skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Chainlink is a scam. Other than that, there's a ton of hype and BS in the cryptocurrency world, lots of Ponzi schemes and fraud.

That's where a lot of negative opinion comes from.
I say this with respect and for your benefit: this is the most cringe inducing product description I’ve ever read.
A startup can easily experience its own financial downturns and be forced to downsize, and make questionable personnel cuts during those times.
I just got back from a 2000+ mile road trip. I'm so thankful highway conditions have improved over the past 100 years.
I remain intrigued by Stellar Lumens and the protocol behind it. Ripple gets the attention but my perception is that Stellar's tech is a superior fork.
that doesnt appear to serve the same function.

when I think of a local facebook group for a neighborhood its a bunch of people helping each other or complaining. stuff like "we're those gunshots, road xxx is closed so is taco bell, my cat is missing, hey this event is happening this weekend, im having trouble making rent this month." it works, because everyone is on it. network effect + a lack of baked in structure.
You need to ask yourself if you need a website or a web app.
Sometimes your project can be split into both. The homepage, login, billing, privacy policy, and other static pages can be a traditional server-side rendered website. More complex sections, like a file browser or text messenger, can be apps.
I had the same negative reaction to the title that other commenters had, and of course I was thinking about software. But then I opened the article and saw a picture of a canvas and my mind shifted to music.

I know lots of people who love to write music or want to write music but can never get anything done because of a feeling that it has to be perfect. I have always embraced an aesthetic of rough imperfection in my music and (I suppose) as a result I have record over 30 albums and EPs. Sure, lots of that music is, well, cringe-worthy, but there are some gems in there that wouldn't exist if I let perfectionism get in the way of _production_.
There's no need for a blockchain if you only allow ten validators. You simply need a database.

Ripple is nothing more than a bank coin. It's not a cryptocurrency.
They were borderline... in that Drachma denominated bonds generally carried slightly higher interest rates, but in practice a good portion of national debt was in Drachma. Salaries were certainly Drachma denominated. It may not have been USD, but it was a lot stronger than many/most African currencies.

Besides all the complex economic reasons, Africa just has a lot of very small countries/economies. That makes it hard for them to operate in local currencies and most debt (also salaries, real estate) effectively or explicitly get denominated in foreign currencies anyway. A European equivalent might be Montenegro of Kosovo, but there are 20-30 African countries in that position. Some are reasonably wealthy/developed, but small. Some are very low GDP per capita. Some are both.
The big difference versus Go, is that Limbo is like Java, in the sense that it favours dynamic linking.

Go nowadays supports dynamic linking, but it isn't the default, the plugin package is quite basic and only supported on Linux and OS X..
But watch out for those electricity bills.
Maybe some Boring Billionaire can come up with a few new ideas and change our perspective.
But again, there's nothing that makes this line objectively better than any other. It makes sense to me, even though it's kind of vague — but the point is that it's still subjective.
FTC finds Android Apps harvesting data with permissions off [pdf]
Zen2 for mobile is expected to come out next year. According to wikipedia the Zen+ mobile APUs came out in January, top of the line is Ryzen 7 3750H with 4 cores / 8 threads and 35W TDP.

My guess would be Zen2 mobile will make a big difference because of the thermal improvements -- but I don't think AMD has released any guidance on what to expect, although I see some rumors about a late November or CES 2020 reveal of Zen2 APUs, possibly with updated (Navi) GPU.
This isn't a recent issue. It may be less of an issue than it was a decade or so ago.

For example, I recall reading that well over half (maybe 70%-90%) of the medical literature on Neurontin (gabapentin) were ghostwritten advertorial spam funded by Novartis.
I disagree. Both "offensive" and "harmful" are up to debate based on arbitrary views / moral codes.
Technically not true. You can generate an ephemeral RSA public key.
from the pdf

• We designed a pipeline for automatically discovering vulnerabilities in the Android permissions system through
a combination of dynamic and static analysis, in effect
creating a scalable honeypot environment.

• We tested our pipeline on more than 88,000 apps and
discovered a number of vulnerabilities, which we responsibly disclosed. These apps were downloaded from the
U.S. Google Play Store and include popular apps from
all categories. We further describe the vulnerabilities in
detail, and measure the degree to which they are in active use, and thus pose a threat to users. We discovered
covert and side channels used in the wild that compromise both users’ location data and persistent identifers.

• We discovered companies getting the MAC addresses of
the connected WiFi base stations from the ARP cache.
This can be used as a surrogate for location data. We
found 5 apps exploiting this vulnerability and 5 with the
pertinent code to do so.

• We discovered Unity obtaining the device MAC address
using ioctl system calls. The MAC address can be
used to uniquely identify the device. We found 42 apps
exploiting this vulnerability and 12,408 apps with the
pertinent code to do so.

• We also discovered that third-party libraries provided
by two Chinese companies—Baidu and Salmonads—
independently make use of the SD card as a covert channel, so that when an app can read the phone’s IMEI, it
stores it for other apps that cannot. We found 159 apps
with the potential to exploit this covert channel and empirically found 13 apps doing so.

• We found one app that used picture metadata as a side
channel to access precise location information despite
not holding location permissions.
So what language is the UI coded in? What external dependencies are you using?

It looks nice and straight forward, so I give you your props for that.
Aren't they limited to 25km/h in most places (at least in Europe)? That's slower than many bikers can do.
> social work is low paid and frustrating.

You state this as if it's some sort of unalterable truth.

We could produce a situation in which, right, you do social care, you get a home with a decent garden back and front. The sort of thing that happened en masse in the 60s.

We just don't. Not for lack of money, for lack of will, political, social, whatever it is.

It's exactly the same sort of problem that has highly skilled engineers wanking about making ads whilst they could be doing important R&D.

Long hours aren't inherent, they come about because of artificially produced shortages.
What is extreme about them?

Many of them are illegal.

An example of an extreme would be "child porn" or "your credit card number" or "the password to your email".

Also illegal.

None of those examples are illegal

Most of those examples would constitute evidence of illegal activity.

If it's illegal does that mean it's not censorship to remove it?

If it's illegal, then it's no longer protected by the principle of Free Speech. The issue isn't censorship. It's the principle of Free Speech.

Based on that logic you should never be able to delete a comment from your personal blog because you're censoring the critics.

No. Ethically, that would be wrong. So too, would not taking down a dox or an illegally obtained naked photo. Neither taking down a dox or an illegally obtained naked photo would be examples of the suppression of Free Speech.

Basically, you're engaging in the dishonest conceit of equating Free Speech and censorship. They are not the same thing. At issue is the subset of censorship which abrogates Free Speech.
Sort of. Banks want to loan out money. But when consumer spending drops, they loan out less. In a recession there is more risk, so it’s harder to find profitable loans to make. The money does get stuck.
I recently deleted Reddit from my life. That was huge. I can turn off Twitter and would never know it was gone. But FB won't be that easy.

It's important to me for a number of reasons:

- Communities use it to communicate with their groups. I'm in business owner groups, collectives, local theater group, and some gaming/social groups that aren't as active.

- For many of these groups, FB is the ONLY way I'll get info about anything that is going on with them. And honestly, I don't mind. It works well.

- Businesses use it to send deals to their customers, notify them of events, post pictures, etc.

- I manage business Facebook pages as part of my business, so I can't get rid of my personal account.

- I also use the Marketplace a lot to sell off stuff from my house and it works brilliantly.

HOWEVER - I have technically stopped "using" Facebook.

For the last 3 years now, I've made my profile totally private. I haven't posted photos or shared stupid things. I un-followed (but stayed friends with) EVERYONE except my wife and parents and a close friend.

My news feed is empty except for posts from the groups I'm a part of and stuff from close family members.

And there's an added benefit - when I DO post something now, on a rare occasion, people actually take notice.

If everyone would only post when it's really important, the system would be useful and interesting. Otherwise, it's full of garbage.

Facebook is not all bad, but certain people ruin it with their constant garbage posting, and that's too bad.
You are forgetting Apple, who are bound to come up with an ARM part that meets or exceeds Intel's performance characteristics with much less power draw Real Soon Now.
The internet bucket is too big, you got free for all http or secure (ish) https providing authentication, authorization, accounting, and encrypted data transfer.

I'd argue that HN doesn't require encrypted data transfer at all, and encrypted data transfer is illegal on ham radio freqs anyway. The other three AAA words are what HN requires as a multi user BBS like service, and are legal under ham radio rules, or at most only need to be bent slightly into being legal.

I was motivated enough to look up the Apache webserver docs to force a https ciper; apparently "SSLCipherSuite" lets you force a specific openSSL cipher name; then I checked openSSL docs and for better or worse "cleartext" is not an allowable cipher for openSSL. Via some code changes in browser and server you could technically implement something like HTTPS that would work legally over ham radio.

Although this is a slight simplification, conceptually there's nothing wrong with the idea of accessing HN while using a cipher of cleartext. I really want to know that I'm not getting MITM'd when I read and post, and I want that CA proof that I'm talking to the genuine CA approved HN server. I really don't care if the general public can read the contents of this post so cleartext would be fine. Logging in by typing my password would be an obvious corner case to handle.
Only if they are willing to accept lower wages which is exactly what we are trying to avoid.
I obviously can't speak for all of HN, but I'm annoyed by the number of projects that include blockchain technology for no good reason.
FBI, ICE plunder DMV driver database ‘gold mine’ for facial recognition scans
> are there any blockchains that HN (generally speaking) has a positive opinion of?

Other than Bitcoin, three other coins that are sometimes talked about here are Ethereum, Monero, Zcash.

Ethereum was the first ICO. Many other tokens operate on its blockchain.

Monero is an open source project with lots of development and progress (third behind Bitcoin and Ethereum). Its transactions are private.

Zcash is open source but mainly developed by a for-profit company and uses interesting mathematics. Its transactions are public, with the option of being private.

Disclaimer: I'm only "invested" in one of the three coins I mentioned.
Why do you need server-side rendering for static pages? They are static pages - let them be static html and send the file. Pages like that get millions of times more reads than writes.
In North America, The different shapes of plug for the same voltage represent different current-carrying capacities for the wires they’re attached to. There are twist-lock and non-locking versions of each.

If you’re using an adapter to plug a high-current device into a low-current socket, there is a risk of fire from putting too much current through the in-wall wiring. Tripping a circuit breaker is more likely, though.

See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEMA_connector for lots of detail.
Speedup Your CNN Using Fast Dense Feature Extraction and PyTorch
I can't speak for all of HN...

My $0.02: it wastes electricity to solve a non-problem.
> What you're proposing amounts to the total abandonment of all the principles that have governed amateur radio for over a century.

If you're going to be dramatic about it: yes, that's exactly what I'm proposing. We've learned in the last couple of decades on the Internet that communication needs to be encrypted and authenticated as a matter of course. We did not know that a century ago. (We didn't have modern cryptography a century ago.) I think it's perfectly fair to re-evaluate in light of that.

Specifically, you basically can't use any modern network protocol over packet radio any more, because no modern network protocol worth using has a non-encrypted mode.

> What activity would people like to undertake that a) requires encryption and b) is compatible with the basis and purpose of amateur radio as stated in part 97?

Personally, I'd like to tunnel E2E-encrypted text messages, a mosh session to my IRC box, etc., which ordinarily would go over cellular internet links, over ham radio to reach parts of my city with poor cellular coverage, for the purpose of casual conversations with friends and also getting experience with building/operating portable wireless communication systems. Casual conversations that inspire you to get better at building wireless communication systems is a completely normal, intentional, well-accepted use of the amateur service, perhaps the most normal and well-accepted use.

(I also suspect that being able to tunnel normal internet communication protocols over ham radio would be more reliable and valuable in an emergency than voice and ham-specific protocols, and I'd argue that building and gaining practical experience with such systems is also a reasonable use of the amateur service.)

> How could a simple rule on the duration of transmissions or the length of QSOs meaningfully distinguish between technical experimentation, communications that could not occur by any other medium and the commercial exploitation of the amateur service?

If your transmissions are long or regular, then they cannot be encrypted. This does not ban long transmissions, this rule bans long and regular encrypted transmissions - i.e., it is effectively a subset of the existing rule banning encrypted transmissions of any length. So, all existing uses are permitted.

(Are you envisioning a legitimate purpose for encrypted data over low-SNR links? Then you're probably being more ambitious than I am in your hopes for encrypted ham radio!)
> Anecdotally
In general people are critical of ideas that are new. HN has an especially critical user-base with technical skills, so attacks can be made on a larger surface area.
>but you need to tail the code for the hardware, which is niche

Not really.

You just need to declare the data types (Common Lisp supports type declarations) and tell the compiler you want the code to be fast, which reads just like that:

(declare (optimize (speed 3)))

You also need to use the same tactics you would use in C to gain speed: Use arrays instead of lists, use threads. All of this is easily doable in Lisp and IMO while it takes more effort than writing typical Lisp code, it is easier than using C and the end result is more elegant and debuggable.

This is not hardware dependent, mind you.
This article is truly a delightful piece of satire, which is made even better because it seems like the author is unaware of its satirical nature. Laying out the Spanish Prisoner trap to build trust and then pushing Bitcoin as a way to make money fighting the oppressive state: a work of ironic genius.
>the largest university in the state did such a poor job that they lost their ability to graduate licensed teachers.

Maybe you can help me understand this, but how is the solution to cut funding further by 41%?
Instead of cutting off those social media, we should post as many fake stuff as possible to mess around their big data, AI/machine learning algorithms.
I believe that chart is using the governemnt's CPI to calculate the 'inflation adjusted' part. You can find all sorts of academic criticism of how CPI doesn't accurately reflect inflation (most notably of housing/rent prices), which is now the lion's share of a family's expense in the United States.
Debian SecureBoot
I am surprised you learned so much about me from my comment! Let me clarify a little: I am significantly older than 22. I had to drop out of university to provide for my ailing parents and to support my sister. I've spent more than a few nights sleeping in my car around the corner from whichever office or university I happened to be attending at the time.
I'm 29. Yes I agree that you can consciously control what you do long-term in response to something, but you can't just whiff things off entirely.

If someone calls me a "fag", it will bother me whether I pretend it does or not. I'll be offended and it will probably play back in my head for a bit. I can try to let it not bother me, but it probably will at least a little.

"Words can't hurt me" is a fine personal mantra/goal/ideal but you can't apply it to everybody in every case.
Hacked forensic firm pays ransom after malware attack
> If AMD had kept up their performance lead eventually Intel wouldn't have been able to keep up its kickbacks.

That's hard to do when your R&D budget is shattered. Intel was fined for far less money than they caused damage to AMD.
I think a lot of HN users like to think of themselves as early adopters of new technology and are disappointed for missing out on the crypto highs at the end of 2017. I think they feel if they could have been in the loop at that time they could have cashed out. Thus crypto discussions are going to have a lot of negativity in the comments since the best way to make yourself feel better about it is to pretend it was a scam all along and you really didn't miss out. My 2 cents of course :)
Or make the parts of the app(s) with tabular or news feed type data be more of a SPA type. I find SPA tolerable when they are apps users are filtering, posting, or manipulating data. Once you make my back button weird or break URLs I hate SPAs.
>I've always wondered why the FCC is regulating the content of amateur radio transmissions as opposed to merely the spectrum used.

Spectrum is allocated for specific purposes. We have spectrum allocations for aviation, for public safety, for business use, for broadcast and so on. Each of those services has specific regulations to ensure that it functions effectively and is not detrimental to users of other radio services. Amateur radio has a broad but specific range of purposes with some kind of social benefit - education, experimentation, public safety, international goodwill etc. The amateur radio service is regulated to ensure that it remains useful for those purposes.

Encryption removes the ability of the FCC and the amateur radio community as a whole to see whether you're using the service legitimately, or illegally encroaching on amateur frequencies.
Whilst I understand where you are coming from, the statement "Unless you’re a developing nation it sounds way too expensive" is a bit crazy.

Yes many countries without a legacy rail system are getting to hop straight to high speed. But that doesn't mean its not worth investing in for countries that already have a system. Doesn't mean it always is either of course.
All of my best ideas happen when I'm bored. That's why I always keep a Google Keep, or Evernote, or just a notepad, nearby at all times. Sure, most of the time, nothing comes from these little ideas (often due to my own lack of sticktoitiveness), but boredom is undoubtedly a powerful catalyst of creation.
Fieldwork Software database leak exposed sensitive SMB records, credit card info
Have you tried just asking people to move a group chat off of fb?
You want to have a vague idea of other peoples lives, people who don’t matter to you in any real way, and you aren’t even getting the real status, just the image they want to project through the social media distortion lens. So you decide to sacrifice your privacy and mental health for it. Makes sense.
Anyone using Skia?
Often "static" pages aren't 100% static. It might display the user's login name, etc.
I wouldn't be terribly surprised if the vendor asked for it to be disclosed late in the afternoon before a long holiday weekend (in the US) with the hope that mainstream press outlets would not notice.
Does anyone have a good example of something that's made as a single page app that shouldn't be one? The reasons described for choosing a single page app, real time functionality and rich ui interactions etcetera, seem like core parts of just about every new startup's web service offering as all these formerly offline desktop programs become online SAAS subscriptions and so on. What wouldn't need a single page app?
No, unfortunately you need. If you want to build a Progressive Web App (PWA) and have just one source for your site and your mobile app, you need a SPA. The mobile ecosystem is nowadays more important than the web.
Debian: Overview of various statistics about reproducible builds
This looks interesting. How did you lose the gist? You just can't find it on https://gist.github.com/?
How many people work at Youtube again? What is their age distribution?

Now, from the general population, for those at his age, how many have experimented with LSD?
Reproducible Builds Aiming for Bullseye
Delivery isn't a substitute for shopping on your own, it is just a completely different experience, and I don't think they are meant to replace each other any time soon. While shopping on your own with an automated checkout is clearly just a slightly modified version of shopping on your own.
I opted out of social media when Facebook came out. I did it because I was smart and I saw all this coming. Boy have I been feeling smug for the past three years.
If the plugs differ and both are the straight blade type, it's because something relevant to safety differs, probably which wires are present (white neutral or green safety ground) and/or the current rating.

You can get in trouble if the welder expects a safety ground or neutral intended to carry current that you don't have (neither is safe substitute for the other). You can get in trouble if you connect the welder to a circuit that can deliver more current than it's designed for and something fails (it was designed to fail safely assuming that the circuit is limited to X amps by a fuse or breaker).

If the dryer outlet has all the wires the welder wants (and some extra) and the same current rating, an adapter that connects the desired wires and ignore the rest should be safe as long as it's made from big enough wire.