skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you were relying on HN as a place to build your own brand, and maybe a business, in a way that was not robust to the future whims of HN's operators...then no, you should not post here.

If you're like me and just want to fuck around during the day and post a few things, then it's totally fine.

Searching for trivial proofs by contradiction in fields with lots of fuzzy variables is one of the worst habits of math/CS people.
I know that's the flag you need to set, but despite the name setting the flag does not introduce any kind of a security hole.
I can't tell for sure, but it looks like middle row, first image might have a fire hydrant
Has Comcast given you any trouble yet? Like their lobbyist suddenly taking an interest in housing code that permits antennas or anything of that sort?
Your second point seems really overblown. Language evolves, embrace and accept that. People seem to be using the words humanities and liberal arts to mean the same thing these days.
Please no! Hopefully this will never get legal in Europe.
ScrollMeter measures the distance you are scrolling on your phone on social apps
I am new user I can't post links
Here is the link to the app.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mdapp.scrollmeter
I watched the video presentation, what's the take-away from it? Yes, different environments have different properties, but we knew this since the first browsers appeared. Is there anything new? This does not lead to an unique fingerprint. Is it more about the automated system that detects the properties that change or just bringing awarness of the issue?
For remote backups, BorgBackup always needs to run a server process (usually over SSH). Restic works with a "dumb" storage that only provides get/put/list/delete operations. Therefore restic is way easier to set up with built in support for S3, B2, GCS, and similar services that only offer an API but not shell access.
This is why once I switched to FF I also switched to DuckDuckGo
now that's weird. firefox is my main browser (developer edition on linux, windows and macos) and i never get captchas.

maybe it's because i don't use umatrix (i only use ublock origin)? maybe because i'm always logged-in in at least one google account?
Huawei is a nice example here: even Chinese SOEs are critically dependent upon US technology.

It is just not possible to buy any modern workstation/desktop, laptop, or smartphone without exposure, as you put it, to "US counterparty risk". Buying an Apple workstation is not significantly riskier than, say, a Lenovo workstation.

And by your logic, wouldn't buying a workstation from a Chinese manufacturer also make you a pawn in the current trade war, albeit a pawn for the other side?
This could either be some of Firefox's privacy features genuinely making it look more bot-like to Google, Google accidentally or deliberately sabotaging Firefox, or some combination of the two. It's not really possible to tell from the outside, but it's clear that Google's incentives are for Google's products to work better with each other.

This is why Google should be broken up -- it should be forced to spin off Chrome into a separate company with a business model similar to what Firefox has.
one way i think about it ... imagine if google, facebook & twitter could somehow physically no longer link to news stories on any of their properties ... like if there was some magical switch that was thrown ... how much would their traffic fall, and how much would their revenue fall? I could easily see that being in the multi billions industry wide. so in that sense they are making money from news content.
WeChat, QQ, Snapchat, Twitter, TikTok, Discord, VK, Telegram, Reddit and presumably many more I'm forgetting.
Building a traditional trucking biz while building robot trucks
People can learn how to do these things.

Sometimes, they don't want to.

Sometimes, they would rather not.

Sometimes, they would rather pay more money or spend less effort.

I would guess that your hypothetical vlogger is likely to just open a Youtube channel and pray, and they will get results consistent with that. It's not a business plan, and they didn't ask my advice.

If you see a business opportunity in making these things comprehensible or easier or more affordable to vloggers, you should go ahead and do that.
If they do it the way that the OCR recaptcha works, it allows some new ones to go through and uses consensus to classify them.

So most of them will have already been classified and those are used to test your integrity (and verify you) but an occasional new one will be presented that won't count towards your verification and if enough people agree on it it'll be classified.
Here is the actual study [pdf] http://www.newsmediaalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/...
Discord and VSCode really seem to prove that there can be good Electron apps. These apps are great, and take advantage of the perks of web technologies.

Now when I look at Slack or Atom...
The grandparent comment is also assuming that you want to sleep in the evening, which means you wouldn't be a night owl so it kind of misses the point.

There are still lots of people in this thread assuming that the "problem" that night owls face is that they're not sleeping in the evening, that's not it at all. They're sleeping in their natural cycle, it just doesn't fit with typical modern life.

So if exercising in the evening raises cortisol, and makes it hard to sleep for normal people, then that's not going to be a problem from someone sleeping at 4am.

I train anywhere from 9pm-1am and always sleep better at what seems to be my natural sleep time, which is around 3-5am.
for specifically the tracking issues, i do my best to avoid installing an app. currently the only thing on my phone that didn’t come stock are various chat apps (discord, steam, twitch) and the kindle app.
It would be difficult to find a single news publisher that doesn't use DFP (Doubleclick For Publishers) to serve ads, and presumably lots of them are also using GDN (Google Display Network) at least to fill up unsold inventory

Not to mention how much they push AMP and they whitelist which ad networks are allowed to serve ads on AMP [0]

It's very naive to think Google doesn't profit from the News industry.

[0]: https://amp.dev/it/documentation/components/amp-ad?format=we...
Strangely enough, music can do this. But I can also do it just with a thought as well. It takes about 30 seconds for the goosebumps to be visible

Not sure why. I just can.
This is the natural question to ask. I finally decided that they probably compare your answers to several other humans to validate training data.
Thanks for this insight. There is a chance I'm in this boat. I'll have to think on this.
The Rite of Spring.

Try not to riot.

https://youtu.be/rP42C-4zL3w

Music can do funny things to people.
I suspect it knows the correct choices for some of the little pictures it shows you, but for others you are training it.
Well, that sounds like the exact opposite of winner-takes-it-all.
This seems like it would incentivize simply selling to grey markets.
I don't think you're focusing on the entire picture.

Some people here like iOS for the reasons you described. However I'm willing to bet, unless you can show me otherwise, that it's a vocal minority. I don't know of anyone personally who is happy that Apple disallows GPL code.

Comparing Apple's digital Fort Knox with Google's unsupervised free-for-all is a false dichotomy.

There exists a happy medium, where power users get all the freedom they want but apps are still by default beholden to certain restrictions. And this is orthogonal to a proprietary API.
Function Sleep in JavaScript
Dynamic Resource Allocation – The maths problem that could halt the world
(I'm the author of the blog)

> Is this really valid?

Yes/No. The issue is more about categorizing between low, medium, high and critical security issues, because this impact the bounties values.

So, we have to define some guidelines on which is high or medium, because this is the most difficult part to differentiate. OOB reads gets medium, while OOB write gets high. Buffer overflows get high, while Null-deref gets medium.

If you try hard enough, those are probably exploitable, but maybe, we're not sure. While the OOB writes are exploitable, so this is more important, so it gets high.

Of course, it is important to fix everything, but we need to be fair, notably when it is not our money.
fork only works if the central cache never updates. Eg a cache of compiled bytecode for scripts gets filled as those scripts are requested. A cache of database results fills as those results are requested.

I'm not sure why skipping over failed requests is hard. VMs associated with the request are aborted, the client gets a 500/503 and can retry later. Incomplete data doesn't get added to the caches at all, so no corruption of shared data.
It's not a counterpoint. It's the point.
Why does it matter if it is out-of-date?
It’s really not helpful to enquire if I have ‘ever been to a city?’
It's a browser. Right out of the box, if I type in www.google.com, it will load the site and I'll be able to search.
https://github.com/w3c/strategy/issues/18

there has been some discussion about adopting HDR images for the web.
Alkaline Water Is Booming and Big Soda Is Pouring In
Related - I've been thinking about how to best backup my S3 buckets (some with 50k+ files) off of Amazon. Sure I can setup another bucket with that cross region duplication feature, and I have versioning.. but would really prefer a backup off of Amazon (ie not sending manually created zips in a lightsail/ec2 or something to glacier) in case it ever gets hacked or I accidentally nuke the buckets or something like that.

Currently just doing a combination of s3cmd for a local archive (takes forever to download and then it doesnt seem like incremental syncs are any faster), as well as having Google Console clone my bucket there (but I'm not sure if it's versioned, or as easy as downloading the whole archive).

Never used duplicity -- would it be fast for something like this? Guessing I should just cron it on a remote server instead of running off a local machine frequently.
Your comment defeats itself.

"is the only effective way of assessing a restaurant you’ve never been to personally"

That's why they use it, not because it 'has reviews', but because it's a comprehensive directory, it has the address, phone number, photos, and the 'reviews' give a rought idea of what's up.

If the reviews were replaced with a simple star rating, then people wouldn't care.

There is also Google Search, which shows images, price.

I haven't used Yelp in a few years, it's simply unecessary.
>A lot of new construction homes

Most houses here in Philly (especially in Kensington) are not new construction, so FIOS isn't really an option yet.

I for one welcome a new entrant into this arena.
Yes, this is how things are nowadays and what i refer to in my message above: developers basically gave up trying to make more advanced UIs and regressed to 70s-styled terminals.
In the markets of the G20*, Facebook (with Instagram and Whatsapp) dominate those apps, both in terms of users and revenue.

(except perhaps Russia)
Poster speaking...

The original title on this was "RISC-V Bitmanip Extension proposal is an education" because, besides a list of proposed instructions and precise definitions, the new draft explains in some detail how they are useful for real programs, and in many cases shows how they can be implemented with minimal additional gate count.

It's an education because many of these operations will be unfamiliar to most readers, and may suggest to them new ways to solve problems. Some of the instructions are also implemented in recent x86 cores, sometimes in an AVXx extension, but Intel's assembly language mnemonic offers little hint at how powerful it is, and its reference documentation sheds little more light.

So, previous drafts looked like a huge bolus of largely doubtful instructions that looked to bloat the RISC-V spec but be little used. Now we can see that most need only an extra gate here and there on such existing subunits as barrel shifters and multipliers, yet open up whole new vistas of operations they could be used for. The more powerful ones turn a whole family of O(N) operations (N the word size or number of 1s or 0s) to O(1). In turn, they are building blocks for fundamental signal analysis and encoding algorithms that may then run up to N times faster.

The document is maintained at https://github.com/riscv/riscv-bitmanip/ .
Even better, would be to have install options that offer: TOR and/or a built-in VPN service (like Opera).

I'd also add that Mozilla fluff (pocket, etc.) be an install option (default off).

Finally, I'd like to be able to build stable macros again (ala greasemonkey). GM functionality in FF has been an annoyingly moving target - dropping and radically changing functionality - to the point where I now just keep an old version of FF w/ GM around so that I don't have to keep trying to re-write my macros.
Are you using Canvas Blocker or similar extensions ? As a FF user I also have to go thru 3-4 captcha everywhere and I'm pretty sure it's because the system is having trouble giving me a stable fingerprint.
This reminds me of ticketmaster.

Site owners can choose not to use google's recaptcha2 but it has become the de facto standard now so no one cares.
I already write my specs as a combination of math and prose. It’s just that the math portion is empty. /s

Seriously, though, that prose portion is where the vast majority of the bugs will be.
I love how the article essentially ends with "These are relatively simple things anyone can do that makes an impact, and that to me is surprising."

No, those are not relatively simple things that anymore can do. Like getting that morning sunlight in the winter when sun rises close to 10? Not to mention my ADD causing every single new routine to be a continuous, unabating battle for years, at best!

I really wish people would stop assuming that what is simple for them, just might not be it for anyone.
And you tend to get enough of those nutrients from other sources of food nowadays. While it's true that some juices can have less sugar in them, the most common ones don't. Apple juice will not have less sugar than a soda.
You don't actually need to sign up to tell if you are in range.

Just check out the "Available now" section in the zip code drop down on the sign-up form.
Any links or resources on getting started as a contractor/consultant?
Making it easy to write shell-like scripts in Go
Zork III (1982), Sorcerer (1984), Spellbreaker (1985) and Trinity (1986) all did time travel, and Suspended (1983) did multiple characters.

Zork Grand Inquisitor (1997) definitely did time travel as different playable characters in a graphical adventure, but that was four years after Day of the Tentacle (1993).
Maybe they meant salesforce's business model, which doesn't usually include outputting stuff in an open format? I'm not sure.
Yelp is a site fully of irrelevant nitpicking and noise making.
You do need an app to install via the app store on a mac desktop. if you mean via external methods then jailbreak? if you’re asking for apple to allow anybody to release an ipa on a site and allow download and install then this horse is dead already
restic actually supports rclone!
You can consider it free market: do you want access to "my" citizens ? You have to pay the price I ask (in form of taxes), or you can take your business elsewhere.
Do you have any concerns about the incumbents trying to cut you out of the market? Perhaps by lobbying to get your business shut out, or perhaps through some kind of smear campaign? Or something else - I wouldn't put anything past some of these existing suppliers. Do you see any action on their part against you?
Span programs as a linear-algebraic representation of functions
I use a plain FF and I'm always logged in the Google account but I face this annoying captcha everyday.
I used Emacs for 15 years. I've been off of Emacs for about 5-6 years now and I won't ever go back.

Here's why:

1. Refactoring. The refactorings in IntelliJ are amazing. Amazing. The ability to say (yeah, this class is now called Foo instead of Bar) and have everything automatically changed is outstanding. This is a basic example of course but you can also do things like remove a function parameter, and also do things like lookup reverse symbols.

2. Stable. IntelliJ is just amazingly stable. Part of this is that I had to write elisp to get Emacs to do stuff that IntellJ just already provides for me. Everytime Emacs would upgrade I would have to upgrade Emacs.

3. Pair programming. I could NEVER work with other engineers on their code and vice versa. We just didn't speak the same language.

Now mind you I also created a lot of the code you use in Emacs. I co-created EDE for example.
It's more useful to just eat the fruit and veg though.
Clearly it's possible to compete with facebook and thrive.
> maybe because i'm always logged-in in at least one google account?

That's likely a primary reason.
Adam Smith became a (surprising) hero to conservative economists
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top three winners take 70%. That sounds like most industries nowadays. More healthy than telecom or film I'd guess.
No! I've never heard of that film. I'll have to watch it ASAP, thanks for the rec!
I'd be cool with it if it didn't fade out the selection and load new images. Fine, you want to do that, Google? I think some of these other images are hydrants, too!
Google Captcha is a complete mess at this point and I often leave websites that use it if it's not essential to what I am doing
YAML tips for people who hate YAML
Thanks, I didn't quite follow the explanation in the article, but I'm still confused. When was the decision made to use "dark gray" for something brighter than 50% gray? Why? By whom?
Yes, you are right. You need to balance that tradeoff with your application/business risk profile. High-security applications or those not tailored for mobile can still lock the IP to the JWT.
Dungeons and Dragons and Design Thinking
According to 9gag, SQL is not a programming language
For me that's a 30 minute window between 22:00 and 22:30. If I fall asleep then I wake up 04:15. If I fall asleep after 22:30 I wake up around 9-10 in the morning.

sigh
Have you considered a book? Maybe update it every few years.

Lots of projects don't want to spend big on type but the designer can still probably expense a printed book to act as a catalog.
I'm not sure why that is excessive, except that Mozilla made (maybe still does, I'm not sure) most of their money from getting paid to put search engines as their default. How hard is it to pop a dialog in the installer or on first run to let you pick? I don't think that is unreasonable.

And the default tab just means loading a blank tab up. The last time I used Firefox, this was already a setting that you could pick.
Ignore the 1G price.
In Philadelphia, Fios costs $40 the first year and $55 after for 100M up/down. So for three years and change you can get four times the speed for the same total cost.
Employment Scam
It does. I've run into it plenty of times with chrome.
I don't know how the image captchas work but the old-fashioned type-the-words captchas asked you one it knew the answer to and one it didn't. By giving unknown words to multiple users and finding a consensus they could move words from the unknown to known set.
>Actually, I'm in the middle of writing an e-mail to the Tim address at Apple

He won't read it. His PR team will respond instead.

>if it takes the environment seriously (and I commend them on what they have done so far)

They don't it's just PR. The stuff that they should do if they took the environment seriously are offloaded to companies like Foxconn which don't care about their public image.

>be truly 'courageous' and prioritise repairability and expandability in their forthcoming products.

They won't do that unless they get to a point that they just can't increase their margins or expand to other countries anymore. They even further invested into locking their computers on a semiconductor level( t2 chip).

>Apple has the clout and profile, that if it took a stand and said 'we are going to make our products a few milimeters thicker, we are going to make them so that they can be upgraded, we realise that this will hit sales and profits, but this is the planet we are talking about', they could probably pull other members of the industry behind them'.

That doesn't make them money. They didn't become the biggest tech company by not focusing on making money.
25 Mbps is the minimum speed we provide. Our customers typically see a good bit more. And for context, a Netflix HD stream only requires 5 Mbps.

Also, our $50 a month is actually $50. There are no extra service, rental fees, franchise frees, or taxes. It's a single flat rate price.

We also do require or even offer annual contracts.

In other words, we make getting Internet service easy and hassle free.

Finally, we implement Network Neutrality and will never sell or share our customer's personal data or browsing history (short of a valid warrant).
New construction doesn't really matter because they use poles for their lines in Philadelphia and they run an extension to your building for free.
It's easy to configure umatrix to let Recaptcha through.
The fork icon on mobile is kind of annoying. Like I'd fork anything on mobile, right.
Anyone know how something like Tableau compares to something like Palantir? I don't have any experience with either but I've heard that Palantir is valued quite high as well.
>And every emacs user will have their own set of extensions, carefully curated.

You'll find a lot of common extensions amongst power users. If you browse Emacs blog posts often, you'll see the same names popping up. For an overall view, I recommend Sacha Chua's weekly Emacs news:

https://sachachua.com/blog/2019/06/2019-06-03-emacs-news/

And BTW, a number of the extensions listed on this submission (Org mode, calc, dired, etc) come packaged with Emacs - although for Org mode I really would recommend installing a more up to date version.

To keep your init.el sane, I strongly recommend you keep your init file as an org mode file and use org-babel-load-file to load it. My init file is probably 1500 lines long, but it's very well organized as an org mode file.
The slow animation is the worst. You really want to punch someone responsible in the face.

And I never figure out how to solve the traffic light riddle.
Facebook controls 70% of social media

Amazon has 50% of all e-commerce spend in the US.

Netflix put Blockbuster and every other movie rental store out of business. It currently has 50% of all video streaming traffic in the US.

Google has 80% of the search market.

I'm not so sure about what Apple monopolizes, but they do have a duopoly in the app store space with Google.
Just when I think maybe I’m too cynical in thinking that non-corrupt charities represent a statistical rounding-error, something like this pops up to reconfirm my intuition. Thanks for the link
Half of European Men Share King Tut's DNA
News industry joins calls for increased scrutiny of Big Tech