skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm always trying to look smart but I don't always succeed.

Anyway, I'm not part of the industry but I do hack around in emulation circles and I've dug pretty deep in some of these old games, my point was that you can definitely end up with dead or almost-dead debug code that doesn't harm performance significantly (because it's never or almost never called) and lingers in the final binary.

>when you’re trying to push 60/120 frames per second nearly every switch statement is going to “cost” something

I mean it obviously depends on the frequency of the test. If you have some check every second that reads like:

if (dump_stats) {
dump_stats_to_stdout();
}

Then it's obviously going to have a negligible impact performance-wise as long as enable_stats is false. Then if this code is not explicitly disabled in the production build you might be able to use a memory hack to switch enable_stats to true and get some potentially interesting output out of it.

This is not (just) me trying to look smart, it's stuff that you can actually encounter in some games and firmwares in the wild.
Not at all my point. People OWN their DNA. It’s literally theirs. There should be no question about ownership and the rights associated with owning their data. But we’ve got companies effectively declaring permanent ownership, access, and use of peoples DNA without providing the person with any way to opt out of the database at any point-without providing any payment to the individuals most of the time as well. They even know most of your dna if just one of your relatives sends the company their DNA. It does not matter what you perceive as a risk today to this. It’s your ownership over your dna being claimed by a third party.
He didn’t say the votes out loud, but since the tests were sorted it was clear who did well and who did not.
I honestly see it going the other way. Deepfakes being used to create fake material that falsely incriminates someone. So if they have the biometrics of an account on file already, they would match a fake video circulating the service to that account and presto you are on a watch list.
Problems with licensing can make it impossible to sell an artistic work. Even when it may be possible, it can easily be considered too costly in terms of time, money, and/or effort to be worth it to the company currently holding the copyright. In either case an artistic work and a piece of our culture is locked away forever from anyone who isn't interested in breaking the law.

Even in a case like this where copies of a game were already released eventually the existing CDs will all be lost, degraded, broken, or unusable. Piracy solves this problem by maintaining playable copies and making them available so a creative work can delight, offend, and inspire indefinitely.

In cases where a released work has to be modified to be legal to sell again and a company is willing to make the effort piracy can preserve the work exactly as the artists originally intended. Pirates can do the same in situations where changes are made for other reasons and only the modified works are officially made available. For a great example of that look at the incredible work fans did to restore the original Star Wars.
There was an article on HN a while back about regulatory capture in Ireland. Apparently GPDR complaints flow through them, and they ignore (almost) all the GDPR complaints. In turn, that protects the tax haven scheme they’ve established for data centers.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19741976
Presumably by creating ai generated personas dissidents could get some manner of protection from this type of surveillance.
Great job! I'd love to see a similar analysis for Rotten Tomatoes since there's separate metrics for critics and audience, and I find RT ratings to be more extreme than IMDb. I'm often surprised to see how many bad movies get a rating of ~6 on IMDb.
Does it have both ESR probe and a spectrum analyzer? I just recently bought a RTL-SDR v3 USB software defined radio for 30 bucks and it seems to function as both, in addition to being pretty kick ass SDR for the price.
You can make synthetic plane fuel, whose burning just releases the same carbon captured when made.

(I don't know enough about rocket fuel.)

Of course, making that plane fuel will cost energy. But probably closer to eg 2-3x the energy regained on burning than 10x.
TOTP: Time-Based One-Time Password Algorithm
Shocker. I heard you are also forced to buy a Windows PC to write software for Windows!
Message Header Field for Indicating Message Authentication Status
> Mob mentality is not the same as a popular idea or opinion...

Firefox isn't popular and that's my point. A browser with less than 10% market share got on the front page of many places this week because of a marketing push that was helped by a group supporters, a mob, who helped push it there.

A system that was optimized more towards my own dislike and distrust of Firefox and Mozilla wouldn't have shown me this bullshit.
My post points out the useful links and information found in the comments of that post. It contains _everything_ valuable behind that post. The game you’re playing trying to turn this around me is childish and pointless.
Yes, but hydrogen is just a bad battery.

It's awkward and relatively unsafe to handle, and has low energy density.

You'd be better off making eg synthetic petrol.
I’d like to see a general ban for sites with paywalls, or that demand turning off private mode or ad blockers as well.

Maybe adding a “submit alternate version of this story” feature would fix it.
Just because stereotypes exist, does not invalidate them. Most exist because of a common perception, correct or not. While I agree they should be challenged, they likewise can reveal things as well.
> that can intercept every piece of information you send across the internet?

Just like a Nielsen box, the app collected clearly specified data, and users were paid for it.
I agree with his point.

> people with greater humility have superior...

It's a contradiction in terms. It makes humility look like a tool. One could instead just say "try to be humble".
Tell that to the construction industry. This is incredibly common behavior for industries and housing construction - its what gets you out of superfund sites and repairing the subpar housing you threw up in 2010.
Correct but irrelevant. For aiding the registration of legit users, verifying an email address is beneficial as a way for them to ensure they are able to recover their password.

You can still verify their email address for password resets. You send the link with the email address to the alias and Apple forwards it to the user.

But the whole purpose of using SSO is that you are not responsible for passwords - the IDP is. You should just be able to store the user id.
Regarding health insurance, we already prevent insurers from denying coverage based on preexisting condition. Surely we could pass a similar law to cover this case?
In retrospect this shouldn’t surprise anyone, but it still feels like a radical departure from the more or less cute stories we are taught in intro Bio.

Biology is fractally weird and emphatically deals in probability distributions not binary classes. You can and should always expect an “except...” clause at the end of any declarative statement about a biological system. If it’s not there explicitly, it’s implicit.

Confusing the map (“individuals have unique DNA”) for the terrain (“...except for here and here and maybe over there, especially if you look really hard”) is always a risk.

Being able to know which map to use for which terrain (i.e., do we need to care about mosaics for this problem or not) is, more or less, the reason we do research.
Hydrocarbons have very similar energy/mole and therefore energy/volume, energy/mass ratios.

This relationship breaks down for very short HC (methane, basic alcohols).

Differences in effective energy density result from the combustion cycle used: Otto is better than Diesel for the same compression ratio, but you can’t easily get high compression ratio
P.S. DrRacket (https://racket-lang.org/) let's you insert a `λ` with Ctrl+\.
There are many Chinese news reports or other videos on YouTube and most of them are narrated by artificial voices.

We can imagine the reasons for that.
Banach-Tarski Paradox
Open source is NOT a business model (2018)
This would only add a dollar per gallon to the cost of petrol fuel at that capture cost.
I have a couple of really poor Adafruit knockoff I2C PWM expander boards from a couple of years back (Aliexpress seller). The logo/silkscreen is rough, there's a PCB trace missing and the power LED resistor value is too low so the light was blinding until I replaced the resistor. Maybe the situation has changed?
> Now police arrests him, beats him, denies lawyer for hours and then says he had 10 kilo heroin in his apartment.

How likely is it, that Ivan Golunov was targeted for his latest report, which was published the next day after his arrest[1]?

> This is insane even by Russian standards

No, that's not insane by Russian standards at all. At least he is still alive, unlike some of his colleagues[2]:

"The day before his fall, Borodin told his friend that he had seen armed, camouflaged men near his flat. Following this, he attempted to find a lawyer. Later, however, Borodin called his friend again and said he had made a mistake, and that he thought the men had been taking part in some kind of training exercise."

What I cannot understand, is why would anyone choose such a job without leaving Russia for one of the Baltic states first.

Is the "List of journalists killed in Russia"[3] not long enough already?

[1] https://meduza.io/en/feature/2019/06/07/the-evictors

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Maksim_Borodin

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_journalists_killed_in_...
DNA sequences should be viewed differently than other personal data, since they are personal not only for you, but also for your children, grandchildren, siblings, parents, etc. When you make a decision to share this data, you are making a decision for them, too. The implications might not be the same for your great-great-grandchildren, but who can tell whether the impact will be better or worse? How will it be possible to use the information in the future, when technology, science, law, politics, and social customs might be quite different?

We often see complaints about big companies selling their users' personal data, but in this case the decision lies with each individual who shares his DNA sequence. Do you believe it is ethical to share your relatives' personal data without their consent?
That sounds fun! I've been rebuilding my wife's gardens and adding drip lines / irrigation. I ended up getting an OpenSprinkerPi[1] board to control the irrigation valves I'm installing. There's also a software project[2] that gives it a little more configurability/utility, including tying it into automatic watering based on the weather and such. I'm just having a lot of fun with it, and it seems like you are too!

[1]https://rayshobby.net/wordpress/ospi/
[2]https://github.com/rszimm/sprinklers_pi
> in a way that youtube and soundcloud and bandcamp just aren’t.

For you. My daughter finds new non-pop music just fine.
This world does not need more corporate-owned, corporate-driven "open" source.
This reminds me of how satire has a short life cycle. For later generations it becomes difficult to see the difference between the parody and thing "being parodied".
Lies. 10x efficiency improvement is simply not possible. Or a gross misinterpretation.
No, but maybe there are several?

There are 430 statements. Holzer’s work reflects both a political and with a focus on interpersonal relations and a moral perspective. With her fleeting forms – texts that sweep past – she symbolizes aspects of life itself. Holzer represents a melancholic and committed voice in contemporary art.

* Strange section *

In a paradisiac state the basic survival tasks you need to perform all seems clear and your objective is right there in front of you.

There is a period where you know you have gone wrong but continue

Monomania creates success

* Very dark section *

Scream so powerful that it empties all the kindness you could have shown and blackened the entire fabric of your soul

Form a noise so true that your tormentor recognizes it as a sound that can come from his throat

Murder has its sexual side

You are caught thinking about killing anyone you know

Sometimes you have no other choice but to watch something gruesome occur.
You aren't, you can now do that on Linux with .Net core (sans testing it).
To be meaningful, this would need to be compared against similar publications or general word frequency across many works. e.g. the Google Books ngram viewer for the first word in the chart, "sexism", looks quite similar: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=sexism&year_st...
No one should be surprised, their database is extremely valuable. They have a labeled database of millions of genomes. Once they sequence them all, then they just need to buy Luminosity (which is basically a site full of IQ tests) and find their common customers. If they have a millions common customers, then they can build a predictive model for IQ. Repeat with any other trait you want to predict. Hell, buy a video game company and embed behavioural tests within it.

Sell it for use in embryo selection, employee profiling, to governments.
I think that's an incredibly small niche. So few people care that much about privacy or have the technical awareness. This solution costs a lot more and requires more work from the user.
If nobody can enforce the existing regulation, what is the point of future regulation?
Thanks, concise and precise. I believe you are right. The elevator pitch is still missing - so that's a very good point.

BTW. I briefly browsed the mgmt LinkedIn profiles and seems they might not be interested as they all graduated from the same uni so potentially not looking for "outsider" views.
That's just known expenditures by the Internet Research Agency, though. For a full accounting, you'd not only need to know if that was all the IRA spent, you'd also need to include, say... how much Russia spent on hacking into the DNC's emails, and into 39 states' election infrastructure[1]; how much value they extracted from the polling data Manafort sent their way[2]; etc.

And even with all costs taken into account, it took a perfect storm of factors outside their control for their actions to actually change the result. I doubt they even expected that outcome themselves.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-13/russian-b...

[2] https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/03/mueller...
Not surprised, contributing to our understanding of genetics was half the reason I signed up for 23andMe.
1.2 million to stop a virus?

That's called Just Getting Started in Iowa.

5.3 million Iowa laying hens to be destroyed in bird flu outbreak

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/money/agriculture/20...
You don't own your dna. If you have a twin it is shared for one.

You don't own your fingerprint either. Or your height or weight.
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The "All Sun EM125" Multimeter+Oscilloscope (https://www.aliexpress.com/wholesale?catId=0&initiative_id=S...) is far better for a little bit more money. The specs are very good for the price. On the minus side, the oscilloscope doesn't have storage and the display is monochrome low resolution. However i have found it very convenient and useful in actual usage.

"All Sun" also has a whole range of handheld multi-functional scopes which seem pretty good.
I, for one, am glad my data is not in there.

Our government and insurance systems are shitty, and until they are fixed, disease and aging won't be our number 1 priority.

Even individually, our DNA is probably worth a bundle to many companies. To me, my DNA is as near priceless as something can get. I'm glad I didn't pay someone to take it.

The profitable, yet dystopian uses of this information are potentially limitless (see the most recent thread about how the Nazis used IBM technology), but the regulations are negligible to non-existent. I'm more than happy to not be one of the victims of these uses for whom laws and regulations are made after-the-fact, if they're made at all.
Unless he doesn't want to wait for the book... which is the reason he said he went there to begin with. Doesn't Amazon also charge extra to get your stuff faster (Prime subscription)?
Damn that makes me so sad. I LOVED Make in my late teens and early 20s. I always intended to subscribe when I could, but life happened and I don’t make things nearly as much...
That article from over a year ago cites allegations, not evidence. Has anyone ITT taken a high school civics class?
Pay more for the humidity sensor. Not the resistive ones, they fail after a short time.
This might actually be difficult to discern, as the site has "shadow banning" where an unpopular posting or comment can be banned - but not from the original poster, so they do not know it happened. I personally consider this a deceitful practice, as the person posting is being deceived into thinking other site users can see what they write but this is not true. So if someone has an unpopular opinion they might not know of its unpopularity due to this practice.
If you want to play with this, you can run `cargo run` from this: https://github.com/nixpulvis/lambash/ repository.

It currently does both with and without η-reduction, and generally should work similarly to http://lambda.jimpryor.net/code/lambda_evaluator/ a very cool online JS lambda evaluator.
Valentino's+Pizzeria&Pub+Poster+Design+-+#afiştasarım+#grafiktasarım
The same statement can be downvoted into oblivion or upvoted into orbit depending on who's on at the time. Is it unpopular to say HN is more varied in opinions than it seems?
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What do you think they contributed in your youth?

Apart from high-quality spoken-word content (like Radio 3 and Radio 4), most radio stations are playing music which I could listen to elsewhere, in higher quality, when I want, and then they add some super low quality filler chat in between. Plus adverts!

What do you miss from them? Just that was the only way to access music back then?
Rich, as in "loaded with fat".
DNA is just information, sooner or later it will be spread, and leaked. With the advancement of technology, its just getting easier and easier. Its better to just embrace it. Assume all information is public, and from then on focus on solving the issue that arise from it.
I’d like to see one that is a clearing house for tracking cookies.

It would send do not track with a random pile of tracking cookies from the pool, corrupting the profile data for any trackers that don’t honor the header.

Contract law says last speaker wins, so one could argue the trackers use of the cookie content was unauthorized, so any damages to the tracker companies’ databases are on them, not the user or the extension.

(I am not a lawyer; this scheme is probably risky)
It can be both. 'Baptists and bootleggers'.
Totalitarian countries always don't like the journalists, nothing new. Khashoggi and many others deals needs a good court.
Whether an idea is a dead VC-backed one or not doesn't matter. You should try applying Lean Startup method to validate an idea with customers, test the market channels, pricing, etc. and that will tell you about the potential it has more than anything else.
From the link you posted it wasn’t clear that it could intercept anything. Can a Neilson box intercept my emails? My account details and drain my account?
Trump tells Nasa to stop talking about the Moon return
I got mine done recently and there are so many fun datamining activities.

Same with ubiome.

Do I care that a company can make a profit? No.. I prefer bsd/mit licease as well for this reason.
> Studying welding and CNC operations now also.

Muaa Haaa Haaa. Good stuff. CNC is awesome. :)

Seems to turn into a huge (fun) time sink, but expands out the possibilities for creating things.

Looking at your video list on YouTube quickly, it seems like good initial learning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkmVH8knK60

If/when you're up for a more full-on CNC system - without getting crazy expensive - the Shapeoko 3 is very, very good:

* https://community.carbide3d.com/t/hardcore-aluminum-milling-... <-- stuff done by someone who really knows what they're doing (not me ;>)

* https://carbide3d.com/shapeoko/

Personally, I started with 3D printing too (FlashForge Creator Pro), and moved into CNC after hitting frustrating limitations with that.

Haven't gotten into welding yet (it's on the ToDo list), as no backyard or shed here to do it in. Ugh. :/

In theory, I should be able to find a Maker type place nearby, but haven't investigated that yet.

Any idea if there's an equivalent to the Shapeoko in Shenzhen? eg high quality, but low cost

So far, all I've seen online is the same cheapo stuff (low quality, low cost) that appears in any kind of Ebay search for CNC. o_O
> we can record all of your internet activities including messages, banking information

What the app was capable of collecting is different from what the app actually collected, which was clearly specified when signing up. The app is still available in the Play Store, and people still use it because nobody was surprised by what it collects. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...

> Were they upfront with Apple about their use of the enterprise certificate?

Who cares? There's nothing evil about circumventing some arbitrary Apple policy to give users an app that they want.

> Yes Apple stored data on Chinese servers, but your private keys never leave your device.

Not your private keys but Apple's private keys, which gives the Chinese government unfettered access to everything Chinese users store in iCloud https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/17/apples-icloud-user-data-in.... Worse, the change was applied retroactively to data the users had stored in iCloud prior to the change. No other US tech company comes close in evilness.
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Yes, and if pigs could fly it would look really cool, but travel by airplane wouldn't be as safe.
> Finally, with the May 2019 Windows Update, we are completing the picture. While Python continues to remain completely independent from the operating system, every install of Windows will include python and python3 commands that take you directly to the Python store page.

i guess Microsoft agrees with you
The 3D-printed house that runs off-grid
That would be pretty annoying.

The signatures are an end-to-end thing. As long as you can trust the signer at time of signing, you can trust the package. No matter what happened to that package in the meantime, or what shady people were in charge of transmitting it to you. Be that five minutes after uploading or fifty years.

2FA and HTTPS only do anything extra on top of that for you, if you trust the whole chain of transmission at all times, and all custodians of the data.

Adding 2FA and HTTPS might still be a good idea as a second line of defense. But it's not a replacement for signed packages.
A simple tarball would do, or a package or an installer.