skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think China is more imaginative, but they are far more nimble. For instance, if a city is growing, they just plop down a ton of apartment buildings, throw in 8 new subway lines, connect a bullet train and they're done.

The US spends about that length of time discussing on whether or not to build a new tower in a historic neighborhood.

I don't know why this is the case, but I think it has something to do with a rapidly growing economy versus an already grown economy. If someone could explain to me why that's the case, I'm all ears.

My off-the-cuff guess: if a country is growing, the easiest way to make money is hop into a growing industry and building as fast as you can. If a country is grown, the easiest way to make money is to siphon it from somewhere else. So in developed economies you have stagnation and inefficiency because the elites are more interested in redistributing the wealth (to them), instead of creating new wealth.
> All application specific data should be written inside of the bundle folder, so that when you delete the app, you delete the thing entirely

Not even Apple follows that ideology though, I can't be the only one who has had to delete the gigs of Garageband data from ~/Library/Application Support on an under-specced company laptop 128GB SSD
pretty much the same issue exist for using stickers on automobiles. I am of the opinion, your property, your choice. plus sometimes it can be very creative or just get a chuckle out of you during the day and that is always a worthwhile endeavor
Inclusive Development Index trend (IDI highlights economic direction)
> So would it also be okay for a credit bureau to post all of your information to a website? Would that be okay until it was “exploited in the wild”?

I'm not saying that it's okay. I'm just saying that it's an overreaction to call their software malware.

> Are you really saying it’s okay to run knowingly insecure software until there are reports of it being exploited?

Yes, it's okay. When Windows security team receives some vulerability report, they do not shut down all Windows systems in the world until the bug is fixed. Those systems continue to work insecurely until they got update.

> Java applets ran in a sandbox.

Signed Java applets do not run in a sandbox and have full access to the computer. That's why they were widely used for things that JavaScript did not have access to, e.g. using USB secure tokens for website authentication.
> > This will never happen

> You cannot guarantee that.

Can you guarantee that it will happen within the next, say, 5, 10, 15, or 20 years? Somewhere within there, the devices we're currently using will likely be replaced, and the landscape will have changed.

What I personally care about, privacy-wise, is the present and near future- will my family be safe on the internet with what I've set up for the next five years? Probably. Will the computer I'm using to type this reply on be replaced within a decade? Probably so. Will my family get a new PC within the next ten years? Yes.

Can you 100% guarantee that the Government of the United States will be intact in twenty years? No, the threats from Russia and China (both nuclear countries) and North Korea (armed or not, they're still dangerous), and space asteroids and epidemics and terrorists and politics and civil wars are not zero.

Can you 100% guarantee that California won't sink into the ocean in 100 years? That would make for some really bad real estate investments, yet people still buy and sell and build there.

People are still living in California, trading with each other, the US Government is still stable, and Apple is currently upholding and protecting user privacy. Also, we still have electricity and the internet. Now is a great time to be alive.
Well how many herbivores have a set of canine teeth meant for ripping? All homo sapiens do. Most herbivores that have incisors tend to have small ones (deer only have incisors on the bottom and press them against the hard upper palate to rip vegetation). Virtually no herbivore has sharp incisors (compared to a lion or homo sapien). Many herbivores have overdeveloped incisors that are used for defense such as an elephant's tusks

Herbivores tend to use premolars and molars to grind and crush vegetation. Carnivores use sharp incisors to cut food and canines to tear food (like flesh from bones). There is no need for a herbivore to ever have canines. Homo Sapiens have both, but our premolars and molars are less pronounced than herbivores.

It is logical and seems to be scientifically accurate to deduce Homo Sapiens are evolved to be Omnivores.
Causal studies need to control for confounding variables, for one. There are all sorts of spurious non causal correlations with low p values.
MIT made a new type of solar cell that could raise the limit on solar efficiency
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Not sure I understand the negativity. Yes non tech companies might produce horrible programs, but at least this is a breath of fresh air vs the standard “vendors only” IT approach. There are plenty of horror stories of companies trusting “enterprise” vendors to avoid doing their own programming. For instance I have yet to see a salesforce implementation that works well and is adopted by salespeople, meanwhile something a bit more custom will most likely have automatic adoption. Anyway, I think extremes are always bad so I welcome companies moving away from the “standard vendor products” mantra.
The two main things you want out of a workflow language are re-entrancy and a DAG of job dependencies. Re-entrancy is the ability for the workflow to pick up where it left if something crashes (basically via caching or detecting the presence of expected output files). The DAG is a directed acyclic graph of job dependencies: First do A, then B, then C. The DAG is worked out by the workflow manager, and jobs can be managed accordingly.

A good workflow manager builds on these ideas further by managing environments, job submission, parallelization, cloud/cluster submission, and other options that make processing large amounts of data a lot easier and more efficient.
Malicious apps infect 25M Android devices with 'Agent Smith' malware
> So, queue jumping is a moral act as long as the people you’re jumping in front of are bad people?

I see it as more like a "10 items or less" queue: if you're taking up less (checkout/road) space then you get to go in a shorter queue that moves faster than the queues of the people who are taking up more space. That's fair, isn't it?
While I agree your original post was maybe harsh, but not "mean-spirited", it drives me crazy when people use truth or objectivity as a catch-all justification for behavior or attitude. He wasn't accusing you of lying - e.g. "you're a fatass" would, in most contexts even where it is true, also be mean-spirited. Things can be both, and frequently are.
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After talking with another user, it's become clear that yes you are mistaken. Your confusion about the wikipedia source led you down an incorrect path. I shouldn't have taken your statements at face value as true. You are ironically the problem you were attempting to point out -- being confused about a source, and then spreading that confusion.

First: The wikipedia source (EPA R.E.D. factsheet) you said didn't "contain anything remotely close to the text" actually does.

>Pesticide products containing boric acid and its sodium salts are registered in the U.S. for use as insecticides, fungicides and herbicides. As insecticides, some act as stomach poisons in ants, cockroaches, silverfishand termites, while others abrade the exoskeletons of insects. [0]

Second: Boric acid has a hardness of 3 not 1 as you claimed. Diatomaceous Earth has a hardness of 1-1.5. [1] [2] This just about blows a hole in every point you've yet tried to make.

I know I won't get an apology, or probably even a concession of your error, but I am posting this reply for posterity -- so other's aren't mislead.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20080406065032/http://www.epa.go... -- the wiki source that was incorrectly identified as not supporting the claim

[1] http://www.americanborate.com/all-about-borates/borate-appli... -- another source about the abrasive properties + boric acid hardness

[2] https://www.tedpella.com/company_html/hardness.htm -- boric acid hardness
I don't know how "shoestring" Project Veritas is, but it's not a particularly good source for unbiased information.

Breaking a good, big story takes time and time takes money. Journalists don't earn a ton, but great journalists do pretty well. Their work and the merit of their work is considered worth paying for. The money has to come from somewhere.

The best a good news organization can do is not allow the money to directly influence the journalism. At least in theory then the source of the money - within reason - is somewhat irrelevant. Historically, that's advertising or subscription. People got so used to free or nearly-free journalism in the late 1800s that even today people bristle at subscription, particularly for a non-physical product. So you have advertising.
Haha, this would be an ideal example of first world problems!!
Right, we call them "American bases" rather than "Republican bases" or "Democrat bases" depending on which party is in power at the time. That's the point the GP is trying to make.
Dell put the stickers, not me.
Branded Organization Shortlinks in Cloudflare Workers
this reminded me of Pykrete [0].

basically someone figured out the right ratio of water to sawdust for a frozen block of ice, and it creates a very durable and tough material similar to concrete (as long as it remains at or below freezing).

the british planned to make an aircraft carrier [1] out of the stuff, but it was ultimately deemed too expensive.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pykrete

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Habakkuk
Crypto Economic Research (SNT): Economic Design Behind DApp Curation
Celestica has been around for decades. They are one of the original tech companies, the way Apple or IBM or Microsoft or DEC or Compaq are.
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Both. I bought the laptop because it has a Ryzen chip.
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"Feeling European" for me means that I'm able to go wherever I want on this continent. Without border checks, customs, something else than my national passport. Being able to use the same currency all over Europe (almost). It also means not thinking about "we" and "them" when thinking about European countries and their people. I value French, Polish, Italians, whatever people just like I "value" somebody from Germany. I even went to a German university with lots of those nationalities, because Europe managed to unifiy academic degrees. Feeling European also means feeling safe because without this union of states we would most probably have wars or aggressions between some of the European countries.

I can understand that east european countries might not yet feel or experience that way. I think that might be due to the fact that right-wing nationalists are still in power and might try to benefit heavily out of the union.

As some eastern european countries are also not members of the EU for that long, structures (and power) were built or distributed around those member states, too. I hope this will change in the future and new members will also get their fair share.
Thanks for digging this up! The whole thread was quite long and involved a lot of head banging against my desk when I read it.

The whole pro-CORS argument essentially boiled down to "it's easier to understand when you've already internalized access lists". Capability folks then replying, "sure, but it doesn't help you understand the proper authorization contexts, and so doesn't solve the confused deputies, and in fact, hides some of them to bite you later". Basically, the same old arguments. Rinse, repeat.
It's always good to dream.

But don't let your side hustle consume you.

Other than watching out for employee agreements regarding IP of what you create, I would keep your side projects top secret, domain privacy, etc, don't talk about it with your coworkers, don't work on it with company resources or even visit the domain(s) from work. Do all development/work outside of work on your own hardware. Not only so you own the IP, but also your employer might not like you pursuing your own thing and could effect raises etc.

I would start listening to StartUpsForTheRestOfUs.com Rob has tons of great advice for what you're wanting to do.

It's hard to generate revenue from a side project, you might be better off doing some freelance work to generate extra income. Try to network with friends in the industry not connected to your employer first. The online freelance sites aren't super helpful, as it's usually a race to the bottom on pricing.

Building an info product or a website with ad revenue or SaaS would be a great revenue addition too.

It's not easy but it's possible. You have to execute and put in the effort though. It's easy to get caught up listening to podcasts about it, buying domains, setting up landing pages and not putting in the work to execute the idea to make it a success.

Here's a great talk from @DHH Start Up School 2008, but still relevant.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CDXJ6bMkMY

Good luck with your side projects.
Are people who make $200k middle-class?
Also, why use directional quotation marks at all? I don't see the need here
As you'll find if you dig into visa regulations in many countries, the definition of "business" (activities usually permitted on business visas or visa waiver programs) is typically a lot more detailed than just whether the company paying you is in or out of the jurisdiction.

For example, in the US case, check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_visa#Acceptable_and_prohibit.... The rules for B visas apply to ESTA as well. Journalism is explicitly prohibited on B visas.

This is why my employer's internal immigration processes, even for short-term visits like conferences or whatever, present you with a comprehensive list of different categories of activity you might be undertaking to determine whether you need a work permit or not. It's annoying, and our internal immigration systems are very, very much imperfect, but I can see how it came to be.
More data: https://downdetector.com/status/reddit

You'd think the world is burning
NONE of the current software is designed for security. I mean, NONE.

At the OS level, none of the OS use a memory safe languages, and therefore prone to buffer overflow, stack overflow, use after free, and so on. Yes, some RTOSes may have additional protections, but none (at least known to me) have the memory safety as the prime design directive.

On the application level, most of the cryptography comes from OpenSSL and similar projects. Remember heartbleed? This illustrates that a long running, open source component that powers most of the current infrastructure can have glaring holes (whether intentional or not).

Same can me said about hardware - Intel ME and the like. Rowhammer.

I really would like to see (and, er, participate) in an effort to build an OS/HW system where security is the primary design goal. Is it even possible?
Evidence suggests Neanderthals were mostly right-handed
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> e.g the increasingly deranged "correct" answers to TASbot brain age.

Video link: https://youtu.be/mSFHKAvTGNk

It's stupidly funny.
Thanks,
> 1. MIT can easily be re-licensed as GPL. You can keep a branch of it right before the introduction of CGAL, so if someone really wanted to, they could replace it with something else themselves.

It's too late, I introduced CGAL very early.

> 2. This is where it gets tricky. Yes, though you'll need the permission of all your contributors to the GPL version of your project, and replace all the GPL code ith similar functioning code. You should avoid just line-by-line rewriting of the GPL code though, you'll need to have a unique implementation.

So, I guess it's a Yes. If I removed CGAL in the future.

> 3. Again, tricky, but MIT would probably be OK, because MIT is compatible with GPL, if it's within the GPL'd project.

Basically, if I have to license my project on GPL because of CGAL, I would like the scripts wrote by user could license on whatever user like. But I am not sure if is possible.
I use stickers to differentiate two laptops I have that are otherwise externally identical. I also like to cover the logos with other things instead.

At my previous company we all had stickers on the laptops that showed they were company property.
Ask an old person :-)

Canning will go a long way, especially if you plan your garden with that in mind. Used to be (mid 20th c) just about every family grew veggies and canned them for the Winter/Spring, excepting rich city-folk.

Old recipes are built around what's in-season or what's probably still in your root cellar from last Summer/Fall. Get-anything-any-time is a very new thing—I remember an awful lot more produce falling out of availability in certain seasons as late as the '90s. You still see signs of it with price/quality variability and a few things that remain seasonal—so, cooking those old recipes at the right times of year still makes some sense.
Agree. I once had to explain the concept of idempotemcy to a payment processor, whose APIs lacked it.
TBH, of the 3 alternative reasons you present, I kind of view all of them as being somehow related to my gripe.

"Dwindling creativity" because all these expensive tools are creatively limiting. For example, 3D printing is cool, but, compared to lower-tech methods, it can also be a lot to wrangle. Once upon a time, if you needed to make a part, you'd hand-carve it, or cast a rough version and then finish it. There's very little between you and the act of creation. With 3D printing, you've got to worry about what kinds of shapes your printer can and cannot make, and have to spend a whole bunch of time on CAD, calibration, etc, etc. My own suspicion is that, oftentimes, the thing you're making is just a by-product, an excuse to play with the expensive toy.

"Access to equipment" -- yup. Once upon a time, DIY was about doing things on the cheap, and there was a lot more stuff being done with inexpensive hand tools, many of which could readily be acquired at estate sales and the like. Now you apparently need to blow a typical person's monthly entertainment budget on a makerspace membership in order to get access to laser cutters and CNC lathes.

"Bringing your product to market" just isn't a part of the DIY I originally loved. To me, DIY is a hobby you do for fun, and a creative outlet, not a yet another form of startup incubation.
I'm curious to see if there will be changes. You can't rewrite a privacy policy in 7 days.

I actually appreciate that the journalists in the Times can call out other parts of the Times (this was a part of their Public Editor) but it doesn't mean that some journalist (or the entire newsroom) can change what the legal, ad or executive team think/do.

And that's not a bad thing. Because if they could, it can go the other way too and that's really bad.
There are many ways to do it, but one method would be to limit loans to some multiple (say 3x) of someones trailing income (say 3 years). This could be scaled into over time to smooth out price adjustments.
When downdetector went down, it was only a matter of time lol

Honestly though, I'm really enjoying watching people scream at their wifi providers and continuously restart their iPhones.
Well frankly that in itself should be be a huge red flag to the buyers as it doesn't add up.
Everybody who does the math gives stock investors shit for doing worse than random strategy but then you see what the amateurs do when they play at "investing" (really speculation but it is considered rude to call it what it really is) like beanie babies or baseball cards. And even they are geniuses compared to those who try lotto tickets, race tracks, and slot machines.
You just dismissed the data and replaced it with nothing of substance. Forget your feelings and look at the data, single founders are successful especially when you're talking about smaller companies that might not go the VC route. VCs are really only interested in companies that have a shot at being unicorns.
> It is true that a computer, for example, can be used for good or evil. It is true that a helicopter can be used as a gunship and it can also be used to rescue people from a mountain pass. And if the question arises of how a specific device is going to be used, in what I call an abstract ideal society, then one might very well say one cannot know.

> But we live in a concrete society, [and] with concrete social and historical circumstances and political realities in this society, it is perfectly obvious that when something like a computer is invented, then it is going to be adopted will be for military purposes. It follows from the concrete realities in which we live, it does not follow from pure logic. But we're not living in an abstract society, we're living in the society in which we in fact live.

-- Joseph Weizenbaum, http://tech.mit.edu/V105/N16/weisen.16n.html

That's not pearl clutching, that's being serious, and ignoring it for long enough will make it impossible to build a robust egalitarian culture -- because the potential for oppression and the conditioning of being subject to automatic processes, confusing "measurements" with things, and "labels" with people, will have been amplified extremely, not to mention the sheer capabilities of mass manipulation and control, with rather little to show for on the other side of the scale.
I did read your comment. You're wrong. A few generations (1.5 years) would not plausibly have this effect. I doubt even a hundred generations would be able to select for something so significant since it's a weakness that all exoskeleton insects have. Insects have remained largely the same for millions of years.

I never said it wasn't possible, I said it wasn't plausible for it happen on short scales of time such as this study.

You're being pedantic, but you're still wrong.
And time and time again we hear that this data is used for every tiniest detail of a crime, because it's cheaper than actual policework.

https://www.techspot.com/news/73776-google-receiving-police-...

https://www.propublica.org/article/no-warrant-no-problem-how...

https://www.csoonline.com/article/2222749/mobile-phone-surve...

And of course, the police have been caught abusing this data. Data acquired this way is likely to get to you in another type of cases: divorce proceedings often use this sort of data as well, and it's been used in trade disputes too.

Given that all that already happens with cellphone data, what's the point of doing anything about it at this point ?
I am not familiar with Perl at all, though I am with list comprehensions, and FWIW I find the code very readable. (Though the lambda syntax was not obvious at first.)

What I would worry about is performance. But we are talking about top ten numbers, so whatever. (If it does actually matter, just precompute the lists.) But for larger sets I would check how is-prime is actually implemented :)

[EDIT: Grammar.]
Same idea for vitamin C.

Vitamin C deficiency cause fatigue but eating large doses of vitamin C won't help you stay awake. In fact, it is unlikely to do anything at all, you will just piss all the excess off.
I disagree - the former would be used in both cases in my opinion. I think it just depends which usage you use more.
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> As an extreme example, are you saying that if our planet only had only 1 million people, we'd have the exact same problem?

Our planet could in principle support hundreds of billions as long as you're not married to the idea of preserving biodiversity.
Don’t know why you’re being downvoted. I tried to make it work with my friends and for some reason, I could never get it to set up.
The author discusses implementation challenges when building an asynchronous AGC (Apollo Guidance Computer) on a typically synchronous FPGA. More articles on the topic of building an AGC are available on the website. [0]

[0] http://mikestewart.hcoop.net