skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is is the latest trend to render markdown verbatim? Another recent post on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20211778
Changelog for 0.5.0

https://github.com/clojerl/clojerl/blob/0.5.0/CHANGELOG.md
I think the quote obstensibly attributed to Lincoln is apt:

‘You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.’

The public in aggregate have a perspective that insiders in a company don’t or cannot because of culture or they’re too close to the problem or they’re just being disingenuous. And the public always finds out, sooner or later.
Yes, of course, I agree with you. However, the quote I was replying to had the word "longer", and not the word "forever" in it. And that's exactly what healthy lifestyle gives you - not miracles, but a definite increase in quality of life, and prolongation of the active part of it.

The downvotes to my comment above amused me, there are apparently people in denial here. :)
Altitude, extent, velocity, humidity, temperature, pressure, droplet size, electrical charge, acidity, pictorial similarity and fluffyness.
Would it really matter though, whether the underlying VM is JVM or BEAM, if people don't want to code in Erlang or Elixir?

I don't think introducing the BEAM is the hard part, I think it's all about the language barrier.
By the way, I think such devices exist for pets.
Consider trying the debian package until it is updated in your system.
I’m just saying that with capitalism comes politics. Always have, always will. To believe otherwise is a bit naive. Politics can be used to even things out as was done over here from the turn of the century up until, I’d say, 70-80s.
The last few decades have been way to market/neoliberal policy wise, and in many ways we’re seeing the effect today.

I just think you’re a bit binary here. I come from a struggling family but have managed to buy a place for my own family in a really attractive location.
The problem is that thanks to virtually no regulations on the banks for lending the whole market is inflated, both for property and land.
It’s simply not a question about supply and demand - it’s “how much money can I borrow”.
A study showed that roughly 25% of people owning housing i Stockholm cannot manage a lowish “normal” interest rate.

Banks love printing money for free!

Capitalism only works when properly regulated by sane policy.
No worries! Better we have too many relevant things than too few.
A primer on elliptic curve cryptography
Thanks for reporting that!
The broken link has been fixed.

The correct link is 'https://download.sqreen.com/java/sqreen.jar' (thus without the extra '-'.
That's certainly not necessary. If you'd like to post thoughtful, substantive comments, you're as welcome to do so as anyone else is. We're just trying as a community to get out of the shallower, angrier habits of internet commenting.

You might also find these links helpful for getting the intention of this site:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/hackernews.html

http://www.paulgraham.com/trolls.html

http://www.paulgraham.com/hackernews.html
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Easy way to detect this without an RF detector - use a "usb charge doctor" which is a super cheap voltage and current measurement tool for USB. If the cable draws current with nothing attached, dissect it.

Incidentally, my theory about the website and product is that this is a firmware reuse of a fleet tracking product. The manufacturer is likely an electronics manufacturing outfit that adapted the layout to match the new application but didn't have in-house firmware developers and instead reused a popular low-end fleet tracker firmware for the same chip. These are used for stuff like taxi dispatch or package pickup so you can see the entire fleet on a map and call whoever is closest to your destination. It doesn't need precise location.
May the gods damn people who use Twitter as Slideshare...
No one has achieved two nines yet.

Embarassing recent downtimes for Google and AWS.
Are you saying that the 'old' (i.e. Windows 7 calculator) didn't have a Date calculation panel? Because I'm seeing it right now in front of me.
Can't resist, I just have to post this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIbDFmHqEIw
Love how puns are the go-to in CS
Tesla's New HW3 Self-Driving Computer – It's a Beast
Yes, because they are a negative thing.

And it’s interesting to use phrase “indefinite detention and torture” as “helping minorities integrate”. The fact that we don’t know how many people are being killed doesn’t mean it’s not happening. Every time some country decides to do this they hide that they’re killing people. China is still actively trying to hide how many people are in these camps, and isn’t allowing anyone else to go in to verify that they aren’t just killing people.

Hell we can’t even get the from ICE.
> the dev's takeaway was "Don't show them any gameplay."

The average developer has almost no input into what is and isn't shown at E3. They can present some source material but E3 decisioss like these are made by a marketing company or the publisher.
I actually just finished the trilogy on the weekend and couldn't agree with you more. Enjoyed reading all three but found the first a little slow and the third a bit all over the place. The second book in my opinion was an exceptional masterpiece. The author is truly a creative genius - only wish I could have read the original Chinese versions to see what was lost in translation.
> I thought maybe "HN is a community—users should have an identity that others can relate to." meant our nyms should point to a real person

Your HN username should represent you as a person in the sense of providing an identity over time, because that's necessary for a community. But it's totally fine not to use your real name. I've posted a bunch about this over the years if anyone wants more: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme....
Your profile is https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=therealdrag0. When you, the owner of that profile, visits it, you will see many settings. Among them are noprocrast (boolean), maxvisit (number of minutes), and minaway (number of minutes). When noprocrast is set to yes, Hacker News will refuse to load if you visit it too much, to help you avoid procrastination.

For the details of what each of those three settings means, visit https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=814695.
"Everything that can be destroyed by the truth, deserves to be destroyed by the truth"
This example isn't about computer communication, it's about John Doe using the windows calculator to find the time between two dates.
> Unless the system is configured to route all DNS traffic over Tor

Edge cases like this is why I always use things like Tails when I want to do something over Tor. There are just too many gotchas, and many of them are barely even avoidable in the first place (like correlating timestamps).
I switched to openStreetMap over two years ago now and I havnt looked back. it could be hit and miss depending on where you live though. it really depends on how much contributors are (or were) in your area.

there doesn't seem to be any google earth replacement around but then again its not really that important to have one, not for me anyway as its mostly something i just browse for entertainment every now and again
constant as in enum? in that case, enum gotta be name exquisitely as well.
Call of Duty lives in an odd space, I am guilty of buying it much more often than I should.

The problem is that the people I would want to play with stop playing the older games, so if you want to play with your friends and get a half-decent matchmaking experience then you have to get the new ones.

There's also a minor problem with the older games, people get so good that the enjoyment is sucked right out, it's nice when everyone is unfamiliar with the balancing/movement/etc in the first months, it evens the playing field a lot.

(also, older and thus cheaper/free games lead to a lot of cheaters who don't care if they get perma-banned).
Some studios also are able to continue to make great (if not greatest) titles. I however think AAA games are generally too broad in scope and have a much greater probability to fail to keep their reputation and/or to live up to the expectation.
I would like to have it also. Please DM me
> You seem to be missing the forest for the trees. DST policy changes _are_ rare, compared to the millions of times when people schedule multi-timezone meetings, international flights, etc. Bursts of high frequency DST policy changes are so rare that they get articles written about them.

It's not just DST policy changes. If I want to run a report at 10PM every day in my timezone and we store that time as UTC then my report will be running at 11PM after the DST change over, it will start screwing up twice a year. This does not happen when my local time and timezone are stored because the software working with the data can make smarter decisions with more information.
Thanks. Currently I do this:

Phone -> Dropbox + Google Photos (automatically)

Card-based cameras -> Plug in card, Dropbox + Google Photos pick up new photos

Backup 'server': Local synced Dropbox folder -> Local + Cloud backups

I couldn't see how to add iCloud to my existing syncs / backups. When I looked at it, I couldn't be sure it would keep photos on my phone long enough to allow Dropbox and Google Photos to pick them up. It's good that it's possible to get the originals over at a MacOS machine. Might be worth exploring then.
One explanation: Trump coal.

Plus the conversion to natural gas has flattened out. Methane is 40% less carbon per BTU than coal. But it still creates considerable CO2.
I haven't read the book, but does it talk about whether it's possible to "fake" the way you write? I'd also be interested in whether it explored the way people write in web communities, I have a strong feeling people change their tone and phrasing based on the audience (especially when upvoted and downvotes are involved).
Note the scale of the x-axis here and the predicted jump for the next 100 years: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f5/All_pala...

It doesn't look like we had such rapid warming before, at least not in the last million years where we have decent data. We don't know how the ecosystem will handle it.
XuperChain: A highly flexible blockchain architecture built by Baidu
Not to mention, that this is a single benchmark from an unknown source. Without knowing what system the benchmark was run on, I would hesitate to draw any conclusions. Thermal performance matter a lot with modern CPU's -- better cooling will allow the CPU to maintain a higher clock for longer. So the i7-1065G7's performance may in fact be lower in a 15w TDP laptop.
A majority of Las Vegas electricity is generated from fossil fuels in the form of natural gas. A high proportion of bitcoin mining is generated from hydroelectric which is a much cleaner source of electricity. In that these anti crypto articles have a tendency to be misleading.
Same for me. 1st and 3rd were good. But the 2nd one is one of my all time favorites
Which major extinction event? Do you really think this is an appropriate comparison to proven major extinction events of the past (e.g Chicxulub, 66 m. years ago)?
This seems like an ideal vulnerability for exploits kits, to be honest. Crash and run code to drop malware on a system.
Get a new problem posted every day
Undercover Cold Outreach
Are there any fork that modifies Firefox so thoroughly that one needs a context to patch SpiderMonkey?
It's just hearsay, buddy.

You can't be sure the same bug was exploited.
I've been trying to convince my boss that 'nine fives' is a perfectly acceptable target.

Seriously, some systems only need to be up when people are actually using them. It doesn't matter if they don't work out of hours or over weekends.
> FPS titles that all look basically the same.

I found Dunkey's satirical take on this amusing. He spliced together footage from multiple FPS titles and reviewed it as a single game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oK158ih4smY
Techies who dont have Prime and dont buy something every week, please raise your hands.

Five hours later: still waiting for first hand.
In South Africa, we still have capital controls. My mom earned dollars through PayPal. She couldn't spend it online and had to convert her earnings to Rand within 3 months. Bureaucrats will insist that the same rules apply to libra.

India is even less ready for relaxing capital controls. They will tell Facebook to block libra for their citizens or be firewalled. No one is going to jail, but libra will not succeed there.
Flipdish is teaming up with drone outfit Manna to deliver grub in Dublin
The human impact on biodiversity forms one of the primary attributes of the Anthropocene. Humankind has entered what is sometimes called the Earth's sixth major extinction. Most experts agree that human activities have accelerated the rate of species extinction. The exact rate remains controversial – perhaps 100 to 1000 times the normal background rate of extinction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropocene#Biodiversity

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction
China contains 14 of the top 30 most polluted cities on the planet. China is constructing new coal power plants, while the united states closes down more coal plants every year. There's a weird thing going on in the news where real polluters like china get a free pass to destroy the earth and the environment and light polluters like the united states are harshly criticized for running operations in a more environmentally friendly manner.
I forgot to add to point 2, and my edit is locked out:

One of the main reasons that things get bleached out of a game (menu's, HUD, rich graphics) is accessibility or localisation. I think a lot of people only look at games in an able-bodied western way, but if you want to sell your game in arabic then your menu's have to support going right-to-left, if you want your games to be sold to people with near-sightedness then you can't have dense darkness or heavy fog for most of the game unless it's removable (thus' more testing scenarios).

For demos/proof-of-concept pieces: artists have free reign, until it comes time to actually address accessibility, discoverability or localisation concerns.
Show me cars built on that new base driving on the street and I'm fine with it. Up to now it's just talk and mockups and nothing more.
Delta Lake 0.2.0 Released
So how is this related to firefox quantum? It was not a "modern web browser" before that?
Generally the word dystopian is overused, but Facebook in charge of a currency ? dystopian sounds like an euphemism.
Ask HN: Will there be any mainstream efforts to select for intelligence in IVF?
Genomic Prediction (Stephen Hsu's company) is theoretically able to do this since they currently screen for mental disabilities (i.e., IQs 2+ SDs below average).

See gwern on this: https://www.gwern.net/Embryo-selection#overview-of-major-approaches

I suspect that if any hospital starts offering this as a service anytime soon it'll be in China or Israel.
This provides the potential for FB to pivot into banking.

The article points out that the structure of Libra doesn't require a connection between FB profile and wallet. But let's face it. If FB are the inventor and are the benevolent dictator in this open system, it positions them to offer all their users wallets and be the bank that facilitates most transactions.

The revenue potential for FB in that scenario, from transaction fees to deposits (borrowing short and lending long) to wealth management is limitless.

There is an endgame here that has 2 billion customers and is worth trillions.
8ch court documents revealing that fedposting is a thing
The math engine is the same, just the UI layer is different
Clickable: https://www.gwern.net/Embryo-selection#overview-of-major-app...
Customer Relationship Management Automation: CRM's Ultimate Game Changer
DEFUN is not a function.

It's a definition macro and stands for `DEFINE FUNCTION`.

These defining macros are beginning by a style convention with DEF: DEFUN, DEFMACRO, DEFCLASS, DEFVAR, ...
Note for comcast customers: the default on your setup is devote one fifth of your modem capacity to general xfinity wifi. So the general public can surf porn at your expense. Xfinity has settings to turn this off. However like Facebook privacy, comcast continuously turns this back on.
My company spent months building an internal, online reward site.

You got points for going to unpaid classes in addition to your normal work hours.

It had no backend validation and within 30 minutes I’d awarded myself some company sweatpants.

I got an email a day later asking what size I wanted, and out of fear, I replied that I didn’t want them anymore and I never took another reward.
I think they are using the barrel jack to charge it - get back here in 24 hours and I'll have an answer to whether it works :)
"When I brought up the mass internment of Muslim Uighurs—around a million are now in reëducation camps in the northwestern province of Xinjiang—he trotted out the familiar arguments of government-controlled media: “Would you rather that they be hacking away at bodies at train stations and schools in terrorist attacks? If anything, the government is helping their economy and trying to lift them out of poverty.” The answer duplicated government propaganda so exactly that I couldn’t help asking Liu if he ever thought he might have been brainwashed. “I know what you are thinking,” he told me with weary clarity. “What about individual liberty and freedom of governance?” He sighed, as if exhausted by a debate going on in his head. “But that’s not what Chinese people care about. For ordinary folks, it’s the cost of health care, real-estate prices, their children’s education. Not democracy.”"
The only thing I don't like about these situations is how little money the developers get for doing things like this. Any other profession would be rolling in money after bringing such savings,yet the developers end up getting pennies ( relatively).
There are instructions for crossgrading on the wiki:

https://wiki.debian.org/CrossGrading

as well as several articles linked and scripts available.
This is misleading. It doesn't share bandwidth on the cable with your internet connection. Removing it wouldn't make your interest faster.
This is all a game. Bitcoin and other coins are currently available for use by anyone. Their value is decided on network effects or supply/ demand. It's not regulated and can facilitate global transactions (I.e if you have patience and time). For some people it's working well. What we will probably discover is as long as Bitcoin is difficult to use and targets people with niche requirements the government will look the other away. As soon as someone wants to make this easier well things change. Libra was a very convincing sell to me. The challenge with bitcoin is the volatility potential. Libra might convince more people to think of Bitcoin more.
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That’s exactly the point and why it’s laziness. If you lack the knowledge to judge someone’s work then intellectual honesty requires foregoing an opinion on its quality. Saying “well I don’t understand, but his degree doesn’t have climate in its name so he must not know what he’s talking about” is gross laziness. And if you do have the expertise to accurately judge the work in question, then it stands or falls on its own and the credentials don’t matter.
Sounds extremely targeted, if an attacker is porting the attack to Macs (presumably a lot of work), and combining it with other loaders... I wonder how long this 0-day was in the wild.

Your friend should probably be browsing as a non-admin in a continuously-reimaged VM, separate from an air-gapped machine, if you have those kinds of attackers after you. Spooky..
Just curious, how long does the outlining take? I've read a similar notion before (Doctorow claiming to write a book in a year by writing 20 minutes per day - but he also has a plan what to write beforehand).

I am curious if outlining doesn't really count as work in the minds of many writers?
Not bad. The series reminded me of 1940's-50's sci-fi from the US, for a couple of reasons: A large confidence in the industrial and scientific capacity of their country. Relatively uncritical acceptance that their country is the good guys. No consequential female characters.
I already find it hard enough to use certain services without having a facebook account. E.g. Tinder requires one, and even having a throwaway is problematic because people want to check your Facebook profile before meeting.

However, having currency wrapped up in Facebook will mean that now I will not be able to participate is some economies. I work remotely and as much as Paypal is a villian, it is also a saviour for paying people halfway across the globe. If Facebook displaces that, then my own business is in trouble. And there is no real way to separate Facebook the spying entity from Facebook the social entity, therefore I expect there to be no way to separate the Facebook financial services entity either.

This is a big worry.
> Seriously, some systems only need to be up when people are actually using them. It doesn't matter if they don't work out of hours or over weekends.

OTOH "out of hours" or "over weekends" is a very good time to make batch processes happen, so for some business services it might be better to not be up during hours, but reliably be up outside of them.

An other issue with that is when the service is used internationally / globally, or even just by 24/7 businesses, and even "over weekend" becomes not necessarily a thing.
Conversely, having a 15-37% improvement in recall, might drive some people to having plastic surgery.
Google is investigating claims it steals lyrics from Genius
> Basically turning them overnight into consumers, ripe for the picking.

Well, credit cards are already too easy to use. Many services already save your credit card info, and you're already one or two clicks away from purchasing. Still, you normally don't buy anything that appears next to blog/SNS posts.

But, I agree with that Facebook means really a lot here. Being a stable coin, Libra is much closer to a payment platform - like Visa, MasterCard and Papal - than other cryptocurrencies. Facebook can use its influence to push Libra into various platforms, and Libra can become a de-facto standard payment method in no time.

However, governments will happily regulate transactions b/w countries, which will limit the potential of the coin. Libra is Swiss Bank 2.0 in some senses.

> I foresee big media producing companies in the developed world to be the first to take advantage of this

It can bring consumers in developing countries to the table, but those countries usually have slow connections, which leads to lower consumption of digital media. Distribution of the coin also can be a problem too. SWIFT is expensive, and fewer people have credit cards.
Yeah, I'll be adding that. There will be an option to toggle between list and thumbnail view.
Oh! Wow! That was a huge assumption on my part.

I had assumed it was the afore mentioned RFC. That explains why the site make no mention of EDNS or OPT records.

TIL...
> "Don't lie" is a very low bar, and there is a lot of room to exist above it.

And E3's reputation for housing flim-flam and lies is well established: https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/03
Why? It's a serious hate crime, akin to instilling violence.
Show HN: Library to add a dark-mode to your website in a few seconds
> Now them having a cryptocurrency is alarming

I am genuinely surprised people would allow a company collecting data to be their financial provider.

This is mostly contrary to the idea behind bitcoin to have a decentralized currency beyond anyone's control. The unholy alliance between facebook, ebay, visa and mastercard is certainly no advantage to the user.

But I am afraid convenience will bite us in the ass again.