skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to be a PC gamer, but switched to consoles in recent years because I can spend a few hundred $ and have a machine that's guaranteed to run a large lineup of games at acceptable performance (sure, it won't be as good as a high-end PC, but the console also cost a fraction of what a high-end PC cost), and, has excellent exclusives (Bloodborne alone made buying a PS4 worth it for me). I will probably buy a PS5 for the same reason: laziness/convenience, exclusives, still costs less than a gaming PC (people often say its not true, but every time I price a passable gaming PC, it works out higher than the few hundred that a console costs, especially if you buy near console release and not when the hardware is a few years older)
thanks, seeing that now...

But that's not unusual in Lisp, as functions may be seen as objects, getters, formulas, etc..

For example a function maybe a top level loop.
Then I might call it TOP-LEVEL-LOOP and not
run-top-level-loop or similar.
The only way I’ve managed to avoid my iPhone connecting to random wifi is to go to settings:wifi and set “ask to join” to true. And now it just bugs me with prompts a hundred times every train ride.

Ifaik there’s no other way to stop autoconnecting to wifi that matches certain conditions, and it drives me up the wall.
I am on the first chapter and one thing which always bothered me was the example in first principles thinking. Farnam Street did and so did you in the book.

Tesla and Musk, in spite of their success, might not be the best of examples. While the material breakdown cost give us an elemental view of what goes in - the actual cost is on R&D. Putting together the $80 material while ensuring the costs are down is something which might be doable only with huge amount of money. I don't see how it helps average Joe.
Just wondering, how does this encourage password re-use?
Why a near-perfect memory can be both a blessing and a curse
Nonsense. Japan is doing a good job at expending housing because they actually have a capitalistic approch to expention of houses in large cities. Its easy and cheap to build more buildings. The exact thing all of these socialist style regulations depress and systematically restrict.

And their is ZERO evidence that 'less capitalistc' parts of Europe do a better job. For the most part those parts are cheaper because nobody wants to live their and the population moves to the more capitalistic parts and that's why prices are going up there.
Any plans on a bug bounty program?
But I feel so much better now :)
Yes, what irked me is not so much her arguments as her smug attitude and the underhanded way of retelling the conversation with a person who trusted her enough to talk with her at length.

If you ask me, lifting almost a billion of people out of poverty is amazing. Still, some developments in China make me feel unease.

What do people in China think about the social credit system?

Also while rounding up a million of Muslims in a reeducation camps is better than fucking up two countries in the wake of 9/11, it still doesn't sit well with me.
Anecdotally, there are still a few issues for the extreme ends of the market - luxury (high effort, high returns) and bangers (very low effort, typically cut for parts). Anything in between (“sensibly priced cars”, to use a clarksonism) is too much effort and risk for not enough returns.

But yes, it’s nowhere as bad as it was in the ‘80s/‘90s. This has to do with social changes (the drop in heroin use and crime, and general improvement in living standards) as much as with technological ones (alarms installed by default, electronic locks on injection).
It does not matter for the 90% of the people who do not turn on airplane mode in their phones when they get in the car.
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Yes. Both long-term pseudonymous accounts (such as this) and short-lived throwaways.
You're putting words in my mouth.
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U.S. lawmakers are calling for Facebook to halt Libra development
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For date and time, Arrow is a lifesaver in python

https://arrow.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Google to Reimplement Curl in Libcrurl
It has a stick and a couple buttons for most of the functionality that can be useful to the pilots in case the craft misbehaves. It seems to have rotary input so it can manage rotation and translation.

A lot of the controls in an Apollo were to be used in normal manual operations that are automated (or have no counterpart) in Dragons.
> Let it be an option, but don't do this by default.

Fully agree, and found the "As for what you should set the default to. Well that’s another question..." conclusion quite stupid to be honest; "80% were not expecting to see the password as clear text" and "60% said they had become suspicious of the site", on those metrics alone surely it's obvious the default should be masked with an option to reveal.
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How did you make your username appear green?
> if I am not mistaken then least squares was invented largely due to the central limit theorem by Gauss

I'm not really speaking from expertise here, but I thought least-squares error measurement was based on the fact that the metric is easy to minimize, because taking the derivative of x^2 is easy, whereas taking the derivative of |x| is complicated.

Least cubes doesn't really work conceptually, as it would imply that if an outlier above the fitted curve is bad, then an outlier below the fitted curve is good. That's not what you want.
> Iteration in game development is much slower and lends itself to a waterfall approach

Given that much of game development is an iterative creative process, you would hope that iteration is much faster than in other development work. Maybe not for the programmers, though.

I don't see how its any more suited to waterfall than any other industry. Sounds like something game devs tell themselves so they feel better about their bad habits, like how crunch is necessary or how automated testing is too hard.
Familial DNA: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/familial-dna-puts-elusi...

GEDMatch: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/peteraldhous/genetic-ge...
I'm grateful to QubesOS for being able to easily browse in a disposable VM whilst waiting for the build. Even without QubesOS starting a disposable VM manually is probably worth the effort..
I do not recommend any in particular because we are all different. All I can say is that I enjoyed using Authy.
One of the main reasons I bought my own modem rather than using the one Comcast provides is to avoid broadcasting this terrible xfinitywifi network. It's not worth the liability.
This might be what you're looking for:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauss%E2%80%93Markov_theorem
Wow you are so cool
Any operating system-level measure to prevent keyloggers logging secure input fields is bypassed when input masking is disabled in the browser, except where the browser natively provides a Show password feature.
No one asks or expects that of you. The amount of negative press FB has managed to generate over the last few years, however, is more than enough to question the beliefs of FB managers.
> they planned to handle screen blurring due to vibrations by shifting the screen content based on accelerometer data in real time

IIRC, Orion does that by timing the screen backlight.

If I had a choice between Orion, Starliner or Dragon, I'd go with the Dragon. The spacesuits are much nicer and if I have to die, I'd rather go with style.
When using a password manager you don't need to ”check the input” or “correct an error” or “see what characters have been typed" (the only ”usability problems” mentioned in the article)
New computer model explains faltering jet stream
Looks like nightly builds aren't being published. Even if you browse the directories manually, they're not there[1]. On google play[2] it's showing as updated, though.

[1] https://download-installer.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/mobile/nightl... although the ESR builds are coming in fine, so maybe something broke the build script?

[2] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.fe...
What about that makes it sound targeted? Seems like standard vulnerabilities chained together, nothing specific to the "target"
Type C cables have chips in them. Not a dumb wire. That's by design
I remember the glorious days when firefox was not a memoryhog. 700MB for hundreds of tabs. Nowadays it needs 2GB because of the awful multi process model.
Wouldn't it be better just to make cars with good visibility?
> To the relief of some ethicists, we're a long way from AGI, [...]

I often hear statements of this kind, but do they have basis? While there's not much to suggest that AGI will be developed soon, it doesn't seem sensible to me to say it's a long way away, as we still don't understand how difficult the problem is, nor do we have a clear path toward its development. It may be that it is achievable straightforwardly, with a breakthrough cognitive architecture.

Also, regarding ethical concerns, I don't think AGI is the problem, but rather the broader domain of super-intelligence. Plausibly, super-intelligence could result from the combination of the human mind with non-generally intelligent machinery, resulting in the same dangers.
Time for the travelers will go slower, for earth time will be 450k years but for travelers will be less.

Can someone explain this situation, what if the travelers reach almost speed light, they will reach on 12 years from earth perspective but for them how long will it take?
A simple nginx also holds up very well: https://xyrillian.de/thoughts/posts/latency-matters-aftermat...
Funny, the original author appears not aware of the derivation of the expression "all too".
Poe's Law claims another victim.
> Meant, yes, by somebody, but a web service creator can decide otherwise, for some reasons, like simplicity.

Simply introducing unexpected side effects, you mean? Using methods in ways they're not meant to be used doesn't create simplicity, it creates complexity. Suddenly there are exceptions to the standards that you need to remember and take into account. This story demonstrates that very well.

Laziness is not the same thing as simplicity.
The real problem here is that on-screen mobile keyboards are an atrocious input method compared to a real physical keyboard, in general, but in particular for passwords, where you are typically changing case and adding special characters.
Dear Google Chrome Folks,

Please rename your library.

Thanks
Oh I was responding to the thing about Visa, Mastercard etc.
I think it's much easier and safer to send Monero or to convert it to Bitcoin using something like xmr.to than to mix bitcoins, which can be traced back.
Yeah. AFAIK there's no way to access a list of all known networks.
Only 70 trillion miles away...
Huawei Offers Full Refund to Users Who Can’t Access Google or Facebook
Libra Pull Request – Critical Security Vuln Fixed
As far as the general principle goes, an iterator object is a great example of "algorithms as objects" as opposed to "algorithms as monolithic functions".
I think OP mean that if you use unique passwords, you would typically use a password manager and randomly generated passwords. You don't need to know so there is no point in seeing the password.

I don't think showing the password would actually encourage to re-use a password, but hiding the password may encourage to use a password manager and unique passwords.
I _very_ sincerely do not understand how it’s a flame war tangent or in any way not explicitly on-topic and valuable as a discussion in response to the article.
Like every party on every election at every level. Even though I share the outrage about it, we can't deny that lying is not uncommon.
https://kotaku.com/what-modern-warfare-2-boycotters-are-play...

The picture I'm talking about...
It's not really mandatory. You can use the paypal balance to buy stuff.

In case you wonder you will need to source your facebook wallet with a credit card or bank account too so it's really no different than Paypal.
Italian PAs now required to publish new software as open source
Another surprise from IO was that the new ChromeOS sandbox infrastructure is written in Rust.
> increased housing will decrease property values.

How? It means you get either a new nice property on a lot, or a lot more properties on a lot. (If density increases.)

Increased density increases demand which draws in services and attention, which increases property values.

Of course there's an inflection point, but the US/Cali/Valley/SF is a looooong waaaay awaaaaay from worrying about slums.

> short term

Yes, people don't like constructions, but that's it probably. After it's done, no one cares.
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Trinity: Exploiting the PS Vita via PSP Emulator Escape
Dates are actually always durations. But most time libraries design fail to aknowledge that. When you say something is 4 months away, it means you're probably happy with a 1 month resolution. 4 months from 31 July is November. 4 months from any day in July is always November.
Any "Pi'esc" boards available yet? I would love to run Buster on a RISC-V board.

Seeedstudio has an "Arduino'esc" RISC-V board for around USD 30 which looks very interesting. [1]

This board [2] also looks very interesting but is around USD 1000 and I can't find any comparisons on performance to a "regular" PC. I know these things are like comparing apples to oranges but I would like to know how for example a browser performs loading a webpage in comparison with another CPU.

There also appears to be an expansion board with PCI so you can add a GPU for USD 2000. [3]

[1] https://www.seeedstudio.com/Sipeed-Maixduino-Kit-for-RISC-V-...

[2] https://www.sifive.com/boards/hifive-unleashed

[3] https://www.crowdsupply.com/microsemi/hifive-unleashed-expan...
That seems like an uncharitable conclusion. I think most people worth hiring (in an interview where that question is asked) should be able to expound at some length on at least some part of the process. What part of the process they spend the most time talking about is an interesting window into their experience.
Facebook urged to pause Libra crypto-currency project
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What low level measures? Afaik if you have untrusted software running that can globally listen to your keyboard you're f'ed.
You need permission to access this blockchain so unless you are one of the facebook/libra association members you don't know what database is used. In practical terms it doesn't really matter because you can't access it anyway. It's an implementation detail.
One of my first gigs we did a LOT of work with a Sybase database. Backend code frequently made calls to the Sybase database for no reason other than to use the DATEADD and DATEDIFF functions because they were so reliable and easy to use (except for being in a database).
There is -- or should be -- an understanding that when such a phrase is used, it is not intended to be taken as a precise duration. Furthermore, for any of these expressions, while there is not necessarily just one moment in time that it is equivalent to, there is a vast range of times that it definitely does not denote.
Vietnam suffered more than 700 cyber-attacks in May
Firefox is supposed to have sandboxing, right? Does this sandboxing help against such attacks? As in: is there a second attack on the sandbox needed to get RCE?
That what I thought. A show on tv made me question my assumption. Airplane tires and products depend on natural rubber.
The Quantum Internet Is Emerging, One Experiment at a Time
Ask HN: What's your favourite domain name search tool?
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My impression for the social credit system is that people seem to like it (mind you, I'm not in China), because it is a powerful tool against bad behaviors and law breakers. I'm not sure if people are aware of or care the invasion of privacy in the implementation of the system. I'm not a big fan of this system in its current form, but someone will need to propose better alternative.

As for the reeducation camps, I haven't been following that closely, haven't had first hand account or direct experience. To form my opinion I will need to travel to Xinjiang to see for myself -- yep, I live up to my own suggestion.
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Sorry, personal communication.
libcrurl vs libcurl, I know naming things is hard but this just seems hostile against the Curl developer.
Your concern is well justified. The problem with a great majority of the myriad tech books written by "gurus" is that they pile up some code together and say, to do this, you this, and to do that you do that. Then they move on to the next disparate, incoherent, disconnected bit of code, as if to get it out AQAP and then leave you holding the book and asking, "so?" Or "so what?". To my mind, such parasitic behavior is mercenary and unethical. Moreover, some of these authors do not even teach the complete stuff, or make mistakes, or write about the 300 parts leaving our random 30 or 50 parts that would eliminate confusion or potential errors.

This empty feeling you have is not because you dont want to program--to program is an innate human need--but because you have "learned" (after Bandura) to have no "real desire to program". Also the same applies to why you see programming as a "lucrative way" to use your tech skills.

On the contrary, it is because of bad teachers and incomplete books that you see programming only as a means to a end, that end being financial for you. The moment you see programming as an end itself, not only the financial aspect will take care of itself, but you will genuinely become happy.

Someone said, and I forgot who, that computer science is a telescope to complexity. This sentence is very powerful. The more you extend your mind, the better the total outlook you will have on all aspects of your life. With that, you will realize that you need to other tools (like a telescope) to reach other domains (like CS) and this will make you wiser.

I learned German for no reason at all, and at the time I had a "what now" moment, but then I could watch German TV programs on ARD.De and learned so many interesting and new things unavailable to the non-German world. The same applies to Rust or anything else that is inherently useful.
More examples:
https://mobile.twitter.com/justsaysrisks
Two new papers explore the physics behind bubbles and foams
Implementing Recursion with the Y Combinator in Any Language
HN: Why is GitHub's web interface not responsive yet?
I want to be able to look at documentations and vs code at the same time with the screen split in two

why are they making it so difficult.
What could justify this lack of consideration for basic user experience?
I think it's notable that he's saying "I don't believe in this, but I'd belive it if you did X" where X has been considered and dismissed by most relevant experts (nuclear is simply too slow to build and and too expensive to fix the problem) exactly like these cycles have been discounted as an explanation of global warming.

So if someone keeps bringing these things up, then it's likely they're acting in bad faith or they've been duped by someone else doing likewise.

Enthusiastic nuclear support while downplaying other sensible solutions (carbon fees, renewables, insulation and efficiency) is basically the socially acceptable face of climate change denial at this point.
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WebTotem or how we want to make the Internet safer
Identity Crisis
Not necessarily. Live != civilization, so just because many planets may have developed live (or obtained it via panspermia) but only very few (or one) have developed multi-cellular live (which even on earth is quite recent) and even less a civilization comparable to us humans.
You have misunderstood libertarianism, just because it wants to see small to none state does not mean it would support UBI or other forms of socialism.
Yes we can indeed walk from the nordics to what we like to call "the continent". Which is odd when you think about it, because you'd think the continent would consist of what you can walk to.
The Post-Mac Interface (2015)
How about libcruel - Chrome reimplementing usable external libraries
I asked on twitter and they said nightly was not affected. https://mobile.twitter.com/FirefoxNightly/status/11411120523...
>If this legislation passes, any computer scientist, mathematician, programmer who is working with [automated ponzi schemes] can technically be held liable for [creating a ponzi scheme] when they run their program?

I don't see the issue. When a democratic society thinks something isn't good, they can outlaw it. There are all sorts of regulations on financial transactions and investments already.

I'm not trying to imply that cryptocurrencies are ponzi schemes, just that when something is illegal, doing it on your computer doesn't make it not illegal.
I bought one of these to teach a one-shot class on experimental design and statistics.

To say it served the purpose would be an understatement. We blew through the CLT and derivation of statistical power in 10 minutes, leaving the other 110 minutes for the students to present research papers. One of the best $35 I’ve ever spent (don’t have the Amazon link handy but there are some great versions there). Highly recommended if you teach.
I think your statement goes too far. In my experience, it's very difficult to do lightweight threading on the JVM anywhere near the performance of the BEAM, as well as region allocation in the style used by high-performance Erlang programs. I think a comparison is unfair. The BEAM definitely sucks for compute-oriented tasks, but it's an immense amount of work to make a JVM-based program compete in the areas where it's good.
How to find the next web development project ideas to work on
> Nobody knows how [atmospheric carbon] will affect the planet but it's not going to be good for us.

FTFY. Life on this planet is probably going to stick around. What happens to human civilization is the more interesting question.
"all forms of criticism"

Criticism is fine, trying to shut opponent's mouth is not, punishment is not.
> I once stupidly implemented a "date math" feature

I believe this to be one of those rites of passage for any programmer.
> Will you make us financially whole if we integrate you properly but you don't do your job?

No-one would guarantee that. That would require them to be 100% perfect (never have any bugs) and know about all possible attack types _before_ they happen. That's just not possible. New attack techniques are being invented all the time.

> will you guarantee to make my customers (and me) financially whole should you be the source of a compromise?

while possible, it'd also potentially make them instantly insolvent. Think about all the "damages" and "losses" the music industry claimed from single uploads of ripped CDs. Even if you could get a company to agree to that (not likely) the compromised people are motivated to inflate damages and the people who were the "source" of the compromise would find themselves with the options of litigating you to death for years (cheaper than a payout on inflated "damages") or going bankrupt.
I’m not seeing not sticking to 30k is really detrimental to how most people would likely consume a doc like this, which would probably be to sample various parts to find what they’re interested in and then dig in.
The second book introduce the "The Dark Forest Theory". By that alone it is worth reading. This take on the Fermi Paradox and how it is weaved into the plot is very well done. The second book is also interesting from a SF perspective, describing the treat against earth and the phases and solutions earth goes through. The parallel development of the protagonist Luo Ji is also interesting with a satisfactory and clever conclusion.