacteria, etc. and are certainly not good for fibrous media. Strategies depend upon what kind of media you have. Disposable cotton gloves are very popular. If you are interested in further research, the Getty is one of the world authorities on antiquities handling, they probably have a page or guide about it someplace. (Source: I have an art collection on antique paper myself, and have made efforts in the past to optimize handling and storage.)
I'm a bit younger, was a teenager in the late 90s going on IRC and various message boards but I've often mused on the same shift in internet culture.

To me it seems like these groups still exist but you have to stay within your age range. For example I hang out with 35-45 year olds on IRC still. And we all have Jabber with OTR or Signal. None of us have much of social media accounts.

The kids today still have these little communities, they use group chat just like we use IRC. It might be Discord, Skype, Snapchat or something more obscure but it's still the same old rules of the group chat. It's a tight knit group and the rules that have applied to group chats since forever still do apply.

So just because you don't have those connections anymore doesn't mean the culture is all that different. Kids still feel like the main part of the internet (fb, ig) is shallow and meaningless so they band together in their own little communities around special interests or through school and their IRL community.

I envy kids today because I see how new trends spread virally between schools just because they have these group chats with each other. For example recently the kids in my town were hacking e-scooters through some trick that was spreading on their group chats. I still have no idea how they did it, I'm out of the loop.
There’s a whole universe of folks selling used books on Amazon FBA. I suggest start with a google search of exactly that.

There’s apps which allow you to scan UPC codes and look up a price on Amazon. I’d personally sort the books by market value. Sell the books that are profitable, trash the ones which are not, save the ones which are very rare or have no UPC code, and use the money to grow the storage space.
Do Renewable Portfolio Standards Deliver? [pdf]
It's probably about what we did to stop the global warming so far
This. Also DDG and Brave are probably the shadiest small tech companies I've seen in many years. They use extensive and aggressive advertising and sneaky marketing techniques with nothing more but attacking big companies using their paid minions (youtubers, bloggers, influencers on reddit an 4chan), ironically the same big companies that their products are built upon. I wonder if a company like Google would ever sue them or that would make these companies a favor because all they need is more exposure as the little fighter who takes on the evil giant and we all know who we should be more sympathetic with when we see a fight between the big evil guy and the little one.
Note that I was not replying to you in my first comment, I was replying to esotericn's "interpretation" of your comment as people not acting as rational utilitarian beings when they drive in London.
Releasing publicly AI tech that is six months behind the state of the art, might be a reasonable compromise against the fear of nefarious use. That way, more people know that the tech exists before it's available to everyone, and get a 6-month window to adapt.

At the same time, the risk is lower that a different team develops similar capabilities and widely deploy it without anyone even knowing that what they do is possible.

Wouldn't be surprised if this pattern is followed even more in the future. It's an acknowledgement that there are many angry cats that will (almost unstoppably) be let out of the bag in the next decades, but attempting at releasing the cats in the most responsible manner possible.
UX clichés
Out of curiosity, which groups do you follow, and what do you use for access?

The dorm I used to live in originally had their internal discussion forums as private news groups, but must have switched over to a forum in 09 or so. Apparently normal people couldn't use usenet.
Boxing has different weight classes and although the big ones seem the most popular, the lighter ones seem popular among those who enjoy boxing, right?
I believe understand it right. What _motivation_ this single entity will have to always have the best customers interests in mind? What will prevent it from being sloppy, or even corrupted and colluding with healthcare providers?
The anti-alcohol effet is well known to the point that LSD has been seriously considered for treating alcoholism.

But as always with LSD, the effet from person to person can be very different.
Hmm, if I am an expert in a domain, then there is no decision to be made - it is obvious what the right answer is to everything, you don't have a decision to make - there is no communication to others. All decisions are outside my domain of expertise! The outcome of these decisions are usually compromises based on the needs of a stakeholder, manager or the least stable third party.
Reverse Engineering with OllyDbg (2015)
AI-Based Social Platform Product Hunt
An Interesting “Gotcha” in C (2014)
I meant there's an "infomercial" tone to a lot of the docs, (claiming the other ways are broken, a list of testimonials, etc).

I think it's a bit odd. I wasn't trying to say that good documentation makes me suspicious, but this very heavy handed advertising up front does.

I know it's partly a joke, but it's not just one ore two lines.
How to Do Firmware Analysis: Tools, Tips, and Tricks
It's likely that OpenJDK developers would be snapped up by other enterprise vendors. There's a serious market in the JDK now, which didn't exist before Oracle created it. Part of competing in that market is having upstream credibility.
The two advancements I'm following in the router field (which do not fit your requirements though) are 1) Router 7 [a router implementation fully written in Go] [1] 2) Turris MOX [a modular, extensible router] [2].

You could run Router 7 on PC Engines [3] who at least use Coreboot.

[1] https://github.com/rtr7/router7

[2] https://www.turris.cz/en/overview/

[3] https://www.pcengines.ch/
Google Confirms It Will Automatically Delete Your Data – What You Need to Know
It depends.

Growing people may need to eat more frequently.

Personally I like to have breakfast at my first break at 10am, so I’m fasting for longer each day. I’m not that far off 40, and if I’m honest I probably don’t need an evening meal either.
That's a very sensible standpoint.
> So who should be the arbitrator of truth? ... Free Speech is the most powerful tool

Generally, an independent judiciary is the arbitrator of truth.

Free speech has never been absolute. Free speech does not protect intentionally false speech. For example, tricking people to give you money is fraud. Libel is too. You can support free speech while also protecting truth. When the issue pops up, a judge determines who's right and wrong.
We clearly have very different concepts of what "prompting for donations for project X" actually means.