skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I made something like this (without the neural networks) just recording the typing cadance of users entering their password. If the cadance matches within a tollerance then it can be used as a crude indicator of identity, along with other factors like IP, geolocation, browser fingerprint etc.
It's a cult and they deliberately want to make it a cult.

This is one of the reasons they provide free food, corporate vacations, team building exercises, etc.

They want you completely dedicated.
What I find is that a lot is so-called "luxury" new residential blocks in London (often high rises) have pretty much no sound insulation between flats, which for a modern construction is shocking, let alone a luxury building. I am not convinced that upmarket constructions give you any guarantee of build quality. In fact many of these luxury flats were sold off-plan in Asia to people to whom it was a financial investment and had no intention to ever live there, I can see why the developers wouldn't bother.
much better thanks.

so I wrote a lot of sentences and I don't understand what is supposed to happen. Do I need to register for the thing to work? I don't want to.
Sounds great, thank you for the informative responses in this thread. Re changes/revisions before acceptance by the SEC, I was referring to this part of the article:

Friday’s decision followed an uncertain fate for LTSE, which had faced SEC opposition before revising parts of its proposal.
The Origins of Directed Panspermia (2013)
It is, but Lucida Grande was significantly better than both.
Thank you - that was incredibly hard to parse.
Mixed signals produce mixed results.
Certainly, and the same applies to other types of media. I can tell you that approaching a classroom lecture that doesn't involve homework or testing, like a free online lecture, with the same casual attitude as one reads a mildly interesting book will give you the same failure to retain the information. I know this because I've done it many times myself.
Adobe apps were never difficult to pirate at all, the theory is that they wanted more users who would eventually buy the products in a commercial setting.

Amusingly enough, archive.org has archived those downloads too.
This site is one of the best dark theme site designs I have seen. Good job.
Why the throwaway?

<Mostly guessing> After a year with an outbreak, the survivors are naturally immunized. So the next year it's more difficult for the virus to propagate and you get a smaller than usual amount of cases. After a few years there are enough new people that is not immunized to get another big outbreak. I'm not sure why it was a two year cicle.

After the vaccine the amount of not immunized people grow slowly, and the outbreaks are more apart (5 - 10 years). So they added a booster / second dose to kill the small outbreaks. (Now there are some additional doses from time to time for risk groups.) </Mostly guessing>
It crashed because the system that was making it behave that way failed. The MCAS did not get correct data, did not react well, was not easily deduced to be the problem, and was not easily disabled.

Training and technical improvements can resolve these problems and it's ready to fly. If that's still deemed too risky then Boeing can remove the behavior modifications with training and certification as a completely new design. It was this cost that they were trying to avoid through emulation but clearly not done in a safe enough manner.
There also a disadvantage to pre-fetching/preloading data. For users with data caps it wastes data on something they may never view.
I'm from Georgia, USA, living in Singapore, and I regularly translate English-to-English among colleagues who are Chinese, Indian, Filipino, Thai, Aussie, American, British, etc. I think exposure to many English accents and dialects certainly helps regional comprehension even though it's the same language.
Why would you think "people in tech" are some homogenous group to generalize about?
It’s definitely much more common in sales/marketing. It goes both ways though. As she says, there is a lot of consensual hooking up. Any environment where a significant portion of the folks are willing and reciprocal is going to lead to people testing the waters, so to speak. Especially if you’re getting drunk together.
> While I agree with you about plasticity there's a pretty good counterexample to your claim about literacy: in 1929 Turkey switched from the Arabic alphabet, which never quite fit the Turkish language phonetically, to a Roman script variant that they still use today. This was largely credited to the massive increase in literacy over the next decade (random searches suggest it went from 5-10% to 80%).

Claims about the success of the Ataturk's reforms are probably about as credible as Soviet claims about worker productivity.

Other sources claim a literacy rate of 68% in 1975:

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.ADT.LITR.ZS?end=2016...

Of course it can't be denied that school reforms had a massive impact on literacy, but it's not so clear how previously illiterate adults fared when learning to read and write for the first time.
In that case you and the author have an empirical disagreement about how many people believe which version. Given how often "naive falsificationism" shows up in internet comments, I wouldn't bet against the author. But isn't it moot anyhow? He states up front that not everyone believes this, but those who do are the ones he's writing for. That's not a straw man argument.
Previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19832908
Thank you; That ties in so well with my train of thought and feeling from what I was seeing that I can put this one to bed and not spend all night pondering it. Thank you so much for that.
And there's a reason for that: regular exposure to RP speakers in broadcast media. If you're a native speaker who's never met anyone with a particular regional accent, you might have trouble at first, but you'd soon "tune in" to their accent, as long as they spoke clearly in Standard English. It would be a lot more effort for them to change their accent.
I assume you're talking about CI? Not much more than that. But that only works in the most trivial cases. One repository, simple tests. I spent tons of time over the years always tweaking this and that to make whatever CI system we were using somehow work with GitHub. Lot's of setup, lots of trouble.
It always depends where you live. I lived next to a main crossing once and I certainly got my share of air pollution there. If you would have asked me back then what I’d rather get rid off — noise or air pollution — I think I would’ve picked air pollution.

The effect constant noise polution has is very hard to grasp. I only noticed what it did to me when I moved to a new flat after a few years.

It felt like a 1000 pound weight had been lifted from me, and I realized it was about the noise after all. My sleep got much better, which had all kinds of positive effects on the rest of my life.

I can still remember vividly the first night I slept in the new flat in (what felt like) complete silence and peace for the first time in years.

If I could give advice to my past me, I would tell myself that the noise affects me much more than I thought.
Yeah, I understand why they wrote that - this process is confusing. This is an entirely new proposal because we are applying under a different regulatory pathway (a “form one filing” instead of a “rules change” on a legacy exchange).
I’m considering adding a popup to ?amp=1 visitors that educates/warns them that google is hijacking their browsing experience.
Machine learning could change science – DCD
This is just one user providing a factual report.
yup, super bizarre comments here. I thought the work of Bret Victor was liked in HN community and this is along the same lines. Very well written article that hits on all important points.
Are you planning to open source the dataset generated?
You’ve posted 3 messages which are basically the same attack on the poster because you apparently don’t like her style. This isn’t helpful and you haven’t explained why her point is invalid — quite ironic given your attacks on her for being a “drama queen” or lacking credibility when all we see is a valid point.
I heard the NSA has been doing this for nearly a decade.
You've probably typed a username or password hundreds of times though, or at least a fair portion of their userbase has. "This user normally types their password in 3 seconds but today they did it in 0.2 seconds" is a reasonable way to raise a red (or at least yellow) flag.
3D printed 'death pod' to be shown at Venice Design exhibition
Why? The whole point of one is to show how much of an arsehole you are. :D
Lockheed's Senior Peg: The Forgotten Stealth Bomber
It doesn't seem like using it for automatic 2FA would be practical. For one thing, it wouldn't allow for password managers, and if the environment changes significantly it wouldn't match up (on mobile, using an on-screen or touch keyboard, finger pecking on a laptop while eating at the dinner table, etc.)
Unfortunately, tyrants often pay well.
I interviewed with most of the "tech giants" and Microsoft's process was by far the best (professional and down-to-earth). Maybe this was due to the target (language team), maybe due to the location (Redmond), but at least with me they left a great impression.
Of course, but with masked identifiers.
Some of these applications have been withdrawn, but there are in fact some in flight.

https://www.nrc.gov/reactors/new-reactors/col/new-reactor-ma...
The market solves this (partially) by investors foreseeing the shortage and buying up stockpiles before they increase in value.

One problem is that when they later sell it these investors are often demonized as profiteers and speculators, and occasionally strung up in lampposts. Perhaps less so for this kind of goods.
IIRC, Safari on Windows is a decade old or more. I'd bet mainline Safari has changed a lot in that time. Would probably be a significant amount of work.

And, uh, Apple's programs for Windows have a history of being really bad. Possibly done intentionally, but even so...
There is noway I am going to buy a new vehicle. I already have a car that is economical and reliable.

EVs are great if you have the money for one but I am not putting my hand in my pocket when I have like a house to pay off first.
I’ve been in the workforce over 20 years, and I can barely relate to someone just starting out:

- I have no idea what is expected from a junior developer starting out in the workplace. I was self taught before going to college and my first job I was the sole developer writing a decently complicated networked data entry system. What should I expect the typical junior developer to know? I’ve only worked at companies who don’t hire junior developers.

- If someone’s dreams and aspirations are to “work for Big N” (the stereotypical r/cscareerquestions poster), what do I know? I’ve never studied leetCode/“Cracking the Code” in my life and don’t plan to.

- I’m not sure someone who has been in the industry 30-40 years will be able to relate to someone just starting off. Things are different now. Things are different from when I first started. Technology was just another decent paying, middle class career field when I entered it.

Someone in the industry 30-40 years is probably a company man and still believes in company loyalty.
I'm afraid that without registering there is not much to happen, sorry. The whole point is that given past samples it can identify new previously unseen samples. The identification is the crucial part of the demo.
Tiny neural network can create powerful ai on phone
I got a job at Microsoft through acquisition (not located in Redmond) and I gotta say, I am kinda loving it. Very challenging and good tools. Happy to be here. I think the Satya era is an improvement, from what I hear. To me they seem pretty serious about being a good environment for women.
How is it maintenance-wise, BTW? How involved are the upgrades? I'm tempted to self-host, but don't want to go too far down the rabbit hole.
I used to live near a train track. When I first moved there it bothered me quite a lot. When I moved out it was more like "what trains"?
Google Fi is great for this. Wherever I land abroad I'm connected within a minute and pay the same data rate that I do while at home.
Is it a better use of public money to have one grand, expensive, and meticulously crafted library for tourists to gawk at, or 10 cheap and uninspiring ones that regular people can use on a daily basis? Old buildings were fancy because they were built by peacocking aristocrats with no accountability to and zero concern for the unwashed masses.
Agreed. There’s a video on internets where a dolphin was using an iPad.
What's to stop Zillow from making fake low-ball offers on homes, then making their own offer under a fake name, and thus getting homes at a discount and flipping them for profit? Likewise, they could simply buy homes, leave them vacant, and then sell them once prices are higher. Realtors (tech or otherwise) probably shouldn't be buying and selling homes themselves, but rather facilitating the buying and selling. Otherwise they will exacerbate housing bubbles, which are already past crisis levels in major cities.
From the article:

>About the author: Adrien Mauduit is a professional astrophotographer and cinematographer and the CEO and owner of Night Lights Films. The opinions expressed in this article are solely those of the author. Mauduit also does science education, communication, and public outreach for Project PoSSUM. You can find more of Mauduit’s work Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.
Care to share the story, omitting personal details?
And its these people who stick around too. Saves the company plenty of money giving them 3-5% yearly raises.
I think there might be an ever so tiny sliver of space between every bracketed jocular aside needing a reference to a peer-reviewed double-blinded study, and falling into redditland. Intellectual rigour applied wisely is clearly a virtue. Inquisitorial nit-picking humourlessness however is just a bore.
I pretty much exclusively use 1pass, so there's not much information there on the bank fill side of things.
I've put 50k miles on my prius over the past 6 years, with the vast majority of my fuel coming from out of state. I would be a fool to switch to EV.
Search "Facebook emotional contagion"
The technology is ready - EVs - but the ramp up is taking too long.

Above about 30-35 mph, EV's aren't much quieter than ICE cars, the contribution from road/tire noise starts to dominate for both types of autos above those speeds.
That's correct, BearSSL and BoringSSL (Google's OpenSSL fork). Pornin is a bad-ass. But keep in mind that they were targeting C/C++ libraries, so we don't have telemetry on (for instance) Go's crypto/tls or whatever Rust is doing with ring.
Not in their final version, no. I see what you meant - I should have said "are developed with". Lemme edit that.

https://store.digilentinc.com/netfpga-sume-virtex-7-fpga-dev...

But for 7k you can get an older design with 4x 10Gbps Ethernet. It's used at Stanford and Cambridge for... High speed network processing research.

High speed trading firms almost universally use FPGAs. You can't go faster without custom silicon. But you can sure as shit max out as many DDR and network interfaces as you can physically attach.
You should always check the return value for an error, no matter what. I would not suggest otherwise. Whatever the source of the failure, you want to explicitly fail in a defined way rather than have your application behave in unexpected ways, potentially destroying user data or otherwise misbehaving.
"Naive falsificationism" shows up in Internet comments from the kind of people who think vaccines cause autism or global warming is a hoax, and cling to a single isolated result as "proof". Even on the Internet they aren't a majority.

If the author merely wants to argue against that kind of thinking, that's fine, but given the extensive discussion of Karl Popper and physicists, I don't think that's the author's intent.
> echo " > \$$(echo "100 ${default_hourly}" | bc -l) 100.00 \$${default_hourly} 50 acme"*

> Don't tell me you prefer writing shell scripts that do simple arithmetic because it's more convenient than using Python.

That's not a fair comparison. The code you pasted isn't just doing the calculation. It's dynamically generating a human readable help menu that shows both the input and output of what the script will do. That requires quite a bit more characters and escaping.

The "real" calculation to get the hourly is:

amount="$(echo "${total_hours} * ${hourly_rate}" | bc -l)"

Seems pretty straight forward to me. Plus, that's a really cherry picked example in Python's favor. You should evaluate the whole script's purpose. It's mostly just reading and filtering text output from a file and then performing basic math on the filtered text. Seems like a textbook case to use Bash IMO.
There is of course plenty of random luxury developments in those places, but high end malls tend to be pretty good. At least in the elaborate-sloppy ratio, as different developments will be competing for the high end brands. But looking more at Hudson Yards it looks more like a random mall, in which case it probably doesn't matter much.
To be a little pedantic - it’s not quite the same as Apple’s user interaction design... notice how the ape performs swipes to navigate back?

Apple’s gesture for this requires starting at the edge of the screen, but Instagram allows you to start swiping anywhere.

I’d hesitate a guess that without this difference, the ape wouldn’t have been able to browse Instagram nearly as easily.
Thank you so much for sharing this. My fraternal twin has schizophrenia and was diagnosed at 23. We're 25. I don't have schizophrenia.

But his problem is that he refuses to take medication, so not sure where things will end up in the future with him. It's very up and down. One day like yesterday he's hearing voices and talking to himself, then the next day he's sort of normal.

Hearing that someone else also has a family member that is going through that is helpful.
You really are missing the point.

https://web.mit.edu/~simsong/www/ugh.pdf

Unix-Haters Handbook Preface

Things Are Going to Get Lot Worse Before Things Get Worse

“I liken starting one’s computing career with Unix, say as an undergraduate, to being born in East Africa. It is intolerably hot, your body is covered with lice and flies, you are malnourished and you suffer from numerous curable diseases. But, as far as young East Africans can tell, this is simply the natural condition and they live within it. By the time they find out differently, it is too late. They already think that the writing of shell scripts is a natural act.” -Ken Pier, Xerox PARC
Thanks, it compiling this was a bit of a pain but I got it and do see some performance increase but wow slow. Still though, I know this is outside the scope of the article but I don't see AV1 catching on anytime soon and I half laugh to point out that 2027 when h264's patents expire isn't that far out! Everyone talks about hardware encoding options for h264 being available, let's not forget how crappy the output from h264 hardware encoding is compared to software encoding.
I live in Japan and speak Japanese reasonably well (not native level by any stretch of the imagination, but I can have casual conversations in virtually any normal context). I know a lot of expats who live near me and just can't seem to learn Japanese. One of the biggest things I noticed they had in common was a desire to avoid being treated like a child. My level is like that of an 8 or 10 year old (though I lack fluency is some normal grammar which most children have no trouble with). I'm very comfortable acting like an 8 or 10 year old. When I go to the doctor for example, I don't expect to understand what he's saying. The "explain it to me like I'm five" thing is my ordinary lifestyle. But I find that some people just can't accept the step down. If they are 30 years old, they want to go out with native speakers and interact as a 30 year old. Then they get frustrated and humiliated when they can't understand what's going on. They want to watch the news on TV and get frustrated when they can't understand any of it. They refuse to watch things (like cartoons) that they can understand, because it is too childish. It's a bit of a blocker, I think.

Admittedly, though, it's frustrating that people always have to make an effort with you. If you go out with a group of native speakers to a bar for an evening, there's a good chance that the only conversation you understand is when someone makes a special effort to speak to you. There is nobody in your peer group that has the same communication level as you, so you can get really lonely. I always had the strategy of coming up with one-liner jokes. Just sit back and listen and listen and listen until you finally understand something and then think of a quick funny, but irrelevant thing to insert in the conversation. It's doubly funny because everybody thinks you have no idea what's going on. But that was my thing for years -- I never said anything meaningful in a conversation in a group. Just like a kid...

But all that aside, it's actually pretty easy to show that adults can learn languages as fast as children. Children acquire about 3 "word families" per day on average from the age of 1.5 up to 15 (and continue as long as they continue formal education). A "word family" is a bit like a piece of vocabulary, but includes all the inflections and combination words (so if you know "police" and "station", then you also know "police station" -- it's not counted as a new piece of vocabulary). This works out to about 1000 word families a year (although the rate is very variable between the ages of 1.5 and 5 -- the average child ending up with 5000 word families by the age of 5).

That kind of stuff is very well understood. You can learn faster than that as an adult. It's not even very hard. The trick is understanding that it's going to take up to 5 years to speak like a 5 year old. Most people forget what it's like to be 5 and how crappy your language skills are. They think, "Oh these 5 year olds can play easily together and jabber on constantly" -- but put them in an adult environment and the vast majority will clam up or be just as frustrated as we are.
Definitely, Japanese pronunciation is pretty standard. There is intonation and as ShinTakuya mentioned some sounds which don't really exist in English (like the sound between f and h). But, it is pretty easy in general.

Having said that, it's amazing to hear people speak it with crazy accents where they clearly bring in their own understanding of how things should sound.
From the comment I replied to:

> the many professional astronomers and astro-photographers discussing these very pictures

That's what I was talking about.

Even if we're just talking about the author, and you accept those qualifications, it's still an argument from authority without evidence.
Air pollution is still the next big public-health crisis. 4.2 million people die each year from air pollution https://www.who.int/airpollution/en/.
Well, as a start you should share exactly what you are writing here. You dont have to tell young people what they should or should not do - just how things evolved throughout your career and how companies you worked for evolved (mergers, acquisition, crazy reorgs,..) and things like that. Invaluable stories I always appreciate to hear from more experienced people.

EDIT: and that you dont care about leetcode probably also says something about how important that stuff is in the grand scheme of things :)