skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was tried by Nintendo in Japan for Disk System which use floppy disks as a medium for Nintendo's Family Computer(NES in outside of Japan)

As a physical DRM for the floppy disk with Nintendo logo shaped relief on it. The floppy disk reader recognize the relief and validate the disks.

Soon, third-party started selling compatible floppy disks, Nintendo sued them for trademark violation.

They lost. The court concluded that mere protocol can't be trademarked even if it use trademarked logo.
Re-randomizing the email wouldn't make sense, as it's not the user identifier. It's literally just an email address, unique to the combination of your app and the user. If it could be re-randomized that wouldn't affect your ability to identify the user.

The "real person bit" is a thing. It's the sole bit of information Apple gives for free, which is either that Apple thinks it's "highly likely" that the user is a real person (the bit's absence doesn't mean Apple thinks it's a bot, it just means Apple can't be confident it's a real person, which might simply mean Apple doesn't have enough information to make that call).
Both Valentin Lebedev and Anatoty Berzovoy have reported similar experiences to name two cosmonauts. Unlike most US astronauts, many cosmonauts continue working for government and do not publish books, or engage in public speaking in the same way (largely due to fewer marketing opportunities), so the overview efect tends to be reported largely from a US perspective. However UK astronaut Time Peak reported similar findings as has, Swiss astronaut Claude Nicollier and dutch astronaut Andre Kuipers (to name a few others). It will be interesting to see as the taikonauts begin to talk about their space experiences, if they report it or not.
Can Psychological Traits Be Inferred from Spending?
I've been clear to make things work just fine with `\` (parsed with LALRPOP), `abs!`, and `app!`.

I've only been pasting in a few in READMEs and standard constants for brevity.
A perspective grounded in the reality of the gradience of intelligences and inginuity. Posts screams to me of an optimism bias, same dude probably thinks making a startup is hard is a myth created by the shortsighted. Not saying i have a grand perspective but the socioeconomic timeline (to come, is <be>coming is more complex, more nuanced, and we have not yet fathomed the depths to this accelerating future yet. UBI is a reactionary utilitarian policy thats like a big net to compensate. What naval promotes is not even that.
https://outline.com/5MbTfg
Skiptracing: Reversing Spotify.app
This is an interesting project. The big question for Maker is, will decentralized governance work across the life cycle of this product? The nightmare scenario for a stablecoin is volatility, and governance in this space have historically resulted in volatility.
In terms of shows, Sopranos has long been dethroned, possibly due to this effect. Then again, production values will only get better over time, so maybe the latest shows are of the best quality overall.

Best line:

Fucking Queeahs! (Paulie throws chair at his murder victim spirits)
I've never seen a caption on a photo be so blatantly pleading with internet commenters to not get angry.
They had their sequel in Apartheid South Africa.
"No one is bored, everything is boring." -- K-Punk
If the goal is to get really high temperature, wouldn't a concentrator mirror work better? it should be possible to create temperatures up to 5700K
You summed it right. 100% agree
The bundle also seems to include dependencies for multiple architectures and PDBs for debugging. Files.dll which would contain most of the application is ~18MB. And since it does not seem to be a managed dll, it has probably been AOT compiled and likely contains the original bytecode in addition to the native machine code.
Honestly at this point take the advanced algorithm classes from Stanford on YouTube and read very very good code and try to write and work. Contribute to open source projects too.
I want to warn anybody looking forward to play with his 1.5G model, that there's no confirmation yet, that this model actually beats 345M one from OpenAI. Connor had to come up with his own training procedure, which might have led to a worse (or better) result.

Great, admirable work still.
Incorrect title. Correct title would be "Firefox removed 'image/webp' from Accept header, causing unintended side-effects".
You're discounting the numerous DLLs which the explorer uses, or even other shared resources which are used system-wide.

I see this argument brought up in demoscene discussions ("your .exe is 4KB but it uses several GB of system libraries and device drivers!") and the rebuttal is the same: I'm assuming this UWP one itself makes use of other system DLLs too, like any other Windows application will, so the comparison is between 5MB + shared and 55MB + shared.

Even the 'Google' app on Android is 285 MB

Android is a whole other story altogether. The bloat is endemic there, and emulating that is not at all something to be proud of. Windows applications can be far more efficient, as Windows' own explorer.exe shows (and even that is probably not anywhere close to "perfection", but the difference is already enormous.)
It's a classroom setting so the discussions are between peers with similar knowledge.
the camera is bad but the rest is not bad especially for the price but as they say also for the environment which is/will be the main draw plus the price range. i am actually more interested in this at this price range; i'm not big on putting down a lot on a smart phone.
Maybe he's just a kid, and we shouldn't shit on him?
Thank you for answering the question!
I would bet money against this being true.
> It wasn't possible to just add "fields" to a card.
> Everything had to be setup specifically for the precise problem

I've studied and written about tabulators a lot, and this is overstating the difficulty of using a tabulator. Adding a new field is trivial, just type the data into that field on a card. (Unless you want nice custom-printed cards.) And configuring a tabulator is a lot easier than writing a program. You plugged wires into a plugboard connecting fields on the card to columns on the printer, or to counters to compute totals. To sort cards on a field, you set the sorter to sort on that column and ran the cards through. Tabulators could do some extremely complex things (such as differential equations), but normal tasks were pretty straightforward.

If you want to learn more about tabulators, there are lots of manuals on Bitsavers. This one is a good place to start: http://bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/punchedCard/Training/22-6275-0_...

(Obviously I'm not supporting IBM's actions; I just want people to understand better how tabulators work.)
They already don’t show up if you use fragment URIs. The real issue I have is that the OAuth2 spec covers all this and we don’t have to rehash this every time a new IDP creates an Auth system.

No. The final post is not made by the client and a server has to handle the request. Webapps cannot handle POST requests from an Authorization server.
Tech shop as a public resource could probably be better as a municipal, library-like entity. Any attempts at this model working?
Heh, on iron ore mine sites we have "hose technicians" whose job is to clean up any spillage with a high pressure hose. There are also jokes about "sanitation engineers" who clean the toilets.
Because it's recursive. It means a file nested a few hundred folders down needs to update each and every parent. And what about hard linked files? Directory junction points? Drives mounted as folders? It would be insane to think the performance would be acceptable.
My note to the author would be, "Why do free work for Microsoft?" They're the lesser satan (for now anyway), but they're still satan.
I don't think plastics themselves are terrible. Single-use plastics and disposable plastics are more the issue.

You can reuse a plastic tupperware container many times. I've had the same plastic water bottle for 10+ years.

At the same time you can still litter aluminum cans and smash glass bottles on the street.

Getting too focused on the material is not helpful IMO. Societally, we need to shift from disposability and overconsumption.

Buy less things. Make them last.
Ugh, no. So much whitespace.
Your standards are unfortunately warped by modern trends. Almost all popular apps are hugely bloated because the developers just don't care, the focus is on UI re-design and feature churn and the illusion of ease of development. Some counter examples (compressed installer size for convenience):

7-zip for 64-bit windows: 1.4 MiB

Winamp 5.8: 7.8 MiB

mpc-hc: 13.5 MiB (open source media player with many built-in codecs)

irfan-view: 3.4 MiB (image viewer/utility)

uTorrent: 2.3 MiB

Sysinternals Process Monitor: 1 MiB

For a truly native application, which doesn't pack a huge run-time or dependency tree, that's the expected size range. Now, it's true, it seems no one does that anymore ...
I don't get how anything "has to be resolved". The most likely outcome from this is "nothing changes from yesterday".
> A more appropriate comparison is Go to Java.

Not even. Golang lacks the expressiveness and vast standard library in Java (e.g. nothing even close to what java.util.concurrent has), not to mention the very diverse ecosystem, tunable high performance GCs, and management capabilities of the JVM.
You say that but existentially there isn't much value. Outside the ethics of suffering avoidance its a murky ocean, this 'valuation'. But honestly trad capitalist society doesnt functionally have room for this value, its incidental as memes and you know it. Go ask a walmart worker that question. They work so they wont starve primarily. If you dont have to work, mostly(Post-work scenario), theres literally more that we do like learning or becoming data conduits. Autonomous capitalism will enable continuous consumers and consumables....
UWP Community and Launch 2019
Don't get me wrong - many introverts can talk to strangers just fine if they need it (just as I can lift 50 lbs if I need it), it's just something they don't particularly enjoy doing. It's work. If it needs to be done, it will be done, but if it can be avoided - it will be avoided. I am not sure one needs some training to change that - if I don't enjoy doing something, why waste time on doing it if I could instead do something I already enjoy doing?
Their faire in San Mateo was crazy expensive. Kids tickets (for even 4 year olds,) were $30 and adult tickets were $50. Parking was ridiculous at $35 per day, despite this being San Mateo and the events center having plenty of parking. Parking for the Oakland A’s and Warriors is cheaper than that. The proximity to the Caltrain was advertised as a “10-15 minute walk” despite the distance being almost a mile. With several small kids and it being rainy that weekend, the thought of walking a mile in the rain wasn’t very attractive only to pay $220 for two adults and four kids under age 7. Helpfully there were bicycle instructions from San Francisco in case someone thought that might be a good idea. For being billed as a “family friendly event,” It was anything but, just on the logistics front alone. It’s like the organizers are detached from reality and live in some kind of dream world where $245 is a fair price for a family of 4 with parking. That’s about double what I pay to go to Major League Baseball games with the family. I get it, they don’t like cars, because climate and all that. But some of us live in reality. To get to the Caltrain from my house in Mountain View, it’s a two mile walk. So with kids we’d have to load the car to drive to the station, so we might as well just drive to San Mateo.

My point is simple: tickets and parking were insanely priced and it’s no wonder that the overall business failed because clearly the management had some trouble reconciling reality with their perception of their own value.
It seems not only forced but a bit back-handed. Like a certain connotation of a lack of...rigor.

Like "coder" vs programmer/software developer.
I second this, and also recommend using Cygwin/gcc to build it with. Then you can bypass most Windows horseshit altogether, and maybe just run it on a real operating system under Wine.
I’ve found it’s far better to error on the side of speed and work pragmatically on features rather than trying to deliver perfection. That’s just me though. Nothing is going to be free of defect or perfectly secure.
Unsubscribe relies on the sender honouring your choice.

Deleting the anonymous redirect address they’ve been given requires no such cooperation.
I've found that with TF in general you can only go "quickly" if everything works. If anything is busted you're more or less screwed because it's so opaque. In contrast, PyTorch lets you inspect whatever you want by setting a pdb breakpoint, and when it gives you errors you most of the time can figure out what's wrong without debugging. The importance of this cannot be overstated.
Ask HN: How to get started with genetic engineering or biohacking?
I am a software developer interested in the area due to advances in CRISPR and gene editing. What would you say are good starting points. Interested in books and classes that would be what SICP or CS50 are for computer science.
Well, I actually mention other "too big to fail/drop" tech companies. All four that you mention I think fall under that category. A lot of tech companies touch everything. Google isn't just a search engine company, its AI, it's telecommunications, its software, its hardware. It's not a vertical monopoly its a horizontal one. The same with several of the others you mention. So of course they are going to "compete" with one another. But it's actually not competition if you think about it.

Apple hardware specifically only works with Apple stuff for example. Microsoft back in the day was getting all sorts of crap for not allowing removal of of IE and other anti competitive practices. But today we see whole business built up around even more egregious anti-competitive practices. That's not competition that's literally a new market. I think that what has happened is that tech has exploded so rapidly and our congressional members (in the US) so out of touch with the tech industry that many of these companies operate mostly unhindered. This is a new age where thoughts can be typed up on a computer and the very next day you can start defining the future. Just look at bitcoin, barely 10 years old and already as the market cap of a small nation's GDP.

When a company's actions directly impact the well being of a nation, either economically, physically, socially, or politically, it is the government's job to step in and ensure that the best course of action is taken to protect citizens. We setup farming subsidies to ensure predictable quantities of food are available for the population at predictable prices. When oil and steel were vital for our nations growth, we broke them up and invented laws to ensure that no single entity could influence the health of the nation. I happen to believe we just need to break them up. They have enough products that each can become their own companies. Now I might be wrong, this is kind of a new situation, but we do have to do something, I think that is pretty clear. But I don't think normal market forces will fix this by itself.

I do agree with what you are getting at though, it is messy and there are a lot of unknowns. What I don't agree with though is that it can just be ignored by switching to another product or service and it will go away.
The speed envelope discussed is much faster than i thought straight non-swept wings could manage. Same for propeller thrust.

What am I missing? Aircraft are such illustrative examples of the whole concept of tradeoffs.
> it's fair to say that if you don't like it, then don't speak about it

I would like to see the status quo changed, which is why I do discuss it. Of course it's fair that I hold an opinion and discuss it. There is no obligation for you to respond if you disagree :-)

> that's your definition of engineering, or whatever officials that define it

It's not my sole opinion:

> As with many other professions, the professional status and the actual practice of professional engineering is legally defined and protected by law in some jurisdictions. [3]

It's understood that if someone holds the title 'Engineer', they went through a certification process from a regulated body, traditionally. You can see this for example in countries and per state. [0] [1] [2]

> In Canada the designation "professional engineer" can only be used by licensed engineers and the practice of engineering is protected in law and strictly enforced in all provinces. [3]

In Canada (and I believe some states), it is illegal to sign off an email or other correspondence as a "Professional Engineer" if you're not actually licensed as such. [4]

---

> is it up to you to decide whether they can be hired?

When did I mention hiring? All I said was the term 'engineer' is loosely used in the software industry, and it has absolutely no standard around it.

> employer [...] why should he care about your title?

I wasn't talking about my employer at all. I only referenced skills because I was responding to a portion of the parent comment.

> It's just a title for god's sake

It isn't. How we frame something is very important in my opinion–just as important as the concept itself. [5] If it's "just a title", then people should have no problem calling themselves programmers or developers. However one can see that we call ourselves "engineers" because it sounds prestigious, despite the software industry being a total joke when it comes to standardization or even following basic modern practices consistently.

[0]: https://engineerscanada.ca/accreditation/about-accreditation

[1]: https://ncees.org/engineering/

[2]: https://www.ncbels.org/

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_and_licensure_in_en...

[4]: http://www.occupationalhealthandsafetylaw.com/ontario-man-fi...

[5]: Consider for a moment the term "Global Warming" versus "Global Pollution Epidemic". I strongly believe if we had gone with the latter instead of the former, there would not have been pushback to the scale that we've seen. It certainly would have avoided the confusion of "oh, but this winter is so cold, global warming must be a hoax"! It also shifts the focus from an effect of pollution, to the pollution itself. This example is quite different than the software engineer/developer example, but I think it illustrates my point that how things are framed is very important.

We are not software engineers, and we won't be until regulatory bodies exist, and we develop codes of ethics.
It's not presented very clearly in the blog post, but it's a novel use of rejection sampling.
Because if you do that, you have to walk up the entire directory tree on every file operation.
We are making a Cargo-like build toolchain for C/C++, if anyone is interested: https://build2.org
you can see how long it can take to calculate the size of a folder

On older Windows (95, 98, XP) I've never had it take an unacceptably long time, and that was with a regular HDD. With an SSD and the large file caches which are possible with today's machines with lots of RAM, it should be even faster.

Besides, it's not as if the operation needs to be synchronous; the sizes can be calculated and displayed when they're ready. Having an option to show them would be useful, and those who don't need it/don't like the extra disk activity could leave it off.
Entrepreneurship Lessons by Clumio Co-Founder [pdf]
Using "data" as if it were plural sounds odd to most English speakers. Some people insist that because it is technically the plural of datum (in Latin anyway) it has to take plural verbs. But what is technically correct is meaningless compared to what sounds correct. What sounds normal compared to what sounds odd is the only thing that really determines if a usage is correct or incorrect (unless writing in a context that mandates following a specific style guide).

"Data is" sounds correct to most people so it is correct, Latin be damned.
looking forward to the first homograph attack in rust
It's not really a fact though- it's a framework for understanding engagement, and it's a trash framework.

It's used my the laziest shills to place blame for their shit content on some notion of public stupidity.
Could We Colonize Another Planet?
The Work to Get Doom on the Super Nintendo
China will shape the future of autonomous vehicles
"So money is one of the great threats to democracy. A second
threat is what Roman law called persona ficta, fictitious persons —
corporations, labor unions, and similar organizations which have
the legal status of persons in the sense that they can buy and sell
property, they can sue and be sued in the courts, they are generally
anonymous, they are certainly irresponsible, and they are increasingly
powerful. The 15th amendment and various court rulings have
given corporations all the rights of living persons. This is dangerous
because they already have certain rights that real persons don’t have,
principally immortality. That’s the saving grace about even the worst
scoundrel: someday he will die, and maybe we can wait that long. We
felt that way about, Hitler, and Stalin. Maybe Mao is different; we’ll
see. But a corporation never dies. It has the first quality of divinity, as
the ancient Greeks defined it. They called their gods the immortals,
because the only quality they had that set them apart from men was
that they never died.

Besides setting limits to corporate immortality, we must put
other restraints upon all fictitious persons, including foundations,
universities, and all such entities. From 1890 there was competition
among the States to lower the restraints on corporations. Originally,
when a corporation was set up, its charter specified what it was
entitled to do, sell hamburgers to the public or whatever. Today there
are no restrictions, no restraints, no reporting."

- Carrol Quigley, LIFE, LECTURES & COLLECTED WRITINGS, p. 203
I feel much the same way; I decided I needed a "project" when our child was born and I was looking at finding some things to do while enjoying paternity leave.

I figured I'd either learn android-development, or hardware-stuff. Bought an Arduino kit and never looked back. In my limited experience people dabble at such things then move on, or give it up entirely there isn't too much of a middle-ground.

I still dabble with ESP8266 things two years later; most recently I hooked up a simple 433Mhz radio-receiver to a board, and wrote some code to receive/understand/decode the radio-broadcasts a cheap off-the-shelf wireless temperature/humidity-sensor transmits. This allows me to log the temperature/humidity of our sauna.

Usually I'd wire up a sensor of my own, but I figured it would be less-risky to use an off-the-shelf sensor/transmitter. The idea of mixing steamy saunas with a USB-PSU was a dangerous one, and I even balked at using a rechargeable battery.

There aren't many things I buy for my hobby/practice, just random sensors, or accessories. Most of the time I just order them from AliExpress and take the time-hit waiting for them to arrive.
Maybe that's why there are 9 questions, not one or two. So they together show a more exact picture
With Litecoin block generation halving in about 60 days soon it may not be affordable.
Wikipedia has a list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TechShop#Alternatives
Is pipenv not recommended any longer ?
I have a PHP Yii2 web project basically using composer (something like pip for Python) that the old project maintainer chose not to use a specific version for dependencies.

I am stunned when I do composer update, because it basically updates every dependencies.

When I asked one of the seniors, he said yea, I have to check every single part of the website and make sure it doesn't break.

I don't know anymore.
Maps Made with Laser on Wood
pip, virtualenv, setup.py using setuptools, and twine if you need to publish to PyPI, are all pretty old and well-established, and are all still a fine way to do python development.