skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do have a smartphone, and I also do know that by default my phone is not actively listening on me (if it matters I do not use Siri-like services and I don't intend to). This is not the case with all these Alexa-like devices, but correct me if I am wrong.
Wow, this was not an exaggeration.
> Remove cookies and basic auth headers, what's the point of CORS?

The ability to communicate with a domain other than the one your app is running on. For instance, if my site on www.example.com wants to send a POST to www.example2.com, I need CORS. example2.com needs CORS to specify that only example.com is allowed to send a POST to it, not anyoldaddress.com. example2.com could look at the Origin header and refuse connections, but it would be vulnerable to DDOS attacks.

Now, if your SPA is entirely self-contained and self-hosted then no, you don't need CORS. But there are plenty of situations where that isn't the case.
I remember a few years ago Coca-Cola was creating a plant-based bottle. [1] Does anyone know why this tech isn't taking off more than it has?

[1] https://www.coca-colacompany.com/press-center/press-releases...
Many non-malicious websites become Malicious due to injected code. Domains expire and websites go away and sometimes malicious websites come in their place, etc
I've used this for years, and use it to tally up my outgoings quickly, and changing a linked value will update all the related items
Exactly what legal paperwork does some tool who does stupid yoga poses with a free t-shirt need?
Banking and securities laws affect non-banks too. You can't just act like a bank or issue a security without following the regulations.

Facebook isn't actually acting like a bank, but if they claim that their tokens are backed by real assets when they aren't, that's just plain fraud.
That's certainly the case in the densely-packed public-transit-friendly cities where the only option to being inside is either a sidewalk or the street. Out in the less-public-transit-friendly suburbs, kids can (and do) run around in their front/back yards or even the street if it's not too busy.
> Airbus make a superior product anyway

Except that their controls also allow faulty AOA sensor data to drive incorrect automated actions:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qantas_Flight_72

The really unbelievable part of this one is that, unlike the 737 MAX, Airbus aircraft actually have 3 AOA sensors, so it would be simple for them to use the obvious "two out of three rule" to detect and ignore faulty sensor data. But instead they allow one faulty AOA sensor to trigger uncommanded pitch down events.
Unfortunately there's an unavoidable stretch of two lane highway with no sidewalk or bike lane between me any my workplace. If I lived somewhere where I could make the trip reasonably safely I absolutely would!
I use the phrase “are you serious?!” a lot when I am frustrated. Almost always it wakes up Siri on at least one of my iDevices. Which makes me say “are you serious?!” again and it just spirals from there.
E-gold was a scam IIRC, while libra's assets :

> the assets in the Libra Reserve will be held by a geographically distributed network of custodians with investment-grade credit rating to provide both security and decentralization of the assets.

And BTC is not backed by anything, it has intrinsic value now so it's wrong to call it a scam.
Oh hey, I'm an engineer in Charlotte! Have you guys talked to Amelie's yet?
Remember folks: when a product's advertisement is showing emotion rather than aspects of the product, the product is probably poison/toxic/unhealthy/cheap crap.
Browsers are ubiquitous, and they run third party code. That would be a deadly combination for anyone hoping to launch a DDOS attack if CORS protections didn't exist.
Netflix also has lots of detailed data about what kind of ingredients people want in their sausage.

Would make sense for them to start being quite specific with the suppliers what they want to get.

This is not just on high level. You could track on individual episodes and even inside episodes (for example do you pause, switch to another app).
>They will NOT develop a resistance to being melted by the citric acid.

No, but you encourage the selection of the organisms who have a resistance to citric acid, or whatever substance you are using. I think it's very presumptuous to say that by killing everything with a substance you aren't selecting for that resistance.
The dose makes the poison, and in the case of manganese (which is, by the way, not a proper noun), the toxic dose is quite large (unless you're inhaling it), to the point where manganese deficiency is a larger public health problem in humans than manganese poisoning. MnO2 and even the soluble manganese sulfate we use for fertilizer are in the same blue-1 classification as things like alcohol and potassium chloride.

Nickel is a more reasonable concern; nickel sulfate's lethal dose is on the order of 250 mg/kg for humans, so around 10 or 15 grams for an adult. It's not really in the same category as things like mercury, lead, thallium, barium, or even cadmium.
We published something similar in spirit recently (although it ended up as a conference paper and not in Nature)... Notably, we did our study with much fewer data - instead of millions of patents we had the text of a few thousand patents and the text of a few hundred conference papers. We had a specific focus and we wanted to focus on texts about energetic materials (explosives and propellants).

We showed how chemical-application & chemical-property relations are captured by word2vec and GloVe. For instance we found rocket fuels where the chemicals appearing closest to “rocket” while materials used in air bags appeared closest to “air bag”. We were able to filter to chemical names using ChemDataExtractor and further to likely energetic chemicals by obtaining SMILES strings from PubChem and using a classifier to classify them as likely energetics or not.

You can find our work here : https://arxiv.org/pdf/1903.00415.pdf .
I made it through the first half. Even though it claims to be all about issues with modern hybrid-OOP languages, it's pretty much the same false dichotomy of pure OOP vs. pure FP that you see nowadays as everyone's "Yet Another Considered Harmful" post.

I'm sure there are a few decent observations in there that might be novel, but it's not really worth plowing through predictable rants about mutable state, inheritance, tortured DI architecture, and software-is-not-animals to get to them.

He didn't really acknowledge many of the things one might do in modern OO design to address those things, like favoring delegates and interfaces over inheritance, favoring shallow class hierarchies, or not inverting control just to unit test.

This isn't surprising, since one of the core tenets he puts out early is that his issue is OO is a loaded gun that lets you shoot yourself in the foot despite best intentions, vs. (apparently) FP that always keeps you honest by limiting your options.

Most of this probably sounds familiar. Overall, it feels like it's been written by someone who hasn't been around the scene long enough to know exactly how well-trodden their criticisms are.
> everyday people are catching on to the fact that they're just being resold the same stuff they've already bought.

But Hollywood have always done this - recycling old ideas in new wrapping. And Hollywood have always been criticized for being vapid entertainment, empty spectacle etc.

"catching on to the fact" suggest that this is some secret insight which undermines the enjoyment of the movie. But I'm pretty sure most people who goes to the Disney remakes go because it is remakes of movies they already know and love. They want to see the same thing in a new way.

According to Wikipedia, Aladdin grossed "$923.7 million, against a production budget of $183 million". So despite you and your nephew, Disney seem to manage OK.

Hollywood does have problem, but it is not due to lack of originality. Hollywood produces plenty of original stories still, but it is the remakes and franchises which grosses the most. Because the consumers likes this stuff.
Good. Anything to destroy the navel-gazing ego-stroking that has come to characterize online life
It's an interesting idea but ultimately it doesn't work in the real world. It simply incentivizes too much fraud.

There are simply too many real-world corner cases that will fail. What if someone dies? Can you go and raid people's accounts before their estate's executors can find them?

If used for something like unclaimed money from the state, it's a very easy way for people to fraudulently make an enormous amount of money.
This concept would make a fun (thought) experiment for a street in the US.

Imagine a car parked curbside in a city street somewhere in the US. No one complains, because this is how everyone expects street space to be used - as storage for private cars.

Maybe there's a flatbed trailer attached to this car.
Now add bike racks to the flatbed trailer. Next, add a stairway or a ramp. Then, gradually lower the trailer a little bit each day until it becomes a platform on the ground. Finally, take away the car.

Measure at which point homeowners start complaining.
I don’t really see air launch platforms succeeding in the future. OrbitalATK (now Northrup Grumman) have had one for years and it’s seen like less than 7 launches because it makes little sense economically. Especially with Rocket Labs ramping up production with more payload for less money, I don’t see this platform surviving.
>If I have 20% more APM than you do I beat you even if I totally pick the wrong units and build order

At 20%, no. Pro players beat other pro players with 20% more apm all the time, even if they pick reasonable unit comps (this is especially common when terran players do tank focus builds against zerg). At 200%, especially if it's effective and not spamming, maybe. There are videos of bots microing marines at very high apm to beat big baneling balls, which cost much more resources and are supposed to directly counter marines. Protoss players could have perfect blink micro or immortal dropping, etc.
It needs to be pretty high too because the escrow percentage basically sets the breakeven rate of attackers. Find N accounts that qualify for this with roughly equal values, submit false claims into the escrow, if more then Y% go through (where Y is the percentage required to make a claim) the attacker breaks even or better.

On the perverse side OP actually wants a bit of spam because only a fraction of the escrow is awarded to the wallet on a successful response according to the paper, the rest is going somewhere, likely going into OPs accounts if I had a guess.

There's 3 sides to the optimization of the escrow percentage required for a challenge: 1) you want it high enough to discourage loads of spurious challenges, 2) account owners want it low enough to make recovery feasible without raising tons of money to dump into escrow, and 3) OP wants plenty of money flowing through the recovery contract since they're getting a cut of failed/invalid recovery attempts.
The same mixture of baking soda and sugar also kills the ants.
It's probably gotten harder and harder to dedicate dev resources to building a robust bot player for your game, given that the top tier of players are just going to play online anyway.
I don't see any evidence of that in the article you posted, other than the opinion of one of the plan's supporters.
Libra isn't doing fractional reserve, it's full reserve. If you want to do fractional reserve banking, you have to be a bank.

Having said that, if you want to issue worthless tokens backed by nothing in exchange for real money, you can do that. That's your average initial coin offering. Laws still apply and you need to do due diligence, but it's possible.
A union wouldn’t fix the underlying issue of a shortage of blue-collar workers. To do that, you have to convince people to take up manual labor intensive work.
The default cross-origin blocking behavior is useful for many things, such prevention of data exfiltration via XSS vulnerabilties.
CORS is a way to relax this behavior.
A Wearable Keyboard
It’s akin to criticizing a different country while ignoring that your own does the same thing.
The very "experts" who are plugged in and implementing/promoting the IoT are themselves under a form of mass hypnosis. Look how hard they work! For what? Progress! Money! They are taught to obey. If they do not, there will be consequences.

We are entering an age of mass disinformation propagated by the controllers to obscure their agenda and remap people's minds. The only difference is that now our propaganda is 24/7 broadcasting from our pants pocket. They wish to destroy our ability to discern right from wrong, and they seem to be succeeding.

One can only hope that as a human species we can muster some shred of critical thought amidst this onslaught. Perhaps one day we can stand up and see things for what they are, because unfortunately, we are running out of time.

Words have power though. They can change minds and foment revolutions. Disaster is not the only way (and disasters almost always benefit the controllers). We can elevate ourselves through language; most everything we've ever known is codified in language. Never stop speaking your mind, especially to the blind, narrow-minded yes-men that surround you. They, too, can change.
With its very weird playstyle not knowing one is playing against it will be very annoying. Oh well, still curious to see how it will do.
But only one domain at a time. The lack of a way to specify multiple domains in a header makes it absurdly painful to actually implement when you want to make your content available to a specific set of domains.

I’m personally at the point where I’d rather handle unnecessary request authentication than trying to do anything with CORS.
Planting a trillion trees could be our best strategy to tackle climate change. Can we do it?

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/planting-trillion-tree...
Can I buy from you 100k trees for $0?
> There are lots of ways to make a 737 that's safe with new engines.

Yes, but all of the non-insane ways would have required the 737 MAX to be re-certified as a new aircraft type and pilots to be re-trained before flying it. Which Boeing did not consider to be a viable option. And that decision was probably driven by their airline customers, since they're the ones who pay the costs of recertifying their pilots.
Ballooning spiders: The case for electrostatic flight (2013)
I believe Ritual actually currently operates in a number of US markets, like Chicago
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/ritual-3
> I'm confused by this. They took the Switch and removed everything that made it uniquely successful to make the Switch Lite.

It's going to be a lightweight, inexpensive handheld for kids to play Pokémon.
It's not fair to call Dynamic Allow-Origin simple. This is super tricky and nonstandard usage that is only necessary to workaround the fact that browsers do not support multiple values on the Allow-Origin header even though the spec allows it.

That said, yes, when you want to allow multiple origins, reflecting the Origin request header in the Allow-Origin response header is the only solution that works. (Note however, that sometimes the Origin header is not present, an additional difficulty.)
I believe they are saying there is a separation between the editors and the rest of the Corp. The editors aren’t the ones coming up with the sites privacy policy.
Hey - very cool!

We've made several attempts to work with them, but it hasn't panned out. Feel free to give them a nudge, and you should try out the app at any of the other shops in the area, it's our most dense region in terms of locations.
Recycling culture nakedly has always been Disney's thing, the familiarity of the stories has always been a selling point with much of the market (and the “its just recycling what I've already experienced” has always been the refrain of another part of the market.)

That's also true of Hollywood more generally. To the extent Hollywood is dying it's because new media (that are no less enthusiastic about recycling culture) is displacing old, but the same corporate Giants (and even moreso the same moneyed interests behind them) control much of new media as dominate the old, so ultimately the difference it makes is pretty minimal.
One thing Netflix has not yet cracked is how to keep me constantly hooked and to stop me from quitting once in a while.

As I can just catch up with the missed episodes later, I don’t see problem canceling the subscription.
Exactly. My first thought, "OK, so can we whine and bash Airbus now for doing business with Saudi Arabia like we'd been doing to other companies?"
It gets squeezed by Github's display and the scaling isn't great for some reason. Click download and it looks fine.
An updated version of Vistacalc (an old shareware Excel-alike) would probably open really quickly.

https://www.danielsays.com/ssg-win1x2x3xsw-vc10.html
http://www.win3x.org/win3board/ext/win3x/download.php?id=112...
I'm in the 5th category. 5) Understand ML; concerned - won't allow any of these things in my house period because they will always use them for things behind the scenes that they won't state. I don't care how well trained they are, or "ethical." Ethical... according to who, and at what time period in the future? Ethics change. The data they have on you won't. Look at all of the politicians and other people getting in trouble for things they said 15 years ago, which were generally more acceptable at the time but we've "progressed" since then. Who will be making decisions about you in the future based on last years data? Just don't give it to them.
I don't think I understand your position here. Do you believe there is a profit motive to doing this kind of carbon sequestration? As I understand it, it's going to be expensive to do, and require significant money/time/effort to keep doing it. So, what will keep it going in your runaway scenario? Why will people keep mining and moving these materials into place beyond the point where it is necessary to counter our current crisis?
Indeed. I believe you can't post some/most emoji in hacker news. I'm glad hn disallows this.

I don't have a source for it though. apparently some emoji are allowed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18495803
People have clamored for a la carte pricing for a long time. Well, the direction we're headed is a response to that, albeit not a good response from the view of consumers. We'll have to start managing which services we pay for - subscribe, binge, unsubscribe, move to the next service, repeat.

The smaller players will sell out to the bigger players. The bigger players will gain additional leverage against content providers. This is the market functioning.

What amazes me every time I think about this is the ever-present short-term thinking by these companies: gain subscribers now, take as much money as we can now, and the downside will be dealt with by the next generation of executives in three years. While consumers' economy is affected negatively almost immediately and for the long term.
Electric Fields Elicit Ballooning in Spiders (2018)
> The GBA was abandoned the day the DS launched.

Well, I think the GBA wasn't abandoned until the day it became clear that the DS was a mega-hit. They hedged their bets up until then.
> Need to work at a legit company who cares about employees well being.

...

> This is assuming you do not want to use your vacation for a legit 1-2 week vacation.

So you need to work at a company who cares about your well-being and also agrees that shorter weeks are better for you than taking actual vacations.

(Or of course have more than 25 days off in a year, which lots of people do.)
Hi, yes the beaches would still be good for recreation and there should not be a noticeable muddying of the water. The existing beaches of olivine (such as Papakolea Beach in Hawaii that is pictured on our website) are safe and have no observed negative effects on wildlife or humans.

If you look at the tabletop shaker experiments on the website, the water is cloudy because it is not being refreshed. In an open-system such as on a beach with water constantly refreshing, that would not be an issue.

The olivine can be placed on any shoreline or coastal area. The "tropical shelf-sea beach" set up we constantly refer to is simply the optimal and preferential solution. The main effects we are utilizing the beach for are that (1) the tumbling motion of the waves causes a constant abrasion that breaks up a silica coating that rapidly forms on exposed olivine and (2) the collision of grains on the shoreline causes smaller slivers to chip off, that themselves rapidly weather.

We want shelf-seas because the grains will be pulled off the beach and will continue to be weathered through underwater shear stress forces on the sea bed. Other locations work as well, but the olivine may take longer to weather if there is less motion, colder water, etc.
I'd say this project also has their heads in the sand.
How the beach feels mostly depends on the particle size; magnetite sand, quartz sand, and obsidian sand feel about the same. (At some extreme, that would presumably break down; I wouldn't want to walk on a beach made of shredded fiberglass, at least until it had gone through some physical weathering. And sawdust does feel different. But olivine is not such an extreme case.)
Yeah- I feel that in this case the whimsical name "Duckduckgo" is a liability for them. It's just hard to turn it into a verb in an unambiguous way.
The longer I am on a platform the more I tend to follow (because I don’t unfollow much) but my engagement remains the same. I imagine most people are the same.
I do't understand. What is "social media framing"?
In virtually all developed nations, the requirement is either zero or single-digit percent.
Meanwhile all my vegetables, fruits etc is double packed or I pay three times the price for unpacked stuff. In my home the amount of plastics I have to put into the yellow bin has quadrupled over the last 10years.
Nice perspective in "Interpreting AI Is More Than Black And White": https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexanderlavin/2019/06/17/beyon...
Recycling concepts is one thing. Recycling a movie thats still popular only with slightly different acting is quite another.
May I suggest selling a pound of olivine?

I can see people dumping it individually at the beach for instagram pictures.

I know it wouldn't be effective, but the idea is to raise money while giving people a feeling of participation.

That's the reason those silly 'ocean plastic' recycled 'jewelry' sell so well.

You'd also introduce it as 'normal' before having to deal with bureaucrats.
Will it start in bronze and then just crush everyone until it's rank #1?
I disagree [1]; accusations of hypocrisy are making an important point, which is:

"Hey, there's a reason people do the thing you criticize, as demonstrated by the fact that you do it. So instead of making this about shaming others for moral inadequacy, maybe you should be helping to identify and fix the systemic problem that leads everyone to do it. Since you have firsthand experience with that dynamic, why aren't you sharing your expertise here?"

[1] Previous comment making the point: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20166369#20166980
Then you look for a Bundeswagen rating course after your Rugby car breaks down. (brands are deliberately kept fictional) And you find out Bundeswagen model Z is not a so common type rating, and look for yet another successor of Rugby model B.
Every bank and credit card is also an unsanctioned mint. It works fine. The actual minting of money has not been a major factor in managing the money supply in a long time. It's all done by setting interest rates.