skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did I ever tell you the story of how I had to break into the office of the Team Chief of the Logistics Readiness Center inside of the National Military Command Center in the Pentagon?

He had forgotten his briefing slides when he was about to go give an update on all logistics operations for the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of staff, and he heard the door click behind him.

He had five minutes. He got there in time, with his briefing slides. I then told the Executive Officer of the Day what the combination was, and informed them that they probably needed to change that combo since I now knew what it was.

Ironically, I ended up going through all possible combinations without success. That's when I was told that I was turning the doorknob the wrong way, and I had to start over. It didn't take too long from there.
The absolute dumbest thing about not spending on infrastructure is that it has colossal potential to invigorate any local economy. Huge amounts of labor and materials needed. And usually you're not shipping massive amounts of aggregate across country, it's from nearby quarries. And you're definitely not watching the money disappear overseas.
I mean.. if I were him I'd be doing my best to not let the CIA and NSA know where my Moscow apartment was located...
Certainly we don't want to make perfect the enemy of the good: given a fixed budget we're probably better off buying 2 diesel buses rather than a single electric bus.

But don't forget particulate emissions: I believe that's the primary motivation for electric bus conversion. Buses are a significant portion of particulates in many cities, and particulates kill people.
On the one hand yes, but I think Computer science (as a superset) is the better name due to the added focus on learning how computers "actually" work.

The focus should be on computing, but understanding the machine is very important
To any Mozilla/Firefox developer reading this. I try to convert people to Firefox. The number one reason people switch, by far, is because mobile has add on support. So I say to push this front and center in marketing (I know this is a preview). People are reluctant to switch their desktop browser because chrome pretty much has the same features. But it they switch their mobile browsers they also switch their desktops to take advantage of the full feature suite.

And to anyone trying to convert your friends "mobile supports ublock" is usually all I have to say.

Edit:unblock == uBlock Origin (sorry, on my phone)
What Google Maps has done to me, personally, over the years:

1) Sent me back across the San Mateo bridge unnecessarily while driving to a date.

2) Sent me to a different building on the opposite side of the highway, 1.4 miles away, while driving to a job interview.

3) Sent me to a different building on a different block while walking to a job interview.
I use Firefox with Google container and uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger and also get a score of 0.7

How can I get better privacy settings?
In practice it is a major pain to keep up to date, and bots slip through all the time, at least on the subreddit I help moderate. It's a lot of manual volunteer work.
I'm learning it now. The async / await stuff is great to have in the core, but isn't something that was otherwise holding me up from learning it.

I believe that after I fully integrate the Zen of Rust, that I will be writing multi-threaded programs with fewer bugs than I would in my alternative languages (C, C++, Go, Python, Lua).

The annoying things in Go that have accumulated in my mind over the last few years are all dealt with in a superior fashion in Rust today.

I'll still be using Go for some stuff at work, but I won't be starting personal projects in it, like I might have in the past.
The "six degrees of separation" arises because the graph has a particular shape that gives it that property, such as the mostly-power-lawish shape that human relationships have. It is not a general characteristic of graphs. While we know this model is too stupid-simple to be the whole story, if you imagine the universe as a naive 3d grid graph with nodes at evenly-space intervals where everything takes place, there is no "six degrees of separation" effect; distances between one node and another would be the Manhattan distance, with no N-node shortcut to another point available on average. (Already we see why this graph can't be our universe; our universe does not use the Manhattan distance metric for distance.)
Is this sarcasm? I don't see how this package is of use to anyone.
Anecdotally, and I'm sure other people can share similar experiences: I've also had a couple of instances of people jay walking, popping out from behind a parked car right into the road - staring at their cell phone and not at the street around them - and have had to slam on my brakes to keep from hitting the person. I'm glad to have been paying attention but things could have easily gone badly.
The industry would do well to heed this meme:

If you are a pirate this is what you get:

http://i.imgur.com/GxzeV.jpg

To compete against piracy, they also have to be easier than piracy. Netflix won against piracy because Netflix was easier and lower friction than hunting down pirate copies (because of the "one-stop-shop" aspect of Netflix).

Attempting to bring back a multitude of individual walled gardens, each wanting a separate entrance fee, will, as this article correctly notes, simply make piracy again the easier, lower friction, alternative, and the industry will kill the golden goose even before it is fully hatched.
This is what I am using! Couldn't cope with it. As a wm substitute of sorts I use tmux. VIM really helps out a lot as well.
The big "if" here is whether or not Google is actually factoring the user's activity into the score. For all we know, there could be a 80/20 split between "Google account activity" and "human-like behavior on website" when Google outputs a trust score.
Someone a little better with aerodynamic drag computations could do a quick back-of-the-napkin to figure out the maximum range of something fired at sea-level going Mach 3,4,5,6,etc. The biggest issue I see is just vaporizing the projectile on launch, so there would be an upper bound on muzzle velocity based on projectile material properties.
Canicule: À 45 °C attendus vendredi dans quatre du Sud, en alerte maximale
I've been using Firefox Preview for a while and I like it, especially the bottom navigation bar, but one thing that I hope survives from the old app is the tab queue, which sends links opened from other apps to Firefox in the background without stealing focus from the original app. To me it's a game changer on the level of tabbed browsing and I don't know why all mobile browsers don't have it.
So is entropy really about energy, or information? Or is there any difference.
I have strong feelings about spoofing - that it should not, in almost every case, be illegal. While it is true that the spoofer may eventually cancel their orders the fact remains: their orders were dealable by any other party for a set period of time. You want to teach a spoofer a lesson? Deal on their price for size.

That anyone would base a trading or investment decision on the size of the bid or offer at any moment of time is frankly, crazy. Algos are constantly changing(edit) price and never dealing. Brokers allow orders to be only partially display, balances kept in 'reserve'.

There are many, many ways people attempt to "manipulate" by not showing their hand just as their are ways that show a hand (or many hands).
Haha yup, on the way back from a beach in Kefalonia, Maps took my family & our hire car onto a track that a goat would have thought twice about - gradually going from tarmac to gravel to dirt on the side of a very steep hill.

The car ended up bouncing hard into several craters - if we hadn't been going verrrry slowly we could have ended up sliding down it.

I wondered when we arrived why the hire was 300EUR for a week, and the car was still a terrible old piece of junk ... so when I handed it back and pointed out the dent in the bottom panel the hire guys grinned and said "have a great flight home!"

Thanks for the holiday memories, Maps!
How-to-Survive-Doomsday
The railgun is a precise weapon that strikes specific targets and so the users of it can exercise reasonable judgement on it's use. It's a requirement of various treaties on warfare, such as the Geneva Convention, that war fighters be accountable for their actions and not engage targets under specific circumstances, such as if they are civilians or surrendering.

Gas is an extremely unreliable and indiscriminate weapon that is highly likely to affect individuals beyond any reasonably intended target, including civilians. It's not possible to use it and still meet obligations under treaty, such as not engaging civilians and surrendering troops. Therefore it's use is not allowed and any use of it is accountable as a war crime.
But if it is 'rap music' violence, madness, drug use, rape, etc. are fine, because if you say otherwise you are racist. Maybe it is racist to not hold all human beings to the same standard of decency?
I've seen far more on the left calling for bullying, inciting violence, and inciting hate than the right.
Amazing Creatures, Mobile MMORPG (Public Alpha)
Pretty disappointing article since it does not answer the question at all.
It’s not always like that. For non-digital businesses account registration flow can be significantly different and not accessible for random visitors. E.g. healthcare provider may provide online access to patient file only after the first appointment.
> It’s nonetheless a shame that it’s so universally misunderstood how ad-supported megacorps make their money that even highly sophisticated users of the web still talk about the value of personal data (source: I ran Facebook’s ads backend for years).

That may be the case for some people, but that is not my complaint, nor that of many folks I know.

I simply don't care how FB, Google and other surveillance outfits make money. I don't care about marketers' careers or their CTRs. I don't even care about putting a dollar value on my LTV to them.

I care about denying them visibility into my datastream. It is zero-sum. They have no right to it, and I have every right to try to limit their visibility.

Why? None of your business. Seriously - nobody is owed an explanation for not wanting robots watching.

But I will answer anyway. It is because of future risks. These professional panty sniffers already have the raw material for many thousands of lawsuits, divorces and less legal outcomes in their databases. Who knows what particular bits of information will leak in 10 years, or when FB goes bankrupt? I have no desire to be part of what I suspect will become a massive clusterfuck within our lifetimes.

If you're correct that this data has so little value, then it is more likely it will leak. FB and Google are the equivalent of Superfund sites waiting to happen, and storing that data should be considered criminal.
In Texas the castle doctrine is very much alive. As was stated most folks are very nice but it is within their right to stop that one trespassing driver from ever driving again.

Not sure they care about Googles influence at all.
It's incongruous that Dijkstra, in a paragraph decrying anthropomorphism, anthropomorphizes anthropomorphism (via saying that it seduced Hopper).
Why do you blame rpm as a packaging format, instead of the maintainers of those rpm packages?
Do you need to restart FF with that? After setting it to true and using a private window, FF still registers a score of 0.9.
Unlikely. And they're wrong: I had a locker in the rear end of my Toyota for years and it was my daily driver all that time. Barely noticed it.
Agreed on both points. The oversimplification was intentional, PoS is mostly theoretical right now.

Regardless, Libra still qualifies as a cryptocurrency, even if it's not trustless.
Rithmomachy (arithmetic game from medieval Europe)
I was in Europe recently. Didn't observe too many with headphones in while crossing streets or on the metro.

Another uniquely American thing I've witnessed is people not even bothering to look when crossing the street because of whatever video they're watching on their phone.
I think "real" 2fa isn't going to care about what ReCaptcha v3's trust score is, the case for this is "this user has a recaptcha score of 0.2, they don't have any cookies for this site, and [other system] also thinks they are suspicious. Let's require extra email verification and/or ask to answer a security question".
I assume that the same technology could be applied for launch systems, with one major change: maximum acceleration. An electric railgun would need to be very long in order to reach high velocity without undergoing huge accelerations as in the Navy railgun. Ramping up a vehicle with payload and fuel in it without destroying it is the name of the game.
The reason there were such problems in this area until recently was congressional earmarks.

When people lobbied for their representatives to support their pet cause, traditionally the best way they had to do this was to issue an earmark as part of some bill. Earmarks are not heavily fought by other representative because they do not give federal money to a state, rather they are the federal government forcing a state to spend some of their own money on something they wouldn't otherwise have done. The problem with this is that unless the local government decides to overbudget for this and run a surplus every year, this money comes from somewhere. Typically something boring that people don't care about, like infrastructure maintenance. That is, people don't care about it until it starts to actually fail...

Then congressional earmarks got banned. Only, things are actually worse now, because it turns out the political horse trading around earmarks was the only reason representatives have to compromise across party lines, instead of always holding a hard line on the issues their supporters want. This is the direct cause of the current political gridlock.
The real reason to look at battery-electric buses is pure dollars and sense. Battery-electric buses can have lower lifecycle O&M costs. The current generation might not have lower O&M costs, but there is definitely a path to lower O&M costs with electric versus bus with internal combustion engines.
Plus doesn't infrastructure spending normally result in higher returns than it costs?

> A recent Business Roundtable study found that $737 billion in public investment over 10 years would set us on the path toward reviving our national infrastructure. While those numbers seem daunting, the report also showed that every additional dollar invested in infrastructure delivers roughly $3.70 in additional economic growth over a period of 20 years.

https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/politics/433538-infr...
The big flash announcement is to get early adopters for testing. There's no reason to delay testing until the MVP is ready, as long as testers remain aware that Firefox Preview is a preview that shouldn't be expected to already have all features implemented.
While I disagree with the concept of pushing one's beliefs on onto other team members, I think it's good that you guys are upfront about your philosophy. This way people can use this information to decide if they want to be involved with your organization or not. I recently joined a seemingly normal team only to discover a culture packed with unwritten rules and arbitrary taboo, a situation I would have completely avoided if only I had known the reality of the situation.
You're probably right but, as a member of that demographic:

- I use Firefox, and have done continuously for a long time. I don't intend to switch to anything else, despite being very unhappy with the experience in many ways, as I consider it to be the "least worst"

- I genuinely believe there are very easily achievable low-hanging fruit that Mozilla could implement that would at least please a large swathe of their target demographic. Namely, not talking about privacy and then slapping Google tracking into everything they do. I understand that there's a revenue stream there, and a balance to be met between economic survival and ideal conditions, but this particilar issue is a deal tipped too far towards defying the point of the exercise.

Perhaps I'm in a bubble and this is just my "single issue", but shouting about privacy and sending all that data about their users to Google seems a fairly large deal to me.
Yes, the average wait time, full stop.

Now that I'm rereading, I'm not even sure what 'average wait time for one task' was supposed to mean. Averages are aggregate data about multiple samples.
Have you tried other browsers? I must say that the effect has gotten smaller since I got my second Android phone about a year ago (yes, the first lasted 2013-2018), I think because the webview component itself just got more bulky, but it's still very noticeable how slow Fennec is (Firefox from F-Droid) compared to a bare webview browser.
Its somewhat telling that there are enough instances of such events (crypto shenanigans, securities fraud complexities, regulatory corner cases, insider trading and disputes about advanced financial instruments) for those to be repeatedly written about in an entertaining fashion.
> How many 10k node botnets are there?

About 10 years ago it was somewhere around 10 million bot computers. Obviously the distribution isn't uniform there, but that gives you an idea of the order of magnitude.

Also that was 10 years ago, before smart fridges and tvs. So, possibly more now?

I don't think "just block all the bots" is a feasible solution here.
"Both of these companies start with an altruistic message, but there is an additional layer of branding that is “be part of the sexy brand social club.”"
popping out behind a huge SUV or truck nearly as tall as an adult...
Particulates are one reason most city buses in the United States now run on natural gas. That's a real improvement over diesel in terms of particulates.
Computers cannot program themselves, so makes sense to optimize computer languages for those who actually do the programming.
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Are you implying that even if you don't think killing people that certain ways of killing people is definitely worse than others?
Did you read the article?

> To make this risk-score system work accurately, website administrators are supposed to embed reCaptcha v3 code on all of the pages of their website, not just on forms or log-in pages.
How can you tell that the reasoning is bad if you can't parse the sentence?

Also had this not been written with two thumbs, maybe the result would've been better. Embarasing as it may seem, it just goes to show the unsuitability of tablets for productive use!

Normally I have spellchecker for times like these but unfortunately she's sick :( Didn't expect to hit HN frontpage before she had time to look at it.
Build an Instagram Clone with Ionic: Part 2 – Connecting to GraphQL
He did consider this:

>I have three non-mutually exclusive theories for this:

> 1. The people who come to a psychiatrist are disproportionately the unhappiest and most disturbed. This is obviously true to some degree. But I got the same sort of people when I worked in general medicine and primary care. Even the people who come to a primary care doctor are going to be a little biased towards the sorts of conditions that produce or result from sickness, but people were still much worse off than I thought.

Later on he runs a sample of twenty people to get an idea of the type of issues others around us might be facing using the statistics he provides earlier on.
The First Automated Dish Room for Commercial Kitchens Is Here
I've had the same experience. I never cross in a crosswalk with a turning car without the driver first acknowledging me. People turning right on red without stopping has almost struck me before as well. You have to be super vigilant in the US when walking or you're going to get killed.
cruel :)
well if you're looking for certain motifs or k-mers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-mer), it's mostly scanning through pre-processed FASTA files.

My last K-mer counter I wrote was CPU/Memory bound (big enough size strings means big hash tables to store this stuff in, or using something like a bloom filter (Jellyfish's approach), not IO bound.

Anyway, for anyone who wants to write something fun, fasta parsers / k-mer counters are a good weekend project.

here was my work in the area (shameless plug, though i'm not in the field anymore)

https://github.com/mutantturkey/dna-utils.

just tested again against a 400mbish genome fasta file from ncbi and it's still clearly an cpu/memory issue with huge hash tables. See below (4^x is the potential combinations of K-mers). K=9 is done with a 4^9 array (sane in memory), 4^12 is a sparse array (stored as a a std::unordered_map, because it's too large to allocate that much space in memory). One is obviously way slower

calvin@bison:~/src/dna-utils$ time ./kmer_total_count -k 9 -i 3816_ref_Abrus_2018_chrUn.fa.2 >/dev/null

real 0m4.235s

user 0m4.116s

sys 0m0.108s

calvin@bison:~/src/dna-utils$ time ./kmer_total_count -k 12 -i 3816_ref_Abrus_2018_chrUn.fa.2 >/dev/null

real 0m25.524s

user 0m25.292s

sys 0m0.152s

calvin@bison:~/src/dna-utils
Roberts, the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, just ruled that the US is not a representational democracy

> In his opinion for the court, Chief Justice John Roberts explained that partisan-gerrymandering claims pose particularly difficult problems for courts because it is well settled that legislatures can consider politics when drawing district maps. The question that courts would have to decide is when the consideration of politics has gone too far and violates the Constitution.

> But there’s no requirement, Roberts wrote, that a party’s representation in a congressional delegation or state legislature reflect its share of the statewide vote – a concept known as proportional representation.