skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi there! As the former head of product for a tool in a related space, I'm curious how you're handling the high data costs involved in building these businesses?
I had a similar repeated experience and filed a complaint directly with Amazon by calling their support line and elevating it to logistics and implying that the driver might have stolen the package. I'm sure this is a well known tactic and that they log it as it gives them leverage against an unruly contractor.
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Regal Cinemas recently started a similar program. There are 3 tiers of membership and every theater in their chain is assigned to a tier. For me, there are no local theaters in the lowest tier and only the newest, nicest theater is in the highest tier.
Developers on Windows, in this scenario, can generate a catalog of all files in their app and sign that/verify that at runtime [1], negating the need to rely on upstream to incorporate signature support into the asar file spec. There may be workable equivalents on macOS and Linux.

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/in...

But this will all be in vain if the attacker scenario includes unfettered file-system access. (They can modify the app to not perform these checks, for example.)
Any idea how they get the movie distributors to buy into it? The infrastructure cost overhead is small, but as I understand it, most of the cost of a movie ticket ends up going straight to the distributor. I doubt the distributor wants them giving away complimentary tickets without getting something.

I'm not sure how these deals are structured, whether there's a per-viewing cost or a bulk "we rent this movie and show it as many times as we want to whoever we want".
That’s the point of competitive academia, no? To have people try different stuff and to converge to a pratical solution when there’s no provably exact one. So of course climate scientists will try a universe of models to get better at predicting.

You put your comment as long, well thought out description of what is happening, but it’s frankly embarrassing. Climate scientists don’t disagree fundamentally at all, and we can all be grateful if their models get better and better.

So please, if you dismiss policy proposals as braindead when they’re trying to accomodate for our collective failures and the learnings we had during the last 30+ years, be better than that.
What about sampling and remixes?
Given the point made by other commenters w.r.t. sperm quality not really being a very serious concern for either dogs or humans as species, are there other health concerns linked with DEHP?

The article mentions PCB 153 "causing a variety of health problems", and being banned as a result. What's the status of DEHP in this context?
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> There was a decline in motility by 30 per cent [in dogs], and what's interesting is it parallels similar observations carried out on human sperm

30 percent is a lot for such low levels of the chemicals.
I don't think it's correct that 3) sidesteps the issue, if I'm understanding it. Electron App is installed via a codesigned setup bundle. Then Malicious App runs on the machine later and overwrites your ASAR. The OS doesn't complain because the ASAR isn't receiving codesigning protection, and Electron App has been backdoored in a way that the system's use of codesigning suggests wouldn't be possible.
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> it also didn't provide as good support for filename searching

Could you elaborate on this? Is it because you need to type more? If so, I'd suggest one of two things. 1) use `fd` for searching for files, which is dedicated to that purpose. 2) define `alias rgf="rg --files | rg"` (or similar) and use `rgf foo` just like you would use `ag -g foo`.
As a concrete example, Bush Sr.'s famous speech on crack involved begging a drug dealer to come to Pennsylvania Avenue so they could include that fact in it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/longterm/tours/s...

> But obtaining the crack was no easy feat. To match the words crafted by the speech-writers, Drug Enforcement Administration agents lured a suspected District drug dealer to Lafayette Park four days before the speech so they could make what appears to have been the agency's first undercover crack buy in a park better known for its location across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House than for illegal drug activity, according to officials familiar with the case.

> In fact, when first contacted by an undercover DEA agent posing as a drug buyer, the teenage suspect seemed baffled by the agent's request.

> "Where the {expletive} is the White House?" he replied in a conversation that was secretly tape-recorded by the DEA.

> "We had to manipulate him to get him down there," said William McMullan, assistant special agent in charge of DEA's Washington field office. "It wasn't easy."
Yes, you find that through the whole Spanish course. I never found it to be very useful, but it's there if somebody wants it.
GitHub ‘encourages’ hacking, says lawsuit following Capital One breach
Absolutely amazing article. Where can I get work like this where I get to design distributed systems from scratch ?
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One of my neighbors tried to get this going. She put out a fancy shelf that looked like a little English telephone booth, and someone stole it. Personally, I thought we'd be better off donating money to our local library, which is walking distance from where she'd installed the bookshelf anyway.
And I'm sure there are more complex factors that go into that than MoviePass going out of business?

I'm not against arguing about things I can't control (check my comment history or just ask dang) but it's purely entertainment. If you or I want to affect change in that regard, MoviePass or even the VCs who fund it is the exact opposite of where that argument needs to start.
> who cares what their motive is, or if it's sustainable or whatever?

Broadly speaking, when average Joe investors get burned, the public tends to pick up the tab. Whether through public prosecution, unemployment benefits, or the other consequences of a nuked nest egg. MoviePass didn’t get to those levels, but there is a rational reason to be wary of things that look like fraud in our system.
This seems to be more self aggrandizement than something new. Like several have said, you can buy a off the shelf cell phone and do this with some code. This attack is only on wifi, and most companies don't place confidential or enterprise systems on wifi. Yes there are exceptions, but just pulling up to the side of a building would probably give you the same access to their wifi.
Quora answers to “How can I check my partner's phone without her knowledge?”
if you have malicious code executing that has the access and opportunity to modify files, a modified electron app is likely just the beginning of your troubles.
You either don't understand how involuntarily bumping passengers works, or you don't understand what moral hazard is, or perhaps both.

The airline has to compensate bumped passengers as well as rearranging their flight. It's the same as cancelling the flight as far as that passenger is concerned. As you see in other threads the EU requires up to €600 per passenger monetary compensation as well as any other needs. Far from having an incentive to overbook "as much as possible" this means airlines are probably going to lose money on a flight that involuntarily bumps passengers, because the margins in budget air travel are slim.
It's not particularly important if the OP was being racist (I don't think they meant to be), the racism is the stigma that outsourcing to India results in unsatisfactory performance.

That is a racist sentiment, leading to a racist system which is self-reinforcing. It means fantastic devs have to deal with low pay or leave their families and homeland to get paid their worth, it means mediocre devs who were lucky enough to be born in Palo Alto have a much easier ride.

There was a time when people wouldn't give women important jobs because the mainstream view was that they would perform unsatisfactory performance. Now I think we can all say that's sexist nonsense. I think this idea is in a similar vein.
Sperm quality effects far more than chance to conceive.
Also affecting fertility rates at the moment: low counts

> The analysis found an overall 52.4 percent decline in sperm concentration and a 59.3 percent decline in the total sperm count over the 39-year period.

https://www.npr.org/2017/07/31/539517210/sperm-counts-plumme...
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> Why should anyone else have to host them on their private platforms?

Because private platforms are the public now.

It's like saying: "You are a Nazi I don't like your beliefs, you are not allowed to express them on my house"

So the Nazi leaves and starts preaching on the sidewalk, but the HOA comes by and says "You are a Nazi, and we don't like your beliefs. We own and maintain these sidewalks, and we are kicking you off"

So the Nazi stands in the middle of the road to preach, but the government had long since let private corporations build and maintain the roads in this neighborhood and Streets LLC comes by and says "Sorry, we own these roads and we don't like your beliefs, get out"

Thus, there is no public space for the Nazi to express his beliefs in, because all public space is now owned by private corporations.

Tying the analogy back to computers:

Even if the Nazi tries to host their own blog on their own computer in their own house, Comcast can say: "Sorry, we don't like transmitting your ideas from your house over our wires to the internet, get out"
Slack excels? In my experience it's really slow and clunky and consumes way more memory than it should.

As the sysadmin at my company I ban all electron apps unless it's clear they are exceptionally well written and/or there are absolutely no alternatives. VSCode is really good and one of my few exceptions. I strongly suspect it would have been even better if they had developed with a more performant platform, but who knows.

Edit: To expand on my reasoning:

Say an operation on a well built performant application is 5 seconds faster than the electron (or otherwise bloated) version. Say employees do that operation on average 20 times a day. Say I have 2500 employees who work 246 days a year and get payed $25/h on average. The slow version will cost the company $427,083 every year. That's the amount of money I'd be willing to spend per year for the fast version of this hypothetical application.

A company like Slack has hundreds of thousands of users and the poor performance must be costing someone millions. It boggles my mind that with all that money, they still can't find the resources to make a performant application?

And that's the naive calculation, there's also the administrative aspect of installing, upgrading, and supporting the application. (The worse the applications quality, the more time I, who am payed a lot more than $25/h, spend supporting it.) While there are multiple variables here, a development team that prioritizes "easy and fast" development doesn't inspire me with confidence they have also prioritized building a quality product.
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Ask HN: Quora always fails to unsubscribe unwanted emails!
I have started getting unwanted emails from Quora . On trying to unsubscribe - it always results in HTTP error 400!!

https://imgur.com/a/1DLLqp2

This has happened multiple times this week.

Such an annoying thing.
Maya uses Qt since 2010, before Electron existed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zWlwdr7exo
> 1) We should absolutely work towards allowing developers to sign their JavaScript.

I've already been working on this for my own projects. It might be something that can be generalized for all Electron projects.

https://github.com/soatok/libvalence

https://github.com/soatok/valence-updateserver

https://github.com/soatok/valence-devtools

This uses Ed25519 signatures and an append-only cryptographic ledger to provide secure code delivery. The only piece it's currently missing is reproducible builds.

For greater context: https://defuse.ca/triangle-of-secure-code-delivery.htm
Your TLS certificate has expired and is throwing an error.
God only knows what they get briefed on

Just how close we really are to nuclear Armageddon, the Fed economists don't really know what they're doing, but keep up a good front, sir. There never was a Cold War, the Russian and American military-industrial complexes foresaw huge profits and made the whole thing up; Trump's just being open about a friendly relationship that has gone on for years. Oh, and the interior designer is still awaiting your decision on the carpet choices for the Oval Office.

But, yeah, it's probably the truth of Area 51; nailed it.
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Actually we are hurting for more humans depending on what you want. For example social programs are built with very generous population growth predictions. Social security is solvent to 2035 according to our own government estimates:

> Currently, the Social Security Board of Trustees projects program cost to rise by 2035 so that taxes will be enough to pay for only 75 percent of scheduled benefits. This increase in cost results from population aging, not because we are living longer, but because birth rates dropped from three to two children per woman.[1]

At the rate our population is declining we as a country and society will need to rethink such basic social programs such as Medicare and social security.

1. https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v70n3/v70n3p111.html
Ok, but what about mattress stores? Are you telling me they aren't for money laundering?
You put it in your question, right? I’d like to see a study that EXPLICITLY correlates political views and activism with measures of ‘bad science’ like no citations, impossible reproducibility etc
I disagree* to lawyers learning to code. With the asterisk because I think there are aspects of Computer Science they would benefit from.

1) Workflow Creation - Obviously, much of the legalities start from a boilerplate template that are expanded upon. However, this skill is not exclusive to CS and so there are other domains where a lawyer could learn this (from, say, business)

2) Natural Language Processing - This is more a CS concept and where some coding may be necessary, but not really. The more focused work would be from argumentation mining [1] and properly building strong arguments. The link I include is to my PhD lab's project on "Augmented Graph Grammars", that look to quantify the aspects of argumentation into a graph structure. While CS researchers could mine the graph structures to report better arguments, using a process such as this for lawyers would be beneficial.

[1] https://research.csc.ncsu.edu/arglab/projects/augmented-grap...
Are you kidding me, bazel is written in Java...
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It's probably trace amounts of something odd in the water supply. There's the known problem of non-zero quantities of anthropogenic chemicals in potable tap water, shelved bottles of water and even rain water pretty much everywhere, so all together, there's "stuff" coming at you one way or another, and it's caveat emptor just to imbibe essential fluids no matter where the consumer sources from.

It might very well be fine to drink and bathe with one source in one region, but the reverse in another. Meanwhile, take the aggregate outcome for the entire world, and you see that the hit takes the shape of anyone naively thinking that water that tastes fine and looks clear will be totally healthy and not at all disruptive to body chemistry, when this is not always true.

I say it's probably something in the water, because it's an assuredly common thread that's universal across species. It's just my hypothesis, but it sounds like it might fit pretty well.

Worse if it's true though, because that means it's probably not just human and dog, but lots of species, inclusive of all mammals for sure.

We've seen what DDT can do, and now there's probably something not dissimilar in our own biological pathways.
> in the case of two entangled electrons, whatever happens to one’s spin influences that of the other, instantaneously.

This is a very lazy way of saying what happens in the experiment and what eventually leads to confusion. "influences" is the most problematic word here.

A non-incorrect statement would be, "the outcome of measurements are found to be correlated when the two distant observers meet at a future time and compare notes."

I think at our current understanding of the philosophy of physics, saying more is not something most people should be attempting.
Fuck off, skynet
> In February 2019, Manning received a subpoena to testify in a US government case against WikiLeaks and Julian Assange (the existence of which had been accidentally revealed in November 2018), which was proceeding under prosecutors in Virginia.[220] Manning condemned the secrecy of the hearings and announced she would avoid testifying,[221] saying "we've seen this power abused countless times to target political speech. I have nothing to contribute to this case and I resent being forced to endanger myself by participating in this predatory practice."[222] Manning also said she had provided all the information she had in 2013 during her court martial and that she stood by her previous answers.[223]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelsea_Manning#2019_jailing_f...
It would likely only lower it for those who dont value that location for the extra 17%.
A musicologist that was hired by one of the legal teams. If you are paid by one side of the lawsuit you definitely aren't impartial.

Loads of professionals think that this (and similar suits) are not only bogus but dangerous.
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Where I live (not in the US) we have parking maximums, not minimums.

A new office development will not get planning approval if it has more than 2 parking spaces per 3 employees (based on some obscure measurement of building capacity). This is to reduce congestion and encourage more environmentally friendly methods of transportation.
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If sperm count is hurting than it could be indicative of low testosterone which would cause a whole host of health issues including a shorter life span.
Speaking of Knuth, he is extraordinary in this regard apparently as the rigor of his expositions matches his attention to the historical details. Add to that his meticulousness for properly (and aesthetically) spelling people's names for good measure.
It is a reconstruction -- built from components similar to those of the original machines, but probably varying from the originals in minor detail because the original plans were also destroyed. The rebuild project and the fate of the original machines is summarized briefly in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_computer#Influence_an...
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I worry about crime when it impacts the victims. I worry less about crime when there are no victims or when the victim does not feel the impact.

A person getting mugged on the street and then not being able to pay his rent is worth worrying about. A billionaire being scammed out of $100,000 is not. The users of MoviePass being scammed would be terrible. The VCs being scammed is the cost of doing business.
The US didn’t need MoviePass for this.

Movie theatre subscriptions have been a thing in France for a very long time.
I think there are a few companies running Mozilla DeepSpeech in production: https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech

IIRC its mostly TensorFlow & Python though.
Popular doesn't mean good. In fact Electron is born out of the idea that developer productivity and comfort is everything and performance is a secondary concern.

These apps seem to be popular with device manufacturers. I have the displeasure of using two such apps, both have crap usability and custom UIs that don't make any effort to integrate with the platform. One of them doesn't even respond to the quit shortcut.
>It doesn't cost very much for a butt to be in a seat for 2 hours

I thought that the deal between the movie theaters and the production companies were that they paid a flat rate per head that views the movie, with almost 100% of ticket sales going to the production company, where the theater only makes a profit on concession sales.

Is that no longer the case?
> we throw most male chicks into a shredder because they can't produce eggs

They also fight viciously amongst each other. You can only have up to a specific ratio of males and females if you want to avoid outright carnage.

Most debeaking is just taking the point off the top of the beak. This is so when they peck, it simultaneously jolts their jaw. They learn to stop doing that, and every time they try, they get that jab reminder. The amount removed isn't even deep enough to hit any nerves.

Maybe some farmers overdo it, but I haven't witnessed that around any farms I've been to.
Went back to the archives to actually remind myself all the ideas.

2012 - Virtual snowy field to plant trees and post a wish on them. A couple hundred trees planted.

2013 - This one, drawing postcards. Thousands drawn.

2014 - Live streamed a Raspberry Pi printing wishes posted on the site. 8 wishes posted. Great ROI.

2015 - Creating animated swirling "stars" drawn using spirograph patterns. A couple hundred created, later adapted to my app Spiralflow: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/spiralflow/id1086402345

2016 - Cutting out snowflakes from paper. Less than a hundred made, experience of making them wasn't great.

2017 - skipped. Had an idea of making a Christmas-themed game similar to http://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/ but couldn't build it in time.

2018 - One last experiment: "baking" and decorating gingerbread cookies. A couple hundred made.

That was it. I don't plan to build anything this year.
The major part of the cost of a fission plant is the non-nuclear part, but I don't think that would be true of a fusion plant.

In any case, if some parts are common, but the non-common parts are cheaper in a fission plant, fusion will be more expensive than fission -- and since fission has already lost in the market due to its cost, fusion would do likewise.
Is that a big impact? The biomass of cows in the USA is comparable to the biomass of Bison that we killed in the 1800's. Seems like a great methane-neutral substitution for feeding 300m people.
Around $30/day or $200/mo.

DTLA is extremely walk/bike/train/bus friendly, most long term residents I knew did not own cars.
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