skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I assume they are running it on Windows - I've been running Docker Desktop on Windows for years, and it's backed by a Hyper-V Linux VM, which does seem to use a lot more CPU than running Docker on Linux.
I meant dumb as simple in a technological sense. The idea is quite attractive but there are so many problems with their wordlists and algo that I don't consider it a system worth using, even it was not proprietary and unlawfully patented
We could just round up everyone who doesn’t have a 130+ iq and enslave them for being so dumb
Did you wrote this? Are you part of the migration team?

From the Show HN rules: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

> What to Submit

> Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with. HN users can try it out, give you feedback, and ask questions in the thread.

> Blog posts, sign-up pages, and fundraisers can't be tried out, so they can't be Show HNs.
Javascript was a poorly thought out language designed in two weeks.

The problem is not JavaScript the language, the problem is abusing client side programming. I can't imagine what kind of perfect language could have prevented that. If you can, I won't believe you, sorry. The feature that matters, sandboxing, it's there yet.
And “Edge” and “Chrome” both ship on iOS using WebKit.
Was Iran Behind the Oman Tanker Attacks? A Look at the Evidence
Any investor backed or publicly held company is going to sell out to the highest bidder without regard to the future of the company or the employees.

Not directed at you, but I never understood why this is always a revelation on a site run by venture capital firm.
I learned sewing in school, but I never developed the skill for anything more than the most basic alterations. Most of the tailors in my area are older people, and they seem to be from the "Eastern Bloc" or China. I would imagine they grew up using sewing as a practical, day-to-day skill, or profession, and not merely as a hobby or odd-skill-I-learned-in-school.
Have you considered hiring remote workers so that you are not limited to those living in, or willing to move to Austin, Texas?
From a law enforcement perspective, it's better to have them all in one spot.
I was actually expecting Bash scripts before I looked at the GitHub repo.

TBH, I think the code would be a lot simpler if it was just Bash.
Just goes to show that business vision (and a good dose of chutzpah) goes a long way when making money

A Mattel deal is doable, just make sure it's within reasonable values so that you don't get sued
At the end of the day it's a con to bilk people out of more money or deny insurance to those that they don't like or maybe they have some "secret" stolen information that the person is a insurance risk.
Or semi-esotheric bestsellers!
Yeah exactly. If you learn a song "traditionally" you have to play gradually longer passages until you hit the part you haven't learned yet. This will make you very proficient in playing the beginning of the song but you will usually always stumble towards the end. If you learn "backwards" then for each new measure you learn, the rest of the song will be easy, since you've already learned it.
I’m looking for educational software; it’s difficult to find anything comparable to what existed when I was growing up.

I’d definitely pay $10’s for games comparable in quality to turtle, number munchers, the one with the cups and the fluids where you had to measure out exact volumes, etc.

This industry reminds me of what happened to atari: the ecosystem got flooded with $1 garbage, and the quality developers got pushed out.

The game industry recovered due to a technology transition combined with a business model innovation (more powerful consoles with severe licensing restrictions to keep quality up).

It is a shame that recovery hasn’t happened for educational software.
Biology is a social construct of colonial white supremacism
I suppose there's no hard line between a single object being the actual center of orbit and a many-body problem. I think the interesting thing to me is that the barycenter is often far enough from the center of the sun to not be within the sun at all. But that's about it.
With apologies for coarseness:

The Rule of Goats: even if you say you're only fucking goats ironically, you're still a goatfucker

—-Popehat
Yes threads should be used with extreme caution, that's why I advocate using a functional programming style. But you still want the performance of multicore. It's not one or the other (but with OCaml it unfortunately is).
While highlighting and re-reading notes might not be as effective as SRS quizzing, I still think there's a lot of value in writing the notes themselves. It sort of acts as the "summarize and share" part of this article (you're sharing with your later self).

I got frustrated with writing notes in one app, then making SRS cards out of them in another app, so I made one that combines the two[0]. I'm still trying to nail down the best workflow, but something like:

1) Read/watch material.

2) Summarize material in note(s)

3) Create cards from note(s) and study with SRS.

Works pretty well I think.

[0]: https://mochi.cards
Generally: promotion has value.

Specifically: Amazon aggressively sells everything else. Why would they not sell promotional placement?
I'm a little jealous : 60Mo software for drawing 1 curve get 35 votes in 2 hours when my "show HN" get 2 upvotes in one day for a full drawing software.
If you try to win a bar bet with this fact you will get 'physically' beaten. That is what I call the Practical Smart-Ass Test. Unless you're doing it to start a fun fight you know you'll win. Either way it's violence all the way down.
Atari’s new VCS isn’t a console, but it isn’t quite a computer either
I wanted an efficient no threads solution to a very common problem of matrix multiplication using multiprocessor CPUs. You gave me nonsense answers like vector operations (uses only one CPU at a time) and GPUs (memory transfer bottleneck, need to copy arrays, significantly less RAM compared to CPU RAM, and GPUs make it a completely different game). So no, I'm not moving goalposts.
/leftypol/ is insulated. Mentions of it on other boards are usually hostile.

Its existence tells you a lot about the consistency of the free speech policy, but it tells you little about the political leanings of other boards, particularly /pol/.

I think /leftypol/ is important but I don't think it's very relevant to a claim that /pol/ is populated by the extreme right, which seems to be the context here.
It's working out really, really, really well for us.

We prevent an enormous amount of death and disease, very cheaply, with hygiene.
I find the same. The NYC social scene is way more diverse and it’s not hard to find like minded people. SF seems to be a bit of a monoculture.
Huston here concedes that the intended benefits of DNSSEC haven't panned out --- TLS provides all the name authentication people want, browsers won't adopt DANE to move CAs into the DNS (also, certificates are now free), mail providers are doing STS instead of DNSSEC. It's hard to see an impetus for deploying DNSSEC, and, of course, virtually none of the most important names on the Internet are signed.

Huston suggests a new reason to deploy DNSSEC: it might stop a specific DNS denial of service attack.

(The attack is trivial: you can just have a botnet make up random DNS names and query them, saturating the authority servers.)

DNSSEC is designed around "offline signers", meaning that as originally designed, it can't synthesize new DNS responses for queries. But it also wants "authenticated denial", which just means you can cryptographically trust "no such record" responses. That's problematic, because you can't predict the nonexistent names people will ask you about, and you can't sign responses on demand.

The way DNSSEC originally solved this problem was with "NSEC", which is a record that states that no valid name exists between a lexicographically ordered pair of names. You pre-generate the covering NSEC ranges for your zone, and your servers can now authenticate the non-existence of any record.

(This addresses Huston's DOS attack by allowing DNS caches to NXDOMAIN queries they've never seen before, because they've cached NSEC responses from authority servers that state that there's no point in forwarding the queries).

There's an obvious problem here: attackers can also now enumerate precisely all the hosts in your zone, which is an old feature of DNS (AXFR) that network security teams have been frantically disabling for 2 decades. There's a whole line of DNSSEC revisions that try to account for this fact, most notably NSEC3, which uses a weak password hash to scramble the ranges (pretty unsuccessfully). But the best-known mode of deployment for DNSSEC now involves something called "whitelies", in which the DNSSEC server now simply becomes an online signer and generates new ranges on the fly.

Which breaks Huston's proposal.

Mostly I think it's funny that anyone would try to motivate DNSSEC deployment as a mitigation to a single species of DOS attack, especially when DNSSEC itself is (fairly or not) itself notorious as a DOS amplifier (DNSSEC responses are huge, so there's a pretty big packet magnification effect in its deployment).
Not only is this a period of great extinction, this is also a period of great sterilization where we are trying to kill everything that eats anything that we produce... as if we are not one of those things and somehow separate from it all. In the end this war will either be won in which case we will probably have a number of other health issues to deal with or lost in which we recognize that there is no difference between us and the environment and that we are both part of a whole that we can shape immensely.
Would you recommend just building web-based desktop apps?
Its not as if banks don't get any flak for what they do. Its just that power consumption is probably the least of the problems they cause.

On the other side Bitcoins biggest problem is power consumption. Which is a problem because crytpo currency doesn't add anything to society. Its just a big gambling platform. It never became the distributed money a lot of people thought it would become.
I generally dislike installing software. If there's a webapp that does something I want to do, a native app doing the same thing would have to be much much better to make up for the convenience of using a webapp
The barycenter is a balancing point. If you were trying to balance two objects on the ends of a see-saw, if you move one object farther away, the balance point has to move toward it (you're actually balancing moments of inertia, which are functions of radial distance.)

If your gravitating objects are in an orbit, they also have angular momentum and moments of inertia.
I think the concern is the the thing the kid is better at is being non-white.
Important to note that if this allegation is true, it means Alexa is recording everyone and storing it indefinitely, not just children. The lawsuit just says children because children have more privacy protections than adults so it's easier to win a case when children's rights are being violated.
> Concurrency has been a fairly well funded sector of compiler and PL research to the point of starving other arguably more important areas.

Concurrency is enormously important in a world where instruction speed has saturated. Many problems are highly data-coupled, so you can't just separate these problems into loose tasks that you connect with a slow message pipe.

Of course, if you're just writing a web server or a chat server, then you might be lucky and you can get away with it. But please don't assume this holds for everybody.
The polls I've seen put the public at 52% broadly opposed to their actions (36% broadly supportive) back in May, and I have trouble believing droning Heathrow will improve that. Sure, they have succeeded in pushing climate change higher in the news cycle, but the secular trend was in that direction anyway, "awareness" of anthropogenic climate change was at ~95% and the government already had a Net Zero strategy that was less insubstantial than the symbolic declaration of emergency, and a backdrop of emissions having fallen steadily in the UK for a very long time. Not all news is good news either: if our most-likely next PM needs an excuse to renege on his old "I'll lie in front of the bulldozer" pledge to do everything in his power to block Heathrow expansion, it's difficult to think of better cover than arguing that he's not going to let protestors set his legislative agenda...

(Also hard to imagine that legislators in more climatically-significant countries like China are likely to see climate anarchists shutting down British airports as a sign that more action needs to be taken on emissions and not a sign that certain parts of the West have lost their minds over the subject of climate change.)
CERN Working to Move Away from Microsoft Due to License Costs Going Up by 10x
Why Many Scientific Articles Are Wrong
Be specific. Are you saying that the edgy and vitriolic people who populate places like 4chan and 8chan are currently the in-power-group in America?

If they are in fact the in-power-group, then why isn't David Duke making the rounds on CNN, The Tonight Show, Ellen, and SNL?
Americas Test Kitchen saves me when buying things for the kitchen. Is there any equivalent for yard equipment and tools?
Mass murderers were live streamed on facebook, why doesn't that get the blame?
It is more complex. It's more about the environment that is created. Raw foods breakdown slower feeding different types of bacteria they have more bacteria but the live ones should be dead after stomach acid.
wait, lying down and relaxing helps you go to sleep?

thats not news... what we need is a thing to make your phone say "ok boyo its 3am, no more internet until tomorrow"
>It seems like any distributed system that involves any cryptography these days is being called a blockchain. The Vice article is simply wrong. [...] The NYT timestamp system doesn't meet the blockchain definition, at least so long as the word has any real meaning.

My point isn't that Surety is a "formal" blockchain by some rigorous definition. (Obviously the VICE article is taking artistic liberties with the word "blockchain" to retroactively label Surety's published hashes back in 1995.)

The purpose of citing them was only to highlight that dependencies on past hashes accomplishes a different tamper-proof guarantee than your idea of just broadcasting digitally signed assertions.

>There's no need to enforce strict ordering of transactions because there's no spending. It's just assertions of some fact at some time.

Putting extra cryptographic mechanisms around the notion of "at some time" is the motivating reason for a chain of hashes. If Surety didn't chain their hashes and then publish the hash, that's weaker than broadcasting independent hashes.

>Knowing who is behind the private keys signing the assertions is a far more important problem in this kind of system, and blockchains don't help that one bit.

I think I see why you believe focusing on digitally signed assertions is enough security. E.g. the web browser TLS/SSL https security works fine on broadcast assertions with no "blockchain". That's true. It's "trust of a identity hierarchy" rather than "trust of a timeline". The difference is that when users log into "paypal.com" today to withdraw money, they don't care what the private/public certificate authority keys were 3 years ago. However, the users of the database of clinical results do care about past history.
Me too. Or more realistically Amazon pushing whatver product they make the best profits from.
The author heard Cook’s comments as advocating for privacy, but that’s wrong. He’s advocating for privacy legislation.

The utility of privacy legislation for a company like Apple is to protect itself from completion by firms too small to afford the armies of lawyers and compliance experts that Apple can. The tech industry it seems has finally caught on to the age old racket of regulatory capture. Every big tech chief can be heard begging governments to “stop us before we sin.”

With their business models well proven and scale achieved, they will lobby for more regulations and of course volunteer to bring their distinctive expertise to the drafting table.
Guitar virtuoso Shawn Lane offers another approach, where you attempt to learn very difficult passages by jumping right into it at the correct speed.

The idea here is that, by slowly speeding up, you end up using low-speed mechanics on high-speed passages and it doesn't always work. It's not for the faint of heart, but if you find yourself struggling it's certainly worth trying.
This poses a problem for machine learning. Optical illusions exist in real life, but when does your AI decide to go with 'brown' and when does it imagine to go with 'what humans would think'?

I look forward to a robot future where us humans can have a joke and catch out robots by enjoying these optical illusions knowing 'they' don't get it.
UK is already diminishing their CO2 emissions for 30 years now and is set to continue decreasing them.

China increased them by 300% in 30 years and is set to continue increasing then.

All in all, UK seting their emissions at 0% wouldn't do anything for global warming. But China decreasing them by 50% would probably save us all. Yet, these so called environmentalists, keep finding excuses for letting China go on with their business as usual, which makes it really clear they are not interested in the well being off the planet but in social upveal and some kind of revolution in Europe to install their ideology (which has very little of environmentalism) in power.
Absolutely. If nothing else, they gave me a hunger to build things of my own. I started programming by writing games in Macromedia Flash (years before the Adobe acquisition), mostly by copying concepts I saw in these educational games.
Clearly I’m not explaining myself well.

The point I objected to comes at the end of this quote:

> I've often wondered whether Apple could do well by doing something similar to Crostini on ChromeOS, to allow these things to actually work as intended, but without impacting security. But that also probably doesn't sell software as effectively, as free software doesn't pay Apple's cut.

The implication is that Apple wouldn’t develop such a feature because it might cut into their profits. I don’t buy that reasoning: Apple wouldn’t lose much if any money by offering that.

Update: and I also don’t believe that Apple would deprioritize it because would cost them some money. Far more likely they’d decide it isn’t sufficiently useful, or would cause other problems, be too confusing, etc.
Hong Kong Leader Backs Down on China Law But More Protests Planned
I disagree with the need for a warning. I think it would be better if this were _more_ commonly used.

So often debates arrive at a stasis like:

> "You're wrong"

> "No YOU'RE wrong"

And there they sit, each side certain that the other is an idiot.

The alternative is to admit that both parties are right according to their model, and that both models are wrong (because being right is not what models are for). I think this is better because the "which model is more useful" question sets up a lot more potentially fruitful interaction between opposite sides.

The danger you're referring to only occurs in a setting where science is implicitly authoritative in the first place. If we drop that assumption, science still produces the most useful models, but finding the most useful one for your project becomes less adversarial.
Stanford researchers work on privacy-aware virtual assistant
Did you read the article? That is not what the lawsuit is saying at all. And it would be pretty trivial to figure out if Alexa was recording all the time by putting a sniffer on your network and seeing how much data is being transmitted to the cloud when Alex is on vs. when Alexa is listening to you. Alexa on board does not have the tech to convert speech to text, it sends all the audio to the cloud for that.
Then technically, nothing orbits any other single thing.
It’s obvious that people will interpret “Amazon’s Choice” in this way. Surely Amazon knew this too. This should be considered false advertising if not outright fraud. Instead it’ll just turn into another episode of “haha those wacky tech companies and their algorithms.”
The Obsessively Complete Infocom Catalog
Facebook does get the blame. Many people on HN at least do blame Facebook for spreading hateful propaganda and fake news and for fueling acts of genocide. Twitter gets blamed as well.

But the chans are unique in that their culture (ironically or not) actively encourages and demonstrates the beliefs that lead to such violence. The shooter in this case mentioned having been inspired by /pol/ and mentioned the New Zealand shooter, who is being treated as a hero and a martyr by /pol/.

Facebook and other social media get blamed for passively encouraging violence and hate, while the chans get blamed for actively encouraging it as a cynical and ironic piss-take on society.
Need is one of those surprisingly dangerous words. We need a steady supply of potatoes, some leafy greens and mild warm weather to get through life and not much more.

The standard we should strive for is to not lock any given 3rd party in to facilitate data exchanges. If I want to email someone, I shouldn't need to coordinate with Google. If I want to email a document I shouldn't need to coordinate with Microsoft and if I want to browse the internet I shouldn't have to coordinate with the Mozilla foundation.

We've seen this play out a few times; data lock-in is not properly appreciated even within the tech industry, let alone outside it. The risk of making Google a mandatory part of exchanging data between two parties on the internet is serious - if they ever manage to insert themselves in the same way IE got its claws into South Korea back in the day that will be decades of foolish pain for no gain. Great idea to keep people aware of the threat.

What happens if Google shut down Gmail outside the US with no warning and no big export of data? Maybe because the US government decides foreigners need a bit of prodding because of a trade war? That would be a Nasty Shock.
I'm not sure you can call a documented feature of the product an "allegation". Its well known that Amazon saves voice recordings that the devices capture after the wake word.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=...

https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/talkingtech/2018/05/28/h...

Though I also don't see how Amazon is responsible when parents put a recording device like the Echo, a Nest Cam, a recording baby monitor, a Ring Doorbell, etc in the home and it ends up recording a child.
I'm not disagreeing with any of that. All I'm saying is that a chain of hashes is not a blockchain.

Also, we do care what paypal’s certificate was in the past. That’s why we have CT to catch CAs that mess up. We just don’t need to use a blockchain for it to work.
The approach seems a variation (in modern times) of the one in Roald Dahl's story "The Bookseller":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bookseller_(short_story)
which was very likely inspired by a 1935 story by James Gould Cozzens, "Clerical Error".

Though the stories above made leverage on the desire by widows to protect the memory of their recently departed husband, essentially it is the same.
Good idea, and great challenges indeed. Taking this further, I'd call it experimenpedia, with experiments published as they are thought out. Be open for comments/review and showing related experiments before the actual experiment being done. This might prevent potential failures and let owners tweak the planned experiment before being actually done. Then do the experiment and publish the results, whatever they are.

I guess secrecy would actually win though, and nobody would use this?