skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I forget Medium exists until some complains about it. Several years ago, the popularity of Medium and several paywall/signup-wall sites posted on HN and Reddit inspired me to write a Firefox add-on that is able to apply CSS to any element that contains any text or attribute value matching a given regular expression on any site. So far, I've only used it to apply "visibilty: hidden" to sites I don't like, but it theoretically has other uses. I use a variation of the filter in Newsbeuter to keep them out of my RSS feeds. The result is that I do not see any links or any embedded content for sites I know I never want to interact with, ever. Search results, Reddit, HN, blogs, etc. The sites I add are basically erased from my personal internet experience. It is glorious, and I think if a lot of people used it, misbehaving sites would be more scared of it than ad blockers because they don't even get the chance to grab your attention. It's called ssure if anyone is interested. It's a bitch to configure but it works on desktop and Android FF.
The one where 76% reoffend within 5 years [0]. Whatever its stated goals or values, rehabilitation is not an actual effect of the penal system.

[0] https://www.nij.gov/topics/corrections/recidivism/pages/welc...
You've just invented from first principles Single Sign On, OAuth, SAML, and Identity Providers.

You can rent it from AWS, of course. It's called Cognito.

https://aws.amazon.com/cognito/

You can also offload that responsibility for user data/credentials to Google/Facebook et al as you see many places with "Login with Facebook", making your users pay in privacy-invasion instead of bearing the burden of properly securing your user's PII yourself...
You could buy advertisements... what you're looking for is basically a way to get ads for your product in front of eyeballs, even if you don't call them "ads". I don't see any reason why that ought to be cheap.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding what the goal of "marketing" is in this context, however.
I remember hitting a deer as a kid. My parents called the cops because it was hurt but not dead, when the cops showed up they called a charity, killed the dear and fed some people in need. Kinda makes sense IMHO.
First Results from New Horizons’ Time in the Kuiper Belt
My bias shows here, but what's your alternative to NFS from *nix?
We used AFS at school. I suppose you could keep your data locally and be responsible for your own backups / use version control as backups.
This is mostly wrong. You look interested in the subject, but you must find better sources of knowledge.

> When a gamma particle hits other kinds of matter, it can cause that matter to also become unstable and begin shedding particles. This is how materials become radioactively contaminated.

No, totally no. You can irradiate something with gamma radiation, and it will not become radioactive. Moreover, it is a standard method to preserve some food, because a big dose of radiation kills the bacteria (and everything else) but the food is totally safe to eat later. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_irradiation

> BTW, the reason lead is used as a radioactive shield is that it's too dense to allow many gamma particles to penetrate. Atoms are internally "quantized" with only certain spots open for penetration, and lead has the fewest of these. [...]

Also no. The part about the "spots open for penetration" is totay wrong. Lead is a good shield against gamma radiation because it is very dense and each atom has a lot of electrons, so a fixed volume has more electrons than most other material. Gamma rays "bounce" against the electrons and the energy is split, and after a few splits each part is not dangerous. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_shielding
As much as I like a Firefox, no inline/live editing of Javascript leaves things a bit frustratingly behind the curve. Even Edge Classic has that, and it's terrible.
Clown gaming is compelling in every way except gaming.
I'll take ads, I block them anyway.
Amibian.js Under the Hood
20k identifiable pieces of trash, small sample size. Even if it's good math ~ perhaps its a numbers game of popularity in brands? Coke was 15% Pepsi 10% ... and I'm sure other brands of aluminum can waste we're their proportional share..
Oh I see now, I totally misinterpreted your comment, sorry.
StackOverflow is a forum, not a password manager or a file storage service. If people only participate in forums they self-host, each will have a community of one.
OK, what if people with money want to spend that money on political speech _without_ coordinating with the candidate? That's the Citizens United problem.

There's no quid pro quo bribery, but if the NRA spends a bazillion dollars attacking your opponent but not you, it'd be hard to say there's no influence on your decision making process. At the same time, it's really tricky to ban. Is something like Michael Moore's Farenheit 9/11 a form of political advertising?
People who work hard deserve the fruits of their labor, regardless of their economic status. I have no problems with economically disadvantaged hard working people getting into great colleges, I have problems with equally hardworking people being disadvantaged because their parents are successful.
The hardest part is the timing, it really needs to be a collaborative effort between motorists, an agency (like) CHP, and a number of charities that are able to collect the animal quickly.
I think a lot of that come from slowing down and being afraid of change and learning. Presumably if you could live to 500, your cognitive function would be 'peak' for much, much longer. It's unlikely we would do a good job of predicting what that would do to humans and human culture.
A lot of discussion on this thread revolves around whose responsibility it is to ensure clean-up of plastic waste (producers or consumers) while ignoring the fact that companies are using a material that lasts 10,000 years for items that are single-use. That should be outright illegal unless there are literally no alternatives.
>Or the interviewing process judging people on suits and posture is batshit insane, that they find people incapable of or not mimicking their tone less trustworthy for being insufficiently deceptive and more.

If the G factor if intelligence is really "general," won't it also improve your ability to posture and choose suits?
I guess the critical question is whether it's built up to the point that anyone wants to use it yet. It's one thing to have theoretical support for dynamic linking, but if in practice everyone just ships giant static binaries (which seems to be the emerging default for Go, node, etc), it doesn't help you much.
Calling it a nuclear bomber is ludicrous clickbait because there were no nuclear weapons, or any ordnance, on the plane at the time. It's like calling any jackknifed truck a "nuclear truck" because trucks transport nuclear devices.
If you really want money out of politics then you replace all of them with sortition (assemblies of the people). They are representative, being drawn at random, for the whole population and they are not elected, so they don't need to campaign. Similar to politicians, they need to be supported by experts and advisors in the specific topic they are working on. I'd rather trust a group of random people deliberating than a bunch of professional liars. Sortition is a way for people to participate in democracy more than voting once every couple of years and posting on FB.
A thought I had just today is that I wonder if people who live in temperate climates are more bothered by the idea of climate change since they live in basically a continually ideal climate.

Here in the Midwest, it will get down to -20F in the winter, and break 100F in the summer, so dealing with extreme weather is just sort of a fact of life. Also ~1000 feet above sea level, so sea level rise is sort of a non-issue.

So maybe part of the trouble with getting people in the inland US to care about climate change is convincing them that other people's problems are going to become their problem.
In terms of school admissions I would agree. In terms of society in general however i'm not entirely convinced that it's a zero sum game.
I'd say make it a semi-luxury product. A once/twice per month $3.75 - $5.75 pleasure that comes in a glass bottle. The sweet refreshing taste of Coca-Cola should not be an everyday thing (otherwise it becomes an health issue). So you reduce C02 & health impact and maintain profitability.
I've seen plenty of questions that include API keys or credentials and they're later edited to "remove" them although the revision history is still there. It would make up a minority of content on Stack Overflow but it's still there.
Most cafes in Australia give a discount (up to 50c) for bringing your reusable cup. It’s very popular and very effective. Of course, disposable cups are still available.
This line of argumentation falls flat to me because the kids that are better educated by their parents will undoubtedly have better lifelong outcomes, regardless of what college it enables them to get into.

There's a lot more to success in life than what college you go to. Going to Harvard is pretty worthless if you haven't even been set up with the skills to be able to graduate, for instance -- which the kid with highly invested parents is more likely to have.
That’s a good point. It was much harder to find interesting stuff to read back in the day. I had my Google Reader with a bunch of blogs, but that ended up being pretty noisy and they took it away. You had to do the searching yourself and be your own data curator, or have a network of other friends pitching in content to check out (eg. forums, Maybe digg?)

It’s locked in a somewhat growing, walled garden, yes, but Medium is now basically the Google Reader for a lot of people. Those people don’t care about logins if they can get a good read every now and then. And, when Medium goes to crap, some other platform will pop up with no ads (for a while :) ) and lure us all over there.
There is a story that grocery store tomatoes were bred to withstand a 13 mph impact into the truck from a harvesting machine, but lost a lot of flavor. If this picker robot can gently pick heirloom tomatoes and place them into containers without damage, I speculate that consumers would prefer the better tasting tomato.
I've typed in medium.com

I've also clicked on articles while on the website for a different article
In Minnesota they take them to the International Wolf Center to feed the pack (if within 150 miles I believe).
This just enables unpredictable discrimination on behalf of college admissions officials...
I'd like a literacola.com please.
The lack of accountability in btc is considered a feature. The fact that funds can be tracked at all is considered a bug, hence monero and zerocoin etc.
My parents house is hot water heated. Originally was coal fired, then oil, then a replacement oil heater, now electric. All the pipes and radiators are original. It's 115 years old.

The whole house is built (and maintained) with a different mindset.

(I think they removed the last knob-and-tube light socket a couple years ago)
>Not everyone can afford high quality tutoring, and high quality tutoring clearly has an impact on test scores.

There are a number of organizations offering free online tutoring, such as https://learntobe.org. https://weteachscience.org used to provide free STEM tutoring to students in disadvantaged schools, but they recently shut down...I think it was difficult getting stable funding.

There is no technical reason why high quality tutoring couldn't be offered to all these students. It's simply a matter of arranging the funding. I think a workable non-profit business model would be to arrange long-term funding from some government organization. If anyone is interested in setting up a business like this, feel free to email me and I can provide contacts and technology (I work with online tutoring companies, including the two listed above).
My main issue is that there are no brand name companies (think FAANG/2, or even FAANG/3) hiring remote. I'm not going to debase my resume by working for someone's pet project.
So...

How do we know that they (MonsterCloud) weren't also the criminals on the other side of the bitcoin transaction?

Is it possible this was all a giant payola/extortion ring?

I mean, the criminals were just that reliable, organized and scrupulous about unlocking their victims?
Show HN: Specification for “Audio for GIF” Application Extension
Insane how negative even this community is about this tech. Is coming regardless of regulation because whos going to tell tesla No once they add in lights and stop sign detection but still.

Actually, don't they already do those things in beta for some users?
With Facebook, it's easy for an average individual to leave the platform for good: stop using Fb/Insta/Whatsapp and install something like Privacy Badger to avoid tracking on all the other sites that have some form of Fb integration.

Leaving Google, by contrast, is way more difficult, their ecosystem reaches literally every corner of the web and you have to deal with it even if you don't consciously use any Google product, for example if Recaptcha doesn't like you, everyday online tasks like paying public school fees [1] or signing up to an online forum become much harder. Another example is Amp, where the fact that you are reading an article hosted into Google infrastructure is often hidden from you, there are many more examples. Trying to quit Google feels like that episode of Black Mirror where that woman is ostracised by everyone because she doesn't have the same cybernetic implant that everyone else is using. Just because Google hasn't been caught in any scandal comparable to the Cambridge Analytica one, it doesn't mean that it's OK for them to have so much unchecked power.

[1] see my submission history for details
Or their clients are naive I don’t recognize that they’re being charged more to “decrypt” than the cost of the ransom, or (plausibly) the client is intentionally not paying the ransom because they (incorrectly) believe it means they aren’t giving money to criminals.
It occurs in most non-merit based social settings. 95% of all churches are 95% homogeneous. Racial groups self segregate at lunch tables. 85% of millennials don't have a single friend outside their own racial group.

In merit based settings like employement, the employer is going to be selecting for IQ so the racial demographic of the employees is irrelevant, only their productivity.
Looks like they finally added resizable columns in the networks tab! https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1358414
Ironically working for a bank is probably often more moral / does more good than Google. Keeping people's money safe is a very real service. People complain about CC interchange fees, but it costs ~1-2% to process cash as well. (Safes, hiring armored trucks to pick it up, etc).

Not all of finance is swapping debt like a commodity til the economy crashes and forclosing on people who had some bad luck.

Allowing people to use their money conveniently and securely is arguably bringing more value to the world than helping run psyops to convince people to buy things they don't actually need. People need checking, savings, and credit card accounts and they need them to be secure and reliable
If you prefer pretty pictures here's a direct link to the show reel: http://audiogif.rancidbacon.com/start

(Note: Depending on your browser you may experience autoplay audio.)
or there could be nobody around to make the observation that there's nobody around, if any existential risks actualize
Craters on Pluto and Charon show that Kuiper belt collisions are rare
Tipper Gore and other Democrats lead the charge with the PMRC which created parental advisory stickers and age restriction on music. I felt like both sides were down to restrict expression in the 80's and 90's
Around here, some nights it seems that the deer are trying to get run over!

I have literally, no joke, come around a bend to find two deer fighting in the middle of the road at 10:30pm. I see fresh roadkill (as in: wasn't there yesterday) pretty often on my drive to work in the mornings.
Well you'd have to toss out the 1st Amendment to get that idea off the ground.
Along these lines is an intermediate language called Morte[0], developed by Gabriel Gonzalez, well known in the Haskell community. It seems to still be getting some love.

The basic idea is to implement a strongly normalizing calculus of constructions which languages can compile down to. That way, equivalent functions provably generate equivalent code. Here's [1] a blog from 2014 that goes into more detail on motivation, examples, and the like.

There's a proof-of-concept frontend called Annah[2]. I'm unaware of any backends though.

[0]:https://github.com/Gabriel439/Haskell-Morte-Library

[1]:http://www.haskellforall.com/2014/09/morte-intermediate-lang...

[2]:https://github.com/Gabriel439/Haskell-Annah-Library
Thanks through I still don't get it. I only know that you can get backtraces of errors by setting `RUST_BACKTRACE=1`.
Idea Validation: A side project management tool
Please help validate the following idea with your feedback. This will save me a lot of time. Thanks a lot in advance.

A toolkit that enables the customer to easily hire with confidence & stick with the best freelancer, get regular updates, track progress of the project, and replace freelancers if needed. Our typical customer is someone who needs assistance on his/her side project. The tool also helps the freelancer to find new leads and help with maintaining the customer relationship through purpose built tools. This is a SaaS product charging $10 per month per freelancer. Free for the customer. #idea-validation

Please comment both the positives and negatives about this approach. Thanks.
Ask HN: What do you use your VPS for?
I have a blog hosted on my 5$ VPS. I want to do more with it and would like to hear your ideas!

Thanks.
I've never seen as many solar structures or electric cars as in Silicon Valley.

As a matter of fact, I've never seen so many solar companies and electric car companies either.

So basically at every level.

(imho this is a purposefully inflammatory headline)
GP is in UK, and specifically allowed for the difference between that situation and situations in USA. Nobody wants your grandma to die.

Also, the heat in Santa Fe is much different than that in New Orleans.
What if the former scores 1220 and the latter 1200? That's the concerning case, IMO. If both kids scored 1200, I'm indifferent as to whether a desirable school offers admission to 0, 1, or both of them.
> Backdoors aren't bugs like most others. Buffer overflows happen because someone mistypes or forgets a length check, etc.

> Backdoors are unusual: They happen because someone writes code of the form addAccount("s3kr3e", "s3kr3t"), and that's code that's written. You can typo and accidentally omit a bounds check, but you can't typo and accidentally end up with a valid SSH key pair and code that installs it.

Not sure if you're intentionally trolling but a backdoor is simply some code which bypasses security that a particular person knows about. It does not have to be obvious. The ones that have plausible deniability are the better ones as that is considered a feature. That way the company can say "oops, we made a mistake".

To say that a backdoor must be obvious is absolute nonsense particularly for closed sourced binaries where disassembly and using simple tools like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strings_(Unix) would reveal the presence of such backdoor.

> (Personally I think shipping backdoors to test environments is fine. Including test environments at customers. Risky.)

It depends. Unless that "test build" specifically has an option that disables all "test related backdoors" then the answer is no. You cannot risk having something slip through to a production build.

As the previous poster said:

> I've worked for a company that built OS images for distribution to customers. Putting my SSH key in development image builds would have been convenient, but there was too much of a risk of exactly this problem; instead we just made it easy enough to download an SSH key on a development build (and start up an sshd) once you've booted it and have physical access to a terminal.

Another very common solution would be a template where at build time the keys are generated/imported by whatever build system is being used.

That way if something unintended happens or is "forgotten about", the build simply won't have a key at all and therefore will not work, rather than having a set of keys that are the same across all production builds.
Yea I would really like to see their assumptions and numbers for how these projects 100% offset their shipping emissions.
It’s not a bad strategy: just figuring out what to do can be much harder than getting it done (which can be more easily delegated). Architects (of old) made the big bucks in the days; now according to the google model they’ve all become senior engineers and the definition of and piecing off of work is much less formal (not to mention that it might go out to interns or the community rather the junior devs).
> Universities are meant to be institutions of learning.

They should be, but in this country they are essentially businesses now, and so will likely have the same institutions (TOS and so forth) accordingly.
Perhaps... We could increase the amount of seats at colleges instead?
I used to have the same problem. Then I discovered NextcloudPi which automatically updates (and has other nice things like automatic setup for Letsencrypt).
Someone make a service that I can submit my email and you'll generate tons of fake passwords for me, then "accidentally" leak them all. When my email and password make their way into the big password lists I want to dilute the real one with thousands of fake ones. If it became the norm that password lists are suddenly full of junk the demand for them would proboably evaporate.
> you can upgrade a forced-air system to use better filters, which basically gives you a filter for your entire house.

This is a reason I really like our forced air system (New England house from the 50s): it can circulate and filter the air even without heating or cooling it. I have it run hourly for part of the day and it does wonders to keep the air fresh (i.e. we really notice when the system is off for some reason).
But either way there's an ABI that the compiler needs to adhere to, and any magic added to the stack management will effect everything else that must follow the same stack protocol. The stackful/fiber approach may be less cost in terms of performance and even overall complexity, but it still represents hidden complexity.

That hidden complexity comes to the foreground when you want to mix software that uses completely different stack management protocols, such as the typical C ABI vs Go.