skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two derp software engineers venture into selling place card templates
I thought we measured inflation with something like the CPI-W, which tracks the prices of a basket of goods. Am I missing something?
> the bank owned the spreadsheet, he's purposefully modified it without permission to malfunction after a certain date - that's why it would be a criminal matter

Indeed. That's an excellent point, if true.
Are you actually a user of accessibility? To me, it doesn't feel like you are. If I am right, please refrain from patronizing people who actually do. In my book, you have no idea how horrible the situation has become over the last 5 to 10 years. Accessibility used to be a thing, yes. These days, it is mostly a happy accident.
When forwarding a message you should include the thread as RFC 2822 attachments (RFC number recited from memory, may be wrong). Your mail client should make this easy for you.
Debian 8 is still on php 5.6 which is EOL, even if you upgrade to debian 9 you would be on php 7.0 which is also EOL.
It certainly is accessing Tor without needing to install the Tor browser
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Can you expand on this or point me to a paper discussing this?
Hume and Kahneman: Dual systems of thinking compared [pdf]
> feminine hygiene products

Many restaurants in North American cities have reminders that these should be thrown in the trash.

Then there's a co-worker's situation in his townhouse / condo development: some people, who are probably new immigrants don't know the rules of the road, have to be informed not to flush chicken carcasses down the toilet. Just put it in the green bin and it will be picked up with-in the week:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_bin
I'd honestly prefer the games industry collapsed and maybe started over. This whole concept of massive thousand people teams working on huge scale games that take many years to finish only manages to produce games devoid of passion. Back when games were made by small teams where every individual was able to contribute significantly to the game did it feel right.

Obviously that is just my personal opinion, but despite games getting more graphically impressive they have been getting worse overall.
Hey, that's really cool. Thanks!
Facebook's algorithm meddles with democracy and suppresses journalism
If I pay you a lot of money, I expect a lot of service.

No matter how much money you pay, you're not entitled to a lot of service (whatever that means to you, personally). You're entitled to the service you purchased. There are many of these passes still active because the people who bought those passes didn't breach their contract
Solar panels are 22% efficient and LED lamps are 50% efficient. So you need to cover 10 times as much land with solar panels and then also build your indoor farm.
And in this case, it was apparently the system maintainer that introduced the bugs. (By patching VLC to use a shared, outdated, and insecure library instead of the one the developers shipped it with).

This puts a very bad taste in my mouth re the GNU+Linux ecosystem. Being able to specify “use this version at minimum” is a critical feature of any dependency management system, and it seems like distributions don’t really provide that.
Can someone fix the URL to:

https://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2019/07/24/la-sechere...
As I type this, it has 565 points on hacker news. That's quite a distinction for a post that is just “SEO spam”.
Thanks for the link - this is indeed my stance, I don't think people should be pasting patches into their daily MUA.
The solitaire principle: Game theory for one
He gives a good interview on the Bad Crypto Podcast and explains his reasoning for why he's going this> He's had 3 interviews with them, and it's on the the most current.

Episode # 281
https://badcryptopodcast.com/2019/07/01/mcafee-281/

I'm not trying to peddle their wares, I just find McAfee to be quite interesting!
A fascinating study that tries to solve the most difficult problem in the origin of life: bootstrapping. Nobody has been able to explain how the multitude of complex organic molecules needed to support life got there in the first place.

It's a little like we're trying to reconstruct modern industrial civilization by assuming Dow Chemical exists whenever necessary. Dow and the entire chemical industry arose from a bootstrapping process in which simple feedstocks become ever more complex inputs to ever more specialized industries. The Industrial Revolution would have been impossible without it.

This study looks at the ability of alpha-hydroxy acids to spontaneously assemble semi-permeable compartments ("microdroplets") that could have played an early role, concentrating reactive species and enabling reactions that couldn't take place otherwise. As such, they'd serve as a kind of scaffolding. Useful for a time, and then discarded with the appearance of better structures.

Four out of 5 of these candidates (which are all hydroxy analogs of amino acids), are chiral. The rate of formation, permeability, and durability of the compartments formed might expected to depend on the enantiomeric purity of the starting hydroxy acids.

Surprisingly, the study apparently says nothing about enantioenrichment of the alpha-hydroxy acids. Then again, the study only begins to scratch the surface of what this new chemical system might be capable of.

AFAICT, this is a brand new, highly hackable chemical system with vast potential not just in the origin of life, but across chemistry and biology.

So far, the study only demonstrates inclusion of dyes. The real test will be to get these things to facilitate reactions that would not occur in the surrounding medium.
It's a start to "nanites" as seen in sci-fi.
Ah, thanks. I was thinking both growth hormone and androgens, though there may be other hormones and factors involved as well.
The state of the German IT industry outside of a few select places (Berlin, mostly) is what makes me very pessimistic about the future of its car industry.

They (meaning the big 3: VW, BMW and Mercedes) apparently still think that building the best engines/transmissions and being the best at putting them all together is all it takes in order to make a modern car, unfortunately I think EVs will be more about software and the way said software can best manage the car's power resources. From far away Tesla looks like it's doing quite a nice job with its EV software, the Germans, not so much.

If it matters I've never worked in Germany but as an IT person/programmer living in Europe I've followed the German IT industry pretty constantly as Germany is one of the best countries in terms of quality of life (I know it's not perfect, but it sure beats my Eastern European country). Unfortunately for me its backwards IT industry (again, as seen from the outside) keeps me away from it.
Germany at least has the CCC, which it sometimes asks for advice and, occasionally, listens to.
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Lost me at "Most people do not need a 270 range car."

Most people where? We're in the US. Weekends frequently include short road trips, up to 150 miles each way. I've put 30,000 miles on my M3, with 325 mile range, usually gets me there and back without charging. And even for daily commuting, once in a while I forget to plug it in when I get home. The range means 'no penalty' as I can get there and back 2x on one full charge.

Anyway, for those who love to drive and like to roam on weekends, a 135 mile range would kind of suck.
>a tradition I cannot get away from, getting the game on release date and inviting my brother to play it until deep in the night

Probably well worth the cost just to spend the time with your brother. I wish I lived close enough to my brother to do a yearly video game night with him--and wouldn't care what the video game was or how much it cost (within sane reason of course).
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I think they either use old empty bottles, dilute genuine product or steal the content for themselves and then refill the empty bottles.
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This is very true and yet the search tools supplied with these knowledge bases are terribly inadequate. Is there a better, standalone tool out there for turning email archives, from multiple sources, into a usable database with a powerful query language?
“The example given to me [by AA] was that Yo-Yo Ma ... flew with his [cello] in the next seat. Under those terms I bought the extra seat.”

AA endorsed the practice.
In my experience most work-stealing schedulers for task parallelism like this are going to be depth-first. I’ve written several myself. Primarily for temporal locality - if you just created a task it’ll be resident in cache.
That is pretty much any utility that has high reliability numbers. Same goes with electricity, road work, water, trains, phone service, internet, cell service, etc.
Don't tell that to Nigel Farage.
This is the one blemish (in my view) on fastmail's record. I love them otherwise.

I initially came to the same conclusion as you, but after receiving one too many badly quoted HTML emails (and after some lost hours unsuccessfully trying to understand how fastmail web, gmail, thunderbird and ios mail.app do HTML quoting (hint: they're all subtly different)), I decided to double-down on format=flowed.
> “Czeck” is one of several widespread misspellings."
-- https://www.quora.com/Is-it-Czech-or-Czeck

This comment isn't worth of HN, (critical, "lol", "...".) Instead, why not focus on something positive?
I thought that it was the other way around, that if you checked in the bags and never made it to the flight, then the flight has to be stopped.
>We can keep full HTML for fancy marketing emails, but letter-form email should be simple and impossible to abuse.

You had me convinced up until this part. Marketing emails are, IME, the most prone to being abusive. If anyone deserves to have their fingers rapped every time they try to get fancy with HTML mail, it's the scumbags that send marketing email (which is by definition spam).
That’s amazing. Certainly my expectations have just been too low for too long!
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My god, this is never going to die, is it?

I mean, I get it. There are some things about plaintext that are nice, or that really appeal to the kind of people who read HN. I used to have arguments about this, too -- but it was 20 years ago. Today, the ship has fucking SAILED.

And you know what? It's GREAT. I send formatted email constantly -- and they're better for it. Being able to embed screenshots is awesome. Being able to use color, or bold, or italics, makes a difference in communication.

It's done. I'm not going back to plaintext, and I can't imagine most people will, either. There's no good reason to (in particular, the downfalls of HTML the author lists are all either easily solved or are issues orthogonal to the format of the email.)
I've heard the phrase "forming an algebra" being used for delaying effects by means of recording the intents into a data structure. So for instance a function which initially performs file i/o as a side effect, could instead return a data structure "FileOperations" with entries like "FileWrite(a.txt, Hello world)".

Maybe that's where they got the name from? Although performing the effects directly through a pause/resume mechanism doesn't sound algebraic to me.
My impression is that VLC did issue an update to use a more recent version of libebml, but Ubuntu/Debian maintainers patched it to use universe’s outdated version (which they don’t even maintain!)
Solid deal! Do you know if they went via third party for the repair or employed their own techs?
165,000 most frequently assigned college texts – interactive visualization
Does anyone else hate when someone assumes their screenwidth and hard wraps at 72 characters?
What is the breakthrough here? It seems they just mated a security camera with a telescope lens assembly, both of which we've already had for decades.
thank you! working in it. Trying to get all the feedback possible.
I'm sure that some folks who remember the old days of Fedora will smile sardonically at the term "Core" here, but Fedora project leader Matthew Miller talked about that in his initial announcement about the ongoing work on Fedora CoreOS: https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-coreos/
The US has its own downsides though. It's all about what trade-offs you're willing to make, and raw salary is not the only factor.
Let's just waste the limited time the VLC devs can spend (for free) on their project by making them chase after debian maintainers and other distros' maintainers... to get them to update a library that isn't even a VLC project... because debian decided to patch out the library version bundled with VLC in favor of their own outdated libebml package... to get a bug patched that wasn't even considered a security issue until recently...

Sorry, but this sounds ridiculous to me.
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This guy seems to have peaked in terms of creative output while he was on the thiel fellowship, and then abruptly stop once he was sucked up by google.
They still use toilet paper to dry the after effect. Yes some of them have driers, but usually it's not nearly enough to dry in time. No, wet underwear and pants is not a solution.
Have you ever seen someone with poor eyesight use a smart phone?
Georgia Power has recently started to sell license plate scanners to police departments in my area. They use their utility poles to place small cameras that scan each license plate and alert authorities when a stolen car is spotted.

The city I used to live in did a trial. They recovered more stolen cars in the first month they tried it than the whole year before. Here’s a press release about the program in general[1].

[1]https://www.brookhavenga.gov/police/page/brookhaven-police-c...
Notice no mention of toilet paper. Normal western toilet paper nearly dissolves when wet.
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Morgan Stanley's Recession Playbook
Both of these are right, rather than contradictory: a government can always keep printing its own currency. What it can't print is foreign currency. So hyperinflation shows up as a forex and balance of trade phenomenon first. As was the case in all three of those examples:

Zimbabwe's land reform destroyed the productive export-led farming industry, so the cost of required imports such as oil drove the Zim dollar into the ground. Similarly Venezuala trashed its oil export industry and failed to develop others.

Weimar Germany was required to pay reparations in gold to France. The postwar destroyed industry wasn't able to export enough goods to pay for the gold, so yet again other imports became prohibitively expensive.

The US is very, very unlikely to experience these kind of problems; it is large enough to not be so dependent on imports, and in recent years not even on oil. The last inflation spikes were due to OPEC: yet again import-led inflation.
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The game industry needs to unionize.
I completely agree, in fact I would probably have the exact same reaction as this dude.

But I don't have half a million to spend on tickets, nor do I get to jetset across the oceans to buy flowers - nevertheless I will get to feel the externalities in form of climate change. So from that perspective, it looks different.
Clear from the anecdotes and downvotes I was totally wrong about this and Apple’s way behind for consumers. Something to be said for available parts and easily repairable machines for sure.
> numbering in the hundreds

So like 50% of total Linux desktop users? Haha, just kidding. I, for myself, use tig and git command line and I'm pretty happy with it.
It's like this in parts of Germany as well. Really scary.
Git is also free. So, how are you the product when you use git?
Please take this down. Load page with fresh cookies. It’s a scam.
GCC 10 Likely to See “-Flto=Auto” Option
Factorio is more like a software library or framework - by programmers for programmers (but disguised as a game).
that was my take, major props to a public news type of company for working to explain the tech details (I think, not German)
> It makes them seem a bit juvenile.

It's also apparently one individual, and non-US. I've seen many clauses like that in European, especially eastern European, software. Sometimes, even in countries like Australia. It's inspecific, but seems pretty clear they're trying to say, "don't use our software for something you shouldn't." They're within their rights to desire that.

Would you perhaps want to edit your comment to remove the rather patronising comments about "like... laws for our make-believe countries", "middle school", etc?
Learning Probabilities: Towards a Logic of Statistical Learning
In some ways Indians are like Americans. They like to be endlessly entertained with movies and sports(mainly cricket though). I think 200 rupees plan could add lot more users. Regarding what this media expert Shah claims about local content, I am not sure what kind of things Netflix can offer that local providers are not already doing in abundance.
If mobile games were going to replace traditional games, they already would have, the cellphone market is already nearing replacement purchase rates.

Gaming is a huge market, there is room for lots of niches, and the quality of even a typical native indie game is way way above what a browser is capable of delivering.

Show me even one web game that is close to the quality of a mediocre graphics, reasonably expansive indie game

The web sucks horribly as a platform if you care about performance, which even relatively low power indie games do.
Exosomes may hold the answer to treating developmental brain disorders
What about it? How valuable is it compared to other sources of protein? Why hemp?
That corn was also grown for that purpose. It was never meant for human consumption.
Future Kubernetes will mimic what Facebook already does
Chromecast and Firestick work with literally all the streaming services that we have available in India
Every time I hear these stories, I'm reminded of this classic Ribbonfarm post:

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...
> HTML emails are mainly used for marketing - that is, emails you probably don't want to see in the first place

Wait what?

Maybe you're subscribed to the wrong newsletter, but in my case, I'm subscribed to products / brand I like, I'm aware that I will receive advertisement / product updates and I'm fine with it !
Is it blackmail if you are kidnapped? A deadmans switch seems logical for a guy like mcafee.
Rents are a lot cheaper in Berlin. You don't need a car either. It's also a nicer city in general, I feel a lot safer in Berlin than in San Francisco.
the graphics are a great addition. Seems like this is targeted towards a non-technical audience, but finally making an effort to explain what's going on technically like other STEM articles from do from generic news sources. Nice job if you're an author
Excellent book. I particularly like his thoughts on the “link economy”- how links give credence to statements in an article despite the fact that they may not even link to a relevant or accurate source.

That said, I “read” a lot of of audiobooks and this one is self-narrated. I highly recommend the book, but don’t recommend Ryan Holiday as a narrator.
This explains why one of the major tier 1 suppliers has an absolutely horrendous workflow in processing financial data. We do a lot of business with them and when processing invoices sent to them, almost every division outside of Germany accepts invoices by email, but for one of the central German plants, they only accept invoices by mail to a foreign PO Box, so we're effectively giving a discount due to international shipping per each shipment/invoice can get high. As far as I can tell this seems more like an IT issue rather than a financial one (very large firms are geniuses in pushing out which vendors to pay, but if this was a universal case then every international plant would only accept invoices by mail)
Computer engineers became millionaires and retired at 31
no, that's mostly because infrastructure is grossly underfunded and we built so much unsustainable urban sprawl we can't afford to rebuild it
You should play Cuphead
Yes, Cilk has been enormously influential. I have personally cited it many times. But I always had the impression it was a little too early for its time, and was never picked up by the HPC community, hence my question.
By defensive I don't mean mean everyone else is right, just that there seem to remain a problem that should be addressed (warranting a CVE ID), even if there were hyped headlines in the press and an email communication problem.

IMO it would be better PR to acknowledge the vulnerability and assume good faith on part of the reporter pending indications to the contrary. And maybe skip dismissing the Linux user base like this...
Isn't that what I said? :)

He checked in his bags, but didn't get on the plane, which then took off with his bags on board.
Today’s children are 3x more likely to aspire to be a YouTuber than an Astronaut
> But just assuming that you do not need them and they are just evil is a massive over generalization.

Fine, but assuming that they'll abuse any amount of power given is completely reasonable, in light of plentiful examples in the past.
> My go-to example to explain this is very simple: Let's
> say we reduce birthdate info to just your birthyear,
> and geoloc info to just a wide area. And then I have
> an pseudonimized individual who is marked down as
> being 105 years old.

> Usually there's only one such person.

I was interested to find that HIPAA's requirements for de-identification address the two particular issues you pointed out. First, age above some threshold (90) must be bucketed together as "older than 90." Second, regarding ZIP codes: you must zero out the last two digits. And then, if the resulting identifier contains less than 20,000 inhabitants according to the most recent US census, you have to blank the first three digits as well (there are currently 17 such three-digit prefixes).

Source: Pages 96-97 of the combined legislation, available at: https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/privacy/laws-reg...

You are allowed to roll your own de-identification method, as long as the person doing so is an expert on statistics and de-identification and they document their analysis of why their method is sound. To my knowledge, most entities use the "safe harbor" approach of wiping any data in the legislated blacklist of dimensions.
> On the other hand, the whole article reeks of privilege

So? What's wrong with privilege? You're talking about someone who signed a contract and paid for this privilege. That contract entitled him to use this privilege. It's understandable that he'd be upset when he lost it.

If you relied on a bus pass (unlimited privilege to use the bus) and the city took it away would you be upset?

If you rely on your car and the state took your driver's license away (unlimited privilege to drive) would you be upset?

What about your ISP cancelling your internet connection for using too much data?

You may scoff at these comparisons because they cost orders of magnitude less but it's exactly the same concept.
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