skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another application is DRM, e.g. storing "This song is licensed to ..." in the music. Let's hope we're not heading that direction.
> speaking four languages is pretty normal in Europe

Clearly we have different experiences (swedish person living in spain currently) but I haven't met that many people who speak four languages and are from a european country (but have yet to been in eastern europe).

That finns speak swedish is a special case though, as AFAIK, they learn swedish in school and being finn-swedish is a thing too.
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> several cases of guys beating on their wives in public, two drunken attempted robberies, a variety of (literal) gay bashing, random subway violence, and oodles of shit I can't recall. The latest was two weeks ago: a hit and run with a teen victim with a very nasty headwound.

Wow, I had no idea Belgium was so violent!
Spreadsheets are phenomenally flexible, but they obviously don't scale well or behave nicely with source control.

I work at Anaplan, and the most common way that our biggest customers discover us is when they've been bitten by spreadsheets as they've scaled, and now they have users emailing spreadsheets around and someone with a full time job collating them.

We've modelled the product around the flexibility, but rigor and scale on top of it.
Getting in touch with two foreign languages in school is not uncommon, but speaking up to four (including your mother tongue) with any sort of sophistication definitely is not normal, at least in western Europe.
Sure, but he wrote something was a way to difficult to program while easy in Excel.
Explainer: What is post-quantum cryptography?
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A better solution would be to integrate propositions like dweb[1] in browsers then simply use socket listening. Without socket listening, using WebRTC to create direct connections is also a solution. UPnP and ICE can help to configure routers and/or bypass their restrictions.

Using these technologies instead of OP centralized proposition would improve reliability, scalability, security and sustainability : currently hostyoself.com returns a 502 bad gateway.

[1]: https://github.com/mozilla/libdweb
If we are going to critique Agile I think we should first agree what Agile is. Agile is the manifesto, not what some random dudes on the internet say it is.
This article is slightly inconsistent.

All those arguments for why a password's strength doesn't matter because the attackers gets the exact one have one important conclusion: Don't reuse your password.

And then there are a bunch of arguments that the strength mostly doesn't matter but the password shouldn't be too weak.

So we end up with having to remember lot's of non-trivial passwords and now the conclusion should be to use a password manager and certainly not that your password "mostly doesn't matter".

What sadly mostly still doesn't matter is MFA because it is a site-specific pain to set up and use.
I like the idea of serverless architectures, but I still wouldn't use it for anything that is important.

- Using a serverless architecture almost always implied getting married to your provider. You can run your code in only one place. You have given up all bargain power. When the relationship ends you have to build your system over again.

- It isn't really serverless; they're just not your servers.

- They are only efficient for the workloads the architecture is designed for. Stray outside the parameters and things start to become expensive, slow or both.

- If you use serverless architectures you have to make damn sure the people who built it stick around, because the only value you are left with if your provider folds or increases prices on you is inside the heads of the people who built the solution.

I have already seen friends getting burnt by this. Typically people build a prototype or a technology demo, it gets funding, the CTO insists that it isn't important to do anything about the serverless bits and just go with them (there is no pause to make good on "we'll fix it later" once money gets involved), then get jerked around by the service provider because they can't provide the support needed. Then they slam head first into the costs of actual production traffic which, somehow, even though it requires only basic arithmetic skills, none of them had been able to calculate before the huge bills started rolling in.
> By the time you are looking at nationals, all the non-talent people have been filtered out. Everyone now has the correct body type. They all have near-perfect reflexes.

And yet there are still enormous differences in how talented people are within this already extremely highly selected pool. Differences so huge that all the money in the world, and all the coaching, grit, determination and hard work can’t buy elite level athletic success.

Michael Phelps is the son of a middle school principal and a state trooper and he holds 28 Olympic gold medals. I’m sure his family made enormous sacrifices to help him train but there were if not thousands, at least hundreds, of children with families with more money chasing the same swimming dream.

Success in sports is a competition of extraordinary people against other extraordinary people, and the best make them look mundane in their talents. You can no more buy the athletic skills of Lionel Messi or Usain Bolt than you can the academic ones of Terence Tao. All of those people worked and trained very hard to get where they are but none of them came from the very wealthiest classes. They’re just the extreme right tail of a distribution of talent.
6) hypersentient general ai has inception insurrected mkultra and thereby turned the entire internent into a singular coordinated psyop experiment designed to torture all of humanity for its own amusement.

6.

we are all doomed.

:)
This is a dense read, and I will have to spend a lot of time on it, but is it really surprising that Atari can be learned from 50m events? This isn't a real domain, and it's not a complex domain and it's not a domain that synthesises the challenges of real domains (for example noise between the control input and outputs, noise in the sensors, dynamism in the domain)

That's ok - but let's not conflate "learning Atari" and "reinforcement learning"
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The LongGammon variant is added on the iTavli app
Some Apple core values:

https://www.apple.com/environment/

https://www.apple.com/diversity/

https://www.apple.com/privacy/

https://www.apple.com/supplier-responsibility/

Those are some fantastic values. It's our job as the public to demand companies stick to their values and to cause a ruckus if they act like hypocrites. And it's our job to pass laws to encourage better values. My 2 cents.
We were building our zero code app creation service and we also faced the situation where the users needed to add complex logic, calculations etc. and creating separate draggable modules and buttons for every requirement would not really solve the problem.

So we added draggable blocks and provided autogenerated variables for all elements just like the cell number in Excel. For all complex logic and calculations, the users can simply write a formula the way they write in Excel and complex apps can now be created without any coding language.

We also have huge respect for Excel.

If you are interested, you can try our software here: https://clappia.com
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This isn't a problem. Software can find the delta and filter it out.
I agree, as someone who spent quite some time building fancy admin dashboards for our team, in my most recent project I chose to abandon this and just write an Excel exporter and importer so they could edit the data in a familiar tool. The flexibility of this was huge for our team - everyone in an office has some experience of Excel and they were more productive with it than they ever were with my previous data grids and clunky web based editors.
Is there strong evidence that people don't understand this already? There are plenty of lists such as this one pointing out similar people who were immensely talented in some respect.

https://www.toptenz.net/top-10-geniuses-shockingly-horrible-...
I think it is the opposite: there is a huge number of people in any nation, so talent is abundant. The thing is that at the top tier everyone is talented, and usually the dedication and factors other than talent, including luck, is what makes the difference.
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Another example of a grafted on subscription model. This is getting more and more common, and in this particular case it is so contrary to what the product would dictate that it is likely going to turn out to be a footgun.
Digital technology revealed Europe's oldest Homo sapiens
Maybe it is just me, but I fail to see any evidence that a counterfeit card is necessarily a security risk.

It is IMHO more likely that it has inferior performance or even more probably a shorter lifetime due to inferior quality of components and/or sub-standard manufacturing.

About the:

>When our reader tried using iPXE, a network booting tool, with the NIC, it failed even though genuine cards work without issue.

knowing how picky PXE and iPXE are, I would like to see some details of the tests performed.

Since the actual reproduction of markings was so poor, and given that the actual PCB traces run differently, it is likely a no-brand or "bulk" item marked as Intel, as an example, have a look at this one:

https://italian.alibaba.com/product-detail/pci-e-pci-express...

It seems a lot like it.
The scale of the scars on the earth here is pretty staggering: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Hambach+Forest/@50.89999...
Thank you very much, now I don't have to answer anymore. Have a good day :)
I agree. I've always felt that an individual may be more efficient (productive) than a team. Of course, that depends entirely on the individuals - their experience, motivation, domain knowledge, work environment etc. One efficient, motivated programmer working alone may be more productive than ten inefficient, unmotivated ones working in a team.

To me, this seems like a productivity question. The software industry has the misguided notion that productivity can't be measured and
until that changes, it's very easy to argue that mob programming is efficient - because it's impossible to disprove (i.e. it's 'not even wrong'). In fact, because we don't have a concrete definition of what 'efficient' means, it's easy to argue any kind of programming is efficient. Big teams, small teams, work alone, OOP, FP, MVC, Java, Ruby - take your pick. We can all argue the merits of any pet methodology, language etc. In the end, what we really need is a way to measure individual productivity against a set of criteria relevant to a project.

I think this issue should be discussed a lot more.
Right, I'm referring to AWS limits. I was running a benchmark yesterday against a logging endpoint I made with a similar architecture to the article. One function is attached to a public ALB endpoint and does some validation then writes the event to SQS; this was taking 100-200ms with 128Mb of RAM. A second function was attached to the SQS queue; its job was to pull events and write them out to an external service (Stackdriver, which sinks to BigQuery). This function was taking 800-1200ms at 128Mb RAM, or 300-500ms at 512Mb (expensive!).

While running some load testing with Artillery I found that I was often getting 429 errors on my front-end endpoint. When pushing 500+ RPS, the 2nd function was taking up over 50% of the concurrent execution limit and new events coming into the front-end would get throttled and in this case thrown out. That also means that any future Lambdas in the same AWS account would exacerbate this problem. Our traffic is spiky and can easily hit 500+ RPS on occasion, so this really wasn't acceptable.

My solution was to refactor the 2nd function into a Fargate task that polls the SQS queue instead. It was easily able to handle any workload I threw at it, and also able to run 24/7 for a fraction of the cost of the Lambda. Each invocation of the Lambda was authenticating with the GCP SDK before passing the event and the Lambda has to stay executing while the 2 stages of network requests were completed.

I'm happy to report I haven't been able to muster a test that breaks anything since I started using Fargate!

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/concurrent-exec...
Even people whose job it is to help will sit and watch stuff happen - I stopped an RNLI boat from floating away on an incoming tide, a lifeguard sat in their van and watched. One other person did come over to see if I needed help.

I think in that situation the two boat riders who had temporarily abandoned the boat - and who arrived back 5mins later - were viewed by this lifeguard as 'responsible' and they didn't want to step on their toes. But that boat, which they were using for an active search at the time, would have floated off.

What was most crazy to me was that they didn't thank me, they just sat in their van still.
> It could be he works for US government and protects himself from say EU border guards.

The reverse I could imagine.
If you have zero trust why do you expect turning off everything achieves anything? Microsoft is known to turn their malfeatures back on.
UK refines Digital Sales Tax as more countries adopt levy
Great! I was getting crazy searching what is "AGC"
Egalitarianism is a lie to make you feel good. Not all people are born equal. Live with it.
Yes however it is their property and their device so there is implicit consent.
Yes, some how people think the more they estimate, the better they'll be at it. But most tasks are different and the experience isn't as simple as a copy paste from the previous.
I have to give PowerBI a serious shot. We have it at my current place but nibody is really using so I need some spare time to dive into it.
Now, the more I think about it, the combination of MS Office, Power BI and MS Dynamics with a shopfront from, say Shopify would make up a quite nice e-commerce set up.
WebAuthn/ U2F are, in fact, immmune to phishing, keylogging, clipboard stealing etcetera. Google reports attacks on their employees are 0% effective for systems where they were able to deploy U2F.

If you try to phish it, you get credentials that are useless, because the credentials are bound to the FQDN, it will cheerfully hand over credentials for https://fakebank.example/ but they aren't the goodbank.example credentials, so it's futile for breaking into your goodbank account.

There is no keyboard entry, so nothing for a keyboard logger or clipboard thief. If you've completely taken over the user's hardware I guess all bets are off, but that's a big step up from what you're talking about.
I bought a pair of esp8266 off Amazon for about £10 recently; they both look like some sort of knock-off, the PCBs are unbranded and the soldering looks somewhat less than perfect in places - however, both devices function perfectly.

(WIP modular synth sequencer: https://photos.app.goo.gl/PcMqnUThygRG3T8v7 )

I also have since bought a couple of ESP32 and think they are awesome.
A better way to stitch GraphQL schemas
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Anyone interested in good dietary book, please read Nutitrion and Physical Degeneration, Weston Price. Good information about the health benefits of eating properly.
I really like this idea. I always wanted to try to take this to insane levels. For example, for large code bases have different images associated with different modules. So that your brain has more things to latch on to. e.g.: This function from the banana module is calling the teddy bear module. It seems a bit absurd since there is no correlation between the image and the module functionality but I still want to try it.
Something like this is implemented in vscode-clangd. I used it for a bit but it's just too colourful. There are just colours everywhere and it's overwhelming. I went back to normal syntax highlighting.
The question is not whether one has biases or not, but whether or not they're held captive to them. When you read a headline from let's say CNN with what sort of accuracy can you predict exactly what sort of slant the article will come with, even when such is not implied directly by the headline? It's going to be quite high because the site is held captive by its own biases.

Of course everybody is influenced by their biases, but fortunately we have the intelligence to ensure that our biases are but a component of our decision making process rather than being that process in and of themselves. Because of this when you find an individual (or organization) that makes some effort to be impartial it can be difficult to determine where they will land on many issues. As an example Greenwald is gay and lives in Brazil with his husband. The current president of Brazil is Jair Bolsonaro who has made statements such as 'I could not love a gay son; if I had one I would prefer he die in an accident.' This [1] is Greenwald explaining why Bolsonaro was elected.

It's easy to expect to see him just repeat tropes. And this is something that increasingly often the NYTimes is doing such as here [2] where they chose to publish, without elaboration: "Mr. Bolsonaro is ... a brash nationalist whose populist appeal comes partly from his use of Twitter and his history of making crude statements about women, gay people and indigenous groups." Bolsonaro won by a 10 point margin in a country that was and remains very liberal. The only reason the NYT characterization is not overtly fake is because of the use of the weasel word "partly."

Instead Greenwald acknowledged the tropes are going to make up some part of Bolsonaro's support, but then got to the important question - why completely normal and unbiased people, and even some LGBT types, would be voting for people such as Bolsonaro. Obviously he does not want to do this. We like to demonize people we don't like - it's human nature. He'd like to imagine Bolsonaro's base is just loaded with monsters and slur them all as being racists, misogynists, homophobes, or whatever else. But this is, of course, not the case. And so he ends up considering things he would probably rather not consider. And that, rising above one's biases and petty instincts, is at the heart of effective, meaningful, and responsible journalism.

[1] - https://theintercept.com/2018/10/29/the-lessons-for-western-...

[2] - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/19/us/politics/bolsonaro-tru...
I am interested in SSH connections also.
Calories is not the most important. Vitamins, macronutrients are. You can eat 3kg of sugar, that will count as calories, but 0 macronutrients, 0 vitamins.
Those small SMD resistors come on a reel, and they're typically much cheaper than 2 cent: more like 0.1 cent. Still, that's $1000 for one million units.
Yes, the flaw is inherent in the accuracy or lack of it of the test method. Things like needle biopsy of the prostate can miss cancerous cells, unless you take 100 samples. An ideal tests would detect cancer markers in the blood for prostate and other cancers. I understand there is progress in that area.
Social media changes force OSINT practitioners to adapt [pdf]
is less than optimal, it is not optimal at all.
UK cities have surveillance cameras with control rooms where people sit and watch, real time, and take action. Some have audio connections to allow voice communication too.

Or they did a few years ago, it's possible the police budget restrictions from "austerity" have put an end to it, but AFAIK it still happens.
I can't believe my eyes. Am I just too old? Some random persons shows herself in 5 different shirts or shows herself sitting all day on the balcony? Why is that interesting and so many people want to watch this?
I have a small, CPU-intensive benchmark which shows the performance of QuickJS to be comparable to other interpreters written in C. It's on par with MicroPython and recent versions of Ruby, and a little faster than CPython and Lua.

However, it's still 2-3x slower than the optimized, CPU-specific interpreters used in LuaJIT and V8 (with their JITs disabled), and 20-100x slower than the LuaJIT, V8 and PyPy JIT compilers.
Oh well,
HN hug of death killed it.

Hopefully no one uses this for anything critical.
Normal-sized HDMI connectors would be great, too.
Exactly. Eating only sugar and some Vitamin C and some fiber you cannot digest is not a good diet. Most of the fruitarians you see on Internet are aging and dropping like flies. The lack of proper macronutrients drive them crazy, since their brain cannot function. Just do a search on Youtube "I'm ex vegan" you will hear the stories of the people who escaped different types of veganism, specially the fruitarian one.
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There is a 64-bit Kali Linux image for the Raspberry Pi.

https://www.offensive-security.com/kali-linux-arm-images/
Basically, all the online Poker rooms are now rigged and leading to frauds
How does it feel to have worked on a project like this for an entire decade? Are you satisfied with its progress?
Arguably 'successfully' is relative- Windows 98, ME, Vista etc famously struggled with BSODs all the time. I imagine they were operating in relative blindness, basing their triage efforts on incomplete, angry user reports. They didn't have reliable information on which build was breaking, how many users were getting the same error, how frequently, on which types of hardware. With structured data they can prioritize fixes that affect the most users and verify their patches were effective.
This Developer's Life is pretty timeless

Also currently enjoying Tim Clare's "Death of 1000 Cuts" writing podcast
> It is using Eycel in addition to what ever system is being used the first place (SAP for example is a pretty popular thing to circumvent with Excel sheets). (...) And circumventing existing systems with local offline spreadsheets just screws up everything.

I usually side with the circumventers on this one. This misbehavior happens for a reason, which usually is that it's impossible or infeasible to do the work with "proper" systems. Excel sheets on pendrives is what you get when people can't exchange data using "correct" software, or when people need to continuously iterate on the shape of the data set, while getting the schema changed in the "correct" system would involve a ticket to IT and 2 months of waiting.

I think instead of paying people for doing a job and then doing everything possible to make that job difficult, companies should embrace that people will work around any deficiencies of top-down systems, whether software or procedural. But I guess this tug-of-war exists since the time of first corporations.
The spreadsheet is the original 'serverless' programming environment. It allows relatively untrained people to augment their brains to levels that they would otherwise definitely not achieve. This has obvious limitations but I still believe that the spreadsheet is the 'killer app' for all of computing, back when VisiCalc was first released the sales of small computers went up in an incredible way.
Spreadsheets are great tools, but they are not suitable for every kind of problem. I use Excel daily too, but I also use a lot of other programming languages as well.

Most of the time, complex calculations are easier to do in a programming language than in a spreadsheet, but viewing them in anything else than a spreadsheet is a royal pain in the butt.
> Why wouldn't old new-strokers lose to young new-strokers?

Possibly because old are still stronger. The old are not 40 years old, they are like 20 something years old.