skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's mostly 9S and 2B playing swapping the being curious and questioning authority role. Most of the time 9S does that but here and there 2B does it as well and then 9S jumps in to give the benefit of the doubt and call for a reasonable approach -- all the while he's fairly unreasonable himself pretty often.

(SPOILERS) I also got quite irritated by 2B never succeeding in muttering even one word of affection. That android had to be on the verge of her permanent death so as to leave a romantic plus dramatic (and incoherent) voice note to 9S. It felt like a highschool drama. :( (Where saying even one word to your crush seems like the end of the world, I mean.)

Another very irritating moment for me was 9S waking up in the presence of the only two androids able to repair other androids, and instead of saying thank you he proceeds to interrupt their explanations with "where is 2B". Zero appreciation.

Maybe it's me showing what kind of people I dislike, don't know. But the general anime archetypes that are shown in this game don't appeal to me.

A2 isn't much better. "Stop talking", "don't tell me what to do", "you are useless", "stay out of my way".

Don't know, man. I like the message of the game a lot. The delivery could have been much better though, IMO.
After sleeping on it, I agree it is an existential threat.

Disruption usually happens from the low-end, but in this case, Oracle is being threatened from the top-end. That's terrifying. Oracle must address these security concerns.

It's just that I'm not sure the existential threat will succeed (because I'm not sure cloud scalability/pricing will change the reasons to buy Oracle - I find that an interesting question).

BTW When people quote a term, it's to alert you to usage of that term.
No, AdNauseam doesn't work this way, and there are no problems with captcha whatsoever. Other anonymizing solutions might have this effect, but not AN.
You have been warned ;) It is horrible - I slapped that together to scratch my itch and been planning to rewrite ever since. Perhaps now is the time.
https://github.com/Piskvor/webfetchface

In essence, the core of the whole thing is a single SQLite table, with rows of URL+status (and some metadata).

The web interface lists these, and provides a form to insert more rows. There is no ACL, my instance is only secured by htaccess. (I have specifically chosen to use a web server, as I'm sharing the URLs from multiple devices, but I want to download them over my home link and save to my NAS.)

The cron job reads the table, fetches rows that are status=queued, calls yt-dl to download them, and updates their status accordingly (with some fallbacks and error handling).

There's some extra stuff - like using ffmpeg to make thumbnails - but the basic operation is extremely simple.

(Browser extension and Android sharing option do the exact same thing as the web interface: post the current URL through the web insert form. Those are optional, but allow me to add URLs without extra steps.
The browser extension is installed unpacked, through developer options, and has the URL hard-coded. It works both in FF and Chrome.
The Android share option is through https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ch.rmy.android... , making a HTTP request directly - I'll add a README.)
I had to go through a Border Force checkpoint[0] with facial recognition and a fingerprint scanner on the way out of Tullamarine last year. There may or may not have been a way to opt out.

[0] they call it a "smartgate", presumably because it sounds less invasive than "biometric checkpoint", see https://www.abf.gov.au/entering-and-leaving-australia/smartg...
Any must reads for getting into kernel optimization? I'd like to be able to diagnose performance issues better and you seem to know the flow very well. Any advice on material to read or places to hang around would be appreciated!
Fwiw, Google Play does have regional stores. For example, https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hutchison3... is only available in the UK store.
For me it was easy. My strabismus seems to confuse the system
Somehow dozens of other EV charging networks don't need to talk to the car manufacturers.

Can that supercharger myth finally die?
I've felt it from time to time. The books helped me: in the subject, I recommend "Happy" by Derren Brown and "Man's Search for Meaning" by Viktor Frankl. Anything related to stoicism can work as well.

Also, not sure if this counts - recently I've been having a feeling that I no more like programming. The reason: I have a different mindset than the vast majority of programmers I met. It feels like either I'm the only one who knows how to do it well, or I'm the only one who doesn't know that. This feeling I've not yet overcome. I will probably try to change the job OR look for a different project / team.
Have you ever thought about creating web site?
I have a blog that gives you free information about it.
I know you can be a self taught web designer.
www.limotorsh.com
My dad was a D&T teacher (woodwork, electronics, that kind of stuff), but had a background in carpentry and construction.

The Corel suite of design products were his tools of choice, both in industry and when he became a teacher. To him, CorelDRAW was a leading product, and even now we've got a few old CD's of Corel products lying around the house. It was also amazing to me how someone with limited computer knowledge can use a software tool so well. He still double-clicks links on web pages, but he can create a full building plan with ease in CorelDRAW, so they must've been doing something right!

Despite being long retired, he'll occasionally work part-time when needed, and when he needed to cover for a few months I helped him get the latest Corel suite, and he really struggled to get on with it. I remember playing with it as a kid, and feeling the same way when I tried it out, so to get his work done I had to hunt down an old copy of CorelDRAW.

Corel seems to be a shadow of what it once was, and its software reflects that, so hopefully this acquisition results in better software for the future.
This assumes that trackers are accurate
Ask HN: Why do not candidates clarify questions during interviews?
I interview people a lot and I just do not understand how only a few people actually clarify questions before answering them. What usually happens then is that the interviewer has to put an extra effort into trying to make sure that she is not the confused one. The issue is that it also happens in a case of otherwise strong candidates.

How do you begin an interview to prevent that from happening?
Have you ever thought about creating web site?
I have a blog that gives you free information about it.
I know you can be a self taught web designer.
https://www.limotorsh.com
You don't need to jailbreak if you have an Apple signed App, which the Chinese Govt. can theoretically force Apple to provide.
I have a mutation which results in impaired BDNF and I do suffer from anxiety; so far buspirone seems to work, but I was considering SEMAX/SELANK for the BDNF increase, do you know anything about that?
A social script or fingerprint script is also a tracker. I'll grant that blocking cryptominers isn't expected from this title.
I also remember Diablo II throwing up assertions when I was playing with the parameters in the txt files. Fun times.
Spotify shuts down direct music uploading for independent artists
It reminds me of a story that came out a few years ago, of how an OCaml developer tracked a thorny issue all the way down to a processor bug [0]. It took them 5 months - and a lucky break.

[0] I found a bug in Intel Skylake processors (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14686277)
You are implying that there is a significant user base that does deep learning on a single node using MacOS. In my experience supporting data scientists for 10 years this is almost never the case.
These: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backscatter_X-ray
I already have to do that, if you're on Firefox, you get treated like a bot and have to solve 10+ puzzles on recaptcha, possibly even just ending on a "network error" screen regardless.
You can get knowledge of the internals and ideas of the algorithms from reverse engineering the released Windows binaries
Too tired to try it and port if necessary yet, but I'd like to ask: does it work on ZSH?
> What must be the default then?

Body scanners.
Has she checked her magnesium blood levels?

It might be that she's not actually deficient, but magnesium is a NMDA antagonist (afik) and the axiety relief might come from that.

I'm just saying that magnesium might be a temporary fix, but she might get magnesium "poisoned" (if that's a thing) and you should search for an actual drug that has the same mechanism of action as magnesium does, but something that doesn't build up in your system.
If I could sell a million copies, I would be gladly selling them for $1 each. However, since these are unique books for specialists, the potential audience is more limited, which unfortunately requires that they cost a bit more.
You are talking about objective versus subjective meaning I think. Objectively life is meaningless according to the Nihilism school of thought but subjectively life can have plenty of meaning it all depends on how you "frame" your experience of life.

Meaning to me for example is conquering my existential problems (anxiety, depression), pushing past boundaries and percieved limits in life, seeking love and obtaining goals. These examples provide substantial meaning for me, where I'm currently at in this point of time. So meaning to some degree are what you value, subjectively speaking.
Hah. I still believe religion will lead me to something but such an unknown question with subjective variable answers takes time and great inner self-belief. I'm not too religious so I just crawl around.
I’ve been both inside and outside that walled garden. I increasingly prefer life inside the wall.

But that’s just me. What concerns me is the tribalism of people. “OMG! You use THAT phone/computer/OS?!?! I would NEVER use that!” Then go on to explain why their buying choices are better than yours. Look at the replies here, they’re rife with it.
Unrelated, but why on earth is "iNdEx" used almost a million times? Is there a joke that I'm missing at play here?
I think you underestimate quality of outsource workers around a world. I am not talking specifically about India. For 10k/month you get a very good developer for a short(1 month) gig in Europe. For long-term(3-6 month) gig price is even lower.

From your side as a person who understands project you can propose technical leading for a project, e.g. 1 day/week for 1 month. But you need to decide how to handle conflicts. Outsourcers has no initiatives to follow your recommendations.
Just to clarify, is there a technical lead or senior developer in these interviews?
>Internal flight could be anonymous, but when is the last time anyone paid for flights by cash?

Let me tell you about flying before 1996, kid. It was great. No ID presented, you just needed a paper ticket. You could actually buy and sell paper tickets on usenet (and people did), and you could wave to your family when you get on the airplane as you didn't need a ticket to be in the boarding area. I thought it was a disaster when they started implementing the dystopia we have today, and remember premonitions of disaster listening to some douchbag I brought to the airport babbling about the government "keeping us safe."
What's the problem with these exactly?
Not to mention that the typical New Yorker article is looong. Way longer than the typical random internet comment. This puts some demands on the reader as well. :-)
That's crazy. All these EV charging networks we have in EU apparently worked with all automakers.
Is your end-to-end encryption resistant to the kind of tampering that your users should expect from a US company?
The more you write in these threads the more you sound like a fool.
https://youtu.be/2D9ExVc0G10
Start around the 9 minute mark.
Ten common myths about bike lanes – and why they're wrong
The RMS defense. Like when he’s asked about Linux and he says he doesn’t know what that is unless you specially say “GNU/Linux”
Spending $288 a year to use VS Code on Azure in order to save money on a laptop doesn't seem to make as much sense as spending $288 more on the laptop. It's not like a $2,500 Macbook Pro is the only other option.
Antirez at RedisConf19
The interviewer should say something like (in a friendly tone) "we're not trying to catch you out. Please do ask for clarification if I haven't been clear with any of the questions", and start the interview with a discussion style question to allow a bit of chat back and forth between the candidate and interviewer, to tip it more into a conversation than an interrogation.
> It's kind of sad from an innovation point of view but clearly the management at Corel saw value in the deal.

Of course they did, leveraged buyouts usually include huge payouts for those signing off on the deal.
how do you enforce that
One regrets these setups when traveling frequently -- bad/unstable internet in trains, terminals, hotels can make this very uncomfortable. Then one ends in watching the offline stored videos because working is not possible.

For a stationary setup, however, with a stable and fast internet connection, this might be perfect. But one might want to use a thin client in such a situation anyway.
You chuckleheads “released” pretty much everything in the ASSERT statements of checked builds until Windows Vista.
> But UIKit doesn't even ship with a good-looking button class

There are so few times when one should want to use a plain button in iOS anyway. Most times when a user needs to make a choice or start a task, they pick it from a UITableView, UIAlertController presented as an action sheet, or press a UINavigationItem.

> often rewrite UI elements because the builtins are not very flexible (hello UITabBar)

What's specifically missing here? You have items, each has an icon and text, they can also have badges. Tapping on items changes the currently shown content view. What's a tab bar supposed to do besides that?

A lot of the times I see these sorts of basic UI paradigms recreated, or the typical iOS HIG ignored by recreating an Android-style UI, the app can sometimes break when iOS has a major (or even minor) update or ignore accessibility guidelines. They're usually not significantly different in function, usually just aesthetics, and not usually sufficiently so to justify the cost.
Very true.

This is one of the things i dislike most about templates in C++. Even today reading template code with its nested syntax takes me time to unpack and understand. Symbols do affect comprehension and i would be quite interested in knowing whether somebody has done a study w.r.t. the various programming languages.
Sorry I have to disagree. I use DuckDuckGo for year by now and 60% of the time I add !g to my queries. It is slowly improving over time but not quite yet there.
Will you not see it on the launch screen?

I mean, if you wanted a hidden, non-standard launchd type app, you'd have to modify the filesystem, install it, they'd need to create special tooling to do so, and modify the updaters to preserve it across an iOS update, etc. All without anyone at Apple speaking out.

Apple refused to create an unlock tool for the US government that was a one-off, to create spyware for China seems like they last thing they'd do. Could they? I guess. Once detected - and it definitely would be (as this was), or leaked by employees - Apple would get bowled over by buyers and the stock market. It's just not in their interests. Their current business model is selling privacy.
500? Those are rookie numbers.
So what is tax if it is not theft? Genuine question to see what is your definition of theft and how taxes do not fit such definition. If you have no say in paying for something, how is it not theft?
Yes, definitely. And I'd assume that questioning "the meaning of it all" is something most people will do at some point. In particular, those who tend to think critically and independently about other questions, which I'm also assuming is a common trait of HN readers.

To me, the process was the following:

1. Realizing that society has created many layers of "fabricated" meaning (thinking of things like a successful career, owning a big house, an expensive car, being the best player in the soccer team, etc). I think those will quickly feel superfluous and the fact they are fabricated becomes apparent. They are in fact meaningless.

2. Understand that behind all that fantasy, we're still rather simple (social) animals. And coming to terms with that, helped me find meaning in basic things I'm hard-wired to enjoy: like nurturing the relationships with the ones I love, challenging myself in some sort of dimension (eg. sports, learning), being a positive influence for the younger generation, etc.

All in all, I think that questions makes you cut-through the bullshit society has fabricated over the years and go back to the core of what exactly makes you feel well. What makes you feel well, even if it's hard, is what you're supposed to do IMO.
Apple is just gonna remotely ship it to you. You can't do business in China without bending over to government. If they want malware there then there will be one.
A few years ago I asked my dad about this same phenomenon:

> It was also amazing to me how someone with limited computer knowledge can use a software tool so well. He still double-clicks links on web pages, but he can create a full building plan with ease in CorelDRAW, so they must've been doing something right!

I was interested in what exactly made AutoCAD (in my dad's case) so easy to use, because if you've ever worked with it, man, it's anything but. I got to use it during my undergrad classes and the only thing I liked about it was AutoLISP :-). It's polished in every way but it's clearly a program that first hit the market in the 1980s.

Turns out my father didn't think it was easy to use at all, either, he thought it was awful. But he really needed it, so he really put in the effort to learn it. It wasn't some super-human feat, it took him about a week of practice on increasingly complicated drawings. He was already great at technical drawing so he just had to figure out how to do it with that weird program.

It's been a useful lesson ever since: given the right motivation, people will put up with any UI. Rationalizing the design choices that went into it is not always the best avenue.
Another data point: I have anxiety and weed/hash reduce my anxiety, it helps a lot with falling asleep while I'm awake but I'm known to scream while sleeping under the influence; another time I was sound asleep near a friend who was snoring and his snoring woke me up and I was convinced he was in fact drowning in his own vomit and I slapped and shook him and tried to get him on his side, after I realized he was fine, I happily went back to sleep as if nothing happened.

I also had visual hallucinations, visual/auditory synesthesia once from a high dosage of hash, so I might be an outlier.
On which phone if you don’t mind me asking. My experience has been on several phones that doing this is rather buggy and just a big headache.
This reminds me of that old emacs email extension that inserts a bunch of random keywords into every email.
No, I criticized the argument that it is for the common good, since it can be used easily by any regime to crush individuals at their will. You can resort to all sorts of ugly behavior for the pretense of common good.
Weak or not, it still is a reason as visual appearances affects readability.
Get or build a dactyl keyboard. It's basically the kinesis but even more ergonomic. The fact that it's not on this list is pretty disappointing.
> the Linux EULA

What are you talking about? This isn't a thing that exists as far as I'm aware.
Then we need a story like this article confirming that do this too. So far the evidence points to “no”, but that isn’t enough. The transparency report from Apple needs to report this as well.
Was hoping the post would be a single sentence like "Do cool shit and tell us about it."
> It seems to me that the only way to resist is to take a very hard rejection of facial recognition entirely in any situation.

Realistically the only way to resist is to develop an informed, engaged populace. There's a huge gulf between "facial recognition for crossing international borders" and "facial recognition for getting on the subway" - the former is obviously beneficial and the latter is obviously a massive overreach.

The idea that one will inevitably follow the other is only really plausible because of the public's apathy, and it leads to situations where we throw the baby out with the bathwater.
The op is implying that by using AN you might trigger some "bot warnings" and Google will start showing captcha more often. Considering that AN is quite similar to a bot, why wouldn't this be the case?
I don't think that is measured correctly: A CPU at 5GHz would take 0.2ns per cycle, how is it supposed to generate 1 billion (!) numbers in only 100x the time? Even if you had 64c/128t threadrippers in a dualsocket and this workload perfectly distributed, you'd only get within 100'000x the time of a single cycle. There's still a factor of 10'000 left.

You might want to try this one:

np.random.normal(size=1000000000)

For size=1000 I get on my machine about 36 ns per number (total 36 µsecs). You probably measured for size=1 but a normal of 1 billion, not 1 billion numbers at a normal of 1.
GoAndCall - https://goandcall.me

Stage: 70% done, trying to find the market

The widget to let your website visitors call you or send a callback request from your website.

Team: just me

Need: Idea feedback, advices on how to sell it, cofounders.
It already exists, Its called ad nauseam. Its an adblocker that opens every ad in the background. Google has banned it from the chrome store so that says something.
Critical flaws when things get on-line
Sure. For my whole life before I realized neither life, nor death, nor the universe nor anything has any meaning and that's ok. There is nothing you must achieve in your life, and nothing you have no choice but to feel a particular way about. Just set yourself free of any conditioning, do whatever you would like (together with probable results of such an action) and feel happy (most of the people believe feelings are exclusively controlled by the circumstances but this is false, with some training you can choose them the same way you choose which direction you will move your arm).
On iOS this could also be done because they are forced to release the physical device and password/PIN.

At that point they could jailbraik or install MDM.

Or just dump all your browsing history, apps and email.
So... Tor but with you sending your cookies to everyone else?
They show you naked and invade your privacy
This never worked for me.
If you enable the resist fingerprinting setting on Firefox every website will slam you with captchas and random errors.
My old kindle mounts as a disk when connecting it to my pc using usb, so I drag pdfs into the directory all the other books are in
DJI Robomaster Prototype and the Reaction from the Open-Source Community
Physical risk, economic risk of farming. Extremely unfair power dynamic between farmers and big agribusiness that sell to them. Just read the first paragraph of the Wikipedia page on this chemical.