skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just because The Matrix and GITS share similar themes regarding consciousness and technology, doesn't invalidate The Matrix and it's originality, even having come out years later. The Matrix deals with a lot more than just those themes, including queer identity and BDSM subcultures. Considering The Matrix was a major Hollywood production, I think it's quite impressive this got a release in 1999.
> A key constituent of almost every "bubble" (massively overused term) is a long period where everyone laughs at the doubters.

I'd almost say that it's a requirement. A generally suspected risk of market failure is priced in because people hedge against it. The atmosphere has to get to a point where hedging against it is a fireable/blacklistable offense among "serious" investors, because then even when people do insure against a total failure, the people they insure with are even more likely to be invested in the garbage than they are.

edit: When the denigration of short sellers and "slanderers" of an industry gets increasingly loud and paranoid, I'd think that's the best indication of all. It indicates that there's probably a culture of concealment growing under the surface of that industry, where it's worthwhile to spend significant resources to protect valuations. That's only worthwhile if the problems are deep (i.e. it's a better RoI to concentrate on silencing critics than spending on product) and/or if the timeframe of holding the bag is becoming generally short (e.g. we're being acquired/going public in a month, full PR press now.)
Russia Targeted Election Systems in All 50 States, Report Finds
> Am I alone in preferring custom UIs per app

Custom UIs by themselves are not the culprit. Apple itself is "guilty" of that, using special controls and styles for their own apps (including even the new Reminders in Catalina.)

But if an app on macOS puts a close button in the upper-right corner of a window or panel (like Windows does) instead of the upper-left, for example, or when an iOS app uses the Android sharing icon, I feel annoyed.

A worse and more practical example is when an app is missing some of the global system features I described in my previous comment, like common text field options (spelling, transformations, dictionary lookup etc.) missing from an Electron-based chat app and so on.
i hope not. long term effects of a heavy constricting belt on a still-developing cranium must be severe.
Food out of thin air, Solein
Docker and ENV: Methods for Passing Variables Through Docker-Compose
Definitely this. Bugs are great for new devs. Nothing teaches why code quality matters and what types of code quality matter like investigating bugs and why they happen.

Also jr. devs require lots of sr. dev time to verify their work. But bug fixes are usually easier to verify then features because the ratio of code written to investigation is much smaller.
A Pixel Is Not A Little Square (1995) [pdf]
You'd find a cushy job in a few corporates by doing just that.

Someone else then gets to do hard tasks and gets bad reviews because they're slower at this and the numbers do not tick up.
>If anyone ever dared to assert that I support US war mongering just because I live the US..... lord

It's not the same, the majority of the population are ethnic Russians, a large number of them actively support what Russia did.

There was a referendum, and countless polls, it doesn't excuse the annexation but reality isn't black and white.

You need to be intentionally misleading to not acknowledge the fact the Russian presence in Crimea and in fact their actions are supported by a sufficiently large part of the Crimean population to make this situation very problematic.

This isn't Russia occupying Belgium, the geopolitics behind this situation don't make anyone look good.

Hence why I gave the example of Catalonia not only it's a good western analogy but it appears that Crimea has more pro-Russian support than what the separatist movements in Spain or other places in Europe like Italy have.

However our current legal system does not allow individuals to simply say "i don't want to be part of your legal system any more" hence why these referendums are essentially illegal.
And while we do need to face reality sometimes and make exceptions these have to be exception otherwise the "sovereign citizens" movement would actually become a reality since you can't simply put a cap on how many people want to break away from the existing legal system you enforce on them.
Calling things a "bubble" correctly is also a bit of "a broken clock is still right twice a day" kind of chance. People have been saying Real Estate is a bubble about to burst for almost 10 years now. When I attended a home-buying seminar in 2014, folks in attendance were stating how housing is a bubble and it's best to wait for prices to drop before getting into ownership; yet by all measures just about any property in the US would have appreciated a ton in the last five years, and anyone who heeded that advice has lost out on a hefty return. The previous owners of my home sold it for double what they purchased it for. In five years of inaction, the wealth transferred in the form of rent can pay for a down-payment. That's a lot of market value to bet on a burst wiping out.

Maybe the folks who paralyze their decision-making out of fear of a bubble burst will eventually get to shout "I told you so" from the rooftops. Or maybe they won't. But every day that they're wrong is a day they're losing out on the opportunities others are taking advantage of.
Not solely an autobiography but one I enjoyed reading the most recently was The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple by Jeff Guinn. Starts off with a deep dive into the Jones family and goes down the chilling path from there.
This was the premise behind various component platforms, e.g. OLE, CORBA, OpenDoc which were, in many ways, the GUI equivalent of command line shells.

We could see a renaissance in that area if technologies similar to Electron and ubiquitous app stores make these more feasible.

(To toot my own horn, I think https://tenet-lang.org/ would be helpful in building well versioned APIs to allow intercommunication with shared semantics.)
We must all stop manbearpig.
> Isn’t that already illegal? Shouldn’t we get better at that part before we add more things?

Pretty much the answer to every law that's passed. Why not just enforce the laws that we have?
Indeed. Software that barely runs and has a scummy history (supposedly). Last time I tried to find this on Viveport I couldn't, I couldn't find a search feature or otherwise locate this software
Have you considered paying an organic automaton to do those things for you?
Seconded. The company I work for is currently commissioning a custom family of fonts from a major digital type foundry... and it's a vast (and expensive) undertaking. Consider potentially important features like support for[1]:

font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums

For fonts with the support coded in, this variant means numbers in tables will line up in your font without outright switching to a monospace font. Beyond good glyph design, as the parent mentions, there's a lot of work to craft a professional modern font esp. the more of the Unicode language space it spans.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/font-varian...
This is the main reason people dislike the typeface. Its in the misuse not the design.
Maybe that data doesn't exist in your country.

In mine, the police has the picture and fingerprints of everyone older than 12 years old and any younger person that needed an ID card for whatever reason, travelling being just one.

Maybe that information has been shared with that database, maybe it hasn't. I have no way of knowing. Other EU countries have the same level of information about their citizens (and some record even more data).

Can we simply agree that what the UK has done is bad, should be investigated and, if true, the people resposible should face charges for it? Or should we spend days arguing about what information might/might not have been copied and how many people have been afected?
>There's literally trillions of dollars of debt yielding below zero. There's entire currency yield curves that are under zero. That's right, not just the short terms like a year or two. But decades out.

Can you provide a citation or a more detailed explanation?
I think by "in most cases" the parent is speaking per-campaign (and therefore saying something interesting, although I have no idea as to the veracity) rather than per-impression (and therefore saying something banal but obviously correct).
That's a good point. I'm overall positive about subscription software, but I don't like the fact that it always seems to go hand in hand with DRM and other nonsense. I'd rather they take some modest amount per year and let me do whatever I want with the software. Its a headache to make the software work when the computer is on an isolated network and will never be connected to the internet. Office 365 I'm looking at you.. :P
I believe graph-coloring is no longer used for state-of-the-art register allocators, such as the one in LLVM.

Apparently, for ISA with a small number of registers, graph-coloring is not as relevant because spillover is more important.

https://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2017-December/1199...
> Is hackernews the small local news source for the bay area bubble?

Kinda. Compare how often Bay area housing issues get to the front-page, compared to London, Sydney, or Vancouver.
Eh. This is only true because there's an absolutely staggering amount of financial commentary, and some % of it is negative- and then after a recession you can always go back and use confirmation bias to find the negative comments that 'predicted' it. Recessions & crashes are normal parts of markets and will never go away. Fringey characters like Roubini or Grant's Interest Rate Observer just call for a recession every single year (really! Roubini has predicted a recession every single year since 2008!) Then when it happens pundits can say he 'predicted' it, because they ignore all the times he was wrong.

Anyone can easily go through past financial commentary and find quotes saying that good times & growth periods won't work out, it's a bubble, it'll crash soon etc. No one ever points out all the times negative commentary is simply wrong, mostly because being contrarian & negative is fun.

Modern Internet companies are fundamentally changing the world similar to the Industrial Revolution. And lumping Facebook/Google/Amazon in with Juicero or whatever is just lazy, handwavey analysis. Yes, some tech companies won't make it out of the next recession- but some are huge, immensely profitable players that are here to stay
This is nuance; Of which entertainment news and polarized parties are not very good at exploring.
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This isn't my specialty, but I'm interested in cryptography. Here goes:

When an iCloud user is created, a keypair is generated. The private key is stored in the user's keychain; the public key is pushed to iCloud's server and placed in a central directory. Public keys of all of the user's contacts are cached locally on the device.

When Alice opens her phone to share something via AirDrop, it polls available devices over BTLE. The polling message contains a nonce.

Bob's device responds with a message containing two values: a nonce of his own, and a hashed+signed payload:

(ecdsa_sign
(bobs_private_key,
(sha256_hash
(concat
alices_nonce,
bobs_nonce))))

Alice's device computes the hash of the nonces, then iterates her contacts to find the one whose public key verifies the signature.

This approach defeats a precomputed attack by including a nonce from both parties - a rainbow can't be generated for all transactions, only this one in particular. It does not expose Bob's identity, because all that is transferred is a (random) nonce and a signed message.

The main drawback I see here is that when adding a contact, you have to download their public key from iCloud before you can share with them - so two devices cannot use AirDrop if they are not online, if they have not been online since the contact was added. As a workaround, you could set a flag when unsynced contacts are present and show a dialog if an AirDrop poll is detected before syncing occurs. In that case, you could fall back to something more closely resembling the currently implemented protocol, which would at least limit the data leakage present today to an edge case that requires explicit approval by the user.
I can't tell what my 2028 model Foo Corp. Smart TV is sending to the HBO servers or why, it's technically impossible thanks to cryptography.

But a Federal Prosecutor can tell a judge these are the only Smart TVs that do that, and he thinks it's because they're violating the Tialaramex No Snooping Act of 2025, so he wants a warrant to see what HBO receives.

The warrant doesn't magically decrypt the packets - but refusing to obey the warrant is contempt of court, for which you can go to jail. An HBO employee shows the Prosecutor their database labelled "snooping" full of data from Foo Corp TVs that sure enough violates the No Snooping Act.
Just have a robot that sanitizes the floor and eat directly off the floor.

What I mean is, people typically aren't going to make such a radical adjustment to their use of dishes just to avoid washing them.
Awful decision. It won't cut consumer costs. Not even Bork would approve.
We should make sure teenagers are getting the right support and try to prevent exposure to addictive substances.

At the same time we should be skeptical of anecdotes like the ones in the article.

> But it was his demeanor that scared her most. Cade Beauparlant’s anxiety and mood swings worsened, his outbursts so sudden and so explosive that his mother said she came to fear him.

I really think that might for the most part simply be due to this thing called puberty.

> “We kind of lost four years of Cade to this addiction,” Kristin Beauparlant said. Now that he has cut back, “He just seems like a different kid. You can’t help but say there’s a correlation.”

Yes, a correlation maybe, but who is to say of what nature.

When I was a teenager I also had a pretty rough time dealing with my family and in particular my overprotective mum. So did many of my mates to varying degrees.

Nicotine addiction certainly doesn't help, but at that age people are easily "addicted" to many things. I believe video game addiction was more common than tobacco in my peer group (, my point being that it might not matter too much whether that thing is vaping or some other activity that's addictive and, important, frowned upon by parents, unlike for instance sports). Also a time to engage in generally stupid and dangerous behavior. Nobody likes to get their favorite thing/toy/or freedom to go out get taken away. In puberty teenagers start to realize that they can actually try to stand up to their parents. Parents are scared when their precious child doesn't follow the rules, or speaks up, which ends up in a spiral of back and forth that sometimes escalates to the point where parents "don't recognize their kids anymore".

Then typically after a few years shit calms down again with stabilized hormones, everyone having pushed and explored their boundaries, and the prospect of only a short amount of time left under the parents' direct control before leaving for college.
> If built correctly it's genuinely difficult to mess things up.

Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) [0], Indian Institue of Management - Ahmedabad [1], and (the not so known) Physical Research Laboratory [3], premier institutions in India, all of them founded by the same person - Vikram Sarabhai. Each of them stood the test of time.

Given the situation of all other government run institutions in India, ISRO is truly a marvel. Maybe "it's genuinely difficult to mess things up"!

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

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Institute_of_Management...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Research_Laboratory
Sampling Algorithms Every Data Scientist Need to Know
Fair enough, misread that line.
Oops, misread the line.
Root grafting is a normal process and like the article suggest, it can be problematic for the trees. In Texas and others states affected by oak wilt one of the main defenses against it is to trench between healthy and sick stands of oaks. This can be extremely expensive especially in the hill country where trenching involves using a rock saw to cut through the surface limestone.

Oak wilt is a fungal disease that is spread through the root systems of interconnected trees and by actions of a specific beetle that is most active between end of February and late July. TAMU recommends no pruning of anything larger than a pencil between those dates if I remember correctly.

I had the misfortune of learning about this affliction after buying a home in north Texas that had mature live oaks, some more than a hundred years old, and watching those live oaks die suddenly. Live oaks are evergreen and when they suddenly started browning the second spring after buying the property I had already lost more than 10 trees.

Once it began affecting the 3 signature trees out front I called in an arborist and had many of them treated with a chemical fungicide. That was expensive. I also rented a backhoe and trenched between the sick and healthy stands on my place and between my property and my neighbor's. He had some beautiful oaks on his place too and I didn't want his trees to go down simply because they were root grafted across the fence to mine.

The end result is that I lost more than a dozen mature live oaks and the three trees out front that were treated once they started showing signs of oak wilt are still alive, albeit with greatly reduced canopy. The fungus usually kills 95% of the trees it afflicts and if the tree survives it never has a full canopy.

It can take a full year for the fungus to kill a mature live oak due to the small size of the pores which transport nutrients from leaves to roots and vice versa. A mature red oak on the other hand can be killed in a week since the pore sizes are much larger. I lost a perfect specimen tree that survived the initial affliction more than 15 years prior. It suddenly died four or five years ago. Many other red oaks in the area are dying too.

I rambled a bit there but overall an informative article that brought back unpleasant memories of my own battle with and experience with root grafted trees and some of the problems you may face.
But the flavors encourage vulnerable teens to pick up the habit!

As if teens didn’t just get packs of cigarettes before, they just had to be more discrete about them. Kid next door smoked in his back yard and threw the butts over the fence into mine, that was just last year.

The whole thing is a joke, stores need to do a better job checking ID cards instead of the government creating draconian restrictions. The corner stores I frequent will sell me alcohol without carding me because they “all know who I am”, but the local smoke shop will card me EVERY SINGLE TIME even though they’ve seen me a dozen times (I personally appreciate this).
If they ever special editioned these movies, its a correction i wish theyd introduce.

At this point I just find and replace battery with cpu when I watch the movie, I know what the creators meant, and that producers fucked it up. I see it as a typo, I dont let it take me too far out of the movie.
I do use airplane mode.
Prof.Bugbee. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISAKc9gpGjw
After the Ukrainian air traffic control spent weeks bringing the same flight closer and closer to the war zone, even though a ban on air traffic over that territory should have been put there immediately. No one is questioning the Ukrainian side how come they've "lost" and have not put forward before the Dutch Safety Board the primary radar recordings of the Dnepropetrovsk area from that period. The Ukrainian government, and the U.S., at that very moment needed something like this to happen to get the Western European governments to put their stake in that war and the Western European societies to approve it. They're partially responsible for this crash and in that regard your description of this event is highly misguiding.
People don't hate changes, they hate learning new things. Most of them are lazy, and don't want to change their habits, no matter how bad they are.

I know from my experience, that most valuable users will contact you directly (e-mail, support, twitter, other way) to describe their experiences before and after the change, telling you what exactly hurts them.

Rest of them are pointless trolls with "First Comment Rule". What is that? First negative comment will spark negative discussion, so trolls spark them to pressure on company/product. There is a lot of companies that will write, "I am sorry", and will start to move backwards because of that.

How to live with that? Listen, adapt, yet don't care about everything or everyone. :)
I’m not sure that economies ‘can’ actually crash while running on 0 or below interest rates. I mean why crash when one can just buy more time, it’s free! Just keep on borrowing.

I think the real danger is on the other end, hyper-inflation. However, the reason this has not happened yet is due to globalization, cheap money in developped economies flow into emerging economies (China for the past decades), which is not necessarily a bad thing. We’ve only seen massive inflation in products that cannot be imported, like housing.
GitHub Must Be a Free Platform
Pre quantum algos have this shortcoming built in
Hey now I was just complaining when I'm unexpectedly getting something interesting back :-)

Do we know how they painted themselves back then?
The moral is that embryos deserve the same rights as people, so you’re really just killing one person to save another
How to Bridge the NIMBY vs. Yimby Housing Battle
Must be the millennials finding a new reason to get offended LOL
I wonder if being aware of the bubble also led to changes. From what I understand, it's just not normal today for companies to get funding without any real proof of a market. The juicero's, and magic leap's of the world aren't the norm, they're true unicorns of their own. The average tech company today needs to show real users, and revenue before they can reasonably expect investment. That's not even to mention that startups seem different today then they did in 2010. Back then it seemed like people would say "what if we took this new tech, and combined it with this existing industry". All those combinatrics have been tried, so I think a very large number of new businesses are not necessary "new" but rather "better". Which is kind of easier to do since the market already exists. It narrows the number of unknown unknowns.