skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember reading (a long time ago so can't provide a reference) that in 1000s of years most humans would have an extra finger. I'd assumed that this was because of the evolutionary advantage it would have given their forebears, although I would question how much natural selection applies to rational beings like humans these days. But on a quick bit of reading now, it seems like it could be because it is a dominant trait. Although after a bit more reading, it seems it might not become more common over time due to the Hardy-Weinberg principle[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardy%E2%80%93Weinberg_princip...
Digital shadows on vintage maps trick our eyes into learning the landscape
From the article - it sounds similar to sailfish or bb10:

The Huawei OS is based on a microkernel that is light and can react quickly to adjustments and batches, according to the people with knowledge. Huawei engineers on the OS project have also studied Android and Apple’s iOS closely to learn from them.

One of the biggest technical challenges for the Huawei OS under development has been its compatibility with Android, one of the sources said.
Compatibility would enable a Huawei phone with its own OS to download and run Android apps seamlessly. Having a successful compatibility layer with Android would also mean that app developers around the world would not need to develop extra code for Huawei’s OS.
Ah I was on a different Wikipedia page about the OS, that only mentioned the name.
Sure, I'm not saying it can't be harmful. My point is just that I see it as something more akin to the "Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster" than "AIDS was created in government labs".
Great article - poor execution.

Users win when the browser market is competitive. The article heavily promotes Brave. Others to move to are Firefox, Opera and Min.
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Is that much worse than supporting Mac OS, Linux and Windows on the desktop?
Be happy. The F35's going to be used about 2/3 less because it costs about three times more to fly.
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“Introducing Packem: a super fast experimental bundler written in Rust”
Then some of the art and assets are rotated, and the new Battle Slime Kings 2 gets released and featured in the App Store.
I imagine the tooling will just get better to the point where its like electron, you don't even think about what OS the user is running.
They did state that a year ago.
Some programs even support BSD as well
It doesn't make things right. Nothing ever will, but it's better than the alternative.
Up to a point a minority of Landlords / Bar owners will take short cuts to boost their revenue - this is not the same as an individual pirating.

There are a lot of shady practices in this industry buying your own beer on the side for example.
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Blackberry was quite successful with their own OS for a long time. It's mostly because people picked bigger screens over the full QWERTY keyboard (which I still kind of miss) of Blackberry.
Wow, this will spark a lot of "amateur" remixes and bootlegs. Nowadays music technology is very accessible to anyone who's willing to put in some time.
And you want to hold that up as something immoral by...repeating it?
Can somebody please explain what "open source" means here? I could only find a bunch of files on a google drive, none of which have a licensing note?
Not sure I agree. Just my anecdotal data of course, but I don't remember seeing an Apple II in UK schools in the 80s, but definitely BBC Micro/Master and a few Archimedes later. This was in 2-3 North West state schools, so there might have been regional differences.

Edit - oh yes, and about the ZX Spectrum... I can't imagine anyone willingly changing from something else to that rubber keyboard! Yuck.
Ah, thanks, quite a nice name, perhaps, thanks for your child comment to the Wikipedia article for some background.

Translated as..

> a metaphor for the "primordial world, primeval chaos" in Chinese creation myths.

> "Mists-of-Chaos", "Vast Obscurity", "Big Concealment", "Vital Principle", "Natural Energy" and "Big Goose Dummy"

I can't quite escape the pun, however. And puns are pretty prevalent in Chinese. Someone will have OKed it.
Please add Ask HN: to the tile, it will be easier to find for the community :)
It's wrong to even refer to them as 'hackers'. There's one 'leaker' and the group of people that first found out about this.
I've heard stories of pint glass stickers being stuck to the screen to get around this. Probably just an urban legend but amusing to think about nonetheless.
That is why in the UK in a pub you can see a small pint glass in the corner of the screen its the feed for commercial use.
> > let's be honest here. Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Thailand and many other countries have these laws, and while I disagree with them on many points, they deal harshly and swiftly with the dregs of society.

And what paradises those places are!
- lower hosting costs

- faster time to market

- good runtime performance

Looks good to me.
This reminds me of my childhood days when every Sunday I'd watch Captain Vyom and then Shaktimaan on Doordarshan.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Vyom

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaktimaan
You should start with a good course on automata, such as "Automata and computability" by Kozen. That will cover parsing and a bit more, but this is all "old stuff", or basics, as you see things.
Then you would need a good course on type theory, but unfortunately I have no pointer for this.
You may also read that http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/5569
My UK knowledge from those days was thanks to Crash, Your Sinclair, BBC Micro, Input Magazine and Computer Shopper, so I might be bit biased in regards to any sort of Apple's widespread adoption.
A related article, published around the same time as this one, was posted and got significant attention on HN about 2 months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19590180

(Probably doesn't count as a dupe as this article is more about the secrecy than the infection itself).
Recommend looking at https://web.devopstopologies.com/. Good to understand the interplay between different team structures.
I hope you’re joking.
The elevator question is deceptively difficult and I find there aren't any decent answers to it on the internet. People have devoted phd papers to this topic. And there are sparse Leetcode discussions on this subject.
Big Goose Dummy - perfect name for an os.
Until you see motor simulations running in Excel which break in many ways.

If your data can be manually entered it's decent, or if you just need to filter CSV by some columns. But anything above that please choose a proper programming language and data format.
The HN audience is very big. So having 20-30 who are specialized in very niche domain becomes quite probable. Unlike Reddit, HN gets moderated heavily for useless and troll comments. The noise is reduced.
Care to enlighten us? I've always thought the scooters-as-a-service business model seemed bonkers but apparently a lot of people (including yourself?) disagree, so what am I missing?
This is par for course in all matters cultural. I've been appreciating how little the occident introspects of late.

I'm currently reading Veena Talwar's book "Dowry Murder", which documents how economical legislature driven by colonial greed was more causal in increasing violence against women, as opposed to the favoured theory that this was intrinsic to the "barbaric" natives. Within these pages, you find old war stratagems of "civilizing the barbaric natives" being perfected over the years, as the East India Company acquires a taste for blood after conquering and ruling Bengal. In fact, some of these techniques are so cliched, that you can see similar propaganda ops being pulled for the wars in the Middle East, Vietnam and now China.
Dysplastic Naevus Syndrome? There is a bunch of doctors/researchers who are telling that there isn't such a thing as dysplatic naevus. Well, of course you have that special looking mole, but the term "dysplatic" is misleading and also the concept that there is a development of moles from benign to cancerous. A mole was either always a melanoma (or a melanoma inside a mole) or it was and is a normal mole (and will be one).
It is hard to fight against free beer.
'nothing to do with profit' is a pretty strong claim. I think Marxists (and others) would argue that the two are stochastically linked. Decreases in the value of a good (the amount of labour-time used to generate it) roughly tracks with a decrease in the price (and thus amount of profit that the producer gets for each item) over longer time frames. I think that's what the author was implicitly referring to but I may be wrong!

As for financialization and profit: I think contemporary labour-value theorists, and even Marx, talk about fincancialization as 'fictitious capital'. The 'value' of financial instruments comes from the claim on future labour-time, and is thus generally parasitic for a well-functioning economy. Cedric Durad is a recent example of this. I'm stepping into territory I know very little about though, so take what I'm saying with a grain of salt / generously.
I'm really excited about what Huawei will bring to the table, and what assurances it will make in terms of privacy.

China doesn't have a spotless track record in the matter, but neither does the US.

That's why I'm really excited to see where they will take this, the "more privacy than Android"-way, or the "We'll collect just as much". Because I think there's more to gain from going the former route.
Did they come with helmets? Or not require them?
Just google "whole foods vegan tuna" and you'll see it's a brand named Good Catch.

Your youtube video reviews something from the dollar store.
This is exactly what the Breiman paper ("Statistical Modeling: The Two Cultures") discusses. If you haven't read it already, I would say it's worth a read.
but blinking is faster than clicking the 'Next' button when someone surprises you with their 'goods'!
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Yeah. I guess “digital transfer” might be more accurate.
Yes I thought about it.

That's why I insisted on the difference beetween imprecise and incomplete.

> I do not mean complete. You can knowingly give an incomplete spec to the candidate to see what kind of questions he/she would ask to try and get the whole picture. (or if he/she goes head first into an unsolvable problem)

I feel that using wrong technical vocabulary in a question is not a sign of a interviewer trying to make the candidate ask questions. Maybe it's just me.
The Truth about Facebook’s Cryptocurrency (GlobalCoin)
Why oh why is this being published on Medium? It does all of that and more.
Like the train conductors who change the ticket punch shape each trip.
From the outside it looks like these protests ended up like the "Yellow vests" ones in France: There is valid concern but the movement is taken over by organised, violent extremists.

This brings the question: If violent actions are organised through e.g. Telegram, do the local authorities have a quick way to disable the service?

This seems to be an important question these days, not only in China/HK, but everywhere and we've seen authorities in several countries taking this sort of steps, which is legitimate in some circumstances.
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ffs... that's a joke.

I don't even know why I click links to medium.com anymore. I should find a plugin that blocks it instead.
Can you please expand on your phone? What model is it? It sounds very unusual for the user to be able to change the imei.
To be fair, Indians have a long tradition of being the 'sepoys' of the Western civilization - two world wars, a large labour breeding nation, and perhaps the bulwark of the next "opium" war.
I hope US companies shamelessly copy Huawei's tech and ignore the trademark
Say Farewell to the Klepto Queens of the British Far-Right
Chronic inflammation removes motivation by reducing dopamine in the brain
It would have been, if ISRO had hit their own projected timelines. They have been mucking it up for quite a while.

That said I'll be rooting for them.
Shouldn't this rather be called the "Italian Lobsters"? :-)
Attempts to get journalists more up-to-speed with this sort of stuff are to be applauded.

But the real problem is journalists (and their audiences) who, for a lack of professional ethics, don't give a crap about which parts of their stories can/cannot be backed up quantitatively. Besides selling newspapers, not giving a crap also has the great benefit that now they don't have to learn math, or programming, or logical thinking, or any of that.
Well, Iain M. Banks' SF - the 'Culture' with orbitals and AIs as adult supervision, sort of - had at least three of the adjectives checked, and seemed past concern about the fourth ...
Why do you assume that? I dont see any incentive to lower prices with higher demand.
tehlike's response earlier in the thread is particularly appropriate here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20171915
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I watched the Ted video, it's interesting! And yes, it does talk about what I had in mind, but of course with much more research and rigour. It would be nice to get a copy of that book that the author wrote.

In any case, the fractal properties of African villages and other cultural artifacts is an excellent topic for education in Africa in the future.
>I can't quite escape the pun, however. And puns are pretty prevalent in Chinese. Someone will have OKed it.

The tones are at least slightly different 鸿蒙 2/2 and 红梦 2/4, but I also think they might have done it for that reason.
So don't be a fan anymore? I can't afford to own a Ferrari... so I don't.
In this very moment only three submissions on the frontpage are actually Italian.
Cross platform SDKs are more mature on the desktop than on mobile, so doing the same on the desktop should be easier.
Funny how your comment got downvoted. Imagine if someone alleged that all citizens of [African country] went to sleep at the same time during daytime [instead of working, etc]. GP would be flagged and banned already. But since it's Spain then it's fair game.
> Consider that the majority of the IP addresses in the network are individual subscriber IP addresses, not servers. So we can have a transitional situation in which major service providers use the old 32 bit address space (so they are reachable by every client, 32 or 64 bit), while we put new subscribers into the 64 bit address space.

> The users who remain in the 32 bit space will increasingly find that they can't connect to some servers that are in the beyond-32 parts of 64 space, so they will have to upgrade their systems.

> Users in 32 space cannot do peer-to-peer with 64 users outside of that space, of course.

i.e. exactly the same situation that we currently have, only it would be less visible whether you've upgraded, and harder to debug when you had?

The hard part of deploying IPv6 isn't that the protocol is different (indeed the protocol is significantly simpler e.g. removing fragmentation). The hard part is that it's necessarily a new global routing table, that you necessarily can't use it between two hosts unless every router in between them supports it and has the routes set up. A more IPv4-like packet format would not change that at all.
Browsing the internet today is so exhausting.

I would add one more rule "make sure your user has to perform at least 37 clicks before accessing your ad riddled article"
I think you need to be wary of focusing on outcomes, life has a habit of getting in the way.
>Experimental fields (Psychology, Medicine) never really had to deal with observational data.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrospective_cohort_study
> If you think prohibition will reduce substance abuse but then you try it and it doesn't, well, you were wrong, so end prohibition.

Maybe we're at a local optima, though. Maybe this is a sign that we should just double down, surge on in there and get the job done by continuing to do the same thing and expecting different results. Maybe it's not the spec but the implementation.

Recommend a play according to all available data, and logic.

> This is also a strong argument for "laboratories of democracy" and local control -- if everybody agrees what to do then there is no dispute, but if they don't then let each local region have their own choice, and then we get to see what happens. It allows more experiments to be run at once. Then in the worst case the damage of doing the wrong thing is limited to a smaller area than having the same wrong policy be set nationally or internationally, and in the best case different choices are good in different ways and we get more local diversity.

"Adjusting for other factors," the analysis began.

- [ ] Exercise / procedure to be coded: Brainstorm and identify [non-independent] features that may create a more predictive model (a model with a lower error term). Search for confounding variables outside of the given data.
Or mDNS: http://www.multicastdns.org/

As used by Apple’s Bonjour implementation of the Zeroconf networking stack.

If using Debian or the like, just apt install avahi-daemon and libnss-mdns, and access your hosts on the local network as servername.local.
This was pre-GDPR. It would be interesting to see how it would play out today.
This is very sad.

I enjoyed Puffin a lot. Originally to access websites requiring Flash. But I then started to appreciate it for its speed when my connection was bad (e.g. while commuting), as well as for securely browsing untrusted websites.

Puffin worked really well.

Sad to see it go because of Apple's policy.
Agreed, except the font is subjectively unpleasant to read.

Easy fix is to change to font-family: serif; on the App component
Music people here in Europe liked minidiscs a lot. If the internet had not happened, that’s probably what we’d be using now.
Yes, you would probably then have to allow inbound traffic to these addresses in your ISP router's firewall or whatever you have.

If your router's default configuration is sane it should (by default) only allow returning connections and drop any other.
Nah, they'll leave him High and Dry. No Surprises, it was top story in The Daily Mail[1] today. Seriously what a Creep. He must feel really Idioteqe now, wondering How to Disappear Completely. It'll be a Reckoner, Full Stop.

[1] https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7129011/Radiohead-r...
> Plus most people would ‘double dip’ when using jars so there will be a transfer from the skin into the cream in the pot.

As long as the packaging is not single-use or a bottle / tube they're multi-dipping anyway.

And most containers are either completely open or will get filled back with unfiltered air.
Quite. They could have released it for free, and chose to gave a big donation to extinction rebellion themselves. It's not like they're short of cash.

https://en.mediamass.net/people/thom-yorke/highest-paid.html
With any algorithm complexity analysis you have to define what the inputs are considered to be. For cryptography, algorithms are designed to be constant-time with respect to the non-secret inputs. The secret inputs (which you are trying to protect) usually do not vary from one call to the next (eg, long-term private keys etc) - so can be assumed to be constant.

So while the terminology seems confusing, it’s not actually different. It’s just a different choice of “input” compared to typical algorithm analysis.
I find it puzzling why there isn't a Netflix for sports that just shows sports channels. (Or is there?)

Cable providers like to lure people in with sports channels and then force sports to only appear in the top payment tier.
Testing popular news discourse on the “echo chamber” effect
Introducing a Rust dependency isn’t accidental when it’s the point of the whole enterprise.

The author is also keeping the C version around. bzip2 didn’t even have version control before this. The C version will live on for all those who require it.
The BBC created a game using this mechanic a couple of years ago, based around Doctor Who's Weeping Angels: https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/doctorwho/entries/593c6730-9491-...
NAT does nothing of the sort.

Here's NAT, as implemented on a Linux machine: `iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o wan0 -j MASQUERADE`. You see that "-o wan0" there? That means the rule only applies to outbound connections, and it does nothing whatsoever to inbound connections. How can a rule that doesn't apply to inbound connections possibly do anything about the behavior of inbound connections?

On the other hand, v6 does do something about the spread of worms: networks use 64 bits of address space, so it's difficult to even find an active network host by scanning. On v4, you can find all active vulnerable hosts by just trivially scanning the entire 32-bit address space. An exhaustive search of a /64, which is just one single network, requires 0.9 ZB of traffic.

(Of course there are other ways of finding active hosts, and being obscure doesn't make the hosts in question secure -- but it _does_ render network scanning as a tool for spreading worms more or less obsolete.)
The way I understood it, given the very limited number of F-22s, their status of perpetual prototypes and white elephants (IIRC, $700 millions apiece is the most optimistic price range, over 1 billion probable), they will never be used in anything that qualifies as "combat" (bombing from 30000 ft some remote areas of tightly-controlled airspace doesn't really count IMO).
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IPv4 address with more address bits would have worse, because it would have the same incompatibility problem as IPv6, without its benefits.

Actually, IPv6 is good design. Adoption is slow because most people and companies always prefer a cheap short term inferior solution compared to the good long term one.

Now, IPv6 is 25% of traffic. It will continue to grow, and at a point the network effect will be on IPv6 side. Not long after that, IPv4 will only be a niche for a few legacy systems.
> Computers have become a great deal cheaper in the ensuing decades.

By the way, it turns out people think "automation is replacing jobs in manufacturing" because they've misread the data showing them just how much cheaper computers have gotten since then, and therefore how much more computer one factory employee can make.
AMD recently responded on reddit that they don't want to fragment the market so they just make zen 2 not compatible with old boards. That was after announcements by board manufacturers about compatibility on their boards.
While I do agree that this person's attitude towards security is a little too cavalier, I also disagree with your characterization that his problem with TLS is that it is hard.

Gopher is designed as a very simple protocol any programmer is supposed to be able to implement themselves. Including TLS in the protocol will, by its very nature, break this. It will basically rob gopher of its purpose. I understand why that would be a disqualifying property for someone who cares about that purpose.